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Courtesy Photo by Charles Starnes
The Hale County Literacy Council last week held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its new offi ces at Houston School. Shown are (front, from
left) Chamber Red Coat Janis Roberson, Mayor John C. Anderson, HC-Jr. Board President Melissa Rau, HCLC Director Lydia Castillo, Houston
School Principal Dana Broyles, Chamber Red Coat Janice Payne; (back) PISD Supt. Dr. Ron Miller, HCLC Board member Diane Book, Perry
Gruhlkey and State Rep. Jim Landtroop. Giveaway winners were Sylvia Barrera, who won a Nook, and Letti Cheyne, who won a Kindle.
Spaceship fails
during test f light
VAN HORN (AP) — An unmanned spacecraft
bankrolled by Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos failed
during a recent test fl ight.
The vehicle became unstable at 45,000 feet and
ground controllers had to terminate it as a precaution.
Additional details were not released.
“Not the outcome any of us wanted, but we’re signed
up for this to be hard,” Bezos wrote in a blog post.
Bezos founded Blue Origin to develop a vertical
takeoff and landing rocketship that would fl y passengers
to suborbital space. It recently won money from
NASA to compete to go into orbit as a space taxi now
that the space shuttle fl eet is retired.
The mishap occurred during a test fl ight from Blue
Origin’s West Texas spaceport. The ultra-secretive
company notifi ed the Federal Aviation Administration
about the launch and only acknowledged the accident
publicly on Friday. The Wall Street Journal said the
test did not use federal funds and was not part of the
development agreement with NASA.
Blue Origin’s failure shines a spotlight on the risks
of commercial space ventures.
SpaceX, which has a NASA contract to develop a
commercial vehicle to haul supplies and astronauts,
suffered three rocket failures before it found success.
Later this year, the company, run by PayPal founder
Elon Musk, will launch a capsule on a cargo test run to
the International Space Station.
Virgin Galactic, founded by Sir Richard Branson,
lost three workers in 2007 after an explosion rocked a
California airport during testing of a propellant system
for its space tourism vehicle. The company is currently
conducting fl ight tests in the Mojave Desert and has not
set a date for the fi rst passenger fl ights.
Rotary’s student
of the
month for
September
is PHS senior
Kristen True,
daughter of
Mark and
Mary True.
Kristen is
involved in
FFA, 4-H,
Hale County
Junior Literacy
Council,
Hale County
Youth Advisory
Board
and Cancer
Awareness &
Prevention Kristen True
Squad (CAPS).
She is a Texas 4-H Livestock Ambassador and Plainview
Lions Club princess. A member of Garland Street Church
of Christ, she plans to attend Texas Tech where she will
judge meat and wool and major in animal science with
a minor in ag communications with an eye on a career
in marketing or public relations for an agricultural
company.
2011
Women’s Ranch Rodeo
COWBOY DAYS
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OWNTOWN ASSOCIATION
Courtesy Photo by Cynthia Davidson
Blackie is a 7-month-old black lab mix. He is friendly and energetic and will need someone to play with him and walk him. If you are interested
in Blackie or another dog or cat, call the Plainview Humane Society at 296-2311, or visit from 4-5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Adoption fee is $75 for dogs and $50 for cats, which includes spay/neuter, rabies shot and microchip.
Bar-None Rodeo Grounds
Sunday, Sept. 18
10:00a.m.-3:00p.m.
*TieDown*Doctoring*Sorting
* Trailer Loading * Branding
Local teams from the Texas Panhandle
to Kansas will be competing!
Admission:
$8 (12 years and older)
$4 (4-12 yr. olds)
FREE (age 3 and under)
For more information call JeriVon Thomas, 292-7968
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