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Fort Worth Star-Telegram TarrantTexas Tuesday PM October 3 1989 Page 9 I Section The county commissioners extend a contract for tax collection Page 10 Tarrant Briefly Burglary charge is filed over wax museum ledger BY SCOTr NISHIMURA Fort Worth Star-Telegram GRAND PRAIRIE The Dallas County district attomey's office charged a Lewisville man yesterday with burglary of a building in the theft last year of an accounting ledger from the burned ruins of the Wax Museum of the Southwest But authorities said they have no evidence linking Stanley Lester Poynor 23 a funeral science student and custodian at a Lewisville funeral home to three strange incidents connected to the museum in the last five years Poynor was freed on $500 bail bond Saturday from Grand Prairie city jail after being arrested Sept 26 arraigned on the burglary count and held on $100000 bond while being investigated "We've got him dead to right on the burglary" said Grand Prairie police investigations Lt Don Sherman who teamed with another detective to question Poynor for two hours last week "But the only thing! can connect him to is the burglary" family to investigate her death after Wright died Williams' original autopsy cited viral pneumonia as the cause of death but her family recently had the body exhumed to determine whether she was poisoned Arlington police have said they see no connection between Poynor and Wright's death Grand Prairie Fire Department It Doug Conner said yesterday that he plans to consult with police on the polygraph results Although Sgt Steve Burton said last week that Poynor's arrest could be a breakthrough in the museum cases police said yesterday that there is no evidence linking Poynor to these incidents: The 1984 death of museum employee Lori Ann Williams after she underwent an appendectomy at Dallas-Fort Worth Medical Center in Grand Prairie The 1987 poisoning death of museum co-owner Patsy Wright whose body was found in her Arlington home and whose death has been ruled a homicide The September 1988 fire that destroyed the wax museum The cause is listed as undetermined but investigatots say the fire may have been caused by an electrical short Poynor on Friday night took a polygraph test which he said he passed and he was released shortly afterward After his release Poynor criticized a private investigator in the case accusing him of smearing his reputation Bill Dear of DeSoto was hired by Williams' FORT WORTH 55-year-old man dies after truck accident A 55-year-old man died last night at a hospital after an accident in which his pickup flipped on its side in the 10000 block of Jacksboro Highway The Fort Worth man whose identity is being withheld was taken to Harris Methodist Fort Worth via Carenite where he was pronounced dead at 2:50 am Fire officials said the man was driving west on the highway near Nine Mile Bridge Road when the truck struck a curb about 10:49 pm The truck overturned into the left lane Firefighters pulled out the man who was pinned inside the cab MMIEWIFONIMOkMIMMIN NWL 3rd delay given for project Inmates moved to warehouse OtS' k)Ztt I noon" Foreclosure attempt at Regalridge held up ARLINGTON Officials to discuss school activities School officials are scheduled to discuss extracurricular activity guidelines and a mentor program for science students during tonight's school board meeting School board members also are scheduled to designate a central textbook committee to review books for the 1 990-9 1 school year The meeting is at 7 pm at the Woodrow Counts administration building 1203 Pioneer Parkway School officials also plan to release student test scores from 1989 advanced placement classes in which students are eligible for college credit Tarrant County was forced to open the jail annex to house felons that the state doesn't have room for $014 BY MICI LAU WI IITELEY Fort Worth Star-Telegram FORT WORTH A state district judge citing the continuing financial woes and bad publicity surrounding developer Leonard Briscoe has granted a third delay on foreclosure on Regal-ridge Square Apartments and a vacant tract once slated for a second government-backed housing project in Fort Worth After two months of delays Heartland Federal Savings and Loan Association of Ponca City Olda had picked today for the forced sale of the 784-unit Regalridge project and 22 acres in Cityview where Briscoe once planned to build Overton Ridge apartments The failed thrift now under the control of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp had been trying throughout the summer to foreclose on the Briscoe properties to collect $229 million in unpaid loans from Briscoe Enterprises But state District Judge Dixon Holman halted the sale and repeated concerns that the foreclosure could spawn damaging publicity drive away Regal-ridge tenants and hamper Briscoe's ability to repay the city of Fort Worth $7 million in loans for Regalridge Holman also sided with a contention raised by Briscoe's lawyers last week that Heartland has no right to collect on (More on BRISCOE on back page) BY BETSY TONG AND BOB MAIMBURG Fort Worth Star-Telegram FORT WORTH The Tarrant County Jail Warehouse Annex opened for business yesterday About 190 inmates were moved to the facility at 5136 Northeast Parkway in north Fort Worth early yesterday Sheriffs Department officials said Builders worked up to the last minute to put finishing touches on the maximum-security jail county officials said "The exterior looks like a warehouse The inside of it now looks like a jail" said Chief Deputy John Pempsell County officials voted in May to buy the warehouse to help ease the overflow of felons sentenced to state prisons but backlogged at local jails because of prison overcrowding The action was taken after the city of Fort Worth sued the county for refusing to provide jail space for prisoners County Commissioner JD Johnson has vowed to erect a sign outside the warehouse at Interstate 35W and Loop (More on JAIL on back page) 1i FORT WORTH Chemical dependency of women to be discussed A communitywide conference on Chemical Dependency From a Woman's Perspective will be Nov 7-8 at Texas Christian University Registration is $25 or $30 after Nov 2 Conference information is available from TCU's Alcohol and Drug Education Program 921-7100 Box 32902 Fort Worth 76129 The program will focus on educating the community on the special issues surrounding women and chemical dependency and on setting agendas to address gaps in services The speakers will include Martha Morrison author of The White Rabbit A Doctor's Story of Her Addiction and Recovery and Barbara Gordon author of I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can and Jennifer Fever The program also includes a chemical dependency and family counselor and a media critic who has studied the effect of advertising on society 4 Fort Worth Star-Telegram I PAUL MOSELEY Lt Gayle Evans watches inmates at the Tarrant County Jail Warehouse Anne which opened yesterday United Way update Amount pledged to United Way of Metropolitan Tarrant County Go for it! scientists at collider session hear First woman president directing United Way er Goal $22457000 Amount raised as of yesterday $5801791 FORT WORTH Caring for Alzheimer's subject of training The Visiting Nurse Association is offering families and friends of people with Mzheimer's disease a free training program to learn how to take care of Alzheimer's patients The Alzheimer's Disease Respite Care Demonstration Project is designed to give people enough confidence to care for people with Alzheimer's so the primary care-giver can take a break Training will take place from I to 5 pm Saturday in the Kiva Room at Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine at the comer of Camp Bowie Boulevard and Montgomery Street Financing for the project is provided by the National Council of Jewish Women and the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association of North Central Texas There is no charge but those interested are asked to call 921-2273 to reserve a seat 2584 of goal Among the crowd were three Nobel Prize winners and experts representing most major American universities as well as collider-related businesses from such countries as Japan West Germany Mexico the Soviet Union Switzerland Poland and Italy Just three days after President Bush signed a bill that provides $225 million for the collider in the 1989-90 fiscal year Schwitters talked about construction and scientific program planning all about to get under way to build the accelerator of the $225 million appropriation S135 million is earmarked for construction The collider a 53-mile underground loop to be built 25 miles south of Dallas in Ellis County will be the world's most powerful and advanced facility for examining subatomic particles Physicists hope to use the collider to duplicate on an infinitesimally small scale (More on COLLIDER on back page) BY ANITA BAKER Fort Worth DALLAS Scientists from around the world yesterday were asked to put their dreams for research at the Superconducting Super Collider on paper by May 25 before final design plans are complete Construction on the $6 billion collider is expected to begin by this time next year but the laboratories will not be opened for at least nine years officials said "The lab we all dreamed about for so long is real and it's time to build it" Roy Schwitters collider laboratory director told more than 800 scientists from the United States and at least 10 foreign countries in the opening session of a three-day conference yesterday The scientists convened to catch up on developments in the collider project which will bring to Texas the world's largest laboratory in the search for the smallest particles of matter BY I IOLLACE WEINER Fort Worth Staz-Televam FORT WORTH What a difference Mary Stewart Brumley has brought to the United Way board room The atmosphere isn't as stuffy as when bankers and business types presided says a labor union leader There's more spirited discussion says a hospital president There's a grass-roots perspective says a business leader Since March when Mary Stewart Brumley became the United Way's first woman president veteran board members have noticed a more open relaxed pace at the top "The formal proceedings are not quite as rigid" says Roger Owen president of the Communication Workers of America Local 6201 "It's a more relaxed kind of leadership than when you've got a bank president or a CEO who is running late and is in be tween meetings You are almost afraid to bring up discussion points" "Mary Stewart is also directly involved with the human needs out there" Owen says "If you are a businessman making $100000 or $200000 a year even though you are a benevolent type of person do you really know what it is like to work down in the ranks?" Mary Stewart Brumley does because she is the United Way's first chief executive to rise from within the social service ranks A full-time volunteer with three grown children the 50-year-old Brumley got her start in community work in the early 1970s As a Junior League volunteer she worked one-on-one with girls enrolled in New Lives the Fort Worth school district's alternative school for pregnant and parenting teens After serving as Junior League president in 1980 Brumley joined the Unit ed Way's New Directions Committee where she became intrigued by a financial request from New Lives The school wanted $100000 from United Way to expand its services beyond the three R's Its students needed prenatal care day care tutoring and emotional support to stay in school With 13 percent of Fort Worth's teens getting pregnant every year the (More on FUND on back page) Jeff Guinn out and About volunteers who are beauticians who could come in and work with patients on their appearances If you look good you feel good about yourself We need exercise equipment stationary bikes and weight sets There must be plenty of them in garages that aren't ever used We've had a piano donated for music therapy Maybe Van Cliburn could come and play it for us sometime I don't mind asking" In another couple of weeks 44 patients will be moved into Trinity Springs less than half its 96-patient capacity Money limitations will keep the county from offering desperately needed help to more with severe mental illness Except if we help If you can't give money maybe you could give some time "We need volunteers for everything" Witt said She'd love to hear from you at 927-1106 Unless of course you're the bounder who uprooted her tree Mauk chairperson of the Trinity Springs mental health advisory committee Trinity Springs had its grand opening Sunday but when Witt and Mauk toured the place with Out and About three days earlier there was still lots of work to be done A painter was laboriously spreading a thick white coat of semi-gloss on columns under the front archway Couches and chairs still wrapped in plastic rested upside down in the reception area "I'm missing a tree" Witt said suddenly "I'm looking out in the front and there's one place where there should be a tree where there was a tree Or am I just going crazy?" Maybe but not where the tree was concerned For some reason it had been uprooted and leaned against the side of the building A workman told Witt he'd replant it "Well that's a relief" Witt said with a sigh "Now what else do we still need? I'd say some Until now And 6 million bucks can erect a building but volunteers came up with the wherewithal to make Trinity Springs a cheerful place in which to get well Take a tour and the first thing you'll notice is gorgeous gardens Local architects builders and gardeners came in and did all the work themselves donated the bricks and mortar and plants in the process Folks like Sid and Elaine Parker and Jane Dunkleberg might not want public thanks but they deserve it anyway Just standing in the gardens they built is mentally refreshing The Hospital District Auxiliary donated $30000 worth of furnishings Staff members from adjacent John Peter Smith Hospital gave a huge fish tank and installed it "The community wanted this facility and the community has supported it" said Rosie "It's going to be ready for the opening I keep telling myself this It's going to be ready" Drenda Witt spoke those words last week in the fiat mumbling monotone of a woman who's worked on a pet project for a long long time maybe too long But for a few hundred people a year with severe mental illness Trinity Springs Pavilion will be well worth all the trouble some people have taken to get the place built "We're really very proud of this facility" said Witt who's director of public relations for the Tarrant County I lospital District "A whole bunch of different people have contributed their talent time and money to make it as good as it can be" Tax money built Trinity Springs nearly $6 million of it approved by county voters in a 1985 bond election Non-profit treatment centers for mental illness are just about nonexistent in Tarrant County Trinity Springs is their success 4aasvtn-.