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CLEVELAND ADVOCATE, Friday, December 30, 1983, Section A - Page 3
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MISS AMERICA — Debbie Maffett, Miss America
for 1983, signs an autograph during a visit to her
former church- in Security. (Photo by Annie
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Ken DeFoor withdrew from
the Liberty County sheriff’s
race to become police chief in
Dayton effective Jan. 1.
New District Attorney Mike
Little took the oath of office
Sept. 1 from his predecessor,
344th District Court Judge Car-
roll Wilborn.
Nicklow Ford was the pledge
center for the Jerry Lewis
I^bor Day Telethon. The effort
raised $7,878 in the Cleveland
area and $30.6 million nation-
wide.
In other I^abor Day activities,
Ben Smith of Nacogdoches won
the third annual golf tour-
nament at Cleveland Country
Club and firefighters in Cleve-
land and Tarkington battled
several blazes over the
weekend.
A San Jacinto County toxic
waste dump near Waverly was
earmarked for cleanup with
money from the U.S. Environ-
mental Protection Agency’s $1.6
billion superfund.
Five witnesses told a Houston
jury they were victims of a
“water torture” while in the
custody of then-San Jacinto
County Sheriff Humpy Parker.
A group of Cleveland
business, civic and professional
leaders received a charter for a
new national bank in Atascoci-
ta.
A state prison facility sought
for the Liberty-Dayton area was
put on hold until the Texas
Legislature meets again.
The State Department of
Highways and Public Tran-
sportation received a federal
grant to replace Low Water
Bridge across the East Fork of
the San Jacinto River.
Increased activity fed Cleve-
land City Council to approve the
hiring of an additional police
officer.
James Travis Stanford, 76,
was killed in an industrial ac-
cident in a metal shop on U.S. 59
South.
Attorneys for three defen-
dants in the “water torture”
trial requested that Floyd
Advocate her first interview
Since giving up her Miss Amer-
ica crown and said being herself
was the key to her success.
Cleveland City Council ap-
proved a $3.4 million budget that
spends 12 percent more than the
previous year without raising
taxes.
Businessman and school
consultant Lloyd Dickens, 52, of
Livingston, became the first
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George Musgrove paid $4.10 a
pound, or $4,612.50, for Reggie
Lepley’s grand champion steer . candidate to challenge U.S.
at the San Jacinto County Fair.
Lepley is a member of Cold-
spring FF A.
Debbie Maffett gave the
LEGISLATOR VISITS — State Rep. Mark Stiles
(left), D-Beaumont, greets Gene Campbell, Cleve-
land businessman and school board president, at
the Trinity Valley Ducks Unlimited dinner. (Photo
by Garry Matlow)
moved the Southline Day Care
Center was traced to ultraviolet
rays from a broken seal on a
mercury vapor light.
The Cleveland Advocate
published a 32-page “New-
comers Guide (for Oldtimers,
too)” packed with a variety of
information about life in north-
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Rep. Charles Wilson, D-Lufkin.
Continued in Tuesday’s
Eastex Advocate,
An environmental scientist
told Cleveland City Council that
the only potential problem he
saw for the site of the city’s
[iroposed sewer plant is if he
ocates any red-cockaded wood-
peckers in the pine trees on the
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awarded their Eagle awards. ■ ■ " ■ “™
Grady Terry as Optimists of the
Year.
Attorney General Jim Mattox
. threatened to sue the National
Park Services over policies
relating to oil anckgas drilling in
the Big Thicket National Pre-
serve.
School opening in Shepherd
was delayed nine days by bad
weather hampering renovation
efforts.
McDuffie’s Funeral ' Home
hosted an open house and
dedication service for its new
building on East Street.
Carroll Wilborn Jr., district
attorney for Liberty and
Chambers counties, was ap-
pointed judge of the new 344th
State District Court.
Cleveland school board
completed its hiring of ad-
ministrators by naming Michael
W. Aston as assistant principal
for the junior high.
Hurricane Alicia ripped
through Cleveland and the
Houston area, fel’ing trees,
downing power lines and caus-
ing millions of dollars in dam-
age. No one was 'killed or seri-
ously injured in Liberty County,
a fact public officials called “a
miracle.”
Wjnds also leveled a shopping
center under construction in
Tarkington, where a- school
board meeting scheduled for the
night before Alicia passed
through the area was post-
poned. , .
Liberty County asked for
federal disaster aid following
Alicia. County Judge Dempsie
Henley estimated crop damage
at $10 million, and told county
residents to be patient waiting
for power to be restored.
Despite the hurricane, schools
opened on schedule for 2,748
students in Cleveland and 1,360
students in Tarkington.
Youngsters at Southside Ele-
mentary School were greeted
with a strong smell of smoke
and a large exhaust fan the first
day of class. An early-morning
electrical socket fire failed to
delay the opening of the school.
Tarkington school board
trustees set a tax rate of $1.02
per $100 valuation, an increase
of two cents, to support a budget
of $3.31 million.
Cleveland City Council con-
tinued work on a budget that
wouldn’t raise the 74.5 cents per
$100 valuation tax rate.
i Mike Little, 29, an attorney,
( was named district attorney for
Liberty and Chambers counties.
I Sleepy Hollow, a $3 million
i dollar apartment complex, was
topped out in Cleveland next to
rffice.
former Liberty County
Liberty County was added to a
list of six counties eligible to
receive state and federal disas-
ter assistance following Hurri-
cane Alicia.
The “water torture” trial
opened for former San Jacinto
County Sheriff J.C. “Humpy”
Parker and ex-deputies Carl
I^e, Floyd Allen Baker and
John Qlover.
Chris and Jim Cook of Cleve-
land tied a parent-child world
record at the 1983 National
Skeet Shooting Association
world championships in San An-
tonio.
Cleveland received a $175,500
grant from the state to resur-
face Boothe Street.
SEPTEMBER
Cont. From Front Page
“Buck” Eckols announced he
will seek re-election.
Gary Penton was sentenced to
10 years in prison after pleading
guilty to involuntary man-
slaughter. Police said Penton
was drunk last October when he
struck and killed bicyclist Chris
^Reese on Old Security Road
“vest of Cleveland.
a A week after a State
^Department of Highways and
Public Transportation repaint-
ed stripes on State Hwy. 321 in
Cleveland, a second crew came
along with a grader to smooth
out the bumps, damaging some
of the new handiwork.
AUGUST
Baker’s trial be severed from
the others because his defense
was “highly damaging” to their
cases. Baker said the tortures
took place, but he was following
orders of his superiors.
A delay was granted in- the
"water torture” trial because of
the death of Humpy Parker’s
father.
Five persons were arrested in
a pre-dawn drug raid on Garvey
Road near Cleveland.
Liberty County commission-
ers approved a $6.1 million
budget with a two-cent increase
to 36 cents per $100 valuation.
The spending plan is up $200,000
from last year.
Former Cleveland school
administrator Joe Hines was
named principal at New Caney
High School.
Cleveland Interfaith Center
moved to 226 N. Travis St.
Former Cleveland ISD Super-
intendent'H.W. Herndon died at
age 78. He was the top school
official here from 1961 to 1965.
Former San Jacinto County
•Sheriff J.C. “Humpy” Parker,
and ex-deputies Carl Lee and
John Glover were found guilty
of conspiring to violate the civil
rights of six prisoners between
1976 and 1980. Former Deputy
Floyd Allen Baker was granted
a new trial.
Dayton rancher-businessman
E.W. “Sonny” Applebe became
a candidate for sheriff. .
Liberty County commission- east Liberty County,
ers added a $5 surcharge to
license plate fees beginning , in
1985, with proceeds benefitting
road and bridge work.
The Internal Revenue Service
cautioned local residents of
persons.misleading them about
filing casualty losses for trees
felled by Hurricane Alicia.
Cleveland City Manager Gene
Harrison and Police Chief
Harley Irvings told City Coun-
cil they were declaring war on
$50,000 in outstanding traffic
tickets.
• Montgomery County deputies
said five felony burglaries were
cleared with the arrest of Larry
Eugene Sutton of Cleveland
following a gun theft.
Saying that a new school will
probably be needed in the near
future, Cleveland school board
approved spending up to $15,000
for a study of campus needs.
Cleveland school board
decided that starting with the
graduates of 1985, CHS students
will only have to attend the
school for two years to be vale-
dictorian or salutatorian. This
oveturned the long-standing
four-year residency require-
ment.
County officials •received a
rude shock when they opened
bids on their jail expansion
project and found them $500,000
more than the $1.2 million they
expected.
A skin" rash that temporarily
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Have a great year in 1984 Thanks
for doing business with us v^e
look forward to seeing you soon*
Local and state* officials
agreed at a hearing at City Hall
that Cleveland Municipal Air-
sport is well prepared to meet the
^challenges of growth of the next
20 years.
Cleveland Police Chief Harley
Lovings became the third
candidate for sheriff of Liberty
County.
Three state representatives
told a partisan crowd that toxic
waste dumps don’t belong in
Liberty County or anywhere
else in Texas. They spoke at a
fund-raising rally for PACE
(People Against Contaminated
Environment). ,
Constable Charles Elliott of
Old Precinct 5, under fire from
residents of the Rye area, re-
signed because he moved out of
the precinct.
Texas Department of Water
Resources certified that there
are no toxic wastes remaining
at the Johnson dump site on Tar-
kington Prairie.
Striking Communications
Workers of America union
* members walked picket lines at
Southwestern Bell offices in
Cleveland.
Cleveland applied for a
*$385,000 community develop-
ment block grant to fund sewer
line repairs in low- and moder-
ate-income areas.
State Rep. Mark Stiles
predicted here that an increase
In the state gasoline tax to fund
roads and education would be a
likely result of the planned
special session of the
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Alexander, Annie. The Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 99, Ed. 1 Friday, December 30, 1983, newspaper, December 30, 1983; Cleveland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1190182/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin Memorial Library.