The Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 29, 1983 Page: 1 of 14
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HR I GHTON
Weekend
Saturday, January 29, 1983 • Cleveland , Tx. • 77327 • Vol. 64 • No. ft'
Jack Martel
will be here
Wednesday
Cleveland no exception
Drug problems not limited to big city
■■
$933,397 spent
HUD supports local economy
Highways slated for
repair
HELP seeks local support
Tower offers Senior
Citizen internships
areas for
CONFINED '
t, I, site in bis
donations for the
cake sale to help
donor will be
THE CLEVELAND
ADVOCATE
I a
tions be directed to her at
592-6486. Checks should be mail-
ed to Cleveland State Center,
Truman Street, Cleveland, TX
77327 (Project HELP)
for 305 miles of various
highways in the area.
BRIGHTON 800KRIN0ERY
BOX 130
before Feb. 11. All funds will be
accepted", but the awards will be
given for those received by that
date.
’ Nancd’asks that any ques-
Projects will be under the
immediate supervision of DHT
engineer Frank B. James Jr. of
Orange.
Acceptance of successful
low bidders is expected to be an-
nounced later this month by the
“Too many kids are left
footloose and fancy free. Both
parents work and they have no
personal contact with their
youngsters. The breakdown in
the family is a contributing fac-
tor: Parents need to be aware of
the problems their children
face,” said Knight.
He also said that even par-
ents who have good communi-
cations with their children face
problems. “They only tell you
what they want you to know.”
Knight advised parents to
be particularly carefid with pre-
scription drugs in the home. He
said that students sell one Val-
ium tablet for $2 at school.
These can be removed from the
family medicine cabinet one or
two at a time and unless the
parents are careful they end up
supplying their own children
with drugs to sell at school.
Students who are caught
with drugs in school are auto-
matically suspended for three
days. They are then placed in In
School Suspension (ISS) while
going through a hearing process
which involves a forma! hearing *
with the parents and principal, a
superintendents hearing and
then a hearing with the school
board.
There is no program of
drug counseling for the students
who have been caught in posses-
sion of the ’’controlled sub-
stance.” Knight said he re-
commends parents seek the
counseling for the children but
that no programs are available
locally.
Although this community is
not facing a problem of the
magnitude of the larger cities, it
is moving this way according to
some law inforceqpent officials.
Tuesday afternoon, a mem-
ber of Harris County Organized
Crime Task "Force called Lib-
erty Sheriff’s Department and
reported that a known dealer
and producer of methampheta-
mines was reported being ready
“to start cooking in Cleveland”.
The cooking terms refers to
preduction of methampheta-
mines in a laboratory.
Although some students
sell to other students they are
almost always supplied by
adults with connection to large
drug supplies. Knight said he
has heard about adults who sup-
A group of concerned par-
ents have organized an effort to
seek funds from the community
to buy some physical therapy
equipment for the Cleveland
State Center.
Project HELP (Helping
handicapped individuals, Early
educational needs, Learning
basic skill and language, Physi-
cal therapy) is a result of the
economic cutbacks in state and
federal funds to purchase
physical therapy equipment.
The project is founded by
Mary Nance, a volunteer at the
ply students and their location is
not far from the school campus.
Liberty County Sheriffs
Department Lt Jim Lyles took
this writer on a tour of locations
where drugs can be purchased
in Cleveland. Of the 11 locations
noted, only two are outside the
city limits and those are within
three miles of the Sheriff’s De-
partment office.
“We do not have as great a
problem as they do in Houston,
.but we definitelyjdo have a drug
problem in Liberty County,
there is no way around it,” said
Lyles.
When asked why, if the
locations are known, these dea-
lers are able to continue, Lyles
said, “It is not against the law to
be known as a drug dealer, but
it Is to be in possession of drugs
to sell.”
'’The Supreme Court has
narrowed down the law so much
it has made it so hard to nail
them down. They have cut down
the time we must act on infor-
mation from an informant from
48 to 36 hours. We must also
prove that Utey actually reside
at the residence in order to
prove that they are responsible
for the contents of the house. We
must also establish the credibil-
ity of our informant. All that
coupled with the fact that they
can attack the legality of the
search warrant has made it so
much harder,” Lyles said.
“The big problem is know-
ing whep they are actually in
possession of the drugs. There
are not enough people to main-
tain surveiilence to get the ele-
ments necessary for a search
yarrant. It won’t do us any good
to search unless the drugs are
there at the time,’’ he said. Det.
J.T. Harrison of Cleveland Po-
lice Department echoed Lyles
concerns saying that the time
needed to work narcotics cases
was just not available with the
size of the local department.
Chief Harley Lovings of the
Cleveland Police Department
said the problem is not a bad as
it was in the past. Both Lyles
and Knight disagree
by FRANK ASHBY
Staff Writer
Art Barkis, the executive
director of HUD, made his an-
nual report to the Liberty Coun-
ty Commissioner’s Court Mon-
day and mentioned that the pro-
gram has been a success by
pumping $933,397 into the Lib-
erty County economy over the
past four years.
In 1981, there was a total of
1115 units renting for $190 a
piece for a total of $211,585. In
1982, there was a significant
increase of 1366 units renting for
$199 a piece with a total of
$271,948.
On the distribution of fam-
ily certificates, over one-third
the certificates are held by the
elderly and handicapped. Eth-
nic families, other than white,
hold 58 percent.
According to Barkis, the
recession has brought 400-500
into the office for resource coun-
seling and there are well over
200 families on the waiting list.
Overall, the landlords are very
receptive to the program and
call in vacancies for needy fami-
lies. However, Barkis feels that
there is poor housing for blacks,
indigenous to Cleveland alone.
“There is such poor hous-
ing for blacks in the Cleveland
area, but the rest of the county is
Plans are under way to im-
prove highways in Liberty Coun-
ty
Bids were received Jan. 20
and 21 by the State Department
of Highways and Public Trans-
portation (DHT) to widen Farm
to Market Road 408 in Orange
County and to provide a seal coat
o k. The program is called a
mod-rehab program and did a
good job, but was limited and
has been cancelled because of
lack of involvement.. There is a
definate need for help in the .
Cleveland rea,” said Barkis.
Barkis stated that the Lib-
erty County Housing Authority
is meeting HUD requirements
and are on time with all month-
ly, quarterly, and annual re-
ports.
Members of the Liberty
County Housing Authority are
Mack Vincen of Precinct 1, Guy
Filder of Precinct 2, William
Thomas of Precinct 3 and Harry
Leggins of Precinct 4, who assist
HUD
A seal coat application of
asphalt and rock will be placed
on sections of the following
highways: FM 162, FM 1010, FM _____________________
686^FM 1410, FM 1413, FM 1009, State Highway and Public
Texas 105, and FM 2830 Transportation Commission ' ?
So many children at the
center are in need of extensive
physical therapy, speech ther-
apy, cognitive and motor skills
as well as occupational therapy.
The equipment required is ex-
tremely expensive and is
desperately needed.” said
Nance.
Nance to appealing to the
le and businesses of Cleve-
L by ANNIE ALEXANDER
I Editor
Drug? use and abuse is one
| oHhe major problems in today’s
| s||jety and Cleveland is no ex-
' ception. Drug use is on the
increase £t Cleveland High
School and drugs are readily
available to the students.
These facts are document-
ed both by school officials and
1 by area law enforcement offi-
I cers.
“We do have a .problem. z
The drugs are as accessible as
alcohol and there is no problem
I getting alcohol,” said H.J. Kni-
I ght, principal of Cleveland High
J School.
Last week one student was
suspended by the school board
b for possession of marijuana and
| there are five other students
with appeals pending, one on
drugs and four on alcohol
"I would say that at least $0
percent of our students have
experimented with drugs and I
wjpldn’t venture a guess about
the number of regular users, but
there are quite a few,” Knight
S Knight said marijuana,
pers” and “downers” are
the drugs used by the students.
“To our knowledge there has
i been no cocaine or heroin. That
doesn’t mean there hasn’t been,
I’m not that naive. We have 55
people watching bu' they can
only do so much.” he said
Knight said in the past the
school officials have used dogs
to sniff out drugs in students
| lockers and that there is a good
possibility they may use that
[ again with the increased use
among the students.
“It is depressing to those of
us who have dedicated our lives
to helping young people to see
other adults who try to ando
what we htjke built up,” he said
referring to the adult drug
pushers who prey on young
Sen. John Tower today an-
nounced he to accepting applica-
tions from Texas senior citizens
who wish to participate in an
intern program in his Washing-
ton office May 23-27
The program is designed to
provide increased communica
tion between the retired com-
munity and their representa-
tives in Congress Tower was
the first member of the Texas
Congressional delegation to par-
ticipate in the initial program in
1977.
two citizens selected
its will spend a
*s Washington
the legislative
process, meeting with repre-
sentatives of departments and
agencies, and participating in
the operations of a Congression-
al office.
“The interns selected last
year, Sarah Bloomfield of Dal-
las and. Manuel Ayers of Plain-
view both contributed much to
my understanding more fully
the needs and concerns of our
senior citizens,” Tower said.
"I once again look forward
to learning firsthand more about
our senior citizens' problems,
needs, and opinions,” the Texas
Republican added. “At the
time, I hope the interns will
DRUG PARAPHERNALIA-Two bags of Mari- With a lot of children nowaday?, drugs such as
juana and various assorted pills help testify to the these offer an escape outlet from an unhappy
amount of drug infllitratlon in the Cleveland area. home. (Photo by Annie Alexander).
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Alexander, Annie. The Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 29, 1983, newspaper, January 29, 1983; Cleveland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1190119/m1/1/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed June 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin Memorial Library.