Corsicana Weekly Light (Newspaper) - March 18, 1971, Corsicana, Texas VOL 84 TEXAS 75110 MARCH 1971 185 1 Condemning Houses Easier Said than Done Here i By BETTY JEAN CLAY Sun Staff Writer Condemning a ramshackle house is a lot easier said than The city doesnt tack a notice of condemnation on the house one and its gone the next would that it were that Building Official Delma who wears as many as five hats for has made a start on ridding Corsicana of the un safe and structures in various stages of but he estimates there are hundreds and its going to take some Ware became building plumbing zoning and some other on He began his campaign in January in earnest on enforcing Housing Standards Ordinance adopted in 1966 under then Mayor David In my first January to I condemned 15 houses to date six have been torn two have been remodeled to meet one has been moved out of the and it is my understanding that a contract has been let on one other to have it torn Ware said Tuesday while showing this writer some of the structures that have already come under official scrutiny and others that are in process of being Ware is aware no pun in tended that his predecessor condemned a large number of many of which are now in the process of being torn down under contract with the Navarro County Action Committee which has the old master He in tends to give serious attention to finding out the status of these old cases to ascertain just what has been done about but right now he is concentrating on what his own investigation turns up as he drives around the wearing one of his many When he finds a structure that to the naked eye fails to meet housing and these are the most blatant cases he begins a card that goes into a master file which is updated thereafter every 30 days to keep track of the status of his preliminary condemnation The second step is to send a by registered or certified mail with a return receipt to the owner of record as best it can be traced See CONDEMNED I I I 1 1 ots Debate On Liquor Begins AUSTIN AP Texas senators began debate today on one of the hottest issues of the sale of liquor by the Senators voted 218 to start on the mixed drinks offered by Joe Christie of El Paso and efforts to amend the measure began at The 21 votes was the absolute led for his to con The Senate approved 300 and sent to the governor a that would let county tax collectors sell auto license plates in branch offices outside the Also sent to the governor was a that would let injured workers choose a chiropractor as his doctor under the compensation Grand Jury Meets Monday The Navarro County Grand Jury will convene Monday at 9 in the grand jury room at the county According to Criminal District At torney Jimmie he will present evidence to the grand jury in the following cases Gilbert who is charged with attempted cases involving hot burglary two In other the grand jury will deliberate further in the case of Delbert Elingsworth and John who are charged with mortgage who is charged with theft by Wins Battle Lufkin Senator Charles Wilson won another round in his battle for Texass senior citizens when 7 passed the The which Wilson co authored with Senator Roy provides an exemption of of the value of residence homesteads of all persons 65 years of age or older from all ad valorem Wilson the through the Constitutional Amendments of which he is Im optimistic about this bills chances in the Wilson I feel its cer tainly one of the most important con amendments before us this Welfare Trimmed AUSTIN State Welfare Department said today that aid to families with dependent children benefits will have to be cut by about a third on May The cut had been predicted for some It will affect with Average family grants will drop from per month to about a Welfare Commissioner Burton Hackney Rain Falls Rainfall of inches was recorded in Corsicana from 7 until noon today by the weather station with gray skies threatening to release more moisture dicing the V Piper Professor of 1971 Lucile instructor of foreign language at Navarro was named a Piper Professor for 1971 by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation in San Presenting an honorarium check for to Boyd is Ben president of Navarro while Samuel dean of the presents a certificate attesting her selec See Story Denied State Loans To Students Navarro Junior College was one of thirty schools dropped on 28 from the states student loan program by the State College Coordinating Board because of top many delinquent County Howard County Junior Odessa Junior Panola County Junior San Jacinto Junior South Plains Junior Temple Junior Wares First Condemned House This rubble remains on the lot of the first house new city Building Inspector Delma Ware condemned in Ware said debris must now be removed to comply fully with city It was located in the 100 block of 12th Photo by Betty Jean Clay Corsicana Experiencing Sudden Upsurge in Infectious Hepatitis A sudden increase of infectious hepatitis has been found in Corsicana but it is not of epidemic according to James spokesman for the Navarro County Medical Seven cases of the disease have been reported to the Health Department this None were reported last year and only one in two in 1968 and one in The records for previous years may not be since doctors sometimes fail to report according to the health We dont think there is any need for the community to be said We are alarmed about the number of cases in Navarro he but we are watching it very A medical consultant from the Texas Department of Public Rugel was invited to Corsicana this week to review the After Sowell said there was not an epidemic in He did urge the medical society here to heep abreast of the situation and to work together in reporting according to The nature of infectious hepatitis makes a wide distribution of the disease said He said all but one of the cases in Corsicana have been persons who had close Speier particularly urged citizens not to ask their doctor for gamma globulin injections if they have had only a casual contact with the He said the world supply of gamma globulin is very limited and it should only be used for persons who have had intimate contact with a case of infectious Gamma globulin does not prevent to but can make the disease less No Reason for Alarm Says Local Physician By JAMES The word hepatitis means in of the The in can be caused by various drugs and many different germs and by unknown Hepatitis is usually recognized when a person develops a yellow jaundiced color in the eyes and The most common form of hepatitis is viral There are two slightly different but related viruses which cause the two slightly different diseases known as infectious hepatitis and serum Serum hepatitis is passed from person to person by unsterile unsterile See HEPATITIS In a prepared statement Thursday from Ben president of Navarro Junior and read by Joe administrative assistant to the said Navarro Junior College did go on the coordinating boards delinquency list of colleges whose collection rate on the Texas Plan TOP loan program exceeded 10 per rate was per cent for the last period a period consist of one calendar We are dropped from making loans under this program for a This will not affect current students under the program or students planning to enroll under the program at the next registration since we believe our rate of delinquency will drop below 10 per cent by that The state law charges the coordinating board with the collection of loans and sets guidelines for There have been no provisions for the element of high According to the coordinating board stressed that the policy was not having been established in A number of schools were suspended last year until their percentage of delinquent loan accounts This was no secret to the schools said a Theyve known about it for a long Other schools dropped were Prairie View Texas Southern Univer Huston Tillotson Jarvis Christian Paul Quinn Texas Texas Lutheran University of Corpus Wiley Angelina Junior Central Texas Junior Cisco Junior Clarendon Junior El Centro Henderson Junior South Texas Junior Southwestern Christian College and Texas State Technical Rep Curtis Graves of Houston com that the list includes every predominantly Negro college in the He said the colleges should not be If this practice the Hinson Hazlewood Act which established the loan program may as well be repealed because the students who need help most are primarily congregated in colleges that are presently suspended con sequently loans are not available to Graves Graves said the attorney general has not exercised his authority to file suits against former students who are six months or more behind in their loan But the attorney generals department said 77 suits against such have been filed in the past three Weather Weather Bureau in formation for the 24 hour period ending at 7 High low over night low 60 and reading at 7 High temperature this date last year Low last year No Total rainfall to date this year Total rainfall to this date last year NORTH CENTRAL and colder tonight and Low tonight 32 to High Friday in Sonoma Seeking Dissolution By JOE EVANS Area News Editor are being cir in a small city bor dering Ennis on the asking the city council to call an election on the matter of dissolving the The petitions ask the council to set the election on April the same day of the city Mayor Eddie Albertini of Sonoma says of the We are just waiting to see what I have not seen one of the petitions and I know nothing about the One interested citizen who favors the dissolving of the city gave his reasons by We feel we should join Ennis while we are not in If we have to borrow money to get a water system we will have a hard time repaying the We also feel we need better fire and police protection and better which we cannot get under the present set The city had a city who part time at the job until February when he moved into Ennis and had to There is not a can for the office on the April 3 According to one city official the council had discussed the hiring of a full time policeman and they feel this would take care of the problem of police Ellis County Sheriff Wayne McCollum says his office does help the city all they can but he also A shortage of manpower keeps us from having a man on duty in Sonoma all the We try to help out this community in the same way we help all the communities in the Sonoma has two fire trucks and a volunteer fire department Fire in surance coverage in the city is higher than in some other According to local agents the coverage on a one story frame house in Sonoma would be while just across the street in Ennis the coverage on the same house would be for one The water supply in Sonoma comes from Ennis and is controlled by In order to have a meter installed in a family must get permission from the Ennis City According to Ennis all requests in the past year have been Sonoma has a loan pending with Housing and Urban Development HUD and this money is to be used to buy the water system from The city of Sonoma would then operate the system and the loan would be repaid with water At last report the petitions were still about half way to their but the people who favor the move felt sure they could get enough names to have the election i
