Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 16, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 25, 1990 Page: 1 of 48
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ENTBItPRBE PHOTO BY STEPHEN HEMGS
GOING, GOING... - The steel-reinforced walls of the old week of gutting the inside the building, work towaid actually
Polk County Jail are not giving in easily to the wrecking ball, leveling the structure began Thursday. The site will soon be
but demolition work is progressing nonetheless. After over a home to a new fire station.
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Eight classrooms to be added
GISD construction to begin soon
GOODRICH - The Board of
Trustees of the Goodrich Indepen-
dent School District approved in-
creases on the bid for the new school
building at its regular meeting
Thursday. -
Although Kar-Lin Builders of
Lufkin was awarded the bid in
September, some additions were
Educator
to speak
made which resulted in an increase
in the price. The total cost of the
eight-classroom, 9,100-square-foot
building will be $363,524.
Construction of the buUding is pro-
jected to begin in less than a month
and be completed around Aug. 1,
1990.
The board awarded two bids on
school buses. Bus No. 24 will be sold
to Donnelly Bus Service for $584 and
bus No. 26 will be sold to Eloy’s
Miscellaneous Sales for $502.
Although the board discussed
possible purchase of a 71-passenger
school bus, the item was put on
future agenda.
Principal David Malone reported
on the boys’ basketball team. The
team played Kennard Friday and it
was GISD’s first bi-district par-
ticipation since 1984.
Steve Redd of Reddico, Inc. re-
quested at the January meeting that
the board do away with the penalties
and interest accrued on his personal
property taxes. However, the board
voted to refuse the request.
The board called an election for
May 5 and appointed Aline Fisher to
serve as election judge. Positions I
ami 2 on the board, held by Bonnie
Nichols and Joe Smith, will be on the
ballot.
The board approved Gordon Lewis
of Houston to be the school auditor
to 1989-80. Lewis has been the
auditor to the last two years.
Following an executive session,
the board approved the employment
of Mary Boyd in the
maintenance/custodial department.
Other business included approval
of the minutes and payment of bills.
LIVINGSTON - Dr. W.N. “BUI”
Kirby, the commissioner of educa-
tion for the State of Texas will be the
featured speaker at the 54th Annual
Polk County Chamber of Commerce
Banquet which will be held Thurs-
day, March 1, beginning at 7 p.m. at
Livingston High School. Dr. Kirby,
nationaUy recognized as an expert
on school finance, was a key figure
in the recent Texas Supreme Court
decision that ruled the state’s
system of funding schools un-
constitutional. The Court has given
the Texas Legislature until May 1 to
correct the situation.
See SCHOOL pg. 2A
Fifteen-year sentence assessed
LIVINGSTON - One man was
sentenced to prison and six others
were placed on probation after
entering guilty pleas during district
court hearings held by Second Ninth
District Judge John Martin in Liv-
ingston.
Ray Allen BeU was sentenced to 15
years in prison and ordered to pay
$5,654 in restitution earlier this
month after pleading guilty to theft
charges.
BeU had been indicted Nov. 16,
1989 in connection with a June 18 in-
cident in which money was stolen
from Clayton Malone.
Elwanda Mays of Livingston was
placed on probation for three years
after pleading guUty to a theft com-
plaint. According to the Oct. 19,1989
indictment, Mays was charged with
the Sept. 13 theft of a carton of
cigarettes from Mike Bryan.
Although the theft of such an item
would have normaUy been filed as a
misdemeanor, the indictment noted
that Mays had already been con-
victed twice duriqg 1989 on misde-
meanor theft charges in Livingston
Municipal Court. Under Texas law,
a third misdemeanor theft com-
plaint may be elevated to a felony.
Charles Robert Jackson of
Camden also was placed on proba-
see WELFARE pg. 2A
EMS discussion set
LIVINGSTON - Discussion and
possible action on ambulance ser-
vice proposals tops the agenda for
Monday’s regular meeting of the
* Polk County Commissioners’ Court.
Commissioners are also scheduled
to consider appointment of a county
health officer, discuss an optional
deferred compensation program for
county employees and consider ac-
tion related to roads in Indian Hills
subdivision and Lake Livingston
Estates Sections 4 and 5.
An executive session is also in-
cluded on the agenda.
The meeting wUl begin at 10 a.m.
in the Commissioners’ Courtroom,
Polk County Courthouse.
Richards taking "gloves' off
DR. W.N. “BILL” KRBY
to apeak at Thursday banquet
Hospital figures
incorrectly listed
LIVINGSTON - In the hospital-
related story in the Feb. 22 issue,
some figures were listed incorrectly.
i payable, In-
inistrator Jo
Aim Castrina-Hamda said that as of
Jan. 17,1980, account
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By EMILY BANKS
Enterprise staff
LIVINGSTON - “When I’m gover-
nor the rale’s going to be ’If you
can’t fill the till, don’t pass the bill,”
Gubernatorial Candidate Ann
Richards told a crowd of Polk Coun-
tians at Livingston City Hall Friday.
“I’ve been in Dallas all day and
I’m going to tell ya’ll when you’ve
been in Dallas all day, you’re tired
out,” Richards said, adding that she
loves to come to East Texas “where
God is a Democrat.
“I want you to know that we are
winning this race. The polls are look-
ing very good. We’ve been running
consistently about 18 points ahead of
tite other two guys,” Richards said,
referring to opponents Jim Mattox
and Mark White.
“I’m not putting my faith in the
potis though,” she said. “I’m putting
my faith in you. I believe in people
and I believe in good judgement
“This is going to be a tough race, a
mean race, but it’s time to take the
This figure was reduced by
$246,328thwughFeb. 14,1990, which
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to put up with it anymore.”
Richards referred to rural health
care as one of the greatest concerns
in Texas today. “The reason is
because we’re on an uneven playing
field with the big city hospitals.
“It is time we had a governor who
actually gets up and goes to work
every day. One who says to Senator
Lloyd Bentsen, ‘We have got to have
some relief in the rural areas,’ ” she
said.
“I think I’m the only one (in the
gubernatorial race) who was born in
the country,” Richards said.
“I know what it’s like in the coun-
try,” she said, emphasising the im-
“good folks in the rural
rent problems with education in
Texas. “I think also of central im-
portance is you’ve got to support and
insist on local control,” she said.
“We are spending thousands of
dollars on edict
that we don't even
We’re trying to put a I
hing,” Richards i
the law of Texas should be observed.
If you do the crime, you do the time.
“I think it’s time we take a corv-
and start doing
with these criminals,”
Richards said, mentioning correc-
tive programs,
“The war on drugs and alcohol
abuse must be fought on three
fronts: law enforcement, education
and treatment. Unless we do all
three, any battles won on one front
will go for naught,” she said.
Richards recognized Rep. Allen
Hightower who was seated in the
crowd. “If you keep sending him
bade we will have a strong voice for
criminal reform,” she said.
Richards received excited
laughter from the crowd when she
commented that she had seen “a
redly nice (dace for a prison” on her
anve 10 iown irooi uw airport.
Sam
“Any jackass can kick
started,” she said. “I
all of you for your
4s future industries
City plan cites
retirees, tourism
LIVINGSTON - Smokestacks on
the skyline and large industries are
likely not in Livingston’s future, ac-
cording to a survey conducted
through the Texas A&M Municipal
Assistance Program. Instead, Liv-
ingston should gear its development
toward retirees and tourism, Pro-
gram Director Randy Goldsmith
told members of the Livingston City
Council Tuesday night.
A review of a Comprehensive and
Specific Land Use Plan and propos-
ed improvements to Holhausen
Street were the subjects of a special-
called council meeting.
“The best opportunity for Polk
County is in the area of retirees and
tourism,” Goldsmith said. “Few
areas in the state can support a
retirement community, but Polk
County can.” He said the Livingston
area has the three components
necessary to attract retirees: a close
proximity to Houston, which pro-
vides a market to target; natural
resources and recreation; and
healthcare. “That (healthcare) is
the weakest area, but there is poten-
tial,” Goldsmith said.
While citizens often focus on the
local hospital when they think of
healthcare, other considerations,
such as home health care services
and links to major metropolitan
hospitals are also important, accor-
ding to Debbie Eldridge, a Texas
A&M University graduate student
who recently completed a survey of
Polk County Memorial Hospital for
the county.
Eldridge said results of her study
will be presented to county commis-
sioners within the next two weeks
and she is not at liberty to discuss
the results at this time. She did say,
however, that one of her major
recommendations is that the city
and county appoint a task force to
look at the entire health care
system. “You need to focus on what
you want in healthcare, then bring
the people together to meet those
goals. There’s a lot of energy here,
it’s just not focused.”
Setting goals and planning city
development with those goals in
mind was -also the advise of
Goldsmith. “I may be the only one in
the room who thinks retirement and
tourism are viable,” he said. “Texas
is being targeted, especially in the
Midwest, as an attractive place to
retire.” Crime and other problems
in Florida and the high cost of living
on the West Coast are adding to that
attraction.
While growth is going to happen
simply because of the city’s proximi-
ty to Houston, development is
something the city can control,
goldsmith said. “The state won’t do
it, the federal government won’t do
it, Livingston has to do it.”
“When we first started looking at
this, we were thinking of attracting
industry to create jobs for those
already here,” Councilmember San-
dra Wood said, acknowledging that
attracting retirees to the area would
also create jobs.
“That (retirement) industry will
spin off other businesses,”
Goldsmith said. He added, retirees
are generally a “wholesome” and
economically stable citizenry.
Businessman Jack Jackson asked
whether a retiree spends more
money in a community than an
average worker, to which Goldsmith
replied that a retiree spends more.
“I’m afraid I disagree with you,”
Jackson said.
Included in the A&M study were
maps showing current land use in
the city, as well as a future land use
projections. Bill Frawley, who for-
mulated much of the plan, said there
are now 2,100 acres of developed
land in the city, 2,250 acres of
undeveloped land and 670 acres of
“urban woodlands,” undeveloped
wooded areas within the city limits.
“The percentages come out pretty
close to what you usually find in a ci-
ty,” he said.
The future land use map depicts
the city’s residential area expanding
primarily to the east, greenbelts and
expansion of the present highway
system, with the predominate com-
mercial areas located at major in-
tersections in an effort to keep
businesses in high-traffic areas and
keep traffic out of the residential
areas.
Frawley suggested the future land
use plan be used as a guideline to
development “if this is how the city
wants it to look.”
Holhausen project
The council, having voted the
previous week to pursue the paving
of Holhausen and five adjacent
streets on the city’s west side as
originally proposed, voted Tuesday
to delay any action for 3888 days.
During that time period, the city
will investigate whether any
changes in the proposed paving pro-
ject can be made without jeopardiz-
ing the nearly $258,888 in grant funds
approved for the work.
Mayor Ben Royden Ogletree and
City Manager Bam Gordon met with
members of the west end’s Com-
munity ^Action Association earlier
and tiie Holhausen project was
among the concerns expressed by
See HOLHAUSEN pg. 5A
CANDIDATE VISITS - Democratic gubernatorial candidate
Aim Richards waves goodbye as she leave Livingston for a
ifcort flight to Lufltin Friday.
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White, Barbara. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 16, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 25, 1990, newspaper, February 25, 1990; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth781616/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.