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Photos of Collin County Livestock Show winners. See page 9a.
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Sam Johnson at Vaughan
Please see HENRY, page 10A
Residents help families in need
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Sunday
April 15,1990
Vol. 21, No. 30
Sections
Collin County votes
reflect state trends
coordinating
development
Security
consultants
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all our experiences together,”
Joyce said. “With the combina-
tion of all of our backgrounds, we
understand how to help major
corporations implement proac-
tive programs so they can pro-
vide safe, secure working en-
vironments and cut down on in-
ternal problems. We know how
to do investigative work and
apply loss prevention programs,
By BILL DAVIS
Staff Writer
Countywide coordination of eco-
nomic development work may soon
amount to more than lip service in
Collin County.
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INSIDE:
Opinions/Columns
Schools
Religion
Movies
Lifestyles
County
Sports
Classifieds
By MICHAEL MORRISON
Staff Writer
By DONNA FRANCIS
Staff writer
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RAINFALL: According to local
weather watcher Big Daddy Sum-
mers, Allen received 0.55 of an inch
of rain Friday, April 6 and 0.80 of an
inch Tuesday, April 10, for a total
since Jan. 1 of 23.00 inches.
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“There seems to be a lot of in-
terest across the county ... in eco-
nomic development being a coopera-
tive kind of venture in the county,”
said Randy Williams, president of
the McKinney Chamber of Com-
merce and a staff member of the
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As she did across Texas, Demo-
cratic gubernatorial candidate Ann
Richards beat Jim Mattox in Collin
County in the runoff election held
Tuesday.
In Collin County, Richards got
5,723 votes or 75 percent to Mat-
tox’s 1,922.
Only about seven percent or
8,747 of the county’s 127,501 reg-
istered voters turned out for the
election. Democrats, since they still
had to decide who would represent
them in the governor’s race, out-
voted the Republicans 7-to-l.
In the runoff for state treasurer,
Nikki Van Hightower received 4,380
votes in Collin County and Tom
Bowden gathered 2,119. For Sup-
reme Court Justice, Place 2, Ross
Sears collected 2,820 votes to Bob
Gammage’s 2,598. For Court of Cri-
minal Appeals Justice, Place 1, Mor-
ris Overstreet got 2,822 votes to
services. Most of their clients
are large corporations or law
firms, but individuals call on the
company, as well, with inves-
tigation and security needs.
Among the specialized services
offered are telecommunications
countermeasures, forensic
crime scene, fire scene (cause/
origin), accident reconstruction,
pre-employment screening,
fraud audits and access control.
The team was formed over a
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Happy Easter!
FORECAST: Fair Sunday. In-
creasing cloudiness Monday. A
chance of thunderstorms Tuesday.
For official National Weather
Service recasts, call 654-0116 or
787-1111.
For additional weather informa-
tion, call Metro (817) 429-2631.
For national traveler’s weather, call
787-1701. On shortwave radio,
tune to 162.40.
For the pollen count, call 373-
SNIF.
period of time. When Arbogast
and partner Gene Joyce were
corporate employees, they met
young electronics wizards John
Lindquist and Granger Smith.
Other members of the team in-
clude Bill Wilbanks and Gwen
Sartor, both licensed investiga-
tors with impressive profession-
al histories.
“When we left the corporate
setting and began operating as
individual investigators, we put
Fresh from the latest special session of the Texas
Legislature, State Rep. Sam Johnson revealed some lit-
tle known facts about state’s current struggles to fi-
nance public schools. Johnson spoke at the meeting of
the Vaughan Elementary School PTA Thursday evening.
(Staff photo by Scott Nowling)
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What’s in a name? Try
“Beacon Professional Services
and Consultants.”
It may not offer a clue to most
people, but those who need the
company’s services have no
trouble deciphering the name.
Beacon is an Allen firm specializ-
ing in full investigative and
security services and consulta-
tion.
The six partners who make up
the Beacon team represent
more than 100 years of com-
bined experience in a wide range
of services, from electronics to
law enforcement to corporate
security and investigations. But,
while they certainly have the
skills required, you won’t find
these investigators climbing
telephone poles to set up tele-
phone taps. They are quick to
point out that their investiga-
tions typically do not constitute
TV movie or paperback novel
fare.
“All of us here have a strong
commitment to the concept of
right and wrong, good and bad,
and a belief in our democratic
judicial system. If we don’t have
good in this world, and if we
don’t have justice, all we have is
chaos,” said Carl Arbogast, a
former police detective and spe-
cial agent for the Kansas Bureau
of Investigation.
So much, for the stereotypical
private detective image. It’s an
image that Beacon doesn’t have
and doesn'twant,t .
1 he private investigator im-
age is slightly lower than dirt on
the carpet, and we work hard to
overcome it. We’re all profes-
sionals here, but it’s a constant
battle to overcome the hurdle
created by some of the charla-
tans in the business," Arbogast
says.
Beacon is licensed and reg-
istered by the Texas Board of
Private Investigators and Pri-
vate Security Agencies. The
firm’s services cover a broad
spectrum, including insurance
and corporate investigations,
loss prevention and even guard
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Frank Maloney’s 2,643.
In state-wide results, Van High-
tower and Gammage will face Re-
publican candidates in the general
election, but the race between
Overstreet and Maloney was a dead
heat.
Allen’s Demorcratic vote followed
the county closely.
At the old middle school, 328
votes were cast for Richards and 111
for Mattox.
Voting in the runoff for Texas
state treasurer, 271 cast their vote
for Van Hightower and 116 voted for
Bowden. For Supreme Court Jus-
tice, Place 2, Sears received 180
votes and Gammage received 145.
For Justice on Court of Criminal
Appeals, Place 1, Overstreet re-
ceived 190 votes to Maloney’s 136.
At Lovejoy School in Lucas, 127
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Granger Smith, right, and John Lindquist, product they have designed to merge secur-
systems engineers for Beacon Professional ity and access control equipment. The two
Services and Consultants, demonstrate have a patent pending on the product,
their access control interface system, a (Staff photo by Scott Nowling)
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announced at 6 p.m. Saturday, April Chance has been accepted as a pa-
21. The winner does not need to be tient at Scottish Rite Hospital in
present to win. Houston.
Allen residents have been digging “Allen has really been called to the “His medical care from here on
deep into their pockets lately. test in a lot of cases lately, and we out will be given at no charge to the
Funds collected for two Allen would welcome help from anyone, family,” said Debbie Dessaint, a
families, who recently suffered through garage sales or sales of any friend of the family. “He will have to
tragedies, have amounted to over kind, to donate to the fund,” Shelton make monthly trips to Houston, and
$1,900. said. . the good thing is that they are
• Almost $1,500 has been donated In an attempt to give back to the teaching his mother how to do his
to a memorial fund established to community some of what has been physical therapy at home.”
help pay for the funeral of 15-year- given to them, the Ortiz family The Scottish Rite Hospital is also
old Victor Gerardo Ortiz. He died would like to donate what ever funds measuring Chance for new pressure
March 25, are collected over the amount re- garments. A concern of the family’s
All of the local collection boxes quired for their funeral expenses to a right now is the scar tissue that is
have now been gathered, at the re- community assistance fund to be building up around his wrist, de-
quest of the family, who is grateful used by anyone in the time of need, creasing his mobility.
for the help they have received from • The family of little Chance Van- His head wound and an area on the
Allen’s residents. Sumeren of Allen, 18 months old, top of his shoulder has still not
Terry Shelton, manager of Brook- who was badly burned when he healed.
shire’s Food Store in Allen, where accidentally pulled a deep-fat fryer A
Victor’s father is employed, recently over onto himself in January, has re- . AS Yet, the tamiy has not been
announced plans for one final fund- cently received some good news. Formed when and how much of the
raising effort for the Ortiz family. An account opened in his name at MarklandHospitalbill Will be covered
“Beginning next week, I will offer TeamBank in Allen, to help defray through Medicaid.
for sale at the storeraffle tickets for some of the costs incurred from his Those who want to help the Van-
$2 Shelton said. Those who want stay in the intensive care unit of Sumeren family, who have no rela-
te donate $2 to the cause will be Parkland Hospital s bum center, has tives locally, may donate to the fund,
entered in a contest to win a $200 received over $400 in donations in care of TeamBank P O Box 16
shopping spree at Brookshire’s from the people of Allen. Allen, Texas, 75002 or call Dessaint
rood Store. The winner will be Ihe really good news is that at 727-9124
Economic development officials McKinney Economic Development
from Allen, Plano, Frisco, McKin- Partnership.
ney and Richardson met recently in “It may take a year or so to get it
Frisco to discuss ways to Coordinate moving, but at least we’re moving in
their efforts on a countywide scale, that direction,” said Ron Harris,
Another meeting is planned in Pla- president of the Plano Economic De-
no for late April. velopment Board.
Mike Barnes, executive director Officials say the effort needs to be
of the Plano Economic Development kept simple, so as not create an ex-
Board, said he hoped other Collin tra impediment for firms considering
County cities — such as Wylie and a relocation to the county.
Farmersville — will join the informal Barnes said the effort will help the
discussions. county compete with other econo-
Officials say the first meeting in- mic development groups that
eluded a broader array of economic already represent various subre-
development officials from across
the county compared to prior Please see DEVELOPMENT, page
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terms in prison. another life sentence. killed.
Thursday afternoon in a Cooke Sometime next month Cooke An alleged accomplice, Davey
Iy:: c, County District Court in Gainesville, County Sheriffs deputies will take Lynn Crockett of Gainesville, now
1 1g m, T en henry, 19, spent Henry pleaded guilty to murdering a Henry to southwestern Arkansas, 20, awaits trial in the Cooke County
most of l hursday pleading guilty to Gainesville mother, Deana Andrews where they expect him to plead guil- Jail on a capital murder indictment
murders . . Woodard. She was 23 and caring for ty to murdering a Saratoga, Ark., for the Woodard slaying. Cooke
n- nthe-morning in j j County her l-year-old son when she was man, Kenneth Olden, 34, who was County Sheriff’s investigators
is net Court, he pleaded guilty to bashed in the head with a VCR and shot three times and dumped beside arrested Henry and Crockett in
t e murders oi -e1 Floyd Mom- slashed in the throat with an ax. Her a road sometime in the evening of February after discovering that
son, , and.h1 62-year-old son, car, too, was missing. Investigators March 8, 1988. Authorities believe Crockett’s fingerprints matched a
-ech Leonard Morrison. I he two believe she was killed about 9 a.m. he was the last to die in the 14-hour print left on Oldham’s stolen car.
were found beate nand shot to death March 7, 1988, hours before the killing spree. Though Crockett and Henry ha-
instthei armersvile home March 7, Morrisons died. Her son was found Henry was 17 when the slayings ven’t mentioned motives, “we be-
1988, and their truck was stolen, in the home unharmed. occurred. As yet he has given no
Henry was sentenced to two life In Cooke County Henry received explanation why the four were
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Warnken, Mark. The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 30, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 15, 1990, newspaper, April 15, 1990; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1571495/m1/1/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Allen Public Library.