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Volume 126, Number 70
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BISD mulls drug policy
Habitat for Humanity now
ready to take applicants
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Football Preview 1999 showcases
Bulldogs, Bearcats
See Special Section
By Paul McComack
THE PANOLA WATCHMAN
Arrest Report.........A4
Calendar of Events . . . B3
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By Teresa Cage
Special to The Panola Watchman
School,
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B*ckvlll» pastor Jack Harrtajooklng ovar medals tre^waa awardad during World War II,
k See ixSBLOLLY, pageTTE currant Loblolly magazine available thia week.
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and the Texas Department of Ho-
man Services. After skills aaaeca-
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salaries and debt service. Payroll
costs, driven by the state mandated
pay raise for educators, increased
by some $427,000 while debt
service added $211,000 to the
budget The Increase in debt
service resulted in an unavoidable
10-cent tax rate hike, said Booth.
Booth said that while the
legislature provided some ftinding
for the educators' $3,000 pay raise,
it provided nothing for the added
benefit costs that would result nor
did the legislature provide raises
for administrators and other school
personnel.
Booth, announced, however, that
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By Sherry Koonce
THE PANOLA WATCHMAN
A broad spectrum of new laws
passed by the 76th state legislature
will become effective today as
more than 900 laws ranging from
tightened abortion regulations to a
lowering of the legal blood-alcohol
limits hit the books for en-
forcement.
Taking aim at the state's grow-
ing number of drunken drivers,
Texas lawmakers passed a bill to
lower the legal Intoxication limit
from 0.1 to 0.08.
Area law enforcement officers.
; Legislators toughen DWl stance
Alcohol level changes
head new state laws
Harris, Ivie share combat stories
War heroes feted by staff
at 26th Loblolly reception
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Martin Stadium, the cornerstone
of the most ambitious educational
building campaign ever undertaken
by the Carthage Independent
School District, will begin its 51“
year as home to Carthage athletes
on Friday night during the Bull-
dogs' first game of the season.
The 4,000-seat capacity stadium
was completed during the first nine
months of 1948 for a total cost of
$166,436. Surrounded by a quarter-
mile cinder track, the stadium was
lighted by sixty-four 1,500-watt
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BISD Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent Chuck
Bledsoe read a poem modeled after Bob Hope's "Thanks for
the Memories" at his retirement reception at the high school
Monday. See ffte refuted story on page A-ff.
Q.M. Martin Stadium celebrates
half-century of CHS athletic play
proud to have the new football sta- sisted by Bill Tatum, coached boys'
dium, but "Carthage has always
backed the football team, regard-
less of where the games were
played."
Before the building campaign,
Carthage athletes played football
on a makeshift field adjacent to the
Koonce Building, and track and
field competitors ran on the grass
around the perimeter of the field.
"We started the track program
with some boys who loved to run,"
recalls George Bounds, who, as-
along with Texas Department of
Ihibllc Safety troopers, have an-
nounced their intention to vigor-
ously enimve the new law
"We will continue to enforce
DWI laws like we have in the past.
Keeping the highways free of
drunken driven has always been a
top priority, especially on the
weekends when people generally
consume more alcohol," said Sher-
iff's LL Byron McMillan.
He urged anyone who has been
drinking to arrange for a designated
driver in advance or to call some-
one who has not been drinking and
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Ivie's regiment, the Bushmasters,
would fight in the jungles until
1945. He went on to become a
Captain in command of an infantry
company in the Philippines and
survived many battles before the
war was ended.
The young officer's adventures
took him from Australia to Japan in
the next couple of years as his
regiment went from Pacific Island
to Pacific Island wiping clearing
out enemy soldiers to make room
for air strips and such.
"The first time my mom and dad
knew where I was April 1,1945. A
radio announcement said. Captain
Farris Ivie and his troops, the
bloody butchers of the South
Pacific, hit Legaspi Port this morn-
ing. retailed Ivie We kitted
athletics.
"We traveled to track meets In a
real small van. Mrs. Naomi Phillips
made our uniforms in the home-
making department. We just didn't
have any money," Bounds says.
The new quaiter-mile cinder
track on Martin Field validated the
fledgling CHS track and field pro-
gram, whose team members bad
made it all the way to the state
!► See STADIUM, page A2.
Two Panola County World War
II heroes shared memories, good
and bad, as the 26th anniversary
Loblolly publication was unveiled
Saturday at a reception held in
honor of the local veterans.
Farris Ivie and Jack Harris, were
the honored guests when the Win-
ter 2000 edition of the Loblolly was
unveiled
An East Texas native, Ivie had
barely graduated from Texas A&M
University in 1940, when he was
called into service during the early
stages of World Warn.
By 1943, Ivie, who was now a
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jungles of the South Pacific fight
Ing the Japanese Army. Named af-
tor the deadly bushmastor snake,
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LaVclle Brewster would run up the
middle, turn out to the right, and
Sepaugh would come out to meet
him, then go around to the left
Sepaugh could fly.”
On the next play, the Bulldogs
ran the same formation, but this
time, Brewster faked the handoff to
Sepaugh, tucked in the ball and
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selves to the second half, ending
the game with a tie score of 19-19.
Sepaugh said everybody was
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Known as Martin Field, the sta-
I dium was ready for action by the
1948 football season, just as con-
struction was set to begin on the
new Junior-Senior High
now Carthage Junior High
Initially, the stadium served as the
home field for the Carthage Bull-
dogs and Panola Ponies. In 1949,
the Ponies hosted the first college
Gas Bowl at Martin Field.
r The stadium was dedicated on
September 24, 1948, during the
Carthage Bulldogs' match against
Leverett's Chapel. Dignitaries on
• Tjand for the dedication Included
JDr. P.B. Koonce, school board
president; B.W. Musgraves, presi-
dent of Panola Junior College; Pre-
ston Garrett, architect; Luther Kay,
construction engineer, and RJ.
Kidd, head of the University
Interscholastic League of Texas.
Probably no one at that game
remembers it better than Ben Se-
paugh, whose 85-yard touchdown
run on the opening play of the sec-
ond half sparked a thrilling come-
back for the Bulldogs, down 19-0.
"The other team had run all over
us the first half," he recalls, with a .
shake of his bead. "At the half, all
- the bigwigs, Dr. P.B. Koonce,
president of the school board. Su-
perintendent Q.M. Martin and all
the rest of them came back into the
dressing room and really got us
fired up."
After being chastised about how
many people had turned out for the
dedication of the new stadium,
which was the best facility of its
kind at the time in all of East
Texas, the Bulldogs returned to the
field, rejuvenated and motivated.
"After the kickoff, LaVelle
handed the ball off to me and I ran
it all the way back. We were able to
tie the game on scampers like that,"
Sepaugh noted.
Assistant football coach Bill
Tatum remembers the successfill
play, "We had been working on
that play for two or three weeks.
state grant
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THE PANOLA WATCHMAN
Panola College Is a co-recipient
of a $529,321 grant that will create
75 area jobs while helping welfare
recipients to become self-sufficient
and drop from the public assistance
rolls.
i The Self-Sufficiency Ftmd
Grant for Panola College is to part-
nership with Carthage's Tyson
Foods, Inc., plant and Tyson Farms
of Texas Inc., in Center, as well as
the East Texas Restaurant Associa-
tion.
Those persons eligible to re-
ceive training win be identified
through the joint efforts of the
Deep East Texas and East Texas __________
Workforce Devetepmeai Boards Itoutanant, found himself to the
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George Y. Bounde, Ben Sepaugh and Bill Tatum apont time remlnlaclng recently at Martin
Stadium, which will enter Ita 51 at yoar In aorvlce to Carthago ISD Athlotlca at Frlday'a aoaaon-
openlng football game. All throe mon have historical ties to Carthago achoola and thoir athletic
programs.
By Paul McComack
THE PANOLA WATCHMAN
Beckville taxpayers and parents
were on hand Monday to give input
on the district's proposed drug
testing policy, an issue school
board members have struggled with
for months. Public comment
included very little on the debt
service tax rate hike proposed by
the board.
John Booth, Beckville
Independent School District
Superintendent, began the meeting
by explaining that the m^jor areas
in the district's budget that were
increased Included the areas of
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