Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 191, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 12, 1984 Page: 4 of 39
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Calm returns
to Lawrence
Alan, tra/n collide
StaH Ptwtaby Richard Hall
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Education reforms: Schools face
deadline; lack info from state
load fuel
The latest move by Texas Utilities
in the county who, this month, are
$75,0004100,000 in state aid.
Fielden said Sulphur Bluff tax-
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She added, “It’s a full-time job (for
the office staff to process the
train sometime after a 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.
resurfaced
Only a few individuals and one
organization attended the special
work session of City Council Saturday
morning to request -funding tor
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It's not often that a man and a train collide and the man
suffers only minor injuries, but that apparently is what
happened in Sulphur Springs Friday night. Police Lt.
Mike Swindell and Patrolman Mike Pohl, right, talk
with a train crew after Kerry Taylor, 25, of 410 East
Rosa, Sulphur Springs, apparently was struck by the
By MARY GRANT
News-Telegram Staff
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 agauist
the driver of the car at this time,
according to police. —
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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,” Lt.
Francis Inclopera said an hour after
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p.m.-6 a.m. curfew and established a
rumor control hotline following a
meeting of law enforcement officials,
strong push for those parents to pay aidermen and community leaders,
up in August. The meeting was closed to the press
Overdue child support:
Major problem in area
By MARY GRANT
News-Telegram Staff
More than $300,000 in child support
payments is processed annually
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 is 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
that by 3 a.m. 28 people had been
arrested for breaking the curfew.
Early Friday night, ten armed
There are 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 learn
what caused the violence.
“We want somebody to come
He kicked off the “Child Support forward and please tell us what is
Month” by tagging it “Project Pay- your problem, what we can do." said
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
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The Sulphur Springs Women’s
Tennis Association asked the council
to consider repairing the tennis
courte ln City Park.----------------
“We need some improvements on
courts,” Carol Overstreet said.
“The surface of the courts is in bad
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
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
also remained in effect
Calm prevailed throughout the
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
dty 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 Haired Drive.
"As you know, the water backs up
at that location everytime it rains.
The dty installed one 6-inch pipe
there a few years ago, but it is not
suffident 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 recieved $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.
increase above last year.
The district's woes, he said, stem
from its high property value to
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
I did in the beginning. ’ ’
Bassham said, “We’re just going to
have to bear the brunt of it. ”
crease. - Miller Grove will have added costs
The Saltillo superintendent noted in teacher funding after a change in
that the districts are going to double 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
with the courts.
“We know there are problems with
the City Park courts. My suggestion
to council is that the city get some
expert advice from a tennis court
profesiduual. Fii st we have to
determine if the foundation of the
courts is sound enough to resurface.
After we have had an expert look at
the courts and make recom-
mendations we will have a better idea
of what needs to be done,” Tooley
said.
Mayor David Baucom told the
toxpresent a building proposal to
taxpayers is on the drawing board by
the school trustees, according to
Superintendent James Smith.
Because of state requirements student enrollment
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
the district can operate without a tex
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
Electric Co. in getting its Comanche districts, the tidal wave from the
Peak Unit 1 nuclear powered hurricane has arrived on the beach,
generating plant on line came with a “It’s going to be kind of rough,
request this week to the Atomic although we think we can cope with
Safety and Licensing Board for a it,” Saltillo Superintendent Frank
limited license to allow loading of Stretcher said about the affects of the
nuclear fuel and certain non-nuclear new legislation on the schools.
tests. Stretcher’s comments reflect the
paper work in complying with the
new regulations. “There’s just not
much belt-tightening we can do,” he
added.
That district s local fund assign-
ment increased 400 percent, he noted.
North Hopkins schools will lose compensate for the funding shortage,
fwveinn non in ata** aM “It’s
hurting us," Superintendent M.L. payers will have to pick up the tab for
Barron said of the legislative action, about 34 teachers because of the
He is predicting a 20 percent tax rate change.
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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
trying to interpret the repercussions in the county, are in a Catch 22 following year may require an in-
and then explain them to ad- i**
ministrators, teachers and board reduced by the state while the state is
members.
Their mandate is made more
difficult because school decisions are
necessary now, but information from requirements also
the state is still forthcoming.
Overall, the major change strikes
the districts' taxpayers’ pockets.
the payments to the more than state under those circumstances risk
$300,000 now. felony charges.
He lyi 11 ma ted 100 outstanding
reciprocal cases to date within the
county’s jurisdiction.
quite a few. There really are,
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.
Child Support
commercial electricity by next
summer which will ultimately boost
electrical service to Texas Power 4
Light Co.’s local customers.
Steve Williams, a spokesman for
TUEC in Dallas, told The News-
Telegram the license request was
filed with the board, meeting now in
Fort Worth, and the company expects
a reply within a few weeks.
If the license is granted, the
company can begin loading nuclear
fuel into the plant’s reactor, conduct
the non-nuclear tests and ready for
further testing later this year,
in* Williams said.
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Hopkins County Commissioners,
meeting at 10 a.m. Monday with a
new court member, have a full
schedule to consider, including bid
advertisings, bid awards and bid
openings.
_____ . _ Elton Stewart, the Democratic
night, according to police? who said Party nominee for Precinct 1 Com-
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
Ald.n^B.yn.ond^, S S
Mayor John Buckley ordered the 8 Welfare Board appointment, annex
building, telephone cable burial,
county audit, bills, D.M. Jones to
meet with court to discuss placement
of a farmers market and a
resolution.
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
passingcar. Parkland Hospital in Deila 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
arrives Aug. 20 and the tex 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
general overview of superintendents Superintendent Edwin Stevens said.
Sulphur Springs schools, like others increase for this year, but noted the
situation where funding is being
requiring the schools to perform
additional duties.
The new educational and funding
came at an
inopportune time for Sulphur
Springs. Last year, district voters
approved a $4.84 million bond
Five of the seven county districts are program for renovations which also
anticipating increased tax. rates this will boost the tax rate.
year to fill the gap of funds no longer At Como-Pickton, the county’s
available from the state. second largest school enrollment in
Deadline for approving budgets the county at 480-520 students, a move
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