Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1996 Page: 1 of 16
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Jones County Fair
Make plans to attend the Stamford Country Fair, Saturday, Septem-
ber 7. Look for details in the Stanford American.
Separate bids for interior and
exterior improvemeats to the Jones
County Courthouse were presented
to the commissioners for discussion
during their regular meeting
Monday morning.
Upon examining the bids, the
exterior bid was awarded to Rose
Builders, Inc. of Abilene, at
$912,800. Withtheaidofa$750,00Q
grant from the Texas Department of
Transportation, the county’s
refurbishing cast for the outside
improvemenlMvill be $162,800.
At the samaume, commissioners
were unable to award the bid for the
interior project because the
contractor’s proposals drastically
exceeded the county’s $800,000
budgeted amount.
Conde and her current husband,
Ken said that they were so grate-
ful to the Stamford Police Depart-
ment, “most small towns wouldn’t
have moved this fast on something
from another state. I am going to
contact the New Mexico FBI and
tell them what a good job you all
have done.”
According to Lusk, Conn and
the boy were both asleep when
FFA Booster Club
The Stamford FFA Booster Club will have a Hamburger Supper,
Tuesday night. August 20, in the SHS Cafeteria at 6 p.m.
timated $146,708.75.
The estimate is based on 5 per-
cent of last year’s lottery sales in
Jones County, alone.
“Cities could do whatever they
want with the money, “ explains
Haywood, “use it for matching
grants, upgrading their school sys-
tem, whoever they needed the
money for.”
Haywood explained that cur-
rently merchants who sell lottery
tickets received a 5 percent com-
mission. His proposal is that they
continue to keep their same com-
mission, but keep an additional 5
percent to automatically place into
Night in the Islands
The Stamford Country Club is having a “Night in the Islands.”
Come eat shrimp and all the trimmings, Saturday, August 24, at
7:30 p.m. Members and guests welcome.
administrator’s license.
Meanwhile, she is looking for-
ward to working at the home and
watching it grow.
“We have eight boys and can
hold 30,” she explains, our hope is
to get ten paying clients.”
Currently, the home is having to
“soak-up” alot of the expenses
from a few non-paying clients.
Mulligan and her staff are hop-
ing that through fund-raisers and
donations they can obtain the
needed money.
They are having a volleyball
tournament in cooperation with the
Knights of Columbus, Sunday,
September 14, to help raise funds.
“We have two needs for our
house," she says, “one is a finan-
cial need and the other is a prayer
need.”
the city account.
Haywood indicated that
McLaughlin also supports his pro-
posal.
The Senator said he got the idea
from a constituent in Wichita
County. “Thisju ' goes to confirm
my saying that not all of the best
brains in Texas are in Austin.”
Haywood and McLaughlin
spent the day traveling the district
including attending the Stamford
Rotary Club at noon.
McLaughlin faces incumbent
David Counts in the November
general election.
Stamford American staff photo
The Stamford Bulldog football teams began three-a-day workouts last Monday, August 5. Taking a break are Joey
Reed and Derek Alambar.
♦ Approved the Judge’s
recommendations for the Chief
Appraiser-Tax Accessor/Collector
to calculate and publish effective
and rollback tax rates for 1996 and
forward
* Approved budgets amendments
for the following: Commissioners
Court Audit line-$ 1,868; County
Clerk supplies-$500; Indigent
Health Care-$11,400; County
Mechanic parts and repair-$250;
Law Library-$500
* Approved pledged securities
♦ No formal action was taken on
renewing the counties health
insurance policy
Pierian Club
The Pierian Club will meet, Thursday, August 15, at 5 p.m. inthe meet-
ing room of Stamford Electric Coop Building.
Mulligan says that the Buena
Vista Home has impressed her be-
cause of it’s family atmosphere.
She says that other homes •
where she has worked at center
more around the business aspect.
“I am excited about living here
and looking forward to meeting ev-
eryone,” she says, “everyone is so
friendly here and it really amazes
me how people help each other.”
Mulligan and Vaovasa both
agree that although they are thou-
sands of miles from home, the
friendliness of the area makes them
feel welcome.
“When we first came, I thought
maybe a few years, but now Juoy
says it will be forever,” she admits.
For any information about the
Buena Vista Home or to make any
donations, call 773-2123.
Commissioner Vonay Davis said,
“I don’t see how we can do this. We
don ’ t have the money except for the
$800,000 we have borrowed from
the banks.”
Most of the interior renovation is
related to state law requirements to
meet ADA standards. These
improvements are not covered under
the grant and will be paid for by
Jones County.
Commissioners did not reject the
submitted bids, but postponed their
decision until Friday morning.
In other business, commissioners
took the following action:
* Reappointed Karen Lea Drake
to the Board of MHMR
* Set budget hearing date
August 26th 9 a.m.
Brent and Brenda Whitworth and
brought back to the Police Station
when his mom arrived.
At approximately 7 p.m.,
mother and son reunited and were
soon headed back to New Mexico.
Conde said that when she first
heard the news that her boy had.
been found it was to good to be-
lieve, “I feel so relieved,” she said.
Conde said that her ex-husband
of four years had tried to abduct they arrived at the camper which
Zachary once before and had re-
cently been arrested with a DWI
conviction.
“Zachary was in the car and that
is why he is on restricted visita-
tion time,” she explained, “I don’t
know how he was taken from a su-
pervised visit center, but we are
going to look into that.”
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School board
awards bids
The Stamford CLISD Board of
Trustees met, Thursday, August 8,
awarding bids for the upcoming
school year.
Bids were awarded to Cashway
of Stamford for meat, Mrs. Baird’s
for bread and Borden’s for dairy
products.
The board also accepted an
interlocal agreement with West
texas Telecommunications Con-
sortium and the SCATE Interactive
Television Network.
* Local salary schedules were
approved.
* Travel plans for the upcom-
ing TASB/TASA meeting were
discussed.
* The board approved the Stu-
dent Handbook, Student Code of
Conduct and the Gifted and Tal-
ented policy changes.
*****
In a special meeting, Monday,
August 12, the board set the tax
rate at $1.4626 for the 1996-97
school year.
The board also approved a reso-
lution concerning a lawsuit against
the Texas Education Agency for in-
creased technology funding.
had a loaded 22 caliber pistol next
tothedMK
“The teletype we received indi-
cated that he was armed and had
been diagnosed as a manic depres-
sant.”
Conn was taken to the Jones
County Jail where he will later be
extradited back to New Mexico.
Stamford could profit off lottery sales
by CHANDRA MATHIS
What if the City of Stamford got
to keep 5 percent of every lottery
ticket sold by local merchants?
If State Senator Tom Haywood
(R-Wichita Falls) gets his way, it
just might happen.
Haywood was in Stamford,
Tuesday morning at a press con-
ference endorsing Scott
McLaughlin, GOP candidate for
State Representative, District 70.
Haywood is planning to pro-
pose such legislation at the upcom-
ing session in January.
According to Haywood, if his
proposal is accepted, Stamford
would get their fair share of an es-
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Stamford Booster Club
The Stamford Booster Club will meet each Tuesday night at 7 p.m.
at the SHS Cafeteria. Come show your support to the Bulldogs!
-Next week they are meeting in Betty Murphree’s classroom.
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Special Section
inside
Buena Vista welcomes new Case Manager
by CHANDRA MATHIS
Pua Mulligan and her husband
Jouy Vauvasa not only have a new
home, but a new family of eight
boys.
As the new case manager at
Buena Vista Boys Home, the
couple finds themselves facing
many exciting changes.
The couple comes to Stamford
from Honolulu, Hawaii.
Mulligan learned about the boys
home in Stamford from Doug
Howard, who became acquainted
with her while attending college in
Hawaii.
Howard, who is one of the
founders of Buena Vista, worked
for Mulligan as a counselor in a
similar home in Hawaii.
Just four hours away from ob-
taining a bachelor’s degree.
Mulligan is planning to pursue the
needed training to receive her
Courthouse proposals exceed
Commissioners’ budget by $800,000
Stamford Farmers and
Ranchers Livestock Auction
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New Mexico kidnapping ends in
mother-son reunion in Stamford
by CHANDRA MATHIS 75 Hi 75 v
Kata Conde’s visit to Stamford
will also represent one of the hap-
piest days of her life.
Her trip to Stamford was to pick
up her son, Zachary, whom had
been abducted two days earlier
while at a supervised visit center
in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
According to Conde, her ex—
husband Vernon Sam Conn fled
away from the center with her son,
Saturday afternoon.
Early Monday morning, Conn
called his parents to tell them he
was in South America. The call
was traced to a Stamford pay
phone and the Stamford Police De-
partment was notified.
After receiving the information,
Officer John Grahm, Chief Glen
Smith and Captain Ronnie Lusk
received a teletype from the police
department in Albuqerque with a
warrant for his arrest. They
learned of his yehicle type and li-
cence number and began search-
ing for Conn.
The call was traced to the pay
phone in front of Central Bail
Bonds. Officer Graham discov-
ered a planner book belonging to
Conn containing a local address
near the phone.
The resident was contacted and
stated that he did know the suspect
but hadn’t talked to him in a long
time.
Shortly after, police found
Conn’s vehicle (camper) at the
Davis trailer park. At approxi-
mately 6:25 a.m., Conn was appre-
hended and four year old Zachary
was soon to be on his way home.
The boy spent the day with
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