Wednesday, December 24, 1997
Area news roundup
Speed limits to be considered
BAIRD -- Callahan County commissioners will consider posting
speed limit signs on County Road 120 during a public hearing at
10 a.m. Jan. 12.
Several residents who live on the road complained to commissioners
Monday that speeds on the road were excessive.
In other business Monday, commissioners accepted a $71,500
bid on a road grader made by West Texas Equipment Company, the
only company to place a bid. Commissioners also reappointed Bruce
Williams of Baird as the countyÕs representative on the
Callahan County Appraisal Board.
In a Tuesday article concerning the meeting of the Callahan
County commissioners, it was reported that Jacobs and Martin Engineers
representative Darin Jennings said he believed there was an agreement
between his company and commissioner Harold Hicks for road repairs.
Jennings said he was referring to a supposed agreement between
Hicks and Aledo Construction Co., not Jacob and Martin Engineers,
for the repair of County Road 120.
Survivor of Scurry wreck improves
COLORADO CITY -- A Colorado High School senior injured in a
Dec. 16 accident that killed a classmate continues to improve
in a Lubbock hospital.
After four days in the surgical Intensive Care Unit of University
Medical Center, Jebby Forbes, 17, was moved to a private room
on Saturday and was listed in satisfactory condition this week.
Forbes received head injuries in the two-vehicle accident near
Dunn that killed Belinda Miles, 18, a fellow senior.
Munday alderman resigns
MUNDAY -- Danny Owens has resigned from the city alderman post
he has held since May 1994.
Owens said he is retiring from farming and moving to Wichita
Falls, where his wife, Pat, has been transferred with the Department
of Public Safety.
Stephens County commissioners award bids
BRECKENRIDGE -- Stephens County commissioners awarded bids
for supplies for 1998 Monday.
Bids for building materials were awarded to Vulcan Materials,
Zack Burkett Co. and West Texas Limestone, while Browning Oil
Co. got the gasoline bid and Breckenridge Petroleum the bid for
on- and off-road diesel fuel.
Commissioners also agreed to contract with Taylor County for
the detention of juvenile offenders.
Three sentenced in Erath County
STEPHENVILLE -- Two prison terms were set for a 21-year-old
Stephenville man after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting
a 16-year-old girl.
Stoney Eugene Studer had been given deferred adjudication for
four years in 1995 for burglary. Based on the sexual assault charge,
he was sentenced to 10 years on the burglary charge and 10 years
on the sexual assault charge, and was fined $1,000 by 266th District
Judge Don Jones. The two terms will be allowed to run concurrently.
In other plea bargains:
-- James M. Jokel received a five-year, probated prison term
for endangering a child. He admitted driving while intoxicated
with a small child in the vehicle with him. An aggravated assault
on a peace office charge against him was dismissed as part of
the agreement.
-- Thomas B. Holmes was sentenced to 10 years in prison after
his probation for forgery was revoked, based on a new burglary
charge. He had been placed on probation for five years in July.
He also faces burglary charges in Taylor County.
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