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Texas City boy dies
in hunting accident
Four-year-old John Thomas Hughes, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Michael A. Hughes of Texas City, died of a
gunshot wound while on a hunting trip to Llano. The
fatal shot was reportedly fired by his 14-year-old half
brother, whose name was not released by officials.
The two were in a deer blind about 11 miles
west-northwest of Llano, according to Justice of the
Peace Betty Graham, who conducted an inquest and
ruled the death as “accidental."
The death occured about 1:15 p.m. on Tuesday,
December 22. The father, who was not at the blind
when it happened, brought the child to the Llano
Memorial Hospital by private car. Dr. David Hoerster
said he was dead on arrival. Graham said death from
the wound was apparently instantaneous.
Investigating the shooting was Texas Ranger Roy
Coffman of Brady. Llano County deputy investigator
Ron Harmon and game warden Gordon Eckert.
Services were conducted by the James Crowder
Funeral Home in LaMarque, with burial in Galveston
Memorial Park Cemetery.
The LLANO
NEWS
Llano, Llano County, Texas 78643
Volume 97 No. 10
Thursday, December 31,1987
Deer Capital of Texas
16 Pages in 2 Sections
County okays private sewage facility fees
County commissioners, meeting
Wednesday, December 23, gave
final approval to license fees for
construction of new sewage facilities
(septic tanks) in the county, which
would include licensing and testing.
They also listed holidays that will be
recognized by the county for 1988,
named one more person to represent
the county on the tax appraisal board
and made three appointments to the
library board.
Bids to provide fuel and oil for
county vehicles were turned over to
Gordon Hodges for review and
recommendation. Bids were also
received for insurance of county
buildings and contents. The county
also called for bids for new radios for
two police cars, which will be opened
at the regular meeting on January
11, 1988.
Fees
Originally, the fees had been
included in the resolution to estab-
lish an inspection of private sewage
District Judge Evans
to seek second term
District Judge Clayton Evans of
Burnet has announced his candidacy
for re-election to the 33rd District on
the Democratic ticket. Judge Evans,
51, will be seeking his second term.
Following his admission to the bar,
be served as Assistant District
Attorney in Tarrant County for two
years, beginning in 1967. ge then
went into private practice ami later
moved to Burnet, where he was the
County Attorney for one year.
Judge Evans joined attorneys Ri-
chard Mock and Christine Webb,
before being elected the 33rd District
Judge.
“I have and will continue to work to
lower the current case load in the
district," Evans said in a telephone
interview Monday afternoon. "Our
court coordinator, Dolly Ferguson,
has done a very good job in
scheduling trials in our five-county
district. New computer software now
being organized, will be of further
help for the future.”
Judge Evans and his wife have three
children and have been residents of
Burnet since 1977.
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Judge Clayton Evans
systems (septic tanks) in the county,
but were deleted when the state
pointed out they could not be
changed, it they were part of the
original application. Commissioners
received final approval for the
resolution earlier this year and have
since hired Richard L. Scearce as
Llano’s first sanitation chief.
The license fee schedule is as
follows:
— $25 to cover application proces-
sing and license.
— $50 to be paid for percolation
test. (You may also have your own
test made by a sanitarian or licensed
engineer at your own expense t
— $40 to be paid for each
inspection (two inspections per sys-
tem for a total of $80. $25 for each
additional inspection after the first
two.)
— Total cost for the license is $155
if the county performs the percola-
tion testing or $105 if the county does
not perform the test.
— $50 for processing and inspect-
ing loan applications (VA, FHA or
conventional loans, etc.) if no license
has been issued for the private
sewage facility.
— $25 to cover the processing of
applications and forms for loan
applications when a license has been
issued for the private sewage
facility.
Other fees were as follows:
— $100 for preliminary review for
subdivision construction authoriza-
tion publication application and one
inspection.
— $25 if the homeowner has the
county take a drinking water sample.
— $2 if the homeowner takes the
water sample and the county mails it
to the laboratory (drinking water).
— $10 for registration for contrac-
tors (installers) to install private
sewage facilities.
— $25 to pay for each additional
inspection, as needed.
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Appointments
Commissioners followed the rec-
ommendation of the Llano County
library board in naming three
directors. Serving an unexpired term
and eligible for a full term were Mrs.
Anne Harrison and David Willmann.
Serving a full term and representing
the Junior Womans Culture Club will
be Brenda Allen.
Bill Young of Tow has been named
to represent the county on the Llano
County Tax Appraisal District Board.
Another new member will be an-
nounced at the January 11 meeting.
Holidays
County employees will have 11
paid holidays in 1988. They are: New
Year’s Day, January 1; Good Friday,
April 1; Memorial Day, May 30;
Independence Day, July 4; Labor
Day. September 5; Veteran’s Day,
November 11; Thanksgiving, No-
vember 24, 25 and Christmas,
December 23, 26.
Bids
Dalchau Insurance Agency won
the bid for insuring the county
buildings and contents, as well as for
vandalism and malicious mischief.
Although Dalchau’s was the second
lowest bid. the stipulation made by
the county that the agency be
approved by the state automatically
disqualified the low bid.
Case of the purloined pickup
What was supposed to be an
enjoyable hunting trip to Llano for
three people from the Lake Jackson,
Corsicana area, turned out to be a
lot wilder than expected. The three,
Sammy Smith, his wife, Lynn and
Glynn Saunders, had just settled-
down in the Llano Motel about 11:30
p.m. Sunday, and were enjoying a
sandwich when they heard one of
their two pickups being driven off
from in front of their rooms.
The trio jumped in the second
pickup and chased after the 1979
Ford Courier, and before the night
was over, ended up in Burnet
County.
Unknown to them, two juveniles
had stolen a brown car in Odessa and
were headed for Austin. Arriving in
Llano,„ they stole a pickup at
Chaparral Motor Lodge, but had to
abandon it. Their next stop was the
Llano Motel, where they grabbed the
partly unloaded Courier.
“We took off after them and lost
them for a little bit,” Saunders said.
“Then we found them and tried to
stop them, but they got away, but
not before Smith managed to shoot
out the right front tire."
The stolen brbwn car may have also
been hit and the race east on SH 29
to Burnet began. In the process, one
of the pickups also hit a deer.
The Courier, mines a right front for detention
cost $1,393.35 to repair the damage
to the right front wheel assembly,
which had been worn right down to
the brake rotor.
The stolen car apparently had a
disabled transmission and was re-
covered by authorities. The two
juveniles were transported to Waco
tire, was riding on the rim and
sparks were flying all over the place.
When the trio tried to force the
pickup off of the road, the driver
tried to ram them, so they just kept
following the Courier because they
knew it was about out of gas.
The men dropped Lynn Smith off at
Burnet and continued the chase.
About three miles east of Burnet, the
Courier pulled to a stop and the men
made a citizen's arrest. A passing
motorist, called Burnet officers,
reporting that a couple of men were
holding a shotgun on a person east of
town. Burnet officers arrived and
took the youths into custody.
Finally getting back to their motel,
the trio learned Monday it would
The Smiths, who were married just
a week ago. and Glynn Saunders
finally made it to their hunting lease
at the Ken Hazlett place near Lone
Grove. All agreed this was one
hunting trip they would never forget.
THE LLANO NEWS
Riverwalk Plans revealed; work to begin next year
An architect’! rendition of the
proposed Riverwalk and park com-
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plex for the north side of the Llano
River immediately upriver from
Bessemer Street has been received
by the Llano Riverwalk Theater
Group and they hope to go ahead
with plans during 1988, according to
theater group chairman Darlene
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The architect's plan, which was
prepared under the direction of Ned
Williams of the Williams Company,
architectural development consul-
tants of Austin, was received re-
cently by the theater group.
The initial plan calls for road
construction, a pedestrian footpath,
a dance pavilion, nature trails, an
ampitheatre with a stage and
terraced seating, picnic tables, tent
camping and RV camping areas and
several vehicle parking areas.
“This plan, suggested by Mr.
Williams, is close to what we had in
mind," Mrs. Birk told the Llano
News. "We want to keep the area as
natural as we possibly can. and we
hope to go ahead with plans during
1988."
Funding for the project is under
study by the theater group. Money-
making projects will be planned and
possible grants or matching funds
will be studied, she said. Birk said a
number of small-city projects have
been funded in recent years and the
group will explore these possibili-
ties.
“We have a beautiful river," Birk
explained, “and we feel it is most
important to preserve its natural
beauty for everyone to enjoy. It will
be good for the economy of the whole
county and this area of the Hill
Country," she said. "We have as
much potential as San Antonio and
look what they have done with the
San Antonio River."
Birk praised city and county
officials for their help and sugges-
tions in getting this project under-
way and said it could not be done
without their help and full support.
She explained that the theater
group is "all legal” with a charter
and state tax number. She was also
excited because the theater group
had obtained its 50th charter mem-
ber just recently.
The group has a board of directors,
elected by the membership. They
are: Ross Bauman, vice chairman;
Debbie Ratliff, secretary; Clyde
Dowdle. treasurer; Thelma Dowdle.
membership chairman; Nell Bau-
man, Hudson Long, Martha Long,
Maybell Dansby. Thomas Allen.
Eugene Russell, Ralph Baber. Dean
Zachary, Betty Sue Low and Darlene
Birk, chairman.
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DECEMBER
Election filing deadline nears
Llano County Democratic and
Republican chairmen will be by their
phaaas fight up to the last minute for
any who decide they went to get into
The deadline la
f, January 4 at 6 p.m.
i Democratic comer. Martin
Dea Robinson, Jr.
iai this paat weak in
of
Wataon at Tow reported no activity
the past weak, adding. "I guess a lot
are going to wait until the last
minute to make up their minds "
Mosley has his Democratic head-
quarters nest door to Thelma Miller
Real Batata. BR 1431 In Kmgsiand,
and ie also a deputy registrar Those
wanting to vote In the "Super
Tueoday." March • primaries can
tiso (agister at this office as well as
at the las office ia Llano.
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1986 12-month total
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1987, newspaper, December 31, 1987; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1114200/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Llano County Public Library.