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CLL.~.. — iat ieut Historical
Commission recently notified Elizabeth
Tbrrence, chairman of the Bosque County
Historical Conrn. ssion, that the state
marker review board has appioved the
Clifton Whipple Truss Bridge for a Re-
corded Texas Histone Landmark desig-
nation.
This status is awarded to properties
deemed worthy of preservation for their
architectural integrity and historical
associations
The status also conveys a measure of
legal protection to the structure, as noti-
fication of any modifications to the exte
Bridge
ation
nor <: the structure must be made to the
Texfci Historical Commission at least 60
days prior to the commencement of work
The cost of the marker, $550 has been
paid nv the Clifton Civic Improvement So-
ciety
The iron bndge over the North Bosque
River is located just outside the city lim-
its of Clifton, on county road 333, 1 mile
southwest of FM 1991 This historic land-
mark, built in 1864 which is still in use
today for limited travel, bears witness to
the County's ever-changing transit history
On June 19. 1884. the Bosque County
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TWO SECTIONS PLUS SUPPLEMENTS
— Serving Bosque County Since 1895 —
C ifton, Texas 76634 VOL. 100, NO. 41 • WEDNESDAY, OCT. 11, 1995
Clifton Council Tours Water
Supply, Treatment Locales
By David Anderson
GENERAl ASSIGNMENTS £01 TOE
CLIFTON - Members of the Clif-
ton City Council and officials with HDR
Engineering. Inc., Austin, toured wa-
ter distribution projects at Palo Pinto
and Granbury on Saturday, Sept. 30.
Mayor Truman Blum, Aldermen Walter
May and Evelyn Wnght, and City Sec-
retary M E. (Betty) Barron attended the
tour designed to highlight water dis-
tribution systems similar to one
Clifton’s council is considering.
The group toured the Hilltop Water
VERTICAL TURBINE PUMPS were inspected up-close by Clifton
City Secretary M.E. (Betty) Barron (far right) and Mayor Truman
Blum (left of Barron) during a recent tour of facilities at Palo Pinto's
Municipal Water District.
— Photo Courttty HDR Enflinooring, Inc
Treatment Facility at Palo Pinto. HDR
was retained to design facilities to im-
prove water treatment at the existing
plant.
Facilities include a new 360-million
gallon off-channel storage reservoir
with an earthen dam, a new pump sta-
tion at the reservoir, and pipelines di-
verting water into and out of the
storage location. Also viewed was ero-
sion repair at Palo Pinto Dam.
The council toured Mo Pinto’s chan-
nel dam, the raw water pump station
and pipeline, an automated water treat-
ment plant, and the off-channel stor-
age reservoir
The group then proceeded to Lake
Granbury’s surface water treatment
system in Johnson County.
Tbured were a raw water pump sta-
tion and pipeline, and an automated
water treatment plant which blended
ground water with surface water.
"This wa« a really productive and
informative trip for us," saidMayor
Blum.
“We got the chance to really aee an
in-stream dam diverting waterUrto a
pump station and then into an offehan-
nel reservoir,” he said.
HDR arranged the tour so that coun-
cil members could see operating plants
similar to those proposed in a joint
water study funded by the Cities of Clif-
ton and Meridian and the Texas Water
See WATER TOl’R, Pag* 4A
CHECKING THE TOOTH - Bosque County Sheriff Tim Gage and Deputy Cheryl Neimier check out a
tooth found at the grave site near Cedron Creek. One of the teeth found during the morning hours was
the tooth that allowed positive identification that the skeleton found was that of Emilita Reeves In the I
background, Blaka Goertz of the Waco DPS Laboratory, slowly goes through bone residue in the grave.
— StBfl Photo By C«rol Moulton
Two Quilt Auctions Slated For CLSH
Skeletal Remains Found In Bosque
County Draw National Interest
CLIFTON — Clifton Lutheran Sun-
set Home will hold its fourth annual
quilt auctions on two days in October.
The first auction will be held at
Advent Lutheran Church in Arlington,
on Oct. 14, at 10:30 a.m.
The second auction will be held in
conjunction with the Bosque Risin’
New Water
Tower Is Up
More Work To Be Done
Before Beginning Its Use
By David Anderson
•ENERAl ASSIGNMENTS EDIT OK
. CLIFTON — Residents in and visi-
tors to Clifton have been greeted by
an unfamiliar site in recent days as a
new water tower looms high above the
city. The 200,000-gallon storage struc-
ture was erected at the southwest edge
of town.
Workers with Caldwell Tanks had
erected the tower and mounted the tank
some 160 feet off the ground in s mat-
ter of day*. The tower is located on
Krueger Hill .behind Goodall-Witcher
Hospital.
Persons expecting an immediate rise
in water pressure had better think
again, however, as more work must be
See TOWER, Page 2A
High Hot Air Balloon Rallye in Clif-
ton on Saturday, Oct. 21. The auction
will be held at the Clifton Airport,
Isenhower Field, at 12:30 p.m.
Proceeds form these auctions will go
toward the purchase of new furnish-
ings for the Clifton Lutheran Sunset
Home’s demential special care unit.
Founded in 1954, the home is a nurs-
ing home and retirement center which
provides five levels of care for approxi-
mately 300 residents. The home is
sponsored by 43 Evangelical Lutheran
Church of America congregations.
By Carol Moulton
CUFTON RECORD STAFF REPORTER
MERIDIAN — Almost one year af-
ter Emelita Reeves was reported miss-
ing in Arlington, a positive
identification was made Monday
evening, Oct. 2, on a body found by
bow hunters on Sunday, Oct. 1, off
Highway 56, near Cedron Creek in
Bosque County.
MOUNTAINS OF QUILTS — 140 quilted items, including 82 full-size quilts, have arrived at Clifton
Lutheran Sunset Home from ail over Texas and Louisiana. The quilts ars being organized by Betty Smith
and Elaine Bell (left to right), co-chairman of the upcoming auctions, along with many other volunteers.
— Staff Photo By Carol Moulton
Emelita Reeves, 26. was the fourth
wife of Jack Reeves, 54. who was ar-
rested less than one year ago in con-
nection with the murder of his second
wife, Sharon, who died in Copperas
Cove in 1978.
The remains of Emelita were
stumbled over in a cedar break at about
9:30 Sunday morning. The skull and
much of the body was above ground in
the vicinity of a shallow grave.
Bosque County Sheriffs Deputy
David Booker was the first officer on
the scene. By 10 a m., the skull had
been identified as a human skull.
A call was made by the sheriffs de-
partment to Dr. Harrell Gill-King, di-
rector of forensic anthrpologv at the
University of Texas at Denton, so that
arrangements could be made to pick
up the available skeleton, and start the
identification process.
Dr. Gill-King's first assessment at
the scene was that the bodv was that
of an Asian woman, between the ages
of 20 and 30, that had been buried
about one year
At 7 a.m. Monday morning, Bosque
County ShernffTim Gage, along with
others from the department, and from
the Texas Department of Public
Safety’s Laboratory in Waco, started
excavation of the 13- to 14-inch deep
grave.
While Sheriff Gage and Blake
Goertz of the DPS lab did most of the
inch-bv-inch investigation of the grave
area, they were assisted by Deputies
Buster Mangham, David Booker, and
Cheryl Niemeier. DPS lab personnel
Pat Almanza and Jodie Sing sifted the
See SKELETON, Pig* 3A
Clifton Youth Baseball
Switches League Alliance
By David Anderson
GENERAL ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR
CLIFTON - Members of the Clif-
ton Baseball Association decided to
drop affiliation with Little League
Baseball, Inc., and switch to an alli-
ance with Texas Teen-Age Baseball/
Softball. The decision was reached in
a meeting last Wednesday attended by
members of the CBA Board of Direc-
tors and general membership. A total
of 20 persons attended the session.
Dissatisfaction with tournaments
sending All-Star teams and the lack
Schmidts Deliver David At Home
By Carol Moulton
FEATURES EDITOR
CLIFTON — At 10 p.m. Sunday night Steve
and Diane Schmidt knew they weren’t going to
make it to the hospital for the birth of their
fourth child. Far that matter, when they reached
the side of the pickup truck parked in front of
the house, Diane said, it’s coming.
Tve never seen two people so calm,” said
Steve’s mother, Joy Schmidt. *1 was a com-
plete basket case!”
Counting the minutes between la-
bor pains, Steve and Diane got their
three boys, Bennett, 6, Elliott, 4, and
Robert, 2, into bed and called Joy to
come and watch the children while
they went to the hospital.
A few minutes later, headed for the
hospital, Diane and Steve made it only
to their front yard when they asked
Joy to call 9-1-1 and report that a baby
waa coming. As Joy was repeating this
to the dispatcher, Steve called out ai d
told her to tell them, The baby is here.”
When Steve asked Joy to get a towel
for the baby, the dispatcher thought
■he was going to hang up and told her
not to. Joy said that all she could tell
her was that she wasn't going to hang
up, she was just getting a towel — what
she was too flustered to explain was
that she was talking on a portable
phone. Steve said that this was one
instance when it came in real handy.
He was even able to talk with Tiffany
Bly, the dispatcher while helping
Diane
Steve said that Diane had delivered
Robert at home, with a midwife, and
so they were somewhat prepared for
situations like these; but, he had only
seen the birth before, never helped with
it.
The Schmidts did have a bulb-sy-
ringe on hand for clearing the baby's
airwaves, so that within the few min-
utes it took for the ambulance to reach
the house, T-Med personnel Joel White
and Jimmy Hosk.a*. had only to clamp
and cut the umbilical cord, make sure
mother and child were stable, and
transport them to the hospital.
*He was born at 10:10, and we were
at the hospital by about 10:30,” Steve
said. The paramedics were really quick
Sc« SCHMIDT, Page 2A
of tournament availability for the lo-
cal fields were instrumental in the de-
cision to switch leagues.
While Clifton has not hosted a Little
League tournament in several years,
a district administrator told CBA
President Kitsv Spitzer that Clifton
would be guaranteed a post-season
tournament if it stayed with the Little
League organization.
“I’m not sure that’s something we
want to do. It comes a little late,”
Spitzer said.
With the new affiliation, Clifton will
be free to hold pre- and post-season
tournaments as fund-raisers.
Tournaments brought to Clifton will
Se* SWITCH, Pag* 2A
GTE Extends Local
Calling Between
Clifton, Morgan
COLLEGE STATION - GTE will
extend local calling for all customers
in the Morgan telephone service area,
beginning Oct. 25. Under the new plan,
all calls to and from Morgan and Clif-
ton will be billed as local calls. Calls
from Clifton to Morgan will also be local
calls.
“Prior to the start of Extended Local
Calling, each call between these areas
was billed separately as a long-distance
call, and customers would see a long-
distance charge per call on their
monthly bills,” said Lynn Morrison,
area manager. “Now, these calls are
equivalent to local calls.”
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Smith, W. Leon. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 41, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 11, 1995, newspaper, October 11, 1995; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth788770/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.