Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 72, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 5, 1981 Page: 1 of 28
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REFLECTIONS OF A TRAGEDA—Grim
of the .Mon-
Lions put it together
Telethon team ready
The Houston show is being- stag
Pep squad gains from sale
First full week
lor College of Medicine
Net proceeds from the concession stand at'
the sale will go to the High School' Pep Squad'.
The Cleveland Advocate is coordinating
and sponsoring the event.
To rent sales space or a table call 592-2626
The Cleveland High School ‘Pep Squad’ will
be one of the major recipients of funds at the big
‘Pow-Wow’ Garage Sale to be held at Stancil
Memorial Park from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Sat.,
Sept. 12
two-story structure.
The house caught on fire on the
upper floor (whether or not the tear
gas canisters started the fire is still
under investigation) as the EST men
searched the lower floor.
• After entering the lower floor of
the house, and searching there unsuc-
cessfully, the EST tried in vain to
reach the top floor but the stairway’
leading to the upper floor was barri-
• caded and the whole upper floor was
by that time engulfed in flame.
At approximately 3 p.m. mem-
bers of several neighboring fire de-
partments had succeeded in putting
out the fire and the bodies of Sanford
and his wife were found in the
southwest comer of the building.
The positions of the bodies led
officers to. believe that both were dead
prior to the fire, but the matter is still
under investigation at this time.
Montgomery County Sheriff Joe
Corley responded after the incident,
‘We tried every means to make the
man come out, we called by phone, we
shotted and never get a rerpcnse
except for the shots that wer rfred at
the Deputy when he first arrived on
Corley went on, ‘The sanford’s'
have three children and they are now
with their grandmother, I believe.’
‘The bodies will be sent to the
Harris County Medical Examiner’s
See Death, Page 12
As. the weekend neared, the
Cleveland Lions Club was making
final plans to gear up for participation
in the Cleveland part of the “Jerry
Lewis Labor Day Muscular Dystro-
phy Telethon.’’
J. R “Joe Bob’ Croley of-the
Cleveland Lions Club is coordinating
the event.
The Cleveland Pledge Center
will be stt up at Nicklow Ford, 1000 S.
Washington Quay Nicklow and Sonny
Greening are co - chairmen of .the
Cleveland Pledge Center
KPRC-TV (Channel 2) will be
this area's outlet for the nationwide
telethon Sept. 6 and Sept. 7. The
telethon will begin Sunday night and
run continuously until 6 p.m. Monday
night, Labor Day,-Sept. 7.
Channel 39 will announce’pre
telethon and Labor Day fund raisjjg
.events occurring in the pledge i-enn-i
towns, such as Cleveland
Croley says that,about 80 per
cent of all funds raised in the telethon
support a variety of MDA research
and patient service progi <ms con
ducted worldwide, and in such facili-
ties as the Jerry Lewis Neurornuscu-
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tgomery County Emergency Services Team reflect the strain they were
under for almost six hours trying to prevent loss of life in a "stand-off” situa-
■ Incidentally, Lions Clubs the 21 anyone - half hours ot the
throughout the Gulf Coast area are telethon.
again coordinating the drive, accord- ' <•<..,
ing to Croley, president of the Cleve- ed at the Summit, and the public is
. land Lions Club. ' invited to attend free of charge. Ron
Pledges in the Cleveland area Stone is serving as the emcee of the
will be called to a special number at KPRC-TV portion of the show for the
the Cleveland Pledge Center. That eighth year.
number is 592-2611. The public is also
encouraged to drop by the Pledge
Center and participate in, and ob-
. serve the telethon first hand.
The telethon will originate from
Las Vegas, and will benefit the
medical services and research pro-
grams of the Muscular Dystrophy
Association.
Pledges made to the Cleveland
Pledge Center will be tabulated and laf Disease Research Center at Bay
released over Channel 2 throughout lor College of Medicine
tion near Porter Wednesday. Two died in the confrontation which .ended ■
shortly before these men left the scene. See story. ( Staff Phoiiii, - 'i
By Chip Perkins
A man and his wife are dead
following a six hour stand-off between
/ the man, who was armed, and the
Montgomery County Emergency Ser-
vices Team Wednesday in East Mont-
gomery County.
The couple was tentatively iden-
tified at the scene as Billy Bryant
Sanford and Sandra Sanford of Por-
' ter.
Sanford barricaded himself in
his house on Loop 494 between Porter
and Kingwood, the site of the Eastex
Drag Strip.
The fracas started at approxi-
mately 9 am., when Montgomery
County Deputy Hoot Gibson answered
a disturbance call at the Sanford
, home located at the site of the Eastex
Dragway on Loop 494 near Porter and
that officer was met with gunfire
'• from Sanford’s house. .
Deputy Gibson reported the in-
cident and officers from the Mont-
is gomery County Sheriff’s Office and
Harris County Constable’s Office,
'W Precinct 2, ' >jtrr<y jw’ed ih'-* Sunfo,d
house.
After several hours of unsuc- .
cessful attempts to talk Sanford out of, the scene. ’
the house had failed, members of the
Montgomery County Emergency Ser-
.s vices Team (a -group of specially
trained men) surrounded the house
and fired several (six), rounds of tear
gas into the ground floor of the
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§EPTr5, 1S81 26 PAGES VOL. 62 NO. 72 ..CLEVELAND (LIBERTY CO.), TEXAS
Over 10,000 students
report to area schools
Two die
•in stand-off
By Terry Mathis
Despite the heavy rains, which
fell Monday, more than 10,630 stu-
dents showed up for the first full week
of school in the Cleveland area.
Tarkington and Cleveland start-
ed school Monday. Splendora, New
Caney, Coldspring and Shepherd got
underway last week.
Cleveland registered 2,311 stu-
dents the first day. There were 516
students to register for the high
school. A round figure of 600 began the
year at the junior high. Also, 775 to the
Southside Elementary and 420 to the
Northside Elementary.
As for Splendora, it opened doors
Coach to narrate
to 1,463 excited students. The high
school enrolled 582 students, and 881
entered the elementary
New Caney opened its doors to
3,200 new and old students. Of this
total, 1,471 were from the high school,
794 from the middle school, and 935
were from the elementary school
Tarkington said hello to 1,316
registered kids its first day of the
1981-82 school year. Tarkington’s
High School enrolled 383 students. The
junior high had 213, and the elemen-
tary, 720.
Coldspring welcomed 1,240 stu-
dents back to school The smallest
portion of this number was from the
highschool, which amounted to 371 A
few digits higher, was the elementary
with 382 The largest part of the
original figure was from the middle
school, which was 487
The Shepherd School District is
entertaining some 1,100 students this
year. The high school contains 305
students. The middle school, so far,
has 166 students. And, finally, 629
students have entered through the
doors of education at the elementary
school
All schools normally expect en-
rollment to rise during the first few
weeks following opening of classes.
Fans to
Indian films
‘Red Room’ at the Fieldhouse of
Cleveland High School at 7:30 p.m
with commentary by Coach Whitmire
on the film of the previous week's
action and a preview of the next
Cleveland Head Coach Percy
Whitmire and the Cleveland Athletic
Booster Club announced this week
that throughout the upcoming football
season there will be a‘game film’and
REUNION PLANNED-The Cleveland ‘Class of 1K1* reunion committee is
shown here Thursday after setting Oct. 24 as the day for the 20th Anniversary
Party to be held at the Cleveland Country Chib. Donald Clesson, left, Presi-
dent of the class, stands beside Class Secretary Pat Roberts as she holds the
class annual. Sylvia Head and Mayor Ronnie McWaters are the other two
committee members.
ing in conjunction to make this a
regular event and the public is invited
free of charge
For further information con-
cerning the game reviews or mem-
bership to the Cleveland Athletic
Booster Club please call 592-1819 or
592-8065
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Bolin, Roy. Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 72, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 5, 1981, newspaper, September 5, 1981; Cleveland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1190109/m1/1/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Austin Memorial Library.