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i Section 1 Page 14 I Fort Worth Star-Telegram Friday PM September 7 1990 Back in the saddle for 7 months Clippings From Page 1 1 Symphony musicians reach accord on pay turing of Mount Pleasant which will furnish portable pens for the 300 to 400 cattle said Bud McCasland cattle-drive foreman Paying tourists who can sign up to ride along for a day or longer will also help defray expenses The tourist outriders will be charged $200 a day for a horse equipment chuckwagon meals and a bedroll McCastand said About 20 paid cowhands will also go along on the drive Comoyer said he hopes to hire at least two hands from each state on the route Comoyer said he drew his inspiration for the drive from Lonesome Dove the Larry McMurtry novel that was made into a TV mini-series In Lonesome Dove two former Texas Rangers drive a herd of Mexican cattle from South Texas to Montana For more information call the Squaw Knife Cattle Co at 429-4658 braska and Wyoming Fund-raising events along the route will benefit the Tarrant County Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children and Adults and other local Easter Seal societies "The purpose of the cattle drive is to do something that hasn't been done in nearly a hundred years" said Larry Comoyer a Fort Worth artist and owner of the Squaw Knife Cattle Co which will manage the drive "We want to reconstruct a cattle dri ve as closely as we can to the way it used to be" With a budget of S25 million organizers are working to round up corporate sponsors to furnish money and in-kind services Several sponsors have already signed on including the Coleman Co manufacturer of camping equipment Purina Feeds which will furnish a portion of the feed to be used along the route and Priefert Manufac BY ICARA ROGGE Fort Worth Star-Telegram FORT WORTH Organizers of the Great American Cattle Drive are looking for a few good cowhands veterans accustomed to spending all day in the saddle for a seven-month 1700-mile drive to Miles City Mont next year But they're also planning to take along some paying tourists as they reenact the great I 9th-century trail drives that moved Texan and Mexican cattle to the railheads and slaughterhouses of the Midwest and the rangeland of Wyoming and Montana The drive which is to begin March 2 at the Stockyards will follow portions of five historic cattle trailg beginning with the Chisholm Trail from Fort Worth and ending with the Texas Trail into Miles City The route passes through Texas Oklahoma Kansas Ne 1 i weekly city officials said Every 10000 residents in Fort Worth generate in a week enough trash to cover 15 acres of landfill a foot deep Halting or even slowing the amount of grass clippings and brush into the landfills would add years of use to the landfills and save millions of dollars Gilley said "It will cost cities and private waste companies as much as $350000 an acre in new landfills to comply with new federal landfill regulations coming out this month" Gilley said "That cost is over and above the actual cost of the land" He said legislation outlawing cities' putting grass clippings in landfills is being prepared for the next session of the Texas Legislature The Texas Agricultural Extension Service advocates leaving grass clippings on lawns as a source of nutrients for the grass The agency says the clippings are 90-percent water and dissolve back into the soil within a matter of days They do not significantly contribute to insect or thatching problems officials said cost of I vi ng rises more than 5 percent) proportioned to the expanded work year and an increase in the amount of paid leave to 42 days by the 1992-93 season With the expanded season and proportional raises base salary for the principals in the Fort Worth Chamber Orchestra will rise from $27283 in the I 989-90 season to $36321 in the 1992- 93 season from $25770 to $34306 for assistant principals and from $24256 to $32291 for section musicians Individual players however may have higher salaries depending on seniority and other factors Part-time players who bring the ensemble up to symphonic dimensions for Fort Worth Symphony Masterpiece Series and Pops concerts also will receive additional guaranteed work and a 5-percent raise on a per-service basis "These were at times very difficult negotiations" Hair said by telephone yesterday "But the players and man agement have a common goal: to bring more performances to the BY WANE LEE GAY Fort Worth Star-Telegram FORT WORTH An overnight session brought an end to the drawn-out process of contract negotiations for the Fort Worth Symphony early yesterday morning Representatives of the orchestra's management and the players union expressed satisfaction with the agreement which will guarantee an expanded season and pay raises over the next three years for full- and part-time musicians The most significant aspect of the contract is the expansion of the symphony's season The 36 full-time musicians who form the Fort Worth Chamber Orchestra were guaranteed 40 weeks of work a year under the old contract which expired at the end ofJune Under the new contract they will be paid for 42 weeks in the 1990-91 season 44 weeks in the 1991-92 season and 46 weeks in the 992-93 season Along with pay for the extra weeks the musicians also will receive a minimum raise of 5 percent (higher if the Austin radio stations mixing signals in rare deal local operation to program more than one station without violating laws against ownership of more than one station in the same market Spur Capital president Don Kuykendall described the arrangement as "innovative right on the threshhold of what the radio industry is going to see a whole lot more of" location where it's now heard Spur Capital an Austin investment group that is buying KHH on Sept 12 is contracting with KVET Broadcasting to provide country music for the KHH frequency The seller is Encore Communications KVET will pay Spur Capital for air time to broadcast its advertising and country shows with some revamping of programming expected The programming arrangement is among the few nationwide allowing a Associated Press AUSTIN KVET-AM in a radio industry rarity will begin simulcasting on FM this month but not on the frequency used by its FM sister station In a complicated ownership change and programming agreement starting Sept 17 KVErs AM signal also will be heard on the FM frequency held by KIM officials said KVET's FM sister station KASE will continue with its own continous country programming on the radio dial KNIT General Manager Ron Rogers said KVET will not be competing against sister station KASE Jerry Bakoi9 America Master Gardener ir 'n A IV) it tl' -11 Jerry Bak America Master Gardener CENTER ON SALE FRI SEPT 7 THRU SUN SEPT 9 EPT 9 ON SALE FRI SEPT 9 SickleCellAnemia Association of Texas 332-5300 617 Seventh Ave No 403 Fort Worth 76104 lel Director: Fontainette Woods Client intervention and case management screening education parent support groups genetic counseling services regarding 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