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Heavy losses
Seminole Volunteer Firemen responded to a fire Tuesday evening about
7:41 p.m. which destroyed Paul’s Grocery & Market, located at 1007 SW
Ave. G. A passer-by reported the blaze and firemen spent about an hour
fighting the fire before bringing in under control. Cause of the fire was
undetermined as of presstime Tuesday.
(Sentinel Photo)
Grocery store
gutted by fire
By MARSHALL DAY
The world is not interested in
the storms you encountered, but
did you bring in the ship?
Paul's Grocery & Market, a
long-time Seminole foodstuff
institution, was destroyed by fire
in an early-evening blaze
Tuesday.
The grocery store, located at
1007 SW Ave. G, was reported on
fire by a passer-by about 7:41
p.m. Tuesday.
Seminole Volunteer Fire
Department officials responded
to the alarm and spent over an
hour bringing the blaze under
control shortly after 8:30 p.m.
They remained on the scene into
the night as a precautionary
measure to prevent re-ignition of
the blaze.
The blaze appeared to have
started in the rear of the
building, which sustained the
brunt of the early damage before
the building was engulfed by the
blaze.
Three pumper units of the
Seminole Volunteer Fire
Department were summoned to
the scene, along with the rescue
unit and one ambulance,
although the latter two were not
needed.
The fire department utilized
all its air packs during the course
of fighting the blaze and had
back-up units brought in from the
Amerada Hess C02 plant.
Fire officials also summoned
in employees of Southwestern
Public Service and Energas to
cut off utility sources to the
structure in an attempt to curtail
feeding of the blaze from outside
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annual millioh-dollar payroll is
the dream of every small town in
America, but they don’t come
easy.
Seminole and Gaines County
uses the local Industrial
Foundation and chamber of
commerce to search for new
industry, and occasionally, one
just falls in our lap through the
efforts of interested individuals.
New industry is difficult to
secure these days because the
bigger cities have created a
competition among themselves
in which they offer huge tax
incentives, free land, free or
reduced price building and
sources.
Fire officials were continuing
their investigation into the fire’s
origin as of presstime Tuesday
night.
facilities and such. Smaller
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Jimenez ‘top employee’
Six-year streets department vetertm
Ismael Jimenez, a six-year
employee of the streets
department with the City of
Seminole, was named last
Friday as the city’s “Employee
of the Year” during the annual
city picnic.
In presenting a plaque to
Jimenez, Seminole Mayor Pro-
Tern Weldon Jenkins cited the
example set by the honored
employee.
Jenkins said, “He is a quiet
individual and is a good example
of someone others want to have
working for them and with them.
He is the main operator on the
grader that maintains alleys and
right-of-ways. Without him,
many of our job tasks would be
very difficult or impossible to
complete.’’
The mayor pro-tem added,
“He is very active in church
functions. He and his wife,
Juanita, have three daughter,
Irma, Maria and Tabetha and
one son, David.”
Jimenez was the fifth recipient
of the honor, joining James
Clark, Julio Saldana, Vickie
Taylor and Thomas Mares.
Selection for the honored
employee is determined by a
vote of all city employees, after
being nominated by a fellow
employee. Jenkins, before
making the presentation, said,
“It is an honor to receive this
award because it shows
cooperation, dedication to doing
a job well and the respect of
those you work with.”
Service pins also were
presented to those employees
who had performed service to
the city in five-year increments
from one to 30 years as of July 1.
A 30-year pin went to Bruno
Saldana, while James Clark and
Willie Cortez received pins for 20
years of service. No 25-year
service pins were presented.
No employees received 10 or 15
year awards, while Renee
Goodger and A1 Hernandez
received five-year pins and Tom
Adams, Gary Duncan, Roger
Hilburn, Ken Ketron and C.D.
Tynes were all given one-year
pins.
In addition, the 17 summer
student workers received
certificates.
County studies budget
Commissioners ponder budget requests
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Gaines County Commissioners
looked through requests from
various county department
heads Monday and Tuesday
mornings as they continued their
work on the 1989 budget.
The commissioners spent most
of Monday’s two-hour budget
session on a few areas, including
proposed raises for employees of
the Gaines County Appraisal
District, a proposed deputy to
help County Treasurer Linda
Clark in her assumption of new
areas of responsibility, and work
on the Gaines County Memorial
Cemetery north of Seminole.
The commissioners balked at
okaying the proposed appraisal
district budget of $389,787, noting
the large proposed raises for
employees over last year’s
figures.
Those raises really w^ien’t
that large, according to County
Judge Max Townsend and
County Auditor Harvey Hannah,
who said the appraisal district
gave one set of salary figures to
its 1988 proposed budget, but then
increased salaries later by using
funds from “reserves.”
“It (proposed budget
submitted to the commissioners
for the 1988 year by the appraisal
district) was very misleading
last year,” Hannah told the
commissioners.
Townsend and the
commissioners said they could
not justify the salary increases to
the appraisal district employees.
“I don’t think anybody getting
county funds should get raises
unless our own people get them,”
said Townsend.
“Everybody wants a raise,” he
added. “I want a raise, and I’m
jobs.”
Commissioner Jean Bagley
asked the commissioners if 1989
would be the fourth consecutive
year with no raises for county
employees and that was verified,
although Commissioner Robert
Matthews noted the employees
did receive somewhat of a raise
in the form of increased
insurance coverage.
The commissioners, noting a
large anticipated deficit, also put
on hold consideration for an
extra deputy to help Clark, who
has gained the added
responsibility of payroll
preparation, in addition to
insurance and verification of
invoices.
“We’ve got a large «?eficit,
don’t we?” Commissioner Otis
Johnson asked Townsend while
considering another salary for a
deputy.
“If we don’t do something, we
are,” Townsend answered.
Townsend suggested that his
secretary, Pat Hanson, and
Delilah Tupin, director of
indigent care, could possibly
handle the responsibilities of
insurance and workmen’s comp,
to help lighten Clark’s load and
help the county from having to
pay another employee.
The commissioners agreed to
put the matter on hold and settle
it later.
The commissioners and
Townsend began getting specific
about the requests Tuesday
morning.
The commissioners and
Townsend informally agreed to
consider only the mini-blinds for
the South Plains Health District,
a typewriter for the Seagraves
Clinic and on a trial basis for an
indexing and optical scan for the
county clerk’s office.
In addition, the county leaders
informally agreed that the
requests from the Seagraves
EMS could wait until later.
The commissioners began
their Tuesday three-hour
gathering by hearing
explanations for requests for
help with a new Seminole EMS
ambulance, help in funding a
new city firetruck, funds for
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Hospital board
approves raises
sure our employees want a raise.
But I’ll swan, we’re lucky to have
After emerging from an
executive session at its regular
board meeting Monday night, the
Physicals scheduled
soon for HS athletes
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Physicals for high school
athletes will be given Aug. 6 at
the fieldhouse.
Any athlete that has answered
“yes” to the “pertinent medical
athletic history” form will be
required to have a physical. In
addition, any new athlete or
ninth grade student will be
required to have a physical
Physicals for boys will be
given from 9 a.m. through 12
noon, while girls will have
physicals from 1:30 p.m. until all
the physicals have been finished.
Coaches emphasize to athletes
that they will have to pay for
their own physicals if they miss
the Aug. 6 exams.
Football shoes will be issued
from 10 a.m. through 8 p.m. Aug.
3 at the fieldhouse to football
players. Football workouts for
high school gridders will begin
Aug. 8, with varsity and junior
varsity workouts set for 10 a.m.
and 6 p.m. and ninth grade
workouts set at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
High school volleyball
workouts also begin Aug. 8, with
all players practicing from 9
a.m. until noon, freshman
players coming back from 2:30-
4:30 p.m. and junior varsity and
varsity from 4-7 p.m.
The Maidens will begin play
almost immediately after two-a-
days start, with a scrimmage set
Aug. 15 in Lamesa, with
Seminole, Lamesa, Synder and
Denver City, another scrimmage
featuring four teams in
Monahans Aug. 16 and the season
set to start Aug. 18 at home
against Andrews.
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House-hunting
Seminole schools Superintendent and Mrs. Charles Bright inspect the
kitchen area of the latest house constructed by members of the
Seminole High School building trades class. The open house was held
Sunday for the public. Every two years, the class completes a house
and the structure is sold to the highest bidder. The deadline for bids on
the latest house, the third such project built on Southwest 7th Street, is
Aug. 8. The house has 2,782 square feet, of which 2,140 is living space.
(Sentinel Photo)
Seminole Hospital District board
approved a 5 per cent across-the-
board pay increase for hospital
employees.
That action came after the
board got its first look at the
proposed 1988-89 budget, which,
according to hospital
administrator George Cristy,
would call for the same tax rate
that is supporting the current
budget-5 cents per $100
valuation.
The proposed budget is
calculated on the present
estimated valuation of
$3,428,003,262, and projects
revenues of $4,546,556 and
expenditures of $4,465,395. That
compares to the current
estimated fiscal year revenues of
$4,224,053 and expenditures of
43,436,093.
jf Among the larger items being
proposed as new expenditures in
the next fiscal year, which begins
Oct. 1, is $100,000 to implement a
new home health care service
and $31,784 for a rehabilitation
and fitness program.
The salary increase voted by
the board will amount to an
additional expenditure of $84,250
in the next fiscal year.
A public hearing concerning
the proposed budget will take
place during the next regularly
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The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 76, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 20, 1988, newspaper, July 20, 1988; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth635865/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.