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-THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Spring*, Texas, Sunday, June 1 1980.
deaths Crime fund needs rescue...
Avis Stracener
Mrs. Avis A. Stracener, 70, of
2507 South Tyler in Dallas died
at 7 p.m. Friday at the Skyline
Nursing Home in Desoto.
Mrs. Stracener was born Nov.
8, 1909 in Hopkins County to
John and Julia Oldham Wright.
She married John Stracener
in Hopkins County on Dec. 14,
1935.
Mrs. Stracener was a
member of the Baptist church.
Services will be conducted at
2:30 p.m. Sunday in the
Greenview Church with the
Rev. Guy Mays and the Rev.
"Orville Walker officiating.
Burial will be in Greenview
Cemetery. • )
Survivors include her
husband; two sons, Iceman
Stracener of Brashear and John
Stracener of Duncanville; five
bothers, H.L. Wright of Bay
City and L.C. Wright, O.L.
Wright, J.A. Wright and James
Wright, all of Dallas; two
sisters, Mrs. Pearl Oneal of
Lubbock and Mrs. Ola Smith of
Carrollton; eight grandchildren
and two great-
greatgrandchildren.
Serving as pallbearers will be
Johnny Stracener, Ricky
Stracener, Randy Stracener,
Billy Paul Wright, l^arry Morris
and Currin Stubbs.
Tapp Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
Harvey Sims
Harvey C. Sims, 54, 503 At-
chley Drive, Granbury, died
Friday in a Fort Worth hospital.
Survivors include his wife,
Linda; daughters Mrs. Linda
Hill of Sulphur Springs and Mrs.
Beth Waldrep of Granbury;
sons Gifton Sims of San Diego,
Tim Waldrep of Greenville and
Mark Waldrep of Granbury; six
grandchildren; his mother and
step-father, Mr. and Mrs. C.C.
Duncan of Gladewater; father
and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs.
Bernard Sims of Granbury; and
a brother, Marshall Sims " of
Monroe, Conn.
Graveside rites were held at
the Rough Creek Cemetery in
Hood County at 3:30 p.m.
Saturday, with the Rev.
Garland Johnson officiating.
Martin’s Funeral Home of
Granbury was in charge of
arrangements.
Local
Livestock
Cattle and Calves: Estimated
two day receipts 1250 compared
with 1585 last week and 1681
year ago. Compared with close
of week ago. Slaughter cows
$2.00-3.00 lower early, closed
$3.50-4.50lower; Slaughter bulls
$2.00-3.00 lower; Feeder cattle
and calves near steady to mid-
week closed $1.50-2.50 lower in
slow to moderately active
trade. Medium frame 1-2; steer
and heifer calves under 300 lb.
firm. Represented
replacements were too poorly
tested to Thursday. Ap-
proximately 275 arrivals for
Thursday sale steady to weak.
Slaughter Cows: Utility 2-3;
39.00-45.00; Mostly 40.0043.00;
Yg. 4-5; 37.5041.50; Canners
and Cutters 36.5042.00; Few
low canners 33.00-36.00.
Slaughter Bulls: Yg. 1; 1050-
1650 lb. 51.50-56.50.
Feeder Steers: MF 1; 205-280
lb. 96.00-1.16; 300-400 lb. 84.00-
92.00; 400-500 lb. 81.5085.00; 520
560 lb. 72.0079.00. MF. 1-2; 285-
400 lb. 78.0085.00; 400490 lb.
70.0077.00. LF. 1-2; 320415 lb.
72.0078.00; 540630 lb. 62.00
69.00. LF. 1-2; 640780 lb. feeder
bulls 52.00-58.50. Feeder
Heifers: MF 1; 290400 lb. 73.00
77.00; Few 190250 lb. 80.001.10;
400500 lb. 62.5089.00; MF. 1-2;
2804101b. 69.0074.00; 400490 lb.
65.0068.00. Large frame 2; 320
390 lb. 66.5071.00; 500615 lb."
54.0063.00; Mostly 56.0062.00.
OUR POLICY
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SAVING YOU MONEY!
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By LEE JONES
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A former
Corpus Christ! resident says Ho thanks God
for the Texas Crime Victims Com-
pensation Fund, which rescued him from
financial disaster after three strangers
beat and stabbed him in a parking lot.
The fund and those who administer it
coulfl use a rescue operation themselves.
A miscalculation of the amount con-
victed criminals would pay into the fund
left it with half the revenue legislators
anticipated. Claims have flooded in, but
understaffing has slowed processing to a
snail’s pace.
The 1979 legislature created the fund to
pay hospital bills, funeral expenses and
lost wages for victims of violent crimes
committed after Jan. 1,1980.
"Financial stress” is a requirement for
getting help, which means the fund largely
benefits poor people who have no
hospitalization insurance and work at jobs
without sick leave.
The Corpus Christi man, for instance,
had no insurance, and his lost wages were
Just that —lost.
His $7,000 in hospital and medical bills
were paid from the fund, which also
reimbursed him $1,051.84 for wages he lost
while recuperating.
“I can only thank God for your won-
derful efforts to make my life, after an
otherwise disastrous event, return as close
to normal as it has,” the victim said in a
letter to the Texas Industrial Accident
Board, which operates the fund.
The biggest award thus far was $11,000
to an assault victim from a small town in
Williamson County. An assailant struck
him so hard with a rifle that the blow broke
the rifle stock and crushed the right side of
his head. Surgery included removal"of an
eye, and medical bills totaled $9,908. The
victim also received the maximum $150
per week for lost wages, totaling $1,260
with more to come.
So far, 564 persons have sought help, 93
have been turned down and 33 have
received awards totaling $90,000.
The fund, meanwhile, received $477,433
between Sept. 1, the day-it was activated,
and May 15.
That sounds like a lot, but it’s not when
ohe looks at the flood of applications. The
legislature figured monthly revenue to
the fund at about $160,000 but it has run
only about $80,000.
Convicted felons pay a $15 “court cost”
into the fund, and persons convicted of
Class A and Class B misdemeanors - the
only kind involving possible jail time —
pay $10.
Jerry Belcher, the fund's administrator,
says revenue predictions were too high
because everybody forgot that most
misdemeanor convictions are probated A
probated conviction is not final, meaning
the defendant pays nothing into the fund.
“We are going to bring all this to the
attention of the Legislature,”.he said.
Another problem is staffing. Belcher has
three employees, and five persons on the
attorney general’s staff also process
claims.
Belcher has tried to keep staffing low
because each new salary means less
money for crime victims.
“The attorney general’s people are
working their butts off,” he said.
Yet it takes an average of 45 to 50 days to
process a claim, says Kelly Reimers, who
heads the victims compensation section of
the attorney general’s office.
Reimers’ staff verifies the facts of a
crime and determines whether the victim
is cooperating with police — a requirement
for aid.
Non-cooperation is a majpr..reason for
rejecting claims, Reimers said. Victims
have passed up as much as $10,000 to
$12,000 in medical help because they are
“deathly afraid” of revenge if they help
convict their assailants: ,
Reimers said one way to build the fund is
impose court costs on persons convicted of
traffic offenses, minor drug possession,
public intoxication and other low-grade
misdemeanors.
Prisoners' lobbyist Giarles Sullivan of
Citizens United . for Rehabilitation of
. Errants, suggests paying convicts $1 a day
for their labor, with 50 cents going to the
victims compensation fund. The wages
would come from prison system profits on
convict-made products.
There also is a possibility some counties
have been less than diligent in collecting
and remitting court costs to the fund.
Collections have not been proportionate to
the size of counties. In March, El Paso
County sent ih $14,000 while Dallas County
paid $7,690 and Tarrant County $3,282.
"There is 'nothing we can do if the
counties don't send it in. But we can audit
them and give them a bill. Some of the
counties are being set up for audit now,”
said Tony Proffitt of the state comp-
troller’s department.
Some public hospitals are finding it
worth while to encourage crime victims
file claims with the fund for help with their
medical bills.
More claims have been filed from San
Antonio, where public hospitals are in a
financial crisis, than from any other city.
“They are making application forms
available to every individual who appears
to be a victim of a crime,” Reimers said.
Despite its problems, the fledgling
program has gotten off the ground and is
making life easier for dozens of Texans,
such as a young Dallas woman who fought
off a rapist but ran up $5,000 in medical
and psychiatric bills that the fund paid.
Light turnout seen for runoff
By GARTH JONES
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A
thin line of Texas Democratic
and Republican voters will
complete their nomination next
Saturday of party candidates
for the November general
election.
The second party primaries,
completely dominated by
presidential politics in recent
weeks, are expected to attract
less than 750,000 of Texas’ 5.3
million eligible voters, ac-
cording to the secretary of
state.
About 2 million voted in the
May 3 primaries, which in-
cluded a presidential
preference poH by both parties.
The Democratic ballot will
contain the only statewide
runoff contests — two for the
Texas Court of Criminal Ap-
peals and one for the Texas
Supreme Court. less than
500,000 Democratic voters are
expected.
Also on Democratic ballots in
various parts of the state will be
two runoffs for district
congressional seats and 14
places in the Texas House.
There are no statewide
contests on the Republican
ballot. The only runoffs are for
a Republican nominee for
Congress and two GOP
nominees for the state Senate.
In 1978, the second
Democratic primary attracted
Tyler pair headed
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back to courtroom
ROCKWALL, — Sharon Ann
Morgan, 25, and Charles Ray
Black, 25, both of Tyler, will be
going to trial here Monday
charged in a felony theft
shoplifting incident.
The two previously were
convicted in Eighth Judicial
District Court here of theft
charges stemming from a
shoplifting incident in which
leather coats were taken from a
Sulphur Springs store. The
Rockwall trial is based on
similar charges.
They were arrested in
Sulphur Springs on March 10
after Garry Hall of Carothers
Brothers spotted the two late
that afternoon.
The two allegedly had
shoplifted four men’s leather
coats at the local store earlier in
the day.
Police stopped the couple and
found over $1,000 in mer-
chandise from LouNell’s
Fashions, J.C. Penney Co. and
Carothers Brothers in their car.
The couple used a gift-
wrapped box with a false bot-
tom to remove the merchandise
from the stores, investigating
authorities said.
They were indicted by the
Hopkins County Grand Jury on
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The couple’s trial here was to
have begun on April 29, but they
were late for the trial and
Eighth Judicial District Court
Judge L,anny Ramsay held the
two in contempt of court and
assessed them a three-day
sentence in the Hopkins County
Jail.
District Attorney Jim
Chapman reported on May 2
that the jury had deliberated 12
minutes in deciding the two
were guilty as charged in the
Sulphur Springs case and Black
was assessed a seven-year
sentence at the Texas Depart-
ment of Corrections and Miss
Morgan, a two-year sentence.
Those convictions have been
appealed.
On May 9, the Hopkins County
Grand Jury returned another
felony theft indictment against
the two from an earlier
shoplifting incident at Bealls
Department Store in which
several leather coats were
taken.
Those charges are still
pending against the two Tyler
residents.
The charges in Rockwall
County also involve the
shoplifting of leather coats.
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759,000 \lpters, mostly because
of a hot race for the Texas
Railroad Commission. There
also were four runoffs for
Congress.
In the runoff for Place 1 of the
Texas Supreme Court, to
succeed retiring Associate
Justice Zollie Steakley,
Democrat John C. Phillips, 62. ..
former chief of the Austin Court
of Civil Appeals, faces Jim
Wallace, 51, a former state
senator and now on a Houston
court of civil appeals. The
winner faces Republican at-
torney Jim Brady, 59, Austin, in
November.
The two Court of Criminal
Appeals races are strictly
Democratic, with no
Republican opponents in
November.
For Place 2, incumbent Judge
W. T. Phillips, 67, meets Austin
attorney Michael McCormick,
34.
In Place 3, incumbent Judge
Tom G. Davis, 58, is opposed by
Austin attorney Edith Roberts,
47.
In one of the hottest
Democratic congressional
races, in District 14, Nueces
Judge Robert Barnes, Corpus
Christi, is in a runoff with
William Patman, Ganado,
former state senator. The
winner meets Republican C.L.
Conklin, Corpus Christi, for the
right to succeed Rep. Joe
Wyatt, D-Bloomington, who
resigned.
In the other Democratic
congressional race, District 22
in Houston, Robert Gammage,
former congressman from the
district and a former state"
senator, meets Michael An-
drews of Houston. The winner
will meet Rep. Ron Paul, R-
Texas, who defeated Gammage
in 1978.
The sole Republican
congressional race has John
Biggar and Jack Bower, both of
Austin, competing to face
strongly entrenched Rep. J.J.
"Jake” Pickle, D-Texas, in
November.
The two Republican races for
state Senate are in the Houston
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enrolled in child care
playschool should report to the
high school homemaking
department at 8:30 am.
Monday. Clothing construction
classes for homemaking
students will begin at 1 pun.
Those enrolled in clothing
classes arc expected to bring all
sewing supplies on the first day.
THE QUESTION of Do We
Need a YMCA" will be ad-
dressed at a 7 p.m. Monday
meeting of interested citizens in
the courtroom of the Police
Building. Local civic jind social
leaders have been invited to the
meeting to disdtiss the question
BRENT SOUTER. son of Mr
and Mrs. John Souter of
Fayetteville. Ark. and grandson
of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bradshaw
of Sulphur Springs, is the
recipient of the Fayetteville
Chamber of Commerce
Scholastic Award. A student
must maintain a 3.5 grade
average to attain the honor.
Brent was a ninth grade student
in Woodland Junior High School
during the past year. He for-
merly attended school in
Sulphur Springs.
and Galveston areas.
Richard Parker Jr. meets
O.J. Striegler in Houston for the
right to oppose incumbent Sen.
Jack Ogg, D-Houston. James E.
Brown and Ed Stuart, both of
Galveston,, are in a runoff to
meet incumbent Sen. A.R.
Schwartz, D-Galveston.
The 14 Democratic runoff
races for state representative,
by districts, include:
District 3. David Brown
Henderson vs. Jim McWilliams,
Hallsville.
6. Oscar Brookshire, Lufkin,
vs. William Winston, Lufkin.
10. Ixiwell Cable, Sulphur
Springs, vs. incumbent Rep.
Smith Gilley, Greenville.
15. Jim Turner, Crockett, vs.
incumbent Rep. Emmett
Whitehead, Rusk.
18. Rodney Dwayne Tow,
Woodlands, vs. Russell F.
Wiggins, Conroe.
27. John Robert Gladney,
Corsicana, vs. Tom C. Waldrop,
Corsicana.
33. George W. Black,
Stephenville, vs. Bruce Gibson,
Godley.
33-G. Charles Rose, Dallas,
vs. Steve Wolens, Dallas.
47. Bob Lunsford, Pleasanton,
vs. Joe Moron, Beeville.
57-H. Incunbent Rep. Don
Cartwright, San Antonio, vs.
Joyce Dorrycott, San Antonio.
59-A. Eddie de la Garza,
Edinburg, vs. Juan Hinojosa,
McAllen.
80. Paul Colbert, Houston, vs.
Ray Lemmon, Houston.
84. Incumbent Rep. Herman
Lauhoff, Houston, vs. Clint
Hackney, Houston.
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COME AND SEE!
THE AMERICAN
Association of Retired Persons
will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday
in the Wesley United Methodist
Church fellowship hall, A
covered dish dinner will be
served. Mr. and Mrs. Grady
King and Jim Moore will
present the program Members
are encouraged to invite guests
THE CITY Cemetery Society
will meet at 10 am Monday in
the board room at Peoples
National Back.
HENRY HUNTER, principal
of MiQer Grove LSD. has an-
noraced that si students have
been inducted into The Society
of Distinguished American
High School Students, They are
Donna Gad White. Lon Ann
Hall. Lisa Kay Gorman,
Frances Michelle Prater.
Stephen Ray Sparks and Jarrell
Delane Malone
DR MYRNA R Pickard. 8361
Anglin. Fort Worth, has been
nominated to Who's Who m
Health Care' and will be listed
.in the second vohsne to be
published sc die spring of 1981.
She a the da set ter of Mr and
Mrs Wallace Swindell of Reilly
Springs A graduate of Sulphur
Springs High School she a now
the dean of the School of Nur-
sing at the University of Texas
at Arlington.
THE MEDICAL auxiliary s
Taste-Tea will be held m the
Woman s Building Friday. June
6. The 12 luncheon fare s^ill
consist of all the recipes
featured in the group's cook-
book. which sells for SS The
money raised from the ap-
petizers, soaps, entrees and
dessert& goes toward the Wfi
medical field scholarship given
to a graduating senior each
year The public is invited to
attend. Hours are 1136 ajn.
until 1.3(3 pjn-
POSEY BAPTIST Church's
Vacation Bible School will begin
Monday and run through
Friday It will meet from 1 to
3:36 pm., with classes for all
ages and every one welcome.
SUMMARY REPORTS of the
Texas Assessment of Basic
Skin* tests given to fifth and
ninth grade students in the
Sulpha- Springs school system
will be presented to trustees at
a special noon session Monday.
The tests involved reading,
writing and math. The board
also will consider the purchase
of Blue Blazes uniforms.
SULPHUR SPRINGS High
School graduate Dr. Roger
Arnold has been promoted to
professor at ESTU He was the
vocational agriculture teacher
at North Hopkins School for
many years before moving up
to ETSU His wife, Jean Arnold,
is a business administration
teacher at Sulphur Springs High
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RICKY DON Deaton, 208
Jonas St . has received an
Achievement Honor Award of
$256 from Austin College in
Sherman. The awards are
available to outstanding
students who have maintained
excellent records of service in
school, church or community
activities. Deaton is the son erf
Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Deaton.
Kids told steal
or go, hungry
FELICITY, Ohio AP)—.
A 12-year-old girl caught
shoplifting Kooi-Aid and cat
food from a grocery store
told police that her older
brother repeatedly ordered
her and other family
members to steal the food
they ate, the police chief
says.
“I got very upset when I
saw what was going on,”
Ray Hesler, police chief in
this southwest Ohio town
near Cincinnati, said Friday
The brother. George Hale
Jr., 21, was charged with
contributing to the
delinquency of a minor and
was freed on $1,000
recognizance bond. County
social service workers were
seeking foster homes for five
, children m the family under
the age of 16.
She told os everything as
soon as she was caught,”
Hesler said of the 12-year-
old -She had been trained
pretty well, but I couldn’t see,
her go through a thing iike
that -a juvenile shoplifting
charge for something she’s
really not responsible for.”
Hesler and Clermont
County Deputy Sheriff Barry
Creighton went to the coo-
verted trailer three miles
outside town where Phyllis
Hale, 45. a widow, has lived
with her eight children for
the past two months
‘ Living conditions were
intolerable The bds were
drawing their water from a
well the next field over.”
Creighton said
DENNIS ALAN Ballard,
George I Alexander and Dayne
Scott Woodall of Sulphur
Springs are among 957 high
school boys from over Texas
who are participating in the
40th annual American Legion
Boys State program in Austin.
The week-long event opened
Saturday on the campus of the
Jmaverelty-xjf'Texas
AMERICAN LEGION Post
No 642 and its auxiliary will
meet Monday at 8 p.m. in the
Tira Community Center.
Members are urged to be
present for an important
business discussion. Visitors
will be welcomed.
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