Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, November 24, 1989 Page: 4 of 45
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“Yes. The family still gets
together for the holiday.”
— Patsy Britt, Cleveland
‘Yes. I believe it still has
the same meaning to
most people.” — Dwayne
McMenamy, Cleveland
Does Thanksgiving still mean as much?
“No. I don’t think it means
as much to people now.”
— Ruth Yough, Kountze
“No. It’s more commer-
cialized, like Christmas.”
— Mary Gilman,
Cleveland
“Yes. The family still gets
together and has fun.” —
Shirley Harvey, Tarking-
ton
“No. To most people it’s
just a day off from work.”
— Melvin Castleberry,
Cleveland
,ETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Divorce hurts youth
t)ear Editor,
Divorces are actually a breakup between two people that have
grown up to realize that they aren’t meant for each other.
I’m only 14 and I may not know much, but I think marriage should
[ be taken very seriously, and have lots of depth to the relationship.
My parents were divorced when I was young, and I don’t remem-
ber much except for the pain. I know they still have to associate with
6ach other regarding child support. It is like an argument everytime
something comes up about us kids.
To sum it up, two people shouldn’t get married at an early age
I and should wait until they for sure they’re ready for marriage. Also,
they should get all the running around out of their system before
I they settle down.
Thank you, Name Withheld
A place of our own
Dear Editor,
I think the town of Cleveland needs some places for teenagers
to go.
There is nothing in this town to do without getting in some kind
of trouble. Many of the teenagers in this town get in trouble just
about everywhere they go to have fun.
There are a lot of teenagers that drink and do drugs because
they are bored nd have nothing else to do.
If we teenagers had places to go the rate of teenagers drink
and doing drugs would go down tremendously.
Sincerely,
Shelby Morehead
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New hangout needed
Dear Editor,
The kids on Friday and Saturday nights go hang our at Meekins
parking lot. They drink beer and talk.
I was wondering why they can do this when it is a busy street.
People have wrecks and fights there.
I was wondering if the city had a better place for them to hang
out? If we put more lights on that street they might go somewhere
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Sincerely yours, pi
Leo Huff
Royal Brave reunion ^
Dear Editor,
I know its hard to believe but, yes Mable, its been 40 years since the
Royal Braves Band was initially started.
The numerous First Divisions, the many students, parents and yes,
even grandparents are invited to unite in true Cleveland Pride. The
Cleveland Band Booster organization is hosting the 40th Royal Braves
Band reunion at Stancil Park on May 19.
The 1989-90 Royal Braves Bands will be in concert under the baton
of Jerry Bryant, Pete Kunkel, Jim Blackshear and Jim Jones. There will
also be an alumni band and all past band members are invited to play
out on “Ponderosa”.
The festivities will begin at 9 a.m. with a musical carnival atmosp-
here and will include games, pictures and a grand concert at 7 p.m. of
all the Cleveland Bands, both past and present and conclude with a
dance.
Anyone interested or with information which might be helpful please
contact Minnie, 592-1015, Wanda, 689-3637 or Cleveland Band Boos-
ters, P.O. Box 1959, Cleveland Tex. 77328-1959 ,
Cleveland Band Booster mffi
Localized school rule
Dear Editor,
in 1949, the Gilmer Akins Bill was enacted, creating the Texas
Public School System under the direction of the school superintendent
of Texas. It has taken 40 years to prove beyond a questionable doubt
that it hasn’t worked and it is not going to work. I’m wondering how
long we Texans will stand for this screw up.
In order to control the local school superintendent the state appoints
a state superintendent of schools to control the local superintendent of
each school district. Now he needed a system whereby they could
force the local school districts to comply with all their wishes.
Some of the local school districts were going back to the voters, the
property owners, for more money and they were saying “NO”. So they
created the automatic tax increase every year without your approval.
Then they needed a uniform way of leving taxes, which lead to the
formation of the central appraisal district. Now the unfairness issue
showed up a few months back. I wonder what law they will pass to
overcome that problem.
There is an old saying that when you are trying to create something
and it begins to show signs of failure, go back and do one of two
things. Use the old system you were using or create a better one.
I’m sure hoping they won’t try to create a better one, because they^
are apt to screw up like they have on about everything pertaining M0f
taxes that they have put their hands on.
If we eliminated the three above programs look at all of the money
the state would save and the taxpayer would have control over their
property taxes.
Now if we want to save Texas, and clear all of this mess up, I’m
hoping you will contact your state representatives and ask them to
return the control of the schools back to the local people (which it
should have never left), so it can be run as it had been operating by
local authorities for over 100 years.
Thank you,
Jack Alexander
Cleveland
ADVOCATE
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CLINT RITTER.................... Publisher
DIANA COLE......................General Manager
R.T. LOWE.............................................Editor
Jerrel Ferguson..........................Sports Editor
Glen Dodson....................................Reporter
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