The Alto Herald and The Wells News 'N Views (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1988 Page: 2 of 10
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PAGE TWO— IHEALTOHERALDOF ALTO, 1EXAS— IHURSDAY. FEBRUARY23. 1988
Four AISD students place
in UIL competition Saturday
Music group performs
Thursday at Wells church
From the mayor’s desk
by R A Wallace
Four Alto High School students
placed in the University Inter-
scholastic League competition
Saturday at Robert E. Lee High
School in Tyler.
Amy Wood won third place in
editorial writing and fourth place in
headline w riting.
Tanya Pirson made it to the finals
in prose interpretation, while Tara
Johnson and Arleen Poole made it to
the finals in poetry interpretation.
A record number or w scnoois en-
tered the UIL meet, according to a
Robert E. Lee spokeswoman.
Twenty-three A.H.S. students par-
ticipated in the meet. Four Alto
teachers, whosponsorU.I.L. events,
attended the meet and served as
judges in various events. Sponsors
were Mrs. Judy Stewart, Mrs. Paula
Low, Mr. Richard Semiear, and
Mrs. Beverly Harkness.
A guspei music giutip, the
Brashears, will appear Thursday
night, Feb. 25 at the Calvary Baptist
Church, Wells, according to the Rev.
Fred Neal, pastor. The public is in-
vited and there is no charge.
Neal said that the Brashears have
been singing and ministering the
gospel for the past 16 years,
traveling most of the year and
singing at churches, high schools,
concert halls and state and county
Pwaiv* Duoonllirillo A rlr IH**
group has been appointed as the
Ambassadors of Good Will for the
State of Arkansas and the City of
Russellville.
As a group, the Brashears enter-
tain with one purpose: to tell the lost
that Jesus is still the answer, and to
challenge the church to a closer
walk and a deeper relationship with
Jesus Christ.
we’re
at work
when the sun
goes
down
Jed Morris, Dena Pitts
named Mr., Miss WHS
II!!!!
Lights begin to twinkle across the countryside.
Lamps light up farmyards, light streams from
the windows of houses, street lights wink on
,in small towns. Rural America keeps on
working.
It wasn’t always so. Before the rural electrifica-
tion program, rural areas were dark after sun-
down. The work went on, but by candlelight
and kerosene lamp
Today, rural America lights up after sundown,
because small groups of tenacious, determin-
ed rural residents—farmers, shopkeepers,
retirees, teachers and preachers—formed
consumer-owned rural electric systems like
ours to bring electricity to the countryside. It
was tough work to turn on the lights in rural
America. It’s still not easy and our job is far
from finished. We must upgrade and improve
lines, serve new consumers, repair and
replace equipment. But we’ll keep work-
ing .. . even after the sun goes down.
Cherokee County
Electric Cooperative
Association
Jed Morris and Dena Pitts have
been named Mr. and Miss WHS at
Wells High School. In Junior High,
Heath McCarty and Tommie
Seymore were named Mr. and Miss
WJHS.
Other personalities named at the
high school included Bryan Neal and
Janna Gulledge, Most Likely to Suc-
ceed, Most Attractive, Wendell
Smith and Jennifer Herman; Best
all-Around, Jason Hopper and Kelly
Ballard and Most Fashionable, An-
dre Hayes and Dena Pitts.
Also, Friendliest, Danny Wayne
Carter and Anna Gulledge; Best
Personality, James Wagnone and
Mary Jackson and Wittiest, John
Glover and Dana McKnight.
Class favorites named were,
twelfth grade, Mike Jenkins and
Wynette Tobias; eleventh, Danny
Carter and Jennifer Herman; tenth,
Jeff Morris and Michelle Williams;
and ninth, Joey Neal, Mark Sullivan
and Jeana Hopper.
In junior high, Most Attractive
were Dustin Carter and Jana
O’Quinn; Best All Around, Mike
Carver and Tommie Seymore; Most
Fashionable. Heath McCarty and
Shana Bailey and Friendliest, Jerry
McKnight and Melody Herring. Carl
Von Brewer and Jill Grubbs were
named Best Personality and Wit-
tiest were James Adams and Tina
Jones.
Seventh grade Class Favorites are
Mickey Johnson and Renelle Carter
and eighth grade Class Favorites
are Heath McCarty and Tommie
Seymore.
* VOTING BOXES,
... continued from page one
Highway 175; Box 21, Mixon, at the
Mixon Community Center; Box 22,
North City of Jacksonville at the
North Bolton Fire Station, Box 23,
North Central City of Jacksonville at
the Jacksonville Public Library;
Box 24, North Jacksonville at the
fellowship hall of the Tecula Baptist
Church
Box 25, New Summerfield at the
New Summerfield City Hall; Box 26,
Pleasant Hill at the Pleasant Hill
County Building on Highway 110;
Box 27 Ponta, Ponta Community
Center; Box 28 Concord, Concord
Presbyterian Church educational
building; Box 29 Forest, old post of-
ficebuilding
Box 30, South Husk, Salem Baptist
Church Highway 241; Box 31,
Dialville, Dialville Methodist Chur-
ch; Box 32, Mount Selman, Mount
Selman United Methodist Church
Polling sites for the Republican
Party include voter registration box
number 10 in the basement meeting
room of the Cherokee County cour
thouse with Party number of 1A;
voter registration number 14 and 15
at the Jacksonville First Station on
Loop 456, Highway 79 with Party
number of IB; registration card box
numbers 11 and 12 at the town hall
and fire station building at Gallatin
with party number 1C; Registration
card box numbers of 13 and 31 at the
school building at Maydelle with
Party number of ID
Voter registration box numbers of
8,9 and 30 at the Cherokee Theatre in
Rusk with party number 2A;
registration card box numbers 5,6,7
and 29 at the Lions Club Building in
Alto with party number of 2B ; voter
registration box numbers 16, 17, 18,
and 19 at the Lon Morris College
Teachers Lounge in Jacksonville
with party number 3A; voting
registration card box numbers of 20,
21, and 32 at the First Baptist Church
at Mount Selman with party number
of 3B; Box 22, 23 and 24 at the senior
citizens building, 300 North Bolton,
Jacksonville with a party number of
4A; Voter registration card box
numbers 25, 26, 27 and 28 at the New
Summerfield school building with
party number 4B.
f^arty number boxes 1C, lDand2B
areadditional pollingsites.
Many Alto citizens had questions
about their gas bill which they
received at the first of the month.
Most gas bills were much higher
than they had ever been before. You
will remember we have had a lot of
cold weather. I think I can best ex-
AVFD
Auxiliary Report
By MARIAN LANDRUM
A monthly meeting was held Mon-
day Feb. 22 at 6 p.m. at the Alto Fire
Station of the newly organized
Volunteer Fire Dept. Ladies
Auxiliary. Officers were elected.
Elected were Thelma Sherouse,
president; Norma Parsons, vice
president; Marian Landrum,
secretary and reporter; Cindy
Robinson, treasurer; and Diann
Walley, publicity chairman.
Goals and fund raising projects
were discussed. Also a cake sale will
be held soon. The group discussed
the need for recruiting new mem-
bers.
Anyone wanting to join or who
would like more information about
the auxiliary, can contact Thelma
Sherouse, 858-3363 or Norma Par-
sons, 858-3899.
The next meeting will be at 7 p.m.
March 21 at the VFW Club.
Everyone is welcome.
Help support our Volunteer Fire
Dept.
Taste Fair to be held
March 8 at Wells
By TAMELACALHOUN
Wells HS Student
The PTA Taste Fair will be held
March 8 in the cafeteria.
On the night of the Taste Fair, pr-
epared dishes should be brought to
the cafeteria by 5 p.m Serving will
begin at 5:30. Admission is $2 for
adults and $1 for students.
Recipe booklets will be sold for $2
each The PTA would appreciate
receiving a variety of dishes for the
Taste Fair
For further information, contact
Jeri Gail Cartwright, 867-4532.
2f\
The Goliath frog of West Africa
measures more than 30 inches and
weighs about seven pounds,
pidlll IIIID nttj . Hum , ,w, win ..CP 1.,
to Decmeber 15, the City of Alto
purchased $39,925.56 in gas. From
December 15 to January 15 Alto
purchased $58,015.55 in gas.
Our thanks go to John Nickle for
the $163.50 he collected at the auc-
tion sale for the ambulance fund
Our thanks also to the ladies who
donated to the bake sale for the auc-
tion - proceeds $41 50.
Please be patient with us. Do you
live on East or West Highway 21 or
South 69 or Singletary Street7 Have
you just recently been connected to
the city sewer system for the first
time? Do you have holes, sinks,
rough places in your driveway or
yard, etc? Dennis Fade, the Gemco
contractor, has had back surgery
He will be back on the job to do
necessary repairs as soon as he
recovers.
Does your dog run loose? Has
your neighbor complained to you
about his garbage being torn open?
Please cooperate and put your dog
on a chain or info a pen
Mary Clem has just received a
notice that natural gas has gone up
nine cents per thousand cubic feet.
Anytime you have suggestions
that might help us make Alto a
more efficiently run city, please
teel tree to call or come by City
Hall. This is your city. With your
help and cooperation, we can make
it a better place to live.
I remind you that donations and
memorials to the ambulance fund
for the new ambulance can be
mailed to Alto Ambulance Service,
Box 447, Alto, Tx 75925
I thought you might like to know
that during the last quarter of 1987
the customers of Alto Natural Gas
Company paid a total of $1,464.80 in
tax. During the same quarter, the
citizens of Alto paid a total of
$763.15 garbage tax
R A Wallace, Mayor
The Alto Herald
and Wells News ’N Views
ti srs oir> o2<h
A Leader in Southern
Cherokee County
Since 1896
Entered as second class matter
at the post office in Alto, Texas
75925 Published weekly on Thurs-
day by:
WHITEHEAD ENTERPRISES
P.O. Box 637, Alto, Tx 75925
Ph. (409) 858-4141 or (214) 683-2257
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
PAYABLE In ADVANCE
$11.00 per year in county
$13.00 per year in Texas
$15.00 per year out of stole
$20.00 per year overseas
R^ocka's Super Market
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202 San Marcus -Alto
Boots — Shoes — Clocks — Lamps — Jewelry
Vi atches — Wash Stands — CB Radios
Up to 50 *7c off
on Some Items
Prices Good February 25 - 28, 1988
Peanut Brittle $|°o
(Math- Its (.alvarv Tabernacle I l’(.)
Ne« and Reconditioned
Car Batteries
90-day warranty In t years
n695
$ ]9<
$ | 29
Preston Milk
Pepsi
3-Ring Tomatoes io35
9QC
Parade Vlac & Cheese Pinner 7.2.mi/..
Generic Kvaporated Filled Milk i.w 35
Parade Biscuits x.«./Ki.rh 20
Parade Charcoal mitts. 1
Belter-Value Yellow Peaches 29,./. 70
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Betler-Value W/K Golden Corn I7»/.
Parade Pit* Shells 2/9” 60
Texaco Anti-Freeze
Lettuce
Red Grapes
Potatoes
Cabbage
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Pork Roast
Round Steak
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BAPTIST
Calvary Baptist
Bro. Fred Neol, Pastor
Wells 876 4391
Campground Baptist
Rev Charles Russell, Interim Pastor
First Baptist. Alto
Rev William Snidow, Pastor
Phone 858 4826
First Baptist, Wells
Edward L Davis, Postor
Phone 867 4900
Forest Baptist
Jim Boone Postor
Hilltop Baptist, Alto
Rev Bill Morgan Pastor
Alto Missionary Baptist
Rev Odls Bryan Pastor
New Hope Baptist
Rev T J Bagley, Postor
Old Palestine Baptist
Rev Hollis Bass, Postor
Phone 858 3301
Pollok Baptist
Ira Bright, Pastor
Phone 853 2835
Union Hill Baptist
Rev Issac Wiley Pastor
Weches Primitive
Baptist
Elder O J Moseley Pastor
First, Second & Third Sundays
MtTHOniST
A. Frank Smith UMC
Rev James R Knight Pastor
Phone 858 4347
Lynches Chapel UMC
Rev Jimmy Hawkins Pastor
1st & 3rd Sundays, 9:30 a.m.
Cold Springs UMC
Rev Jimmy Hawkins, Pastor
Falvey UMC, Wells
Rev James E Wilkerson, Pastor
Phone 867 4525
Mt. Zion UMC
Rev James R Knight, Postor
Fourth Sunday 2 30pm
St. Thomas Chapel AME
Rev E G Reed Pastor
Phone 858 371 1
ASSEMBLYoi COD
First Assembly of God
Rev V C. Troutman
Phone 858 4626
CHURCH of CHRIST
Alto Church of Christ
Travis W Ferrell, Pastor
Church of Christ, Alto
John Peal Pastor
Phone 858 3829
Church of Christ, Wells
Cecil Stringer Pastor
Non-Denominc 11 iona I
First Church
of Holy Sanctified
Mother B B Watts
Sweet Union
Rev, T. J Hart Pastor
Church of the
Lord Jesus Christ
John R Grubbs Postor
PENTECOSTAL
Calvary Tabernacle
United Pentecostal
Rev Tom Wainwright Pastor
Phone 858 4360
First Pentecostal
Rev Clayton McClendon, Postor
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