The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1989 Page: 1 of 22
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Four Persons Enter Guilty
Pleas In 356th Court
Four persons entered guilty plus court costs. He will also
pleas recently in separate 366th forfeit the weapons fount at the
district court cases, including a time of his arrest.
Randall Wayne Bryan, 30,
address unknown, pleaded guil-
ty to a charge of burglary of a
habitation and was sentenced
to 10 years in prison. He was
ordered to pay court costs and
$366 in restitution upon parole.
His sentence will run concur-
rently with a parole revocation
and a Newton County sentence.
He was given credit for time
served.
Monica Lynn Wallace, 27,
Silsbee Villa, No. C2, Silsbee,
pleaded guilty to a charge of
possession of a controlled sub-
stance. She was fined $350,
plus court costs, and was placed
on seven years of unadjudicat-
ed probation.
Pamela Fulton, 29, 250 S.
19th St., Silsbee, pleaded guil-
ty to a charge of forgery. She
was placed on five years of
unadjudicated probation and
was orderd to pay court costs
and $217.50 in restitution.
The Silsbee Bee 125-
man who reportedly shot at a
Sour Lake police officer earlier
this year, according to the
records of District Attorney
R.F. “Bo” Horka and District
Judge Britt Plunk.
William Edward Dunshie Jr.,
42, 310 Parkway, Conroe,
pleaded guilty to a charge of
attempted capital murder of a
peace officer. Dunshie was
arrested March 3 after he
reportedly shot at Officer Will
Agy during a high speed chase
on Highway 106. The chase
ended when a Department of
Public Safety trooper shot Dun-
shie’s vehicle, causing him to
leave the roadway. A revolver,
fully-automatic rifle, semi-
automatic assault rifle and riot
shotgun were found in the
vehicle.
Dunshie was placed on 10
years of unadjudicated pro-
bation and was fined $1,000,
VOLUME 76 - NUMBER 19
SILSBEE, TEXAS 77656, THURSDAY, JUNE 8,1989
16 PAGES IN 2 SECTIONS
SISD February TEAMS Tests
Scores Show Some Improvement
Silsbee ISD administrators
have expressed satisfaction
with the TEAMS test results
from the February administra-
tion of the test.
“We feel pretty good about
our scores,” Supt. H.C. Muck-
leroy said. ‘They showed some
improvement."
Assistant Supt. James B.
Lang told district trustees in
May that campus principals are
pleased overall with the scores.
“The principals have already
taken the results and are
looking at what can be done to
raise the scores even more,”
Lang said. “A lot of effort is put
into the scores.”
Commissioner Bill Fregia Pleads
Not Guilty To Timber Theft
Precinct 3 Hardin County
Commissioner Bill Fregia
pleaded not guilty to four
charges of theft Monday morn-
ing in answer to indictments
issued in April charging him
with cutting timber illegally.
Prominent Houston defense
attorney Richard “Racehorse”
Haynes accompanied Fregia to
the short arraignment proceed-
ings at 9:45 a.m. in the county
courthouse’s small courtroom.
During the arraignment, Hay-
nes asked to be listed as
Fregia's attorney of record in
the case.
Haynes waived formal read-
ing of the indictments against
Fregia and asked 356th District
Judge Britt Plunk to accept a
plea of not guilty in all- of tl»e
The indictments charged
Fregia with theft of timber
from pieces of property in the
Garcia Woods near Batson
Prairie in 1967 and 1968. Fre-
gia, who took office in January,
has denied any intential wrong-
doing and has stated he be-
lieves the claims against Mm
are politically motivated.
“I am of the opinion that Mr.
Fregia is not guilty, and that's
exactly what the end results
will be--he is not guilty of these
accusations,” Haynes said after
the arraignment.
He said he did not yet know
whether he would request a
change of venue in the case, ft
Deputies Investigate
Three Bugtaries
Hardin County sheriff’s dep-
uties are investigating three
burglaries in the county, ac-
cording to the records of Sheriff
H.R. “Mike” Holxapfel.
Freddie J. Landry of Lum-
(See Sheriff Sec. 1, Page S)
must first be determined
whether the case has been so
publicized that Fregia cannot
get a fair trial in Hardin
County.
“You can’t just guess about
that,” Haynes said.
The case will probably go to
trial during the fall, he said.
After the arraignment, Haynes
met with Denton County Dis-
trict Attorney Gerald Cobb for
more than an hour to discuss
scheduling in the case. Cobb
was assigned to the case by
Plunk after Hardin County
District Attorney RJ1. “Bo”
Horka asked to be removed
from the case in order to avoid
claims of political motivation
for the investigation.
Plunk, who earlier said he
was considering the possibility
of removing himself from the
case, said Tuesday he may
decide to continue presiding in
the case.
“At this point in time, I’m
going to stay in it,” Plunk said,
Cobb and Haynes on Monday
discussed setting the trial date
in the fall, or possibly later, he
arid.
Fregia said after the arraign-
ment that he is optimistic.
“I still feel good,” he said. “I
feel like I've got the right
lawyer on the case and I feel
like a man's innocent until
proven guilty.”
Work in Precinct 3 will
continue, despite the indict-
ments, he said.
> “When you’ve got a job to do,
do it. Leave your personal
problems at home,” Fregia
said.
If convicted, Fregia could be
sentenced to two to 10 years in
prison and/or fined $6,000 for
each of the four charges.
t
HBOHCT S COMMWtOIHU Ml Prefix (right) awaits Ms erratanment Monday
morning whHa Denton County District Attorney Garold Cobb (loft), defense attor-
ney Richard "Racehorse " Haynes (second from loft) and 356th District Judge Britt
Plunk discuss the case.
Foster Grandparent Program To
Help Youths Who Are At-Risk
Southeast Texas residents 60
years old or older will soon be
able to put their years of ex-
perience and caring to work to
help youth with exceptional
needs by becoming foster
grandparents.
Roxanne S. Parks, director
of the regional Foster Grand-
parent Program, said the
Southeast Texas Regional Plan-
ning Commission received fed-
eral funds for the first time this
year for implementation of the
program. In the program,
persons work one-on-one with
at-risk youths: youths who may
have ban is trouble with
the law, or who may have been
abused by their parents, or who
have experienced other such
They’re not,” Parks said. “They
have problems, but they're not
bad kids. A lot of them have
never had
skills could include reading
remediation and job skills
awareness. Parks said. What-
ever they help the child learn or
do, the program does not
require foster grandparents to
perform such duties as cleaning
or typing.
“They’re there for the child-
ren," Parks said. “It’s a won-
derful relationship. They’re
both getting something out of
ft."
In Hardin County, foster
grandparents will he working
with Chief Juvenile Probation
Officer Clinton Wright at the
county's Juvenile Detention
Center. Other volunteer stat-
ions in the region include
juvenile detention centers in
Jefferson and Orange counties,
the Adams House, MHMR’s
Daybreak Cottage and Boy's
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This year tne program was
funded to support 28 foster
grandparents: in 1990. ft is
scheduled to maintain 40 volun-
an hour to allow them
at no cost to
themselves, Parks said.
Volunteer sites provide
meals for the foster grandpar-
ents and the Foster Grandpar-
ent Program provides in-
surance to cover volunteers at
the site and while traveling to
and from the site. Volunteers
are also reimbursed for trans-
portation costs and are provid-
ed with a physical examination
each year.
To be eligible, persons must
be 60 years old or older and
must meet income require-
ments. In addition, they must
be enthusiastic, a good listener,
responsible, willing to take
supervision and "willing to
care,” she said.
Many times, persons over the
age of 60 have seen their
children move away, have re-
tired and have found they have
a lot of time on their hands.
They also believe they have a
lot to contribute.
“And they do,” Parks said. In
to helping children
with educational skills, the
foster grandparents can pro-
vide youths with role models
that the children may not have
seen in other adults in their
lives. They can also help bolster
the children’s sagging self-
esteem.
Persons interested in becom-
ing a foster grandparent may
contact Parks. She will visit
callers’ homes to learn some-
thing about the prospective
grandparent.
If the persons meet the
criteria, they will be given 40
hours of pre-service orientation
/training during a two-week
period. The training will give
volunteers' an idea “how to do
what ft is they want to do,"
Parks said.
Future foster grandparents
will then have several days of
orientation with staff personnel
at the volunteer site where
they will be working.
"They always have supervi-
sion while working with the
children, so they work closely
with the staff,” she said.
After entering the program,
volunteers receive four hours a
month of in-service training.
Once a year, foster grandpar-
(Sou Youths Ssc. l.PofoS)
“I’m so pleased with our
scores this time,” Silsbee High
School Principal B.A. Hicks
said. “They’re very impressive.
There’s some significant im-
provement in the reading and
writing scores.”
The high school this year
conducted an “all-out cam-
paign” to raise TEAMS scores,
including food coupons for stu-
dents who raised their scores,
TEAMS t-shirts for teachers,
computer software for student
use, study halls, in-service
teacher programs, one-on-one
tutoring and other activities.
“We’re not going to accept
low scores,” Hicks said.
Other district schools also
conducted special events aimed
at raising TEAMS scores, in-
cluding a pep rally at Silsbee
Middle School and a bear theme
and parade at Read-Turrentine
Elementary.
Administrators were most
pleased with the improvement
in the ninth graders’ scores
from the same students’ scores
when they took the test in
seventh grade, Muckleroy said.
Overall, 90 percent of the
third graders mastered mathe-
matics, 74 percent mastered
reading and 63 percent master-
ed writing.
In mathematics, 97 percent
of the third graders mastered
the objectives of place value
and fractional parts. Ninety-six
percent mastered expanded no-
tation, while the pictorial mod-
els objective was mastered by
95 percent, ordering whole
numbers by 93 percent and
word problems (addition) by 91
percent.
All other mathematics objec-
tives were mastered by 82
pei cent or more of the stu-
dents. Addition was mastered
by 89 percent, word problems
(subtraction) by 86 percent,
number patterns by 85 percent,
measurement units by 84 per-
cent and subtraction by 82
percent.
Reading objective scores for
third graders were more var-
ied. The table of contents
objective was mastered by a
high of 98 percent of the
students; scores fell next to 89
percent mastery of specific
details. Eighty-six percent
mastered sight words and 84
percent mastered sequencing of
events.
Predicting outcomes was
mastered by 78 percent, main
idea by 76 percent, context
clues by 74 percent and phonics
by 71 percent. The objective
mastered by the fewest stu-
dents was word structure,
which was mastered by 58
percent.
In the writing portion of the
test, 97 percent of the third
graders mastered capitaliza-
tion, 92 percent mastered cor-
rect English usage and proof-
reading and 91 percent master-
ed spelling. Sentence structure
was mastered by 88 percent
and punctuation by 81 percent.
In the descriptive written
composition, which was rated
from 0 to 4, 18 percent of the
students got a rating of 1, 49
percent received a 2 rating, 26
percent earned a rating of 3 and
7 percent received a 4 rating.
Fifth-grade students varied
widely in their mastery of the
objectives of the mathematics
portion of the test, ranging
between 97 percent mastery of
perimeter or area of polygons
to 59 percent mastery of word
problems (multiplication, divi-
sion).
Hie objective of decimals
was mastered by 96 percent of
the fifth graders, multiplication
by 98 percent, word problems
(decimal) by 88 percent, equi-
valent fractions by 86 percent
and graphs by 81 percent. Place
value was mastered by 79
percent, measurement units by
78 percent, word problems
(addition, subtraction) by 71
percent and division, by 67
percent.
In reading, 98 percent of the
fifth-grade students mastered
the objective of graphic sour-
ces, 89 percent mastered parts
of a book and 84 percent
mastered context clues. Spe-
cific details were mastered by
79 percent, fact/opinion by 75
percent and cause-and-effect by
73 percent. Sixty-eight percent
mastered sequencing of events,
67 percent mastered drawing
conclusions and 61 percent mas-
tered main idea.
Scores were more closely
grouped in the writing portion
of the test. Capitalization was
mastered by 97 percent of the
students, correct English usage
by 96 percent and spelling by 95
percent. Eight-three percent
mastered punctuation, 80 per-
cent mastered sentence struc-
ture and 78 percent mastered
proofreading.
In the narrative written com-
position portion of the test, 5
percent of the students got a
rating of 1,36 percent earned a
rating of 2, 54 percent received
a 3 rating and 5 percent
garnered a rating of 4.
Overall, 89 percent of the
fifth graders mastered mathe-
matics, 77 percent mastered
reading and 82 percent master-
ed writing.
An impressive 97 percent of
seventh graders mastered the
overall mathematics portion of
their test. Eighty-four percent
mastered reading and 61 per-
cent mastered writing.
In mathematics, 98 percent
of the seventh graders master-
ed the objective of perimeter of
polygons and 94 percent mas-
tered equations. The equi-
valencies objective was master-
ed by 89 percent, geometric
terms and figures by 87 per-
cent, charts/graphs by 86 per-
cent, fractions (addition, sub-
traction) by 83 percent and
probability by 83 percent.
Seventy-seven percent mas-
tered the objectives of decimals
and measurement units, while
70 percent mastered decimal
word problems and 64 percent
mastered word problems.
In the reading portion of the
test, the context clues objective
was mastered by 97 percent of
the seventh graders, reference
sources by 96 percent, parts of
a book by 93 percent and
graphic sources by 90 percent.
Scores fell sharply from that
point, with 77 percent of the
students mastering cause-and-
effect, 70 percent mastering
specific details, 61 percent mas-
(Soo TEAMS Soc. I. Pago!)
25 Persons Have
Entered Silsbee Bee
Circulation Drive
Twenty-five persons have
entered The Silsbee Bee circul
ation campaign and are well on
their way in the scramble for
votes and the first place prize of
$4,000 cash, according to cam
paign manager Dale Nickeson.
In addition to the first place
prize of $4,000, other prizes are
$2,000 for second: $1,000 for
third; $500 for fourth; and $400
for fifth.
Those who do not win one of
the cash prizes will be paid a
commission of 20 percent of the
total amount he or she sells
during the campaign. ‘‘This is
one event where there are no
losers," said Nickeson.
Until June 29, while votes
are the highest, workers are
making a special effort to
secure subscriptions and con-
vert promises into votes.
“This is the big opportunity
period, as each club of $50
worth of subscriptions turned
in will allow the candidate to
claim 500,000 extra votes,”
Nickeson said. “This is the
right time to help your favorite
candidate.”
The campaign is.not a game
of chance, but strictly a busi-
ness proposal with a chance for
employment with each candi-
date being his or her own boss.
Each person beginning or
renewing a Silsbee Bee sub
(Soo BEE Sue. 1, Pag* 8)
Constable Resigns, Receives 10-Year
Probation In Sexual Assault Case
A Hardin County constable
submitted a handwritten letter
of resignation Tuesday after-
noon before he pleaded no
contest to a charge of sexual
assault of a child.
Hardin County Judge M.R.
“Pete” McKinney said Precinct
6 Constable Gary A. Flowers
submitted the letter of resig-
nation about two hours before a
special commissioner’s court
meeting scheduled for 6 p.m.
Tuesday to discuss architects/
engineers for the proposed new
county jail. Commissioners
voted unanimously at the meet-
ing to accept the resignation.
Hardin County Sheriff H.R.
“Mike” Holzapfel said 34-year-
old Flowers turned himself in at
the 356th district court before
District Judge Britt Plunk
Tuesday after he submitted his
resignation. Flowers waived
grand jury indictment and en-
tered a no contest plea to the
second-degree felony charge of
sexual assault of a child.
Plunk sentenced Flowers to
10 years of unadjudicated pro-
bation. Terms of the plea
bargain were that Flowers
would resign his elected posi-
tion and would maintain psy-
chiatric treatment uuring his
probation, Plunk said.
The incident leading to the
charge allegedly took place in
May in Flowers' Saratoga
home, Holzapfel said. Flowers
reportedly did not have sexual
intercourse with the 16-year-
old female involved.
“There’s been no accusation of
rape," Holzapfel said. “Sexual
assault doesn’t necessarily
mean they had intercourse."
A charge of sfexual assault
could include such behavior as
touching, Holzapfel said. He
said he could not reveal details
of Flowers’ alleged actions.
The reported victim and her
parents filed a complaint ag-
ainst Flowers a little more than
a week ago, Holzapfel said.
Deputies have been investigat-
ing the complaint, but Flowers
had not been arrested before he
entered his plea Tuesday
“My reason for resigning is of
a personal nature for myself
and my family," Flowers said in
(Sm Constable Sac. 1, Page I)
Silsbee Competitors Get 23
Medals In Special Olympics
Clients of the Hardin County
Sheltered Workshop and resi-
dents of the JoAnn Fries House
brought home 23 medals, eight
of them for first place finishes,
from the Chapter competition
of Special Olympics.
Eleven clients and four resi-
dents traveled to the games,
which were conducted May 23
through 26 at Southwest Texas
State University in San Mar-
cos. Anna Franklin, who coach-
es the Sheltered Workshop
team with her husband, Billy,
said more than 3,000 athletes
from across the state partici-
pated in the games.
Local athletes gaining recog-
nition included a female relay
team which won first place.
Residents of the Fries House,
the members of the team were
Agnes Richmond, Belinda Mc-
Daniel, Sandra Campbell and
Jennifer Cormier. They were
coa> had by Melissa Jones and
assistant Eloise Smith.
The members of the relay
team also won other awards.
McDaniel placed second in the
standing long jump and third in
the 50 meter dash. Richmond
won second place in the running
long jump and the 50 meter
dash. Cormier placed sixth in
the 100 meter dash and Camp-
bell placed third in the 100
meter dash and fourth in the
standing long jump.
The male relay team, with,
members David Richmond,
David Garrett, William Jordan
(SooQlympIci Sac. 1, Poga I)
fslliigiSS
Keith Harris end workshop coaches Billy end Anne Franklin.
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