HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 1-1 WHEREAS, The Legislature of the State of Texas is pleased to 1-2 join the citizens of the Texas Panhandle in commemorating Tuesday, 1-3 February 23, 1999, as Panhandle Day at the Capitol; and 1-4 WHEREAS, A spectacular region in Texas, the Panhandle is rich 1-5 in history and scenic plains and is home to a host of cities 1-6 offering a wide array of opportunities; and 1-7 WHEREAS, The area is a combination of traditional ranch lands 1-8 unchanged for centuries, High Plains agriculture, and large 1-9 stretches of oil and gas reserves; and 1-10 WHEREAS, A glimpse of the region's past is provided by the 1-11 Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum located on the campus of West 1-12 Texas State University; the museum provides an intriguing overview 1-13 of life in the Old West; and 1-14 WHEREAS, Since 1995 the Amarillo National Resource Center for 1-15 Plutonium, an Amarillo-based university research consortium, has 1-16 provided Texas universities with more than $32.5 million for 1-17 research and has represented the interests of the State of Texas 1-18 with the Department of Energy; and 1-19 WHEREAS, The Panhandle city of Amarillo has also recently 1-20 been chosen as the result of a nationwide search as the city to 1-21 house the new Tiltrotor Assembly Center to be built by Bell 1-22 Helicopter Textron, Incorporated; the center will be the first 1-23 major aircraft manufacturing facility to be built in Texas in 1-24 decades; and 2-1 WHEREAS, The state's well-known Palo Duro Canyon State Park 2-2 is located in the heart of the Panhandle, and the park's arresting 2-3 scenic canyon contains rocks spanning 200 million years of 2-4 geological time; and 2-5 WHEREAS, With more than 400,000 residents, the Panhandle 2-6 offers the opportunities and vitality generated by modern cities 2-7 and industry, yet its natural beauty and spectacular scenery remain 2-8 unchanged; now, therefore, be it 2-9 RESOLVED, That the 76th Legislature of the State of Texas 2-10 hereby commend the residents of the Panhandle on their many 2-11 contributions to our state and extend to them best wishes for a 2-12 joyous Panhandle Day. Swinford Smithee Chisum Laney Glaze Moreno of El Paso Alexander Goodman Morrison Allen Goolsby Mowery Alvarado Gray Naishtat Averitt Green Najera Bailey Greenberg Nixon Berman Grusendorf Noriega Bonnen Gutierrez Oliveira Bosse Haggerty Olivo Brimer Hamric Palmer Brown of Kaufman Hardcastle Pickett Brown of Brazos Hartnett Pitts Burnam Hawley Puente Capelo Heflin Ramsay Carter Hilbert Rangel Chavez Hilderbran Reyna of Bexar Chisum Hill Reyna of Dallas Christian Hinojosa Ritter Clark Hochberg Sadler Coleman Hodge Salinas Cook Homer Seaman Corte Hope Shields Counts Howard Siebert Crabb Hunter Smith Craddick Hupp Smithee Crownover Isett Solis of Cameron Cuellar Janek Solis of Bexar Culberson Jones of Brazos Solomons Danburg Jones of Lubbock Staples Davis of Harris Jones of Dallas Swinford Davis of Dallas Junell Talton Delisi Keel Telford Denny Keffer Thompson Deshotel King of Parker Tillery Driver King of Uvalde Truitt Dukes Krusee Turner of Coleman Dunnam Kuempel Turner of Harris Dutton Lengefeld Uher Edwards Lewis of Tarrant Uresti Ehrhardt Lewis of Orange Van de Putte Eiland Longoria Walker Elkins Luna West Ellis McCall Williams Farabee McClendon Wilson Farrar McReynolds Wise Flores Madden Wohlgemuth Gallego Marchant Wolens Garcia Maxey Woolley George Merritt Yarbrough Giddings Moreno of Harris Zbranek _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.C.R. No. 97 was adopted by the House on February 23, 1999, by a non-record vote. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.C.R. No. 97 was adopted by the Senate on February 24, 1999, by a viva-voce vote. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor