Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 111, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 10, 1989 Page: 1 of 22
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Sulphur Springs
Wednesday
VOL. 1t1—NO. 111.
Htiub - ® f 1 rgram
MAY 10, 1989
25 CENTS
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State UIL champs
Pariticipating in the UIL State Championships in
Austin last weekend, Chris Barton and Kristi Jones
from Sulphur Springs High School came home
with first place medals in feature writing and spell-
ing, respectively. Other top winners from Sulphur
Springs High School were Marla Smith with sec-
ond place in accounting and Bobby Korn with
third place in calculator applications. Pictured
from the left are SSHS Principal Jack Chubb, Bar-
ton, Jones, Korn, and Smith.
—SUIT photo by Richard Hail
By MARY GRANT
Ntwt-TeUgram Staff
ATHENS — An organization
that is championing the widening
of State Highway 19 to a four-lane
thoroughfare plans to continue its
work by appearing before the Texas
Highway Commission this year.
The Highway 19 Association met
in Athens Tuesday when members
discussed the Austin appearance.
"We have a lot of work ahead of us
... We want to present this route in
the best light,” David Glass of
Paris, association president, said.
Members of the association
board are expected to set a dale for
meeting with the commission.
Harve Chapman, Hopkins County
C_..ber of Commerce executive
vice president, urged the associa-
tion to set an earlier date than when
the group last appeared before the
panel, which was in November of
1988.
At that time, the. State Depart-
ment of Highways and Public
Transportation Commission agreed
to conduct a study of the highway.
Paul Douglas, public affairs
director for the highway
department’s district office in Paris,
said preliminary information has
been gathered, reviewed by district
design engineers and fowarded to
Austin where further reviews will
be conducted. Eventually the draft
will be. presented to the commis-
sion for its consideration.
Association members represent
cities, counties and chambers of
commerce along the route that ex-
tends from the Oklahoma line south
through Sulphur Springs and ends
just south of Huntsville where it in-
tersects with Interstate 45 that leads
to Houston.
Rick Palmer of Sulphur Springs,
who co-chairs the Hopkins County
Chamber of Commerce Transporta-
tion Committee, briefed the associ-
ation on business and industrial
needs in Hopkins County.
A survey conducted by the
committee indicated an annual
savings of about S3 million if firms
could use Highway 19 rather than
routing carriers through Dallas.
“We were very pleased with our
survey,” Palmer said, noting the
cooperation of local businesses in
providing the transporatiuu infor-
mation.
Also during the association meet-
ing, the group urged members to
recruit other people who are inter-
ested in the highway widening. “1
think we're well on our way to a
successful project,” Glass said.
Group plans session involving
after school day care program
By MARY GRANT
Ntwi-Ttlegram Staff
A group involved with organiz-
ing after-school and summer
childcare programs plans a discus-
sion of YMCA programs at a meet
Friday afternoon, according to
mg Enda
officials.
The meeting begins at 1:15 pjn.
in Western Sizzlin Restaurant and
anyone interested in the project is
invited to attend
The Research Committee for
Quality Child and After-school
Care, formed this year, is seeking
supervised and structured care for
children who are not old enough for
school and those who need after-
school supervision.
“That would be an ideal way to
get the YMCA in here and let them
sponsor it, but they could also use
some volunteers,” Janie Crump, a
committee member, said.
Friday’s program includes com-
ments from Becky Patrick of Dallas
and Janis Spencer of Waxahachie.
Annie Perry, another committee
member, said, “They are going to
tell us how they run their after-
school program."
Perry, who is an educator with
Sulphur Springs Independent
School District, noted that several
YMCA programs begin by using
school city facilities and then move
on to their own facilities as needed.
“It could really be worked out
well," Crump added.
Perry noted, “My concern is
having someone to run a program
because volunteers eventually bum
out.
The committee was organized
when members became concerned
about children who are left alone at
home while their parents are at
work. According to a Department
of Human Services spokesman,
some very young children are left
in the care of children who are not
much older.
While the committee is provid-
ing program information for any-
one who is interested in the project,
it is also in the process of forming a
survey to be distributed through
schools to parents in an attempt to
determine the number of children
who are in need of supervision.
The survey is being conducted
with the help of the East Texas
State University Sociology De-
^ “nt
Bush urges pressure
to force Noriega out
Highway 19 advocates plan
meeting with state agency
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi-
dent Bush is calling on democratic
allies to rally against Panama’s
Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, but
U.S. officials are playing down talk
of an American military response to
what they call a fraudulent election
in the Central American nation.
In considering the scope of
measures, officials ranging from
Panama’s opposition candidate,
Guillermo Endara, to Peru’s Presi-
dent Alan Garcia and former Presi-
dent Jimmy Carter cautioned
against U.S. troop involvement.
Bush and his advisers kept alive
the prospect of military interven-
tion Tuesday by saying all options
were being considered. Administra-
tion officials said privately, how-
ever, that such a unilateral step was
unlikely.
“I don’t think it’s necessary to
take action immediately,” Sen.
Richard Lugar, R-Ind., a senior
member of die Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committee, said on NBC
TV’s “Today'’ show this morning.
“The opposition in Panama is
counseling calm, and they’re in the
best position to know.”
Bush would not say what actions
he was considering in the wake of
what he called a fraudulent election
that nonetheless was won by anti-
Noriega forces.
“The Panamanian people have
spoken, and I call on General
Noriega to respect the voice of the
people, and I call on all foreign
leaders to urge General Noriega to
honor the clear results of the elec-
tion,” the president told reporters.
Bush was briefed Tuesday by
two election observer groups in-
cluding one headed by Carter, just
back from Central America sifter
monitoring Sunday’s elections.
The observers said there was
rampant fraud : voting and ballot
counting Bush embraced the con-
clusions of the observers and the
Catholic Church in Panama that the
Noriega opposition won a 3-1 vic-
tory.
“Despite massive irregularities
at the polls, the opposition has won
a clear-cut overwhelming victory, ”
Bush told reporters in a brief Oval
Forecast
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Cloudy, mild
Partly cloudy and cool tonight
with tows 54 to 60. Con-
siderable cloudiness and mild
Thursday with highs 77 to 80.
\ Index
AhnLanders..............3
Astrograph ...............7
Classified.............11-13
Comics :...... 13
Community Calendar.......3
Crossword ....... 4
Editorial,;........ 2
Obituaries..........z,... 12
Public Notices......... 3
Sports.................8-10
TV Log...............:.,4
Weather..................6
Bryant is new SSISD school board president
By PENNY BELCHER
Newt-Telegram Staff
The Sulphur Springs Independ-
ent School District Board of
Thames installed new officers for
the upcoming year during its
scheduled board meeting Tuesday
ni*Hwold Bryant waft selected as
the new president, William Diets
as vice president and Rosa Rurher
ford as secretary
The new officers accepted the
Br\antT*in his new role, presented
outgoing president. Tbnuny At-
tain, with a gavel mounted on a
^Aftcr canvassing returns from
the May 6 election. Judy Gikeadi.
Rom Rutherford, and Harold
Bryant were sworn in to continue
their duties as board members.
During the meeting, the board
discussed facility improvements for
the Sulphur Springs Wildcat
Stadium with cost estimates and
work detail explained by Paul
Glover, assistant superintendent
business.
New aluminum seats far the
reserved area of the bleachers are
being considered for replacement
Glover estimated the cost at
$22,000.
Glover said that an expansion to
the stadium seating can be done by
taking ig> the two end sections and
(hawing all of the seats up to the
same height
He also estimaied coos far build-
ing new restrooms, adding on to the
pres box, remodeling the conces-
The board recognized Valedic-
torian Chris Barton, Saiutatonan
Maria Smith and the top four State
UIL winners.
Among other items approved
were the acceptance of the election
returns, out-of-district transfer for
three students, a bid for gasoline
purchasing, a revised gifted-talen-
ted district plan, des.gnatirtg City
National Bank as the district
xplained that the problem- depository bank, approval of Thx
skills and the thinking Credits and Supplements for April
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sion stand and rewinng u.
The proposal was scheduled as
an action item for the next meeting
of the trustees.
Another item discussed during
the board meeting was the TEAMS
testing results. Randy Reed, assis-
tant superintendent-instruction,
presented the board with statistics
of the students’ scores.
Reed ex
solving
skills are still problem
the students, but he said they are
trying to improve in there areas.
“We have made steady progress
over the past four years,” he added.
“The mastery level can improve by
a large percentage and yet the
scores still go down,” he said, ad-
ding teachers are pleased and ex-
cited with the results
1989, delinquent tax Collections
during April 1989, and the approval
of the financial statements and bills
payable for April 1989.
The board conducted an execu-
tive sessian where they discussed
the approval of several administra-
tive realignments wtthm the Sul-
phur Springs School District (See
related article on Page 14).
Office session. “There has been a
statement for democracy so loud
and so clear that perhaps even Gen-
eral Nonega will listen to iL”
The president said that
Venezuelan President Carlos
Andres Perez was encouraging
neighboring countries to issue a
joint statement “against the fraud
that is taking place and calling on
Noriega to honor the results of this
election. '
The vote was considered a
referendum on Nonega, chief of the
15,000-member Defense Forces,
whom the United States has been
trying to depose for more than a
year.
Bush said he would not discuss
what he might do until aflei the
official vote results were an-
nounced. The Noriega-led govern-
ment claimed that partial returns
showed that its candidate, Carlos
Duque, had defeated opposition
candidate Guillermo Endara.
High school bands
concert is Thursday
The combined talents of the Sul-
phur Springs High School Stage
Band, Concert Band, Drum Corps
and Wind Ensemble will be pre-
sented in concert Thursday night in
the Civic Colter.
“An added attraction will be a
trumpet quartet that will be per-
forming in June at the state solo
and ensemble contest,” according
to band d: :cior, Rex Wilemon.
Music will be in the air, begin-
ning at 7:30 p.m.
Fresh from a performance Wed-
nesday on the downtown square,
the band is expected to be well-
tuned at the Thursday performance
The downtown event was in con-
junction with the Main Street Pro-
ject of the city’s that includes band
music for brown-bag lunch
Opening the Thursday concert
will be the award-winning stage
band playing “Through the Years,”
“Trajectory,” "Polkadots and
Moonbeams" and “Double Drib-
ble." Several soloists will be
featured artists.
The drum corps, which plays a
major roll in marching season per-
formances, will perform “Pit
Stop."
Next on stage will be the conceit
band with “Le Sabre,” “Three
Ayres from Gloucester,” "One
Moment in Time” and “Classic
Rock and Roll.”
A trumpet quartet will be playing
the selection that earned it a trip to
the state solo and ensemble contest.
The group includes seniors, Becky
Beck, Didi Parker, Jim Smith and
junior, Kenny Cowan.
The band is also basking m
recent awards that included an out-
standing 4A contest award during
competition held in Sandy Lake
Festival.
Chris Barton gets top
spot in Class of 1989
Chris Barton and Marla Smith
have been named valedictorian and
saiutatonan, respectively, for this
year at Sulphur Springs High
School.
Barton is the son of Nancy L.
Barton of Sulphur Springs and the
late Dr. R. Michael Barton. Smith
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Steve Smith of Sulphur Springs.
Barton attained a grade point
average of 5.33 while Smith at-
tained 5.23.
He plans to attend The Univer-
sity’ of Texas at Austin where he
will major in magazine journalism
with a minor in business. The high
school senior has received more
than $30,000 in scholarships, in-
cluding the Texas Excellence
Award, Terry Foundation Scholar-
ship, Robert C. Byrd Scholarship
and valedictorian’s tuition.
Smith has been awarded a $500
per year scholarship at Abilene
Christian University, an academic
scholarship from ACU for $1,000
per year, Stemmons Foundation
Scholarship and Abell-Hanger
Foundation. She plans to attend
ACU and major in business.
Barton is active in University In-
terscholastic League competition,
winning stale first place honors this
year in feature wriung.
At the same time, Smith brought
home a UIL state silver medal in
recounting.
Barton’s other activities include
managing editor of the school
paper, varsity football. National
Honor Society. Quill anjl Scroll and
Key Club. /
He has received the U.S. history
award, Spanish I award, English III
award and journalism I II awards.
Other awards he holds are Inter-
scholastic League Press Conference
— 2nd in division, general column,
1987, second in division, general
column, 1988; tops in Texas,
editorial; tops in division, editorial,
photo story, in-depth team feature;
second in division, newswriting
Cat’s Tale, tops in division news-
paper, and 1989 runner-up as Texas
High School Journalist of the Year
in the Texas Association of Journal-
ism Educators competition.
Smith is active in band, All-Dis-
trict Band, UIL marching contest;
French Club; Key Club; National
Honor Society; Texas Youth in Ac-
tion; UIL recounting awards;
psychology I award; world history,
and varsity track.
She was an honorary Kiwanian,
winner in the Hopkins-Rains
Counties Soil and Water Conserva-
tion District English essay contest;
holds the National Science merit
award for chemistry I, is a SSHS A
honor student, and is listed among
Who’s Who Among High School
Students.
She also participates and holds
honors in her church. League Street
Church of Christ
Barton’s toother is a French
teacher at SSHS. Dr. Barton was a
Sulphur Springs optometrist.
Smith's father is a minister at
League Street Church of Christ and
her mother is a kindergarten teacher
at Houston Elementary School.
Chris Barton
Marla Smith
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