Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 72, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 16, 1984 Page: 1 of 32
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The dominant news and advertising source in Polk County, since 1882
VOLUME 102
NUMBER 72
3 SECTIONS 32 PAGES
USPS 437-340
PRICE; 25 CENTS
Begins Oct. 12
Festival schedule growing
LIVINGSTON - Events and par-
ticipants for this year’s Polk County
Folklife Festival are being added
almost daily, with a variety of contests,
shows and entertainment already on
the tentative agenda.
The festival will officially begin Fri-
day, Oct. 12. Art, craft and food booths
will be located on and around the cour-
thouse square beginning Friday morn-
ing and will remain open through all
three days of the event.
Another main attraction on Friday
will be the displays and costumes which
can be seen at various businesses
throughout town. The Friends of the
Library will begin their book sale on
Friday, in the 200 Block of West Mill
Street; a canning exhibition will be
held; the antique show, to continue
through Sunday, will open and quilts
and teddy bears will be exhibited both
Friday and Saturday.
A moon ride will be on the Affiliated
grocery store parking lot all three days
of the festival.
Top performers
Music will dominate the agenda Fri-
day night, with county-western singing
star Johnny Rodriguez slated to per-
form at a concert and dance at 8 p.m. at
the Barney Wiggins Memorial Park
Rodeo Arena. Rodriguez will be joined
by the Whiskey River Revue for four
hours of entertainment. Tickets for the
concert and dance are $7.50 and are
currently available at the Polk County
Chamber of Commerce office.
Gospel singing, featuring a variety of
local and visiting groups, will also be
held Friday night. The gospel singing
will begin at 8 p.m. in Florence Crosby
Auditorium, Livingston High School.
All of the art, craft and food booths
will be open again early Saturday mor-
ning. Winning entries in the canning ex-
hibition will be displayed as will the
winning entries in the school poster con-
test.
Parade growing
At this time last year only a handful
of entries had signed up for the Folklife
Festival parade, with most waiting un-
til a few days before the festival to com-
mit themselves. This year’s event
seems to be drawing more enthusiasm,
however, according to Polk County
Chamber of Commerce Executive
Secretary Honey Simons, who cited 25
parade entries as of Friday.
Those entries include several hun-
dred Shriners; Livingston Christian
Academy; the Lake Livingston Guide
and Marina Association; Reeves Tire;
Safeway; Dickins Land Co.; Onalaska
Lions Club; Livingston Elementary
School PTO; Cajun Fence Co.; Liv-
ingston Oil Co.; a Model T; Ben Cline;
Dean Krell and his country band; Liv-
ingston DECA; the VFW Auxiliary; the
Polk County Garden Club; Miss Polk
County; the Pilot Club theme float; the
Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reserva-
tion; Let’s Dance Studio; First State
Bank; Teresa Jacobs, queen of the
Longhorn Breeders Association; theCB
Club and Onalaska Barber Shop.
Many more have expressed an in-
terest in the parade, but have not yet
signed up, according to Simons. Those
wishing to register for the parade can
do so at the chamber office or by calling
the chamber at 327-4929.
The parade will begin at 10 a.m.
Parade participants are reminded
that city ordinance prohibits the throw-
ing of items from parade floats. All en-
tries are to be in position to be judged
by 8:45 a.m. The parade lineup will be
published in the Enterprise prior to the
festival.
Robert C. “Bob” Willis is this year’s
parade chairman.
Other Saturday events
Saturday is by far the busiest day of
the festival. Among the events on the
tentative schedule is a 42 tournament,
costume judging and washer and
horseshoe competition, all at the Senior
Citizens Activity Center in Livingston;
individual costume judging; an antique
car show at First State Bank; a dunking
booth in the Affiliated parking lot; a
cake walk op Mill Street; the Leo Club’s
celebrity look-alike exhibition; a karate
demonstration; firemen’s water polo
and pumper races; square dance and
clogging exhibitions; a beard contest,
bubble gum competition and
demonstrations of old-time equipment
at the museum.
The Jonas Davis log cabin will be the
site for storytellers.
An awards ceremony will be held at
4:30 p.m.
From 8 p.m. until midnight there will
be a disco dance at the rodeo arena.
Booths will remain open on Sunday,
as will the moon ride and antique show.
Simons reminded all festival par-
ticipants that there are to be no raffles
held in conjunction with the Folklife
Festival. An attorney general’s opinion
received last year indicated raffles are
a form of gambling and are prohibited
by law.
DWI suspects total 151
Crackdown pays off
LIVINGSTON - A Department of
Public Safety Selective Traffic En-
forcement Project (STEP), aimed
specifically at removing driving while
intoxicated suspects from the rural
highways of Polk County, resulted in
the arrest of 151 DWI suspects during
the six-month period from February
through August, 1984.
Project coordinator, Sgt. Roy Henry
of the Livingston DPS office, said DPS
troopers made the arrests while work-
Police Report
ing 1,088 overtime hours on their vaca-
tions and off-duty days. “The DWI
patrol was in addition to the regular
assigned patrol shifts in the county, the
sergeant said.
Most of the overtime hours were over
the weekend.
“We were especially interested in the
‘drunk hours’ between 11 p.m. and 3
a.m.,” Henry said.
Although the DWI enforcement team
was designed to zero in on drunk
drivers, the troopers also apprehended
other law violators. “The special
detachment of officers issued 570 cita-
tions for speeding out of the total 1,088
arrests they made while patroling an
extra 23,038 vehicle miles during the
period,” he added.
The six-month-long DWI-STEP pro-
gram ended Aug. 31.
Funding for the STEP was through
the Traffic Safety Section of the State
Department of Highways and Public
Transportation.
Credit theft charged
LIVINGSTON - A 22-year-old Liv-
ingston man was arrested by Liv-
ingston police Tuesday and charged
with credit card abuse by theft.
According to Police Chief Larry
Macomber, who worked the case,
Ricky Lynn West was found to be in the
possession of Texaco and Gulf credit
cards belonging to Billy Lee Friend of
Cypress. The cards were in his
daughter’s purse, which was reportedly
stolen from a car while she was swimm-
ing in Shelter Cove subdivision in Polk
County, Macomber said.
The Texaco card was used locally by
the suspect at least twice and was also
possibly used in Houston, the chief said.
West was arrested on a warrant from
Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Calvin
Wells, who did not immediately deter-
mine bond.
Two persons were released on bond
after being arrested Thursday night for
possession of less than two ounces of
marijuana. Wells issued a search war-
rant after an informant reported seeing
marijuana at the Larry Dobbs
residence on Ogletree Street in Liv-
ingston. Officers found a quantity of
marijuana and arrested Dobbs, 27, and
20-year-old Barbara James Harwood at
the scene.
Livingston Police Department of-
ficers Chris Gentz, Mike DeVilleneuve
and E.G. Page and sheriff’s deputies
Ricky Davis and Quentin Purvis work-
ed the case.
Three burglaries are currently under
investigation by city police. A burglary
at Livingston Junior High School was
reported Thursday morning by Prin-
cipal D.D. Golden. Glass was broken
out of a window on the east side and
several offices were entered,
Macomber said. The amount of loss and
damage was undetermined at press
time. Gentz is the investigating officer.
Also under investigation is a burglary
at the Charles Gerlach residence on
Drew Street, reported last Sunday.
Both the front and back doors were
forced open and an undisclosed quanti-
ty of silver was taken, according to the
police chief. Sgt. Jim Harwood is the in-
vestigating officer.
An undisclosed quantity of cash was
reported missing following a burglary
at the Jimmy Fuller residence on West
Noblitt Street. Entry was gained by for-
cing open the back door, Macomber
said. Sgt. Harwood is the investigating
officer.
City police are also investigating two
forgery reports. A check for $345, writ-
ten to a Billy J. Potts on the account of
Listo Refining Co., was passed at Big
Star. The police chief said Potts is also
wanted by officers in Columbus and
Lake Jackson. Gentz is the in-
vestigating officer.
A Republic money order, altered
from $10 to $210, was passed at
Brookshire Bros. Macomber is in-
vestigating the forgery.
Goodrich to review
sewer grant status
GOODRICH - The Goodrich City
Council will hold a special meeting
Tuesday to hear a report on the status
of the city’s applications for state and
federal grants to build a city sewer
system.
The city has applied for funding from
the Environmental Protection Agency
and the Texas Department of Water
Resources for Community Develop-
ment grants for the system.
The EPA funds will cover approx-
imately 75 percent of the estimated
$750,000 cost of the system.
The council is also exploring low-
interest loans or grants from the state
for upgrading the city water system in
conjunction with the sewer construc-
tion.
The city would like to have all
residents and businesses within the city
limits on the water system to facilitate
billing for sewer use since everyone will
be forced to tie into the sewer.
Fire hits
residence
LIVINGSTON - A house in Coun-
try wood subdivision, just east of Liv-
ingston, sustained extensive damage
due to a fire early Thursday morning.
The two-story structure, belonging to
Troy Cloudy, was fully involved when
firemen arrived, with flames already
shooting through the second story roof,
according to Livingston Fire Marshall
Wayne Keller. The fire apparently
started on the first floor, but the exact
cause of the blaze was undetermined at
press time, he said.
Members of the Livingston Volunteer
Fire Department stayed at the scene
approximately one hour before the
blaze, reported at approximately 2
a.m., was extinguished.
The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. in ci-
ty hall.
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Did you know?
He looks so young to go to war.
Not nearly as young as he looked here in a hastily issued army uniform
obviously too big for him, Patrick Stanfield was either 17 or 18 at the time,
about 1916. The late brother of Suzie Tullos of Ace, Pat was the youngest
of several brothers who served during World War I.
He told his sister he was standing by a tree with a buddy once in the
Argonne Forest in France when some premonition told him to move. As
he did, a piece of shrapnel struck barely missed him. His buddy was not
so lucky; he was lulled at Pat’s side.
Patrick himself, returning shell shocked, died not long after the way —
in 1923 — but not before he married and fathered two children. Several of
his grandchildren live in the Cleveland area.
The Enterprise has attempted to honor as many as possible of those
WWI servicemen who fought for their country in Europe. More pictures
and more articles will be found in the Enterprise’s Folklife edition of Oct.
7.
Onalaska ISD taxes up 33 percent
Board member chosen
By SAM PENDERGRAST
Contributing Editor
ONALASKA - Buddy R. (Bob) Stutts,
water department foreman and owner
of a new hardware store here, was
elected to the Onalaska Independent
School District Board of Trustees Tues-
day during the regular monthly
meeting, at which the board also
boosted local school taxes by some 33
percent to 86 cents per $100 of valuation.
The board also hired a part-time
school nurse, approved $47,206.59 of
vouchers for payment, tidied up books
for the end of the fiscal year, voted to
hire an attorney to seek satisfaction on
building defects and heard a report
from new Principal Billy Joe Hooper.
Stutts, who was not at the meeting,
was elected on votes by Joe Hans, who
nominated him, Lew Vail and Terry
Stepan.
George Allemang nominated and
voted for Bruce Bowden on the grounds
that Bowden nearly defeated Allemang
in the last school board election.
Haynes polled everyone present for
nominees from the floor but there were
none.
Nelda Loper resigned Thursday dur-
ing the special school board hearing on
the proposed tax increase.
The appointment is effective until the
next school election in April, according
to Superintendent Jake Sherman, who
said the Loper-Stutts slot will be filled
for another year from April because
that is the amount of time remaining on
Mrs. Loper’s term of office.
The tax boost had been expected
following trustees’ recent studies in-
dicating the loss of some $97,000 in state
funds as a result of legislative reshuffl-
ing of school funding and massive man-
datory teachers’ salary increases due
to cost the Onalaska district another
$77,000.
In answer to a query from Yvette
Crudgington from the audience, Sher-
man traced the development of House
Bill 72 from the summer legislative ses-
sion in which “they attempted to do
several things, including refunding and
reforming...and trying to equalize the
schools. We are one of the unfortunate
ones that lost state aid...and in addition
they gave our teachers increases in
See BOARD pg. 2A
Computer financing
on hospital agenda
LIVINGSTON - The Board of
Managers of the Livingston Hospital
District will consider methods of finan-
cing a new computer system and hear
the auditor’s report for the last fiscal
year during their September meeting
Tuesday.
The board has already authorized the
purchase of the computer, but has not
decided whether or not to finance it.
The auditor will report on the
hospital’s financial statements for the
fiscal year that ended June 30.
The board will considered building
maintenance problems and possible im-
provements.
The report from Hermann Hospital
on long-range planning for the hospital
is expected to focus on the present
building and the board's options for the
future.
Hermann manages the hopsital under
contract with the board.
The board is expected to authorize
the administrator to advertise for bids
for new office space for the Home
Health Agency.
Other items on the agenda include the
administrator’s report, equipment pur-,
chases, approval of emergency room
physicians and personnel matters.
The meeting begins at 5 p.m. in the
hospital conference room.
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