The Teague Chronicle (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 6, 1991 Page: 1 of 12
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Dedicated To The Service Of The People And The Progress Of Teague And Freestone County
85TH YEAR - NUMBER 1
TEAGUE, TEXAS 75860
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1991
ESTABLISHED IN 1906 - 3<)<J
GRADUATING SENIOR WILLIE KEENER was one of
City Swimming
Pool Is Open
For Summer
One way to beat the heat during
these long summer days is to lake a
cool dip in the Teague City Pool
which is now open lor the summer.
The pool is open Tuesday - Satur-
day from 1 - 6 p.m. and on Sunday
from 1 - 5 p.m. Admission is S1.25
per person with children three and
finder admitted free.
™ Pool rules require that all chil-
dren under 8 years of age to be ac-
companied by an adult.
Persons wishing to rent the pool
for summer parlies need to get on the
ball since the pool will close for the
summeron August 15 th due to school
resuming earlier this August than in
the past.
Pool rental is S35 for two hours
Aj’lus $5 for a lifeguard. One lifeguard
*s required for every twenty-five
people at the pool. The pool can be
rented from 12 noon -12 midnight on
Mondays or from 6-8,8-10 or 10-12
p.m.on Tuesday - Sunday. Pool man-
ager again this year is Donna Gillium
and lifeguards are Eric Rider,
Please See POOL, Pg. 11
Freestone...
Ambulance Service Holding
Annual Membership Drive
TEAGUE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATING SENIORS throw their caps high into the air following the end of
the eighty-second annual Commencement Exercises held Friday, May 31st in the new T.H.S. Gymnasium. A
full house packed the new gymnasium to watch as fifty-seven graduates crossed the stage to receive their
diplomas.
The Freestone Ambulance Serv-
ice’s annual membership drive is now
underway and will) the Teague Gen-
eral Hospital still closed, a strong
membership base is very important
to maintain Teague’s only link to
emergency health care.
Membership fees are only $30 for
an individual and S40 for an entire
family and can be obtained at Citi-
zen’s National Bank, Donic Stale
Bank, Carol’s Answering Service or
Rick’s Funeral Home.
Being a member of the ambu-
lance service allows a member to use
an ambulance as often as medically
necessary to a hospital of your choice
within a 25 mile radius of Teague at
no additional cost to the patient.
After the Teague General Hospi-
tal closed, Carol Freeman of Carol’s
Answering Service (CAS) was con-
tact and asked to provide the dis-
patching for the Ambulance Service
and Teague Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment. The dispatching equipment
Ownership Changes...
Houston Corp. Purchases
Citizens Nat'l Bank Stock
ritizcns National Bank of Teague
officially changed ownership Friday,
May 31 st and is now under the direc-
tion of the Fairfield Financial Group,
®nc., based in Houston, Texas.
Although the name of the new
owners is Fairfield Financial Group,
Inc., the bank holding company has
no association at all with Fairfield,
Texas, reports Rick Renshaw of
Vacation Bible
School Set At
First Baptist
Vacation Bible School will 6e
held at the First Baptist Church in
Teague June 10-14 from 9:00 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m. Classes will be pro-
vided for ages three years through
sixth grade. Vans will be provided
pick your children up and deliver
fetem home again.
The vans will run in Teague
going north and south on all the
even numbered streets (2, 4, 6, 8,
etc.) plus Webb Ave., Chumney
Drive and Crestview. Also they
will run in the Lover’s Lane Addi-
tion, plus Circle Drive and the
addition near the Teague Motel.
They will leave each morning at
8:15. If additional routes are
deeded, please call the church of-
fice at 739-2353.
Please plan for your children to
auend as we will be learning about
Jesus and having fellowship.
Houston.
“The bank is sound, we’re plan-
ning on running it as usual and with
the same personnel,” says Renshaw,
who adds that the transaction was ba-
sically justachange in the ownership
of the bank’s stock.
“Our corporate philosophy is to
be active in the community while
being a full service bank to both
businesses and individuals in the
area.”
The Fairfield Financial Group,
Inc. is a branch of F.B.O.P., Inc., a
large bank holding company officed
in Oakpark, Illinois, a suburb of
Chicago, Illinois.
“We’re not new at this type of
thing,” says Renshaw about running
the bank, “this is what we do.”
“We’re planning to visit with the
bank personnel and discuss new
options and services for the area,”
concluded Renshaw.
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THE FREESTONE AMBULANCE SERVICE is currently conducting their annual membership drive.
Ambulance attendants pictured at the Ambulance Service's Open House held last Saturday, June 1st are (I to
r) Andre Smith, Lawrence Sowell, Kenneth Hall, David Walker, Sandra Rankin and Sharon Pingleton. Not
pictured are 1 racy Sartor and Bobby Burns. Memberships in the non-profit organization which provides
emergency care for Teague residents are only $30 for individuals or $40 for families.
Set To Run July 4th - 6th...
Anticipation Growing For Teague Rodeo
Anticipation is already growing
around town for the 62nd annual
Teague Amateur Rodeo set to run
this year from Thursday, July 4th
thru Saturday, July 6th in the City
Park Rodeo Arena.
As in the past, the rodeo will be
kicked off with a parade on Thurs-
day, July 4th beginning at 5 p.m. on
Main Street.
Another Year Older ...
Chronicle Turns 85
With this issue of the paper, The Teague Chronicle celebrates
another birthday and turns a year older. The Chronicle is now
officially 85.
The Chronicle is Teague’s oldest business establishment and
first went to press in June of 1906 in the booming railroad town of
Teague, Texas
The newspaper has been able to endure through all the years
because of its readers, subscribersand advertisers. If it were not for
these people, the newspaper could not have made it this long. To
you we say Thanks!!!
The annual rodeo is one of
Teague’s most looked forward loo
events of the year. Hundreds of rodeo
goers attend the rodeo on each night
to sec non-stop action by their favor-
ite cowboys and cowgirls.
Each of the three performances
beginatS p.m. nightly. Teague Rodeo
Association President Jerry Maggard
says that this year’s performance
promises to be one of the best rodeos
in a long time.
Events featured in this year’s
rodeo include bull riding, wild cow
milking, bareback riding, ribbon
roping, calf roping, ladies barrel
racing, junior ribbon roping, junior
barrel racing. Winners in each event
will receive a $600 Gist bell buckle.
Slock producer this year is Gene
Smith from Talco, Texas.
The Teague Rodeo Association
will hold adrawing again foraS 1,200
roping saddle which is handmade
each year by David Barnes of
Wortham. The saddle is currently on
display at Scott Holmes Feed & Fer-
tilizer in Teague.
Tickets for the drawing arc $1
each or 6 for $5 and arc available
currently available from any Teague
Rodeo Club member. The drawing
for the saddle will be held during the
Saturday night performance of the
rodeo.
Admission to the rodeo is $3 for
adults and $2 for children.
Books for the rodeo will be open
from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Thursday,
July 3rd at the Teague City Park
Arena or by calling 817-739-2343.
Co. Unemployment Is 6.2 %
from the hospital was relocated to
Carol’s Answering Service and a
contract was agreed upon for CAS to
receive incoming calls and dispatch
24 hours a day, 7 days a week at the
minimum wage per hour.
At the time the contract was en-
tered into, the Teague Police Depart-
ment telephone was being answered
by a recorder after 4 p.m. and on
weekends with instructions to dial
another number. In the spirit of com-
munity service, Carol volunteered to
answer the TPD phone and assist
callers who might be in distress. She
then purchased and installed a radio
with the police frequency and took
the State of Texas Basic Telecom-
munication Operator Course at the
Navarro County Sheriff’s Academy
and became certified for proper dis-
patching and provides the TPD dis-
patching at no additional cost to the
city.
Mrs. Freeman became further
involved with the ambulance service
when asked several years ago by an
ambulance attendant to volunteer
time to the service. She became in-
volved about the time for the annual
membershipdriveand helped to raise
funds to mail out over 2,(XX) mem-
bership letters. At this time there
were five full lime ambulance atten-
dants and “extras” lop keep the
ambulance scrviceoperating. Shortly
after that time, only two ambulance
attendants remained to operate the
ambulances creating a serious situ-
ation. Mrs. Freeman then went to the
Ambulance Service Board with a
proposal to house the ambulances at
the Freeman Building located on
Hwy. 84 and for volunteered herself
to be General Manager of the day to
day operations of the service at no
cost to either the service of the city.
After the proposal was accepted,
the Freeman’s constructed a garage
to house the units, keeping them
protected from the weather. A stor-
age closet was built for supplies to
keep the units stocked and a atten-
dant’s room was constructed inside
the Freeman’s building which is
available to all personnel insuring
the required five minute response
time. An instructor was enlisted to
conduct EMT classes to certify new
attendants for the services and classes
Please See DRIVE, Pg. 11
The unemployment rate for Free-
stone County during the month of
April totaled 6.2 percent, according
to figures released by Mary Scott
Nabcrsof the Texas Unemployment
Commission.
The April rale of 6.2 percent is six
tenths of a percentage point higher
than 5.6 percent rate recorded in the
Please See JOBS, Pg. 11
members of the Class of'91 to receive a diploma during the eighty-second
annual Commencement Exercises at Teague High School. Shown pre-
senting Keener his diploma is T.I.S.D. Board of Trustees Vice-President
Dr. Mike Cook.
In The F.U.M.C. Fellowship Hall From 12 noon to 6 p.m. .. .
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Massey, Steve. The Teague Chronicle (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 6, 1991, newspaper, June 6, 1991; Teague, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1130759/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.