Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 38, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 18, 1991 Page: 1 of 22
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,1991
"Serving North Liberty County Since 1917"
CLEVELAND, TEXAS 77327
Dateline
• BARBECUE - The Order of
the Eastern Star No. 465 will
hold its annual barbecue Sept.
21, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., at
Tarkington Prairie Mason Lodge
No. 498, 1304 Southline in
Cleveland. The public is invited
\to attend. Tickets will be avail-
able at the door or from Eastern
Star or Masonic members.
•BOOSTER GAMES - The
Tarkington Athletic Booster
Club will face the Cleveland
Athletic Booster Club in a fund-
raising softball tournament Sept.
21 at the American Legion field
on Texas 321. There will be
barbecue starting at noon and a
cake auction at I p.m. The
women's game will begin at 3
p.m. and the men's game at 5
p.m.
• PL A YD AYS - The Wrangler
4-H Club will sponsor a playday
on Sept. 21 at 5 p.m. All play-
h days will be at the Dayton
® Rodeo Arena and will be for
lour age groups. For more in-
formation, call 592-0668 or
(409)258-3614.
• LEG ALLIN E - The Houston
Bar Association’s twice monthly
public service program
LegalLine will be held on Sept.
18, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The public
is invited to call the HBA at
759-1133 where volunteer attor-
neys will answer simple legal
^questions, give brief legal ad-
r ice or refer the call to the ap-
propriate social service agency
for further assistance.
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• OPEN HOUSE - Tarkington
airie Mason Lodge No. 498,
304 Southline in Cleveland
will have its second annual open
house Sept. 22, from 2 p.m. to 4
p.m. The public is invited to at-
tend.
• SCOUT SHOW - The Sixth
Annual Cleveland Scout Show
will be Sept. 20-22, beginning at
8:30 am., at Baldwin Park on
FM 2025. Any Scouting unit
interested in participating or for
more information, call James
Huff at 592-6571 between 6
p.m. and 8 p.m.
PINE FESTIVAL - The firct
inual East Texas Pine Tree
Festival will be Sept. 21 and 22
at Stand! Park, beginning at
11:30 am. There will be live
entertainment, music, dancing,
an auction, barbecue dinner,
food and game booths, special
events, games and contests.
Plus, Smokey the Bear and
Woodsey the Owl will be there.
• GOUP MEETS - The Tark-
ington Citizens Group will have
its regular monthly meeting
Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m., at Macedo-
nia Assembly of God Church.
All Tarkington citizens are in-
vited to attend. For more infor-
mation, call 592-5011.
•FAIR PARADE - The San
Jarinto County Fair Parade will
be Sept. 26, 11 a.m., with grand
marshals Charlie O'Neil and Joe
Ladd of lire KIKK Morning
Krew. Parade entries are being
accepted now by c idling
Suzanne Choate at 592-3178
between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
• HUNTER COURSE - There
will tjp a hunter education class
in livingston Sept. 21 and 28.
For more information, call 592-
2744 or (800)792-1112.
• TRADES DAY - Sept. 28 is
Trades Day on the courthouse
square in Coldspring. There will
be booths with antiques, col-
lectibles, arts and crafts and
food. This is also the weekend
of the San Jacinto County Fair.
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Council votes to repeal ordinance
By JERREL FERGUSON
Managing Editor
Cleveland Mayor R.L. Hanson
took the first step toward fulfilling
a campaign promise during a recent
meeting of City Council.
The issue concerned City Ordi-
nance 531, which created the city's
Planning and Zoning Commission.
An item to consider repealing the
ordinance has been placed on the
agenda for several council meet-
ings, with no action resulting from
the discussion.
This meeting had different re-
sults, but did include some heated
discussion on the issue. Council-
man Howard Love was the first to
address the Issue.
“This has been on (the agenda)
every time we've met, just about,”
Love said. “I don't know who put it
on here. I asked to consider reap-
pointing Mr. Burke Ellwood and
Mr. Jack Carnes to the planning
and zoning commission. But, why
do we have to vote on this every
time we meet? Is that the only plat-
form you ran on, to kill planning
and zoning for this city, or do you
have a plan to bring to the table to
do something other than just kill
the planning and zoning?”
Hanson told Love that was one
item of many on his platform. “We
need 300 street signs today,” Han-
son said. “We’ve got at least 50
culverts that won't let cars pass.
We've got water standing in every
street in town.”
Councilman Lloyd Meadows
made a motion to repeal the ordi-
nance and Councilman James
Reaves seconded the motion. In the
vote on tire item, Meadows, Reaves
and Councilman Ronnie McWaters
voted to repeal the ordinance. Love
voted against and Couucilwoman
Mela Thomas abstained.
Council also conducted a public
hearing on the city's proposed
1991-92 budget. Following the
hearing, Council voted to adopt the
budget. According to Acting City
Manager Bill Petropolis, Council
will meet Sept. 19 to coasider the
city's proposed tax rate of 69 cents.
An item which Love asked be
placed on the agenda was a discus-
sion of the police department. Love
said two or three officers spoke to
him about not being able to patrol
where they were “supposed to, or
probably should.”
“I feel like we've got a good po-
lice department,” Love said. “We're
fortunate to have a man who's been
appointed to the drug task force for
Bad corner
An area in which traffic accidents are be-
coming more common is the intersection of
Texas 105 and FM 2518. Here, firemen from
Photo by JERREL FERGUSON
Cleveland and Tarkington work to free a vic-
tim injured in a collision at the intersection
Friday.
County to share grant funds
AUSTIN - Gov. Ann Richards
has renewed 13 criminal justice
grants totaling almost $600,000
much of which will directly benefit
law enforcement in Southeast
Texas.
The grants pay for programs
operated by Jefferson, Liberty and
Chambers counties, the South East
Texas Regional Planning
Commission and the Houston-
Galveston Area Council. Two
grants totaling more than $50,000
for programs in Port Neches and
Nederland also were approved.
Tom Vickers, director of the
Criminal Justice Division of tire
governor's office, recently notified
state Rep. Mark Stiles, D-
Beaumonl, of the awards. Most of
the grants arc for program sin
Stiles' District 21, comprised of
liberty, Chambers and west and
south Jefferson counties.
More than $500,000 was
allocated from the Criminal Justice
Planning Fund, which is derived
from fines paid by criminal de-
fendants. The recipient entities,
programs and amounts awarded
are:
• Jefferson County - Project
DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance
Education), $26,294 (third of five
years).
• Liberty County - dmg ask
force, $31,660 (fourth of five
years); juvenile officer, $31,988
(first of five years).
• Chambers County - juvenile
officer, $13,789 (fourth of five
years).
• South East Texas Regional
Planning Commission - regional
police academy, $82,267; grant
administration, $23,870 (in its 22nd
year).
Liberty and Chambers counties
also will share in two grants to the
Houston-Galveston Area Council.
Healthy environment helps state
AUvSTIN - "More and more
Texas businesses are discovering
that it's not only wise but also
profitable to take care of the envi-
ronment," State Comptroller John
Sharp said today, releasing the lat-
est issue of the agency publication
Fiscal Notes.
"Some people talk about a
strong Texas economy and a
healthy Texas environment as if
they were separate or conflicting
goals. But today they’re going hand
in hand," Sharp said.
"As everyone knows, Texas has
some serious environmental prob-
lems. For example, manufacturers
in Texas generated about 800 mil-
lion pounds of toxic waste in 1989.
We produce another 17 million
toas of garbage annual I y-about a
ton for every Texan. Motor vehicle
traffic is creating high ozone levels
in major metropolitan areas of the
stale. And people in colonials along
the Texas-Mcxico border still lack
clean drinking water.
"But it is also important to note
that renewed efforts to keep tire
Texas environment thriving have
created lucrative new markets for a
wide variety of firms. Businesses
that manage solid and hazardous
waste materials, manufacturers of
air pollution control and water pu-
rification equipment and recycling
firms are find that going green' can
be profitable," Sharp said.
According to Fiscal Notes, 22
publicly held Texas firms had total
revenues last year of more tan $5.9
billion from environmental prod-
ucts and services.
In lire industry’s largest seg-
ment-solid waste manage-
ment-Tcxas companies recorded
revenues more than $3.2 billion.
Texas linns also played impor-
tant roles in the industry’s second-
largest sector-industrial and con-
sumer recycling-and the rapidly-
emerging chemical recycling busi-
ness. Other Texas firms were in-
volved in water and waste water
treatment, hazardous waste man-
agement. environmental consulting
the state of Texas. I don’t think a
city councilman or any of the peo-
ple silting up here should criticize
him until lie has done something
serious enough to come before the
city manager.
“I think there's been some inter-
ference here. We've got a little
morale problem. We had a couple
of days here where people did not
want to get out and work because
he went back and said you can’t
patrol in this area or this area”
Hanson told Love there was no
interference with the police de-
partment. Comments to PoUce
Chief Rick Foxworth were made
during a recent executive session.
He said the department was not or-
dered not to patrol any area of tire
city. He said he told Foxworth that
he felt too many tickets were being
issued on the bypass.
No action was taken on this
item.
In another agenda item, Council
voted to appoint Beulah Grim met
and Billie Jean McMahon to the
library Board to replace Allene
Hines and Dennis Shew.
They also approved a request by
John Bradley of Western Waste to
increase the company's fees by 9.3
percent. The present monthly rate
of $6.62 will now increase to ap-
proximately $7.23.
In other business, Council au-
thorized Petropolis to sell pine tim-
ber at the city’s cast sewer plant.
They also authorized him to adver-
tise for bids to sell a bulldozer
owned by lire city and approved the
payment of $2,112.50 in legal fees.
Circus to arrive
here next month
By JERREL FERGUSON
Managing Editor
There is good news for the
young - and young at heart - in the
Cleveland area.
The circus will return to town
next month and the Greater Cleve-
land Chamber of Commerce has
begun a campaign to furnish tickets
to the event.
The Chamber, which is spon-
soring the five-ring Carson and
Barnes Circus, began a telemar-
keting campaign Tuesday. They
began telephoning local businesses
and professional groups, offering
blocks of tickets to be used as pro-
motional tools, employee bonuses
or as donations.
The Carson and Barnes Circus,
billed as the largest “old time”
tented circus traveling across the
United Slates, will be in town Oct.
30 for two performances. The cir-
cus will again be at Stancil Park
with performances at 4:30 p.m. and
7:30 p.m.
Budget balance big
One grant provides $175,000 for
law enforcement training, and
another pays $96,287 for salaries
and oilier costs of administering the
training program.
Outside District 21, the City of
Port Neches was awarded $38,326
for its dangerous drug control unit,
now in its third of five years, and
the Nederland Independent School
District was awarded $12,527 for
its alternative education program,
now in its final year.
The governor's office also
warded federal ly-dunede grants
totaling more than $57,000 to the
three counties to purchase services
for young people handled by the
juvenile probation system.
Jefferson County is to receive
$45,691, Liberty $8,596 and
Chambers $3,332.
The grants ring counties into
See COUNTY, Page 3A
AUSTIN - State Treasurer Kay
Bailey Hutchison has announced
that the state ended the fiscal year
on Aug. 31, 1991 with a cash
balance of more than $ I billion.
"This cash balance is even
greater than we anticipated. It is
terrific news for Texas taxpayers as
we begin a new fiscal year," said
Mrs. Hutchison, the state’s chief in-
vestments officer. "What this
represents is steady growth in our
state economy."
The fiscal 1991 cash balance of
$1,005 billion Is the highest since
fiscal 1983 when the state ended
the year with a $1,006 billion
balance, Mrs. Hutchison explained.
The money will be available for
spending in the . 1992 fiscal year
that began Sept. I.
Two weeks ago, Mrs. Hutchison
was authorized by fellow members
of the Texas Cash Management
Note Committee to issue notes over
tlx: next two years to correct a cash
flow imbalance in the state's
General Revenue Fund.
Each year, Texas experiences a
cash How imbalance because the
state spends more money early in
the fiscal year than it does later in
the year, Mrs. Hutchison explained.
Revenue collection, however, is
greater later in live fiscal year than
it is early in the fiscal year, she
said.
As a result of the higher-than-
anticipatcd cash balance, Mrs.
Hutchison said she expects the
amount of cash management notes
to be issued will be smaller than
expected.
Bill to help clean Gulf
and engineering, manufacturing
waste management equipment and
in producing pollution control de-
vices.
"The Environmental Business
Journal predicts an 11 percent an-
nual growth in each of 1.1k* next five
years for the environmental indus-
try, with some sectors of this
emerging industry growing even
more rapidly," Sharp said. "The
growth rate of environmental con-
sulting and engineering firms, air
pollution control companies, recy-
cling businesses, and the hazardous
waste disposal industry is projected
at between 14-16 percent each year
through 1996."
The Texas Legislature also has
taken steps to make state environ-
mental policies more effective and
to aid in the recycling effort.
Based upon the efficiency-
minded recommendations of tlx:
Texas Performance Review, which
Sharp directed, the Legislature re-
cently consolidated the Texas Wa-
See HEALTHY, Page 2A
WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen.
Phil Gramm plans to introduce
legislation designed to clean up and
preserve the Gulf of Mexico.
"The Environmental Protection
Agency's Gulf Initiative has been
critical jn promoting tlx; health and
productivity of the Gulf, but now
we need more," says Gramm.
The senator said that he planned
to introduce a bill to provide for a
comprehensive development plan,
including a state-by-state manage-
ment plan, as well as funding for
the required research and develop-
ment work.
Gramm reiterated the facts that
he presented earlier this summer to
the EPA.
"It is time that we recognize that
tlx: Gulf is at least as important as
the Great Lakes or the Chesapeake
Bay, both of which receive a much
higher priority from the federal
government," Gramm said in a let-
ter to EPA Administrator William
Reilly.
The senator pointed out that
"other bodies of water receive a
much higher priority within EPA,"
adding that "I believe it is lime that
we give the Gulf equal attention."
The Gulf of Mexico touches the
United States over 1,600 miles of
coastline that stretches from
Florida's Everglades to
Brownsville, Texas.
It accounts for thousands of
jobs, 72 percent of the oil produced
offshore, a third of all recreational
fishing in the continental United
States and 40 percent of America’s
commercial fishing. Natural habi-
tats associated with the Gulf in-
clude 5.7 million acres of tidal
marshes.
Survey scheduled here
Bureau of the Census represen-
tatives will visit about 500 housing
units in the metropolitan area this
month to conduct interviews for the
American Housing Survey, ac-
cording to John E. Bell, director for
the bureau's regional office in Dal-
las.
About the same number of units
will be visited each month through
December 1991. When he survey is
completed, Census Bureau repre-
sentatives will have visited about
4,500 housing units.
This area is one of 11
metropolitan areas in this year’s
survey. It was last surveyed in
1987.
The Census Bureau and the De-
partment of Housing and Urban
Development planned the survey to
obtain current information on
housing, one of the most important
measures of the Nation’s economy.
About 16 months after the inter-
views have been completed, the
agencies will issue a report for each
metropolitan area surveyed The
report will show data for the total
metropolitan area, central city, and
other portions of the metropolitan
area.
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