Gene Hall

Gene Hall
Morris Eugene Hallwas an American music educator, saxophonist, and arranger, known for creating and presiding over the first academic curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in jazzat an institution of higher learning, being at the University of North Texas College of Musicin 1947...
absolutely
I think it's going to be absolutely devastating once we get out there and look.
area families lost
The ranching families in the area have just been devastated. They've lost a lot of equipment, a lot of buildings, a lot of livestock.
disaster economic good praying rain sitting top
We're sitting on top of what very well could be an economic disaster. A lot of praying for a good soaking rain is all that can be done.
cover desert feed help hurt looks short term
They're hurt pretty badly. We think we're going to be pretty well able to help their short term feed needs. But there's a lot of things that we're not going to be able to fix, one of which is all the vegetative cover is gone. I mean, it just looks like a desert out there.
covet happens seat stake state
There's a lot that happens (at the state Capitol) and we have a stake in most of it. We covet our seat at the table.
bureau continue farm oppose
It's not just about the corridor. We will continue to oppose it, and will kill it if we can. (But) the farm bureau is not a single-issue organization.
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It's a shame that as hard as everyone worked to have this market reopened that we had something like this so soon. We have every reason to believe the halt will be short and we can get our shipments going again.
blow economy industry livestock state
It's a short-term solution. It comes down to just how big a blow we want the livestock industry and the state economy to take.
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The response has been, I would say, it qualifies as overwhelming. We've had county farm bureaus and generous folks all over the state sending items to that part of the state and cash as well.
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We oppose the corridor, period. We believe the impact on the rural landowners is going to be detrimental as far as the effects to crops and livestock and the loss to the property or the farmland.
manage needed
We don't need to manage for E. coli. We wanted to know. If there was a problem, we needed to know.
comforting lake
The lake doesn't have a bacterial problem. That's the most comforting thing.