The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 140, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 9, 1993 Page: 5 of 40
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Sunday, May 9, 1993 — The Allen American — Page 5A
Letters friendship will be given to a child of PTA
—-----------------------------corresponding size. ____________
From 1ATo make the gift more personal,
1 Downs is encouraging the students from
(Y house IS destroyed). . to include a short letter and pictures who promotes child advocacy issues
.80 the kids at Story decided to about themselves and their life in through education, health, safety
further Project: Friends.” . . Allen. and legislation. It is not necessary
The community service project is The items may be turned in to for recipients to be members of the
voluntary and will let the children of Downs at Story by May 17. They PTA.
the foreign country know that Allen will be hand-carried to the children of Recipients are honored for up-
students care. . - • Fra Didak Buntic’ School in Med- holding the PTA motto of “Putting
students who wish to participate jugorje, where they will be distri- Kids First.” Committees were
are asked to purchase jeans, tennis buted throughout the school. established for each PTA and
5 oes, underwear or white tube For more information, contact nominations were accepted for
socks in his or her size The gift of Downs at 727-0570. candidates.
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The awards included: Boyd
CcC.AL p: , 11 Elementary — Dianne Lamb and
• UlIlC6r PoliceChiefRichard Carroll said the Nancy VandenBerge; Lovejoy
A two-year police veteran is con- Elementary _ pAT
— --------------------tinuing to undergo surgeries and Riem ptarxRe — ca Cox
From 1A Cheatum and Laura Elmer; Roun-
striking Oberholtzer twice and kill- light duty within w duple TIton TNG tree Elementary — Glinda
inghim. Inside his car, police found and to full-time duties in about four Rrazeal and Jeannie Fisher: Story
another weapon and 150 rounds of to six months,” Carroll said. Elementary — Bob Outman, Sue
ammunition.. Concerning White’s involvement Vaughanres and Mary Evans:
The grand jury has reviewed the in the shooting, Carroll stated, “We Kennedy and I mentary J.D.
incident and made the determination think his actions were totally justi- School 1in Folevi Ford
. that the shooting was justified and fied, not only within state law but Mid die School Betty Matthews
that no further action will be taken," also within our scope of deadly use of and Bettye Petree: Allen High
0 Connell said, calling it a “routine ’’ force policies in that he was return- Echo Sacher Bren da Holliday PT A
inquiry conducted for any officer- ing fire.” Coma Bacher; and Council of PTA
involved shootings. . Davis said Oberholtzer's family reCharley Sacher and Debbie Can-
McKinney Police Chief Ken Wal- was still struggling with what would TV:
ker, whose department conducted have caused their son to open fire on
an investigation into the incident, the officer. According to toxicology
said he believed the grand jury find- reports, Oberholtzer had a small
ing. was the correct one. amount of alcohol in his system. He
After the initial investigation, it said his stepson, who worked for a
was obvious to us it was justifiable,” Garland electronics firm and was
• he said. . starting his own audio manufacturing
Contacted Friday, Oberholtzer’s and installation firm, showed no out-
stepfather, David Davis, said the ward signs of any emotional prob-
family had no reason to dispute the lems.
findings that the shooting was justi- "The only thing we can figure out-
fied. . ••• is that he got so frightened when
My feeling is, I think, I have no they told him he was under arrest
quarrel with what the grand jury that he flipped,” said Davis.
found in respect to the shooting,” He said his stepson may have had
Davis, 39, said. "We haven’t been the two weapons and the large
presented with any information re- amount of ammunition because he
- garding that portion of it that would and his friends occasionally went
C justify any other conclusion.” target shooting. He added that be-
Keffer, who was not injured in the cause of his stepson’s work, he
shootout, has returned to his patrol sometimes carried large amounts of
duties. White, 29, continues to re- money collected from customers
cover from his injuries and has not and might have wanted the weapons
yet returned to active duty. Allen for personal protection.
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• From 1A It will be built by the same de-
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, Over the last two years, the ci- lar in appearance. The request to
ty s determmation has been nothing rezone the property for multi-family
short of remarkable,” he said, was approved by a 6-1 vote. Council-
F rom the passage of the half-cent woman Sharon Hamner cast the lone
sales tax for economic development, negative vote.
the relocation of TRW and Quest The council also approved 5-2 a
Medical, and the successful passage request to rezone for a residential
of the school bond election, the development on the northwest cor-
. direction is clear. ner of FM 2170 and Malone Road.
The decision we made tonight is
not just about rooftops, hike-and- The residential development on
bike trails, golf courses and private FM 2170 at Malone Drive will con-
parks. It s about our future and the tain 532 single-family lots. The prop-
vision we share. onent, Heath and Knight Properties
Six residents addressed the coun- of Plano, asked the council to elimin-
cfl before the vote to express their ate a 3.8-acre local retail site, but
thanks for protecting the interests of councilmembers voted unanimously
the people who live in Allen, to keep it.
“We’ve got a much better propos-
al now than the one we started Lilly and Hamner also voted
e with, said Eileen Tollett. against the rezoning proposal be- -
In other action Thursday, the cause they felt the developers were
council approved a request to rezone asking for too much downzoning
for apartments on State Highway 5 from commercial to residential.
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Epperson, Wayne. The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 140, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 9, 1993, newspaper, May 9, 1993; Allen, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1670728/m1/5/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Allen Public Library.