The Paris News from Paris, Texas • Page 2

Records Page 2A The Paris News, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 1991 State Bill would tighten smoking restrictions soon maybe a little tougher to find a public place where it's OK to smoke. When Texas lawmakers convene next week, they will have to consider a bill that would restrict smoking in public places throughout the state. The measure filed by state Rep. Ron Wilson, D-Houston, permits designated smoking areas under certain circumstances.

Similar laws are already in place in cities such as Houston, Dallas and Austin. Wilson's bill would permit smoking only in designated areas wherever the public gathers. Such gathering places would include "a service line, cashier area, over-the-counter sales area or common traffic area" as well as office buildings and in restaurants seating more than 25 customers. New private prisons to be inspected GROESBECK Officials are putting the finishing touches on two new private prisons in Central Texas and are awaiting inspections from the State Commission on Jail Standards. The new prisons, located in Falls and Limestone counties are both 500-bed minimum-security prisons whose completion dates have been delayed several months because of rain.

The State Commission on Jail Standards will visit the Limestone unit near Groesbeck on Jan. 8 and the Falls prison outside Marlin the week of Jan. 21, officials say. Construction began last year on both units, the first in Central Texas to employ the new concept of housing inmates. The $10 million prisons were planned and built on bond funds sold at no risk to the participating counties.

Under the concept, a private company manages the construction and operation and the county government makes sure everything is in compliance. Southfork Ranch is sold to creditor DALLAS Despite temperatures that warmed from the weekend's Arctic front, New Year's was a cold day for fans of "Dallas." Southfork Ranch, in Collin County, 25 miles north of Dallas, was sold for $3,150,000 in a foreclosure action to the creditor that financed its purchase for $7 million in 1984. "It was a little unusual," Arthur I. Ungerman, an attorney who served as substitute trustee for the auction, said of the New Year's Day proceedings. "The foreclosures are the first Tuesday of the month no matter if it's a holiday or not." Ungerman said the only bidder at the 10-minute auction held on the steps of the Collin County Courthouse at 10 a.m.

CST was Glenfed Financial Corp. The California-based company held the $8.2 million note which had been defaulted by Terry V. Trippet and his Collin Commodore Ltd. partnership. That partnership, formed with now-defunct Commodore Savings, declared bankruptcy in March.

The 41-acre property was put the auction block after Trippet, working with Glenfed and the courts, was unable to find a buyer, according to Trippet's attorney. Southfork, which is not inhabited, ranked as the state's ninth most popular tourist attraction in 1989. National Boskin says economy in recession WASHINGTON President Bush's top economic adviser today became the first administration official to acknowledge the U.S. economy probably has entered a recession. He predicted it would be brief.

Michael Boskin, chairman of the White House council of economic advisers, said the administration likely would acknowledge the economic downturn when it releases economic figures later this month on the just-ended fourth (quarter. "It does appear that after the longest economic expansion in the peacetime history of the United States that the economy probably has entered a recession. I believe it will be relatively short and that the worst quarter of the decline probably was in the quarter just completed on Monday," Boskin said on NBC-TVs "Today" program. In a preliminary economic forecast being used to prepare Bush's fiscal 1992 budget proposal, the administration shows the economy shrinking at a 3.4 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter of 1990 and at a 1.3 percent rate in the first quarter of 1991, The Wall Street Journal reported today. Hospital MCCUISTION ADMITTED: Darrell Barnes, Paris; Hannah Blanton, Paris; Joseph E.

Green, Bogata; Mrs. Marie Hembree, Paris; Mrs. Iva Lamb, Paris; Kacey Langston, Paris; Mrs. Brenda Moore, Paris; Clyde Robinson, Como; Mrs. Lucy Vaden, Sulphur Springs; Vernon Whitaker, Dallas; Mrs.

Betty Wilson, Paris; Nathan Rogers, Rattan, Carmelitta Summer, Hugo, Mrs. Florence Coutney, Paris; Howard Hintz, Hugo, Cheryl Humphrey, Clarksville; Mrs. Pearl Kern, Cooper; Amanda Moore, Roxton; Mrs. Marilyn Morrow, Greenville; Daniel Pitcock, Roxton; Darrem Ausmus, Paris; Roy Bates, Broken Bow, Mrs. Maurice Bell, Paris; Crystal Briley, Valliant, Stephanie Hutchings, Sumner; Mrs.

Mable Hutchison, Paris; Bob Lane, Honey Grove; Mra. Lora Stevenson, Hugo, Mrs. Pam Wood, Brookston; Amanda Brewer, Cooper. DISMISSED: James Bangs, Blossom; Baby Boy Barrios, Roxton; Mrs. Faye Carpenter, Paris; Michele Carrigan, Paris; Mrs.

Mary Chambers, Paris; Horace Gandy, Honey Grove; Bridgett Hicks, Paris; Mrs. Golda Humphries, Paris; Mrs. Terri Jones, Hugo, Murry Joslin, Sulphur Springs; Kacey Langston, Paris; Allen Laws, Sulphur Springs; Chester Merritt, Ft. Towson, Mrs. Lucille Neisler, Brookston; Bil Payne, Talco; Mrs.

Margaret Payne, Hugo, Ray Seay, Paris; Hardy Stewardson, Bagwell; Robert West, Valliant, Vernon, Whitaker, Dallas; Mrs. Cora Williams, Paris; David Young, Clarksville; Mrs. Marie L. Hembree, Paris; Kala Akins, Powderly; Baby Girl Ashford, Clarksville; Darrell Barnes, Paris; Mrs. Lois Golden, Hugo, Wafford Hinsley, Soper, Brandon D.Johnson, Paris; Drew Lee Matlock, Powderly; Candace Roam, Paris; Hannah Blanton, Paris; Mrs.

Idell Chapman, Sulphur Springs; Baby Boy Famsworth, Hugo, Mrs. Vannoy Gentles, Paris; Mrs. Marilyn Morrow and baby, Greenville; Mrs. Ruth Storey, Deport; Rickey Green, Paris. The Weather The Forecast PARIS AREA: Tonight, mostly cloudy with a slight chance of light rain.

Low in the lower 30s. North wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent. Thursday, colder. High in the upper 30s.

cloudy with asiight chance of light rain. Light north wind. Chance of precipitation 20 percent. EXTENDED: Rain and a few thunderstorms with a slow warming trend. Lows in the mid 30s Friday warming to the mid 40s by Sunday.

Highs near 50 Friday, the upper 50s by Sunday. NORTH TEXAS: Increasing cloudiness tonight and colder. Mostly cloudy Thursday. Cloudy central and east through Thursday with widely scattered areas of light rain. An isolated thunderstorm possible central and east today andeasttonight.

Thursday, Jan. 3 forecast for daytime conditions and high temperatures COLO. KAN. OKLA. Paris ARK.

San Antonio Austin MEXICO Houston Brownsville Local Weather Weather information for the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday, courtesy of observer Richard W. Floyd: Tuesday's High 46 24-hour Low 22 Overnight low 36 At 8 a.m. Wednesday 38 High Last Year 52 Low Last Year 30 Record High 71 In 1910 Record Low 7 in 1979 24-hour Rainfall 0.21 Total Rainfall to Date 0.21 To Date Last Year 0 Sunset Tonight 5:33 p.m Sunrise Tomorrow 7:31 a.m. OKLAHOMA: Fair tonight.

Lows from 10 to 15 in the Panhandle to 20 to 25 extreme southeast. Partly cloudy Thursday. Highs in the 30s. Showers T-storms Rain Flurries Snow Ice Sunny Pt. Cloudy Cloudy Deaths Mary Elizabeth Caslleberry Edward Travis Adkisrn Edward Travis Adkism, U55-7th NW, died Tuesday, Jan.

1, at his home. Services are pending with Beasley Memorial Funeral Home. Mary Elizabeth Castleberry Mary Elizabeth Castleberry, 99, 1727 Bonham, widow of J. Ed Castleberry, died at McCuistion Regional Medical Center at 8:45 p.m. Monday, Dec.

31. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, 3, at Oak Park United Methodist Church wi th the Rev. Lynn Vowell officiating. Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home will make burial in Evergreen Cemetery.

The body will lie at the church from 12:30 p.m. until the service time. The family will receive friends from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

They will be at the home of Margaret Rheudasil, 175-31st SE. Mrs. Castleberry was born Jan. 6, 1891, in Merit, Texas, a daughter of the Rev. W.H.

Wright and Margaret Aston Hamilton Wright. She was a graduate of Celina High School. She moved to Paris with her family in 1898 when her father was pastor of the West Paris Methodist Church, later renamed Garrett Memorial Methodist Church, now Oak Park Methodist. She married Mr. Castleberry on Aug.

1, 1910, in Blossom. He died in March 18, 1954. She was a member and honorary member of the administrative board of the church. She was pianist there for Sunday school classes and the United Methodist Women for a number of years. She was a member of the Winmore Sunday School Class and the United Methodist Women which had honored her with a life membership.

She was a past member of the West Paris School PTA and a past president of the Needlecraft Club. Surviving are a daughter, Margaret Rheudasil of Paris; one son and daughter-in-law, Edmond and Thelma Castleberry of Paris; three grandchildren, Mrs. David (Claire) Dotson of Overland Park, Bill Castleberry of Tulsa, and Charges Still of Fort Smith, five great- grandchildren; three sisters-in- law, Mrs. J. Hubert Wright of Houston, Mrs.

W. Bruce Wright of Dallas and Mrs. H. Lindsay Wright of Dallas, and several nieces and nephews. Walker H.

Bramlett Walker H. Bramlett, 81, 1020-17th SE, died Tuesday, Jan. 1, at St. Joseph's Hospital. Bright-Holland Funeral Home will conduct graveside services at 2 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 3, at Evergreen Cemetery with the Rev. E. Ross Richardson officiating. The family will receive friends at the Bramlett home.

Mr. Bramlett was born Nov. 17, 1909, in Lamar County, a son of Enoch W. and Sarah Ellen Sewell Bramlett. He married Thelma Hutchings on Aug.

15, 1931, in Biardstown. He was a member of the First Christian Church. He was a farmer until 1952 when he began driving a truck for Humble Oil working there for 20 years. He later worked for Grand Oxygen for 10 years. Surviving are his wife; one son, Dr.

Billy W. Bramlett of Huntsville; one grandson, William Walker Bramlett; one granddaughter, Christina Bramlett of Houston; one brother, Enoch J. Bramlett of Paris; and a sister, Alma Bare of New Mexico. Opal E. Good E.

Good, 85, of Paris died Sunday, Dec. 30, at St. Joseph's Hospital. Services were scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan.

2, at Delta Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Henry Suche officiating. Burial was to be in Oaklawn Cemetery. Mrs. Good, a former Delta County resident, was born Aug.

11, 1905, in Delta County, a daughter of Milton Y. Early and Anna Adair Early. She moved to Paris in 1929 and returned to Cooper in 1961. She returned to Paris in 1987. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Cooper.

She married Houston B. (Bussy) Good on July 22 1923. He died Nov. 12, 1987. Surviving are a son and daughter-in-law, John M.

and Ann Good of Paris; three grandchildren, Peggy Bryant of Monahans, Carolyn Valco of College S.tation and Laura Johnson of Fort Leavenworth, and five great-grandchildren, Josh and Beth Bryant, Ryan and Rachel Johnson and Kimberly Valco. Eugenia E. Skidmore Eugenia E. Skidmore, 76, Rt. 1, Pattonville, died Tuesday, Jan.

1, at the Dallas Rehab Institute. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 4, at Bright-Holland Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. L.C.

Stout officiating. Burial will be in Meadowbrook Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Skidmore was born Aug. 4, 1914, in Lamar County, a daughter of John H. and Addie Lee Gibson Parker. She married L.R.

(Sam) Skidmore on April 8, 1933, in Hugo, Okla. He died Nov. 11, 1988. She was a member of the Bethel Baptist Church and had worked as a licensed vocational nurse for 40 years. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs.

Freddie (Sarah) Eatherly of Paris, Mrs. Wayne (Barbara) Fletcher of Paris and Mrs. Dave (Sue) McCalman of Clardy; one brother, Jack Parker of Baytown; two sisters, Lala Belle Pomroy of Richardson and Mrs. Earl (Margie) Bolt of Flushing, eight grandchildren, and four great- grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Aaron Parker and Curtis Parker and a sister, Loyce Clement.

Maggie Wildmon Wildmon of Cooper died Wednesday, Jan. 2, at 2:55 a.m. in St. Joseph's Hospital. Services are pending with McClanahan and Sons Funeral Home.

Steelman funeral Funeral services for William. H. Steelman, 2450 Beverly, were conducted Monday in Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Mike Gentry and the Rev. Jerry Hollowell officiating.

Burial was in Hopewell Cemetery near Gilmer. Constable recovers stolen auto Tuesday A car, which had been stolen from Bob McDougall Olds- Cadillac over the holidays, was recovered Tuesday by a Lamar County Constable, who also arrested an 18-year-old Paris man for the theft when he stopped the car on Loop 286 NE. Michael Charles Wilson remained in the Lamar County Jail Wednesday in lieu of bonds totall- ing $20,000. He was charged with burglary of a building and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. The same constable responded to a theft of a gooseneck trailer which occurred about a mile north of Powderly on U.S.

Highway 271. The trailer was valued at $3,500. POLICE ARE investigating the reported abuse of a 4-year-old According to a report released by police Wednesday, the boy had been struck several times with a fly swatter and was bruised from his ankles to the top of his legs. SOMEONE STOLE several thousand dollars worth of sound equipment in late December during a burglary of the First United Methodist Church at 322 Lamar Avenue. Taken were an amplifier, two speakers, six microphones and two microphone stands with cables a total value of $2,600.

THOUGH A list of the stolen property has yet to be released, police said a burglary Monday resulted in the theft of items valued at $167 during a burglary of a van which had been parked in the 1700 block of Clarksville Street. OTHER ACTIVITY reported to police included six reports of criminal mischief, four assaults, three thefts, two reports of harassment, two disturbances, a report of property damage, a report of criminal trespass, an aggravated assault, an overdose, a report of child neglect and a death. AN 18-YEAR-OLD Oklahoma man is in fair condition Wednesday, according to a spokeswoman for St. Joseph's, where he was being treated for a gunshot wound received Tuesday morning in Grant, Okla. An investigator said Marvin Earl Ford, of Broken Bow, Okla, was treated in Paris after a 12-year-old Grant boy accidentally shot him in the left thigh with a 20-gauge shotgun.

The juvenile's grandmother told a deputy that he was trying to see if his gun was loaded when it discharged. THE LAMAR County Sheriffs Department arrested Karen Ann Cooper on a motion to revoke her probation for forgery by passing. OTHER ACTIVITY reported to the sheriffs department included an animal-vehicle accident, a report of a suspicious person and assisting EMS at Lamar Point. At 8 a.m. Wednesday, there were 95 Lamar County inmates; 89 in the Lamar County Jail, five out of the facility on a county work- release program and one escapee.

PERSONS WITH information about any unsolved felony crime are asked to call Crime Stoppers at 785-TIPS, day or night, and speak to the person on duty. Callers are not asked to give their names and calls are not recorded. Crime Stoppers pays up to $1,000 cash for information leading to an arrest and grand jury indictment. Who's New Born Dec. 12, at McCuistion Regional Medical Center: A daughter to Mr, and Mrs Franklin Morrow, Greenville.

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