The Teague Chronicle (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1989 Page: 1 of 18
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The Teague Chronicle
Snipers Quidt and Teague “Hfws Tritium
Dedicated To The Service Of The TeopCe And Tfu ‘Progress Of Teague And freestone County
THURSDAY, MARCH 2,1989 - ESTABLISHED IN 1906 - 82ND - YEAR - NO. 39 - 25^
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Page 7
T.V.F.D. To Host
Plummer Family
ity Wide Effort Being Made.
ommittees Meet To Discuss Landing Prison
Freestone County can land
Lject, then it will be our Super
C" Teague mayor Glenn Ray
[told community leaders from
and Fairfield who were
together to discuss the
county’s approach on landing a Texas
Department of Corrections facility in
Freestone County.
Barger, along with city manager
Stan Smith, Fairfield mayor Monte
Cole and Fairfield city manager J.D.
Teague, were meeting with project
coordinator Bobby Wilkinson and
committee chairpersons who will
head up efforts in financing, real
estate, utilities and public relations
for the project.
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The meeting was held Thursday,
February 23rd at Sam’s Restaurant in
Fairfield. The executive team mem-
bers, comprised of Wilkinson and the
city officials.held apreliminary plan-
ning session on February 17th in
Teague.
Fairfield mayor Monte Cole said
that he was im pressed with the people
working on the project and that he
was pleased that Teague asked Fair-
field to join them in the effort to
locate aT.D.C. facility in the county.
The Fairfield mayor also said that he
was relieved to find out how far
Teague was along with the effort and
planning.
The city of Teague originally
planned to seek the project independ-
ently, but found out they would have
a much better chance of locating a
facility nearby if they approached it
as a county wide effort.
Bobby Wilkinson, who has been
hired to oversee work on the Free-
stone County TDC project, presented
the committee chairpersons with
blank proposals which will have to
be filled in by each committee’as
information is gathered.
Although several site selections
are being considered by the real es-
tate committee, the committee is still
looking for land tracts at least 300
acres in size. Co-committee chair-
man Jerrell Sartorof Teague said that
Hospital Board Discusses
Opening Date; Tax Hike
5STONE COUNTY T.D.C. Real Estate Chairmen (I to r) Jimmy Lawhorn, Jerrel Sartor and Charles
lies are shown discussing possible tracts of land to house a T.D.C. facility. The real estate committee
persons, along with chairpersons from the finance, utility, and public relations committee met
ler last week in Fairfield to plan strategy for locating a T.D.C. facility in the county. (Chronicle
/Steve Massey)
Residents Have Money Coming
laldoTeaguer^sidenisJay Fain
s, Minnie L. Felix, Claude
and Thelma Long have in
on? They are all listed in the
1989 Texas Treasury of Un-
d Money Fund.
>pring Soccer
legislation Is
low Underway
r registration has begun for
ng Freestone County Soccer
ation season.
gistration forms can be ob-
| at Dr. Mike Cook’s office or
shire Bros, in Teague,
forms need to be brought
I mailed to Dr. Cooks offi'e,
[ 671 in Teague to mee t the
16th deadline. The team draft
held on March 7th in Dr.
[s office at 7 p.m.
interested parents and
i are encourage to attend.
The four mentioned above and
numerous others from Teague and
the surrounding area may have $50
or more coming to them, according to
State Treasurer Ann Richards, who
says that she wants to reunite as many
people as possible with their money.
This year about $600 million has
been reported to State Treasurer
Richards. This includes amounts of
$50 or more for about 110,000people.
If your name is listed in this article,
all you have to do is call 1 -800-654-
FIND to find out how to claim your
money.
Telephone operators are on duty
now from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Beginning
Monday, March 6, operator hours
will be 8 a.m.-8 p.m.
Richards says that when calling
an operator you should give your
name exactly as listed in the publica-
tion, along with your address and
social security number. If your infor-
mation matches their records, then
the operator will tell you what was
reported to them and how you get it
back.
Persons from the Teague area
listed in the publication are Antioch
Cemetery Association, D.O. Aycock,
J. Faine/Shirley Bodine, Jay Paine
Bdoine, J.P. Bodine, Jr., J.D. and
Marie Boles, J.E. Bostic, L.R. Boyd,
James/Peggy Brown, Billy Joe/Joycc
Bums, Larry E./Bessie Busby, Leana
Busby, Billy Ray Carter, John Ed-
ward Carter, Kenneth Cockerham,
Kenncth/MOL Cockerham, T.H.
Please See Money, Pg. 14
On March 10th.
The Teague General Hospital
Board of Directors agreed Tuesday
evening, February 21, that they would
still use April 3,1989, as a target date
for re-opening the Teague General
Hospital.
Payment of outstanding bills, dis-
cussion about the hospital re-open-
ing and an update on House B i 111148
in the Texas Legislature were several
of the topics handled by the Board at
the meeting.
Board members agreed to pay
$29,382.11 to eight hospital vendors
and $2,804.50 on the hospital bond
payment to insure the hospital’s
opening. The money paid to the
vendors and bond holder was paid for
by tax money received by the hospi-
tal district. The. debts paid off et the
meeting were incurred before the
creation of the hospital district.
House Bill 1148, which is ex-
pected to be approved by the Texas
Legislature in the near future, calls
for a hospital tax increase from 5
cents per $100 valuation to 12 cents
per $100 valuation. It also allows the
hospital to use tax money for operat-
ing expenses instead of just for debts
incurred before the creation of the
district. Since the Tuesday meeting,
the Bill has been amended so that 100
signatures are not needed for a candi-
date to seek election to the Hospital
Board.
When the Teague General Hospi-
tal does re-open, it will re-open as a
20-bed facility instead of 30 beds.
The hospital is using the north wing
of the facility as a clinic.
Voters in the T.I.S.D. will be asked
to return to the polls in June to ap-
prove the hospital tax increase. Vot-
ers will go to the poll May 6 to elect
three new members to the Board of
Directors in a joint election held with
the school district
The Hospital Board entered into
an agreement with Gients Services,
Inc., a collection agency, to begin
trying to collect some $1 !6,000owed
to the hospital for services rendered
The Board decided not to turn over
the names of people who are making
monthly payments on their accounts.
The Board agreed to pay
$5,348.10 from their operating ac-
count for utility bills, monthly leases
and vendors. Almost $1,400 of that
amount was for repairs to the hospi-
tal ’ s lab and x-ray department so they
would be ready when the hospital
Please See Hospital, Pg. 13
Blood Donors To Be Honored
Volunteer workers for the local
Chapter of the Red Cross Bloodmo-
bile will host a Donor Appreciation
Dinner at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, March
10, at the Community Center, 511
Main, Teague.
The event will honor those do-
nors who have received a one, two,
three, four or five gallon pin during
the last five years. Invitations have
been mailed to the eligible donors.
Ms. LindaFaulkenberry.Regional
Director of Volunteer Services in
Waco, will be the key-note speaker.
Entertainment for the evening will be
provided by Mrs. Joyce Nichols.
Drawings for several door prizes will
be held.
According to Kenneth Paris, the
Teague Chapter of the Red Cross
Bloodmobilc plans to continue these
banquets on a bi-annual schedule.
Mr. Paris stated, “These events will
give us an excellent opportunity to
recognize and show our appreciation
for our regular donors and we hope
they will serve as an incentive for our
future blood donors.”
the committee is looking for land at
fair market price and does not expect
anyone to give their land away. The
group hopes to have three sites tied
down in 30 days so the finance and
utility committee can begin working
on the site proposals.
Chairpersons of the finance com-
mittee are Clydell Webb of Teague
and Hugh Reed, Jr. of Fairfield. Com-
mittee members are James Ander-
son, Scott Bossier and Jimmy Law-
rence of Teague and Ray Kent,
George Hudgins, Mack Strange, Jr.
and Bill Fleetwood of Fairfield. Real
Estate chairpersons are Jerrell Sartor
and Charles R. Jones of Teague and
Jim Lawhorn of Fairfield. Commit-
tee members are David Frederick,
Herbert Cody, Stanley Inderman and
Val Fulcher of Teague and Jerry
Robinson, Gene Neal and Gilbert
Daniels of Fairfield. Heading up the
utility team are Benny Alewine of
Teague and Dunk Morgan of Fair-
field. Committee members are Bill
Beene, Mike Symank and Mike Ray
of Teague and Jerry White, Barry
Capps and Lonnie Smith of Fairfield.
The public relations committee is lead
by Mary Sue Smith of Teague and
Dr. C.J. Tomo of Fairfield. Commit-
tee members are Tom Collins, Eva
Harris, Steve Massey and Joycie
Bums of Teague and J immie Young,
Sylvia Childs, and Beth Ireland of
Fairfield.
What the group is trying to have
located in Freestone County is one of
two types of prisons expected to be
approved by the legislature in May.
The benefit to the county would be
enormous in the form of additional
jobs and payrolls.
The largest of the two types of
prison to be built somewhere in the
state is a 2,250 inmate maximum
security facility which would em
ploy 766 people and have an annual
payroll of over $15.5 million. The
smaller facility would be a 1,250
inmate minimum security facility
which would employ 383 people and
have an annual payroll of close to $8
million.
Finance committee chairpersons
pointed out at the meeting that the
public needs to be made aware of the
fact that local tax money will not be
used to pay off any debts incurred in
locating a prison in the county. These
debts would be retired by money paid
from the state for utility services.
After Wilkinson reviewed the
framework of the proposal with the
group, committee chairpersons got
together to determine when their
committees would meet.
With the format of the project, the
real estate and public relations com-
mittee will continue their work while
the financing and utility committee
Please See T.D.C., Pg! 13
lotary Club's Annual Arts & Crafts Show Is Saturday
Teague Rotary Club’s 12th
Ans and Crafts show is set
Ms Saturday, March 4th from
[ro. 5 p.m. in the Teague
iiunity Center.
he annual show is the Rotary
rsmajor fund raiser of the year
proceeds arc used for the Ro-
scholarship Fund and various
I projects around town, accord-
|to show chairman Jerry
libs.
-ombs says that several
are still available for the
and that interested persons
J contact him to get a booth
show. Drawings for prizes
held every hour and Mae
Dell English is donating a painting
to be drawn for later in the day.
The winner of the drawing will get
to choose from two paintings done
by Mrs. English.
As has become a tradition with
the Arts and Crafts Show, artists
and craftsmen from across the slate,
along with local artists and crafts-
men will have their work on dis-
play and for sale to the public. The
public is urged to enter their paint-
ings and hand craft items for com-
petition in the show and are not
required to have a booth to do so.
The show, as in the past, will be
divided up into three segments,
commercial exhibit booths, han-
C.G.M.A. Sets Meeting
Discuss Game Laws
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I public meeting to discuss the
regulations for Freestone
||y has been set for Thursday,
2nd, at 7 p.m. in the Fair-
[High School Cafeteria.
Jic meeting has been called by
freestone County Game Man-
ent Association and all land-
operators and hunters arc
to attend.
game management associa-
concemed about game law
that went into effect last
enabling deer hunters in the county
to kill as many as four does.
Horace Gore of the Texas Parks
and Wildlife Department is sched-
uled to attend the meeting.
Game Association members are
wanting the Parks and Wildlife
Department to go back to the old
permit system which gives the land-
owner a greater control on the
number of female deer killed on
their property.
dycrafts and judged arts competi-
tion.
Admission to the show is free,
coffee and cake will be served early
in the morning and barbecue beef
sandwiches, sausage wrap-arounds,
drinks and desert will be available
from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
The judged art segment of the
show has three divisions, amateur,
advanced amateur and professional
with 11 different categories in each
division. The categories include
abstract, animal life, bird life, flo-
rals, landscape, miniatures (less than
5 x 7), portraits, seascapes, still
life, western and miscellaneous.
Entry fees, which are only required
in the judged arts competition, are
$5 per entry in the professional
division and $3 per entry in the ad-
vanced amateur and amateur divi-
sion. Prize money will be awarded
to the Best of Show painting in
each division.
Categories in the hand craft
division include crochet and knit-
ting, ncedlecraft, quilting, photog-
raphy and miscellaneous handcrafts
which includes ceramics, leather
work, doll making, handcrafted
models, macramc, woodwork, cct.
The deadline for entering paint-
ings into the show is 10 a.m. and
the deadline for entering handcrafts
is 9:30 a.m. on the day of the show.
The Teague Rotary Club extends
a formal invitation for you and your
family to come to the show and
help support your favorite artist or Exhibitors from Teague which Debbie Graham, Freestone County
craftsman while helping to make will have booths at the show are Art League, Mae Dell English,
the 1989 show the best one ever. Barbara Trexler, Mane McSpadden, Please See Rotary, Pg. 15
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TFACUE ROTARY Cl.UR ARTS AND CRAFTS Show Chairman Jerry McCombs and local artist
MaeDell English display two paintings, one of which will be won by some person at the Rotary Club’s 12th
Annual Arts and Crafts Show, set for this Saturday at the Teague Community Center. The person who
wins the drawing for a painting can choose either one of the two paintings done by Mrs. English.
(Chronicle Photo/Stacii Reid)
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Massey, Steve. The Teague Chronicle (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1989, newspaper, March 2, 1989; Teague, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1130860/m1/1/?q=texas: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fairfield Library.