Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1976 Page: 3 of 23
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Burleson Star, Thursday, August 5, 1976--3A
Burleson Girls Win State
Softball F ourth
Permits For Hunting At
Benbrook Lake To Be Issued
base, Kelly Martin, 2nd;
Lynn Patterson, S.S.; Lisa
Stone, 3rd base; Yvonne
Hensley, catcher;Susan Fos-
ter, left field; Sarah Eden,
center field; Annett Balen-
tine, right field.
Also playing were Lisa
Lovell, right field; Libby
Pollard, left field and 1st
base; Mary Jane Pollard,
S.S. and 2nd base; Diane
Moore, left field. Elaine Day,
Marti English, Paula Rogers,
and Debbie Arredondo also
made the trip.
Burleson Big Four left
Wednesday morning for
Memphis, Tennessee, to play
in the A.S.A. National Tour-
nament Thursday through
Sunday.
The girls won the Fort
Burleson Big Four girls
senior softball team won a
trophy for fourth place this
weekend in the Texas Ama-
teur Athletic Federation
(TAAF) state tournament.
The tournament was held
in San Antonio at the Alva
Jo Fischer Softball Complex.
Burleson played their first
game Saturday against
Arlington Royals and took
that victory, 12-2.
St. Benedict from San
Antonio beat Burleson in the
second game, 7-3, placing
Burleson in the loser’s brac-
ket.
Big Four came back and
beat Dallas Independent,
8-0, and met the Arlington
Royals again and defeated
them again, 15-8.
The senior girls then met
the team from San Antonio
again, St. Benedict, and
defeated them 6-3 to have a
cinch 4th place in the tour-
nament.
The Irving Apaches de-
feated Burleson 5-4 in the
next game giving Burleson
their second loss in the
double elimination tourna-
ment and placing Burleson
4th in the state meet.
Janet Nesmith pitched
every game for Burleson
except for 3 innings which
Sherry Ballentine pitched.
Sherry also played 3rd base.
Janet was chosen as an all
state player and awarded a
trophy during the closing
ceremonies.
Leslie Cowen played 1st
Worth Metro Region playoff
to qualify them for the
national tournament where
only regional team champ-
ions are eligible to compete.
The tournament in Mem-
phis will be played at Vene-
able Park and around 40
teams from all over the
United States are expected
to compete.
Burleson Big Four has an
impressive record this year
so far. They won the league
championship in Everman
where they played this year
due to Burleson not having a
senior league for girls.
They won 2nd place in the
Everman tournament, 1st
place in the Burleson tour-
nament, 2nd place in the
Benbrook championship I
tournament, and 4th place in
the state tournament.
The girls and their parents g
wish to thank the Burleson
Merchants and individuals |
who contributed money and I
helped make possible the
trip to Memphis.
BIG FOUR CHAMPS-After winning fourth place in the
state tourney, the Big Four Senior Girls softball team
headed for national competition in Memphis, Tenn., this
week. From left are, front, Sarah Eden, Susan Foster,
Paula Rogers, Lynn Patterson, Janet Nesmith and Leslie
Cowen; back, sponsor Jack Taylor, manager Jim Kelley,
Kelly Martin, Diane Moore, Annette Balentine, assistant
coach Rocky Stone, Sherry Balentine, Lisa Stone, Debbie
Arredondo, Elaine Day and coach B.J. Balentine.
Trophies were won by the team in the last three seasons.
The team left Wednesday for Memphis after competing in
the state tournament in San Antonio last weekend. Not
shown is Yvonne Hensley.
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September Hunts Little
For A Safe,Fun Summer
four teams in the
Follow Skiing Rules
Semi-Pro Grid
Season Opens
inade-
At Burleson State Bank
We Believe In
Independence
their
And Burleson State Bank Will
Assist You In Obtaining
Member Independent Bankers Association Of Texas
on third base and
Eden in center field.
swim-
other
the drawings by letters, or in
person.
Deadlines for the first-
week drawings are August
25 and November 24. Letters
should be addressed to the
U.S. Army Corps of Engine-
ers, P.O. Box 17300, Fort
Worth, Tex. 76102. Letters
received after those dates
will be ineligible.
The girls played outstand-
ing defense during the tour-
nament and Janet was im-
pressive on the mound which
was noted by the officials in
awarding her the honored
All State Trophy.
The Corps of Engineers
will issue permits good for
one week of hunting this
year at Benbrook Lake.
Drawings will be held to
select dove and quail hunters
for the first week of each
season.
After that, hunters will be
issued permits on a first
ing in general; (2) a large
number of young birds in the
bag, which has been opposed
by some hunters; and (3) a
determential effect to the
population by loss of breed-
ing adults, eggs and fledgl-
ing.
Jim Dunks, Texas Parks
and Wildlife Department
dove program leader, said
the latter is the P&WD’s
initial concern since it gives
primary consideration to the
species over the personal
Water-skiing on your fav-
orite lake can bring a lot of
fun and excitement to those
hot summer days. It can also
spell tragedy with careless-
ness and disregard for a few
basic safety precautions,
points out Tarrant County
Extension Agent Dr. J. Fred
Cross.
He lists some of the key
points regarding water-ski-
ing safety:
1. State law requires ski
BEST PITCHER-10-year-
old Terry Goodman was
selected as the best pitcher
in his age group in Little
League Baseball Camp last
month in Waco. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Goodman, 201 Stephanie.
This note from Rita Edson:
The Joshua Screech Owls C.B. Club recently spent a four
day weekend camping out on the Brazos River. The
members enjoyed a good time with lots of bar-b-que,
rachet-jawing and fresh rain.
The Screech Owls Club has been active in helping several
needy families and organizations in and around Joshua. One
such organization is the Texas Hemophilia Association,
located at 1100 E. Berry in Ft. Worth. Anyone wishing to
make a contribution to this organization can contact them at
the above address.
The club members are participating in a C.B. Jamboree in
Grand Prairie, August 13-15. Also planned is a “Banana
Split” social and business meeting August 28, at the rest
area (West side) of 1-35 at 7:00 p.m. Visitors are invited and
can contact any club member concerning this event.
The Texas Stars Semi-Pro ||
football team of the Ft. £
Worth metroplex area will ;,H
be playing an interesting and /
different series of games this
year. . >*
Five home games will be
played at Handley Field on
Craig St. at East Loop 820.
Over fifty players of profes-
sional experience and caliber
have been working out for
three months. They are not
paid and the team is not
sponsored.
The players are even
buying their own gear and
paying their own expenses.
First home game is Aug. 7
at 8 p.m.
They will play teams from
Dallas, Houston, and San
Antonio in their years and
draw large crowds at their
games. The Texas Stars will
have to have enough game
attendance at $2 for adults,
$1 for students, and children
under 12 free to pay for the
rental of the field, NFA
officials, and a few other
expenses.
Jay Darnell of the F&M State Bank, James Moody of the
Burleson Star, Bruce Rasco of Burleson Financial Services,
and Kenneth Nitsche of Nitsche Insurance, are serving as
loaned executives for this year’s United Way campaign in
Burleson. They will be calling on businesses in the
community for United Way. Dennis Key is this year’s
section chairman.
Rasco, by the way, has changed his offices and telephone
number. He is now at 231 W. Ellison, 295-2296.
The Chamber will co-sponser a welcome lunch for about
fifty new employees of the Burleson Independent School
District. The luncheon will be held Friday, August 13, at 12
noon at Mound Elementary. Businesses or individuals
wishing to sponsor a teacher at the lunch, call or come by the
chamber office. Cost of the meal will be $3.00. Tickets are
available in advance at the chamber office.
The 84th Johnson County Pioneers and Old Settlers
Reunion will begin Monday, August 9, in Alvarado. At 6 p.m.
Monday afternoon parade will kickoff the week long
activities. Many businesses and individuals from Burleson
had participated in the festivities in the past.
Unintentionally, the Chamber did not include the services
of a chiropractor under the heading of health services on the
new map. Dr. Bob Thompson is the owner of the Burleson
Chiropractic Clinic and a member of the Burleson Chamber
of Commerce.
Dr. Thompson and the Rev. Dean Franklin of the First
United Methodist Church in Burleson are no strangers.
Thompson was practicing his profession when Franklin was
making headlines on the gridiron in the town of Pampa,
Texas while a member of the Pampa High Harvesters
football team...seems like only yesterday...right, Dean?
6. A skier should never
wrap the towrope around
himself.
Water sports can provide
a lot of enjoyment. However,
be sure to keep “safety”
foremost in your mind and
make it a habitual practice,
suggests Cross. You’ll be
glad you did.
The week-long camps off-
ered six hours of profession-
al instruction daily. Funda-
mentals, stroke production,
strategy, competitive play,
and conditioning were em-
phasized. Classes were gaug-
ed at beginning, intermedi-
ate, and advanced levels.
Campers enjoyed evening
recreation in the form of
swimming, miniature golf,
and bowling.
In the past decade, the
Trinity tennis program has
produced six national champ-
pion teams, 12
Americans, two
Top
order they finished in the
state tourney were Pasa-
dena Mustangs, Farmers
Branch Sidewinders, Irving
Apaches, and Burleson.
playing outstanding during
the tournament was Lisa
Stone
Sarah
one four-day-old bird to
fledgling size or two young
birds of six or more days of
age.
In Texas only 3.1 percent
of nests were active after
August 29. South Zone sea-
son opening purposely is
delayed to September 20 in
consideration of the longer
nesting period in southern
Texas.
Wildlife technicians and
biologists at the Parks and
Wildlife Department recent-
ly finished their annual sur-
vey of breeding doves in the
state. Dunks said there was
a slight increase statewide.
“Presently, there is no
way to estimate the actual
number of adult mourning
doves in Texas,” siad Dunks,
“but our survey work indi-
cates more than a 10-percent
increase in the Blackland
Prairies, Cross Timbers,
Rolling Plains and High
Plains ecological regions of
Texas.
“Dove numbers in the
Edwards Plateau, Piney
Woods and South Texas
Plains experienced less than
a 10-percent decline.”
Dunks said the figures
were changes relative to
1975.
This year’s count showed
some two-thirds of all nest-
ing adults were to be found
in four ecological areas:
Edwards Plateau, Cross
Timbers, South Texas and
Rolling Plains.
Hunters need not be pre-
sent on the drawing dates.
Winners will be notified.
Rangers will issue permits
between 8:30 and 10:30 a.m.
only on Saturdays and Sun-
days at the Benbrook Lake
project office.
Each permit will be valid
for one week from Sunday
through the next Saturday.
About 700 permits will be
issued from September
through November and 280
permits will be available
from December through
February.
come-first served basis.
Fifty dove permits, or 20
quail permits per week will
be issued.
Sportsmen under 18 years
of age may apply for a
hunting permit but will have
to hunt with an adult holding
a State hunting license.
Names will be accepted for
Long Putt
One cocky golfer teed up
his ball, looked towards the
green 400 yards away and
declared to the other mem-
bers of his foursome: “I’m
going to hit a long drive and
then putt it in.” He swung
hard, topped the ball, and
watched it roll a few hun-
dred feet down the fairway.
His playing partner stepped
forward, handed him a put-
ter and exclaimed. “Now,
for one hell of a putt!”
desires of hunters or other
groups. Studies have been
directed toward defining the
effects of hunting regula-
tions on the resource.
“Available biological data
show that ‘early’ dove hunt-
ing has little effect on Texas’
overall breeding population
of birds,” said Dunks.
Preliminary results of an
eight-year banding program
in Texas indicate that more
than 55 percent of the adult
mourning dove population
dies each year from a
combination of causes --
hunting, diseases and preda-
tion.
Death as a result of
hunting has been isolated
from other causes and data
show that hunting annually
affects some 10 percent of
the adult population. This
loss is considered to have a
rather insignificant effect on
the population dynamics of
the species.
A 1974 U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service study of the
matter indicated less than 10
percent of doves across the
U.S. are nesting after Sept-
ember 1. And the occasional
taking of an adult dove while
it still actively is nesting
does not necessarily cause
nesting failure.
In mourning doves, both
the male and female share
incubating and nestling feed-
ing requirements.
The USF&WS study
found a single adult can rear
NCAA all-
Wimbledon
champion players perfect champions, and four U.S.
immediately, look for his
raised-arm “OK” signal, and
turn back to pick him up.
Signal other boats with a
raised arm that there is a
downed skier in the area (the
skier can do this by raising a
ski vertically out of the
water). Approach the skier
slowly from downwind so the
boat will not drift into him.
Trail the towrope past the
skier with gears in neutral so
the propeller cannot acciden-
boats to be equipped with a tally injure the skier,
rear-view mirror. A boat is
to carry one passenger in
addition to the driver. The
passenger’s job is to observe
the skier at all times.
2. Skiers should wear
Coast Guard approved life-
saving devices. Ski belts are
generally considered
quate.
3. Never ski near
mers, fishermen or
boats. The driver is respons-
ible for keeping his skier
clear of these hazards as well
as out of shallow water,
fallen trees and rocky places.
4. Never turn the boat
without checking the posi-
tion of the skier. A skier
inside the wake will sink as
the towrope slackens. One
outside the wake can be
snapped like a whip and fall
at a dangerously fast speed.
5. When a skier falls, slow
BY “THE GHOST WRITER”
Thanks for the break.
I understand “Button” and “Zipper” and “Sugar Bear”
3?ere on the lake last week-end. While “Sugar Bear” sat in an
be innertube, “Zipper” towed him all the way across Benbrook,
'after which “Sugar Bear” went right home and threw away
ill his “Preparation -H”.
The “Screech Owls” had an outing last week-end. Next
i ime you see “Bulldozer” ask him what happens when you
i re trying to shoot skip in the rain and your finger slips.
At the same outing “Goodie-two-shoes” demonstrated her
ability to water ski one handed. Seems a piece of her bathing
suit didn’t come out of the water when she did and her other
hand was trying to do more cover-up than “Watergate.”
“T-Cookie” says she had a hard time staying in “Tom
Katts” boat. Every time he gently (?) turned the boat around
she had a strong desire to jump overboard.
“Tom Katt” you cotton picker, you’re gonna have to put
seat belts in that boat of yours. Seat belts with LOCKS on
’em.
“Super Max” and “Contrary Mary” missed the comforts of
home and left in the middle of the night.
Overheard on channel 4:
Navigator - “Hey ‘Stranger’, where are you going to sleep
tonight?”
Stranger - “Oh, on a cot.”
Navigator - “Oh, too bad. Why don’t you sleep out with
Rusty? (“Strangers” dog)
Stranger - “I can’t
Navigator - “Why can’t you?”
Stranger - “He’s got fleas.”
Navigator - “Wear a flea collar.”
Stranger - “I can’t”
Navigator - “Why?”
Stranger “It effects my sinuses.”
Navigator - “How do you know?”
Stranger - “I’ve had one on before.”
Good Grief!!
AUSTIN-For the past 30 tors: (1) opposition to hunt-
years the perennial question‘ ------’- "" - 1----
when it comes time to set
mourning dove seasons is
Not receiving a trophy but what effect September hunt-
ing has on the nation’s most
important migratory game
bird.
And this year promises to
be no different as state game
officials, hunters and protec-
tionist groups square off
before September 1.
Opposition to hunting
mourning doves in Septem-
ber stems from three fac-
Two Attend Tennis Camp
Charles Clayton Bucking-
ham of Route 1 Box 632 and
Louis Malone Caldwell Jr. of
Route 1, Box 234, Joshua,
attended Trinity Univer-
sity’s third annual Tennis
Camp IV in San Antonio.
The tennis camp, last of
four sessions, offered boys
and girls ages 8-17 an
exposure to Trinity’s cham-
pion-building tennis pro-
gram. The camps were dir-
ected by Trinity head tennis
coach, four-time NCAA all-
American Bob McKinley.
Campers played on the same
courts where Trinity’s
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Hutson, Wayne & Moody, James. Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1976, newspaper, August 5, 1976; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1211996/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed May 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Burleson Public Library.