The Houston Herald from Houston, Missouri • Page 1

fT, Houston rf wk. 96th Year No. 29 January 10, 1974 Houston, Missouri Position on Sewage Irrigation To Come from EPA at Hearing eon lam in 1 for long of the the Big Piney Itasin but The Kl'A Administratoralso pointed out that large (oreslcd Protec- has misgivings about Ihi Houston effects. interest "There is a real danger Ma er poll- many fif the wells in the arej Two represer tj. S.

Knvironrr lion Agency we Tuesday to dm in the Hip Pint ution meeting would have to be des- areas RESEMBLING A HOLLYWOOD FILM FANTASY depicting a wonderland of ice, this scene exists near the base of the Success Water District's standpipe storage tank. An Overflow spray on top of the tank coupled with continuous days of freezing temperatures creat vidi- holding ponds for School Fuel Limited To 10-Day Supply if 1 would be polluted, and there no assurance that sewage ir rigaiion rates could be tun trolled to assure that then should iould be noff Wednesday niK'ht at the Hous-ton High School Auditunum. They were Charles V. Wright, deputy regional admin isiraur. and Handall public relations.

W' right explained die quality impro ed an ice accumulation Over the landscape below. City Gets Revenue Check The Houston School oil supplies allocated a 10-dlv basis. School keep convne but ''Most of the re this area rely on for drinking purpo said, ''it is our npn positi based and the Missouri are optimistic heating oil wi making any concrete pr Superintendent John vvebb ies will keep buildings from will the added help an adequate cord will be kept dail, whi the people of the city are titled to have done. Mrs. will continue her regular di of offices nvich of the congestion now encountered by die pjblic and the people working at city hall will be avoided.

The Mayor reported re- me but insufficient si more than 1U day; Clean Water Commission buth want Hi clean up the Ozark streams of Missouri and their only argument is how best to on biological and ten logical studies conducted by the Missouri Geological Survey, EPA, and others, thit large scale in the Oarks wuuld plies will not afford heat. It appears local sources will be a effluent fiom major pi Wright said, "Suet ent would be less harmi the runoff from natural -n en la I disaster uld ver. likely ie.s as city tat collector. With cep of a check in the sum of the newcomputerbillingm-ich- $10,479.00 rrom the Treasur- ine the Mayor and Council felt er of the United States, in pay another clerk ment of the Revenue Sharing to operate the machine in case Fujds for the second quarter of illness or absence of the of die fourth entitlement per- city clerk was necessary, and jod. which be ran July 1, 1973 ing the Hip Pir Mrs.

Campbell, former city collector, hasbeenem-p loved by the City of Houston as a clerk. Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. Helen Hill, present city colll-ector, met with the city council at its first meeting of the new year Monday night. Responsibilities and duties o' eac was out 1 1 ned The grow'Ji of the city and the volume if work necessary makes m-re help a necessity, it was pointed out by Mayor Margaret Hiett.

Mrs. Campbell will do the billing, posting and collecting of utility bills and with (jo Slxiut il. irrigai The Missouri Clean Water be an Commission has called for no and "direct" effluent release into tamina die Bifi Pme.v Silver, indieat- and ci ing irrigation of the shallow struct subsoil of the area with sew- lamina age effluent as the only ac irrigation mid i pair (he rell supplies could of the i in propane gas, Webb said. A bill which would permit schools to operate on a four-day week was passed out of committee Tuesday by a (n-eral Assembly committee. State iiepresentative Earl Sponsler, who drafted the bill along with Iiepresentative Wendell Bailey of Willow Springs.

told Webb the bill cleared committee with a "do pass' designated as an emergency measure, Webb said the school now has exhausted all its "snow which otherwise would nave been used for a spring vacation. Any timii now lost to inclement weather m.st be made up after the May 24 scheduled close of school. of the work done and ends June 30. 1974. This be pJt ity clei by the al this billing ime.

ceptable treatment process. We do not oppose irrigat as a viable and effective se sum is in keeping with thechal-leige filed by the City in 1974, asking for a new computation (Turn to page 3, this section) Conflicting Opinions Between EPA, CWC Once the city has new and improv The Clean Com- through control of merit- charge in compliance with the Houston Trio Charged In Wright Co. Theft earlier 'no discharge" ruling made by the CWC, Mayor Margaret Hiett said. indicated the board of of aldermen hope a sizablere- al Protection Agency officials have scheduled a public hearing here at 7:30 Wednesday night, Jan. Hi, at the high school auditorium.

Conflicting opinions between the two agencies regarding a "no discharge" sewage ruling Three Houstonians are Another suspect fled in a car charged in connection with the and was arrested here the next theft Friday nighlofHllOpounds da. Gerald Homine, New Manager At Loan Office of local residents Tigers Face Licking Next; Down W. P. out for the hearing. Hiett has notified Jack Registration Of Voters Hits 4,000 Mark Voter registration in Texas County is approaching the half mv point in what County Clerk about 22, Clayton said.

Bond for Moore and Biawley was sel at and they were released. Romine is in cus- of wire. The incident look place in Wright County at a telephone company storage site. Sheriff Ray Dow Clayton said arfecting Piney Rii First Finance, 203 North Grand, has a new manager. He is Tom Mills, who assumed duties last week.

Mills was transferred here along the Big Smith, CWC secretary, that essitated call- Houston plans to issueastate-mcnt at liie hearing. age treatment process, in fact we favor il as a disposal technique where it isenv ironment-all sound and deter mined to be cost effective. However, in the Oaarks it is conira-indi cated." Wright said thai the KPA staff has considered the use or irrigation with wastewater in Skylab Crewman Has County Ties AShylab 3 astronaut is a member of a former Texas County family. He is William H. Potfue.the son-in-law of the Rev.

and Mrs. Roy Diumar of Hugo, Okla. The Dittmar family is well-known in the Licking, Boone Creek Mrs. Poue, the former Juanita Dittmar, is the niece of Mrs. Kalie Holley, former Houston Schools teacher, and of Mrs.

Louise Holt of Lick- After a 12-day layoff. Houston came out gunning to posi a conference win at Wesi of posting Engineering Consultant Stanley Dolecki will attend the two men were arrested at the $3,000 bond, scene, 20-year-old William ing the hearing. The City of Houston has determined ii will proceed with to remove pollution from Brushy Creek and the Piney from -Salem, where he served les who 85 assistant "'fie manager for The Millard Willson signup of more than wn- 8,000 volers. Plains Tuesday nigl score was (iti-M. The Tigers meet as a representative of Moore and William Br aw ley A pair ol irs.

the city. 21. Another new face at the lo- league Texa County op- Bv mid-week the count was walked away from a state hospital at Fuiton January 3 stole a car there and then wrecked it at Licking, the sheriff said. Then they swiped a car owned by Ronnie Moncrief of Licking. Apprehended by Moncrief on Route VV after wrecking that vehicle, the youths were turned over to Texas County author- cal loan outlet is Mrs.

Cleo ponent Friday night, Wei la of Raymondville, who to Licking to face has been employed as office squad described secretary Miich Haskins as First Finance has offices in ballclub with good 14 cities located in Missouri, Big Butch Sielby, Kansas and Colorado. The is a doubtful starti traveling near 4,1100. a Wildcat Willson estimates about by Coach county residents are el- a "quick igibie to register but doubts ihooters." that number will get the job i-Scenter, done. "We may hit as high against as K.OOfl but itsdoubt- TCMH Emergency Room MORE THAN 3,300 PATIENTS received rreafmenf last year in the emergency room at Texas County Memorial Hospital. Emergency facilities occupied new quarters in a hospital addition a June 1.

Inventory stock levels are checked constantly, a duty Steve Jennings, emergency medical technician-ambulance driver, performs here. company operates with 5 Licking. Haskii id. Sielby ful that many voters getregis- million in the i loan assets and S19 sustained a sprained for this spring's million in banking assets. West Plains game, his coach school mg.

Phone Complaint Filed with PSC E3 3' SO era said. illson says. Tuesday night's win ad- The clerk already hastrav- vanced Houston's overall re- eled to Cabool. Summerivilie cord to 9-3. The score was Licking, Plato, Raymondville tied at 47 each going into the and Success topermitvotersto final 8 minutes but at register without making a remaining on the clock the Big special trip to the courthouse.

-xkj L'J i3 i make the same had gone front 10 He plans rounds at'ai Jt is sxperienc-n obtaining voi- A Yukon resident, Harry N. Fields, has filed a complaint concerning installation of service against Continental Telephone Company. Tie Missouri Public Service told the phone company to respond tothecomplaintthisweek. Fields contends the con in difficult Charges Filed After Stabbing unteer assistance. "We can't afford lo hire the help," Will-son said.

Persons witling to offer assistance while Willson struction charge of $H50 Con- char tinenial proposed for extending dri of felonious assault visits their com-nunity may ng while intoxicated contact him at his courthouse are filed againsta Texas Court- office. man in the wake of an stab service to nis nome was arbitrary discriminatory and pissibly illegal. Continental was directed to ident Sunday night al bing im Cabool, either satisfy the complaint or supply the commission with a written answer by January 9. Beeler Earns Law Diploma At U. M.K.C.

Ho us tonian John Beeler has graduated from the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law. He received his diploma at the end of the fall semester, a few days be- Jaycees Plan DSA Awards Carl Hopkins, 27, was arraigned in Magistrate Court and released from custody after pnsfingS21. 000 bond. The stabbing 20-ear-old Johnnie Williams, Cabool, was brought to Texas County Memorial Hospital following treatment for a knife wound in the buttock. rding.

to Cabool Police Marly started Houston's Jaycee Chapter will hold its annual D.SAAward Night ceremonies Saturday evening. January 26, at the Houston Country Club. Chapter and communityach-ievements over the past year will be recognized, climaxed hief Les Tucker. Hopkinswas worh January 2 as a stenog- under the Influence of alcohol when the stabbing occurred at Williams' apartment. Hopkins then abducted two by the presentation of a rapher at the Tes County Welfare Office.

She previously was employed there for several years. Her husband will remain in Kansas City for the next few weeks to study for the Missouri Bar Examination, which he will take in late February. Beeler Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter J.

Beeler. Mrs. Beeler's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Dixon.

tinguished Service Award to juveniles, forcing the hostages some young Houstonian. to ride with him south of Ca- Nominations for that award boo I on U. S. 63 where they are being solicited by a com- were released. Tucker said, mittee in charge.

The award Hopkins later returned to goes to a young man between Cabool and was arrested by Jirr the ages of Ifi and 35. Names Bunch, assistant police chief may be placed in nomination there, as he drove back into by contacting David Impey. the city. X..