Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 72, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 7, 1979 Page: 1 of 17
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statewide notaries public by a
smaller 284 to 247 margin.
Voters in the county re-
jected legislative review of
and for harvest at specifically
the right time for the myriad
’ of tedious research on the 690-
acre Center.
“There’s about 200 peanut
plots, a hundred grass plots
with specific fertilizer tests,
another 50 varieties of alfalfa
specific needs
because it isn’t
notaries public statewide in-
stead of county-by-county,
garnered 65 percent of the
vote in late returns.
Voters rejected Proposition
2, which would have granted
the Legislature the veto
power, by a 52 percent to 47
percent margin. Proposition 3,
aimed at preserving family
farms through a ,10 million
state bond program, seemed
destined for passage with 54
percent of the vote favorable.
At 12:20 a.m. today, with 252
of 254 counties reporting, 240
complete, the results were
Proposition 1 — 283,266 for,
149,654 against; Proposition 2
- 202,699 for, 221,760 against;
Proposition 3 — 233,552 for,
196,928 against
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Police officer Jack Bennett,
Myers’ partner at the time of
the incident, said he didn’t see
Myers hit Brannon, but that
Myers and Brannon struggled
and Bennett said he assisted in
the handcuffing of Brannon
outside the station. Bennett
said he saw Myers head snap
November 7,1979
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loan guarantee program for
young farmers - by a 308 to 224
favored two proposed con- margin. They also favored
situttonal amendments and
rejected a third.
County voters passed Pro-
position 3 - a $10 million farm
I bought the place. Been on it ,
some 16 years."
Although successful as a
peanut farmer, a domestic
pinch from four school-age
daughters prompted Knauf to
seek off-fann employment for
extra income.
“Dan had permitted us to
establish an off-station
research field plot on his farm
at Tolar, and had worked
closely in cooperation with our
some doubt on the defense’s
case, albeit small, while cross
examining deputy jailer
Vinetta Davis. Mrs. Davis was
the jailer on duty when Bran-
non was jailed. /
territory was all west of the L ;
Mississippi,’’ Knauf said. "So, responsibility
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"If we need something
special for our research plots
and it isn't available,"
Newman said, "Dan just
makes it."
“Gotta'' credit my grand-
father, 1 suppose, with my
mechanical instincts,” Knauf
of defense attorney Joe Bruce
Cunningham’s questions
under direct examination.
Earlier, Pradoor had ended
the questioning of his
witnesses.
Under questioning from
Cunningham, Myers told the
seven man, five woman jury
that he didn’t think he had us-• back, but didn’t actually see
ed too much force in suhduiqg Brannon strike Myers. Ben-
nett said Brannon was still
struggling with the two of-
ficers as he was handcuffed.
Both officers testified they
didn’t know Brannon had suf-
fered an abrasion on his
forehead until after he was
booked at the county jail. Both
testified Brannon didn’t have
trouble walking into the jail.
Bennett and Myers both
agreed that right before Bran-
non reportedly struck Myers,
Brannon shouted “I’m not go-
ing to take this kind of rough
house 8... from you”. Bennett
said he didn’t know why Bran-
non made the statement
because. Bennett said, neither
officer had pushed or shoved
Brannon in leaving the police
station building. Myers will
probably be asked about Bran-
non’s statement by Pradoor
Wednesday morning.
Pradoor may have shed
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CROSS TIMBER&-BASBP-* Mostly cloudy
with chance of ram this aftrenoon, tonight and
Thursday. Little warmer tonight and Thur*
sday. High today near 60; low tonight 43. High
Thursday 63; winds southerly 10 to 15 m^h.
Probability of rain 30 percent through
Thursday. High Tuesday 61, low 36.
state agencies' rulemaking by
a solid margin of 334 votes
against to only 193 votes |n
favor.
The farm loan guarantee
program had large margins in
the rural precincts but fell into
trouble at the Stephenville
’ polling place as the proposal
lost by three votes in the city.
The statewide notaries pro-
position lost in all but the
Dublin and Stephenville
precincts. But, the voters in
the urban precincts cast
enough ballots to offset the
rural opposition.
Only Bluff Dale and Dublin
voters favored legislative
review.
Proponents of a Proposition x
1, which would appoint
Cunningham had' Mrs.
Davis testify about comments
made by Brannon while he
was in jail. The comments,
recorded in a personal log by
Mrs. Davis, were that Bran-
non said, “HI hadn’t been
drinking, this wouldn’t have
happened’’. Mrs. Davis
testified, under Cunningham’s
questioning, that she made the
notations in her log as soon as
possible after Brannon made
the comments.
Pradoor, after examining
the notes, asked why, of all the
notes taken, were Brannon’s
comments recorded out of
order. She agreed his com-
ments, which she testified
were verbatim, were recorded
four or five hours after they
occurred. Pradoor also ques-
tioned the comments validity
because of the four days of
notes submitted by Mrs.
Davis, Pradoor said none of
the other notes taken were
similar to the comments at-
tributed to Brannon.
Thursday
Erath County Independent Cattlemens
Association, Farm Bureau Building, 7 p.m.
Music Club coffee, 881N. Rome, 10:30 a.m.
Bridge, Senior Citizens Center, 1:30 p.m.
Dance, Senidr Citizens Center, 7 p.m.
Cross Timbers Gem and. Mineral Club
meeting, Wall Art Center, Dublin, 7 p.m.
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The new service fees are:
emergency and transfer calls,
$40; oxygen use, $5; and
mileage (outside city limits)
$1.20 per mile.
The increase will bring in an
additional , $4,000, city ad-
ministrator Marshall Shelton
estimated. "We should
( gradually try to keep up the
rates,” Shelton said.
Previously, the ambulance
call fee was $25 per call.
Councilmen approved the
purchase of two small, used
pickups for the city recreation
department slid a copying
machine for city hall. The
council also authorized bids
for three police cars, a new
water circulation system for
the city swimming pool, a new
chassis for a fire truck and
turf vehicle for the park
department.
The city also cast all its
votes for Clinton’ Cox in the
Erath County Tax Apprasial
District board of directors
election. Cox had been
nominated by the city for the
post.
higher yields per acre, and i —
felt, also that spacing had in-
fluence on the crop. Fanners
morally plant 100 pounds of
seed peanuts per acre two
rows at a time. By modifying
the seed hopper from two to
six, each releases about 15
pounds per acre."
He said that, in his judg-
ment, that the canopy effect of
broadcast planting blocks out
weed growth. Hence, removal
ef the need for application of a
herbicide, which he said is a
common practice by fanners
planting rows 30 inches apart.
“And, to put it emphatical-
ly, I'm not convinced that her-
bicides benefited fields of
peanuts by controlling weeds
all that much," he added.
The encouraging factor in
Knauf's tests was that yield
was 3,630 pounds of peanuts
when broadcast, compared
with 2,200 pounds per acre
from rows planted 30 inches
apart.
Although Knauf's schedule
at home and at the Center
keeps him on the move, he still
finds time to be a father arid
carry his load in his communi-
ty - one activity being "unof-
ficial” photographer for Tolar
High School's athletic en-
counters and the high school
Yearbook. He does his own
film processing - including col-
or - and printing.
Newman pulled his fingers
through his hair, looked at
Knauf in the machine shop
and remarked, “You can’t
lose with a manlike Dan.”
Brannon. Myers said Brannon
struck him in the face while
Brannon was being led to a
patrol car for transport to the
Erath County Jail.
, Myers said he put Brannon
in a ‘full-nelson hold’ and
pushed him against a van in
front of the Stephenville police
station, the scene of the arrest
and subsequent incident.
Myers testified he ‘/wasn’t
for certain” if Brannon’s head
hit the car or not.
Brannon, who was on the
witness stand for over an hour
Tuesday morning and after-
noon, contends Myers knocked
Brannon’s head into a car.
Before Myers took the
stand, three present or former
Stephenville police officers
and a former county deputy
jailer were presented as
defense witnesses.
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And so did the farmers in
the central west Texas area it
serves.
A hulk of a man with a gen- ing,
tie approach and inventor-like maintenance,
mind, Knauf was air-borne
toward Dallas when he read a
newspaper ad that a peanut
farm was for sale near
Stephenville.
“I'd never fanned before,
but I figured most anything
would be better than being on
■ttje road and being away from explained. “He was a tool apd
home, in Florida, sometimes dyemaker for a big industrial
for two months or longer. My company when I was growing
up in Toledo, Ohio. His main
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somebddy got hurt, grand-
father would determine why,
and then modify or make
machinery which would pre-
vent further accidents.”
Knauf's primary duties,
since recent. promotion to
farm research service
manager, is all-encompassing
- to have equipment ready to
go for scientists to plow,
plant, cultivate, fertilize,
spray for bugs and diseases
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Deliberations to begin
in civil rights law suit
to peanuts profitable
people,” explained Shelby
Newman, the Center’s direc-
tor of research. “We had an
opening for a technician in our
prant pathology research to
work with Dr. B.L. Jones. We
also knew that Dan had been a
hospital technician earlier in
his career, which we felt to keep growing, and 110 acres
would qualify him for our
By JIM CRAWLEY
E-T Staff Writer
FORT WORTH --.
Deliberation will begin
Wednesday afternoon
following closing testimony in
a civil rights law suit against
police sergeant Ronnie Myers
and the city of Stephenville.
Brannon alleges Myers used
excessive force when Myers
arrested Brannon in January
on public intoxication
charges. Brannon’s suit asks
for $150,000 in damages.
As a rebuttal witness, Bran-
non claimed he did not strike
Myers, as Myers and another
officer had previously
testified. Brannon also said he
did not struggle with the of-
ficers during the incident.
Under questioning by at-
torney Charles Pradoor, Bran-
non denied making a state-
ment to a jailer saying that he
had been drinking, which the
• jailer testified to Tuesday.
District Judge Eldon Mahon
was scheduled to instruct the
jury at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday
afternoon before closing
arguments.
Tuesday’s testimony ended
with Myers answering the last
Dan Knauf is a reassuring
example that switching
careers doesn’t necessarily
issue a passport to profes-
sional disaster.
Knauf, 46, is a phar-
maceutical salesman turned
peanut farmer
agricultural scientist.
As a result, Texas A&M
University’s Research and needs in a laboratory. It takes
Extension Center at Stephen- special talents to work in a
ville got more than bargained research laboratory."
However, Newman didn’t
realize an extra dividend in
Knauf, who had an inherent
savvy for machinery - design-
building, and
Erath follows state trend
Erath County voters follow-
ed the statewide trend as they
City council tables
restaurant ordinance
Stephenville city coun-
cilmen decided to table action
on a proposed health in-
spection ordinance until they
-meet with restaurant owners,
the public and other
businesses that could be af-
fected by the proposed or-
dinance.
“I’m not against this or-
dinance. I’d like to go into it
right or not go into it at all,”
councilman Larry Hammett.
Councilmen asked for the
public to register their opi-
nions concerning the proposed
ordinance -. which requires1
periodic inspectidns and an-
nual permits for all perma-
nent eating establishments. A
public hearing was also sug-
gested but no decision was
made on whether such a hear-
ing would be held.
• Ambulance service fees will
be increased effective Dec. 1
after the council approved a
i staff recommendation to in-
crease the rates to fall in line
with surrounding com-
munities' fates.
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of forage grass also in specific
fertilizer tests,” Knauf ex-
plained. “In addition there’s
irrigation and mechanical
equipment for the peach, al-
mond and apple orchards and
the berry patch< ’’
Most of the iiiipment re-
quires modifr tion to fit
ir research,
ailable from
commercial co sanies.
Knauf still f :s time to do
research, win present in-
terest directed toward broad-
cast planting of peanuts
He’s enthusiastic, and
peanut farmers are too, about
possibilities of planting six
rows at a time, nine inches
apart, instead of two rows 30
inches apart - and digging also
six rows at a time rather than
two.
He said that one problem
was to modify conventional
two-row seed hoppers to plant
to six-rows simultaneously.
The same problem existed in
necessity of a “digger" sweep
which would harvest six rows
instead of just two.
Knauf fulfilled his needs.
"There are two reasons for
broadcast planting compared
with two-row plantings,”
Knauf explained. “One is
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Doggett, Denver. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 72, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 7, 1979, newspaper, November 7, 1979; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1283885/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.