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Letters To The Editor
By The Outraged, The Contented, The Concerned
To The Editor
On Feb. 7, 1987, the C.I.S.D.
will once again be put to the
test. A $2.8 million bond elec-
tion will determine whether or
not our property taxes will in-
crease by approximately 60 per-
cent. Can those who want
higher taxes get more people to
vote or can those who are tired
of paying higher taxes get more
people to vote? Before you make
up your mind, think of the
present state of the economy,
think of your pay raises (or the
lack thereof), and think of the
current rate of unemployment.
Also, think of the $2.8 million
bond election for which Valley
Mills voted and now cannot af-
ford to pay. Please think for
yourself and don’t allow a few
sly, “concerned citizens” to con-
vince you that you’re getting
the “deal of the century.”
If the following question:
don’t arouse your curiosity,
have some swamp land in whic
you may be interested.
I. Are there 200 or 300 more
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Torrence To Speak
At THE0S Meeting
Sunday, Feb. 1st
CRANFILLS GAP -
Elizabeth Torrence, chairperson
of the Bosque County Historical
Commission, will bring the pro-
gram when THEOS (They Help
Each Other Spiritually) holds
its regular meeting Sunday,
Feb. 1, at the First Baptist
Church, Cranfills Gap, from 2 to
4 p.m.
The organization is a non-
denominational Christian group
designed to help people who
have lost a spouse through
death. It is a support group
made up of persons who are ex-
periencing the same loss. Any-
one experiencing such a loss is
invited to attend the monthly
meetings.
For more information, call
Betty Carlson at 597-2774 after
6 p.m. or Pastor Mark Vin-
ciguerra at 597-2738.
students in grades K-8 now than
there were in grades 1-12 before
the new high school?
2. Is there any new business or
industry in Clifton to bring in
the alleged child increase?
3. Why build a complete new
school complex that will require
more administrators, and more
lunchroom and maintenance
personnel when we could just
add a few classrooms onto exist-
ing buildings at a fraction of the
cost?
4. Why did we allow the old
gym to be torn down simply be-
cause one engineering firm said
that the gym could possibly fall
down if all the windows and
doors were opened at the same
time, at the right instant, on the
wrong windy day? (All things
are possible. Even a new build-
ing could collapse given the cor-
rect set of circumstances.)
5. Do the elected officials,
some of whom are coming up for
reelection, believe that the tax
payers in the C.I.S.D. have for
gotten about the recent upward
reevaluation of their property?
6. How many times can you
cut your paycheck into smaller
slices before you have nothing
left to take home but a few
crumbs?
A. Higher Income Tax
B. Higher Sales Tax
C. Higher Gas Tax
D. Higher Insurance
Premiums
E. Higher Food Costs
F. Higher Health Care
G. Higher Property
Evaluation
H. Higher School Taxes —
VOTE NO!
I. Higher Countv Taxes —
VOTE NO!
I am not against better educa-
tion, but the age of a structure
has nothing to do with the qua!
ity of the education provided
therein. I urge each of you to
vote, but before you vote,
remember that we are still pay-
ing for the “new” high school,
and that building is now 14
years old.
Sam Wells
(An overtaxed citizen I
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Once Upon A Time...
80 Years Ago In Clifton
By ELIZABETH TORRENCE
The Bosque County Collection
Dr. William C. Pool, a native
of Bosque County, recently re-
tired from his teaching position
at Southwest Texas State
University where he had been a
Professor of History for almost
40 years. The author of Bosque
County, Texas; Bosque Territo-
ry; The History of an Agrarian
Community, and "The Frontier
Along the Bosque," Chapter 1 of
Bosque County: Land and Peo-
ple, Dr. Pool is truly the histori
an of his beloved Bosque
County.
William Clayton Pool, the son
of Will C. and Beth Snider Pool,
was born Feb. 2, 1919, in the
home of his parents some five
miles south of Clifton. Billy, as
he was known throughout his
school days, entered the first
grade of the Clifton Schools in
1926. he was a good all round
student, excelling as a scholar
and athlete, and graduated from
Clifton High School in 1937. It
was in this same year that Will
Pool moved his family to Austin
to he near the University of
Texas in order that his two sons.
Bill and his younger brother.
Barn’, could have the opportu
nities this great institution had
to offer.
Entering the University of
Texas in 1937, Bill majored in
history Here he was active in
varsity sports, playing on the
baseball team in 1937-1938. he
was the manager of the U T
football team in 1940 41
He received his B A from the
University of Texas in 1941 and
accepted a job as elementary
principal and coach at Buffalo,
Texas. He resigned this position
in January', 1943, to join the
U.S. Army Air Corps where he
served as a pilot in the China
Burma India area in World War
II.
After his discharge from the
Air Corps, William C. Pool
returned to Austin where he
received his M A from Texas
University in 1946 and became
an instructor in history at
Southwest Texas State Univer
sity, San Marcos, Texas He
received his PhD from the
University of Texas in 1949 and
soon became Professor of Histo-
ry at Southwest Texas State
University. With the exception
of time in 1951 1953, when Dr
Pool served as a pilot and pilot
instructor during the Korean
War, the remaining years of his
teaching career were spent at
Southwest Texas State Univer
sity until his retirement in
1986. He taught mainly Ameri
can History, his favorite areas
being Texas and the Western
Donation Containers
Placed In Businesses
For Cancer Victim
CLIFTON - Grand Ole
Gospel Center of Clifton has
placed containers in several lo-
cal businesses for donations to
Jimmy Starr, a cancer victim,
according to a Center spokes-
man, who said, "Donations will
be appreciated."
For larger donations, call
675-8127.
Frontier.
Dr. Pool never lost his interest
in sports and worked for 20
years trying to secure member
ship for the SWTU baseball
team in the NCAA He coached
the team for the seven years pri-
or to this retirement and it was
in the last year that he coached
that the team finally became a
member of the NCAA
William C Pool married
Sarah Jeannette Yeager in
1941. She has worked with Bill
throughout the years helping
him to achieve his goals She is
a math teacher in the San Mar
cos Academy They have one
daughter, Mary Ruth, who mar
ried Henry F Krause, and three
grandsons, Aaron, Jeremy, and
Neal Krause.
Academic honors awarded Dr
Pool include membership in two
honorary fraternities Phi Al-
pha Theta thistory > and Pi Sig-
ma Alpha (political science!
Perhaps the honorary award Dr
Pool cherishes the most is that
•of being chosen as a Fellow in
the Texas Historical Association
, in 1952. There is a limit of six
ty persons, chosen because of
their published works and other
i qualifications, serving as Fel
\ lows in the entire state of Texas
In addition to the books on
Bosque County, Dr W.C. Pool
has written the following: Eu-
gene C. Barker, Historian. 1971;
A Historical Atlas of Texas,
1975; and he is co author of
Texas: Wilderness to Spaceage,
1962 and Lyndon Baines John-
son: The Formative Years, 1964
He has written numerous short
articles including: "The Origin
of Signal Corps Aviation in
Texas." Military Aviation in
Texas," and “James Taylor,
Master Teacher " Two articles,
published in Southwestern
Historcia! Quarterly are Bosque
County related, "The Battle of
Dove Creek" and "Westward I
Go Free: The Memoirs of Wil
liam E. Cureton, Texas Fron
tiersman.”
Now that he is retired. Dr.
Pool plans to play golf, travel,
and do some writing. It is the
fervent hope of this writer that
he will have some time to help
us with the preservation of
Bosque County’s written histo-
ry in the Bosque County Col
lection
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