The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1988 Page: 2 of 10
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Nocona, Texas, June !•, IMS
County okays new
ambulance subsidy
west of Illinois Bend
its No. 1
Happy 25th
Ambulance
Bridge options listed
warrant the
REWARD
JPs receive some
A map prepared by the Texas Highway Depart-
ment shows some of the possible crossings along
the Red River. Oklahoma has proposed a site
“preferred alternate’’ bridge site.
He explained that the existing
county road reaching almost to the
river “there is a reduced potential
for impact to undisturbed ar-
chaeological material."
Alternate B is the second
preference followed, in Hartley’s
opinion, by Site V, Site Iv, Site III,
Site II-B and Site II-A (listed as the
worst alternate).
Dale Cantrell, District Design
Engineer in Wichita Falk, said the
opinions of the local residents will
play a large roll in which site the
Texas officiak propose.
As far as the cost of building a
farm to market road from Illinois
Bend to FM 2953 northeast of the
Lake Nocona Dam, Cantrell said,
“Austin has checked it off."
He went on to explain that in the
opinion of Engineer-Director
Robert Stoltzer and others in the
Austin office, the traffic and other
one of its three certified attendants
and critically injured a second.
Seay told the court he has asked
both the city of Nocona and the
Nocona Hospital District to con-
tribute monthly allotments to help
subsidize the Nocona-based service.
Montague County has been sub-
sidizing Bowie’s and Saint Jo’s am-
bulance services for almost 10
years.
Woods has met with dty and
hospital officiak.
“Jerry has been more than open
with us, sharing his books so we can
understand what is happening,"
W.R. Tucker, president of the
Hospital Board, said after the com-
missioners’ action Monday.
“We will take it up at our next
meeting (June 21),” he said.
Blankenship used population
figures of 5,818 for Bowie, 3,206
for Nocona and 1,071 for Saint Jo
and the current monthly subsidies
Love,
Glenna, Ted,
Matt, Lisa,
Wil, Wes, Sid,
Debbie, Peggy,
PawPaw, Sue
& Frances
By Tracy R. Mesler
MONTAGUE - In a split vote,
county commissioners approved a
H55 a month subsidy to Jerry
Woods Ambulance Service for con-
tinued emergency services in nor-
thern Montague County.
Comm. Bud Blankenship of
Saint Jo cast the lone vote against
the subsidy explaining he felt it was
out-of-line with existing subsidies to
McCoy Funeral Home of Saint Jo
and the Bowie-Montague Am-
bulance Service.
"I think it should have been
discussed in Commissioners Court
and decided before being offered,”
Blankenship criticized.
"Bud,” Seav responded. "I feel
like it’s in comparison (to Bowie
and Saint Jo). In fact, I whittled it
down $150 a month."
The action brings to a head an
issue that has been left unanswered
since Scott-Morris Funeral Home
withdraw ambulance service in
January following a fatal accident
that destroyed its ambulance, killed
Continued from Page 1
of Illinois Bend.
Alternate B lies a mile and a half
east of Alternate A.
On May 12, John Hanley,
ODOT Dept. Archaeologist, wrote
J.D. Henry, planning director for
ODOT and the chairman of the
planning for the bridge.
Hartley and Dr. Roben Brooks,
state archaeologist, made a wind-
shield inspection of the six sites
(four Texas and two Oklahoma
proposak).
Site II is a major concern to Dr.
Brooks because of the numerous,
documented Indian encampments
on the Oklahoma side of the river.
Potential archeological problems
exist at all other sites, according to
Dr. Brooks and Hartley, although
none of the others have been
thoroughly investigated.
Hartley ranks Alternate A as the
Continued from Page 1
"Howard’s opinion is,” Mc-
Cracken stated, “he’d like to see
both funeral homes drop out of the
ambulance service and see the city,
hospital or the county operate it.”
Asked how long Woods would
continue to operate, Harakon told
Gibbs, “He said he would not leave
u? in a hole ... as long as he can af-
ford (to operate) it.”
“PeeWee,” Gibbs replied, "for
20 years he affored it with competi-
tion without a subsidy.”
“If they’ve been doing it for 25
years without losing money, how
come all at once they are loosing
money?” Mayor Mary Lee Nix
asked.
Seay explained he pushed the
commissioners court to approve the
subsidy in hopes of avoiding
lengthy delays while each governing
body waited for the other to move
first.
The council first tied 2-2 to table
the matter, then after more discus-
sion, Kelly McNabb amended his
motion to table the matter until
of $1,200 for Bowie and $200 for
Saint Jo to recommend a monthly
subsidy of $662 for Nocona's ser-
vice.
Seay’s motion to set the figure at
$855 a month was approved 4-1
with Blankenship casting the lone,
negative vote.
Blankenship predicted that Bowie
and Saint Jo would quickly return
asking for additional support on a
per capita basis.
Thanks for the
help, but more
lids needed
Thank you to the ladies that
brought plastic lids by The News of-
fice for Cub Scout Camp.
We really appreciate them, but
we sure could use a lot more! Camp
will see 400 boys this summer, and
we need one lid per boy!
Possible Site
located 3 miles
preference.
design considerations
added cost of paving the 9-plus
miles of county roadway.
"It will be expensive,” Cantrell
said. "Any Farm to Market paving
in northeastern Montague County
will be more expensive (than other
areas).”
Stoltzer said any suggestions to
extend FM 3301 from Nocona Hilk
up to FM 2953 should be con-
sidered ' * under the normal FM pro-
gram.”
District 8 is in the process of
preparing to take bids on its
1987-88 Farm to Market Road Pro-
gram, a $1,067,00 series of road-
way constructions, in Cooke,
Wichita and Young Counties.
The 1989-90 allocation will be set
in early 1989 with the District office
approaching area County Commis-
sioners’ Courts for their requests.
"I think the commissioners
courts should be thinking about
what they’re (county paviqgj
priorities are,” Cantrell suggested^
Stacks said in May that he would Woods appears before the council.
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MONTAGUE - Both Justices
of the Peace received approval
Monday to hire temporary help.
Bob Biter will be able to hire so-
meone for a total of 48 hours of
work, at $5 per hour, to help catch
up on a burgening
docket.
Nocona's two banks
to filing a significant
small claims cases to settle unpaid
loans.
Biter said he already filed more
than 50 such suits, with 25 more
waiting to be filed and one bank
saying it had another 25-30 waiting.
The additional help will allow all
of the cases to be filed, judgments
entered and all of the necessary
documents to be typed.
JP Olie Carriker asked for tem-
porary full-time help for 15-1/2
weeks during a special DPS traffic
enforcement program along U.S.
Hwy. 287.
Carriker told the court that his
paperwork load had virtually doubl-
ed, due in most part to the special
enforcement.
Under a federally funded grant,
the DPS is putting 12 additional of-
ficers on 287 between Fort Worth
and Wichita Falk each weekend to
slow down traffic. As a result, Car-
riker is seeing additional speeding
tickets being filed in his court.
"We’U see your (monthly cash
receipts) report double next month,
won’t we?” asked Co. Comm.
consider extending FM 3301
“among the top” Farm to Market
priorities in his 11-county district.
But, as Cantrell, stressed,
whether or not the Montague
County Commissioners Court
ranks it as the top priority in the
county may be another matter.
The 3301 extension would in-
volve 4.5-miles of paving.
Two other Farm to Market Road
projects are ako being suggested as
companion projects with
Oklahoma's proposed Alternate A
or B sites. Both, Cantrell said,
would be handled in “the usual FM
Program.”
One would be 3 miles of paved
roadway from where the FM 2953
pavement ends and an existing
county road extends northward to
FM 103 in Spanish Fort, crossing
Farmers Creek.
The other would be a totally new
roadway connecting Capps Comer
and Bulcher, in northwestern
Cooke County. There is no exkting
roadway ther.
Cantrell said he had preliminary
cost projections on the Illinois
Bend-FM 2953 roadway, “it's an
expensive project," he added. But
he did not have any cost projections
on the three companion Farm to
Market Road projects.
Milton Hopkins after the court ap-
proved the $3,120 expenditure.
Co. Auditor Brenda Milligan
said after the court session that
Monday's additional appropria-
tions for ambulance service in
Nocona, and the help for the two
J P’s had used $5,800 of the
county’s $15,000 budgetary reserve
for the current fiscal year.
“If we have a major expenditure
or disaster, we won’t be able to
cover it,” she said.
As of Monday, all of the various
departments are expected to remain
within their budgeted allotments for
the fiscal year. But she noted it
would be tight as the county has
very little in the way of reserves to
cover any emergencies.
In other action Monday:
•Commissioners approved a
change in the wording of the coun-
ty’s contract with the Texas Dept,
of Human Services for facilities and
services in the county. The same
amount of money will be spent.
•Heard requests from the two
senior citizens centers for $6,000 a
year for each of them in county
financial support.
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Mesler, Tracy R. & Mesler, Linda L. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1988, newspaper, June 16, 1988; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1209526/m1/2/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.