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VOL. II, NO. 6 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1992 25 CENTS
LINDALE HIGH SCHOOL 1992 HOMECOMING QUEEN,
HEATHER SCOTT
(Photo by Carl Millegan)
• Lindale City Council
Budget gets the nod
■' y City council members agreed
Monday night that eliminating
overtime pay for city employees
in the Water Department who
routinely woric weekends would
cut some of the fat out of the city
budget.
Councilman John Nunelee
said that weekends should be part
of the 40-hour work week for
Water Department employees.
Overtime should only be paid
when an employee is called out
on an unplanned emergency, said
Nunelee.
Bobby McClenny said he was
not aware that the city was pay-
ing overtime, to which Harold
Small responded, saying, “If we
weren’t paying it, how are we
going to take it away?”
Another issue involving over-
time, concerned overtime paid
SEE BUDGET...Page 3.
FIRST LADY Barbara Bush visits Tyler’s Moore Middle School to
recognize the school’s 100 percent enrollment in D-FY-IT.
Photo by Joanna Tucker
First Lady commends drug-free school
Lindale: The city and its history
The Founding of Lindale: Part VII
BY CARL MILLEGAN
Editor’s Note: The Founding of
Lindale is a special historical
research project compiled from
several sources which often con-
flicted with one another. How-
ever, every effort has been made
to remain objective and accu-
rate. The Times would like to
thank the Carnegie History Cen-
ter, the Smith County Historical
Society, the Lindale Historical
Society and its president Dwight
Hall, the Tyler Public Library,
and the Lindale Area Chamber
of Commerce for all their help in
finding the information con-
tained in this series.
In the last issue, The Times
mentioned that the fate of Elija
Lindsey after 1880 was un-
known. However, because of this
history project, Lindsey’s great
grandson, Lindsey Hall of Tyler,
contacted The Lindale Times and
provided some valuable histori-
cal information we were previ-
ously unable to collect.
Once Elija Lindsey opened
his mercantile store and
tindseydale was founded, the
town continued to grow and pros-
per.
' The people moving to the rail-
road settlement began to take the
initiative and work toward im-
proving their lives and the town.
After the I&GN established
Lindale as a station in 1873, offi-
cials with the line began to sell
land on their right-of-way at re-
duced rates to area businessmen
in order to aid in the
town’s growth.
Between 1873 and
1874, eight new busi-
nesses had taken ad-
vantage of I&GN’s
hospitality and pur-
chased land along the
railroad, four of those
businesses owned, or
partially owned, by
Andrew J. “Andy”
Harper.
One of these new
buildings going up
near the railroad was
not a business but a
two-story building
built by Lindale ’ s Ma-
sonic Lodge.
By 1875, the Ma-
son building had be-
come a community
center, with the upper
floor used as the Mason’s meeting
hall and the lower floor serving as
a church, a makeshift school house
and meeting house for local ac-
tivities.
Local farmers were taking ad-
vantage of the railroad as well.
he moved to the 100 block of Fan
Street (now Fannin).
By 1886, Lindsey had married
Sally Nunlee and Lindsey’s son
Sullivan Ross Lindsey was bom.
Afterliving inTylerforfourmore
years, Lindsey returned to the
town he had founded, moving
back to Lindale in 1890.
Later, Lindsey moved back
to Tyler, to a house at 1901 Earl
Street, and moved again to Elm
Street where he died in 1918.
The man who founded
Lindale in 1871 now rests in
Tyler’s Oakwood Cemetery
close to the Confederate Sol-
diers’ monument. Hislasthome
was located at 208 Elm Street in
Tyler, the site now occupied by
the Tyler Public Library .
While Lindale’s founder,
Elija Lindsey, and Lindale’s
most famous citizen, former
Governor Richard Hubbard,
were moving on to persue inter-
ests away from Lindale, area
citizens continued to work on
making Lindale a full-fledged
Texas city.
As the town’s population grew
to 300 in 1880, the fruit growers
began expanding their fields and
shipping their crops to Lindale’s
rail depot.
According to Hall, after Elija
Next Issue
Lindale:
Working Toward
Incorporation
Lindale’s founding father Elija Lindsey
Lindsey moved to Tyler in 1880,
he went into business with Willis
Roberts, the father of Lindsey’s
wife Sue and one of the founding
members of the Tyler/Smith
County Railroad Committee.
Then, following Sue’s death,
BY JOANNA TUCKER
With the temperature in the
90s, the sweltering heat from the
noonday sun caused rivulets of
sweat to run, clothes to stick to
wet skin and some people to col-
lapse; at least 10 people were
treated by paramedics for heat
exhaustion. Yet several thousand
mothers, fathers, sons, daugh-
ters, counselors and teachers,
many from other cities, stood
patiently in the midday heat wait-
ing to see and hear America’s
First Lady, Barbara Pierce Bush
who came to honor D-FY-IT stu-
dents at Tyler’s Moore Middle
school for achieving a 100 per-
cent drug free school environ-
ment.
Lindale’s John Offutt served
as master of ceremonies at the
Moore Middle School event.
“It is quite an honor to be
asked to participate,” said Offutt.
“There are no political ties, I did
it just as aprivate citizen.” Offutt
served as master of ceremonies
when President Bush came to
Tyler in 1990.
Amid flags waving and cheer-
leaders cheering for a drug-free
school, and majorettes strutting,
the first lady was escorted to her
place.
A drill team paraded the 50
state flags. John Tyler High
school posted the colors.
Bush, whose speech was cut
short due to the intense heat,
spoke seven minutes. Speaking
in a low, well-modulated voice,
a voice reminiscent of Bea Arthur
in “The Golden Girls,” Bush
congratulated the students at
Moore Middle School for their
achievement. She challenged
other students to follow the ex-
ample, indicating that she would
also honor them if they did so.
Students, some displaying a sense
of awe, listened respectfully to
the first lady’s speech; nearby a
mother hugged her son.
In the press conference that
followed, a reporter asked Mrs.
Bush if the visit was politically
motivated. Bush, an amused
expression on her face, her voice
tinged with sarcasm, said, “What
do you think?”
Displaying confidence that her
husband would win the election,
Mrs. Bush said, “Thanks to
George Bush, every single
American wakes up to a freer
and safer world.”
As for her role, Bush said she
sees the presidential spouse's
role as one that is not an
elected position. The pressure
of being president is enough
without haveing a spouse who
will get you into trouble, she
added.
To prove her point, Mrs. Bush
ended the press conference be-
fore too many political questions
were fired at her.
Indicating that she wanted to
leave before the questions be-
came too involved, the first lady
flashed a grin at reporters and
LISD Trustees vote
to set school tax rate
BY ANITA SHEPPARD
Representatives of three con-
struction companies appeared be-
fore the Lindale Independent
School District’s Board of Trust-
ees Monday night, September 14
in hopes of being selected for the
construction manager position to
oversee the construction in the
district should the bond election
pass October 17. Bob Leavine,
Joe and Jim Denson, all three of
Tyler, and Charles and Jackie
Stone of Brownwood listed their
job history years and made refer-
ences to past and current building
projects in which they were in-
volved.
Board member Joe Don Terry
asked the Stones how they had
heard about this position since they
lived so far away, and Mr. Stone
said that George Williford had
called him. Stone had done work
at Summerville where Williford
was also superintendent. The
board took no action as to consid-
eration of employing a construc-
tion manager.
Each of the building principals
introduced new employees who
had not been able to attend prior
board meetings, and Curriculum
Director Barbara Wilson spoke to
the group about our changing so-
(SEE TRUSTEES...Page 2)
Senate candidate cleared
on ethics violation charge
AUSTIN—The Texas Ethics
Commission last week dismissed
charges against District 2 Texas
Senate Candidate Florence
Shapiro (R-Plano) which alleged
that Shapiro profited from cam-
paign financing paid to her Plano
public relations firm out of her
Senate race treasury.
According to the Ethics Com-
mission letter to Shapiro, the com-
mission reviewed all documents
submitted against Shapiro and
found that she complied with all
current statutes in reporting the
incident, stating that “no viola-
tions occurred.”
Shapiro, who is running against
incumbent District 2 Senator Ted
Lyon, had maintained for some
time that the allegations, made by
Sonja Hammer of Plano, were
groundless and part of a political
move by Lyon to discredit her
campaign.
“While Mayor of Plano, I co-
authored one of the strongest eth-
ics bills for any city in Texas,”
Shapiro said in a news release. “It
was one of the greatest ironies of
my life to receive an ethics charge
from Senator Lyon since Lyon
has filed his own ethics reports
late at least five times, and he has
repeatedly been penalized by the
commission for it.”
Meanwhile, on Wednesday,
Sept. 9, representatives from 28
North Texas cities traveled to
Plano in order to present their en-
dorsements to Lyon for his 1992
re-election effort.
Mayors from Commerce,
Terrell and Winnsboro, along with
other area officials came to Collin
County to thank Lyon for ten years
of service to District 2 and wish
him well as he campaigns against
Shapiro.
Winnsboro Mayor Jerry Hop-
per praised Lyon for bringingmore
than 400 jobs to his town by sup-
porting construction of a new state
prison facility near Winnsboro.
“Ted has done more for my
town than I could ever dream of,”
Hopper said. “People are being
laid off left and right in places like
Plano and they need to know that
Ted cares and he does everything
possible to bring jobs to his com-
munities.”
Lyon, after accepting the en-
dorsements, agreed that econom-
ics in his district have improved
since he has been serving in the
Texas Legislature, but highlighted
his work on education as the key
indicator of his legislative efforts.
“By working together,” Lyon
said, “we’ve saved EastTexas edu-
cational opportunities. By work-
ing together, we’ve created jobs.”
Shapiro, however, challenges
Lyon’s claim as a job-maker for
East Texas and as a good Senator
for Texas.
Quoting an article in Texas
Monthly, Shapiro called Lyon one
of the ten worst Texas legislators,
saying that he “wastes time on
dirty tricks.”
Shapiro also called attention to
her own economic-enhancment
skills, citing the 50,000 new jobs
created in Plano during her tenure
as mayor and president of the Plano
Economic Development Board.
LINDALE CRAFTERS MALL plans a grand opening in October and
is currently renting booths according to owner Brenda Thompson
whose late parents, Nig and Bobbie James, owned and operated Piggly
Wiggly there.
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Sheppard, Anita. The Lindale Times (Lindale, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 17, 1992, newspaper, September 17, 1992; Lindale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1208018/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Smith County Historical Society.