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4A--Burleson Star, Thursday, June 14, 1979
County Is Requested
To Close School
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“C'MON, YOU <5«Y5 / WH/ITS 5WWINQ YOU DOWN ?“
Guest Column
Cost Comparison Of Oil To Home Items
Last year’s Board of Equalization
Frank Badder Returns
I Letters to the Editor |
Continued from Page 1
he more emphasis
WHILE THE CENSUS is mandatory, each household’s
Wayne Hutson...Editor & Publisher
James Moody....Managing Editor
Chuck Hutson .Advertising Manager
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A lengthy agenda of 31 items wil
INVESTMENT
BUSINESS _ .
EXPANSION
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$21.61
$167.58
$61.36
$131.42
$243.44
$149.94
Angela Petersen
1208 Center Court
Cleburne, Texas 76031
Contributions may be made to
Johnson County Committee on Aging,
P.O. Box 671, Cleburne, Texas 76031.
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★ Breakins
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“We did get some latent prints and
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> JOBS <•
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Vacationing Family
served three years as a door gunner in
a helicopter during the Vietnam War.
He’s 31 years old and single.
had adequate supplies, we almsot gave
oil away. It was the Arabs who noted
our weakness -- and applied the screws.
And remember the coffee shortage:
Then it was the Brazilians. When their
supplies become plentiful, they wanted
to sell it to us again.
Remember - all of the above listed
items can be replaced. A barrel of oil
can never be replaced. When used, it is
gone forever.
So the next question is “what can we
do?” The answer is conserve -- and
physically support any movement or
research which seeks alternates. I’m
sure you won’t like rationing. You
won’t like walking. You won’t like
being cold. But Illinois oil production
went down 8 percent last year in a time
when we had what was considered an
active year. The reserves are dwindl-
ing in the other Petroleum Provinces of
the World also. The day of bargain oil
is past. You can bet on it!
Jack E. Small
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runs. He offers them $5 if they “knock
the cover off the ball.” Nobody has
collected yet. “hut it can be done,”
claims Bill.
SUMMER BASEBALL, by the way
is quickly winding down. Due to rain
this spring a number of games were
held up and double-headers have been
the rule lately in makeup situations.
Some of the teams will wind up the
season in just a few days while others
will have some extra games, especially
on the Fourth of July when a special
tournament will be played.
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tJn, according to Tax Assessor Ed
-oil, but the city board will have an
soon after
members are appointed. Prior to the
public hearings, the B of E will elect
ment of the 1979 Board of Equalization, officers and review the city tax roll,
requests for rate hikes from both Last year’s Board of Equalization
Texas Electric and Lone Star Gas, was the center of controversary when a
the commissioners’ court for approval
because he did not trust the informa-
tion the system was turning out.
'■pk.U ♦ amnArorilv oz.‘ ‘
when representatives irom Systems
Works Inc. spent a week in the tax “Il wasn’t a very smooth operation,”
office working with McWilliams to Yates said, but added that the break-
come up with a tax roll that, though he ins were
still had some doubts about, none were
serious enough that could not be
corrected, he thought.
Escapes Home Fire
A family that authorities feared might have perished in a house fire
near here late last week turned out to be on a birthday outing on the
Brazos River and not home at the time of the blaze.
Burleson Fire Marshal Chester Smith said that Claudette Fausak,
three of her children and a neighbor boy were camping on the Brazos to
celebrate Mrs. Fausak’s birthday and were unaware of the fire - or the
search for them -- until Saturday afternoon.
Leonard Fausak, a truck driver, was the first memberof the family to
be located. He was in Chicago when flames destroyed his home, Smith
said, and he flew back to Texas from Ohio when notified of the fire. Even
he was not sure of the exact whereabouts of his family, though.
Smith said that Mrs. Fausak told him that she came back to Burleson
to buy some groceriesand cash a check on Saturday. Unaware of the fire,
she decided to stop by her house and pick up some needed items to take
back to the river. After seeing that her home was destroyed, she met her
husband as she was coming back into town.
Deputies had searched Mustang Park and other localities the Fausak
family had been known to frequent.
The family had left on the camping trip about 11 p.m. Wednesday
night and the blaze was first sighted about 4:00 Thursday morning by a
sheriff’s deputy patrolling between Burelson and Alvarado. He found the
exact location of the flames and turned in an alarm at 4:26 but the roof
had already collapsed when firemen arrived at the scene.
Fire fighters did manage to contain the fire to the house and a
detached garage received only minor damage.
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ins were “definitely all connected.
From evidence gathered at the scene
we have determined that there were
two or more people involved.
residential, appealed to the board for
lower tax assessments, school trustees
at first refused to certify the tax roll
and the city delayed approving its roll
but stopped short of appointing a new
B of E as the school district attempted
to do.
ALTHOUGH BOTH electric and gas
rate increases are on the agenda, the
council will likely not take similar
actions on the two requests. Lone Star
and the city have been negotiating a
rate agreement for the past two weeks
and the city is expected to make an
offer tonight of approximately 75-80
percent of what the company had
requested -- an increase of 23.69
percent in revenue.
1,000 Island Dressing $199.43
Beer $151.20
A-l Sauce $733.82
Baby Oil $1,848.67
Perfume $10,752.00
Gasoline $31.08
No, I don’t keep gasoline or perfume
in the refrigerator, but you can see the
purpose of the game. I was particularly
impressed with the increase in price of
orange juice over tomator juice? Could
the orange growers have a powerful
government lobby?
Anyway, these figures imply that oil
isn’t so expensive after all. You might
argue that it takes time and labor to
grow the thousands of roses which
comprise a barrel of perfume. Well, it
took millions of animals millions of
years to make a barrel of oil.
We’re at point in time where the
oilman is the Underdog. Mention fuel
oil or gasoline prices to anyone and you
get immediate reaction -- usually bad.
And this shouldn’t be. As long as we
answers are protected from disclosure to any other
government agency by a special air-tight Federal law -- Title
13 of I he I !.S. code. Only Census Bureau employees who are
sworn to secrecy may see, census forms. There has never
been a proven case of a census employee divulging personal
information secured from the American people.
The Census Bureau estimated after the 1970 census that
some 2.5 percent (5.3 million) of the American people had
not been counted - 1.9 percent of the white population and
7-7 percent of the black population was not counted.
For 1980, the Bureau is seeking to cut the undercount rate
as close to zero as possile. To improve the count of
minorities, the Bureau is establishing a corps of Community
Services Specialists to work closely with minority commu-
nity groups and leaders in explaining the importance of the
census and to gain minority organization support. The
Census Bureau also has established Citizen Advisory
Committees, composed of minorities, to assist in efforts to
improve the count of minority groups.
Census data are used regularly and extensively by private
industry in marketing analysis and the design of national
sales programs; site location studies; direct mail targeting;
(‘valuation of potential for specialty products; trend
analyses; planning sales territories; locating target custo-
mer groups based on race and ethnic heritage; determining
per capita sales, etc.
★ Census Work Underway
They will be processed through high-speed microfilming
equipment. with the data being transmitted electronically to
computers at Census Bureau headquarters in Suitland,
Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
Once the data are processed, the Census Bureau
computers will start tabulations. An estimated 200,000
pages of statistics will result. The information will also be
available in microform and on computer tapes.
BY LAVA, the Census Bureau must report the State
population counts to the President by January 1,1981, nine
months after the census.
Exactly a year after Census Day - April 1, 1981 - the
Bureau must make avilable to each state governor totals for
all counties and cities and other political subdivisions in the
Slate. Court rulings on the one-person, one-vote principle
ha\ e led State and local governments to use census data for
drawing their legislative district and ward boundaries.
The mass of census statistics will come from the public’s
answers to questions on the 1980 census equstionnaire
dealing with such topics as age, race, sex, marital status,
type of housing unit, education, and occupation, all of which
were asked on the 1970 questionnaire. However, there will
be more emphasis on the 1980 census form in gathering
racial and ethnic origin data and more questions will be
■ asked to determine national energy usage and travel-to-
work patterns.
Liberty Bell School has an average
daily attendance of 113 students; five
teachers in grades Kindergarten
through the Ninth Grade.
Mrs, Sturgess said Winn Talley,
principal and acting superintendent,
wants to extend the school to 12
grades.
She said she has tried to work her
problems out with the school system
since she has had children in Liberty
Chapel for the past eight years.
“I will be paying $900 this year NOT
to send my children to that school”, she
said. “Right now, I am paying $250 a
year taxes to an unaccredited school.”
Mrs. Shaw pointed out that she
understands a year or so ago the
Cleburne Independent School District
drew up plans to allow consolidation
viih Liberty Chapel because of the
school’s financial situation.
“But someone “bailed them out,” she
said. “A lot of them (residents in the
school district) are older people who do
not have children in school.
“One man is giving the school a lot of
The article concerned “the old insur- financial aid,” she added,
ance hoax that comes up every year
leading many veterans to believe they
are entitled to receive an insurance
dividend on lapsed World War II. G.I.
insurance policies.”
Mrs. 'Packett’s story went on to say
“such information results in literally
thousands of inquiries made to the VA.
(This information) is appearing in
veteran organization publications and
in some news bulletins prepared and
distributed throughout the United
States.”
“There is no truth to the rumors”,
\'is. Tackett’s article goes on to say.
Street took exception to Mrs.
Tackett’s story, because he, too, pub-
lishes a veterans’ information bulletin
and felt that it was a reflection on
stories in his publication.
Atw'ood, at this point, asked Street,
“I don’t understand what, you are
saying to us. Are the veterans dissatis-
fied with the service or administration
Mrs. Tackett is giving them?”
“No,” answered Street. “I just
wanted the court to be advised of this.
There are some veterans, however,
who have been refused help by Mrs.
Tackett,” he added.
The next head-shaking request came
from three mothers from the Common
District Liberty Chapel School, near
Clehurne, asking that commissioners
close down the school because of
“Sub-standard curriculum, lack of
playground supervision, athletic pro-
grams, and one teacher, in particular,
who teaches the basic skills, but who
robs her students of self esteem and
self confidence.”
“This teacher,” said one of the
i> others, even describes lurid details
of violent crimes.”
Mary Shaw, Mrs. Gaylord Sturgess
and Pat Like each gave testimonials
concerning their experiences as
parents of students at Liberty Chapel
School.
Ms. Shaw said the school is “not up
to standards” and she has been advised
by the attorney general’s office in
Austin the commissioners could close
the school under Texas Education Code
laws.
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astouding that not more than approxi-
mately 30 people a week have one hour
to give to their neighbors, parents and
grandparents.
Young mothers do not use your
children as an excuse for not helping.
My four year old knows our route by
heart. She is receiving a sense of worth
by helping to carry the meals to the
door. And her pleasure at being
“fussed over” by grandparent figures”
is unmistakable. The joy in their eyes
at having a small one in their midst for
even a few moments is heart warming.
The inevitable question is, “won’t you
leave her with us?” The opportunity to
have daily contact with the outside
world feeds their souls and helps to
dispel loneliness.
I have heard it argued that the
program is government funded. “Why
should I give?” Wrong! It is govern-
(EDITOR’S NOTE: - The author is
one of two Illinois oilmen who are
partners in the consulting engineering
firm of Small and Higgins in Mt.
Carmel, Ill. His views express oil
producers versions of the controversial
oil shortage story. It is printed as a
companion piece to a guest column by
Dave Higgins in the June 7 Star).
We recently received notice from the
Pipe Line Companies (which purchase
al! Illinois Crude Oil), of the prices
which the Government is allowing
them to pay in the immediate future for
our product. For those of you who do
not know, we receive three different
prices for oil.
1. Stripper (wells which make less
than 10 barrels per day), $15.95. I
2. New' Oil (wells drilled since 1973),
$12.83.
3. Old Oil (wells which were making
over 10 daily barrels in 1973 and still
make over 10 barrels today), $5.94.
Because this is “Oil Appreciation
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Since there have been some at-
tempts to take rate setting powers
away from the cities, Acting City
Manager Joe Barrett has recommend-
ed that the city attempt to negotiate a
settlement with the gas company
rather than refer it to the railroad
commission.
Councilmembers have already heard
one presentation pertaining to a cable
television franchaise in the city and will
hear from another one tonight. Repre-
sentatives from Storer Cable Televi-
sion were at a May council meeting and
tonight’s presentation will be from
Austin Cable Television.
Several Capital improvements pro-
jects will be considered, including the
awarding of bids on the new fire1
station. Preliminary plans for the
proposed new recreation center ap-
proved by city voters will also be on
the council agenda.
ALSO ON THE LONG agenda is:
-Approving specifications and auth-
orizing a call for bids on the construc-
tion of N.W. Renfro St. from Michael
St. to Alsbury Rd.
-Awarding bids for street materials.
BY DORIS E. WILSON
People Etc. Editor
CLEBURNE - Johnson County
Commissioners’ meeting Monday was
posted as a three-item agenda. But by
the time the 9 a.m. hour rolled around,
three additional items w'ere added to
extend it into a two-and-a-half hour
session.
County Judge Tommy Altaras, just
back from a w-eek’s vacation and three
(Pct. 2 A.J. Lambert w’as absent) of the
four commissioners, Bill Atwood (Pct.
1): Lloyd Reece (Pct. 3) and B.B.
Aldridge (Pct. 4) w'ere asked to close
dowm a county school, rap the knuckles
of t he county’s Veteran Service Officer,
and to consider turning back the
sli7.(M)O plus computer system in
exchange for a lease agreement.
John Street, Service Officer for the
Disabled American Veterans in John-
son County, appeared first before the
court with a complaint regarding a
recent newspaper article, written by
the county-appointed Veteran Service
Officer, Faye Tackett.
ment subsidized. Unless we give the
government does not.
The meals are not free. The Senior
Citizens pay. Maybe a quarter a meal,
maybe more. But they contribute. So
must we.
Another argument I have heard for
the churches not giving their whole-
hearted support is that it is not a
Christian program. To that I say
hogwash. The Senior Citizens do not
thank the government for their meals.
A frequently heard comment is, “god
bless you for taking the trouble to
bring my meal.”
In the Cleburne Center each time I
have had the pleasure of hearing the
j a group singing,
they have been singing praises to the
To The People Of Johnson County,
I am writing to you in concern for our
Senior Citizen Centers in Johnson
County. Recently Mrs. Polly von
Tungeln has made many pleas through
churches, clubs, and the media for
support of the Senior Citizen programs
,For myself, having been born and
raised in Cleburne, loving this city and
county, the response to her pleas has
been embarrassingly pitiful. I am
ashamed for us.
Once a week I spend one hour
helping to deliver Meals on Wheels. My
small effort reaps a ten fold return of
gratitude, appreciation and love from
the Senior Citizens on our route. This I
would not exchange for anything in the piano accompaning
world. 1 ’----
In a county of 55,000 people I find it Lord. God is not absent from his
people.
Now I want to challenge you, the
People of Johnson County to give your
time and your money to your neigh-
bors, friends, parents, and grand-
parents. Also, I challenge the churches
of Johnson County to make the
Johnson County Committee on Aging a
permanent part of your mission pro-
gram or to create a special benevolence
for it. Johnson County has the ability
to support the present program and
the capacity to expand to meet the
needs to all Senior Citizens in our
County. May God bless your giving.
Month,” and because President Carter
is in Camp David meditating over the
“energy” problem, and because we all
are told so many conflicting facts about
oil, I thought it might be interesting to
dwell on some known economic facts
which concern the public about oil.
These thoughts came to me while at
home, and for self-amusement, I decid-
ed to compare the price of oil with some
other fluids which the American
consumer purchases - with no appar-
ent complaints. Remember that a
Barrell of oil is composed of 42 gallons
each of which contains 128 fluid
ounces. Everybody keep their own
count, but these are some of the
contents of my refrigerator and their
comparative prices per barrel.
Distilled Water
Milk
Tomato Juice
Orange Juice
Chocolate Syrup
Lemon Juice
As Reporter-Photographer
Former Star newsman Frank C.
Badder has rejoined the staff of the
Burleson Star. Publisher Wayne Hut-
son has announced.
Badder, who was a staff writer here .
in 1978, has spent the past six months f< Ol KS
with Attaway Publications,. Inc., a
chain of 19 newspapers and shoppers.
He served as sports editor of the
twice-weekly Cleveland Advocate and
was the interim editor of the Shepherd
Sentinel.
He will replace Doug Adams, who
will be going to the Temple newspaper.
According to Managing Editor
James Moody, Badder will specialize in
sports reporting and feature writing
but will also cover general assignments
and continue the Question of the Week
column that he revived here last year.
He did spot duty the first part of the
week, covering the air show Sunday
(see page 11, section B) and the school
board meeting Monday and starts
full-time today (Thursday).
Badder has three years of journalism
at Texas Christian University and
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megabite system to insure more stor-
age area and to replace a 25-megabite
system that came with the system.
Later commissioners approved
spending $6,700 on a faster line printer
to turn out the work required by the
county tax assessor, county auditor,
and county clerk’s offices.
In January, another problem surfac-
ed. County Tax-Assessor Dennis Mc-
Williams found that he could not get a
dependable tax-roll, either because of a
“People Problem or a Machine Pro-
blem.” I
His 1978 tax roll was late getting to footprints and we recovered most of
the tools used in the break-ins. We
have some possibilities-some ideas -
but the evidence isn’t strong enough
That problem was temporarily solved yet to say we have any definite
suspects," Yates said.
“Il wasn’t a
Mrs. Shaw showed commissioners a
petition signed by 57 residents.
“And I can get more,” she said.
"There are more people out there who
want the school closed than want it
kept open.”
At the close of their presentation
before the court, following a motion by
Atwood, Judge Altaras directed
County Clerk Joe Townes to look into
election procedures that will allow the
question to come to a vote and permit
ibe residents of Liberty Chapel School
to decided for themselves if the school
should be closed or remain open.
Regarding additional petition sig-
ners, Altaras suggested that Mrs.
Shaw get voter registration numbers
for all petitioners and that the signers
use the same signature as the one on
their voter registration.
“We’ll check this out and see what
can be done,” he added.
E.L. Meredith, chairman of the
Johnson County Committee on Aging,
asked the court to consider including
$10,000 in their next year’s budget that
will be used toward $20,000 needed in
matching funds to get a federal grant of
$72,292 for the purchase of two
vehicles needed for delivery in the
county's “Meals on Wheels” program.
J CCA is funded for preparing “Meals
on Wheels”, but not for delivery of
iheir." Meredith said.
He said he has made a similar
request to Cleburne’s city council for
$10,000 and that JCCA is serving as
many people in the county as in the
city.
In answering Meredith’s request,
Altaras sounded the first warning that
this year’s budget might feel a
squeeze.
“There are serious considerations in
the (1980) budget,” he noted.” The tax
flow has not been as great as in 1979,
because of the revamping of listings on
the computer. It is going to be difficult
to get money.
"V eve had a request for ambulance
service. . . .and the courthouse is in
an unfortunate state of repair. But
w'e’ll surely take a good look at it
(JCCA’s request)”, he promised.
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Representatives from Lone Star told
the council at an earlier meeting that
the company was operating at a loss in
Burleson.
Should Lone star appeal the city’s
offer, the matter would be settled by
the Texas Railroad Commission.
The electric rate that TESCO custo-
mers ultimately pay will almost un-
doubtably be settled only by an appeal,
but the Public Utilities Commission is
the agency with the jurisdiction over
electric rates.
Burleson is expected to follow the lead
of other' North Texas cities and
suspend the TESCO proposal for 120
days. During that time an Austin
attorney, employed by Burleson and
other cooperating Texas Municipal
League cities, would make a rate
recommendation.
If past procedures are followed, that
rate would be rejected by TESCO and
the PUC would make the final decision.
THE MAIN DIFFERENCE in the
two rate hike proposals is that the
TESCO request is for a system wide
rate increase while Lone Star negotiat-
es with individual cities according to
their investment in that locality.
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Council Faces Long Agenda
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A lengthy agenda of 31 items'will' rnont,
face Burleson City Councilmen when Carn
they meet tonight (Thursday) at 8:00 at organizational meeting
city hall.
Topping the agenda will be appoint-
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requests for rate hikes from both
another presentation on cable televi- number of taxpayers, business and
sion and several items pertaining to
capital improvements projects from
the city’s last bond election.
Board of Equalization public hearings
won’t get started for about another
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