The Sanger Courier (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 13, 1975 Page: 1 of 12
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Bank of Sanger. Here high school librarian
Cheryl Duke discuss the covers with bank
senior viCfe-president Wally Cochran and
bank employe Jimmy Jones.
BANK DONATES NEW MAGAZINE
RACKS TO SCHOOL The Sanger High
School Library is sporting two new magazine
racks and several new magazine covers,
thanks to the generosity of the First National
kept the office open.
Trammell said the county
received prices Monday on
punch card and lever
machines for voting. He said
punch cards would cost
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Council chambers during the
recent Constitution amend
ment election.
“One long table and
people walking around you,
3 waiting for a place to sit
down,” the Bolivar woman
wrote in her letter. “I don’t
think City Hall is a proper
voting place.”
$ Trammell said the county
£ had several voting booths
£but he didn’t know how
$8 many or where they were
£ located. But he agreed he
ft* would check on them.
Trammell said a polling
place is hard to locate. Many
^businesses, he said, don’t
» The secret ballot and
£ Sanger’s voting site came
Sunder attack this week.
S “Thought a person was to
ft; be able to vote in some
« privacy,” a Bolivar woman
wrote in a letter to The
Courier this week. The
£ Courier, in turn, presented
J County Judge Dan Tram
mell with the problem. ..
“We (the county) will look
into it,” Trammell said.
Sanger and Bolivar resi-
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machines would cost some
$300,000.
“That’s a sizeable outlay,”
he said.
Trammell said the county
probably would wind up
with some type of voting
system for the larger
precincts. But precincts such
as Sanger would still have
the paper ballot and the
same privacy problem.
Trammell said it was not
difficult to count a few
hundred paper ballots, but it
was hard to tally several. easily,
thousand.
Trammell said the county
had made no decision on
voting machines or punch
cards, but said the Com
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Postmaster Benny L.
Bridges today urged all
residents of Sanger to mail
as early as possible and
observe the following sug-
gested holiday mailing
dates:
November 18-Parcel Air
Lift (PAL) mail to Armed
Forces in South and Central
America, Republic of Zaire
and Liberia.
November 20 Space Avail-
able Mail (SAM) to Armed
Forces in Belgium, Den-
mark, England, Finland,
France^ Germany, Greece,
Italy, Norway, Netherlands,
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Trammell said he would:-:
contact Commissioner Bill|g
Switzer about the problem £
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Sanger Citizens Urged
To Mail Early
Portugal and Spain.
Also SAM mail to Armed
Forces in Antarctica, Aus-
tralia, Indonesia, Japan,
Korea, New Zealand, Oki-
nawa, Philippines, Taiwan
and Thailand.
November 25-Surface Mail
and Space Available Mail
(SAM) to Armed Forces in
Canada, Greenland, Labra
dor, Newfoundland and the
Azores.
November 27 Parcel Airlift
Mail (PAL) to Armed Forces
in Belgium, Denmark, Eng-
land, Finland, France, Ger
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Secret Ballot Questioned f
want them because they missioners Court probably £
have to close for the day.
Mayor Ken Cornell has again prior to the Primary ft-
complained on a number of election. £
election days about the City Voting sites, Trammell ft-
Hall closing. This year, he explained, are usually chos-
en by the election judges. £
“The election judge picks £
the spot and we go along £
with it,” he said. ft-
Sanger and Bolivar voters £
cast their ballots from the ft;
about $100,000 while voting long table used (for City >%
Council meetings. No booths £
were provided and most ft-
voters could plainly see how £
their neighbors were mark- ft;
ing their ballots. £
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The Courier suggested £
Trammell and the county £
contact Mrs. Eunice Gray ft-
about using the Sanger £
Public Library as a polling g
place. The library has a
large meeting room area,
which could be converted £
into an election area quite
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Burglary
Burglars emptied the coin
boxes at Sanger Coin-O-
Matic sometime Friday.
Chief of Police Bill Carter
said someone. apparently
had a key to the coin boxes.
Locks on the boxes have
been changed since the
incident.
Carter said there was no
way of determining the
amount of loss.
Carter said he also
investigated a house burg-
lary but that the owner of
the home did not want to
pless charges.
Only a small amount of
wine and beer were taken
from the home, he said.
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City Submits Application for
State Sewer Funds
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bonds would be retired over
a 15 year period, while the
sewer bonds would be
retired in 18 years.
Moore said the average
annual bond payment would
be $61,300, compared with
bond
of
the present annua)
retirement payment
$35,328.
Bonds were approved by
the voters in an election on
Feb. 24, 1973.
The City Council voted
last month to sell the
$315,000 in bonds to finance
the wrap around sewer line
and capital improvements to
Sanger Electric System.
Brazos Electric Coopera-
tive has estimated it will
need $97,875 for capital im-
provements next year.
Mayor Ken Cornell has
said the city will have to
“beg” for easements for the
sewer line because there are
no funds available for
purchase of right of way.
Moore said only the sewer
bonds’ are eligible for state ’
participation.
Sanger Electric Budget
Due Council Action Monday
the figure will actually be
$75,000. .
Lindon Carr, superinten-
dent of the system and
Moore will travel to Waco
Friday to discuss the pro-
posed budget with officials
of Brazos Electric. Moore
said there were some
“questions and concerns”
about the budget that
needed to be resolved before
the council meets next
Monday night.
Included in the proposed
budget is $34,500 for
construction of a new distri-
bution line into the Sanger
Electric System.
Brazos will construct a
new sub station west of the
city and distribution lines
will be the city’s responsi-
bility.
The council approved a
five per cent rate increase in
May of this year.
The City Council will act
Monday on the proposed
1976 budget for Sanger
Electric System.
The new budget calls for a
net of $96,414 to the city,
and total revenue of
$484,413.
City Secretary Ed Moore
said the budget figures are
based on a five per cent load
growth for next year. No
rate increase is anticipated,
although the fuel adjust-
ment charge will fluctuate.
Moore said the electric
system estimates its aver-
age monthly fuel adjustment
charge at 18.8 mills next
years. It averaged about 12
mills per KWH this year and
only four mills last year. It
was 14.9 last month.
The city expected to re-
ceive some $88,000 from the
electric system last year,
but Moore said he believes
$165,000
City Secretary Ed Moore
will travel to Austin Wed
nesday to present the city’s
application for a loan for
construction of a wrap
around sewer line west of
Interstate Hwy. 35.
The line, which would
serve the new high school,
would follow the highway to
West Austin Street, east on
West Austin to a creek near
the highway, south along the
creek to the flood plain of
Clear Creek and east to a
proposed lift station site on
old U. S. 77.
City Engineer Bob Shawn
originally estimated the cost
of the line to be $165,000.
But the city had intended to
run the line into existing
facilities in the Hillcrest
Addition.
The City Council changed
to line to tie into sewer
facilities at the First Baptist
Church. Shawn said this
wo’dd cost an additional
$38,000.’
Moore, Shawn and city
financial advisor Dan Almon
will travel to Austin Wed-
nesday to present the
application and explain the
proposal to staff members of
the Texas Water Quality
3oard.
Moore said the state has
unds available for loan to
cities for construction of
sewer facilities. Interest
rates are 5.5 per cent, lower
than the bonds could be sold
on the open market.
Almon has estimated
bonds will sell for 7.5 per
cent on the open market.
The city has $305,000 in
bonds it will sell on Dec. 15,
but it is hoped the state will
purchase $165,000 worth of
them for the sewer project.
The Sanger ‘Independent
School District has agreed to
give the city $20,000 to help
construct sewer facilities at
the new high school.
Moore said the $165,000 in
bonds, along with the
$20,000 given by the school
would leave the city some
$13,000 short for the entire
project. But he said the city
has $38,000 left from a 1973
sewer bond sale now on
deposit in the First National
Bank.
"We could use $13,000
from those funds and still
have $25,000 left to upgrade
the Bolivar Road sewer
line,” Moore said.
The bonds sold in 1973
were originally intended to
be used to construct sewer
improvements along Bolivar
Road, in the area a line from
Nickerson Farms entered
the system.
Almon, in his application
to the Water Quality Board,
estimates the date of sale of
bonds will be Dec. 15. The
City Council, however, has
not yet set a date for the
sale.
Almon said he felt the
bonds could be retired
without a water or sewer
rate increase.
The Dec. 15 sale would
intrude $40,000 in water
revenue bonds and $100,000
in electrical revenue bonds.
The electric and water
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STUDENT TEACHERS AT
TARY SCHOOL- Student teachers from
TWU and NTSU are doing their practice
teaching in Sanger under th£ direction of
Elementary Principal Travis Underwood and
the elementary teachers. Pictured are Peggy
Klein, TWU; Suzie Lepeyre, NTSlhtPamla
Schultz, NTSU; Principal Underwood; Ann
Merritt. NTSU; Gert Perry, NTSU; and Kay
Dane, NTSU.
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SANGER, DENTON COUNTY, TEXAS 76266
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1975
NUMBER 7
78TH YEAR
BOX 247
SANGER,; TEX’ ; . 762C5
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Cole, Ralph. The Sanger Courier (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 13, 1975, newspaper, November 13, 1975; Sanger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1282751/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sanger Public Library.