Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 17, 1977 Page: 1 of 22
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Thursday
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Burleson, Johnson County, Texas-76028
Call 295-5278
Thursday, November 17, 1977
Vol. 13. No. 8
District’s Revenue Figures Said In Error
School Finance Man
Quits Under Pressure
Pickup-Train
Collision
--Star Staffoto
Number Of Hospital Beds
Panel To Eye School
Accreditation Goals
Local Teacher Is Named
District President-Elect
LETHA GRACE MCCOY
BHS Grads Awarded FFA’s
American Farmer Degree
I Mp
NO, BURLESON INSURANCE has
n’t gone out of business, as it may
appear to those who note the empty
building in which they were formerly
located.
Persons should look a little further-
just behind their former facilities to the
new building James and Doris Couch
have moved into.
A REVIEW of the overall budget
had been scheduled for Monday night
but it, too, was dropped as a result of
McCarroll’s resignation.
The Star learned last week that a
“freeze” had been placed temporarily
on some departmental purchases until
the board could review finances.
School administrators and depart-
ment heads were reportedly told
Tuesday that the budget probably
would be seriously revised soon and
that they should not plan to make large
expenditures until full information
could be obtained.
IF IT HASN’T ALREADY, Ameri
can soap opera may be going to
Austrailia.
Kay Heberle, a former Burleson gal
and star on the daytime TV serial “The
Young and The Restless”, has flown to
Australia on a 10 day promotional tour.
She and another character in the TV
series, Chris, were sent by the series
SEE FOLKS PAGE 4A
Burleson School Trustees Monday
night appointed a special advisory
committee to help establish long-range
accreditation standards.
Other important action included:
-Approval of the 1977-78 contract to
provide continued tax assessing serv-
ices for the City of Burleson.
-Awarding a bid to M&L Construc-
tion Co. of Burleson to build new tennis
courts at the high school and middle
school.
-The first look at results of a hew
student achievement testing program.
-Approved the purchase of a 19-
passenger vehicle for use by the high
school. Funds have been voted both for
the purchase and maintenance of the
vehicle by the student council which
earns money from the student center.
-Approved a trip by the Rodeo Club
and
fig-
HIGHEST F.F.A. DEGREE-Grady Black of Burleson accepts the American
Farmer Degree from National FFA President James Bode last weekend at the
50th National FFA Convention in Kansas City. This is the highest degree of
membership in the Future Farmers of America organization. Also attending
from Burleson were Trey Polster, Mike Coleman, Mark Bedford, Jeff Long,
Paul O’Flaherty, faculty advisor William C. Polster and Mr. and Mrs. E.O.
Black, parents of Grady.
BEST WISHES to Jeannie Berry for
a complete recovery from a bout with
double pneumonia.
The nine-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H.L. Berry, Rt. 4, Burleson,
has returned home from Huguley
Hospital where she spent four days last
week as a patient.
Grady Black, a 1976 graduate of
Burleson High School, was awarded
the American Farmer degree at cere-
monies last weekend at the 50th
National Convention of the Future
Farmers of America in Kansas City,
Mo.
Black was one of 801 FFA members
selected nationwide to receive the
honor, highest degree of membership
in the FFA. As a holder of the
American Farmer Degree, he joins a
select group representing about one
per cent of all FFA members.
The former member of the Burleson
High School Chapter of the FFA is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. E.O. Black of
Burleson. He attended Sam Houston
State College in Huntsville and is now
enrolled at Tarrant County Junior
College.
Each American Farmer Degree reci-
pient is presented a gold key and
certificate by the FFA. They also
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Keller, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston,
Tarrant County, Johnson County, First
National Polled Hereford Show at
Nashville and Second National Polled
Hereford Show at Omaha.
THE AMERICAN FARMER Degree
is the highest degree of membership in
the FFA. It is presented only by the
National Organization of the Future
Farmers of America to members who
have demonstrated exceptional agri-
cultural and leadership ability. State
FFA Associations may submit candi-
dates for the American Farmer Degree
based on total FFA membership in the
state. The 801 members awarded the
American Farmer Degree this year
represent the highest achievement of
more than 509,735 FFA members in
8,148 high school vocational agriculture
departments.
All the FFA members who receive
the American Farmer Degree begin as
SEE FUTURE FARMERS PAGE 4A
to attend the National Rodeo Finals in
Oklahoma City Dec. 5. The high school
club will pay all expenses including
substitutes for the sponsors.
-Adoption of a policy prohibiting
teachers from missing school for com-
mercial travel package tours.
TWENTY PERSONS were named to
a special advisory committee to set
goals for the school district in an
accreditation process established by
the Texas Education Agency.
They include six people from the
community (not directly related to the
school system in occupation), seven
teachers, two administrators, three
students and two members of the
school board.
Citizen representatives are Dora
Ussery, Rev. Tom Campbell, Richard
SEE ADVISORS PAGE 4A
$203,824 instead of the
447,000, according to
report in September. At
the board made official
report for the year was sent to the
Texas Education Agency) that some
state funds had been incorrectly added
twice as income.
The error was due to a complex
formula of figuring state aid, he said,
and was not discovered until a preli-
minary check of records by the state in
July.
ON MONDAY of this week, McCar-
roll told Stribling of the apparent error
in the new budget.
The superintendent said he could
give no figures on how much income
was involved until he checked with the
Texas Education Agency to determine
what its records showed.
The new budget only lists a surplus
of $8,000 after all anticipated expenses.
With the news that income will be less
than expected, the district probably
will face further spending cutbacks,
depending on how bad the news really
is, officials said.
“Whatever comes up, we’re not in
jeopardy; we’ll just have to shift some
money around and do a little more belt
tightening,” said one member of the
board.
Most board members did not know at
the beginning of their regular meeting
Monday night that McCarroll had
already submitted his resignation to
Stribling.
They were questioning a financial
report dealing with McCarroll’s hand-
ling of bond funds for construction
projects when the discussion abruptly
stopped. A note apparently was passed
among trustees telling of the business
manager’s pending resignation.
sure with him, however, in connection
with his written report of activity on
about $300,000 in certificates of de-
posit.
On the other hand, tbereTs a slight
shortage of beds in nursing homes,
according to the report. There are
eight nursing homes in the two
counties with 793 existing beds. This
should be increased to 878 beds, the
report says.
GUIDELINES SET out by the
National Health Planning and Re-
sources Development Act of 1974 have
resulted in a stairstep method of
planning from the local to the nation
leve.
John Daeley, health planning associ-
ate of the agency, was present Monday
at the meeting of Johnson Countv
Commissioners and told the court that
the purpose of the study was to provide
the best possible health care at the
lowest possible cost. The plan, when
implemented, will provide an orderly
method of distribution of federal funds
to the local level, he said.
He told commissioners that many
persons were staying longer in hospi-
tals than was really necessary and that
they could just as easily be served at a
good nursing home once any critical
period was passed. He also suggested
that persons could be taken to their
own homes with a nurse coming back at
certain times of the day to administer
medicine or treatment.
Proposals of the Federal and Texas
Medical Facility plans call for a general
guideline of less than four beds per
1,000 population with an eventual
reduction down to 3.7 beds per 1,000
population.
SOME DISCREPANCIES are in the
plan, however, according to Cleburne
physician Dr. Arthur L. Raines, who
also addressed commissioners Monday.
He said that other areas are being
The driver of this pickup and the Amtrack passenger train escapes relatively unhurt
from this accident at the railroad crossing on Tarrant County Road 921 A. The pickup
received major damage though, in the mishap just off FM 731 between Burleson and
Crowley. Driver of the truck [leaning into the pickup] was Steve Jackson of 6204
Hartman in Forest Hill. The Santa Fe crew operating the train was from Cleburne,
including Conductor Robert Capers [1] who said the train was on a run between Fort
Worth and Cleburne with a final destination of Houston.
TALK AROUND TOWN this week
includes innumerable “deer stories”
whick have temporarily replaced “fish
stories”.
We’ve heard of some hunters who
got their deer soon after season
opened-opening day to be specific.
They even have pictures to validate
their stories. (See photos inside).
CACTUS JACK-as he’s now known-
was one of the hunters wno got a big
one. In fact when he came upon the
eight point buck he had just shot, he
was momentarily taken back-right
back into a cactus.
In addition to bagging his deer,
Jackie Tidwell spent some time remov-
ing stickers from his backside.
BOARD PRESIDENT Jimmy Coon-
tz said the district would begin efforts
immediately to obtain a replacement
for McCarroll.
He added that an audit would be
performed as a matter of routine but
that he did not expect any other
problems except for budgeting, an area
that already was considered “tight”.
The board probably will meet again
late this week when Stribling returns
from Austin.
In his letter to Stribling, McCarroll
said:
Letha Grace McCoy, a first grade
teacher at J.W. Norwood Elementary,
was elected President Elect of District
XI of the Texas State Teachers
Association at its tenth annual conven-
tion held in Fort Worth, Nov. 10-11.
She was elected by the 418 members
of the House of Delegates who repre-
sented more than 11,000 educators
from the nine counties composing
District XI.
Mrs. McCoy is presently serving as
Secretary of District XI for the second
year. She is President of the Johnson
County Educators, the local unit of the
Texas State Teachers Association, and
is also a past president of the Burleson
Classroom Teachers Association.
receive a cash award for travel to
Kansas City and attend a breakfast in
their honor co-sponsored by the Na-
tional FFA Foundation, Inc.
WHILE IN THE BHS vocational
agriculture classes, Black served as
historian, treasurer and vice-president
of the Burleson FFA. At BHS he
served on the livestock judging team
for three years; was on the Leadership
Skill team; and was a member of the
parliamentary team for two years. The
parliamentary team placed second in
Area competition in 1975.
He was also the Star Chapter
Farmer of the Burleson Chapter.
Black served as a national director of
the Junior Polled Hereford Association
and president of the Texas Junior
Polled Hereford Association. He is also
a past president of the Crowley-
Burleson 4-H Club.
The Burleson FFA member has
showed livestock at Denton, Clifton,
FOLKS
BY STAR STAFF
“It is with a deep sense of personal
regret that I must submit to you my
resignation as business manager for
the school district. I request that it be
effective immediately. I will give
whatever information necessary that
fell within my usual responsibilities so
that a transistion can be made without
undue problems to the district.
“Thank you for your support and
years. Many programs ana systems
have been instituted that will be most
helpful to the district in the coming
years.”
Should Be Cut, Study Claim
A decreasem~in?e number of teds at On the other hand, tKerels*a slight allowed toTk
Johnson County Memorial Hospital will
apparently be the result of a federal
nationwide health study unless alter-
nate proposals are suggested-and ac-
cepted-at a series of public hearings
scheduled at four locations in North
Texas.
Closest one to the Burleson-Cleburne
area will be Tuesday, Nov. 29, at 7:30
p.m. in the Lake Granbury Motor Inn
on U.S. 377 in Granbury. Area citizens
at that time will have the opportunity
to comment on the State Medical
Facilities Plan and the potential impact
it will have on health services in the
19-county area comprising the Texas
Area 5 Health Systems Agency.
The plap lumps Johnson and Somer-
vell Counties together and indicates
that a total of 217 hospital beds are
needed. Presently the two hospitals
have a total capacity of 243 beds.
BY WAYNE HUTSON
The business manager of the Burle-
son Independent School District re-
signed Monday under mounting criti-
cism and pressure over budget prob-
lems.
| The resignation of Marion McCarroll
was accepted formally in a called
meeting of the board of trustees
Tuesday at noon, after they learned
that the district for the second consecu-
tive year may have considerably less
income from state sources than the
business manager had figured into the
budget he presented to the board.
Exactly what condition the 1977-78
budget is in was not known, but Supt.
Bill Stribling had scheduled a trip to
Austin on Wednesday to find out how
much state money was available to the
. local district.
McCarroll had submitted his letter of
I resignation to Stribling on Monday at
I about 4:30 p.m., prior to a regular
H meeting of the trustees at 7:30. Since
I the matter was not brought up in time
I to be placed on the agenda, the board
B after an executive session decided to
B call the special meeting the next day.
BUDGET PROBLEMS first surfaced
$ several weeks ago when McCarroll
reported that state funds actually
received for 1976-77 were much less
than expected-$447,483 short of his
I computation prior to adoption of the
| budget in September of 1976.
The discovery all but wiped out
J’ surplus carryover funds from previous
t trustees had already ear-
r teacher raises and a tax cut
>erj, 1,1977-78) budget. .
eral sources was up and
ens were slightly lower than
ecte^, and the district wound up
rspei^ling its $4.9 million operating
dget
tire
Carroll
at tim
amendments to the old budget to
reflect the. changes.
The same problem apparently oc-
curred again in figuring the 1977-78
budget, also in September.
McCarroll had explained when the
old budget was amended (before a final
bd p
tion ratio than Johnson County
also noted that lower populati
ures were being used than that
estimated by the North Central Texas
Council of Governments.
The medical plan puts a population of
52,351 for Johnson and Somervell
Counties with a projected growth to
57,222 by 1983.
According to COG, the two counties
now have a population of 59,300 and
Johnson County is rated the 33rd
fastest growing county in the nation
and the third fastest growing county in
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