Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 57, Ed. 1 Monday, May 7, 1979 Page: 2 of 18
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2A-Burleson Star, Monday, May 7? 1979
Question Of The Week
By Doug Adams
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Did You Have A Plan Ready If A Tornado Had Hit?
Controlling Regulators
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ROGER CROWDER
JOHNNY SHERWOOD
JIM HILL
WILL1MA BRITTAIN
maintains Jack Browder, administrator
South T arrant
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Residents Unbeaten
“WE FINALLY STOPPED
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EDITORIALS
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A free society which becom-
es overregulated no longer is
free. That point ought to be
remembers as Congress consi-
ders an administration bill to
place a lid on the proliferation
of regulations promoted by an
expanding bureaucracy.
The idea of forcing regula-
tors to compute the cost and
benefits to be dervied from
It also is essential to the
continuation of a free society.
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BURLESON STAR
Second Class Postage Paid at
Burleson, Texas
P.O. Pub. No. 079780
Subscription Price $7.95 Per Year in
Johnson and Tarrant Counties.
Other areas of Texas $10.95
Outside Texas $11.95
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Building Permits
Near $3 Million
Wayne Hutson...Editor & Publisher
James Moody....Managing Editor
Chuck Hutson.Advertising Manager
The Burleson Star is an indepen-
dent newspaper published twice
weekly on Monday and Thursday in
the interest of Burleson and adja-
cent areas by Burleson Publishing
Co., 319 N. Burleson Blvd., Burleson
Co., 319 N. Burleson Blvd., Burleson
Texas 76028. Any erroneous reflect-
tion on any individual or firm will be
corrected if brought to the attention
of the editor. Address all cor-
respondence to the Editor, Burleson
Star, P.O. Box 383, Burleson, Texas
76028. Phone 295-5278.
S.O.S. organization continue and that
the possibility of trying to raise more
money to assure rural ambulance
service out of Burleson was being
considered.
A recent drive to raise $27,000 to
guarantee service from MLS the rest of
this year fell short by about $17,000.
The Star welcomes comments from
readers on any subject.
Letters should be addressed to The
Editor, P.O. Box 383, Burleson, Tx.
76028. Typewritten originals are prefe-
red for accuracy.
Letters must be signed and should
note the writer’s telephone number
[not to be published] in case additional
information is needed for clarity.
The Star requests that letters be
limited to 200 words or less and
reserves the right to edit to meet space
requirements. Names of writers can be
withheld from publication on request
and under certain conditions, but are
important to other readers from the
standpoint of credibility.
There is no charge fo printing letters
to the editor because The Star believes
that a strong community can be made
stronger by public discussion of issues.—
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Dear Mr. Hutson,
In response to your Chisenhall Park
article I would like to state that I am
totally for a skateboard track in the
new park, but not as outlined in the
article. I you build a flat paved track,
no one that knows how to skateboard
would ride on it, but a snake run of
good design with gentle sloping walls
would attract everyone off the streets
onto the track. Designs could be
modeled after any one of a number of
snake runs in. skateboard parks in
Florida, Texas or California. As for
liability to the city, this problem could
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Building permits in Burleson neared
the three million dollar mark at the end
of April as that month posted the
largest one-month total since last
October.
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The Permits Department of the Citi
of Burleson reported that $LO4X§4*^fl
permits had been issued during' Apri||
A good portion of that total was taken
out by the city itself as the two top
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admissions
each new regulation before it
is issued is long overdue. With
close to 100 regulatory bodies
responsible for thousands of
new regulations each year, the
task of preventing smothering
by regulation is an awesome
one.
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there was no real damage to any of the
buildings.
High water on some of the outlying
roads caused some buses to have to
turn back and try again later when the
water had gone down, but generally
bus service ran smoothly, said Supt. of
Schools Bill Stribling.
We’ve got established procedures for
weather emergencies,” he told The
Star Friday, “and we already knew
what we would do about buses if the
water had still been over the roads or if
it had been raining hard Thursday
afternoon.”
What they would have done is simply
not run the buses. Students would
have been kept at school rather than
letting them out in high water areas or
in the rain, Stribling said. Parents
could either have picked their children
up at school or the buses would have
ran their routes as soon as they could
safely do so.
A number of parents did pick their
Area meteorologists had a field day
Thursday, as line after line of thunder-
storms passed through Burleson, with
heavy rains, high winds, flooding and
threats of tornadoes almost bringing
the city to a standstill. Throughout the
day Burleson was included in a tornado
watch, and when a twister was spotted
in Cleburne, under a tornado warning.
In the case of a tornado, quick action
is required to protect human lives. We
asked several area residents the next
day (Friday), “Did you have a plan
ready in the event that a tornado hit?"
L. W. Homer--“Yes. I work at
Huguley Hospital, and I had already
though in my mind what area of the
hospital would be the safest to go to.”
Peggy Capps-“I was quite scared.
Yes, we went to the bathroom in the
middle of the house....We had both
televisions going, and a radio, so we
were well informed.”
Roger Crowder-**Just to basically
take cover in a hallway or in the
bathroom.”
Jim Hill-“Yeah, find a hole. I flew
over that Wichita Falls fracas, and if
you didn’t have a place to go, you were
in trouble.”
Johnny Sherwood-“I wasn’t in Bur-
leson at the time. I was in the Fort
Worth area. If one would have hit, if I
had been in my pickup I’d got out and
gotten into a ditch. I was up in Wichita
Falls for nearly four days when they
activated the National Guard up to
there, and I saw what it can do.”
William Brittain-**No, not exactly.
No other than my usual habits.”
fell short of its goal.
The city is still willing to work with
SOS or any other group which has the
money to contract with MLS, Mayor
Ables said at the last council meeting.
Efforts by SOS and by a committee
of the Burleson Area Chamber of
Commerce are presently underway to
resolve the ambulance dilemrpa.
In the meantime, rural residents-
-and city residents outside the city
limits-must rely on JCMH in Cleburne
for ambulance service, some 15-20
minutes farther away than Burleson.
As of Friday, JCMH had made one
call in this portion of the county.
Asked by telephone just what the
response time was, a JCMH employee
said that information would have to
come from JCMH Ambulance Supervi-
sor John Halvorson, who did not return
The Star’s calls.
Mrs. Ussery having 6O0Tvotes to 345 for
Dr. Nelda Cunniff.
Result of the election will officially
be certified by trustees at their regular
meeting on Monday, May 14. New
members of the board will also be
sworn-in at that time and officers
elected for the coming year.
All winning candidates were
dorsed by an independent group of
educators known as CARE (Concern
and Responsible Educators). Black
also received the public endorsement of
Dwight Lilly, and Place 5 candidate in
the April election.
Annexation foes in Southern Tarrant
County were dealt a stinging blow last
week in the Texas House of Represen-
tatives, but have not given up their
fight to protect themselves from en-
croachment by the City of Fort Worth.
Immediate plans of the South Tar-
rant Area Residents (STAR) are to
’’keep organized; keep fighting; and to
Detition Governor Bill Clements for a
special session “to reconsider legisla-1
tion that would limit annexation
powers of a city.
The measure that was defeated 7-3 in
the House Intergovernmental Affairs
Committee, HB 1054, would have
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be solved in a number of ways. The
skatboard park I belong to in Irving
solves this by having each person sign
a liability release in their membership
form. Also at the skateboard park in
Irving, helmets, knee pads, elbow pads,
and shoes are required and helmets
and pads may be rented. A well
regulated track could make member-
ship and full pads mandatory. I believe
that a well organized and regulated
park would be much safer than the
streets, hills and sidewalks of Burleson.
Sincerely,
Paul Bradford
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Both projects are part of a capital
furnished by Burger King and Radio improvements bond election approved
by city voters last spring.
Pacing permits for the month,
though-as they have done all year-was
new home permits. Thirteen new
home starts were recorded during
April for a combined valuation of
$615,500. Thats makes a total of 40
are not in immediate danger of an-
nexation by Fort Worth, but ’’that
situation could change at any time,*'
Mrs. Baxendale believes. She said that
new Fort Worth Mayor Woody Woods
and several councilmen have assured
her that they have no immediate
designs on the area but that “a city has
to grow.”
It’s not so much a question of city
taxes, the STAR officer said, as that
the residents of the area “don’t need
anything the city has to offer.”
The group has speakers and can give
programs on annexation to interested
groups. For information on this,
allowed rural residents to vote for or contact Mrs. Baxendale at 295-2640.
against annexation by a larger city,
would have allowed the area to be
deannexed if city services were not
made available within one year and
would prohibited the city from annex-
ing the area again for a period of 10
years.
“We’re obviously very disap-
pointed,” said STAR Chairman Made-
line Baxendale, “but we haven’t given
up and we do appreciate what Rep.
Bill Coody has tried to do for us.”
Coody was sponsor of the bill which
was killed in committe last week. A
companioji »bill is being sponsored in
the Sepdle by Sen. Betty Anduhar, but
STAR members do not now have much
hope for that bill since it did not pass in
the Texas House, where jt orginated.
The bill was strongly opposed by the
Texas Municipal League, which pre-
sented testimony against the bill at
hearings earlier this year. A bus load
of area residents also made the trip to
Austin to speak for the bill.
“Our enemy is not the legislature,
but the TML,” Mrs. Baxendale said.
“They don’t want to give people the
freedom of choice'of where to live.”
Apparently, south Tarrant residents
being down some, building permits this
year are trailing last year’s record pace
■by only $100,000. Last year after four
months, permits totaled $3,061,761.
The close proximity to last year’s
evel may come to an end after next
nonth, however. A $2.5 million permit
br the Burleson Plaza Shopping
enter pushed last May’s totoal to over
3 million.
Rounding out last month’s 30 per-
nits was one residential remodeling
’permit for $4,800; four garage permits
totaling $13,275; six permits for fences
adding up to $2,150; two swimming
kxiI permits for $23,000; and two
niscellaneous permits for $13,700.
No commercial permits were taken
ut during April for either new
onstruction of for remodeling.
fire broke out.
Fire fighting units from Rendon
were also on the scene.
Also on CR 528, this time right off
the Old Alvarado Highway, firemen
report that seven or eight trailer
houses were flooded. The water just
picked them up, said Smith, breaking
the gas pipes. Firemen w^re called to
the scene to shut down butane tanks.
While they were there, they also
rescued a few animals from the high
waters. Smith said that two dogs were
trapped in a back yard in about four
feet of water and were about ex-
hausted from swimming when rescued
by firemen.
They were also kept busy in the city
helping stranded motorist.
Several units just patrolled the
streets on “check and help” patrols.
a patient arrived at a hospital.
more thara“tran5er“vehYcie in’sTead of Je.Prov?Ld®d one Ioc.ation, that he
being an emergency room on wheels as
it is today.
Now, trained paramedics or Emer-
gency Technicians are in contact with a
physician at a hospital, Browder said, . , ,.
and are able to stablize patients and mending two paramedics,
begin many treatments before that
patient ever reaches the hospital.
Response time is going to naturally ,, . , - , ,
be quicker in the Cleburne area than in van could be used as another backup
the parts of the county east of Burleson uni^’ "e said<
Calls for assistance were coming is so
fast that the police department asked
the firemen to do their own dispatching
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bolts in the vicinity shortly before the didn’t leave until 8 p.m.
“WE FINALLY STOPPED even
trying to keep a record of what was
going on,” he said,, noting that they
pulled cars out of high water all over
town and even on some county roads.
As many as 18 volunteer firemen
were busy at one time.
“Our only consolation,” Smith
laughed, “was that we were pretty
sure we wouldn’t be having any grass
fires.”
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trailer in flames, he said.
CAUSE OF THE blaze may have
been lightning, said Smith, since
Wooten reported seeing several large
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Tight money and wet weather are
the two principal reasons cited for the
decline in new home construction and
at least one of those factors was
removed last week when Governor Bill
TJements did a turnaround on home
mortgage interest rates.
■fe?ttfxBcrielpce would indicate, t^o,
■hdft although it’s been an extremely
pvet spring, that condition probably
vuv uy me vivj iLscju. as me iwu tup tWon t carry over into the summer,
permits of the month were $211,420 for I Actually, despite new home starts
the new public library and $161,000 for |
the addition to city hall. i
Construction has already begun on by only $100,000. Last year after four
the city hall addition and work on the
library should start this week or next
week.
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children up all through the day
Thursday and, while a school will
always release a child to his parents,
Stribling says the schools do not
recommend this.
WE’RE OF THE opinion,” he said,
“that a child is better off in a controlled
situation at the school than he would be
out in a car.”
The schools have a weather warning
unit at the administration building
Station WBAP wliich provides them
with up to the minute weather infor-
mation, Stribling said. This or any
other information can be transmitted
to individual campuses via CB or short
wave radio even if telephone communi-
cations are down, he added.
“The whole thing went off extremely new home permits issued so far this
well,” said Stribling of the storm year-about a third less than the 61 at
procedures. “We had excellent co- this time last year and less than half of
operation from teachers, students and 1977’s total through Aril,
all school district personnel.”
After all that, Friday’s spelling tests
probably seemed pretty boring.
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many times has that happened?”
He added that he would_give£kk
upgri
ambulance service for the
county, butthat “so far I have pot seen
one.”
Any ultimate solution would pro-
bably be dependent on tax support
from the county, he believes, and
pointed out the fact that the JCMH
ambulance service receives no tax
money from the county - and had no
authority to levy a tax itself.
“A lot of people would have to
pointed out that until recently most c^an&e their way of thinking before
life saving equipment which they now
contain. Response time was not the
medical treatment could not begin until sf™ce;he said, but JCMH will provide
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An ambulance at that time was little the courity. And, if that service must
feels that Cleburne is “centrally
located” to do the best job.
To do that job, JCMH has one fully
equipped ambulance, a back up unit
and two and a half amulance crews,
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expanding their area of coverage, both
ambulances are out on calls, then the
Cleburne Fire Department Rescue
Better Than Most Think
Response Time
Response time to the contrary, J16 said» but added that with today s
medical attention to northern Johnson ^proved technology he didn t feel that
County residents will still be prompter the situation was as bad as many
than it was only a few years ago, residents apparently believed it was.
maintains Jack Browder, administrator ®?.en one I,,1? lost, then its a
and chief executive of Johnson County ferrio’e. tragedy, he said, but, how
Memorial Hosital in Cleburne. many times has that happened?
BrowdAr made that statement last He added that he would give^ifefufl
week in an interview with The Star suPP®rt to a workable plan to upgrade
shortly after JCMH assumed responsi- amoulance service for the entire
bility for emergency ambulance service
to this part of the county.
The City of Burleson and Mobile Life
Support signed a contract May 1
providing for a $5700 per month
subsidy and limiting MLS service to
inside the city limits of Burleson and
Briaroaks (which pays $228 of the
subsidy).
Explaining his statement, Browder
ambulances did not have the advanced ^is (county tax subsidy) can happen,
he said.
i Burleson is not the only area of the
question then, he said, "sfaccTmost county with problems with ambulance
the best service possible to all areas of
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Hutson, Wayne & Moody, James. Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 57, Ed. 1 Monday, May 7, 1979, newspaper, May 7, 1979; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1218649/m1/2/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Burleson Public Library.