The Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 94, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 24, 1982 Page: 2 of 32
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OPINION
Editorial
Thankful thoughts
A time for thanks
come once a
year
by ANNIE ALEXANDER
Rules for Growing Cities
offers solution to dilemma
Surcharge to show up
Manor
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The first Southwestern Bell
bills reflecting the 10 percent
surcharge on in-state long dis-
tance calls will begin arriving to
Texas customers in Cleveland
this week, said Gene Thacker,
Southwestern Bell community
relations manager.
The first bills showing the
surcharge* for state customers
were dated Nov. 15. The sur-
charge will continue for approx-
imately three months, until
Southwestern Bell recovers
about $16.9 million tn additional
revenues authorized by a court
decision.
The court ruled earlier this
year that the company is entitled
to the additional money because
of an error by the Public Utility
grading We are certain that
you will make every effort
maintain this superior level
care for your residents."
routinely thanked God for "health and
strength and daily bread." I would add to
that basic list of needs supplied, clean air,
singing birds and trees that change color.
Families seem to be disintegrating all
around us. The traditional mother, father,
and two scrubbed and beaming children
who can "go over the river and through the
woods to Grandmother’s house,” is no more
in all too many settings.
But who says that a family has to have
all those things to have the love, cohcern
and care felt so warmly in the "traditional
family”? A family is a unit of care and any
combination which meets that need can be
just as loving. Families without fathers as
well as an increasing number without
mothers still function with love and for this
PuMtabed every Wednesday and Saturday in
Cleveland, Texas by Advocate Publishing. Inc.
“We gather together..
This traditional Thanksgiving hymn
continues to say, "to ask the Lords' bless-
ings." Although we do not seem to have too
much trouble gathering together arund a
huge table overloaded with bounty, the
reason for the gathering escapes most of us.
Each year I try to make a list of things
for which we can all be thankful and yet I’m
sure my attempts are feeble if I were to
take the time to view my bounty with a
more careful eye -1 challenge all of you to
add to my list of thanks, the things for
which you and your family have been par-
ticularly blessed this year.
In a prayer I learned as a child we
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MANAGING EDITOR .,.: Annie Alexander
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RETAIL ADV ERTISING Marlene Kerr,
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will-be required to attend a school; spon-
sored by the state, to become familiar with
municipal law and the duties of his office.
If that same official takes another office
later, he would be required to attend the
duties of office portion of the school as a
consequence of his new position.
Once a year, the office holder would be
required to attend a seminar, held to inform
the town and village officials of any chan-
ges in the civil statutes or laws The first
school after incorporation would be financ-
ed by the state. Each school thereafter,
would be paid for by the township
After incorporation, each village or
town would be under the direction of a town
supervisor, similar to the position of city
manager in larger cities. The supervisor’s
salary would be paid by the state, but sup-
plemented by the town on a sliding scale, .
according to its resources. As the super-
visor would be responsible for several
townships, the allocation would be mini- '
mal.
Just at city managers have received
degrees in city management, town super-
visors would be equally schooled in the Ar-
ticles of Incorporation and the General Law
of the State of Texas and would have a clear
understanding of Vernon’s Texas Civil
Statutes. They would be licensed by the
state and must be certified before assuming
supervisory positions
Commission in the company’s
1980 rate request.
The PUC recently made the
decision that the revenues would
be recovered through a sur-
charge on in-state long distance
calls.
The surcharge applies to
calls made from telephones in
Southwestern Bell territory to -
other points within Texas. The
surcharge does not apply to calls
outside Texas. Calls made from
coin telephones or hotel or motel
telephones are exempt from the
surcharge.
Starting with the Nov. 15
bills, the surcharge will apply to
all intrastate long distance calls,
even if the calls were made prior
to the billing date.
The town supervisor would make sure
all regulations Were followed 2nd all books
strictly kept according to general accoun-
ting procedures. The supervisor would ar-
range for annual audits, though the cost of
auditing would fall to the township. Town
officials would use the supervisor's office
as a liaison in dealing with state depart-
ments and regulatory agencies.
This father-child relationship would
continue until the town is able to function on
its own, with no minimum length of time for
the self-sufficiency to take place. However ,
to keep a town from becoming dependent on
the guiding hand of its supervisor and stun-
ting its progress, certain principles of
growth are set down at the time of incor-
poration. ■ -
Although the time it takes to mature
may vary, as the town develops, its need for
the supervisor’s counsel will diminish.
Each step taken will reduce the amount of
time required of t^ie supervisor’s presence,
resulting in reduced funds the town pays to
the state.
When the town achieves the goals set
down at the time of its incorporation, it is on
its own. And with the knowledge gained
should be operating responsibly.
Although some small cities have trou-
ble coping with Vernon’s Statutes, I’m sure
Rice’s RuleS'for Growing Cities would be
just the solution.
I am thankful.
These are the big things which top my
list. Others which are much less earth-
shaking but which make my life more live-
able are cars that run, windows that open,
people who say thank you, and individuals
who refrain from dumping their debris and
damaging the countryside.
The list of thankful things could go on
forever because although many are out of
work and the dollar buys less than it did last
year, we still have a life in the "land for the
free” and a hope for a better future.
Please help complete the list by stopp-
ing in the midst of getting the turkey ready
and think of all the great reasons you have
to say thanks.
cloning.
Cleveland city of-
fices will be closed
both Thursday and
Thanksgiving Day, as a national holiday, i
uniquely American in its origin among nations.
The Pilgrim fathers crossed a stormy ocean in
search of religious freedom, and landed on the
shores of the new world, in Plymouth, Mass-
achusetts, in the fall of 1620.
They suffered a difficult winter of cold,
starvation and disease, losing half of their
members; and welcomed the spring as they set
themselves. That fall, 1621, when the crops were
gathered in, Governor William Bradford decreed
a day of Thanksgiving.
It was not, however, until two years later,
that a real joyous Thanksgiving took place. Dur-
ing the years of 1620 until early 1623, the colonist
were involved in a collectiyistic experiment
which had produced two years of hunger, starva-
tion and discontent.
Governor Bradford opposed the system of
communal holdings and encouraged the change
to severalty. Each family was given a parcel of
land and the Governor later wrote that much
more corn was planted, as women and children
joined in the field work willingly.
By the autumn of 1623, the Govenor wrote,
“Harvest was come and instead of famine, now
God gave them plenty and the face of things was
changed, to the rejoicing of hearts of many, for
which they blessed God.”
Thus, the first real Thanksgiving was in the
fall of 1623, and was a Thanksgiving for the end
of the collect! vistic experiment as much as for
the bounty of God from the earth. During the
years that followed the festival was kept alive,
being irregularly celebrated by different col-
onies and communities. In 1789 Congress passed
a resolution requesting that the President rec-
ommend to the people of the U.S. a day of public
Thanksgiving and prayer.
Although we are in a difficult economic
time, there are still many things for which we
can be thankful. There is a dark cloud of anxiety
and apprehensibn, but just at the Pilgrims dis-
covered many years ago, brighter times will ar-
rive with the future. ,
Many celebrations are planned, but none
should allow the bounty of the holiday t^ble to
overshadow the need for thankfulness for what
we have
The churches of Cleveland met together
Tuesday night to offer a combined petition of
praise and Thanksgiving which is a noble ges-
ture to help us all to remember the purpose of the
day
MAINTENANCE Catherine Smith Ctay
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Texas Frets Association
COMPOSITION:
Staff: Beth McGibney. Linda Shropshire.
Jayne Magee
CIRCULATION Fredia Cox
Staff: Francis Mims. Ronald Godejohn
BUSINESS OFFICE.... Lois Burns
Staff: Mary Mile. Nancy Matthews
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The Advocate,
Editor:
I wish to express my appreciation for
the cards, phone calls, and visits during my
stay in the hospital also other acts of kind-
ness shown me since my return home,
-s- Thelma Jackson
Cleveland
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by FRAN RICE
For months now I have been involved
with the problems of Patton Village and
Splendora And before that, with Oak
Ridge North and Shenandoah in south Mon
tgomery County. Each one of these com
munities has one thing in common cons
tant turnover in police chiefs, mayors and .
councilmen. /
As an observer, I’ve come to the con
elusion that laws governing the operations
of these and other towns and their depart-
ments are unknown or ignored To give the
benefit of the doubt, let’s just say that for
the most part the people running the city do
not know what the laws are and that their
decisions are made with the good of the
community at heart.
My solution comes in two parts, al-
though even if only one is used, the crippl-
s ing and sometimes life-threatening inaction
accompanying these misguided resolutions
may be avoided.
First, once a person takes office, elect-
ed or appointed, that individual would be
required to go to a school sponsored by the
state. After all, there is a candidate’s
school for people running for office.
When a- community votes to incor
porate, all officials would be required to at-
tend the school to learn the legal practices
and procedures necessary to run a town
Upon taking office, the new official
:d on All county offices
Day, will be closed Wednes-
day, Nov. M and will
not reopen until Mon-
day, Nov. 29. The coun
ty landfill will be open
on Saturday from 8
a.m. to noon following M
a Thursday and Friday
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Alexander, Annie. The Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 94, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 24, 1982, newspaper, November 24, 1982; Cleveland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1190223/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Austin Memorial Library.