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prepared for what has tran-
spired in Iran. Even now, they
act in public at least as though
there is no contingency plan
for trying to salvage some-
thing out of a difficult situation
involving a strategic ally.
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American Watchmakers Institue
Dallas.
two paramedics on duty at all times
and that both respond to an emerg:
ency.
A number of people at that meeting
indicated that they did not mind paying
in order to have emergency ambulance
Calling All Cars
The Washington Post reports
that Cleveland’s beleaguered
mayor, Dennis Kucinich, is in
even more hot water. Cleveland
police have been notified that
Kucinich’s driver’s license ex-
pired last October 8, on his 32nd
birthday. He’s never gotten
around to renewing it; a bit haz-
ardous for a man about to lay off
275 policemen.
Effete Feet
The owners of Parkway Dis-
tributors, a Manhattan men’s
clothing store, gave their 12
salesmen an odd Christmas
present. Feeling pity for their
employees who were kept on
their feet for prolonged periods
of time due to the Christmas
rush, management decided to
send all the men, free of charge,
to a podiatrist.
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Check That Out
Mrs. Francis Armand was
shocked when a Social Security
representative wanted to know
why, since her husband had
been dead for the past ten
months, she was illegally cash-
ing his Social Security checks.
The reason for her startlement at
the query was that her 70-year-
old husband was in the shower
at their Englewood, Colorado
home at the time.
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(Is the United States making
full use of its energy potential in
order to meet the energy crisis?
Some observers think not-speci-
fically, that nuclear power1 is
being sidetracked to the detri-
ment of future energy produc-
tion and the drive for indepen-
dence from foreign fuel sources.
Their arguments, and some
background on the problem, fol-
low).
Barbershops
Trimmed
In Iowa’s Worth County men
have been having a problem get-
ting their hair cut since Edgar
Janson closed down the coun-
ty’s last barbershop two months
ago. Now the men of North-
wood must either suffer the em-
barrassment of sitting in a
beauty salon or drive ten miles
up the road to Glenville’s bar-
bershop. As one man put it, a
beauty parlor is hardly “a place
to go with manure on your
boots.”
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By Star Staff
No intelligence service is
infallible. The failure to antici-
pate such a drastic turn of
events in Iran was an intelli-
gence failure and for that
reason should be thoroughly
reviewed even though the
turn of events apparently sur-
prised the Iranians as much as
anyone.
year out with more rainfall than any
other January since 1973.
Total for the month was 2.67, about
two-thirds of an inch above average,
according to Russell Lace, official
wheather observer for the National
Weather Service.
And although the recent cold weath-
er may have caused some damage to
the oat crops in the area, the frigid
winds did blow some good, Lace said.
For one thing, the coid temperatures
may cut down some on the number of
insects, he said.
Anesthetic
Edward Stevenson reluc-
tantly gives the Postal Service
credit for that new “A” stamp it
issued recently. Says Steven-
son, “It’s a lot less painful to
look at the first letter of the al-
phabet when you apply the
postage to a letter than it is a
grim 15 cents.”
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Defense Secretary Harold
Brown has been busy lately
trying to convince Congress
that while American militarv
forces could use a shot of
modernization, they are not as
outclassed when compared
with the Soviet Union as some
studies have suggested. When
he gets down to specific com-
parisons,. however, sometimes
his argument becomes a bit
thin.
Just because the Soviet
have 45,000 tanks in Europe
and allied forces over 10,000,
he said recently in congres-
sional testimony, is no reason
for the United States to buy
35,000 more tanks. There are
other offsetting weapons,
Brown said, including anti-
tank guns and missiles.
Of course there are, and the
Intelligence Failure
Soviets also have these wea-
pons. As for the overwhelming
naval superiority the Soviets
have demonstrated, Brown
also found a silver lining in
that cloudy sky. The Kremlin
could have logistical problems
with its far-flung navy in time
of war, Brown testified, and
anyway he was certain the
allied navies controlled the
Mediterranean..
The question of how much
defense is enough to offset the
expanding Soviet military
complex is broad enough for
differences of opinion. In the
final analysis, it matters little
how the free world analyzes
its own defenses. It is how
those defenses are perceived
by the Kremlin and what it
decides to do about its assess-
ment.
mother, Mrs. Pamela McKee Moon,
Monday in Fort Worth, and burial was
at Emerald Hills in Kennedale.
The children’s father, Jim Moon, was
not in the car at the time of the
accident.
Although the eventual out-
come of the upheaval in Iran
may not be known for months,
the American intelligence
community is taking a beating
by those who think it should
have known what was hap-
pening in Iran and known it
sooner.
The theory certainly is
worth exploring, . if for no
other reason than testing
hindsight to see if it can
divulge any weaknesses in the
intelligence apparatus.
There is no question but
that American officials at the
highest levels were not at all
Editor s Quote Book
, When I was a boy of .
• 16, my father was so ’
ignorant I could hard-
ly stand to have the
old man around. But
when I got to be 21, I
was astounded at how
much he had learned
in five years.
Mark Twain
► Unconventional energy
sources like solar, wind, geo-
thermal and wave power are only
in the formative stage.
The Nuclear Factor
This is where nuclear energy
enters the debate, especially as a
provider of electricity needs,
which may account for one-half
of all energy consumption by the
turn of the century.
Nuclear energy provides only
10 per cent of electricity today.
Oil and gas, whose production is
declining, provides nearly a
third. Coal provides nearly a
half. Clearly, coal and nuclear
power have to be relied on for
future electricity generation and
yet, while coal production is
being encouraged, the develop-
ment of nuclear energy is being
discouraged.
Five years ago, the experts
were saying we’d have 1,000 nu-
clear plants by the beginning of
the next century. Today, the
Department of Energy sets the
figure at 380, or less.
The reasons for the slowdown
are varied. Inflation and
heavyhanded government regu-
latory policies add millions of
dollars to plant costs and extend
construction timetables for
years. In addition—and this may
be the major factor—nuclear
energy has suffered from an ef-
fective campaign by “no nuke”
activists to block development
on grounds of safety, environ-
mental concerns and/or in the
name of a “zero growth” phi-
losophy.
Good Safety Record
As for safety and environmen-
tal damage, nuclear advocates
say commercial A-plants
worldwide have accumulated
more than 1,300 reactor years of
operation without a single acci-
dent releasing a significant
amount of radiation. The possi-
bility of being killed in a nuclear
accident, in fact, is 1 in 5 billion
(compared with 1 in 4,000 for
auto accidents). The experts
also feel they’ve developed ef-
fective ways to get rid of nuclear
waste through recycling and
safe storage and that radiation
and heat leakage from nuclear
plants is practically at zero.
That’s not good news for the birds, of
course, but they can be consoled
somewhat by the fact that below 40
degree temperature is also believed to
improve some fruit yields. According
to Lace, the “stone” fruits, such as
peaches, plums and apricots are im-
proved by exposure to cold tempera-
tures.
Even with an above average
January, though, many stock tanks in
the county are still low, Lace said, since
water has been soaking into the ground
with very little runoff.
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Burleson, Texas 76028. Phone
295-5278.
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computer experts to go to the tax
assessor’s office, rolled up their sleeves
and try to find out whether it was a
“People Problem. . . or a Machine
Problem.”
While this dilemma was never fully
determined, within a week the compu-
ter people, working closely with Mc-
Williams, finally had some figures the
tax assessor could work with.
The 1978 tax roll was presented to
the commissioner’s court, accepted and
certified at a special-called meeting on
Jan. 16.
Johnson County now has a compute-
rized system that includes a 50-mega-
bite (data storing capacity); a 600-line
speed printer; a 300-line speed printer;
three electronic cash registers and five
terminals, which are in use in the
county clerk’s office, the county
auditor’s office and the tax assessor-
collector’s office.
County officials are of the opinion the
computer equipment in use now will be
adequate for “many years.”
When you’ve seen one rodeo you’ve
seen ’em all, but people keep going in
record numbers.
About 200 from Burleson were on
hand for “Burleson Night” at the Fort
Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo. The
chamber of commerce sold what was
believed to be a record number of
tickets locally.
It just goes to show that Burlesonit-
es are an active bunch and will support
good entertainment when given the
opportunity.
NOTHING is official yet, but folks
here may have the opportunity to
attend an important cultural event in
the form of a visiting orchestra
sometime during the next 12 months.
A group of local citizens met with a
representative of the Fort Worth
Symphony this week and discussed4,he
possibility of sponsoring a concert in
Burleson in the near future.
The orchestra must be booked
several months in advance and plans
must be made locally well ahead of the
event.
Sounds like a good idea and one that
Burleson folks would enjoy and
support, we think.
Briefly a white coating covered the
city Monday, but the snow -which was
actually a mixture of snow, sleet and
freezing rain-quickly fell victim to the
temperature and disappeared from
sight.
Not that the temperature was all
that warm, except to a snowman. The
thermometer stayed above the freez-
ing mark all day, though, and melted
the snow and ice almost as fast as it
fell.
It did provide the area with .32 inch
of precipitation, however, and start the
Tracey Moon, 3, one of the three
children injured in a two-car collision
which killed their mother on CR 531
Jan. 25, was released from Fort
Worth’s John Peter Smith Hospital
Tuesday. The other two children are
still hospitalized.
Russell Moon, 11, was listed in
serious condition in the Intensive Care
Unit at JPS at press time, and Scotty
Moon, 9 was listed in fair condition on
the orthopedic floor. Both are students
at Nola Dunn Elementary School in
Burleson.
A trust fund for the Moon family has
been set up at Burleson State Bank.
According to Russ Richardson, Sen-
ior Vice President of the bank,
“Several hundred dollars have already
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dutch-treat luncheon, said Barbara
Gieser, executive vice president.
She also reported that the chamber
had relocated to its new and larger
office at 228 NE Wilshire this week.
Phone number also has changed to
295-6121. New office is in the Rattikin
Title Building.
Other business of the week incudes a
meeting of the board of directors
Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
February has been designated mem-
bership month and the kickoff will be
held at a special committee session
Monday at 10 a.m. Teams have been
assigned to call on new businesses and
others who have not signed up for 1979.
h
he invited me to be a part of the
Southside Church of Christ ministry, I
accepted,” Horton said.
Horton and his wife, Rose, have one
son. Jimmy, 7, who is in the second
grade at Nola Dunn Elementary
School.
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BEST WISHES for a speedy recov-
ery to Don Yeaman who lives on Janie
Lane.
He was scheduled to come home at
mid week after having eye surgery in a
Fort Worth Hospital.
ATTENDING the Cleburne Cham-
ber of Commerce banquet last week as
a representative of the Haltom-Rich-
land Chamber of Commerce was
Robert Brown, Jr., former Burlesonite
and one time leader in the Burleson
Chamber of Commerce.
Robert also served on the Burleson
City Council when he lived here.
Also attending the Cleburne event
were officers of the Burleson chamber
who reciprocated following Cleburne’s
folks coming to Burleson for a similar
banquet.
LOOK FOR some more new features
in The Star starting Monday.
The newspaper has purchased sever-
al columns ranging from gardening to
camping to advice for senior citizens.
A feature package from the News-
paper Enterprise Association also will
include a new crossword puzzle and a
“Word Cage” game.
Let us know if you like the-jiew
material.
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service, but the problem was just how
they would go about it. A subscription
service would not be practical, council-
men seemed to feel, and legal problems
could arise if the city took any money
directly from rural residents since
selling city services outside the city
limits is prohibited by city charter.
The easiest and best way, suggested
City Attorney J.L. Phinney, would be
for the county to share in the subsidy
to MLS. A similar type arrangement
already exists in the case of fire
protection. The volunteer fire depart-
ment receives supplemental funds frofn
the county besides the financing it
receives from the city.
A BIG DIFFERENCE here, though,
is that there is a fire district tax in
Johnson County and money does not
ordinarily come directly from county
coffers, except in the case of reven0£
sharing funds.
Judge Altaras is not convinced that
the county can legally contribute fun$s
to a private company, such as MLS, but
the city does not believe that this will
be a roadblock. Dr. Ables pointed out
that this is already being done in
Denton and other counties.
Also the county would be buying a
service, city officials believe, just the
same as any other job they contract.
The big hitch is more likely to come
on account of an ambulance subsidy
being a precedent setting move that
commissioners may fear could mush-
room on them.
Presently, the hospital doesx not
receive a subsidy for providing arixjrtil-
ance service to the southern ni^rtio^La4L
the county. Instead, deficits from
emergency ambulance service are
made up in hospital charges to all
patients regardless of whether or not
they required the use of an ambulance.
SUBSIDIZING AN ambulance ser-
vice in the northern portion of the
county would likely result in a request
from the hospital board for a similar
subsidy. Rejection of the Burleson
subsidy would not put the county or
the hospital in much better shape,
though. If the hospital had to provide
service for another 10,000 people in
northern Johnson County, chances are
its ambulance service would operate at
even a greater deficit.
This could quite easily result in
increased hospital bills for everyone
who uses the hospital or a request to,
the county for a subsidy-especially if it
became necessary to station a JCMH
ambulance in Burleson. Then t^e
county would be right back in the san^e
situation it no faces now.
It’s a complex situation and kn
oversimplified solution such as offered
by PCT. 4 Commissioner B.B. Aldridge
is not the answer. With apparently the
same compassion that commissioners
showed in 1976 when they compared
Burleson with “Goatneck”, Aldridge
noted at Tuesday’s special meeting
that Burleson should look at the way
Grandview provides ambulance serv-
vice.
In that city of about 1,000 population,
the volunteer fire department provides
that service in a converted van.
Donations are accepted from those
requiring the service and once a year
merchants donate articles to a big
auction and sale to raise money.
IT’S NOT A BAD solution for
Grandview, but the comparison is
between eggs and oranges. The situa-
tion is different in the northern third of
the county where-whether or not
commissioners want to admit it - a full
half of the county population resides.
From some of the comments at the
city council meeting, it’s becoming
obvious that many of these people are
wanting to “live like the other half’ anjd
receive a bigger share of county
services.
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Fund Set Up For Family
One Of InjuredReleased
He said that most of the donations
are coming by check through the mails.
Blood donations for the family are
being accepted at JPS and at the
Carter Blood Center in Fort Worth.
Funeral services were held for the
Energy Worries
The link between energy use
and high living standards is one
of the major reasons officials in
Washington are preoccupied
with what they call the energy
crisis, i.e., the projected failure
of U. S. energy supplies to meet
U.S. energy demands.
One energy expert in the
House of Representatives, Rep.
Mike McCormack (D.-Wash.),
sees an energy/jobs linkage:IL
“Several studies have exam-
ined the relationship between
energy consumption and
employment levels,’’ says
McCormack. “They indicate
that ... a shortfall in energy
production of a million barrels a
day . . . could mean the loss of
900,000 jobs.”
Energy, then, affects every
citizen. When we have enough
of it, the economy can grow;
when we don’t, we have to get it
from other nations, discover ad-
ditional supplies of existing
energy sources, or develop
brand-new sources ... or a
combination of all three.
Profile of Problem
The second range of options is
pretty much what the U.S. is
now experiencing.
► Overall, energy demands
are exceeding domestic U.S.
energy supplies.
► Oil and natural gas provide
three-fourths of all energy
needs. Yet it’s generally agreed
oil and gas production has
peaked in this’^ountry.
► To help jmake up the dif-
ference we've,.been importing
oil from other countries, so that
now foreign oil meets nearly a
half of our oil needs. This, of
course, adds to trade deficits
and makes us vulnerable from a
security standpoint.
Perspective on
A Wasted Energy Source
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