El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 51, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 17, 1983 Page: 3 of 21
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El Campo Leader-News. El Campo, TX, Sat., Sept. 17, IMS Page3-A
Hot Cotton
L-N Photo by Owen Ellington
Fireman Steve Appling stands by as Herman Novak of the El Campo
Volunteer Fire Department extinguishes a fire in the cotton truck. The
fire started when when a muffler fell off Jerome Knebel’s (left) cotton
picker into the trailer while unloading cotton. Hie fire took place near the
Hillje Cotton Gin.
Case To Be Heard Nov. 22
CCAP Gets Continuance
By OWEN H. ELLINGTON JR.
A spokesman for the Texas
Railroad Commission said
Wednesday that the commission
had granted County Citizens
Against Pollution (CCAP) a
continuance on the Sept. 22
hearing on a proposed injection
well by C.M. “Son” Pumphrey
and Associates of Lane City.
Ray Grasshoff, an information
specialist with the TRC, said the
new date for the hearing on the
well would be Nov. 22.
Grasshoff said the commission
had not decided on a time or a
place for the hearing. The
railroad commission, like the
Texas Water Commission, often
holds its hearings in the affected
community if a large number of
people are concerned about the
application.
CCAP. a group of Wharton
County Citizens made up largely
of Boling residents opposed to the
injection well, requested the
continuance in order give the
geologists and engineers more
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Serving will begin at II a.m. with
plates being 13.5* per plate. There
will also be a drawing for a
Pontiac T-1000, and SIM w*ll be
given away every 30 minutes from
1-5:30 p.m.
Cub Scout Pack IM is trying to
renovate and furnish the Scout
Hut located behind the post office.
The Cubs need shelves or book-
cases. desks, chairs and tables. If
you can help, call Sherry Roddy at
543-3303. or 543-7573 after 0 p.m.
No bingo at VFW Hall in El
time to build their case against
the proposed well, which they say
could contaminate their water
supplies.
Pumphrey and Associates is
seeking an application to dispose
of oilfield commercial wastes in a
750- to 950-foot injection well to be
drilled near Boling.
Marvin Kemp, CCAP chair-
man. said the engineers and
geologists the group has hired
have not had enough time to study
the area.
The group points to the sinkhole
in Boling, approximately Vmile
away from the proposed well, as
proof of the area’s instability.
Wharton County Com
missioners Court voted
unanimously Aug. 31 to forward a
resolution opposing the proposed
Pumphrey injection well to the
TRC, as well as a resolution
condemning a proposal to store
hazardous waste storage in the
Boling Salt Dome.
CCAP opposes both waste
proposals, although according to
Campo tonight, according to a
note from Elve Bram.
If you have a 12 gauge and want
to fire it. take H to Maseeh’s in
l-ouise for a "bacon and brisket
shoot" tomorrow at I p.m. Shells
will be furnished. Proceeds
benefit the Louise Volunteer Fire
Department.
School is in session and many
youngsters are out and about.
Please drive carefully.
Kemp, the group considers the
Pumphrey well the more im-
mediate concern of the two. The
Texas Department of Water
Resources returned United’s
application after the director
decided the company would have
to wait until rules governing
hazardous waste storage in salt
domes could be developed.
However, the TDWR later
decided to reconsider its Aug. 15
decision not to consider the ap-
plication.
City Council
Counts Votes
Thursday
El Campo City Council met
Thursday at 1:30 p.m. to canvass
ballots and certify the results
from the special council election
for Position 6 held Tuesday.
Official results produced a
runoff between Melvin “Bubba”
Parker 111, who polled 305 votes,
and Ann (Mrs. Bill) Leach, who
had 280
A third candidate, Thomas U.
Hollis, trailed with 199 votes
Council also set the runoff elec-
tion for Tuesday, Oct 11 at the
Community Center.
Absentee voting will begin
Wednesday, Sept. 21 and end Fri-
day, Oct. 7
A total of 784 voters went the
polls Tuesday, considered a good
turnout for a special election with
only one position at stake
In a drawing following the
Thursday canvass Parker drew
the number one spot on the runoff
ballot, with Leach second.
Council will meet again Monday
at 7 p.m at City Hall for a work
session on the water and sewer
and general government budgets
No official business will be con
ducted
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Murder Still Unsolved
Reward Fund Initiated
A special account has been
opened at First State Bank in
Louise in an effort to add to
reward money being offered for
Information leading to the
arrest and indictment of the
person or persons responsible
for the capital murder of
Eunice Schuerer.
The pot continues to grow as
$2,000 is now available to be
given as a reward. Wharton
County Crime Stoppers Inc. is
offering $1,000 and additional
donations amount to $1,000,
with this amount expected to
grow now that an account has
been established at the bank.
Captain Marvin Smith,
Wharton County Sheriff’s
Department, said all reward
money will be issued through
the Crime Stoppers program in
order to protect the identity of
the informant, who will be
issued a special number in
order to remain anonymous.
People who want to con-
tribute may do so by making
their checks to “Eunice
Schuerer Reward Fund," care
of First State Bank. Box 5.
Louise. TX 77455.
Contributors will be given a
depost slip. If the murderers
are not apprehended, donors
may have their contribution
returned to them.
Capt. Smith said people who
donate directly to Crime
Stoppers should designate that
the money is to be used in ad-
dition to the $1,000 already
designated by Crime Stoppers.
Mrs. Schuerer, a lifetime
resident of Louise and El
Campo, died Sept. 0 at a Vic-
toria hospital after being
sexually assaulted and beaten
Aug. 24.
Mrs. Schuerer, who could
neither speak nor hear, was
able before her death to give
police enough information for
them to believe that the
suspects are two black males,
one of whom raped the 64-year-
old woman at knifepoint while
the other ransacked her house.
Anyone with information is
encouraged to call Crime
Stoppers at 543-TIPS. Infor-
mants remain completely
anonymous.
House Fire Calls 18 Men
Eighteen men and four trucks
from the El Campo Volunteer
Fire Department responded to a
house fire Wednesday afternoon
at the corner of Hearte School
Road and County Road 406.
The fire, extinguished shortly
after firemen arrived around 1:30
p.m., was apparently caused by
an overheated electric stove. The
stove and an overhead hood vent
received extensive damage from
the fire, that caused little other
damage due to the quick response
of the fire department.
Two of the dispatched
firetrucks were called back to the
station before arriving at the fire,
after firemen reported they were
not needed.
Helen Misner resides in die
house owned by Mrs J.P. Hen-
derson.
Firemen were called out to
another fire behind the Hillje
Cotton Gin Thursday afternoon
around 1:45 by Jerome Knebel
after a muffler blew off a cotton
picker and fell into the trailer in
which he was unloading his cot-
ton. igniting the cotton.
Firemen Herman Novak and
Steve Appling, responding with
one firetruck, quickly ex-
tinguished the burning cotton.
However, the two were then faced
with the difficult task of removing
much of the cotton from the
trailer in order to make sure the
fire was completely out. Knebel
aided the two in the mop up.
At 5:26 p.m. Thursday, three
firemen and one truck responded
to a car fire at the Commercial
State Bank drive-through parking
lot. The fire caused extensive
damage (approximately $1,000) to
the car, which belonged to
Guadalupe Ramirez of Wharton.
Novak said the fire, which
started in the carburetor, may
have been caused by the owner’s
failure to use an air filter.
Rear-End Collision On Highway 59
Slightly Injures Three From, Louise
three people were taken to El
Campo Memorial Hospital as a
result of a rear-end collision
Monday night near the corner of
FM Road 441 and U S Business
Highway 59 in Hillje.
According to Lowell Howard,
the Texas Department of Public
Safety trooper who investigated
the accident, Rose Mondrik,
Route 1. Box 14, Louise, was
stopped at a stop sign at FM 441
and U S Business Highway 59
She then made a left turn onto
Business 59 where she traveled
approximately 60 feet before she
was hit from behind by a pickup
driven by Joe Janca, Route 1, Box
47, Louise, who was beaded north
in the northbound lane.
The impact of the crash sent
Mondrik’s car into the right side
ditch. Janca’s pickup ended up on
the left shoulder of the road, due
to his attempt to miss the car.
(The front end of Janca s truck
struck the left rear side of Mon-
drik’s car, according to Howard).
Mondrik was ticketed for
failure to yield right-of-way at a
stop sign.
Mondrik and Janca were taken
to El Camp Memorial Hospital by
El Campo Ambulance Service.
Janca spent the night in the
hospital and was released
Tuesday. Mondrik was released
Wednesday. A passenger in
Mondrik’s car, Rosalie Krpec,
Route l, Louise, was taken to the
hospital by private vehicle,
treated and released.
CORRECTION
The El Campo Leader-News
Wednesday incorrectly quoted
Herman Novak of El Campo
Ambulance Service as saying that
Joe Jansky, Route 1, Louise,
instead of Joe Janca. was the man
involved in the accident. The
Leader-News sincerely regrets
the error.
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Barbee, Chris. El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 51, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 17, 1983, newspaper, September 17, 1983; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1017789/m1/3/?q=Homecoming+queen+1966+North+Texas+State+University: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Wharton County Library.