March 8, 1934

LEOPOLD TALKS OF

CHAINS AND MAIL

ORDER HOUSES

The Fairfield Business and Civic Club met Tuesday night, and after enjoying a delightful dinner, the entire body retired to the courthouse, where a fair sized crowd had assembled to hear Joseph P. Leopold of Dallas speak.

Mr. Leopold, who is an able and fluent talker, dwelt on the evils of the mail order houses and the chain store, and how they tended to wreck and destroy towns and independent merchants.

He also emphasized the necessity of local operation. 40 PER CENT CUT IN

COTTON AVERAGE

The International Statistic Bureau, Inc., today estimated that the intention to plant cotton in the 1934-35 season showed an acreage of 27,067,000 compared with 42,929,000 acres in the previous year, a decline of 33.9 per cent.

The Bureau estimated 15,000,000 acres had been leased to the government in the voluntary acreage reduction program.

On the basis of these figures it was estimated production would range between a maximum of 11,300,000 bales and a minimum of 8,000,000 bales depending on the weather, government control, cultivation, etc.

March 5, 1959

LOCAL, COUNTY SCHOOL TRUSTEES

ARE UNOPPOSED

At press time Wednesday, Fairfield Independent School trustees C.J. Robertson, Jr., Joe Richards and Ashley Sanders were unopposed in their candidacy for places on the board.

Deadline for filing is midnight tonight, March 5.

The election of county school board members will be held in conjunction with the local trustee election April 4.

Those filing for reelection were Edd Bonner, precinct 1, and Traynham Moore, board member-atlarge.

Terms of board members from precincts 2,3, and 4 do not expire this year. They are Harry Bounds, Weldon Wren and Geo St. Clair, appointed Wednesday to fill the unexpired term of Jack Lancaster who resigned. TWO MEN CHARGED

IN CATTLE THEFT

TUESDAY

Two men were held in the Freestone County jail on charges of cattle theft.

Charges were filed in Judge Homer Lee's justice court Tuesday.

Freestone County Sheriff Henry Brown said three men were taken into custody at Ray's Cafe Monday afternoon for questioning.

Charges were filed against two. He said one of the men is from Colorado and one from Louisiana.

The theft involved six head of cattle stolen Feb. 23 from L.H. Beene near Teague. Mr. Brown said he located the stolen cattle last week after three head had been sold at a sale in Crockett, Feb. 24 and the other three head at a Groveton sale Feb. 26

SATURDAY LAST DAY

TO FILE FOR CITY

COUNCIL

City Councilmen T.R. Bonner, F.R. Hill and Joe Wheeler remained unopposed in their candidacy for reelection Wednesday. Deadline for filing is midnight, March 7.

The city election will be held at the City Hall April 7.

Councilmen whose terms do not expire are Mayor A.E. Stroud, Rankin Gilpin, and Morris Sneed.

MARCH 8, 1984 MISS TRACY TERRY BEGINS SERVING 10

YR. PRISON SENTENCE

Tracy Terry was committed to the women's prison at Gatesville March 1 to begin serving time assessed after she was found guilty of a murder charge last year.

Miss Terry received the 10-year prison term after jurors found her guilty of the murder of her mother Cheri Lorett Temple, at her home on Bradley street in Fairfield.

Miss Terry and her boyfriend, Milton Stroud, were charged in the original indictment following the discovery of Mrs. Temple's body stuffed in a trunk in a pasture in near Fairfield in September 1982.

Testimony indicated that the two planned and carried out the murder with Stroud hitting Mrs. Temple several times with a large wrench after he had shot her, then placing a plastic bag over her head to smother her when she apparently did not die instantly.

Stroud was also found guilty in a subsequent trial and is serving a 50-year term in the State Department of Correction.

WATER NOT DISTURBED BY LIGNITE

MINING

Surface mining of lignite deposits in Texas has only a small impact- far less than previously believedon ground water nearby, according to a study conducted by Texas A&M University for the U.S. Department of the Interior.

The report said ground water around some mines will be lessened significantly during mining, but any long term effects will be slight.

Only where sandy aquifers are disturbed in the course of mining will severe damage to water supplies occur, and the damage will be temporary, the report said.

Efforts at replanting acreage disturbed during mining should be successful, the report concluded.

FIREMAN REMAIN

BUSY, MONTH OF

FEBRUARY

Fire Marshall Larry W. Wilson reports the Fairfield Volunteer Fire Department answered a total of 47 calls for the month of February bringing the 1984 total to 93.

Of these 47 calls for February, 10 were within the corporate city limits of the City of Fairfield while 37 were outside the city but within the county.

A breakdown shows the department answered 28 grass fires, six false alarms, three trash fires, three motor vehicle accidents, two car fires, two grease fires, two structural fires and one electrical fire.

March 11, 1999

TU RAIL SPUR CROSSING COUNTY;

COMPLETION EXPECTED JAN. 1,

2000

Working primarily west to east, construction on the 17-mile rail spur to Big Brown Steam Electric Station has progressed to about Texas 75 from Burlington Northern Railroad tracks at Kirvin.

Purpose of the spur is so that TU Electric can bring western coal from Montana to its Freestone county power plant, extending the life of the plant and of Big Brown Mine which provided lignite as an electricity generating fuel.

The power plant has been operating on lignite mined at the site since opening in 1971, but lignite reserves at the mine are nearing exhaustion.

Western coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana will be blended with lignite to fire the power plant furnaces and ultimately will replace the lignite as the fuel source.

TELEVISION STATION

INTERVIEWS

AUTHOR

A book detailing a 1922 tragedy in Kirvin-- the murder of a young woman and the violent death of her suspected attackers-casts the small Freestone county community and the county itself, back into the national spotlight as news organizations interview author Monte Akers of Austin.

"Flames After Midnight' was published Feb. 11 by University of Texas Press after 12 years of research by Akers, formerly site manager of Dow Chemical in Fairfield and now Texas Municipal League staff attorney.

The author was interviewed Friday at Kirvin by KWTX-Channel 10 reporter Mike Barger.

A 2-part story on the book and the events of 1922 was broadcast earlier this week.