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2A--Burleson Star, Thursday, May 3, 1979
Girl Disciplined
.WHICH IS WHY I URGE MORE STRONGLY THAN
EVER, THAT THE STATE LEGISLATURE DEFEAT
In Vandalism Case
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Salt II Criticism
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Letters to the Editor
Ambulance Questions Need Some Answers
Infinite Knowledge
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Mr. Editor:
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continued to learn more and
more
military inferiority for years
to come,” a private organiza-
tion called Coalition for Peace
Through Strength appealed to
the public to consider SALT II
on the basis of what it does,
findings is staggering.
Much of the new knowledge
THE EQUAL RIGHTS
\ AMENDMENT!
JCMH have to do with it. What does
where Mr. Shelton lives have to do
with it?
Commissioner Reese and Commis-
sioner Lambert, the rural residents
most helped by MLS ambulance ser-
vice are in your districts. Why did you
not offer any positive input in the
BURLESON STAR
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living persons the eye-ear-
nose-and-throat specialist re-
presented the latest in ad-
vanced medical therapy. (
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MARGULIES
©1979 SUBURBAN FEATURES
★ Sr. Citizen
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used while the site is open. And
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accidents will happen, regardless of
where the city limits signs are placed.
Maybe if city residents as well as
rural called the city officials something
could still be done to work out the
situation.
Dear Sir:
It is my desire that the general
public know how unjustly and indig-
nantly the Burleson rural residents,
the M.L.S. manager & S.O.S. members
were treated last Thursday by Com-
missioners Court.
The court speakers were so obvious-
ly stacked against the ambulance
service -8 against, 3 for. I would like
the public to know there was not equal
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not told how many had been “obtained”
to speak against the service, but rather
was told of the court’s desire to “keep it
short”; implying not to have a lot of
speakers--so three were chosen. V .
directory is a long distance call from
Burleson-Did you have a “toll free” #
to call for your Survey? I would like to
know how clear your conscience is
about the misleading picture you
journals, of course, is summa-
rized and condensed into so-
called “abstract” journals. But
the number of these also is
growing so rapidly there are
now abstracts of abstracts.
Within the memory of many representation. The S.O.S. contact was
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Wayne Hutson...Editor & Publisher
James Moody....Managing Editor
Chuck Hut son. 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.
★ Committee
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ted to be announced this week.
The city of Burleson ended service to
the rural area Tuesday except for a
provision allowing its subsidized emer-
gency ambulances to respond in the
event of a school bus accident.
Spokesmen for Johnson County
Memorial Hospital at Cleburne said its
ambulances will respond to rural calls
in the Burleson area within the county.
Area residents living in southern
Tarrant County have been told that a
volunteer service from Everman will
respond to their calls.
“Hopefully, the chamber committee-
since the chamber represents a wide
section of northern Johnson County
and southern Tarrant County-can be
an effective force to bring together
different viewpoints and help insure
that the health and safety of all our
area citizens can be protected,” said
Hutson.
A Burleson High School student has
been given “what is essentially an
on-campus suspension” for the rest of
the school year as a result of a
window-breaking spree at two schools,
said Superintendent of Schools Bill
Stribling.
That decision was made Monday
night by the BISD Board of Trustees
meeting in executive session.
About $1344 in damage was done at
Pauline G. Hughes Middle School and
Burleson High School early Sunday
morning, April 22. A total of 32
windows were broken out at the two
schools. Three Burleson girls have
been charged with felony criminal
mischief in the incident. Neither of the
other girls is a student.
The board put the 17-year-old girl in
the School Student Assignment Center
for the remainder of the school year,
Stribling said.
AND I EVEN VAGUELY under-
stand the county commissioner’s
threats that federally funded equip-
ment may be taken out of MLS
ambulances if the city limits its area of
coverage. Even though I’m rarely
impressed with the intellectual capabi-
lities of most of our county officials, I’m
still surprised that this is the best they
can do.
It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense
for the city to operate indefinitely at a
deficit in order to keep about $13,000
worth of Trinity EMS equipment. But
it does make sense that some federal
money is spent in one place for the
benefit of the people there and some in
another place for the benefit of those
folks.
5 Inches Above Average
If paying the preacher has anything
to do with rainfall, like the old saying
goes, then the ministry in this area
should be pretty well fixed for awhile.
It’s been the kind of spring that
makes a weatherman look good if he
not what one might wish it
would do.
With more than 190 senat-
ors and congressmen as mem-
bers, the coalition contains a
strong nucleus of opposition to
the treaty, when and if it is
submitted to the Senate for
approval. A 62 page study
released by the organization
details and rebuts point after
point in the proposed treaty.
Among former high defense
officers backing the coalition
in its campaign against the
administration’s proposals are
former chairmen of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Thomas
Moorer and Gen. Lyman Lem-
nitzer; former secretary of the
Air Force, Thomas Reed;
former secretary of the Navy,
J. William Middendorf 2d;
former chief of Air Force
intelligence, Maj. Gen. George
Keegan and Maj. Gen. John K.
Singlaub, former American
commander in South Korea
who was fired by Jimmy
Carter for criticizing admini-
stration defense policies.
In the center, the junior student will
remain in one classroom for the entire
day without being able to visit other
students while on campus.
“The board took the action rather
than to expell or suspend her for three
to ten days, or to expell her for the rest
of the year,” Stribling commented.
“This way she will be given the
opportunity to complete this year’s
work.”
Stribling said that the board delibe-
rated about 45 minutes before reaching
its unanimous decision after holding a
hearing of approximately the same
length with the girl and her mother.
Although the girl has had some
discipline problems previously at the
high school, Stribling said, she “has
been making steady improvement”
since then. “She’s been working hard
to improve her status. That is one of
the reasons the board didn’t kick her
out of school altogether.”
folks
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The Cheslock staff last year raised
$3,250 for MDA and plans already are
for them to take local
contributions in connection with the
annual Jerry Lewis Telethon Drive on
Labor Day Weekend, said Naomi
Cheslock, company president.
Good intentions alone don’t
necessarily make good public
policy. Ah impressive array of
former top military officials
was in Washington the other
day to testify that the pending
SALT II agreement was a case
in point.
As far as good intentions go,
not a sane person can be found
who does not fervently hope
the day will come when wea-
pons of mass destruction --
indeed, military weapons of all
kinds - no longer will be
employed. But the practical
person goes beyond good in-
tentions to ask that any dis-
armament accord not be one-
sided.
Contending that the propos-
ed SALT II treaty with the
Soviet Union would “lock the
United States into a position of
extend ambulance coverage outside the
city limits requires more tax dollars
and in this day and time taxes might
as well be a four-letter word because
it can be the dirtiest sound in the
English language to some people.
Rural residents should be able to
understand that, too, because a good
many of them-I didn’t say all-consider
lower taxes one of the nicer benefits of
living outside the city.
I understand, but I don’t agree with
the council’s position.
And I also understand some rural
residents’ feelings that tjiey deserve to
have services provided by the city
since they feel a part of the community
and since-more importantly-they shop
here and leave sales tax dollars behind
in the city treasury.
Although I understand, I don’t agree
with that position either. Shifting their
buying habits to another city that
doesn’t do anything for them doesn’t
sound to me like they’ve gained
anything.
And besides, everyone benefits from
the facilities of a city. Rural residents
benefit from parks, library and other
services Burleson has to offer and, let’s
face it, all of us also benefit from
facilities that Fort Worth has.
But, even more important than that.
For every dollar put in the city coffers
via the sales tax, several dollars are
paid in county taxes by city residents.
And the county is not noted for
spending any money inside the cor-
porate limits of a city-particulary in
Burleson.
I know you’ve kept up with the
ambulance situation because I’ve seen
the excellent coverage given us by the
Star. I would like to make mention of a
few facts concerning the situation as I
see it.
Burleson has one of the best life
support units in the nation. We in the
country have grown accustomed to
having this service available and we
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always.
3. City Council members, can you not difference, though,
see 1' .
including your own families, in with
your ambulance ordinance which will
not allow JCMH ambulances to make
pick-ups inside the city limits because
they do not meet the requirements of
your ordinance? •
WITH THESE BOUNDARY RE-
STRICTIONS AND ORDINANCE
PROVISIONS, AMBULANCE SER-
VICE AND RESPONSIBILITY WILL
BE CONFUSED IF NOT HELPLESS
A CRITICAL TTME* .
Area residents, this letw? is “plea
for unity. There is a need to protect
ourselves. We cannot look to our
county seat for help. They proved that
last Thursday. This is a case of taking
care of ourselves because no one else
will. It is our friends and neighbors underway
that will be without immediate care in
case of coronary attack. We must pull
together to make our community the
best place to live. CAN WE TRULY
NOT FIND A WAY TO KEEP THIS
SERVICE AVAILABLE TO ALL THE
AREA RESIDENTS?
/s/ Mildred George
125 Carol Lane
Burleson
Margaret Burris
Rt. 3, Burleson
Dear Mr. Hutson,
The Courses by Newspaper project
at TCJC is being discontinued at the
end of this semester. I wanted to take
this opportunity to thank you most
sincerely for your contribution to the
program. It was truly a pleasure to
work with you and the Burleson Star. x
I hope that your readers found the the neighborhood of $242. If a married
articles as thought provoking and ... -
stimulating as did my students.
The help and cooperation which was
afforded me and TCJC was truly
appreciated.
Thank you,
Dr. Ouida L. Guthrie
Director CbN/MPACT
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thousands of scientific journals
to keep them up to date on
developments in their own
specialized fields.
Obviously, this calls for
greater specialization. And
even then the problem of
keeping abreast of the latest ★ Rural AmblllailCe
’79 Rainfall Measures
all benefit equally from every grant.
That’s not very realistic.
It is realistic and it does make sense,
though, that we work together-rural
and city residents-to iron out the i Your phone # in the Johnson County
ambulance problem. Not because one - - - - • - -
group is obligated to do anything for
another but because we all benefit by
doing it for ourselves.
I pay city taxes for ambulance
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protection-and my family’s-stops at
the city limits sign. Go past that
artifical barrier and have an accident with the issue? What does Mr. Shel-
and it doesn’t matter whether you are a t ' \ " ”” ’
city mouse or a country mouse, you’lL does how many patients are taken to
wait “rat” there until help comes from ’ ’
Cleburne.
MAYBE IT’S A GOOD idea that
everyone receiving the service share in
its cost. But just maybe the city need
to re-figure those shares.
In the first place, it’s going to cost
the city a certain amount just to have I
that service available whether or not j session? Mr. Reese, you hardly respon-
it’s ever used. And in the second place,
city residents need that protection
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other parts of northern Johnson | Mr VanZandt of Highland Freeland
County besides the city limits of I Community and Mr. Clements of Rock
Burleson. Creek: Can you honestly compare the
These services should be provided needs of Burleson with these Commu-
for and paid for by the residents of the f nities?
City of Burleson. Now, let’s extend | ~ ■ -----
this service to residents outside the!
“The sum total of human in the thousands of scientific
knowledge is increasing at an
appalling rate,” says an official
of a large pharmaceutical
house, who predicted it could
double in the next decade.
The day of the so-called
“Renaissance Man” is over.
That was when a Da Vinci or a
Goethe could excel in a num-
ber of fields. This is the day of
the specialist. And even he _
hm Mrs Wtter - —*• ‘snrhetr-r Ajire? •
An overwhelming majority of story of the specialist who
all the scientists who ever continued to learn more and
lived are living today. But so more in an ever-narrowing
rapidly is human knowledge field of knowledge until one
exploding that it requires day he knew everything there
’ was to know about nothing.
Now many are not certain
that a smile was in order.
was ever allowed to make a plea for
aid. Then the S.O.S. spokesman and
MLS manager were allowed to speak.
Both were questioned with indignant
indifference and irrelevance by the
Commissioners & Judge.
I have many questions to ask the
speakers against MLS rural ambulance
service, and the commissioners &
Judge:
Judge Altaras-Do you honestly feel
you gave SOS and MLS a fair deal?
Dr. Rains and Mr. Bledsoe-Do you
really think praising JCMH’s CPR &
first-aid courses were pertinent to the
subject? Judge Altaras, do you think
we, were there to discuss how we could
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'. Browder-How can you say
H ambulance response time is
i” without qualifying where it is
i”; especially when your own
divers say NE county residents might
as well call a hearse in case of a dire
emergency rather than call a JCMH
ambulance. THIS RESPONSE TIME
IS THE MAJOR ISSUE AND YOU
CERTAINLY DID NOT GIVE IT THE
CONSIDERATION IT NEEDED!
Mr. Fletcher from KCLE-How can
you draw a conclusion that the Burle-
son rural residents don’t care or want
Ahis ambulance service since you had
no response from them to your sur-
vey (?) You did on ybur Cleburne based
radio station. Mr. Fletcher, I’ve never
heard of KCLE and none of the 35-40
i rural residents in court heard of your
We all pay federal taxes but we can’t j survey-we asked them in our after-
i court meeting. I dare to say you had
very little of a listening audience in the
Burleson rural area and now you have
even less of an audience there I’m sure.
predicts rain, rain and more rain
because sooner or later-and generally
■sooner-it’s going to do just that.
So far this year, it’s done it to the
tune of five and a half inches above
average. Through yesterday (May 2), a
total of 17.96 inches of rainfall had been
recorded in Burleson by Russell Lace,
official weather observer for this area
for the National Weather Service.
That’s also about seven inches more
chan was recorded here last year at
this same time.
Oddly enough, considering how wet
it’s been, only .01 inch was recorded
here Tuesday night and Wednesday
morning when the area just north of
here was experiencing an average of
about an inch and a quarter.
Unless you had fertilized in anticipa-
tion of more rain, it didn’t make much
The ground is
y saturated with water and
additional rain now just runs off into
already full stock tanks.
For a change some farmers are hoping
that it won’t rain again for awhile so
they can get in their hay crops, usually
planted in April. Above average
rainfall and belwo average tempera-
tures have delayed many plantings.
opposing representatives were very, 3 vf
misleading. It was very obvious to the
rural residents there and the media 1 J(
representatives I’ve talked to and |/*gj
heard about that the Judge and County
Commissioners had made their minds
up completely and did not plan to
discuss, much less offer alternatives as
they said was the purpose of the called
court session.
Four speakers against the service
were allowed to speak before S.O.S.
I ded at all-do you not care?
—- , , . H Mr. Dickie of Bono, Mr. Neely and
extended to them whenever they are in I Commissioner Aldridge of Grandview,
other parts of northern Johnson Mr VanZandt of Highland Freeland
County besides the city limits of Community and Mr. Clements of Rock
Burleson. Creek: Can you honestly compare the
These services should be provided needs of Burleson with these Commu-
for and paid for by the residents of the I nities?
City of Burleson. Now, let s extend | Commissioner Aldridge, you said
this service to residents outside the that establishing a county wide
county at what that extra cost would ambulance service would increase
be. Say there are 10 calls a month out COunty taxes by “two or three times”
there and rural residents are involved ancj yet Commissioner Reese has
in 70 percent of them and it requires a stated that the county has not even
studied such a plan. Do you have some
substance for your figures or did you
just pull them out of the air as a scare
tactic?
Also, to Burleson area City resi-
that has to be collected from a rural
subsidy.
And you’re talking about a realistic
figure that SOS or an ambulance
auxilary or some other group would
stand a reasonable chance of raising
each year.
We’re not New York City. Or Fort
Worth. Or even Cleburne. This is
Burleson and I hope we never stop
helping each other out here.
We all come out winners when we
do.
’REMINDER: Club presidents or
their representatives are urged to
attend a Fourth of July Celebration
planning session Monday night at Pizza
Inn.
Clubs planning to operate booths in
the annual community-wide program
are asked to meet with Marion Howard
who will be coordinating the plans.
Booths will be available on a first-come,
first-served basis with Howard in
charge of mapping locations for the
booths around Bartlett Park baseball
fields. /
Frank Pace is chairman of the
chamber’s celebration committee.
Philip Morris Incorporated has an-
nounced that a 1979 Philip Morris
took it for granted it would be there, College Scholarship has been awarded
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Burleson has been where we shop- Lane, Burleson.’ Miss Tupic;
ped and spent our hard earned dollars ’ T
From one third to one half Burleson currently employed with Philip Morris
sales taxes comes from rural residents, U.S.A. i~_ Tn~-*
This year, a record number, 84
scholarships were awarded to the
$100 average subsidy per call.
Figure it out. That comes out for
$8400 per year instead of $27,000 for
nine months that the city needs to
collect from the county. Institute a
higher fee for out of city service and (jentSi there are many questions that
you ve lowered still farther the amount we all should have for Cit Council tOo!
1. Do you realize you, too, are not
covered by MLS service if you are in an
accident or what ever kind of emer-
gency outside the city limits?
2. City Council members, do you
realize that you and your families will
not have ML S service outside the city
mil; ■ limits.
1 ls 1S I feel we have a very good service
available in MLS for all area residents-
an organized ambulance service, with 4
well trained paramedics, two Life
YOUR WIFE SHOWER YOU
UP IN TENNIS AGAIN
, THIS MORNING,
HUH ?
Support vehicles, and one transport
vehicle...surely something so good, so
available, and so established can be
better used for the good of all.
the position you put everyone, already
already full stock tanks.
that it won’t rain again for awhile so
to Debora A. Tupica of 1913 Hardgrove
Lane, Burleson. Miss Tupica is the
daughter of Michael L. Tupica, who is
in Fort Worth.
we do help support the city. However, This year, a
we were willing to pay an added fee to
keep the ambulance service available, children of Philip Morris employees.
’ Winner are chosen on the basis of high
. school grade reports, class rank, and
Some people in high places in Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores,
as well as extracurricular activites,
school recommendations, and the stu-
willing to pay an added fee to
now this life saving service has been
taken away from us.
Burleson have chosen to take our lives
in their hands. So I’m sure they are
prepared to deal with the cold fact of dent’s own statements,
death while waiting for an out of town
ambulance. The young child injured in
an auto accident and bleeding to death
may be one of their own.
Almost everyone leaves the city
limits at sometime or another. I hope used while the site is open. And we
and pray it never happens to them or to want to work out some arrangements
but such wishings are not realistic, for transportation for those who cannot
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Rev. Leach said that efforts will
continue to hire a permanant site
manager.
He said persons he had interviewed
so far had incomes above the minimum
requirement designated by the state
and federal governments, which fund
the senior center program.
A person hired as permanent site
manager cannot have a present income
of over $242 per month.
“This job would pay about $60 a
week for 20 hours work, which even if a
person has the minimum income would
almost double their present income,
Leach pointed out.
“The monthly salary for a widow is in
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couple wanted to take on the assign-
ment, they could make about $364
monthly,” he added. “Site managers
would undergo some training at the
Cleburne Center.”
Rev. Leach said that as soon as the
site gets into operation it is hoped to
add activities that senior citizens would
indicate an interest in.
doing it for ourselves.
■ aoout tne misleading picture you
id I don’t like the idea that my j presented?
. w,,, Commissioner Atwood, what does
who owns how much of MLS have to do
ton’s salary have to do with it? What
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