The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 20, 1979 Page: 1 of 10
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Mineola, Texas 75773, Wednesday, June 20, 1979
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104th Year, No. 16
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meeting agenda for school trustees
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director Manuel De La Rosa, Richey, Minutes of the May May, and the financial reports
Shirley Chadwick, Margaret
Mineolan attending Girls State
Tuesday, June 19, and will with
return to their homes on June cedures.
housed
schools to accept a job with the architects, Puckett recorded.
citizenship .., to awaken within
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Janice Odom
Wansley of Quit man
With
Woodland Clinic
dated for Friday
ACS unit
ceptioh for each of the three
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John. who plans to major in
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John Hampton Jr.
the $24,634.57 received in the
The Rev. George Cathcart, pasturing rural churches in the
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first six months) to $60,749.24 , Saline and Winnsboro were ac-
for June to bring the Hi
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Houston show scholarship
goes to ’79 MHS graduate
held for county;
2 local girls win
Golden, Alba Methodists
welcome new minister
The revue theme was “Disco
Designs." Mary Lewis, Mineola
changes for the board s con
sideration and possible adop
tion at the July meeting. The
first requested change was to
Mineola Rotary Club meets at
noon each Monday in the Dog-
wood Room of Meredith Hall;
-In presenting the scholar
ships to the state 4 Hers this
month, Show president Allen
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day without written permission
from the school principal and
■ the teachers. And the third '
would reduce the number of
class periods from seven to six, ,
with the lunch period expanded
The installation banquet will
be held in Meredith Hall, on the
grounds of the Mineola Civic
Center, Monday night. The
Mineola club, whose outgoing
Lt. Cob Harry C. Stakes.
Anyone 'withing to make
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Tyler and Longview each had
healthy increases in their sales
tax receipts for the month and
for the half year as compared
notes new
memorials
Mrs. Opal Aldrich of Mineola.
Memorial Chairman for the
Wood County Chapter Of the
American Cancer Society, has
reported that memorial gifts to
man. Beginner division winner;
Beckie Lewis. Mineola. Senior
division; and Robin Rhodes.
Mineola. Junior division.
officers for all three clubs will
be installed by the new District
Governor of Rotary.
board policies — all routine
policy changes are adopted.
Please turn to P. 4
earlier this month received a
four year $6,000 scholarship
. from the Houston Livestock
Show and Rodeo.
John, son of Mr. and Mrs.
to 30 minutes.
In connection with the third
policy change, Patrick pre-
placed first in
division.
enabling the girls to set up
their own city. county and state
governments, using the exist
ing constitution and laws as
guides.
— or some 2% more than the
$59,474.95 received for the first
six months of 1978.
Lindale showed a ppi 3os8 in
placed first.
Robin Rhodes of Minleola
rebate for I
5 Glenda Saxon, blue; Juniors,
division. Angie Mason and Janice Grace.
on the TLC campus at Seguin their own officials in accordance
_________ - _____ _____ radio program on 4-H Week,
John R. Hampton Sr. of Route and has attended Stte Round
$372.50. with these gifts having
come from Quitman, Winnsboro
and Mineola.
Total memorial gifts for the
year have been $2,167, says
___I Z— ‘ ■ president is Jim Litton, is the
clubs, as all three will meet host club for the affair. .
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knowledged as having been
hurt more last year than were
those of other area cities.
Smith and Irma Waddleton.
Quitman: andaBetty Grace.
Winnsboro. .,
the state's cities in saes tax
receipts, adding $14.3 million
Coach Hanson joined De La..
Rosa in supporting a schedule "
which would allow students to ’
participate in BOTH band and
athletics. «
It was noted that whatever i
schedule was adopted by the i
junior high for the coming
ganization whose efforts, ac ........ ,------,-----
tions and revenues are used to a 1978 statewide allocation of 1979 sales tax receipts (for the
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NEW GOLDEN MINISTER -
The Rev. George Cathcart, new
minister for the First United
Methodist Church of Golden
June of $1,722.10 brought the
year's total iodate to $4,666.40.
virtually unchanged from 1978.
Grand Saline's receipts for
1979 are sorry1 18% ahead of
1978 figures- June's check of
$9,719.98 brings the six month
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to approximately $31.6 million
when the homestead exemption
changes approved by the voters
last fall were considered and if
taxes on personal automobiles
were dropped. Since the full
provisions of the legislature's
school finance bill was not
known, decisions on the im-
plementation of the "tax relief"
provisions was deferred until
the July meeting.
4 Her. served as mistress of
ceremonies and narrator. Mrs.
Sam Gilbreath, chairman of the
scholarship program are de- .the one percent . optional city
rived directly from proceeds sales fax during the first six
generated by spectators at the months of this year. Bullock
Houston Livestock Show and
। he Beginner
opportunity of learning for
herself that her government is
what she makes it. A visit to
the State Capitol will be in-
cluded in the program which
offers the girls an opportunity
to assemble in the halls of our
legislative- bodies and meet
state officials."
The entire program is de-
signed to be non partisan and
free from propaganda. The two
"political parties" are purely
mythical for the sole purpose of
Financing, scheduling, and hiring on
Mineola school trustees, in
their regular monthly session
Monday night, June 18, heard
school tax assessor-collector
Carson Wages report that the
district's revenues from local
school taxes would be lowered
by about 25% if all provisions of
the "Tax Relief Amendment"
were put into force this year.
The 1978 tax roll of some
$43.7 million would be reduced
regular election pro-
_____s. They learn the duties
in of i he various city, county and
Janice Odom, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Odom and
a 1979-80 senior in Mineola
High School, is attending
Bluebonnet Girls State, spon-
sored by the American Legion
Auxiliary of Texas, at Seguin
i his week.
She is being co-sponsored at
Girls State by the Pilot Club of
Mineola. She is a member of the
board of directors of the local
Anchor Club, high school girls’
service organization sponsored
by the Pilots.
Miss Odom has been active in
Future Homemakers of Ameri
few exceptions, the • jointly for a Rotary Ann .
Banquet during'which 1979 80
ddad
club president, county 4-H
council chairman, and as
District V 4 Chairman. He
has also participated in the local
than that amount. He also
noted that the board had the
option of retaining the local
'he local At S unil lor the rrecreation and parks at Texas
months of March, April and I A&M University, was one of 50
recipients of Houston Livestock
Show and Rodeo scholarships
at the State 4 H Roundup on
J une 5 at College Station.
The show, which will also
the Senior Hampton. Mineola; Marcella
clinic lo b»‘ held Friday. June
22. al 1:00 p.m. The clinic is
sponsored by the Wood Soil and
Waler Conservation District
and will be held at l he north
end of the Lake Fork Creek
bridge on Highway 37, just
sodi h of Quit man.
Purpose of I he clinic is to
help landowners see what their
woodland resources are pre
sently worth, and . what their
potential can be. Methods of
4, Mineola, is a May graduate of H. Carruth said that the pre-
Mineola High School. A 411 sentation of each scholarship
member for the past eight was far more than just a
years, he has served as local , gesture of good will.
Library Club, and the National
Honor Society at Mineola High
School, in addition to the
Anchor Club.
American Legion Auxiliary
Bluebonhet Girls State is being
held at the Texas Lutheran
ollege in Seguin. Each of the
girls participating is to be a
high school senior in the next
school year. The girls arrived
memorial contribution to the
American Cancer Society, for a
friend or loved one, may
contact Mrs. Aldrich by phone
at 569 2311, Mineola, or write
her at 804 North Newsom,
Mineola, Texas 75773.
the college’s state offices. They introduce
and debate their own bills in a
A corollary program to the legislature. Justice is ad-
American Legion Boys State. ministered by their own law en
Bluebonnet Girls State is de- forcement agencies and courts,
signed to make it possible by “Every hour of the day is
i he delegates to "learn by carefully planned," a Bluebon-
doing." Primary purpose of the net Girls State' brochure
annual event is to educate the takes care to emphasize, “so
slate’s young women in the that each girl will have a
duties, privileges, rights and definite and integral part in the
responsibilities of American function of Girls State and the
the: Hawkins Rotary Club
meets Wednesday at .noon in
Petty’s Cafe; and the Quitman
Rotary Club meets at noon each
Thursday in the Clear- Lakes
Restaurant.
Next week will be an ex
woodland taking an inventory of the
John Reed Hampton Jr., a
veteran Wood County 4 H
member (and the 1978 Wood
County Gold Star 4-H Boy)
Grand Saline schools. She is a
native of Grand Saline and
resides t here. Her resignation
' Was accepted with regret on
motion by board secretary
Paula Lander, seconded by
Curbow.
Assessor collector Wages, in
an informal report to the board,
estimated that the district
would lose $120,000 from local
high students from visiting the
school campus during a school
same six months of 1978.
Winnsboro’s receipts were
also up sharply over 1978, with
the June check of $26,691.53
bringing the six month total to
$78,585.82, up 17% over the
1978 total of $66,629.09.
The economies of both Grand
directly to benefit youth and to $60.9 million for the month.
support education. The City of Houston leads all
his objection to the slow con,
struction by opposing the
motion to approve payment of
all outstanding bills.
In the first of the items to be
discussed, junior high principal .
Patrick- presented three policy
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Joint installation
banquet slated for
area Rotary clubs
school year, the schedule
should have periods that co-
incided with those of the high
school schedule, since several
teachers are "shared" by the
two schools.
Following Patrick’s presen-
tation, Dr. Knight distributed
to the board members a revised
set of proposed policies for the
trustees’ review for final con
sideration at the July meeting,
A workshop for school ad
ministrators on the new school
finance bill was to be held at the
Region VII Education Service
Genter in Kilgore on the day
following the board meeting.
Also, a Texas Association of
School Boards workshop for
trustees has been set for-
Longview in July, with local
board members encouraged to
attend.
up and district leadership lab.
: The Wood County Gold Star
Boy has been active in beef,
livestock judging, agronomy
method demonstration, and ■
‘ parliamentary procedure pro-
jects. While in high school, he
participated in varsity foot ball
and track, drama, FFA, and the
student council. He was also
president of the Pan American
Student Forum.
29th. They are
dormitories on t
campus,
"What ‘is my
receipts for the first six months
of 1979 as compared with 1978.
The June rebate check for
Lindale of $11,564.63 brought
the year’s lot a I to $29,110.63. or
12% less thah- the 1978
payments of $33,292.55 for the
sincere conviclion that a well-
informed, intelligent, partici-
pating citizenry is most vitally
needed to protect and preserve
the nation’s institutions and
American democracy.
Girls State is likened to a
"mythical 51st State where, for
a period, the citizens organize
t hei'r own city, county and state
governments. They choose
in Tyler on ribbons were: Beginners —
1979, amounted
Topics to be discussed and
demonstrated include thinning,
deadening of low value hard-
woods, site preparation, and
tree planting. '
All interested landowners
are invited to attend ' the
woodland clinic Friday.
All seven board members
were present for Monday
night’s meeting — Tommy
Jones, John Puckett, Raymond
Curbow, DaZ Peacock, Larry
Richey, EM Bruce, and Paula
Lander. Also present, for part
or all of the proceedings, were
Superintendent Bill Knight, tax
assessor collector Wages, band
tax revenues as a result of the allow junior high students to go
new finance bill's provisions, home or to a relative's home or
but that the state was expected to a "place designated by the
'to increase its contribution to , parents" to eat lunch. The
local school financing by more second would forbid non junior
ca. the Spanish Club, ‘ the* the youth of the nation a
Lay; Maxine Godbey, Jan Feil. district’s tax on personal auto-
coaches Charles Swann and Bill mobiles, but that the board
Hanson, athletic director Mel would have.io approve a formal
vyn Wright, and Mineola resolution to retain the tax (the
Junior High principal Jack school finance bill abolished the
Patrick. tax, except that each local
After the call to order by taxing authority could retain it
board president Peacock, the if the authority’s governing
meeting was opened with body so decided).
prayer by vice president Bills payable at the end of
meet ing were approved as sub for the month. were approved Manbzot "228X8EE .
milled, on motion by Richey. on motion by Mrs. Lander, H Eibt
Edsehakammmmaa
Dr huihiread tothe board trustee Puckett opposing the EdMdddddk
' ' "I ippre ition trom motion because included in the E
••I h nd drama instructor bills payable was the sum of E
rr Wisdom and automotive $39,987.90 for Jack W. Fife Co., E“
mechanics instructor Dan Ki- contractors on the school plant "
zer, each thanking the admin- addition. Puckett said that the WINNERS in the 1979 Wood
The Wood County 4 11
timber on the farm will be
demonstrated. Based on this
inventory, decisions can be
made on what forest uy prac-
tices can be used to improve the
woodland's capacity to produce
quality timber and wildlife
habitat.
Because each woodland is
different, and desires of the
landowners toward the wood-
lands differ, methods will be
discussed on how the land-
owner can develop his resource
into w hai he wants it to be.
were declared winners in their winners, other I Hers partici
respective age and experience patingjn the Wood County 4 H
groups and will compete atjhe Fashion Revue and receiving
a Rodeo, a civic, charitable or
red ribbons, and Leora Fields
and Lisa Massie. white; and
Seniors — I orot hy Fields. red.
Leaders who worked with
clothing projes. in their areas
were Johnnie Lewis and Anne
Distric level
Friday. June 29.
placed first in the junior
division. -
And Beckie Lewis of Mineola
Quitman was virtually un-
changed for the first six months
of 1979 as compared with 1978
— $29,914.17 as compared with
$30,094.05 — despite the June
rebdte check’s being over a
i housand dollars more than the
one for June, 1978.
aweminab " ' -* " = " ""
worth?"
"Is management really ne
cessary? After all, the trees
grew all right on their own until'
now.”
"Can I have timber produc
tion without destroying the
wildlife habitat?".
These and other questions
often asked by landowners will
be discussed at a woodland
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istration and the board for their district ought to withhold some County 4-H Fashion Revue are
support in the school year just - of the payment to Fife ap- shown in this Extension Ser-
completed. proved by the architects, since vice photo. Left to right. the
Dr. Knight also read a letter the pace of construction had three are Laura Wansley. Quit-
of resignation from high school been slower than anticipated.
English teacher Vickie Wil- After being informed that the I . Ta
liams, who resigned her'seven- district could not legally with /I l-l H aghiqn KAVIIA
year post with the Mineola hold payment authorized by the X1 11 M •D--IV-- -“U‛ —T,
mkim
and Alba, poses for The
Monitor's camera with his wife
Kathy and their four-year-old
son Stephen.
native of Texaa City, is the new
pastor of the First United
Methodist Church of Golden
and Alba.
Th Rev. Cathcart and his
wife, Kathy, are residing in
Golden. They are parents of a
son, Stephen, 4. Mrs. Cathcart
was reared in Silsbee.
The Cathcarts moved to
Golden from Jefferson where
he was a minister serving the
Jefferson Circuit.. Prior, to
Fashion Revue’ was held in
Arnold Holley Hall. Quit man.
sented a proposed teaching
schedule for the board's
consideration. The schedule as
presented would make it im
possible for an eighth grader to
participate in both band and
athletics, with the onlyeighth
grade physical education and
band classes scheduled in the
same period. That conflict ac-
counted for the presence at the
board meeting, of De La Rosa
and the four women visitors (all
band parents). Wright and
Mrs. Aldrich. All money
donated, along with the names
of the honorees and donors. has
been forwarded to State ACS
headquarters in Austin for
permanent memorial records
i here. •
The last three months’ gifts
were in memory of Mrs. Bertha
Garrett, Mrs. Ricie Tissigton,
Mrs. Macye Turner, Betty
Krasowski, Mrs. Edigh Shell,
Mrs. Marie Suber, Mrs. Irene
McCrary, Ealene Stephens,
Mrs. Stella Moore, Mrs. Flor
_ ence Short, Daughter Coleen,
Mrs. Laura Chalfant, Joe Boyd,
Charlie McCullum, Frank Mas
sey, Robert Rutherford, W. B.
Thompson, Robert Taylor, Bud
Junior, Ernest Stover, Cleo
Bellomy, M. L. White, Dewey
Sanders, Eugene O'Rourke,
Jack Castleberry, Luke Elliott,
Tommy Koonsman, James
Barnhardt, Lucille Nolan, and
"The scholarship program
. typifies the show's concern for
youth and its commitment to ■
agriculture. The presentation
of each scholarship is an as-
surance that an outstanding
youngster will get the chance
to. earn a college degree‘and to
work in the field of agricul-
ture." he emphasized.
on. Monday. June H. There -WoodCountyExtensiomHome-.
were forty six people present makers Council, which spon-
to watch nine ill members sored -the event, presented
model garments they had made awards to i h«‘ winners. Judges
as clothing projects during the, were Mrs. Melinda Cain. Mrs. .
pasi weeks. Frances Keith, and Mrs. Pat
Three 4 Ilers. one from Quit Ford.
man and two from Mineola. In addition to the three
present 50 more four-year,
$6,000 scholarships to FFA
members during their state
convention in July, is the
largest donor of agricultural
scholarships in the United
States. During the coming
• school year, the show will have
338 students on scholarship in
Texas colleges and universities,_ *1*1
ssprmsnonsacommitmento City s sales tax receipts higher
The winners, carefull se • • • L. ?
lected from hundreds of apple A city tax -rebate of “take" for the first half of ‘
cants, are the best m the state $19,654.45 for the month of calendar 1979 to $45.8 million
from the standpoints of a_ June has been forwarded to the (reflecting taxable sales of over
demies and leadership, r City of Mineola, says the office $4 1/2 billion, in the six-month
only requirements made of the of’State Comptroller Bob .period).
students are that they major in Bullock. H The state’s next three largest
some form of agriculture at a The Comptroller's office in cities - Dallas, San Antonio - . .
college or university within the Austin has announced the dis- and Fori Worth - were to get otal to $29,144.59. compared to firsi six mom hs.
confines of the state. tr.ibuiion of some $218 million June rebate checks of $7.9
The monies used to fund the to Texas cities as their share of million, $3.5 million, and $2.6
million respectively, bringing
their respective'half-year totals
lo$25.8 million, $12 million, and
• said that June allocations for $8.7 million.
the more than 900 Texas cities For the City of Mineola, the
will be $67.7 millien „ compared June rebate check will bring
when — in accordance with
Jefferson area, he served the
Augusta, Illinois, Circuit.
The Rev. Cathcart is a
graduate of Lon Morris College
in Jacksonville and Scarcity
College in Nashville, Ten-
nessee. He also attended the
-Iliff School of Theology in
Denver, Colorado, and he
presently is studying at
Perkins School of Theology at
Southern Methodist Univer-
sity, Dallas. ,
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Peacock, Dan. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 20, 1979, newspaper, June 20, 1979; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1547853/m1/1/?q=wichita+falls: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.