Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 21, 1972 Page: 1 of 16
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Showing off the award they won are Buster
Foster, Alan Nelson, Rick Carver, sponsor
William Poulster and Marshal Tyson.
Thanksgiving. Kim and Lee are the children of Mr. and
Mrs. Loney Wright of Rt. 2. Thomas, also of Rt. 2, attends
Burleson High School and is a member of the Senior
Chapter of FFA which brought back a second place award
from a district contest in Waco last week.
school students in agriculture related part
time jobs in this area. About 30 different
firms participate in one or more of the four
cooperative programs offered by the high
school.
they are enrolled in the Home Economics
Cooperative Program. About 100 students
from the high school are provided with
job-oriented training through this and other
similar high school programs.
Buster Foster, a member of
the Burleson team, also won
the highest scoring individual
in the state contest.
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Members of the award
winning quiz team are Foster,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Foster
of 408 Lena Lane; Alan Nelson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy
Nelson of Rt 2; Rick Carver,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Don
Carver of 720 Southridge; and
Marshal Tyson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. C.M. Tyson of Burleson.
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on a job. “It’s been a highly
successful program here,” said
Vocational Counselor Max
McRaney, “and has shown a
substantial growth every year
it has been in existence.”
McRaney cited several rea-
sons to explain this growth. “It
provides an excellent oppor-
tunity for these students to
learn a skill first hand; it is a
financial aid for many of them,
responsible for keeping some
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Thanksgiving Services
Set For Wednesday Night
Burleson Ministers Association’s annual Community
Thanksgiving Service will be Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in First
United Methodist Church.
Rev. Jerrell Elston, president of the Ministers Association
and pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, will preach the
Thanksgiving sermon.
Congregations of all Burleson churches are invited to
participate.
The Burleson High School chorus, under the direction of Mrs.
Don Paxston, will sing.
A nursery will be provided at the church for children under
four.
Krauss of Fort Worth; his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert
Leach of Colorado City; a
sister, Mrs. Melba Harris of
Hurst; five brothers, Woddy
and Kenneth Leach of Fort
Worth, Charles Leach of
Garland, Wendell Leach of
Abilene and Floyd Leach of
Roscoe; and two grandchild-
ren.
HORSING AROUND-Bruce McCarty is not
really horsing around but assisting Dr.
Harold Putnam give an injection to this
injured horse. Bruce is in the Agriculture
Cooperative program which places high
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“WE RE NUMBER ONE-The Burleson High
School FFA Chapter went to Huntsville
Saturday for a state FFA leadership contest
and came back with a first place award.
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Milburn Dennis Leach, of
Rt. 1, Burleson, died last
Wednesday in a Fort Worth
hospital after a lengthy illness.
Leach, 58, was the investi-
gator for the Securities and
Exchange Commision who
uncovered the Texas stock
fraud case and set in motion a
series of circumstances that
cost many state legislators
their positions and led to the
conviction of several others.
The Burleson man worked
' out of the SEC’s regional office
in Fort Worth and it was
during a routine audit of a
Dallas brokerage firm in 1970
that he noticed a number of
unusual stock transactions
listed in the company’s
records.
An investigation into the
affairs of the firm, Ling & Co.
produced evidence which
ultimately led to the conviction
of former Texas House
Speaker Gus Mutscher, his
aide, Rush McGinty and Fort
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Cafetorium on Nov. 28 and 30 at 8 p.m. The
play centers around the University of Texas
campus the week before the “big shootout”
between Arkansas and Texas takes place.
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Plymouth Rock, the Pilgrims
and that first Thanksgiving, ;
but that traditional holiday has
remained virtually the same
since back before this country
became a nation.
We’ve added some to it,1
naturally. Thanksgiving nowl
includes football games prob-1
ably second only to N.e*J
Year’s, it means school
vacations, a day or two off
from work, a visit to
grandmother’s, a chance to go
deer hunting and sells a lot of
seltzer tablets and anti-acids to
people who “can’t believe they
ate the whole thing.”
Basically, though, it’s hard
to improve on a good thing and
it has come down through the
centuries pretty much the
same as ever-people pausing
for a moment to give their
thanks to the Lord for the
blessings which they have
received. An all-faith Thanks-
giving church service will be
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years ago and the others three
years ago.
To participate in the
program, a boy or girl must be
at least 16 years old and be a
junior or senior. Each area also
has its own club where
students learn social skills,
civic responsibilities and lead-
ership.
The students spend an
average of three hours each
day in the classroom and about
another three hours working
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LAST MEAL-Kim and Lee Wright are busy feeding
dinner to this white turkey gobbler, but Thomas Larabell
[note hatchet behind his back] seems to be thinking more of
making a dinner out of the big tui*key tom. The turkey’s
gobblings haven’t been completely deciphered, but he
seemed to be imploring people to eat more beef this
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If you think it’s funny
getting your STAR on
Tuesday, you ought to have
seen us trying to get it out two
days early. All the staff
worked Saturday and some of
us unfortunate ones even had
to work Sunday in order to do
it. Anyway, we made it and the
staff of the STAR wishes
everyone a Happy Thanksgiv-
ing.
It’s a little cold and wet for
most folks to do much fishing
but we may have some good
“deer stories” around the
office for a few weeks. Editor
WAYNE HUTSON took this
issue off to go down to Llano to
shoot that big buck. If the big
one got away he may go down
this weekend and try again.
Speaking of “dears”, a
Burleson girl was named
second runnerup in the 1972
Miss Texas Tech pagaent held
in Lubbock on Nov. 20. She is
DEBBIE BROWN, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Brown of
213 S.E. Tarrant. The fifteen
semi-finalists in the contests
modeled in street dress and in
Firms \
Two Burleson area busines- |
ses have been hit by burglers I
during the past week. Both of I
them are located on Highway ■
174.
Stovall Chevrolet was the I
hardest hit. According to *
police records, robbers broke a |
window on the south side of |
the building sometime Thurs-
day night or Friday morning
and entered into the service
area. There they loaded up
with tools, toolboxes and parts •’
valued at more than $10,000 by
Stovall. Stolen goods were
loaded into a 1973 Chevrolet r-
pickup which was also stolen -
by the men.
A 1969 Corvette belonging
to a customer was also taken
from the service area during
the robbery. A 1969 Ford
pickup which had been stolen
earlier from a Fort Worth car
dealer was left at Stovall
parked with their used ‘~
pickups.
Police are still investigating
but have a suspect in the
incident.
Farther south on 174,
Howell’s Western Wear was
broken into last Wednesday
night. After an unsuccessful
attempt to cut a hole in the
roof, burglers gained admit-
tence by cutting a hole ir a
temporary sheetmetal door in
an unfinished storeroom.
The men did not get into ,he
main portion of the store jut
took over 200 pair of bcotA
from the storeroom.
The boots, which incluied
both men’s and ladies, were
valued at between $6,000 ind
$7,000 by Howell.
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Worth Rep. Tommy Shannon
on charges of conspiring to
accept bribes.
Houston promoter Frank W.
Sharp was also convicted as a
result of the investigation
which Leach’s finding trig-
gered, and civil injuctions
were returned against 28 firms
and individuals. Former Texas
Attorney General Waggoner
Carr was one of these
individuals.
Leach was cited by SEC
officials both in Fort Worth
and in Washington for his
outstanding work and contri-
bution to the stock fraud case.
He was a native of Colorado
City, Texas, and a graduate of
Texas Tech University. Dur-
ing World War II he served
with the Air Force.
His survivors include his
wife; three sons, Donald Leach
of Weisbaden German, Roger
Leach of Camp Pendleton, Cal.
and Allan Leach of Burleson; a
daughter, Mrs. Cheryle
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Thanksgiving Day
We’ve come a long way from held here Wednesday night at
7:30. First Methodist Church
will be the meeting place for
this year.
Whatever you do or
wherever you go, you do need
to exercise extreme caution on
this or any other holiday. The
Texas Department of Public
Safety doesn’t make traffic
fatality forecasts for the
^Thanksgiving weekend, but
they expect extremely heavy
traffic on Texas streets and
highways. Beginning Wednes-
day night the Highway Patrol
will go on two 12 hour shifts
and all patrolmen will be on
duty.
To increase the hazards,
roads may be slick in some
portions of Texas as the
weather bureau is forecasting
thundershower activity for
Thursday and Friday over
large areas of the state.
All government offices and
most businesses will be closed
here Thursday in observance
of Thanksgiving.
SOCK IT TO’EM-Steve Porter [1] is about to
give Roland Russell a face full of knuckles as
Roy Ward cheers him on in this scene from
this year’s Senior Play, THE MALE
ANIMAL which will be presented at Mound
HAVE A DRINK, KID-Roxie Reeves [1] and
Marie Usrey offer a drink of fruit punch to a
boy at a nursery and kindergarten where
they work each afternoon. Their jobs were
obtained through a cooperative agreement
between the high school and the nursery as
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Don’t be surprised to find
yourself right in the middle of
a Burleson High School,
laboratory the next time you
go shopping in downtown
Burleson.
There’s nothing to be
alarmed about, though. There
are no mad scientists running
loose in these laboratories, just %
boys and girls in the vocational
education department of the
high school.
About 30 area business
establishments are cooperat-
ing with the high school to |
provide on the job training for g
98 high school students in four
different vocational programs; a
There are 44 students in
Distributive Education, 38 in |
Industrial Cooperative Train-
ing and eight each in
Agriculture and Home Econ-
omics Cooperative Education.
This program is a relatively |
new one for the high school. |
Two of them were started four
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Members of the Burleson
FFA Quiz Team and their
faculty adviser, William Poul-
ster, went to a state leadership
contest at Sam Houston State
University in Huntsville Sat-
urday and won first place
honors for Burleson High
The boys had qualified for
the trip the week before when
they won first in area and first
in district honors at a district
FFA contest at Waco. Two
other Burleson FFA teams
also scored high in Waco
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Hutson, Wayne & Moody, James. Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 21, 1972, newspaper, November 21, 1972; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1262842/m1/1/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Burleson Public Library.