The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, May 11, 2001 Page: 3 of 14
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Friday, May 11,2001
Phone: (254) 675-3336 • Fax: (254) 675-4090
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SUPPORTERS OF THE CLIFTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE enjoyed the good food, good fellowship, and
the cool shade of the porch at River's Bend Bed and Breakfast during Monday's After Hours. The event was co-
hosted by River's Bend and Wiethorn Catering of Valley Mills.
Staff Photo By David Anderson
• CHAMBER
Continued From Page One
by Hootsie & Co. at $175.
• A Homelite-brand 17-inch gas-
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A drawing for prize recipients
| will be held at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday,
May 23, at the Chamber office in
downtown Clifton. Ticket holders
need not be present to win, but
must be 18 years of age or older to
be eligible. Directors and employ-
ees of the Chamber and their im-
mediate families are not eligible to
participate.
Tickets are available from Ger-
mania Insurance — Bob Johnson;
County Attorney Patricia Fergu-
son; The Clifton Record; Promit —
Shayne Embry; Clifton Fteed and
Service Center — Scott Conrad;
Rick Lundberg; Texas-New Mexico
Power Co. — Sandra Steubing;
Jerry Cash; Woodmen of the World
— Greg Middleton; Hootsie & Co.
— Deborah Canuteson; Radio
Shack; Clifton Mercantile II; B.J.’s
Western Wear; Bosque County
Emporium; StoneWall Collections;
Veterans of Fbreign Wars Post/Aux-
iliary — Martha Chaney; Mac’s TV
Sales and Service — Kimm Dahl;
and the Clifton Chamber of Com-
merce office.
For more information, or to ob-
tain tickets, contact Chamber
President Shayne Embry at (254)
675-3678 or Chamber Executive
Vice-President Trudy Sheffield at
675-3720, or stop by the Chamber
office at 115 North Avenue D.
Rural Firefighters Slate
Annual Countywide Raffle
CLIFTON — The Bosque
County Rural Firefighters Associa-
tion has begun selling fund-raising
raffle tickets for a drawing to be
held Oct. 9, in which 11 different
prizes will be awarded.
The prizes, representing each
volunteer fire department in
Bosque County, include two differ-
ent guns, binoculars, a camera, a
rod and reel set, a cooker/smoker,-
a VCR, a CD stereo, a television, a
microwave oven, and a fish cooker.
The tickets sold will be eligible
for all 11 prizes. The proceeds will
go to the fire department that sells
the ticket. Proceeds will help each
department offset operating costs
for the year, purchase equipment,
and pay for training firefighters.
To purchase the raffle tickets,
contact any firefighter in Bosque
County. The fire departments
within the county include: Clifton
VFD, Cranfills Gap VFD, Iredell
VFD, Kopperl VFD, Lakeside Vil-
lage VFD, Meridian VFD, Morgan
VFD, Steele Creek VFD, Valley
Mills VFD, Walnut Springs VFD.
and West Shore VFD.
“The support the volunteer fire
departments receive is always
greatly appreciated,” said Clifton
Fire Chief Russell Jenkins.
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Depths To Investigate Crimes
CURTIS WIETHORN of Valley Mills' Wiethorn Catering checks to be sure the food is "just right” during
Monday's Chamber of Commerce After Hours Social. Wiethorn Catering co-hosted the event with Helen Hubler’s
River's Bend Bed and Breakfast.
Staff Photo By David Anderson
AUSTIN — Bodies of water provide
great temptation for criminals looking to
dispose of evidence quickly and efficiently
Where better to toss a firearm or other
weapon used in a crime?
"Throwing something in water is a good,
quick way of concealing it," said Maj. E. C.
Sherman, who oversees the Thxas Depart
ment of Public Safety’s dive team. "Crimi-
nals assume the evidence won t be found
- and it very rarely is, unless someone’s
specifically looking for it"
When investigators believe evidence
may have been placed in a lake, stream, or
river, they often call on the DPS dive team
for assistance. Armed with underwater
metal detectors and using a professional-
surface supplied breathing system that al
lows divers to stay below the surface longer,
the team has helped locate victims of vio
fence or natural disasters-and thousands
of pieces of evidence since its creation in
1995
DPS divers have found an airplane, a
motorcycle (they weren’t looking for it),
safes, animals that appear to have been
“buried at sea,” cameras, and vast
amounts of knives and guns
Before the dive team was formed, sev
eral SCUBA-certified DPS troopers had
been called in to assist in the search for a
young drowning victim when other search-
ers could not locate the body. The mission’s
success convinced former DPS Traffic Law
Enforcement Chief George King that an
underwater search and recovery team
would be a valuable asset to the depart
ment
Since then, the 24-member team has
been deployed an average of 35 times per
year to assist with searches for bodies and
evidence in crimes. Hie dive team is one
of DPS's most utilized special operations
units, Maj Sherman said.
DPS divers are SCUBA-certified, but at
least 90 percent of their dives are con
ducted in sophisticated biochemical-resis
tant suits that allow divers to stay
completely dry and protect them from po
tentially dangerous contaminants in the
water. The suits use a surface supplied
breathing system that feeds air from the
surface to the diver underwater and in
dudes a hard wire communications sys
tern.
The communications system is valuable
during searches because it allows divers
and those above the surface to talk about
what the diver is seeing-or finding-during
the dive.
“When you’re in black water, you can’t
tell how long you've been down," said LL
Lynn Dixon, one of (he leaders of the dive
team since its inception. “And it’s especially
comforting to have someone to talk to when
you’re down there. It’s cold, wet, and dark. "
Members of the dive team indude DPS
troopers and Criminal Law Enforcement
officers stationed across the state They
have regular assignments, but work with
the dive team on an as-needed basis.
"We’ve been in virtually every body of
water in the state of Ifexas," Dixon said .
The team also has been in some un-
usual bodies of water, induding a septic
tank in Sherman County where an accused
murderer had hidden the body of his vic-
tim. The dry suits used by the divers-and
the heavy helmets theyr wear instead of tra-
ditional scuba masks-were absolutely nec-
essary in that 1998 missioa
Visibility was zero and the diving condi
dons were miserable The divers were able
to locate the victim and recover her body
The suspect in the case has been arrested
and is scheduled for trial later this year
"The actual recovery of the victim’s both
took about 25 minutes Clean up of the div-
ing equipment took four hours This dive
was the most stressful recovery the team
has ever made," said LL Dixon
One common denominator of the dives,
no matter where the team is searching or
the type of water they’re diving in, is the
item they find the most It’s not knives, it’s
not guns, and it’s not bodies — it’s beer
cans.
We have found beer cans in every body
of water we’ve ever been in,” Dixon said.
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Smith, W. Leon. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, May 11, 2001, newspaper, May 11, 2001; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth789326/m1/3/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.