The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1998 Page: 10 of 14
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The Clifton Record
Friday, March 6,1998
ROOFING BEAMS SECURED — A steel worker sets one of the multitude of frame corners at the roof-line of
the new Clifton High School. The roofing crew began setting Installation the following day on the roof of the
first of two classroom wings now under construction. - staff Photo ey c«x mookoo
Valley Mills School
Reunion Being Planned
For 1968-70 Classes
FORT WORTH - Susie Thiele
Allred of Fbrt Worth is attempting to
organize a reunion of the Valley Mills
High School graduating classes of
1968,1969, and 1970.
“I would like to hear from anyone
who has current addresses of any
graduates from these years. I also
need graduates who are willing to
help organize this event,” Allred said.
Persons with information can con-
tact Allred at home at (817) 838-0105
or at work at (972) 455-1745.
Honors Academy
Accepting Applications
For '98-99 School Year
BEAUMONT — The Texas Academy
of Leadership in the Humanities is ac-
cepting applications for its 1998-99 school
year. The academy is a two-year residen-
tial honors program for intellectually
gifted and ethically grounded young per-
sons who seek enriched curriculum
steeped in the classical disciplines of the
humanities. Students complete their last
two years of high school credits and their
first two years of college requirements
concurrently^,
Though academic achievement Is
firmly at the center of the academy’s mis-
sion, its ultimate goal is to cultivate the
intellectual and ethical virtues of the fu-
ture leaders of Texas. Students invest a
portion of their out-of-class time in vol-
unteer organizations, community ser-
vices, and activities sponsored by the
academy.
As active participants in Lamar
University’s intellectual life, academy
students enjoy access to the complete
offerings of sa major university, as well
as the best of high school programs. Resi-
dential life offers a supervised residence
hall atmosphere with the latest in cam-
pus dining and security.
High school freshmen and sopho-
mores interested in attending the acad-
emy, based at Beaumont’s Lamar
University, can contact Michael Verde,
student services counselor, at (409) 839-
2995.
LOOKING DOWN THE HALL — The recently poured slab that is cur-
rently being framed in and covered stretches 240 feet by 77 feet for the
first of two classroom wings under construction at the site of the new
Clifton High School. Roland Anderson, construction manager, says that
after the two wings are complete, the crew will begin work on the new
Cafeteria. Staff Photo By Carol Moulton
Texas Students Will Get
Extra Help With TAAS Skills
AUSTIN — Additional help will
soon be available to students who
do not pass one or more parts of the
statewide assessment, the Texas
Assessment of Academic Skills.
The Texas Education Agency is
developing the TAAS Study Guide
to help students strengthen the
reading, mathematics, writing, sci-
ence, and social studies skills mea-
sured by TAAS.
The study guides are being cre-
ated for third grade through exit
level (high school). The exit-level
guide, “Working Through TAAS,”
was delivered to public schools in
December so that students who
have not passed the exit-level
TAAS, a requirement for gradua-
tion from all Texas public high
schools, are the first to benefit from
these materials. Study guides for
third through eighth grades are
expected to be available this sum-
mer.
“The activities in the study
guides cove the same skills that
are taught in school and are
tested on TAAS. The guides help
students and their parents under-
stand each skill, realize why it is
important, and see how it relates
to everyday life,” said Mike
Moses, commissioner of educa-
tion.
The guides may be used to help
reinforce the skills of all students,
including those who have per-
formed successfully on TAAS. ’‘We
believe that the best foundation
for successful performance on
TAAS is a curriculum that pro-
vides students many opportuni-
ties to read for meaning, solve
mathematical problems in a vari-
ety of real-life contexts, and write
for a variety of purposes and au-
diences. The TAAS Study Guides,
based on this same foundation,
provide material that can easily
be used inside or outside the
classroom,” explained Moses.
All high school students who do
not pass one or more parts of TAAS
will receive a free study guide from
their schools. Other high school
students or their parents can ob-
tain copies for $5 per guide by call-
ing toll-free 1-888-35-STUDY. The
guides for grades three through
eight will be available this summer.
TEA in August 1996, selected an
educational assessment publisher,
Harcourt Brace Educational Mea-
surement of San Antonio, to be its
partner in developing the TAAS
Study Guides. Together, TEA and
Harcourt Brace considered input
from educators, parents, students,
and content-area experts to de-
velop the study guides.
Building Good Citizens Through.
• “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points
out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of feeds could
have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actu-
ally in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,
who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again;
because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who
does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusi-
asm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who
at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and
who at die worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So
that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who
know neither victory nor defeat.” — Theodore Roosevelt.
These quotations are taken from the “Building Good Citizens
for Texas” program at Clifton Independent School District.
BRAD NEWSOM
Attorney Al Law
116 North Main
P.O. Box 465
Meridian, TX 76665
Alvin James
Clifton, Democratic Primary
Seeking The Office of
Justice of the Peace, Pet. 2
Pol Adv. Pd. By Alvin James, Treasurer,
1303 W. 11th St., CUfton, TX 76634
Jim Burch
Clifton, Democratic Primary
Seeking The Office of
County Commissioner, Pet. 4
Pol Adv Pd, By Jim Burch, Treasurer,
_1510 Pecan. Clifton, TX 70634_
Durwood Koonsman
Meridian, Democratic Primary
Seeking The Office of
County Commissioner, Pet. 2
Pol. Adv. Pd. By Annstle Jonas, Sec/Trses,
_Rt. 2, Box 1146, Meridian, TX 78666_
W. Leon Smith
Clifton, Democratic Primary
• Seeking The Office of
State Representative, Dlst. 58
Pol. Adv. Pd By Carole Smith, Treasurer,
1515W11lh SI.,CUfton,TX 76634
Ernest Gerald Damron
Cranfllls Gap, Democratic Primary
Seeking The Office of
County Commissioner, Pet. 4
Pol. Ads Pd. By Emet Gnld Demon,
«. 2, Box 1720, Ctinis Gap, few
Bobby Joe Conrad
Clifton, Democratic Primary
Seeking The Office of
Bosque County Judge
Pol. Mv. Pd. By B J. Comd, Timww
Bit, Bra 238 B-2, CUfton, TX 76654
Camp Flra^Announces
Absolutely Incredible
Kid Day On March 19
WACO — Four words stand out
on Garry Rispress’ March, 199t,«
calendar. In fad, the only scribbling
on this Atlanta insurance claim
specialist’s March, 1998 calendar
appears in the March 19th box: Ab-
solutely Incredible Kid Day.
On March 19, Camp Fire Boys
and Girls will again call on
America s adults to participate in
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day—to
write and deliver a letter of love and
commitment to their children,
grandchildren, nieces and nephews
or even to children they don’t know
who deserve and need such a let-
ter.
Last March, Garry Rispress
made sure some very important
kids received letters on the inaugu-
ral Absolutely Incredible Kid Day.
Rispress spent most of his child-
hood in foster care and led his col-
leagues in ensuring that letters
were delivered to children at a
nearby foster-fare organization.
“Thesf are precious children
who can be successful in the
world—they just need the right en-
couragement from adult role mod-
els,” said Rispress. “I know our
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day let-
ters made an impact on these kids,
and I’m looking forward to making
a difference again this year.”
Camp Fire is committed to Abso-
lutely Incredible Kid Day and will
celebrate the event annually on the
third Thursday of every March. The
day originated from Camp Fire’s
extensive research and interviews
with family psychologists that
showed the written message car-
ries great value to a child because
it is a permanent record of an
adult’s affirmation.
“Camp Fire has a stated purpose, to
seek to improve those conditions in so-
ciety which affect youth,’ so this event
is one more way that we can translate
our values into action,” said Pat McKee,
executive director of the Tejas Council
of Camp Fire Boys and Girts. “The na-
tion—from President Clinton, to em-
ployees at corporations and
organizations throughout the U.S., to
teachers, parents and grandparents—
participated in the inaugural Absolutely
Incredible Kid Day, and we’re thrilled
that support continues to build for
1998.”
Tipper Gore, a well-known child ad-
vocate and the wife of Vice President
-*-\-
Dr. Joe H. Yarbro, DDS, Inc.
Dr. Stephen LaDuque, D.D.S.
FAMILY DENTISTRY
ORTHODONTICS
COSMETIC DENTISTRY
OFFICE HOURS:
Monday-Frtday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
254-932-6404 • 1-888-932-6404
Valley Mills, Texas
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Al Gore, is helping Camp Fire Boys and
Girls to spread the word about Abso-
lutely Incredible Kid Day. “I was
touched and impressed by the impact
of the inaugural Absolutely Incredible
Kid Day campaign, and Ftn pleased to
join this year’s caU to action,” said Gore.
Camp Fire Boys and Girls, with na-
tional headquarters in Kansas City, Mis-
souri, provides coeducational
programming for approximately
700,000 participants annually, through
128 councils in 42 states ami the Dis-
trict of Columbia. Locally, the Tejas
Council serves 10,000 youth every year
through such programs as clubs, envi-
ronmental education, camping, and di-
rect child care services. Other
innovative activities include commu-
nity-service curriculum, gang peace
programs, pregnancy prevention pro-
grams and a course that teaches teens
to provide respite care for children with
disabilities.
To learn more about Absolutely In-
credible Kid Day, visit the Camp Fire
office at 1826 Morrow, Waco, or call (254)
752-5515.
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PUBLIC NOTICE
Southwestern Ball Telephone Company
(Southwestern Bell) filed an application with tha Public
Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) to charge an
additional 26 cents per month per line to recover costs
for providing Expanded Local Calling service (ELC)
to certain Texas Customers.
The 26 cents per month surcharge would
not be billed to customers who receive ELC. However,
customers who receive ELC and pay lass than the
maximum $3.50 a month residential ELC charge or less
than the maximum $7 business ELC charge will have to
pay the additional 26 cents per month charge.
Expanded Local Calling was created in 1993 by Texas
legislation that requires telephone companies to provide
toll-free calling between small towns that share
a community of interest such as a school or hospital
district The legislation allows telephone companies to
recover costs not paid through customer charges by
applying a surcharge to all other customers in tha state
who do not receive the ELC service or who do not pay
tha maximum ELC rate. The maximum monthly ELC rate
allowed under state law is $3.50 per line for residential
customers and $7 per line lor business customers
Southwestern Bell estimates that the 26
cents per month per line charge will recover the
$27 million annual cost of providing ELC service that
is not recovered from ELC rates.
If approved by the PUC, the monthly statewide
surcharge of 26 cents per line per month will begin
with the April, 1998 billing cycles, with an agreement
to refund all or part of the charge it the PUC does
not approve it.
For questions about tha reasons for the charge,
please call the Southwestern Bell Business Office
listed in your directory.
The PUC assigned Docket Number 18513 to
this proceeding. The deadline for intervention in this
matter is March 31, 1998. Persons who wish to
intervene or comment in these proceedings should
notify the PUC by March 31, 1998. All requests to
Intervene should be mailed to the Public Utility
Commission of Texas, P.O. Box 13326, Austin,
TX, 78711-3326. For information Intervening, pleaae
call the PUC at 1-888-782-8477 or at 512-936-7120.
AVISO PUBLICO
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (Southwestern
Bell) presentO una sollcitud ante la ComisiOn de
Servlcios Publicos de Texas (PUC) para cobrar
26 centavos mOs al mes por lines para recuperar los costos
por el servicio de Llamadas Locales Ampliadas (ELC)
a ciertos clientos en Texas.
El cargo de 26 centavos al mes no se cobrarO
a los dientes que reciben ELC. Sin embargo, los clientes
qua reciben ELC y pagan menos del mOximo de $3.50
al mes por el servicio ELC residencial o menos del mOximo
de $7 por el servicio ELC comercjal, tendrin que pagar
26 centavos adicionales a su pago mensual.
El servicio de Llamadas Locales Ampliadas (ELC)
fue establecido en 1993 por ia legislation del estado
de Texas y requiere que las companies prestadoras de
servicios teiefOnicos ofrezean llamadas de larga distancia
.gratuitas entre pequeAas poblaciones que comparten
un interOs comun tales como distritos escolares
y de hospitales. Esta ley permits que las compafifas
telefOnicas recuperen los costos no pagados mediants
cargos a dientes, a travOs de un cargo a todos los demOs
clientes en el estado que no reciben el servicio ELC
o que no pagan la tarifa maxima del servicio ELC. La
tarlfa maxima mensual permitida por la lay estatal
es $3.50 por Ifnea para clientes con servicio residential
y $7 por ifnea para clientes con servicio comercial.
Southwestern Bell calcula que los 26 centavos
al mes por Ifnea cubriran los $27 millones del costo
anual del servicio ELC que no esta cubierto por las
tarifas de ELC.
SI la PUC autoriza el cargo mensual estatal
da 26 centavos al mes por lines 8ste comenzara
a partir de los ciclos de tacturaciOn de abril 1998.
con el acuerdo de reembolsar todo o parte del cargo
si la PUC no lo autoriza.
Para preguntas relacionadas con este cargo, por
favor Name a la Oficina Local de Southwestern Bell listada
en su directors telefOnico
La PUC asignO el numero de registco de 18513
a este procedimiento. El plazo de intervenei6n sobre este
asunto terminal al 31 de marzo de 1996. Las personas
qua desaen intervene o hacer comentarios sobre
este procedimiento deberSn notlficar a la PUC antes del
31 de marzo da 1998. Todaa las solicitudes de intervention
deberOn enviarse por correo a Public Utility Commission
of Texas, P.O. Box 13326, Austin, TX 78711-3326.
Para mayor information sobre la Intervention, por
favor comunlquesa con la PUC al 1-888-782-8477
o al 512-936-7120.
@ Southwestern Bell
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Smith, W. Leon. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1998, newspaper, March 6, 1998; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth788236/m1/10/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.