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Town underfire
for high number
of tickets issued
PATTON VILLAGE (AP) —Call
ing the community a disgrace, the
Montgomery County district attor
ney is asking the state attorney gen
eral’s office to investigate the trou
bled town north of Houston.
“Those people have absolutely
demonstrated repeatedly that they
have no business operating as a city,”
District Attorney Peter Speers said.
“! think part of the problem is that
they’re operating off traffic tickets
ins'tead of taxes oui there. I don’t
know what they spend their money
on except maybe more policemen.”
The town along U.S. Highway 59
derives more than 90 percent of its
revenue from traffic tickets written
on the highway. It has no ad valorem
taxes. Speers said a Texas Judicial
System annual report shows the
town of slightly more than 1,000
people reported $567,758 in Munic
ipal Court revenue from ticket writ
ing during fiscal year 1987. In com
parison, Conroe, a town of nearly
20,000, reported revenue of
$279,000, he said.
“The place is a disgrace,” said
Speers, who sent a letter Tuesday re
questing the attorney general to as
sist “in a thorough investigation of
this rotten situation.”
Speers said he had hoped that a
new mayor and council members
elected in May, coupled with a state
bill passed last year to limit the
amount of money the city could
keep from speeding tickets, would
curtail the abuses.
But three months into the job, the
town’s mayor, Robert Devaney, re
signed after allegations of official
misconduct. Two of three coun-
cilwomen elected with him as a slate
proposing town unity also have re
signed.
“Those people have abso
lutely demonstrated re
peatedly that they have no
business operating as a
city . . . they’re operating
off traffic tickets instead
of taxes out there. ”
— District Attorney
Peter Speers
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“It’s one thing after another out
there, and I’m sick of it like everyone
else,” Speers said. “The council peo
ple never get along and they come
running to me all the time wanting
to file things against each other.
Somewhere along the way, ii has to
stop.”
The town has a history of contro
versy. Most recently, the town’s Mu
nicipal Judge Floyd Duval, 76, was
indicted for allegedly offering to pay
a woman’s traffic fine in exchange
for sex. He is suspended, pending
the outcome of the case.
Speers also has asked Mike
Hodge, chief of the criminal law en
forcement section of the attorney
general’s office, to investigate seve
ral allegations of illegal practices by
Patton Village police. The most re
cent complaint, he said, is that mo
torists along the highway are tick
eted for not wearing seat belts when,
in fact, they are.
Patton Village Police Chief J.D.
Broussard said illegal ticket writing
by police occurred under previous
police chiefs.
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Airplane travellers
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GRAPEVINE (AP) — Passengers
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watched Delta Flight 1141 in horror,
helpless but cheering for the pilot to
coax the flounderingjet into the air.
The Boeing 727 lifting off from
Dallas-Fort Worth International Air
port for Salt Lake City crashed on
takeoff, killing 13 people, officials
said. Ninety-four passengers sur
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Gene Metzig, was aboard a com
muter flight that had just landed at
D-FW from Wichita Falls.
As passengers on Metzig’s plane
watched Flight 1141 struggling to
get off the ground, they began to
cheer. “It was like a football game.”
Metzig said. “We were cheering this
guy to get that plane off the ground.
It was very emotional. Plus, we were
in danger of our own lives.
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Austin, was also on a plane that had
just landed.
“His right wing was coming
straight at us,” Metiz said. “It was
probably no more than a foot or 18
inches off the ground. As he pulled
it back to the left, I don’t know how
the hell he missed us, but he missed
us.”
‘As the plane came up to take off,
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it was barely getting off the ground
and the right wing was dipping as it
passed beyond us,” Arnett said.
“There were flames coming out of
the right engine and the wing
touched the ground,” he said.
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