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Chance of rain this Saturday st. 1890 Thursday: 77/48 E Friday: 81/60 Saturday: 73/43 De Leon Sunday: 60/40 Monday: 67/45 Proctor Lake Level: 100% ..........................1171.40 ft Weekly Precipitation: 0.0” Annual Precipitation: 47.48” Burn Ban Off Seventy-five Cents RESS Thursday, December F 10, 2015REE12 Pages P Volume 126, No. 26 DeLeon, TX 76444 Phil Tate leaves legacy for future generations By JON AWBREY Carter Tate. State Bank. Tate lived a distinguished Publisher He graduated from He was a creative force in life: University of Texas gradu- DeLeon High School in 1964 collecting and writing the ate, U.S. Army soldier, banker, DeLeon lost one of its as a true Bearcat, and attended Pictorial History of DeLeon, writer, city administrator - any favorite sons this week with the the University of Texas at commemorating DeLeon’s first one of these would indicate a unfortunate passing of Phil Austin, graduating in 1968 with century in 1981. special life. Tate, long a keeper of DeLeon’s a degree in finance. In the mid-1990s, he wrote Phil Tate was all of these, stories and history, following a He served as a soldier in dozens of articles on DeLeon and more. long fight against cancer. the U.S. Army during the history for Charles Chupp’s Although he achieved sig- Tate lived a distinguished Vietnam War. publications, The Messenger nificant success in his profes- life. He was a banker, begin- magazine and the DeLeon sional career, he should be As he was a historian, it is ning his 45-year banking career Monitor newspaper. remembered by DeLeonians as important to note the facts and at DeLeon’s F&M Bank before Tate was most recently the the man who saved DeLeon’s details of that life. he even graduated from high City Manager of Manor, Texas, history from extinction. He would appreciate that, school. Most of his banking where he brought distinction to By far, that was his great- one suspects. career was spent in Austin and the small city for fostering tech- est gift to the people of his Tate, born in 1946, was the the surrounding areas at nological innovation at the local hometown. son of James Garland and Mary American Bank and Coupland government level. See Phil Tate page 6 PHIL TATE. Tate passed away Monday morning. Grace Everhart runs for tax assessor-collector I am Grace Everhart and am in September 2009. enthusiastically announcing my In September 2011, I was candidacy for the office of hired by Ms. Gay Green, Comanche County Tax Comanche County Tax Assessor-Collector. Assessor-Collector, when the I moved back to Comanche See Grace Everhart page 8 County permanently in August 2006 and began working in ad valorem tax in October 2006. I worked for and was mentored by Ms. Juanita Gray when hired at City of De Leon/De Leon ISD Tax Office; was appointed City of De Leon/De Leon ISD Tax Assessor- Collector in April 2009 and completed certification for Registered Tax Assessor through the Texas Department of Licensing and Registration GRACE EVERHART. DeLeon cowboys in the THE CLAUSES COME TO TOWN. Santa and Mrs. Claus were in DeLeon Friday night to help celebrate Country Christmas. Above, they take requests from little Scotland Curry. money at National Finals By JON AWBREY won Round Two of the Waring announces retirement Monday Publisher National Finals, taking home $23,480, and tied for third in By JON AWBREY unbelievable job. She has our After five rounds at the Round Three, winning Publisher love and admiration and National Finals Rodeo in Las $11,141. respect, and I speak for all the Vegas, two DeLeon cowboys Earlier this year, Cure won Commissioners.” Comanche County were firmly in the money as of the Reno Rodeo, and was Waring then addressed the Commissioners met in a called Monday night. named champion or co-cham- court, thanking them for sup- meeting Monday to discuss the DeLeon-native Hunter pion at the West Texas Fair and porting her in her career. resignation of longtime Cure, a steer wrestler who won Rodeo in Abilene, the Wichita “This work has been very Comanche County Librarian the 2013 world title, began the Falls PRCA Rodeo, and the meaningful to me over the Margaret Waring. first round ranked second in the years, and I thank you for that,” Waring, who has over a world. Earlier this week, Cure See Rodeo Finals page 8 half-century of continuous said Waring, in an emotional service to the readers of moment for all in the court- Comanche County, announced room. DeLeon Stock Show is her retirement effective March “My overriding concern 1, 2016. for many years has been to find this Saturday at 9 a.m. “We are here to accept the someone to replace me as coun- McGrath, Jessica Grimshaw, resignation of a very precious ty librarian,” said Waring. The annual DeLeon Stock Riggin Williams, Shandon lady who has been with us for Waring said that the recent Show will take place this Dowell, Evan Dowell, Haley years and years and years,” appearance of a qualified candi- Saturday, December 12, begin- Buckley, Landon Wilkerson, Comanche County Judge date with longstanding ties to ning at 9 a.m. Slade Gooden, Neeley Gooden, James R. Arthur explained to a Comanche County was a gift Local students will show Kallen McIlvain, Kreede full county courtroom. from God. Market Swine, Breeding McIlvain, Shawn Skaggs, Josh “She is quite a champion, That candidate is Hollis MARGARET WARING. Retiring Comanche County Swine, Sheep, Market Goats, Auvenshine, Ronni Ryon, and and a pleasure to work with,” Croft McCright, a Comanche Librarian Margaret Waring speaks with Comanche Breeding Beef Heifers, and Kelsey Hodges. added Arthur. “I hate to see her County native who is currently County Judge James R. Arthur Monday at the county Market Steers. Please come out and sup- go. She’s done a fabulous, See Waring retirement page 8 courthouse. Students participating in the show include Clay port DeLeon’s future farmers, Lawrence, Tyler Hall, Landon and purchase a hamburger from Totelcom to provide Fiber-to-the-Home Stephens, Garrett Stephens, the concession stand. Proceeds Cara Sides, Blake Hodges, support the DeLeon Livestock (Special to the Free Press) $79.95 per month for agree to receive high-speed expects to have all areas com- Hunter Hodges, Johnny Hall, Association. 50Mb/50Mb download/upload fiber service when available, pleted within two years. Allie Hall, Will Dickey, Molly Participants may start In this world of needing to speed and will be an additional but sign up helps determine You may be asking, “Why Casey, Kandyce Mohon, unloading between 5 p.m. and 7 be instantly “connected” to service to voice services. By your installation time frame by do I need fiber-to-the-home?” Mayson Pounds, Kenadi p.m. on Friday. information, Totelcom signing up for fiber-to-the- prioritizing the sequence/order Communications is preparing home service, you not only of the fiber build. Totelcom See Totelcom page 8 to meet this need with Gigabit Constable McDonald to fiber-to-the-home high-speed Internet service. In future run for re-election months, Totelcom plans to I am Mark McDonald and the Comanche Sheriff’s Office expand its data services to I am seeking re-election as until I began serving as include a fiber optic-based net- Comanche County Constable. Constable for Comanche work to the home at substantial- I was born and raised in See Mark McDonald page 8 ly higher speeds throughout the Comanche County. I am mar- city of DeLeon. “DeLeon may ried to Elda McDonald and be a small, rural town in Central have a daughter, Alaina, and Texas, but Totelcom will be two granddaughters, Abbygail providing big city services to and Serenity, who lives in make DeLeon a Gigabit city. Lubbock, Texas. Once in place, DeLeon will I graduated from have the first citywide fiber-to- Comanche High School in the-home Gigabit connections 1980 and began my carrier as a in this part of the state,” said Law Enforcement Officer on Toney Prather, Totelcom February 18, 1983. I was Communications’ President. TOTELCOM FIBER SPLICING TRAILER. In the upcoming months you will notice employed with the Comanche The new residential fiber- Totelcom’s fiber splicing trailer in various parts of town as Totelcom begins providing Police Department for 15 years. to-the-home service will start at fiber-to-the-home high-speed Internet service. I then gained employment with MARK MCDONALD. Page 2/ Thursday, December 10, 2015 / DeLeon Free Press as read earlier in Jane Q. Public... by Sarah Awbrey the free press Coming Events 10 YEARS AGO Melinda Garcia was named All Eagles. Sarah Stews About TV Tournament. Two local 4-H girls were I know people say that to I do know, though, that I December 8, 2005. Dr. The ten Bearcats named to winners in the “Make it DeLeon stay informed you need to am my own keeper, and the A.E. Pino was pictured congrat- the District 8-AA Academic Yourself with Wool” contest at watch the news. keeper of my own happiness. ulating his grandson, David All-District Football Team wer the District 4 meeting in San 4-H Club I’ll agree with that to a cer- When my heart is brim- Pino, had just scored 10 points Wayne Kubiak, Juan Tovar, Angelo. Cathy Bruton placed tain extent. ming with anger, the easiest for the University of Texas in John Burk, Ken Burk, Will first and Pepper Joiner placed Meeting Recently it seems our solution is to get rid of what is the Big 12 Championship game Grimshaw, Dustynn Otwell, second.