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August 4,
1999
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Briefly
Cookbooks
The Seminole Senior Citizens
Cookbooks are HERE!
The cost for each hard cover
and waterproof book is $15.00,
or $12.50 for senior citizens
who are 65 and older.
To purchase or pick up your
reserved books, call Shelby at
758-2352, or Linda at 758-
4009, or Wanda at 758-4020.
Substitute Coffee
Seminole ISD will host a
substitute coffee Friday, Aug. 6,
at 10 a.m. in the board room of
the administration building.
All persons who have served as
substitutes in the past or arc
interested in serving in the
1999-2000 school year are
encouraged to attend.
Information will be given out,
as well as sign-up sheets and
principals will be present to
answer questions.
Football Season
Ticket Info
Season tickets for the 1999
Seminole High School varsity
football season are on sale to
option holders tins week in the
business office in die Seminole
Independent School District
Administration Building.
Tickets remaining after this
week will go on sale to the
general public Monday, Aug. 9.
The price of each book of
tickets is $17.50 (five home
games @ $3.50 each).
Pictures available
Graduation Cap and Gown
pictures, which arc available to
Seminole High School
graduates, arc currently
available. >
Those wishing copies should
pick them up at the high school
office.
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Prather...Rowland
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Volume 92 Number 83 e-mail: sentinel@wtaccess.com Seminole (Gaines County), Texas 79360 €> 1999 Website: seminolesentinel.com Wednesday, August 4, 1999
Three more inches of rain received
Brings year's total to 17.12 '
CAROLE KEETON RYLANDER TEXAS COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
LES TAX HOUDAY
Texans get a break from state and local sales taxes gn August 6,7 and 8. the state's
first annual tax holiday. The Texas Legislature exempted most clothing and footwear
priced under $100 from sales and use taxes. That could save shoppers about $8 on
every $100 they spend.
TAX - FREE
Baby clothes
Bathing suits
Belts with attached buckles
Boots-cowboy, hiking
Bras
Bridal apparel
(unless rented) •
Caps/hats—baseball,
fishing golf, knitted
Choir robes
Coats and wraps
Costume
Diapers-adult and baby
Dresses
Formal clothing s
Gloves (generally)
Gym suits and uniforms
Hooded shirts
and hooded
sweatshirts
Hosiery
Jackets
Jeans
Jerseys-baseball
ana football
Jogging apparel,
such as bras,
suits and shorts
' Lingerie
Neckwear and ties
Pajamas
Pants and trousers
Raincoats and ponchos
Robes
Shirts
Shoes-sandals, safety
shoes, slippers, sneakers,
tennis, walking
Socks (including athletic)
Shorts
Suits, slacks and jackets
Sweatshirts
Sweat suits
Sweaters
Swim suits and trunks
Tuxedos (not rentals)
Work clothes and uniforms
Underclothes
For more information visit the Comptroller s web site at www window state tx us or call toll-free 1 800-252-5555
AUGUST 6-8
What was called a “saving” rain
fell in the Gaines County area
Monday, with varied amounts
reported.
According to Creed Newman,
executive director of the Gaines
County Farm Service Agency, who
made the “saving” remark, the
precipitation was “really needed” and
that many wells in the county were
pumping off.
Most of the precipitation fell in
Seminole itself, with the official total
registering 3.15 inches. However, a
report from a location five miles
south of Denver City revealed 3.5
inches.
The three-plus inches of rain
recorded in Seminole, which was
recorded over a three-day period,
marks the most measurable
precipitation since a storm die end of
April, when just under six inches
officially fell in Seminole.
However, with the April rain came
massive flooding and hail damage,
while this umc there was no
widespread flooding reported and no
reports of hail.
According to the National Weather
Service in Midland, rain clouds
drifted over Seminole during the early
morning hours Monday and stayed
over the city all morning into the
early afternoon.
Other reports from locations
around the city did not show as much
rain, with one exception. Shelby
Elam, who farms south of Seminole,
who reported three inches, mostly
Sunday evening. Oilier reports came
from Phil Wallace, who farms 20
miles west of Seminole,
approximately one inch, Dcimon
Ellison, Junior, who reported
amounts from one to one and one-half
inches at locations north of Seminole
and Elco Gin, located cast of
Seminole, which reported 1.5 inches.
In Seminole itself, there were
reports of stalled cars at some
locations and some flooding of sheets
and roads cast of Seminole at the
intersection of Southeast Avenue G
extension and U.S. 180, the Denver
City Highway and County Road 108
northwest of Seminole, the north
traffic light downtown and on U.S.
385, near Thelma’s.
According to weather forecasts,
there is a chance of more
precipitation until later this week.
Tax holiday on school items juiy; hot and dry
This Friday through Sunday, Aug.
6-8, Texans will enjoy the first-ever
Texas sales tax “holiday.”
Items of children’s and adult
clothing and non-athletic shoes,
costing less than S100, will be
completely exempt from state and
local sales taxes. It has been
estimated by die Stale Comptroller’s
Office that die “holiday” will save
Texas consumers over $69 million.
(Sec cliart accompanying this story
for selected tax-free items).
Aihlcuc shoes and clothing
commonly used as everyday wear,
such as football jerseys, baseball
caps or running shoes costing less
dian S100 will be exempt. However,
items used exclusively for athletic
purposes, such as golf shoes or
football pants, arc not eligible for the
sales lax break. In addition, jewelry,
handbags and wallets arc not exempt.
Originally, it was stated that formal
wear would not be exempt, but the
current plan is to have that type of
clothing exempt.
Sales tax holidays conducted m
other states have proven tp be good
news for both retailers and
customers. Since January of 1997,
New Yorkers have saved over S8I
million, thanks to dircc sales tax
holidays; Florida’s $50 sales tax
holiday last August saved families
over $15 million.
The tax holiday came about when
the State Legislature passed, and
Governor Bush signed. Senate Bill
441.
Water district budget submitted
A tentative budget for the 1999-
2000 fiscal year of the Llano
Estacado Underground Water District
was presented to the district board
during its regular meeting Tuesday.
PROPOSED BUDGET
In presenting the document to
fund the district in the coming fiscal
year and could actually be reduced in
the following fiscal year.
The proposed document calls for
revenues of $199,271.28, including a
carryover of $7,996.28 from the
current budget, and expenditures of
Dale
This Week
Hi Low
Prec.
board members. District Manager
Lee Arrington said the budget was
July 30
104
68
...00
based on a tax rate of one cent per
July 31
100
68
.00
$100 valuation and a 98 percent tax
Aug. 1
94
66
..17
collection rate by the Gaines County
Aug. 2
81
67
.21
Appraisal District. When the district
Aug. 3
-
64
2.77
was approved by Gaines County
.(Readings taken at 7:30 m. daily for
previous 24 hours)
Total rainfall for Aug...,.„J.lS”
Total rainfall for 1999. ..17.12"
(Jan. .90”, Feb. .00, Mar. 1.92”,
Apr. .73". May 7.57”, June 2.43",
July .42”)
voters in November of last year,
voters also voted to limit the tax rate
to no more than two cents per $100
valuation. Arrington said the ppnny
rate should be more than enough to
$182,380, leaving a projected
surplus of just under $17,000.
Arrington said he had built in a
repayment of approximately $16,000
-half the amount borrowed by the
district when it first formed to operate
until tax monies came in—to
Seminole National Bank in the
proposed budget.
Since the projected surplus would
cover the other half, the board asked
Arrington to include full repayment.
Date, *98
July 30
July 31
Aug. I
Aug. 2
Low Free.
» ~ 71 .00
71 .00
71 Tr
72 .00
Aug. 3 100 74 .00
Total rainfall Aug. "98......1.87”
Total rainfall, 1998 -------7.84”
Record Aug. High, 1977 ... 108
Record Aug. Low, 1974......51
Average Aug. High..........93.2
Average Aug. Low .......... 63.8
Average Aug. rainfall.......2.18”
Greatest daily rainfaU.’68.4.46"
Greatest Aug. rainfall's 1.7.50”
Avg. Aug. days 32 A under. 0
Avg. days over 90 degrees.. 24
(Official NWS record* am maintained by
John E. Moffau. Records we for the period.
1922-99)
Lubbock man jailed here
for health insurance theft
which would make the surplus less
than $1,000.
After going through die entire
budget with the board, Arrington
stated that at the next regular
meeting, a public hearing on the
budget will take place and then the
board will vote whether or not to
approve it. The next regularly
scheduled meeting would have been
September 7 at 9 a.m., the day after
the Labor Day holiday. Several board
members stated it was unlikely they
would be able to attend the meeting,
so it was moved to the second
Tuesday in September, the 14th, also
at 9 a.m.
The district’s fiscal year will run
from Oct. 1, 1999 until September
30,2000.
RULES DISCUSSION
It was 104 degrees on the first day
of die month and 104 degrees on the
last day of die month, a good
indication that July was a hot and dry
month.
But, actually. July 1999 was not as
hot as July a year ago.
The average mean temperature last
month was 80.82 degrees, as
compared to a mean average of 84.54
degrees last year.
One hundred and four degrees was
the maximum temperature, recorded
on the 1st, 2nd and 31st. And the
therometer soured to the century mark
or belter on three other days during
the month.
The record maximum temperature
for July is 113 degrees, recorded in
1958.
The lowest minimum temperature
last mondi was 59 degrees on July
12. The record low temperature for
July is 52 degrees, recorded in 1952.
It was a dry month with
measurable ram of .2b" on the 10th
The record rainfall for July is 9.73
inches in 1988.
July Weather
Summary
Date
July 1
Julv 2
July 3
July 4
July 5
July 6
July 7
July 8
July 9
July 10
July 11
July 12
July 13
July 14
July ,15
July 16
July 17
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and .16" on the 11th for a total of
only .42" for the entire month. This
brings die year’s total to 13.79
inches.
July
July 21
July 22
July 23
Registrations set
for local schools
July 28
See WATER Page 2
A Lubbock man is currently in
Gaines County Jail in lieu of
$100,000 bond in regard to an
alleged theft.
According to Seminole Police
Chief Mickey Browne, police
received a report on June 25 that a
complainant had purchased a long-
term health insurance policy from
Tory Sims of Sims and Associates of
Lubbock and had never received the
insurance policy.
Police began an investigation at
that time and found the check made
payable to the insurance carrier by
the complainant had been deposited
into Sims’ business account.
The victim did not receive the
insurance policy agreed upon and the
insurance company did not receive
the check or premium for the
insurance policy.
Based upon evidence gathered, a
warrant was issued for Sims. Last
Thursday. July 29. Sims was arrested
at the Seminole Police Department by
Detective Chad Hallum on a charge
of theft over $1,500 and under
$20,000. Sims was arraigned by
Seminole Justice of the Peace Shirley
Barnett, who set the $100,000 bond.
Detective Hallum is continuing the
investigation.
26 early votes
cast in sales
tax election
A total of 26 residents had voted
early in the sales tax increase election
as of presstime Tuesday.
Early voting will continue until 5
p.m. next Tuesday, Aug. 10, at
Seminole City Hall. Election day is
Saturday. Aug. 14, with polls open at
City Hall between the hours of 7 a.m.
and 7 p.m.
Voters will cast ballots either for or
against an increase of one-half cent in
the city’s sales tax.
Registration at three Seminole
schools is set for this Thursday,
August 5.
Junior high students will all
register, with eighth graders from
9:00-10:30 a.m.; seventh graders
from 10:30 a.m.-12 noon; and sixth
graders from 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Also registering arc students at
Seminole Elementary, from 9 a.m.-4
p.m. and F.J. Young students from
8:30 a.m.11:30 a m. and 12:30-3:30
p.m.
Monday, Aug. 9. the final two
schools will register, with Seminole
Primary students registering from 9
a.m -12 noon and 1-4 p.m. From 9
a.m.-12 noon and 1-3 p.m..
registration will take place at the
Seminole Success Center.
Seminole High School students
registered Tuesday and today
(Wednesday)
Hi
Lo
Prec.
104
72
.00
104
72
.00
98
73
.00
95
70
.00
90
65
.00
90
67
.00
91
67
.00
94
67
.00
97
69
.00
99
68
.26
78
61
.16
81
59
.00
86
61
.00
93
65
.00
98
68
Tr
96
70
.00
94
68
Tr
97
nn
91
67
.00
90
66
.00
91
67
.00
93
67
.00
93
65
.00
99
66
.00
100
67
.(X)
100
66
.00
96
66
.00
95
69
.00
99
69
.00
102
68
.00
104
68
.00
Total Rainfall .42"
Highest Max. Temp. 104
Lowest Max. Temp. 78
Highest Min. Temp. 73
1 owest Min. Temp. 59
Avg. Mean Temp. 80.82
Avg. High Temp. 94.61
Avg. Low Temp. 67.03
Days 90 degrees or more 28
Days 100 deg. or more 5
Days 32 deg-. & below 0
Days of thunder 3
Record July High. 1958 113
Record July Low, 1952 52
Average July rainfall 2.14"
Greatest daily rain. ’91 2.76"
Greatest July rain, ’88 9.73"
Avg. days over 90 degs. 26
Avg. days under 32 degs. 0
All-limc Avg. High 99.26
All-time Avg. Low 69.81
(Official NWS records maintained
by John E Moffatt. Records arc for ihc
pcnixJ. 1949 dl)
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Dow, M. Gene & Fisher, David. The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 83, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 4, 1999, newspaper, August 4, 1999; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1049507/m1/1/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gaines County Library.