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HIGHLIGHTS
I) Lyndell Williams A Ed Startini
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
Council names Paul Johnson police chief
AUSTIN - The Texas Lottery
has proposed “Texas Million,” a
new instant-ticket electronic game
lottery commissioners believe will
remedy slow sales. The game could
debut next spring.
Players would choose four num-
bers from zero to 99. A correct
guess would win the $1 million top
prize. Odds of winning would be 1
in 3.9 million.
Lottery ticket sales in November
and December remained lower than
expected. The lottery is running
$60 million short of what it was
supposed to take in during the
current biennium, which ends Aug.
31, 1999.
“It’s not going to make up for
what we’ve lost. It’s going to
help,” said Linda Cloud, who was
named executive director of the
lottery last week.
Cloud, who has been on the
Texas Lottery staff since 1992, is
the third executive director of the
agency. She follows Nora Linares
and Lawrence Littwin, who was
fired in October. Cloud will be
paid a salary of $100,000.
Literacy Plate Unveiled
State Rep. Helen Giddings and
Texas’ First Lady Laura Bush
unveiled the “Read to Succeed”
license plate last week at the
Capitol.
Giddings, D-Dallas, authored
the law that allows the plate. Pro-
ceeds from sales of the plate go to a
statewide reading initiative target-
ing children in grades kindergarten
through three who are not reading
at grade level.
Honored at the unveiling was
Melody Maas of Terrell, a 14-year-
old eighth grade student, whose
winning design for the plate
was chosen from nearly 12,000
entries submitted in September
by Texas students, kindergarten
through grade 12, from 238 cities.
Other students whose designs
were chosen as finalists also were
recognized at the ceremony: Brent
Baldridge of Wfest Columbia; Lind-
say Barlow of Highland Village;
Stephanie Bryan of Plano; Autumn
Cornish of Mason; Leslie Dick-
erson of Red Oak; Ron Golden
of Midlothian; Lauren Hanson
of Spring; Tiavis Matthews of
Pasadena; Keenan Morrow of Ter-
rell; and Jennifer Writer of Austin.
Other Capital Highlights
■ In a year-end analysis of
Texas’ welfare reform efforts,
State Comptroller John Sharp said
770,000 people have left the food
stamp rolls over the past three
years — with 13 percent of the
decline due to the state’s new
Lone Star card. Sharp said the
electronic benefits delivery system
is saving taxpayers an average of
$85.5 million a year.
■On Dec. 12, Comptroller Sharp
delivered his final sales tax rebates
for 1997, a total of $164.7 million
in payments to 1,087 Texas cities
and 118 counties. “Tbtal city and
county tax rebates for calendar
year 1997 topped $2.1 billion, and
weir. 6.8 percent higher than total
rebates for 1996, as the growth
outlook for the Tfexas economy
continues to outshine that for the
nation as a whole,” Sharp said.
■ Texas upland cotton produc-
tion for 1997 is expected to to-
tal 5.3 million bales, according to
figures released by Texas Agricul-
ture Statistics Service.
■ The Texas grapefruit produc-
tion forecast is 5 million boxes for
the 1997-98 season, 6 percent be-
low last year. Tfexas Agriculture
Statistics Service expects early and
midseason oranges to account for
1.4 million boxes. The production
of all oranges was 1.42 million
boxes last year.
Paul E. Johnson, Jr. of Clifton
was sworn in as Dublin police
chief by Mayor Katherine Prater
Thursday night and was on the job
Monday morning.
Johnson, who has been a mem-
ber of the Dublin police reserves
since last spring, has been working
as a freelance consultant in motor
vehicle accident reconstruction and
investigation. He was previously
chief deputy of the Bosque County
Sheriffs Department in Meridian.
He was one of 40 police officers
selected for a mission in Haiti in
1994 to monitor, intervene and
report human rights violations un-
der the authority of the U.S. De-
partment of State.
Johnson it a graduate of Ever-
green State College in Olympia,
Wash, and holds a master police
officer certification with more than
2,000 hours of accredited profes-
sional training. He is also a gradu-
ate of the Bill Blackwood Law
Enforcement Management Institute
of Texas at Sam Houston State
University in Huntsville.
He was one of three candidates
chosen from a field of seven
applicants. The three were inter-
Mayor Katherine Prater swears in new police chief Paul Johnson
viewed by the council during three
hours of closed door meetings.
The council’s vote to hire
Johnson was split 4 to 3 with
council members Don Stewart,
Rodney Armstrong, Melba Reed
and Jack Thompson voting in fa-
vor, voting against were James
“Red” Seigars, Pattie Johnson and
Mickey Belew.
The three council members who
voted against hiring Johnson had
voted earlier to hire a Stephenville
man who is a marshal with a
master peace officer certification, a
former chief of police and earned a
doctorate degree in psychology.
The police chief post was va-
cated on Oct. 13 when the council
fired longtime chief David Johnson
on a split “no confidence” vote
without explanation.
Two police officers
submit resignations
Lt. Terry Early and reserve of-
ficer Kyle Lewis have submitted
their resignations from the Dublin
Police Department.
In a brief resignation letter ad-
dressed to Chief Paul Johnson,
Mayor Katherine Prater and the
city council, Early said he is
pursuing other job opportunities
which will allow him to spend
more time with his family.
Early has been with the police
department as a reserve or full-
time police officer since July,
1985. He was named acting police
chief after the termination of
David Johnson in October.
The council hired new police
chief Paul Johnson Thursday from
a slate of seven applicaitts. Lt.
Early did not apply for the post.
Early's resignation coincides
whb one submitted by reuerve
officer Kyle Lewis who is joining
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Lookin’ just DANDY!
Frigid temperatures and rehearsal stress were forgotten as the
Dublin High School DandiLion Drill Team posed for a last
snapshot before going into Texas Stadium for a halftime
exhibition at Sunday's Dallas Cowboy-New York Giant football
game. The musical extravaganza, hosted by the Dallas Cowboy
Cheerleaders, featured 1,400 young people from throughout the
state in a dance routine highlighted by umbrellas, tambourines,
and red and green costumes. Photo courtesy of Vicky stone
The littlest helper for the Goodfellows food boxes was Sabian
Williams, son of Stanley and Katy Williams Volunteers, who
prepared or delivered more than 140 food boxes and 350 toy boxes
Thursday and Friday, included Goodfellow president Delbert Shafer,
Bud McKinney, Sharon Hart, Katie Williams, Jimmie Cogburn, Ray
LaBaume, Cecil Campbell, Wyatt Jurney and Kyle Jurney.
Hamilton businessman announces
candidacy for state representative
Hamilton County businessman
and civic leader David Lengefeld
has announced his candidacy in the
Democratic primary for State
House of Representatives, District
59.
Lengefeld made the announce-
ment in a series of courthouse step
statements Monday in the four
counties which comprise District
59: Erath, Comanche, Coryell and
Hamilton.
He listed a number of issues
which he considers important to
the people of District 59 including
jobs and economic development,
quality education, fairness in agri-
culture policies, fair and equitable
representation and taxation, law
enforcement and prisons, and a
safe, dependable water supply.
Lengefeld said that as an insurance
agent, he is especially interested in
insurance issues such as consumer
problems of obtaining adequate
health, automobile and home insur-
ance at affordable rates.
Lengefeld has served in numer-
ous leadership positions as a mem-
ber of the city council, hospital
board and both the Upper Leon
Municipal Water District and Bra-
zos River Authority. He is a Viet-
nam war veteran and member of
the American Legion Post 222 and
Hamilton Chapter of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars. He currently
DAVID LENGEFELD
serves as chairman of the board of
deacons at First Baptist Church in
Hamilton and teaches young adult
Sunday School.
In his professional career, he has
been in hospital administration, a
retail merchant, banker, cattleman
and for the past 16 years owned
and operated Lengefeld Insurance
Agency with offices in Hamilton
and Hico.
State Representative Allen Place
(D-Gatesville) recently announced
he will not seek re-election to the
post. Clairetle rancher-business
owner Becky Farrar will seek the
seat on the Republican ticket.
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