De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1990 Page: 2 of 8
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Editor - Gayle E. Wilkerson
Managing Editor - Cindy Beaty
Assistant Editor - Glenda Wilkerson
Staff Photographer - Ronald Wilkerson
Smith,
Edna
(Week January 8-12)
Breakfast
Monday- Cereal, fruit, milk, juices
Tuesday- Sausage, biscuit, milk,
office in Comanche will be in De
Leon at the city offices for local
residents to renew car license tags.
milk
Wednesday- Oatmeal, toast, juice,
milk
Thursday- Quick cake, fruit, milk
Friday- French toast, fried ham,
juice, milk
Residents at the lake heard the
boys’ cries for help and were not
able to assist, as boats were either
iced in or had been removed from
the lake for the winter.
Volunteers searched for the boys
Wednesday night and on Thursday.
Funeral services for the pair were
held Saturday at the First United
Methodist Church in Eastland.
Hours are from 8:30 a.m. until 4
p.m.
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Leon the second Tuesday of each
month for the convenience of
residents in this part of the county.
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The De Leon Free Press, P. O. Box 320, De Leon, Texas 76444 (Publication
No. 150000) is published weekly every Thursday at 304 South Texas, De Leon,
Texas 76444. Second Class Postage Paid at De Leon, Texas 76444.
rationally they
discussed the situation and came up
the Lone Star State.
“ ‘The Friendship State’ may not
be so far off after all,” said J. Don
Clark, director of the highway
department’s Travel and
Information Division, after seeing
results of the division’s 1989 Auto
Visitor Survey.
When visitors to the department’s
12 Travel Information Centers were
asked what they enjoyed about
Texas, “friendliness” was the
number-one answer, Clark noted.
Although Texans rejected a proposal
last summer to promote their
friendly attitude on license plates,
Friday, January 5- Swiss steak,
cauliflower, cheese sauce, cheese
sticks, pineapple & carrot jello,
cherry cobbler, green beans, milk,
bread, butter
Monday, January 8- Beef liver &
onions, golden carrots, plain tossed
salad/grated cheese, mustard
greens, chocolate cake w/vanilla
icing, milk, bread, butter
Wednesday, January 10- Chicken
fried steak, cream gravy, mashed
potatoes, mixed vegetables, cran-
apple tapioca w/peaches, roll,
butter, milk
Two Eastland Youths
Die In
Boating Accident
The bodies of two Eastland High to them and they answered.
James Gray, Natalie Hall, Armenia School football players were found in
Mereles, inf. male Mereles, Laura Lake Leon Thursday afternoon after
Harger a boat carrying three people
December 23- Geneva Brown, capsized Wednesday evening while
Alvarene Barker, Floyd Gilbert,
Tom Johnson
December 24- Geneva Fronk
December 25- Letha Smith
December 26- Agnes Dowdy, Joe
Ormsby, Joe Gutterrez, Stanton
Carr
December 27- Arietta Plaunty,
Kathy Loy, Veronica Salinas, John
Corbell, Lena Boone, Lonnie Craig,
Lewis Merworth, Addie Bell, Allene
Box, Ida Lewis, Lois Robertson
December 28- Lavada Cox, Sam ___________________________________
Boatman, Varona Taylor, Dorothy was aiso involved in the school’s
agriculture program. Bowles also
played on the baseball team and
’ Nicholson qualified for regional golf
last year.
Mannke was able to swim to shore
after the boat capsized, carrying on
his back a Labrador Retriever that
was in the boat. The dog is reported
to have carried a duck in its mouth
all the way to the shore. Marlinna McClellan
The other two boys were about 25 Melanie Wilson.
yards from shore and Mannke called
VISITORS VALUE
TEXAS
FRIENDLINESS
“they apparently lived the slogan,
impressing their guests with good
humor and helpfulness,” Clark
added.
Scenery, good highwaysm and
Texas food all ranked high, too,
among the 3% million visitors to the
Travel Information Centers.
People who come to Texas are
staying longer than their
counterparts last year, the survey
shows, with average stays up six
percent over 1988. “This shows that
the state continues to provide
additional recreational, historical,
and entertainment facilities that
extend the visitors’
experience,” Clark said.
Nowlin, Charley Boswell, Stephanie
Fair, Curtis Whitt, Lance
Lampman, Jayton Fair, John
Spencer, Nicky Wilkerson, Brad
Dyson, Misty Wilkerson, Ryan
Sides, Wesley Hargus, Sally Smith,
Kelly Nowlin, Shane Stone, Dayva
Abbey.
Yorkshires- Corey Hammon,
Keith Hammon, Jeremy Spencer,
Matt Sparger, William Skaggs,
Mary Hrivnak, Pete Harris
DAIRY HEIFERS
Marlinna
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De Leon, Texas 76444-0320.
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Saturday, January 6, 1990
8:00 to 12:00 p.m. East Hwy. 6
De Leon, Texas
PUBLIC WELCOME TO ATTEND
Thursday, January 4,1990
TAX ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR
REPRESENTATIVE
HERE TUESDAY
Tuesday, January 9, a
representative from the Comanche
County Tax Assessor-Collector’s
Lewis, Alice Snider
December 24- Sarah Williams,
Winifred Stacy
December 25- Ruby Barton, Sam
Boatman, Stanton Carr
December 26- Vasco Stephens, ------j-----. t,
Otis Gilbert, Lillie Brock, Lois does not go unnoticed by visitors to
Robertson, Agnes Dowdy, A.T.
Boen, Ixinnie Craig
December 27- Ervin Hinkleman,
Gladys Barron, Judy Bingham, inf.
female Bingham, Gladys Carruth,
Lonnie Craig, Lewis Merworth, Lee
Holdridge, Ida Frazier, Mildred
Ehrhardt, Lewie Merworth
December 28- Kelly Smith, inf.
male Smith, Vivian Hughes, Bealice
Williford, I. W. Keith, Bettye Cox,
Wilma Logan, Dorothy Bums.
December 29- Adell Powell
DISMISSED
December 18- Ida Lewis
December 19- Alice Callison,
Letha Smith, Willie E. Koonce
December 20- Clarence Pell,
Jackie Clawson, Raymond George
December 21- Marcy Davis, Nona
Bond, Lynn Butler, Lena Boone
December 22- George Logan,
LaDora Carter, Darlene Nelms,
for several years as election judge.
She is survived by a son, James D.
Daniell of Liberty Hill, Texas; a
daughter, Mary Maude Daniell of
Fort Worth; two grandsons, Parker
Daniell of Washington, D.C., and
Greg Daniell of Austin.
Memorials may be made to
Parent’s Association for the
Retarded of Texas, P.O. Box 9733,
Austin, Texas 78766
BEULAH ELLIOTT
Beulah Elliott, 85, died Sunday,
December 31,1989, at the Comanche
fiospital.
Services were at 2 p.m. Monday at
Comanche Funeral Home Chapel,
Birial was in Oakwood Cemetery.
Bom in Fannin County, she was a
longtime resident of Comanche and
was a homemaker.
She was the widow of Bill Elliott,
who died in 1977.
Survivors include two sons,
Rochelle Elliott of Comanche and
Donald Elliott of Tucson, Ariz.; six
grandchildren; and seven great-
grandchildren.
Workers9 Comp Reforms
Seen Helping
Small Business
Newly passed workers’
compensation reforms, recently
attacked by trial lawyers and labor
union officials as doing nothing to
help small-business owners, were
praised by the head of the state’s
largest small-business advocacy
group.
The reform package, passed in the
special legislative session recently,
“gives small-business owners many
new opportunities to cut their
workers’ compensation insurance
costs,” said Robert Stluka,
legislative director for the 45,000-
member state chapter of the
National Federation of Independent
Business.
Stluka said workers and
businesses both big and small stand
to benefit from the wide-ranging
The tempering process for a
nwovc, plumber is a demanding discipline.
Michael They’ve got to be gritty enough to
look nature’s coldest moods smack
Bums, Alice Snider, Willie E.
Koonce
December 29- DaSha Beaty,
Nerine Neel, Winifred Stacy
In an effort to find cancers at the ______
earliest possible stage and prevent Morris, Jody Johnson'
unnecessary deaths, a Mobile
Breast Cancer Detection Unit will be
made available to local women on
Thursday, January 18.
The mobile unit will be parked at
De Leon Hospital, 407 S. Texas, and
appointments may be made by
calling 893-2011.
For more information, call the
Regional Breast Care Center at
Women’s & Children’s Hospital at
(915) 334-8888/561-9999.
reform package when it takes effect
at the start of 1991. He singled out
three reforms as being especially
helpful to small-business owners,
who have been struggling to keep
up with large insurance price hikes:
’Small firms in the same type of
business can pool their resources to
offer self-insured coverage for
workers.
•Insurers will be able to offer
“deductible” provisions, much like
auto insurance policies, in which the
employer pays initial claims costs
out of pocket.
•Small firms going a year without
any lost-time claim get an automatic
10 percent premium discount, and a
15 percent discount for a two-year
record free of lost-time
claims.
a pretty good shower in these parts.
As a matter of fact, we got 13 inches
in a single downpour. _
Steve Singleton and Roger George gurgle, the temperature stood at 18
were tooling around town in a brand degrees, and conditions were not
spanking new Chevy, and they were improving.
They reached shore, wetter than
ADMITTED
December 18- Joe Ormsby, Ida
Lewis, Letha Smith, Willie Koonce
December 19- Nora Pittman,
Geneva Fronk, Letha
Alvarene Barker, Willie
Koonce, Raymond George
December 20- Dorothy Bums,
Armenia Mereles, inf. male
Mereles, Kathy Loy, Marcy Davis,
Lena Boone
December 21- Floyd Gilbert,
Nerine Neel, Jane Inez Craig, James
Gray, Lavada Cox, Geneva Brown,
Lena Boone, Joe Fox Nona Bond,
Laura Harger, Allene Box
December 22- Varona Taylor, Joe
Gutierrez, Veronica Salinas, Eula
Wells, LaDora Carter, Tom Johnson
December 23- Themla Dyson,
Mary Jobe, Malechi Helm, Elva
fruit, milk, cheeseburger basket
hamburger basket, chef’s salad,
nachos/cheese, baked potatoes
Friday- Fish nuggets, fries, fruit,
milk, cheeseburger basket,
hamburger basket, chefs salad,
nachos/cheese, baked potatoes
Monday- Burrito, Mexicom,
buttered carrots, yellow cake, milk
Tuesday- Pizza w/meat topping,
combination salad, mixed
vegetables, apple crisp, milk
Wednesday- Enchilada
Mexibeans. carrot
cornbread, jello, milk
Thursday- Chicken fried steak,
cream gravy, mashed potatoes,
cheese biscuits, chilled fruit, milk
Friday- Cheeseburger on a bun,
lettuce, tomato, French fries,
pickles, fresh fruit, milk
duck hunting.
A third Eastland player, Bryan
Mannke, 14, swam to shore. He was
treated at Eastland Memorial
Hospital and released.
Aaron Bowles, 15, and Brad
Nicholson, 17, drowned in the
accident.
All three played football-
Nicholson was a junior who played
end and linebacker; Bowles, a
sophomore, played quarterback;
and Mannke was a linebacker. Each
water arteries that tend to rupture their scant accumulation of years.
*' Steve crept back through the open j
rates often approach those of brain window, crawled inside, turned the
surgeons, but when you really need lights off and pocketed the keys.
their services-they’re worth it. Roger, meanwhile, seated himself
Hydrophobia, the fear of water, is on the deck and pulled his brand new
completely missing from the boots from his feet. He didn’t plan
plumber’s makeup, and this is the on getting them full of water on the
account of how one of ours trip to the bank. Nossir, he flung
originated. them new kicks with gusto toward
Back in November of 1964, it come land. Alas, they did not make it, and
promptly sank to a watery demise.
They were in water well over six
feet deep, the car had begun to i
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streets. They decided they’d motor drowned rats and set out at a dead (
(Week January 8-12)
Breakfast
Monday- Assorted
buttered toast, juice, milk __. ..
Tuesday- Sausage, biscuits, fruit, juices
Wednesday- Hot cakes, milk,
juices
Thursday- Cinnamon roll, fruit,
milk, juices
Friday- Oats, biscuit, milk, juices
Lunch
Monday- Ham & cheese sandwich,
fries, fruit, milk, cheeseburger
basket, hamburger basket, Burrito,
chef’s salad, baked potatoes,
nachos/cheese
Tuesday- Chili dog, fries, fruit,
milk, cheeseburger basket,
hamburger basket, com dog, chefs
salad, baked potatoes,
nachos/cheese
Wednesday- Cheeseburger basket,
hamburger basket, com dog, chefs
salad, nachos/cheese, baked
potatoes
Thursday- Fried chicken, fries.
THELMA COLLIE DANIELL
Thelma Collie Daniell, 86,
longtime resident of De Leon died
December 26, 1989. in an Austin
nursing home.
Funeral services were held at
11:00 aJn. Thursday in Nowlin
Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev.
Charles McClure officiating. Music
was provided by Dottie Hare. Burial
was in De Leon Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Mike Hare, Bill
Lindsey, W.C. Holdridge, Sam
Weaver, Jim Bob Wofford, and
Deral Brown. Al Strasner was
honorary pallbearer.
The daughter of J. T. and Amanda
Brown Collie was born in Scranton,
Texas,on February 28,1903. She was
married in De Aeon on September
26, 1926 to Dewey Daniell who
preceded her in death on May 9,
1984. She was a homemaker and a
member of the First United
Methodist Church in De Leon,
Chapter 693 Order of Eastern Star,
De Leon Shakespeare Club, and De
Leon Hospital Auxiliary. She served
BREEDING BEEF HEIFERS
Toby Estrada, Andrea Robinett.
MARKET LAMBS
Chris Pounds, Cristal Koonce,
Melissa Whisenant, 1-------
Whisenant, Shannon Hargreaves,
Brandy Moore (two), j
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Callison (two), Shane Fuller, Monty during frigid spells. Their hourly
Newton, Kendall Barnes, Terra
Bames (two), Junior Gerth, Amy
Farley (two), Bryan Morris,
FINEWOOL
Valerie Banda, Cristal Koonce
SOUTHDOWN
Kendall Bames
BREEDING SHEEP
Cristal Koonce (two), Shane
Fuller.
MARKETSTEERS'
Charolais- Cristal Koonce
Angus- Josh Mahan
Hereford- Josh Mahan, Brent
Babbitt, Craig Mahan
American Cross- Jackson Johnson
Exotic- Corey Keith, Brent
Babbitt, Jason Brinson, Craig
Mahan
out to Proctor Lake and check the run for civilization.
water level. “I’ve gotta get chains and get that
They were, no doubt, marvelling car out before Dad finds out!” Steve
at the performance of that new car, chattered.
owned by Steve’s dad, and odds are, Roger, barefooted, couldn’t keep
the radio was operating at its his mind on the sunken vehicle. He
maximum decibel level as they was taking note of the gravelled
launched that heartbeat of composition of the road and not
America into a body of water that having a real good time
had expanded well beyond their Two miles down the road, they
expectations. found a house with lights, and after
They lost traction and were lengthy negotiations were allowed *
amazed to behold fifty feet of water inside. They were an unnerving
between the back bumper and land, spectacle to be sure, and the fellow
The doors would not open. They that let them in eyed them warily as j
were held firmly in a vise of water, they placed calls to parents.
and the car would not respond to any It took a skin diver, warmer |
gear. Reverse, of course, was most temperatures and a winch truck to
requested, but the car was well reclaim the car, but Roger’s boots
beyond traction. were lost forever.
Cautiously, Roger and Steve rolled If there was a mess of fish in the
down the windows and clambered car, history makes no record of it
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Wilkerson, Gayle E. De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1990, newspaper, January 4, 1990; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1247735/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.