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Countr Tuesday, November 10, 1992 3 Commission OKs Bandera, Gillespie racing dates By JAMES HENRY FRAZAR Times Correspondent AUSTIN Bandera Downs and other Class II received live and simulcasting rac- ing dates for 1993 Monday, but not before the Texas Racing Commission played out a waiting game with the three operating Class II race tracks in Texas at their meeting in Austin. The commission also approved racing dates for the Gillespie County Fair and Festivals Association over the protests of representatives of the Stonewall Chamber of Commerce and dates for the proposed Lubbock Downs. As the skies of Austin darkened at 6 p.m. and many of the racing officials and horsemen attending the meeting wondered if the TRC would approve any 1993 dates for Bandera, Manor Downs and Trinity Meadows, TRC executive secretary David Freeman reiterated a compromise that he, racing officials from the three tracks, and representatives from breed associations had hammered out in an impromptu meeting in the hall of the Stephen F. Austin building outside the on-going TRC meeting.

It was the second time the compromise was stated and this time commissioner Glenn Blodgett, who had voiced opposition to giving Trinity Meadows any racing dates until they made improvements in their facility, relented and moved to accept the compromise. Commissioner Anne Dunnigan Wilson, who had also told Trinity to improve its operations, seconded the motion. The two ex- officio members, Public Safety Commission chair Robert Holt and deputy comptroller Bill Hamilton representing State Comptroller John Sharp, voted "aye" to make the decision unanimous. Noticeably missing was commissioner Hugh Fitzsimons, who left shortly before the compromise was repeated. Fitzsimons was the most outspoken opponent of giving Trinity racing dates.

Commission chair Pat Pangburn (a greyhound commissioner who could not vote on horse racing-only issues), said Fitzsimons had to be somewhere else at that late hour. The compromise gave Trinity a split meet something opposed by numerous quarter horse owners and trainers, the Texas Quarter Horse Breeders Association and the American Quarter Horse Association and endorsed by numbcrous thoroughbred owners and trainers and the Texas Thoroughbred Breeders Association in testimony given Monday where thoroughbreds only would race Thursday through Sunday and holiday Mondays, March 6 Aug. 8 (92 days) and quarter horses only Thursday through Sunday and holiday Mondays Aug. 19 Dec. 31 (77 days) for a total of 169 days in two meetings.

Both Bandera and Manor said they did not want their 1993 dates considered until Trinity's had been approved. Bandera's attorney, Lambert Townsend, went as far as to say that if Trinity was not given a split meeting, Bandera would consider not racing at the fall. (Bandera has had to compete with Trinity to get thoroughbreds to race at Bandera and Trinity racing quarter horses in the fall would allow Bandera an easier time to get thoroughbreds that would have raced at Trinity.) With the compromise Bandera Downs received its request for 117 days, Friday through Sunday and holiday Mondays March 6 Nov. 28 with two weeks off in August. Freeman, reiterating what Bandera Downs general manager Billy Bowers had agreed to, said Bandera would race more quarter horses in the spring and early summer while Trinity was racing throughbreds and more thoroughbreds in the late summer and fall while Trinity was racing quarter horses.

In separate action, the commission approved 12 racing days for the Gillespie County Fairgrounds track June 19-20, July 17-18, Aug. Aug. 20-22. Members of the Stonewall Chamber of Commerce testified that the June 19-20 dates interfered with their Peach Jamboree (held on the third weekend in June for 31 years) and asked the commission to disallow those dates, dates that Gillespie has historically not had. Gillespie officials, who were in the audience, did not make any statement.

The commission approved the dates. Tltnea corrMpondont JIITIM Fruar on reached 535-6324. Kerrville VA schedules Veterans Day services KERRVILLE The Kerrville VA Medical Center will hold Veterans Day ceremonies Wednesday, beginning at 10:30 a.m. The public is invited to attend the program, which will be held in the chapel of the Nursing Home Care Unit The posting of colors will be conducted by VFW Post 1480, com- manded by Bill Robinson, and Americal Legion Post No. 208, Johnnie Washburn, commander.

Robinson will lead the pledge of allegiance, followed by VAMC director Arnold E. Mouish with the welcome address. Kent Bressler will read a presidential proclamation; benediction will be conducted by Will Bigott, chief of chaplain service. Fredericksburg takes 4th in marching band contest AUSTIN (AP) Brownfield High School in Conference 3A and Spring High School in Conference 5 A took top honors at the 1992 University Interscholastic League State Marching Band contest Monday. Fredericksburg High School placed fourth in the 3A division contest.

Making its third trip to the state contest, Brownfield beat out 15 other bands in Conference 3 A for the state title. Robinson finished second, Denver City third, Fredericksburg fourth and Pearsall fifth. Other schools advancing to the state marching band contest in Conference 3A were Llano; Pleasant Grove, Southlake Carroll. Wednesday The Hill Country Gun Club holds skeet and trap shooting each Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. until dark at Burkett Ranch, 16 miles north of Kerrville on Texas 16.

896-2709. Vietnam Veterans Rap Group meets alternate Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon at the VFW Post 1480, 220 Thompson Dr. Call Gary Gordon, 512-229-4025 for details. ALA-TEEN for teenagers raised in an alcoholic home meets each Wednesday at 8 p.m.

in the fellowship hall of First Christian Church. 895-3579. Sunrise Lions Club meets at Restaurant Wednesdays at 6:45 a.m. For more information, call 257-6557. Hill Country Democratic Breakfast Club meets Wednesdays at 7:30 a.m.

at the Del Norte Restaurant. 257-7355. Kerrville Golf Association invites area golfers to participate in their Wednesday sweepstakes. For an entry fee of $3 golfers may play any time on Wednesdays before 1 p.m. For more information, call Schreiner Golf Course, 257-4982.

A Trauma Resolution Therapy Group meets weekly on Wednesdays at 7 p.m., at 204 Cully Drive, Suite 400. 257-7110. The Kerrville Alzhelmers and Related Dementia Support Group (KARDS) meets the second Wednesday of each month at 1:30 p.m. in the education building of the First United Methodist Church. For more information, call Ken Strickland at 896-2211 ext, 256 between 8 a.m.

and 5 p.m. or Harriet Hemphill at 896-0393. The Goat Creek Home Extension Club will meet Wednesday, Nov. 11 at noon at the recreation hall at Three Hills Mobile Home Park. 1432 Junction Highway.

The program will be "911 what do they know about me?" Hostesses for the meeting will be Emma Griffin and Ruth Spirck. For more information call 895-3149. Center Point Garden Club will meet Wednesday, Nov. 11,2 p.m., at the home of Catherine Greer. The program, by Walter Blumrich, will be on H.E.B.

produce. Hostesses are Catherine Greer, Betty Lewis and Earlene Greenhaw. For more information call Nell Sevey at 210-634-2302. Unitarian Unlversallst Fellowship will meet Wednesday, Nov. 11 at the Student Center at Schreiner College.

Bob Haynes will speak on Habitat for Humanity in Kerr County and the United States. Meetings are open to the public. For more information call 257-2346. KerrMugg, a new Macintosh computer group, is now forming and will meet the second Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the Tom Murray building on Schreiner College campus.

The group welcomes those interested in the use of Macintosh computers. Hill Country today Police report Shooting death KERRVILLE A 38-year-old man was found overnight Monday in the 300 block of South Lewis Avenue shot in the chest. The man was pronounced dead at 10:31 a.m. at Peterson Hospital. Justice of the Peac Pat Knox has ordered an autopsy of the man to determine the exact cause of death.

When Kerrville police arrived at the scene, they found the man sitting in a recliner in his home with a gunshot wound to the chest. A revolver apparently was lying nearby. Police learned of the incident after his wife called police. She apparently was home at the time of the shooting. Car stolen KERRVILLE A 17-year-old female was arrested overnight Monday after police found her sleeping in a stolen car.

Police found the teen in a 1990 Geo parked below a bridge at Loop 534 and Riverside Drive. The car apparenlty was stolen from Vermont. Runaway KERRVILLE A 14-year-old female was reported as a runaway from the 300 block of Mathison Street. The teen apparenlty did not show up for school on Monday. Theft KERRVILLE The Kerr County Sheriff's department reports that a canoe was stolen from a private residence in Center Point.

The 25-year-old male who owns the canoe says its worth $700. Obituaries MARY FRANCES CHADDERDON Services Sunday KERRVILLE Memorial services for Mary Frances Chadderdon, 76, are set for 2 p.m. Sunday at the student activity center at Schreiner College. Mrs. Chadderdon was first known in Kerrville as the owner of The Potter's Wheel, a ceramic shop located in La Bazaar shopping center from 1971 to 1973.

A member of the Hill Country Arts Foundation and the Archaelogical Society, she returned to college and received her masters degree in archaelogy from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She retired in 1986 and has been an active member of the Unitarian- Universalist Fellowship in Kerrville. Survivors include a son, James R. Chadderdon of Colorado Springs, a daughter, Marty Burnett of Austin; a sister, Marjorie Ackley of Tulsa, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the Memorial Garden of the Hill Country Arts Foundation, P.O.

Box 175, Ingram, Texas 78025. ROBERT J. COY Services pending SAN ANTONIO Services for Robert J. Coy, 79, of San Antonio, who died Monday in a San Antonio nursing home, are pending at Grimes Funeral Chapel in Bandera. JAMES M.

DECKER Services pending KERRVILLE Services for James M. Decker, 38, of Kerrville, who died Monday in a Kerrville hospital, are pending at Kerrville Funeral Home. IRENE HILDEBRANDT Mass Wednesday SAN ANTONIO Mass for Mrs. Irene Mazurek Hildebrandt, 81, of Lakehills, who died Sunday in San Antonio, will be Wednesday at2 p.m. at St.

Victor's Chapel in Lakehills with Father Micahel MacManus, celebrant. A rosary will be recited at St. Victor's Chapel today at 7 p.m. with Father Michael MacManus officiating. Bom Oct.

23, 1911 in Indian Creek, Mrs. Hildebrandt had lived there until 1931, when she moved to Lake Medina. She and her first husband built Adplph's Store, where she worked until last year. She was. a member of St.

Victor's Chapel and the Altar Society and Bunco Club in Lakehills. She married Adolph Mazurek on June 4, 1931 in Bandera. She married Albert Hildebrandt in March of 1965. Both preceded her in death. Survivors include three daughters, Lucille Hoesen and Virginia Wrasse, both of San Antonio, and Roseann Schott of Lakehills; a son, Adolph Mazurek Jr.

of Lakehills; a brother, Bud Kalka of Fort Worth; 14 grandchildren and 18 great- grandchildren. Pallbearers will be George Wrasse Dwayne Hoesen, Bill Hoesen, Doug Hoesen, Harvey Kelley, Richard Stein, James Mazurek and Mark Mazurek. Grimes Funeral Chapel in Kerrville is in charge of arrangements. EDWARD S. VANCE Services in Goldthwaite KERRVILLE Services for Edward Salvoura Vance, 79, of Marble Falls, who died this morning in a Kerrville hospital, will be held in Goldlhwaite.

Mr. Vance served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Edward Vance of Marble Falls.

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896-7330 Claim, AARP offer drivers' ed class KERRVILLE A driver improvement program for persons 50 years of age or older is currently being offered in Kerrville by Dietert Claim and the American Association of Retired Persons. Bob Cooper, a volunteer spokesman for the driver's ed class, says the "55 Driving" class is offered three times a month depending on the number of people who want to take the class. "We normally take a minimum of 18 and not more than 30 people," Cooper said. The course is presented through small group discussion, slides and instructor guidance. It is an eight- hour course conducted in two sessions at a cost of $8 for both sessions.

The class is designed to update driving knowledge and sharpen driving skills and covers subjects such as physical changes, interacting with traffic, accident prevention and adverse driving conditions. The Texas Department of Public Safety in Austin reports that last year in Kerr County seven people were killed in motor vehicle accidents. Of those seven, four of the drivers involved in fatal accidents were at least 55 years old. Two were 75 years or older. While this is primarily a driver improvement program, insurance companies in Texas are required by law to provide an insurance reduction to those who successfully complete the course.

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