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The Friday
DENTON Record-Chr onicle
73RD YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE — No. 258
DENTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 28, 1976
28 Pages in 2 Sections
10 Cents
Schools Days
End For Teachers
Evaluation
Plan Divides
By JOYCE HOPKINS
Education Writer
If the combined professional years of
educators could be linked in a single line,
those of the six retiring in Denton would
stretch backward through time to one year
before the birth of the United States
For over 7,000 students, Friday is only the
last day of school until Aug 19. but for Mary
Chitwood, Reva Ebert, Bertha Rowlett, M
A. Shields, Betty Trickey and John Wells, it
is the last day in long careers in public
education
Miss Ebert, physical education teacher at
Woodrow Wilson, has taught students from
first graders through college students in her
41 years as a teacher, and she's seen a
change
“I think the emphasis on winning and
losing has changed considerably," she said,
putting the explanation on the emphasis on
little league and peewee activities
“Students are more intense each period,
and there is less sheer Joy at playing."
Her personal feeling is that it is bad for the
youngsters
“It puts an undue emphasis on being
outstanding, and therefore the person who is
not skilled is not as ready to want to play or
to learn something because he feels it's not
worth it because he'll never make the
team." Miss Ebert, who has been in Denton
33 years, said
Mrs Chitwood. Strickland Junior High
librarian and former classroom teacher,
has been in Denton 26 years and has a total
of 41 years in education
She has seen libraries move from wooden
floors that squeeked to carpeted floors in
new buildings, but other things do not
change
“In junior high, students like stories about
teenagers," Mrs. Chitwood said
The students, however, have more ex-
tensive vocabularies and are more
sophisticated
The increased worldliness of children is
even detectable in Mrs Rowlett's first
grade classroom at Woodrow Wilson, her
last in a 20-year career
"Children now are more interesting," she
said "As an adult sees them, they are freer
to express their ideas than children used to
be," she explained
She, too, notices a more advanced
vocabulary
Shields, a teacher for 34 years, the last
eight at Congress Junior High where he
teaches eighth grade American history, sees
the same changes
“I think our eighth grade students are
much more mature in many ways than they
were a decade ago," he said
As a history teacher, he has seen changes
also in the way his subject is presented
"It's more of a social studies today. They
don't emphasize memorizing dates. It's
more why it happened and could it have
been prevented." Shields said
Mrs Trickey. retiring after 24 years. 22 of
them in Denton, sees increased
sophistication in her Denton High French
students, but they remain college bound or
serious about their work
"Students are a little more worldly wise
They mature earlier Society has granted
Staff Photo
- LAST DAY — Mrs Bertha Rowlett talks about school with two of her students, Julie
Morris and Eric Mankinen. She ends a 20-year career in education this week
"Children now are more interesting," she says, attributing her students’ new
worldliness to travel and television Mrs. Rowlett is one of six longtime Denton
teachers retiring this week
them privileges earlier." she said "Many of
them have jobs and are very responsible
workers."
There are more government forms to be
those who have gone ahead and succeeded. "
Wells said, and some of them surprised him
"The brightest children in your room
don't always make the biggest successes
It's the kids with the singleness of purpose
filled out - Mrs. Trickey said of changes in
education.” -= - - that achieve success, the Denton principal .
"It’s surprising how much I remember oi of 30 years, educator for 41 years, said.
Corinth Citizens Push For Election
By TRAVIS BROWN
Staff Writer
CORINTH — There is talk of recalling this
city’s elected officials if they don't allow the
voters to decide whether a property tax
should be levied.
The suggestion of recalling the town
commission surfaced during a town meeting
Thursday, when about 30 citizens sat on the
floor of the Corinth VFW hall and probed
alternatives for levying a tax.
A petition calling for an election to decide
the tax issue has been presented to the town
commission The document contains the
signatures of 149 registered voters, out of 200
registered voters in Corinth.
Some citizens feel the town commission
cannot ignore a petition carrying such
weight Other persons fear that the com-
mission will refuse to recognize the petition
and they pondered the possibility of taking
court action against the city officials.
One citizen suggested a recall election "If
they ignore the petition, we should have a
recall and remove them from office, rather
than go to court," he said
Many questions were raised at Thursday's
meeting, including how citizens could recall
elected officials, whether the commission is
bound by law to recognize the petition and
whether a city legally can reissue revenue
bonds as tax bonds without having an
election.
Corinth city officials agreed to refinance
the city's water and sewer revenue bonds as
a combination of tax and revenue bonds to
settle a legal dispute involving payment on
the bonds.
As a result of the agreement, a lawsuit
filed against Corinth by the Attorney
General on behalf of the Texas Water
Development Board (TWDB) was dropped
The TWDB, along with First Southwest
Co. of Dallas, holds Corinth's water and
sewer bonds, which total $380,000.
Citizens wondered how the city's sewer
and water system got into such a mess.
"Why did we go into debt further than we
needed to?" asked Bill Turner of Corinth.
"Why did we buy a water and sewer system
that cost twice as much as we can pay for?"
When Corinth issued water and sewer
bonds, the city was supposedly directed by
TWDB and First Southwest Co. to issue a
sufficient amount of bonds to allow the
water and sewer system to be extended to
Hickory Creek.
Hickory Creek’s failure to make
payments to Corinth has been cited by city
officials as the cause of the deficiency in the
financial status of the project.
City Council
By KERRY GL>NELS
City Editor
City council members agree that an evaluation committee
made up of Flow Memorial Hospital physicians should
examine the hospital's emergency services operation.
But they are divided on how such a committee should be
appointed
Mayor Pro Tern Ben Ivey Jr and Councilmen Joe Mitchell
and Bill Nash say they think the evaluating committee should
be named by the city council.
But Mayor Elinor Hughes strongly opposes that method,
and Councilman Ray Stephens — although originally siding
with Ivey, Mitchell and Nash — apparently now agrees with
her.
The discussion was initiated during a meeting Thursday
scheduled to formulate budget priorities for the 1976-77 fiscal
year.
One of those priorities could be financial contributions by
the city to a joint ambulance system operated by both city
hospitals. Westgate Hospital now is the sole operator of
ambulance service here.
Although not directly related to the joint ambulance
proposal, the physician evaluating committee idea was
prompted by recent meetings of the council and county
commissioners court on the ambulance issue.
A petition bearing the names of more than 30 signatures
was presented to the council earlier this year, asking for a
complete evaluation of Flow's emergency medical services
program by a council-appointed committee from the
hospital's medical staff
Mayor Hughes said it would be a "slap in the face” of the
Flow Board of Directors if the council appointed the
evaluating committee. She said she thought the board, if
requested to do so by the council, could be relied upon to pick
an impartial committee. _____.
Mitchell, however, said the council — as guardians of the
public trust — should appoint the committee. To ask the Flow
board to do so, he said, would be to request it to appoint a
committee to evaluate itself.
Initially, Mitchell wanted to broaden the scope of the
committee's responsibility to an evaluation of the hospital's
entire operation.
"I'm beginning to get a little concerned about the’
management of Flow,” he said.
But Mitchell went along with the desires of his colleagues
in limiting the evaluating committee's duties to just an
examination of emergency services.
That will include whether Flow’s participation in a joint
ambulance system is a feasible proposition
Since the appointment of the committee did not appear on
Thursday's agenda, the council will take up the matter
formally next Tuesday
On the main topic for review Thursday, the council made
little headway in deciding upon budget priorities.
About the only firm decisions made were to find money to
fund improvements at four city intersections, to increase the
cost to developers for the installation of street lights in
See COUNCIL, Page 2A.
good afternoon
A PUBLISHED report by a group of dissident
Teamsters Union members alleges that leader Frank
Fitzsimmons and other top officials have lined, their own
pockets with millions of dollars Story, Page 2A.
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warmer tonight and Satur
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High Saturday in high 80s
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WEATHER REPORT
Low This Morning 58
High Thursday 78
Low Thursday 61
High Lost Year 80
Low Last Year 69
The sun sets today at 8:33;
it rises Saturday at 6:27.
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through Friday.
How many different mistakes were made in the April 3
election and who was responsible for each of the
mistakes? — W. L.
County Clerk Mary Jo Hill says the word “legal" was
omitted from the line "Against the legal sale of beer and
wine" in ballots for the wet-dry vote. The Spanish
translation on the same ballot also omitted the word
"legal" and one word was misspelled in Spanish Mrs. /
Hill says she had it corrected as soon as it was brought to
her attention and all ballots were correct on election
day. The incorrect ones were used only in the absentee
voting. If you have any other questions about this, you
canget in touch with Mrs. Hill at 382-9729.
Greenery At City Parks
Begins At Greenhouse
Take a walk through any city park - and
particularly the beautifully landscaped
walkway through Civic Center Park — and
you can see evidence of Denton's green
thumb.
That's because most of the plants you
encounter were grown and cultivated in the
city's own greenhouses.
Tucked away at the Municipal Service
Center on Paisley Street in east Denton, the
greenhouses provide city parks with about
98 per cent of the plants they contain, says
Parks Supt Jim Burns
Not all the growing things in municipal
recreation areas come from the
greenhouses, of course.
For instance, Woodrow Wilson Park now
contains about 2,000 small trees which will
be transplanted when they are large enough
to either North Lakes or Mack parks, both of
which are undergoing initial development
this year.
The purpose of the municipal greenhouses
is simple, Parks and Recreation Director
Dick Huck says.
"We feel that it is probably more
economical for us to grow our own plants
rather than have to buy them," he said
"Plus, the quality and variety of the plants
we grow here is better ”
The city operates one propagation and two
growing houses at the service center.
The growing houses now contain from
10,000 to 20,000 plants earmarked for North
Lakes and Mack parks when landscaping
begins there.
The city greenhouses require little ad-
ditional maintenance costs, Huck explained.
Two parttime high school employes run
the greenhouses under the supervision of a
superintendent who oversees landscaping at
all city parks, he said.
During the winter, when weather curtails
outside maintenance activities, other park
employes can be transferred temporarily to
the greenhouses, the director said
Huck is committed to the concept of park
landscaping using flowers, plants, shrubs
and trees.
“It's what we call visual recreation," he
said, and provides a balancing effect to the
department's more active, sport-oriented
recreational offerings.
Park officials plan to set aside at least one
landscaped area in each city park, Huck
said, adding he feels they will present one of
the best public relations efforts of his
department.
Already the unique facilities which the
greenhouses offer are beginning to be
utilized
Beginning in June, a “rural experience"
program will be offered by the city
recreation department for children between
the ages of 5 and 12.
The children, in prearranged tours of 10 to
20, are taken through the greenhouses and
shown how plants are grown and cared for.
They will be shown how to sow seed, take
leaflets and root cuttings, air layer a plant,
among other greenhouse activities.
The tours will give city kids a chance to
experience the thrill of growing things,
something many grownups take for granted,
Huck said.
In conjunction with that, the children will
be allowed to pet and feed a variety of
barnyard animals donated to the city by the
Denton Lion’s Club and now housed at the
service center. ■
Also in the works are future classes in
plant care, using greenhouse facilities, ft
such a program can be coordinated. Huck
said.
But one program currently under way is a
rental program for -groups and
organizations which reserve the Civic
Center for their activities
For an additional charge, the city will rent
to those groups plants to use for decorative
purposes.
Staff Photo
GREEN THUMB — Municipal employe Patty Brown trims one of more than 10,000
plants being cultivated at one of the city's greenhouses. The greenhouses provide
city parks with 98 per cent of the plants they contain. Parks Supt. Jim Burns says.
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