The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 2, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 6, 1988 Page: 1 of 16
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By MARSHALL DAY
Someone has figured it out:
We have 35 million laws to
enforce the Ten
Commandments.
Well, it’s down the home
stretch for the politicians. Just a
couple more days and we’ll find
out who our next President is
going to be. We personally don’t
think it’s going to be a surprise,
but you never can tell—voters are
like Morris the cat—very fickle
sometimes.
The polls have George Bush
surging ahead in the final days
and Dukakis scrambling with
every barrel he can make up some
ground. We don’t think it’s going
to work unless something very
dramatic and substantial comes
up quickly. People, for the most
part, have already made up their
minds on who they are going to
vote for.
Locally, we have a couple of
interesting races, but as per our
policy, we don’t get involved in
local elections. That is a nobody
wins situation so be abstain.
But, we encourage you to vote
Tuesday, even if you don’t like
the candidates. If there are some
you don’t want to choose
between, then just skip over them
and vote in the other races that
you do have an opinion about.
Remember, a single vote can
make a difference. We have
exhorted that philosophy several
times over the years in this space
with examples, and we’ve come
up with another we haven’t used
before.
Here ’tis:
"Two hundred years ago, the
U.S. was in a lot of trouble and it
almost didn’t work out. Here was
the situation: The colonists had
fought and won the war for their
independence which left the
newly free Americans exhausted
and bankrupt.
"Congress had become a
Maidens Bonnie
in defeating
powerless Clyde
If this was Clyde, then Bonnie
must have been the better half.
The Seminole Maidens, taking
scarcely longer than it took for
the other Clyde to be gunned
down, destroyed the Clyde
volleyball version Thursday
night, 15-1, 15-2 in a Class AAA
bi-district volleyball game at the
Big Spring High School
gymnasium.
The Maidens, who improved to
30-2 on the year to bolster their
No. 1 ranking among Class AAA
teams in the slate, were in control
from the start, finishing off the
Lady Bulldogs in 35 minutes.
"We didn’t have a lot of
competition," said Maiden coach
Lynda Jackson. "Clyde was
See Maidens Page 2
Meeting the demands a high
tech world is creating will be the
key to how Seminole and the rest
of the world move forward in the
coming years as they approach
the new century.
Those were the words imparted
by superintendent of schools
Charles Bright Thursday night
durmg the quarterly membership
meeting of the Seminole Area
Chamber of Commerce.
Nearly 50 persons attended the
meeting, held at the Monterrey
Restaurant.
Bright, who was named
superintendent here last spring,
centered his informative and
challenging talk around the theme
of "Seminole—the Year 2000,"
emphasizing that education, both
of the young and the present
businessmen, are essential if
Seminole and the rest of the world
is to meet the challenges created
by a quickly-advancing, high tech
world.
"You can’t teach today’s
students with yesterday’s ideas
and expect them to succeed
tomorrow," Bright told the
audience. And, using that same
approach, he warned that
businesses must take the same
approach and advance with the
times as well. "You don’t and
can’t run your business the same
way you did 10 years ago."
Education, he said, is the key-
both within (he school systems
and within the business
community. Support from the
business community is vital if
schools are to meet the demands
of the job market placed on a
world that is advancing at such a
rapid rate.
"This is not a north against
south battle anymore," he said.
"Things have changed. This is a
global battle now, and we are not
winning it. There are other
countries that are challenging us
and surpassing us."
He said education is a public
responsibility and if
improvements and changes are to
be made, then the people of
communities like Seminole are
going to have to be the ones to
make those changes.
Current statistics, he said,
show that by the year 2000, 50%
of the students in public schools
in Texas will be of a minority
race. And, statistics also show
that the highest drop-out rate
comes from within the minority
sector.
"You may not think that effects
you, but it does," Bright said.
"Those drop-outs will probably
go on welfare, go on welfare and
probably turn to crime."
He said 86,000 youngsters
dropped out of school in Texas
during the 1985-86 school year.
Some 85% of prison inmates are
high school drop-outs and this is
costing the taxpayer substantially.
"Here in Seminole, we spend
about $40,000 to educate a child
from kindergarten through high
school," Bright said. "It takes
$38,000 a year to keep one
prisoner in jail."
Community and business
nvolvement are the keys to a
iolution to the problem, he said.
But, those communities and
businesses must also change, too.
He offered suggestions that
would help alleviate the drop-out
problem within the educational
system. He said a national law
should be implemented where it is
required that a person have at
least a high school diploma in
order to collect welfare and in
order to earn anything above the
minimum wage.
Bright said there has been a
great deal of contact between the
local school system and several
area colleges concerning
continuing education classes that
See meeting Page 2
VoUeyballers
leaders off the
court as iveil
Girls’ volleyball, a traditional
leader in lowest percentage of
students lost to the no-pass, no-
play rule, continued to show the
way during the first six weeks of
this year, with just one student
lost to the rule from a total group
of 79 students.
The one girl lost to the rule is
not a player, but a manager,
meaning that no players have
been lost to the rule, which
sidelines students six weeks from
extra-curricular activities if they
do not maintain D averages in all
of their subjects.
All of the 40 volleyball
participants in junior high
remained eligible and just the one
out of 39 girls in high school are
ineligible for extra-curricular
activities this six weeks._
basketball team lost one student,
out of 12 participants which will
make up the team, for an 8 per
cent loss and the boys’ cross-
country team, which will compete
in Lubbock Saturday at the
regional meet, lost no athletes of
the runners qualifying for the
meet. Of the total 12-member
team, one runner was lost, for an
8 per cent loss.
The high school varsity
football team lost two of 30
players, for a 7 per cent loss; the
junior varsity lost two of 25
players, for an 8 per less and the
freshman team lost four of 27
players, for a 15 per cent loss.
The eighth grade football team
lost nine of 55 players, for a 16 per
cent loss and the seventh grade
team lost three of 35 players, for a
Making a point
Melvin Kinnison, out-going president of the Seminole Area
Chamber of Commerce, is shown speaking to the audience of
about 50 persons who attended the chamber’s quarterly
membership dinner Thursday night at die Monterrey Restaurant.
Guest speaker for the event was superintendent of schools
Charles Bright. (Sentinel Photo)
Elections slated
Amendments, candidates on ballot
9 per cent loss.
The high school band lost
seven of 64 members for an 11 per
cent loss and the junior high band
lost 10 of 158 members, for a 6 per
cent los.
The high school choir lost six
of 63 members, for a 9 per cent
loss and the junior high choir lost
10 of 64 members for a 16 per cent
loss.
The high school swimming
team, which begins competition
this six weeks, lost two of 20
members, for a 10 per cent loss
and the high school agriculture
group which competes in extra-
curricular activities lost nine of
74 members, for a 12 per cent loss.
debating society that couldn’t
enforce its own laws. It couldn’t
raise money to run the
government or protect the country
from the Spanish, English and
French who were thinking of
stealing pieces. No president or
national court system existed, and
the states were squabbling among
themselves.
"A group of national leaders
met in Philadelphia in May 1787
to create a new government that
would save what had been won at
the cost of many lives...
"As important as the
convention was, the rivalry and
suspicion between big states and
small states was so fierce that
many delegates almost decided
their cause was hopeless and to
dissolve the convention. Had this
happened, there probably would
not have been a Constitution nor a
United States.
"On July 6, 1 787, a
compromise was suggested and a
vote was taken. The compromise
passed and the Constitution and
the U.S. became a reality.
"That great compromise made
in Independence Hall 201 years
ago passed by one vote. One vote
is all that stood between the death
and the birth of this country.
"Keep that in mind 'the next
time you think one vote doesn’t
matter."
The one girl represents a 1 per
cent loss in volleyball athletes
due to the rule this six weeks.
The story is much the same for
girls’ basketball, which is
currently in workouts for the
coming season. Head varsity
girls’ basketball coach Jerel
Graves estimated that 40 girls will
eventually be on the varsity,
junior varsity and freshman
teams, with none of those girls
lost to the rule this six weeks.
The loss of no girls from
competition obviously presents a
zero per cent loss in girl athletes
from high school basketball
competition this six weeks.
The high school boys’ varsity
Building totals well
above 1987 figures
Two permits for $175,000
worth of valuation boosted the
building total in Seminole for the
month of October.
The total valuation for the year
in the city is now $1,450,596,
approximately $1 million more
than the $442,728 total recorded
after 10 months of last year.
The city recorded a total of
$201,250 in building valuations
for the month, with the biggest
chunk a valuation of $100,000
for work on the Paul’s Grocery
store that burned during the
summer. The work is being done
See above Page 2
The absentee voting is over,
the campaign rhetoric is fading
and the people will make their
decision Tuesday in local, state
and national races and three
proposed constitutional
amendments.
Local voters will join the rest
of the nation Tuesday in selecting
a new president and vice
president, plus putting their stamp
of approval on a number of local,
state and other national
officeholders.
Local voting, which will take
place from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., will
be held at the following locations:
-Voting Box 2: Gaines County
Civic Building in Seminole.
—Voting Box 3: Seminole
Elementary School boys’
gymnasium.
-Voting Box 4: Seminole Area
Chamber of Commerce office.
--Voting Box 5: Loop
Community Building.
-Voting Box 6: Higginbotham
Community Building.
-Voting Box 7: Seagraves
Chamber of Commerce building.
-Voting Box 8: Seagraves
Community Building.
Perhaps the most interesting
races in Gaines County are thos*
for the two precinct
commissioners races, with each
person on the ballot being
challenged by a write-in
candidate.
In Precinct 3, Ray Garrett, who
defeated incumbent
commissioner Otis Johnson in the
March Primary election, is being
challenged by Johnson again, this
time as a write-in. A 24-vote
margin separated the pair after the
Primary result.
In Precinct 1, Joe Edd
Williams, who was selected as the
Democratic candidate by the
county executive committee
following the death of long-time
incumbent Travis Bagley, is
being opposed by the write-in
candidacy of Bagley’s wife, Jean,
who was appointed to fill out the
remainder of Bagley’s term by
Gaines County Judge Max
Townsend.
Other county nominees, all
Democrats, are unopposed for
election.
They include, Jon Key for
sheriff, Johnnie Stanley for lax
assessor-collector and Joe McGill
for county attorney.
District nominees are both
unopposed, including Ricky B.
Smith for district attorney and
Larry Fuller for Justice, Eighth
Court of Appeals District, Place
2.
Other places on the voting
ballot will be as follows:
President and vice-president:
Republican-George Bush and
Dan Quayle; Democrat—Michael
S. Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen;
Libertarian—Ron Paul and Andre
Marrou; New Alliance—Lenora B.
Fulani and Rafael Mendez.
U. S. Senator: Republican-
Beau Boulter; Democrat-Lloyd
Bentsen; Libcrtarian-Jeff Daiell;
U.S. Representative, District 19:
Republican—Larry Combest;
Democrat-Gerald McCathern.
Railroad Commissioner:
Republican--Ed Emmett;
Democrat--James E. (Jim)
Nugent; Libertarian—Richard
Draheim; New Alliance--
Reynaldo Lozano, Jr.; Railroad
Commissioner, une^ired term:
Republican—Kent R. Hance;
Democrat-Clint Hackney.
Chief Justice, Supreme Court,
unexpired term: Republican-
Tom Phillips; Democrat-Tcd Z.
Robertson; Justice, Supreme
Court, Place 1: Republican—Paul
Murphy; Democrat--LIoyd
Doggetl.
Justice, Supreme Court Place
2: Republican—Nathan Hecht;
Democrat-Bill Kilgarlin; Justice,
Supreme Court Place 3:
Republican-Charlcs Ben Howell;
Democrat—Raul A. Gonzales;
Libertarian-Calvin W. Scholz.
Justice, Supreme Court Place
4, unexpired term: Republican-
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The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 2, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 6, 1988, newspaper, November 6, 1988; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth636312/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.