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2A--Burleson Star, Monday, February 13, 1978
★ Special Education
III
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Chamber Offers Land
For Community Use
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★ Weather
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295-2261
Sheriffs Reserves
News Editor
Society Editor
A primary goal of both is to prepare
students to be out in the world.
“Learning the social skills is a big
-Accepted the recommendation of
the city staff for a new life insurance
program for city employees under the
Texas Municipal Retirement System.
Employees will be covered for their
annual salary instead of a flat amount.
-Deferred action until its next
meeting on electing chairpersons of
city boards and commissions.
-Appointed a special committee to
study the need for a citv mechanical
code. Named were Jim Smith, Richard
Lowe, R.D. Scott, C.G. Gregg and Phil
Wright.
option on an adjacent lot. The two
tracts cover about 1.78 acres.
Darnell and Jenkins suggested that
because of community interest in
buying the land, it should be used for
community purposes.
The chamber, they said, would need
only office space and that the rest of
the property could be used to build a
building for meeting rooms for clubs or
groups and perhaps other kinds of
facilities. (One idea would be to locate a
new library on the property and some
officials are believed to be interested in
such a project).
Jenkins told the council the chamber
originally had discussed the possibility
of building which the chamber could
out, all areas are supplied with water
even though the pressure may drop for
the entire system. Having four pumps
out at the same time was quite a test of
that system, said Moore.
As late as Saturday morning, the
power was off at the Union Hill pump,
but there was no interruption of water
service, said Moore.
noon but could obtain no more informa-
tion.
Sheriff Stuart Huffman was not
available for comment and both County
Judge Tommy Altaras and County
Attorney Dan Boulware were just
returning from a conference in Bryan
and said they had not heard of the
situation until they were informed of it
by The Star.
Boulware was to have met with the
reserves at the-Monday night meeting,
but was ill and unable to attend. He did
say that the county had no type of
coverage to provide them, at least at
this time.
He noted, however, that the reserve
is “obvidusly a great source of man-
power” to the county and said he hoped
that differences could be resolved.
A MEETING OF THE commission-
ers court is scheduled for Monday
morning (today), but the reserve is not
on the agenda until March 1, according
to Judge Altaras.
“By law, we have to have a meeting,”
he said, “but we also have to be in court
in Dallas this morning.”
Altaras said commissioners would
first get together for a short meeting,
with payment of bills the only item on
the agenda, before going to Dalias.
The sheriffs reserve program was
the idea of a Burleson man, Roy
Samsill, and was started by Huffman
more than a year and a half ago.
“Tremendously successful. It has
saved the county a lot of money.” That
is how the sheriff assessed the program
a month ago when the insurance
question first surfaced.
There are only eight paid field
deputies to cover all shirfts seven days
a week in the county, Huffman noted at
that time, and the sheriffs department
would be hard pressed to cover all the
duties handled by reserves with exist-
ing paid deputies.
About 25 reserve deputies work an
average of 32 hours a month each in
volunteer service to the county and
take care of all their expenses out of
their own pockets. These expenses
include $50 for 78 hours of classroom
training, before earning reserve status,
and purchase of uniforms, gun, hand-
cuff, patches and hat at a cost of $300 -
$500.
ACCURATE DETERMINATION of
precipitation has been rather difficult,
according to National Weather Obser-
ver Russell Lace, since it’s been a cise
of snow and ice on top of snow and ice
this winter.
“As far as I can tell, we've had about
1.64 inches of moisture so far in
February,” he said Saturday. Added to
the 1.2 during January, that gives the
area 2.48 inches so far in 1978.
Most of that precipitation has been in
the form of snow sleet and ice pellets,
he said.
He also noted that so far this year,
only one week has had “normal”
temperatures for this time of year. “It’s
my understanding," he said, “that
temperatures averaged 11 degrees
below normal for January.”
Burleson police report about 10
accidents between Thursday morning
and Saturday morning, including a
major wreck Friday night on the SH
174 overpass that sent three persons to
Huguley Hospital.
None of the three was believed to be
seriously injured, but no more details
were available Saturday at presstime.
behaving well in public. Generally,
they are very affectionate and although
I enjoy their hugs, I must look farther
down the road to the time they will be
older and hugs will be less acceptable.
Therefore, I encourage them to shake
hands" explained Mrs. Ellison.
Miss Ryan said the students were
exceptionally well behaved when going
on field trips. Each year they go to see
at least one production at Casa Manana
in Fort Worth. They are also taken out
to eat at a nice restaurant once each
year, which in addition to an outing
gives students a chance to re-enforce
proper eating skills and table manners.
EVERY FALL THE children work
on items for an arts and crafts sale held
at the school in December. “We try to
find something they are capable of
making. Assembly type production is
carried out as it is in a sheltered
workshop and each student feels they
had a part in it," said Miss Ryan.
Proceeds (approximately $200) are
used to buy Christmas gifts for both
parents of special education students
and to eat out when they go shopping.
Ridgmar Mall in Fort Worth was the
site of their shopping spree before
Christmas last December.
At Thanksgiving, the two classes
cook a Thanksgiving dinner. And they
made homemade ice cream on the last
day of school.
Each child chooses what he would
like for the class to make on his
birthday. “Usually it’s a cake,” Miss
iRyan noted, “but this year one student
decided on pizza and another picked
donuts.
“We make alot of cookies and have
all types of cookie cutters to make
appropriate rolled cookies for each
holiday.”
Other than that, they try to cook
once each week. “Cooking is something
they all enjoy and it builds skills. I’ve
developed three semi-sure ways to
crack eggs and get them in a bowl,”
laughed Miss Ryan. Each has an apron
to wear while cooking and they have
learned to put things in a hot oven with
mitts and are losing the fear of being
burned. Plans were to make Valentine
cookies to send home to parents.
Both teachers agreed that Burleson
is fortunate to have the facilities,
equipment and program they have as
well as a fantastic supervisor in Mrs.
Maxey.
AT 11:15, students from both rooms
lined up to go to the lunch room.
Afternoon activities included recess
time (held on the playground when
weather permits), a rest period and
time for working on fine motor skills.
Some-those who require less rest-are
pulled out fbr an auditory program
with Mrs. Foster during the rest
period. And once each week, they all go
to the library to check out a book.
For the past three summers, Miss
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price in most countries anyway to
protect the farmers of that country. In
Japan, he said, the tariff cost is more
than the initial cost of the grain.
It’s doubtful Canada would try to
undercut our grain prices, he said,
since they base their prices on the price
of U.S. grain.
SOON AFTER FARMERS began
arriving in Washington, a national poll
was releasing revealing that 82 percent
of the American people sympathized
with the farm movement and it was
after that poll came out, said Senter,
that farmers began to receive a better
reception.
During a full committee hearing on
the current agriculture situation, Sen-
ter said that he heard 20 congressmen
testify and that all but one of them
gave support to what the farmers were
asking for.
“We feel that there is still a big
battle to come,” he said, “but I believe
that we will get the help needed to
preserve the family-farmer of Amer-
ica.”
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Norwood.
The greater portion of Mrs. Ford’s
time is devoted to TMR students,
however some programs of the two plus for them and they are capable of
groups interlace. Mrs. Foster teaches
Distar math-a sequential program
designed for children who need repeti-
tion-to one TMR and six EMR
students.
At another time, three students
from Miss Ryan’s class participate in
Distar reading with Mrs. Ellison while
the remainder do alphabet study, letter
recognition, initial sounds and practice
writing letters.
Miss Ryan is presently teaching sign
language to one of her students who
doesn’t talk and some children are
being taught to tell time.
Last activity before lunch for most
students in both classes was to go to
the gym for exercises, including tumbl-
ing and basketball, to promote gross
motor skills.
While Miss Ryan did mat work with
her students, Mrs. Ellison was teaching
shape and color discrimination along
with her students’ exercise. Each was
asked to select large pieces of foam
rubber in various colors and shapes and
to place them in a stack. Excitement
mounted as the stack grew higher and
higher and more and more unstable.
Mrs. Ellison said she had a desire to
go into special education while in high
school. A native of Arkansas, she
received her bachelor of science in
education from Southern Arkansas
University in Magnolia and her mast-
ers of science and education in mental
retardation from Henderson State
University in Arkadelphia, Ark.
Although Miss Ryan is a Fort Worth
native, she too attended a university in
Arkansas. She obtained her undergra-
duate degree from the University of
Arkansas at Fayetteville and taught in
that state for a year.
(A small, red “hog” on the door of
their facility indicates that both sup-
port the Arkansas team.)
Miss Ryan, who is working on her
masters as a dianostician in special
education at Texas Christian Univer-
sity, has taught EMR students in
Burleson for six years.
Mrs. Ellison has been teaching for
the past seven years, three of which
have been in Burleson. She feels special
education teachers must have a differ-
ent understanding and love for the
tvne of students they have.
“PROGRESS IS SLOW and our
goals are different,” Mrs. Ellison
pointed out, “each accomplishment is a
small step-not a big jump. The children
are so happy each time they learn
something new.
“Poor co-ordination and poor langu-
age development are almost always
characteristics of the mentally retard-
ed and love and constant re-enforce-
ment are a must.”
Both teachers have reward systems
for their students and both indicated
that discipline problems weren’t signi-
ficant, but that rules and regulations
were enforced from day-one.
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A doll house in Mrs. Barbara Ellison’s room for special education
students at Norwood Elementary is new and quite an attraction for the
children. They enjoy moving the furniture, however they are careful to
get it in the proper room-making it a learning experience for them. Mrs.
Ellison leads them into a discussion of various pieces of furniture and
where they belong. -Star Staffoto
rent for income purposes.
After various youth groups and civic
organizations lent their support, he
said, the thinking turned to a commun-
ity facility.
“One idea would be to deed the
property to the city if we could reach
agreement on the way to build a
facility,” he said, explaining that the
chamber thought it best to inform the
council of the various possibilities.
The city, he said, has ways of
obtaining federal grants and hopefully
would explore such methods or per-
haps consider a building in its next
bond program.
“We’re at the stage we can be
flexible,” he said of the chamber’s
plans.
Mayor Robert Ables noted that the
city already has begun long-range
planning for capital improvements and
that the chamber proposal was “a very
nice offer.”
.Councilman David Senter echoed
appreciation, adding, “There’s no bet-
ter way to do it than working together.
A community center is a much needed
thing in Burleson.”
Ables said he believed the city
should now take the initiative and
investigate various possibilities and
available funds. Town Hall Type meet-
ings might be scheduled, he said, to
gain input from citizens on various
proposals.
“Our objective in being here,” said
Jenkins, “is. to make you aware so
these things can be worked out.”
City Manager James England said
that some federal grants are available
but that timing and planning are
important steps to getting such funds.
Any donation of land should be timed
so that it could be used as the city’s
share of costs involved in grants in
which matching funds are required, he
said.
Other council members had little
comment about the proposal but were
believed interested in the prospects.
Darnell told the council that much
work by many citizens resulted in the
funds being raised to buy the first tract
of land. “They (the groups in the
community) are very interested in it,"
he said.
A PORTION OF THE Willow Run
Addition in west Burleson was without
power for about three hours Thursday
night and TESCO Area Manager Les
Todd told the Star that the trouble
could be traced to a broken utility pole
on Turkey Peak. Weight of the ice
snapped off the top of the pole, he said,
which was not near a road and difficult
to reach over the frozen ground.
When the problem was located,
electricity was restored for all of the
area except for a residence on top of
the hill which depended directly on the
downed wires.
Power surges and temporary loss of
power elsewhere in the city were
probably caused by ice falling from
power lines, he said. This gets the
wires to swinging, he explained, and
occasionally they touch and can blow
fuses for an area of town.
The electric company uses fuses to
prevent overloads much the same as a
house is equipped with circuit break-
ers, he said.
BETHESDA WATER CORP., which
has pumps on both TESCO and
Johnson County Coop, had as many as
four pumps and wells idled at the same
time Thursday. Water interruptions
were held to a minimum, though, said
Bethesda Manager Clarence Moore.
“We received only one call complain-
ing of no water,” he said, “and I don’t
think anyone was really out of water
for a very long time."
The water system is designed so
that, in most cases, even with pumps
BY WAYNE HUTSON
The Burleson Chamber of Commerce
may have made the City of Burleson an
offer it won’t want to refuse by offering
recently acquired land for development
ol facilities for use by the entire
community.
A delegation from the chamber
appeared before the city council Thurs-
day night proposing a possible joint
venture with the chamber donating the
land and the city building a facility.
Former chamber president James
Jenkins and 1978 president Jay Darnell
noted that many civic groups and
organizations helped raise the $20,000
for buying one tract of land on Hillery
Street and the chamber has taken an
Jvurleson
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Ryan has taught summer school for
special education students in Burleson.
An optional program, it re-enforces
skills they have all ready learned and
gives them time to develop motor and
socialization skills by swimming, bowl-
ing and going on picnics and field trips.
It is conducted four hours a day, five
days a week for six weeks. Registrat-
ion last year was 11 with from six to
eight attending daily.
Not overlooked by the teachers was
relating the important role parents of
students play. Regular parent confer-
-ences are scheduled several times a
year and for the most part, parents
follow through with work at home.
Mrs. Ellison pointed out that Burle-
son does have a Special Education
PTA. “I would like to see more parents
become involved in it, because I think it
would be to their advantage,” she said.
Both She and Miss Ryan attributed
the success of the program to the good
relationship between the teachers,
aides, students and parents.
“If the children, think we’ll be proud
of them, they’ll do anything we ask
them to," said Mrs. Ellison.
★ Council
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