Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 32, Ed. 1 Monday, February 13, 1978 Page: 1 of 16
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Monday
Edition
Monday, February 13, 1978-
Burleson, Johnson County, Texas 76028
Vol. 13. No, 32.
Operations Suspended
By Sheriff’s Reserve
Ice Storm Causes Power
F ailures Across Area
Council Okays Initial
Shopping laza Plans
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Services Held
For J.T. Keen
Barabas Files
For Reelection
Special Education—III
Accomplishment By Small Steps
Briaroaks Council
Farmer Says Results
Has Four Vacancies
Gained In Washington
With many North Texas residents
already convinced that the Ice Ages
had returned for another go-round,
many more in Johnson County must
have felt that there was also a revival
of the Dark Ages last week when the
lights went out.
Much of the county, including por-
tions of Burleson, experienced power
failures as a result of the latest of what
seems to be an endless procession of ice
and/or snow storms this winter.
Most of the power interruptions
occured outside the city in homes
served by Johnson County Electric
Coop and at one time several thousand
homes were believed to be without
electricity. In Cleburne, city officials
opened the Civic Center Thursday
evening as a place of refuge for those
with no other source of heats in their
homes but electricity.
It was mainly just a matter of
inconvenience for most folks, though,
and some could even find a trace of
humor in their situation. One rural
resident who was in the Star office
Friday remarked that things were so
bad that his family had to watch
television by candlelight.
SEE WEATHER PAGE 2A
The Johnson County Sheriffs Re-
serve has suspended all operations, at
least temporarily, The Star learned
Friday.
Reserve officers voted almost unan-
imously-there was one abstention-last
Monday night to cease their volunteer
work with the sheriffs department for
the time being.
Insurance is believed to figure
prominently in the work stoppage
although leaders of the organization
were generally mum about whatever
problems might exist.
Last month, the reserve had asked
the commissioners court to provide
some kind of hospitalization coverage
after a reserve officer was injured on
the job. The injury was not serious, but
the man was treated at the county
hospital and later sent a bill for those
services.
Another type of coverage, liability
insurance, may also be involved. John-
son County is currently the defendant
in a lawsuit concerning the sheriffs
department and, while this case appar-
ently does not directly involve the
sheriffs reserve, it does point to the
vulnerability of law officers to civil
action.
A $50,000 LIFE insurance-liability
insurance policy is provided through a
federal government program for all
police and sheriff reserve units. As one
member of the reserve put it, though,
“that wouldn’t go very far in these days
of liberal judgments.”He would make
no other comments officially and said
the reserves had agreed not to talk to
the press.
The Star attempted to contact
various county officials Friday after-
SEE RESERVES PAGE 2A
Not since the Granger Movement of
the nineteenth century have so many
farmers banded together for what they
considered to be their mutual good.
And never before, according to David
Senter, have so many persons, farmer
or otherwise, descended upon capital
hill in the numbers that farmers have
done so for the past few weeks.
Senter, a Burleson City Councilman
and Johnson County farmer, has just
returned from a three week stay in the
nation’s capital and was one of more
than 150,000 farmers from all over the
country to go to Washington.
Some 4-5,000 farmers remain in
Washington, he told THE STAR this
week.
While the job is far from complete,
Senter believes that there have al-
ready been positive results from the
mass exodus to Washington.
Among the benefits he feels farmers
have already reaped (or soon will) are
-LABELING OF BEEF as to the
country of orgin. This should increase
domestic beef sales, he believes, be-
cause he feels consumers will choose
American beef if prices are the same.
-Better and more thorough inspec-
tion of foreign meat products.
-Stopping the use of foreign beef in
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the National School Lunch Program.
-Financial help for farmers through
the Small Business Administration
(SBA) as well as with the Farm Home
Administration (FHA).
Two other benefits that are still in
the seed stage but could sprout into
something big are making Washington
more farm conscious and making
farmers more Washington conscious,
Senter said.
“Farmers as a whole are more aware
of politics and the political processes
than they were before,” he said, “and I
think they're going to be more active as
a group and take more stands.
“I don’t believe that farmers are
going to be a part of the silent majority
anymore,” he noted.
SENTER ADDED THAT it was too
early to tell how much or how soon, but
that he and other farmers think they
will be getting some type of relief in
the form of government legislation.
“There are some good farm bills
written,” he said, “but they usually get
watered down.”
Although farmers are looking to the
federal government for relief from
their problems, many of the problems
they have are government-related.
One of the major problems, believes
BRIAROAKS-A story in the Thurs-
day Star incorrectly listed vacancies to
be filled on the City Council here April
1.
Two vacancies were caused by
resignations of Ralph Browning in
Place 3 and B.L. Kirkpatrick, Place 4.
Two other positions also will be filled
in the regular election, Place 1, now
held by Hoyte Logan, and Place 5,
Owen Brock. Neither have indicated
whether they will be candidates for
reelection and no one had filed for their
jobs. '
Holdover members of the council are
Mayor Sam Ledbetter and Councilman
Brice Oxner in Place 2. Their terms
won’t, expire until next year.
Two candidates have filed for the
Place 4 seat, Alice Janecka and Robert
Stroud. It is a one year term, since
Kirkpatrick still had one year left to
serve. He moved from the community.
In Place 3, Beverly Reifel, currently
city secretary, has filed as a candidate.
It is a full two-year term.
Candidates have until March 1 to file
for office.
City officials also have said that they
have not decided whether to accept the
offer made by a garbage collection
firm. They will review a proposed
contract with the company before
making a final decision. The matter
may be on the agenda for the March 6
meeting. (The story Thursday erron-
eously reported the council had
already made the decision to change
garbage collection companies.)
approved will
s^end about half the city’s general fund
reserve this year, or about $120,000.
Approved accounts payable and au-
thorized the purchase of a radio for a
new vehicle.
SEE COUNCIL PAGE 2A
-Authorized expenditure of about
$30,000 for the city’s share of the new
Alsbury Blvd, and an extension of NW
Renfro where a new development is
under construction. The city will pay
for the center 20 feet of the 60-foot
paved street while developers and
property owners will pay for 20 feet on
their side. Bids will be taken by a
developer who will build the streets.
Reviewed committments against
reserve funds. City Manager James
being line leader and turning off the
lights.
MUCH OF THEIR program is a
continuation of what is taught in the
Early Childhood program, which Mrs.
Ellison feels is a definite help to them.
To name one, emphasis on self-help
skills such as bathroom habits is
continued.
During this time students have a
language development exercise and
study varied institutions in the com-
munity. Presently they are engaged in
a study of the Post Office and are
learning to write their addresses.
Later they will tour the Post Office and
mail a letter they have addressed.
Schedule for Miss Ryan’s class
differs in that more academics are
stressed, however individual instruct-
Hayden Cutler said the Wal-Mart
store would be the largest with about
50,000 square feet. A dry cleaning firm,
drug store and an ice cream specialty
shop are other stores planned. Wal-
Mart Properties, Inc., will develop one
large tract in the center of the plat.
IN OTHER ACTION the council:
-Denied on a tie vote a zoning
change request in the Brown Manor
Addition after several citizens protest-
ed the change.
-Approved the draft version of a new
ordinace raising water and sewer
rates. The draft will be sent to the City
of Fort Worth and the Environmental
Protection Agency before final approv-
al locally.
-Formally called an annual, election
for April 1 to elect members of the
council. Election judge will be Jewell
Grisso with Jo Spurlin as alternate.
-Approved operation of the com-
munity’s summer baseball program by
the Burleson Youth Association, pro-
viding insurance is provided for all
participants to cover injury.
-Approved location of a temporary
additional concession stand in Bartlett
Park for the baseball program.
-Approved the final plat of Phase V
of the Hogan Acres Addition east of the
city.
THIS IS THE WAY-These students in
Mrs. Barbara Ellison’s special educat-
ion class are brushing their teeth after
lunch, a practice carried out by all
special education students at Norwood
Elementary. Another self-help skill
they are taught is to wash their hair
and blow it dry. And once each school
year, they go to the Cosmetology
Department at Burleson High School to
get their hair done. -Star Staffoto
ion is a common practice in both
classes.
“No one of the children has a single
handicap,” Miss Ryan explained,“they
have different learning disabilities and
other problems such as those with
speech, vision, hearing or emotional
disturbance.
“This necessitates a great deal of
individualization. For instance, a group .
may mean two. Everything we do is
broken down minutely and is success
oriented. Success in a small task is
better than failure.”
ONE FULL TIME AIDE, Mrs. June
Ford, and two part time aides, Mrs.
Helen Knox and Mrs. Mattie
Foster, assist with the program at
PAGE 2A
Services for J.T. Keen, 68, long-time
Burleson businessman, were held at 2
p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church.
He died Thursday in a Fort Worth
Hospital after a lengthy illness.
Burial was in Burleson Memorial
Cemetery under direction of Crosier-
Pearson Funeral Home in Cleburne. ,
Mr. Keen was born Aug. 10, 1909, in* facilities.
Egan, the son of the late James Walter
Keen and Lula Lovett Keen.
He had been the Gulf Oil distributor
in this area since 1944.
He was a member of the First
Baptist Church and was a Mason and a
Shriner. He was a member of the
Burleson Masonic Blue Lodge, a York
Rite Mason with the Hemphill Heights
Lodge in Fort Worth, a 32nd Degree
Mason with the Dallas Consistory, and
was a member of the Moslah Shrine
Temple.
He also held membership in the
Burleson Chamber of Commerce.
Officiating for final rites were Dr.
E.E. Schmeltekopf, pastor of First
Baptist Church, and the Rev. frank
Leach, pastor of First United Metho-
dist Church.
Surviving are his widow, Vera; his
mother; a brother, Homma L. Keen; a
sister, Mrs. Cecil Cranford; a niece,
Mrs. Peggy Moore, and two nephews,
Jack E. Mallory and Randy Crawford,
all of Burleson.
Pallbearers were Joe Riley, Pete
Scott, Joe Hill, Bill R. Hill, Arville Ross
With just over two weeks remaining
before the filing dealine, there are still
no contested races in either the city or
school elections.
Mayor Pro Tern Dennis Barabas is
the latest candidate to file and this
gives the city three candidates for the
four places that are to be decided April
Barabas is seeking another term in
his Place 2 seat on the council. Earlier
Bob Johnson filed to seek another term
in Place 6 and Mayor Bob Ables filed
for re-election.
The term of Place 4 councilman Mike
Arnold also expires this year.
Over in the school race, they have
one man listed so far for both school
board seats that will be decided April
Senter, is the FHA. Apparently some
members of Congress share this opin-
ion as Senter quotes one senator as
saying that FHA was “a one horse, one
plow (organization), 40 years behind
the times, making no effort to move.”
Senter said that criticism of FHA
programs was such that at one sub-
committee meeting, the head of the
FHA walked out on the hearings.
OTHER CONTROVERSARIES re
volved around grain. At one hearing,
making alcohol from grain was discuss-
ed and a witness from Alabama said
that he was making 90 gallons of
alcohol every six hours and using it as
fuel in his automobile. Then he was
selling the grain that he had used for
$100 as cow feed.
A University of Nebraska study
indicated that grain alcohol could be
mixed with gasoline arid make an
acceptable automobile fuel, Senter
said, and open up a big new market for
grain.
Another issue involving grain was
foreign imports. Senter said that he
and other farmers were told that
increasing the price of grain would ruin
their foreign market. He pointed out,
though, that a tariff is added to the
SEE AMERICAN AG. PAGE 2A
BY MARY COWLEY
(Editor’s Note: Special education for
mentally retarded students is discuss-
ed in the following article - the third in
a series dealing with the special
education system in Burleson Schools.
Mentally retarded students are plac-
ed in classes according to their abilities
and age. They are classified as educ-
able mentally retarded (EMR) or
trainable mentally retarded (TMR)
students.
Facilities for both EMR and TMR
students on the primary level are
available at Norwood Elementary.)
It was quiet and the lights were
dimmed when I entered the hallway
separating the two classrooms especial-
ly designed and equipped for mentally
retarded students.
Located at the front of Burleson’s
newest elementary school, the two,
large, self-contained rooms are away
from other classrooms. Each has its
own restroom and kitchen facilities as
well as a joint patio which is accessible
from both rooms.
Those children remaining in Mrs.
Barbara Ellison’s class for primary
TMR’s were watching “Sesame Street”
on television. The class had just
finished with their milk break and
students were divided up for special
instruction. Some were out of the room
for speech, others for physical educa-
tion or music.
Mrs. Ellison’s five students, whose
ages range from seven to 11 years, will
remain in their present facility until
they are 13 years old at which time
they will go to secondary TMR classes
at Pauline G. Hughes Middle School.
The nine EMR students in the
adjoining room are from six to ten
years old. After they reach ten, they
will advance to a class for intermediate
EMR’s at Frazier Elementary. Miss
Cathy Ryan is their teacher.
“We operate with a very structured
program,” said Mrs. Ellison as we
discussed the children’s daily routine,
“every minute is planned and the kids
know what comes next. Activities are
short in length in order to fit student’s
short attention spans. Gradually they
will learn to remain seated longer.
School days of TMR students (also 8
a.m. until 2:30 p.m. for EMR’s are
broken into 15 minute segments
beginning with carrying out assigned
work jobs. They also work with
manipulatives such as puzzles and pegs
and lacing beads.
Prior to their milk break at 9:30,
they study the calendar and their job
chart. Each student is responsible for a
job for the day-including such tasks as
TAR
Burleson City Council Thursday
night approved a preliminary plat
which is the first step in construction of
a major new shopping center to be
known as Burleson Plaza.
After discussing alternate locations
for utility easements, water lines and
fire hydrants in the 21.6 acre tract, the
council approved the plat with certain
changes recommended by the planning
board which had given prior approval
earlier in the week. |
The new commercial center is being England noted that various projects
developed by the Hayden Cutler Co. «£ rjHphnned or already i
Fort Worth and will contain two major7
stores, Wal-Mart and Winn-Dixie (Bud-
dies) along with several other smaller
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Ice Crystals Abound
Common weeds took on gem-like qualities last week as the area was hit by still
another ice storm. For the less romantically inclined, the ice clusters also
resembled a bunch of grapes. Conditions were more favorable for those of the
former frame of mind, though, as the ice also caused mass power interruptions
in the county that left as many as 6,000 homes without lights and, in many
cases, heat.
Ken Seawright has filed for re-elec-
tion to his Place 3 seat on the board and
Charles K. Kuehlem, Jr., has filed for and Bill Heinmfiler.*Honorarypailbear-
the Place 4 seat now held by Glenn ers were Sam Decker, Dr. James
NtS'- j ji- , j . . . Heberle, H.Z. Bingham, R.L. Wynn,
Filing deadline for city and school is Noble Clark, Norbert Gebhardt, Carl-
March 1. ton Gordon and Roland Brooks.
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