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TEXAS PRESS
ASSQCIATION
1976
Single Copy
YEAR- No. 12
MALAKOFF, HENDERSON COUNTY, TEXAS
THURSDAY- March 24, 1977
lZltS SPOT--This
erected Tuesday to
site of Malakoffs
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new Municipal Building to
be built with an Economic
Development Administra-
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in hip with the city of lakoff, Texas
US DEPAIZt'MENT OF COMMEICE
Economic Development Admirstion
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tion grant. On hand for the
sign erection were [from left]
Donny and Earl Oxford of
Oxford Construction Co.,
Mayor A. M. Thompson,
City Manger John Lott, and
County Gives Up
Ambulance Service
councilman, AI Inmon.[Staff
Photo by Loraine Herline]
Center Work To Begin Immediately
he was "amazed and buildingas they havea lot of
pleased" at the bids on the experience in masonry
half-million-dollar facility, work," the spokesman said.
Five firms bid on the Completion time is 290
construction and 11 took out days, with a January 4. 1978
plans for study, he said. date set as the projected
Other bidders and the completion date. The
amounts bid included: architect said he expects
Hershall James Co.. completion sooner than that,
Garland, $371,000; Metro- however.
politan Construction Co., Official groundbreaking
Duncanville, $384,551; ceremonies, originally
Redbird Construction Co., announced, have been
Athens, $414.274: and West canceled.
& Wyrick Co., Athens. i The building will be
$378,400. " .,-erected on the Melton
"Earl Oxford is particular-, property between downtown
ly well-qualified to do this and First Baptist Church.
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Included in the complex
' Sh0rt are city offices, city court
:::: ::ii facilities, police station, fire
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.:.: station, and library, along
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!!i with a large meeting room
and lockers and kitchen
Booster Club facilities.
construction, funded in its
entirety by a $499,000
Malakoff first learned of
the grant at year's end, and
was the only municipality or
gorvernment entity m this
part of East Texas to receive
a grant.
A spokesman for Jackson
Cates and Associates, Tyler,
architects for Barber &
Associates, engineering firm
representing Malakoff, said
The Malakoff High
Booster Club will meet at 7
broker 20 years, and Dan, a
p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 29. at
retired marine, has been a the Malakoff High School
broker since 1967. Also
associated with Action Library.
On the agenda is a dis-
Realty are Star Harbor cussion of the upcoming
residents Charles Barndt all-sports banquet set for
and Joe Cardo. [Staff Photo May 7. All boosters and
by Tom Herline] interested high school sports
fans are invited.
Was to begin this Economic Development
Malakoff's new Agency grant under terms of
building following the Local Public Works
Friday of a Capital Development and
bid by Earl Investment Act of 1976.
Co. of Under terms of the grant,
construction must begin
Was to be erected before March 29, or the
the site of the grant is forfeited.
--Mem- in ceremonies Tuesday
Medakoff Cham- morning. Dan and his wife,
s gold- Evelyn Ciosser of Star Her-
greeters, including bor, are located at the former
president Jerry site of Ray Donnell Realty.
mad A.M. They are open from 9 to 5
Dan dally except Thursday and
Realty as from 12 to 5 Sundays.
in Malakoff Evelyn has been a real estate
This Corner
up garmets as they talk.
Let a man come into a
washateria and he gets the
"'jack-the-ripper" looks from
the ladies present. The scene
almost resembles that of an
old movie where the wagon
train master has just issued
the order. "Circle the
Wagons" as the Indians
Rotary Egg Hunt
approached at full gallop.
Let me tell you,
washateria can be a lonely
place for a men when it's
packed by a half dozen ladies
who're doing their level best
to keep two rows of heavy
duty washing machines
between you and them.
But I survived the ordeal
and returned to the trustful
atmosphere of home to dry
the clothes.
Only then did I discover in
one batch of washed clothes
a dishtowl glued together by
some gooey brown substance
which remained, immune to
detergents. A kitchen
analysis by this expert
diagnosed it as peanut
butter.
So, if you suddenly think
you're smelling peanut
butter when you're away
from the kitchen, look
around. It could be me.
Malakoff Rotary Club will
join hands with Malakoff
Elementary School to spon-
sor the annual Easter Egg
Hunt on April 8, according
to chairman Jim Hinkle.
Food Fare has donated 60
pounds of eggs for the event,
and other donations of eggs
and donations from
merchants of prizes will be
announced at a later date,
Hinkle said.
Pre-school students will be
invited to participate in the
egg hunt at the Elementary
School.
More details on the egg
hunt will be announced later,
Hinkle said.
a Council Agenda
MAJOR ALL-STARS--Re-
presenting Malakoff in the
Major Little Dribbler All-
Stew Tournament at Browns-
boro March 31 will be this all
star team composed of
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JUNIOR ALL-STARS--
Members of the Malakoff
Junior Little Dribbler All-
Star team which will
compete in Brownsboro
Relzional tournament March
By Tom Herline
Malakoff City Council has
a varied agenda for next
Monday at 7 p.m.
Old business on the
agenda includes approval of
revenue sharing funds
budget, lights for the new
City Park, a report from
Neal Velvin, engineer for the
storm sewer system, and Pat
Burke with a report on
comprehensive planning.
New business agenda
items include community
development matters
discussion by Tom Barber,
opening of bids on the sale of
a 1974 police vehicle, the
renaming of Church Street, a
discussion of delinquent
taxes, a discussion of Senate
Bill 251 regarding Texas
Utility Commission and the
mayor's report.
I've had a harrowing week.
With three children in a
.home, it doesn't take long
for all the towels and under-
wear to run mlt. Not to
mention outer garments.
First major problem I
encountered was when I got
ready to attend a St.
Patrick's party and there
wasn't a green piece of
clothing clean. And nothing
clean matched the one green
necktie I own. Well, old
American ingenuity reigned
supreme. I merely pasted a
few S&H Green Stamps to
my lapel and trotted off to
the party. This was later
supplemented by a glob of
gnacamole salad I spilled
down the front of my blue
leisure suit.
By Sunday it was
apparent that an emergency
existed. School began the
following day, and
Malakoff's not ready for
nudism. So off I trotted to
the washateria.
Now there's woman's
domain, for sure. Even in the
day of liberated women, it's
usually the ladies who're
exchanging gossip as they
fold towels and switch wet
clothes to dryers and touch
its no new
t°YOu ladies out
as a male head of
there has been
terrifying in
than the
of a washing
qUitely browsed
as the
was doing a
Was jarrett ltu,u
a grinding noise.
the old machine
this expert tried
to make the
turning
in fact
the
a
think was the
rneath the
flooded my
Blowing on the
made my chest
lid what I should
place. I
He came
diagnosed the
took three
the part, because
ordered from a
town. In the
repaired
now. B
Henderson County's new ambulance garage and
commissioners voted dormitory to Eubank
Tuesday morning to sell Ambulance Service of
their ambulances, lease a Mabank, and vowed to get
School District Hires
P'itchard & Abbott
By Tom Herline about lignite values, McNeill
said that at present virtually
Malakoff School Trustees all school districts and other
voted to hire Pritchard &
Abbott, Appraisal Consul-
tants to appraise minerals,
public utilities, and
industrial properties during
Monday night's regular
session.
Under the terms of the
contract, the school district
will pay 5 cents per $100
valuation for the service,
which applies to some $5
million in appraised value.
Supt. Jack Murray said
preliminary discussions with
Pritchard & Abbott did not
indicate any appreciable
change in assessments,
although their estimate was
slightly higher than current
values placed on that type
property. However. Murray
said, the service would
assure the district that its
policy of trying to provide
equal assessments would be
furthered by the action.
Harold Rusk, James
Holland, Gerald McNeill and
Don Turlington of Pritchard
& Abbott appeared before
the board and answered
questions about their
methods and criteria for
valuing properties.
Responding to a question
taxing bodies are holding off
on doing anything about
valuing or taxing lignite
deposits in the ground
pending the outcome of suits
in Panola County, where a
tax was levied last year.
Fairfield, for instance, taxes
only the mined coal
inventoried at the Fairfield
generating plant on January
1 each year.
McNeill did say, however,
that he saw no significant
difference in lignite deposits
and stored gas underground,
which is taxed.
Pritchard & Abbott will
make preliminary reports
under the terms of the
one-year contract to the
Board of Equalization and
will be available to assist
them in reviewing the valua-
tions which they put on the
mineral, utility and
* industrial properties.
"It isn'tour intent to raise
taxes." Murray said. "'We
wish only to make our tax
office more efficient."
"We can't expect our tax
assessor to know all these
things {values of minerals,
utilities, industrial
See SCHOOLS, Page 5
[front, left to right] Scott
Shultz [alternate] Steve
Allen, Dewain Cain, Todd
Sheiton. Danny Hughes,
Tim Mattingly, [back row]
Coach Wesley Hughes, Rod-
ney Shultz, Norman Ashton,
Tracey Thomas, Royce
Bane, Scott Williams, altern.
ate, Edward Herline and
Coach Charles Caln.[Staff
Photo by Loraine Herline]
31 are Kevin Mattingly, 12; Bell, 52; alternates Phillip
Levi Karr, 41; Jeffery Pren- Suds, Robert Johnson, and
tice, 15; John Costlow, 11; Coaches Andra White and
Tony Hulin. 21; Keith Ken Hayes. [Staff Photo by
Rabertson, 22; Phil Dulaney Loralne HerUne]
13; Scott Newman, 42; Joey
out and stay out of the
ambulance business.
The action was anti-
climactic, as the commis-
sioners at a meeting earlier
this month stripped the
revenue sharing budget of
funds tentatively set aside
for the ambulance service
and placed the funds into the
individual precinct
road-building funds. A joint
meeting with the Henderson
Couty Memorial Hospital
board last week elicited the
opinion of the commissioners
that they should "get out of
the ambulance business."
The court has originally
planned to sell the am-
bulances and equipment out-
right to Eubank Ambulance
Service, but reconsidered, on
advice of County Attorney
Bill Bandy, and decided to
advertise for bids on the
ambulances. The ambu-
lances will be sold at a
meeting April 5.
Eubank immediately be
gan a drive for memberships
in Henderson County. The
cost of memberships is $25
per family or $15 per in-
dividual and memberships
will be effective through
April 30, 1978.
The firm also agreed to
take over the payroll now
being paid by Henderson
County for emergency
medical technicians.
lance
begin March
will go on the Eubank
payroll at 12:01 a.m. March
28th, it was agreed.
The commissioners also
passed an order offering
exclusive endorsement of the
Eubank Ambulance Service
of Mabank, but qualified the
endorsement by saying they
did not exclude ambulance
services now providing ser-
vice if they wish to continue
to do so. Eubank has also
been endorsed by Tool,
Seven Ponts, Gun Barrel
and Mabank city councils.
The court also leased its
new ambulance garage and
dormitory in Athens to
Eubank for $100 per month,
contingent on it putting
together a successtul
membership drive. The lease
will be an annual one with
yearly renewal options.
Bob Eubank, Jr., in
prepared release, said, "The
success of our enrolment
drive will most likely be
directly proportional to the
energy focused into the
progar-m by all parties con-
cerned. Most importantly,
all county residents must
understand tha t their
memberships alone will
determine the number of
ambulances that we will be
able to place into service in
Henderson County.
"Additionally, we realize
the 'bad will' and confusion
that has been created during
the past few years concern-
ing ambulance service for
Henderson County," Eu-
hank said. "We foresee some
difficulties with our member-
ship drive; however, none
are so severe that they
cannot be overcome through
an informative presentation
of facts concerning subscrip-
tion-funded ambulance ser-
vice.
"We feel that our proven
performance in the areas we
have served suppOrts the
contention that we are a
reliable ambulance company
with responsible manage
ment and can provide
quality ambulance service to
the residents throughout
Henderson County," he said.
The commissioners met
and discussed the matter
Monday morning at a special
meeting, but postponed
See AMBULANCE, I 6
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