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The Paris News from Paris, Texas • Page 2

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The Paris Newsi
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Paris, Texas
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2A Porli Jtina 7. 1984 The Area College to change name ATHENS Henderson County Junior College will soon have a new name: Trinity Valley Community College. The school's board of trustees has voted unanimously and without public discusssion to change the name, which will go into effect on Sept. 1,1986. Board members agreed the school has outgrown its original name after 37 years.

"I hope everyone understands why the name change is necessary," board member Roland Hallmark said, referring to the four-county, four-campus facility. Each college campus will have its own identity under the new name. They will be the Henderson County campus here; the Anderson County campus in Palestine; the Health Occupation campus and the proposed Kaufman County campus in Terrell. The board has also unanimously passed a motion designed to get work started on the Kaufman County campus. Two members to the board were added, upping the total to 11; 40 acres of land near Terrell on Interstate 20 were acquired; an architectural firm was tentatively agreed upon; and a procedure to revert back to a nine- member board was agreed upon.

The proposed campus in Kaufman County will provide facilities for complete academic and vocational courses, HCJC President Dr. William Campion said. The college now uses rented facilities for those courses. Fannin GOP plans blitz BONHAM Fannin County Republicans will join other GOP members on June 23 to mark "Blitz Day," a day when the Republicans will launch a major campaign in Texas to register voters for the coming general election in November. Statewide, such notables as Vice President George Bush, actor Tom Selleck and others from the political and entertainment world will wage a door to door campaign in the state to sign up voters.

Fannin County GOP chairman Toby Byrd of Honey Grove said four county Republicans had been deputized to register voters. They include Linda Langford of Bonham, Chuck Cox of Bonham, Sue Byrd of Honey Grove and Laren Kattner of Ladonia. Byrd is a candidate for the committeeman in the second senatorial district. At a recent GOP rally in Bonham, U.S. Congressional candidate Thomas Blow, a Tyler CPA who is opposing Democratic incumbent Ralph Hall, said he felt Social Security should be optional, but that this country should take care of those now in the program.

Blow said taxpayers need to be better represented since they represent the largest of the "interest groups." A state senatorial candidate, Richard Harvey, told Fannin Republicans that if he is elected to the state senate he will not accept the salary. He also said he opposed tax hikes, claiming teachers could be given raises today without having to raise taxes. Ex-constable on probation TYLER Former Smith County Constable Jack Wayne Morriss has been sentenced to five years probation by a state district judge on aggravated assault charges. Seventh District Judge Donald Carroll told Morriss he will have to serve three years in prison if the violates the terms of probation. Punishment for aggravated assault, a felony, ranges from two to 10 years in prison and up to a $5,000 fine.

Since Morriss had no prior felony convictions, he was eligible for probation. The former constable pleaded no contest to aggravated assault in CarrolJ's court on Feb. 27 in connection with an incident where he fired three shots at Glen Perez. A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt, but it is treated like a guilty plea by the court because- the defendant does not refute the charges. Church steeples specialty-; of company in Henderson HENDERSON, Texas (AP) Fiberglass Specialties of Henderson adds architectural grace to churches across the globe with a variety of steeples.

Under the ownership of Howard Hall, the company has been hi continuous ation since 1962. More than 26,000 dies have received products from this plant, which can easily boast being the largest steeple manufacturer in the world, says Oren A. "Sonny" Web. It maintains a consistent growth from year to year. The plant covers 10 acres and employs a minimum of 90 employees.

Fiberglass Specialties has a line of church products including baptistries, crinkled stained glass, and wall crosses. In addition to their church line, the company has branched out on a more profitable line of spas, says marketing director Ed ScheUinger. The steeple-making business is a competitive venture for Hall and his associates. When the plant began its operations, Fiberglass Specialties 32 major competitors, Today, only four steeple jnah 5 businesses challenge the cording to Web. They are located Maskatane, Iowa, Atlanta, J.

ville, Texas, and Orange, Texas. "The most impressive work we ha' ever done would be on a church in Allefij town, Pa. A Greek Orthodox Church rK quested onion-shaped domes covered jfj 22-karat gold leaf. You can only imagiif how much that would cost. The only priS i blem we had was getting the gold frr Fort Knox.

They wouldn't send it all once because of security and goveriuni regulations," Web says. Joe Sparks, the steeple designer, sa the plant has more man 150 types steeples. "Usually our customers choose one out of the catalogue. We either pull it out of stock: or we make a new one out of ah old mold. Occasionally we do custom designs though," he said.

SIKH'S PROTEST In front of the Bangla Sahib Sikh temple in New Delhi Thursday, Sikhs shout anti-government slogans. Police used tear gas on the stone-and-bottle throwing Sikhs protesting the Indian government's take over of the Golden Temple in Amritsar. (AP Laserphoto) Staley McBrayer changed U.S. newspaper industry FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Staley McBrayer left his pencil marks on the copy that filled small community and suburban newspapers in several Texas towns, but his "tinkering" left an indelible print on the face of journalism. After five years of research, McBrayer and his plant foreman in 1954 became the first to successfully adapt offset printing to newspapers a development that drastically cut production costs, saved his own newspapers from bankruptcy and earned him the moniker "the father of the offset press." McBrayer, 74, will be honored Friday night at the University of Texas in Austin with the College of Communication's first outstanding alumnus award.

"1 was sinking financially in the newspaper business. The development of offset was the way I survived." McBrayer said in a recent interview. "We weren't trying to invent STALEY MCBRAYER offset anything. We were trying to stay in business." Before his Vanguard I press was developed, McBrayer said most newspapers used a letter press process basically unchanged from the printing method developed 500 years ago by Johannes Gutenberg. i'SH developed in 1905, transfers ink from a photographically produced plate to a rubber roller and then to the paper.

The process is more economical, requires fewer workers than the old method and yields better quality, but before McBrayer's adaptation, it was used only for small printing jobs and could not handle newsprint. "I'd like to think that my presses kept a lot of newspapers alive," he said. The Society of Professional Journalists honored McBrayer with a plaque marking the birthplace of the press in downtown Fort Worth. The American Newspaper Publishers Association honored him in 1966 and said, "For all intents and purposes Staley McBrayer is the founder of daily newspaper offset." An ANPA study found that the offset press could reduce a newspaper's costs by 25 percent. The Collegiate Shoppe's Semi-Annual Shoe Sale It's sale of the one everyone in Northeast Texas has been waiting hurry in now and take advantage of this sale! Doors Open 9:00 A.M.

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