Sanger Courier (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1990 Page: 2 of 14
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Letters to the Editor
Reflections
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Wedding Dresses • Prom Dresses
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705 N. 5th St.
Sanger
458-4588
In Small Claims Court, July 30, Judge John Coker
awarded a judgment of $702.50 plus $50 court costs to
Thomas R. Trietsch, who had filed a claim of $952.50
against Dan Golike, Roanoke, for hay delivered during the
winter of a988-89.
Sincerely,
Ruby S. Dennis
Alyne Gober
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We would rather
sell our inventory
than move it!
Images will soon move to a new, larger
location-so we’ve drastically reduced
prices from 10-75** on everything in
the store.
Bourlaw Floor Covering
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I may be overly sensitive to these Issues but I ctit my
journalistic teeth on the axiom of “Don’t believe it unless
you see it with your own eyes or have it confirmed by official
source...and then doubt most of it."
Rumors: founded and unfounded, do damage. If the little
bit of information you are about to pass on does no one any
good...let it lie.
A GMC pickup truck, reported stolen from the 200 block
of Pecan Street. Sanger, on July 22. has been recovered in
Carolina Beach, N.C. Being held in custody there is James
Gaither. 19. Sanford. N.C. and a warrant has been issued by
Sanger which is pending any other charges that North
Carolina officials may have against the suspect.
♦♦♦
A weedeater, valued at $230, was taken from a city truck
parked in the 100 block of Prairie, sometime over the
weekend of July 28-29.
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Fixed Rji? for First 15 Years
Joyce Mizer, 29. Denton, was taken into custody by
Sanger Police late Thursday, July 26, after officers received
a report of a vehicle striking a barricade along the
northbound exit ramp from 1-35 at Loop 138.
Mizer is being charged with public intoxication and
disorderly conduct
Need insurance for motorcycles
or travel trailers? We do it at
a good price. Let’s talk.
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BRIDAL & FORMAL
1-35 SOUTHRIDGE VILLAGE • Suite 156
Behind Chili's • Denton 566-2977
Denton County commissioners voted 5-0 to give Food
Lion a tax abatement in order to lure their $53 million
development into Denton County.
Mayor Tidwell of Roanoke and a group of Roanoke
citizens were present and asked the county to Join them in
giving Food Lion a 25% tax abatement to build a giant
warehouse in Roanoke.
The Northwest Independent School District gave the
firm a tax abatement the next day.
John Tidwell, mayor of Roanoke, told the court they
needed to give the food chain a break in taxes to get them to
build in Roanoke. Tidwell told the court if Food Lion didn’t
get the abatement they wouldn’t build in Roanoke.
The food chain is buying land from The Perot Group,
who had at least three employees present to lobby the
commissioners. If no abatement was given. The Perot group
would not get to sell the land. This is about the same pitch
the Perot Group made when the county gave American
Airlines a tax abatement to get them to locate in Perot’s
Alliance Airport.
Mayor Tidwell said the food distribution center would
provide Roanoke with 200 new Jobs to staff the center and
350 Jobs during the construction phase. The total
expenditure of two phases would total $53 million.
Actually news stories had, the Food Lion making the
decision to buy the land and locate in Roanoke before the
abatements were asked for. Food Lion has denied they had
earlier made a final decision.
Tax abatements are good for the businesses, but unfair
to a competing business who has to pay a higher tax rate.
Taxpayers have to make up the difference.
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*****
As an example please look to last week indictments
handed down by the Denton County Grand Jury, and take a
look at the crimes committed and the ages of the accused.
*****
There is support for the boot camp concept on the
commissioners court. Commissioner Sandy Jacobs has
often proposed the boot camp concept to be explored. She
really hasn’t received much more than "lip service." Too
many in the criminal justice system ego’s are too big. They
want an impressive building in their system and damn the
cost, and too often people like those on last week
indictments end up in prison.
*■ *****
The federal government now has grant money for boot
camps for juvenile prisons and Dallas county judge, Lee
Jackson, is considering asking county commissioners to
apply for federal grants to set up a “boot camp" for juvenile
offenders.
The U.S. Department of Justice will award three grants
ranging from $300,000 to $1 million to set up such camps.
Jackson is supported by Commissioner Chris Semos of
his court who said: “I think a boot camp concept would help
many troubled juveniles, much as the military has helped
young men and women to straighten their lives out. I don’t
see any obvious disadvantages.
*****
Any public or private agency may apply for federal
grants (no cost to taxpayers) which were announced July 12.
The application deadline is October 30.
*****
Boot camps for the young, and first offenders are used
by the state, including one in Huntsville, and is part of the
regular prisonjj^stem. However, these state boot camps
have met with mixed reviews.
*****
The county is debating whether to build a new jail. In
spite of the declining census in jails and the many better
and cheaper alternatives. If the big spending philosophy of
this county insists on building stone and steel structures
when thee are available grants for alternate housing.
Maximum security prisons should only be sued for the hard
core criminal who needs prison time instead of parole.
*****
Tax payer warning! The commissioners court on
several occasions demonstrated that it doesn’t trust the
voter to willingly fund all their wished.
This court is to be congratulated for pledging to call a
bond election for the construction of another jail, but I
have witnessed such pledges before and seen the voter by-
passed.
I trust this court to honor this pledge, but to use an old
phrase, trust but beware and keep your powder dry.
*****
*****
Boot camps are becoming a correctional facility for the
Juvenile and misdemeaner prisoners and huge elaborate
marble and steel prisons are reserved for the felons who
have less likelihood of being a rehabilitation tool for
handling such prisoners.
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I received a letter from Af Barstis asking why Jail Jeanne Thoele DeVore, Editor
prisoners need to be housed in such elaborate, expensive
structures and why Denton refused to try boot camps tfBSSjSgy .
Mr. Barstis represents the most frequently asked
question. The county ^commissioners admit the cost of the
Jail construction anq the operation of the jail is their
number one tost and Wae*- responsible in large part for the
53% tax increase that resulted in the tax rollback
*****
This last week Charlie Cole, head of Juvenile and
probation services said jail population was decreasing and
of Friday of that week the Jail had 48 empty cells.
Cole indicated that his new program of pre-trial release
program and the ability of the state of Texas to take state
prisoners irom the counties Jail wTR^oarlly responsible.
***** (
Also, Lee Walker, commissioner pct. 3, told a firm that
wanted to represent the county, should another jail be built
in Denton County, that she was not sure there was enough
votes on the court to approve the construction of a new jail.
*****
The^county criminal justice system in Denton County
likes big expensive jails. They have a disease called
"marble fever." Most money spent is for the benefit of the
criminal and .very little is spent tp ease the burden on the '
victims.
Your Independent Insurance Agent
907 Chapman Drive 458-7434 (O)
Sanger, Texas 458-3660 (In)
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Editor:
It is with deep feeling
that we express our
appreciation to two
organizations for their
splendid work the weekend
of July 20. 21. 22, and 23.
First', the VOLUNTEER
firemen of the Sanger
VOLUNTEER Fire
Department are to be highly
commended for their
unselfish work in trying to
rescue anyone in the home,
not knowing if it .was
occupied or not. as this was a
life-threatening effort which
could have resulted in
serious injury or death to a
fireman. It goes without
saying that had Ruby been in
the house in her normal
sleeping room she would
have undoubtedly perished.
Along this line, please know
that we feel no property in
the Sanger area is worth the
serious injury or death of a
fireman. As a word of
caution to firemen and their
families, please don’t risk
your lives for property.
As a volunteer fireman
at Sanger during the 30s and
40s, and as long as we lived
within sound of the siren, we
know what it means to get up
in the middle of the night for
a fire, possibly in freezing
weather, and going home
with soiled or ruined
clothes. Since all of us have
lived at Sanger most of our
lives, we can recall as high
as three generations of
volunteer firemen who have
given of their time and
services to the Sanger
community.
By way of information,
please be advised that 90% of
Ruby’s possessions were
removed and stored at
various places over a year
ago so the fire was not like
seeing all of one’s
possessions go up in smoke,
which is the case in so many
home fires.
Two of the tragic
features, in addition to
losing the home, were that
the young Navy veteran and
his wife who had contracted
to buy the house had high
hopes and plans for
remodeling: the second
tragedy was that arsonists
took the home as fair game,
whether for diversion for
robberies or whatever. This
Just doesn't jibe with the
Sanger people we have
known since the home was
first occupied in 1920 to the
present by our family.
It is 'with great
admiration and
appreciation that we
commend the Sanger Police
and Fire Marshall for their
investigations of the fire and
robberies, some police not
sleeping for as high as 50
hours, working under
pressure of time in filing
their reports along with
their courtesies in
interviewing.
The donations by Ruby
Dennis to these two
organizations are in the
mail and represent only a
small share of the
appreciation for the hard
and dangerous work of these
people.
There was a mistake in our paper the other day. Some
readers caught it. some didn’t. If I don’t tell you what it wafcA
you can only guess. Some readers mqy guess correctly, some J
may not. (
Some may tell others what the mistake was whdle
others may tell what they guessed the mistake to be.
If those who guessed wrong told somebody w
guessed, did they make one mistake or two?
*♦* /
If you make a mistake and do your best to correct it, can
it be said you’ve done your best or are you labeled a “mistake
maker" for the rest of your life. The only ones who don’t
make mistakes are the ones not doing anything.
That may be a good thing and then ag;
But if mistake-making turns to hand-wgta>
another mistake; since energy putin
guilt feelings, is nothing more than wasted energy.
Correct what you can correct and move on.
Disappointment is not guilt but robs one of better-spent
energy as well.
*•*
Not too many years ago some lawmakers saw the
wisdom of protecting juveniles from the lifelong weight of a
mistake made in haste, bad Judgment, peer pressure and a
buncHi of other not-good reasons.
It’sagootkjaw.
Sanger area-residents were given the opportunity to see
that law in action'recently. But it became a pretty sorry
statement of community standards when one after another
tried to be first with another Juicy tidbit of blame and finger
pointing. ,
Let the law that gives Juveniles'another chance work.
Hold your tongue when tempted to say “I know who did
what". It doesn’t matter if the world’s most accurate source
in the world gave you that information. It serves no good
purpose to pass it on other than the brief moment of
headiness one feels in the realm of one-upmanship of “I
know something you don’t."
There are families struggling with feelings, with
circumstances, with futures, with disappointments. To
contribute to the misery of these people is on a level of grave
robbing.
There is not a person or a family on the face of the earth,
much less within the Sanger community, that has not felt
the sting of embarrassment of a mistake, either self-made,
or by a family member. A little compassion and
understanding for those people going through some very
trying times is called for now. ...not bone picking.
***
And in the same vein; several governing bodies, from
time to time, are required to conduct official business in
executive session. The right of executive session is protected
by law. There are at least two ways to violate that law.
The first is fought by journalists everywhere. That is
when a governing body abuses the privilege of executive
session to circumvent the public meetings ruling.
The second is no less destructive. When a member privy
to an executive session violates that privilege by
succumbing to the heady feeling of being the first to tell. To
do so violates an oath.
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DeVore, Jeanne Thoele. Sanger Courier (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1990, newspaper, August 2, 1990; Sanger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1299718/m1/2/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sanger Public Library.