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SSHS staff, students
bid Chubb goodbye
By MARK KING
News-Telegram Staff
Administrators, staff, students,
old friends and colleagues gathered
in the library of Sulphur Springs
High School Friday afternoon to
wish Principal Jack Chubb a
prosperous farewell.
“It’s a fun time, but a hard
time,” Chubb said.
When he officially announced
his retirement April 23, the prin-
cipal said that he was retiring due
to state legislation passed last year
which makes educators eligible for
full retirement benefits after an 85-
year combination of age and ser-
vice.
He is 57 years old, with 36 years
of credit as an educator, giving him
a total of 93.
Under the new legislation,
Chubb would only be eligible for
part-time work as an educator in
the State of Texas, beginning with
the next school year.
Chubb, though, is not ready to
work part-time, or to retire. He is
only retiring from his profession in
Texas.
“I’m still trying to secure a job
in either Oklahoma, Arkansas or
Colorado,” he said. “We’re keep-
ing our house in Sulphur Springs,
but we want to spend about 4-5
more years in education.”
Chubb said he would be leaving
the school district around the mid-
dle of June. “I’ll have most of my
work completed by then.”
Chubb’s work began in Sulphur
Springs in 1978, when the current
high school opened. He stopped the
opening school assembly in the
middle of the Pledge of Allegiance
and insisted that the students pay
attention.
“Twelve years ago, I made a
pledge to the students of Sulphur
Springs that I was there for them
and that my door was always'
open,” he said. “It takes a lot of
time and a lot of energy to get a lot
of people organized. You’ve got to
give time to the students.”
During his years as an educator,
Chubb has seen a lot of develop-
ments in his field. He likes the cur-
rent trend.
“There has been a growing at-
titude for people to put a stronger
emphasis on academics and to ex-
press a more caring attitude.”
In regard to academics. Chubb
has been a solid supporter of the
University Interscholastic League
program. He was recently presen-
ted with a plaque by this year’s UIL
academic team for his work on
their behalf.
Some of the th^s Chubb con-
siders as highlightfjpf his career at
Sulpur Springs High School are the
increasing number of scholarships
being offered to the students, ath-
letic successes and “an outstanding
positive relationship” with both
faculty and students.
The 1989-90 graduating class is
a fine group, he said.
“They are a very strong class.
There’s just a lot of talent there,
and some students we’ll be hearing
a lot about later on.” He added,
“That $450,000 in scholarships at-
tests to that.”
One thing that retired high
school machine shop instructor
Paul Brady attested to during the
reception was that many people
who knew Chubb looked upon him
as a chief. Chubb has an American
Indian heritage.
“I guess I’ve had many chiefs in
my day,” Brady said. “But this
man is one of the best I’ve ever
had. We couldn’t let him get away
from Sulphur Springs without
giving him something to show that
he was our chief, is our chief, and
always will be.”
Brady produced an Indian chief’s
headdress for Chubb.
“As a general rule, Mr. Chubb
has good rapport and support for
the students,” Superintendent
Danny Durham said.
The superintendent added that
because Chubb had been the high
school’s principal for 12 years,
there would most likely be a
notable change when he left
“We will be looking for a can-
didate that possesses many of the
same professional characteristics,”
Durham added. “Our tentative tar-
get is that by the middle of June,
the board will have selected the
next principal of Sulphur Springs
High School.”
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Hail to the chief
Paul Brady, retired high school machine shop tribe during a reception in Chubb’s honor at SSHS
teacher, presents Jack Chubb with a souvenir of his Friday afternoon. Chubb will be leaving his post of
days as chief of the Sulphur Springs High School principal after 12 years at SSHS.
—Staff photo by Larry Barr
Honor graduates have
more challenges ahead
By MARK KING
News-Telegram Staff
Navy to look inter
Iowa blast further
By SUSANNE SCHAFER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Navy and independent analysts will
conduct new tests over the next two
weeks in the hopes of determining
exactly what caused the explosion
aboard the USS Iowa that claimed
47 lives.
Congress called for the testing
— and the Navy said it would
comply — in light of congressional
findings announced on Friday that
lawmakers said “cast grave doubt”
on the Navy’s official conclusion
that a troubled sailor probably
caused the blast last April 19,1980.
Officials of the General Account-
ing Office told members of the
Senate Armed Services Committee
on Friday that the Iowa explosion
may well have been an accident.
The Navy, in a report last Sep-
tember, concluded that gunner’s
mate Clayton Hartwig probably set
off the April 19,1989, explosion by
inserting a chemical detonator bet-
ween bags of powder..
The lawyer representing
Hartwig’s family said the Navy
should pay them the same amount
it spent on its first investigation:
more than $4 million.
“They ought to give the family
at least that much to compensate
for the hell they have put them
through,” Kreig Brusnahan said
from his Cleveland office.
“I am more convinced than ever
that we have a legitimate claim for
intentional and negligent infliction
of emotion distress against the
Navy,” Brusnahan said.
Brusnahan expects to submit a
claim to the Navy within 90 days.
The Navy will have six months to
respond. If the claim is rejected,
Brusnahan said he will file with the
federal courts.
The Navy’s chief of naval
operations, Adm. Carlisle A.H.
Trost, ordered on Friday that Vice
Adm, Peter Heckman take over the
renewed investigation. Heckman is
director of the Navy’s Sea Systems
Command, which oversees the ser-
vice’s naval weapons and super-
vises how ships are run and built.
Rear Adm. Richard Milligan,
who supervised the first Navy in-
quiry, will not be involved in the
new investigation and will instead
remain at his post.
If there is one thing that the 26
graduating, Jbpngujtudents.jrf. Sul-
phur Springs High School share in
common, tLTs determination, ac-
cording to retiring High School
Principal Jack Chubb.
“They go the extra mile,” Chubb
said. “They provide the leadership
for the student body.”
He mentioned the two National
Merit Scholars, Kristi Jones and
Richard Smith, as being examples
of that leadership.
Another thing honor students
have in common is an ability to set
goals, the principal indicated.
“They had their goals fairly well
determined when they came to high
school. All of them probably wan-
ted to go to college.
“They came to high school with
their eyes open. It wasn’t going to
be just fun and games.”
All of Sulphur Spring’s honor
students tried to pick up as many
honors courses as possible
throughout their four years of high
school, Chubb said.
Those are the courses offered to
prepare high school students for
college and more advanced study.
Some public schools promote the
honors classes as being compatible
with similar courses of college
study.
The Sulphur Springs honor
students, as with all honor students,
led a high-profile life throughout
their high school years, being ac-
tive in many facets of education.
The graduating honor students across the United States in in-
were active in University Inter- stitutions of higher learning,”
scholastic League academic com- Chubb said,
petitions, athletics, band and stu- The following is a list of the
dent govcmmeot^ltfjuuae ai&vtkoLwijonor students ^.of -tte-SSHS Class
the extracurricular activities. of 1990:
And what’s more, Chubb said, James Michael Adams, Dusty
Mozelle Boshears, Shannon Carol
“They provided the leadership in
the extracurricular activities.”
“This group is fairly well
representative of the school,”
Chubb said.
“If I had a group that I could be
comforatable predicting the success
of, this would be the group,”
Chubb said. “R’s pretty definite
that we will be hearing success
stories from these students later
Brumley, Michael Everett Brun-
deen, Elizabeth Anne Cook, Jen-
nifer Beth Crawley, Christi Cath-
leen Crowe, Melissa Paige Daw-
son, Tamara Jon Edwards, Brandi
Leigh Fuhrmann, Lance Allen
Gammill, Jason B. Hill, Dustanna
Enix Hyde and Angela Suzanne
Johnson.
Other honor students include
April Kathaleen Johnson, Kelli
Diane Johnson, Kristi Nicole Jones,
If the graduating Sulphur Springs Bobby S. Korn, Leslie Leigh
honor students, who were all in the Lawrence, Kimberly Dawn Lewis,
top 10 percent of their class in
academic rankings, came from
diverse walks of life, they will con-
tinue to diversify after graduation.
“They will be scattered out
Lisa Michelle Phillips, Jay Anson
Porterfield, Joel Charles Redmond,
Richard Lewis Smith, Chad
Michael Springer and Tamela
Delane Vinson.
Seniors to receive
diplomas Thursday
By MARK KING
News-Telegram Staff
DEA paid to have doctor brought to trial
By LINDA DEUTSCH
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The
government offered a reward to the
people who brought a Mexican
doctor to the United States to face
charges in the slaying of an
American drug agent, a prosecutor
acknowledged.
A U.S. Drug Enforcement Ad-
ministration spokesman Friday also
admitted for the first time that the
government made a $20,000 pay-
ment about 10 days after Dr. Hum-
berto Alvarez Machain was cap-
tured in Mexico to face trial in the
1985 slaying of DEA agent Enrique
Camarena.
A witness at a federal hearing in
Los Angeles confirmed the $20,000
payment and said the DEA has paid
an additional $6,000 a week in
“expenses” since April 8 to the
Mexicans who abducted the doctor,
for a total of $62,000 so far.
Another witness, DEA super-
visor Hector Berrellez, testified that
up to $50,000 was authorized for
the capture of Alvarez. He said that
DEA Deputy Director Pete Gruden
knew of the plan.
The seizure of the doctor from
his office in Mexico has created a
rift between the U.S. and Mexican
governments. Mexico has deman-
ded his return, saying his deliveiy
to the United States violated its
sovereignty.
Alvarez, a Guadalajara
gynecologist, was arrested April 3
after being brought to El Paso,
Texas, to face charges he adminis-
tered drugs to Camarena during the
kidnapping, torture and murder of
the drug agent and his pilot.
The lawyer for Alvarez argued
vehemently for dismissal of the
charges against him. U.S. District
JudgeEdward Rafeedie asked for
more legal documentation before
he makes a ruling.
“This defendant is the third
defendant in this case whose
presence in this country is the result
of forcible removal from his
country," Rafeedie said.
He apparently was referring to
Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros, the
Honduran drug dealer detained by
U.S. agents alter being arrested in
Honduras and sent to;' the
Dominican Republic, and Rene
Martin Verdugo Urquidez, handed
over to border patrol agents
through a hole in the fence on the
U.S .-Mexico border. - .
DEA spokesman Frank Shults in
Washington denied that the
government offered a reward or
bounty for the people who captured
Machain, saying the $20,000 pay-
ment was for “services.” He said it
could have covered such things as
rental of the plane that flew Alvarez
to El Paso, Texas.
Cooper Lake parks gain
official approval of TPW
The Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department has officially approved
development plans — as previously
announced — for Doctor’s Creek
and South Sulphur parks at the
oir i
ite agency’s fu
Thursday and notified the Sulphur
Cooper Reservoir project.
The state agency’s full board met
River Municipal
District
Friday of the approval, according to
Walter Helm, district president. The
TPWD will spend $16.5 million on
the parks, the funds originally
authorized by the federal govern-
ment in exchange for the state
agency’s agreement to manage tlfc
facilities.
The department announcement
also indicated that in addition to
beginning work on construction of
boat ramps in the park areas this
fall, work also will be authorized
on placing sand beaches at the
designated swimming areas in the
parks. These phases of the work are
scheduled while shoreline areas are
still dry.
The remaining park construction
is due to be contracted in 1991.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers has indicated
that plans to allow the public to cut
wood during the clearing phase of
the reservoir basin will be for-
malized in the next few days.
Details are expected to be released
by June 1.
Thursday will be a busy day for
students at Sulphur Springs High
School. For the majority of them, it
will mark the end to another school
year. For around 263, it will mark
the end of an era.
Approximately 263 students are
scheduled to walk across the
makeshift stage at Wildcat Stadium
Thursday night to receive someth-
ing they have anxiously awaited for
12 long years — their high school
diploma.
Ceremonies are scheduled to
begin at 8 p.m. An alternate date of
June 1 has been set up for the
ceremony, in case of bad weather.
Former Sulphur Springs High
School graduate Jerry Bert Davis
will return to town to give the
commencement address to the
Class of 1990.
Davis, who was graduated from
SSHS in 1948, grew up in Hopkins
County. He holds a bachelor of
science degree in petroleum en-
gineering from Texas A&M
University, a master of business
administration degree from
Southern Methodist University, and
a ranch management certificate
from Texas Christian University.
Davis currently serves as presi-
dent and chief executive officer of
Otis Engineering Corp., being
named to that position April 1,
1990.
He is the son of Mrs. Bert Davis
of Nelta and is married to the for-
mer Patricia SL Clair, the
salutatorian of his 1948 graduating
class.
For the two top students in the
graduating class, Thursday’s
ceremony will mean the start of
even bigger academic challenges.
Valedictorian Bobby Korn, the
son of-Dr. Tom and Tanya Korn,
achieved a grade point average of
5.46 during his high school educa-
tion. On Wednesday, he received a
$2,000 scholarship from Sulphur
Springs State Bank Vice President
G.V. Hughes. Korn plans to enroll
in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), in Cambridge,
Mass.
Korn was an active participant in
University Interscholastic League
academic competitions during high
school, placing third this year in the
calculator applications category of
state competition. He was a mem-
ber of both the National Honor
Society and the Spanish Club.
Salutatorian Kristi Jones, the
daughter of Les and Vicki Jones,
achieved a GPA of 5.41 during her
high school years. She received
scholarships totaling $31,000
during the school’s Wednesday
morning honors assembly. Jones
plans to attend Harding University
in Searcy, Ark.
As a UIL competitor, Jones
placed first in the spelling category
during state competition in her
junior year and second during her
senior year. She served as president
of the high school chapter of the
National Honor Society and vice
president of the band. Also in band,
Jones was the bassist for the Stage
Band and a flutist in the regular
band.
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