Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 191, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 12, 1984 Page: 1 of 39
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train sometime after S p.m. Friday in the east section of
town. Taylor was taken by ambulance to Hopkins
County Memorial Hospital where he was treated and
released, according to hospital officials. No police
report was available.
North Hopkins schools will lose
|75,000-|100,000 in state aid. "It’s
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This summer’s special session of
the Legislature that involved new
education reforms is history, the
thousands of articles written by the
press are now lining bird cages and
interviews conducted by television
reporters are faint memories.
But in Hopkins County’s school
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on Monday
Hopkins County Commissioners,
meeting at 10 a.m. Monday with a
new court member, have a full
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of what needs to be done,” Tooley
said.
Mayor David Baucom told the
woman the council would certainly
give some consideration to their
request as the budget nears its final
form.
Dwyatt Bell, a resident of the
Highland Creek addition, off Crush
Road, brought pictures of a severe
drainage problem in that area.
“It doesn’t take much rain for us to
have a flood,” Bell said. “We need
some additional drainage in the area
and would appreciate anything the
city can do to correct the problem. ”
"We are aware of the situation,"
Baucom said. “In fact the city has a
list of drainage problem areas that
we intend to fix as money is
available. The area you are talking
about is on our list and we will cer-
tainly give consideration to your
request as we work on the budget,
the mayor said.
Harold Wisdom asked the council to
consider adding additional drainage
pipes on College Street between Como
and Harred Drive.
“As you know, the water backs up
at that location everytime it rains.
The city installed one 6-inch pipe
there a few years ago, but it is not
sufficient to carry the flow during a
rain. I don’t feel that it would be that
expensive to add some 12-inch
drainage pipes to that area and it
sure would improve the situation,”
Wisdom said.
The council agreed to consider
Wisdom’s request.
Tooley noted that the Senior Cit-
zen’s Center had informed him they
would like an additional >9,000 in
funds for 1985. In the past the center
has redeved >3,600 from the city.
The final budget for the city should
be completed within the next two
weeks. Once it is completed, the city
will hold two public bearings on the
budget before it is approved and set
in motion.
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increase above last year.
The district’s woes, he said, stem
from its high property value to
student enrollment ratio. School
districts with that ratio are receiving
fewer funds.
Miller Grove and Sulphur Bluff
schools are two of the smallest
districts per enrollment in the county.
The superintendents, Jim Bassham
and Bruce Fielden, respectively, are
projecting tax increases.
Bassham estimates a 20 percent
increase and Fielden anticipates a 7-
10 percent increase.
"We’re looking pretty good,"
Fielden said, adding, “After we put
everything together, I feel better than
the district can operate without a tax I did in the beginning. ”
increase for this year, but noted the
following year may require an in-
crease.
The Saltillo superintendent noted
that the districts are going to double
paper work in complying with the
new regulations. "There's just not
much belt-tightening we can do," he
inopportune time for Sulphur added.
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LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) — After
two nights of fiery clashes between
whites and Hispanics, club-carrying
police occupied an embattled blue-
collar neighborhood Saturday to
enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew after
Gov. Michael S. Dukakis pleaded for
“the healing to begin.”
“So far, everything is quiet,” LX.
Francis Inclopera said an hour after
70 officers in helmets and bulletproof
vests fanned out Friday night through
a three-by-four-block area, clearing
people from streets and porches. "It
seems to be working," he said.
Police cruisers surrounded the
rundown neighborhood of clapboard
homes and public housing in this
industrial city of 63,000 about 30 miles _______ ______________
north of Boston. A ban on liquor sales advertisings, bid a wards and bid
also remained in effect openings.
Calm prevailed throughout the Elton Stewart, the Democratic
night, according to police, who said Party nominee for Precinct 1 Com-
that by 3 a.m. 28 people had been
arrested for breaking the curfew.
Early Friday night, ten armed
officers patrolled Oxford Street, the
center of violence Wednesday and
Thursday nights, ordering people
indoors. Community leaders had
been sent into the section of the
Tower Hill neighborhood to leam
what caused the violence.
“We want somebody to come
forward and please tell us what is
your problem, what we can do." said
Aiderman Raymond Johnson.
Mayor John Buckley ordered the 8 Welfare Board appointment.
Clerk’s office and many more dollars
, are owed in delinquent payments,
according to District Clerk Ola
Beckham and County Attorney John
Perry.
The Texas Senate and House have
passed resolutions declaring August
“Child Support Month” in Texas and
state and local officials are using the
time to call attention to the
delinquent payment problems.
“It is important that these parents
meet their responsibilities,” Perry
said, adding, “especially with the
school year about to begin. The kids
who need support deserve it and
parents are obligated to pay.”
Beckham noted that divorce
numbers are growing and, sub-
sequently, child support payments.
“It hasn’t been that long since our
office was processing about
>200,000,” she said of the increase in
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meeting of law enforcement officials, meet with court to discuss placement
aidermen and community leaders, of a farmer s market and a
The meeting was closed to the press.
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arrives Aug. 20 and the tax rates will
be set sometime after budget ap-
proval, but before Oct. 1. However,
the superintendents said they expect
to have the tax rates set soon after
school trustees endorse the budgets.
Cumby and Como-Pickton school
districts, according to the superin-
tendents, will escape a tax boost, but
only because of certain cir-
cumstances.
In Sulphur Springs, the district
expects to lose >220,000 that would
have been provided from the state
had previous processes remained
intact.
“There’s just not much we can do in
our budget (to reduce costs),” SSISD
felony charges.
He estimated 100 outstanding
reciprocal cases to date within the
county’s jurisdiction. “There are
quite a few. There really are,” he
added.
Attorney General Jim Mattox,
whose office directs the child support
payment program within Texas, said
in a news release that Texas
collections have increased 41 percent.
He kicked off the “Child Support
Month” by tagging it “Project Pay-
Up.” „
It is a statewide effort to give
parents the chance to make the
delinquent child support payments.
The month-long project will make a
strong push for those parents to pay
up in August.
to present a building proposal to
taxpayers is on the drawing board by
the school trustees, according to
Superintendent James Smith.
Because of state requirements
surrounding the tax rate, a bond issue
at this time would aid rather than
hinder the school in certain aspects,
he said.
Como-Pickton school taxpayers are
the only ones in the county who may-
feel a tax reduction this year. "We're
going to try to hold it down one more
year," Smith said. He also noted that
the district will be gaining funds from
the state.
Gus Dial, superintendent at
Cumby, said, “I think we're going to
be in fair shape." He said he thinks
hospital spokeman.
Tiffany was in a coma Saturday
and her condition was listed as ex-
tremely serious.
According to the police reports,
Givens got out of his car after striking
the little girl. Several people ran to
the scene of the accident and the
girt’s mother picked her up and took
her to the hospital. Givens left the
scene and drove to his sister's house
on Lamar. After talking to his sister
he went to the police station to report
the accident.
No charges have been filed against
the driver of the car at this time,
according to police.
trying to interpret the repercussions
and then explain them to ad-
tnintotratwe, teachers and board
Their mandate is made more
difficult because school decisions are
necessary now, but information from
the state is still-forthcoming.
Overall, the major change strikes
the districts' taxpayers’ pockets.
Five of the seven county districts are
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DeadUne for approving budgets the county at 480-520 students, a move He is predicting a 20 percent tax rate change.
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have to bear the brunt of it.”
Miller Grove will have added costs
in teacher funding after a change in
regulations based on personnel units
versus average daily student at-
tendance. Bassham said local ad-
ditional funds will be required for
about eight teachers.
He said principals will be given
additional classroom duties to help
compensate for the funding shortage.
Fielden said Sulphur Bluff tax-
payers will have to pick up the tab for
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missioner, was appointed Aug. 1 by
County Judge Wayne Scott after the
death of Commissioner J.D. Hatley.
The agenda includes bids related to
a loader, Civic Center reroofing,
Courthouse roof and interior, road
material, radio equipment for
sheriff's department, space
renovation for new district attorney-
offices in the Jefferson Street
building, Civic Center parking lot and
driveway work.
Also on the agenda are court
reporters salaries, county road
verification for Bob Moore, Child
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p.m.-6 a.m. curfew and established a building, telephone cable burial,
rumor control hotline following a county audit, bills, D.M. Jones to
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Board for a it,” Saltillo Superintendent Frank
w loading of Stretcher said about the affects of the
n non-nuclear new legislation on the schools.
la expected to produce general overview of superintendents Superintendent Edwin Stevens said,
k electricity by next in the county who, this month, are Sulphur Springs schools, like others
in the county, are in a Catch 22
situation where funding is being
reduced by the state while the state is
requiring the schools to perform
additional duties. ■
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A Sulphur Springs toddler was County Memorial Hospital by her
seriously injured Friday night when mother, Margaret White, and her
parked cars and was struck by a The child was transferred to
passing car. Parkland Hospital in Dallas shortly
Tiffany Monuque White, 3, was before midnight Friday, where she
playing in front of her house in the 400 underwent surgery early Saturday
block of Carter Street about 9 p.m. morning. She is suffering with
Friday when she ran into the street multiple head Injuries, according to a
and was struck by an auto driven by
John Givens, 817 Fuller St., according
to police reports.
The girl was taken to Hopkins
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Only a few individuals and one
organization attended the special
work session of City Council Saturday
morning to request funding for
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The Sulphur Springs Women’s
jy TeiuitoAssuctetloii asked (he council
■ to consider repairing the tennis
courts in City Park.
“We need some improvements on
courts,” Carol Overstreet said.
f “The surface of the courts is in bad
r shape and really isn't playable in its
current condition. We would like to
see the courts completely resurfaced.
Once the courts are resurfaced and
are really playable, the tennis
association will pay to have proper
lights installed on the courts,” she
added.
City Manager David Tooley said
F that he was aware of the problems
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“We know there are problems with
the City Park courts. My suggestion
to council to that the city get some
expert advice from a tennis court
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courts is sound enough to resurface.
After we have had an expert look at it’s not often that a man and a train collide and the man
the courts and make recom- suffers only minor in|uries, but that apparently is what
mendations we will have a better idea happened in Sulphur Springs Friday night. Police Lt.
Mike Swindell and Patrolman Mike Pohl, right, talk
with a train crew after Kerry Taylor, 2S, of 410 East
Rosa, Sulphur Springs, apparently was struck by the
Overdue child support:
Major problem in area
By MARY GRANT the payments to the more than state under those circumstances risk
News-Telegram Staff >300,000now. *-* *------
More than >300,000 in child support She added, “It’s a full-time job (for
payments is processed annually the office staff to process the
through the Hopkins County District payments).”
When a couple obtains a divorce,
one of the parents may be ordered by
the court to make child support
payments for the children’s welfare.
If the divorce to granted in Hopkins
County district courts, payments are
overseen within its jurisdiction. In
other instances, when one of the
parents moves to another county or
state, jurisdiction sometimes falls
within the auspices of the county
court.
Perry said that those parents who
refuse to make support payments can
be charged with a Class A
misdemeanor. Those who leave the
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 191, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 12, 1984, newspaper, August 12, 1984; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1285357/m1/1/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.