THIS WAS THEN

June 14, 1934

HAMILTON GETS DEATH SENTENCE AT

HUNTSVILLE

Raymond Hamilton, last and most dangerous of the Clyde Barrow pack, was sentenced to death in the electric chair here late Wednesday for the murder of Major Crowson, Eastham prison guard.

The bad man, whose criminal career ran from stealing automobile tires to bank robbery and murder, was a shaken man, apparently having lost his nerve and bravado.

He did not break down but plainly showed fear.

P.B. BAILEY, OIL

LEASE MAN DIES AFTER OPERATION

IN MEXIA

P.P. Bailey, aged about 35, died Wednesday night in a Mexia sanitarium following an appendicitis operation.

Bailey was well known here having been engaged the past few months leasing land for a Houston company, and he was rated as one of the ablest lease hounds that has covered this territory, and made many friends here.

Bailey's home was in San Antonio, and he was reared in Oklahoma, being a full blood Choctaw Indian.

He is survived by his wife and one child.

WORK TO BEGIN IMMEDIATELY ON

PICTURE SHOW

BUILDING HERE

Work will begin within the next few days on a modern picture show building by Fred Hill.

Plans also call for two business houses in connection with the show building.

June 11, 1959

TWO ACCIDENTS REPORTED; NO SERIOUS

INJURIES

Highway Patrolman Darrell Moore and Allen Norcross reported two minor accidents since Saturday morning,

Norcross investigated the first one which occurred at the intersection of U.S. 84 and FM 80 west of Teague, during a dense fog early Saturday.

A car driven by Willie Gotcher of Corsicana and one driven by William Riley Hall of Dallas collided.

Ollie Ann Burks about 70, riding with Gotcher, and Mrs. Bunah Hall, and occupant of the Hall car, were treated for minor injuries at the Teague hospital and released.

Moore investigated an accident which occurred at the underpass in Streetman at about 8:15 a.m. Monday.

A truck driven by Larry Richard Love crashed into the rear of another truck driven by Joe Donald Camp, both of Crowell.

The trucks belonged to Bobby Daniel of Crowell.

Love said the brakes on his truck failed to function and when Camp slowed down at the underpass, he was unable to stop.

The drivers escaped injury, but Love's truck was badly damaged.

D.D. POSEY KILLED

BY TRAIN IN

WORTHAM MON.

D.D. Posey, 77, of Wortham, was killed instantly when struck by a train in Wortham early Monday afternoon.

He was a brother of W.A. Posey of Wortham.

According to reports, Mr. Posey was walking to town and apparently did not see or hear the approaching freight train, and walked across the tracks in front of the train.

JUNE 14, 1984

TPWD EXPLAINS

TRINITY FISH KILL

Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept. chemists have been investigating two recent fish kills on the Trinity River below Dallas, according to Warden Ronnie Hunt of Fairfield.

Chemists Ron Biever and Victor Palma said about 144,700 fish died in a 110-mile stretch of the river in early May, and a second incident was fatal to a smaller number of fish late last week.

The area is roughly between the river's crossing at State Highway 31 near Corsicana and the SH 7 crossing near Crockett.

Biever said low dissolved oxygen caused the kill, but as yet no cause for the low oxygen has been identified.

Species killed include gar, carp, buffalo, three species of catfish, white bass and freshwater drum.

COUNTY FARMS

INCREASE

Preliminary reports of 1982 Census of Agriculture show that the number of farms in Freestone County increased from 980 to 1,101 since the 1978 census and across the state the number of farms increased while their size decreased on the average.

All land in farms, in the county, totaled 381,248 acres in 1982, an average of 346 acres per farm.

The Census Bureau defines a farm as any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were sold or normally would have been sold.

Land from which crops were harvested increased to 25,490 acres since 1978.

The county's farmers sold $13.6 million in agricultural products according to preliminary reports from the 1982 Census of Agriculture.

The 1982 sales figure represents an average of $12,316 for each of the count's farms.

June 17, 1999 POLICE CHECK MURDER CASE INFORMATION

Investigation continues this week by Fairfield police into the murder of Christine Burns Gibson, 64, who was found shot to death June 1 in her home on S. Bateman Road.

The police department has called in the services of the Texas Rangers to help with the investigation, Police Chief Ronny McAdams reports.

In addition, a Department of Public safety team has searched a nearby tank for a weapon.

The murder was discovered Tuesday, June 1, by Roger Gibson, husband of the victim. The couple lived at 811 S. Bateman.

McAdams reports that Mrs. Gibson was shot in the home and an autopsy was conducted

The police chief has ruled out robbery as a motive in the shooting, saying: "We have not yet determined a motive."

CITY ADDRESSES

BEAUTIFICATION

City beautification, and cleanup, took center stage last week when Fairfield council members strengthened an ordinance which addresses moving vacant lots and agreed to maintain landscaping on projects to build welcome signs at city entrances.

The landscaping maintenance agreement is between the city and the Texas Department of Transportation.

A project, headed by Fairfield Rotary Club, is underway to install signs at the I-45 exit ramps to town on U.S. 84 and at the intersection of FM 488 and U.S. 84 welcoming motorists to town.

Work has already started on the 488-84 intersection sign inside city limits. The sign is being installed because of traffic to Fairfield Lake State Park and Richland-Chambers Reservoir.

FHD BOARD PASSES

OPERATIONS BUDGET

The board of directors of Fairfield Hospital District voted last week to adopt a budget of $638,755 for fiscal year 1999-2000, and will look at lowering its property tax rate later this summer.

Board members met Monday, at ETMC Fairfield to adopt a new budget and approve purchase of medical equipment.

Fiscal year 1999-2000 marks the second year of a long term lease of the hospital facility from FHD to ETMC.

The hospital district had operated Fairfield Memorial Hospital, but leased the facility to ETMC headquartered in Tyler, in 1998. Under the lease agreement, the Tyler company uses a portion of district tax revenues for a period of five years.

Over the course of the five years, the district plans to lower the tax rate until it reaches a levy of about two cents per $100 assessed property valuation.