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Seminole Sentinel
The News Leader of Seminole and Gaines County Since 1907 ”
10 Pages, 1 Section, 2 Inserts Wednesday, September25,2013 Volume 104, Issue No. 103 750
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A Preview of Friday's
Big Spring / Seminole
Football Game
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Board Adopts 15.5-Cent Rate
Proposed Above
Rollback Rate
Unanimously
Approved
Monday Night
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By Dustin Wright
Sentinel Managing Editor
Just days removed from a pair
of public hearings held earlier this
month, and with little discussion
on Monday evening, Seminole
Hospital District Board Directors
unanimously adopted their proposed 15.5-cent per $100 valuation main-
tenance and operations tax rate.
A tax rate which will fund roughly one-fourth of the Seminole Hospital
Districts operating budget for the 2014 fiscal year.
A rate which face a rollback election, if SHD taxpayers chose to raise a peti-
Memorial Hospital
SEMINOLE HOSPITAL DISTRICT
tion against Monday evenings rate,
which comes in roughly 3.5-cents
above district's 12.1456-cents
per $100 valuation rollback rate,
which was established per property
valuation calculations made earlier this
calender year by the Gaines County Appraisal
District
SHD Place 4 seatholder Blaine Nichols made the motion to approve
the 15.5-cent rate, which was seconded by Place 1 seatholder Dairold
See HOSPITAL, Page 2
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BSCAto Host
Taco Fundraiser
A benefit taco dinner will be
hosted on Thursday, beginning at
11 am, for Blue Sky Christian
Academy.
The fundraising event is slated to
be held at the Gaines County Civic
Building, located in the 500 block of
N. W. 5th St.
The cost is $10 per plate, which
will include two tacos, rice, beans
and one drink, with the rice and
beans donated from El Zarape
restaurant.
A silent auction and a bake sale are
also anticipated to be taking place
with the fundraiser.
Proceeds from the event according
to Blue Sky officials, will be used
for playground equipment building
costs for an additional building and
for field trips throughout the school
year.
For more information about the
fundraiser, or Blue Sky Christian
Academy, contact Blue Sky Chris-
tian Academy at (432) 955-0601.
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and lows in the low 60s.
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Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
80s and lows in the low 60s.
Sat
9/28
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the mid 80s and lows in the mid
50s.
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70s and lows in the low 50s.
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Bypass
Change
Okayed
City Council Accepts Plan
to Divert Portion of
Downtown Truck Traffic
By Dustin Wright
Sentinel Managing Editor
In a unanimous decision Monday
evening, members of the Semi-
nole City Council approved of a
change to the way eastbound-to-
southbound traffic coming through
Seminole will be routed within the
city limits, as proposed by Texas
Dept, of Transportation (TxDOT)
officials.
Back in mid-August, TxDOT
officials stated the proposed truck
by-pass change - primarily affecting
eastbound traffic traveling on U.S.
Hwy 62/180 bolting to head south
on U.S. 385 - could come in "two-
to-three months," pending Seminole
City Council approval.
Earlier this calender year, City of
Seminole officials visited with Tx-
DOT representatives to help de-
velop an alternative tractor-truck
reliever route for the eastbound
to southbound traffic through
Seminole. What developed was a
TxDOT proposal of turning trac-
tor-truck traffic south bound on
N.W./S.W. 11th St from the US
62/180-N.W. 11th St. intersection
to the intersection of S.W. Ave. G.
At S.W. Ave. G, truck traffic would
turn eastbound on S.W. Ave. G
and travel to the US 385 red-light
intersection, where it will turn south-
bound.
Seminole City Administrator,
Tommy Phillips, said in a Tuesday
morning interview with the Sentinel
the change was needed.
"(The City of Seminole) feel this is
a better route to begin with than the
one we currently have because it
will pull the truck traffic further away
from the downtown area," he said.
Men at Work
Sentinel Photo/Dustin Wright
GAINES' UNEMPLOYMENT FALLS TO 4.8 PCT. IN AUGUST
Construction workers associated with work being conducted at the Seminole High School campus work on constructing a cinder block wall at the campus' new performing arts center,
which is associated with SISD's $110 Million Bond Project. On Friday of last week, the Texas Workforce Commission stated Gaines County had a 4.8-percent unemployment rate for
the month of August. In the August report, over 7,400 jobs were reported within Gaines County.
Local August Jobless Rate at 4.8 Pet.
Gaines Has 7,476
People Employed
Locally in August;
State Jobless Rate
at 6.4 Percent
Gaines County's unemployment figures fell three-
tenths of a percentage point for the month of August
when compared to the month of July, according to the
latest figures from the Texas Workforce Commission
on Friday.
In August, Gaines County boasted a 4.8-percent
jobless rate, which is the same rate as August 2012 and
down from a 5.1-percent unemployment rate seen in
July.
Gaines County, according to TWC numbers, boasted
a labor force of 7,854 for the month of August, which
was down 331 people from July's total of 8,185 per-
sons.
The county's "employed" population totaled 7,476
people during the month of August, which was down
290 from July's report of 7,766.
Gaines' "unemployed" total was also down for August,
according to TWC figures, as 378people were classified
See JOBLESS, Page 3
i Facing a Government Shutdown
Countdown Begins as Democrats, GOP Draw Battle Lines
WASHINGTON (AP) - In five days, the federal government
runs out of money.
While the Republican-controlled House of Representatives
passed a resolution Friday that keeps the government
funded through Dec. 15, the measure also defunded
President Obama’s signature health care law — which
means it has virtually no chance of passing the Democratic-
controlled Senate.
If a budget resolution doesn't hit President
Obama’s desk before Oct. 1, that's a big problem:
The government will be forced to close its doors.
With that prospect looming, here are eight things
you should know about the possible shutdown:
It won't be the first time
Since a new budgeting process was put into place
in 1976, the U.S. government has shut down 17
times. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan
each dealt with six shutdowns during their terms in
office, lasting anywhere from one day to 2 1/2 weeks.
The last actual shutdown came in 1996—though the government came
close during budget negotiations in 2011.
The last shutdown lasted three weeks
The three-week shutdown that lasted from Dec. 16, 1995, to Jan. 6,
1996, ranks as the longest in U.S. history. As a result, about284,000 federal
workers were furloughed, and around 475,000 essential employees went
without a paycheck, although they were eventually reimbursed.
They weren't the only ones inconvenienced. Some benefits for military
veterans were delayed, and cleanup at more than 600 toxic waste sites was
stopped. The government also shut down for six days in mid-November
1995, initially resulting in the furlough of 800,000 federal employees. The
Congressional Research Service reported the shutdowns cost taxpayers a
combined $1.4 billion.
Only the "essentials"
Only federal employees deemed essential" would continue to come to
See SHUTDOWN, Page 6
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Wright, Dustin. Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 103, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 25, 2013, newspaper, September 25, 2013; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth787580/m1/1/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gaines County Library.