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Allen, Texas
Monday, February 9, 1981
Vol. 11, No. 58
Senate bill
City sets election
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Allen National Bank
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listed in critical condition at a
Dallas hospital where he was be-
ing treated for 3 gunshot wounds,
one to the head and 2 to the upper
torso. The wounds were allegedly
Trash pickup
scheduled
A special refuse collection
of items too numerous or
bulky for regular pickups
will be held Wednesday in
Allen.
Residents who normally
have Monday and Thursday
collections will benefit from
the special pickup.
Recommendations of the Allen
Planning and Zoning Commission
on 3 requests were followed in
Thursday’s meeting of the Allen
City Council.
applications will be accepted.
Election will be held at city hall
from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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The planning and zoning com-
mission recommended approval
by a 4 to 3 vote. The council ap-
proved the change 7 to 0. Richard
Chumbley, in making the motion,
noted the council will look at the
zoning again when Allen’s new
zoning ordinance is approved.
The second public hearing
Thursday ended in approval to
construct a Mr. Quik store east of
Allen High School. The council
followed the recommendation of
the commission and made the ap-
proval with the stipulation no
more than 3 coin operated games
will be permitted in the store.
A 6-foot wooden fence will also
be required between the store and
Allen High School property on
the north and west.
uananimously approved from
Allen Building Company for a lot
on a cul-de-sac on Candlewood
Drive in High Meadow. The
builder asked to move the front
building line up 5 feet, “in order
to give this lot some back yard,”
according to Royce Reed,
superintendent of the company.
In other action, the council:
✓Set a public hearing date for
February 19 for a special excep-
tion and variance request from
by Jack Stein
Staff Writer of The American
Three suspects are being held in
lieu of bonds totaling $250,000
following an alleged murder-for-
hire caper in which the suspects
were apprehended before lawmen
actually knew that an attempted
murder had taken place.
The incident occurred near
Farmersville where 2 of the
suspects are living but they were
arrested in Princeton not far from
the victim’s former home. The
third suspect was arrested later
at her Princeton home.
Patricia Ann Delgado, Levester
Hunt, 22, of Farmersville, and
Donald Gene Dunn, 23, who has
been living in Farmersville, are
accused of working together in a
plot lawmen say was designed to
kill Mrs. Delgado’s estranged
21-year-old husband, Alberto
✓Set a public hearing date for
February 19 for a variance re-
quest from Carl Gilliland to
reduce the parking lot size on a
proposed office building to be
located at the comer of Cedar and
Boyd.
✓ Approved hiring of an addi-
Zoning was changed on 7.3
acres west of Allen Heights Drive
and north of FM 2170 from
residential to outdoor commer-
cial, planned development. Gary
and V.F. Hefner made the re-
quest.
Allen animal control officer Debbie Norton, who
likes to make friends with the animals she works
with, will soon have some help in her job. City
council members have given their approval for
hiring another person to assist in animal control.
the voters in January 1979.
He is on the advisory commit-
tee on real estate at Richland Col-
lege and is active in church and
sports groups.
“I like this City and am concern-
ed about it,” Womack said.
In his 1979 campaign, Womack
noted his goals for the city includ-
ed maintenance of streets (a
street department has been form-
ed); a subdivision and zoning or-
dinance (which is presently in the
tional animal warden under the
CETA program.
✓ Discussed policy on field
usage and gave John Uland,
parks and recreation director,
suggestions to relate to the parks
board.
The council also accepted a
$500 donation from the Allen
Sports Association and approved
the use of $1300 in park dedica-
tion funds for the purchase of soc-
cer goals.
An election for 3 Allen council
seats is set for April 4.
Only one of the 3 city coun-
cilmen presently serving in the
places has indicated definite
| plans to seek re-election.
Rex Womack, completing his
| first term in place 5, has announc-
ed his intentions of running
I again.
Dr. Joe Farmer, who is com-
pleting his second term in place 1,
says he has “not made up his
I mind” if he will seek re-election.
H.R. Daugherty, in place 3, was
appointed in 1978 to complete the
term of Mickey Pierson when
Pierson was elected to Mayor.
Daugherty was re-elected to the
| place in 1979. He could not be
| reached to indicate* if he plans to
seek the place for a third term.
Filing will continue for the elec-
| tion through March 4. Applica-
• tions will be taken at city hall
| from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
1 « Absentee balloting will be
| March 16 through March 31. Mail
Delgado.
At presstime Delgado was
Don Brazeal has been elected
chairman of the board of directors
of the Allen National Bank which
recently located its building at
Highway 5 and Ridgemont Drive.
The 12-member board was
elected at the first shareholders
meeting.
Brazeal owns State Farm In-
surance Company in Allen and is
a trustee on the Allen School
Board.
Other directors of the bank are
John A. Arnold, Allen; James A.
Brazeal, Allen; Dr. Tom Brian,
Allen; Sue C. Chumbley, Allen;
Ronald E. Fix, Allen; Don Lewis,
Allen; Mickey B. Pierson, Allen;
D.J. Jackson, Allen; Dr. James
W. Davis, Leonard; Alwyn L.
Golden, Leonard; Alwyn L.
Golden, Leonard; Thomas R.
Murphy, Leonard; and W.
Garland Thornton, Jr., Denison.
Officers of the bank are
Jackson, formerly the president.
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The bill, S.B. 150, is being spon-
sored by Sen. John Traeger,
D-Seguin, and was approved
unanimously last week by the
Senate State Affairs Committee.
Figures provided by County
Tax Assessor-Collector Helen
Lawson show that the amount of
vehicle registration fees collected
by the county is growing at a
steady rate of 5% a year. Should
that growth rate remain constant,
the county would, theoretically,
collect over $2.4 million in
registration fees in 1982, the first
year the bill would take effect.
The flat rate of $300,000 and
the one percent collection fee
would give the county over
$324,000—an 85% increase over
the current $175,000.
Mrs. Lawson said vehicle
of the Leonard bank, president
and Kim T. Becker, vice president
and cashier.
The bank is capitalized by $1%
million and has 150,000 shares
outstanding. Shares were sold at
$10 each. There are 153
stockholders, according to
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The vote was 6-1, with Glen An-
drew opposed, to approve the site
plan.
A variance request was
Weaver Sign Company to con-
struct a 40-foot subdivision
advertising sign in the rear yard
of a lot in Timberbend.
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registration fees are not increas- _
ing in proportion with the coun-
School election..
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based on the weight of the vehi- Snorts
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“We registered a lot more Transit woes....
vehicles in 1980 than we did in noinne
1979,” Mrs. Lawson said, “but
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Rex Womack, completing his works); an east side fire station
first term on the Allen City Coun- (the land has been bought, and
cil, has announced he will seek re- Womack says, “I’m disappointed
election. we don’t have a building yet.”);
Womack, in announcing his and green belts in future
decision Friday, said, “I would developments (the city now re-
like to see some of the things quires park dedication funds from
finished (that we have started)” developers and Womack says
He cited the capital im- “this is something we need to
provements program as one of the look at).
items he wants to see completed. He also said he hoped the city
He is serving as Mayor Pro-tem could work with the school on the
and chairman of the land acquisi- future development of open
tion committee. As councilmen, spaces. “This association has
her husband.
Sheriff’s department Sgt. Joe
Stewart of Allen said Dunn and
Hunt were apprehended near the
Delgado home on Hazlewood in
Princeton about an hour after the
shooting and while the victim was
being questioned by officers at a
McKinney hospital.
Stewart explained that Delgado
was allegedly abducted from a
Farmersville home about 3 a.m.
Wednesday, taken to the
Southlake area south of town,
shot and left for dead by the
suspects.
Driving the victim’s car, the 2
suspects then went to Princeton
and drove around a while before
deciding to abandon the vehicle
on FM 982 south of Hwy. 380.
Meanwhile the seriously
wounded Delgado had crawled
about one tenth of a mile to the
Ron Douglas home near where he
was shot. Douglas called lawmen
and an ambulance.
Knowing Delgado had relatives
in the Princeton area deputy
Doug Arp, who lives east of
Allen, went to the home to notify
inflicted by Hunt and Dunn. them of the shootingwhile in-
Bonds were set at $75,000 each -vestigators interviewed the Vic-
for Hunt and Dunn and $100,000 tim at the hospital.
for Mrs. Delgado who is accused Stewart was enroute to the
of hiring Hunt and Dunn to kill shooting scene and decided to
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he has attended several been very good.”
workshops for councilmen and He will be running for place 5 in
mayors. the April 4 election.
Womack is vice president and ' Ueee
director of operations for the Col- 'c.
lin County division of Southwest AMMM—2
Land Title Company. He and his . / d
wife Bea live in Allen with their 3 d
children. H
He resigned from the Allen , I
Planning and Zoning Commission
in 1979 to seek his first term on
the council. He served on the com-
mittee to draft Aden’s city J
charter which was approved by \
years, Collin County has collected
over $2 million in such fees. That 8
would add another $20,090-plus ..f
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meet Arp in Princeton before go- tion so we took them to the coun-
ing to Farmersville. He spotted ty jail for questioning.”
Hunt and Dunn walking along At the jail the suspects were ar-
FM 982 near Hazlewood street raigned on charges of aggravated
where Delgado had once lived. assault with a weapon, then inter-
Remembering that he had ar- viewed by investigators Sgt.
rested Hunt last year on a Gerald Hefner of Allen and Steve
burglary charge and being Deffibaugh.
suspicious of 2 men walking down Officers learned from oral
a deserted highway at 4 a.m. in statements that Mrs. Delgado
the morning, Stewart stopped to had allegedly agreed to pay the
question the pair. suspects $250 each if they would
Although the suspects were kill her husband.
walking toward Princeton from Thesuspectswerethenarraign-
the south they claimed to be walk- ed for attempted capital murder
ing from Farmersville which is and bond ws set by Justice of
east of Princeton, the Peace Jhnny Pleasant.
Stewart said this statement, A capital murder arrest war-
the time of morning and the rant was issued for Mrs. Delgado
visibility of blood on Dunn’s hat who was apprehended later at her
prompted him to become even home, 304 Hazlewood, Princeton,
more suspicious. When Arp arriv- She was jailed in lieu of bond set
ed on the scene, the deputies by Justice of the Peace Glen
decided to take the suspects to Swaner.
the county jail for further ques- Lawmen also recovered the
tioning, all the time not knowing weapon allegedly used in the
they were involved in the Delgado shooting, a .357 magnum, a
shooting. powerful pistol similar to
“We were searching them for weapons carried by many
weapons,” Stewart said, “when lawmen. It was loaded with
we got a radio broadcast to be on hollow-point shells which shatter
the lookout for a black man (Hunt on impact.
is black) and a white man who Conviction on capital murder
were wanted for attempted charges under Texas law can
Murder-for-hire suspects held
on bonds totaling $250,000
by David Engelmann
Special To The American
A state senate bill endorsed by
the Collin County Commissioners
Court could, if passed, almost
double the county’s share of
motor vehicle registration
revenue, adding an extra
$150,000 —175,000 per year to
county coffers.
The bill, currently pending a
final vote on the Texas Senate vumuun
floor, which may come as early as | 10
today, would automatically in- :
crease the county’s take in license |
tag fees from $175,000 to -6
$300,000 a year. mbce
On too of that, the county e
would receive 1% of all vehicle |
registration fees taken in as a col-
lection fee. For each of the past 2
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Johnson, Sherry. The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 58, Ed. 1 Monday, February 9, 1981, newspaper, February 9, 1981; Allen, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1423240/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Allen Public Library.