Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 22, 1987 Page: 1 of 22
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CLEVELAND,
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Friday, May 22, 1987; Two Sections, 20 Pages 25*
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DATELINE
Cleveland
DRUG AWARENESS DAY will be held in the Truly
Plaza parking lot near Burger King tomorrow from noon to 4
p.m. Children will be fingerprinted, free of charge, for child-
identification purposes, posted by Deputy Sheriff Willie
Carter, the program will feature a guest speaker and talks by
Liberty County Sheriff E.W. “Sonny” Applebe and CPD’s
Detective Larry Allen, Chief Harley Lovings and Captain Ike
Hines.
BAND BOOSTERS To raise
money toward scholarships for Royal ^§3
Braves Band members to attend band
camp in California, the Cleveland Band
boosters will host a Star Roller Rink
Skate-A-Thon on May 25 from 6 to 9
p.m.
O F FIC E S C LOS E D Cleveland City Hall and all other ci-
ty and county offices will be closed May 25 in commemora-
tion of Memorial Day.
GARAGE SALE The Tarkington Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment will host a sale today and tomorrow at the fire station
on U.S. Highway 59. The proceeds will go toward the pur-
chase of new equipment for the department. Those wishing to
donate items may call after 6 p.m., 592-2295 or 592-5813.
Everyone is invited to the sale in support of the TVFD.
AWARDS ASSEMBLY The Cleveland Junior High
School will host an awards assembly by grade level in the
school auditorium on May 25. The assembly for grade 6 will
be held at 10:10 a.m.; grade 7 at 1:35 p.m.; and grade 8 at
8:15 a.m.
BUILDING TRADES BANQUET The Building
Trades Banquet, originally scheduled May 19, will now be
held May 25 at 7 p.m. at Boyett’s Restaurant.
PIE MEETING The Northside Intermediate School’s
PIE meeting will be held May 26 at 7 p.m. at the school. For
more information, call Sharon Rawlings at 689-6972.
GHOST RIDERS The Ghost Riders Horse Club’s mon-
thly meeting-will-begin at 7:30 p.m. on June 2 in the Austin
Memorial Library Auditorium. All interested persons are in-
vited to attend.
CLEVELAND "FIRST SATURDAY" will be held
on June 6,9 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the Shady Lane Gift Shop. Spon-
sored by the Cleveland Area Merchant Association, in
cooperation with the Greater Cleveland Area Chamber of
Commerce, the event will feature “collectible” items, arts
and crafts, clowns and food. Booth space is still available, $10
a booth for organizations, clubs, civic groups and individuals.
For information, contact the Cleveland Area Merchant’s
Association “First Saturday” Chair Doris Whatley at 592-
0919, or drop by the Shady Lane Gift Shop on Hanson St.
VFW WHITE ELEPHANT The Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post 1939 will host its white elephant sale and barbeque
on June 6 in commemoration of D-Day, the day allied forces
landed in Normandy during World War II.
1982 CLASS REUNION The 1982 graduating class of
Cleveland High School will celebrate a five-year reunion
June 20 at Wolfe Creek, beginning at 10 a.m. Lunch will be
served at 1 p.m. For more details, contact Carolyn Grayson
after 2 p.m. at 593-1765, Tanya Jenkins at 592-2913 or; after 5
p.m., Jade Whelihan at 689-0185.
San Jacinto County
BOWL-A-THON The Family Recreation Bowling Center,
three miles south of Livingston on U.S. Highway 59 (behind
Texas Brag and Lee’s Rotunda) will host a bowl-a-thon, with
the proceeds going to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, on May
30 beginning at 1 p.m. Children under 12 will bowl free;
everyone else will bowl at a special reduced price, 80 cents.
Sponsor sheets may be obtained at the center, Cleveland City
Hall or the Dolen Baptist Church. For more information, call
Donna Winters at 592-6636 or Yvonne Griffin at 592-3244.
State
MINIMUM-SECURITY PRISON UPDATE The
Texas Department of Corrections Board, which voted on May
12 to build four low-security prison units within the state,
have announced they will go out for bids from private con-
tractors — in accordance with the Senate’s passage of HB 251
authorizing TDC prisons to be managed by private com-
panies — on or about May 24. Among cities vying for site
selection are Cleveland and Liberty.
Inside Today’s Advocate
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™ CHURCH NEWS........................ 8A
TRENDS............. 9a
WEEKENDER................. IB
WEATHER OUTLOOK
THURSDAYS TEMPERATURES: High Thursday upper
80’s low in upper 70’s. Partly cloudy, 40 percent chance of
thunderstorms.
TODAY: Partly cloudy, 20 percent chance of showers. High
in the upper 80’s, low in the low 70’s.
AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK for the Texas Rice Belt:
Average rainfall amounts; moderate to heavy dew; 6 hours
of sunshine.
RIVER FORECAST (next 24 to 48
hours): Minor flooding on the
Guadalupe River; most other major
south and southeast Texas rivers are
expected to remain within banks.
RAINFALL: Month — 4.20 inches, nor-
mal 3.04; so far this year — 12.29 in-
ches, normal 16.42 inches.
More indictments expected in Jones case
Charged: capital murder
By GEORGIA WISNIEWSKI
Advocate Reporter____
SAN JACINTO COUNTY -
The charges of murder were
upgraded to capital murder
Wednesday against four
Cleveland men accused of the
shooting death of 66-year-old
Louis Jones on Dec. 4,1985, in
his home in San Jacinto
County.
The four men, Dwight
McDuffie, Calvin McGowan,
Floyd Wyatt and Willie Hines
were arrested and charged
with murder May 14 and
placed under $100,000 bond
each.
Following the testimony of
Sharon Deffebaug, former
girlfriend of McDuffie and
niece of the murder victim,
before the San Jacinto County
Grand Jury Wednesday, the
charges were changed to three
counts of murder in each case.
the burglary of a habitation.
San Jacinto County District
Attorney Joe Price said that
evidence indicated that Mc-
Duffey hired McGowan and
Wyatt to kill Jones. He said
that the murder occured
during burglary of the murder
Jones' body was found in the
bedroom....bound, blindfolded
and shot twice
The three counts were victim’s home and the robbery
capital murder, murder of his wallet and money,
committed during a robbery his wallet and money,
and murder committed durine Jones’ body was found in the
By BETTY MARTIN
Advocate Editor_
CLEVELAND — Nearly a
decade since the last
American troops were
withdrawn from fighting in
Southeast Asia, a welcome-
home parade is planned for
Vietnam veterans in Houston
tomorrow.
The “Great Texas Welcome
Home Vietnam Veterans
Stand-Down and Veterans
March,” in which General
William C. Westmoreland will
join an estimated 200,000
veterans and their families
from throughout the nation in
a march down Main Street in
Houston, will be the
culmination of a dream for
Cleveland resident Rueben
“Sugarbear” Johnson, one of
the event’s primary coor-
dinators.
“I started working on this in
1985,” Johnson said. “That’s
when I went to New Mexico for
a Vietnam vets’ reunion. I got
fired up, and went off to
Austin, on behalf of the
Houston Foundation for
Vietnam Veterans, to ask for a
state resolution honoring the
forgotten Vietnam vet. The
bill got to the House floor, but
it got lost somewhere in
committees.”
Johnson said his efforts
were undiminished by that
setback, however. “I got with
Gary Franks (executive
director of the Houston
Foundation), and we started
working on this. We contacted
veterans from all over the
United States, and the support
was there.
“It’s proper that the
returning Vietnam vet should
be welcomed home, at last,”
See DEDICATION/page 3A
Want to protest property taxes?
LIBERTY — Taxpayers in
the Liberty County Appraisal
District will have an op-
portunity in June and July to
protest values proposed for
their property for local taxes.
According to L. E. Robinson,
Jr., Chief Administrator, the
district’s appraisal review
board (ARB) will begin
hearing taxpayer protests on
June 9.
After the ARB concludes its
hearings and approves final
property values, local
governments will use these
values to assess property
taxes to property owners for
1987.
The ARB is a group of
citizens who live in the ap-
praisal district and are ap-
pointed by the district’s
directors. Their respon-
sibilities are outlined by the
Texas Constitution, which
requires that property be
appraised equally and
uniformly and that exemp-
tions and productive valuation
are properly granted.
Property owners appear
before the ARB and may
protest any of these seven
specific actions of the ap-
praisal office:
• the appraised or agricultural
value of the property;
• unequal appraisal of the
taxpayer’s property com-
pared to other property in the
district;
• inclusion of the property on
the appraisal records;
• denial of a partial exemp-
tion, such as a homestead
exemption;
• denial of agricultural-use,
open-space or timber
productivity valuation;
• identification of the taxing
units or units in which the
property is located;
• determination that the
taxpayer is the owner of the
property; and
• any other action of the ap-
praisal office that adversely
affects them.
See PROPERT Y/page 3A
bedroom of his home bound,
blindfolded and shot twice in
the left side of the head.
The district attorney said
the body was discovered at
about 6:30 a.m. by a daughter-
in-law, not his son as had been
reported earlier.
“We worked the case hard
from the time it happened, the
officers in the field and the
grand jury, until we reached a
stalemate last year,” Price
told the media.
“A few weeks ago we got
new information from an
informant and started an
undercover operation in the
Cleveland area, with the
cooperation of Detective
Sargeant Larry Allen of the
Liberty County Sheriff’s
Department, which led to the
four arrests,” he said.
Reportedly, the murder
victim’s estranged wife Sallie
Jones, former principal at
Cleveland Junior High School,
was at her mother’s residence
a few hundred feet from their
home when Jones was shot.
Records show that Sallie
Jones had filed for divorce in
June of 1985 and the hearing
had been set to end their 28
year marriage the day of the
murder.
Price said the case is “ by no
See MORE/page 3A
Irregularities at
Charter could mean
loss of Medicare
By GEORGIA WISNIEWSKI
Advocate Reporter
CLEVELAND — Charter
Community Hospital in
Ceveland was notified May 18
by the Health Licensure
Certification Department of
the Texas Health Department
(TDH) that the termination of
their Medicare cetrification
will occur in early June unless
certain irregularities are
corrected.
Laura Watson, marketing
director for Charter said the
hospital had is at no risk and
all issues have been or are
being corrected.
Hospital Administrator Tim
McGill said that Charter had
recently undergone a review
by TDH on complaints by
hospital employees based on
two incidents which occured in
1985. The complaints were
found not to be valid by the
Medicare surveyor, Eloise
Harriss, R.N. ED. E.
While reviewing these
complaints, issues were
raised concerning
documentation in quality
assurance and infection
control, staffing and en-
vironmental services.
The documentation in both
the quality assurance and
infection control was at one
time a volunteer program. It
is now mandated by the
United States Government.
The program requires a
medical facility to document
any patient care problem and
the corrective measures used
to combat the problem.
Watson said the staffing
citation was in relation to the
special care units. The issue of
the overall cleanliness in the
LAURA WATSON
a result of a non-patient area
(storage) which had been
found unclean. She said the
building had since been
demolished and removed from
the hospital property.
Since May 11 a team of five
consultants, including
professionals in the control of
infections, quality assurance
programs, an industerial
engineer and two law firms,
See SURVEY/page 3A
River Bend project:
Why GSU is having
so many problems
By GEORGIA WISNIEWSKI
Advocate Reporter
BEAUMONT — “River
Bend Station, Gulf States
Utilities’ (GSU) 940-megawatt
nuclear generating facility
located near St. Francisville,
La., may have been the
nuclear construction success
story of the decade. Un-
fortunately, that fact has been
obscured by coverage of the
financial problems facing
GSU,” said Susan Gilly,
coordinator-media services
for GSU.
The Texas Railroad Com-
mission issued an order in
1975, stating that because of a
continuing decline in natural
gas supplies, the public in-
terest required the prohibition
of the use of natural gas in new
boilers.
Because of GSU’s depen-
dence on natural gas and the
uncertain energy supply, they
stepped up planning for coal
and nuclear units.
March 21, 1978, the Public
Utility Commission of Texas
issued a certificate of con-
venience and the necessity of
River Bend and other
facilities in Louisiana. The
commission concluded that
without the planning of coal
and nuclear units GSU would
have a deficiency of minus
594,000 kilowatts in generating
capacity by 1987.
The Fuel Use Act, signed in
March of 1978, by President
Jimmy Carter, stated,
“Natural gas shall not be used
as a primary energy source in
an existing power plant on or
after Jan. 1, 1990. This law
meant all of GSU’s first gas-
fired generating plants were
to become obsolete. Con-
struction of the first GSU coal
-fired plant was already under
way and nine months after the
Fuel Use Act was signed into
law, concrete was being
poured at River Bend.
Congress changed its mind
See RIVER/page 3A
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Martin, Betty. Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 22, 1987, newspaper, May 22, 1987; Cleveland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth852096/m1/1/?q=texas+centennial+exposition: accessed June 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin Memorial Library.