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WINTERFEST IN JAYTON DEC. 9 GET COMPLETE DETAILS Letters to Santa PAGE 5 COMING DECEMBER 17 MORE PHOTOS PAGE 8 Vol. 111 No. 10 | Thursday, December 10, 2020 | www.TheTexasSpur.com | ONE DOLLAR Grant-funded brush truck delivered to Spur VFD TEXAS SPUR PHOTOS STEELED FOR BUSINESS Spur VFD took delivery last week on its large brush truck built by Steele Fire Apparatus of Haskell. MORE PHOTOS, PAGE 8 BARBARA BRANNON | THE TEXAS SPUR On December 1, a bright scratchless. red fire engine rolled into the “Get the picture now,” said Spur Volunteer Fire Department fire chief Rick Paschall, “because COURTESY PHOTOS headquarters on Burlington Av- it’s the last time she’ll ever be SPUR HOLIDAY MARKET enue. From front grille to back this clean!” DAY Saturday, Dec. 5, bumper it sparkled, its gold-leaf The 2019 Chevrolet Silverado might not have been the livery glinting in the winter sun sunniest of the season, but shoppers turned out and its black steel cage shining, See TRUCK, page 8 to buy handmade goods at the Holiday Market in Rickels Park, patronize local merchants, visit with Santa at the Palace REGIONAL COVID-19 CASES Theater, and sing carols at the tree lighting at the Total cases reported to date; Spur Welcome Center once confirmed by TSHS as of the sun went down. The press time Spur Area Chamber of Commerce coordinated the event. Guthrie’s historic 6666 Ranch, 2 other divisions up for sale at $347M BARBARA BRANNON | THE TEXAS SPUR The “open running six” continuous Burnett family own- 6666 brand, registered in King ership, when heir Anne Burnett County, Texas, back in 1903 Marion died in February 2020, and in Carson County in 1908, provisions of her will called has been described as almost for sale of what had grown to impossible for thieves to modi- three divisions in Texas: the fy—and as the hallmark of one Headquarters ranch of 142,372 of Texas’s most storied ranching acres in Guthrie, the 114,455- operations. acre Dixon Creek Division near Now, 150 years after Samuel Borger, and the more recently Burk Burnett drove his first herd acquired, 9,428-acre Frisco COVID-19 BULLETIN AS OF DECEMBER 8, 2020 of 1,300 cattle up from the Rio Creek Division near Stratford. STATEWIDE AND REGION CASE COUNTS Grand to graze around the Little The combined price tag is Statewide total tests in Texas 11,455,346 Wichita River near what would $347,757,460, surpassing the COURTESY PHOTO Cases reported 1,258,214 become the town of Guthrie, asking rate for T. Boone Pickens’ Fatalities 22,627 Recovered (estimated) 1,038,806 those operations are for sale. Mesa Vista Ranch in the Pan- million paid in 2016 for Texas’s three fireplaces. Active cases in Texas 200,050 After a century and a half of handle but only half the $725 gigantic Waggoner Ranch. Travelers on US Highway The Lubbock-based real 82 through Guthrie can read- Total cases Recovered New cases Active EST. estate firm Chas. S. Middleton ily spot the famous brand on reported since last and Son announced the sale the red-painted 3,600-square- week last week. An extensive sale bro- foot enclosed airplane hangar Cottle 68 59 10 8 chure and website details the with its private 6,000-foot as- Crosby 183 145 8 22 phalt landing strip, and on the assets of each division. For the Dickens 71 60 5 6 flagship 6666 Ranch in Guth- 48,750-square-foot covered are- Donley 119 104 8 13 rie, farmland and grazing land na, barns, offices, and houses of Submit your community announcements (maximum 75 words) to news@ along with numerous structures the Horse Division. Floyd 200 159 14 25 thetexasspur.com for events within the coming month, to run up to 4 issues. and houses are included. Visitors turning off the high- Garza 169 143 10 11 KENT COUNTY WINTERFEST is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 9, from 4 to 7 p.m. at Burk Burnett built the “big way into Guthrie may stop in at Hale 4,416 3,819 287 495 the Emergency Services Building in Jayton. Anyone interested in a vendor house,” the three-story rock the 6666 Supply House, a rock Kent 26 26 1 0 spot may contact L’Rae Lee, (806) 368-2112. The event is hosted by Mams storefront dating to 1900, and structure that dominates the King 2 1 0 1 and Grams. view of Guthrie and surround- note the 6666’s famous loft Lubbock 34,772 28,918 2,486 5,402 ing ranch structures and pas- barn, the employee houses in SPUR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BINGO will be held Saturday, Dec. 12, from 6 to 8 p.m. tures, in 1917 from locally quar- town, and other ranch proper- Motley 26 18 6 6 Note the new location at the Spur Senior Citizens Center. ried stone. The home contains ties. Students of ranching his- Randall 11,860 7,401 1,416 4,333 some 13,280 square feet of liv- tory have long appreciated the Scurry 1,686 1,292 200 370 THE ANNUAL ANGEL TREE sponsored by the Dickens County Child Welfare Board will be set up at the Dickens County Spur Library this year. Donors may take ing area, with 13 bedrooms, 1917 barn, which was moved in Stonewall 31 30 6 1 an ornament with the information of a child on it and return it to the library 13 baths, 3 powder rooms, 2 Source: Texas State Department of Health Services | 12/8/2020 with a gift by noon Thursday, Dec. 17. kitchens, a dining room and See RANCH, page 7 2 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2020 | THE TEXAS SPUR COMMUNITY & COMMENTARY TheTexasSpur.com 2020 Community Calendar Community Services SPUR VISITOR CENTER at 101 Hill Street at Burlington Avenue is operated by the Spur Area Chamber of Commerce. Vistiors seeking information on the area may email [email protected] or call (806) 474-5757 THE SPUR AREA FOOD BANK serves families throughout Dickens County. The Food Vol. 111, No. 910 (USPS 541-640) Rays of hope in Covid-19 pandemic Bank is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization operating off private donations and Peridodicals postage paid at Spur, Texas. welcomes donations to this community work. Donations are tax-deductible The Texas Spur is published weekly. Tuesday the UK starting vate the exposure notifications with apps. Texas is not. and are accepted directly into the Food Bank’s account at Spur Security Bank or at 612 Burlington Ave. The Spur Area Food Kitchen Inc. does not discriminate POSTMASTER Send address changes to administering the first vaccines tool from the settings menu on Public health experts say The Texas Spur, P. O. Box 430, Spur, TX 79370 due to race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. against Covid-19. iPhones or by downloading the adoption has lagged because of THE KENT COUNTY LIBRARY, 156 W. 4th St., Jayton, is open for patron services Monday– PUBLISHER Kay Ellington Over-80-year-olds, nursing CA Notify App in the Google Play technical shortcomings in the Thursday, 9:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. via call-ahead service. Staff will bring requested [email protected] home staffers and healthcare store on Android devices. earliest apps, privacy concerns materials out to patron’s cars. Library patrons may also check out e-books and audiobooks on the Libby app for free with their library card. For information EDITOR Barbara Brannon givers are in the first wave. (The The apps enable Bluetooth and dismissive attitudes toward call (806) 237-3287 or “like” Kent County Library on Facebook.. [email protected] Palace has said the Queen won’t signals between devices to de- taking precautions to avoid the THE SPUR-DICKENS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, 403 E. Hill St., is closed this week. Call (806) BUSINESS [email protected] jump the queue.) termine when they are in close virus. But California officials 271-3714 for questions. Free WiFi service (password spurlib2017) is available (806) 271-3381 *** proximity, and the apps then hope the app will be adopted to guests from the parking lot. Please send announcements, California has announced anonymously alert users when quickly in a state that is home SPUR-DICKENS COUNTY MUSEUM is closed for the season and will reopen the first calendar events, and news items to an app to help people track their a recent contact later tests posi- to many tech workers. Friday in April 2021. If you would like a tour, please call a board member: Fronye Morris, (806) 271-3577; Linda Swenson, (806) 271-3238; Woodie [email protected]. exposure to the coronavirus, be- tive. At least 6 million people in *** Display ads, classifieds, legal McArthur, (806) 271-4415; or Don Wright, (806) 271-4520. notices and obituaries should be coming the largest U.S. state to the United States have tried the By mid-month, Texas will SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER/SOUTH DICKENS, 210 Burlington Ave., provides a meal at submitted to their respective take advantage of new technol- system in recent months across get up to 1.4 million first doses noon Monday– Friday, currently for curbside pickup only. A donation of $4 is email address: ogy from smartphone software the 21 states and two territories of the two-dose coronavirus vac- suggested for ages 60 and older, with a $8 donation for those younger than [email protected] makers Apple and Google. that made apps available before cine candidates from Pfizer and 60. For more information call (806) 271-4472.