The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 122, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 22, 1995 Page: 1 of 16
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School board filing deadline nears
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Board chosen to review
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Reunited family members thank Meinert
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College crunches numbers
Medical records program discussed
a retirement check from the army,
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years and four months. By the year
2000, the program would be in the
black
Robinson had earlier estimated
it could take as long as 10 years to
recoup the college's start-up costs
for the program.
Edmonson said the proposal will
be on the agenda at the coordinat-
ing board's April meeting. Panola
hopes to receive approval for the
program at that time.
The medical records technology
program would be a two-year pro-
gram, with graduates earning an as-
sociate degree in applied arts and
sciences.
A combination of core academic
courses, office technology classes
and specialized courses in medical
records, the program would pro-
duce graduates who are eligible to
take the American Health Informa-
By LAURA NEGRI
Months of feeding, groom-
ing, weighing and documenting
animals come to completion this
week as local youths participate
in the Panola County Junior
Livestock Show and Sale
The 48th annual show allows
young people to show off their
hard work in the form of calves,
lambs, rabbits, swine, goats and
chickens raised by kids ages
nine to 18. A total of 177 entries
have been registered for this
year’s show, which will be held
at the Panola County Exposition
Center.
Participants are members of
local 4-H and Future Farmers of
America clubs and have worked
over the past several months to
competition will be Chad Stein,
judging cattle, swine and lambs;
Clinton Currie, broilers; Glen
Huddleston, rabbits; and Scott
Homer, goats.
Show organizers are forming
buyer groups now. For informa-
tion, contact Henry Howard at
693-6271 or Stephanie Johnson
at 693-0320.
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Place 4 position including Jeanne
Sipes and Ralph Shivers. Place 4
incumbent Mack Holland had not
filed as of Tuesday afternoon.
In Gary two individuals have
filed for a spot on the ballot. They
include Place 6 incumbent Tim
By SHERRY KOONCE
Five individuals were appointed
to the Panola County's newly-
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City clean-up continues
Condemnation efforts in Carthage are continuing as seen in this abandoned home on Park Drive. The
home s owners, Jacke and Brenda Harris contracted to have the structure torn down rather than try and get
it up to the city's building code
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She obtained an address of the husband to the phone because I did
agency issuing the check and not know who it was. Finally,
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Wade Weatherford and Kim Weatherford pose with the steers they will enter in the show.
Lunch will fol tow the judg-
ing. and awards will be pre-
sented at 1:30 p.m. The sale will
begin at 2 p.m , with steers sold
first, followed by barrows,
lambs, broilers, goats and rab-
bits. Some 123 market animals
will be auctioned during the
sale.
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Permit and License Appeal Board
Monday.
Appointed were W.B. Bill
Landers, Barbara Alexander, the
Rev. Port A. DuBose, the Rev.
Everett Miller and the Rev. Mervin
Scott.
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By SHERRY KOONCE
It was all in a day's work for
Ellen Meinert, but for Jo Permenter
and Les Calloway the simple task
was enough to set wheels in motion
that would bring their father back
into their lives.
Since 1957, the East Texas
brother and sister searched for their
father with whom they had lost
contact after their parents divorced
and their father enlisted in the
United States Army
Jessie Calloway's story was
similar. Following a divorce from
his children's mother, he joined the
Army and began extensive travels
Without ever planning the
outcome, he lost touch with his
family when they moved from
Shreveport to Panola, Texas during
the course of his travels.
Through the years, the children's
attempts to find their father proved
unsuccessful due to a code of
silence the Army practiced, until
last year when after repeated efforts
elsewhere, the siblings decided to
look in their own backyard and
enlisted the aid of the Panola
County Veterans Service Office,
where they met Meinert
"In the last two years, we have
really renewed our efforts to find
dad and began writing several
organizations that specialize in
finding missing persons,” Jo stated.
But those avenues were very
expensive and proved to be more
than the brother and sister could
afford, Permenter explained.
"We’d contacted the Army so
many times with no results that we
had pretty much given up We got
to thinking, however, that since it
had been so long he most assuredly
was retired and maybe the veterans
office would be able to help.
As it turner! out, the senior
Calloway was retired and drawing
By LAURA NEGRI
Panola College’s board took a
second look at a proposed medical
* records technology program that
president William Edmonson says
would pay for itself in less than
four and a half years.
At last month's meeting, the
board approved presenting the pro
posal to the Texas Higher Educa-
tion Coordinating Board, but sev-
eral board members expressed
reservations about starting the pro-
gram in a year in which state
funding won't be available.
Edmonson recommends begin-
ning the program next fall, if the
coordinating board approves the
proposal, even though 1995-96 is a
non-funding year. State money for
the program won't come through
until 1997-98, leaving Panola to
shoulder the start-up costs alone if
the institution chooses to open the
program.
Edmonson and Jackie Robinson,
dean of fiscal affairs, presented the
board with a cost analysis for the
proposed program, starting next
fall. In their estimates, Panola
would spend about $130,000 in the
first two years of the program,
mainly for an additional instructor,
supplies and equipment. The pro-
gram would only generate about
$44,000 in tuition and fees during
the same period.
State funding for the program
would begin in fall 1997, bringing
in an additional $104,000 per year.
At that rate, according to Robin-
son's figures. Panola would pay
back its initial investment in four
produce animals ready for
showing. Each animal represents
Extension Office.
The matter has become a
concern recently because of soaring
paper costs, said Panola County
Judge John Cordray.
Also cited was undue wear and
tear on copy machines due to bulk
copies the department makes.
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Gary, Beckville schools closed Friday
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Two area school districts will have Friday off so that students can take
part in thePaaote County Junior Livestock Show. .
Beckville and Gary schools will be closed Friday, March 24, taking
advantage of a bad weather makeup day both districts had scheduled A
mild winter means students can take the day off.
For Gary students, Friday also marks the beginning of spring break.
Classes will resume in Gary on Monday, April 3.
For Carthage ISD students, Friday is a regular class day. Students who
will participate in the livestock show most take an excused absence in
order to compete.____________
Livestock show set this week
an investment of time and Panda County bred steers, and
money for the child and his or junior and senior beef show-
her family. Participants must manship. ..
also meet "no pass, no play" eli-
gibility requirements in order to
show their animals.
The show begins Thursday,
March 23, at 6 p.m. with judging
of gilts, followed by junior and
senior registered beef heifers,
junior and senior commercial
heifers. registered beef bulls, ju-
nior and senior dairy goats.
Market showmanship will also
be judged.
Beginning at 8 a.m. Friday
morning, judging of market ani-
mals will take place. Lambs and
lamb showmanship will be
judged first, followed by market
and breeding rabbits, market
barrows, junior and senior swine
showmanship, market steers,
for this year's
Also renewed were contracts for
vice presidents Charles Hughes and
Jackie Robinson, dean Betsey
Wheat, and administration person-
nel Twink Ross, Wayne Allums,
Bob Knight, Kan Lindsay, Calvin
Propes and David Redmond.
Faculty contracts renewed in-
cluded instructors Solomon Ali,
Larry Allen, Brenda Allums. Ren-
nie Bailey, Ann Baldree, Chris
Blair, Ann Boland. Dorothy Bram-
blett, Jeffrey Brooks, Larry Brum-
ley, Suzy Cantwell, Lillian Cook,
Jacke Davis, Varonica Dickerson,
Denise Duzan, Dorothy Eastin,
W.L. Edmonds, Regina Efird,
Nonna Sue Evers. Dwayne Fcrgu-
By SHERRY KOONCE Place 7 spot.
Today is the final day to reserve Both Kyle and Biggs are
a place on the May 6 school board seeking re-election to the board
election ballots, and several have after drawing one-year terms last
already announced their candidacy, year following implementation of
in Carthage, Dr. Wayne Kyle is CISD's single-member district plan,
seeking re-election to the at-large Beckville candidates who have
Place 3 position while incumbent already filed include Mike Edens,
Warren Biggs has announced his who is the current Place 7 member’
intention to run for the at-large Two persons are candidates for the
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Contracts for administration and
faculty were renewed by the Panola
College Board of Trustees Monday,
and a long-time instructor an-
nounced his plans to retire.
The board accepted with regret a
letter from J.R. Brannon stating fie
planned to retire from the college's
science department at the end of
the current school year. Brannon is
a 32-year veteran of the PC faculty.
Board chairman Dr. Dennis
Golden indicated the board hopes
to honor Brannon and express its
thanks to him in person before he
retires.
Contracts were renewed for
college president Dr. William Ed-
monson and for Shelby College
Center director Jerry Hopkins and
Marshall director Jeanne Scott
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Representing each precinct of
the county, board members will
determine whether or not a
sexually-oriented business meets
guidelines set forth by the county's
sexually oriented Business Order,
Section 1A-15, should an
application be denied.
Also discussed was a problem
with excessive photographic copies
made by the Panola County
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however, he said. "Dorothy Jo, this
is your dad. ”
After a joyous reunion.
Permenter called her brother, who
in turn called his father for a
reunion of their own.
"He didn't recognize my voice at
first, but once he did he started
crying,"
For Mr Calloway's 72nd
birthday, the East Texas siblings
flew to his home in Salinas.
California, to be rejoined with their
father and to meet brothers and
sisters they did not even know they
had.
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Permenter recounted how, on
March 15, just a year ago, the
phone rang with her father on the
other end.
"He was crying and I could not
understand him. I called my
suggested the two children make
contact with the agency in an effort
to find their father
Following Memert's advice,
Permenter did just that. She
painstakingly poured her heart out,
and that of her brother, in a long
letter addressed to the group,
hoping against hope someone there
would be sympathetic.
And someone was
Within a short period of time the
agency contacted Ronnie Calloway,
another son born to Mr Calloway
years after his divorce and
separation from his first family
Ronnie, immediately called his
father, who by this time was 71-
years-old and in failing health
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Leach, Ted. The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 122, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 22, 1995, newspaper, March 22, 1995; Carthage, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1541554/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sammy Brown Library.