Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 5, 1986 Page: 1 of 77
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Polk County
ENTERPRISE
Thursday,
June 5, 1986
Volume 104 Number 44
The Dominant News and Advertising Source in Polk County
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«Absentee voting record set
LIVINGSTON - At least 1,000 peo-
ple voted absentee in the runoff
primary election, according to Polk
County Clerk Aline Stephenson.
In the Democratic runoff, 866 peo-
ple voted by personal appearance in
Livingston, while 137 voted at the
sub-courthouse in Corrigan. The
Voting locations
LIVINGSTON - Polls will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m Satur-
day at 16 Democratic and seven Republican polling locations for the
primary run-off elections.
The box numbers listed below correspond to the “precinct
number" listed on each voter registration card.
Democratic voting locations are the same as those in the May-
primary election. Republicans have consolidated several voting
boxes.
Voting locations for Saturday’s election are as follows:
POLK COUNTY DEMOCRATIC VOTING PLACES
COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 1:
Box 1 Segno Fire Department
Box 2 Ace Assembly of God Church, Ace
clerk's office also handled 248
Democratic mailout ballots.
In the Republican runoff, 10 people
voted by personal appearance at the
courthouse in Livingston, while one
voted in Corrigan.
Stephenson said she has never
seen this many absentee votes in a
runoff election.
The runoff election this Saturday
will include local Democratic races,
and statewide races in both
Democratic and Republican elec-
tions.
No local Republican candidates
will be in the runoff.
However, seven local races will be
on the Democratic ballot. Only
voters who did not vote in the
Republican primary May 3 may vote
in the Democratic runoff. Voters
who did not vote in the May 3
primary may still vote in the runoff.
On the ballot in the county judge
race will be Wayne R. Baker and
Perry A. Tanner Jr. Running for
county clerk are Martha Johnson
and June Grimes. In the race for
county treasurer are Cheryl Henry
and Glenda Carter.
Vying for the Precinct 4 Commis-
sioner seat are Paul Harrell and
Freddy Duff. Mary Placker and
John Taylor will be competing for
the Precinct 1 justice of the peace
post, while Howard Lilley and Larry
Smith will face off in the Precinct 4
justice of the peace race. Henry
Denham and Sammy Cobb will be on
the ballot for constable Precinct 2.
Box 3
Box 4
COMMISSIONER PRFXINCT 2:
Box 5
Box 6
Box 7
Box 8
COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 3:
Box 9
Box 10
Box 11
COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 4:
Box 12
Box 13
Box 14
Box 15
Box 16
Goodrich School, Goodrich
Lutheran Church, Livingston
Scenic Loop Fire Department
Onalaska City Hall
Livingston City Hall
I^eggett School
Moscow Baptist Church
ComganXamden School
John Handley Store, Barnes
Woman abducted;
suspect arrested
Indian Village Presbyterian Church
Big Sandy School, Dallardsville
Indian Springs Fire Department
Schwab City Baptist Church
VFW Hall, Livingston (59North)
KNTFJIPRLSF. PHOTO BY UNI)A JACOBS
WELL! - Derrick Mutz looks like he may have perfected his
Jack Benny impression. The 6-year-old son of Jess and
Shirley Mutz of Livingston, Derrick is a member of the Bum-
bu: Bees in U»e Dixie Youth Softball League. The Bees com-
pleted their summer season this week.
Goodrich to rebid
wastewater plans
By DAWN ALBRIGHT
Enterprise Staff
GOODRICH - Goodrich City
Council will advertise for bids a se-
cond time on the proposed
wastewater system and water
distribution system, since bids open-
ed Monday afternoon were too high, v
and too few
During the Tuesday evening coun-
cil meeting, engineer Ron Gable
reported to the council the firm’s
recommendations to reject the bids
on the wastewater and water
systems, and hold the bids on the
water distribution extension project.
Only three contractors submitted
bids on the sewage collection and
treatment system, with the lowest
total being 11,037,442.
The lowest base bid total on water
plants 1, 2 and 3 was (443,750.
Council voted to reject bids on
both these projects, and re-advertise
for bids. This time, the wastewater
project will be bid as two separate
projects, the collection system and
the treatment system, in hopes of at-
tracting more bidders.
Gable said he thinks the bids were
so high because the contractors
“didn’t really put a pencil to it” He
said a few design changes should
help make the bids lower next time,
and some changes in clauses in the
bid specifications should make the
projects more attractive to contrac-
tors
See GOODRICH pg. 2A
POLK COUNTY REPUBLICAN VOTING PLACES
COMMISSIONER PRFXINCT 1:
Box 1 Goodrich School
Box 2 Goodrich School
Box 3 Goodrich School
Box 4 Trinity Lutheran Church, Livingston
COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 2:
Box 5 Livingston Kindergarten (N. Jackson St.)
Box 6 Onalaska School Library
Box? Ijvingston Kindergarten (N. Jackson St)
Box 8 Uvingston Kindergarten (N. Jackson St.)
COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 3:
Box 9 Corrigan Intermediate School Library
Box 10 Corrigan Intermediate School Library
Box 11 Corrigan Intermediate School Library
COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 4:
Box 12 J&C Quick Stop, near Indian Springs
Box 13 J4tC Quick Stop, near Indian Springs
Box 14 J&C Quick Stop, near Indian Springs
Box 15 J&c Quick Stop, near Indian Springs
Box 16 VFW Hall, Livingston (59N)
Big Sandy board hopes
Lunch problem resolved
By DAWN ALBRIGHT
Enterprise Staff
DALI.ARDSVILI.E - Students at
Big Sandy School will be able to
leave school at lunchtime next year,
with their parents permission and
teacher supervision.
The BSISD board of trustees voted
5 to 1 during its meeting Monday
night to allow students to go to the
store across the street from the
school before school and during
lunch.
Despite advice from the school’s
attorney that school personnel
should not be sent to supervise at
lunchtime, five of the board
members indicated they think it is
important to have supervision there.
A letter dated May 28 from Bill
Jones, the school’s lawyer, said sen-
ding school personnel to supervise
Big weekend ahead
LIVINGSTON - Ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of
Alabama-Coushatta Chief Fulton Battise’s reign as chief and the an-
nual Pow-wow are expected to draw thousands to the Indian reserva-
tion this weekend. The activities will extend into town, with a Pow-
wow parade slated for Saturday morning in Livingston. A schedule
of events follows:
WEEKEND AT THE RESERVATION
Friday
• p.m.................Gourd dancing begins at reservation ball park
7 p.m.....................Junior Division dance competition begins
I pjn................... Processional and Grand Entry at ball park
Saturday
II a.m............... Sn;... Pow-wow Parade, downtown Livingston
• p.m...........................Pow-wow dancing begins, ban park
7 p.m......................Senior Division dance competition begins
Sunday
1:30.....Chief Kina Anniversary Ceremony, Sundown Amphitheater
About 2!30 p.m..............Reception at Inn of 12 Clans until 5 p.m.
■ - ■
tends to make the premises “a de
facto extension of the campus itself,
which correspondingly extends or
increases the school’s responsibility
of those areas.”
These responsibilities include not
only the student’s conduct, welfare
and safety, but include respon-
sibilities to school personnel as
well,” the letter said.
Board president Clayton Lilley op-
posed the measure, saying he
agreed with Jones that teachers
should not be sent to supervise.
Board member Floyd Dickens
said he believes school personnel
should be present at the store to
supervise.
Dickens sworn in
Floyd Dickens was sworn in as a
board member by Superintendent
Ed Holder before Monday’s
meeting, Holder told the board at the
beginning of the meeting. Lilley sug-
gested the ceremony be performed
publicly, so Holder read the oath out
loud, which Dickens had already
signed.
Holder said as a notary he had the
authority to swear Dickens in.
Dickens, who was elected to the
board April 5, could not serve of-
ficially until after resigning from his
teaching position May 28.
Hunting permits
The school board voted to let the
National Park Service use the school
cafeteria July 12 from 7 a.m. to 7
p.m. to issue about 400 free hunting
permits.
Lilley opposed letting the Park
Service use the cafeteria, saying the
school district gets no tax revenue
from the Big Thicket National
Preserve, and letting them use the
school facility would be using the
school for something besides
educating the children.
Dickens and Buddy Cain voted in
favor of the Park Service using the
building, while Marshall Absher and
Herbert Johnson abstained.
Big Sandy Elementary School will
be getting two computers so the
See COMPUTERS pg. 2A
LIVINGSTON - A 17-year-old Liv-
ingston man has been charged with
aggravated kidnapping in connec-
tion with the abduction at knife-point
of a 22-year-old Uvingston woman
and an infant.
Jimmy Lee Wilkerson is being
held under a $50,000 bond for ag-
gravated kidnapping and will also
face a grand jury in connection with
several burglaries, according to
Polk County Sheriff's Department
Capt. Chuck Staton.
Wilkerson is accused of kidnapp-
ing Dana Gostick from her residence
off Bold Springs Road Tuesday, Mav
27.
Gostick told officers two unknown
white males came to her house
• shortly after 3 p.m. and asked her to
give them a ride to their grand-
mother’s house. She told them her
baby was sick and that she could not
leave the house, according to
sheriffs reports. The subjects left,
but the older of the two returned
later and asked to use Gostick’s
telephone. The man used the phone
but soon hung up, saying the line was
busy. The victim said the suspect
squatted down to pet a dog then pull-
ed a knife from his his back pocket
and told her, “We’re going for a
ride,” the report stated.
Still refusing to leave the child,
Gostick killed time gathering things
for the baby, while the suspect urged
her to hurry, according to the state-
ment she gave the officers.
They went to her truck, he grabb-
ed her arm, got in the truck, and
pulled her and the baby in after him,
she told authorities.
As they pulled away, the suspect
told the woman go to a light pole,
stop and honk the horn. When she
did, “a kid” ran out of the woods and
the suspect told him to get in the
back of the truck, according to the
victim’s statement. When they
reached U.S. 190 Gostick said she
New junior high
principal named
LIVINGSTON - Donald Keith
Carlisle, presently assistant prin-
cipal at Denton High School in Den-
ton, will begin work as the new prin-
cipal at Livingston Junior High July
1.
Carlisle will replace longtime
junior high principal D.D. Golden,
who is retiring effective Friday.
The Livingston school board voted
to hire Carlisle during a special-
called meeting Tuesday.
Carlisle has been assistant prin-
cipal in Denton for nearly a year.
Prior to that he was a grade level
principal at McCullough High School
in Conroe, and taught history and
was an athletic coach at Jersey
Village High School in Conroe,
Hildenbrandt Intermediate School in
Spring, and at Hambrick Junior
High in Houston. He did his student
teaching in the spring of 1978 at
Memorial High School in Houston.
Carlisle, 34, holds a master of
education degree in administrative
education, and is certified in mid-
management and history. He obtain-
ed his bachelor of science degree in
education from the University of
Houston in 1976. Carlisle is currently
working on his doctorate at North
Texas State University.
“We are looking forward to having
Mr. Carlisle in our program,” USD
Superintendent David Montgomery
said Wednesday. He said he feels
Carlisle is energetic and has the pro-
fessional background necessary to
provide sound leadership at the
junior high.
DONALD KEITH CARLISLE
... new junior Ugh principal
felt a knife in her ribs and was
directed to drive toward Beacon
Bay. They pulled off onto what was
described as a “trail.”
The suspect got out of the truck,
taking the keys, and Gostick locked
the truck doors. She told deputies the
subject began to stick the keys
through a vent window, telling her to
wait five minutes. She grabbed the
keys, closed the vent and the suspect
ran. Gostick left the scene and called
the sheriff’s department at 4:16 p.m.
Staton, responding to the call, saw
a 13-year-old walking east on
Mangum Road who matched the
description the victim had given of
the younger subject. The youth told
officers he had tried to talk Wilker-
son out of going back to the house.
Further investigation led to the ar-
rest of Wilkerson at his grand-
mother’s house. Items found in the
suspect’s room are believed con-
nected to several burglaries in the
Mangum Road area, Staton said.
A gun with scope believed taken
from the Cornelius Mangum
residence was recovered by Liv-
ingston Volunteer Fire Department
divers in a pond in Bullfrog Basin off
Mangum Road, Staton said. Also
recovered was a video game
reported missing from The Barn on
FM 350.
Livingston
project bids
awarded
LIVINGSTON - Livingston school
trustees gave the go-ahead Tuesday
to renovation projects totalling
$241,064 to be performed in the
district during the summer
Trustees accepted the low bids
received on 13 projects, plus approv-
ed alternates totalling nearly $10,000
during a special-called meeting
Tuesday.
The brunt of the work will be
focused on the junior high campus,
where hallways and classrooms will
be repainted, new carpet and tile
will be installed, restrooms will be
renovated, and exit doors will be
replaced. The district also plans to
construct a faculty restroom, and
replace or partially replace lockers.
Bids were also awarded for con-
struction of a drainage system to
eliminate flooding problems which
have plagued the main building’s
partially-underground lower floor at
the junior high and for construction
of a concrete parking area extending
from the tennis court area to the the
existing sidewalk on that side of the
building.
Fred Hagemeier of Livingston
submitted the lowest bid for the
restroom renovation, $29,971; the
drainage system, which will include
waterproofing the lower portion of
the main building and installation of
a water gathering tank and pump for
$4,691; and painting of the junior
high main building and annex,
$14,812.
Watts Carpet was awarded the
carpet bid for the junior high,
$30,508; and Floor Care won the tile
bid, bidding $1,120
Brandy Glass will install six exit
doors, plus “panic equipment” -
four additional doors in the rear of
the building - for $14,500. ‘Allen
See STADIUM pg. 2A
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