Texas Co-Op Power • January 2014
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Young Observations The Kolach Trail At Czech bakeries, esteemed pastry is Those Who Can, Teach served with heritage and pride—and apricot and cream By Camille Wheeler cheese By Jeff Siegel • Photos by Rick Patrick 8 Barbed Wire, Barbaric Backlash Fences that stretched across vast frontier pushed tempers past peaceable boundaries during the fence-cutters war By E.R. Bills 14 Around Texas: Youngsters show off poultry, rabbits, lambs and steers at the Blanco County Youth Council Stock Show, January 24–26 in Johnson City. 40 42 14 35 39 COVER PHOTO Ryan Halko is surrounded by kolache at the Village Bakery in West. By Rick Patrick TEXAS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Darryl Schriver, Chair, Merkel; Jerry B. Boze, Vice Chair, Kaufman; David Marricle, Secretary-Treasurer, Muleshoe; Debra A. Cole, Itasca; Kyle J. Kuntz, Livingston; Robert A. 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Though small, chickens with a .22 (flopping and all) and Talco was a thriving oil-field town Sunday dinners on a farm/ranch in Mathis. with a beautiful school building in Fried chicken in the big city (Corpus the shape of a T. Now the school lies abandoned. It should be listed Christi) was at a friend’s house every Sun- as a historic site. day, and I always hoped I’d get an invitation MIKE HAYNES | JUDSONIA, ARKANSAS after church. PHIL ALBIN | ROCKPORT LOCAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE EDITION OCTOBER 2013 High Plains Cotton Chili William Travis’ Ring tion Association, and you can bet readers. So did a barbed letter we It was disappointing to see that lit- that was the best thing we had ever received in response [“Game Day,” tle rant printed in Texas Co-op witnessed. November 2013]. Many readers took Power. Rust in ROY TEAGUE | UNITED COOPERATIVE SERVICES exception to comments published in SCOTT HUTCHENS | DEEP EAST TEXAS EC PEACE our Letters section. Here’s a sam- Ghost town relics hint of times teeming with life pling of responses: Mayoral Correction The reaction … is not unexpected … I enjoyed the article “Freddy but it is unexpected to be published Fender: A Man for All Seasons” As a Texas Tech alum ... I am all too in Texas Co-op Power, which should [November 2013]. “The Milagro familiar with tacky comments about appeal to all Texans. Beanfield War” is one of my my school. Most of these comments LELAND TURNER | PEDERNALES EC favorite movies. However, Freddy’s are not intended to be hurtful, but Changes in Farming role in the movie was as the mayor sometimes they cross the line. All I was born in Floyd County in 1934, of Milagro—not the sheriff, as the more reason to be disappointed GET MORE TCP AT and was raised and lived on a farm stated in the caption. by the publication of such disparag- TexasCoopPower.com there until 1966, when I pulled my SHARON JOHNSON | HEREFORD ing comments from one of your family up and moved to Hurst. readers. Find more letters online in the Table of A few days before I received my SAM WHITEHEAD | PEDERNALES EC Contents. Sign up for our October 2013 Texas Co-op Power, Freddy Fender E-Newsletter for my son and I were checking out the monthly updates, farming operations southwest of As a proud Texas Tech alumnus, the prize drawings Floydada, my old stomping last thing I want to read ... is the and more! grounds. I told my son that I won- slanted viewpoint of an overzealous dered how the farmers made their Longhorn supporter. You owe all rows in a circle so the sprinkler sys- Texas Tech alumni a formal apology. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! TexasCoopPower.com/share tems could water the cotton without WILLIAM BULHAM | COSERV ELECTRIC ONLINE: [email protected] messing up the rows when in opera- EMAIL: MAIL: Editor, Texas Co-op Power, tion. The article on the Smith family 1122 Colorado St., 24th Floor, operation [“Where Cotton Doesn’t We are entitled to our opinions, Austin, TX 78701 Shrink”] explained that in detail, especially when it involves a sports Please include your town and electric co-op. and now I know. My, how farming Game Day Excitement rivalry, but publishing such com- Letters may be edited for clarity and length. has changed through the years. Editor’s note: Because of the fervor ments is unacceptable in a maga- We received our first electricity over college football in Texas, we zine designed to reach a broad in 1950 when I was 16, and the knew the September 2013 feature base. provider was the Rural Electrifica- “More Than a Game” would excite SCOTT CROWE | PEDERNALES EC @TexasCoopPower TEXAS CO-OP POWER VOLUME 70, NUMBER 7 (USPS 540-560). Texas Co-op Power is published monthly by Texas Electric Cooperatives (TEC). Periodical Postage Paid at Austin, TX and at additional offices. TEC is the statewide association representing 76 electric cooperatives. Texas Co-op Power’s website is TexasCoopPower.com. Call (512) 454-0311 or email [email protected]. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE is $4.08 per year for individual members of subscribing cooperatives. If you are not a member of a subscribing cooperative, you can purchase an annual subscription at the nonmember rate of $7.50. Individual copies and back issues are available for $3 each.