The Alto Herald and The Wells News 'N Views (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 22, 1984 Page: 1 of 10
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WELLS ISD TRUSTEES MEET
Decision concerning superintendent’s contract
tabled.
SEE SCHOOL BOARD, PAGE 1
YELLOWJACKETS BUZZ ON
District Game against Arp set for Friday night.
Teams travel to Henderson.
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Yellowjackets have First perfect record of 10-0 sin-
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Vol. 89, No. 29
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Thursday, November 22,1984—Alto, Texas 75925
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The Yellowjackets played in the rain last week and they shut out West Hardin 37-0 in their Bi-District game. An
unidentified Jacket is under a pile of Oilers in the picture above as Joe Bays. number 72 comes in to assist. The
Jackets meet Arp this Friday night at Henderson High School at 7:30 p.m. ...photo by faye nell rogers
Alto ISD Trustees Convene
Roofing, Tutorial Programs and Personnel Discussed
Trustees of the Alto ISD met in
regular session on Nov. 15 and
items on the agenda included a
recommendation from Roofing
Engineer Larry Lasiter, a report on
the tutorial programs by the school
principals and changes in school
personnel.
First on the agenda was Lasiter
of the Engineering Firm of Good-
win and Lasiter of Lufkin. Trustees
have been considering the roofing
needs of the Alto school and accep-
ted the suggestion that bids not be
placed out for the roofing job until
Spring. At Lasiter s recommen-
dation trustees decided that the ex-
tensive re-roofing of the school
buildings should be done in the
summer when classes are not in
session.
They agreed to hire Lasiter’s
firm to prepare bids on several dif-
ferent systems, to arrange for pre-
qualification points for potential
contractors and to oversee the job,
the material testing and the final
payout by the school His cost for
the engineering work was
estimated to be around $3,000.
Trustees agreed that it would be
money well invested to have
someone oversee the project which
will involve more than an acre of
Area
Action
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City Hall Closed Thursday
Alto City Hall will be closed for
the Thanksgiving holiday on Thur-
sday and Friday. Garbage pickup
will be on Friday this week due to
the Thanksgiving holiday.
Game Tickets On Sale
Tickets for the Alto-Arp football
game this Friday night at Hender-
son will be on sale at the Alto Food
Center and Little Bear Grocery on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
School will not be in session during
the holiday and these are the only
places tickets can be purchased in
advance. Student's tickets are $2
and adult tickets are $4.
Art League Cancels Meet
The Alto Art League will not meet
for its evening meeting this month
since Thanksgiving falls on the
fourth Thursday their regular
meeting day.
roof, approximately 52,000 square
feet.
In other action the trustees ap-
proved a Textbook Committee
comprised of elementary school
teachers: Joyce Rogers, Linda
Skinner, Sue Jones, Joy French and
Anita Holcomb. From the high
school: Terry Ted Moore. Buddy
Brashear, Faye Nell Rogers, Judy
Stewart, Jennifer Dearman and
Paula Hogan and Linda Rodriguez.
The Tax Assessor’s Report
showed a Current Tax Roll of
$864,174.56 with Taxes Paid To
Date: $426,492.54 with a Total Out-
standing: $437,682.02. In Delinquent
Taxes the Total Collected is:
$3,135 17.
Superintendent John Cook’s
(See ALTO ISD. Page 3)
The Alto Yellowjackets remained
unbeaten for the eleventh time as
they swarmed the West Hardin
Oilers 37-0. Alto gained 478 yards off
offense while limiting West Hardin
to 68 total yards.
Alto scored on their first
possession as Kevin Blakemore ran
across from two yards out. The
conversion try failed leaving the
score 6-0. In the second quarter
Larry Lacy scored from eight yards
out and also ran across for the two
point conversion for a 14-0 lead. A
bad snap out of the end zone gave
the Jackets a safety and a 16-0 lead
Just before halftime Larry Lacy hit
Leroy Pope with a 26 yard touch-
down pass Kendrick Morrison ad
ded the extra point for a 23-0 lead
In the second half Kevin
Blakemore added TD runs of three
and one yards and Shelton Griffin
kicked the conversions for the final
37-0 final. The offensive line of Joe
Bays, Jay Jones, Stan Dover,
Carlton Griffin, Randy Lofton, and
Britt Smith opened up big holes for
the backs. Larry Lacy threw the
ball weft as he completed eight
passes for 128 yards Leroy Pope
caught three passes for 76 yards
All of the running backs; Steve
Lofton. Mark Green. Stewart Willis.
and Kevin Blakemore ran well on
the muddy field On defense Randy
Lofton. Kendrick Morrison, and
Fred Thacker stood out on the
defensive line. Kerry Griffin and
Chris Lewis played well at the
linebacker positions
Coach Mac was pleased with the
victory and that the team is healthy
with no one injured Alto will travel
to Henderson to play the Arp Tigers
this Friday night at 7:30 p.m. Alto
beat Arp 9-2 early in the season in a
rain storm. Alto will be the home
team against Arp
Coach Mac notes that the first
game with Arp could have gone
either way We only had 92 total
yards and Arp 72 yards on a slip-
pery field Arp has an outstanding
defense and good kicking game
The most points scored on Arp by
any team this year is 12 Arp is by
far the quickest team we have faced
this year The team that wins this
game will be the one that has im-
proved the most offensively. ’ he
concluded
Both teams will have a tough time
moving the ball consistently so tur-
novers and big plays will probably
decide the contest Everyone is
urged to come out and support the
Jackets
Board Members Elected
Thursday By CCMRA
Election of board members and
officers, as well as reports, oc
cupied the agenda of the Cherokee
County Mental Retardation
Association at its meeting Thur-
sday night
Present officers were re-elected
No Decision Reached On Contract
Wells ISD Tables Action Concerning Superintendent
Trustees in the Wells ISD said
last Thursday night that they would
take no action at the present time
concerning requests that the con-
CCAD Officer Announced
Miller Promoted To Assistant Chief Appraiser
Dick Miller, appraiser for the
Cherokee County Appraisal District
has been promoted to Assistant
Chief Appraiser. He will fill a
vacancy created by Rex Dodd, who
resigned to go into insurance
business in Tyler
Dodd’s resignation and Miller's
promotion were announced by Chief
Appraiser Sid Danner after an
executive session of the CCAD
board Thursday afternoon
Miller has been with the CCAD
since its beginning He had been
employed by the Cherokee County
Tax-Assessor office in February
1979 He then moved with the other
county employees connected with
appraisal work to the new agency,
when it was formed early in 1981.
He and his wife, Ann, make their
home in the old Lone Star com-
munity near Ponta. They have four
children-a son, in the U S. Army, a
daughter in Albuquerque, N.M. and
daughters, Diane and Polly at
home.
Miller was born in Rusk and lived
here until he was 10. His father, Dr
W. A. Miller resides in Jackson
ville.
Miller says he left Texas in 1959
and moved to Colorado. He and his
wife moved back to Cherokee Coun-
ty in 1976. Mrs. Miller is from Utah
They are members of the Ponta
Baptist Church.
In other matters to come before
the board at the Thursday session
was the swearing in of Mrs. Thelma
Shattuck as a new board member
from the Alto area
Board members voted to pur
chase a plotter for the drafting
department of plotting small plat
maps at a cost of $5,000 from the
CPS Business Systems That price
includes both the hardware and sof
tware, he noted.
Members agreed to move the
agency’s mimeograph and electric
stencil cutting machine to the Rusk
ISD office. The school district will
provide machine maintenance and
the CCAD will be allowed use of it.
Danner explained to the board that
the machines were used for about
two weeks per year and the main-
tenance was costing the agency
RSH Jobs
Quickly
Fill for 104
Almost all of the 104 new positions
for Rusk State Hospital have been
filled, according to Kate Bramlett,
personnel assistant. Some 70 per-
cent of the positions will be filled by
press time and the other 30 percent
will be scheduled for interviews.
Position selections should be com-
pleted by Monday.
Among the first hired were those
who had applications on file These
were individuals who had checked
with the personnel office every
week.
Probably 500 applications have
been received for the 104 new jobs
ordered by U S. District Judge
Barefoot Sanders and for some 20
other hospital positions.
All the new employees will begin
on Dec. 3 when they start orien-
tation Prior to that time applicants
will be called back for interviews
and if selected, will then go in for
physicals. Staff doctors are
scheduling 24 physicals per day.
With the employment of the 1M
new people on the hospital staff, the
local economy will be increased by
slightly more than $100,000 after a
six month period. Rusk State
Hospital employs 1,325 people with
an annual payroll of $22,526,509
With the additional employees, the
personnel staff will be increased to
1,429 persons
tract of Superintendent Cole Pugh
not be renewed.
The board issued its statement to
some 120 persons attending the
regular monthly board meeting
Nov. 15 at the school auditorium
The statement came following an
executive session, when board
members heard from four
representatives of a Concerned
Citizens Group, composed of Bill
Proffitt, Richard Hartless, Alton
Morris and Dale Speer; Pat
Samares, r^presentinp thp Flemen
tary School Teachers; Viki Seale,
representing the Secondary Per-
sonnel; and local resident William
Durham. Statements from those
who spoke to the board are
published elsewhere in this issue
After hearing all statements in
executive session, the board in open
session, issued the following
statement:
“At this time we do not have all
the facts and evidence to make a
decision We will study the situation
and any decision w ill be made at the
proper time. Any decision we make
will be in the interest of the studen-
ts, teachers and community. We,
the Wells ISD board, would like to
urge the people of the community to
support the administration, and
teachers so that we can return to a
calm atmosphere conducive to a
good teaching atmosphere ’’
The board set Dec 6 as a ten-
tative date to meet with members
of the Concerned Citizens Commit-
tee, asking if the Committee would
supply witnesses and additional in-
formation concerning the ten
charges made against Pugh in their
statement The Committee agreed
to this.
During the beginning open
session, the committee of four
asked the board to be heard as a
group because they had been elec-
ted to represent the citizens group
That permission was granted
While the board was still in
executive session the four-man
committee selected Bill Proffitt to
read their statement aloud to the
crowd Following that reading,
(Sec WELLS ISD. Paw 3)
and they are Woody Frazier
president, Maris Fletcher, vice-
president, Glenn Stanley, treasurer
and Marie Whitehead, secretary
Other board members re-elected
are J W Carter, Billy Watson, Rev
Hal McNeil, Mrs M V Cox, Mrs
Anna Lou Darby, Mrs Mercedes
Cantley, Mrs Berta Parker, Valen-
tine Waddleton, Alva Joy Jones,
and Marie Taylor
An audit of the Cherokee County
Sheltered Workshop’s operation,
sponsored by the organization, was
reviewed by Elton McCune, direc-
tor The audit was conducted by
Smith & Brumbelow of Jackson-
ville
McCune was commended by the
board's president for his excellent
management of the program as
well as its finances
The director also reviewed the
recently completed building
program
He announced the seeurement of
a new contract for clients of the
facility. “We will begin a work
project clearing inter aiung the
highways in the Rusk-Jacksonville
area, McCune saiu The cuuudCt
for $36,000 was signed with the
Texas Department of Highways
and Public Transportation
He recommended the purchase of
a used van for transportation of
clients to and from the workshop
Board approval was given
Meeting with the board was Paul
Mayberry, assistant superinten
dent of Lufkin State School He.
with Allison Ash, LSS case worker,
(See BOARD. Page 3)
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Celebrating A Time of Thanksgiving
Students from Alto Elementary School fifth grade enjoyed a Thanksgiving treat last week. Pictured above
from left are Ramona t’ourcier, Holly Davis, Josh West and Andrea Easley. Fifth grade teachers Mrs. Hall
and Mrs. Liles expressed thanks to the children's parents who supplied the fruit and to Joah West for the pop-
corn and to everyone who pitched in and helped. .. .photo by betty rardia
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