January 11, 1994 Paris News Records 10A Crimestoppers seeking help Local authorities are seeking help in solving: a hit-and-run accident near Honey Grove. Up to $1,000 is being offered by the Lamar County Crime Stoppers through January 17 for information that will lead to the arrest and indictment of the person or people responsible for commiting this felony crime. According to Officer Todd Varner of the Paris Police Department, sometime during the early morning hours of Wednesday, Dec. 1, 16-year-old David Larsen was killed by a hit-and-run driver while walking on U.S. Highway 82 west, just outside of Honey Grove.
Varner said investigators are not sure if foul play was involved, and are seeking any information involving the case. It is a felony to leave the scene of an injury accident. Anyone with any information about this or any other felony crime is asked to call Crime Stoppers, day or night, at 785-TIPS (785-8477). Calls are not recorded, and callers need identify themselves or testify. Writers group slates meeting Northeast Texas Writers' Organization will meet at 7 p.m.
Thursday in Room 109 in the Building of the Mount Pleasant Community College. A business meeting will be at the sub adjacent to the building at 6:30 p.m. The NET Writers" Group, with members in Lamar and Red River Counties and over northeast texas, has sold out of its second pritning of Country Stores of East Texas, and has only a few copies left of its second book, Country Faith and Fate: Churches and Cemeteries of East Texas. The third book, already written and ready to be published in April, deals with old-timey doctoring and home remedies. Title of that book will be Notions and Potions.
The program for the January meeting will be highlighted by Janice Cali, a computer businesswoman who has written a cookbook. Visitors are welcome. Persons desiring information may call Jean Pamplin, Mount Vernon, 537-4292, or Pat Hamilton, Mount Vernon, Writers and others planning to attend should remember that the Community College is several miles southeast of the city of Mount Pleasant. Cemetery meeting planned The annual meeting of the Restland Cemetery Inc. will be held at 7 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 21, in fellowship hall of the Roxton United Methodist Church. All members and interested persons are invited to attend. Chisum seeks gifted, talented Chisum Independent School District began accepting nominations Monday for the Challenge Program for gifted and talented students in grades one through eleven. Nomination forms may be picked up by parents in the building principal's office.
Deadline for nominations is Jan. 18. Additional information be attained by calling Diane Stegall, special programs coordinator at 737-2824 School flagpole dedicated FORT TOWSON, Okla. Ceremonies here recently marked formal completion of a new lighted flagpole plaza at Fort Towson High School. The flag plaza was sponsored by the Fort Towson graduating class of 1943 following a decision made during the class' 50th reunion last summer.
Also assisting in completion of the project was Fort Towson Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5805 and Auxiliary, which presented an 18-foot flag and helped with the flag-raising ceremonies. A number of other donors and volunteers were recognized during the program, which was moved to the gym due to cold weather. Members of the class of 1943 who headed the effort included Lou Ellen (May) Wilson of Walters; Vester Songer of Hugo; Fred Ball and Emmet Earl Henderson, both of Fort Towson, and Bob and Jo Graves of Paris, Texas. James Gibbs is superintendent of Fort Towson schools. Registration begins at PJC Spring registration for Paris Junior College began today at 8 a.m.
in the Mike Rheudasil Learning Center, according to PJC admissions office. Returning students and others holding time cards obtained in December also may register Wednesday, Jan. 12 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Evening students may register today from 5 p.m.
until 7 p.m. Open registration will be from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 13.
Orientation for new students will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 14, in the learning center. Orientation is a one-credit academic course and is required for graduation.
For further information about registration call 784-9425 or 784-9426. NATIONAL Weather The forecast for noon, Wednesday, Jan. 12. -10s -0s Os 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s Bands separate high temperature zones for the day. 0 FRONTS: COLD WARM STATIONARY 1994 Accu-Weather, Incl LOCAL Weather information for a 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m.
Tuesday, courtesy of observer William B. White. Monday's ........51 24-hour Overnight Low At 8 a.m. Today. High Last Year ...35 Low Last Year Record High.
.....81 in 1911 Record in 1962 24-hour Rainfall. Total Rainfall To Date. .0.49 Rainfall To Date Last Year Sunset Tonight p.m. Sunrise a.m. Paris area Tonight and Wednesday, clear to partly cloudy.
Lows mid. 30s. Highs, Wednesday near 60. Wednesday night, partly cloudy and cool. Lows in low 30s.
Extended forecast Thursday, fair and mild. Highs in the 50s. Friday, partly cloudy, turning colder. Lows in the lower OBITUARIES Billy Gene Hargus Billy Gene Hargus, 40, of Paris died Sunday, Jan. 9, at McCuistion Regional Medical Center.
Services will be held at.2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 12, in Gene Roden's Sons Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Dwight Blankenship officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Billy Gene Hargus -Mr. Hargus was born Dec. 8, 1953, in Paris, a son of John William and Aline Joyce Barnes Hargus.
He was an electrician at KimberlyClark. Surviving are his parents. Pallbearers will be Marion Lester, Paul Eugene lester, Jerry Green, Paul Green, Wayne Barnes and Jimmy Barnes. POLICE The Lamar County Sheriff's Department recovered two team roping horses valued at $6,000 each. The horses were stolen from a pasture near Caviness on Jan.
2. According to Investigator Larry Moree, a sus-. pect in the case was questioned and said he had taken the horses. Upon investigation, the horses were located in a pasture near Powderly where the suspect had claimed the horses were. The suspect, Robert Berryhill of Powderly, was arrested and charged with theft over $750.
He has bonded out of Lamar County Jail on $3,000 bond set by Justice of the Peace Pete Wilkerson. Moree said investigations were still continuing to locate other suspects wanted in connection with the case. TEXAS Weather Wednesday, Jan. 12 Accu- Weather" forecast for daytime conditions and high temperatures COLO. KAN.
MO. Amarillo OKLA. ARK. Paris N.M. Midland Dallas El Pasol LA.
Austin San Antonio Houston MEXICO Brownsville 30s. Highs in the 50s with temperatures falling into the 40s during the day. Saturday, partly cloudy and cool. Lows in the 20s. Highs from the middle 40s to the high 40s.
Oklahoma Tonight, mostly cloudy. Lows in upper 20s to mid30s. Wednesday, partly sunny north. Mostly sunny south. Highs 45 to 55.
Shawn Edward Salyer Shawn Edward Salyer, 24, of Andersonville, died Saturday, Jan. 1, at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge. He was a former Parisian. Services were held Thursday, Jan. 6, at New Home Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery.
A resident of Andersonville for the past three years, Mr. Salyer was a member of the New Home Baptist Church. He had been employed as a landscaper. He was born Feb. 2, 1969, in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Surviving are his mother, Tonie Brewer of Paris; his father, Lyal Salyer of Andersonville; two sons, Shane and Chad Salyer, both of Paris; three sisters, Debbie Phillips of Loudon, Terri Morin of Burlington, Kan. and Sandra Charley of Renton, two brothers, Tim Salyer of Paris arid Brian Salyer of Andersonville; a half-brother, Kenny Gumkle of Knoxville; his grandmother, Zol Salyer of Knoxville, and his fiance, Janie McCoy of Andersonville. A Magnum, lever action rifle, tool box containing assorted tools, tire and a rim were taken from a vehicle parked in the 3500 block of northeast Loop 286 during the weekend. A battery charger, eight car batteries and several assorted vehicle parts were taken from a business in the 1600 block of Bonham Street sometime between Friday and Monday. The door to the business had been pried open.
The items are valued at $1503.38. A Maltese dog valued at $300 was taken from a residence in the 900 block of South Main Street sometime between Jan. 4-6. The residence had been locked, and the dog was the only item removed from the home. School prayer backed in Galveston GALVESTON (AP) County commissioners have endorsed a measure supporting voluntary prayer in public schools.
The 4-1 vote Monday merely "support(s) and encourage(s) voluntary prayer." The Galveston County measure is a watered down version of a resolution already passed by 131 Texas counties in no But prayer in school advocates walked away from the commissioners meeting delighted. "We have tried liberalism in America for 30 years," said the Rev. R.L. Calhoun, pastor of 0 Coach faces indecency charge ODESSA (AP) A man who served as a volunteer coach for two local organizations has been charged with eight counts of indecency with a child, an Ector County lawman says. Charles Thomas "Chucky" Stinson, 26, who coached for both the Boys and Girls Club and the Odessa Little League, was being held in the Ector County Jail Monday on four charges of indecency with a child by contact and four charges of indecency with a child by exposure, according to Troy Davis, a child abuse investigator with the Ector County Sheriff's Department.
Davis said eight boys between the ages of nine and 14 gave videotaped statements during the past three months describing several sexual offenses which occurred within the last year, In most of the cases, Stinson met the boys through his work at the Boys and Girls Club, Davis said. Stinson was a volunteer assistant football and basketball coach for the Boys Club for the past several years, according to Lester H. Williams, a member of the organization's board of directors. Stinson also had worked for the Boys and Girls Rottweiler nabs food bandit MODESTO, Calif. The Wienerschnitzel break-in was a no-brainer for Niki the police dog.
Asked to sniff out the theft of $100 worth of food from a Wienerschnitzel restaurant, the Rottweiler quickly traced a trail of hot dogs, chili, cheese and onions to a nearby home. A 17-year-old- was arrested after police found food strewn in the back yard and the refrigerator filled with hot dogs, cheese and several plastic bowls of chili. There was no need to grill the suspect, who confessed, said Officer Wayne Schmierer. The teen was booked for investigation of burglary. Rotary phones join drug war NEW YORK (AP) The telephone company.
pulled 250 rotary pay phones out of storage and put them on drug-plagued streets as the latest weapon against dealers, The New York Times reported today. Rotary phones, phased out over the past three decades, do not work with the pagers often used by drug dealers on push-button phones to contact customers and couriers. The Nynex telephone company installed the rotary dials in areas where other measures to keep: dealers off the phones have failed, the Times said. Neighborhood groups asked the company to make the switch. Similar switches have been made or considered in other cities.
In Lansing, late last year, authorities switched a handful of phones to rotary dials to see what impact they would have on drug dealers. Davidians trial in second day SAN ANTONIO (AP) A folksy U.S. District Judge Walter Smith in his shirt sleeves questioning potential jurors in a nearly empty courtroom only begins to tell the story. There's a mega going on in San Antonio. And scores of citizens are clamoring to get into the John H.
Wood Federal Courthouse to watch the government make its case against 11 Branch Davidian defendants charged with conspiring to kill four federal agents. The followers of doomsday prophet Koresh are accused of conspiring to murder federal agents in a raid on the religious group's compound near Waco Feb. 28, 1993. Heights Baptist Church. "It is time for America to return to God and its biblical foundation." "I think it's a fair and satisfactory resolution," said County Judge Ray Holbrook, who introduced the measure.
In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court banned officially sponsored worship in public schools. It strengthened that stance in June 1992 by barining such worship. at public school graduation ceremonies. PISD televising was trial run TCA Cable TV taped Monday night's Paris.
Independent School District Board of Trustees meeting as a "trial run to get the kinks out," said Tim Masters, local manager. Masters said the crew experienced a few minor problems which will be corrected before the board's February meeting. Airing of the meetings will not be live, said Masters. We will announce broadcast dates of the February meeting. EMERGENCIES The Paris-Lamar County Emergency Medical services responded to 12.
calls between 8. a.m. Monday and 8 a.m. Tuesday. Teams were called to six sick calls and six patient transfers.
The Hopewell and Powderly volunteer fire departments each responded to one call. DEATHS Merle Gray, 3055 Clarksville died Tuesday, Bright-Holland Funeral Bobby Douglas of Paris died Tuesday, Jan. 11, Maxey Funeral Home..
