Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 148, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 22, 1989 Page: 1 of 14
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Sulphur Springs_____ Thursday
First phase of lake project is progressing
Spillway construction
Cooper Lake coast ruction workers lay filler sand along, tbe spillway
of Ike lake in preparation for the eventual laying of concrete on the
spillway. The sand, which will allow for a better base for tbe con-
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crete surface, is replacing the natural gray shale found in the area.
Congress will consider package legislation next week that includes
$31 million for 1990 work on tbe project.
—SUIT photo by Scott Keys
It’s back on track
despite heavy rain
By SCOTT KEYS
News-Telegram Staff
Phase 1 of the Cooper Lake con-
struction project is back on track af-
ter a delay due to last week’s heavy
rains and is now close to 40 percent
complete, according to Scott Bain,
project engineer.
Bain met Wednesday with
officials of the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers and the Sulphur River
Municipal Water District to give an
update on the progress on the lake
and to lead a tour of the projects
currently underway.
A second public tour of the lake
is being planned for sometime in
October, according to Walter Helm,
president of the Sulphur River
Municipal Water District The tour
will begin at the construction
entrance and will come out on the
Cooper side of the lake, Heim said.
Hampered by the rains, earth
moving machines are back at full
speed and flooding problems have
now subsided, according to Bain.
“The rains have slowed us some
on the earth work, which is the
main part of phase 1," Bain told the
group. “We had to slow down on
work during the day, which is when
we do most of the earth moving,
but they have been able to work
during the night on the concrete
work. That work wasn’t hurt by the
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Construction is progressing on
the spillway, which is now ap-
proximately 20 percent complete.
according to Bain. He said workers
are in the process of relocating four
cemeteries in the lake area to new
sites and are about to start putting
up the final fencing around the
lie, which will run 23 miles on the
north side of the project.
Bain said state Parks and
Wildlife officials are currently sur-
veying the boundaries of the pro-
posed parks in the lake and could
start construction by next April,
though that most likely would be
the earliest date they would begin.
“Everything is moving along at a
pretty good pace,” Bain said. “If
we can get a week’s worth of dry
weather we will be able to get a lot
accomplished.”
Workers are being slowed on the
south part of the lake where they
are building up the retaining walls „
of the lake. The dirt is being
brought in from a “borrow" area,
which is so far off from the actual
lake area, construction is not going
as quickly as hoped, Bain said.
Similiar construction on the north
side of the lake is going much fas-
ter because the “borrow" area is
closer to that site.
/ Also currently under construc-
tion is a bridge which will run four
feet over the spillway and a con-
crete water release structure, which
is a 10V4 ft in diameter pipeline en-
cased in concrete. Water will be
released through the structiae al-
most continuously, Bain said. Tbe
structure will also include a fishing
platform that will be open to tbe
public.
Cooper Lake details
U.S. Corps of Engineers project engineer Scott
Bain, far right, and Sulphur River Municipal
Water District President Walter Helm, third from
left, indicate an area now Med with trees that will
be removed from what wiM be tbe Cooper Lake
Boor. Tbe clearing contract is expected to be
authorised in January. Joining Bain and Helm on a
tour of tbe lake was, from left, Billie Bob Steele,
Pete Wersal and CoL John E. Schaufelberger of tbe
1)5. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Senators unveil comp proposal
; By PATRICE GRAVINO
AiwriUof A»n Writer
AUSTIN (AP) -
proposal to reform
fen in key areas from the House
plan, bat lawmakers should be able
are
of the Senate measure says.
Sen. Kent Capenon, D-E
who wrote toe new Sew
workers’ comp with Sea. John
Montford. D-Lubbock, predicted
lawmakers would agree on a single
solution before the 30-day special
nesday unveiled their plan to
change the state’s 75-year-old sys-
tem that pays benefits to workers
killed or injured on the job.
During the 140-day regular ses-
sion, the House mid Senate each
passed workers’ comp bills, but
legislators failed to settle differen-
ces before the session ended May
29.
Capenon said he thinks law
“I think we'll get it done...if we
very xemhochcally go through it
and taft about what we’re trying to
accomplish.” Capenon smd. “I
think we’re a lot closer, and thereT
not a lot of pomuring going on, and
that's good.'
I Montford on Wed-
makers can reach an atoeement
time “very easily" witttin the allot
ted period
Rep..Richard Smith, R-Bryan,
author of the revised House bill,
said he had not examined toe new
but he listened to
an it by toe Sarnie
Sure Affairs Comm Sine.
The Senate panel urns expected
to pass the bdlao toe full Senate
today.
proved and sent to the Senate.
Each bill eliminates the trial de
novo procediae, which currently al-
lows injured workers to appeal a
decision by the Industrial Accident
Board to a state district court for a
complete rehearing.
The Senate bill, however, retains
some form of jury review, which
the House measure rejects.
“We dunk if the goal is to mini
mue lawyer involvement and get
claims settled earlier in the process,
we do it mate efficiently’’ toan the
Mse proposal, said Capenon
“If the goal is to engage in
in law-
yer-bashing, then I don’t think
that's worthwhile. Some people are
going to need lawyers." Capenon
Other areas where the bills differ
the House bill it scheduled far
debate today and could be ap-
ncT^reaponability for
and safety regula-
Legislators plan to appeal
veto of lake zoning plan
By MARY GRANT
News-Telegram Staff
Gov. Bill Clements says 10,000
feet, almost two miles, of Hopkins
County zoning authority extending
from the shoreline of Cooper Lake
is too far out.
Sen. Bill Ratliff and Rep. Pete
Patterson disagree.
The state legislators plan to ap-
peal the governor’s veto last week
of legislation that would have al-
lowed Hopkins County to establish
zoning around the $140 million
lake project now under construc-
tion.
They said this week that they
were surprised at the veto of the
proposal because it had received no
other opposition.
Ratlin, R-Mount Pleasant, said
he hopes to persuade the governor
to return the measure for considera-
tion during the current special ses-
sion, if time allows.
“I had intended to talk to the
governor’s staff and find out what
distance they might accept — and
if they had time in this session to
consider it. (However.) with two
years away or more with filling (of
the lake), I think we can come
back. I don’t think its a lost cause,”
the senator said.
He added that he hoped to
determine what distance the gover-
First quarter growth
more than expected
By MARTIN CRLTSESGER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
U.S. economy grew at an annual
rate of 4.4 percent in the first three
months of the year, slightly better
than previously believed, the go-
vernment repotted today.
However, the Commerce De-
partment said more than half the
growth in the gross national prod-
uct came from a rebound from last
summer's drought, a one-time
boost that is more of a reflection of
the government's accounting meth-
ods than a measurement of the real
economy.
Discounting the bookkeeping
entry to return expected farm pro-
duction this year to its pre-drought
levels, growth actually slowed
dramatically in the January-March
quarter.
The non-farm economy grew at a
sluggish annual rate of 1.9 percent,
compared with a 3 J percent rate in
the final three months of 1968.
Tfris slowdown is in line with .
many economists’ expectations
Private analysts predict the U.S.
economy will slow dramatically
this year under toe unpact of an
anti-mflatian campaign waged by
the Federal Reserve The central
bank in March 1988 began to drive
interest rates higher in an effort to
dampen demand.
The new GNP report contained
some good news on the inflation
front as a GNP price index rose at
an annual rate of 4.6 percent, down
from a preliminary estimate of 5
percent a month ago.
Tbe increase in the GNP price
index that measures a fixed
markeibasket of goods was up only
slightly from a 42 percent increase
in the fourth quarter of 1988. The
government said the downward
revision came from slower price
increases far farm products and in-
dustrial supplies than earlier es-
timated.
Mmy analysts are predating that
overall growth will slow this year
to what is known as a growth
recession, a period when the eco-
nomy keeps expanding but at such
a sluggish pace thm unemployment
rises.
Some economists believe that is
already occurring. After falling to a
15-year low m March, toe un-
employment rare has risen to 57
percent, with job growth (hopping
in May to its slowesi pace in three
While the expectation of slower
growth this year is vvamBy imiver-
— a hot debate over
into a
nor would accept for the zoning re-
quirement in an attempt to reach a
possible compromise.
Patterson, D-Brookston, said. “I
just think he made a bad judgment
... We could have explained to him
that it was a local bill that only af-
fects Cooper Lake ... We’U have to
try it again, but he probably
wouldn’t put it on call for a special
session. It will be two years on
down the way before we can get to
it and a lot will have happened to it
(the lake area) by then.”
The proposal was initialed by
Hopkins County Commissioners
Court in an attempt to regulate de-
velopment. aesthkically and en-
vironmentally, in the lake area,
officials said.
County Judge Joe Pogue said.
I’ve got to try to find out what on
earth he means by doing that
Maybe we can explain why we
need il”
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 148, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 22, 1989, newspaper, June 22, 1989; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth823761/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.