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Panola County District Forester John Hals, second from loft,recently retired from a life long
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MATHEWS
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home he had lived in off and on for
foe past several years.
The family also has a home in
Splendora, but, according to Peggy,
Roger Mathews mainly lived at his
patent’s Logan Community resi-
dence, though be had stayed with
them in Splendora earlier in the
summer of 1998.
Later that night, the family was
going to have a wiener roast, fol-
lowing the day of cleaning, she re-
called.
But instead, tragedy struck.
"I was coming back from the
store in Logansport, where we had
gone to get the wieners. My
daughter was driving when we
passed a car driving very fast We
had to get in the ditch. My daughter
said. That’s Pawpaw and Granny's
car."' she testified.
Peggy told jurors that she and
her daughter drove to her in-laws to
check on them, since they feared
something might be wrong.
"When we got there, Mr. Math-
ews came out and I asked him what
was the matter. That's when he said
that Roger had gone crazy, took the
car and had said he had killed Fer-
rell Rutherford,*' Peggy recounted.
She recalled bow they drove to
Ferrell Rutherford's home, where
they found him already dead,
slumped over in a chair.
Soon thereafter, she learned
there had been another shooting,
ant) that her brother was dead.
Peggy testified that on the night
of the shooting she bad not seen
Roger Mathews since he had left
earlier in the day, around noon, to •
go down to Ferrell Rutherford's
bouse.
Though it was common for her
brother-in-law to drink alcohol
with Rutherford, Peggy stated be
bad not been drinking while clean-
ing their parent's home earlier in
the day.
Further, she had not observed
anything in his behavior to suggest
that a tragedy of that magnitude
was going to occur later in the
night.
The defendant and the two men
be shot, Peggy testified, knew each
other well, although Roger knew
Ferrell better than be knew her
brother.
"Roger knew him a long time,
they had spent a great deal of time
together," she stated.
Another neighbor, Rickey Nun-
ley, took the stand and testified that
the defendant and Rutherford had
been drinking that afternoon, when
the shooting took place.
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still. This will just take another
right from the land owner."
I-acher also said that
approximately 60 percent of the
forest land in Texas is owned by
private persons.
Jones added, " This is a
detriment to land owners. The
bureaucratical red tape will slow
the cutting process.”
U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm
Room 370 Russell Bldg
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-2934
102 N. College, Ste. 201
Tyler 75710
(903) 593-0902
U.S. Rep. Max Sandlin
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Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-3035
214 E. Houston
Marshall 75670
(903) 938-8386.
An East Texas United States
Congressman has stepped up
actions against a recently proposed
Environmental Protection Agency
rule that would expand timber
regulations into the private sector.
Congressman Max Sandlin, D-
Marshall, along with Senator
Blanche L. Lincoln have drafted
legislation to block the EPA
interpreiation of the rule if it is put
into law.
The proposed EPA regulation
will require all private landowners
with tree farms to apply for a
permit from the government before
harvesting trees on their property.
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"I'm just glad my granddaughter
decided to go and check on her
clothes when she did," said Tatum,
who noted a little smoke damage
was nothing to worry about as long
as her children and grandchildren
were safe.
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restraints on local privately owned
timber growers- a fact that worries
Sandlin.
To stop the EPA, Sandlin helped
organize a public meeting in
Texarkana last Monday night for
people interested in the new EPA
suggested rule.
"The meeting brought over
3,000 people from Oklahoma,
Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas
when just over a thousand was
expected," said Chris Lippincott,
spokesperson for Sandlin.
According to Lippencott, the
audience gave rousing support
a standing ovation for
Congressman's comments.
"Sandlin is for clean air and r_______ .________j
water, but the EPA regulations are operations down maybe to a stand
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If enacted, the new regulations direaten the East Texas economy.
would extend powers already
granted the government from the
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"They were just sitting outside
of Ferrell's home, drinking and
hollering. When I went by. they
yelled at me and tried to get me to
come over, but 1 wouldn't," said
Nunley.
According to Nunley, it was a
common practice for the two men
to sit outside, al either of their
bouses, and drink and holler at
passers by,” said Nunley.
His daughter. Chastity told the
jurors a similar story.
"1 was coming from Dad's. They
were drinking and hollering," she
said.
Chastity also testified she had
seen, at about 7 p.m., Mathews
leaving Rutherford's drive carrying
what appeared to be a three-foot
black stick.
In earlier testimony, Nunley re-
called bearing a loud bang while
burning trash. He said he thought it
was an aerosol can blowing up, but
that it sounded like a .22 calibre
shot The bang was beard sometime
between 6:45-7:15, be recalled.
Testimony will continue
throughout the week, with the de-
fense expected to begin calling
witnesses Thursday.
After bearing testimony pre-
sented in the case, jurors will con-
sider three verdicts — guilty, not
guilty, or not guilty by reason of
insanity.
If convicted of capital murder,
and found to be sane, Mathews will
be looking at a life sentence in
prison. A life sentence carries an
automatic 40-year time period be-
fore he could become eligible for
parole.
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Davidson, Koehler was arrested at
a motel in Marshall, where be bad
been staying for an undetermined
length of time.
Koehler had been gone from his
former residence in DeBerry long
enough to come to the attention of
his parole officer when be failed to
report for his regularly scheduled
date.
The defendant received the
maximum punishment allowed for
the offense. He was originally con-
victed for aggravated robbery and
sexual assault in 1978 in Austin
County.
"Ifs my responsibility to prose-
cute those who won't comply with
the sex offender registration laws,
and I want all of these people to
know that I am not going to tolerate
anything other than 100 percent
compliance from them.
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According to Tony Bennett,
president of the Texas Forest
Industries Council, the 1999-2000
tree planting season will be one of
the largest in Texas history by the
four companies. Bennett said that
many of the seedlings planted will
replace more than 6.7 million
seedlings lost to drought
"Three years of drought
conditions have taken their toll on
the forests of East Texas," said
Bennett, "and many companies in
the industry are playing catch up
with increased plantings and
nursery productions.”
plantings this year are up
7.1 million seedlings last
from its
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Sandlin fighting proposed EPA rules
Lippencott.”
Two local limber industry
managers agree with Sandlin.
John Jones, Louisiana-Pacific
Corporation area resource manager
of the Carthage and Logansport ’
plants, stated, "It is quite possible
that it would take two weeks before
the application could be processed
and returned.
"Problems could come, for
example, if a patch of southern pine
beetles are eating a five acre patch
a day. By the time a pennit could
be gotten, over 70 acres could be
lost before any trees would be cut,"
emphasized Jones.
Bob Lacher, center unit forester
_.of International Paper, said, "The
permits will definitely slow
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rnmpantrx pl anting seedlings, this Jones.
wjfwrr ttv yumputm will plant 1 acker stated, "We plant trees in
nearly 62 million trees collectively, foe Esstem part of the county off of
Area timber i .
“—• that replanting the pine
r iredhnas seedhags is vary MportoM.
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an effort to
offset damage recently suffered to
area trees from drougto.
The two focal compare ft tew
committed to pktotia
pine seedlings in foe
area.
Louisiana-Pncific OarpcuHMa
will plant 23 aufowx wtoto
Intenmnottai Pkfier has maMreed
plans to now smeforr rare refom
pine fores to hart Mi ba
drought Jarag foe ^a» rev wren.
Akvag «en rev- .-Uhnr fcacas
unnecessary and burdensome and
"No one wants dirty water, and
.we. are committed to clean water
for'the East Texas people, but this
At the time, foe timber imdustry regulation is not foe way to do It.
was not included in those industries Congressman Sandlin will do
governed by foe Clean Water Act everything be can to stop the EPA
because the waste from foe from its ill-conceived and
harvesting trees is all natural wood unnecessary plan," stressed
chips and pine bark.
If passed, foe new
guidelines could j)lace
< fox
and International Paper will be *9^
planting improved
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Area Rrsourae Manngcr for the
Greed. "We ae pteak* 500 acres Forest Products, Inc. are planting
wdl ptare Panola County.
plant
rernsentatives US Highway 79. ,
"The plantings regenerate land
__ that have been harvested for the
Curpuration future, for our children.
______ _ 2 j Champion International
(Satire and I foNST^ !**•» Corporation and Temple-Inland
stated. "We ree rtaatt* W acres Forest Products, Inc. are planting
to PMkUa Cvreaty. o'wrtl Texas trees in East Texas, but not in
and LaMtsasML we ’
apprv vnuHeb StoUW acres.
"We pbaa MA oa cur evanpusy geneticall:
toad aad pnvuar tend. * raster, pro
gbe sad AM uws are a and crease straighter trees.
I* pvt of Brel Th** eevnorey Panola Comty will be among 22
mJ t grim reitrnarrt other state counties receiving
Bet* Lacker, ccnaor mm forester mainly lobtolly and slash pine
for taaenufoeaai Paper agreed with seedlings.
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