The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 25, 1988 Page: 1 of 78
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CHS Commencement Friday
CLIFTON — Seventy-four Clifton
High School seniors are on line to
graduate during commencement ex-
ercises this Friday, May 27, at 8
p.m., at Bettis Auditorium.
Friday’s program consists of the
processional by Mrs. Rosalyn
White, invocation by Pastor Mark
Cook of First Baptist Church,
salutatory address by Jeff Golden,
and valedictory address by Richie
Spitzer.
Principal Ronnie Massey and As-
sistant frincipal Leslie Bennett will
present awards, then Superinten-
iibi
Souvenir Senior Edition Inside This Issue
dent Richard Liardon and Clarence
Fields, president of the Clifton ISD
Board of Trustees will present diplo-
mas to the graduates.
The benediction will be offered by
Pastor Cleon Flanagan, which will
be followed by the Clifton High
School Song, and the recessional by
Rosalyn White.
The Clifton Record has published
its annual special graduation sec-
tion, which is included in this issue,
and offers information and photos of
each graduate.
Members of the 1988 graduating
class are: Sean Heath Albrecht,
Kyle Duane Alsobrook, Kathryn Di-
ane Austin, Lester Lu Backus,
Robert Hudson Barron III, James
K. Bell, Robert Frank Billman, Jon
Bowers, Kistra Janelle Bradford,
Ricky L. Bright, Jr., Kevin Dwaine
Bronstad, Missy Leigh Bronstad,
Brian Adams Burch, Jo Lynn
Campbell, Tonia Lynn Carpenter,
Biff L. Carter, and Michael David
Christian.
Also, Tracey Rae Burnam Cook,
Todd Cooper, Erwin Ray Dahl, Jr.,
See GRADUATES, Page 3A
TEXAS FLOWERS — Artist George Boutwell’s talents have',
branched into new areas this past year, as he has completed a
collection of Central Texas wildflowers, which will be on display,
along with other works, this weekend at Highview Ranch which
will be having an open house.
—Record Photo By W. Leon Smith
Boutwells To Host 3rd
Annual Open House At
Historic Highview Ranch
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1988
Volume 93, Number 21
THREE SECTIONS
Plus Three Supplements
CLIFTON — George and Martha
Boutwell will host their third annu-
al open house at the historic High-
view Ranch on Saturday, May 28,
and Sunday, May 29, from 1-6 p.m.
each day.
The event will feature recent
work on the historic Poole home and
a one-man show of George Bout-
well’s recent work which includes
several Bosque County scenes. The
artist has recently finished a series
of 15 small watercolors of wildflow-
ers from the ranch which will be
published on large postcards.
“Since Martha and I moved here
from Austin in January of 1987,
we’ve catalogued over 130 different
kinds of wildflowers on the ranch
and even though I’m not known as
a flower painter, I just couldn’t
resist painting these.
“Although Martha was raised in
the country,this has been the firal
time in my life that I’ve been sur-
rounded every day with what I
paint and I think it’s been the best
year as far as new inspiration and
in many other ways,” he said.
The Boutwells had restored two
historic homes in Austin before
moving to Bosque County and esti-
mate that the restoration of High-
view will take at least another six
years. Each spring they wil host an
open house and show their progress
for the year.
It took the Boutwells 10 years to
finish their house in Austin and
they waited until it was finished to
show it to everyone. “There were so
many people who wished they could
have seen our Austin house before
we started on it that we decided it
would be fun to let everyone watch
this home get restored,” said
Boutwell.
The Boutwells keep up a very
busy schedule in addition to restor-
ing houses. George published
prints, cards, and calendars featur-
ing his paintings of Texas and mar-
kets them on a national level at
some 50 shows per year, and pub-
lishes a quarterly newsleter that is
See BOUTWELL, Page 5A
Memorial Day
Service Monday
At Cemetery
CLIFTON - The annual
Memorial Day Service, spon-
sored by American Legion Post
322 and V.F.W. Post 8553, will
be held at Clifton Cemetery,
Monday, May 30, at 9 a.m.
“Memorial Day is a time for
Americans to reflect on the past
while looking to the future,” says
a spokesman for the local groups.
“It is a time to remember and
honor those Americans who died
in service to our nation.”
Pastor John Austin of Im-
manuel Lutheran Church will
bring the Memorial Day mes-
sage, followed by the firing of a
21-gun salute and Taps. The pub-
lic is invited to attend the
service.
According to the local Ameri-
igion and VFW groups, “It
where these gallant
en served, but they served wfaah
called. Since the beginning of our
See MEMORIAL, Page SA
Comer Pharmacy Auction
Set For Sunday Afternoon
By W. LEON SMITH
Clifton Record Editor
CLIFTON - It’s final. The Corn-
er Pharmacy will have its contents
sold at public auction this Sunday,
May 29, beginning at 1 p.m.
If. a drug store were human and
could tell the story of its ex-
periences, most likely the drug store
on the corner would be able to re-
late most of Clifton’s history.
The store has had various names
over the years, and numerous own-
ers, but has been able to retain most
of its old-time Clifton appeal. A
walk through the store is a walk
back in time, as most of the old fix-
tures and design are unchanged.
From the tall ceiling with the nar-
row boards to the intricately-carved
shelf fixtures which have seeming-
Sheriff Criticizes Jail Food: rlt Ain't Fit To Eat*
Resolution Asking For CPA
As County Auditor Tabled
By W. LEON SMITH
Clifton Record Editor
MERIDIAN — The commentary
was at times heated during Mon-
day’s special session of the Bosque
County Commissioners’ Court, at
which commissioners tabled action
regarding food service to the jail
and regarding a proposed resolution
which asked that District Judge
James Morgan appoint a county au-
ditor who is a Certified Public Ac-
countant.
Food Service
County Judge Regina Hanson told
commissioners that in February it
had come to her attention that there
had apparently been some dis-
crepancies in the distribution of
USDA commodities through the
sheriff's department. She said that
she had also been told that the com-
missioners’ court could be deter-
mined ultimately responsible for
this, so she wanted the matter
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CLIFTON — The Clifton Record
will be hitting the newsstands
about a half day later next week
since the printing schedule has been
altered due to Memorial Day.
Deadlines will be the same as
usual, however, the Record office to
be open on Monday.
Look for papers on the stands late
Tuesday afternoon.
looked in to.
Hanson explained that she had
records of the commodities which
were delivered to the jail and of
those delivered to County Seat
Restaurant (which supplies meals to
prisoners, using some of the com-
modities), but that it appeared that
other commodities had been dis-
tributed through the jail which had
not been accounted for.
Hanson said that she asked
County Auditor Sallie Tomlinson to
conduct an audit to determine
where these missing commodities
had gone, but that Tomlinson’s
report was vague and useless.
Sheriff Denny Proffitt had told
The Record earlier that some of the
commodities which were perishible
and which would not be tued in the
preparation of food for prisoners had
been given to senior citizens groups
and some of the deputies prior to
spoilage. He explained then that it
would be imprudent to let them
spoil and have to dispense of them
when there are those who could
benefit from them.
He told commissioners Monday
that space restrictions in the jail has
posed fiirther problems and that the
jail now no longer receives USDA
commodities because of this. “We
have no place to put them,” he ex-
plained.
Hanson then informed the court
that she had contacted authorities
in Austin who revealed to her that
See COUNTY, Page 11A
Tonkawa Indian Cave Opens
At Clifton’s ‘Texas Safari’
ly been there “forever,” to the
Clifton Cub-green Spanish marble
fountain, to the wall clock dating
back to the 1800s — the drug store
iB both a relic and a marvel.
That will all change this Sunday
when it is predicted that the interi-
or of the store will be gutted and the
fixtures and contents will be sold to
the highest bidder.
Ever since word got out last week
that the demise of the store was em-
inent, there have been numerous
visitors to the store, wanting “one
last look” before the this corner of
Clifton’s history is changed forever.
The old Waterbury wall clock has
a glass cover with these words
painted on it: “It Is Time To Do Bus-
iness With The Corner Pharmacy.”
It might be too late to follow its ad-
vice, but there is yet time to view
the antiques in their home setting
one last time this week.
The Clifton Record has attempt-
ed to accomplish a brief history of
the pharmacy and bring to readers
some of the flavor of one of Clifton’s
oldest businesses. An interview
with long-time employee of the
store, Harry Womack, appears else-
where in this issue of the
newspaper, as does an historical
sketch of the business and its more
recent owners and operators.
For more about the Sunday’s auc-
tion, an advertisement by A&S Auc-
tion Company appears in this issue,
too.
CLIFTON - The Tonkawa Indi-
an Cave at Texas Safari Ranch
opens this month after a three-year,
$100,000 restoration project.
The cave, identified by Universi-
ty of Texas researchers 60 years
ago, provides visitors a view into
the life of the cannibalistic tribe
which once roamed Central Texas.
Tonkawa Indians camped at the
cave to be sheltered from the
weather and to have access to the
nearby spring and the waterfall
which once splashed down over the
top of the cave.
Texas Safari owner A.C. Parsons
and his staff have recreated the
area, with a fountain at road-level
and a 70-foot waterfall flowing to
the pool below. Mountains of rock
which had collapsed into the cave
wmv bulkteaed Way -and used to
build a dam and multi-levelel
walkway.
Tonkawa Indians were reported
in Central Texas as early as the
16th century. They lived by hunt-
ing, gathering, and fishing, and be-
came increasingly dependent on
Central Texas deer as the buffalo
moved north and west into the ter-
ritory of the more powerful
Comanches.
While not the savage warriors the
Comanches were, the Tonkawas
had their own grisly habit: can-
nibalism. They consumed portions
of their enemies as part of a ritual
dance ceremony. Eating habits not-
withstanding, the Tonkawas be-
came a poor and weakened people
in the 19th century, caught between
the powerful Comanches on the
west and the encroaching white set-
tlers on the east.
Now, 100 years later, Texas
Safari visitors can imagine the In-
dians hovering under the protection
of the cave, sheltered from the
Texas sun or cold winter winds.
They can gaze out at the stunning
beauty of the North Bosque River
valley that the Tonkawas roamed
See SAFARI, Page 2A
SCENIC HAVEN — Texas Safari has recently restored and
opened the Tonkawa Indian Cave, which is being included as
part of the exotic wildlife preserve. Rock paths meander down
to the actual cave. There’s an elegant waterfall, diving Indians,
plus scenes reminscent of the days when this area was the do-
main of the Tonkawas. Pictured are Indians doing their dive as
an Indian maiden awaits on a raft in the pool below. Note the
waterfall to the left and the swallows which soar above.
—Record Photo By W. Leon Smith
Clifton ISD Studying Alternative Ways
To Increase School Nursing Services
By CAROLE SMITH
Assistant Editor
CLIFTON — Trustees for the
Clifton Independent School District
discussed at length ways to increase
nursing services at the junior high
and elementary campuses when
they met Monday night, May 16.
All trustees were present for the
meeting.
After having received a letter last
month signed by a large number of
parents and other interested per-
sons which asked the school board
to examine the feasibility of employ-
ing a full-time nurse, board mem-
bers have been exploring
possibilities concerning the matter..
Presently, the district has a coop
nurse only six days a month, which
the parents say is not enough to
meet the needs of certain students
with specific medical problems or
conditions.
Because of the impact on the dis-
trict’s budget that a full-time nurse
would bring, board members dis-
cussed the possibility of having
volunteers from the community,
who are licensed nurses, help with
testing, screening, and paperwork,
in order to give the coop nurse more
time to monitor those students with
health problems.
Even with volunteer help and the
part-time coop nurse, Trustee Phil
Robertson said that he thought par-
ents wanted more of an immediate
presence of health care for sickness
or injury.
Trustee Don Finstad suggested
that giving one or more persons at
the school some first aid training
could be a solution.
Trustees asked administrators to
compile a list of students having
specific health problems so that
teachers could be educated about
special medical conditions.
Board members agreed that
volunteer help from nurses in the
community should be sought.
Oath Of Office, Board
Reorganization
The oath of office was given to
newly-elected trustees Phil Robert-
son and Lawrence Zuehlke by
Justice of the Peace Alvin James.
Then board members re-elected
their present officers to serve
another term. They include Clar-
ence Fields, Jr., president; Connie
Lundberg, vice-president; and Don
Finstad, secretary-treasurer.
Capital Acquisition Program
Barbara Ward and Chris Szanis-
low of the Texas School Service
Foundation in Austin met with
board members to discuss the capi-
tal acquisition program, through
which trustees voted in March to
apply for $200,000. Part of the
money will be used to purchase two
new buses for the district.
Trustees adopted a resolution
which outlined the details of the
agreement between the Clifton ISD
and the TSSF. The resolution reads:
A resolution and order by the Board
of Trustees providing for the issu-
ance of Clifton ISD Public Property
Finance Contractual Obligations,
Series 1988: levying a continuing
direct annual payment of amounts
due thereunder; pledging such tax
and certain surplus revenues and
See SCHOOL BOARD, Page 4A
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Smith, W. Leon. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 25, 1988, newspaper, May 25, 1988; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth788913/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.