The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 1986 Page: 1 of 28
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Otero given
life term by
trial judge
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Salvador Otero was sentenced
to life in prison Saturday
morning after a 106th District
court jury at the Gaines County
Courthouse could not come to a
final decision on one point of the
charge during punishment
deliberations for Otero.
The jury had convicted Otero
of capital murder in the death of
Brownfield farmer Darryl
Yandivere, after deliberating for
just over three hours Thursday
night
They began deliberations on
Otero's punishment Friday
afternoon after hearing closing
arguments * during the
punishment phase of the trial
The jury was told that it could
only reach two decisions, life in
prison or the death penalty
In the charge. Judge Gene
Dulaney of Snyder, who i^as
presiding over the trial due to the
illness of Judge George Hansard,
told the jury that it must answer
two questions Did the actions of
Otero deliberately cause the
death of Yandivere on the
evening of Nov 5, 1984, and
whether they could determine if
Otero could commit violence at a
future time and be a continuing
threat on society.
When the jury appeared
Friday night at 9:20 p m., they
said that they had come to a
unanimous decision on the first
point, but could not agree on the
second They had deliberated
almost six hours on Friday.
They began deliberations
again Saturday morning at 9
am, and at 10:10 a m sent a
note to Dulaney saying they were
’ hopelessly deadlocked-' on the
second question
After talking to the jury.
Dulaney, under the law,
sentenced Otero to the life term
The trial, which was expected
to take two to three weeks,
instead lasted just five days, thus
saving local taxpayers money
The Gaines County
Commissioners had allocated
$60,000 for the trial, and although
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Sex education approved
on parental okay basis
The Seminole School Board
voted to begin the implementa-
tion of sex education into the
schools by the vote of 4-2 at a
Monday night meeting
Board members Hilbern
Briscoe. Glen Fleming. Claude
Chappell and Ray Garrett voted
(or the measure and board
members Jerry Don Foote and
Newell Bowen voted against the
measure Board member
Raymond Lambert was absent
from the meeting
The program, as presented by
Memorial Hospital physician Dr
Alonzo Jones, will begin in the
Life sentence
Salvador Otero is escorted out of the Gaines County Courthouse*
by Gaines County deputy and jailer Dale Compton Saturday
morning after being sentenced to life in prison in the shooting
death of Brownfield farmer Darryl Yandivere A 106th District
Court jury had found Otero guilty of capital murder Thursday
He was sentenced to the life term by Judge Gene Dulaney after
the jury became deadlocked on punishment < Sentinel Photo i
Seismic testing denied
By unanimous vote of council
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The Seminole City Council
confronted the > problem of
seismic testing at its regular
council meeting Monday night
And. by unanimous consent,
they said they did not want
seismic crews operating in the
city limits.
At the meeting of Nov 24.
representatives of Amoco and
their seismic company had
requested testing within the city
limits, particularly along the
Denver City Highway, but the
council w as not interested
City Administrator Tom
Adams looked into the situation
further and found an ordinance
from the city of Lubbock which
allows seismic testing, with very
strict limits. Lubbock officials
said since the ordinance was
enacted that only one reported
instance of damage had been
reported to them.
A letter was sent by City
Attorney Johnny Roy Phillips to
the seismograph company,
stating the council's wishes
concerning the testing.
And Monday, the council re-
emphasized that they do not want
any testing w ithin the city limits
Adams also brought a
proposed records management
ordinance before the council,
stating that he wished to
implement the policy as soon as
possible
He said that the ordinance was
a model ordinance prepared by
the State of Texas for cities to use
to initiate records management
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programs.
There are four main provisions
of the ordinance; retention of
permanent records-that is to
identify permanent records and
insure that they are not lost,
destroyed, or misplaced;
development of a retention
schedule for records-to prepare
a retention schedule for different
classes of records; disposal of
unnecessary records-to identify
and dispose of all unnecessary
records after receiving approval
from the state; and a records
storage system-to devise and
adopt a comprehensive records
storage and retrieval system
City executive secretary,
Amber Stanfield will serve as
records manager, with the help
of department heads and Adams.
The council did approve the
ordinance to allow the process to
begin as soon as possible.
In other action, the council
discussed a measuring device
and a screen and grit chamber
for the existing sewer plant and
also approved working of
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seventh and eighth grades
sometime during the spring
semester If Jones has time the
program will be given to upper
grades as w ell
The program will be presented
on a parental approval basis,
with only those children whose
parents have given permission
for their children to view the
presentation will be involved.
Males and females will view the
program separately.
* The board made the decision
after oeciding that the upgraded
and improved version of a slide
presentation presented by Jones
earlier this year would be better
than any other sex education
program in any other school that
Director ot Curriculum and
Instruction John Golmon was
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Closed session yields
no action on Fleming
The Gaines County
commissioners took no
immediate action alter an
executive session in which they
discussed Seagraves Clinic
physician Dr Brady Fleming
and his demands to the
commissioners
The commissioners had
earlier heard a presentation by
local attorney Jerry Paquin. who
said he was meeting with the
commissioners "on behalf of
Fleming
Paquin reiterated the points
Fleming made in the two
previous commissioner
meetings. that he was
guaranteed $85 ooo to come to the
Seagraves Clinic, thereby saving
the clinic from closing; that he
was being harrassed by the
Seagraves Clinic board, which
oversees the clinic, and that his
receptionist had been let go and
that the calls to the clinic were
being given to the clinic’s new
doctor.
Fleming's charges had been
denied by both the board and
County Judge Max Townsend at
a meeting two weeks ago in
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Con dition of trooper
upgraded to “good”
Department ot Public Safet>
Patrolman Joe Yalenzuela
remains in Medical Center
Hospital id Odessa following a
two vehicle accident on Nov 28
—Yalon/uehtr
was lifted m
good condition at press time
Tuesday following surgery to
correct a broken left arm. and
was expected to undergo more
surgery, possibly this week
He was injured w hen he made
a routine traffic stop on the
Hobbs Highway 17 2 10 miles
west of Seminole and a 1986
International tractor trailer
semi rig failed to negotiate a
cUl V C and ran into Yalenzuela s
patrol car
Driving the tractor/trailer rig
was Cornelious Wiebe Loeppky.
38. of Seminole. He was cited by
DPS investigators tor tailure to
drive in a single lane of traffic.
By MARSHALL DAY
Th«- Itt-M undrr«t» \rtop«*rt
property vs i111 tin must potrntial is
still luratrd lirtwtrn thr rars.
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With the weather what it has
been lately, and work piling up
right and left, our golf game has
suffered even more than usual
for this time of year. Some fellow
playing partners often question
whether w hat we play is actually
called golf, but we just tend to
ignore them.
But, even with the weather and
work hampering our game, there
is always time to talk about it
around the coffee shop table
On more than one occasion, we
have heard players complain
mightily about the dreaded No. 3
green at the Lamesa Country
Club and we have had occasion to
play the course ourselves several
times and tend to agree with the
fact that that particular hole is
extremely unfair
The unfairness on that
particular green comes from the
fact that the landing pad is sloped
severely from back to front with
a little ridge across the middle. II
you get above the hole, then start
adding up the strokes, because
there is little, if any chance, that
the ball will stop on the green
after you get it going downhill
toward the hole We've seen
many golfers decline cleaning
mud off their ball after landing
on the green, hoping that the mud
will show the ball dow n enough to
allow them to remain on the
green after their first putt.
Even once in a w hile they w ill
really shave the greens at the
Lamesa course and that makes
this particular green even more
difficult. But. as we said, this
hole is not difficult to start with,
it is just plain unfair It takes the
skill out of golf and tends to
make it a game of luck
This is m line with a writing we
ran acriss that was attributed
only to i
irusuated old timer
who apparently loved the game
as much as we do
Here s how it went:
"Golf, unfortunately, isn't the
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Sing a song
The Seminole sixth grade choir performs during the annual
Christmas concert at the high school Little Theatre Monday
night Also performing were the junior high and high school
cho»rs. < Sentinel Photo)
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