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July 2, 2009
Page 3
OPINION
My return rom
Clock's ticking t0ward centennia ! the longhorn hunt
To the editor: covers administrat" "e cost' o parade. Observers are encouraged
lit is hard to believe when this let- centennial, the all-school reunion, to come prepared with a lawn chair
and bag to collect candy. Following
the parade will be lunch and the
commemorative rifle auction in
Gazebo Park.
Additional information is avail-
able on the posters located through,
out the city, at City Hall and at
www.beachnd.com. Residents of
Beach will be as proud to showcase
the city as were their predecessors.
See you there and enjoy the centen-
nial !
Beach Centennial Committee
Members KiT Nunberg, Teresa
Swanson, Deb Walworth and
Jeanne Larson
ter is published in the July 2, 2009,
issue there will only be 27 days
before the Beach Centennial
Celebration! There have been
numerous people working in a wwi-
ety of ways for well over a year to
make our centennial memorable.
We encourage individuals to pre-
register. Pre-registration eliminates
the frustration and waiting in line
for the ticket buyers and sellers.
Registration forms can be obtained
at City Hall or downloaded at
www.beachnd.com. Registration
fees are $10 for an individual or $25
for a family, The registration fee
Friday night concert, lunch
Saturday after the parade and fire-
works Saturday night. The family
fee also includes a wristband for
each child that gives them access to
the swimming pool and all inflat-
able games and activities. As of
today, there are 400 people from
outside the Beach area who have
registered, from the class of 1934 to
this year's graduating class.
A parade will be held on
Saturday, Aug. 1, at 11 a.m.
Participants are encouraged to pre-
register at City Hall to aid in the
planning and execution of the
Hat Tips
By Dean Meyer
Event will be an 'extraordinary opportunity'
tire of the vibrant spirit and joy of
life that marks Beach. It's a contin-
uing tribute to the people who built
Beach and the citizens who call it
home today.
Congratulations on your past and
best wishes for your future.
Byron L. Dorgan
U.S. Senator, D-N.D.
To the editor:
For all its history, the town site
of Beach has Sat astride major
American lines of travel - the
doomed march of Gen. Custer, the
Fort Keogh trail, the Northern
Pacific main line to the West Coast,
the Old Red Trail, U.S. 10, and
Interstate 94.
And this summer I trust that
every road will lead to Beach. A
community's centennial is an
extraordinary opportunit€ to cap-
ture, preserve and celebrate its her-
itage.
Having grown up in southwest-
ern North Dakota, in a town much
like yours, I'm especially apprecia-
State continues to be in good financial shape
Other views
By Shirley Meyer
Although we
have had quite a lit-
tle fun poked at us
from late night tele-
vision, many states
are pretty envious
of North Dakota's
financial position.
We are one of only
a handful of states
running in the
black, and look to
be recession proof
at least for the time
being.
proof at least for the time being.
The Department of Agriculture
requested increasing their operat-
ing expenses line item by $1 mil-
lion to accept federal funds
($750.000) and funding from the
Office of Management and
Budget ($250,000) to assist live-
stock producers affected by
severe winter conditions and
spring flooding. So far 301 pro-
ducers have applied for assis-
tance. The $1 million won't begin
to cover the losses, but will help.
finance the hardest hit cattlemen
that had to watch their profits
wash down the river. It just might
get them by until next year.
We also received a report t¥om
the adjutant general on 2009's
flood disaster related expendi-
tures. The preliminary reports
indicate the floods of 2009 are
going to cost $130,684.617. With
a 90/10 federal/state match, the
state's share will be close to $14.7
million. This past winter was one
for the record books, and I hope
we don't have to deal with any-
thing like it again for at least 100
years.
Enjoy your 4th of July - attend
a rodeo, a bar-b-que, or car race
and remember to be thankful that
you live in North Dakota where
the grass grows lush, green and
stirrup high.
Rep. Shirley Meyer
N.D. Matters
By Lloyd Omdahl
281 E Mal - BnacH ND 701-872-4362
day.
Although we have had quite a
little fun poked at us from late
night television, many states are
pretty envious of North Dakota's
financial position, we are one of
only a handful of states running in
the black, and look to be recession
Pull Luke Marman Black
Tabs Curtis Vanvleet$25/each Jack
Friday & Saturday
Hello,
Well, I made it. When I left
you last week, I was just going
after the wild longhorn cow.
Shirley was worried about my
return. But then, she worries
'about my return ifI go to town for
a gallon of milk. She worries eas-
ily.
The longhorn hunt did not go
as I had planned. It started snow-
ing and blowing and got pretty
darn cold and slippery. I am kind
of a fair weather cowboy. With
age I have learned that what can
be put off until a nicer day, should
be postponed. So the longhorn
hunt is delayed for :a few days.
They may live to tear down
another fence. As i have chased
these two cows around, I have
come to realize why cowboys of
years ago wore guns. It is much
easier to shoot a cow when you
are real mad.
It kind of reminded me of
years ago when we were produc-
ing rodeos. We had a couple of
bucking bulls that were just
impossible to keep in a corral.
They were both really good bulls.
Bar 33 and Tornado. They would
crawl under a corral. They would
jump over a corral. They would
go through a corral. I swear,
Tornado could crawl through a
fence that would hold a pig. And
Bar 33 could jump over a fence
that would hold a buffalo.
But, I always knew when they
left the ranch, where we cotdd find
theln on Friday morning when we
were loading up for the next rodeo.
What a difference a year
makes! Last year we barely could
find any hay to cut down. This
year we could bale the grass in the
yard. I don't know if there is any-
thing I enjoy more than the smell
of newly cut hay. (Me and the
COWS .)
The Budget Section consists of
all of the Appropriations members
and leadership of both the House
and the Senate. Our duties and
responsibilities during the interim
are to receive reports on every-
thing from the status of the gener-
al fund to reviewing all of the
requests from various state agen-
cies to the Emergency
Commission.
We met last week and found
out that the state of North Dakota
is in good shape. Our estimated
ending general fund balance on
June 30, 2009, is $506,184,407.
We will be transferring
$124,936,548 to the budget stabi-
lization fund that is required by
state law, but that still leaves us
with a healthy $381,247,859 bal-
ance. We will also have
$475,352,493 in our Permanent
Oil Tax Trust Fund. With the
price of oil continuing on an
upward trend, we should continue
to see more oil and gas tax collec-
tions. Currently we have 41 rigs
drilling in North Dakota and are
producing 196,383 barrels per
Hours: Mon-Fri. 3pm-lam Sat. lpm-lam
Happy Hour: Mon.-Thurs. 5:30-6:30pm
They may live to
tear down another
fence. As I have
chased these two
cows around, I
have come to real-
ize why cowboys of
years ago wore
guns. It is much
easier to shoot a
cow when you are
real mad.
Tornado would be out on the flat
with the dry cows, and Bar 33
would be seven miles north with
Henderson's milk cows. He had
this thing about those spotted cows
that he .just couldn't get over. He
would go through five hundred
plain old range cows for a chance
to spend a few days with those
spotted cows. Amazing.
Both these bulls had been
roped enough where they were
pretty well halter broke. They
looked a lot worse than they were.
You could rope Bar 33 a half mile
from a horse trailer and he would
lead along pretty good. You just
leave the end gate open, drag him
up close, and he would jump in.
Tornado was a little tougher.
But he would lie down as soon as
you roped him. You just shot him
a with a little birdshot to get him
out of the brush, rope him, have
somebody (Shirley) bring the
trailer, and drag him in. At least
that was always the plan.
The year of the Great Escape.
they got out in Mandan during the
nights. Then they went across a
footbridge over the Heart River,
down a side street, and into a
trailer park. There they went into
a nice yard with a nice garden and
camped for the night. Right in the
knee high sweet corn.
In the morning, sirens were
wailing and phones were ringing.
There were three wild Brahma
bulls threatening the people of
Mandan. I quickly got the police
calmed down, which is quite a
feat in itself. They were bound
and determined they should kill
or at least tranquilize these beasts.
Now, we needed them to buck in a
rodeo at two o'clock. We did not
need dead or hung over bulls,
I talked the cops into just stop-
ping the traffic a few spots, while
I took my dog and sicced "era
back tO the rodeo grounds. I hon-
estly believe that Bar 33 learned
his manners from those milk cows
he had been visiting. They walked
right out of that yard, down the
street like they were in a parade,
right around the end of a police
car, and across that footbridge
back to the rodeo grounds!
I only hope the longhorn hunt
goes half that well! Later, Dean
The Legislature as 'a roaring farce'
"A two-house legislature with more people to run - cutting the
the senatorial and representative
districts identical is a roaring
farce. There would have been more
one-house advocates if it had been
foreseen."
This editorial comment was
written by a disgusted editor on the
Bismarck Tribune on August 3,
1889 as he observed the proceed-
ings of the constitutional conven-
tion meeting in Bismarck to launch
the state with a new constitution.
His comments followed the
defeat of a proposal to create dif-
ferent districts for the election of
senate and house members. This
was followed by a decision to elect
senators and representatives from
the same districts.
The Tribune's observations
have more validity today than they
did 120 years ago. The differences
between the two houses are even
fewer today. Not only are both
houses chosen from the same dis-
tricts, but they all have 4-year
terms and all run in packs in the
same elections.
The decision to distort repre-
sentation in this manner was not
made to provide two houses with
different points of view but for the
convenience of the legislators
themselves.
They seem to have forgotten
that the Legislature is not the per-
sonal domain of those sitting at the
time but that it belongs to the peo-
ple for the people.
As the Tribune commented,
The differences
between the two
houses are even
fewer today. Not
*only are both
houses chosen
from the same dis-
tricts, but they all
have 4-year terms
and all run in
packs in the same
elections.
question of subdividing each sen-
ate district into two subdistricts for
the election of representatives.
Subdivision would provide sev-
eral improvements to the present
system. First of all. it would
reduce the size of the districts for
members of the house, some of
whom are now running in senate
districts as large as Rhode Island
or Connecticut. Smaller house dis-
tricts would make it possible for
Letters to
with two houses consisting of
duplicate representation, it the editor
becomes difficult to defend the
existence of two separate houses.
However, arguments over a one-
house legislature in North Dakota
must be classified as "academic"
since its adoption is less likely
than a return of the glacier. So,
let's set that aside.
But the next session of the
Legislature will be addressing leg-
islative reapportionment since fig-
ures from the 2010 decennial cen-
sus will be available. It would be
an appropriate time to revisit the
Playing:
Have a happy July 4th
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Election statistics indicate that
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