Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTH YEAR, No. 49, Ed. 1 Monday, April 15, 1985 Page: 1 of 10
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JACKSBORO GAZETTE-NEWS
Jack County s Shopping Guide Since 1880
At the Crossroads to West Texas
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JISD Board Elects Officers
The School Board of the
Jacksboro Independent
School District met in regular
aaaaion with all members in
attendance.
Vote* from the election held
on April 6, 1986 were
canvassed Dick Severson
received 219 votes and Bill
Stamper received 212 votes.
The following officers were
elected: London Dutton,
president; John R. Williams,
vice president; and Carol
Lindsey, secretary. The
following committees were
appointed with the president
of the board being an ex-
officio member of each:
Athletic Campeey, Scar-
brough, Williams; Building
and Grounds: C'ampoey,
landsey, Severson, Finance:
■••rbroagh, 8svsr«on,
Stamper, Personnel: Lindaay,
Stamper, Williams.
Dr. Albert Thomas will
serve as representative for
Commodities (Human Re-
sources) and Region IX E.S.C.
Joint Committee Member
Dale Thomas will be the
representative of E.S.EA.
Chapter 1 and Chapter II and
will be the Textbook
Custodian effective 7-1-86.
Bids for a two-line six-
phone system for the
administration office will be
received.
The resignation of Gail
Schenk was accepted
The bill list and financial
statement were approved.
IMPORTANT OATES
4-12 Regular School Day
4- 19 lnservice Day
5- 3 School Holiday
5-23 School Dismissal
5-24 Records Day
The School Employees
Appreciation Banquet will be
held on April 26. 1985 at 7.00
p.m. in the School Cafeteria.
All school employees and
spouse guest are invited.
Officials Investigate Shooting
JHS HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS-<left to
right) Sherry Harrington, Danielle McGee
and Melissa Minton, standing, and Jimmy
Moore, reclined, proudly displaytheir proofs
of blood donation at the American Red Cross
Blood Mobile held at the First Baptist
Church Thursday, April 11. Blood services is
a Red Cross Good Neighbor program.
Through it, blood needs are provided for
without personal reward or obligation.
Working together like this, there will always
be a supply of blood available for anyone who
needs a transfusion.
On Thursday, April 11,
John G. Spence, of LaJunta
was taken to Jack County
Hospital and later transfered
by Careflight to Fort Worth
for treatment of a gunshot
wound to the chest.
Spence, 44, drove himself
from his home to that of a
relative some 17 miles away,
near the intersection of State
Highway 199 and FM 2110,
for help.
According to officials at the
Jack County Sheriffs office,
Spence admitted shooting
himself and the gun was later
found in Spence's home.
As the snooting occured in
Parker County and Spence
drove himself to Jack County,
Sheriff's Deputy Burl
Downing and Parker County
officials investigated the
Homicide Suspect Charged
In Tarrant County Friday
City of Bryson Holds Public Grant Hearing
The City of Bryson held the
first of two public hearings
Monday, April 8 following the
council meeting. These
meetings are required prior to
making application for a
grant. Mr. David Lewis, who
is with Governmental Service
Agency, met with the City to
outline the goals and iteOU
that could be funded. He also
stated that the grant would be
100% of cost. The city would
not be required to show
matching funds. The projects
undertaken would have to
benefit low and/or moderate
income families. Also, they
could hot be city-wide. He
explained that some of the
city was not considered low-
moderate income and that
was reason why a project
could not be city-wide. A
number of things could be
done on a neighborhood
revitalization program and
done over a period of years.
At this point Mr. Lewis
Fingerprint Program
A Fingerprints for Safety
program will be held at the
Jacksboro Elementary School
Gym Wednesday, April 17 and
Friday, April 19 from 2:30 to
5:00 p.m., immediately after
school, both days.
Antelope Jamboree
The regular Antelope
Jamboree has been scheduled
for Saturday, April 20, at 6:00
p.m.
All area musicians are
invited to come and partic-
ipate. The public is encour-
aged to come enjoy the music
and good food, which is
prepared in the concession
stand.
Admission for adults is 504
and 254 for children.
Quilting Classes
Concerned Citizens will
hold quilting classes the 2nd
Monday of each month at
10:00 a.m. at the center.
asked for citizen in-put.
Mayor Willard Schlittler
stated that the water plant
needed upgrading to meet
state requirements; Aid. Alta
Rudolph brought up the solid
waste disposal which has been
a major problem for some
time; Don R. Mitchell said he
felt the City needed to install
more fire hydrants. It was
also noted that some of the
streets stand in water when it
rains posing a severe
drainage problem. Some other
problems mentioned were:
upgrade the streets, install
more sewer lift pumps and
connect more homes to the
system.
Mr. Lewis will be back at a
later date to help the council
and volunteers conduct a
door-to-door survey for more
citizen in-put as to what they
feel are the greatest problems
facing the city and what they
would like to see remedied.
When a volunteer calls on you
please give him a few minutes
of your time to answer a few
questions.
There will be another
publice hearing held after the
survey. A time and date has
not been set at this time. It
will be put on cable TV and
announcements made in the
churches when the meeting
date iafeet. Also notices will be
placed in the businesses
around town.
Sales Tax Payments
1985 Show Increase
State Comptroller Bob
Bullock sent checks totaling
$48.9 million in local tax
payments to the 1,003 cities
that levy the one-percent local
sales tax.
Bullock cautioned against
attempts to draw conclusions
about the Texas economy
based on one month's rebate
figure but added the April
payments "are in line with our
projections for the state".
Jacksboro was mailed a
check for $15,223.09 making
total of $96,964.81 for the year
of 1985 compared to the total
of $82,816.97 1984 payments
to date. This is a 17.08 percent
change over last year.
Bryson was mailed a check
for $1,775.14 with the
comparable payment for 1984
being $4,009.99. Payments to
datefor 1985 come to $9,891.35
and to date last year were
$7,861.90 amounting to a
change of 25.81 percent.
April checks represent
taxes collected on sales made
in February and reported to
the Comptroller by March 20.
Earl Dean Pugh, 52, of Jack
County, was arrested and
arraigned at 4:20 a.m. Friday,
April 12 in the Court ot
Justice of the Peace J.L.
Lacewell.
Pugh was arrested follow-
ing a shooting at Lynn's Bar
on Highway 199 in Azle, in
Tarrant County.
According to Azle Police
Chief R. David Wilhelm,
Pugh, and Robert Holley, 45,
were reported to have been
arguing inside the bar and
moved the argument to the
outside where the shooting
occured. Holley remained
laying in the parking lot with
several gunshot wounds and
a suspect, reported to be Pugh
drove away in a pickup.
Holley was later reported
dead at Eagle Mountain Area
Suburban Hospital.
Information gathered at the
scene was enough for a
probable cause warrant and
Pugh was arrested at his
home at Rt. 1 Box 91,
Poolville.
After being arraigned in
Jack County, he was
transported to Azle where he
was later transported to the
Tarrant County Jail, charged
with murder and placed under
a $20,000 bond.
Grand Jury Delivers 8 Indictments
National Library Week is April 14-20
The Grand Jury met at 9:00
a.m., Thursday, April 11 and
handed down eight indict-
ments. Those indited and
their charges were (1) Bonnie
Tyler-Delivery of a controled
substance, amphetamine-
Bail $10,000; (2) Michael
Wayne Howard-Delivery of a
controled substance, amphet-
amine-Bail $10,000; (3) Judy
Howard-Delivery of a
controled substance, amphet-
amine-Bail $10,000; (4) Lero
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T-April 11 78 54 .00
F-April 12 77 57 .00
S-April 13 76 57 .23
S-April 14 81 50 .13
RAIN
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j s £ 1983 Rainfall 23.85
\ Rainfall 39.10
“I Rainfall 39.97
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The Jacksboro Public
Library will be screening the
full-lenghth Disney film
"Alice in Wonderland"' on
Thursday, April 18 in the
library as part of National
Library Week.
On a golden afternoon in
1862-July 4th to be exact-
Charles Lutridge Dodgson,
an Oxford mathematician
don, took three little sisters
boating on the Isis. The
middle sister, ten year-old
Alice Liddell, asked for a story
from the young man, one "with
plenty of nonsense in it", to
while away the time. Wishing
to please the child, he started
with these words: "Alice was
beginning to get very tired of
sitting beside her sister...."
And thus one of the great
classics of the English
language was bom. "The
interminable fairy tale," as
Dodgson called it, went on for
many future meetings.
Eventually, the author hand-
lettered the whole story, drew
thirty-seven illustrations for
it, and presented the
charming manuscript book to
Alice Liddell for Christmas in
Clothes Closet Sale
April Clothes Closet sale
will be Wednesday, April 17
from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the
First Presbyterian Church
Clothes will be received
Tuesday. April 16 from 9:00
• m. to 1:00 p.m.
1864. He titled it "Alice's
Adventures Under Ground".
Revised and expanded, the
book was published on July 4,
1865, the third anniversary of
the boating party. John
Tenniel drew the illustra-
tions, some of them not unlike
the author's; the title became
"Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland"; and the author
signed himself Lewis Carroll-
all three names were destined
for worldwide fame.
In 1949, Walt Disney chose
Alice's fantastic adventures
as an ideal vehicle for
animation. For nearly two
years he and a staff of 750
artisits worked on the
production, transposing
Carroll's text and Tenniels's
illustrations to their medium
as faithfully as possible.
"Alice in Wonderland" was
a musical, and among its best
songs were "I'm Late", "Alice
in Wonderland", "All in a
Golden Afternoon", "Un-
birthday Song", and "Very
Good Advise".
With this feature released in
1951, Walt Disney succeeded
in bringing Alice to the screen
in a form which pleased both
die traditionalists and the
large new audience not
previously acquainted with
her and her curious com-
panions.
The film will begin at
approximately 3:30 p.m. All
children under the age of
seven must be accompanied
by an adult. There is no
admission charge.
; (4) Leroy
er $750.00,
Slaughter-Theft over
Services Pending
Funeral services are pending
at Hawkins Funeral Home for
Roy Fenter, who died Sunday,
April 14 in Fort Worth.
but less that $2,000.00-Bail
$5,000; (5) Alta Fay Teague-
Forgery by passing checks-
Bail $10,000; (6) Katherine
Lois Rowe-Forgery by
passing checks-Bail $10,000;
(7) Jackie DeWayne Thomas-
Forgery by passing checks-
Bail $10,000; and Kim Elaine
James-Injury to a child-Bail
$10,000.
Bartons Chapel Cemetery
Association to Meet
The Bartons Chapel
Cemetery Association will
meet at the cemetery at 2:00
p.m. Sunday, April 28.
Members are ask to please
attend for the election or
officers and reading of the
yearly report.
LOCAL BRIEFS
by Dorothy Anderson
Inspirations Plus has jeans Spring Clean-up, "Stash the
from size 3 to 44. There are Trash" day was moved to
new clothing arriving daily. April 20. Plans are the same.
***
JISD All-sports Banquet Scheduled
The Tiger Booster Club in
conjunction with head coach
Gene Griffin have set the
dates for the Jr. High and
High School All-Sports
Banquets.
The banquets are held to
honor all of our students who
have dedicated so much of
their time and efforts to
represent our school system in
the various sports activities
throughout our district and on
to state-level competition.’
Special recognition will be
made to those atheletes who
made outstanding contri-
butions to the various fields in
which they participated.
The Jr. High Banquet will
be held on April 22,1985 in the
school cafeteria at 7:30 p.m.
The High School Banquet will
be held on April 25 in the
school cafeteria at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets for the banquets are
$3.00 and $4.00 respectively
and may be purchase by
contacting Coach Gene
Griffin at 567-5660 or from
any of the students who
participated in sports during
the school year.
Please join the parents of
our atheletes in support of our
atheletic programs by
spending two nice evenings at
the All-Sports Banquets.
Remember: "100%
I noticed A1 Freedlund has
an ad on page two inviting
everyone to attend the April
22 city council meeting.
Jack & Jill Flowers & Gifts
reminds us that April 22
begins professional secre-
taries week. They suggest
bosses call 567-2626 and order
a FTD Picture Frame
Bouquet.
Deb's Monogram Shop's
grand opening will continue
through Friday. Go by and
register for a monogramed
towel set to be given Friday,
April 19.
*•*
H Bar M Western Wear has
ladies 100 percent cotton
sweaters, Junior and Missy
shorts, also childrens and
mens straw hats in stock.
***
It rained Saturday and the
I read that fed cattle
marketings likely will be
declining in the months
ahead, and that's good news
to the cattle industry. Overall
prices in the cattle industry
should strengthen, with fed
cattle marketings tapering
off, according to Dr. Ed
Uvacek, TAMU livestock
marketing specialists.
Received a letter to the
editor the other dav from
someone complaining about
dogs running lose. The last
sentence stated, "We are in
hopes you print this letter, but
also have my doubts about
this too." The letter was
signed Concerned Citizen.
Letters to the editor have to be
signed by the person writing
it in order for us to print it.
That is why it was not
printed, contents.
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