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Archer City Offers Contracts
To Principals And Coaches
Archer County was again well represented In the Dairy Di via ion at the Southwest Livestock
Show In Ft. Worth last week.
Pictured above Is David Vieth of Windthorst showing a two-year old heife. The group of
spectators behind David inlcude Lawrence and Larry Berend, Joey Schroeder, and Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Wolf.
Holliday ISD
Offers Contracts
Holliday School Board met
Monday in regular session,
with all members present, to
set the time and places for
the April 4 election, renew
contracts for the adminis-
trators and make plans to
sell some used furniture.
The terms of board
members Durhl Caussey and
Gene Harmon will expire
this year, and voters will
cast ballots at Holliday
School, Lakeside City, Bow-
man Community Buiding
and Dundee Methodist
WEATHER
High Low
Tuesday
60
20
Wednesday
44
32
Thursday
41
28
Friday
46
31
Saturday
50
33
Sunday
60
35
National
Health
Quiz
Set For
Sunday
Church on April 4. Mrs.
John Goforth will serve as
absentee voting judge, with
a voting box in the school's
tax office.
Extension of contracts for
principals Bill Lee and Dan
Owen, athletic director Don
Lucy and Band Director Tom
Woody were on the agenda.
Following and executive
session, the vote was taken.
The vote was unanimous for
extending the contracts for
Lee, Owen and Lucy and the
vote on Woody’s contract
was split. Voting for
‘extension were Jack Ayres,
Larry Finnell and Jake
Cottrell; against were Terry
Parnell, Gene Harmon and
Durhl Caussey. Board
chairman Tommy Mankins
broke the tie in favor of
extending Woody’s contract.
Supt. Ray Coe reported that
the school had several used
desks which were unsuitable
for use and the board voted
to put them on sale for $5
each on a first come basis.
Don Talley, secretary for
the Archer County Tax
Appraisal Board, gave a
report on the board’s
activities and the budget.
The board was scheduled to
mem Wednesday and a full
report on that will be in next
week’s News.
Trustees of the Archer City
Independent School District
met in executive session for
3'/i hours Monday night
before emegin to vote on
contracts for principals and
coaches. High School
Principal James B. Adams
will be offered a one (1) year
extension of his contract at
$2500 above state base. The
votes on the extension and
the salary were both 6-1. By
unanimous votes, Eddie
Morris will be offered a two
(2) year contract as Elemen-
tary Principal at $1500 above
state base. Superintendent
Don Shearmire's contract
was amended to reflea a
$500 increase in salary...
$4500 above state base.
Dean Kirkpatrick will be
offered a corn'■act as Head
Football Coach (vote of 6-1)
at $4,000 above state base
(vote of 4-3). Ted Bradford
will be offered a contract as
an assistant coach (unani-
mous) at $2,500 above the
state base (6-1) vote. Brian
Williams will be offered a
contract as an assistant
coach at $2,000 above state
base (both votes unani-
mous).
Bobby Ray will be offered a
contract as head basketball
coach for boys and girls at
all levels (vote of 5-2) at
$6,000 above state base
(vote of 5-2). mark
Schnuelle will be offered a
contract as an asistant coach
at $2,000 above state base
(both votes unanimous), and
Phyllis Schnuelle will be
offered a contract as an
assistant coach at $1,500
above state base (both votes
unamimous)^ The. cunt raa ,
as offered to Ray states that
he can “use himself and
Scotland
Sausage Superb
Sunday. February 15 is the
day) The day of the
National Health Quiz on PBS
(Public Broadcasting Sys-
tem, Channel 24 or Channel
13 on Cable in Archer City).
This Quiz can alert you to
ways you can reduce the
risks of early death from the
leading causes: heart
disease, cancer, stroke, and
auto accidents.
Part of the test will include
tabulating your "body age”,
which may be more or less
than your aaual age,
depending upon your phy-
sical condition, medical
history, and behavior pat-
terns. It is possible, then, to
lower your body age by
changing your behavior.
Cheryl Tiegs, a "cover girl”
and a health and beauty
reporter, will co-host the
National Health Quiz with
actor Peter Graves on
Sunday, February 15 at 9
p.m. CST on most public
broadcasting stations. Check
local listings for a different
time.
Official answer sheets for
the National Health Quiz are
available from the County
Extension Office in the
Courthouse. Box 580, Archer
City, or by calling 574-4914.
It is important to take the
National Health Quiz, be-
cuase with the results, you
can identify your own risks
and change them to extend
your useful-life expeaancy.
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Mark and Phyllis Schnuelle
as he sees fit”. • Mr.
Schnuelle coaches boys
junior high football and
basketball and assists with
both sports in high school.
Mrs. Schnuelle coaches girls
junior high basketball and
assists with the high school
program.
Fred McCowan will be
offered a contract as
Industrial Arts teacher.
Before that executive
session, the Board members
appointed Harold Mathis
and Bill Schlabs as eleaion
judges for the April 4
eleaion. Jane Adams was
appointed as absentee
judge. The terms of John
Bell and Cecil Fletcher
expire this year. The filing
deadline for those two
positions (both at-large) is
March 4. Applicants can file
with Board Secretary Be Bo
Burkett. Forms for filing
can also be picked up at
Superintendent Shearmire’s
Office of the office of Bob
Russell.
February 23 was set as the
date to open bids for air
conditioning the elementary
and high school buildings.
Those bids will be opened at
2 p.m. The final decision
concerning air conditioning
will be made after the Board
studies the bids. An aaual
vote concerning air condi-
tioning has not yet been
taken.
In other action, Board
members voted not to add
penalty and interest to 1980
taxes until March 1 because
the tax statements were late
in reaching taxpayers this
year. They also voted to
purchase a new 19 passen-
ger school bus tor delivery in
Septemeber 1, 1981. The
Texas Education Agency lets
bids on school buses, but the
cost is expeaed to be
approximately $16,000.
Farming, Ranching, Dairying, Oil and Industry
ARCHER
COUNTY
NEWS
ARCHER CITY, TEXAS
12 PAGES
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1981
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ISSUE 7
Megargel Opens New Post Office
Megargel has their
long-waited for new Post
Office. The Post Office
formally opened Thursday,
Feb. 5th. Post Master
Harvey McQueen and postal
employees Grandvil! Meade
and Mrs. O.V. Hampton are
keeping very busy issuing
the new keys needed to open
the new postal boxes. The
new building is located on
the corner of Main and
Highway 210, facing east.
Megargel Feet Master, Harvey McQueen poses outside of
the new post office which opened up Thursday, Feb. 5th.
Archer City Rejects
GTE Rate Increase
The Archer City, City
Council voted unannimously
to rejea General Telephones
latest request for increase
rates in Archer City. That
request would raise the
basic monthly charge on
residence service from $8.65
to S11.21. The monthly
charge for businesses would
increase from $27.30 to
$35.45. The Council, with
all members present, in-
structed City Manager L.B.
Boren, Jr., to send a later
to GTE informing them of
the poor service that GTE
customers in Archer City
have been receiving and are
continuing to receive.
The Council set April 4 as
the date for the next City
Eleaion and, appointed
Mrs. Donald Rodgers as
eleaion judge. City Council
members whose terms ex-
pire include Wayland Ab-
shier, D.E. Bratt, and
George Campbell. Filing
deadline for those three
places on the council is
March 4, 1981.
After a discussion on the
increase of transient vendors
operating in Archer City.
Council authorized the city
attorney to draw up a new
city ordinance aimed at
providing more protea ion
for city (tax-paying) busi-
nesses.
in other aaion, the Council
approved payment in the
amount of $38,400 for the
recently completed repairs
on the water storage tank
located at the warn plant.
They also accepted the
monthly report as presented
by City Manger Boren. That
report showed balances in
the general and revenue
funds as of February 1 of
$60,861 and $36,416. They
also approved payment of
January bills of $47,321 out
of the general fund and
$8,817 out of the revenue
fund.
Mrs. Sam Yeager, Edie
Moore, and Harry Gardener
appeared before the Council
to request a $5,000 property
tax exemption for senior
citizens over 65 years of age.
Aaion on the request was
tabled until more informa-
tion on the effea of an
exemption can be gathered
and. discussed.
ON TARGET
by Mike Lobprie.
Fuel Tank
Arrives For Airport
Arch-Air Development
Corporation has received
one of the two tanks which
will be used for fuel storage
in the near future. Harold
Mathis, president of Arch-
Air, expeas the first
shipment of fuel to arrive in
less than 60 days. "Once
we get the fuel, we can
expea to sell between 1,000
and 2,000 galfons per
month." states Mathis.
The city of Archer City will
realize 2 cents a gallon as a
fuel flow tax from sale of
fuel.
Five planes are currently
based at the Archer City
Airport. ‘.’We expea
si more planes to base
here once the fuel arrives”,
adds Mathis. "We also
anticipate the addition of
one and possibly two more
hangers which will bring in
even more planes.” At least
three other planes currently
owned by Archer City
residents are not presently
based here because of the
lack of fuel and hangar
space.
Representative of the Texas
Aeronautics Commission
have informed Arch-Air
officials that the Archer City
Airport is five years ahead erf
the long range plans
developed by T.A.C. for this
airport.
ATTACK! That ia the key ward far asany Democrats In the
country at this time. Of comae, the target of many of the
attacks are Presidents Reagan’s t
tally these concerning cutbacks in Fe
Let Reagan say there is waste In a program, and we seem to
get two knee-jerk responses: either the RepabBcans are ant
to hurt the poor or aged by cutting their programs, or the
country will be driven bite a depression. Keep hi mind that
attacks on Reagan-RepobHcaa proposals to cut ear Masted
federal budget come bam people whs eagerly [and many
times unnecessarily ] grab up federal handouts or from those
who had a hand In crattag the mean we are In.
i la not to attack what Is actually prapaoed, but la spy
are doiag now. Fortunately, there are m
there have been Repubbcana ka the past] who wB try la put
the notion's welfare above party politics.
Maybe that is what we as tadMdmds should do loo. Our
government should net take the Mai Mama fm the mass wa
ate lu. Sere, our lenders have created some bureaucratic
**mauatraeltfea,>. But, after ell, wo alerted them. We teM
Uvea. We leek Arm to timfcdater ertuimlt hdp!bckai the
personal, city, county, or statewide levels. We
accept what they wfli give as.
Jaot as our country la trying te
wa try te
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Lobpries, F. Mike & Lobpries, Fran. Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1981, newspaper, February 12, 1981; Archer City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth713828/m1/1/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Archer Public Library.