Mexia Daily News, The (Newspaper) - June 26, 1998, Mexia, Texas T Mexia HIAWATHA ILY NEWS JL Serving The People Of The BiStone Area Since 1899 Index City GM Ready For Cold Shutdown Page 7 Good Afternoon Thomas Rees Volume 99 Number 126 Texas June Pages 50 Cents You fb THE SHUFFLE f f r Park Shuffle Is a major event for thla Fourth of July celebration L and f local residents to loin In the N auty 4 front row of and Scott Barthalama of Back an f vent Auditors still of Kosse bank The Waco reported in its morning edition that the Kosse bank is missing which was made public from an inter nal audit following a reported and shooting death of bank official Michael last According to the filed by staffer Tommy Witherspoon in Limestone investigators arent commenting about the missing although other agencies made available to The necessary information to file the One asking not to be said the audi tors still lending speculation the might not be the final figure for missing Dennis Wilson of the Limestone Sheriffs Department says progress is being made toward solving of Wells He was shot three times in the reported He was Executive of Kosse First State Bank when he was President of the Groesbeck School Wilson said the case is being worked and confidence exudes from investigators that the case will be although it will take more According to the story emanating today out of Bank auditors who are working with the investigative agencies have sent letters to bank asking them to contact the accoun tants if they discover discrepancies in their Texas Ranger Jim Huggins of Centerville and busy in wake fund shortage FBI Special Agent Jim Fossum of are assisting in the Fossum is a close friend to Don Limestone County Assistant Attorney John also declined according to the Waco Dava who told authorities she answered a knock on the back door at the bank about on May has resigned from the She had worked with Wells for over 20 and was employed as a teller at Kosse State She had told officials she had been struck in the head by an unknown She said that when she regained she discovered Wells lifeless body lying near the No money was discovered as having been taken from the bank According to the Waco Truett comment this week about her reasons for resigning or other elements of the She was quoted as It has just been a trau matic but I have no more comment about Since Wells the paper Mac Burrough of president and board chair man of the has taken a more active role in the daytoday operation of the He said Dava Truett resigned from the bank of the pressure of the the Waco paper Sue widow of remains on a leave of absence from her work at a Groesbeck BiStone area could apply for grant money Governor Bush fate of Lucas AUSTIN AP The life of confessed serial killer Henry Lee Lucas today was in the hands of George who says the case raises some troubling The first question I ask in each death penalty case is whether there is any doubt about whether the individual is guilty of the Bush While Henry Lee Lucas is guilty of committing a number of horrible serious concerns have been raised about his guilt in this The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Thursday recommended that who once con fessed to 600 killings nationwide but has since recanted them not be executed as scheduled next the board advised Bush to give Lucas a reprieve and commute his death sentence commuted to a lesser Bush can accept or reject the boards The decision pleased Lucas and his who say that despite his confession the oneeyed drifter couldnt have killed the unidentified woman known only as Orange Socks on It shows there is some justice in Lucas said from death row near Rita Lucas said I hope this make police officers to reopen cases Lucas con fessed But the prosecutor who helped put Lucas on death row said Lucas is a monster who edly killed Orange Lucas was proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt to 12 The case has been reviewed by 23 judges over the past 14 Williamson County District Attorney Ken Anderson If hes not Anderson The only other reason to grant clemency is for reasons of There is no one less deserving of such than Victor chairman of the parole said they voted 108 for the reprieve and 171 for The panel makes no rec on the new It is important to note that this person remains convicted of this offense and as such should remain incarcerated for the rest of his parole board chairman Victor Rodriguez said in a letter to We believe firmly that this man remains guilty as found by that Nothing weve done affects that said who voted for com who has been convicted in 10 murder is scheduled for lethal injection Tuesday for the rape and strangulation of the woman whose nude but for the was found in a ditch off Interstate 35 near north of Lucas was convicted in It is the only case in which he received a death Although Lucas he later said he was News reports and an investigation by former Attorney General Jim Mattox raised questions about Lucas Work records and a cashed paycheck indicated Lucas might have been in Florida at the time of the a Democrat who is seeking the office he left in said Thursday he would stand behind Bush if the Republican governor com mutes Lucas I dont believe this decision is based on poli I think its based on a matter of conscience and whats right for our system of said a death penalty If the governor chooses to commute the sen Ill be willing to stand up beside him any time to defend him because its the right thing to The parole boards recommendation on Lucas came 4 months after the same panel rejected a clemency plea from Karla Faye Tucker in a case that drew international The woman confessed to the pickax slayings of two people but said she had become a Christian in prison and asked for She was executed Chances good for IRS overhaul to become law WASHINGTON AP The easy House passage of a over hauling the Internal Revenue Service bodes well for a similar fate in the which is expected to take up the measure after the July 4th The House voted 4028 on Thursday to approve a mise with the Senate to make the biggest changes since 1952 at the This strikes the right bal ance between granting taxpayers freedom to pay their taxes thout while providing the tools necessary to fund the said House Ways and Means Chairman Complaints about the were so numerous that Congress forged a broad consensus to revamp the Charles D praised House Republicans for an extreme bipartisan in crafting the Pill We got away from rhetoric of pulling the tas code up by its roots and beating up OR the dedi public servants to see what we could to bring about said the top Democrat on the Ways and Means the measure were seven Democrats and one President Clinton has said he would sign the billion Shortly after the vote was the IRS 2 official announced Michael to leave in order new commissioner room to form his own management The Heart of Texas Council of in cooperation with the Texas Natural Resource Conservation announces the availability of Municipal Solid Waste Grant funding for fiscal year and issues a request for Funding is available for this purpose for projects in Bosque and McLennan The following public entities killer executed Texas AP The savagery of the crime a decade ago shocked San Three sisters and a ages 11 to were hacked to stabbed more than 100 times in a frenzy so violent that the some of the blades of the butcher knives used in the attacks were snapped and left embedded in their Leopoldo the jilted boyfriend of one of the was set to die tonight for the car nage described by San Antonio authorities as the worst ever seen in the now would be condemned killer to be put to be executed in Texas this year and the third in as many High on cocaine and after drinking three of beer in the early hours of April was convicted of barging intp the trailer home of his Shannon and killing along with her sisters 19 15 and brother Ernest Their bloody bodies were strewn throughout the southwest San Antonio This was absolutely horren Fred the Bexar County district attorney at the said this These were four defenseless If I ever wrote a book about I would call it the smell of death or fear or something like that when police walked into that mobile Last year was one of three death row inmates who attacked a guard and tried to escape at a Houston gas station en route from court appearances in San are eligible for grant funding under this program nonprofit organizations and private com panies are not directly but may be subcontracted by eligible public schools and school districts excluding universities and other postsecondary educa tional institutions and special law dis created in accordance with State law and with the authority and responsibility for water quality protection or municipal solid waste manage ment river authorities and municipal utility districts of governments To obtain a request for pro or to schedule a proposed project contact Sheila Solid Waste Coordinator for the Heart of Texas Council of Governments at 254 BiStone water treatment plant work is continuing BiStone Municipal Water Supply Districts board of directors has received an updater on its plant Brent General Manager for the water made tors aware of progress on the surface water treatment plant at Lake Were in the process of getting the plant up and Locke In a shorter meeting than directors got together at the dis general office on Whiterock Drive at the In that meet the board also approved financial payment of May and two lot Complimentary Photo TOP SENIOR CITIZEN OF YEAR for Limestone County Walter Graeber of Walter was awarded the 1998 Outstanding Senior Citizen of the Year at the Senior Honor held at Mexia Civic He and his hold plaque donat ed by Groesbeck Chamber of
