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Volume 117 | Number 4 WHAT'S INSIDE
Judge seeks raise for county employees
By John Carson BRAND Managing Editor
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Although the actual budget season is more than a month away for Deaf Smith County, County Judge D.J. Wagner started commissioners thinking in that direction during Monday’s regular meeting of the Deaf Smith County Commissioners Court.
With the county need- two bits of information ing to have a budthat will come as get approved no good news to taxlater than Sept. 30 payers and county for the Oct. 1 start employees. of the 2017-18 fis“Based on early cal year, the final numbers from the agenda item for appraisal district, I Monday’s meeting don’t foresee needwas a preliminary ing to raise taxes budget workshop. this year,” Wagner WAGNER Wagner kept the said. “Also, I feel workshop short county employees and sweet, but did relay need and deserve a raise.
They didn’t get one last year, and I don’t think we should not go two years in a row without giving a raise.” However, Wagner was quick to add that both those points are not set in stone because of another pending county matter – health insurance. With insurance rates skyrocketing, the issue
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HEREFORD HISTORY 7 years ago • July 12, 2010
Brenda Kitten was honored at a luncheon in Arlington as the newest member of the Texas Girls Coaches Association (TGCA) Hall of Fame.
Earl Warrick has found his business niche to be replacing soles and heels on the boots and shoes of hardworking local folks who tend to wear out their footgear in their labors. Photo by Jim Steiert
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has become somewhat problematic for all government entities. In fact, exactly what the county is faced with concerning insurance rates will play a large part in whether there is a raise for employees. “I feel employees need and deserve a raise, but that will all be based on PLEASE SEE RAISE | 8
Saving soles a life calling for Warrick
By Jim Steiert Contributing Writer
Earl Warrick has saved a lot of soles in 45 years of boot and shoe repair. From his Warrick Shoe Service shop on West Third Street in downtown Hereford, he’s accomplished longevity in business by being honest with and striving to please customers – mostly cattlemen, cowboys and farmers. Those who come into his shop generally lean toward hard work that wears out footgear, and they appreciate craftsmanship in repairing it. Warrick turned 84 on July 4. He came to the boot and shoe repair trade naturally. His father was in the shoe sales and repair business in Tucumcari, N.M., for 50 years. Earl at one point essentially ran the shop there while his father was ill, and after his passing. That all came years after Warrick served a hitch in the U.S. Army where he was attached to the U.S. Air Force in Korea for 11 months in 1953-54 after the Korean War armistice, in an environment he learned was never moderate. “It was both the coldest and the hottest place I’d ever been,” Warrick said. Fresh out of the service, he attended Western State College in Gunnison, Colo., where he majored in education and history Warrick taught school for 13 years – science, math, and social studies – but shoe and boot leather was calling him. “Mrs. Carter was wanting to sell a shop here in Hereford that was right next door to where I am today at 138 West Third Street, and I bought it in 1972, working there until I moved into this location,” Warrick said. He had already been established in his Hereford shop for 10 years when his father fell ill. Warrick would spend weekends at Tucumcari taking care of work for his father’s customers. Later, his mother mailed shoes and boots left at the Tucumcari shop to Warrick in Herford, so he could complete work on them and send them back. “To last this long in business, you have to be honest with and please people,” Warrick said. “Do the job to the best of your ability, PLEASE SEE WARRICK | 3
Efforts renewed to get vote centers for Deaf Smith By John Carson BRAND Managing Editor
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Casting a ballot in an election in Deaf Smith County is inching its way toward becoming an easier prospect. Deaf Smith County Clerk of Court Imelda DeLaCerda updated county commissioners on her efforts to make voting centers a reality during Monday’s regular meeting of the Deaf Smith County Commissioners Court. “Being approved for voting centers means that a voter can
vote at any polling place they County Courthouse (Precinct 2), want instead of the one in their Hereford Junior High (Precinct specific precinct,” DeLaCerda 3) and Hereford Community said. “It would alleviate Center (Precinct 4). concerns we have over She said the county parking at Aikman Elcould feasibly request reementary [the Precinct ducing its poll locations 1 poll location], reduce to two since the Texas the need for at least one Secretary of State’s ofelection judge and reduce fice, which oversees all overall county costs. elections in the state, “I really think it will be recommended counties a lot easier.” trimming poll locations DELACERDA DeLaCerda’s plan is to by 50 percent at the remove Aikman as a pollmost. ing place, thus reducing counBoth Precinct 2 Commissionty polls to three – Deaf Smith er Jerry O’Connor and Precinct
1’s Chris Kahlich recommended trimming it to two. “Two polls are more than enough,” Kahlich said. “I think this is a great thing for the citizens and county.” Precinct 3 Commissioner Mike Brumley raised the issue of potentially overloading a poll location if the overall number was cut in half. DeLaCerda said one thing that would immediately be done should a poll or polls be eliminated is that more voting maPLEASE SEE CENTERS | 3
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