The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 79, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 8, 1983 Page: 1 of 36
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Criminal court trials commence
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Charge may be dropped
Design of Greenville. IM, has made
several trips to the area to help provide
proponents or the downtown renovation
project with necessary information He
has been lauded by several involved
with the project as a "no-nonsense"
professional with experience In over 110
similar projects throughout the coun-
ent will benefit
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with Coumty Attorney Robert Nisbett
and local Texas Department nf Pobfie
Safety aathorities but no official"
decision hats been made
-1 wiw here to set a eoumt date fee the
for the newly chartered Carthage
Downtown Development Foundation,
members of the PCIF Board or Direc-
tors voted unanimously to fund coats for
retaining services of architect Alan
Johnson.
Johnson, representing General
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in his office Powell later after teling
the Pamola Watekman he plamed to
plead inocent to the charge posted
bond and requested a trial
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Approval of the $12,000 expenditure
takes the project another step closer to
achievement. following on the heels of a
move by the Carthage City Commission
and Southwestern Bell Telephone Com
pany
Bell has offered the city. and indirect
might tend to thifik
otpeoptewere
youf 25cent
pensafe him for lost wages and other
benefits, which could have totalled
several thousand doflars if the court
had ruled that discrimination were in
solved
in the release of c laims wha h Parker
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By Earichessher
Panola County Industrial Foundation
Tuesday afternoon gave a strang nod of
support to the downtown revitalization
project by voting to pay $12,000 to retain
services of a project architectural firm
Following a presentation by Gary
Martin, chairman of the Downtown
He said it had been indicated that
Craven would drop the sun for that
amount
Craven had not listed a specific
amount of damages requested in the
suit, but had petitioned for the Tyler
federal court to order the county com
jbs noeuaer
gam J honor a a a—fj skit free
burbecue on Ffiday, Jome 17, » was
anyoemcedTeesduy
Seonsored by the Pmmola Coomty
mau
tor at a time
This to
Grissom to
By Eatichesshet
Justice of the Peace w H Gulley may
have to set a trial date to hear the ease
of a local citizen who was recently in-
votoed m an aceident with a Carthage
Aceordtag to Gufley. Precinet 1JP.
the citatiomn agarinst Brian Powell of
Deadwood, for faitart to yield fighd-ot-
way toamemergeney vehiele was filed
de by fie up to $200,
wer placed on the dews
for Welngon emewmten sells fat
25"
Three Lioms Clubs
to install Am
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Pilings ma taking shape for the widening of the ped into B four-lane span and the old iron super-
j on U.S. 79 northesst of Car* structure will bo removed during the project which
two-lano atrweturo wM bo revam- will takte almost twoyearstocomplete.
to host ag official
wi he sraged a the Paaata Coomty Rx-
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Juanita Hull
Woman of the
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Three persons were assessed fines
and probated sentences as the spring
term of 123rd District Court com
menced action on pending criminal
cases Monday
Thomas Moore was fined 13.000
and placed on five years probation on a
charge of delivery ol cocaine.
Dean Hutto was fined $1,000,
beus and six
ting.
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our papers. bet they shoudd thin
abon what it to costing us do
produce them - that n cents bidly
pays for the paper they are printed
on, not codniting the llbat j
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position Center
Hightower wil make a few com-
menes about corrent agricultorral
problems and prospects in Texas, and
Judge Bennie C. Boles accepted the
plea bargaining recorimhendatiots of
District Attorney john Walker and
placed on three years probation and or
deted to pay 1200 in restitution for his
rule to a series of burglaries in the Lake
Mufvul ara
And Michael Meyer was fined $500
and placed on six months probation on
a charge which was reduced to a
misdemeanor theft count for taking
some cases ol oil from a Carthage
nent by deter
are as related
"1 taahte a lot of peo
come upto the tack and 1
25 hurt aam
two because there is a pecidl pittd
at story to there they want dosend
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22 rifle. and his mother, armed with a
shotgun
The sequence of events surrounding
the incident is expected to be the sub
ject of extensive testimony and cross
examination during the trial
Assistant District Attorney Mike
Parker and cotirt appointed defense at
teener Robert Underwood took four
hours T uesday to question AO prosper
five jurors before selecting the 12 who
will hear the case
The prosecutor and defense attomhey
questioned prospective jurors ex
tensively concerning any knowledge
beliefs. prejudices, acquaintances,
relationships, friendships, business
foaling' or news accounts which might
have influenced their views about the
c axe
jurors also were asked if the fact that
Laws had applied for probation, if he is
found guilty, would influence their ver
di t
Underwood emphasized that law
required Jones to make application for
the probation prior to the trial if he
Meme e soves aww i
matter to he heard Gator j said, "If
the state proceeds with the charge* "
Sources indicate, however, that
charge.i by the state wil probabty be
itr upped in the matter The foeimaa is
possibly based on perges ne amd m at
the Texas Motor Vehcle Law Book
which point out that a pofice rebut h
most operate m an emergency situration
Hi
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Parker in W
eld at Carthage
pm -June 18.
Will be on safe
and Carthage
uare beginning
r adults and $3
Testimony is scheduled to begin at 9
a m today in the trial of Clyde Conway
Jones Jr on charges that he injured his
mother in an exchange of gunfire at her
Panola County home last February
A seven woman. five man jury was
selected to hear the case as the trial
began Tuesday afternoon in 123rd
District Court with Judge Bennie C
Boles presiding
Jones is charged with aggravated
assault with a firearm in the shooting
of Dorothy Jones Shahan .
Investigators indicated at the time
that there apparently was an exchange
ly proponents of the downtown project, others among the foundation’s officers
$42,000 for sidewalk replacement in and directors
return for the ngbt to install new phone He told the PCIF Board members
cables beneath sidewalks on the south that initial response to the Downtown
side of the square Development Foundation has been IPO
Martin, also president of the newly per cent in support." We are a non
formed (DDF. was accompanied by profit corporation designed to act as a
vice-president Jerry Hanszen and Pmmbowwvowwppa
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-------of the three cases
Pre tria motiohs svera l
scheduled for trim later this month also
were heard by the judge Monday.
Included were motions to the case of
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Clyde Jones, whose jury trial is con
tinuing today, and Waytie Cole, whose
y ttid to expected to begin Monday
M thepresenit rate of newspepets I Cole is charged with the burglary of
H-mn ==si County agrees to settle suit
rippedadfar 112,000, even a quar || motions Monday to the case of Charlie • “
Walket, charged in connection with Panola County . Commissioners
the January shootinig of Tishey Lank agreed Monday to pay a former county
ford at her home northeast of Carthage truckdfivef $750 to settle a
He agreed to send Walket to Rusk discrimination suit to federa court
State Hospital for further Mental The agreement apparently will end
examination and Mao scheduled a June the suit filed against the county last Or
20 trial on the question of whether tobet by Leon Craven, a Mack man
Walker to competent to stand trial as who quit and filed surit aganst the
the defense served notice of initent to ounty contending discritination
rtose the tome of Walker's sanity because he did not get a promotion to
Othet motions were heard to the the position of equipment operator.
case of Gary Don Harvey, charged ounty camtmtMoner Carl Hen
with attempted murder in the shoMing dricksnn said at the time that there was
of Tatum bank ptesident Robert Par no disctimnihation involved and that a
nell, white man with heavy equipment
A notice of totem to raise the to operating experience got the job to
sanity defense also has been Med in that stead of Craven because Craven had no
case- such experience.
Prosecutor Parker noted that Moore Attorney Crawford Parker, hired to
was charged with delivery al eocene in teptesent the coonty to the defense of
connection with the iivestigation the case to the federal court to Tyler,
‘ I drag charges filed met with commissiomers Monday mor
0w ning and recommended the $ 70 set
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The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 79, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 8, 1983, newspaper, June 8, 1983; Carthage, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1499542/m1/1/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sammy Brown Library.