Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 28, 1981 Page: 1 of 32
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ENTERPRISE
THURSDAY,
May 28, 1981
The dominant news and advertising source in Folk County, since 1882
VOLUME 99
NUMBER 43
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Struck by school bus
Child killed
LIVINGSTON - A 6-year-old child
died Tuesday afternoon after being
struck by a school bus.
Angela Kay McDaniel was pronounc-
ed dead by Precinct 1 Justice of the
Peace G.H. Galloway shortly after she
was brought to Livingston Memorial
Hospital by her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Wayne McDaniel of Livingston,
according to Police Chief Bill Smith.
No charges have been filed against
the bus driver, Mark Waters, a teacher
at Livingston Junior Hip School.
Smith said the child reportedly got
out of the bus at the intersection of
South Washington and Elizabeth streets
with three other children. Waters ap-
parently thought all the children were
out of the way and did not realize he had
hit the child until he heard people
shouting for him to stop the bus, accor-
ding to the police chief. He added the
girl’s parents witnessed the accident.
The accident, which Smith said is the
first fatality in the city this year, occur-
red at 3:30p.m.
Funeral services for Angela will be
held at 3 p.m. today (Thursday) at the
First United Pentecostal Church of Liv-
ingston.
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Hospital plans addition
of cardiac care unit
LIVINGSTON - Construction of a
cardiac/intensive care unit at Liv-
ingston Memorial Hospital may begin
as soon as August, according to ar-
chitect Clifton Thomason of Moroz
Associated Consultants of Houston.
Also planned is addition of a modular
laundry, maintenance and storage
facility, construction of which is ex-
pected to begin in July.
The laundry/storage facility will be a
separate structure added to the
southeast corner of the hospital
grounds and connected to the main
building by a covered walkway,
Thomason said. The space currently us-
ed for storage will be renovated to
house die cardiac/intensive care unit.
The 1,700-square-foot, four-bed ICU
will differ from a regular nursing sta-
tion In that the nurse-to-patient ratio
will be such that there will be a nurse
within 30 feet of each patient at all
times, according to the architect. “It is
an ideal location because it is adjacent
to the emergency and operating
rooms,” he said.
Specialized features planned for the
ICU include “some of the best equip-
ment you can buy,” Thomason said. In-
cluded in the plans is electronic
monitoring, which will display perti-
nent patient information both at bed-
side and at the nurses’ station.
Also planned is the purchase of
modular headwalls. The devices, which
can either be purchased separately or
built into the headboards, include
medical gas outlets, special electric
outlets, brackets and connections for
monitors and provisions for calling
nurses and automatically sending
“code blue” emergency alerts.
Plans also call for the ICU to be
equipped with portable x-ray machines
and a “crash cart,” according to
Thomason. The latter is a portable cart
stocked with instruments and devices
to resuscitate persons in life-
threatening situations......... „
The a rc hi tec t a dd ed tin hospital also
plans to purchase new electric beds
with head, knee and foot adjustment
controls. The beds will also be equipped
with a single button which, when press-
ed, will automatically place the bed in
the best position for reviving patients.
A cardiac/intensive care unit of this
size will probably be manned by six
nurses on a 24-hour shift, Thomason
said, adding the schedule would pro-
bably call for two or three nurses on the
day shift, two on the evening shift and
one on the night shift.
The laundry/storage facility will in-
clude two 50-pound washers and three
50-pound dryers. The architect explain-
ed the drying capacity exceeds the
washing capacity to allow for “fluff
space” for permanent press articles.
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The 4,000-square-foot structure will also
include a loading dock and
maintenance area.
Plans for both the ICU and the
storage facility have been sent to the
Texas Health Facilities Commission
which will determine whether there is a
need in the community for the construc-
tion. The commission must approve all
ilpw services which will cost over
$150,000, Thomason said. Without a cer-
tificate from the commission, the Texas
Department of Health will pot
recognize the facti^es, hindering .the
collection of Meqfnre and Membaid
funding, he added. ^
Thomason predicted the Jpindry
facility certification would be received
next month and that the certificate for
the ICU would be approvedsometime in
July. He added his firm plans to obtain
bids on the projects as soon as the cer-
tificates are granted. Each project will
take approximately three months to
complete, Thomason said, adding he
hopes the hard construction costs will
not exceed $250,000 for both projects..
The equipment will be purhased
separately.
The architect is a native of Liv-
ingston, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome
Thomason. Moroz Associated Con-
sultants is an independent general ar-
chitectural firm which specializes in
health facilities.
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Facelift for pool
With many students getting out of school this week, service face similar to fiberglass. Volunteers have also re-painted the
club members in Livingston have been busy preparing the locker room areas. The pool opens this Saturday with a special
public swimming pool for the crowd that summer vacation “free swim” time from 2 p.m. until $ p.m. (See related story
always attracts. The bottom of the pool has been sandblasted, page 3A.)
waterblaited and treated with a vinyl resin, ma|ing the sur-
CVAE class location
topioYBf'GISD trustees
GOODRICH - The Goodrich Indepen-
dent School District Board of Trustees
will meet in special session beginning
at 7:30 p.m. today (Thursday) in the
school library.
Items on the agenda include discus-
sion of proposed renovations and
discussion and/or action on facilities
for the Cooperative Vocational
Academic Education (CVAE)" pro-
gram.
At the board’s regular board meeting
last Thursday, acting school ad-
ministrator Sam McDonald told
trustees there are basically two options
available as sites for the CVAE pro-
gram r- renovation of the school’s New
Hope facility, located about three miles
from Goodrich School or construction of
a new classroom on the main campus in
Goodrich.
Renovation of the New Hope site
would entail electrical rewiring, the ad-
dition of overhead doors, removal of
walls to enlarge workshop areas and
roof repairs, McDonald said.
He added if the board opted to build a
new classroom, the concrete slab and
exterior could be completed during the
summer and the interior could be com-
pleted by the school after classes begin
next fall.
Senator "comfortable' with redistricting plan
AUSTIN - State Senator Kent Caper-
ton, D-Bryan, says he is “comfortable”
with the senatorial redistricting plan
adopted by the Texas Senate. Under
that plan, Polk County will remain in
Caperton’s District 5. The Senate voted
23 to 7 to pass the redistricting bill.
Caperton said the plan “retains the
rural identity” of the district he
represents. He pointed out that the
Bryan-College Station area in Brazos
County would remain the population
center of the essentially rural district
under the new plan.
The Senate adopted “Version 1” of
two reapportionment plans initially
prepared by the Senate redistricting
committee staff.
Earlier in the week the Senate,
resolved as a committee of the whole,
had voted 20 to 10 to approve the plan
for final passage. Friday, a number of
minor amendments were adopted in
order to “fine tune” the plan before
final passage.
The committee of the whole had
earlier voted to defeat a separate plan
proposed by Senator Ed Howard,
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D-Texarkana, which Caperton opposed.
Caperton said, “We succeeded in
defeating that plan which clearly would
Reaction
If you hive an auto
the car is driveable, i
ahead and move it out
or do you have to leave Rip place un-
til an officer arrives?
State law allows you to move the
car if it will reduce traffic conges-
tion or reduce the chance of another
accident occurring. You must,
however, remain at the scene if
there are no injuries until an officer
arrives, according to the State bar of
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have decimated the district that elected
me.”
“The Howard plan,” said Caperton
admittedly was designed basically to
protect Republicans. The courts have
ruled that party affiliation or ideology
is not a legitimate purpose for
establishing district lines in any plan.”
Caperton said he questioned whether
the Howard plan would be upheld in the
courts, if challenged.
The Howard plan would have
redrawn Caperton’s district to include a
sizeable portion of the expanding
metropolitan Houston area, including
147,000 inhabitants of Harris County. It
also would have removed 12 of the 19
counties in the current 5th District.
Caperton said that testimony given in
public redistricting hearings indicated
that there was no “community of in-
terest” between Harris County and
southern Montgomery County, and the
rural counties of the Brazos Valley and
Central and East Texas. “Community
of interest” is an established criteria
which the courts have recognized for
reapportionment plans.
The Howard plan was defeated 21 to
10, with all eight Republican senators
and two Democrats voting for the plan.
Twenty-one of 23 Democratic senators
voted against the plan.
The plan finally adopted by the
Senate expands .the 5th District to the
north and west, and removes several
counties currently at the southern end
of the district. f ^
Under the new plan, the 5th District
will include the counties of Brazos,
Burleson, Falls, Freestone, Grimes,
Hill, Houston, Leon, Limestone,
Madison, Milam, Navarro, Polk,
Robertson, San Jacinto, Trinity,
Washington, and part of Ellis.
Caperton will lose Wharton, Col-
orado, Austin, Waller, and Montgomery
counties under the (dan.
Aging hearing set
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also received.
three stalls to house
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Isthe
labor. Plumbing was donated by Charlie Reddjck.
the project are Conger, who to also an emergency
dant (ECA); Charles Etgen, assistant chief and r
Hebert, fire marshall; Curtis Eden, captain;
Hebert, lieutenant and ECA; Francis Axelsea,
arms; Darline Conger, sergeant and treasurer; i
dispatcher; Maxine Etgen; Ed Axelson, firefighter
volanteers.
LIVINGSTON - Senior citizens in
Livingston and Corrigan are being ask-
ed for their opinion concerning the
needs of the aging in Polk County. A
public hearing is scheduled for 1 p.m.
Wednesday at the Polk County Nutri-
tion Site, 134 W. Calhoun in Livingston.
Moderator few tiie hearing will be Loret-
ta Hatch, aging program director with
the Deep East Texas Council of Govern-
ments.
Testimonies from senior citizens, ser-
vice providers and community leaders
be taken to identify and assess the
of senior citizens
County. Persons attending
ed to fill out a questionnaire to docu-
ment these needs.
Input received from the hearings will
be correlated and analyzed by DET-
COG personnel, who will determine
priorities for the 1982 fiscal)
ding to Pam Heath, i
the Jasper -
Texas Area i
:y and assess I
i residing in Pi
ding will be a
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White, Barbara. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 28, 1981, newspaper, May 28, 1981; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth781281/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.