Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 103, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 26, 1985 Page: 1 of 46
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Election filing ahead
By DAWN ALBRIGHT
Enterprise staff
LIVINGSTON - Candidate! for
the May primary elections may
begin filing Jan. 4. The deadline for
filing is Feb. 3.
Offices up for election in
November’s elections are county
judge; county clerk; district clerk;
commissioners for Precincts 2 and
4; justice of the peace for Precincts
J, 2,3 and 4; county surveyor; 258th
District judge; and U.S. Represen-
tative for District 2.
To file, a candidate must have
signatures from 1 percent of county
residents who voted for the winner in
the last gubernatorial race, about 96
signatures, or pay a filing fee which
can range from $400 to $600 depen-
ding on the race.
Caixfidates should file with the
chair of the party of their choice.
So far, two people have informally
announced they will run for county
judge - incumbent Wayne Baker
and Polk County Democratic Party
Chairman Perry Tanner.
Republican Julian Gordon has an-
nounced candidacy for the 2nd Con-
gressional District seat. He will run
against incumbent Charles Wilson,
D-Lufkin.
Polk County Republican Party
Chairman George Perrin said he
does not know what other members
of his party will run far office, or
which seats they will run ler. "We
will have some candidates in there,
though,” he said.
Perrin said he has not handed out
any petitions yet.
Petitions may also be obtained
from the secretary of state.
USD bids opened
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LIVINGSTON - Livingston In-
dependent School District trustees
met in a special-called session Mon-
day morning to open bids on con-
struction of three moveable
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TRUE MEANING-The
Apostolic Bible Center’s
living nativity, held
Monday night near the
city park, reminds us of
the true meaning of the
holiday. See related
story pg. 2A.
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the middle school campus.
Seven firms submitted bids, with
Ron Shaw Builders, Inc. offering the
best price: $36,900 for all three
buildings.
The school board authorized Ac-
ting Superintendent E.P. Lewis to
award the bid to Shaw provided bon-
ding requirements can be worked
out. The school district’s attorney,
Bill Jones, told the board that the
project was not bid as a bondable
job, but said a bond may be needed
to satisfy legal requirements.
“A payment bond is more impor-
tant than a performance bond in this
case," Jones said. A payment bond
is for the benefit of the subcontrac-
tors, he explained, adding that if a
contractor does not pay subcontrac-
tors a lien can be placed against the
property. He said the district can
avoid bonding requirements if they
pay for each of the three buildings
separately as each is completed.
The board instructed Lewis and
Jones to work out a payment
schedule and possible bonding re-
quirements with Shaw. If those mat-
ters cannot be worked out, they are
to negotiate with the next highest
bidder, Hartmann Brothers Con-
struction.
Hartmann bid $39,942 for the pro-
ject, but included approximately
$3,600 in the bid for school-grade
carpeting, which was not listed
among the bid specifications.
The three, 24x36foot moveable
classrooms will be placed on the
south side of the middle school,
parallel to the building.
Driver fatigue
Ilk!
Expansion in cable's future
blamed for wreck
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By DAWN ALBRIGHT
Enterprise staff
jLLIVINGSTON - Livingston
Cablecom may carry as many as 14
more channels in the future, said
Livingston Cablecom Manager
Frank Coatney.
CablCcom’s franchise is in the pro-
cess of transfer from Capital Cities
Communication to the Washington
Post, which has bought Capital
Cities. When the franchise is renew-
ed, Livingston Cablecom will begin
adding new channels, said Coatney.
The Washington Post has submit-
ted proposals for the franchise, sug-
gesting some changes from the
former franchise, said Livingston
City Attorney Jim Wright.
Washington Post has suggested
making the franchise longer than
nine years, he said.
Wright said no significant action
will occur until after the first of the
year, but the sale of the 180 systems
I in Capital Cities to the Washington
Post should soon be final.
Wayne Neal of LUfkin, area direc
I tor for Cablecom, said he hopes the
proposals will bring the Livingston
I franchise into compliance with the
Cable Communications AOt of 1984.
I Wright explained that the new law
will diminish the importance of fran-
I chises in the future, since it takes
much control away from the local
will be primarily that of the cable
company leasing the electric lines
from the city, Wright said
A cable television franenise is a
deal made between a city and a
cable company, Wright said.
level. Cities will have little say about
programming. The relationship bet-
ween the cable
company
aiid the city
Local broadcasters
KETX Channel 5 Requested at the
Nov. 12 Livingston City Council
meeting ! ) be put on cable channel 5,
where K66CA Channel 66 is now.
KETX suggested that Channel 66 be
moved to cable channel 6, presently
occupied by Beaumont’s Channel 6,
a network affiliate, and that Channel
6 be dropped from the system. Hal
Hgley, KETX owner, said it would
be better for his station to be on
cable 5.
Twelve people and represen-
tatives of several community
organizations, presented their sup-
port for KETX at the meeting.
Although the Federal Communica-
tions Commission has set aside the
“must carry” rule, which required
companies to carry network sta-
tions, Livingston Cablecom is reluc-
tant to drop Channel 6. Cable com-
panies have been trying to get the
rule dropped for years, and few com-
panies want to abuse the new
freedom by being the first to start
dropping stations, Coatney said.
‘‘We’re not going to take oneoff to
put another one on, that defeats the
purpose ^nd makes peeple mad,”
said Coatney. H
Channel 66 also opposes KETX’s
idea. Paul Broyles, president of In-
ternational Broadcasting Network,
whjch owns K66CA and a station in
Lufkin, said his station would
receive interference from Channel 5.
In a letter to the Enterprise,
Broyles wrote: “For the past 18
months, our signal on cable has been
subjected to electromagnetic in-
terference from Mr. Haley’s televi-
sion station. Were Channel 66 to be
moved to cable channel 6 we would
experience even greater in-
terference fr6m KETX-FM, which
transmits on a frequency very close
to that of channel 6.... The existing
interference to our cable signal is
quite annoying to many of our
viewers, and we would not want the
problem to be made worse by the
change that had been proposed.”
Channel 66 has been on cable for
several years, Broyles said.
Channel 66 would-be less likely to
get interference from KETX if the
change were made, said FCC in-
vestigative engineer Robert Darl-
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Since a cable system is a dosed
system, interference is usually caus-
ed by cable leakage, or broadcast
signals getting into the cable line,
said Darling.
Channel 66 receives interference
from Channel 5 because 66 is on
cable 5. “They’re better off to carry
5 on 5, theh there will only, be
ghosting,” Darling said. The
ghosting would be the result of the
KETX broadcast signal interfering
with the KETX cable signal, but
since they are the same image, there
would be only ghosting.
Darling said interference with
cable channels is usually a problem
with the cable system.
No complaints have been Tiled
with the FCC against KETX, said
Darling. If a cable company allows
interference to exceed a certain
limit, it could be fined as much as
$10,000, he said.
Wayne Neal said he knows of no in-
terference in the Livingston cable
system, and any experienced can
usually be Fixed at a person’s house.
“It’s that 66 is on cable 5. People
may have a VCR or video game or
something that could act as another
antenna for the television. It picks
up local channel 9 at the same time
See NO ps. 2A
LIVINGSTON - Driver tatique
was listed as the probable cause of a
one-car accident which injured a
22-year-old Humble woman Friday
night on the Trinity River Bridge on
U S. 50.
Theresa Mae Rosa was north-
bound in a 1978 Oldsmobile Cutlass
when the vehicle left the roadway to
the right, about 1.8 mites south of
Goodrich. The car travelled approx-
imately 320 feet in a (fitch before
sliding into a dry river bed and strik-
ing a concrete column, according to
Highway Patrol Trooper Robert
Johnson.
Rosa was taken to Livingston
Memorial Hospital with “non-
incapacitating” injuries. Nocharges
were filed in connection with the ac-
cident, which occurred at 5:90 p.m.
A two-vehicle collision Dec. 19
resulted in minor in juries to two Liv-
ingston men. The injured men -
Donald Cantrell and Gill Y’Barbo,
both 26 - were passengers in a 1964
Chevrolet pickup truck driven by
Robert Earl Cater, 24, of Livingston.
Cater’s vehicle and a 1976 Chevrolet
pickup truck driven by John H.
Laird, 75, of Livingston were travell-
ing on U.S. 190 2'x mites cast of Liv-
ingston when Laird slowed to make
a left turn into a private drive. Cater
told investigating officer. Trooper
Tom Oleinik, he saw Laird’s brake
lightejwt was unable to stop in time
to avoid a collision, according to the
highway patrol accident report.
Cater was charged with driving
while intoxicated and with wearing
no seat belt.
A car/pedestrian accident at 2
a m. Dec. 15 sent a Tommy G.
Marsh of Livingston to Lufkin
Memorial Hospital with a fractured
right ankle. Chester A. Merryman,
53, of Livingston was parked on
private property aad was backing
out onto the Segno Oil Field Read,
7.8 miles south of Segno when the ac-
cident occurred.
See PEDESTRIAN pg. 2A
Wagon train to visit
By DAWN ALBRIGHT
Enterprise staff
; ‘ LIVINGSTON - Polk County will
* host the Texas Wagon Train Jan. 18
and 19 on the first leg of its six month
to celebrate Texas’ 150th
journey to
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The
Sunday evening, there will be an
outdoor worship service at Lake Liv-
ingston State Park, said Sherri
Baker, chair of the Livingston
Wagon Train Committee.
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six months with the wagon train,
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White, Barbara. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 103, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 26, 1985, newspaper, December 26, 1985; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth781283/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.