THE CADIZ RECORD $ 0 ° The Hometown Newspaper for Trigg County since PRINTED WITH SOY IN K T / r t VOL. 1 1 2 NO. 4 0 COPYRIGHT © 1993, THE CADIZ RECORD, CADIZ, I OCTOBER 6, 1993 5 0 CENTS ------------ Welcome to the 17th Annual * Trigg County Ham Festival Schedule of events # continues through this weekend BEST DECORATED YARD - The entry Lyndell and Kathy Payton was voted by judges as the best decorated yard in the city in the Ham Festival Best Decorated Yard Contest. Other winners were Kerry and Lori Ford, residence yard in the county, and Mildred's Flowers, business. (See related photos on page A-6.) The yards were judged on attractiveness, originality, best overall use of Ham Festival theme, and number of different items used. Record photo by Matt Sanders test scores draw concern from school board members Fourth graders show marked improvements SCOTT BROWN prised of open ended questions showed an index of 43.24 per­ Staff Writer which require more thought, cent proficient, which is nearly Trigg County school officials were taken by students in the five percent above the thresh­ have expressed concern over the fourth, eighth, and 12th grades old, or goal, set last year. results of a state mandated test last spring. Scores from this year and designed to show how schools The fourth grade showed next will be averaged to deter­ are faring under the Kentucky considerable improvement from mine if goals were met. Schools Education Reform Act. last year in all four subject ar­ who attain their goals by one or Although last year's fourth eas and the writing portfolios. more percent will receive cash grade results showed marked "Our teachers focused on the rewards from a special fund es­ improvements and the eighth writing part and worked hard tablished by the General As­ grade maintained nearly the with the students. Now we sembly. level, results from the have to maintain that score," However, the exact opposite grade paint a different said Trigg County Elementary is true of the high school, based picture. School Principal Dr. Martha on last year's 12th grade test Test scores were down consid­ Davis. results. erably in all four subject areas, Two years ago, the state set Scores declined in all four which does not put die school baselines and threshold levels subject areas and has the school on good academic standing with for each grade. The baseline on the brink of crisis, according the state. uses a formula of the test scores to Wallace. "Our fourth grade did ex­ along with other factors such as "Our scores should be Queen to be crowned Friday tremely well, our eighth grade retention, attendance, drop-out halfway between the baseline did very well, and our 12th rate, and transition to deter­ and threshold, which is not the HOMECOMING ROYALTY • Trigg County High School Student Council is sponsoring the 1993 Football grade did very poorly according mine the accountability index, case with the high school." Homecoming Friday night at Perdue Field before the kickoff of the Trigg County-Todd County Central game. to the baselines set two years which will be used to decide The baseline for the 12th Homecoming attendants are (front row from left) freshman Heather Underhill, sophomore Sara Jane Ginn, ago," Superintendent Jim Wal­ whether schools will be re­ grade was 40 percent proficient senior Dana Thomas, senior Amy Dickerson, and junior Leigh Redd. Their escorts are (back row from left) lace told the school board at warded or punished. with a goal of 46 percent. Test Seath Butts, Jonathon Gray, Brian Richardson, Twymane Hatcher, and Kenny Allen. The queen will be their October 4 meeting. With about 75 percent of the crowned in pre-game festivities at 7:15 p.m. Kickoff will be around 7:30 p.m. Record Photo by Scott Brown The tests, which are com­ test results in, the fourth grade See Test scores, Page A-8 Two Sections • 34 Pages O p in io n .......................................................................... A-2, A-3 Donnie Holland Petition for Obituaries .............................................. ..............................A-4 S o ciety.......................................................................A -1 0 -A -1 4 to change jobs bypass caution lights S p o rts ....................................................... .................... B-1 - B-4 Page A-5 Page A-6 Agriculture............................................... .................... B-5 - 6-8 TV Listings, Entertainment................ ................... B -7 -B -1 0 C lassifieds............................................. ......B-14. B-15 • ___ 1 _____________________________ i ___________________ ___ ______ 1 A-2, The Cadiz Record, Wednesday, October 6,1993 OPINION Cleaning out m y notebook Just the Other Day By Billy Rawls When I was managing editor of the have been SEVERAL people who claim newspaper in Murray, one of our colum­ that they cannot tell any difference. Hmmmm. I say, look at the paycheck stub nists occasionally could not come up with Oink! Oink! All roads lead to and get back to me. a subject for his twice-a-week column. the Trigg County Ham When this happened, he would put some M att Festival, where citizens and random, often obscure, thoughts in his Our entire newspaper staff would like Sanders visitors alike celebrate, an­ column and say he was "cleaning out his to say thank you to all the people of nually, the creation of a home- Trigg County that have called — and notebook." cured ham flavor that many This week, I'm cleaning out my there have been many - with their kind people believe to be second to "notebook." words about The Cadiz Record's 1993 Of­ none. Today, the recipe for this ficial Ham Festival Program. running, because it was not one of my bet­ delicacy may be slipping away It was bound to happen sooner or later. In the newspaper business, telephone ter times for a 5-K (3.1 miles) road race. as generations go by. After more than 20 years of running, Different courses, weather conditions and calls come mostly when we do something wearing out about 70 pairs of running alot of psychological and physical fac­ wrong. It's always comforting when peo­ Evidence of the old and the new will be seen marching hand- shoes, braving all kinds of weather for tors bring about different results. But, I ple take a few minutes out of their busy in-hand as the festival is under way, and I shall reiterate—at my morning "ritual," I finally won some­ remember my high school coach's fa­ schedules to call (even to my home) to say random—a few of the things that are not as some of us once thing -- my age division at the Fabulous vorite saying — "Never make excuses for they appreciate all our efforts and that knew them to be. 5-K Road Race last Saturday at Lake bad days. Never look for explanations for they enjoyed the final product. Barkley Fitness Center. I figured at the good days. Just do your best and be thank­ Even before this year’s Ham Festival 'Me'an' Charlie Hooks knew a time when pork in the pace I’m setting, I won't have to clear off ful for that." I'm also thankful H.B. has concluded, our staff has started to smokehouse; home-canned vegetables in the larder; and another spot on the mantle until the year Quinn was in a different age division. kick around a few ideas for our 18th An­ firewood in the forest could make the difference of good and 2014. (Just to answer an often-asked ques­ nual Official Trigg County Ham Festival bad times for families. But that was before the lush pastures of tion, I was not the only person in my age Quickly now - look at my photo, then Program, to come out in 1994. If there are soil-bank days, when large herds of 'beef shortage' (my division.) look at Lewis Grizzard's. Look at mine some things you would like to see in next interpretation of too many cattle and too high prices) roamed I guess irony is one of the reasons I enjoy again. Now Lewis' photo again. There year's publication, please give us a call. the fields, and the hamburger became king. Then, President Eisenhower ask farmers to plant food crops from fence to fence to feed a starving world. Pigs came into the picture again as they were turned into harvested grain fields to garner wasted grain and "root hog, or 20 years ago.. die" —in their immaculate "pig parlors." But "Uncle Sam” said to the farmer (in effect) "You can't sell your home-processed hams to the public anymore unless you let The first ever Boots Randolph us look over your shoulder—even though you raised a healthy Amateur-Celebrity Golf Tournament was family on it." held at the course that bears his name. Sooo, our farmers lost a ready and profitable market that Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, and Jethro often meant a Merry Christmas with good old Trigg County Burns, as well as Boots himself, were ham. Bad went to worse as smokehouses were abandoned and among the entries. were replaced with the odd odor of artificial smoke as even Hopkinsville Federal announced plans private families gave in to modem trends and short-cut recipes. to open a branch office in downtown Cadiz. "Real, Trigg County, country hams" were once shipped all Construction was underway on a new over the world. Today, they are extremely limited and may library-for Cadiz and Trigg County. lack some time-honored techniques of curing for flavor. Trigg County bombed North Marshall, coached by former coach Ken Barrett, 54- Do you want the real old thing in a Trigg County ham? I suggest 24.