Mexia Daily News, The (Newspaper) - January 15, 1998, Mexia, Texas NEWS Serving The People Of The BiStone Area Since 1899 Index City Comment Comics Sports Freestone News Page Good Afternoon Hazel Oakes Volume 99 Number 10 Texas January 12 Pages 50 Cents FOR PETES GOP GATHERED Start Wright Pete second from gestures in a during of numerous Republican was held at the home of Lance arid Jan At left of He is the Chairman of County Republicans right Is Kay while at far right is Sara Sessions is seeking his second term of His Democrat opponent is Victor Mexia ISD due to name Finalist for top position By BOB WRIGHT Wortham ISD happily awaits latest grant By BOB WRIGHT Editor WORTHAM The Wortham Independent School hopefully will soon be hooked up and ready to roll on the The school board met in called session Tuesday night at the high school and heard the good news from Rick He and Todd the districts Technology had prepared a grant which apparently is accepted and should result in Worthams receiving the which is for approximately the grant comes from the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund based in Todd and I are getting ready to go to a meeting in when we should learn more about the Larkin on Wednesday told The Daily The grant will provide about 25 new computers to the school and according to will connect the office and all classrooms with the At the called session this trustees completed the evaluation of the then discussed the con tract with This matter was tabled until a meeting next although the board is expected to extend Larkins con tract to two and a half Right in his first year at Wortham still has a year and half left on his con The extension would be for one which means his contract would have a total of two and a half years No major obstacles appear that would hinder MSS Volunteer Council to note 40th Everyone is invited to help the Mexia State School Volunteer Council to celebrate its 40th anniversary at a reception from 2 to 4 on at the state school There will be a special program at The Mexia State School Volunteer was organized on The Council is an non profit organization comprised of community volunteers and parents of For 40 the Volunteer Council has provided state school clients with services and personal attention beyond the care and treatment provided by the State has acted as a policymaking body on requests for community assistance has represented the facility in the community by informing the community of the accomplishments and needs has rep resented the community at the facility and interacted with facility staff members and has accepted all donations benefiting clients served by the The Mexia School Board will be a step closer to appointing a Superintendent in action to be taken at a rare Saturday The board will meet Saturday morning at 9 oclock in the Administration 405 East Most after the trustees will go into executive session for Superintendent and for a decision on who will be the The Daily News has learned that four persons are scheduled to be interviewed for the top at Saturdays called The final of the four is scheduled for an interview at 2 Even when the Finalist the official selection of a Superintendent will probably not be made until the wait ing Right Larry assistant Superintendent for Business is also serving as Interim The school board meeting normally would be held Monday but that meeting date has been changed to Wednesday afternoon at also in the Administration The change came due to schools having a Monday holiday Martin Luther King School patrons will begin to get a grip on who will occupy the Superintendents starting late next when they learn who the finalist Speculation could run but let it because until the finalist is nobody can say who the new head schoolman will Only speculation making the current rounds is that Larry Devitt will be the with enough solid support from the board to bring this Wortham election due to be reset Another court date to rule on a motion for a temporary restrain ing order to prohibit the sales of beer or wine in is due to be A court been set up for the hearing for had to be due to a state law Which prohibited district judges who serve Freestone from Judges who serve Freestone are ineligible to hear the due to Worthams being in Freestone The motion was part of a lawsuit filed by several Wortham resi dents to overturn the November during which residents of Wortham voted the town wet by a margin of 13 According to the defendants in the action are County Judge Joel Lane and the four members of the Commissioners Court of are listed as Rick Tita Gary Mike Donna Don Gloria Randy Tucker and Tammy Judge Lane and the Commissioners became defendants due their ordering the election after presentation of petitions certified to be According to the suit seeks to overturn the election by challenging petitions which called for the and also claiming fraud in the petition process and the election of The temporary restraining order was sought to prohibit sales of alcoholic beverages until the outcome of the lawsuit can be deter Since the Freestone County judges are prohibited from presiding over the Joe Ned Dean of the State District was appointed to Deans court serves Polk and Trinity Judge Dean has yet to set a hearing Cisneros kin plead guilty Texas AP Jury selection in the trial of Henry Cisneros former mistress was suspended today while her relatives pleaded guilty to related Linda Jones Patsy and Allen each pleaded guilty to one count of They were accused of securing a mortgage for Jones by promising they would live in the house that all along was meant for The been charged with 19 counts of money laundering and face from probation to five years in Sentencing is April been 11 years since then the San Antonio and fundraiser Linda Jones began their adulterous Since Cisneros has come and gone at the White House as President Clintons first hous ing Their paths have now led to federal Her trial on charges of bank money laundering and lying during a special tors of Cisneros was to begin Jones could be sentenced to about eight years jn prison if convicted of all It is another embarrassing chapter in a story that never seems to end for the once rising patched things up with his wife but to reconcile other troubles stem from the He left the Cabinet post in 1996 amid glaring publicity about his per sonal and financial And Cisneros who is not a defendant in the Lubbock trial faces his own federal on 4 in He is charged with 18 of obstructing justice and making false statements to the He has pleaded innocent to charges that he lied to conceal thousands of dollars in hush money paid to Ms Jones while he was being considered for a Cabinet prosecutors say the payments eventually totaled At his arraignment a week Cisneros exchanged glances with Jones also charged in the Washington indictment whom he acknowledged living with periodical ly before he reconciled with his Mary who is now president of the Univision was working in private business when Clinton nominated him for the Cabinet post in December a routine FBI back ground Cisneros admitted seeding money tp before her diverse as from 989 te The which said sfer But prosecutors contend in the indictment against Jones that he funneled to her for a down payment on a house in Lubbock even while he was being considered to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Those payments eventually entangled the The alleged scheme was intended to hide the fact that Jones bought the house with money provided by prosecutors contend Attorney General Janet Reno began ing into Cisneros payments after a September 1994 segment on the Inside Edition TV which paid Jones to provide secretly recorded phone talks with The show aired while Jones was suing Cisneros for off after Coolidge sets Mesquite Festival planning session COOLIDGE The planning committee is working toward another Mesquite Tree and has a session set for This years festival will begin at 6 oclock and will be held in the Senior Citizens The town has been having a Mesquite Tree Festival since the early off and The festival was not held for but resumed several years Angie the City says its hoped that this years festival will be at least and perhaps more ing than past In the there has been topnotch musical a and other types of entertain Allcorn also serves as President of the Mesquite Tree Report card for Charters s Jike hush Jones and settled breach suit for in May same month Independent Counsel David a yep or J m began ett has AUSTIN AP Independent charter schools serving fu dents considered dropout risks are winning But more controversy over those seeking to educate traditional according to a evaluation of the groundbreaking Nearly 76 percent of students at 11 charter serving populations said the school was better than they otherwise would have in of ee and highquality teachers who cart about tad personal
