San Angelo Standard-Times from San Angelo, Texas • 3

Local Firooufi SAN ANGELO TIMES-Wednesday July 27 3A Coty bwdget imicDoiides new By CAROL DANIEL Staff Writer A 1883-1984 budget providing for leven more police officer a new Fire Department dispatcher and two nun school-crossing guards won Informal San Angelo City Council approval Tuesday Council members also informally agreed to water- ami to $300000 in the black at the end of next year Sales tax revenues are down he said and if the trend continues the city may end up with only $21700 left over at the end of fiscal 1983 we think we're on the upswing If not come to jrou in December and start shutting it down" he uid Brown said the city ean function this year without an increase in property taxes The last tax increaM to pay for a $44 million bond issue was in 1980 Brown said If the budget is given final ap-ral at the Aug 30 public hear- for an additional 112600 for a new dispatcher and $4325 to promote two drivers to lieutenants along with another $5500 to add school near Day and Austin elementary schools The Aug 30 public hearing on the budget may include an increase the motel-hotel occupancy tax from 4 percent to 7 percent as discussed in budget work sessions Thursday Monday and Tuesday The council Indicated that it is waiting for the Chamber of Commeree-Board of City Development to recommend the rate increase before including it in the budget bearing The council added $18825 to the fire department fund for two pro motions and a new dispatcher $5500 to the safety fund for two school crossing guarda and $7000 for the Council on Alcoholism detoxication center It also cut $7768 from the Mental Health and Retardation fund for the rape crisis center $8880 from the Arts Council $5000 from the police fund for leasing telephone line and equipment and $9500 from the streets fund for a pickup truck The council decided not to increase the ambulance service fee by 6 percent as suggested by Brown In reference to cutting money requested for the rape crisis center from $12788 to $5000 Councilman Burt Terrill said "I don't think tax dollars should totally fund something like this" During the discussion of money requested by the Fine Arts Council Parrett said "The input gotten from citizens says not enough involvement with enough people to warrant spen- ding that much money ($18680) on it" "We could allocate $10000 and next year ask them to come up with a statement of what they dm with it" Councilwoman Cariine Tucker suggested Councilman Pete Micale said he'd like to give the arts council at least $12000 because uon a per capita basis one of the least amounts of money we give to the city a service to all people" Brown said he hopes the new budget will leave the city $250000 new incentive pay plan started A new buMng Inspector will be hired with Mlary paid by revenue from increased user fc6S 'city employees' pay will increase tor 8 percent Four river and park maintenance workers two park rangers tor the downtown park area and two Environmental Control Department employees will be hired Water service rates will be increased by 30 cents to help finance $38 million in water treatment and distribution improvements Revenues from a 25 cent sewer rate increase will be reserved for a $3 million revenue bond issue in fiscal 1984 or 1985- The proposed $31 million budget carries no property tax increase but City Manager Stephen Brown warned that shrinking sales tax revenues may make a tax increase a certainty for the following year Final formal action on the budget is slated for Aug 30 Council members squeezed in Fire Chief Gene Kilgore's request er Seven patrolmen will be add mpatrouni police dep artment and a ed to the r-'r -'X' 1 4 V- v- jf Is jMA --Si jj Family missing on Guadalupe 1 1 1 'j BOERNE State game wardens and law enforcement officers this morning were searching the Guadalupe River northeast of Boerne far a family missing since Tuesday A spokesman for the Kendall County office said concern for the family developed after the six-member group failed to arrive at Guadalupe State Park in Comal County The spokesman said the family was floating down the Guadalupe River in one or more intertubes "We have very little information at this time All we know is that a family possibly six people who put their tube in the water sometime Tuesday had not arrived Guadalupe State Park in Comal County as id early this morning" the spokesman said have any information on who the people are" he added A spokeswoman for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in Kerrville confirmed that some people floating down the river had been reported missing but that no additional details are available "All the games wardens are out looking" die said Radioactive water safe supplier says Tkimptioto by David Hilary A wrecker-company worker checks the hook-ups before towing noon 1J miles south of San Angelo on US 277 Eight-year-old Keyes away a car involved in a one-vehicle rollover early Tuesday after- Caruthers of Sonora was killed in the accident Mother's condition critical son dead water The groH alpha radiation was measured at 77 plcoCuries per liter Bennett said The EPA allows 15 plcoCuries per liter The radium combination isotopes were measured at 6510 plcoCuries per liter Bennett Mid EPA standards allow 5 picoCuries per liter JW Newman Millersview-Doole Water Corp said he received a letter dated July 5 from the Texas Department of Health stating the water supplied by the Hickory Sands water formation an underground aquifer exceeded radiation-level atandarda established by the EPA He quoted a letter being mailed to the water supply company's customers Monday in which the Concho County health officer Dr RM Hall of Edn stated he knew of no illnesses caused by radiation and that the radiation was not so high as to be injurious Hall Mldm a telephone interview that he thought the water wu safe to drink because there is no evidence that radiation in water is bad for people The Millersview-Doole water supply is only available drinking-water source for its customers Bennett said because the EPA radiation standards are under review no action would be taken by TDH until the federal government new definitions are By DOUG NURSE Staff Writer Concho County's water source is safe to drink despite the presence of five to 13 times more radiation than the maximum allowed by the federal Environmental Protection Agency the manager of the water supply company said on Tuesday The Millersview-Doole Water Supply Corp which supplies water to 5200 people in Runnels Concho McCulloch and Tom Green counties draws its water from the Hickory Sands formation The formation a C-shaped coarse Mnd formation that lies beneath 225 million acres and supplies water to people and livestock In Concho McCulloch Runnels San Saba Mason Uano and Kimble Counties has two widespread types of radiation that exceed EPA standards gross alpha and combined radium-236 and -238 Mid Tony Bennett a Mnitarian with the Texas Department of Health Division Water Hygiene Bennett Mid the EPA has determined that if a million people each drank two liters (21 quarts or about 64 ounces) of water containing 5 picoCuriea of radium-228 or -228 daily for 70 years 07 to 3 people per year of that million could develop cancer PicoCuriea are a measurement of radioactive isotopes per liter of Vehicle ran off road then rolled i co she was driving ran off UR Highway 277 about 2 miles south of the city and overturned several times Her son Keyes Caruthers 8 Mrs Randee Caruthers 35 of Sonora is being treated tor multiple injuries at Shannon West Texas Memorial Hospital She was Injured when the Bron- was pronounced dead at the scene by Peace Justice Ed Harris Services are pending at Kerbow Funeral Home in Sonora The mother of an 8-yearold hoy killed in a traffic accident here about 12:05 pm Tuesday is listed in critical condition a nursing official Mid today Terlingua school chief resigns Mrs Derry has been accused of favoritism in her dealings with staff members failing to provide certain records for citizen review and failing to give a newly elected school board member copies of board minutes Mrs Derry said remiests for the files were the matter had not been out of order because Del Rio attorney representing the trustees Trustees Monday did vote to: Hire a secretary to "take and transcribe minutes of meetings (and) to act as custodian of such board records the board may from time to time direct" Have keys provided to all trustees to school buildings and property Require Mrs Derry to prepare a detailed copy of the 1983-84 budget three days before the board meeting at which the budget will be reviewed Establish a format for agendas chose Slashing suspect sought on the agenda She also not being allowed terference from the comm school i also to do community that she was and that In-hurting the charged tl her kb i is Compiled from correspondent and staff reports TERLINGUA School Board President Mike North resigned Monday night at a called meeting of the TCriingua Common School District board of trustees lust five days after declaring he would not resign Northnad just recently been another two-year term resignation is just the latest of the confrontations in the Terlingua school district that have left citizens of this remote South Brewster County area wondering if school will open as scheduled on Aug 23 Problems in this tiny school district have -stemmed from a dispute between local parents and school patrons who have wanted North and acting School Superintendent Gloria Derry to resign School patrons charged North with not representing them as a member of the school board three-inch cut to the throat about 11 pm during a disturbance with another man over a television set He was treated at Shannon West Texas Memorial Hospital and released A witness reported that Wright who was sitting in a pickup truck parked in front of a store was cut by another man who was armed with knife Police this morning were looking for a 42year-old San Angelo man in connection with a cutting incident at 29th and North Chad-bourne late Tuesday night Rodney Ellis Watkins is wanted on a charge of aggravated asMult filed by pdtee with Peace Justice Charlie Long on the basla of a complaint filed by Charles Wright 39 2102N Oakes Police said Wright suffered a meeting had been called in an attempt to settle the controversy and to establish new board policies on problems ranging from the use of Robert's Rules of Order in conducting board business to specific revisions of existing board policies The meeting included a closed-door discussion but no final action on Mrs contract Closeted with trustees North Jayson Harvey and Mrs Daisy Adams were Mrs Derry and her lawyer and Haywood Gulley a locations to post the agendas rent a post office box in the nearest post office and obtain coplea of Robert's Rues of Order for all trustees Post copies of agendas at the Terlingua Ranch within the boundaries of the school district at the Study Buttes store at the Terlingua Post Office at the TCriingua School and at the Lajttaa Trading Post 1 Delayed TV station remains without network affiliation in October 1979 and was granted a construction permit by the Federal Communications Commission on Jan 15 1982 In December 1982 the San Angelo City Council approved industrial revenue bonds to finance construction of the station which will serve Tom Green Irion Sterling Schleicher and Concho counties Schindler Broadcasting headed by Raymond Schindler owns an NBC-TV station in Fort Smith Ark and an AM-FM radio station in LaGrange The firm also has plans to launch an NBC-TV station in Nacogdoches with the staff expanded to 55 within two years Cartersaid from Dallas and North Carolina will start putting in the control room before long" Carter said noting the control room win contain "better than $L5 million dollars worth of including 48 television sets and two satellite operations Carter estimated last year that the total cost of the new station would $2780000 Sage Broadcasting a division of Schindler Broadcasting of Houston applied for an operating permit Carter Mid the station KIDY Channel 6 is considering affiliation with both NBC and ABC networks "but if we have a network affiliation by the time we go on the air well go independent" The station'a studio and offices will be located at 406 Irving formerly the site of Chancey's Beer Gardens The existing building will be the office while the adjacent studio building must be constructed A transmitting tower for the station Is located 1V4 south of Mount Nebo in the Grape Creek area The station will employ 26 people at the outset By KEVIN NEAL Staff Writer San Angelo television station KIDY is scheduled to go onthe air during the first week of September even though the station does not yet have a network affiliation a station official said Tuesday The station originally had been slated to start Kootogto be on the air by SepL 1 but it will probably be more like the fifth (of September) when we do get on" Bill Carter vice-president of Sage Broadcasting Corp said Tuesday 1.