Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 5, 1984 Page: 2 of 56
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PAGE 2A-THE POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE, THURSDAY JANUARY 5,1984
Lost money returned to owners
AUSTIN-State Treasurer
Ann Richards has put
$400,000 back into the
pockets of “lost-owners” of
unclaimed money accounts
since she established a new
Locator Unit in the
Treasury’s Unclaimed
Money Fund Program three
months ago to work on major
cases.
Now, Richards said, the
special unit is hoping to give
a $152,000 Christmas present
to 12 unclaimed account
owners or their heirs by
making a public appeal for
help in finding them.
The Texas State treasurer
said she established the
Unclaimed Money Fund
Locator Unit in September
and assigned two in-
vestigators to the project.
Carol Fowler, a former
newspaper reporter and
Travis County district at-
torney’s office investigator,
and Jerald I>arry, with ex-
tensive experience in finan-
cial management, are work-
ing full-time trying to find
the owners of large unclaim-
ed or abandoned accounts.
Unclaimed money and in-
formation about the original
owners are reported to the
State treasurer each year
under the Texas unclaimed
property laws by more than
4,500 financial institutions,
oil and gas firms, insurance
companies and various other
businesses and corporations.
Richards said the Locator
Unit is a first for the Texas
Treasury, and one that was
“badly needed.”
“Historically, the
Treasury has not done a very
good job in finding the
owners of lost accounts,
whether it was five dollars or
five thousands,” Richards
said. “We’re working hard to
change that.”
Richards pointed out that
it was not always the ac-
count owners’ fault that their
funds were turned over to
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7:15 & 9 PM
Start. FRIDAY
Week Nights and Sunday 7:15 PM and 9 PM
SATURDAY 1PM, 3PM, 5PM, 7PM, 9PM
HOW DO YOU KILL SOMETHING I
THAT CAN’T POSSIBLY BE ALIVE? I
She was born bad.
Plain and simple.
Somewhere deep on a darkened assembly line.
Christine. A’58 Plymouth Fury with a taste for blood.
She's taken control of her teenage owner, Arnie.
Her previous owner is not alive to warn him.
And now she's steering straight for
the one person in her way.
Arnie's girlfriend, Leigh.
The other woman. ■ /(/,
the Treasury.
“Sometimes, the owner
doesn’t know an account has
become inactive, sometimes
an address is wrong, and
sometimes they don’t even
know the money is there.
“There has been a
consumer-protection void
that the Locator Unit is fill-
ing,” Richards said.
Before starting the unit,
Richards said private firms
primarily were involved in
finding owners of lost ac-
counts.
“Those firms charge the
account owner, ‘finder’s fee’
of between 30 and 50 percent
of the amount of money
returned,” Richards said,
noting that “there is no
charge when the treasury
Locator Unit finds an ac-
count owner.”
Richards said the special
investigator staff was need-
ed because owners of the
large inactive accounts
generally are very hard to
find.
“Only rarely do our in-
vestigators make ‘telephone
book’ finds. On the average,
they must sift together 12 to
15 sources before finding the
original owners or their
heirs,” Richards said.
“It is not unusual for the
Treasury investigators to
find heirs who did not know
they had something to in-
herit. Nor is it unusual for
them to locate an owner
through a 12-year-old post of-
fice box or to have letters
translated into Spanish, or
even Greek,” said Richards.
The average amount
returned by the Texas
Treasury Locator Unit in the
three months it has been ac-
tive is $7,000, Richards said.
She said the largest single
amount returned to an owner
so far has been $37,000, to a
San Antonio woman.
Road ordinance approved
From page 1
In other county business, commis-
sioners approved a long-debated list of
subdivision specifications for
developers in hopes of creating a higher
standard of road construction and sep-
tic system standards.
Livingston school trustees hired
Mary Butler, who has taught in the
district for 12 years, as principal of the
new intermediate school which was still
under construction as the year drew to
a close.
New driver's license classes begin
AUSTIN —-Beginning
January 1, 1984, those per-
sons who renew their driver
license, qualify for their first
license, or apply for a
duplicate permit will receive
licenses bearing new codes
signifying class of license.
Colonel Jim Adams, direc-
tor of the Texas Department
of Public Safety, said the
department is starting the
conversion to a new
classified driver licensing
system in accordance with a
law passed this year by the
Texas Legislature.
“Licenses issued prior to
1984 will be valid until the ex-
piration dates which appear
on them,” Adams said. “The
new licenses will carry
classifications designating
the type and weight of
vehicles which the holder
may operate.”
The new license classifica-
tions are “A,” “B,” “C,”
and “M.”
The Class “C” license per-
mits operation of single, two-
axle vehicles with a gross
weight of 24,000 pounds or
less excluding motorcycles
and mopeds. This designa-
tion also allows the towing of
a vehiclf no! exceeding
10,000 pounds gross vehicle
weight (GVW) or a farm
trailer not exceeding 20,000
pounds GVW. In addition,
the Class “C” designation
permits the operation of a
bus with a maximum seating
capacity of 23 passengers not
including the driver. Stan-
dard operator licenses
issued under the old law will
be converted automatically
to Class “C" permits upon
renewal or issuance of a
duplicate license.
The Class “B” license
allows the holder to drive all
Class “C” vehicles plus
single vehicles with a GVW
exceeding 24,000 pounds and
buses with a capacity of 24 or
more passengers. Motor-
cycles and mopeds are ex-
cluded.
Class “A” permits allow
operation of any vehicle or
combination of vehicles in-
cluding those listed for
classes “B” and “C.”
DETCOG office
here to reopen
LIVINGSTON - The Man-
power Training Office of the
Deep East Texas Council of
Governments will reopen in
Livingston Tuesday.
Jack Sapp, employment
training specialist with
DETCOG, said the office has
not been staffed for the past
two weeks because of severe
water damage to the Lufkin
office resulting from broken
pipes.
Sapp said a representative
of DETCOG will be in the
DETCOG office on the third
floor of the Polk County
Courthouse every Tuesday
from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.
The Manpower Training
Program provides help in
securing employment of
securing help in retraining
unemployed persons, Sapp
said.
Boat show display set
TRIPPLE CREEK - The
Lake Livingston Guide,
Marina and Business
Association will again staff a
booth at the Houston Boat
Show.
Association President
Alton Knight said members
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FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
12:00 AM Behind the Scenes
Behind the Scenes
Behind the Scenes
Youth Special
12:80 AM Good News
I Choose Life
The Answer
1:00 AM Heritage Singers
Joy of Music
Best Day of Life
To be announced
1:30 AM Praise the Lord
Praise the Lord
Praise the Lord
AIA Sports
2:00 AM
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Lifeline
2:30 AM
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A Reason to Sing
3:00 AM
3:30 AM
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Hour of Power
4:00 AM
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Dwight Thompson
4:30 AM Behind the Scenes
Behind the Scenes
Behind the Scenes
5:00 AM How Can I Live
Public Report
Deaf World
Behind the Scenes
5:30 AM Joy in the
Joy in the
Joy in the
Church in Home
6:00 AM Morning
Morning
Morning
Fred Price
6:30 AM The Answer
Kenneth Hagin
Public Report
Roger McDuff
7:00 AM Lester Sumrall
Lester Sumrall
Get in Shape
7:30 AM La Hayes
Dr Whitaker
Love Special
Lloyd Oglivie
8:00 AM AIA Sports
Kids' PTL IC)
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Crossroads Cath.
8:30 AM Joy in the
Joy in the
T reasures/Darkness
Central Baptist
9:00 AM Morning
Morning
Rise and Shine IC)
Church (L)
9:30 AM Words of Life (L)
Words of Life (L)
Glory of God
10:00 AM Jim Bakker
Jim Bakker
Kids' PTL (C)
First Baptist
10:30 AM '*
11:00 AM Lester Sumrall
Lester Sumrall
One Way Game CC)
Cleveland IL)
First Baptist
11:30 AM Camp Meeting USA
12:00 PM
Camp Meeting USA
Joy Junction (C) Q_'
Livingston IL)
Ever Increasing
12:30 PM Coffee Shop
Coffee Shop
Bible Bowl IC)
Faith
1:00 PM Jerry Falwell
Jimmy Swaggart
Athletes in Action
Word of Life
130 PM "
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Athletes in Action
Word of Life
2 00 PM 700 Club
700 Club
Circle Square (C)
Today/Bible Prop
2 30 PM
Zola Levitt
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Dwight Thompson
3:00 PM Calvary Temple
The Story
Outreach (L)
Dwight Thompson
3 30 PM
Revival Fires
Gospel Hour
Shockwaves
4 00 PM 100 Huntley Street
100 Huntley Street
Rev. Choe
Power Unlimited
4-30 PM
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Lundstrums
Jimmy Swaggart
6:00 PM Inside Track
Heritage USA
Blackwood Brothers
6 30 PM Good News America
Good News America
Breath of Life
Church in Home
6-00 PM Together with Love
To Be announced
1st Baptist
Word of Life
6 30 PM Power Unlimited
Kids' PTL (C)
Cleveland IL) >
Center Liv. (L)
7:00 PM 1»t Baptist
Livingston Today IL)
Local Sports IL)
Central Baptist
7:30 PM Livingston (L)
Spirit Song (L)
Local Sports IL)
Livingston (LI
8.-00 PM Outreach
700 Club
Local Sports IL)
Family Theater
630. PM every 2nd wek
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800 PM Praise the Lord
Praise the Lord
This Is the Life
9:30 PM
1600 PM
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To be announced
Discovering the Word
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Praise the Lord
1630 PM
11;00PM
11-30 PM
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Zola Levitt
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will rotate manning the
booth as in previous years.
The show opens in the
Astrohall Saturday and runs
through Jan. 14.
The new edition of the
Lake Livingston Guide will
be distributed at the show,
Knight said.
During the monthly
meeting of the association
Monday night at Tripple
Creek Marina, Curt
Carpenter agreed to chair a
committee to plan a pro-
gram to celebrate the birth-
day of Lake Livingston in
November.
The LLGMBA second an-
nual fund-raising fish fry
will be held April 14 at Cedar
Point, Knight said.
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Mopeds and motorcycles are
excluded. Commercial and
full chauffeur licenses issued
under the old statute will be
converted automatically to
Class “A” permits upon
renewal or issuance of a
duplicate license.,
The Class “M” designa-
tion allows the holder to
operate motorcycles, motor-
driven cycles and mopeds.
The road test must be
taken with a vehicle which
meets the specific re-
quirements of the license
class for which the person is
applying.
"All classes of licenses in-
cluding renewals will be
valid for four years,” Adams
said, “The fee for obtaining
or renewing all license
classes will be $10. An ex-
amination fee of five dollars
will be charged for those
drivers seeking a higher
license classification or a
motorcycle endorsement for
their current license.”
Drivers who have no mov-
ing violation convictions
over a four-year period and
who also have no physical
limitations are eligible to
renew their licenses by mail.
To qualify for mail-in
renewal, a driver must first
receive a DPS form in the
mail. This application should
be mailed back to the depart-
ment within one week after it'
is received. When the license
is renewed, the driver will be
sent a validation card which
must be carried with the old
license. A vision test and
new photograph will not be
required for mail-in
renewals. Drivers who
receive mail-in renewal
forms rmiy also visit a driver
license /office and renew
their l/censes according to
the standard procedure
which will require them to be
photographed and have their
vision tested.
The fee for a provisional
license is computed at $2.50
per year until the driver’s
eighteenth birthday with a
minimum fee of four dollars.
The cost of a duplicate
license is three dollars.
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Romayor man killed
Marvin Abraham Glbaon,
37, from Romayor, was kill-
ed after a Christmas Eve
family argument resulted In
a shooting Incident, accor-
ding to Liberty County of-
ficials.
Betty Ann Gibson, 43, wife
of the dead man allegedly
shot her husband several
times in self-defense and
then went to a neighbor for
help and called an am-
bulance before putting Mm
in a vehic"? and transporting
him to Leggett Memorial
Hospital in Cleveland.
Gibson was life-flighted to
Hermann Hospital where he
underwent emergency
surgery and died at 5 a.m. on
Christmas morning, officials
stated.
According to officers,
there had been several In-
cidents in which Gibson had
beaten, stabbed and shot at
his wife.
No charges have been filed
at this time pending the
autopsy report.
Vet's hotline opens
The Veterans Administra-
tion inaugurated a special
toll-free telephone informa-
tion hotline for former
prisoners of war on Monday,
December 12,1983.
The hotline has been
established for ex-POW’s to
inform the VA if they feel
they are not being recogniz-
ed as ex-POW’s at VA
medical centers or regional
offices, of if they feel their
treatment is not consistent
with the intent of the
Prisoners of War Health
Care Benefits Act of 1981.
The Act broadened VA’s
authority to provide health
care for ex-POW’s and also
liberalized rules for deter-
mining whether certain
medical, conditions can be
considered service-
connected.
The 24-hour toll free
number, 800-821-8139, is
available to over 93,0<)0 ex-
POW’s nationwide, and will
be staffed by a select group
of POW specialists from the
Washington, D.C., regional
office during regular
business hours (8 a.m. - 4:30
p.m. EST). After-hours and
weekend callers may leave a
recorded message on the
hotline. Former POW’s liv-
ing within the District of Col-
umbia should use the follow-
ing local number: 389-2356.
The new information
hotline will supplement the
existing toll-free services
provided for all veterans to
VA regional offices nation-
wide, and it will also comple-
ment the ex-POW coor-
dinators assigned at all 172
VA medical centers.
NON-DISCRIMINATION
Sam Houston Electric Cooperative, Inc., has filed with the
Federal Government a compliance assurance in which it
assures the Rural Electrification Administration that it will
comply fully with all requirements of Title VI of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 and the Rules and Regulations of the
Department of Agriculture issued thereunder, to the end that
no person in the United States shall, on the ground of race,
color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in. be
denied the benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to
discrimination in the conduct of its program and the opera-
tion of its facilities. Under this assurance, this organization Is
committed not to discriminate against any person on the
grounds of race, color or national origin in its policies end
practices relating to applications for service or any other
policies end practices relating to treatment of beneficiaries
and participants including rates, conditions and extension of
service, use of any of its facilities, attendance at and par-
ticipation In any meetings of beneficiaries and participants or
the exercise of any rights of such beneficiaries and par-
ticipants in the conduct of the operations of this organiza-
tion. "Any person who believes himself, or any specific class
of individuals, to be subjected by this organization to
discrimination prohibited by Title VI ef the Act and the Rules
and Regulations Issued thereunder may, by himself or a
representative, file with the Secretary of Agriculture, the
Rural Electrification Administration or this organization, or
all, a written complaint, identity of the complainants will be
kept confidential except to the extent neceesary to carry out
the purposes of the Rules and Regulations.”
SAM HOUSTON ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.
P.O. Box 1121
LIVINGSTON, TEXAS 77351
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IRS offers help
HOUSTON-Arturo A.
Jacobs, Houston Internal
Revenue Service District
Director, announced, “IRS
will provide assistance to
aflfewer taxpayer’s questions
and to assist preparation of
1040A, 1040EZ and 1040
Returns at the following loca-
flons: 3224 Briarpark, se-
cond floor; 515 Rusk, Room
1012; 7333 1-45 North, fourth
floor; and 9809 Rowlett from
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
“Additionally, taxpayers
can call 965-0440 from 8:00
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to order
forms to obtain answers to
basic questions. Taxpayers
who have push-button
telephones may call 85CMM01
to obtain around-the-clock
answers to tax questions
with a 24-hour-a-day, 7-days-
a-week recorded tax
message service. Topics in-
clude filing requirements,
itemized deductions, tax
credits, dependents and ad-
justments to income.”
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