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Thursday, October 4, 2007	De Leon Free Press — De Leon, Texas 76444	Volume 117, No. 14

Front Page Headlines

By Laura Kestner, Editor

Parents with children who raise show animals made an appearance at the most recent regular session of the DeLeon City Council, Thursday, September 27.

Councilwoman Gayle Stroud was absent, but Mayor Danny Owen, Howard Gifford, Norma Locke and Roy Dale Freeman were present for the 6 p.m. meeting. Also present were City Secretary Karen Wilkerson, Public Works Administrator Rob Duncan, Police Chief Ralph Dickey, and Emergency Management Coordinator Ray Helberg. >>Full Story<<

By Jerry Morgan, Reporter

VAN DYKE -- A variety of matters were brought before the Board of Directors of the Comanche County Consolidated Hospital District, the governing body of the Comanche County Medical Center and Doctors Medical Clinic, at its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, September 25.

A request by the proposed Roadrunner Wind Farm for a property tax abatement, continuing negotiations regarding the sale of the old DeLeon Hospital and Clinic buildings to the DeLeon Independent School District, various alternatives for expenditure of the anticipated $50,000 in proceeds from the property sale, ambulance replacement needs, computer systems problems, personnel and hiring matters, a favorable financial report and a major revision to the hospital’s pricing were some of the more important matters discussed. >>Full Story<<

Upset losses by both the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns to the Colorado Buffaloes and Kansas State Wildcats wreaked havoc among our panel of pigskin prognosticators in the Week #4 football contest as 95% missed picking correctly on each game.

The best score achieved was a double miss out of 15 total games by eight contestants. Talmadge Hodges' tiebreaker total points guess was the only one among the two-loss elite that matched the correct total. His first guess was not quite so close, but he apparently changed his mind and came up with the exact total.

Others who only missed two games included his father, Terry Hodges, and several others who are often close if not winning, including Lana Coker, Don Carruth, Nathan Tucker, Jason Killebrew, Bill Burns and Steve Baker.

Many more missed picking three games, however, and the largest number of entries missed four. Besides the two earlier noted college upsets, Early's defeat of Jim Ned surprised more than 50% of our panel, and Eastland's loss to Seymour surprised over 40%.

Gorman's win over Ranger was widely predicted, even if it turned out to be a razor thin win. Cisco's victory over Comanche, Texas A&M's defeat of Baylor, and Tarleton's dispatching of Southwest Oklahoma were also popular correct picks.

Next week high school district play begins and the games get a little more serious. The Bearcats will face one of their more serious challenges, Brownwood and Abilene Cooper tee it up, and in the colleges, there will not be one, but two battles of the Red River when both Oklahoma and Texas and Okahoma State and Texas A&M fight for state pride.

See You at the Pole, a student-initiated and student-led prayer movement that began in Texas with a single church youth group in the early 1990s, has now grown to include millions of students each year, including those from all three DISD campuses.

Pictured above are students from Perkins Middle School as they met to pray last Wednesday morning before school. Pictured to the left are students from DeLeon High Schhol. Some DISD faculty members met in smaller groups nearby for their own prayer sessions.


LAYING SOD AT BEARCAT STADIUM. Last Friday, September 28, a large number of DeLeon Ag students, along with Coach Senter’s eighth grade classes, and various adults gave the bare soil at Bearcat Stadium a face lift by applying 1,400 square feet of Bermuda sod. The sod was donated by the Lone Star Sod Farm, represented by Paul Jackson and Shane Jones. The DeLeon students worked diligently to finish the south end of the complex in one day. (Left) Laying the sod. (Right) Newly sodded areas. (Thanks to Elaine Gibson, Agscience Teacher, for photos and information)

TRACTOR PULL. Mike Murphy, of DeLeon, was one of the local participants Saturday night in the first Truck and Tractor Pull at the new DeLeon Community Park. The event, organized as a fundraiser by the DeLeon Truck and Tractor Pull Council, drew participants, and audience members, from many nearby towns and was deemed a success by council members. Funds raised will be used to complete the tractor pull arena.