Friday, May 30, 1997
Area news digest
Baird City Council calls special session
BAIRD - The Baird City Council has called a special meeting
for Wednesday to further discuss the suspension of Baird City
Marshal Dale Coley.
The council suspended Coley with pay on Tuesday after hearing
complaints from two parents about harassment of their children.
The council needs to review information concerning medical
insurance coverage for Coley, who remains a city employee but
with instructions to do no police work, an official said.
In other action Tuesday the council approved a $746,000 certificate
of obligation at 4.5 percent interest for 40 years for the matching
funds needed to finance the Abilene-to-Baird water line.
Aledo Construction Co. was awarded the contract to construct
the water line from Clyde to Baird, and Bulldog Steel was the
low bidder to build the Union Hill stand pipe.
Fisher County woman bitten by rattler
ROBY - A Fisher County woman was in stable condition at Hendrick
Medical Center in Abilene on Thursday after being bitten on the
foot by a rattlesnake.
Patsy Johnson, about 60, was at her home east of Roby when
she suffered the bite. She was treated at Fisher County Hospital
and flown by FirstFlight to Hendrick about 2 p.m.
Fisher County Hospital Administrator Ella Raye Helms said Johnson,
who was accompanied by her husband, Calvin, was in good condition
when she left in the helicopter.
"I think she was doing OK," Helms said.
Helms was being treated in the emergency room at Hendrick on
Thursday evening.
Social Security summit to be held
A summit on Social Security's future begins at 8:30 a.m. today
at Embassy Suites in Abilene.
Speakers include Tim Penny, a former U.S. congressman from
Minnesota; Martha Phillips, executive director of the Concord
Coalition; and Mark Weinberger, former chief of staff of the Bipartisan
Commission on Entitlements and Tax Reform.
The summit is organized by the Public Forum Institute and hosted
by U.S. Rep. Charles Stenholm of Abilene.
The public is invited. There is no admission fee but there
will be a charge for lunch.
Employee suspected in Subway robbery
MERKEL - A key provided by a store employee was used in a theft
at the Subway sandwich shop early Thursday morning, police said.
Merkel patrolman Mike McLeod was told about 3:30 a.m. that
a car had dropped off a man at the business and left, said Police
Chief Bob Jones.
McLeod and a sheriff's deputy investigated the call. They took
three men in a suspicious vehicle seen near the shop to City Hall
for questioning. Jones said the men admitted to the theft of $200.
Jones said one suspect, using a key provided by a store employee,
entered the shop and used bolt cutters to open the safe.
After leaving, the thief broke a window to make it look like
someone had broken into the building, Jones said.
Formal charges will be filed with the district attorney's office,
he said.
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