The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 92, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 14, 1988 Page: 1 of 16
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By MARSHALL DAY
A million yean from now the
earth will probably be peopled by
creatures who will stoutly deny
that they ever descended from
man.
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We gave you a taste a couple of
weeks ago on what some
youngsters learned (or didn’t
learn) about the U.S. on their
summer vacations.
Now, with school getting into
full gear, teachers continue to
collect some gems from the
works of their writing pupils.
Here are some more
examples:
-To keep milk from turning
sour, you should keep it in the
cow.
-An illiterate child is one
whose parents are not married.
-Rhubarb is a kind of celery
gone bloodshot.
-An active verb shows actions
and a passive verb shows
passion.
-Socrates died of an overdose
of wedlock.
-A mountain range is a
cooking stove at high altitudes.
-A yokel is the way people talk
to others in the Alps.
And you thought those teachers
had an easy job.
Some people find their careers
almost by accident. Mark Twain
had been a compositor,
riverboat pilot, secretary to his
brother, and a gold miner.
While prospecting for gold, he
amused himself in idle moments
by writing a number of articles.
They were accepted by the
Virginia City Enterprise and
were well received. They led to
his being offered a job as a
reporter and started him on a
writing career that made him
world famous.
His works are known
throughout the world, but not
many people are familiar with
one of the last things he wrote,
just a few days before his death.
It was some advice on how to
behave properly at the Pearly
Gates. Among his pointers were:
Upon arrival do not speak to St.
Peter until spoken to.
Do not begin any remark with
“Say.”
Leave your dog outside.
Heaven goes by favor. If it went
by merit, you would stay out and
the dog would go in.
Council tables
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What is expected to be a year-long project got underway last week
near the Gaines-Andrews County line as equipment began tearing up
the Frankel City Highway prepatory to widening and re-paving the
road from the county line back toward Seminole. Zack Burkett
Company of Graham, the contractor for the construction, began
actual preparation almost a month ago, but5 the actual construction
process was started last week. (Sentinel Photo)
The Seminole City Council
decided to table a final decision
on the status of the old Seminole
Area Chamber of Commerce
building owned by the city.
That measure came at the
council’s regular meeting
Monday.
A consensus of the council was
to either sell the building outright
or to provide a long-term lease
for the facility, with the person or
business leasing the facility
responsible for its maintenance.
City Administrator Tom
Adams said that there had been
“two or three” inquiries into the
building and that some further
investigation was needed into at
least one of them.
The board also tabled a final
decision on an ordinance
adopting the proposed rates and
fees for the 1988-89 fiscal year
until Adams could do some “fine
tuning” to some of the rates.
Among the changes proposed
is a 10-cent drop in water rates
See council Page 2
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School okays tax rate
Tax rate increased to 22 cents
The Seminole School board
approved a resolution setting the
tax rate at 22 cents per $100
valuation for the 1988-89 school
year at a meeting Monday night.
The rate is a one-half cent
increase from the 21.5 cent rate
for the 1987-88 school year.
In other business at the three-
hour meeting, which included an
hour-plus executive session, the
board:
Approved the employment of
County okays
fire truck aid
Stacey Lyn Stone as a junior high
English teacher; Johnna Kay
More as a custodian at F.J.
Young; Demetrio Castillo, Jr.
and a worker in the Maintenance
department and Judy Scott as
secretary.
The board also approved the
resignations of F.J. Young
custodian Vic Molinar;
Maintenance department worker
Guadalupe Flores; and the
transfer of Heidi Spruill to the
junior high library from English.
In other business, the board:
-Approved the textbook
committee for the 1968-89 school
year, which includes Charles
Bright, John Golmon, W.C.
Curry, Marvin Lewis, Roy L.
Barnes, Mike Mobley, Jimmie
Dick Davis, Valerie Coon, Linda
Sparks and John Gillian.
-Set the date for Open House
for Oct. 25 for secondary schools
and Oct. 27 for elementary
schools.
-Approved a change order for
Young that lowered the cost for
See school Page 2
Most Seminole entities and
Gaines County showed an
increase in the state’s bank
franchise tax allocation, while
Seagraves’ payment was less
than a year ago.
According to figures released
by the state comptroller’s office,
the City of Seminole, Seminole
Independent School District and
Gaines County all received more
in state allocations, while the
City of Seagraves and the
Seagraves Independent School
District received less.
The allocations represent the
franchise taxes paid by banks
that do business in Texas and
have filed a report by March 15.
By far the largest increase was
shown by Gaines County, which
had a 19.40 per cent increase
from a payment of $7,327.02,
compared to last year’s payment
of $6,136.41.
Strange story un folds
as Cavitt gains letter
Receiving a letter from
someone you haven’t seen in
some time is always a special
And that is exactly what
happened to Glen Cavitt of
Seminole recently.
Gaines County commissioners
Robert Matthews, Otis Johnson
and J.W. Allen agreed to provide
$15,000 apiece , from , their
precincts to pay for half the cost
of a new fire truck for the City of
Seminole.
The other half of the estimated
cost of a new $90,000 fire truck
will be paid by the city.
Commissioners agreed to the
request after hearing a request
for assistance from City
Administrator Tom Adams, who
said the city needed two fire
trucks, with the Other purchased
hopefully sometime in the near
future after the fire truck agreed
on in the meeting arrives,
probably sometime in the spring.
In other business at the
commissioners* meeting, the
commissioners heard the outside
audit report of the financial
statements of the county for 1967.
Dale Newberry of the firm of
Wilton, Newberry and Heidel of
Ijamesa presented the report.
Newberry noted that the flow
of records into the county
treasurer’s office was proper
after the change was made in
regard to records and funds from
Seagraves activity accounts
were made, with the records and
funds now going into the general
fund. Newberry also said there
was a discrepancy in regard to
the trustee sale excess monies
going to the district clerk, as is
the proper method.
After hearing the report, the
commissioners approved the
audit and fee of $9,000.
In other business,
commissioners:
-Tabled action on
consideration of membership in
the Rural Rail Transportation
District, which is an organization
of officials in Dawson, Floyd,
Hockley, Lynn, Lubbock and
Terry counties encouraging use
of the railroad spur in those
counties.
-Agreed to the redefinition of
the Denver City school
boundaries in Yoakum County
after hearing from Denver City
attorney Jerry Corbin, who said
he had “swapped” land with
Billings in the south end
i county, which changed the
City and Seagraves
School District
boundary, which border in
Yoakum County.
Corbin said he had “swapped”
the land with Billings, with the
land Billings now owns in the
See county Page 2
-Approved 1968-89 appraisers,
who will be Bright, Dianna
Bright, Curry, Golmon, Doug
Harriman, Jim Linthicum, Tom
Rogers, Roy Winters, Allan
Bryson and Royce Barnes.
-Approved the Career Ladder
Committe of Golmon, Gandy and
Linthicum.
-Approved tax discounts of
three per cent if taxes are paid in
October, two per cent if taxes are
paid in November and one per
cent if taxes are paid in
December.
-Approved the financial
report.
-Approved the list of bills for
August.
memory, but receiving one
addressed to your father who
died 26 years ago from someone
who was his neighbor in 1918 is an
extra special memory.
A letter addressed simply to
“Ira Cavitt, Roby, Texas” and
dated Aug. 1 of this year was
See local Page 2
The Seminole schools showed a
payment of $5,430.05, compared
to payments totalling $5,242.78 a
year ago, for an increase of 3.57
per cent
The City of Seminole received
the largest totai payment,
$12,597.83, compared to $12,245.09
a year ago, for a percentage
increase of 2.88. ...
The Seminole Hospital District
showed only a slight decrease,
.29 per cent, from a payment of
$1,347.50, compared to payments
totalling $1,351.42 a year ago.
The City of Seagraves was off
7.75 per cent from a payment of
$4,073.25, compared to $4,415.66.
The Seagraves school district
decreased by 7.62 per cent, from
a payment of $8,090.26, compared
to $8,757.58.
All payments received by
county entities were their first of
the year.
State-wide, checks totalling
$51.2 million in allocations were
sent to 2,070 taxing entities.
The Texas Legislature
authorized the bank franchise
tax in 1984 and the tax was
collected for the first time in
1985.
The franchise tax rate is the
same as the state’s corporate
franchise tax rate-$6.70 per
$1,000 of taxable capital and
surplus, with a minimum tax of
$150) according to the stafp
comptroller’s office.
A portion of the tax goes into
the state’s general fund, but the
vast majority of it is allocated to
local tax jurisdictions.
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24 Hour maximum 1 minimunt
tomporaturos road at 7:30 a.m.
daily.
Precip. to date: 17.70 in.
Tomato
We’re really not sure if this is a tomato pepper, but this tojratrotaped
The vegetable isfnthe process* of turning red and Shrum believes that
since tomatoes are growing near the peppers, the seeds mayhave
intermingled and produced the odd-shaped pepper (Sentinel Photo'
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The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 92, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 14, 1988, newspaper, September 14, 1988; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth636026/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.