The Wylie News (Wylie, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 46, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 17, 1996 Page: 2 of 18
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Page 2 - Section A - THE WYLIE NEWS - Wednesday. April 17,1996
mmentary
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Dear Editor.
Two yean ago . around the ume
of school board elections, a local
group rattled my brain by the belief
that OBE was alive and well in
Wylie. It was the catalyst that made
me do my research. I called the
'Eagle Forum,” a conservative
Christian group who knows a lot
about OBE in general, to obtain
some unbiased information as to
WHAT OBE is and how it manifests
itself It was alarming' I then called
and met with Dr. Fuller with all the
information I had gathered both
locally and regionally.
Dr Fuller did not know me from
Adam, yet he sat patiently with me,
and heard all of my fears After an
hour of deep and open conversation.
I was convinced this man was not
the “Anti-Chnst" and really wanted
my children to learn to succeed in
life. He did not have any desire to
comipt my family with any untradi-
tional values. He will take the time
with each person who may have
these or other concerns in our dis-
trict. One more helpful thing he left
with me was a stack of impressive
material pertaining to his history as
an educator and the direction he sees
for WISD.
The ideology presented by the
“locals" was unfounded and false. I
have no fears of the school system
attempting to take over my territory
as the values and ethics teacher for
my children. The outbursts dis-
played on Monday. April 8th. at the
School Board Meeting were ludi-
crous and unbelievable. If the per-
sons with these accusations would
simply take a breath and get
involved in a more positive manner,
they would discover the same things
I have learned. They are:
1. Our Superintendent of schools
is a wonderful man with innovative
ideas He is patient with the parents
who are willing to go to him with
concerns.
2. Our school board is to be com-
mended for allowing the venting of
seemingly irrational people
3. Our teachers and administra-
tors are awesome. They are continu-
ally learning how to better improve
our schools. Obviously they aren’t
in it for the money since most of
them could get better wages in the
business world and all are qualified
4 Parents need to come to the
school board meeting with some
positive ideas occasionally. If the
board only hears this squeaky
wheel, they will not know anyone is
happy. It’s time to take the bat. Mom
and Dad!' The next school board
meeting is your opportunity to be
heard!
Thank you to the local group who
stimulated my activism. I am glad to
be involved and not have to run in
fear!
Let's all do something positive!!
Sincerely,
Pam Sawyer
Wylie
You, your roof and
your insurance company
TT 7e are going through
%#%/ times of change. Insur-
▼ ▼ ance companies have
suffered tremendous losses in the
last few years because of massive
hail storms. Fires on wood roofs
have been more than ever in the
newspaper The Texas Insurance
Commission has also changed the
rules under which the insurance
companies operate.
One more factor that has not
been discussed publicly is the huge
amount of roofs that were replaced
that should not have been replaced.
In the last two years I have seen
many, many roofs totaled by
adjusters that had no storm dara-
Bob
Booker
age. There have been too many of
them to be considered mistakes.
This has caused animosity on the
part of neighboring homeowners.
They don't understand why they
don’t get a new roof. It has also
cost the insurance companies a
great deal of money.
An insurance company must
remove all layers of roofing when a
roof is totaled. It means that if you
have composition shingles over
wood shingles, the insurance com-
pany must remove all layers, deck
with plywood, and replace felt and
shingles. Because of these factors,
insurance companies are going to
change the way they do business in
North Texas.
Some of the changes that we will
see are
• Insurers refusing to insure in
our area.
• Higher deductibles and prorat-
ing payments based on the age of
the roof.
• Some insurers will not insure a
home if you have wood shingles on
the house. This includes houses
that have composition over wood
shingles. This w ill probably extend
to all insurance companies
• All insurers will check roofs
every few years. If your roof is not
in acceptable condition, you will be
told to re-roof or your insurance
will be canceled.
Be very careful tf you are buying
a house. Get the roof checked
before making an offer. Then make
the offer contingent on your insur-
ance company’s acceptance.
(Bob Booker is a sales manager
for D/FW Rwfing-Repair Service
Company, Inc. and services the
Garland atul Wylie areas.)
Altering discrimination
As a woman who thinks thread-
ing a needle is a masochistic form
of self-torture and sewing is for
professionals only, I have always
held a lot of respect for those brave
souls daring to undertake the dan-
gerous job of tailoring. Standing 5
Melinda
Jones
Lj
Dry weather can cause edginess
A Ithough early April brought
/ \ some welcomed showers,
1. JLwe're still running shy on
rainfall in North Texas.
According to Troy and his TV
weather compadres, this area is
way behind average on moisture
this year. and. of course, the reced-
ing shorelines of Lakes Lavon.
Hubbard, Lewisville and others in
the area testify to the conditions.
The current dry spell may be just
a short-term weather aberration,
and 1 sincerely hope it is. but 1
frankly get a little edgy when I see
several months go by with below-
| average rainfall.
Shortages of wet stuff trigger
| some unpleasant memories about
the time when rain, sleet and snow
almost totally refused to fall from
the cosmos for a long, long time.
Those of you who are growing
long of tooth, like myself, may
recall the notorious drouth of the
1950s, when for seven straight
years most parts of Texas got only
fractional amounts of normal rain-
fall
1 lived then in a Northwest Texas
county that didn't get enormous
rainfall even in an average year, but
from about the middle of 1951 until
the end of the next seven years,
someone turned off the spigot.
As memory serves, all of Texas
and probably the whole Southwest
suffered from insufficient rainfall,
but the counties of Young. Archer.
Clay, Wichita, Throckmorton, Jack.
Wilbarger and others in that region
with which I was particularly famil-
iar at the time were especially hard
hit.
I lived at Olney in the north pan
of Young County, just south of
Archer City in Archer County, just
south of Wichita Falls. Olney's
economy was built mainly on farm-
ing. ranching and oil production at
the time.
For starters. Olney suffered terri-
ble losses from a killer tornado that
raked the town of 4,000 population
on May 18, 1951. Then the seven-
year atoutn came along to com-
pound the misery.
Grain fanners and cattle raisers
suffered most during the long dry
spell. Normally heavy producers of
winter wheat and fat cattle raised on
lush grass, the area's farmers and
ranchers saw their fields and pas-
tures sizzle and bum.
Lucky was the landowner who
had an oil well or two on his acre-
age to bring in a few royalty checks
to supplement the family budget,
even though oil sold for only $3 a
barrel at the time
Anyway, the hardships of spring
dust storms, hot and dry weather in
summer and cold and dry weather
in winter finally gave the hearty
people a sort of survivalist mentali-
ty
Attesting to this were the jokes
being told around town and appear-
ing in newspapers and on radio.
One fellow said he saw a man
faint but was able to revive him by
throwing a bucket of sand in his
face.
Another said that in three years
his rain gauge had caught only a
dead leaf, a dried-up grasshopper
and a quarter inch of dust.
One fanner boasted that he had a
three-inch rain at his place. "The
drops were three inches apart." he
was quick to add
Someone reported that the
Baptists had started sprinkling, the
Methodists were using damp cloths,
and the Presbyterians were giving
rain checks.
One hot, dry day a guy said he
saw a dog chasing a cat and they
were both walking.
On and on the humor went as
moisture failed to come in drouth-
breaking amounts. Finally, toward
the end of the decade, relief arrived,
and abundant rainfall not only
began healing the land but put sur-
face water in farm ponds, lakes and
reservoirs.
Only then were people able to
resume washing their cars and irri-
gating their lawns on a regular
basis, because for several years
water usage for those purposes was
severely curtailed in order to pre-
serve supplies for drinking and for
fighting fires.
If printed T-shirts had been in
vogue at the time. I would have
worn one saying "I survived the
seven-year drouth of the 1950s."
As for the current dry spell and
its future. I’m keeping my fingers
crossed. Please join me
(Weldon Lacy is a Wylie News
staff writer.)
Wylie’s 4-H
wins at county
Wylie 4-H members participated
in the Collin County Junior Live-
stock Show March 19-23.
Callie King placed eighth with
her Exotic heavyweight steer. Hers
was the only entry from the Wylie
club in the beef division.
Four local members showed and
placed well in the swine competi-
tion.
Christy Wolters placed sixth with
her Poland China market hog. Paul
Story's medium weight Duroc
placed fourth, Negan Dominguez's
medium heavyweight Duroc placed
eighth, and Brandon Dominguez’s
lightweight gilt placed thirteenth.
Paul Story's Duroc was purchased
by the Wylie 4-H Buying Com-
mittee. It was the only local animal
to make the auction, which accepted
only 33 percent of the animals
which placed in the show.
feet and 1/2 inches tall (5’1” if it’s
a good hair day), and living in a
fashion world designed for women
5’5" and over. I know a lot about
tailors.
I didn’t mind paying for having
my clothes altered In fact, 1 never
even questioned it. Probably
because it was either that or walk
around looking like I was playing
dress up in my Mommy's clothes. I
didn’t know that there was any
other way to live since 1 began
school and discovered that while
blue-jeans may come in many dif-
ferent waist sizes, they only had
one length: 7 foot extra-long. I was
wearing calf-length dresses long
before they became fashionable.
And I was dressing in the tee-shirts
that practically hung down to my
knees years before those LA
designers invented that look.
I learned early on that being
short meant paying a price in this
life: $4.50 for a hem, $7 for a waist
job, and $3 for sleeves.
The first thing most people do
when they move to a new town is
try to find a good doctor or dentist
in case they should need one. My
first priority is the tailor. I can name
every tailor shop in a 30 mile radius
of my house. I’ve always known
that the tailoring business and 1
were in a long-term partnership and
I didn't mind. Really, I didn't,
until...
I walked into the men’s clothing
store. Actually it was more like a
clothing warehouse. 1 had taken my
daughters with me on an early
Father's Day shopping expedition.
Everything was going well We’d
checked out the ties, the belts, and
had worked our way up to the
pants. That was when he showed
up.
"May I help you?"
I looked up to see a young man's
smiling face staring eagerly back at
me. “Maybe." I said with a smile
back. “I like these pants, but none
of them are hemmed Why not?”
“None of our pants have hems
We always alter them to our indi
vidual customer’s precise length,"
he explained helpfully.
“I see And how much for the
alteration?"
"There's no charge "
I dropped my pants The pair I
was holding in my hands, that is.
“What' What do you mean there’s
no charge?”
He raised a haughty eyebrow
"Exactly what I said We never
charge for alterations when you buy
our clothes, madam "
1 was in shock. My whole world
was being rocked on its foundation
Never charge for alterations’
"What kind of radical place is this?
Whoever heard of the idea of free
alterations? I want you to know that
I've been buying clothes and pay-
ing good money to have them
altered for practically my whole
life. Just what kind of game are you
playing here ’” I demanded suspi-
ciously.
"It’s no game, madam. It’s obvi-
ous that you haven't done a lot of
shopping for men’s clothing If you
had. you’d have realized men
rarely, bordering on almost never,
pay for their alterations."
It was true. I usually didn’t shop
for men’s clothes. Sure, I might
pick out the occasional tie, or a
sweater for a birthday, and my
daughters may choose a belt or a
pair of socks at Christmas, but for
the most part, their father did his
own clothes shopping. Now 1 knew
why men didn’t like their women
shopping for them They were onto
a pretty good thing here with the
free alterations. It was discrimina-
tion pure and simple. 1 was appalled
by the wbolo dirty business It was
disgusting All women should join
ranks immediately to change this
mo.J injustice being thrust upon
us.
And that's exactly what I told the
salesman Word for word, just like
that, right after I had him show me
what he had in stock that was
equivalent to a woman's size 4
(Melinda is a working mother of
two who lives in Wylie.)
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discour-
aged with Mankind.
—Rabindranath failure
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MEMBER 1996
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
City announces
Student Gov. Day
The City of Wylie is very proud to
announce that the third annual Student
Government Day Program will be held
on Wednesday. April 24. beginning at
8:30 a m. at City Hall. 2000 Hwy 78
North.
This program, where Wylie High
School seniors assume city offices for a
day, is designed to give high school stu-
dents an idea of how their city govern-
ment works While state and federal
government is generally a pari of the
high school cumculum. local govern-
ment is difficult to teach due to the vast
differences in the many forms of city
governments, the sizes of county gov-
ernments. and the many differences in
school districts and special districts
On Student Government Day. the
City Hall will open its doors to the entire
senior class. Forty-one Wylie seniors
will take on roles as City
Councilmembers and City employees,
and the remainder of the seniors will
play the vital role of citizens participat-
ing in a council meeting and will also be
given a special lour of the city
The seniors will be treated to lunch at
City Hall Area merchants and business-
es have also plaved a vital part by donat-
ing food items as well as "goody bags '
1
Just for Kids...
Clinky the Clown*
Clinky the Clown, the world's
funniest clown, welcomes you to
the “Just For Kids" section of The
Wylie News. This is a part of the
paper that is written just for you.
Parents are encouraged to read
along with their children as Clinky
tells riddles, jokes, puzzles and sto-
nes about his fnends
Hey, boys and girls, I hope you
had a great Easter holiday! We had
a lot of fun at our house The Easter
Bunny, a good friend of mine, came
to see us Sunday morning with a
bunch of candy and goodies.
Sunday afternoon Clinky Jr hunted
for eggs all around our house We
had a great time. As we hunted for
eggs. I remembered a story that
happened one Easter when I was a
little clown ..
Clinky’s Story Time: My broth-
er Clunky and I had been waiting
for Easter all week Easter time
meant getting candy and goodies
from the Easter Bunny, boiling
eggs, painting the eggs and then
hunting for the Easter eggs. This
was a very special Easter because
this year Mom let me and Clunky
help make the Easter eggs. We
boiled the eggs, then we let them
cool and then we painted them with
all different colors.
The next day, Dad hid our eggs
all in the >aid while Clunk) and 1
hid our eyes. After Dad was fin-
ished. we went all over the yard
looking for the eggs. Clunky was the
first one to find all of his eggs. It
was so much fun! After we finished.
Mom told us to put our Easter bas-
kets in the kitchen. Clunky decided
to do something different. He
thought the eggs were so pretty that
he wanted to keep them in his room.
Later Clunky decided to put his
eggs in his closet until he wanted to
look at them again He placed them
in the closet on his top shelf After a
while, he forgot all about his hard-
boiled Easter eggs sitting on the top
shelf in his closet.
Soon May came and school was
out. We were so busy playing T-ball
and soccer that Clunky didn't
remember the eggs in his closet.
June was just around the corner and
we loved playing outside with all of
our friends. One day, though, it was
raining and Mom made us play
inside. As we played in Clunky’s
room I smelled something. It was
something coming from his closet. I
had smelt it before, but I thought it
was his dirty socks. I asked him.
“Clunky, what's that smell??” He
said, “1 don’t know. I guess it’s just
something in my closet."
Later Mom came in to put up
some clothes. She opened the closet
door, and out came a terrible smell.
Site looked up on the top shelf and
saw Clunky’s Easter basket fillet*
with rotten Easter eggs! She said,
“Clunky T. Clown, what have you
done .’" Clunky saw the eggs and
remembered putting them there at
Easter time He said. "Well. Mom. I
liked my eggs so much that 1 took
my Easter basket to my room after
we hunted for them and then 1 put it
in my closet."
Mom was so mad at Clunky that
she made him take the smelly rot-
ten eggs to the garbage can The
awful smell almost made him sick
Then she made him spend the rest
of the day cleaning out his closet.
That next year at Easter time. Mom
bought us plastic eggs!
A Letter To Clinky; Dear
Clinky. How old are you? Do you
have any kids? Your friend.
Meghan Smith, Wylie, Texas.
Meghan. Thank you so much for
your letter. I guess you could say
that I am too old to count! I have
two little hoys - one is five years
old and the other is almost nine
months old,
If you have a joke, riddle or
story, please send it to: Clinky the
Clown, do The Wylie News, P.O.
Box 369. Wy lie, Texas 75098. See
you in a couple of weeks.
UMylleOonnaavrniMotXL md (,«|wn
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