Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 72, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 6, 1979 Page: 1 of 10
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dogbite on one of his legs, was
apparently burglarizing the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H.
Kilgore, 2010 Crestridge, when
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home sick from school at ap-
proximately 10:45 a.m. Mon-
day.
When Miss Kilgore entered
ed in Brannon's lawsuit, slam
Brannon’s head against the
roof of the patrol car. Miss Lit-
tle said she heard a scuffle
outside the police station, on
Belknap St., where the inci-
dent occurred, after officers
arrested Brannon for public
intoxication.
Brannon filed a $150,000 civil
rights lawsuit against the city
and Myers after the Jan. 19 in-
cident. Brannon claims police
Myers, as the city and Myers
contend, or hear a threatening
comment from Brannon.
hear a comprehensive finan-
cial report from Shelton sum-
marizing the city's finances in
the past and presenting a
forecast for the future.
ing of a copying machine.
Councilmen are expected to
cast their ballots for Clinton
Cox, the city's nominee, in the
election for directors of the
Erath County Tax Appraisal
District. The ballots from the
county's taxing authorities
are due by Nov. 15.
dent at the police station.
Brannon's attorney will try to
relate his on-job accident with
the previous head injury suf-
fered during his arrest.
Testimony continues Tues-
day in U.S. District Judge
Eldon Mahan’s court.
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used excessive force in his ar-
rest.
Brannon was at the police
station complaining about the
assault of his 13-year old son
earlier that evening at a
Stephenville movie theater.
Miss Little said Myers and
another officer arrested Bran-
non after Brannon and Myers
argued about filing assault
charges against a juvenile
suspected of assaulting the
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Without commenting on the
effects of the money crunch bn
other builders in Stephenville,
Daddio said, he had several
homes scheduled to be built
for customers that already
had financing. "Generally, a
lot of sales are coming from
retired and semi-retired peo-
ple that have large amounts of
cash to put down on a house,"
Daddio commented.
Speculative building -
houses built by contractors
hoping to sell it upon comple-
tion - has dropped significant-
ly during the current tight
money market, Daddio said.
Besides the residences and
business building, other con-
struction permits included 12
' permits issued for residential
remodeling, one permit for a
business renovation and three
- permits for other buildings.
The two residences given
building permits were valued
at a total of $47,500. The eight
apartments were valued at
$80,000.
The city of Stephenville col-
lected nearly $770 in fees for
building, plumbing, electrical
and mechanical permits.
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George W. Blaclf, supervis-
ing resident engineer with the
local office of the State
Departmnent of Highways
and Publie Transportation,
told the Empire-Tribune Tues-
day morning that he is giving
serious IconsWeration to runn-
ing for state representative
from District 33.
lj)e 33rd District includes
Erath, Hood, Somervell and
Under questioning
defense attorney Jo<
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The proposed ordinance, if
passed, would require
restaurants to be certified and
pay an annual fee.
Some opposition could be
voiced at the meeting from at
least one restaurateur who
has told city officials that the
health permit fees are too
high The fee schedule is bas-
ed on the number of people
employed by a restaurant.
An equally hot item may be
a new fee schedule for
Stephenville city ambulance
calls to be considered by the
D’Anna Green, age 5, Stephenville
Creta Timbera Basta • Fair and coci Tuesday, becoming
cloudy and a chance of rata Wednesday. Chance of
precipitation: 30 percent Wednesday. High Tuesday near
M. Overnight low upper 30s. High Wednesday lower Ms.;
Monday’s high 71 Tuesday morning low 41
the patrol car's light bar.
Brannon's wife testified that
Brannon required hospitaliza-
tion twice after an on-job acci-
Questioned by Brannon's at- dent, five days after the inci-
tomey, Charles Pradoor, Miss
little said the blow to Brannon
knocked his hat over the
patrol car's roof. In an inter-
view, last April, with police
chief Mike Watkins, the chief
said Brannon was injured
when he accidentally struck
the present trends continued
the city 'could be hurting in
the future'. .—
Also, on the council’s agen-
da, will be the purchase of two
used pickups by the recreation
Shelton said he would tell department and the purchas-
councilmen the city’s finances
for the period of 1972 through
1977 were good and the city
was able to accumulate a
surplus of funds, but in the
past two years the city's finan-
cial situation has tightened
up'. He added the city was still
in good financial shape, but if
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cost of money • the interest
rate charged by banks and
saving institutions - has made
borrowing expensive for
homebuilders.
During October, building
permits were issued for two
new homes and eight apart-
ment units, one new business
building and one mobile home.
About the tight money situa-
tion, Daddio commented, "I
think it’s hurting the Stephen-
ville area. But, it’s not hurting
us as much as the large
metropolitan areas,”.
Construction values for the
first 10 months of 1979 trail
construction values for the
first 10 months of 1978 by ap- < year when mortgage interest
proximately $600,000. The 1979
statistics are over $2 million
behind the 1977 values for the
first 10 months of the year.
The tight money situation is
expected to cause a continua-
tion of the building slump past
the first of next year, Daddio
- predicted. Easing 'of the
currently-high interest rates
is predicted by many lenders
sometime next spring, Daddio
said. He and other builders
were recently briefed by area
lenders about the money.
council.
The new rates - which will
be more in line with surroun-
ding conununities' ambulance
service fees - would raise
emergency fees by five dollars
and transfer fees by $15 per
call. Also, included in the pro-
posed fee changes is a
previously-uncharged cost for
oxygen use of five dollars per
call when used and 20 cents
per mile increase in mileage
charges outs?de the Stephen-
ville city limits
The proposed rates would
market situation.
"This will continue until the
light is shown as to which way
the interest rates are going,”
Daddio said.
The 60-day financial
forecast is ‘not good’, Ralph
Kemp, president -of Cross
Timbers Saving and Ixian
Association, said.
"I know of no money that is
available in Stephenville or
the surrounding counties for
home mortgage loans, Kemp ’
said Tuesday. He said the
tight money situation in the .
area - which reflects state and
national trends - might ease
late this year or early next
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rates reach 12 percent.
But, he cautioned, the loans
available would be out of
reach of most young
homebuyers. The loans
available would probably re-
' quire 25 to 50 percent of loan to
be paid as a down payment,
He said.
On a tone of slight optimism,
Kemp added, the Stephenville
area would -probably ex-
perience less of a slowdown
than the large metropolitan
areas.
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Consideration of an or-
dinance establishing a-part-
time health inspection of-
Stephenville restaurants will
top the*Stephenville city coun-
cil agenda at Tuesday nights
meeting.
City staff members have
. drawn up a proposed or-
dinance calling for inspections
of restaurants in the city for
sanitary conditions by a part-
time health inspector.
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younger Brannon? She said 1 did not see Brannon strike
Myers told Brannon he
couldn't file charges ag.iinst a
minor.
Myers was quoted a say-
ing, “If you don't pipe d< a n or
be quiet I'm gping to take you
to jail,” by Miss little She
said Brannon held out his
hands and said, "Let's go ”
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Voting day for constitutional amendments.
The location of the voting places is as
follows:
Boxes 1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 27 and 32 vote at the
Stephenville Recreation Building.
Boxes 3, 4 and 14 vote at Dublin Fall Fair
Building.
Box 9 votes at Bluff Dale School.
Boxes 11 and 12 vote at Morgan Mill School.
Boxes 13 and 18 vote at Huckabay School.
• Box 17 votes at Lingleville School.
Box 21 votes at Clairette Old Post Office
Building.
Boxes 7, 23 and 31 vote at Selden Community
Center.
Covered dish luncheon, Erath County Retired
Teachers Association, First United Methodist
Church, noon
Annual Mexican supper, St. Luke’s Episcopal
Church, 5-8:30 p.m.
Covered dish supper, Duffau Community
Center, 7 p.m. ,
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provide the city with very lit-
tle extra funds because only
about a third of the ambulance
service’s costs are borne by
the senice's users, city ad-
ministrator Marshal) Shelton
said Tuesday. The ad-
ministrator said the count)
and the city share the re-
mainder of the senice's ex-
penses.
Approximately $500 per
month would be realized from
the . new rates. Shelton
predicted.
Council members will also
Stephenville's October building slumps
By JIM CRAWLEY
E-T Staff Writer
New construction valuations
during October in Stephenville
dropped to their lowest level
since 1976.
According to the city
building permit report, new
construction in Stephenville
dropped in valuation to
$168,421 for the month of Oc-
tober. In the past three years,
only November, 1978 has been
nearly as tow^'as last month.
Construction begun in
November, 1978 was valued at
| “ $168,500.
. No lower levels of con-
struction were found in _a
search of the building report
records dating back to
January, 1977.
; “I have to accredit it
(building slump) to 'tight
money"’, Vincent Daddio,
North Central Texas Builders’
Association president, said
Monday.
The tight money market has
forced many builders to stop
or slow down their speculative
building of homes, Daddio
said. The money is available,
Daddio said, but the cost of the
money is very expensive. The
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BIKE-A-THON - Dale DeShazo (center) of the Stephenville Bank and Trnot nnd Dm Crtppa (left)
and Don Miller of Ret Top Enterprises discuss piano for Saturday’s American Cancer Society Bite-A-
Thon. Stephenville Bank and Trust will award a $25 savings bond to the 3rd place winner and Red Top
will provide first ak|, refreshments and repairs. (E-T Staff Photo)
Black contemplates post
Johnson counties. The 33rd
District’s present represen-
tative, Ed Mayes of Granbury,
has announced his candidacy
for the state Senate post being
vacated by State Senator Tom
Crieghton, who will not seek
re-election.
Black said if he decides to
pursue the representative seat
he would take early retire-
ment from his position with
the Department of Highways
Woman says Brannon slammed into car
FORT WORTH- The sister-
in-law of a man suing a
Stephenville police officer and
the city for police brutality
testified Monday that two
Stephenville police officers
slammed her brother-in-law's
head into a patrol car after an
argument with police.
Azle tattle told jurors she
watched two Stephenville of-
ficers, one being police
sergeant Ronnie Myers, nam-
Police search for suspect
the hoiise, police officer Jack
Bennett said, she found a man
being attacked by the family's
dog. The man, seeing the girl,
pushed h/r into a trail as he
ran from the house. She suf-
fered an abrasion on one
cheek,Bennett said, but didn't
require hospitalization. • ,
Stephenville police are sear-
ching for a man.....who who
assaulted a-, 16-year old. girl
when she discovered him in
her parent's house Monday their daughter,. Sandra, came
morning. ■
The man, described as big’
with long dark hair and
possibly suffering fi^om a
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and Public Transportation.
Black has been living in
Stephenville for the past 20
years and has been responsi-
ble for the planning and con-
struction of all state highways
in Hood, Somervell and Erath
counties.
Garry Luker of Granbury
and Bruce Gibson of Godley
have already announced their
candidacies for the seat. -
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Doggett, Denver. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 72, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 6, 1979, newspaper, November 6, 1979; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1283922/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.