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Gan Club Holds 1st
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Cen-Tex Youth Fair
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TEXAS PRESS
ASSOCIATION
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1983
The Clifton Record
THURSDAY,
JULY 14,1983
VOL. 88, NO. 28
— Clifton’s Oldest Business Establishment — cimon, Texas 76634-25 cents Per copy
c 1983, The Clifton Record, All Rights Reserved
CISD Trustees Raise Meal Prices
help finance pay increases for
cafeteria workers.
Before voting on meal prices,
trustees had first met in executive
session to discuss what level of pay
raises should be awarded cafeteria
workers. Liardon had suggested that
the board consider pay raises first, in
order that the information would
then be available for trustees to use
in reaching a decision on the price of
student meals.
Although adult lunch prices, set by
the Texas Education Agency (TEA),
were raised ten cents last year,
student prices have not been in-
creased since the 1981-82 school
year. Includingthetencent increase,
the new lunch prices will be 90 cents
for grades K-3, one dollar for grades
4-8, and $1.10 for grades 9-12.
Breakfast prices for all grades will be
45 cents. Reduced price lunches and
breakfasts wil I also rise ten cents.
Before voting unanimously on
meal prices for the new year,
trustees voted, again unanimously,
to grant cafteria workers paid by the
hour a 20 cent hourly raise, and
salaried cafeteria personnel a five
percent increase. Also, $200 incre-
ment raises were granted three
instructors. They are Brooks
Symank, Bennett Fields, and Vir-
ginia Kersh. Bus drivers were also
awarded increase ranging from ten
to 30 dollars, depending on their
Iredell Bank Robbery
Suspect Awaits Trial
WACO — The man who is charged
with robbing the Iredell State Bank
May 28 was st i 11 in McLennan County
Jail as of Monday, July 11, awaiting
trial.
According to Deputy U.S. Mar-
shall Parnell McNamara of Waco,
Tommy Joe Williamson, 47, of
Lampasas, is being held on $50,000
bond, with no trial date set.
Trustee Election
Will Apparently
Pit 3 Candidates
CLIFTON - With filing scheduled
to end July 13 for the special trustee
election to replace the late Dr. P.L.
Dickerson on the Clifton school
board, there were still only three
candidates entered in the race as of
Monday, July 11.
The announced candidates are
Mrs. Nancy C. Dickerson (widow of
the late trustee), Mrs. Hans (Bonnie)
Suerig, and Gary Waller.
Drawing for position on the ballot
will take place Thursday, July 14,
with absentee balloting to take place
See ELECTION, Page 2-A
Poultry Show Returns To
Central Texas Youth Fair
By MRS. JIMMYSEAWRIGHT
Show Reporter
CLIFTON — Cocks will crow and
hens will cackle once again this year
during the Second Annual Poultry
Show at the 1983 Central Texas
Youth Fair in Clifton, Saturday,
August 27.
The show, featuring bantam and
standard breeds, will be a one-day
event with birds shown individually.
Birds shall be in place by 8 a.m. for
judging and shall be released at 2
p.m., or after all prizes have been
awarded.
The divisions for bantam breeds
include single comb/cleanleg, fea-
therleg, old English, rose comb, and
allother comb/cleanleg.
Standard breed divisions a r e
American, Asiatic, Mediterranean,
English, and miscellaneous.
Cash and ribbon prizes shall be
awarded each division . Grand
Champion and Reserve Champion of
the show shall be awarded trophies.
Show rules require birds tested for
pullorum-typhoid. To have show
birds tested, contact Mr. Don Hast-
ings, licensed inspector for the Texas
Pullorum-Fowl Typhoid Program,
Rt. 2 Box 251, Kaufman, 75142. The
testing is free.
Diseased or parasite infested birds
shall be barred from the show.
The entry deadline for the poultry
show is Aug. 7. Fees are $1 per bird.
Mail all entry blanks, fees, and a
copy of a current pullorum-typhoid
test certificate to Mrs. Jimmy
Seawright, Rt. 1 Box 36, Meridian,
76665, (phone) 817-435-2680.
All eligible 4-H and F.F.A. mem-
bers from Bosque, Coryell, Erath,
Hamilton, Hill, Johnson, McLennan,
and Somervell Counties are invited
to enter.
City Council Continues Shorthanded;
Airport Strip Named Isenhower Field
By MIKE REEDER
Clifton Record Editor
CLIFTON — Mayor Charles Rum-
mel informed the city council Thurs-
day evening, July 7, that he had yet
to find a replacement for former
Alderman Leon Smith, who resigned
the position at the previous meeting.
Rummel said that he had ap-
proached three individuals about
accepting the council appointment,
but that all had declined. Last week,
Rummel had indicated that he would
appoint Leslie Cochran, a former
candidate for the council, to fill
Smith’s unexpired term. The mayor
did not say who else had been
approached about the position.
Smith’s resignation represented
the third spot to open up on the
five-person council since the April
election. Rummel and James
Womack resigned their council seats
earlier in the year to assume the
mayor and city secretary jobs,
respectively. Aldermen Joe Pierson
and Frank Grimes were appointed to
those vacant positions.
The vacancy created by Smith’s
resignation presents "no pressing
problem,” Rummel said, since only
three aldermen are needed to form a
quorem necessary for conducting
business.
In other action, the council voted
on several items that had been
discussed at previous meetings.
In a series of unanimous votes, the
council moved to name the'field at
Clifton Municipal Airport after
former Mayor Charles Isenhower,
and erect a plaque at the site so
designating the field at an as yet
undetermined date; voted to form-
ally pass amendments to the city
By MIKE REEDER
Clifton Record Editor
CLIFTON — Jerry Van Pendley,
38, of Cleburne, held in Bosque
County Jail last week for suspicion of
murder in the June 29 beating death
of Loyd Clayton Swinney, 50, of Rio
Vista, has been released on his own
recognizance.
Pendley’s court appointed attor-
ney, Steve Robertson of Clifton, said
that Pendley's release came at about
10 a.m. Friday, July 8, after the
grand jury in Meridian declined to
act on an indictment.
Robertson said that Pendley was
neither ‘‘no-billed nor true-billed,”
and that his client had been released
on personal recognizance pending a
hearing on a writ of habeas corpus,
water ordinances raising the fees for
turning on and off water from five to
ten dollars; voted to establish an
ordinance that sets a $15 charge for
passing the city an insufficiently
funded check; amended an ordin-
ance to designate THE CLIFTON
See COUNCIL. Page 2A
which Robertson said, "may or may
not occur in the next two or three
months.”
A writ of habeas corpus requires
those who detain someone to justify
their action.
Although Robertson declined to
speculate why the grand jury did not
indict at this time, he had previously
expressed his belief that there was
insufficient evidence to justify a case
against hisclient.
Pendley, currently serving a pro-
bated sentence after pleading guilty
to attempted murder in the deaths of
two men whose remains were found
in an abandoned well near Blum last
August, turned himself into the
Johnson County Sheriff's Office
SeeGRAND JURY, Page8A
Pendley Freed After Grand
Jury Declines Murder Charge
By MIKE REEDER
Clifton Record Editor
CLIFTON — Student lunches and
breakfasts at Clifton schools will
cost ten cents more this fall,
following a vote taken late Monday
night by Clifton ISD Trustees as part
of their regular, July 11 meeting.
The additional revenue is needed,
according to Superintendent Richard
Liardon, to help eliminate an operat-
ing deficit last year of slightly over
$5,000 in the school meal program, to
help cover rising food costs, and to
SPEARED SPUD - Virginia Sandars of Clifton displays a potato
grown by her father, Henry, that was literally “taken over by the weeds.”
A Johnson grass stem grew Into one side of the spud and continued right
out through the other. “We’ve grown a lot of potatoes,” Virginia said,
“but we’ve never seen anything like this.”
—Clifton Record Photo
routes.
High School Principal Joe Bryan
reported to trustees that curriculum
See BOARD, Page 8-A
Council Agenda
Includes 7 Items
CLIFTON — The agenda for the 7
p.m., Thursday, July 14, city council
meeting has been released at city
hall, and contains seven agenda
items.
Included for action or discussion
are: airport property lease (believed
to involve a previous request by Tim
Talley); lease to Mr. Payne’s (to
correct a lease previously given
Payne’s Gin); advertising for a
prospective skating rink operator;
lease for Schafer storage building
(believed to involve the airport);
garbage truck; city administrator;
and general discussion.
The meeting isopen to the public.
Logo For City Vehicles
Hess Installed Pastor Of Immanuel Lutheran Church
CLIFTON — Immanuel Lutheran
Church, Clifton, has a new pastor.
The Rev. Russell Hess was installed
during special services Sunday, July
10, at 4 p.m., at the local church.
Hess replaces the Rev. Walter
Chelmo, pastor of Trinity Lutheran
Church, Waco, who has been serving
as vacancy pastor during the weeks
following the death o f former
vacancy pastor Carl T. Boriack of
Waco, who died in an automobile
accident in mid-June.
Sunday's order of divine service
included an organ prelude, followed
by the processional hymn, "Come
ThouAlmighty King."
After the invocation, theVersicles,
the first and second lessons (Jere-
miah 23:1-6 and Romans 10:8-15),
the Gospel lesson (John 10:1-16), the
Hymn of the Ministry (' ‘We Bid Thee
Welcome In The Name"), and the
Hymn of Installation ("God Of The
Prophets, Bless The Profets’ Sons"),
the rite o f installation was
performed.
The rite concluded with the Hymn
‘Partner’s Review’ To Be
1983 Cen-Tex Fair Theme
By MRS. T.N. FOSTER
Fair Reporter
CLIFTON — "Partner’s Review"
is the theme selected for the parade
and activities for the Central Texas
Fair, scheduled August 25, 26 and
27.
Floats and participants, walking or
riding, are encouraged to share the
theme by using doubles, twins,
couples, look-alikes, pairs, twos, or
duces in their plans.
Tykes on bikes may plan to
decorate as doubles, pairs, etc., in
colors or dress.
Honored this year during the
activities will beacouple, Homer and
Emma McDougal, long-time fair
association favorites.
of Prayer, "Send O Lord, Thy Holy
Spirit,” the salutation and thanks-
giving, the prayer for the church, the
benediction, and the Recessional
Hymn,' ‘Jesus Shall Reign. ’'
Those who lead in the worship
included the Rev. Walter Chelmo,
the liturgist; the Rev. Walter F.
Albers, St. Paul Lutheran Church,
Waco, the preacher and the installer;
Janice Herzog, the organist; and
Lutheran pastors from the area, the
president and elders of Immanuel
Lutheran Church, Clifton, who per-
formed the laying of hands.
Immanuel’s new pastor was born
April 17,1956, to Alfred and Fronia
Hess in Sacramento, Calif., and was
the youngest of three children. He
spent the majority of his life in this
area of California being educated in
the local elementary and secondary
schools. At Hiram Johnson High
See PASTOR, Page 3A
This
Week
In
Cfijton
Thursday, July 14 Monday, July 1#
Bosque Rotary, Bosque Restau-t Region 6 Health Clinic, Clifton, 10
rant, 12:10 p.m.
Clifton City Council meets, City.
Hall, 6 p.m.
American Legion Meeting
Friday. July 15
a.m.— 3 p.m.
T^CFAUArt19Club, Conservatory
Bldg., 10a.m.
r^JAuxiliarv Hambumam B-ffi Boa’qu® County Stringed Instru-
^ VFW Auxiliary, Hamburgers, 6-8.- men, Gr0uPi Lean Years & Colleo-
Saturday, July 16 tlons,6p.m. A,6t
VFW Post Dance, Gold Rushn Wednesday, July 20 w
Band,8-12p.m. Social Security Representative,
Sunday, July 17 Bosque County Courthouse* 9:3C
Attend the Church of Your Choice - a.m.
PASTOR AND FAMILY — Immanuel Lutheran Church's new pastor,
the Rev. Russell Hess, is pictured following installation ceremonies
Sunday with his family, wife Krista and daughter Lauren Elizabeth.
—Photo by White’s Photography
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