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Citizens Journal, Wednesday, Feb 20, 1991 3A
Queen City DECA students receive honors
DPS Trooper John Elder has served Cass County for over 10 years.
Elder likes a challenge
By VALERIE EAVES
Journal Staff Writer
Department of Public Safety
Trooper John Elder said the lure
of working out-of-doors is what
first attracted him to his job.
"I had been working at Thoikol
for five years, and ! worked at
General Electric in Shreveport
for five years before that. I was
tired of being inside a building all
day," Elder explained. "I saw
troopers out doing their job and it
interested me."
Elder graduated from the DPS
academy in January, 1977. His
first assignment was in driver's
license in Dallas. After a year he
was transferred to the Highway
Patrol in Corsicana, where he
stayed for three years. He began
working in Cass County with his
next assignment in Hughes
Springs. After two years he was
transferred to Atlanta, where he's
been for the last eight and a half
years.
Elder said he likes the chal-
lenges of being a state trooper.
"You might say I like the thrill
of the unknown," he stated.
"There's always something new,
you don't do the same things day
after day."
Elder acknowledged that al-
though most of the stops he
makes are harmless, some are
life threatening.
"You don't worry about it,
though, until it happens to
someone else," he said. "That's
when you realize that there's no
such thing as a routine traffic
stop. You realize that you're not
invincible."
Elder said the death of the
Nacogdoches County constable
recently is one such incident.
The officer was killed during a
"routine" traffic stop.
The fact that Highway 59 is a
major drug thoroughfare gives
troopers like Elder an extra chal-
lenge.
"We always have to be aware
of the fact that drugs are moving
on that highway," he said. "It's
getting harder and harder to
determine who's carrying nar-
cotics, though. It's like hunting a
trophy buck, you know he's
there, and you have to hunt and
hunt to find him, but finally you
get him."
Elder said there is one aspect
of his job that he doesn't like —
fatal accidents.
"That's a very stressful part of
the job," he said. "I just have to
push the fatality aside and con-
centrate on figuring out what
happened. That's the only way to
really deal with"it."
Working fatal accidents, stop-
ping drug traffikers and issuing
tickets aren't the only duties of a
state trooper.
"There's lots of paperwork,"
said Elder. "Besides the routine
patrol of highways in rural
counties, we also have about five
to six hours a week of paperwork
to do. That's in addition to the
upkeep of the vehicles, and the
weekly and monthly reports."
Besides the work here in the
county, Elder and the rest of the
troopers also attend schools to
keep up with current laws, not
only in Texas but in adjoining
states, firearms training, policies,
and other information helpful to
the troopers.
Elder is a native of Marshall.
He graduated from Marshall High
School, attended Panola College
and East Texas Baptist Univer-
sity. Elder and his wife, Ginger,
have two daughters ages 16 and
11.
On March 7-9, 20 Marketing
Education students from Queen City
High School will participate in the
45th Annual Career Development
Conference for DECA, Texas As-
sociation, The conference is
scheduled to be held in Fort Worth.
The students qualified to attend
by winning in various competitive
events at the District 6 DECA
Career Development Conference
held Feb. 8-9 in Texarkana. Accord-
ing to chapter advisor Becky Col-
lum, the following students placed in
Texarkana:
In the written events, Jason
Rawls - marketing, Jennifer Mericle
- apparel and accessories, Ruth
Keen - finance and credit and Lian-
da Edwards - creative marketing.
In the participating events, stu-
dents taking honors included Byron
Frost - individual free enterprise,
Troy Tyler and Karen Coffey -
entrepreneurship, Anna Moulton,
Shad Parker and Cheryl Jackson -
hospitality and tourism, and Mark
Howell - finance and credit.
Also, Carey Harden - advertising
and display and Brad Walker -
General Marketing. Alternates will
be Tracy Adcock - full serve res-
taurant, Brad Walker - quiz bowl
and Carmon Graf - apparel and ac-
cessories.
In the state display contest, the
winning students, the category and
their business sponsors include:
Carmon Graf - special events -
Queen City Floral; Johnna Spivey -
Jewelry - Wal Mart; Anna Moulton -
children's wear - Minor Mart; Shad
Parker - indoor/outdoor - Wal Mart;
Journal staff photo by JOHN COLEMAN
Twenty students from the Queen City DECA Marketing program were honored recently at the District
6 conference In Texarkana. The only one not pictured here Is Jason Rawls, who took First In Food
Marketing.
Karen Bell - housewares and ap-
pliances - Price Hardware; Becky
Jester - stationery and office sup-
plies - Millie's Hallmark, and Kevin
Blank - food marketing - Brook-
shire's.
Queen City student Jennifer
Mericle was elected secretary for
District 6, DECA, for 1991-92. The
outgoing president at the
ference was Anna Moulton.
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Jeff Whetstone is one of the team
of four students to represent District
6's Quiz Bowl at the state con-
ference in Fort Worth. Brad Walker
is the First Alternate for the Quiz
Bowl competition.
Deputies nab
drug suspects
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sation, the suspects divulged that
they had met another person at the
roadside park between Linden and
Atlanta to purchase the cocaine.
They also described the car he was
driving.
K.D. White, 38, of Orange, Texas,
was stopped a short while later in
Jefferson by Jefferson Police. He
was brought back to Cass County
and charged with delivery of
cocaine. Bond was set at $50,000.
The value of the kilo of cocaine
was placed at between $20,000 and
$25,000. The street value, of
course, would be much higher.
KING
Insurance Agency Inc.
Journal staff photo by VALERIE EAVES
Star Spangled Banner
The color guard from the National Guard unit in Atlanta presents the U.S. flag for the singing of the nation-
al anthem at a support rally Monday night. Betty and David Cliborn sang the anthem while a trumpet trio
from Atlanta, Carol Hazelwood, Tracy Strawn and Joy Wommack accompany them.
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Twenty FFA members and two 4-
H members from Cass County will
be joining other 4-H and FFA mem-
bers from throughout the state for
showring competition at the Hous-
ton Livestock Show, running now
through March 3 at the Astrohall.
These FFA and 4-H exhibitors
compete in one of two divisions of
the Houston Livestock Show — the
junior show division. The other divi-
sion, the open show, attracts its ex-
hibitors form the world's agricultural
industry, primarily professional
breeders and ranchers.
Entries in both the open and
junior shows combine with horse
show entries to make the Houston
Livestock Show the world's largest.
Cass County participants include,
from Linden-Kildare FFA Randy
Burns, Danny Duncan, Wayne Fitts,
Todd Fuller, Todd Green, Jerry Sim-
mons, Marcus Smallwood and
Trampas Stanley.
From McLeod FFA, Justin Ber-
ney.
From Atlanta FFA, Tracey Math-
ews.
From Queen City FFA, Kevin
Blank.
From Avinger FFA, Dawn Brad-
ley, Allen Chisolm, Marcie Craw-
ford, Brian Jackson, Shane McNiel,
Jon Powell, Melissa Powell, Lance
Rhodes and Mickie Smith.
Cass County 4-H members par-
ticipating include Christi Prince and
Audi Stanley.
Representing 862 Texas 4-H
clubs and FFA chapters, the junior
show is expected to exceed 13,000
entries this year. A variety of
animals are shown in the junior
show division, including market
steers, market swine, market sheep,
market poultry, beef and dairy
heifers, breeding sheep, goats,
commercial steers and breeding
rabbits.
The four market animal
categories represent animals raised
by the exhibitor as food sources.
Top animals in each of these
categories are eligible for their in-
dividual market auctions. Total
money paid in 1990 at the four
junior show auctions exceeded $2.7
million.
"The Houston Livestock Show
and Rodeo is committed to benefit-
ing youth and supporting educa-
tion," said Steve Woodley, Houston
Livestock Show and Rodeo assis-
tant manager. "We feel we ac-
complish these goals through the
active role we take in supporting the
second week of livestock competi-
tion, our junior show.
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Citizens Journal (Atlanta, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 77, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 20, 1991, newspaper, February 20, 1991; Atlanta, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth335780/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.