Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 64, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 11, 1991 Page: 11 of 32
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THE POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE, SUNDAY AUGUST 11,1991 - PAGE 11A
AUSTIN-The Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department budget was
discussed and altered during
meetings of the Senate Finance
Committee and House Appropria-
tions Committee. The Senate
Finance Committee made some
changes to orginal recommenda-
tions made in Senate Bill 1.
Hie most significant change is the
continued appropriation of cigarette
tax funds to TPWD. The original
Senate bill suggested removing
dedicated funding for local and state
park use. Cigarette tax revenue has
been a dedicated fund source for
TPWD since 1971, Last year
cigarette taxes generated $13
million for State Park Fund 64 and
$13 million for.Local Park Fund 467.
SBl does suggest a decrease in
general tax revenue for the agency.
In fiscal year 1992 the agency would
receive |&5 million and in FY93 the
agency would not receive any
general tax revenues. In FY91 the
agency received $19.8 million.
"We expected a decrease in
general tax revenues,” said Andrew
Sansom, executive director for
TPWD. “That’s one of the reasons
we raised park and license fees
earlier this year.”
The House budget bill is slightly
different from the Senate version;
HB1 suggests $10.8 million general
rax revenue fo FY92 and $10 million
in FYM. The next step for the two
bills is consideration on the House
and Senate floors.
Still unresolved is the appropria-
tion of $&5 million in unclaimed
motorboat fuel tax, traditionally
dedicated to Fund 9. The Senate
State Affairs Committee and the
House Ways and Means Committee
are still working on details of the fee
and tax bill resulting the the Texas
Performance Review prepared by
State Comptroller John Sharp.
ALB ANY-A suspected gas leak
and explosion July 2S in the Gear
Ford of the Brazos River river chan-
nel near Fort Griffin State Park has
temporarily closed the camping
area at the park.
Early July 25, park officials heard
an explosion, and later that day a
ranger spotted bubles in the river.
Park Superintendent Lester
Galbreath said the river was boiling
from bank to bank about 300 feet
long and about four places had water
shooting four to five feet in the air.
The camping area was then
evacuated and dosed.
There are two gas holes in the
river bottom next to the park’s boun-
dary and one north of the park, said
Ken Pollard, operation and
maintenance supervisor for the
Texas Parks and Wildlife Depart-
ment’s public lands division in
Region 1. “The immediate danger is
that the gas is combustible and there
is a very strong odor.”
No personal injury or damage has
occurred in the park and south winds
have prevented the gas from drifting
over the park. "There has been Just
gas, no fire yet,” Pollard said.
"We’re trying to keep people off the
river.”
The camping area, which is on the
east side of Highway 283 in the river
bottom, will remain dosed until a
threat no longer exists. The other
half of the park, located on the west
side of Highway 283 and including
the fort, remains open. Highway 283
between Albany and Throckmorton
was dosed for three hours on July
30. It was closed from 2-5 p.m.
because a lack of wind allowed the
gas to settle under bridges, creating
hazardous driving conditions,
Galbreath said.
"The only people we’re letting in
the camping area are those working
on the problem,” Galbreath said.
"We’re turning campers away. We
were full with reservations for last
weekend.” The park has a usual at-
tendance of about 300 per day in the
weekend.
Depending on when the gas is con-
tained, the camping area most likely
will remain dosed until the second
week of August, he said.
Officials with the TPWD, En-
vironmental Protection Agency,
Texas Water Commission and Texas
Railroad Commission are working
at the site, about 15 miles north of
Albany in Shackelford County.
No dead wildlife or fish had been
reported, said Joan Glass, depart-
ment contaminants biologist from
Waco. “If it smells bad enough, the
animals won’t like it and they’ll
move out. The fish will really move
out, swimming upstream, and any
other wildlife will move away from
it"
FREDERICKSBURG -Board
members of the Admiral Nimits
Foundation adopted a resolution
urging the posthumous restoration
cf ranks to two World War II soldiers
following a suraposium on the war in
May.
Following the symposium, "The
Gathering Storm," May 9-M in
Austin and Fredericksburg, Board
Chairman Balne P. Kerr sent the
resolution to Defense Secretary
Richard Cheney in June.
The resolution reads, in part,
"...that the Admiral Nimitz Founda-
tion ingest the Secretary of the
Navy, the Secretary of the Army,
tbs Secretary of Defense, the Presi-
dent of the United States and the
Senate of the Unites States to initiate
and carry out necessary actions to
carry Rear Admiral Husband E.
Kimmel, USN (Retired) (Deceased)
on the list of retired naval officers as
a full Ackniral (four stars) and Ma-
jor General Walter C. Short, USA
(Retired) (Deseased) on the list of
retired army officers as a Lieute-
nant General (three stars).” The
resolution requests that action be
taken during 1991 so the symbolic
recognitions can be included in the
50th anniversary observance of the
attack of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7,
1941.
According to Kerr’s letter to
Cheney, 10 prominent historians at
the symposium agreed that the two
officers were unjustly disgraced
after the Pearl Harbor attack had
been made scapegoats in the in-
terests of preventing divisive issues
to splinter the public’s confidence at
a time when unity was imperative.
The letter went on to say that people
who had intensively studied these
events believe that the Pearl Harbor
commanders were far less to blame
than their military and ad-
ministrative superiors in
Washington, D.C.
The symposium, which brought
together historians, authors and
veterans, was sponsored by the Ad-
miral Nimitz Museum, the Admiral
Nimitz Foundation, the UJS. Naval
Institute, The USS Arizona
Memorial Foundation, the Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department and
the LBJ Library and Museum.
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Staff PhotoB y Van Thomas
TOP-NOTCH LIONS—
Tailback Jeff Brown (2),
5-foot-10, 165-pound senior,
and wide receiver Bernard
Harrell (4), 5-foot-ll,
170-pound senior, of Liv-
ingston High School are all
set for pre-season football
drills to start Monday morn-
ing. Lions will woikout8 a.m.
to 9:45 a.m. and will be given
a break from 9:45 a.m. to
11:15 a.m. Lions return to
training at 11:15 a.m. to 1:30
p.m.
Hubbell Pitches
On Aug. 1, 1933, New York Gi-
ants’ southpaw, Carl Hubbell,
pitched his 45th consecutive score-
less inning.
Killing Spree
On Aug. 1,1966, student Charles
Whitman killed 14 people and
wounded 33 in a shooting spree
from the Texas Univeristy Tower.
CONFERENCE—This group of Livingston Lions will kickoff
tbe *91 football season Monday morning. Lions are (left-to-
right) quarterback Jimmy Boeder, wide receiver Mike
Shank, wide receiver Dean Hall, wide receiver Eugene Dent
Srif Photo By VinThoma
and wide receiver Jimmy Collins. Lions are scheduled to
stage a controlled scrimmage Saturday morning, Aug. 17 in
Lion Stadium.
Douglas Overruled
On Aug. 4,1973, Justice William
O. Douglas ordered an immediate
halt to the American bombing of
Cambodia; he was overruled by
Justice Thurgood Marshall later
that same day. (CNS)
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White, Barbara. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 64, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 11, 1991, newspaper, August 11, 1991; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth798222/m1/11/?q=Homecoming+queen+1966+North+Texas+State+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.