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Bringing You News Of Your Hometown Since 1907
VOLUME 107 NUMBER 4 USPS NO 171-340 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2013 ELECTRA TEXAS 76360
DEMOLITION -- Four houses were torn down in Electra last week in anticipation of
four new homes being constructed through a HOME grant program. The houses were on
West Franklin, West Michigan and East Roosevelt.
Homecoming Plans
Underway By C-C
Electra Chamber of
Commerce is accepting items
for a silent auction to be held
during the Sept. 27-28 Vintage
Homecoming.
Auction items will be
on display at the chamber
beginning on Friday morning,
Sept. 27. Bids will be awarded
at 3 p.m. on Saturday.
Chamber Manager Sherry
Strange said items may be
brought to the chamber office
Monday through Friday, 8
a.m. until 11:30 a.m. If needed
call the office for pick up by a
chamber member or director.
Theme for this year’s
event is Join Us For A
Vintage Homecoming. Those
attending are encouraged to
wear favorite homecoming
tee shirts from previous years.
Ms Strange said a limited
number of tee shirts from
previous homecoming will be
on sale during the event for $5
each.
The two-day event
will include registration at
Blood Drive Set
In Electra Tuesday
Electra Memorial Hos- birthday this month she is en-
pital and Community Blood couraging all her friends and
Drive combined will have a the community to come out
blood drive at Chamber of and donate.
Commerce on Tuesday Sep- Each donor receives a
tember 24 from noon until Feel Proud T-shirt, Health
5:30 p.m. at the Chamber. screenings, rewards points.
In Honor of local blood For more information
drive chairman Lis Crow’s contact Lis Crow at 495-2502.
Museum, Gift Shop
Planned For Grand
the chamber, Friday golf
scramble, reception for
outstanding exes at State
National Bank, presentation
at halftime of the Friday
night football game, Saturday
morning pancake feed by
Electra Community Service
Club, the Saturday morning
parade, Car display, Saturday
noon bean feed prepared by
the Electra Chuck Wagon
Gang and underwritten by
Electra Hospital District, and
the auction.
Main Street Electra and
Waggoner National Bank are
partnering in presenting a
showing of the film, '' Ameri-
can Graffiti,” at 8 p.m. on Sat-
urday in the Grand Theatre.
The move is free of charge,
however the concessions of
popcorn and soft drinks will
benefit the theatre restoration.
Several class reunions are
scheduled during Homecom-
ing weekend. A list of sched-
uled reunions on Page Eight
containcs information on
classes which have announced
plans for the wekend.
A complete schedule of
events will be provided in the
Thursday, September 26, edi-
tion of this newspaper.
The Grand Theater Mu-
seum and Gift Shop will open
Saturday, September 28th
during Homecoming.
Hours will be 8:00 a.m. to
7:00 p.m.
The shop will offer dis-
plays of movies and movie
stars that were typical during
the years of The Grand. Items
will be for sale for movie col-
Boys interested in
scouting and their parents
are invited to a meeting on
Thursday night at the Police
and Fire Station. The meeting
will begin at 7 p.m.
The Scout program is
open to boys first through
eighth grade for Cub Scouts
and ages 14-17 for Boy
Scouts.
David Potter of Iowa Park
is active in organizing local
scouting in the Greenbelt
lectors or those who just like
to read about the movies.
The shop will offer a wide
range of items from post-
ers to lobby cards to books
to records to small items for
kids or those who just want a
Grand Theater memory.
The Grand board invites
all Homecoming attendees to
come take a look.
Division of the Northwest
Council Boy Scouts.
He is excited about all
the activities planned for the
scouts including camp outs,
Halloween in the Park, Cub
and Pal overnight camping
trip and numerous other
activities.
Potter reported nine
scouts signed up during a
meeting here last Thursday.
Cost for the program is $ 10.85
a year.
City Wide
Garage Sale
On October 5
The annual City Wide
Fall Garage Sale sponsored
by the Elecra Chamber of
Commerce is planned for Sat-
urday, Oct. 5.
Chamber Manager Sherry
Strange said a map and list
of items offered at the vari-
ous locations will be made
available by the Chamber and
included in the Thursday, Oc-
tober 3 edition of the Electra
Star-News.
Deadline for posting a
location and list on the map
will be Monday, Sept. 30 at
the chamber office. Cost is
$10.00.
Mrs. Strange said the
chamber sponsors a city wide
garage sale on the first Satur-
day of April and the first Sat-
urday of October each year.
They have become annual
events.
Organizational Meet
For Scouts Thursday
Water Rate Increase In
Proposed City Budget
continuing higher water costs
due to necessary changes in
their system. These higher
costs will be passed on to
wholesale water customers
such as Iowa Park and Electra.
City commissioners
addressed a proposed
balanced budget some
$400,000 less than last year
but with an increase in the cost
of bulk water from $270,000
to $447,765 in a work session
on Tuesday night.
Administrator Larry
Pannell said City cost of the
bulk water will increase from
$2.07 per 1,000 gallons to
$4.92. He said the amount of
increase Electrans can expect
on their water bills has not yet
been determined.
He said he has began
looking at alternative water
sources such as the wells
on Red River as the City
of Wichita Falls will face
The proposed Utility
Fund budget is balanced
at $5,002,660 with water
department expenditures of
$825,922; electric department
at $2,024,595; waste
water, $136,646; sanitation
at $233,004, and non
departmental at $1,782,493.
Pannell said he was unsure
at this time of any increase to
consumers in electric rates.
Commissioners will
hold a public hearing on the
proposed budget and tax rate
at their regular meeting next
Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 5:30
p.m. in City Hall.
The meeting this week
was called specifically as a
budget work session. Mayor
Curtis Warner presided with
Commissioners Tom DeLizio,
See CITY, Page Two
The general fund overall
proposed budget is balanced
at $2,258,719 down from
$2,679,089 in 2012-13.
Pannell noted the budget
does not require a tax rate
increase. Last year’s tax
rate of $0.66690 per $100
valuation drops to $0.652799,
the effective tax rate with
an increase in property RAINFALL! — Rainfall totals of almost an inch
value from $80,588.20 to temporarily fill the downtown streets of Electra last week.
$82,111,278. More rain is in the forecast this week as Electra remains in
The proposed plan Stage Three Drought Contingency Plan.,
from City Hall includes
some changes for current
employees. City Clerk
Kim Cryer will be elevated
to Municipal Clerk and
Donnie Clifton will be raised
to Deputy Public Works
Director. Both will receive
wage adjustments. Wage
adjustments are also included
for three lower-wage workers.
The budget includes a
two- percent wage increase
for employees not receiving
wage adjustments, and
includes a fully staffed police
department including dispatch
and animal control.
Other budget provisions
include a combined Main
Street and Economic
Development with Business
Development Corporation
of Electra including $20,000
in their budget toward staff
compensation.
Pannell noted that the
proposed budget includes less
expense for unsafe structure
demolition, less for
asphalt, les for capital
improvements at City Park but
has provision for new siding
for the lift stations, fencing
at the Public Works barn and
repairs at the Convenience
Center.
Total expenditures for
the General Fund include:
$466,869 for administration;
$578,500 for the police
department, $76,706 for fire
department; $138,869 for
Municipal Court, $337,050
for Street; $41,214 for
Animal Control; $98,384
for Library; $136,429 for
Senior Citizens; $36,000 for
Ambulance; $9,800 for Tax,
$56,636 for Park, $36,200
for Golf Course, $48,556 for
Swimming Pool, $40,262 for
Cemetery, $48,132 for Main
Street, $30,062 for Economic
Development, and $79,050
for Code Enforcement.
COLLECTION BOX — Grand Theatre board member
Edna Talley, right, discussed the new coin collection box
for the Grand Theatre with Chris Jolly, left, of Goldsmith’s
Drug Store. The box, "Change For The Grand,” made its
debut at the drug store on Monday.
Collection Box
Benefits Theatre
Change For The Grand,
latest fund-raising effort of
Electra Grand Theatre, Inc.,
made its debut on Monday at
Goldsmith’s Drug.
The collection box
is located in the Medical
Supply area of the drug store,
however on Saturday, Sept.
27, it will be moved to the
Grand Theatre for the opening
of the Grand Museum and
Gift Shop, and returned to the
drug store on the following
Monday.
The collection box is
patterned after the Million
Pennies Collection Box
made several years ago to
raise funds for a library at
Dinsmore Elementary School.
Retired Teacher Debbie
Wright brought the idea to the
theatre board saying, "Just
think what a million dimes
would raise for the theater
renovation project.”
The original box proved
to be too large for portability,
and theatre board committee
members commissioned the
smaller version.
Theatre Board Member
Edna Talley, head of the
building committee, said
the box accepts any coins
or folding money and all
donations are appreciated.
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