The Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 99, Ed. 1 Friday, December 30, 1983 Page: 1 of 10
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Burglars hit
men s store
commissioner post
DWI penalties soaring
Marcelene Rhoden
by ANNIE ALEXANDER
Advocate Editor
Rhoden to give up
Ilie cost of “driving while
intoxicated” will soar on Jan 1
The new DWI law contains a
very strict range of punish-
ments, includingeriandatory jail
sentences and higher fines.
Col. Jim Adams, director of
the Texas Department of Public
Safety and chairman of the task
force that recommended the
anti-DWI legislation, says the
law should do a lot to discourage
drunks from driving motor
vehicles on the state’s roads and
NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY
Dec. 31: Cleveland VFW Post
1839 will hold its annual New
Year’s Eve Party and Dance at
the VFW Hall on Coldsprng
Road. Bill Ingram and the
Nashville Express will provide
the music. Advance tickets are
on sale, by donation), at the
post, for $8 per person and 315
per couple. Tickets can be
obtained by mail: send check to
Tickets, VFW Post 1839, P.O.
Box 23, Cleveland, TX 77327.
I Dec. 38-31: Cleveland’s An-
Inual New Year’s-Eve Gospel
ISinging will be held two nights
I at First Assembly of God at 8
[p.m. Friday night will feature
l.thj Telestials, Eternal Hope
Singers and Gilbert Brothers.
Saturday night will feature the
Mid-South Boys and Gilbert
Brother,s. There is no admission
and the public is invited to
attend.
CYBAANNUAL MEETING
Jan. 4: Cleveland Youth
Baseball Association will hold
its annual board meeting at
Tarkington Junior High School
Cafeteria at 7:30 p.m. on Jan.4.
rtew officers will be elected All
Interested are urged to attend.
BOOTS ’N BONNETS NEW
YEAR’S EVE PARTY
Dec. 31: Boots ’N Bonnets
Square Dance Club will have a
New Year’s Eve Dance at the
Senior Citizens Building at
Stancil Park. The club will hold
its Regular square dance from 8
10:30 p.rn. and from
p.m. to 12:30 a.m.a country
western dance will be open to
the general public for $3 each.
INo alcohol will be served.
they must serve 72 hours in jail.
Andy they also face mandatory
suspension of their driver’s
license from 180 days to two
years.
• Three-time offenders — $500
to $2,000 fines and jail sentences
of from 30 days to two years, or
penitentiary terms of from 60
days to five years.
• Four-time offenders face the
same legal consequences as
three-timers, but their cars can
also be confiscated outright and
sold..
As in the former law, drunken
Cont. on page 2A
An early morning burglary
netted more than $35,000 worth
of men’s clothing for some well-
dressed burglar. On Dec. 23,
Stowe’s Men’s Wear was vir-
tually cleaned out in 12 minutes.
A Cleveland police officer
checked a secure front door at
6:25 a.m. and received a call to
investigate a break-in at 6:37
a.m.-
Entry was gained by breaking
the front door, according to
Cleveland Police Department
spokesman.
Stolen were J18 suits, nine
pair of shoes, 10 sport coats, 55
jackets, 42 sweaters and as-
highways.
He says it should also end an
era in which intoxicated Texans
drove unconcernedly around
believing “there are .no un-
fortunate consequences to
drunk driving.”
Under the new law, punish-
ments will now include:
• First-time offenders — fines
of from $100 to $2,000 and jail
time ranging from a minimum
of 72 hours up to two years.
• Two-time offenders — $300
to $2,000 fings and jail sentences
of from 15 d9ys to two years.
Just to qualify for probation,
HAPPY NEW YEAR? — If Baby New Year's tears are any indication, we
could be in for a rough 1984. But nonetheless, Miss 1984 (Randi Watson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Watson of Cleveland) blurts out the news of
her arrival from the arms of Father Time (Jim,Cook). (Photo by Garry
Matlow)
sorted socks, underwear and
accessories.
The burglary is still under
investigation. •*
Burglars also struck Enloe’s
Grocery on Christmas Day and
stole 90 cartorts of cigarettes
valued at $702.90. Entry was
gained by breaking a window
and the front door.
Burglars also struck a num-
ber of Cleveland businesses on
Dec. 27. The front door of
Campbell Ready Mix was
kicked in and property amount-
ing to $1,024 was taken.
Doors were forced open at
Cont. on page 2A
NEW YEAR’S GOSPEL
RINGING
Precinct 3 County Commis-
sioner Marcelene Rhoden an-
nounced this week that she
won’t run for re-election in
198.4.
“I have had a problem with
this for the past six months,”
Rhoden said of her decision.
“There are people who sup-
port me and have been trying
to get me to run again.”,
Rhoden was appointed
county commissioner on
March 1, 1982. Her husband,
Commissioner Harold Rho-
den, died 10 days earlier.
Mrs. Rhoden later was
elected to serve the remain-
ing two years of the term,
defeating Ed A. Roberds 4n
the Democratic primary
Cont. on page 2A
ATE
About
town.
■Illi Ill I * ■ . ■ — ’ -I. .1111,1 II ■■■■■
Summer brought Alicia’s winds to Cleveland
Second of Three Parts
by GARRY MATLOW
Advocate Reporter
It was, in many ways, the best
of times and the worst of times.
It was the year Hurricane Ali-
cia touched the lives of Cleve-
landers preparing for Back to
School and former San Jacinto
County Sheriff J.C. “Humpy”
Parker was sent to prison for
civil rights abuses.
It was also the year county
fathers looked at jail expansion
bids that came in $500,000 over
budget, but plans for a new
courthouse annex in Cleveland
proceeded w ithout a hitch.
It was 1983, a year we salute in
the Advocate by looking back on
the events that affected our
lives. Part 1 was in Tuesday’s
Eastex Advocate.
JULY
Cleveland City Council was
pleased with the low cost of
interim improvements to the
West Sewer Plant, but was
appalled at the high cost of
complying with state require-
ments on a permanent basis.
Southwestern Bell filed for a
STORMY WEATHER — Motorists on U.S. 59 dodge downed branches the
morning Hurricane Alicia blew through Cleveland. By nightfall, the wind had
subsided; but residents had fallen trees and a power outage to worry about.
(Photoby Garry Matlow)
rate increase that could triple
telephone bills.
Tri-County Mental Health
Mental Retardation Services
approved a $1.09 million budget
for its first year of operation.
Cleveland celebrated In-
dependence Day with fireworks
and festivities at the high school
stadium.
David Wayne Bell, 42, of
Cleveland, was charged with
shooting his brother-in-law,
John David Butler of Baytown,
the eveningof July 4.
Work continued on a 1983-84
budget for the Cleveland In-
dependent School District, with
Superintendent Charles Barker
predicting no increase in the
current tax rate.
Russel Dickerson, the 12 year
old who^e arm was reattached
following after a tree fell on it in
April, was guest disc jockey on
79Q in Houston.
Work began on a strip
shopping center on FM 163 near
the Tarkington schools.
Wendel Craft, a former
teacher and coach at Splendora
Junior High, was charged with
molesting at least five boys
between the ages of 10 and 14.
The U.S. Forest Service an-
nounced plans to control current
and potential outbreaks of the
southern pine beetle in six
National Forest areas included
in a 1979 wilderness evaluation.
A concession from the Texas
Department of Water Resources
gave the city a place on the
priority list for 1984 grants,
giving Cleveland a “roll of the
dice” chance for a sewer grant.
Patti McLelland heard the
first words of her five years of
life following a cochlear implant
operation in late April. Cleve-
land VFW Post 1839 raised
$16,000 for the operation.
Debbie Maffett of Cut and
Shoot, the reigning Miss Amer-
ica, paid a visit to her church
congregation in Security as
NBC television cameras looked
on.
Residents of Hoop & Holler,
near Rye, complained to Com-
missioners Court about local
law enforcement and asked
commissioners to fire Constable
Charles Elliott. Elliott said he
had no plans to resign.
Pace-Stancil Funeral Home
began a massive facelift on the
outside of its building.
Cleveland City Council ac-
cepted a 10-acre donation from
James McWaters and Eugene
Campbell to use to build a new
sewer plant.
County commissioners en-
dorsed the proposed East Loop
around Cleveland, leaving them
with just one problem — finding
funding.
A bill signed by President
Reagan eliminated by one day
Cleveland’s chances for a
federal grant for sewage plant
construction.
City officials looked at a
method of using television
cameras to inspect and repair
sewer lines without tearing up
pipes and pavement.
Tom Lynch, offensive coor-
dinator at Aldine McArthur
High School, was named
athletic director at Tarkington.
Ken DeFoor, a captain with
the Houston Police Department,
became the first candidate to
announce intentions to run for
sheriff of Liberty County.
Environmentalists criticized
UJB. Forest Service use of
dearcutting to fight pine beetle
infestation.
Clevelanders held a going-
away reception for Roy Bolin,
former editor of the Advocate
and later the Communicator.
Bolin and his wife, Marge,
moved to Illinois.
Cleveland’s 11-12-year-old
Dixie League All Stars won the
District 7 East trophy, but fell to
West champion Huntsville
National.
Cleveland school board ap-
proved a $6.77 million budget for
1983-84, with the tax rate
remaining at $1.25 per $100
valuation
Schr I-board trustees also
hired Curtis Brinkley as prin-
cipal at Cleveland Junior High
and Gwendolyn Brinkley as as-
sistant principal at Southside
Elementary. Roger Clifton, as-
sistant principal at the junior
high, was named director of
transportation and special ser-
vices. ,
An investigation continued
into allegations of physical and
sexual abuse in the Liberty
County Jail.
McArthur Wood Jr., 10, was
taken to Texas Children's Hospi-
tal by Life'Flight helicopter
after he ran a stop sign on a
minibike and collided with a
car.
Tarkington ISD Superinten-
dent Gerald McClure told the
school board it should consider
raising requirements for gradu-
ation.
Liberty County commission-
ers decided to seek a state
planning grant aimed at con-
solidating precinct road and
bridge departments under one
administrator.
Liberty County Sheriff C.L.
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