Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 64, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 11, 1996 Page: 1 of 62
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Budget approval ahead
LIVINGSTON - Friday was the
deadline for applications from can-
didates for the position of superin-
tendent of the Livingston Independ-
ent School District and the school
board has called a special closed
meeting for 6:30 pjn. Wednesday
to interview candidates.
The board’s regular monthly
meeting will be held at 7 p.m.
Thursday, at which time the board
may announce its candidate for the
position, the name of whom must,
according to a new state law, be
posted for 21 days before formal
action is taken, possibly on Sept 3.
Items on the agenda for
Thursday’s regular meeting include
a hearing on the proposed 1996-97
budget and possible adoption of
that budget and a tax rate. Prelimi-
nary figures indicate a tax rate of
$1.44 - $1.23 for maintenance and
operation and 21 cents for interest
and sinking -- will fund the budget.
The district’s present tax rate is
$1.4353.
Trustees will also consider ap-
proval of a student code of conduct,
the district’s accreditation report
for 1995-96 and revised guidelines
for filling District Advisory Com-
mittee vacancies when they occur
during the year.
Under information items, the
board will hear updates on the Na-
tional Honor Society program at
the junior high and high school, the
STAR program and on the
academic alternative program.
The board will also consider ap-
proval of a transfer fee for out-of-
district students; bids on insurance,
custodial products and surplus bus
sales; a building use agreement
with Angelina College; policy up-
date number 51 from die Texas As-
sociation of School Boards and
bids received oh the sale of delin-
quent tax properties.
Trustees will go into closed ses-
sion to discuss personnel resigna-
tions and employment and the sub-
stitute teacher list
Court eyes storage space
LIVINGSTON - Having already
moved the Department of Emer-
gency Management and custodial
and maintenance departments to the
former Jackson Industrial building
across from the courthouse, the
Polk County Commissioners Court
is seeking amendment of the build-
ing lease to include additional
space in an adjacent warehouse.
If approved, the county will use
half of the space fra records and
equipment storage and will sublet
the remaining half to the hospital
for storage.
Amendment of the lease agree-
County included
in measles alert
LIVINGSTON - Although there
have been no confirmed cases in
this county, the Texas Department
of Heal* has issued a special
measles immunization alert for per-
sons in Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity
✓ and Houston counties.
The health department is recom-
mending that children between the
ages of 1 and 4 years old in these
counties have at least one dose of
Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR)
vaccine, preferably two doses, ac-
cording to Janice Carter of the
Texas Department of Health
Region 4 and 5 Immunization
Program in Tyler.
There must be at least a 30-day
interval between the first and
second dose.
In Trinity County, where one
measles case has been confirmed in
an 11-month-old infant visiting
relatives in that county, health
department officials are recom-
mending infants 6-11 months be
vaccinated with a single-antigen
measles vaccine, or the MMR vac-
cine if measles vaccine is not avail-
able.
Adults and older children who
have not been vaccinated are also
being advised to get vaccinated.
Specifically, the health department
is recommending that all persons
over 4 years of age and bom on or
after Jan. 1,1957, residing in Polk,
San Jacinto, Trinity and Houston
counties should have at least two
doses of a measles-containing vac-
cine (MMR or single-antigen
measles vaccine, preferably two
doses of MMR). Again, there must
be at least a 30-day interval be-
tween the first and second dose.
Currently, state law requires only
that children receive a second
MMR shot by age 12, but the ad-
visory has been issued in hopes of
preventing a measles outbreak.
Measles is an extremely con-
tagious viral disease spread through
the air by droplets from the nose,
throat and mouth of an infected
person. Health department officials
say that, even if a child is exposed
to the disease, the threat can be
minimized if he or she received a
vaccination within three days of the
exposure.
While the one Trinity County
case is the only confirmed instance
in this area, 15 such cases have
been confirmed in the Houston
area.
In response to the recent measles
outbreak, the University of Texas
Medical Branch (UTMB) at Gal-
veston is offering measles im-
munizations at the following clinic
locations:
Corrigan: 207 W. Ben Franklin.
Livingston: 410 E. Church St.,
Suite C, (409) 327-5003.
Huntsville: 1217 Avenue M.
Crockett: Northridge Plazz,
Hwy. 287 North.
WoodviUe: 109 W. Live Oak.
Nacogdoches: 206 Mims Plaza.
In addition, free measles im-
munization clinics will be held
from 1-6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, at
Lansberry Elementary School in
Trinity and at the fire station in
Groveton. Immunization records
should be brought to the clinics.
ment is among the items on a brief
agenda for Monday’s regular meet-
ing of the commissioners’ court.
The meeting will begin at 10 a.m.
The court is also slated to con-
sider offers to purchase tax
foreclosure properties in Lake
Hideaway No. 2 and Foresters
Retreat No. 1, approve appointment
of a Polk County Historical Com-
mittee member, and consider ap-
proval of the county treasurer’s
quarterly report fra die third quarter
of fiscal year 1996.
Appointment of a county repre-
sentative and alternate to the
Southeast Texas Rural Conserva-
tion and Development board, atten-
dance of the veterans service of-
ficer at an annual state conference
and appointment of a county health
authority will also be considered.
Commissioners will also con-
sider bids on die sale of a surplus
truck from Precinct 1, a 1996"
budget amendment request and a
personnel policy update.
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BIRTHDAY PARTY - Donna McIntyre of to represent the state flag. Fra more
the Polk County Heritage Society and Miss coverage of Thursday’s sesquicentennial
•Folk County LeAnn Wilkey light the candle- celebration for Polk County and Livingston
s on a huge birthday cake, consisting of over sec pages 6-7A.
250 cupcakes colored in red, white and blue
Bodies of couple found in hunt club
By JOHN MORRISON
Contributing writer
WOODVILLE - The waiting is
over for relatives of a Woodville
couple who had been missing since
July 16, as a pair of volunteer sear-
chers who were patrolling a hunt-
ing club around 11 a.m. Thursday,
about five miles south of the Har-
mony community in Tyler County,
made the discovery.
The two first discovered the el-
derly couple’s car and then the
bodies, which were located some
50 yards away from the vehicle.
The car was mired on a 45-degree
angle on a narrow hunt trail culvert,
wheels unable to move.
Autopsies have been ordered in
the deaths of Gordon Anderson, 90,
and his wife, Ethel, 81, by Tyler
County Precinct 1 Justice of the
Peace Wanda Brasher, but
authorities have indicated they do
not suspect foul play.
The first individual volunteer
searcher to happen on the scene
was Stacy Tillery of Woodville,
who first saw the vehicle from a
distance as she rode up on her all-
terrain four-wheeler (ATV). "I
knew what it was when I saw it."
She said she then ran back to get
her volunteer companion, who was
searching on another ATV, Clyde
F. Lambert, also of Woodville, who
then went up to the vehicle to in-
vestigate and called authorities.
Funeral services are scheduled
for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the First Bap-
tist Church in Woodville, with in-
terment to follow in Magnolia
Cemetery, Woodville.
The daughter of Gordon Ander-
son, Jean Anderson Goar of Frisco,
expressed her feelings the day
before the find, saying, "It is in-
credible how the people of Wood-
ville care about these two people. I
need to express my gratitude. As a
community you have turned
tragedy into triumph on one level.
It is difficult to remain at the mercy
of time and space, but your concern
has made a way to have peace and
be comforted in this unthinkable
circumstance."
Dale Horton, son of Ethel Ander-
son, who is a minister at Kingwood
United Methodist Church, and his
wife, Anna, were in Woodville
Friday finalizing details fra the
Monday memorial services.
Gordon Anderson had served on
the Woodville City Council for
some 27 years.
The search fra the couple was
spearheaded by Woodville Police
Chief Scott Yosko, who marshaled
county and state agencies in the
search, which began when the
couple was first reported missing.
A break in the case came when a
Silsbee logger first made the con-
nection between televised reports
and news articles he read in the
Tyler County Booster.
According to police reports, the
logger had reported for work in his
log truck about 6 a.m. on Tuesday,
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July 16. He reportedly said he
found the couple, who had spent
the night in the car, pulled the
couple out of the ditch, and then
gave them directions back to the
main highway. They hadn’t been
seen since.
The deceased couple and their
car was found about two miles
from the location where they were
originally pulled from the ditch 23
days earlier in the southwest quad-
rant of Tyler County. The couple
had turned into the 11,000-acre
Warren Hunt Club, traveling down
the bumpy and narrow maze of
hunt club roads and then tried to
turn around and come back, but to
no avail.
Law enforcement agencies alone
estimate they traveled at least
12,000 miles of county roads in
their search effort and then relied
on individual and corporate land-
owners to assist in the search by
looking over their own property.
Airplanes and helicopters were also
used in die search process.
"It was hard to direct a search,"
said Yosko, "because we were
using two-week-old information
and didn’t have a concentrated area
of search."
Yosko said there was also a
reported sighting in the southeast
quadrant near the Fellowship Bap-
tist Church community. The tip
turned up empty.
Dress code discussion slated
GISD to host budget hearing
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COUPLE FOUND - The bodies of Gordon Thursday, mired on a narrow hunt club road,
and Ethel Anderson, an elderly Woodville Autopsies have been ordered, but authorities
couple missing since July 16, were found do not suspect foul play,
near their car, which was discovered
GOODRICH -- The Goodrich
Independent School District Board
of Trustees will hold a public hear-
ing on the district’s proposed 1996-
97 budget from 6:30 to 7 p.m.
Thursday, prior to the board’s
regular monthly meeting.
During the regular meeting,
beginning at 7 p.m., trustees will
review a number of communica-
tions, including a copy of an order
from Federal Judge William Wayne
Justice changing the date for the
Iforest Springs detachment hearing,
which had initially been scheduled
for July 26, and a letter from the
Texas Education Agency transmit-
ting official notification of the 1996
Accreditation Status and Account-
ability Rating for each campus.
Loraine Barnes, chairman of the
district’s Site-Based Decision Mak-
ing Committee, and a teacher
delegation have requested to speak
to the board concerning the 1996
student dress code. Later in the
meeting, the board will consider re-
scinding the student/faculty dress
code as adopted in May.
Approval of easements to Sam
Houston Electric Cooperative for
installation of underground power
through the school district will be
considered, as will an amendment
See BUDGET pg. 3A
Annexation, gas system
among Onalaska's topics
ONALASKA - Discussion of
annexation of Onalaska peninsula
and action toward compliance with
the National Flood Insurance
Program through die Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency are
among the items on the agenda for
Tuesday’s regular meeting of the
Onalaska City Council.
Also slated is discussion with
Entex concerning the city’s natural
aving unit, and
ns Systran, discussion with John |
Matin concerning the tale of the
system's peak shavB
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The council 1
p.m fra a budget workshop and the
regular meeting will begin at 7 p.m.
The meeting will be held in Onalas-
ka City Hall, at FM 356 South and
Old Trinity Road.
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White, Barbara. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 64, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 11, 1996, newspaper, August 11, 1996; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth820255/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.