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2 A Wednesday, July 11. 1900 Cltizan* Journal
Collision kills two Arkansas residents
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FATAL
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criminally negligent homicide and
failure to stop and render aid, felony
offense."
Wray was arraigned before Mrs.
Allen, where bail was set. The truck
driver posted bond, Aycock said
Monday.
Passengers in the Grundy vehicle
who were injured included Camelia
Collier, 17, of Texarkana, Ark., who
was listed in good condition at Wad-
ley Regional Medical Center;
Deshan Chamblee, 13, of
Texarkana, Ark., listed in good con-
dition at Wadley; Mary Watson, 30,
of Texarkana, Ark., listed in fair con-
dition at Wadley; and Stephanie At-
kins, 8, of Little Rock, Ark., listed in
serious condition at St. Michael
Hospital.
The two passengers in the car
driven by Shelley Brimage who
were injured were Stephanie Elaine
Brimage, 21, of Bloomburg, listed in
serious condition at St. Michael; and
John Brown, 21, of Doddridge, Ark.,
listed in good condition at St.
Michael.
Shelley Brimage and Stephanie
Atkins were airlifted from the scene.
The others were transported to the
Texarkana hospitals by Atlanta and
Texarkana ambulances.
It took rescue personnel almost
Journal staff photo by JOHN COLEMAN
Emergency personnel are shown rendering aid to one of the seven Injured victims of a head-on colli-
sion that killed two Arkansas residents Sunday night. The two victims were among the six people rid-
ing In this Buclk Regal.
an hour-and-a-half to free some of
the injured from the wreckage.
Emergency units responded from
Atlanta, Queen City, Domino and
Texarkana. Both lanes of traffic on
the northbound side of the highway
were blocked until approximately
12:45 a.m., when one lane was
open to allow passage of traffic that
was backed up for almost half a
mile.
County to decide fate of license tag fee
By VALERIE EAVES
Journal Staff Writer
The Cass County Commissioners
Court voted several months ago to
do away with the five dollar license
tag fee beginning in 1991. Monday,
the item was back on the agenda.
County Judge Tommy Kessler
asked the commissioners if they
would reinstate the fee.
"I have heard from a lot of people
who think the fee should remain,"
Kessler told the court. "I've not had
one person tell me they were in
favor of rescinding the five dollar
fee."
Precinct 2 Commissioner George
Parker said he's had the same type
of comments from his constituents.
"A lot of people that I've talked to
feel this is a fair tax," Parker said.
"But I've also talked to a few who
don't (want to pay the five dollar
fee)."
Precinct 1 Commissioner Taylor
Duncan said he's had the exact op-
posite reaction from constituents.
"I've had some people talk to me
about it," Duncan said. "A lot have
agreed with me to do away with the
fee."
The five dollar license tag fee
generates about $120,000 for the
county road and bridge fund each
year. That equals out to about
$30,000 for each precinct.
"We need it (the fee money) to
upgrade our county roads," said
Precinct 3 Commissioner Robert
Buzbee. "We're really going to be
hurt if the fee is rescinded."
The two newly elected commis-
sioners, Freddie Tyson and Nolan
Moore, were present at Monday's
meeting. Since they will be the com-
missioners doing without that
$30,000, Judge Kessler asked for
their input.
"I was on the commissioners
court when this first came up,"
Moore said. "Since the people who
own property and pay property
taxes are carrying the load, we
decided that this (the five dollar fee)
gave us an opportunity to tax those
who don't own property. In my
opinion this is one of the most fair
taxes we have. I'd like to see it put
back in place."
"I'm not in favor of increasing
taxes, but I also believe that this is
the fairest tax we can have, except
for maybe sales tax," said Tyson.
"The property owners are being
taxed to death, we need to spread
the tax burden around as best we
can."
Duncan said, however, that he
doesn't understand how the other
commissioners can say the five dol-
lar fee is a "fair tax".
"You all keep talking about reliev-
ing the tax burden from those who
pay property and school taxes," he
said. "But if we keep this tax, in ef-
fect we'll be taxing them again."
The commissioners decided to
take no action on the fee at this
meeting. They agreed to spend the
next two weeks talking to con-
stituents to get the overall feeling of
the county on the fee. They'll dis-
cuss whether to keep the fee or do
away with it at the court's next
meeting July 23.
Atlanta reconsiders Western Waste contract
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WASTE
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having to spend approximately
$200,000 a year to repair the
damaged streets.
Waste Management's promise ot
using small, lightweight single-axle
trash trucks in Atlanta was a major
consideration in entertaining their
offer to do business in Atlanta.
Western apparently made a
favorable impression on the council-
men by bringing two of their small,
lightweight modular trucks to the
meeting Monday.
"Western Waste is manufacturing
these trucks in Los Angeles," Deck-
er said. "Our company is aware that
our heavy trucks are not good for
streets in small communities like At-
lanta, where the streets are general-
ly asphalt and have no curbs or gut-
ters. These two trucks arrived in
Texarkana today at 4:30, so we
brought them right on down. In fact,
these are the first two trucks to roll
off the assembly line."
McKelvey said Tuesday that the
bright orange trucks were even
lighter than the new ones intro-
duced to the city by waste Manage-
ment.
The trash wars
The controversy over trash began
in February when Atlanta received a
letter from Western Waste announc-
ing their plans to increase pickup
rates by about 24 percent. Appear-
ing before the council in March, they
argued that new regulations, restric-
tions and heavy fees and penalties
imposed on them in Arkansas
(where their landfill is located) made
the higher rates necessary.
They originally proposed a new
monthly residential pickup rate of
$7.82, a $1.43 hike over the current
monthly rate of $6.39 per month.
Following Waste Management's
presentation to the council in April,
Western dropped its offered rate to
$7.65 per month. Waste Manage-
ment had offered $7.55.
At the end of May, the council
authorized then-city manager Bill
Collum to offer Western Waste an
opportunity to up their rates to only
$7 per month. Collum then reported
back to the council that he heard
nothing else from the company after
that.
Decker said Monday night that he
thought everything was still on hold.
"I didn't attend any more council
meetings, so I had no idea y'all
were taking these steps to terminate
our contract. We don't want to leave
Atlanta. We want the business."
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