Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 252, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 23, 1979 Page: 1 of 44
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DENTON TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 23, 1979
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Utility Board denied expenses
to attend public powers assembly
arrest Sunday of Sen. Gene Jones’
bi other, whose mustache should have
set him apart from the clean-shaven
The sun sets today at 8 29, it rises
Thursday at
and Lewis were talking to the child's
mother, Cecile Arrington, gaining a
consent to search the-residence, when
they heard the girl knocking on the
door or wall of the room she was in.
fugitive senators to others — returned
to a triumphant welcome splattered
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Low this morning
.Migh Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High last year
Low last year
DENTON AND VICINITY —
fair and warmer through Thursday.
High around to, low mid 50s.
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senator.
The Killer Bees — also
call to Hobby on Tuesday they would
return at 3 p.m.
In keeping with Senate habits, they
were 12 minutes late, arriving at the
main entrance to the Capitol in a mo
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where they spent a greal deal of time
reading stories of their flight.
One later made himself lost in
Houston, the state’s largest and most
By JESS BLACKBURN
Staff Writer
Denton City Council members voted
3-1 Tuesday night to allow their wives
to join them on a city-paid trip to
Seattle to attend the annual American
Public Power Association convention.
June 15-21
in approving the trip for council
• members, the city manager and the
utility director and their wives, the
council did not authorize the city to
pay expenses for members of the
city’s Utility Board to attend the
convention
The decision followed commentary
by several Denton residents who
questioned the amount of money the
city would spend in sending the
council the utility board, the two staff
members and the councilmen's wives,
as had been planned, to the con-
vention
"I feel there is a real need for the
"I feel the wives should go, just not
at public expense," Councilman Ray
Stephens said He cast the dissenting
vote,on the travel decision
Stephens said later he will not be
attending the convention
"When I was planning to go and my
wife was going, we had decided we
would pay her way to Seattle our
selves I don’t think the wives should
have their trips paid. They aren't
elected by the citizens," he said
He also questioned the importance
of the convention , a
"If the crystal ball is in Seattle,
maybe everyone in the city should
go," Stephens said
Nash responded that having wives
on the trip would lend dignity to (he
Denton group’s attendance.
"I didn't lock her in They’re trying
. to make it look like I keep her locked
up and I don't," the mother said.
She said she occasionally latches
the door, a converted window, to keep
the child from wandering off
The house was a shambles The
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Sheriff’s office Capt. Dwight
Crawford then took custody of the
child
"None of us out here would allow
this girl to stay in this situation," he
said. "This isn’t right.”
Officers subsequently took the child
before District Judge Bob Scofield,
who ordered an investigation into the
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"I have attended some of these
conventions without my wife and I did
not appreciate some of the things
which were said You will find other
participants there with their wives. I
feel my wife works as much for the
city as I do and should go with me to
Seattle," Nash said '
Nash also responded to questions of
whether every council member should
attend the convention.
"I started working for this city at 8
a.m today and will probably work
until midnight," he said “1 know I
volunteered for this job, but I didn't
realize how mueh work would be in-
volved. We must start compensating
persons who serve on this council to
get qualified persons to serve on the
council Where could you hire people
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who serve on these boards and this
council for what you will pay for
expenses to send these people to
Seattle’ Nowhere in the world, I
assure you.
“There will be more expertise
available and more people who have
already made the decisions we will
have to make at this one meeting than
any other this year," he continued. "I
wish we could get this input (from the
public) on the million dollars a day
we’re spending (with three other
cities on projects of the Texas
Municipal Power Agency) instead of
the thousands we're spending on this
trip.
"We have some important decisions
coming up on power projects and we'd
better spend some money on
educating these people,” he said.
Councilmen Roland Vela and Bud
" Hensley both agreed the convention
will be instructive in dealing with the
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" Sheriff's deputies took a 12 year -old
child into emergency custody
Tuesday afternoon after finding the
child shut into a' room in a rural
residence in what some officers called
"unbelievable" living conditions
Two Denton police officers, ac-
companied by sheriff's office in-
vestigator Al Lewis, went to the house
in connection with a routine criminal
investigation, they said
They found the child, who appears
to be mildly retarded, shut into a
small room stacked with cat and dog
food in bags, stacks of old food,
clothing and other refuse Arsmall bed
rested on top of a 4 foot stack of old
rags and clothes
Officers called in the Child
Protective Services, but after
representative Tom Lee arrived, he
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AWOL for five days, the 12 senators Oklahoma and a third disappeared.....""Dirty Dozen" and the "Tennis Shoe
virlUATly assured defeat of a near th^ Mexican border,
presidential primary bill thought to be Meanwhile, on orders of Lt. Gov.
tailor-made for former Texas Gov. Bill Hobby, the Texas Rangers — the
John Connally by robbing the Senate .pride of the state's law officers —
of a quorum searched the huge state for the absent
. • Ten fled to aone-room’ ‘safe house” senators.
within 15 minutes of the Capitol, The best they could do was the. torcade escorted by state troopers
Another dog was tied inside the There is nd running water nor
house to a stove. In another room, sanitation facilities. A hose is run to
which officers said was unlocked the house from an outside well, and
relunctantly by the woman, there there is an outhouse in back.
were some 10 to 12 cats Refuse was Mrs. Arrington said she works as a
piled high inside the room and ex- housemother at the Denton State
crement covered the floor School at a $400-a-month salary.
Officers were physically sickened Susan, the child, is a student at
by the stench, which one described as Newton Rayzor Elementary, her
"unbearable" mother said, but stayed home
The girl’s mother also denied Tuesday because the road from the
keeping the dogs chained on the porch house to East McKinney Street a half-
all the time, claiming she chained mile away was so muddy.
nor was she in any immediate health
or safety danger
Lee said he would talk to his
supervisor and a judge, but added, "I
can't take her It's bad here, but I've
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misrepresenting themselves and lying
around the porch, much of it. human, to her about where they would search,
and a large hole in the porch was “They wronged me-," she screamed,
apparently a deposit for excrement, Mrs. Arrington said she understood
officers.said . the search warrant would allow of-
Chicken coops and rabbit hutches ficersonly to search the living room,
were in the yard. and chickens and she allowed them to do that.
Scott said the woman signed a
voluntary consent to search form used
routinely by police, a form that when
signed gives permission for a com-
pletesearch of all property, inside and
out, including buildings and vehicles,
situation and set a custody hearing roamed freely. Another dog tied to a The woman said she has lived in the
today The child was ordered taken rusted bed with a short length of rope house for 10 years and pays $45 a
to a foster home overnight was cut ipose by officers, and he could month rent. She admitted the place
Officers David Scott, Doug Norman barely walk upright when freed. has "been deteriorating for awhile.”
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city’s power future.
City Manager Chris Hartung
reported Monday expenses for the
weekend seminar session and for the
following business session of the
convention will be approximately $344
for air fare per person, $220 for
registration ($50 for spouses), $460 for
double-occupancy hotel ac-
commodations, with meals and taxi
fares in addition to those expenses.
“All five council members will have
important decisions to make during
the next 18 months concerning the
city’s utility future and this conven-
tion will be valuable in helping make
those decisions," Hartung said.
The council directed no discussion
to excluding the Utility Board
members, who* review utility matters
for the council, from attending the
weekend seminars geared for
governing bodies as they had planned.
continued education of the council and
they should share ideas with othets,
such as at the American Publi Powe; '
Association convention," George
Krieger said "But I think par
ticipation in the conventions should be
limited to one member of each body
who would then pass the information
on to the other members in this case,
maybe one council member, one staff
member and one utility board
member could go and bring the in
formation back to the other members
It seems tms would be the most ef-
ficient and most economical way to-,
handle the trip."
Mayor Bill Nash said he requested
the item for discussion Tuesday night
so the council could look at the city's
entire travel policy -
However, discussion centered on
the proposed trip to Seattle and
whether members' wives should
attend
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