Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 45, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 5, 2011 Page: 1 of 20
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All-around Onalaska
athlete Kenton Vin-
cent named 2011 vale-
dictorian.
See Sports, Pg. 9A
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IT COULD HAPPEN
HERE: What will you
do when a tornado
strikes? Make sure
you're tuned in for
funnel cloud alerts.
See Living, Pg. 1B
Correction
Due to an editing
error, a story on a
drowning in the June
2 edition had mis-
placed reference to
Scenic Loop Volun-
teer Fire Department.
SLVFD was involved
in the search for and
recovery of the vic-
tim, but their person-
nel were not present
when the incident oc-
curred.
Local Weather
100/72 4, .
Slight chance of a thunderstorm.
Highs 98 to 102F and lows in the
low 70s.
Partly cloudy, chance of a thunder-
storm.
Mainly sunny. Highs in the upper
90s and lows in the upper 60s.
Sunshine. Highs in the mid 90s
and lows in the upper 60s.
Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s and
tows in the low 70s.
Index
Bulletin Board........5B
Classified..........6B-9B
Crossword..............6B
Community Calendar.JA
Obituaries...............6A
Official Records.....2A
Opinion...................4A
Living................1B-5B
Sports.............9A-10A
Dallas weather keeping lake level up, local rain still AWOL
BY VALERIE REDDELL
Editor
polknews@gmail.com
LIVINGSTON - Despite the
fact that the Polk County area
virtually did without any spring
rains, the lake level remains high
and the City of Livingston has not
had to implement any of its drought
contingency plan, according to
Livingston City Manager Marilyn
Sutton and Mark Waters, the
assistant manager of the Lake
Livingston project for the Trinity
River Authority.
The Lake Livingston basin has
received less than a quarter of the
expected rainfall so far this year.
Waters said.
During the month of May, the
12 rain gauges operated by TRA
received 1.6 inches, bringing the
year-to-date rainfall up to 8.51
inches.
“We expect 19.36 inches a year
through May,” Waters said. “We’re
starting June with 4.79 inches and
should be at 20.15 at the end of
June, but we haven’t had enough
rain this year to get there.”
The lake level has remained at
or above normal levels because
of the rainfall in Dallas and other
upstream areas.
“Right now we’re at 131.84 feet
— six inches high,” Waters said.
“Generally if we’re in this area
after Memorial Day, we have a
pretty good summer. Sometimes
we’re four or five inches low by
Memorial Day.”
The lack of local rainfall is
prompting City of Livingston water
customers to use an average of 1.4
million gallons of water a day for
the month of May, according to
Sutton.
The recently amended drought
contingency plan calls for voluntary
water conservation when water use
hits 1.8 million gallons per day for
eight consecutive days.
At that point, city officials will
ask customers to restrict landscape
watering and outdoor uses to twice
a week on days determined by their
street address.
Another factor that will affect
outdoor water use is when
construction crews connect new.
larger distribution water lines to the
See WATER, Page 6A
ENTERPRISE PHOTO BY AUSTIN GODDARD
One city project that may have gotten a helping hand from the lack of
rainfall is repairs to the pond at Pedigo Park. Crews are working to install
a new spillway between the pond and Long King Creek and plan to refill
the pond and restock it with fish in the coming weeks.
ENTERPRISE PHOTO BY AUSTIN GODDARD
Livingston volunteer firefighters and the Texas Forest Service battle a brush fire on Beech Creek Road Friday.
The damaged area was estimated at possibly a half-acre. LVFD received the call at 12:30 p.m. and were back
at the fire station at 1:20 p.m. Fire Chief Corky Cochran continues to urge area residents to use extreme caution
during outdoor activities to avoid creating any sparks during these extremely dry, windy conditions. A county-
wide burn ban remains in effect.
TFS working
2 large fires
in West Texas
COLLEGE STATION
— Fire crews from the Texas
Forest Service were battling
two large wildfires in the state
as 191 of the 254 counties in
the state remain under burn
bans.
In Tejano Canyon in Jeff
Davis County, a 2,500 acre fire
began Thursday and was 10
percent contained as of Friday
morning. It threatens abom
200 homes.
Multiple air resources have
been activated and additional
hand crews have been ordered
to supplement ground crews.
The Rocco fire in Brewster
County was 70 percent con-
tained Friday after burning
700 acres.
TFS officials said that fire
was continuing to creep and
smolder in tall grass 67 miles
southwest of Fort Stockton.
Forecasts continue to call
for 100-degree weather across
the Lone Star state with little
chance of rain.
The Texas Parks and Wi Idlife
Department has reopened por-
tions of Possum Kingdom
State Park for the Memorial
Day weekend, but park cabins
and 10 primitive campsites re-
mained off limits.
See WILDFIRES, Page 6A
Driver ejected in rollover
crash on FM1988 Tuesday
Second crash blamed on running
stop sign at FM 3126 & 3277
LIVINGSTON - One per-
son was ejected and another
was partially ejected in a roll-
over accident at 11:53 p.m.
Tuesday on FM 1988 between
U.S. 59 and Hwy. 146.
A 1998 Toyota 4-Runner
driven by Kenny Dean Nun-
ley, 40, of Splendora was
westbound at an unsafe speed
when the vehicle left the road
to the right and the driver over-
corrected to the left, according
to Trooper David Morris. The
Toyota rolled multiple times,
coming to rest in a ditch on
the eastbound side of the high-
way.
. The driver, who was ejected
from the vehicle, was trans-
ported by medical helicopter
to Memorial Hermann Hospi-
tal in Houston. A passenger,
30-year-old Billy Lee Nunley,
was partially ejected and was
transported by ambulance to
the Livingston hospital with
non-incapacitating injuries.
No charges had been filed at
press time.
Several charges were filed in
connection with a one-car ac-
cident at 12:05 a.m. Wednes-
day on FM 3277 at FM 3126.
A 2000 Chevrolet Impala
driven by Austin Bryce Tutwil-
er, 24, of Shepherd was east-
bound on FM 3277.The driver
disregarded the stop sign at
FM 3126 and the car traveled
through the intersection and
struck a tree line, according to
Trooper Robert Akers.
He said the driver left the
crash scene but was later
identified through investiga-
tion. Tutwiler was listed with
non-incapacitating injuries. A
passenger, 30-year-old John
Wayne Dodge, was not injured
and was arrested for public
intoxication, according to the
trooper.
Tutwiler was charged with
leaving the scene of an acci-
dent, disregarding a stop sign
and having an open container
of alcohol in the vehicle.
Gov. Bill Clements changed
Texas' political party landscape
A true giant of the
Republican Party
A. \passed away on
Saturday, May 29. Former
JPexas Governor William
P. “Bill” Clements forever
changed the political land-
scape of the Lone Star State,
and the current success of the
modem Republican Party of
Texas can be attributed in
large part to his election as
Governor.
Clements began his pro-
fessional career as an oilman
and founder of SEDCO, the
largest offshore drilling com-
pany in the world.
In 1971, Clements served
as the United States Deputy
Secretary of Defense under
President Nixon, and con-
tinued under President Ford
until 1977.
In 1978, Bill Clements
stormed on to the Texas po-
litical scene. He challenged
former state party chairman
and legislator Ray Hutchison
in the 1978 Republican pri-
mary.
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Gov. William P. Clements spoke to the Deep East
Texas Development Association on July 23,1982.
His ‘78 primary cam-
paign was unlike anything
Republicans had seen before.
It was well-financed, well-
organized, and Clements
himself proved to be a tena-
cious campaigner. He won
an overwhelming primary
victory but was a decided un-
derdog against former Texas
Attorney General John Hill
in November.
He went on to win elec-
tion as the first Republican
Governor of Texas since
Reconstruction by a margin
of less than 17,000 votes.
As a result of his ascension
to the Governor’s Mansion,
See CLEMENTS, Page 6A
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