Mount Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1987 Page: 3 of 16
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“unknown” might become a
space to be creatively filled, in-
stead of a threatening shadow.
Energized with confidence, a
new experience will provide an op-
portunity to charge ahead into
life, instead of shrinking away
from it.
AUGUST 1987
24 • 27 Teacher In-Service
28 & 31 Teacher Preparation
Good-Bye, but rather “So Long For
A While”... We Loved You All.
1 First Day of School
7 Labor Day Holiday
OCTOBER 1987
9 End of lot Six Weeks (28 days)
12 2nd Six Weeks Begins
16 Hand Out Report Cards
NOVEMBER 1987
20 End of 2nd Six Weeks (30 days)
23 3rd Six Weeks Begins
fl 26-27 Thanksgiving Holidays
J 30 Hand Out Report Cards
DECEMBER 1987
21-31 Christmas ~~
JANUJ
1 New Year's Holiday
4 Classes Resume
15 End of 3rd Six Weeks (28 days)
15 End of 1st Semester (86 days)
18 Teacher Work Day
19 4th Six Weeks Begins
19 2nd Semester Begins
22 Hand Out Report Cards
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Welcome Teachers
and Students to the
1987-88 School Year
Compliments Of
Franklin
National Bank
1987-88 School Calendar — Clip and Save
FEBRUARY 1988
29 End of 4th Six Weeks (30 days)
MARCH 1988
1 5th Six Weeks Begins
7-11* Public School Week
11 Hand Out Report Cards
14-18 Spring Break
APRIL 1988 (|
1 Easter Holiday Bi
4 Make-Up Day ~
20 End of 5th Six Weeks (30 days) p
21 6th Six Weeks Begins *
29 Hand Out Report Cards
MAY 1988
6 Make-Up Day
31 High School Commencement
JUNE 1988
1 End of 6th Six Weeks (29 days)
1 End of 2nd Semester (89 days)
1 End of School (175 days)
2 Teachers Work Day
Education: Continuing process
of learning, coping and growing
It’s no surprise to anyone that
children, teenagers and young
adults react in diverse ways to like
situations. However, for most,
even just the phrase, "back to
school,” still carries with it a com-
mon composite of emotional ten-
sion, a churning blend of excite-
ment yet apprehension, a curious
mixture of both longing and dread
for the routine that, initially, they
know will be new and different.
We have all experienced this
feeling. That changes have, and
always will, occur over the blur of
summer is a matter of course, but
what kinds of changes will they
be?
Will certain friends from the
previous year still be friends this
year? Will clothing favorites still
be in style? Will new class
material be fully understood?
Going “back to school” will
always evoke a slight chill in retur-
ning students but, with a little
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Friends of Oleo Landing
and so it has
Oleo as I know it
come time to say to you all, not
I would like to take this oppor-
tunity to thank each of you who
helped make Oleo Landing the UNI-
QUE, ZANY, HAPPY place that it was
for Melba and I for four years.
All things must, at some point,
come to an end...And thus it is with
PAUL WHELAN, Rotary
exchange student from
Townsville, Queensland,
Australia, visits with Rotary
President Ed Joyce, and
members Rick Butler and
Tom Ramsay. Whelan was
guest speaker at the weekly
meeting of the Mount Ver-
non Rotary Club Friday,
Aug. 21. He Is spending a
year with a host family in
Gilmer, and will be return-
ing to Australia in January.
Whelan presented a look at
the business, education, and
cultures of Australia, par-
ticularly In the state of
Queensland. (Optic Photo
by Lillie Bush)
To Make Do With Rate
The effective tax rate of at $4,252,775 plus $32,619 in of $4,285,394. Expenditures are
$.92807, the rate which will bring other resources for a grand total projected at $4,331,115.
in the same amount of tax money
in 1988 as in 1987, was adopted by
the Board of Trustees of the
Mount Vernon Independent
School District in a special
meeting Monday, Aug. 24.
School trustees voted to adopt
the rate certified by Franklin
County Tax Appraiser Ed Mor-
row as the effective tax rate,
thereby reducing the projected
fund balance at the end of the
school’s fiscal year by $45,721.
The budget will still leave
$995,809 in unemeumbered funds
for the district to finance the
beginning of school year 1988-89.
The rate provides $.72347 for
maintenance and operations and
$.2046 for debt service.
Last year’s tax rate was $.8379,
but the decline in oil values has
resulted in higher rates to raise the
same money as last year. The
higher rate this year means an ac-
tual 11 percent increase to the
average homeowner.
The board tentatively gave the
nod to a two percent increase in
the effective tax rate. Supt.
Walter Sears said Tuesday “We
just decided we had to tighten our
belts and say ‘no’ more em-
phatically.”
The final amendment to the
1986-87 budget was not adopted
at the Monday night meeting, but
will be adopted later this month.
This final amendment is basically
the closing of the books on the
school year.
Under the budget adopted for
the 1987-88 school year Monday
night, revenues from local, state
and federal sources are projected
School Brings Myriad
Of New Experiences
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and no drivers license.
City Police
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Mount Vernon City Police,
during the week of July 26-Aug. 1
made 94 calls, issued nine citation
and made three arrests, including
a white male of Mount Pleasant
for driving while intoxicated and
failure to stop and render aid, and
two white males of Mount Plea-
sant for public intoxication.
Burglaries included the Mount
Vernon School, where $25 in
damage was done to a lock hasp.
Youngsters between the ages of
8-14 are believed to have done
$610 in damage to the school by
breaking windows and gaining ac-
cess to the roof on July 29.
A fire in the back of a pickup
being driven by Billy Wayne
Crowston caused damage to the
truck bed and contents.
The awning at Shur Quik was
damaged by a white van Aug. 7.
dependent School District
were on hand for the
legislative briefing Tuesday
morning, Aug. 25, at the
Franklin County Cour-
thouse. Commissioner Bob-
by Elbert, left, talks with
Anderson following the
meeting. (Optic Photo by
Lillie Bush)
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August Deadly
Month For County
With August, 1987, proving
one of the most deadly months in
the history of Franklin County
with five violent deaths, other
police activity paled by com-
parison.
Arrest were made as follows:
A white male, 34, Mount Ver-
non, public intoxication; a black
female, 21, Mount Vernon, secur-
ing execution of document by
deception; a black female, 43,
Mount Vernon, securing execu-
tion of document by deception; a
white female, 40, Rt. 1, Talco,
forgery by passing; a black male,
31, Mount Vernon, forgery by
passing; a black male, 34, Dallas,
on DPS warrants; a Mexican
male, Mount Vernop, driving
while intoxicated, no drivers
license, no insurance; a white
male, Mesquite, driving while in-
toxicated; a black male, 28,
Dallas, probation revocation; a
white male, 28, Mount Vernon,
DPS warrants; a black male, 44,
Dallas, speeding; a white male,
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SENATOR Richard Ander-
son met with local elected
officials to outline changes
affecting local governments
as a result of legislation
passed in the last legislative
session. A dozen officials
representing Franklin Coun-
ty, City of Mount Vernon,
and the Mount Vernon In-
ii
Burglars invaded the Connie
Lester home, taking a saddle; the
Ron Barker caboose, taking a
John Deere tractor and mower;
the Susie Dawson home, with no
items missing; the A. J.
Hightower farm, taking a $8500
John Deere tractor with Interna-
tional mower; David Worth’s
pickup, taking wheels and tires;
the Lyndal Wafford home, taking
a rifle and scope; and the Kenneth
Burkhalter vacation home, taking
fishing tackle.
A house trailer owned by Mount Vernon, driving while in-
Frankie Wheeler of Fort Worth toxicated; a black male, Mount
and located 1.4 miles north of Vernon, driving while intoxicated
Cypress Creek on Hwy. 37 was
destroyed by fire Aug. 20. No one
was home at the time.
The Sheriffs Dept, recovered a
1985 Pontiac stolen out of Fort
Worth Aug. 20 in the Denton
Community.
A mobile nurse discovered the
body of one of her patients,
Delmar Cleo Edson, Aug. 3, when
she went to check on him.
A domestic problem was handl-
ed by officers.
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Wright, Pat. Mount Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1987, newspaper, August 27, 1987; Mount Vernon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1330420/m1/3/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Franklin County Library.