The Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 228, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1991 Page: 1 of 8
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The Indianola Trail Rid-
ers Association will meet at
7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the
community room at First
National Bank.
The Calhoun County
Retired Teachers Associa-
tion will meet at 9:30 a.m.
tomorrow in the town hall
of First State Bank and-
Trust.
The tide forecast for Port
O’Connor shows a low at 2:29
p.m., a high Friday at 12:35
a.m., a low at 2:08 a.m. and a
high at 7:51 a.m. For Powder-
horn, a low at 3:35 p.m., a high
at 12:21 a.m., a low at3:14 a.m.
and a high at 7:37 a.m. And at
Sand Point, a low at 4:05 p.m.,
a high Friday at 12:51 a.m., a
low at 3:44 a m. and a high at
8:07 a.m.
The Calhoun County Civic
Chorus will have rehearsal
from 7 until 9 tonight at Cal-
houn High School. Please
bring all music, old and
new to this rehearsal. There
will be a social hour so be
sure and attend. If you are
unable to attend this
rehearsal, please call
552-5204 and leave word.
The Calhoun County Inde-
pendent School District has
announced its policy for free
and reduced-price meals.
CCISD officials said the fol-
lowing family size and income
criteria will be used for deter-
mining eligibility.
To apply for free or reduced-
price meals, a parent/guardian
should fill out an application
available at the principal’s
office in each school.
An application which does
not contain complete informa-
tion on household members
and income cannot be used by
the school. Families who need
Port Lavaca Mayor Tiney
Browning and Mercer Con-
struction Co. president S.A.
Mercer signed a contract Wed-
nesday afternoon regarding the
construction of Lynnhaven
Subdivision water line system
improvements.
The city council initially
agreed to award the contract to
Mercer Construction Co. at the
July 22 council meeting.
The improvements will be
made on Travis, Burnet, Bon
ham, Crockett, Massanet, Bow-
ie, and Houston Streets.
Mayor Browning indicated
she was very pleased about the
project and the prospect of
“He says he never did a child
before,” said his lawyer, Fred
Lusk. "Donald Evans says his
heart, soul and conscience are
heavy and the death of the child
affected him greatly.”
Lusk said that three killings
have been confirmed so far.
Details Evans gave of two slay
ings in Fort Lauderdale and
Daytona Beach, Fla., match
homicides there in 1985, the
lawyer said.
“Donald Evans may be a con
artist and ifheis, hehas conned
the world into coming to Biloxi.
But right now the score is 3-to 0
Donald," Lusk said.
Evans was being held without
Richards this week signed a
bill into law that would estab-
lish a central agency to enforce
state pollution laws. Tom Smith
of Public Citizen said that the
law “protects the polluters, not
the people.”
rape.
Port Lavaca police have con-
tacted Mississippi authorities
to determine if Evans might be
connected to the disapper-
ances of two Calhoun County
women.
Wanda Lee Ann Priddy of
Port Lavaca disappeared from '
her home in August of 1979 and
Kathym Collins of Lolita has
not been seen since her cat was
found abandoned in the park-
ing lot of the Shellfish Inn on
April 1, 1981.
Port Lavaca investigators
want to determine whether or
not Evans was in the area
around either of those dates.
Evans has told Mississippi
police he began killing women
in 1977.
If his claims prove true,
Evans would be responsible for
more slayings than any other
known serial killer in U.S.
history.
Evans confessed to the slay-
ings in admitting he raped and
strangled a 10-year-old girl
abducted from a Gulfport
beach on Aug. 1, authorities
said. He led police to her body
in the woods Sunday.
Evans offered to cooperate
because he wants to be exe-
cuted, Assistant U.S. Attorney
Jay Golden said.
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Ann
Richards today said prison
issues will be included in a spe-
cial legislative session she has
scheduled to start Monday.
“Certainly criminal justice,
prisons, jails very much will be
a part of the call,” she said prior
to a speech to state board and
commission appointees.
“I hope this is going to be a
short session, and I think it can
wu probably the result,” Lusk
said.
Evans lived in the southwest-
ern Michigan town of Waterv
liet until age 10, and in the area
on and off after that until he
dropped out of high school, said
Donald Walker, who married a
sister of Evans’ father.
The Detroit Free Press
reported today that Evans told
police he killed a man in 1979 or
1980 near Hartford, a town 4
miles from Watervliet. He said
he dumped the body on the
banks of the Paw Paw River in
Van Buren County, police said.
No motive to the killings was
(See EVANS, Page 2)
Wave News Services
GULFPORT, Miss.
Federal officials are setting up
a task force to investigate a drif
tec’s claim to have killed more
than 60 people in 20 states.
“We’ve gotten calls from lots
of jurisdictions, and I don't
have a count of it but there are a
bunch of them,” Assistant U.S.
Attorney Kent McDaniel said
Wednesday.
Donald Leroy Evans, 34, of
Galveston, has claimed he
killed women and men during a
decade of wandering bracketed
by his departure from the Mar-
ines Corps in 1977 and his 1987
imprisonment in Texas for
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Debts drydock
gambling ship
PORT ISABEL (AP) - The
owner of the cruise ship Le Mis-
tral averted the sale of its ves
sei by filing for Chapter 11 pro-
tection from creditors in a fed-
eral bankruptcy court, lawyers
said.
The ship, -which provides
gambling on its six-hour
cruises, has been idle at Port
Isabel since a warrant of sei-
zure was issued for it a week
ago.
By CHARLYN FINN
Wave StafT Writer
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Agriculture
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Classified
Comics
Letters
Sports
Light moving
Coast Guard Senior Chief Petty Officer Roger Monyhan and Calhoun
County Building Superintendent Charles Crober work Wednesday
replacing the glass in the light from the Halfmoon Reef Lighthouse.
The light was moved into the Calhoun County Museum’s new home
in the library and had to be dismantled to be moved safely. Monyhan
is with the Aids to Navigation office in New Orleans and came to Port
Lavaca to supervise the project The light is still owned by the Coast
Guard and leased to the museum. (Wave photo)
CCISD announces
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CHS pre-registration
Calhoun High School will
pre-register all students
grades 9-12 on Monday, Aug.
19. Students should report
to the Calhoun High School
Cafeteria on the following
schedule:
—students with last name
beginning A - I from 8 a.m.
until 11 a.m.
—students with last name
beginning J -Q from 1 p.m.
until 4 p.m.
— students with last
names beginning R - Z from
5 p.m. until 8 p.m.
Students will receive
schedules, parking permits,
ID cards, and other
required forms at these
scheduled times.
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budget, tax hike
AUSTIN (AP) — Lt. Gov. Bob
Bullock is continuing his push
for Texas to get away from rely-
ing on property and sales taxes,
saying the alternative to spiral-
ing hikes in those levies is a
state income tax.
If Texans “want their schools
funded for the future, if they
want our children to be fed, if
they want jobs for Texas ...
They’ve got to weigh that
against a tax system which
doesn’t produce what Texas
needs for the future,” Bullock
said Wednesday.
The two-year state budget
and tax increase just approved
by lawmakers won’t move Tex-
as ahead, he said.
“At best, it keeps Texas from
stumbling and from being
bogged down, but there’s no
real progress,” Bullock said.
“In some respects, it’s a step
signed
making some major improve-
ments in the water distribution
system.
Mercer said he was planning
to cooperate with Lynnhaven
Subdivision residents as much
as possible so they will not be
too inconvenienced once con-
struction gets underway. “I
would like to tell the public we
are concerned for .their safety
and convenience will be fore
most during the construction
phase of this contract,” he said.
' There may be times that
access to individual homes will
be interrupted temporarily.
Every effort will be made to
restore driveway access at the
close of every workday.”
Mercer projects work will get
(See WORK, Page 2)
be,” Richards said.
Lawmakers will also work on
congressional and State Board
of Education redistricting dur-
ing the session.
On Tuesday, the Legislature
completed a 30-day special ses-
sion on the state budget and
taxes, but failed to approve new
congressional or Education
Board districts.
Under 1990 census figures,
Bullock blasts
backwards."
The $59.45 billion budget
falls $884 million short of the
general tax spending needed to
maintain the current level of
services in education, human
services, mental health-mental
retardation services and cor-
rections, according to figures
from Bullock’s office.
Under the $2.7 billion tax and
fee increase, state gasoline tax-
es will go up 5 cents and the
sales tax will apply to some
items that now are exempt.
Local property taxes also are
expected to increase under the
school finance reform bill
approved earlier this year by
lawmakers. Bullock said that
might prompt a serious discus-
sion of tax alternatives.
To help raise up to $475 mil-
lion over two years, lawmakers
(See STATE, Page 2)
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ties in Calhoun County for the cover of the Fatf-Wmfer Visitor*
(jutde, which will oe pupiiBiieaon rriuay, August zsra.
The photos must highlight s Ml or wit.ter activity that can be
enjoyed by visitors io the eonnty-n.blog, bird watching, bunt-
Ing,otc. The winninghe pri nted in b!«ick and white but
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color photo entries are welcomed.
PhotosPmusf be submitted to The Wave office by Tuesday,
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Thought for the day: “Make no
Judgments where you have no
compassion.” —Anne
McCaffrey
Tonight there will be
decreasing cloudiness with a
20 percent chance of mostly
evening showers and lows in
the 70s to 80s. Friday it will
be partly cloudy and breezy
with highs m the 90s. Wind
tonight will be from the
southeast at 10 to 15 knots
with seas 3 to 5 feet.
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Port Lavaca, TX USPS-438-780
The Seadrift Chamber of
Commerce will meet at 7
p.m. tomorrow at the Civic
Center on Main Street.
Election of officers is sche-
duled. All interested are
urged to attend.
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Contract signed
Port Lavaca officials met Wednesday afternoon with S. A. Mercer, P.E., at Mercer Construction Co. to
sign a contract concerning the Lynnhaven Subdivision water distributfai improvement project Seen
seated (left to right) are Mercer, Mayor Tiney Browning and CosHfedlman Rick Nichols. Standing is
Public Works Director Bob Coen. (Staff photo)
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help with the form may call the
school.
For an application to be com-
plete, a parent/guardian must
provide the following
information:
•total household income;
•names of all household
members;
•Social Security numbers of all
household members (if a num-
ber is not available, write
none);
•AFDC food stamp number; and
•signature of an adult house-
hold member.
The information on the appli-
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Lynnhaven water
contract
Serial killer to be questioned about local unsolved cases
bail In the Harrison County Jail
near here in the girl’s
kidnapping.
The task force to be based
here will include the FBI, the
Gulfport police, the Sheriffs
Department and the Mississip
pi Highway Safety Patrol.
An FBI unit specializing in
serial killer profiles has been
enlisted to help link Evans to
other crimes, said FBI spokes-
man M.C. Overton.
Lusk said Evans held various
jobs, from fishing to mechani-
cal engineering to
construction.
“I think he had a real tough
childhood and what happened
Texas gains three new seats in
the U.S. House of Representa-
tives, for a total of 30.
Lawmakers said sticking
points to the congressional
redistricting plan have been
the creation of minority dis-
tricts in Dallas and Houston.
The third new seat was
designed for Hispanic rep-
resentation in South Texas.
The Education Board
includes 15 seats.
On prisons, legislators
approved a proposed constitu-
tional amendment that would
let Texans vote Nov. 5 on
whether the state should issue
$1.1 billion in bonds for prison
construction.
However, the money couldn’t
be spent unless lawmakers
approve legislation on the con
struction plan and settling
county jail crowding lawsuits.
The governor’s office has also
received numerous requests to
expand the session’s agenda.
For example, environmental
and consumer groups are urg-
ing Richards to allow lawmak-
ers to revise a new environmen-
tal measure.
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Bales, Steve & Fortney, Paul, Jr. The Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 228, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1991, newspaper, August 15, 1991; Port Lavaca, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1255097/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Calhoun County Public Library.