The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 15, 1987 Page: 1 of 12
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Premium Sale Saturday At 6:30 p.m.
1987 Stock Show Set For 48th Running
' OFFICIALS OF the 1987 Mills
County Livestock Show and Youth
Fair are preparing this week for
the largest livestock show in recent
years with 510 livestock entries,
and an undetermined number of
fair exhibits.
All entries in the show are up
from 1986 and officials say that
quality has also been improved, so
the show should be a fine one.
F The 48th annual show will be
held at the Mills County Civic
Center Friday and Saturday,
January 16 and 17.
All exhibitors of livestock are
reminded that all exhibits (animals)
must be on the grounds by 6:00
P.M. on January 15, 1987 (No
exceptions). This time frame allows
all animals to be weighed and
classed for the two big days of
exhibition which follow. Exhibitors
are reminded of this regulation so.
that they will not be denied entry
at a later date and time.
The program schedule is as
follows-:
January 16th only.
Prior to the premium auction
sale, a fashion show will be held,
beginning at 5:00 p.m. at the Civic
Center. Top winners in modeling
and accessories will be announced
following the Fashion Show.
Complete foods rules and
classification of entries are listed
on Page 3 of this week’s Eagle.
Home Economics Youth Fair
entries in Foods and Crafts are
due at the Mills County Civic
Center Thursday, January 15
between 2 and 5 p.m. No late
entries will be accepted. Judging
will be done Thursday evening
with viewing of all Home
Economics entries Friday, January
16 only. All items are to be picked
up after 6:00 p.m.
THE ANNUAL premium auction
sale, the highlight of the event,
gets underway at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday. Grand champion cooked
goods, as well as the livestock
entries will sell at this time. The
1986 sale was a record setter and
( the sales committee will have its
work cut out to eclipse that figure.
“The livestock show and youth
fair are very important to our
young people, and they certainly
deserve our wholehearted support,
from both a spectator standpoint
and at the auction sale,” Bobby
Boykin, chairman of the sales
committee said.
Boykin issued a special invitation
to all the citizens of Mills County
1 and the surrounding communities
to attend the show, and also voice
their support of the young people
of the County at the auction sale.
The Sales committee had a
special luncheon meeting on
Tuesday to map out plans for the
sale, and distribute names of firms
and individuals to be contacted.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16s
9:00 A.M. - Official Opening of
the Show and Introductions.
9:00 A.M. - Hog Judging
1:00 P.M. - Market Lamb
Judging:
5:00 P.M. - Poultry Judging
6:30 P.M- - Breeding Cattle and
Dairy Cattle Judging
7:00 P.M. - Market Steer
Judging
SATURDAY, JANUARY 17$
9:00 A.M. - Rabbit Judging
9:00 A.M. - Breeding Sheep
Judging; Angora Goat Judging will
follow Breeding Sheep Judging.
6:30 P.M. - Livestock Sale
SIXTY-FOUR clothing entries
were judged on Monday, January
12, the first official event of the
1987 Youth Fair. The entries were
all judged on construction and
appearance, and will be on display
at the Civic Center on Friday,
G'waite School Board
Has January Session
The Board of Trustees of the
Goldthwaite I.S.D. met for the
regular January meeting in the
High School Learning Resource
Center at 6:30 p.m. on Monday,
January 12.
The Board took the following
action:
1. Approved the minutes of the
regular meeting held December 8,
1986. . ... .. :
- 2. Approved the payment of
purrent bills as listed and
presented.
3. Heard a report and discussed
building program matters. Com-
pletion and acceptance on the
latest construction project at the
Elementary campus is very near.
The new facilities should be
occupied by students and teachers
by the end of January. Thus, upon
occupying the new facilities,
students will no longer be served
in the house across the street from
the Elementary campus.
4. Conducted a two-hour exe-
cutive session during which the
Board heard presentations from
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Covington,
Mrs. Linda Mann, the Elementary
Principal, the High School Princi-
pal, and the superintendent.
Upon returning to open session
the Board announced that after
hearing from all parties, discussing
the information shared and re-
viewing actions that had been
taken by the administration, the
Board did not consider additional
action to be necessary.
5. Voted to submit the nomina-
tion of Mr. John Hosea to the
Mills County Appraisal District for
the one year term that is now
vacant.
6. Approved an agreement or
proposal to be offered to the Star
and Lometa I.S.D’s for computer-
ized data processing of school
financial business.
7. Ordered a Trustee Election
for Saturday, April 4, 1987, to
elect two trustees for full
three-year terms; for voting to be
done in the High School Learning
Resource Center; for Ruth Sides to
be the election judge; for Robbie
Football Games
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Robertson to be the deputy
election judge and a clerk; ’for
Lorene Armstrong to be an election
clerk; and for Dean Kirk, Corrine
Henry, and Cleo Rhoades to be
approved as alternate election
clerks if needed; for W. A.
“Toby” Bryant to be the absentee
election judge; for Brenda Geeslin
and Joy Nowell to be absentee
deputies; for absentee voting to be
conducted at, the County a Clerk’s
office; and for the absentee judge
to deliver the absentee ballots to
the trustee election judge for
counting.
8. Approved Budget Amendment
#1 for 1986;87 which did not
change the total of revenues or
expenditures in the original
budget. The Amendment reflects
adjustments needed for line items
and categories within the total
budget.
9. The Board conducted another
- executive session for approximately
twenty-seven minutes during which
the Board discussed the super-
intendent’s evaluation, the super-
intendent’s contract, and a Board
self-evaluation.
Following this executive session,
upon returning to open session,
the Board voted to extend the
contract of superintendent Grayson
Wetzel for one year, thus keeping
in place a two-year contract.
During the meeting the Board
heard the following reports from
the superintendent and campus
principals.
1. Financial statement through
December 31. -
2. Tax collections through Dec-
ember 31. 47.27% of 1986 taxes
collected.
3. Personnel update: Lana
Baker, recently employed as
custodian at the High School
campus replacing David Belveal;
Judy King, recently employed as
secretary/bookkeeper in school
administration office in preparation
of Cleo Rhoades’ retirement and
then Cleo’s working on a half-time
basis.
4. Next Board Member Training
session February 2 at Hamilton
6:00 p.m.
5. Facilities use problems: due
to recent abuses of the weight-
room, raquetball court, and High
School Gym, these facilities have
been being locked up when not in
use by the coaches, teams, and/or
classes.
6. Final football season gate
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Established In 1894
And The Mullin Enterprise
Goldthwaite, Mills County, Texas 76844
Volume 93, Number 36
Thursday, January 15, 1987
City Council Handles Gas Rate Hike;
Annual City Election Called For April
Goldthwaite’s City Council had a
small impact on the proposed Lone
Star Gas Company rate increase at
its meeting last Thursday night.
Lone Star had presented its case
for the rate hike, which figured in
at about 9% more over last year,
including as an expense the
regular ad valorem taxes paid to
the city and to the Mills County
Fresh Water Supply District. When
the company was told that the city
had discontinued the taxes for the
time being, the company willingly
and quickly said that they would
deduct the approximately $400
from the increase package.
The council unanimously passed
on first reading an ordinance to
reflect the new rate with the
decrease as okayed by the
company. If no other obstacles are
presented, the new rate will be in
effect beginning in March.
$49,279.06 in December.
Councilmen unanimously okayed
the regular quarterly treasurer’s
report as presented by Allen. The
entire report is reprinted on Page
9 of this week’s Eagle. The report
indicates healthy balances in all
city departments.
OTHER ITEMS:
• Lower Colorado River Author-
ity, the wholesale supplier of
electricity to the city, submitted a
new wholesale power contract for
the inspection of the council. The
new contract reflected no signifi-
cant changes and was unanimously
adopted.
• Henry “Tuffy” Gibbard was
appointed by Mayor J. D. Harper
to replace Houston Duren who
resigned from the Goldthwaite
Housing Authority Board of
Directors.
• Council Fred Conradt wanted
to go on record as calling
attention to the City’s drop of ad
valorem taxes, in an effort to lure
businesses to the city.
• Councilman Tom Cody Graves
commented that he had been told
by consitiuents that the Christmas
Lighting Decorations had been
removed too soon. The CM took
this matter under advisement.
• Parked and abandoned ve-
hicles, especially at intersections in
the city came under the scrutiny of
the city fathers. The ordinance
concerning this subject mentions
that two or more cars that are
unregistered would cause the city
to begin removal. Until this
happens, the city can only
recommend that safety hazards be
remedied.
In his regular report to the
council, the City Manager:
• Explained the refund sent in
by LCRA, reflecting an overcharge
in the fuel charge of city
customers’ electric bills. The city
will receive another approximately
$13,000 as part of this refund.
• Reported that the city had
completed 47 connects and dis-
connects of utilities for the month
of December and handled two work
tickets.
• Told the council that trans-
formers have been checked and no
evidence of PCB’s were found.
These harmful chemicals have
sometimes been used in the oil
that surrounds the inner coils of
the transformers.
• Announced that the new
storage shed has been completed
by the city. It is located across
from the present City warehouse
on Old Priddy Road. The new
employee meeting room at the City
Utilities building has been re-
furbished.
ELECTION CALLED
FOR APRIL 4TH
The council voted to call the
regular city election for April 4,
1987. City voters will go to the
polls on that day and elect a
Mayor and two aldermen. Terms
expiring this year are Mayor J. D.
Harper and Aldermen Fred
Conradt and Robert Womack.
Election judges and absentee
judges were also named by the
council. Prospective candidates
may file at the City Utilities offices
beginning January 19th and ending
at 5:00 p.m. on February 18.
CABLE VISION SURVEY
REVIEWED
Citizens of Goldthwaite received
a survey form in the mail recently
asking for comments on the
Goldthwaite Cable Vision system.
City Manager Dale Allen reported
that 365 survey forms had been
returned to the city offices. He
said the comments were many and
varied and that the city would
compile the results of the
completed survey for the council’s
deliberations at the February
meeting.
Cable Vision owner Scott
Witcher of Lampasas, was present
at the meeting, and offered no
comment about the survey situa-
tion. The company has a franchise
pending with the city.
CM Allen reviewed the city’s
current financial status for the
council. He reported a steady
growth in city assets over 1986.
The total city cash resources as of
December
$667,509.48.
In regard
31, 1986 were
to the current budget,
Allen presented percentages thru
December. Since the report
included six months of operation,
the budget percentages ideally
would be at 50% for expense and
50% of revenue. The percentages
were as follows:
% Collected % Disbursed
On Saturday, January 17th
and Saturday, January 24th,
the Goldthwaite Eagle 1986
Football game tapes will be
shown on local cable,
Channel 5. On the 17th at
10:00 a.m., the first tape will
begin and will contain the De
Leon thru San Saba games
(approximately 5% hours).
On the 24th, at 10:00 a.m.,
the second tape will show
the Cross Plains thru Reagan
County games (approxi-
mately 4% hours).
This will allow everyone
the opportunity to record the
games for their future
references.
receipt totals:
Reagan County game
Season Total
$5,050.00
$31,892.33
Electric.
Water..
Sewer..
48.83
59.17
53.50
which is $5,134,88 more than the
1985 season.
7. Annual Performance Report
for 1985-86 will need to be
considered in February meeting.
8. Enrollment is currently:
General & Street 47.69
Overall City
Operations.... 52.47
OTHER FINANCIAL
REPORTS SUBMITTED
Elementary
Jr.-Sr. High School
New Horizons
Total
270
241
56
567
9. Linda Rountree, Jr.-Sr. High
School science teacher, recently
received notification of eligibility to
attend a Lower Colorado River
Authority sponsored course entitled
“Electric Power and the Environ-
ment” to be conducted June 15-26,
1987.
50.45
45.30
37.79
55.54
47.27
Operations for the month of
December showed an overall
surplus of $4,377.50 in the city
coffers. One of the big itmes was
the collection of city ad valorem
taxes, some $15,456.65 of which
came in December. Also it was
pointed out by the CM that the
electric billing for this month
reflected an increase from
$44,555.13 in November to
Leverett Pops One
Charlie Leverett, big senior post man for the Goldthwaite Eagles varsity basketball team, goes high for a
jump shot in the Bangs game here Tuesday night. The Eagles used a good inside game, and some
tremendous fast break play to defeat the Dragons 65-55. Bangs led in the early going, but the Eagles
managed a one point lead at the half. The lead changed hands several times in the third period, before the
Eagles got on top to stay. The Eagles and the Eaglettes travel to Cross Plains this Thursday night for
another district game.
Eagle Photo
Goldthwaite Sales Taxes Among Select Few To Increase
State Comptroller Bob Bullock
Friday sent checks totaling $48.5
million in local sales tax to 1,038
cities that levy the one-percent city
tax. Bullock said that the first
payments for 1987 were down
almost 9 percent as compared to
last year’s first payments.
Houston’s check for $7.6 million
was the largest, down 8 percent
from last year’s payment of $8.4
million. Dallas’ payment was $6
million, a 6 percent decrease from
last January’s payment of $6.4
million.
The City of Goldthwaite received
a check for $2,973.18 for this pay
period, this showed a 3.28%
increase from the same pay period
last year.
San Saba’s check was for
$7,028.71 a slight increase of
0.96% increase from the same pay
period last year.
The city of Early received a
check for $12,740.20, a decrease of
2.11% from the same pay period
last year. Brownwood's check was
for $50,857.58, reflecting a de-
crease of 20.72% from the pay
period last year.
January checks represent taxes
collected on sales in November and
reported to the Comptroller by
December 20.
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