Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 44, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 31, 1981 Page: 1 of 22
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Leaking crude
Emergency personnel from Livingston and Goodrich prepare
to transfer “sour crude” from a damaged tank truck into
another tanker brought to the scene of Wednesday’s truck
wrack from Livingston. The leaking crude oil emitted a nox-
ious gas. Concern over the fumes and fear of an explosion pro-
mpted several homes in the area of Lake Livingston Dam to be
evacuated.
Under proposed plan
Browder keeps Polk
AUSTIN - While Polk County will re-
main in State Rep. Larry Browder’s
legislative district under the re-
districting plan proposed by the Texas
House, Browder’s area will be given a
major overhaul by the proposal.
Under the plan passed early Thurs-
day morning, Browder will lose Trinity,
Tyler and part of Liberty counties and
will gain the southeastern portion of
Walker County including most of the Ci-
ty of Huntsville. Polk, San Jacinto and
northern and western Liberty counties
would remain within his territory.
Browder voted in favor of the re-
districting plan on its final reading
Thursday.
Although the representative could not
be contacted for comment, a
spokesman in his Austin office explain-
ed that the change in district lines
became necessary in order to bring
each of the more than 150 house
districts as close as possible to the
94,000 population goal.
The spokesman added that under the
plan, Browder’s District 16 would now
become District 15.
The statewide plan was scheduled to
be considered by the senate Saturday
afternoon. It is expected to gain quick
approval as legislators hurry to finish
work before the session ends at mid-
night Monday.
Once approved by the senate, the
plan would go to Gov. William Clements
for his consideration. Should he sign the
measure, it would then be submitted to
the U.S. Justice Department which
must give it’s permission to the
changes under the federal Voting
Rights Act.
Reaction
I remember reading in your paper
about a toll-free number that per-
sons with problems concerning
Social Security can call. Could you
please give the number again?
Actually there are several toll-free
numbers. Those persons who are
already receiving Social Security
payments or SSI or those who need a
Social Security card may call
800-392-1603. Those having trouble
getting Medicare payments should
call 800442-2620.
Persons needing to file a claim
need to call station-to-station, collect
to Lufkin, 834-6633.
Should the governor veto the
measure, the matter of redistricting
would be turned over to a panel of five
state officials, all Democrats. Because
GOODRICH - The Cooperative Voca-
tional Academic Education (CVAE)
program at Goodrich High School has
been shelved for the time being in order
to allow more emphasis to be placed on
improving basic education, according
to acting administrator Sam
McDonald.
School board members voted not to
include the CVAE program in the
1981-82 curriculum during a special-
called board meeting Thursday night.
“The board felt they should put the
main thrust on improving basic educa-
tion,” McDonald said. He added the
consensus of the trustees was that
CVAE is a good, effective program but
that improving basic education is of
greater priority at this time. Another
LIVINGSTON - With the turn of a
valve, water from Lake Livingston
began flowing into the City of Liv-
ingston’s water system at 9:10 a.m. Fri-
day, marking the beginning of the end
of a construction project which began
nearly two years ago.
The chemical reaction which was
predicted to cause mineral deposits in
the water pipes to break loose causing a
temporary discoloration of the water
has, thusfar, been minimal. Project
Manager John Pearsall, with the Trini-
ty River Authority, said that the TRA
felt it was best to prepare city residents
for the worst even though they knew the
discoloration problems they predicted
might not occur. He added the situation
was similar to that of the Huntsville
water system. Citizens in that city were
also warned of problems which might
arise from the loosened mineral
deposits, but many did not even notice
the change, he said.
The water which was filling the city’s
overhead storage tank Friday was be-
ing pumped from the water treatment
plant on Hwy 350 by the smallest of the
plant’s three water pumps, according
Clements is a Republican, and many
Republicans say they basically are
See BROWDER’S pg. 2A
priority item listed by the board was
the addition of classrooms on both the
high school and the elementary levels.
At the previous board meeting,
trustees had discussed a location for the
CVAE program. At that time the acting
administrator indicated there were
primarily two options available -
renovation of the district’s New Hope
facility or construction of a new
classroom on the main campus in
Goodrich.
In other business, trustees voted to
advertise for bids on the construction of
two offices in the school library and
renovation work on the gymnasium.
The district is also soliciting bids on the
renovation of plumbing in the gym-
nasium.
to Pearsall, that pump capable of pro-
ducing .6 million gallons of water per
day. The other two pumps are each
capable of carrying one million gallons
of water daily into the city. Pearsall
said the city’s demand is now normally
less than one million gallons a day and
that the plant will probably operate on-
ly one pumprat a time for 16 hours each
day. If necessary, the system can send
up to iwo million gallons ot water a Ua>
into the city lines for a short time. If
and when growth warrants, there are
plans ready to add another one-half
million gallons a day to that capacity.
In addition to the three pumps at the
plant itself, there are three pumps
located at the intake station - one
capable of pumping up to two million
gallons of water daily and two pumps
capable of drawing one million gallons
of water a day.
The city has reserved the right to
remove up to five million gallons of a
water daily from the lake, according to
Pearsall, who said the new water
system should take care of the city’s
water problems “for the next 30 or 40
years."
CVAE shelved
Water flowing
Tank truck flips;
fumes cause concern
1JV1NGSTON - Several residents in
the vicinity of Lake Livingston Dam
were evacuated from their homes late
Wednesday night after a tank truck car-
rying ‘ sour crude" overturned on FM
1988.
Firemen from Livingston and
Goodrich were called to the scene to
prevent an explosion. The leaking
crude oil, which contained a large
amount of sulphur (5 to 8 percent i.
emitted hydrosulfide gas, which in a
contained area can be harmful or dead-
ly when inhaled, according to Liv-
ingston Firefighter Kenneth Hambrick.
The driver of the truck, Richard Lee
Erekson, 26, of Frankston, was taken to
Livingston Memorial Hospital where he
was reportedly treated for cuts and
abrasions.
According to a witness at the scene,
Erekson’s truck was being followed by
another tank truck, both of which were
reported to be traveling at an high rate
of speed. The second truck managed to
negotiate the turn. Erekson was cited
for unsafe speed by Texas Highway
Patrol Trooper Tom Selman, who in-
vestigated the accident.
Erekson was reportedly in route from
Eustace to a storage facility in the
Goodrich area. The wreck occurred
shortly after 10:30 p.m.
Onalaska State Bank
group optimistic
LIVINGSTON — Two days of
testimony before a Texas Banking
Department hearing examiner concer-
ning a charter application for Onalaska
State Bank concluded Wednesday in
Austin.
The application, filed March 30, in-
dicates the board of directors of the pro-
posed bank would be O.C. Nowlin, An-
thony Page and M.G. “Mickey” Reily,
all of Corrigan, R.H. Reily of Liv-
ingston and D.E. Reily of Lufkin. All of
the men currently serve on the board of
Citizens State Bank in Corrigan.
Page, who serves as president of the
Corrigan bank, was the primary
spokesman for tne proposed Onalaska
State Bank charter at the Austin hear-
ings. Two groups were present to oppos-
ed the charter application, according to
Page - representatives from Liv-
ingston Savings and Loan and a group
representing a second Onalaska bank
charter application, that for Communi-
ty State Bank.
Livingston Savings and Loan’s
primary contention is that, under
recently revised banking laws, a sav-
ings and loan facility can provide the
same services as a bank, according to
Page. The savings and loan’s Onalaska
branch office is currently the only
financial institution in that immediate
area. Savings and loan president Bob
Belt said shortly after the application
was filed, “With all of the new
authorities that savings and loans have
to offer customers, there is really no
difference between them and a bank.
Basically, 1 don’t see that they would
have anything new to offer.”
Page said he contended during cross
examination that “there are a lot of
things they could do, that they (the sav-
ings and loan) are not doing.”
Proponents for the Community State
Bank charter asserted a desire for
“local ownership” as their primary ob-
jection to the Onalaska State Bank
charter, Page said. Directors listed on
the second bank charter application in-
clude Lawrence L. Charrier, owner of
the Dairy Mart in Onalaska; Dorothy
Gibson and Nick Netter, both
associated with D-N-M Enterprises in
the city; M.L. “Doc” Vincent, an
Onalaska city councilman, general con-
tractor and realtor; and Charles N.
Wells, a realtor from Livingston.
Page maintains that much of the
trustee stock in the Community State
Bank would really be based in Liv-
ingston, making ownership not entirely
local. He added the board of the propos-
ed Onalaska State Bank consists of per-
sons with banking experience. "An ex-
perienced board will have more to of-
fer,” Page said. “We can be an asset to
the community.”
Page added three Onalaskans have
been asked and have agreed to serve as
advisory directors to Onalaska State
Bank. Those advisors are Bobby Smith,
Jackie Havard and Dr. R.D. Rice.
LIVINGSTON - Action on the bid
received for the purchase of the Dunbar
campus is scheduled to be taken this
Thursday night at the regular meeting
of the Livingston Independent School
District Board of Trustees.
The one bid received on the purchase
was a token bid of $1 plus “other
valuable considerations” from the
Committee to Save the Dunbar Com-
piex.” The committee has plans to turn
the 10-acre site into a community
center.
Board members are arlso scheduled to
Growth figures
Proponents of the Onalaska State
Bank charter application have based
much of their case on need. Their belief
that the growth of Onalaska and the
surrounding area constitutes a need for
another financial institution was back-
ed up by a 77-page report compiled by
economist Dr. George William Berry, a
consultant to financial institutions from
Austin.
The report shows there has been no
bank charter in Polk County since 1919,
the year Citizens State Bank was found-
ed. That charter was proceeded by tfytt
of First State Bank of Livingston lit 1910
and First National Bank in Livingston
in 1902. The charter for Livingston Sav-
ings and Loan was approved in 1987.
Other Lake Livings ton-area banks in-
clude The Bank of San Jacinto County,
See GROWTH pg. 2A
consider action toward the acceptance
of a policy concerning the assignment
of personnel. The policy, if adopted in
its present form would not allow school
personnel to be assigned to positions in
which they are directly supervised on a
first-line basis by a spouse.
Also on the agenda is an instructional
report.
An executive session has been slated
for the purpose of discussing personnel
and real estate masters.
The meeting is scheduled to begin at 7
p.m. in the district administration of-
fices on West Church Street.
Dunbar campus
decision set
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