The Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 65, Ed. 1 Friday, August 12, 1983 Page: 1 of 12
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City seeking grant
Teri, steer summer on the road
for sewer line repair
replacing faulty lines which
contribute to the infiltration
problem with the sewer system
between the homes and the
main lines.
The work would be totally
>4one in low td moderate income
Sreas and 80 percent of it would
be in minority housing areas.
The approximately 588 homes
in low income areas would be
included at a cost ’of ap-
proximately $211,000.
Main lines along Bardash,
Fisher, Santa Fe, Novell. Birch,
Ross and Center Streets , would
also be replaced at a cost of
approximately $105,000.
Engineering fees for $13,000
and $32,000 for a contingency
fund,
A public hearing on the grant
application will be held tonight
at 7 p.m.at City Hall.
J. Rice, a consultant with
Public Management Company,
said the funds should be ap-
proved “from the middle to the
last of October.”
Cleveland City Council a[>
proved a resolution to applyfor
a $385,000 community deve-
lop ent block grant to do sewer
line improvements in low to
moderate income areas of the
city.
The grant would, pay to
replace lateral lines to homes
owned by the resident who could
not afford to pay to have this
done. It would also pay to
replace main lines in low in-
come area in the city.
The criteria for qualifying for
the Community Block Grant is
that the work must serve low to
moderate income individuals.
“We have a greater chance of
qualifying if we affect more
people with less money and that
is what this grant would do,”
said T.A. Boothe, grant coor-
dinator.
There is $2,144,742 available
for small cities in the 12-county
area served by the Houston-
Galveston Area Council.
The planned expenditures
from the grant would include
by GARRY MATLOW
Advocate Reporter
While most high school stu-
dents spend their summers
working for money or work-
ing on suntans, Teri Rice has
spent her vacation competing
at prospect steer shows.
So far the Tarkington High
School senior’s British Cross-
bred ?teer has received
grand champion honors at
the Cleveland show in June,
reserve champion at Beau-
mont, Kerrville and Brown-
wood and third place at Lock-
hart. Remaining on the
schedule are shows at.Car-
thage, Texas A&M, Hunts-
ville, Lufkin and George-
town.
Teri has made a splash on
the local livestock scene the
past two years, showing the
grand champion steer at the
Cleveland livestock Show
and Dairy Day in 1982 and
1983. This winter she plans to
show her steer at the Houston
Livestock Show.
The Texas Club Calf Asso-
ciation hosts prospect shows
for 14 different breeds, with
calves competing against
their own kind. Teri’s steer is
the current point leader in the
British Cross breed.
The FFA and 4-H Club
member said she enjoys the
travel and steer shows.
“You meet a lot of different
people and you learn a lot
from them,” she said. “You
always pick up new ways of
grooming.”
She spends around 30
minutes a day walking and
grooming her calf and doing
other things it takes to get
ready for a show.
Her father, Bobby Rice,
said calves are born with
their temperament, but good
training does go a long way
toward how a steer does in a
show.-
“You can gentle them down
a certain amount, but...,” he
said. Much still depends on
the exhibitor. “They can tell
if a person is scared of '
them.”
Cont. On Page 2A
Friday, Augutt 12, 1983 • Cleveland , Tx. • 77327 • Vol. 64 • No. 65
by ANNIE ALEXANDER
Advocate Editor
Cleveland may soon have its
own Crimestoppers program.
The Mayor’s Committee on
Crime Prevention which w<.?
originally appointed In 1978 re-
quested endorsement by City
Council at Monday night’s
meeting. .
Mary Lou Bounds and Shelton
Boles represented* the com-
mittee and were assisted by
Police Chief Harley Lovings.
Lovings said the program
would be established under the
guidelines provided by the
Governor’s office. '■ ■
“If we could get it started
here, maybe we should get it
throughout the county. There
City may soon get
Crime Stoppers
was $2,970,536.30 in stolen goods
•recovered since the program
was begin statewide in 1981,”
said livings.
Councilman Bill Petropolis
asked how the project was to be
funded. Mrs. Bounds said that
support from local businessmen
and fees paid by offenders were
both being considered as well as
other possibilities.
The city must give its per-
mission for the group to in-
corporate. The council mem-
bers asked for a chance to study
the information before they
make a decision at the next
meeting.
Mrs. Bounds said the next
meeting of the Crime Preven-
tion Committee is planned for
October, so the approval by the
council at the next meeting
would meet the requirements of
the committee.
City Manager Gene Harrison
and Grant Coordinator T.A.
Boothe presented status reports
on the work toward extending
the length of the runway at the
Cleveland Municipal Airport.
There had been a problem
with making arrangements with
Shell, Amoco and United Texas
Transmission to cross their
pipelines as a part of the run-
way extension Harrison re-
ported that UTT had reduced
the cost of lower its pipeline
froA $110,000 to $45,000.
He said the 10 percent over-
run provided in the grant from
FFA would cover all but ap-
Cont. On Page 7A
LABOR PAINS — Striking Communications Workers of America members
walk the picket line in front of the Southwestern Bell office in downtown
Cleveland. The nationwide strike against AT&T affects some 100 workers in
the local office, which serves the Cleveland, Dayton, Splendora and Shepherd
areas. (Photo by Garry Matlow)
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ADVOCATE
Gasoline tax
Stiles predicts increase coming
by GARRY MATLOW
Advocate Reporter
An increase in the state
gasoline tax to fund roads and
education will be a likely result
of this fall’s special session of
the Texas Legislature, State
Rgg Mark Stiles said Wednes-
dWin Cleveland.
‘“Right now we have the
lowest gasoline tax of any state
in the nation and out roads are
shot," Stiles said. He said It
hasn’t been too long since Texas
prided itself as having the
country’s best road system.
A nickel a gallon increase in
the gas tax would generate $1.2
billion for the state, Stiles said.
He said an alternative would be
to change the structure of the
tax to, for example, 10 percent
Z>f the retail price.
Under the existing formula, a
fifth of the tax is earmarked for
education. Stiles said he
foresees no change in that
allocation.
“By and large people realize
that we need an increase in the
gasoline tax because of things
like the (U.S. 59) bypass here,’’
he said. ,
Franklin Young, district en-
gineer with the State Depart-
ment of Highways and Public
Transportation, told Stiles and
Cleveland Mayor Ronnie Mc-
Waters Wednesday that the
bypass project might not be
ready to go out for bids in Janu-
ary as promised.
“He said, ‘I’m not ready to
say no in Januaiy, but it’s going
to be tough,’” Stiles said. Mc-
Waters that according to Young,
the delay, if any, would be on a
month-by-month basis.
Young said the holdup is in
securing channel easements for
drainage, Stiles said.
The representative also
praised the work of the Select
Cpmmittee on Public Education
chaired by H. Ross Perot of Dal-
las. State Sen. Carl Parker, D-
Port Arthur, is a member of the
panel.
Stiles said he believes cor-
poral punishment should be
returned to Texas schools. “If
that’s a deterrent, I think it
needs to be tried again," he
said.
He said the Bible tells us to
“spare the rod and spoil the
child,’’ and that “it depends on
how much we love our
children.” However, he said,
discipline is something that does
begin at home.
Stiles said he would see what
he can do to bring the cities in
Liberty County together to work
for the common good.
“Everyone in Liberty and Day-
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GROUNDBREAKING —Members of the building committee at calvary
Baptist Church broke ground for a new building last Sunday following the
morning service. Helping with the ceremony were (left to right) Bill Dobson,
Charles Barr, Lynn Coffman, Danny Cook, Oscar Smith, Rev. Newtom
Hambrick, pastor, J. D. Smith and Robert Burns. See more on page 2. (Photo
by Annie Alexander)
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