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VOLUME 105
GIDDINGS, LEE COUNTY, TEXAS 78942-0947
THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1994
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GISD hires Monahans official
as new high school principal
GISD to negotiate purchase
of old Bon Ton Restaurant
Council considers desires
of mobile home park owners
Crude oil prices rise above
$20 for first time in a year
27-year-old Giddings man found dead
from shotgun blast Sunday night
Giddings City Council approves
repainting water tank interiors at park
Cattle market crash starting
to concern Lee County ranchers
Local residents to participate
in March for Jesus Walk
salary committee and its recom-
mendations. She said the group
endorses one evaluation per year
per teacher rather than the two
per year as the district now uses.
Mrs. Hannes said that the early
A 27-year-old Giddings man was
found by his roommate shot to
death Sunday night.
Giddings Police said that the
body of Bradley George Elliott of
Giddings was discovered by his
roommate, Shannon Handrick, at
. 8:28 p.m. in a house at 311 North
Harris. Police have reported that
the death was self inflicted.
Police said that Handrick had
come home to clean up for a date
when he discovered his roommate
NEW PRINCIPAL - Bruce
Davis was hired as the new
Giddings High School principal.
He will officially begin work in
July.
Marian Wiederhold traced the
original artwork from the ceiling
and beams and the ladies of the
congregation made stencils for
Bonnie Moreau to paint in its
place after the interior of the
church was painted.
Sherwin Siegmund is presently
striping old paint from the walls,
window seals, doors and the stair-
ways and repainting them.
The committee members work-
ing on this project, Raymond
Arldt, Mike Symm and Jack Wie-
derhold, are in charge of the res-
toration.
"The church exterior was paint-
ed in December of last year and
the roof was replaced in May, so
this will be the final restoration
for a good while." said Jack
Wiederhold.
ration water during the final
weeks in July, said City Manager
Jim Dover.
The council said they can't wait
any longer to get the work done
and ordered Mr. Dover to make a
change order in the original con-
tract to repaint the water tanks at
the city park as soon as possible.
At the last meeting the council
discussed problems with the paint
St. Paul's Lutheran Church in
Serbin is in the process of being
completely restored to the original
1871 appearance.
All of the pews have been re-
moved from the church to the pic-
nic grounds where they are being
restored.
The services have been held in
the St. Paul's school gymnasium
for the past three weeks and the
congregation will continue to wor-
ship there until the project is com-
plete, which is scheduled for mid-
July.
One of the most time consuming,
but certainly unique additions to
the church are the stenciling of
grapes and flowers on the ceiling
in the upstairs portions of the
church. These were painted when
the church was built in 1871.
Since 1989 Mr. Davis has been
assistant principal at Monahans.
From 1986 through 1989 he was
administration assistant at San
Angelo High School.
Mr. Davis was a teacher and
coach at Central High School in
San Angelo from 1979-1986.
He also served as a teacher coach
at Alice High School from 1976-
1979.
Mr. Davis graduated from Per-
mian High School in Odessa. He
mobile home ordinance will in-
clude asphalt walkways and
paved driveways, an expense
which would put them out of busi-
ness, they say. "I can see this is a
hardship on people with a park
already in place," said Council-
man John Smith.
Bob Gaeke, one of the owners of
the Sun Valley Mobile Home Park
See HOMES, page 14
Several hundred people are ex-
pected to be in Giddings Saturday
morning to participate in the
March for Jesus. The event is be-
ing celebrated throughout the
world with 170 nations participat-
ing.
Locally people will gather at the
Giddings City Park at 9:30 a.m.
Saturday, June 25. The marchers
will begin at 10 a.m. walking and
singing down Highway 290 West
to the County Courthouse for a
First Assembly of God
to Install new pastor
First Assembly of God Church,
located on the corner of Farm
Road 141 & Independence, will of-
ficially install its new pastor, Rev.
John Alaniz, Sunday, June 26 at
10:45 a.m.
Rev. Morris Ivey, assistant su-
perintendent of the North Texas
District of the Assemblies of God,
will officiate the installation cer-
emony. Family, friends, and
neighbors are invited to attend.
Rev. Alaniz assumed the pastor-
ate on May 22. He and his wife,
Irma Rivas-Alaniz, have four
See PASTOR, page 15
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time of worship and prayer for the
city, nation, and world situations.
A hay ride will be provided for
those who want to participate, but
not march. The group will also
provide a shuttle back to the City
Park after the march.
Included in the event will be
youth, administration and faculty
from the Giddings State School.
They will be holding their own
march at the state school at the
See MARCH, page 17
job on the city water wells. It was
learned that the one-year-old
paintjob on the inside of the tanks
failed because of salt embedded in
the steel of the tanks. Since this is
not a normal problem to look for
when painting water tanks, it was
not checked for by the engineers
or the contractor.
The city engineer reported Mon-
day night that he had another con-
tractor and engineer look at the
failing paint and this person
agreed that the problem was salt
embedded in the steel.
The contractor has agreed to re-
move the paint from the inside of
the tanks where the paint failed,
wash down the tanks, sand blast
the inside of the tanks, and then
reapply the paint after it has been
determined that the salts have
been removed - but, the city will
have to be responsible for the cost
of doing this.
The engineer reported that the
contractor has given a bid for
See TANKS, page 17
school releases in the upcoming
calendar year do not give the
teachers any additional time they
should receive for attending work-
shops required by the district this
See BON, page 15
Exporting Countries agreed to
keep production, currently at 24.8
million barrels a day, unchanged
through the end of the year.
That news caused July crude oil
on the New York Mercantile Ex-
change to surge 80 cents a barrel
to $20.71 on Friday.
The spurt to above the $20 a bar-
rel level has created a surge in op-
timism among oil operators in the
See OIL, page 17
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area as well as west of Giddings
near the Airline Park.
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Mobile home park owners met in
a public work session with the
Giddings City Council Monday
night to find out about proposed
changes in the mobile home ordi-
nance.
The mobile home park owners
first question was whether exist-
ing mobile homes will be
grandfathered.
They also asked whether the
The Giddings City Council ap-
proved repainting the interior of
two of the city water well storage
tanks Monday night at their regu-
lar monthly meeting, despite the
fact that it might necessitate some
water rationing in the next 30
days.
The work will take about 30 days
to complete, and this could cause
a problem of possibly having to
lying on his bedroom floor by a
shotgun.
Police officer Joe Bryant rushed
to the scene and called for the
EMS. Officer Bryant said he
smelled a faint odor of gunsmoke
when he entered the home. Jus-
tice of the Peace Paul Fischer was
called to the house to pronounce
Elliott dead at the scene. Judge
Fischer has ordered an autopsy.
Police said they found a Win-
The Giddings School Board, act-
ing on the recommendation of the
high school site base committee,
unanimously approved the hiring
of Bruce Davis as high school prin-
cipal.
Mr. Davis will officially start to
work on July 1.
He comes to Giddings with 18
years in the areas of teaching and
administration. He has been in
administration for 10 years in 4A
and 5A schools.
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RESTORING CHURCH - Jack
Wiederhold is shown sanding
down the paint to the bare
wood of this St. Paul's Lutheran
Church altar door. The church
is presently receiving a com-
pete restoration to the way it
once appeared in the early
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farm is located about six miles
north of Giddings off Highway
77 in the Loebau area. Other
damage was reported in that
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Giddings School trustees autho-
rized the superintendent to nego-
tiate the purchase of the former
Bon Ton Restaurant in Giddings.
The building is located on High-
way 290 East next to the
Econolodge.
Interim Superintendent Judy
Humty reported that the building
may have a two-fold purpose.
First, it will be used for special
education classes for vocational
training such as food service.
Other vocational training may
also be brought onto this new cam-
pus.
And the administration is con-
sidering using the building as a
large alternative education center.
The board will use special edu-
cation funds approved by the
Texas Education Agency for the
purchase of the property.
In other business the board
heard a report from Dianna
Hannes representing the Texas
Classroom Teachers Association.
She voiced her concerns about the
Giddings School Board
sets up schedule
to hire superintendent
Giddings trustees set up a time
frame to hire a new school super-
intendent at their Thursday night
board meeting. The board hopes to
hire someone by July 8.
They will be looking over 52 su-
perintendent applications over the
next few weeks. Trustees will be
screening applications June 20
through June 24. They will hold
workshops concerning the hiring
June 27-30.
Interviews for candidates will
tentatively be scheduled July 5-7.
The board appointed Dr. Judy
See SCHEDULE, page 14
Chester shotgun belonging to Mr.
Handrick next to the body. They
interviewed several witnesses at
the scene and determined that
death was between 7 p.m. and
8:28 p.m.
Helping with the investigation
were Police Sergeant Tom
Hudgins, Sheriff Joe Goodson,
Trooper Don Claxton, Deputy
Calvin Robertson, and Police Of-
ficer Bill Nastoupil.
1870's. All of the pews have been
moved from the church and the
congregation has been worship-
ing in the school gymnasium.
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Crude oil prices rose above $20 a
barrel for the first time in a year
last Friday — a more than $6 a
barrel increase when it hit a low
of just above $14 a barrel in
March.
Credited for much of the in-
crease are OPEC's moves to keep
the lid on production and better
demand as the world economy
starts improving.
The Organization of Petroleum
state monthly survey, which was
released late Friday was steeper
than widely forecast, cattle fu-
tures prices first rallied about
$1.00 early in the day before drop-
ping back to about even by noon
Monday.
Over the longer run, however,
the survey signals that beef sup-
plies this autumn probably won't
rise as quickly as originally pro-
jected, which local ranchers hope
will strengthen the market.
In the meantime, Steve Amosson
with the Texas Agricultural Ex-
tension Service calls the market
action "a crash," with cattlemen
losing up to $200 a head.
See CATTLE, page 18
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The cattle market slump has re-
cently turned into a crash, send-
ing prices to their lowest level
since 1991.
A glut of beef and poultry has
sent cattle prices down from
$76.87 per hundredweight in mid-
April to as low as $62.30 in late
May before rallying to about
$64.50 early this week.
Cattle prices were expected to
find support Monday in the wake
of an Agriculture Department sur-
vey showing that 22 percent fewer
young cattle were placed on feed-
lots last month compared with
May 1993. Feedlots fatten cattle
for slaughter on a rich grain diet.
Although the drop in the seven-
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received his bachelors degree from
West Texas State University in
Canyon. He earned his Master of
Middle Management from Sul
Ross University and is in the pro-
cess of completing his
superintendent's certification
from Sui Ross.
His wife Debbie Davis was hired
Thursday night as an elementary
teacher. They have two sons, ages
23 and 14.
See PRINCIPAL, page 13
TORNADIC WINDS Satur-
day night blew the roof off this
barn and apartment at the
Charles Mersiovsky farm. The
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