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The Clarksville Times, Thursday, August 26, 1976 Page 4
| Editorials
School Air
Conditioning
Air conditioning of 36 rooms in the lower grade levels
of the Clarksville Schools has caused considerable concern
since the I’TA offered to buy the room size units if the
school district would |>ay for installation and operation.
Business and industry long ago realized the worth of
air conditioning in increased production, better relations
between employees and fewer work days missed by
employees. School board members perhaps- considered
siteh facts when they approved the cost sharing project
unanimously the first time it was brought before them.
But the trouble started when it was brought out that
specifications would have to be prepared and bids taken, as
required J»y state law, before the schools could approve the
installation expense which was estimated at approximately
$5,000.
Concerned parents and PTA members requested a
special school board meeting and offered to pay the
installation costs to avoid further delay. This offer was
rejected by the board because the scjjool would be liable is
an accident or injury involving- wiring or installation
happened later.
The board would be ill advised to reject the project at
this point since the probability of any new school buildings
in less t han five or six years is remote indeed. On the other
hand, parents should back the board in adhering to the
laws governing school operations.
Episcopal church. Mr. Me
Kenzie also had a portion of
a Little Rock newspaper
published during the early
part of November, seventy
seven years ago.
A frame school building
40x50 is being built at
Dimple The building cost
$1,100 when completed.
Automobiles registered
No. 509, Dr. Cook.
The Wortham Carnival
company has been engaged
for the fourth annual Red.
River County Fair and will
go from Clarksville to
Dallas.
Dan Latimer was in
from Vesey and reported
serious damage from boll
weevils in the river section.
He says that the crop has
been cut half in two in the
Vesey section during the
last few weeks.
A large number of
traveling salesmen are using
Ford cars in making their
territory, practically aban
doning the trains. Several
cars are seen in Clarksville
daily. Some of the salesmen
who'tnake only the larger
towns are using cars in
preference to attempting to
arrange their work to
conform with train sehe
dules.
Clarksville's cotton re
ceipts totaled twenty three
bales at the close of the yard
offices Saturday night. Only
three or four bales had been
received on the correspond
ing date last year.
Cause and Effect
By Gerry Allen
-A Reason to Learn-
Human beings, whether child
or adult, do not like to be forced to
do anything. Rarely would a person
learn something unless there is a
desire to know. We simply do not
learn in order to understand unless
we like the subject we are
attempting to learn about. If there
is a subject we "like", we are saying
there is a reason for us to learn.
The contemporary system- of
education lacks little' in the Way of,-tools for teaching.
Various types of media have been incorporated into our
schools in order to give our children every opportunity to
learn. If onr schools are handicaped in any manner, and
appear to be leaching our children less, it is because the
cl'Mst-f jia not bo iv« n the reason that learning is
hi (M i .oil. . cannot httmeve that this problem is entirely
the fall of the educational systems. Creating a desire
within the child to learn should be the express
responsibility ol the parents. Furthermore, I cannot be led
to believe that any child with a desire to learn can be'
placed in a position where that desire cannot be fulfilled.
Read autobii raphies of the great men and women who
had the desii to learn and ask yourself what obstacles
cannot be overcome.
' Certainly problems do exsist in the field of education,
as in all other fields. Before I would heap condemnation on
the schools, I should like to know that I had made every
effort to explain to my child the reason for learning. 1 hope
as parents we know the reason for learning!
School Bus Warning
School buses carry the most precious cargo on
earth—Your children. Every precaution must be taken to
insure t heir safety. Bus drivers have much responsibility in
transporting students to and from school to their homes.
All bus drivers must possess a valid chauffeurs license,
they must undergo an annual physical examination which
reveals their mental and physical capacities to drive a bus,
and a preemployment drivers license check is made with
the Texas Department of Public Safety on their driving
record. This year, all bus drivers will be required to take
mserviee training in bus driver safety as developed by the
Texas Education Agency and the Texas Department of
Public Safety.
Any time a school bus has the safety warning lights
on, traffic is not to pass this bus. These lights are to be
activated anytime students are being loaded and unloaded.
Watch for these children as they are getting on and off the
school bus, because sometimes they are not watching for
you.
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..........Local News Happenings of .................................................................
Twenty-Forty-Sixty Years Ago
From the Files of
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Twenty Years Ago
Only three contested
positions appear on the
ballot to be voted in Red
River County Saturday.
Two positions are of state
wide interest. The other
concerns a county office.
Ballot positions listed are
Ralph Yarborough and Price
Daniel for Governor; Tom
Moore and Will Wilson for
Attorney General and 0. W.
Leggett and Henry Hudson
for committeeman Precinct
11 (North Bogata).
Bulletins to be released
by tjie Democratic Execu
tive' Committee will be
dispatched to the north side
of Stiles Drug Co. building
and announced to the
hundreds who are expected
to congregate in that area.
Guy Lemmond, super
intendent of Avery Inde
pendent School District,
advised that the 1956 57
school term will begin
Tuesday, September 4. The
faculty includes Guy Lem
mond, W. K. Fraser, Robert
D. Warded, Mrs. Helen F.
Pinkham, Mrs. Margie S.
Grant, Amos M. Floyd, Mrs.
Gay C. Culbertson, Mrs. W.
K. Fraser, Miss Lillian
Moreland, Bobby G. Bone,
Mrs. Gladys M. Baker, Miss
Ima Warthan, Mrs. Mildred
Martin. Mrs. Louise Lennon
and Mrs. Pauline Lemmond.
One of the most severe
and damaging periods of
Summer heat experienced
since 1952 was pushed out of
Texas by a massive cold
front which moved in over
the weekend. Saturday's
temperature here was well
above TOOT'The high for
Sunday was slightly lower.
Parts of Red River County
received generous rainfall as
the cold front moved
through Sunday afternoon.
Precipitation measured up
to three inches and more in
■the eastern half of the
county.
Fifty-two golfers parti
cipated in the annual
tournament which was
concluded last week at the
Clarksville Country Club.
Winners were Pat Nunnel-
ley, championship flight; P.
D. Marable. first flight;
James Ellis Goodman,
second fligfit and George
Brown, third flight.
Miss Barbara Jean
Lowe and Richard Daniel
Rhyne were united in
marriage in a semi formal
ceremony at First Baptist
Church Sunday afternoon.
Parents of the bride are Mr.
and Mrs. G. E. Lowe,
Clarksville. The groom is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. M.
Rhvne of Standley, N. C.
Word was received by
Mrs. Roy Erwin of the
marriage of her nephew, Jim
Dick Lovett, to Miss
Annette Webb, in New
Orleans, La., where he is
employed by Humble Oil Co.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Lovett
are June graduates of the
University of Texas.
Forty Years Ago
The annual election
officers of Post No. 45,
American Legion, was held
at the regular monthly
meeting in the hall. Officials
named at this time will be
inducted into their respec
tive position at the October
meeting. Officers elected
were announced as follows:
W. B. Washington,
commander.
John T. Felts, first vice
commander.
Roy M. Erwin, adju-
tant.
Sam Allen, finance
officer
Rev. J. Porter Neal,
chaplain.
E. W. Bowers, historian
B. F. Edwards, service
officer.
W. D. Wright, sergeant
at arms.
Seventeen Scouts from
Clarksville arrived at Camp
Clark Wednesday morning
'to stay until Friday evening.
While in camp the scouts
were taken to the federal
game preserve of John
Gamble.
The group from Clarks
ville included Ben Edwards,
Martin Scaff, Archie Rains,
Carl Roberts, Jr.. Roy
Rains, Dean Morgan, Tony
McDowell, James Kelly,
James Storey, Gerald Hig-
gins, Roy Johnson, Paul
Marable, Bobby Roberts,
Richard Jackson and John T.
Felts. Transportation was
furnished by Mesdames Max
Scaff, M. D. Vaughan and
Joe Hess and Buck Bourne.
Sixty Years Ago
John T. McKenzie
called at The Times office
and exhibited several inter-
esting papers. One was a
charter granted by the
"Temple of Honor" for the
operation of an organization
at McKenzie College. It was
sixty two years old. Another
paper was an engraved
receipt awarded to Rev. J.
W. P. McKenzie seventy-
eight years ago, following a
contribution of twenty
dollars to the Missionary
Society of the Methodist
(B^ftmEiiii^pcniiigs
From a Great American Bank
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1834: We reap what we’ve sown.
We’re pretty self-reliant people. Our farming feeds us, gives
us an income, and, hard and trying as it is. becomes the way
of life for thousands of our families. Lately, farming has
become a little easier. And we’re able to accomplish a little
more. Thanks to a new metal plow. And a bright fellow
named Cyrus McCormick, who's just made us our first
mechanical reaper and keeps improving on it. Now, we can
really take advantage of our fertile soil. We can make a
grand success of our farms on the prairie. We can move our
farms into the West. We can realize our grand dreams of
exporting grain. Looks like this McCormick isn't going to
stop with just a bright idea. We predict he If teach us a lot >
about manufacturing, just as he has about farming. We may
even make farming a big business someday. 9
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The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1976, newspaper, August 26, 1976; Clarksville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth912648/m1/4/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Red River County Public Library.