The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, April 11, 1986 Page: 1 of 4
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SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL II, 1986.
4 PACES-25 CENTS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
SSISD trustees
elect Johnston
By BOBBY BURNEY
News Telegram Staff
Messy fun
Crime prevention has become a way of life in
Sulphur Springs with the programs in the
schools, day care centers and even local
businesses. Police Officer Ann Fiedler,
right, fingerprints 9 month-old Jala Jenkins
as her father, Manuel Jenkins, holds the
youngster steady. Jala's brother, Jeremy,
anxiously awaits his turn during this special
fingerprinting session in Wal-Mart.
Staff Photo by Ann McAdams
Trustees approve soccer
as newest varsity sport
By BOBBY BURN EY
titws Telegram S’aff
Sulphur Springs High School will
add-a fast-growing varsity sport to its
1987 spring agenda after the Sulphur
Springs Independent School District
Board of Trustees gave its approval
Tuesday to a boys soccer program
The board was addressed by SSISD
Athletic Director Don Poe who, with
the help of administrators Ed Kranz
and Tommy I,ong, compiled a survey
of boys and girls who were interested
in starting a soccer program.
"The results of the survey came out
positive, particularly boys,” Poe
said, recommending,that the board
approve a boys program, and then
checking interest again to see if a
girls team is warranted
The survey, which included boys
and girls that are currently in grades
8-11, showed that 69 boys were in-
terested in trying -out for a school
soccer team. Of that total, 27 of the
boys are currently playing soccer in
the Sulphur Springs Soccer
Association, a spring recreational
league.
Thirty-three girls were interested
in a soccer program, but of those,
only eight are now playing soccer.
Poe said he was apprehensive
starting a program with that few
active players
Superintendent I^onard Merrill
pointed out that girls can play on a
boys soccer team
Poe also charted some projected
costs for starting a varsity boss
soccer team that will suit out 18
players for a game and came up with
an estimate of under $11,500.
"Soccer will be an inexpensive
sport to start." he explained,
estimating that total equipment costs
w ill be under $5,000.
The games will be played at
Forrest Gregg Field on the Middle
School campus, although the field has
no lights Poe said lights for the field
would be approximately $25,000, but
that the team could play on Saturdays
and early evenings so that lights
would not munediatelv be necessary
Merrell agreed "The projected
lighting cost was not an attempt to do
anything but make you aw are that w e
have no lighted field, ” he explained
Last year, an underground
sprinkler system was added and the
field was re-sod, Poe explained. "It
won’t cost much to put that field in
shape," he said. "It’s in pretty good
shape already ."
Other schools with a 4-A
classification^in the area that either
have socewpifteams or will start them
next spring include McKinney,
Chapel/till, Mount Pleasant, Kilgore
and Rpckw all Most 5-A schools in the
J^allas ■ metroplex sponsor soccer
teams. Poe said.
"We will not be in the same district
alignment as our other sports,
because not all 4-A schools have
soccer teams," Poe said. "The only
reason we have been hesitant to
recommend it to the board before is
because of the UI1 (University In-
terscholastic Iveague i placement. "
"In the next five years, I think all 4-
A schools will have soccer," Poe
added.
In other action, the board
designated AM radio station KSST as
the official voice of SSISD sports
According to UIL rules, the district
must designate only one radio station
for its district sporting contests.
EM radio station KDXE General
Manager Mel Price asked the board
to rotate designations between the
two Local stations, but such a motion
by newly installed trustee Rosa
Rutherford died for lack of a second
Bill Bradford, KSST general
manager, said disruption of his
station's broadcasts "would be
destructive." The board agreed,
although- board President Tonuny
Johnston said "Unfortunately, this is
one of those items that you have to
make a choice — one or the other. "
Gardening on the square
Anita Crook, left, and Rachel Pitts share a
laugh over armloads of turnips that they
picked from the field adjacent to the. cour-
thouse on the square. T.L. Sanderson, for-
mer owner of the downtown lot, scattered
turnip seeds there in September as a joke.
Apparently the ground is fertile, as the
greens are there for the pickin'.
V
Three newly elected Sulphur
Springs Independent School District
Board of Trustees members were
installed and new officer? elected
Tuesday before the board settled into
a lengthy agenda featuring two items
concerning teachers' career ladder.
Rosa Rutherford, Harold Bryant
and Judy Gilreath were given the
oath of office by SSISD Tax Collector
Judy Gregg. The board then elected
Tommy Johnston, president; Mark
McClendon, vice president; and
Tommy Allison, secretary.
The board approved minor changes
irt local school board policy regarding
the career ladder, a measure tool of
performance and salary for teachers.
Teachers must be in the district for
one year before they will be allowed
to be on I^evel II of the career ladder,
the board voted. Superintendent
Leonard Merrell said that was so an
evaluation could be made by the
SSISD.
"There is no statewide basis of
evaluating who goes on the career
ladder," he said, adding that using
another district's evaluation would
not be "comparing apples to apples.”
The board also accepted a
recommendation that after a teacher
is put on the career ladder, the
teacher's performance must be
exceeding expectations" to remain
on the ladder. That is the same
degree of-p|rformance that it takes to
Utility
refund
delayed
Local electric users may be seeing
a reduction in their utility bills for
April due to a rate reduction, but they
will have to wait a little longer before
they receive a refund on an over-
charge, according to a local Texas
Power and Light official.
TP&L District Manager Ike Harper
said that the lower utility rate, which
is being reflected in the April bill, will
be for the entire Texas Utilities
Electric Company service area,
including Hopkins County.
Although the refund has been ap-
proved, the method of refunding the
money is still being decided by the
PUC, Harper said.
“Right now, we’re waiting for the
Utilites Commission to approve the
method of how to refund the money,”
he explained. "We hope to have it
approved' by the time the May bills
are issued.”
The nqw electrical rate, spurred by
the low gas prices, is 2.47 cents per
kilowatt-hour — down from 2.79
cents.
The TUEC will have $40 million to
refund its customers after the bills
are reduced by. approximately 5
percent.
Harper had earlier said that the
refund will amount to an average of
$25 and will probably be a credit
attached to the May bill.
I Contract
awarded
for PO
The U.S. Postal Service has
awarded a contract for construction
of a new Cumby post office, the first
of three Hopkins County rural post
offices seeking new facilities.
The contract was awarded to Jack
Gatewood and Michael Glass of
Frunkston, who will build the facility
and lease it to the Postal Service,
Postmaster Joyce Battle said.
Two other county post offices, Dike
and Saltillo, have also advertised for
bids for new buildings. *
The new post office in Cumby will
have 4,400 square feet of interior floor
space and will be located on the
southwest corner of the intersection
of Depot and,^arker streets
be put on the ladder initially, Merrell
said.
“Once a teacher is on the career
ladder, that person must continue to
perform at the level that put her
there,” Merrell explained.
If the state allotment for career
ladder salary supplements is not
sufficient to pay all of the teachers
who meet the requirements, then the
board authorized the district to
supplement the salaries not less than
$1,500. Otherwise, the supplement
will be $2,000.
The board then assigned four ad-
ministrators, Patsy Bolton, Jerry
Long. Tommy Long and Randy Reed,
and three as yet unnamed teachers to
serve on the Career ladder Selection
Committee.
. In other action, a bid from the State
Board of Control for 34-watt
fluorescent lamps for the high school
was OKrdbystbe board The cost will
be $1.06 per lafcift, less a 50-cent
rebate from Texas rawer and Light
making the bulbs 56 cents apiece.
The bid followed a TP&L study that
revealed the district can save money
without sacrificing learning potential
if lesser wattage bulbs were used
strategically in the high school.
The board authorized the district to
sell the existing lamps to neighboring
schools at reduced prices.
In other action, Merrell presented
the board with information regarding
a potential summer school for SSISD
students and other districts’ students
who wanted to take part.
Some high school students
responded to the summer school idea,
although not enough .to have) very
many classes, Merrell said.
Summer classes would be on a
tuition basis of $80 for a 'n credit class
and $160 for full credit Semesters
would run from June 10-27 and June
30-July 18.
Parents or students who are in-
terested in attending summer school
if there should be one, should contact
Dan Durham, assistant superin-
tendent of instruction. 1
March permits
total $805,449
Br MICHAEL PELRINE
News Telegram Staff
Single-family home construction in
March kept pace with that of the
preceding month, but non-residential
construction fell far short of the
previous mark, according to the
building permit report from the city-
building inspector’s office.
Total permits awarded in March
amounted to $805,449, compared to
$1,129,600 in February and $1,178,677
in March last year.
Permits for 12 single-family homes
account for $725,000 of the March
total, while 13 permits for hom^
construction in February- amounted
to $753,000.
The March permits bring the total
for the year up to $2,332,549, which is
tip from the $2,162,577 at this time last
year.
The largest home permitted in
March is a 4,674 square foot structure
at 641 Rasure Circle. The builder is
listed as Micky Eddins. The cost is
$135,000.
A 1,872 square foot, $65,000 home to
be built by B.B. Beers at 1412 Elm-
wood is 'the next most expensive
home permitted last month.
Other permits are for sheds, fen- ,
ces, signs or remodeling, according
to the report.
The following is a list of-permits by.
location, owner or builder and
estimated cost
212 Hollie Circle, TimKo Con-
struction, $60,000.
101 Cedar Springs Blvd., TimKo
Construction, $60,000.
1327 Lemon Drive, Dale McChana,
$49,000.
1412 Elmwood, B.B Beers, $65,000.
949 Forrest Lane, TimKo Con-
struction, $50,000.
1025 Markeda St., Hill Bros.,
$45,000.
349 Hollie Circle, Cooper & Cooper,
$60,000.
704 Pauls Lane, Cooper & Cooper,
150.000.
705 Pauls Lane, Cooper & Cooper,
$50,000.
1816 Woodbridge Drive, Mike.
McCool, $56,000
641 Rasure Circle, Micky Eddins,
$135,000.
l3l6 Lemon Drive, Dale McMahan,
$45,000.
7th St., Lacek & Herman, $45,000.
328 Texas St., Dale Diede, $199.
221S. Locust St., Davis Wood Prod.,
$3,000.
713 Pauls I-ane, Ronny Darrow,
$100.
1401 Shannon Road, Inez Horton,
$1,700.
1105 Gilmer St.. larry Mead, $900.
836 Main St , E.W. Massey $350.
430 W. Industrial Drive, Swatsell
Oil, $2,000.
108 Gilmer St., James Lumpkin,
$7,000.
217 Main St... Janies May, $700.
824 Cranford St., Mary Foster,
$8,000.
215 Main St., Thomas Payne, $3,500.
114 9th St., Billy McCormick, $8,000.
^ LEAVING
HOPKINS - RAIDS
SOIL A WATER
CONSERVATION
DISTRICT
New signs going up
Darrell Pinner, left, representing Ocean Spray Cranberries
Inc., and Weldon Glossup, Soil Conservation District Zone 4
director, meet at a sign going up in the district. Signs
prevailed in the district in the past, but were removed. The
new signs are being installed.with the help of contributors
like Ocean Spray according to SCS officials.
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Keys, Clarke & Hillsamer, Dave. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, April 11, 1986, newspaper, April 11, 1986; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth776195/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.