Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 60, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 30, 1995 Page: 1 of 64
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SIX INJURED -- Livingston volunteer firefighters assist in ambulance to Memorial Medical Center, Livingston, with one
freeing victims of a one-vehicle accident Friday morning on later transferred to Hermann Hospital in Houston by Life
U.S. 59 North. The driver and five passengers were taken by Flight helicopter.
USD eyes building bids, future needs
LIVINGSTON - A bid on con- were reviewed during the board’s
struction of a transportation build- regular meeting on July 20, with
ing is expected to be awarded dur- action tabled pending review by the
ing a special-called meeting of the architect of the three lowest bids --
Livingston Independent School
District Board of Trustees Tuesday,
with the board also scheduled to
continue discussion of other long-
term building needs.
Transportation building bids
Moore Bros. Construction of Luf-
kin, $619,420; Timbcrlinc Con-
struction, also of Lufkin, $653,400;
and RI F Construction of Houston,
$665,900. The building will be
constructed on properly purchased
earlier this year on U.S. 59 North.
Concerning other facility needs,
board members arc scheduled to
discuss building plans with the ar-
chitect, discuss bond procedure
with a financial advisor, and con-
sider committee appointments for a
possible bond issue.
In other business, trustees will
consider approval of an interim
plan for a Code of Student Con-
duct.
The board will go into closed
session to discuss personnel resig-
nations and employment.
Tuesday’s meeting will begin at
6:30 p.m. in the administration of-
fice, 907 E. Church St.
Grant awarded for reservation link-up
INDIAN VILLAGE - Sam
Houston State University was
awarded a grant for $340,000 to
provide medical and educational
services in southeast Texas via a
computer link-up. The system will
link a medical clinic, hospital, the
Alabama Coushatta Indian Reser-
vation and two county extension
offices.
"The information superhighway
is being introduced to rural
America through $7.5 million in
grants to 29 education and health
care organizations in 23 states."
said George Ellis, suite director of
Funeral services pending
for historian, journalist
LIVINGSTON - Local historian
ind journalist Donald Hendrix was
jronounced dead Friday at his
Jvingston residence.
His body was discovered by
Jvingslon police and co-workers
tfter he failed to report for work
ind failed to answer either his
elephone or door bell. Although an
tuiopsy has been ordered by
■’recinct 4 Justice of the Peace
toward Lilley, it was believed that
tondrix died sometime Thursday
tight due to natural causes.
Funeral services were pending at
Cochran Funeral Home in
Jvingston.
Hendrix, 58, had served as the
;pccial sections editor for The Polk
bounty Enterprise since 1982 and
vas widely known throughout East
rexas as a Polk County historian
ind genealogical researcher.
A member of both the Polk
bounty Heritage Society and the
’oik County Historical Commis-
ion, he was awarded one of the
icritagc society’s top honors, the
DON HENDRIX
_. services pending
J.R. Maxwell Award in 1989. The
award recognized Hendrix for out-
standing "individual achievement"
in historical preservation.
"He will be missed," said Polk
County Museum Curator Wanda
Bobingcr. "He was a valuable
resource to the historical commis-
sion and Polk County because he
knew so much about our history
and the families who settled here.
"He was always available for me
to call upon for information. Lots
of times people would come into
the museum from Houston, Dallas
or other communities looking for
information about their families. If
I couldn’t help them, I could call
Don and generally, he could go
home, call up the information on
his computer and provide me with a
printout the next day.
"And if the family were early
Polk County settlers, he would
usually have quite a bit of informa-
tion," Bobingcr added.
District Clerk Nell Lowe added
Friday that Hendrix also provided
valuable assistance to her office
through his research of the county’s
records.
"I’ll always be grateful to Don
for his work and the people who
come here in search of information
from the old records should also be
grateful to him," Lowe said.
The district clerk said that
Hendrix spent a year indexing the
old district court minute books to
provide researchers an easier and
faster way to look up items. She
noted that while indexes to the old
records arc believed to have existed
prior to Hendrix’s work, they had
been lost or destroyed over the
years.
"He indexed the minutes from
the late 1800s up to about the
1930s, all on his own time over the
course of about a year,” she said.
See HISTORICAL pg. 4A
Rural Economic and Community
Development Service, formerly
Farmers Home Administration.
"The grants for this type of technol-
ogy arc developed through the
Rural Utilities Service, an agency
with USDA’s Rural Economic and
Community Development mission
area.”
The grants will help to build the
infrastructure needed in rural
America as we enter a new century,
a new era of technological innova-
tion, according to Wally Beyer,
RUS National Administrator.
"These grants will improve the
quality of life for real people
through improved educational and
health care services," he said.
This year, the RUS’ Distance
Learning and Medical Link Grant
Program is dispersing grants be-
tween $67,000 and $350,000 - 19
of which are over $222,500. The
grants will help link rural schools
to other classrooms in rural and ur-
ban area, providing advanced
courses and interactive educational
opportunities. The grants to health
care organizations will help allow
rural citizens access to telemedicine
services bringing specialized and
general care closer to home.
"This is where the county road
meets the information superhigh-
way,” Beyer said. "These grants
will improve the educational oppor-
tunities for over 95,000 young
Jury selection
begins Monday
LIVINGSTON - Two Corrigan
residents who were arrested for
separate incidents of alleged mur-
der will have their day in court
beginning Monday.
Gcnnctte Marshall, 44, and
Willie Sterling Jackson, 60, are
scheduled to appear in Judge Fred
Edwards’ court for jury selections.
A Polk County grand jury in-
dicted Marshall Dec. 28, 1994 for
murder. According to the indict-
ment, Marshall shot Roy Carrol
Holman on Dec. 4,1994.
Jackson was indicted Aug. 19 for
the murder of Ruby Whitaker. The
indictment states that Jackson shot
Whitaker July 15,1994.
Marshall and Jackson are among
several persons scheduled to appear
in Edwards' court Monday.
people in school and give them an
equal footing in the increasingly
competitive market place. The
medical grants will expand the
health services available to ap-
proximately 108,000 rural
Americans and make it easier and
more affordable for them to receive
quality health care.”
A total of 16 educational or-
ganizations were granted more than
$4.5 million and 13 health care
groups received almost $3 million.
According to Ellis, RUS
received 247 applications request-
ing a total of $79.8 million in
funds. The selection process, in-
cluding a review by federal offi-
cials and participants outside the
government, took five months.
LIVINGSTON - After record-
ing no rural traffic fatalities in Polk
County during the first four months
of 1995, the death toll has now
grown to 10, with four traffic
deaths reported in the past two
weeks.
The two most recent deaths oc-
curred Wednesday, in a one-car ac-
cident that took the lives of a 21-
ycar-old Ace woman and a 72-
ycar-old passenger, according to
the Texas Highway Patrol. The ac-
cident occurred at 6:20 p.m. on
U.S. 59 in Goodrich.
Charlotte Elaine Shaw Collins
was driving a 1985 Mercury station
wagon southbound when the car
veered off onto the righthand
shoulder of the highway into a shal-
low ditch, according to Trooper
Darron Anderson.
His investigation showed the car
traveled approximately 130 feet
and struck a culvert, causing the
station wagon to overturn, ejecting
both the driver arid her passenger,
Jack Bcvil Shoatcs, 72, of Thicket.
Anderson indicated that neither vic-
tim was wearing a scat belt.
Both Collins and Shoatcs were
pronounced dead at the scene by
Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace
Mary Plackcr.
Six people were injured in a onc-
vchiclc accident at 6:54 a.m. Friday
on U.S. 59, eight-tenths of a mile
north of Livingston.
A 1990 Chevrolet pickup truck
driven by Juan Guerrero Pineda,
43, Nacogdoches was nordibound
when, according to a witness, the
truck left the road and traveled into
the median. Trooper Glen Goodwin
said the truck swerved back to the
right, rolled and came to rest on the
northbound shoulder on its right
side.
The driver and four of the five
passengers -- Cclcrina Pineda, 43;
Juan Cruz, 23; Edgar Pineda, 21;
and Norma Pineda, 20, all of
Nacogdoches -- were listed as hav-
ing sustained incapacitating in-
juries. A fifth passenger, Rudolfo
Pineda, 18, was listed as having
sustained non-incapacitating in-
juries. All were taken by am-
bulance to Memorial Medical Cen-
ter, Livingston. Norma Pineda was
later transferred by Lifcflight
helicopter to Hermann Hospital in
Houston.
No charges were filed in connec-
tion with the accident.
A two-vehicle accident at 5 p.m.
Monday sent three persons to the
local hospital.
A 1989 Chevrolet pickup truck
driven by Donald Ray Lehman, 51,
of Livingston and a 1992 Plymouth
driven by Juanita Marie William-
son, 60, of Livingston were both
easlbound on FM 2457, 5.8 miles
west of Livingston.
According to Trooper James
Brazil, Williamson attempted to
make a right turn onto White Oak
$trcct and Lehman’s truck collided
with the rear of the Plymouth.
Williamson and two passengers
in her car, Evelyn Burnett, 14, of
Goodrich, and 13-year-old Morgan
Hodges, were taken by ambulance
to the local hospital. Lehman was
cited for failure to control speed.
Early voting
under way
DALLARDSVILLE - Early
voting began Monday and con-
tinues through Aug. 8 for a special
election for the Big $andy school
board.
Persons vying for the unexpired
term of Luther Myers are Alexia
Green, Susan Tackcr and Charles-
Morris.
Myers resigned his trustee posi-
tion after being re-elected to the
position in May. Myers resigned
because his son Daryl Myers was
hired as the Big Sandy High School
principal.
Fire truck
in collision
LIVINGSTON - \ iocal
firefighter was taken to the hospital^
by ambulance Thursday after the
fire truck he was driving collided
with a Suburban driven by a
Livingston resident.
According to police reports, the
Livingston Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment was responding to an accident
on Hwy. 146 when the accident
happened. The fire truck, driven by
Ben Royden Oglctree III, stopped
at the intersection of Abbey and
Washington streets. As the fire
truck was going through the inter-
section it allegedly collided with a
Suburban driven by Jay. W. Jack-
son.
As of Friday afternoon no tickets
had been issued and the wreck was
still under investigation.
According to statements from the
fire department, this is the first
wreck since 1978 involving
Livingston firefighters while on
duly. During that lime, the depart-
ment has responded to ap-
proximately 5,000 calls.
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WATER WORKS - Long before there were
air-conditioners, people learned that there is
no better way to cool off than to take a
plunge into a lake, stream or pool. Two-
CNTOFXSI nioro 1Y GOXDOW LaSAinOM
year-old Priscila Gallardo of Houston found
that the tried and true method still works,
taking advantage of the pool at Lake
Livingston state park.
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