De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 115, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 4, 2006 Page: 1 of 14
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DeLeon Police Chief Retires
• Approved a six months vari-
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Hutchins, D.O. from courtesy to recently that cattle thieves are tinues, Fuquay said there are some
have had the honor of working
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DeLeon
Account
Established
for Clyde
Brinson
Comanche County in complying cial road map adopted by the
with the requirements oT a new Commissioners Court in a public
was no one he could call a suspect
at this time, the Sheriff's Office
was “looking at several different
• Approved a street light
placement between 1164 and 1208
A beneficial account has been
established at Rnt National
Bank of DeLeon for Clyde
Brinaon, Commhaioner of
Precinct 4, and HaeOdef.
the citizens of DeLeon.
I am proud of the role I
May 4,2
14 Pages
Free Press
Unveils
New Web Site
deleonfreepress.com now
online
By JERRY MORGAN
Editor
Subscribers and everyone
title.
Selection of the Jury of View
Ten county residents were
1981.
Bass said, “If the County
department, ndding the city of
almost 50 dilapidated buildings
and other projects. (See Page 2)
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rule.
Mail sacks are labeled with a
particular zip code and are for-
warded to the appropriate post
By LAURA KESTNER
Associate Editor
DeLeon Police Chief Gary
Morphew announced Thursday ly.
night, during the regularly sched-
NEW SIDEWALK LIGHTS DOWNTOWN. The replacement of DeLeon's sidewalks downtown JURY OF VIEW SWEARING-IN. Jury of View nominees are standing and swearing an oath
is progressing rapidly. Here we see one of several new old-time styled sidewalk lamps that of service last Wednesday morning prior to selection of the five-member panel which heard
have recently been installed on the new sidewalks. Others are visible down the street.
New Postal Rule Will Delay
Newspaper Deliveries to
Some Subscribers
By GARY MORPHEW
After several weeks of dis-
Investigator for the Comanche people.” cussion it has become apparent
I While the investigation con- that I no longer have the support of
the Mayor and City Council. No
Chief can effectively manage a
police agency without that sup-
port. As a result, I have chosen to
announce my retirement effective
articles and see some of our pho- ahons concerning county roads
tographs each week on the inter-
net
deleonfreepKss.com is the
address for our new web site that is
available for all to see without
charge or signup. Visitors to our
earlier web site will now be redi-
rected to our new location.
meeting and invocation. Chief McCrory, M.D. to emergency
Executive Officer Evan Moore surgery privileges only.
introduced Shannon Steigleder, (SeePage6)
RN., as the hospital's new Chief
Nursing Officer. Steigleder came
to CCMC from Wilford Hall
Medical Center in San Antonio
where she had extensive operating
room experience.
Moore said that Steigleder is a
professional barrel racer in addi-
tion to being a nurse with a
Masters in Healthcare
Administration. Moore said that
die would be working three days a
week until she can get her home in
San Antonio sold and a home with
The Booed soon adjourned
Early Voting
Underway in
DeLeon
Early voting is underway in
DeLeon and will continue until
May 9.
Early voters can cast their
ballots at DeLeon City Hall, in the
Council chambers. For May 4, the
hours are 8 to 5; May 5, 8-8; May
8, 8-5; and May 9,8-8. The elec-
tion is scheduled for May 13.
In the City elections, four
people have filed for Mayor:
Danny Owen, Gayle Stroud, J.J.
Garza and Michael John
Richardson. For Council Place I,
Roy Dale Freeman and Howard
Gifford, the incumbent have filed.
Both Joe Canterbury and Norma
Locke have filed for Council Place
2. Marion Quade and Avery
Carlisle have both filed for
Council Place 4, a one-year term.
Day Ion Whitehurst and Larry
Don Womack, both incumbents,
are running unopposed for the
three-year term positions on the
DISD Board of Trustees. One
position for a one year term drew
four applicants: Chet Atkins,
Raymond “Junior'' Gerth, Kellie
Sparger and Allen Stone.
George Bingham, the incum-
bent faces no opposition for the
position for a four-year term repre-
senting Comanche County on the
Middle Trinity Groundwater
Conservation Distnct board
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By JERRY MORGAN Stephenville
Editor Subscribers in outlying areas.
The U.S. Postal Service including most of those in the
issued a rule in January which major metropolitan areas of Texas,
takes effect on May 11 that will will likely experience slower and
affect all periodicals mailers, less predictable delivery schedules
newspapers included, and will beginning next week,
have the effect of delaying the
delivery of many newspapers.
De Leon
Free® Press...
CCMC Reports Continued
Improvement in Operations
Possible Sale of Old DeLeon Nursing Home Facility
By JERRY MORGAN into executive session for medical
Editor peer review. Following the return
VAN DYKE -- The Board of to public session, the Board acted
Directors of the Comanche County to accept the recommendations of
Consolidated Hospital District the medical staff to grant consult-
held its regular monthly meeting ing medical staff privileges to
on Tuesday, April 25, at the Walter D. Harper, D.O., to change
Comanche County Medical the status of Larry Bragg, M.D.
Center. All Board members were from active to courtesy medical
present for the relatively brief staff, to change the status of Jeffrey County"Sheriff’s Office, reported
Sheriff’s Office Investigating
Stolen Cattle
By LAURA KESTNER
Associate Editor
Duanne Fuquay,
than two hour executive session by
the council.
“Based on current circum-
stances and actions, and require-
ments and things we’ve been dis- members:
cussing," Morphew said, “I wish to • Tabled a request by Chastity
go ahead and retire from the police Lopez to manage the city pool for
department...my duties being 2006 because there had been an
stopped after this meeting. I would additional bid. and the bid deadline
ask that you’d make my official is May 5.
final last day, the end of the pay
period.”
Councilman Howard Gifford N. McKinney Street, for safety
made a motion to "accept Chief reasons. The request for the light
meeting except for Gale Easley.
Following the opening o£(he active staff and change Beau active again in Comanche County, safety measures that cattle owners
T’m working one case that can take.
involves the far northwestern cor- 'The most useful thing that
ner of the county,” Fuquay said, people can do is brand their cows,”
“and then I’ve got other cases that Fuquay said. “Ear tags are very. May 7, 2006.
involve the southwestern part of very easy to take off, and I can't My police career began
the county. There was a lady who use an ear tag number to find almost 37 years ago in 1969 and 1
went to feed her cows, last week, stolen cattle. The only thing that I
who found five of them penned- can use for that is the brand, or if I with many fine people and several
up. I imagine someone planned to have the name of the person who exceptional police departments,
come beck for them.” sold it. which, of course, in most However, many of my most trea-
According to Fuquay, that has cases. I'm not going to. Right now, sured memories will be of the sup-
been standard operating procedure the cases that we've got are mostly port and friendship of so many of
for thieves in the past unbrapded calves. It seems like
“The last group of cattle they’re pretty good at cutting out
thieves we had, were in the habit of unbranded stock, from the branded played in getting the new animal
going and penning them up. and ones, »o everybody needs to go out shelter built, remodeling the police
coming back for them later at and brand everything they've got.”
night,” he said.
Although Riquay said there
Some subscribers, those who
live in smaller Texas cities or in
The new rule requires that other states where there are few
mail sacks contain a minimum of others in their zip code who sub-
24 newspapers. Prior to May 11, scribe to this newspaper, will like-
mail sacks could contain as few as ly not see any impact from the rule
six newspapers. This week’s mail- change, since they have already
ing will be the last under the old been experiencing the lengthy,
multi-step mail processing that
will now affect more of our sub-
scribers.
The newspaper associations
office for local distribution or, to a have fought the implementation of
mail handling center for further the 24-minimum piece sack rule
processing before delivery to a for some time, however, without
local post office. success. The current battle in
Mail bags with newspapers Congress is for delivery standards
that share the same zip code are to be set and enforced.
delivered directly to the appropri- We regret the change. It will
ate post office and generally have have the effect of both delaying
more timely delivery to the sub- delivery to many of our sub-
scriber. Newspapers with different scribers outside of the local area
zip codes that are sent to mail pro- and of increasing our postage
cessing centers generally have expense, since the mailing rates for
slower and more sporadic home bags with multiple zip codes is
delivery results. higher.
Newspaper subscribers in the We are prepared to receive
local area may not be affected by inquiries and complaints from our
the new rule, since there are more subscribers, but are placed in the
than 24 newspapers contained in unfortunate position of being
mail bags going to Comanche, unable to do anything to improve
Dublin, Gorman, Desdemona and upon the situation.
Jury of View Rules Protested Roads
to be County Maintained
By JERRY MORGAN < state law. conducted the meeting, hearing in March.
Editor The new law mandates that all Those nominated were,
COMANCHE - The County Texas counties must formally map Reginald Gill. Mac Pybum. Bill
courtroom was packed with many all public roadways that are county Blue. Bill Lane, Ryan Sides. Mark
DeLeon area residents and proper- maintained and thereby establish a Sides, Bob Huddleston. John
ty owners on Wednesday, April 26, maintenance, or proscription ease- Weaver, Carl Williams and Doyle
to witness, and in some cases to ment on the roads to which the Smith. Smith, however, never
else are now able to read selected testify, in the Jury of View deliber- county does not have formal legal answered as being present.
Bass explained that the bur-
462 and 459. Selection of the Jury of View den of proof was upon the County
At the conclusion of the Ten county residents were to show that it has maintained the
almost three hour proceedings, the nominated, two each from the protested roadways since prior to
protesters were disappointed when precincts of the four County
the Jury of View ruled that the two Commissioners and two additional
roads were indeed county main- county residents by the County establishes that to the satisfaction
tained roads. Judge, as potential members for a of the Jury of View, the road would
Attorney Bob Bass, who had Jury of View which would review be retained in the County mainte-
In addition to articles from been hired to represent and assist the protests filed regarding the offi- nance inventoiy.
the current week’s edition, site vis-
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archives of selected articles and
photos from earlier weeks as well.
Our archives section currently
doesn't go back very far since our
web site has only recently been
developed, however, in time it will
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Morphew’s retirement” with a sec- was placed on the agenda by
ond by John Holdridge. The Ronald Hammon, who provided
motion was approved unanimous- the names of several other like-
minded McKinney Street resi
When reached by telephone dents.
uled City Council meeting, Monday, Mayor Jim Adams said
Thursday, April 27, his intention to the City had “already started ance, for Mayor Jim Adams, on
retire, effective immediately. advertising for a Police Chief’ in ordinance # 013-04. “What this
The announcement came various papers, but that no acting pertains to,” Mayor Adams said,
immediately following a more chief had been appointed. “is that I’ve sold my house. We’re
Morphew issued a statement tearing down the house on the cor-
that appears elsewhere in the ner of Bell and Reynosa.
paper. (See Page 5)
In other business, council ----------------------------------
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Morgan, Jerry. De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 115, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 4, 2006, newspaper, May 4, 2006; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1244452/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.