Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 39, Ed. 1 Monday, February 3, 1986 Page: 1 of 8
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ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH YEAR JACKSBORO GAZETTE-NEWS, JACKSBORO, TEXAS 76056 PUBLICATION NUMBER 271720 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3,1986 NUMBER 39
JHS Moves to Class 3A District 6
CHARRED RUINS-is all that was left when
a fire swept through a mobile home owned by
Kenneth and Pat Holder of Jermyn. Mrs.
Holder, who was at home at the time the fire
started, stated that she felt the fire “started in
the washing machine.” She had been doing
house work when she noticed the smoke.
After calling the fire department, Mrs.
Holder preceded to fight the fire with a water
hose until it got out of hand. Volunteer
firemen from both Bryson and Jacksboro
responded to the call.
Jacksboro High School has
moved up in classification
from Class 2A to Class 3A and
into District 6-3A under
realignment changes an-
nounced Thursday by the
University Interscholastic
League.
The UIL realigns athletic
districts every two years with
a schools classification being
determined by its enrollment
figures based on average
daily attendance in grades 9-
12 during October.
JHS, with 289 students is
only five students above the
284 student cut off for Class
2A.
Facing Bowie, Brecken-
ridge, Bridgeport, Decatur
and Iowa Park in District
play next year, JHS Athletic
Director Gene Griffin said,
Golf Association
Luncheon Slated
The Ladies Golf Associa-
tion will have a salad
luncheon Tuesday, February
4 at 12:00 noon at the
Jacksboro Country Club.
Members are asked to bring a
salad and enjoy the fellow-
ship and fun.
“It’s going to be a real
challenge, naturally. The way
it’s worked out, we’ll be
the smallest school in the
Distict.”
“I think it’s important that
our kids have at least had a
consistant program for the
last two years...that gives us
something to build on,”
Griffin further stated.
Commissioners Court Meets
English Language Classes Offered
For Spanish Speaking Individuals
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ELBITA ANN SPENCE
Elbita Ann Spence, who
serves as a teachers aide to
G.E.D. instructor Jan
Tatlock, is currently teaching
the basic fundamentals of the
English language to Spanish
speaking individuals who
Pedlde in Jacksboro.
The classes are held at
Jacksboro High School, next
door to the GED classes on
Tuesday and Thursday
nights from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Although individuals of any
age may take the course,
student ages as of now range
from 15 years through adult.
The classes are free to the
public.
The alphabet, pronuncia-
tion, basic reading and
spelling and rules and
regulations of the community
are all taught in the
classroom.
“I do this volunteer work
because I feel it is important
for our Spanish people to be
able to get along better and to
be able to help themselves and
get better jobs,” stated Ms.
Spence.
She is a native of Jacksboro
who attended Jacksboro High
School. She has three
daughters, eleven year old
twins Tanya and Sanya and
Lori, nine, all of whom attend
Jacksboro Elementary
School.
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The Jack County Commis-
sioners Court met in regular
session Monday January 27
with Commissioners Clidell
Ogle, Truitt Cranford,
Raymond Matlock and J.T.
Rumage and County Judge
Bobbie Owen in attendance.
Following reading and
approval of the minutes of the
January 13 meeting, all
submitted and approved
accounts and claims were
paid and entered into the
ledger of the County
Auditor.
Virginia Shanafelt, repre-
senting the Jacksboro Garden
Club, presented a bill to the
County for it’s share of the
wiring and four comer flood
lights and reviewed plans for
further landscaping the court
house lawn to be done in the
future.
Don Fitzgerald, represen-
ting the state Department of
Highways and Public Trans-
portation discussed the 1986
plans for reconstruction
overlay of the state highways
coming into Jacksboro and
reported the right-of-way
acquisition for the extension
of FM 2190 is scheduled for
early spring.
Gail Thomas, Charles
Birdwell and Robert Peterson,
Jr. were selected for the salary
grievance committee in
compliance with Art. 3912 K
V.A.C.S. and United Tele-
phone Co. of Texas was
granted a request for the
installation of a utility cable.
Soil Conservation Service
representative Tony Dean
reported on progress of
proposed repair and main-
tenenance of Flood Control
Sites 4,16 and 18 and entered
into a Letter Agreement for
dirt work on Site 16, North
Creek.
Alma Starbuck of Bryson
was appointed Precinct 8
Election Judge to fill a
vacancy left by C.B. Williams
who resigned.
No bids were received
pursuant to advertisement for
sale of a 1967 pickup and
nothing further appearing for
attention, the Court adjour-
ned.
City Council Votes to
Raise Sewer Rates
The Jacksboro City Council
met in regular session
Monday, January 27 with
Ingram Gafford, Mayor Pro
Tern presiding in Mayor F.C.
Heard’s absence. Aldermen
M.R. Thurman, Vernon
Black, John Dyer, Larry
Hargrove were all present.
The Aldermen voted
unanimously to raise sewer
rates with a combined
residential and commercial
sewer base rate of $5.85 and a
charge of 33<P per 1,000
gallons used.
The rate increase will be
implemented within the next
billing cycle.
In other action the
aldermen voted unanimously
to appoint Deubrella Horton
Martin as Presiding Judge,
Vera Henderson as Alternate
Judge, and to hire as many
clerks as needed for the April
5 City Officers election.
Groundhog Predicts Early Spring
Olney Savings Acquires First
Federal Savings of Breckenridge
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY-crew works on
culvert at intersection of highways 281 and 199, top, while at the
bottom, jiggle bars were being installed in front of the Chamber of
Commerce office Thursday, by a Texas Department of Public Safety
crew.
DPS Crews Busy in Jacksboro
Alan D. Myers, Jr.,
chairman and chief executive
officer of Olney Savings
Association, announced
today the acquisition of First
Federal Savings of Brecken-
ridge. „ , ,
Approved by the Federal
Home Loan Bank, the Texas
Savings and Loan Depart-
ment and the Federal Savings
and Loan Insurance Corpora-
tion (F.S.L.I.CL), First Federal
Savings, located at Walker
and Breckenridge Ave., will
open its doors as Olney
Savings on Monday, Febru-
ary 3, 1986.
Brady Tennison, formerly
president of First Federal, will
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DATE HIGH LOW RAIN
T-Jan. 30
F-Jan. 3i
S-Feb. 1
S-Feb. 2
1886 Rain to Data 00.74
1986 Rainfall 32.74
1984 Rainfall 27.47
1983 Rainfall 23.86
1982 Rainfall 39.10
1981 Rainfall 39.97
continue his management
responsibilities at the branch
and according to Myers, there
will be no changes in
personnel.
This acquisition will make
Olney Savings one of the
largest thrifts in Texas with
combined assets in excess of
$1,075 billion and 36 offices
throughout northwest and
west Texas.
Myers commented, “Olney
Savings has been doing
business in and around the
Breckenridge area for over 40
years. This part of Texas is
very special to us. We look
forward to becoming more
actively involved in the
community, and to doing our
part as neighbors and
concerned citizens.”
Olney Savings, chartered in
1927, prides itself in being
recognized by peers as one of
the most profitable savings
and loan associations in
Texas, as well as across the
country. Primarily serving
communities in small to
medium size towns, Olney
Savings’ steady growth is due
to tarratinir its ooeration to
the special needT of rural
Texas.
The Texas Department of
Public Safety installed jiggle
bars next to the curb in front
of the Chamber of Commerce
on Main Street Thursday,
January 30.
Jiggle bars are white tiles
that are set into the pavement
iis a deterrent to traffic
using certain areas.
According to Police Chief
Arthur Reaves, people
traveling east on Main often
pull in next to the curb, to the
right of vehicles in the right
turn lane at the redlight. This
has been the cause of quite a
few accidents when two
paralled vehicles both made
right turns at the same time, it
has also caused controversy
as to who was at fault.
Chief Reaves said that the
law states a right hand turn is
legal for the vehicle that is
closest to the curb.
A workcrew was also busy,
Thursday at the intersection
of highways 281 and 199. A
culvert with a drainage ditch
in it was being filled in to
prevent vehicles from landing
in it, if they missed the curve,
where the northbound
highway 281 meets highway
199, in either a left or right
turn.
Punxsutawney Phil didn’t
see his shadow in Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania Sunday,
February 2, predicting an
early spring.
It was the seventh time in
99 years that Phil didn’t see
his shadow.
Groundhogs, also called
woodchucks, performed
similar duties all over the
country and -it was also
reported that the groundhog
in Jacksboro failed to see his
shadow.
Folklore says if he does see
his shadow, six more weeks of
winter will follow. Spring
officially starts on March 20.
Another folklore tale says if
it thunders in February, it will
frost in April. After Sunday
nights rain and thunder in
Jacksboro residents will just
have to wait and see what
happens weatherwise.
Although tornado season
doesn’t officially start until
March, it was reported that a
tornado struck in Brock in
Parker County Sunday night.
Jacksboro Receives
.74 Inches of Rainfall
Jacksboro received some
much needed rain Sunday
night February 2, when .74 of
an inch was recorded. It had
been 45 days since measur-
able rainfall had been
recorded.
.52 of an inch of rainfall was
reported in Antelope.
LOCAL BRIEFS
by Dorothy Anderson
Water Election Results Announced
Max S. Mullinax and
Weldon L. Cranford were
reelected as Directors of the
East Keechi Water Control
and Improvement District #1
in the January 18th election.
Royce Tuner was elected to
replace Jack Patton (decea-
sed). Turner and Mullinax
each recieved 14 votes,
Cranford received 10. •
Truitt Cranford, T.J.
Patton, G.E. Schudder, and
Weldon Cox each received one
write in vote. William M.
Mitchell received three write
in votes.
Terry Lewis,
John R.
Williams and Jerry Hender-
son were elected as directors
of Jack County Water Control
and Improvement District
No. 1 in the January 18
election.
Lewis received 23 votes,
Williams received 9 votes and
Henderson received 22 votes.
Write in candidate Steven
Thompson received 17 votes,
but was not qualified for
director, under Sec. 51.072 sub
chapter C of the Texas Water
Code because he did not own
Now isn’t this rain nice? We
are ready to start gardening.
***
Everyone is invited to come
and visit at Olney Savings.
They are giving away one
dozen roses, a box of
Valentine Candy and $50.00
to take your sweetie out to
dinner on. These will be given
on Valentines Day, February
14.
***
Jacksboro Cleaners &
Laundry is offering a
Valentine Special on
finishing. Starch shirts 994
each and jeans $2.00.
any thing they have done.
***
Dairy Queen is going to
have a Country Basket Sale.
They will be $1.69. Offer
starts February 10 and runs
through February 23.
***
Pat’s Laundry has some
specials going. Three pairs
jeans for $5.00, three pairs
pants dry cleaned $5.00, four
shirts for $5.00 and two
sweaters for $5.00.
***
Jacksboro Pump & Spec-
ialty Co. has moved to 611
North Main.
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bank has opened in
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McGee, Leigh. Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 39, Ed. 1 Monday, February 3, 1986, newspaper, February 3, 1986; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth733183/m1/1/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.