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43-803: Born Glenn Irwin Pinnell in Andrews, Texas , Pennell grew up in Lubbock and College Station , where his father Charles taught engineering at Texas A & M University . He became interested in film as a teenager and would use his father's Super 8 camera to shoot skits starring his brother and sisters. He graduated from A&M Consolidated High School . Pennell then attended the University of Texas at Austin majoring in Radio-Television-Film but dropped out in 1973 during his junior year to do film work. His first job

86-526: A Superior Court and Sheriff (as an officer of the court ), both located in a designated "shire town". Bennington County, Vermont has two shire towns; the court for "North Shire" is in the shire town Manchester , and the Sheriff for the county and court for "South Shire" are in the shire town Bennington. In 2024, Connecticut , which had not defined their counties for anything but statistical, historical and weather warning purposes since 1960, along with ending

129-490: A $ 20 million performance center at the high school in 2008. The high school started issuing laptop computers to each student in 2012. The elementary and middle-school campuses also began to issue iPad tablets to all students. Students are allowed to take the devices home, but must return them at the end of the school year. Due to increased enrollments, several construction projects began construction in 2013. New classrooms were added to all school campuses. A $ 53-million bond

172-466: A 0.2-mile trail alongside ponds with an overlook deck, benches, and an observation binocular stand. To attract events to the community, the county funded and built ACE Arena (a multipurpose arena), which opened in March 2007. A smaller outdoor arena was also constructed in 2012 adjacent to the indoor arena. The city approved a $ 2 million water park to replace the former city pool in 2013. The city relocated

215-581: A 14,000-acre (57 km ) site in Andrews County on the border with New Mexico. The company was awarded a license to dispose of radioactive waste by the TCEQ in 2009. The permit allows for disposal of radioactive materials such as uranium, plutonium and thorium from commercial power plants, academic institutions, and medical schools. The company finished construction on the project in 2011 and started disposing of waste in 2012. Two radioactive waste landfills are at

258-469: A Yellow Ribbon (1949). Ford was one of his father's favorite directors. Pennell's first film, a short documentary titled Rodeo Cowboys , chronicled a rodeo school near Lake Travis outside of Austin . He co-organized Austin's first film festival in April 1975. He made his first narrative short, A Hell of a Note , in 1977. The short inspired his most notable film, The Whole Shootin' Match . He enlisted

301-410: A county seat may be an independent city surrounded by, but not part of, the county of which it is the administrative center; for example, Fairfax City is both the county seat of Fairfax County, Virginia and completely surrounded by Fairfax County, but the city is politically independent of the county. When the county seat is in the independent city, government offices such as the courthouse may be in

344-565: A historic home to property adjacent to the Andrews County Veterans Memorial in 2013, and a plan was approved in 2019 that was to transform the home into a museum. A memorial to first responders and other additions are planned as part of the Legacy Park development. U.S. Highway 385 (north–south), State Highway 115 (east–west), and State Highway 176 (east–west) pass through Andrews. County seat A county seat

387-409: A household in the city was $ 32,774, and for a family was $ 36,172. Males had a median income of $ 31,527 versus $ 22,266 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 16,101. About 15.3% of families and 17.7% of the population were below the poverty line , including 22.5% of those under age 18 and 12.8% of those age 65 or over. Andrews is a city built on oil and soil . After the first oil well

430-565: Is an administrative center, seat of government , or capital city of a county or civil parish . The term is in use in five countries: Canada , China , Hungary , Romania , and the United States . An equivalent term, shire town , is used in the U.S. state of Vermont and in several other English-speaking jurisdictions. In Canada , the provinces of Ontario , Quebec , New Brunswick , Prince Edward Island , and Nova Scotia have counties as an administrative division of government below

473-409: Is known as the seat of its county. Generally, the county legislature, county courthouse, sheriff's department headquarters, hall of records, jail and correctional facility are located in the county seat, though some functions (such as highway maintenance, which usually requires a large garage for vehicles, along with asphalt and salt storage facilities) may also be located or conducted in other parts of

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516-576: The 1990s, Heart Full of Soul and Doc's Full Service (his final film), which had its world première at the SXSW Film Festival in 1994. Both films are regarded as failures. At the time of his death, Pennell had a grant from the Independent Television Service to develop a script based on his treatment My Dog Bit Elvis . Pennell struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction for much of his adult life. For years before his death, he

559-776: The Alamo (1984). The story, co-written with screenwriter Kim Henkel , follows a group of friends gathering at a soon-to-be-demolished bar for the last time. The movie was well received, garnering praise at the New York Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. Film critics Vincent Canby , Stanley Kauffmann and Roger Ebert also gave the movie rave reviews. In 1989, Pennell directed Ice House , starring Melissa Gilbert , for Upfront Films. With grant money, Pennell completed two more independent projects during

602-935: The United States, followed by Towson , the county seat of Baltimore County, Maryland . Likewise, some county seats may not be incorporated in their own right, but are located within incorporated municipalities. For example, Cape May Court House, New Jersey , though unincorporated, is a section of Middle Township , an incorporated municipality. In some states, often those that were among the original Thirteen Colonies , county seats include or formerly included "Court House" as part of their name, such as Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia . Most counties have only one county seat. However, some counties in Alabama , Arkansas , Georgia , Iowa , Kentucky , Massachusetts , Mississippi , Missouri , New Hampshire , New York , and Vermont have two or more county seats, usually located on opposite sides of

645-478: The campus was completed in 2013 adding space for a registered nurse program. The Andrews County Veterans Memorial is a memorial in Andrews that was created in 2006 as a tribute to those Andrews County residents who served in the United States' armed forces . Soldiers from every major conflict in which America has participated are honored. The Andrews Bird Viewing Trail opened to the public in 2007. The park includes

688-542: The city and county were named for Richard Andrews , the first Texan soldier to die in the Texas Revolution . The population was 13,487 as of 2020. The city has a total area of 6.9 square miles (18 km ), all land. According to the Köppen climate classification , Andrews has a semiarid climate , BSk on climate maps. The hottest temperature recorded in Andrews was 113 °F (45.0 °C) on June 27, 1994, while

731-520: The city was 75.65% White, 2.04% African American, 0.90% Native American, 0.71% Asian, 17.75% from other races, and 2.94% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 41.95% of the population. Of the 3,478 households, 40.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.3% were married couples living together, 10.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.3% were not families. About 23.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.1% had someone living alone who

774-487: The coldest temperature recorded was −1 °F (−18.3 °C) on February 2, 1985. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 13,487 people, 4,512 households, and 3,536 families residing in the city. As of the census of 2000, 9,652 people, 3,478 households, and 2,598 were families residing in the city. The population density was 2,017.5 inhabitants per square mile (779.0/km ). The 4,047 housing units averaged 845.9 per square mile (326.9/km ). The racial makeup of

817-469: The company, which employs about 200 people. In 2011, the city opened Business Park South to provide more incentive options for attracting businesses. Energy Business Park was also opened by the city in 2014. The city completed more than $ 3 million in airport renovations. Voters approved bonds to construct a new $ 13 million loop around town, which opened in October 2013. A new $ 2 million fire station opened at

860-524: The correct meridian. New Mexico's draft constitution in 1910 stated that the border is on the 103rd meridian as intended. The disputed strip, hundreds of miles long, includes parts of valuable oilfields of the Permian Basin . A bill was passed in the New Mexico Senate to fund and file a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court to recover the strip from Texas, but the bill did not become law. Today, land in

903-517: The counties after his unification, there were about 1,000. Under the Eastern Han dynasty , the number of counties increased to above 1,000. About 1400 existed when the Sui dynasty abolished the commandery level (郡 jùn), which was the level just above counties, and demoted some commanderies to counties. In Imperial China, the county was a significant administrative unit because it marked the lowest level of

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946-418: The county, especially if it is geographically large. A county seat is usually an incorporated municipality . The exceptions include the county seats of counties that have no incorporated municipalities within their borders, such as Arlington County, Virginia , where the county seat is the entire county. Ellicott City , the county seat of Howard County, Maryland , is the largest unincorporated county seat in

989-420: The county. Examples include Harrison County, Mississippi , which has both Biloxi and Gulfport as county seats, and Hinds County, Mississippi , which has both Raymond and the state capital of Jackson . The practice of multiple county seat towns dates from the days when travel was difficult. There have been few efforts to eliminate the two-seat arrangement, since a county seat is a source of civic pride for

1032-483: The end of 2013. A new $ 60 million hospital opened in 2015. Stores in the town began to sell alcohol for the first time on December 19, 2013. A $ 28-million jail broke ground in April 2019. A $ 5-million expansion of city hall and new food bank were also started. Students are served by the Andrews Independent School District . The school opened two new $ 18.5 million elementary school campuses and

1075-454: The help of Austin writer Lin Sutherland to get it written and produced. It is a tale of two lifelong friends, and would-be entrepreneurs, chasing one get-rich-quick scheme after another. The Whole Shootin' Match won seven awards and inspired Robert Redford to start Sundance. In the early 1980s, Pennell moved to Houston , where he produced and directed his second feature film Last Night at

1118-424: The imperial bureaucratic structure; in other words, it was the lowest level that the government reached. Government below the county level was often undertaken through informal non-bureaucratic means, varying between dynasties. The head of a county was the magistrate , who oversaw both the day-to-day operations of the county as well as civil and criminal cases. The current number of counties mostly resembled that of

1161-572: The increase of Han Chinese population in Taiwan, the number of counties also grew by time. By the end of Qing era, there were 11 counties in Taiwan. Protestant missionaries in China first romanized the term as hien . When Taiwan became a Japanese colony in 1895, the hierarchy of divisions also incorporated into the Japanese system in the period when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. By September 1945, Taiwan

1204-611: The independent city under an agreement, such as in Albemarle , or may in be enclaves of the county surrounded by the independent city, such as in Fairfax . Others, such as Prince William , have the courthouse in an enclave surrounded by the independent city and have the county government, the Board of Supervisors, in a different part of the county, far from the county seat. The following counties have their county seat in an independent city: Bedford

1247-732: The later years of the Qing dynasty . Changes of location and names of counties in Chinese history have been a major field of research in Chinese historical geography, especially from the 1960s to the 1980s. There are 1,355 counties in Mainland China out of a total of 2,851 county-level divisions. In Taiwan , the first counties were first established in 1661 by the Kingdom of Tungning . The later ruler Qing empire inherited this type of administrative divisions. With

1290-752: The provincial level, and thus county seats. In the provinces of Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia the term "shire town" is used in place of county seat. County seats in China are the administrative centers of the counties in the People's Republic of China . Xian have existed since the Warring States period and were set up nationwide by the Qin dynasty . The number of counties in China proper gradually increased from dynasty to dynasty. As Qin Shi Huang reorganized

1333-554: The site. The 30-acre compact site is owned and regulated by the State of Texas for use by Texas, Vermont, and up to 36 other states. The 90-acre federal site is owned by the United States federal government and is used for Department of Energy and other federal waste. The company employs 130 people or about 1% of the total labor force in Andrews. For years, a dispute has been simmering concerning to which state these waste sites belong: Texas or New Mexico? The straight north–south border between

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1376-764: The state's area, has no borough government or borough seat. One borough, the Lake and Peninsula Borough , has its borough seat located in another borough, namely King Salmon in Bristol Bay Borough . In Louisiana , which is divided into parishes rather than counties, county seats are referred to as "parish seats". In New England , counties have served mainly as dividing lines for the states' judicial systems. Rhode Island has no county level of government and thus no county seats, and Massachusetts has dissolved many but not all of its county governments. In Vermont , Massachusetts , and Maine county government consists only of

1419-517: The strip is included in by the way in Texas land surveys and the waste sites for all purposes are taxed and governed by Texas. The city was set to be the location of the now defunct $ 400 million HT3R project. In 1972, Andrews became the site of the first Kirby Company vacuum cleaner factory outside of the original location in Ohio. It is often referred to as "Kirby West" to signify the westward expansion of

1462-416: The towns involved, along with providing employment opportunities. There are 33 counties with multiple county seats in 11 states: Alaska is divided into boroughs rather than counties; the county seat in these case is referred to as the "borough seat"; this includes six consolidated city-borough governments (one of which is styled as a "municipality"). The Unorganized Borough, Alaska , which covers 49% of

1505-461: The two states was originally defined as the 103rd meridian, but the 1859 survey that was supposed to mark that boundary mistakenly set the border between 2.29 and 3.77 miles too far west of that line, making the waste sites, along with the current towns of Farwell , Texline , and part of Glenrio , appear to be within the State of Texas . New Mexico's short border with Oklahoma, in contrast, was surveyed on

1548-607: The use of county seats in particular, will fully transition with the permission of the United States Census Bureau to a system of councils of government for the purposes of boundary definition and as county equivalents. Two counties in South Dakota , Oglala Lakota and Todd , have their county seat and government services centered in a neighboring county. Their county-level services are provided by Fall River County and Tripp County , respectively. In Virginia ,

1591-415: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.75, and the average family size was 3.26. In the city, the age distribution was 31.5% under 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 20.0% from 45 to 64, and 13.1% who were 65 or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.6 males. The median income for

1634-553: Was a film Pennell wanted to make - a low-budget Western he planned to shoot near Brackettville on the set of John Wayne 's version of The Alamo (1960). Andrews, Texas Andrews is the county seat of Andrews County in the Permian Basin of West Texas . Andrews sits to the far southwest within the Texas Panhandle 's plains, about 30 miles east of New Mexico. Andrews was incorporated on February 2, 1937. Both

1677-568: Was divided into 8 prefectures ( 州 and 廳 ), which remained after the Republic of China took over. There are 13 county seats in Taiwan, which function as county-administered cities , urban townships , or rural townships . In most of the United States , a county is an administrative or political subdivision of a state that consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority. The city, town, or populated place that houses county government

1720-639: Was drilled (1929) by Deep Rock Oil Company on Missourian Charles E. Ogden's property, Andrews County became one of the major oil-producing counties in Texas, having produced in excess of 1 billion barrels (160,000,000 m ) of oil. The cyclical nature of the oil business (as well as diminishing production on existing wells), though, has caused the community to look into new means of economic development , such as waste disposal, which in some areas has caused controversy. Waste Control Specialists (WCS), owned by Harold Simmons and headquartered in Dallas, Texas , operates

1763-666: Was intermittently homeless and often borrowed or begged for money. Pennell died in Houston, eight days short of his 50th birthday. He is buried in College Station Cemetery. Pennell is the subject of The King of Texas , a documentary that debuted at SXSW 2008. Directed by Claire Huie and René Pinnell (Pennell's nephew), the film was scored by Pennell's brother, Chuck. The documentary tells the story of Pennell's rise, fall, and tragic death, through interviews with family, friends, collaborators, and admirers. The original King of Texas

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1806-473: Was passed in 2018 for new construction due to growth. A $ 156.7-million bond was passed in 2023 for new construction and renovation of the high school complex. The Andrews Business and Technology Center was completed in January 2006, in conjunction with Odessa College and the University of Texas of the Permian Basin . The school focuses on technology and is a hub for distance learning. A $ 1 million expansion of

1849-431: Was with a firm that produced highlight films of Southwest Conference football games. In his spare time, he used the company's equipment to work on his own projects. He changed his name while in his early twenties. His first name is supposedly based on the story that Pennell was once told his large nose looked like the beak of an eagle. His last name comes from 2nd Lt. Ross Pennell, a character from John Ford's She Wore

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