Salado High Grad Pictures on Page 7A-10A Salado VVillageillage VVoiceoice Vol. XXX, Number 4 Thursday, May 24, 2007 254/947-5321 fax 254/947-9479 www.saladovillagevoice.com 50¢ Salado High School names Valedictorian, Salutatorian Salado High School pionship UIL academic a recent one in Colorado, of Stacy Rooney and Rich- has named the top two teams for all four years of and has also participated ard Winn, of Salado. Her graduates for the Class of high school. She recently in the church choir, and brother, Tyler, graduated 2007. They are Valedicto- placed second in State in volunteered with Vacation from Salado High School rian Crystal Schoellmann Prose Interpretation, and Bible School events and in 2005. and Salutatorian Molly finished first place in that Habitat for Humanity. Rooney was a standout Rooney. category on the district She credits her success at Salado in athletic and Crystal Schoellman has level in her junior and se- to having a supportive academic endeavors. She been named Valedictorian nior years. family and several influ- was a member of Salado for Salado High School’s In addition, Schoellman ential teachers at Salado High School’s UIL Aca- graduating class of 2006- was a seven-year member High School, including demic Team for four years, 07. of the Salado band, where J.J. Jonas, Dennis Caban- including the Math Team Schoellman will grad- she played the clarinet. which placed second at Crystal Schoellman Molly Rooney iss and Christian Briehn. uate with a 103.05 grade She also participated in She notes that Cabaniss’ the State Meet for three of highest ranking graduate, point average. the UMHB Conservatory While at the University courses, in particular, her four years. She also she will have her first year An attendee of Salado Choir. of Texas, she plans to try have prepared her well for participated in the Science of tuition paid in full at schools since the fifth Her excellent academic out for the school’s con- college. “His class was competition. the University of Texas in grade, Crystal is the record earned her a multi- cert band and choir. Her always challenging,” she Her athletic accom- Austin. daughter of Rosanna and tude of scholarships. She brother John currently at- says. plishments include being Schoellman plans to Matthew Schoellman. was the recipient of an tends the University of a two-time medalist at focus her studies on bio- During her time at IBM Watson Scholarship, Texas, as well, and was a With a grade point average the Class AA State Track logical sciences, and has Salado, Schoellman stayed in the amount of $8,000, a 2003 graduate of Salado of 103.04, Molly Rooney and Field Meet. In her an interest in zoology and busy both with academics Salado Education Founda- High School. will represent Salado specialty, the 300m hur- veterinary medicine. She and extra curricular ac- tion scholarship ($2,000), A member of the First High School’s graduating dles, Rooney won gold as would like to pursue her tivities. She participated a City Federation of Wom- Baptist Church of Salado, class of 2006-07 as salu- a junior and bronze as a postgraduate education at in Salado’s state cham- en’s Clubs scholarship Schoellman has taken part tatorian. senior. She finished just a university in Europe. ($1,500), and for being the in mission trips, including Molly is the daughter See Top Grads, Page 14A Memorial Day Service at planned Salado Cemetery By MaryBelle Brown were buried in the local country during the late last Monday in May under Contributor cemetery. rebellion, and whose bod- the National Holiday Act On the morning of May ies now lie in almost ev- of 1971. Friends of Salado Cem- 5, 1866, the townspeople ery city, village or hamlet Since the National etery Association will placed flowers, wreaths churchyard in the land. In Holiday Act of 1971, the host the annual Memo- and cross on the graves this observance, no form traditional observance rial Day Service at the of the Northern soldiers of ceremony is prescribed of Memorial Day has di- historic Salado Cemetery in the cemetery. There are but posts and comrades minished. Many Ameri- on Baines St., beginning also reports that women’s will in their own way ar- cans have forgotten the at 9:30 a.m. May 28. Area groups in the south were range such fitting ser- meaning and traditions of residents and visitors are decorating graves before vices and testimonials of Memorial Day. At many invite to attend the ser- the end of the Civil War. It respect as circumstances cemeteries, the graves of vice to join in horoning of has been difficult to prove may permit.” In the North- the fallen veterans are in- conclusively who origi- ern states, the 30th of May creasingly ignored and ne- veterans of nine different Soldiers from Fort Hood’s First Cav posted colors at last wars who are buried in nated the practice. Many was observed as Decora- glected. Many people no believe that there were nu- tion Day, while the South- longer remember proper year’s Memorial Day Service. The public is invited to this Salado Cemetery. year’s ceremony May 28. What we know as Me- merous beginnings in dif- ern states commemorated flag etiquette for the day. contributed to the noncha- ful and meaningful ser- morial Day was originally ferent towns where people their war dead on different Some believe that Me- lant observance of Memo- vice. Flags are placed on known as Decoration Day. came together to honor the days. Some of the South- morial Day was intended rial Day.” There have been the grave of every veteran Down through the years, soldiers killed in the Civil ern state still follow this for honoring all the de- efforts to change the date buried in the cemetery by there have been several War. practice. ceased buried in a par- back to May 30 but have a local Boy Scout troop. cities and towns which Decoration Day was The name of Decora- ticular cemetery, not just been unsuccessful. The Association usually have taken credit for cel- officialy proclained on tion Day was changed to for those who died while Friends of Salado Cem- has soldiers from Ft. Hood ebrating the beginning of May 5, 1868 by General Memorial Day in 1882 serving their country. The etery Association chose to participate in the service. this memorable gathering. John Logan, National and soldiers who had died National Commander of meet on the last Monday Area residents are encour- One of these stories is that Commander of the GRand while serving their coun- the Veterans of Foreign because many people had aged to attend. a gentleman named Henry Army of the Republic, in try prior to the Civil War Wars stated in his 2002 a holiday from their work (Information for this Wells, who owned a drug his General Order Number were also honored. Memo- Memorial Day address: on this date. The very article was provided by store in Waterloo, New 11, which reads in part: rial Day was designated as “Changing the meeting first Memorial Day was Command Sgt. Maj. Mar- York came up with the “The 30th of May, 1868 is a public holiday in most date of Memorial Day in celebrated at the Salado vin Williams from The idea. He suggested that designated for the purpose states. the National Holiday Act Cemetery on a Saturday. Military Order of the Pur- all the shops in town close of strewing flowers or President Richard Nix- of 1971 merely to create a Many volunteers in the ple Heart Central Texas for one day to honor the otherwise decorating the on declared Memorial Day three-day weekend has un- Salado area have worked Chapter (1876).) soldiers who were killed graves of comrades who to become a federal holi- dermined the meaning of together to have a success- in teh Civil War and who died in the defense of their day to be observed on the the day. No doubt this has
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Last week - during the upheavals in Meanwhile, House Speaker Tom both houses - we gleaned two such pithy Craddick is spending the remaining commentaries that will be remembered session-days manning the barricades with appropriate guffaws in the days against an insurgency created by what ahead. Craddick loyalists term “an unruly In the House - members have always gang of traitorous” fellow Republi- described Speaker Craddick’s general cans, led by longtime friend and top- behavior patterns, during the three terms gun Jim Keffer (R-Eastland). he has “ring-mastered” the lower house, as The rebellion, the second one this despotic. session, includes a near-majority of This heavy-handedness escalated, the 150 member lower house (divided following his unexpected challenge for between 69 Demos and 81 Repubs), speaker last January. The resulting revenge who want old Tom’s scalp (and his tactics Craddick practiced throughout speaker’s gavel) “now” rather than the current session - caused one member The Great Clinton/Obama Feminist Pander waiting for the usual arm-twisting (pleading anonymity) to say, when word “pledge” card fiasco that traditionally that an insurgency was “afoot”: “I’m not The front-runners in the Democratic accompanies the end of a session. surprised - we all liked him better as a presidential race have discovered the We suspect the current insur- despot (than what he is today)! power of an idea whose time has passed: Rich rection will fade and Craddick will Senate quote was better (actually socialism in women’s wages. Its power is then demand (and probably receive) earthier) and came from Senator Leticia in pandering to feminist voters, and its one final term as Speaker (for a total Van De Putte (D-San Antonio), after Sen. time passed because it never made any Lowry of four) in exchange for promising Whitmire had scampered back from the sense even when it was a bright, shiny to “play nice” during the interim privy in time to help scuttle Dewhurst’s new bad idea some 30 years ago. period and the 2009 session. crafty plan to bring the Voter ID bill to the It deserved its place on the junk heap, almost disappears, with women making floor for debate. given that women have been improv- 95 percent of men’s wages. LT. GUV’S Van De Putte said that in the future: ing their place in our economy without Different pay for different professions TOUGH DAY IN SENATE “When we go to the bathroom, we’re far-reaching governmental intervention. persists, of course. Nurses aides (89 per- Speaker Craddick was not the only going to take a Republican along with Nonetheless, Hillary Clinton has renewed cent female) have more education than legislative leader having problems last us!” her push for her Paycheck Fairness Act, truck drivers (97 percent male), but their week. Across the Rotunda, on the and Sen. Barack Obama has endorsed the median earnings are just 57 percent that day before the lower house uprising, * * * * * * Fair Pay Act. Whenever the word “fair” of truck drivers. This isn’t discrimination, Lt. Governor David Dewhurst tried MOTHER’S DAY GIFT features so prominently in Democratic but a reflection that driving cross-country to “finesse” the Democratic faction ARRIVES DAY EARLY legislation, the odds are that it is economi- is unpleasant work. Women tend not to within his “restive gang of 31” by call- Writing a weekly column, many times cally illiterate, and this legislation doesn’t want to do it. ing for a fast, non-agenda vote, in order well in advance of its printing, causes some disappoint. That kind of choice is a key factor in to bring the highly partisan Voter-ID intervening items to lose their “newswor- Discrimination against women is the male-female wage differential. Aver- bill up for debate. thy” status. However, we believe the fol- already illegal and employers have to give age earnings for male physicians are He did this while a number of lowing worth reporting - even after a 12 women equal pay for equal work. What $170,000, for female physicians $100,000. Democrats (all 11 of whom oppose the day break. Clinton and Obama want to establish is Bias? No, as Furchtgott-Roth has noted, measure) were wandering around out- Our story involves a Mother’s Day gift the more nebulous concept of “compa- “many women choose to go into pediat- side the Senate chamber. One of them that one of our Salado “moms” received rable worth,” or equal pay for different rics, psychiatry and family practice, all - John Whitmire (D-Houston) was a day early. She is Billye Fuller and her work in female- and male-dominated pro- lower-paying fields than surgery, which is reportedly in the men’s room. special gift was news, soon after the fessions. more demanding in terms of hours.” When it became apparent what polls closed on May 12, that her son Dar- This intervention is supposedly so Many women choose professions that “slyboots” Dewhurst was doing (as rell Street had been elected to the Salado urgent because women make only 77 per- are compatible with having kids, and the unannounced vote got underway) School District’s Board of Trustees. cent of what men do. Feminists believe when they have children, tend to take a Demos scurried around and brought Now, all mothers are proud of their kids, that this wage gap is caused by The Man break from their careers (whereas men their troops back on the floor for the but we doubt if many moms ever worked -- and that’s not just a metaphor: He’s actually work more). Economist O’Neill “unscheduled” balloting. as hard to get a son elected to public office really a man -- who carefully sets wom- writes, “Women continue to work part All returned except Whitmire who as did Billye. She got on the phone weeks en’s wages to keep them below that of time more than men and to choose work arrived as the vote was ending with before the election and proceeded to call members of the patriarchy in good stand- situations such as work in nonprofit insti- GOPers having racked up the needed nearly everyone in the school district. ing. tutions and occupations that more easily two thirds majority to start debating We understand (from a reliable source) Never mind that the 77 percent figure can be accommodated with home respon- the measure (19-9). that she not only made hundreds of calls, is, in the words of Hudson Institute econo- sibilities.” The Houston Senator was furious, but several villagers got a second call mist Diana Furchtgott-Roth, “flawed and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and carried on like a “potty-mouthed” (for one of two reasons): (A) If the person bogus,” failing to account for the most might wish this fact weren’t so, but there’s banshee (Dewhurst scolded the smol- seemed to “waver” a little (after the first basic variables. The figure for men and no way for them to legislate it out of exis- dering Whitmire and told him to settle call) about voting for Darrell; or (B) If women who work 40 hours a week is 88 tence, even with a very bad, dated idea. down or be removed). Billye had enjoyed the first conversation percent. Baruch College economist June Whitmire’s tantrum however, so much - she just wanted to continue the O’Neill finds -- adjusting for factors like Rich Lowry is editor of the National secured both time and a second vote. phone-visit! schooling, lifetime work experience and Review. Enough time to pull Sen. Carlos Uresti We talked to Darrell and discovered he workplace characteristics -- that the gap (c) 2007 by King Features Synd., Inc. (D-San Antonio) out of his sick bed was giving his mother full credit for the in a nearby apartment (he had the flu) win. Darrell led the ticket with some 701 and assist him to the Senate floor. votes which equaled 63 percent of the total Salado Village Voice is published every Thursday, 213 Mill Creek Dr, Suite #125, PO Box 587, Salado, Demos then had enough votes to block (1116). Texas 76571. Subscription Rates: $26 per year in Bell County, $28 per year outside of Bell County; the two-thirds needed by Republicans Street’s victory was an old-fashioned $35 per year outside of Texas. and the artful plot “fizzled” - final “home grown” success story propelled by Phone: 254/947-5321 Fax: (254) 947-9479 Office Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays tally 20-11. his mother. And who should know better News releases: [email protected] Without doubt, Dewhurst is what a guy is made of - than “mom”? Display advertising: [email protected] still kicking himself for allowing Even allowing for an extra-special helping Deadlines: Display ads • noon Fridays Classified ads • 12 noon Mondays the second vote. Especially after of love (and pride) tossed in for good mea- Editorial policies: Opinions on the editorial pages are those of the writer, not necessarily the owners flim-flamming Demos with a slick sure. or employees of the Salado Village Voice. All letters to the editor should be signed and have a phone “quick” vote, knowing one member So we congratulate Darrell on his number and address for verification. The editor reserves the right to reject and/or edit any letter. Letters should address issues, not personalities and should be concise and constructive in approach. Letters was out sick and another in the achievement. And a “well done” to Billye should be limited to 300 words. john. Fuller for her work as a “one person” phone Tim Fleischer, Editor-in-Chief Marilyn Fleischer, Managing Editor bank that helped convince six out of every [email protected] [email protected] Ken Clapp, Political Commentary Chris McGregor, Staff Writer Stephanie Hood, Composition GREAT QUOTES ten voters to select her son as a member of [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] FROM BOTH HOUSES our School Board. Sometimes the most memorable That’s -30-
result, from legislative tomfoolery JP Report salado Village Voice, May 24, 2007, Page 3A for April Judge Don Engleking, Justice of the Peace Pct. 2 Bell County reports the following activity for April 2006. Monthly rev- enue for the month is re- ported to be $45,799.00. A total of 300 cases were filed for the month. This includes moving and non moving traffic citations, criminal cases, and civil cases filed dur- ing the month. Over 282 cases were disposed of by the court. In addition the judge conducted 9 in- quest. Happy Birthday, Thomas Arnold! Thomas Arnold Elementary Students are shown above blowing out the candles on cupcakes as part of the 40th Anniversary celebration of the opening of Thomas Arnold Elementary School. Prior to the opening of the Elementary School, all stu- dents attended class in the Old Red Schoolhouse on Main Street, which now houses the Salado Civic Center. (Photo courtesy Basilia Tovar)
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