Hedley Owls shred Kress Kanagroos
By Fred Gray
Last Friday, the Hedley Owls travelled to Kress and commenced to shred the Kangaroos, 57-12.
After a slow start, the Owl offense swooped and soared, around, over, and through the Kress defense, pretty much scoring at will. They gained over 300 hundred yards on 40 carries, and ran the ball for five touchdowns. In the air, the Owl offense covered 90 yards on four pass attempts, resulting in three completions and two touchdowns.
Klaton Moore ran wild, gaining 207 yards on 9 carried, putting him up there with Johnny Football, down in Aggie Land. He also scored 4 touchdowns. Seth Ruthardt pretty much ran over the entire Kangaroo defense while bulling his way for 32 yards on 5 touches, most of it in a cloud of dust. Denver Chambless slashed his way for 55 yards on 3 carries.
The passing game enhanced the running attack by keeping the Roo defenders honest. Sophomore Clay King was 2 for 4, for 35 yards and a touchdown. Rooster Moore, also a sophomore, was 1 for 1 for 55 yards. Both Seth Ruthardt and Denver Chambless caught touchdown passes, the former was for 25 yards and the latter was a 55 yarder.
Special teams contributed to the victory too. Klaiton Moore returned a kick-off for a 56 touchdown.
Defensively, the Owls continued to swarm to the ball, aggressively gang tackling the Kangaroo ball carriers. Rooster Moore had 2 tackles and 2 assists; Denver Chambless added 2 tackles and 10 assists (leading the team in assists); Seth Ruthardt pounded out 3 tackles and 9 assists from his linebacker position; Arden Haught was aggressive all night with 5 assists; Kyle Lindsey added 3 tackles and 8 assists from is defensive end position; Jake Owens added both a tackle and an assist to the Owls’ defensive efforts.
Coach Shely said that the Owls played a good all-around game.
This week is a bye week, and the Owls travel to Motley County on Friday, October 25th.
Everett Harold “Curly” Monroe
Everett Harold “Curly” Monroe, 82, died Wednesday, October 9, 2013, in Amarillo.
Services were held Sunday, October 13, 2013, in the First Christian Church in Clarendon.
Burial followed at Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon.
Arrangements are under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.
Curly was born in Melrose, New Mexico, on May 30, 1931, to Roy and Nellie Pierce Monroe. He married Hazel Hanegan 63 years ago on May 13, 1950, in Clovis, New Mexico. Curly served 12 years in the United States Navy CB Reserves. He lived 43 years in Clarendon where he was an engineer for the Texas Department of Transportation. After his retirement from Tx Dot, he and his three sons formed a partnership, Monroe and Sons, where they contracted with the State of Texas to build bridges, overpasses, and culverts for 12 years. He finished his highway career working for Slaco, Inc., Gilvin-Terrill Inc., Amarillo Roads, and J. Lee Milligan Inc. He loved to sum up his career by saying that he built roads all across Texas. He enjoyed traveling, reading, and going to casinos. He was a loving husband and father. He was known as “Papa Curly” to his grandkids and great-grandkids.
He was preceded in death by his parents; 2 brothers; one sister; and a son, Danny Lynn Monroe in 1999.
He is survived by his wife, Hazel of Amarillo; 2 sons, Everett Monroe, Jr. and wife Tonya of Lubbock and Roy Monroe of Clarendon; a daughter in law, Shauna Herbert and husband Tim of Amarillo; 3 grandchildren, Dana Ford and husband Mitch of Panhandle, Jennifer Kuehn and husband Mike of Lubbock, and Dustin Monroe and wife Courtney of Hedley; and 4 great grandchildren, Keslea and Kinlea Ford of Panhandle and Dylan and Ashley Kuehn of Lubbock.
The family wishes to thank Texas Oncology, BSA Hospital and the Craig Rehab Unit. A special note of gratitude goes to Dr. Salil Trehan for his care, concern, and compassion shown to Curly and his family.
The family request memorials be sent to the American Cancer Society or the First Christian Church in Clarendon.
Barry K. Welch
Barry K. Welch, 64, died October 5, 2013.
Memorial Services will be at a later date.
Barry K. Welch was born on January 7, 1949, in Memphis to Lester and Joyce Potter Welch.
He is preceded in death by his parents.
He is survived by his Brother – Greg Welch and wife Linda, Channing , TX Sister – Pattie Bryant and husband Paul, Tell, TX Brother – Brian Welch and wife Cindy, Memphis, TX Sister – Karen Fowler, Childress, TX. Special Friends – Cliftie and Mke Johnson and Numerous Nieces, nephews and cousins.
Fire Department host annual Open House
The Clarendon Fire Department and Clarendon Firebelles hosted their annual Open House Saturday, October 12, and awarded the winners of this year’s Fire Prevention Poster Contest.
The contest was open to all Clarendon Elementary students. The students were asked to color posters that best exemplified this year’s Fire Prevention Week theme, “Prevent Kitchen Fire…Get Cooking With Fire Safety.” The posters were anonymously judged by members of the fire department.
The winners were as follows: Headstart/Pre-K/PPCD – 1st Place Ronan
Howard, 2nd Place Aubrey Stidham, 3rd Place Lindley Hill. Kindergarten/1st Grade – 1st Place Tandie Cummins, 2nd Place Ethan Vogelgesang, 3rd Place Wrangler Etcheson. 2nd/3rd Grades: 1st Place Jayde Gribble, 2nd Place Harrison Howard, 3rd Place Finley Cunningham. 4th/5th Grades: 1st Place Kailee Osburn, 2nd Place Jacie Kysar, and 3rd Place Lindsey Davidson. Division 5: 1st Place Mya Edwards, 2nd Place Kyler Bell, and 3rd Place Patrick Dickerson.
During the Open House students and their families enjoyed refreshments and were able to explore the fire station. The local firefighters also demonstrated how to properly use a kitchen fire extinguisher and how the Jaws of Life work. After the poster winners were announced, the kids enjoyed a ride on the fire trucks.
Making history one issue at a time
Newspapers are the first drafts of history, and for some rural communities, what went down in the local paper may be the only record of days long gone.
But the importance of the medium is often betrayed by the medium itself as the poor quality of newsprint causes it to deteriorate over time until it literally turns to dust. When that happens, that recorded history is gone forever; but archivists at Texas Tech University are working diligently so that the history of West Texas is not only preserved but made available to people around the world on the Internet.
Clarendon’s newspaper is one of the central publications in a digitization effort at Tech’s Southwest Collection, a branch of the TTU library that was founded in the 1920s to preserve the history of West Texas ranches.
There were no newspapers in the “Texas Pan Handle” when Rev. L.H. Carhart brought his Christian colonists to the banks of the Salt Fork of the Red River 135 years ago. Under his direction, The Clarendon News made its “editorial nod” on June 1, 1878, making history and beginning the task of recording the happenings of what would become Donley County.
Though the paper went through several owners and name changes, it maintained its role as community historian and occasionally referenced its earliest issues. But sometime before 1945, many of the paper’s original files disappeared. Local searches for the first of edition of the News proved futile, until it was discovered in stash of 88 early Clarendon papers by a rare book dealer in Pennsylvania in 2006.
The Clarendon Enterprise moved quickly to secure the papers, and publisher Roger Estlack contacted archivists at the Southwest Collection to care for the rare issues. There they waited in climate-controlled, secure storage until technology, resources, and know-how were ready to digitize the collection and make it available for the future.
“Seven years ago, we didn’t even know these things existed anymore,” Estlack said. “Today, they have been scanned and are searchable by anyone, anywhere, anytime. We have not only rediscovered our community’s earliest history, we have preserved it.”
Southwest Collection Archivist Monte Monroe says a team of about 20 people at Tech are working to digitize regional newspapers and other holdings of the collection.
Tech’s interest in the area newspapers dates back to the 1970s when the Texas Newspaper Project saw a lot of old papers put on microfilm at several institutions around the state. The archives of The Donley County Leader were filmed by the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon at that time, and the Hedley Informer were later filmed at Tech.
Monroe says microfilm is the best long-term archive solution, and papers that are digitized can be migrated to film for a price.
“Microfilm will last at least 100 years,” Monroe said. “Digitization may last only 10 or 15 years as technology changes, but the files can be migrated to new technology.”
Archivist Robert Weaver says he’s able to scan about 40 papers per day with a $20,000 setup that utilizes two Canon EOS 5D digital cameras to take high resolutions photos of each page. Software is then used to convert those files to documents that can actually be read by computers using optical character recognition, enabling readers to search for a word like “Goodnight” in old Clarendon papers.
But the time consuming part of the process is adding what’s known as metadata to each file. Student workers assist Southwest Collection archivists in attaching keywords to each file so that search engines, such as Google, can find the files in the collection. Historic copies of the News, for example would be associated with keywords such as “Clarendon,” “Texas,” “Carhart,” and other pertinent words that might lead a researcher to that issue.
With literally millions of items in the collection, digitization is an ongoing and expensive project, but getting these historic documents – whether they be local newspapers or the handwritten letters of Civil War soldiers – online and available to researchers is a motivating factor.
Documents digitized by the Southwest Collection are not only backed up at Texas Tech but also with the Texas Digital Library, a joint partnership of Tier One universities across the state, Monroe said.
With the earliest Clarendon papers digitized, plans are now in the works to digitize more local papers, using material that was microfilmed by the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, The Clarendon Press under publisher Helen Woody, and the Clarendon High School Library under former librarians Jean Stavenhagen and Sharon Elam.
More recent issues of The Clarendon Enterprise that were “born” digital will also eventually be added to the collection as archivists and local historians work to preserve the history of Donley County.
To read the first issue of The Clarendon News, visit our website www.ClarendonLive.com or go directly to http://bit.ly/1hAiQUg.
CC to host presidential candidates
The public will get its chance to meet the finalists for the position of president of Clarendon College next week during public forums on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, October 16-19.
The CC Regents named the finalists on September 26 after receiving the recommendation of an independent review committee.
Dr. Robert Riza will be the first candidate in town on Wednesday, October 16. He is currently the Vice President of Student Services at Hill College in Hillsboro, Texas.
Dr. Gary Stretcher will be in Clarendon on Thursday, October 17, and he is the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Lamar State College in Port Arthur, Texas. Stretcher was also a finalist for president of CC in 2010.
Dr. Steve Rook of Mena, Ark., will finish up the week with an appearance on Friday, October 18. Rook is the Vice President of Academic & Student Affairs at Rich Mountain Community College.
Each candidate will meet the public at the CC Bairfield Activity Center from 11:00 a.m. to noon each day on the days of their visits, and regents will meet with each candidate for a closed door interview while they are in town.
Regents will announce the selection of the next CC president at their board meeting on October 24.
Alcohol vote will be held November 5
Donley County voters are just days away from deciding a local option election on the sale of alcoholic beverages in the county.
Election Day will be Tuesday, November 5, and there are several basic facts that voters need to know before going to the polls.
The Language:
The alcohol question will appear on ballots countywide along with several proposed amendments to the state constitution. Voters will be asked to choose FOR or AGAINST the following option: “The legal sale of all alcoholic beverages including mixed beverages.” The election for the Clarendon Board of Aldermen will be on a separate ballot.
Early Voting:
Early voting on the issue will begin on Monday, October 21, and end on Friday, November 1, and early ballots may be cast at the Donley County Courthouse Annex.
Absentee Voting:
Those unable to vote in person during early voting or on Election Day can apply for a ballot by mail by contacting the county clerk’s office or by downloading the application from http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/pol-sub/5-15f.pdf. The completed application must be received (not postmarked) by October 25. Photo ID is not required to vote by mail.
Photo ID:
Texas now requires voters to show photo ID at the polls. IDs that can be accepted include: one of four Texas Department of Safety (DPS) issued photo IDs (driver’s license, personal ID card, concealed handgun license, and election identification certificate) or one of three United States government issued photo IDs (passport, military ID card, US citizenship or naturalization certificate). The photo ID must be current or expired no more than 60 days. Other photo IDs cannot be accepted at the polls.
Voter Questions:
Voters with questions about the election and what it means for Donley County are encouraged to contact the Enterprise by phone, mail, e-mail, or Facebook, and we will do our best to answer those in future issues.
Hedley prepares for Cotton Festival
This 61st Annual Cotton Festival will be held this Friday and Saturday, October 11 and 12.
Events begin Friday with the Lioness Club Chili & Stew Supper at the Lioness Den at 5:00 p.m. The Booster Club will be also holding Bingo at the Senior Citizens at 7:00 p.m. till 9:00 p.m.
Saturday’s Festivities will start at 9:00 a.m. with the Senior Citizens Center serving hamburgers, corndogs, Frito pies and raffling off a $1,500 hunting package drawing will be at 6 p.m. Bingo will also be held at this time by the Booster club and will continue till 9:00 p.m.
Also Hedley’s sophomore class will have their Cake Walks at the Senior Citizen’s at 9:00 p.m. The Rowe Cemetery Bake Sale at City Hall will begin at 9 a.m. till noon. Starting at 10:00 a.m. is the free Lioness Club Quilt Show at the Lioness Den drawing for the Queen size quilt will be at 6 p.m. Bring your quilts and come to the show. Lions Club BBQ held at the Lions’ Den will be held at 11:30 a.m.
The Kiddie Parade begins at 1 p.m. followed by the Crowning of Little Princesses at 1:30 then the Community Parade at 2 p.m. Hedley Ex-Student Reunion is to be held at 3 p.m.
Other events throughout the day will be kids’ games, craft shows, and rides.
Editorial: Shut it down and leave it shut down
The federal government embarked on its second week of a “shutdown” as the Enterprise went to press Tuesday, and the country is better for it because it gives Americans a chance to see what they can do without.
The hoopla is centered on the inability of the president and the Imperial Congress to come to an agreement on a continuing resolution to keep several government functions funded. A continuing resolution is different than an actual budget… an actual thought-out spending plan that the government – namely the Senate – hasn’t passed in several years. A continuing resolution in simple terms just means that we’re going to keep on spending like tomorrow will never come and the bank will never run out of money.
Which brings us to another problem… the debt ceiling. As unbelievable as it sounds, the government can only borrow so much money before it hits a debt limit prescribed by law. As of Tuesday morning, the United States of America owes its creditors a mere $16,753,619,388,430.93. By the time you read this, that number will be inaccurate, because it goes up thousands of dollars per second or just shy of $2 billion in a day.
Tuesday morning, every citizen’s (man, woman, and child) share of the debt was $53,552. Every taxpayer owed $148,223. Your share is higher by the time you read this. It will be higher still when you’re finished.
There are some who will tell you that’s no big deal, but the time will come when this gravy train runs out of gravy. That time may be next week when some government pencil pushers say they will reach the debt limit, and the president and his party are pressing for Congress to raise the ceiling… again.
Republicans in the House of Representatives… driven by their Tea Party wing… are insisting that any new debt ceiling has to be accompanied by spending cuts. And they are being just as insistent that there will be no deal on a continuing resolution unless the federal takeover of healthcare is repealed, changed, or at least delayed. How long can they hold out before the more traditional Republicans convince them that “compromise” is in the best interest of the country?
Unfortunately, compromise is typically a one-way street in Washington with conservatives caving to the interests of big government and getting little or nothing in return. And that’s why the combination of this shut down and the debt crisis is so important. It gives the libertarian elements in Congress a chance to make something happen to finally put the shackles back on this out of control government and downsize the beast.
To watch the news, you would think that Armageddon is at hand, but the shutdown is not a crisis. One FoxNews.com report says that only about 17 percent of the government is being affected, and if you look at this CNN report – http://bit.ly/1aGsvqy – you’ll see full breadth of government agencies that are getting along just fine as well as some truly non-essential agencies that are appropriately shut down and more that need to be.
Given the state of our national finances and the largely unconstitutional nature of our government, now is not a time for compromise. Now is the time to carve up national government like a Thanksgiving turkey. If something is considered non-essential, close it, privatize it, or send it back to the states. National parks – turn them over to the states. TSA agents – abolish TSA and turn airport security back to local authorities. Go through every department and every agency and fund only what’s most important to this nation and only then what is authorized by the constitution. And here’s a thought, stop spending American citizens’ money to spy on us. Abolish the NSA domestic surveillance program.
And as far as the debt ceiling goes, that door should be closed. $17 trillion is enough debt. It’s time to pay our own way. As long as the government can borrow more money, it will never control its spending.
The GOP is largely to blame for the mess we’re in, but right now the hardliners in the party are giving America a chance to make real changes. They have drawn a line in the sand. Now we just have to see if that line means something… or if just like BO’s red line(s) in Syria – meaningless.
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