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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1997
GIDDINGS, LEE COUNTY, TEXAS 78942-0947
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Minors face losing driver's
license if caught with alcohol
Judge Paul Fischer warns of stiffer penalties for teens
Tomadic-like winds damage homes,
rips roof off two bams on FM180
2 women, grandson ride out freak storm in their houses
Giddings City Council adopts
$7,324,658 balanced budget
New water well, pumper truck among major expenditures
Annual Giddings Chamber
golf tournament Saturday
2 strong men lift pickup truck
to free man pinned underneath
Ledbetter man ejected, hit in head by license plate
William Allen, 62,
has brain surgery;
other driver also hurt
Hector Manual Nepes Mata- the suspect doesn't get out so
Mota has been in a mental in- he can flee the country, since he
dings police officer was brought mine the amount of bail in the
back to Lee County early this case. Prosecutor Ted Weems
week for a hearing scheduled in said he was planning to seek $2
The Texas Court of Appeals, the shooting death of Gary Joe
Third District has passed down Bryant, who was killed last Oc-
a judgement overuling District tober while aiding a DPS
Judge John L. Placke’s order trooper in locating the driver of
EMS TECHNICIANS load a
Ledbetter man on a stretcher
after he was seriously in-
jured in a car-pickup colli-
sion on U.S. 290 east near
Sak's Food Market. He was
Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. to discuss
the expenditure of economic
development sales tax funds
totaling $349,000 for the year
on the following projects.
--1997-98 Operating Budget:
$98,000 to fund personnel,
This gives the county a work
force of 7,024, with 272 unem-
ployed.
Fayette County to the south
still has one of the lowest rates
in the area, dropping slightly to
See JOBLESS, page 3
voked the probation of Dou-
glas Gene Sowders. Sowders
was originally charged with
burglary of a habitation. He
See DISTRICT, page 3
The annual Giddings Cham-
ber of Commerce Golf Scram-
ble is set for Saturday, Sept.
20 at the Giddings Country
Club.
The fundraiser will include
payments on airport improve-
ments.
— Beautification Project:
$20,000 to fund projects to
enhance the appearance of
and attraction to the Giddings
area.
- Revitalization Projects and
Grants: $30,000 to fund
See ECONOMIC, page 3
supplies, capital and consum-
able outlay.
-- Airport Improvement
Project: $25,000 to offset loan
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after being ruled incompetent slain officer who was a 5-year
to stand trial for the murder of veteran of the Giddings police
49-year-old Giddings Police Of- force, was planning to appear
ficer Gary Joe Bryant. He has at the hearing along with
now been ruled competent to friends to ask for a high bail.
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Probation was revoked on
two individuals in District
that the suspect not have bail, a wrecked car.
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a $10,000 hole-in-one cash
prize, along with golf equip-
ment, deep sea fishing trips,
golf wardrobes, gift certifi-
cates, merchandise, and one-
See GOLF, page 3
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The Giddings Buffaloes var-
sity football team will travel
to Yoakum this Friday night
to take on the Bulldogs in the
final game before district ac-
tion. Game time is set for 7:30
p.m.
Giddings is coming off a 34-
0 loss to three-time defending
3A state champion Sealy.
Yoakum is coming off a victory
over Edna. Both teams hold a
See YOAKUM, page 3
Fischer has been busy making
minors and their parents
aware of new laws through
speeches at Giddings High
School and civic group gath-
erings.
"I met with the school about
40-yearold son
of local woman dies
serving church youth
A 40-year-old pastor serving a
Pasadena congregation and
whose mother lives in Gid-
Swirling white cloud
acts as boomerang,
hits structure twice
A number of residents living
along FM 180 just a few miles
north of U.S. 290 were fright-
ened out of their wits by a fast-
moving storm that hit their
homes and barns last week late
on Tuesday afternoon.
When it was over, it had
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There are two major items
for capital expenditures in
this year's budget including a
new water well at a cost of
$500,000 and the city's portion
of a new fire truck pumper for
$100,000.
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year-old Ledbetter man. That Ranger pickup driven by Will-
enabled a Giddings doctor who iam Ware Allen of Ledbetter
happened to be passing by to and a 1988 Chrysler sedan
pull the man out from under- driven by James Alvin Dunn
$98,000 operating
budget Included in total
of $349,000 in spending
The Giddings Economic De-
velopment Corporation will Giddings to face
hold a public hearing at Gid- °
dings City Hall on Monday, Yoakum Bulldogs
SERVING LEXINGTON, DIME BOX, LINCOLN, SERBIN, NORTHRUP, PAIGE, LEDBETTER, FEDOR & GIDDINGS
PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY A NATIVE LEE COUNTIAN - - PREUSS PRINTING CO., INC.
three weeks ago. An CHS stu-
dents are now aware of the
new law change and stiffer
See MINORS, page 17
Lexington Eagles to
host Bulldogs Friday
The Lexington Eagles will
host the Brady Bulldogs Fri-
day night at 8 p.m. in varsity
football action.
Advance tickets for the game
will cost $4 for adults, $2 for
students, and $2 for gold card
dings, died while traveling to a tickets. All tickets sold at the
football game with young gate Friday night will be $5.
church members. Tickets are on sale at the
Rev. Glenn G. Budewig, the Lexington ISD offices and
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Adults who supply
alcohol to juveniles
face fines, jail time
Lee County officials are
warning that minors caught
with alcohol will face new
"zero tolerance" laws that in-
clude mandatory suspension
of their driver's licenses and
stiffer fines.
Four Giddings High School
teenagers and three former
GHS students were charged
with Minor In Possession
(MIP) citations two weeks ago
at a local motel.
And last weekend, 7 more
MIP's were issued in Gid-
dings. This makes a total of 17
MIP citations and one Con-
tributing to Minors violation
since the new laws took effect
Sept. 1.
Justice of the Peace Paul
The accused killer of a Gid- The hearing was set to deter-
thrown out of his pickup scene was able to pull him
(pictured in ditch) and out from under the wheels,
pinned underneath the front The totally demolished car
end. Two men managed to can be seen in the back-
raise the front of the truck so ground with the Conroe
a doctor who arrived at the driver still pinned inside.
ripped all the tin off an old bam What made the tomadic-like
several hundred yards further winds from the storm so un-
back in the pasture, took part usual is that several women
of the roof off of one house and who saw it coming described it
pulled all the metal skirting off as snow-white with a swirling
another nearby mobile home. See TORNADIC, page 4
District Judge sentences two
to prison on probation revocation
SHEETS AND SHEETS of of Giddings. The entire roof
tin from a nearby barn deco- of a larger barn was sucked
rated this big oak like Christ- off and set down in sections
mas ornaments after a storm about 100 yards away and
when twisting winds hit sev- two nearby houses were
erel barns and houses on FM damaged.
180 about 10 miles northeast - Times & News Photo
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stitution in Vernon where he is a Mexican national.
has been undergoing treatment Maria Bryant, widow of the
taken the entire roof off a large Court last Tuesday in Gid-
bam and set it down in several dings.
sections about 200 feet away, Judge Harold Towslee re-
district court for Wednesday. million in bail to ensure that
The driver of a pickup truck neath the wheels. Jr. of Conroe.
flew out the passenger window Jaws of Life equipment oper- The Conroe car was traveling
upon impact with a car and ated by the Giddings VFD was east on U.S. 290 when the
ended up pinned underneath used to get a 39-year-old Ledbetter pickup made a quick
the front wheels of his own ve- Conroe man who was driving turn in front of the car and the
hide last Thursday afternoon the other vehicle freed from the vehicles collided, according to
on U.S. 290 in east Giddings. wreckage. The door of the car Giddings Police Officer Brian
But two strong men who had been crushed and couldn't Davis.
heard the collision while inside be opened. See LIFT, page 17
a nearby convenience store The accident occurred at 1:17 Leiller nf
rushed out and literally lifted p m. in the 3400 block of U.S.
the front end of the pickup, mo- 290 east near Sak's Food Mar- • Stacey Stites denied
tor and all, off the injured 62- ket, and involved a 1986 Ford reduction in bail
The 29-year-old man accused
in the capital murder case of
Giddings resident Stacey Stites
has been denied a lower bond.
Rodney Reed has been held in
jail under $500,000 bond since
his arrest five months ago in
connection with the April 1996
murder of Stacey Stites.
District Judge Harold Tows-
lee denied the defense motion
by Reed's attorney, Jimmie
Brown Jr., asking to have bond
reduced to no more than
$25,000.
In his argument, Mr. Brown
son of Emma Nitache Budewig Central Bank Wednesday
of Giddings, died of what is be- through noon Friday.
lieved to be either a heart at- Brady, a 3A team, has a 2-0
tack or a seizure. record this year and has al-
He was a longtime member of lowed only 13 points to be
The various city depart-
ments requested $1,173,093
in capital outlays, and the city
manager allowed for
$892,835. The water well, re-
working the ground storage
water tanks, and the pumper
accounts for over $700,000 of
that money.
The proposed budget has
See BUDGET, page 5
Grass fires continue
to cause problems
Grass fires continue to be a
problem for Lee County ranch-
ers and hot, dry conditions are
the forecast.
The Old and New Dime Box
volunteer firefighters were
called out last Tuesday after-
noon about 4 p.m. to a grass
fire on County Road 428.
See FIRES, page 9
called the bail amount racially $75,000 Is Set aside
biased, excessive and oppres- . .
sive, and also questioned the for Street repair WorK
prosecutor's allegation that the The Giddings City Council
victim was strangled to death adopted a $7,324,658 bal-
in connection with the rape. anced budget for the 1997-98
Although Reed's attorney ac- fiscal year at their Monday
See BAIL, page 9 night meeting.
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rises slightly to 3.9%
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rate barely rose in .July to 3.9%
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