Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 181, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 4, 1985 Page: 1 of 12
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Rome ties steam
past Brewer 64-37
County must decide extent of PP jail expansion
Thumdtty Nemion
amendment no
help says Sheriff
Turpin said
(Index Photo)
NASA chief says he won’t resign
incidentally
Fraud charges
Haynes denies he fathered child
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had a vasectomy 17
C.ovinglon trial
Noah's account was contradicted
Security checks which take car*
lie to look forward to without your
may be mailed to
Your contribution could help
those senior citizens who live
LOS ANGELES (AP)- NASA ad-
ministrator James M Beggs has re-
jected demands that he resign follow-
ing charges that he and three other
present or former General Dynamics
Corp executives tried to defraud the
government by hiding cost overruns
on the ill-fated Sgt York anti-aircraft
gun
Haynes sold
Ho said she told him she had hired
The 39-page Indictment said 17 8
million was micharged. resulting in a
13.2 million net loss to the govern-
ment.
The Indictment was the latest In
more than a year of government
Covington hired him and hie half
brother to sexually incapacitate
' guilty to
greed to
state jail standards during an annual
inspection last Februsry
attempted murder and _
testify against Ma Covington in ex-
change for a five-year prison
The latest list of Goodfellow
contributors la as follows:
brighter Christmas Dey through
your thoughtfulness and
generouslty Many of these
from John and Betty Johns a 00
Mr and Mrs Roy Kincaid 25 00
Mrs W L Woodward .. 25 00
Mr and Mrs Lois Hayworth 30 00
Covenant Class First Christian
Church .............. 10000
Tom and Sue Creighton ... toooo
Turpin said the amendment, which
allows cities, counties and states to
substitute time off for overtime pay
for employees would still require ad
ditional personnel in his department.
The law now allows fire prevention
personnel, law enforcement person-
tlx* prisoners to make the checks
Commissioners have held some
discussion since the meeting on mak
ing the needed repairs and building
tn addition to solve overcrowding
problems, but those efforts apparent-
fraud in spending taxpayer dollars.
It’s difficult for him to continue with
any confidence," Torricelli said in
Washington
"I will not resign." Beggs said
through a spokesman
He said he hadn't seen the charges
and couldn't address them specifical-
ly "But from what has been reported
to me by mv attorney I can state I am
innocent of any criminal wrongdoing
and I intend to vigorously defend the
case," Beggs said. "I am confident
that after all the evidence is aired I
will be exonerated "
US Sen Jake Gam, R-Utah, who
chairs the Senate appropriations sub-
committee that oversees NASA spen-
ding. urged a cautious approach
"We have to let the courts decide."
said Gam. who flew on the space
shuttle earlier this year
General Dynamics, baaed In St
Louie, said the indicated men "were
bones ( in their judgments and acted
In complete good faith We are confi-
dent that when our side la heard, we
will prevail"
and the county had been given until
March 11, INS, to correct over-
crowding and segregation problems
Though the commission ordered
the hourly visual chocks to begin im-
mediately following the Inspection,
jailers said they could not make
those required checks without plac-
ing themselves In jeopardy until
ly did not convince the state jau com-
mission the county is sincere about
the issue.
Officials were asked to attend the
jail commission meeting “to discuss
the continued operation of the Palo
Pinto County jail" after the’commis-
sion mid It appeared the county's ef-
forts to correct the jail problems had
come to a standstill.
Officials say some of the major
problems They face include deciding
just how much to expand the jail at
this time, settling on plans that will
satisfy law enforcement personnel as
well as the jail commission and figur-
ing out how to finance the Im-
Mr and Mrs. J. L. Hill .. 1100 00
Milton C. and Nadlno
Sheridan ................. 2100
Mr. and Mra. James L.
Furrh ..................... 100 00
Mr and Mrs PeteZanowiak 28 00
Mr and Mrs Bill Houghton SO 00
Beb and Doris CroMland ,. 25 00
In Memory of Howard Stoker
from Ruth Stoker .......... M 00
In Memory of Elizabeth Fussell
from Ruth Stoker .......... M 00
Mr and Mrs Roy Reynolds 100 00
Over Boo In Goodfellow con
trlbutions have been received
since Sunday to bring the total to
date to 81.420 00 The figure is still
a long way from that amount
needed to provide food on
Christmas Day for this city’s
needy families snd elderly
citizens on small fixed Incomes
Beggs was a General Dynamics ex-
ecutive vice president before becom-
ing head of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration in INI and
Rep Robert G Torricelli. D-N.J., a
member of the House Science and
Technology Committee that oversees
NASA, urged his resignation on Mon
The executives snd the corporation
were charged Monday with one count
Welle High School Choir and the
Carolling Bell Choir will be singing
snd playing for your enjoyment while
you tour the different homes ...
Tickets are still a vs liable for (he
drawing Io be held on December lsth
for the Beautiful quilt made by Nita
Locke and the cute doll made by An-
na Owens ... Don't miss your chance
to own one of the lovely hand made
Items for your very own To purchase
a ticket of two dollars contact any
Mineral Welle Choir Booster
member, or Nila Locke and Linda
Johnson of the Mineral Wells Choir
Booster Chib
Department of Defense between Jan.
1, 1978. and Aug It, INI. They also
were charged with six counts of mak-
ing false statements
Career Planning
Elizabeth Weatherford (center) and Chore West (right) are definitely In- and students In the Mineral Wells High School cafeteria during Col-
terested In Abilene Christian University. Ao Elizabeth visits with recruiter lege/Caroer Night on Tuesday. Students also attended career choice see-
Carla Jones, Chore fills out a form for the university's catalog. This scone alone and visited with representatives of the Mineral Welle Panhellenlc
was one of many created by university, college, and armed forces recruiters Society at the event.
trial on _
Nov 2. INI of Cage Wavofl.
a Corpus Christ I lawyer
provements since no money was
budgeted for jail expansion or
repairs this year.
Projections indicate the county will
need 81 to 80 beds to house inmates by
the year 2000, but County Judge Nor,
man Porter says he still favors ad-
ding only 20 beds at this time.
"Some people think we should
build a jail that will last through
2000." Porter Mid today. "But I think
we need to build as we need it."
Porter said he believes that the
cost of the addition as well as interest
on bonds or borrowed funds for the
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By Sue Sterling
Staff Writer
A recent amendment to the federal
Wage and Hour Law designed to
lessen the Impact of the law on public
employers will notalievlate overtime
problems In mF'wfo Pinto County
The Mineral Wells High School
Choir Is presenting their annual
Christmas Show Tuesday night
December 17. at 7 p m In the High
School Auditorium Choirs Par-
ticipating will be the High School
Choir, the Kaleidoscope Choir, the
Junior High Choir, the Loe Cadets,
and the Carolling Bell Choir Tickets
are 11 00 for adults, so cento for
students and children under 12 ...
This coming Sunday. December sth
will be the date for the annual tour of
homes Don't miss buying a ticket for
this event which will enable you to
By Sue Sterling
Staff Writer
Palo Pinto County officials will
meet at 1:30 p.m. Thursday to again
tackle the thorny problem of how to
accomplish state-mandated* Im-
provements to the Palo Pinto County
jail.
County commissioners who attend-
ed a meeting of the Texas Commis-
sion on Jail Standards in Austin on
Nov. 20 were given until Jan. 22. the
date of the next jail commission
meeting, to develop plans for making
those improvupiento.
The jail commission indicated that
failure to present definite plans for
the improvements by that date could
result In closing of the county jail,
commissioners Mid.
Meanwhile, the commission has
limited the number of Inmates who
can be held in the jail to 29. with ade-
quate segregation.
On Tuesday, the jail population
stood at that maximum number
Commissioners postponed discus
sion of the issue, which was listed on
their Nov. 28 meeting agenda, until
Thursday's specially called meeting
which will be devoted totally to the
jail problems.
The Palo Pinto County jail was
found to be in non-compliance with
nel and seasonal employees to ac-
cumulate up to 480 hours of compen-
sated time off at a rate of l1.. hours
per hour worked
Employees thus could work up to
320 hours of Overtime and accrue 480
hours of comp time “within a
reasonable period,'' Mys Brian T.
Farrington, aMistant area director
for the Dallas office of the U.S
Department of Labor's Wage and
Hour Division.
But Turpin Mys the new provisions
would require extra personnel to
work while deputies took that comp
time off. /
The amended law, which was sign-
ed by President Ronald Reagan on
Nov. 13. also delays implementation
of the wage and hour provisions for
governmental units until April IS.
1908.
But Turpin Mys the delay in im-
plementing the law. which previously
had been made effective April 15,
1988. Is not much help to his depart-
ment either since the county will still
be in the current budget year in
April.
The county, along with other
governmental unite, was placed
under the federal Wage and Hour
Law as the result of a U.S. Supreme
Court ruling earlier this year. The
law previously had not been applied
to employees of the state or political
subdivisions such as cities and coun-
Review board
end-of-year
meet Thursday
The Palo Pinto AppraiMl District
Board of Review will conclude
business for the year when it holds Ito
final meeting at 1:20 p.m Thursday
at the Palo Pinto County courthouse
Agenda items include reviewing
and accepting the 1988 supplemental
appraiMl rolls and back assessment
for 1982, 1983 and 1984, considering
cancellations for the 1982, 1983. 1984
and 1985 rolls; and approving the 1988
AppraiMl Review Board minutes
Concerns of board members and an
executive session, if needed, are also
listed on the agenda
actuations of improper billings and
bribery by the nation's third-largest
defenM contractor
"He Is presiding over nearly M
billion in federal spending When a
man Is indicted on a charge involving
In spite of the court ruling, which
gave public agencies until October to
prepare their budgets to comply,
Palo Pinto County commissioners
did not budget any overtime pay for
deputies or other county employees
or authorize any additional personnel
for the sheriff's office in this year's
budget.
The 8529.475 sheriff's office budget
included only a 130.000 increase over
the department's 1984 budget, which
Turpin Mid was not adequate to han-
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Among the major problems cited In
i the inspection report were over-
, crowding and Inadequate segrega-
tion of prisoners according to various after the locks are repaired since
i classifications , malfunctioning locks they have to enter the cell blocks with
I on Cell doors and lack of hourly visual
I checks of prisoners; and non-
i working intercoms In the cells
A deadline of July 31 had been set
i for resolving the problems with the
) locks and communications system.
Goodfellow Fund
climbs to $1,420
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Bennie, Bill. Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 181, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 4, 1985, newspaper, December 4, 1985; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1170427/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.