Fence Book

New inventor: He-Man hinge designer Peter Singleton.A GATE that swings, without fail, is every farmer's dream.

That is the goal of Warrnambool fencing contractor Peter Singleton, who has designed a new gate hinge that he claims can withstand 10 times the pressure of usual gates.

His He-Man design uses two threads, top and bottom, to give extra strength. Curved plates secure the threads to the post, and also prevent the post from splitting and digging into it and weakening the hinge.

EL PASO - Work on a fence behind the Socorro Student Activities Complex, 1300 N. Joe Battle, has yet to begin, a school district spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Spokeswoman Vicki Icard Hibbs said construction on the chainlink fence will begin after the property is surveyed. Plans call for the fence to be built along the edge of the district's property line, Hibbs said. However, Hibbs said there is no guarantee the fence will cut down traffic to the desert area behind the complex.

After a drawn out legal battle and months of negotiations behind closed doors, UTB-TSC President Juliet V. Garcia spoke openly on Friday about the border fence that once threatened to divide the university's campus.

For nearly a year, the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College was embroiled in a lawsuit with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. At the end of July, the university reached a compromise with the federal government, agreeing to enhance an existing fence instead of erecting a new one through campus.

Several South Texas congressmen are asking President Barack Obama to temporarily suspend the construction of the border fence to give him the chance to evaluate border security operations along the U.S-Mexico border.

U.S. Reps. Solomon P. Ortiz, D-Corpus Christi, and Ruben Hinojosa, D-Mercedes, are among five members of the Texas congressional delegation who sent a letter to Obama Tuesday asking him to temporarily halt construction until his administration can review the fence's merits.

A night of criminal mischief turned deadly for a Wise County 15 year old, authorities said.

Police said the teen was running in an attempt to escape capture when he fell on a spiked wrought iron fence. He later died from his injury.

The Wise County sheriff said it all began with two brothers breaking into cars Friday night. While the younger brother was caught, his older brother was later found dead.

Trent Tabor said he was alerted to the teens after he heard a noise at about 11:30 p.m. Friday outside his Aurora home.