The Howe Enterprise (Howe, Tex.), Vol. [14], No. [13], Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1977 Page: 1 of 6
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Howe Enterprise
Howe Enterprise
Oct. 6, 1977
Howe’s that.
Howe State Bank has added two new members to their staff.
Debbie Conner, who recently moved to this area from
Elizabethtown, Ky is serving as receptionist. She is married to
Stephen Conner, an employee of Reed Tool. Mrs. Conner is a
graduate of Savoy High School and resides at Route 1, Howe.
Phyllis Horrell, a native of Petersburg, Va. is employed in the
bookkeeping department. She is married to Dan Horrell and the
couple resides on Walnut Street in Howe. Mrs. Horrell is a former
employee of Household Finance in Pleasant Grove.
Last week was a time of celebration for many Howe residents.
Carrie and J. C. Waller celebrated their seventh wedding
anniversary on Sunday, Neets and Overton Jay also celebrated
an annivesary on that day, their 40th, and on tuesday, Nita and
Joe Tolbert celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary. Wiley
Shankles celebrated his 79th birthday on Satuday, along with
President Jimmy Carter who celebrated his 53rd birthday on that
same day. Charlsie Davis celebrated a birthday on Friday, but is
hesitant to say how many.
This week the nicest gift came to us from Nona Butler. It is a
collection of recipes, the Best of Ten, now being sold by members
of Gamma Zeta Epsilon Sigma Alph, International of Sherman
and Howe. Today, on page three, the Enterprise features a few of
the recipes. What a wonderful gift for the upcoming holiday
season. They may be purchased from any sorority member,
including Shirley Vickers, Jean Norman, Texanna Norman,
Carolyn Cavender or Janelle Russell.
Residents of Howe who have returned to their homes following
a stay at Wilson N. Jones Memorial Hospital are Mrs. Bob Walker
and Ronnie England. Mrs. George Barnes, a former Howe
resident, who resides in Madill, Okla., is at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Janelle Russell, recovering from recent surgery.
Cecil Matthews is a patient at a Groom, Texas hospital.
Daughter, Teena, was recently named president of the Sherman
High School FFA chapter.
The junior class of Tom Bean High School is taking orders for
mums to be sold at their homecoming game on October 22.
Orders must be placed at the high school no later than Friday.
Members of the First United Methodist Church will hold a
Moving-to-new-church-building sale on Saturday at 9 a.m.
Millard Fairchild, pastor of the church, says they will make
available to The public, tables, air conditioners, refrigerator,
stoves, and a number of miscellaneous item.
Water Tower Repairs
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Rev. Gene King
Rev• King’s Dream Comes True
Some of the needed repairs
on the Howe water tower will
be deferred several months so
that the money which had been
budgeted for that job can be
used to put the old No. 1 well
back into service.
The well has been out of
service for a number of weeks
because it needs a new pump
and screen. City Council voted
last month to repair the well,
but the estimated $5,700 need-
ed for the job was not readily
available.
“We decided it was more
important now to have the wall
back in operation than to have
the remaining work done on
the water tower,” said Mayor
Dwain Roberts. Several
months ago a firm did mot of
the interior cleaning of the
tank and defaulted on the job
before completing the outside
and installing a safety ladder
required by federal gover-
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Council had set aside about
$6,700 to complete the tower
work. Now, the pump will be
repaired, instead, and the lad-
der will be installed on the
tower. “The repainting job
can wait a while,” said the
mayor.
The Rev. Gene King, whose
efforts to build a new assembly
of God Church in Howe have
undergone a number of delays
and setbacks in the past couple
of years, is finally beginning to
smile again.
The new church, which he
has been construction nearly
alone on Highway 5 in Sourth
Howe, has been used for ser-
vices the past four weeks,
although Mr. King admits that
“It isn’t hardly finished yet.”
The interior walls are bare
sheetrock and several of the
rooms haven’t been built yet,
but all-in-all the pastor says,
the building is quite service-
able. “We sure are anxious to
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get it finished, though,” he
admits.
Presently the building has
four classrooms, a restroom, a
study, and a large area that
later will be converted into two
classrooms, but presently is
serving as a sanctuary until
the planned sanctuary is built.
Mr. King, who at times
during the past two years has
felt that maybe it just wasn’t
meant for his tiny congre-
gation to have a new church,
has now cast aside his doubts.
“Our congregation is
starting to grow again, and we
are getting some outside fi-
nancial support so that I feel
like everything is going to
turn out okay,“ he said.
He began work on the church
in 1975 after the old church
next to Howe State Bank on
Denney Street was sold to the
bank for an expansion pro-
gram. He moved most of the
lumber from old church to the
new site and planned to use it
on the new building.
Then someone stole all the
lumber one night.
“I guess that was the low
point,” he recalled this week.
“That’s the worst thing that
happened to us. I got pretty
discouraged then.”
But there were other prob-
lems. Without a church build-
ing to meet in, although they
met in the King home, the
congregation dwindled.
But Mr. King smiled this
week as he stood in front of his
new building and talked about
the new prospective members
and the several families have
stood with the church all along.
I sure figured we would be
farther along than this by now,
but I believe it’s all going to be
uphill,' from here.
With that he posed briefly for
his picture, then stepped brisk-
ly inside to deliver his fourth
Sunday morning sermon, in his
new church.
City Waits
for New
Tax Figure
Bulldogs Defeated 27-0
The Howe Bulldogs, reeling
from three straight defeats
after back-to-back victories at
the beginning of the season,
are hoping to set the record
even again this week as they
journey to Aubrey for their
second district contest.
On paper Aubrey looks as
potent as any team the Bull-
dogs have faced this year.
They have surprising 4-1
record for a team that was
picked to finish at or near the
bottom of the District 14-A
heap. However, in their only
severe test last weekend
against talented Pottsboro the
Chaparrals came out on the
light end of a 48-28 score that
was even more of a runaway
for the Cardinals than the
score indicated.
Most of Aubrey’s four wins
have come against Class B
teams.
Howe Coach Blqckie Wade,
however, is not taking the
Aubrey game lightly. “I think
we have a real chance, and I
feel like we have to come out of
this with our record even
again, but I sure wouldn’t wan
t to underestimate Aubrey. We
have to get back on track if we
are going to beat anyone.
The Bulldogs lost thier dis-
trict opender last Friday to
speedy Celina, 27-0. But it
wasn’t until the fourth quarter
that the Bobcats broke it open
and took a commanding lead.
Celina led 7-0 after three
quarters.
“We played outstanding de-
fense most of the game, just as
we have most of the season,”
Wade said. “Then, all of a
sudden there was one big play
and that broke our backs. This
time it was a 90-yard touch-
down run in the fourth quarter.
I think you could say we played
them even until then.”
Wade said he is hoping to
have the Bulldogs reasonably
healthy again this Friday,
although, “we can’t blame our
problems the past three weeks
on injuries or sickness.”
However, the Bulldogs are
having their problems in that
area. Last week three mem-
bers of the team, including
quarterback Tony Wall, were
suffering from a virus sick-
ness, although they played.
Several members of the squad
are doubtful or definitely out
because of injuries.
Lineman Darryl Bowers
who won all-district mention
last year, is out for the season
with a neck injury which
apparently occured in junior
high school, but became re-
injured in the Frisco game.
Bobby Hawkins, who has seen
limited action because of a
broken leg suffered last sum-
mer, now has a slightly sep-
arated shoulder and is doubtful
at linebacker.
Backup quarterback, Mark
Dykes, who also plays at
flanker, has a broken finger
and will be out at least four
weeks.
Mark Harper, one of the
Bulldogs’ top runners, saw
only partial action last week
because of badly bruised ribs.
Wade said he hopes the injury
is 100 per cent well this week.
“Basically, we have been
victims of the big play, though,
plus the gact that our offense
has bogged down,” Wade said.
“We seem to be able to shut
down most everybody, then,
all of a sudden they break one
on us late in the game that
seems to open it up.”
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The City of Howe, which has
for several years been a-
waiting the results of the
county property tax re-
evaluation, says it still may be
a year or more before tax-
payers are affected by it, so far
as their city taxes go.
Mayor Dwain Roberts said
this week that the city badly
needs additional revenue
which is expected to result
from equalization of property
values, “but it looks like it will
be no sooner than the summer
of 1978 before we could take
action, and I don’t really know
if we can move that quickly.”
Property owners in Grayson
County are now receiving their
new valuations based on “fair
market value at today’s
prices.
And despite what appears to
be a growing flood of protests
from people whose property
has been reassessed, Roberts
said he feels (a) that most of
the figures he has seen are
inline, and (b.) those people
who are complaining now are
doing so prematurely, because
the figures are meaningless
until the county sets its new tax
rate.
“The point is not the figure
on a piece of property as such
but the figure in relation to
other property. What the
county is interested in and the
city, too, is getting the
property values equal in re-
lation to each other so that
everyone is paying a fair and
equal share.”
He said that under the re-
valuation he would expect that
those people whose actual
taxes increase the mose will be
those who live in homes that
are in the 7-to-eight year old
range.
“A house that was built
seven years ago for $18,000 is
probably worth about $35,000
today, but there has been no
re-evaluation, so they are still
paying taxes based on $18,000.’
On the other hand, he said,
older homes in the city’s older
sections probably have in-
creased in value relatively
little in the past few years, and
these people could probably
expect very little if any in-
crease in taxes, even though
the revaluation might show a
new value on their property 20
or 25 per cent higher than the
old one.
The pruf of the pudding will
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be in the actual rate, and the
city is not scheduled to re-set it
until next summer, and
Roberts said he doesn’t know if
the necessary information will
be available from the county
even by then to get it done for
that tax year.
One problem that could
delay the city taking any
action is that the county will
make its figures for Howe
residents available to the city
only at a cost, and as yet, the
city doesn’t know how much
will be charged.
“Of course we could go to the
courthouse and get it off the
tax rolls when the individual
rates are finally set for all
property,” Roberts said, “but
this would take a tremendous
amount of time, and it would
probably be better to buy the
information from the county,
provided they don’t want too
much for it.
“They have, of course, had
the property revalued at a big
cost to them, so I suppose you
can’t expect them to give it to
us free.
How has avoided a general
tax rate increase for several
years despite inflation and
tighter and tighter budgets.
“We have put off a numver of
things we needed because we
felt the equalization of-prop-
erty values was the way to get
the needed money, not new
taxes,” Roberts said.
“We have stayed in the
black, and we are proud of that
fact. But we are hopeful we
can get the tax situation re-
solved as soon as possible so
that we can do some of the
things we have been holding off
on.”
The present Howe tax rate is
based on 30 per cent of value,
and, Roberts said, when the
county revaluation is com-
plete, and the city has acquired
the figures, a new figure will be
set. “It could be something
like 20 per cent of value,
depending on how the new
figures look,” Roberts said.
When the rate has been
re-established, he conceded, it
is even possible that taxes for
some people could go down.
“I’d have to admit, though,
that I can hardly conceive of
that happening the way in-
flation has pushed property
values up in the past few years.
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NEW HOME- Willie Vester of Van Slatyne is hoping to move into
his “new” home soon, thanks to the latest expansion program at
Howe State Bank. Vester, acquired the old house at the corner of
Davis and Denney Streets in Howe. The house is being removed to
make way for the bank expansion. Last weekend Vester and his
son worked on the final phases of moving the house in sections to
Van Alstyne, where Vester says he hopes to “make part of it over
into a house for myself.” Vester says the house has real
character. “I’ll bet it’s a hundred years old,’he said. He pointed
to the rough-hewn boards and square nails. “They haven’t made
lumber or nails like that for years,” he said. The bank acquired
the house slightly over a year ago from Mrs. Margaret Sollis.
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