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VOL 113—NO. 16. «
JANUARY 20,1M1
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RSVP leader
looking for
volunteers
By CHRISTINE NOE
News-Telegram Stuff
Wanted: Person with lots of
living experience and who has a
special interest in helping others.
Prefer someone who has gray hair
^ or is at least old enough to have
earned some.
Contact the newly-formed Hop-
kins County branch of the Retired
Senior Volunteer Program.
'That’s the description that fits the
people the Red River Valley
Retired Senior Volunteer Program
officials say they are looking for in
Hopkins County.
Established to encourage senior
citizens to participate as volunteers,
the organization will operate under
its Paris parent organization, Diane
McDowell, RSVP director in Paris,
said.
“The program’s benefits are two-
fold,” site added. “It opens up a
new pool of volunteers to the
community and it increases self-es-
teem and reminds people that
senior citizens have something to
contribute.”
Sherri Spradlin, who will
coordinate the local group, said,
“There’s a wide range (of positions
available).”
The agencies seeking volunteers
will include either government
agencies or public or private in-
stitutions, McDowell said, noting
the agencies will not include
religious or political entities.
The volunteers will be assigned
to positions in non-profit agencies,
institutions and organizations such
as hospitals, libraries and nursing
homes.
“It is an opportunity for them to
share what they have,” McDowell
said. *
Among the local agencies that
are signed up to participate in the
program include North East Texas
Opportunities, the Meal-A-Day
Center and local nursing homes.
In other areas, volunteers are as-
signed to literacy programs,
hospital auxiliaries and libraries.
Volunteers perform activities
ranging from clerical tasks to work-
ing with individuals, McDowell
said.
lb be eligible for the program,
an individual must be 60 or older.
“I have volunteers in their 80’s,”
McDowell said.
No dues are changed for par-
ticipation and volunteers are
covered by insurance when serving.
For additional information on
how to become involved in the
program call 885-4134.
Gulf war
grows in
intensity
Tax vote day
Pauline Riley, left, and Janie Palmer were busy Saturday morning checking registration lists as Sulphur
Springs residents voted at City Hall on a half-cent sales tax proposal. Among those picking up ballots and
voting were Grace Teetes, left, and Maurine Avinger. The polling place was open from 7 a m. until 7 p.m.
Saturday. Voting was said to be brisk.
—Staff photo by Larry Barr
Speaker reports benefits
of school-business liaison
— develop leadership skills and
qualities, get students to think past
“the next football game and the
state of Texas,” and develop greater
ethical sensibilities.
He worked to develop
“programs where business people
could come and not give money —
but time and expertise. "
EDS “is having lots to do with
leadership” at Plano schools. In the
Emerging Leaders program, three
high level EDS executives meet
once a month with the student
senates at both Plano high schools.
“EDSers come in and stir the pot,”
Frantz said.
In another leadership develop-
ment program, high school students
are given the EDS leadership train-
ing in a “slowed down, watered
down version” during the fall
semester, he said.
In the spring semester, the
students are divided into teams and
assigned a mentor from EDS. Each
l_orofc
“and (he kids work out a solution.”
The mentor helps the team leader to
develop leadership capabilities.
The IBM Advanced Business In-
stitute brought in long-range
strategic planners to help students
develop a global perspective.
During the fall semester the plan-
ners explained to student par-
ticipants what a global perspective
is.
In the spring semester, students
divided into teams and took a chap-
ter from John Naismith’s book,
“Megatrends 2000,” and analyzed
the affect the trend would have on
their lives.
“Free Enterprise — Ethical
Foundation” is a course study used
to develop a sense of ethics in
students.
Business leaders from medical,
legal and journalistic fields provide
students with actual case studies.
Noth Texas
with increasing
the west late in the night.
By CHRISTINE NOE
News-Telegram Staff_
Businesses and corporations can
help schools become world class
education centers, a spokesman for
a business-school liaison program
told Sulphur Springs teachers
Friday.
Ed Frantz is an executive with
Electronic Data Systems and is “on
loan” to Plano Independent School
District for the program.
He described how corporations
have become involved in the educa-
tion of Plano students.
“They provoke the students into
thinking about leadership respon-
sibilities in a way they might not
have before... The program reaches
kids that are really sham — to
make them even sharper,” he said.
His first task with the school sys-
tem was to determine what the cor-
porate community thought the
schoojs should be doing “past
education.”
School bus flashing lights mean time for caution
members of the community thought
that schools should do three things
IN SAUDI ARABIA (AP) — Is-
rael Saturday vowed vengeance for
a second Iraqi missile attack on
civilian targets. U.S. forces
pounded Baghdad and Iraqi missile
sites and took their first Iraqi
prisoners of war.
The military said the U.S. force
and its allies had so far destroyed
10 Iraqi aircraft in air-to-air com-
bat, and five U.S. aircraft have been
10SL
Marine Maj. Gen. Robert
Johnston said in Riyadh that more
than 4,000 sorties had been conduc-
ted over Iraq and Kuwait. He said
in the last 24 hours, over 50
Tomohawk cruise missiles had
been fired — for a three-day total
of 150.
The military said the 12 Iraqi
POWS were taken in an operation
against Iraqi anti-aircraft positions
on Kuwaiti oil platforms in the Per-
sian Gulf, where little fighting had
been reported in the war.
The Iraqi attack on Tel Aviv
Saturday — the Jpwish Sabbath —
involved at least three missiles and
caused minor injuries and damage.
It was the second such attack in
two days, and threatened anew to
draw Israel into the conflict
Jordan’sjnilUary and police went
into emergency meeting to make
plans in case Israel retaliates.
Continuing an unrelenting allied
offensive, waves of U.S. warplanes
streaked north from Saudi Arabia
Saturday, and fother American
plahes took off t om the Incirlik air
base in southern Turkey, according
to reporters at the base.
Lt. Col. Greg Pepin told a
briefing in Riyadh that on Friday
night the guided missile frigate
USS Nicholas, Army helicopters
and a Kuwaiti patrol boat engaged
and neutralized Iraqi forces work-
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three buses there ... They just don’t
stop at all,” she said.
She noted that the children are
not allowed to stand up and prepare
to leave the bus until the vehicle
has come to a stop. “It takes a long
time to unload,” she added.
Jones said that about 65 percent
of the children are 6th graders or
younger, which makes them likely
to “dart out there like a quail.”
Farrar said one of her passen-
gers, a young child, got off the bus
and ran around the back to cross
the street while other children were
crossing at the front, causing what
could have beat an additional
surprise to an unaware motorist
“Drivers just count kids until
they are blue in the face” before
they close the door to disengage the
flashing light, Jones said.
And, he added, “We came real
close (to having a child threatened)
a week ago” when a motorist pas-
sed a
stopped school bus on the
right side. The bus driver was able
to stop the children before they
stepped out of the bus, he noted.
“The law is that you stop when
the red lights are flashing,” Jones
said. He noted that the lights, two
at' the front and two at the back of
the bus, are 6 inches in diameter.
Motorists who ignore the law can
be prosecuted and could face a fine
up to $92.50.
Afun-fish’n day
Volunteers from local service organizations came out Saturday morn-
ing to help local kids from toddlers to 16-years old catch some of the
2,000 Rainbow Trout that were placed in City Park's pond. Bo Dillard
or Dike was going strong early on with four fish caught. Max Brad-
ford's Bait and Tackle tagged three of the trout, and if anyone catches
them they will receive a rod and reel combo from the shop. If the tag-
ged fish were not caught Saturday, the prizes will be awarded to
anyone who catches the fish during the year.
—SUIT photo* by Larry Barr
By MARY GRANT DAVIS
News-Telegram Staff .
There’s probably little argument
in Hopkins County that today’s
traffic keeps most people in a fast
pace.
However, one time that calls for
a slowdown — and many times a
stop — is when a school bus is
delivering children to and from
school.
“When anyone sees anything
yellow, they should just think and
approach it with extreme caution,”
Jimmy Jones, Sulphur Springs In-
dependent School District transpor-
tation director, said, referring to the
familiar school bus.
A bus driver, Katherine Farrar,
agrees.
“If people would just think,
‘This could be yotir child,’ ” that is
getting off or on die bus, she said.
Jones and Farrar offered com-
ments in what they said is a con-
tinuing problem of motorists ignor-.
ing flashing red lights that require
the motorists to stop until the lights
are turned off.
He sees the problem more ex-
treme on wide streets where traffic
is heavy. “We just experience it all
year long. During holiday times,
people just seem to be off in
another world ... And, I think they
are looking low. I just don’t think
they are looking at those red lights
... I just don’t think they are paying
attention,” he said.
Loop 301, Gilmer Street, South
Broadway, League Street, Houston
Street and the north end of Church
Street are among those noted for
producing motorists who foil to
stop as required.
Farrar, whose route includes
Radio Road to the service road on
the north side of Interstate 30, said Rnc stOD
she finds motorists more likely to “
ignore the warning as she nears the Sulphur Springs school students art pictured here as they leave a bus on Radio Road at Como Street.
Interstate. School officials say some motorists are failing to obey the law that requires them to stop when the bus’ light
“We’ve got so much traffic and I is flashing retj* j?
don’t .think people realize there are —staff photo by Larry Barr
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