The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 35, Ed. 1 Monday, May 19, 1980 Page: 1 of 10
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Skaggs over a matter involving City
Police decal and other reasons was
not supported by the Council.
Asher also named two of the
Council members who he said had
already made statements in opposi-
tion to his appointment Monday night
for another term as head of the police.
He also complained that some mem-
bers of his Department, including a
dispatcher, had gone over his head to
various members of the Council.
Virtually all of the Police Depart-
ment was present and speaking in
praise of Asher were: Patrolman Bill
Person, who said he was responsible
for the Skaggs arrest and had
dropped.
In another A vends action, the
Council routinely designated Mayor
Williamson authority to sign and
execute legal paper for the City of
Clarksville.
Several other actions, not listed
on the Agenda of the hastily-called
meeting, were also completed, in-
cluding:
* Bill Williams was reappointed
Street Superintendent;
* Harold Tyndell was named for
another term and City Inspector;
* Lewis Bartlett was again
chosen as Water Superintendent;
* Wendell Davis was selected as
Sewer Superintendent.
Rosemary Caviness was also
named as Acting City Manager,
following a precedent of naming the
City Clerk to the post when the
previous CitjtManager resigned. Her
salary during Thb period was set at
$1,420 monthly, the salary paid the
City Manager.
No action was taken on the
appointment of a City Attorney. A
council source said that Jack Herring-
ton had resigned from this position in
a letter last week, which has not
been made public, and the Council
will now select a legal representative
for the forthcoming year.
As the week's end approached, a
City official said City Manager Bob
Saint, now on suspension, had picked
up some personal items from his
office at the City Hall and apparently
had returned to the Metroplex.
City Police Chief
tylarkAsherResigns
Clarksville Chief of Police Mark
Asher resigned his position at a
special Emergency Meeting of the
City Council Wednesday night, citing
lack of support of his official actions
by the Council and interference with
his duties by various persons.
. The Council, after hearing con-
siderable testimony from members of
the Police Department finally accept-
ed Asher’s resignation at his insist-
ence by a vote of 5-2-1. Vqting "aye"
were Tate Sweeden, Dub Anderson,
Jimmy Latimer, Mary Margaret
Sturdivant, and J.R. Lewis; voting
against accepting the resignation
Jake Washington and Mamie Collins;
abstaining was Johnny Pope.
Police Sergeant Rufys Hamilton
was named Acting Chief.
In his letter to the Council, the
Chief said he felt his action in
dismissing former Patrolman L«m
obtained the search warrant himself.
“If you lose Mark Asher, you lose one
of the best Police Chiefs we ever
had," he stated.
Testimony also came in support
from Sgt. Hamilton, Patrolman Al-
bert Frazier, and Dispatchers Nita
Pearce, Jo Gregor, Betty Leiras, and
Deborah Johnson.
At the. conclusion of the discus-
sion Asher asked that his resignation
be accepted and it was so voted by
the Council. .
The Council also directed that
theft charges filed against Skaggs in
regard to a police car decal be
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CHRIS BULL
Assistant County Agent
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program in the County Extension. It
is a pleasure to be able to join with
such capable and conscientious agents
as Bob Moody and Beth Dannheim in
these Extension activities,” Bull said.
he receives about 250 letters daily
from constituents, reading aloud a
number of humorous ones written by
youngsters on ecological matters and
wildlife preservation. These included
pleas to save the orangutan “because
it is so ugly,” and the sperm whale
and the bobcat.
Other letters are not so funny,
the Congressman continued, as he
decried the increasing number writ
ten asking for additional government
aid for every conceivable purpose.
“Many folks believe that Uncle
Sam can just start up the presses and
save the world,” Hall emphasized,
“but it just doesn't work that way/
The Congressman said that Con-
gress is trying to write a balanced
budget but that everyone seems in
favor of cutting every program but
their own.
“We must eliminate the excesses
in all of our programs, and there are
many worthwhile ones, before we can
-balance anything, and welfare and
food stamps have the worst problems
of all,” he added.
Hall, a native "of Marshall now
running unopposed for his second full
term from the First Congressional
District of Texas, was a school board
member for six years before going to
Washington, and he assured the
audience he valued the schools, the
teachers, and their services.
“One has only to visit Viet Nam,
and Cambodia, and Germany, as I
have done, or to talk to refugees from
Cuba and other oppressed countries,
as I have also done, to realize what a
great and wonderful country we have
here,” Hall said. “When we sing ‘God
Bless America’ we should do it with
reverence and mean it with all our
heart?’ - >
The Congressman concluded
with a call for a return to the old-time
virtues which made the country
strong as a means of preserving
American.
“Every American has a charge to
keep and to fulfill if we are to make
this country even greater than it is,”
Hall summarized. “As he came out of
Independence Hall after helping write
the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin
EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION HONOREES—The Clarksville Classroom Educators Association honored a number
of individuals at the recent annual salad supper meeting. Among those honored and participating in the installation
service were, above from left: Wilma Looney, Teacher of the Year; Carol Parker, incoming Treasurer; Helen Sanders,
incoming vice-president; Helen Hale, selected as the year’s Friend of Education; Congressman Sam B. Hall, the evening’s
principal speaker; Anriette Williamson, recipient of the Association Scholarship Award for the year; Carolyn McCain,
president-elect, Ernestine Lee, reporter; and Suzanne Lowe, outgoing president. Not shown is Helen Nash, incoming
president. . .
Mrs. Looney Teacher of Year;
Williamson Wins Scholarship
Congressman Sam B. Hall prais-
ed the Americari way of life and this
country’s school system in an address
to some 65 members and guests
gathered in the Intermediate School
Cafeteria on May 8 for the Classroom
Educators Association’s annual salad
dinner and Installation Service.
Hall, introduced by former CEA
president and incoming District Pre-
sident of the Texas Teachers Associa-
tion Gary McCain, told apdience that
Ag Agent Named
Chris Bull, 22, was approved as
Assistant County Agent of Red River
County at the regular meeting of the
Commissioners Court Monday morn-
ing, according to an announcement by'
Bob Moody, County Agent. Bull was
presented to the Court by Lawrence
Vaughan, a Red River County native
and now Extension Service District
Agent.
Bull will assume the position
vacated several months ago when
Gary Borner was promoted to County
Agent in Camp County. The new ag
worker will be dealing primarily with
the 4-H and other youth programs in
the County, as well as assisting in all
of the Extension activities.
Bull was born in Oakland, Calif.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Julian P. Bull,
now of Garland, and graduated from
High School there.
He is also a graduate of Texas
A&M University with a Bachelor of
Science degree in Renewable Natural
Resources. Bull is a Catholic and
unmarried at this time although
engaged.
“I am delighted to be in Clarks- "
ville and am certainly looking forward
to working with the fine youth —
children, Camille and Amber.
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Parks,
Clarksville, was surprised recently
with the presentation of a 20-year
Piggly-Wiggly pin, set with a dia-
mond and two sapphires.
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The pin was presented and a
poem of appreciation recited by Loyd
Smith, president of the Piggly Wiggly
Red River Company, at the head-
quarters office here.
Mrs. Parks, formerly Helen
Hancock, is a 1942 graduate of
Clarksville High School and was in
civil service approximately 10 years
before joining the Company in Feb-
urary, 1960, when it was located over
the First National Bank Building.
“We had a two-girl office then,
working under Johnny Jamison, the
only person who has been with the
Company longer than J have,” Helen
recalls. “Then we had to keep up with
only nine Piggly Wiggly Stores,
working for the late George Sunkel.”
The office has expanded to many
employees now operating and super-
vising some 77 Piggly-Wiggly Super-
markets, and Helen said she has a
multitude of different jobs now,
including that of receptionist.
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She is married to Wayne Parks, a
retired defense plant employee, and
Helen Parks Wins 20-Year Pin
Vn wi.n- ipuuni Parka the couple have two children, Suz- Piggly-Wiggly Store. Other family
Mrs. Wayne (Helen! Parke, g<Juler clark>vUle Md Jack m“krs “elude two lovely grand
Parks, produce manager of the Paris
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SURPRISE PARTY—Mrs. Helen Parks, right, was honored recently in
a surprise ceremony at the Piggly-Wiggly Red River Company office here
when Company president-Lloyd Smith, left, presented hei with a pin for 20
years service with Piggly-Wiggly.
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Times—pointed out problems in my hometown. As many of
my fellow natives will attest (many none too affectionately),
my own pen has seldom been dull in such endeavor.
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Clarksville is not 20 miles east of Paris. Unless my
pickup truck odometer has gone the way of the front-end
alignment and the license plate light, Paris b still pretty
I was told the kid got the make and model of the
did not, as any good reporter should, go out and eyeball the hairpiece. If he went to Lovett’s office, he must have been climb the water tower, drain North Lake or paint DeKalb
car, finger the bullet hole and figure out for myself whether wearing blinders not to notice Lovett is also Governor of the High School Blue. Activities like that gave our lives
any shots were fired. — — --------- American Trial Lawyer's Association, past-president of the meaning.
Dogs do not lie down in the middle of the Clarksville Texas Trial Lawyers’ Association and author of several Clarksville’s basic problem is that of all Northeast
square. Any blind and deaf canine who did so would quickly articles and textbooks on law. Texas towns. Bored children cause problems for everybody,
become an organic frisbee' beneath the 24-hour per day ‘ Those kids sitting on the car looking wistfully down the
tractor-trailer traffic on U.S. 82. Could R superflou, b,ckground might j,.ve way toward something
wheS aP£Xr iXtemM t™ia^Zhlw o^’nded «*' *» ;
transgressions. preferable to a four-car pile-up on Central Expressway. as the seat of government for all of Northeast Texas. The------ That problem exbted before I was one of those legions,
First let me admit my chaUvanbm. I m Red River The Branding Iron Restaurant, which houses a private residents of Clarksville were old-timers when an upstart and it persists.
County born and reared. If the Russians invade New Jersey, dub, js not the only watering hole in town, if the kid meant named Stephen F. Austin brought his first settlers here. But the Times-Herald seems to be content with the
a score of other Texas revolutionaries^ when they first gold towers and traffic jams that the choices they made
. ' J> before they got all thb black dirt out from under their
there were four towns on it: Jefferson, Nacogdoches, San fingernails were the right ones: That hydrocarbons are more
fragrant than air, that neon b preferable to starlight, that
concrete b better than johnson grass.
They’re all still hicks out there, so get back to the grind.
You haven’t missed a thing.
But the saddest part about thb whole thing b that:
Saturday copies of the Times-Herald in Clarksville wer^ as
hard to find as fruit jars in Cuthand Bottom. Everybody
bought one. The Herald’s purpose was served, and the
Criticism Of Metroplex Paper Story Continues
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An EditorialCommenl car, fin8er the bullet hole and figure out for myself whether wearing blinders not to notice Lovett is also Governor of the High School Blue. Activities like that gave our lives
Bv Don Fisher any 9*lots w®re fired. American Trial Lawyer's Association, past-president of the meaning.
-- — • — Dogs do not lie down in the middle of the Cbrksville Texas Trial Lawyers' Association and author of several Clarksville’s basic problem is that of all Northeast
Bored children cause problems for everybody.
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Could it be all that superflous background might have
a little less like a hayseed?
The quaint 19th Century courthouse was once intended
as the seat of government for all of Northeast Texas. The
residents of Cbrksville were old-timers when an upstart
named Stephen F. Austin brought his first settlers here.
entered the state. When the first map of Texas was printed,
Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune Managing Editor
I’d like to fire that kid.
Unfortunately. I can’t. He doesn’t work for me.
He works for somebody I used to work for, and that sets
my mind to scrolling through the files wondering if, since
they never fired me, I might have committed the same
transgressions.
First let me admit my chaUvanbm. I’m Red River
I’ll send Moscow a sympathy card. If they venture below the by that jfg the only place to get a drink of whbkey. It’s the Clarksville played host to Sam Houston, David Crockett and surface view. They can assure their readers locked in their
Mason-Dixon Line, I’ll write a letter of protest. When they oniy ]eg-al watering hole in town, but then you’d have to
get to Texas, I’ll make an angry phone call. But the minute spend more than one afternoon in Cbrksville to find that
they get west of Lydb, they’re going to have to fight at out.
least one ticked-off Redneck! ...
It’s not that Saturday's Los Angeles Times-Herald— Basic reporting 201 should get across to a young
oods! That’s Dalbs Times-herald owned by the Los Angeles journalbt that if one is reporting on a scandal involving an
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too affectionately), principals, a bwyer and the town drunk. (The phrase, “...thb r
has seldom been dull in such endeavor. b just a little Peyton Pbce... can be heard in any^ small floor of the Red River County Courthouse—*a space builders
half-wits based on one scandal is a whole ‘nother mess of It is over used, hackneyed and trite. One of my reporters empire they envbioned?
greens uses that quote, and I break his fingers. I don’t care if she is
‘ wanted answered, but I guess they pby a different game of
he same
Antonio de Bexar and Cbrksville.
Dalbs wasn’t even thought of yet.
Why, with that historical tradition, has Cbrksville
never progressed beyond its present limits? Were petty
squabbles like thb btest one responsible for the empty third
But to connotatively indict an entire town as a haven for town, not only in Texas, but probably in the United States, thought would be filled with the records and dealings of the
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-—-z. U8e’ that quote, and I break hb fingers. I don’t care if she is Those are some of the questions thb editor would have writer will go on to bigger and better successes. He’U
Back when I was stumbling around the Herald city desk my wife.) t wanted answered, but I guess they pby a different game of probably never end up back down here on the smaller rungs
there was thb word: accuracy. Maybe they quit using it The mayor, the councilmen, the sheriff, the county ball in Dalbs. Funny, we were all taught to pby by the same ^nd I’ll never get a chance te fire him.
when they changed the masthead. attorney and the county judge are still waiting to hear from fo|ka
/ the Herald. By now they may be waiting with a rope, but jn journalistic parbnee, that’s called “missing the (Editor’s Nets: The story in the Dallas
the way of the front-end they're waiting. angle.” u i... hrourht The Times more ■
1 21 , j But the greatest inaccuracies-and the greatest in- There’s another angle he missed. I wouldn’t like to n,r te the F
much where it’s always been: 35 miles west of Cbrksville. justices-were in what the kid did not write. the dcyc “d r.:ghtc I r/eeted is . .. . ------
I was told the kid got the make and model of the car He was right up there with the big league typewriter amj 18 holding up the front fender of a ’56 Bel Afrs on a ynm- osme but it will be withheld if ihtfrHJ
ex-city manager Bob Saint allegedly shot at all wrong. But I pounders when he noticed attorney Jim Dick Lovett wears a grocery store parking lot until somebody suggested we go
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Watson, Gavin, Jr. The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 35, Ed. 1 Monday, May 19, 1980, newspaper, May 19, 1980; Mt. Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1295752/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Red River County Public Library.