The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 3, 1980 Page: 1 of 8
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The Croom News, Croom, Carson County, Texas 79039
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Sheriff Reed Critically Wounded
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$ Vince Britten, Pat
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| Two Tiger starters were
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§ offensive and defensive
2 teams of the 1-B All-Dis-
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2 named offensive running
§ back and defensive line-
& backer and Pat Koetting
I was named as a defensive
School Board Awards
Parking Lot Paving
Bid To Gilvin & Terrill
Band Boosters will meet
Monday, January 7, in the
Band Hall at 8 p.m.
Lazy Dazys will meet
January 8th at 7:30 p.m.
in the home of Mrs. Don
Lyles.
Carson County Ameri-
can Heart Association will
meet at 7 p.m. Monday,
January 7 in the Bank
Hospitality room.
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head lines of happenings
from 1979.
It all began in January
1979 with the All-District
1-B Football team being
named and Groom saw
seven of its Tigers being
named to the elite group.
TUESDAY GRAIN PRICES
AT LOCAL ELEVATORS.
Grain prices at the close
of business on December
31st at local grain eleva-
tors were:
WHEAT $4.05 bushel
CORN $4.85 cwt.
MILO $4.10 cwt.
SOYBEANS $5.10 bushel
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Believe it or not there
were several events that
occured around Groom and
the area over the past year
most good, some not so
good, some you want to re-
member and some you wish
to forget. One cannot ima-
gine the wide variety of
events that has occured
over the past year until you
start looking back at each
issue of the paper. So we
thought we might take one
more look at the main
bond denied. Third, aggra-
vated assault on a peace
officer to Deputy Dodd,
bond set at $50,000. And
fourth, attempted capital
murder toward a peace
officer to Deputy Dodd,
bond set at $75,000.
Brownlee the 5’9”, 160
lb. suspect was taken back
to the Potter County jail
for holding.
City Council Opens
Water Expansion
Bids In Meeting
Groom City Council met
Dec. 18 in a special called
session to open and read
bids for the purpose of
providing sewer and water
lines for two separate di-
visions. First division in-
cludes water and sewer
lines to the soon to be con-
structed State Highway
Maintenance building east
of Groom and the second
division is a project to
extend city water and sewer
lines across FM 2300 to
encourage potential growth
from businesses and resi-
dential housing.
Mayor Martin Britten
opened seven contractors
bids and City Engineer,
Wayland Merriman
read them aloud. After
all were read and tabulated
Stubbs, Inc. of Pampa was
recognized as low bidder
for both divisions. Stubbs
Inc., presented a bid of
$16,417.35 for Division I
and $30,327.44 for Division
II thus having a total for
both divisions of $46,744.39
If Stubbs, Inc. is to be
awarded contracts on both
divisions, $244.79 would be
deducted from the total bid.
Representatives from all
seven firms were present
at the meeting as well as
members from the Highway
Department.
The council will meet
January 8 to award a con-
tract to the bidder.
It was decided that be-
fore the next meeting of
the council Mayor Britten
would meet with the land-
owners of the northeast
division to discuss finan-
cial assistance to the city
for the extension of the
utility lines.
handle for arrainment.
Justice of Peace Arnold
Davis set bonds on four
counts. First, aggrivated
assault on a peace officer
to Sheriff Reed, bond set
at $75,000. Second, at-
tempted capital murder,
Groom School Board met
Tuesday, December 18, to
open bids for the paving of
the school parking lot. Gil-
vin & Terrill Construction
Co. of Amarillo bid of $36,
170.00 was accepted by the
board. The work to be done
includes removing the pre-
sent surface, grading and
placing a base suitable for
the finished surface of 11/2
inches of hot mix. The area
to be paved will be from
the northwest corner of
the Ag shop around and
the front of the school to
the fence on the east side.
The firm agreed
to complete the work within
40 days after entering into
a contract with the school.
The board also set the
date for their next regular
meeting for January 8. At
that meeting the board will
open bids on the time war-
rants which will be used
to pay for the parking lot
paving.
Among patients admitted
this week at Groom Mem-
orial Hospital were:
MEDICAL
William McBee, Skelly-
town
Ismanell Gray, Clarendon
Sue Pair, Groom
Keri Cayouette, Panhandle
William Owen, Pampa
Viola Harrell, Groom
Kelly Bender, Waxahachi,
Texas
Florence Hogg, Claude
Howard Rose, Groom
Benjamin Singletary, Okla-
homa City, Okla.
Russell Homer, Groom
Ethel Sutton, Clarendon
Harold Lowrey, Groom
Gary Gatlin, Groom
Frank Peters, White Deer
Helen Witt, Groom
SURGICAL
Dee Blanks, Amarillo
Dale Ager, Pampa
OBSTETRICAL
Mrs. Amparo Mendoza,
of Pampa, a girl born Sun-
day, December 30, 1979 at
3:25 a.m.
Contract Made For
Seal Coat On
Carson County Roads
High Plains Pavers, Inc.
of Plainview is the appar-
ent low bidder at $1,225,
670 to seal coat some 83
miles of highways in the
Panhandle during the sum-
mer of 1980, including work
in Carson County.
High Plains recently sub-
mitted the lowest of four
bids to the State Highway
and Public Transportation
Commission.
A.L. McKee, SDHPT Ama-
rillo District Engineer,
said a seal coat will be
applied to FM 293, from
FM 2373 east nine miles
to SH 207 in Panhandle,
and to FM 2300, from US
66 in Groom north and east
2.1 miles to the Gray
County Line.
McKee said the appli-
cation of asphalt and rock
promotes waterproofing
and skid resistant surface
for motorists.
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prices and 100 % parity.
This protest led to the
famous tractor cade march
to Washington, D.C. down
1-40.
Head football coach Rus-
sell Roberts resigned to
accept the similar position
at Bartlett.
A great sigh of relief
could be heard around
Groom when Groom
Memorial Hospital had
gained the services of Dr.
Paul E. Emmans from
Seattle, Wash.
Vo-Agriculture teacher
Charles Burk resigned his
position with the school
after 13 years service.
In February 1979 the
Tigerettes basketball team
coached by Earl Ramsey
found themselves as Bi-
District title holders.
The Jimmy Burgin’s wel-
comed a new daughter
Courtney Candance and the
Randy Sustalre’s a new son,
Michael Bradley.
Groom received a new
kind of trash service with
large dumpsters being dis-
tributed throughout the
town.
City streets began re-
ceiving a much needed new
cover of hot mix.
It was in March that a
tornado ripped the roof of
the Johny Byrd home west
of town. Also in the same
week on a foggy, wet I-40
a California truck driver
jack-knifed his rig in front
of Golden Spread Motel
sending him to the hospital
in critical condition.
In April a lone bandit
robbed the Groom Truck
Terminal getting away with
approximately $252. As far
as we know, the bandit has
(See Headlines, Page 8)
Carson County Sheriff
Connie Reed was reported
to be in serious condition
in the intensive care unit
of Northwest Texas Hos-
pital in Amarillo at press
time on Tuesday. A hos-
pital spokesman said Reed
was concious and seeing
family visitors and doing
well.
Sheriff Reed underwent
3 1/2 hours surgery on
Sunday after being shot by
a prisoner attempting to
escape from the Carson
County jail.
According to officials,
Bruce Brownlee, 21, sup-
posedly from Wiscon-
sin, was first apprehend-
ed near Groom Saturday
afternoon by Deputy Jerry
Gaines after receiving a
call from Me Lean officials
that the suspect had sto-
len gas.
Following the chase by
Deputy Gaines, the suspect
was apprehended for not
only stealing gas but for
car theft in North Caro-
lina. Gaines immediately
proceeded to take Brown-
lee into custody and later
to Panhandle to the county
jail.
Sunday morning Sheriff
Reed, Deputy Clint
Dodd and Jailer Buck
Fields were escorting the
prisoner from the cell to
a phone about 11:15 a.m.
when the prisoner tried
to escape.
The man first pushed
the jailer forward and
made a break for the door,
according to County At-
torney Gene Bryan. The
sheriff and chief deputy
wrestled the prisoner to
the floor and somehow the
prisoner got Sheriff Reed’s
.357 Magnum and Reed was
shot in the stomach as
both fell on the floor.
Bryan said the prisoner
began acting “like a wild-
man” and “went crazy”
on his way to make a phone
call. It took several men to
hold the suspect before
being able to get Brown-
lee back to his cell.
Reed was rushed to
Amarillo Emergency Re-
ceiving Center by Pan-
handle Ambulance. Brown-
lee was also taken to the
hospital for head lacera-
tions and later released
and taken to Potter County
jail for holding.
Monday afternoon Brown-
lee was taken back to Pan-
ler, Neil Wieberg, Vince
/ Britten, Jigger Britten and
A f Gary White.
Students and teachers
0 of the Groom schools found
school to be closed down
for about a week in Janu-
ary 1979 because of the
flu bug that had biten and
caused about 54 students
gbe absent.
Residents in Groom felt
' s, affects of the first
thlwing of snow on Jan. 9
since being blanketed with
, snow on New Year’s eve. An
84 year old record was
A broken as temperatures in
* ) the Panhandle area had
i been below the freezing
mark of 32 degrees for
twelve days. The old record
was set in February 1895.
The month of January
was not over before people
all over the country saw
a nation -wide protest from
American farmers in
eddbbb search for higher grain
VA back and second team of-
fensive wingback.
Four other Tigers were
a==% named to the second team
%" in All-District. They were
David Weller, offensive
. running back and defensive
X line backer; Carey Reed,
W offensive tackle; John Me-
Connel, offensive guard and
Troy Thornton, defensive
lineman. David Britten was
given honorable mention as
an offensive guard.
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Miller, Phil & Miller, Ila. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 3, 1980, newspaper, January 3, 1980; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1517750/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.