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Service honors Confederate soldier
Members of the Plemons-Shelby Camp 464 of The Sons of the Confederate Veterans, dressed in authentic uniforms and arms and recognized the service of the late Peru Hardy Benson during the War Between the States.
Camp Commander Mike Moore of Amarillo addressed those in attendance and gave a short history of the causes of session and factors leading to the downfall of the South. He noted that slavery was not the only cause of the Civil War and drew attention to unfair taxes levied on the South by the Northern controlled Congress.
Moore also discussed the different heritages of Confederate soldiers, including those of Mexican, Nova Scotian, and Cherokee descent, and he said the South and the nation had come a long ways in terms of people getting along with each other.
Moore himself said he is a liberal Democrat who believes Barack Obama to be the smartest US president behind only Thomas Jefferson. He noted that the Sons of the Confederate Veterans is gaining black members who, through intermarriage are descended from Confederate soldiers, and later said that the Plemons-Shelby Camp has about 30 members which includes three Democrats, an atheist, and an agnostic.
Benson was a Prisoner of War who spent two years in Yankee prisons and was among a group of Confederates who became known as the “Immortal Six Hundred” because of the number who survived deliberate starvation, exposure to freezing weather, lack of sanitation, lack of medical care, physical abuse by the guards, and imprisonment in the line of fire.
Moore said in his memoirs, Benson wrote that he and his fellow captives were fed mush with worms in it and that a friend once counted more than 70 worms in a half pint of mush before he quit counting and started eating before the worms got it all.
“Mr. Benson was brave and literate and a credit to his community and the South,” Moore said.
Following the war, Benson settled in Hall County where he died on October 14, 1906. His family still owns some of property he settled near Brice, and his grandson, C.L. Benson, lives in Clarendon.
Moore said many former Confederates settled in the southeast Panhandle and joint reunions with Rebels and Yankees were common in Clarendon and Memphis for many years before they were moved to Amarillo in 1950s.
Monday’s service was closed with a 21-gun salute from the muskets of the Confederate descendants.
Earlier in the day, the Plemons-Shelby Camp attended a Memorial Day service hosted by the American Legion Post in Hedley, which was scheduled to be in Rowe Cemetery but was moved to the Lions Club building due to high winds. A separate Memorial Day service was held at the same time in Clarendon at the Donley County War Memorial by members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post.
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Nora Grigg Hartwick
Nora Grigg Hartwick, 96, died Thursday, May 26, 2011, in Clarendon.
Services were held Sunday, May 29, in the Clarendon Church of Christ with Max McClendon and Chris Moore, officiating. Interment was held at Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon. Arrangements were under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.
Nora was born March 19, 1915, in Troy, Texas, to William Nelson and Martha Matthews Grigg. She married John Winfield “Blackie” Hartwick on May 22, 1938, in Houston. She had received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Texas Tech University. She had been a first grade teacher for 3½ years at Gomez and later 20 years at Lubbock Schools prior to her retirement. She had been a resident of Clarendon for 37 years and was a member of the Clarendon Church of Christ. She loved gardening and keeping her flowers beautiful. Her children and grandchildren were her pride and joy.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband on September 13, 2005; a brother, Bob; and two sisters, Almeda and Lometa.
Survivors include a daughter, Jane McClendon and husband Max of Shamrock; a son, Larry Hartwick and wife Kitty of Longview, WA; a sister, Wanda Ray of Georgetown, TX; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; three great-great grandchildren.
The family requests that memorials be sent to the Lubbock Children’s Home or High Plains Children’s Home.
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USDA okays emergency CRP grazing
In response to drought conditions, USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) authorized emergency grazing use of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres for an additional 13 Texas counties – including Donley County – effective immediately. This most recent authorization brings the total to 51 counties approved to graze CRP acres.
Emergency grazing of land enrolled in CRP has been authorized for Brown, Cochran, Coke, Donley, Foard, Hall, Hockley, Jones, Mitchell, Motley, Ochiltree, Tom Green and Wheeler Counties.
The following 38 counties were previously approved for emergency grazing of CRP acres: Armstrong, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Deaf Smith, Dickens, Fisher, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Hansford, Hardeman, Hartley, Haskell, Hemphill, Howard, Kent, King, Knox, Lamb, Lipscomb, Lynn, Martin, Nolan, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Roberts, Scurry, Sherman, Stonewall, Swisher, Wilbarger and Yoakum Counties.
According to Bruce Ferguson, Donley County Executive Director, the current CRP emergency use authorization permits grazing only. No haying of CRP acres is allowed at this time. Additionally there will be a 25 percent CRP payment reduction for CRP acres used for grazing under these emergency provisions. Emergency grazing of eligible CRP acres has been authorized through September 30, 2011.
To take advantage of the emergency grazing provisions, authorized producers can use the CRP acreage for their own livestock or may grant another livestock producer the use of the CRP acreage.
The eligible CRP acreage is limited to the acreage within the approved counties.
Eligible producers who are interested in grazing CRP under the emergency authorization and current CRP participants who choose to provide land for grazing to an eligible livestock producer, must first request approval to graze eligible acreage; obtain a modified conservation plan from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to include grazing requirements, leave at least 25 percent of each field or contiguous CRP field ungrazed for wildlife, or graze not more than 75 percent of the stocking rate as determined by NRCS.
For more information on emergency grazing of CRP acres, contact the Donley County FSA office at 806-874-3561.
Sixth annual event boasts several sales
Bargain shoppers will be in for a treat during the sixth annual “Trash to Treasures” garage sale event to be held in Clarendon and nearby communities this Saturday, June 4.
Twenty-six individual sales are scheduled to be held, including special promotions at two local merchants and one local restaurant. A complete description of each sale is printed on the official Treasure Map located on the last page of this week’s Enterprise.
From a treadmill to a trampoline, this weekend’s sales will feature hundreds of treasures just waiting to be uncovered at bargain prices.
“Trash to Treasures” is being promoted with advertising dollars in area communities; and many people from neighboring counties attend.
Citywide Garage Sale this Saturday
Bargain shoppers will be in for a treat during the sixth annual “Trash to Treasures” garage sale event to be held in Clarendon and nearby communities this Saturday, June 4.
Twenty-six individual sales are scheduled to be held, including special promotions at two local merchants and one local restaurant. A complete description of each sale is printed on the official Treasure Map located on the last page of this week’s Enterprise.
From a treadmill to a trampoline, this weekend’s sales will feature hundreds of treasures just waiting to be uncovered at bargain prices.
“Trash to Treasures” is being promoted with advertising dollars in area communities; and many people from neighboring counties attend.
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