Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1972 Page: 1 of 18
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295-4412 BURLESON,JOHNSON COUNTY, TEXAS 76028
THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1972
7TH YEAR—11TH ISSUE
School Trustees Buy 2.1
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State Legislature
Races Shaping Up
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A local resident had a
rude awakening Sunday
mornihg at 3:30 a.m. when
a car driven by a Fort
Worth man ran into the
front of a home in the
Gardens Addition in Bur-
leson.
Damage to the home of
Wayne Clark was estimat-
ed at $3,000.
The driver of the auto,
Guy Raymond Thomas of
Fort Worth, was not in-
jured. He was taken into
custody and charged by
police with driving while
intoxicated.
STOP ... WRONG WAY — This auto
belonging to Avis Herndon of Fort
Worth was involved in an accident
Saturday evening. The mishap injured
two persons.
SEE STORY COLUMN ONE ABOVE
modeling job thanks to a wayward auto
last Sunday morning.
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DRIVE-IN WINDOW? — This home in
the Gardens Addition received a re-
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tapped to the exhaust pipe
and run into the car.
Cause of death was
ruled self-inflicted car-
bon monoxide poisoning.
Richeson was an em-
ployee of Thomas Con-
veyor Co. of Burleson.
FORT WORTH MAN’S
DEATH HERE IS
RULED SUICIDE
In other police activity,
two persons received
minor injuries when a car
driven by Ronald Pollard
of 509 N.W.. Mound Road
in Burleson collided with
an auto driven by Avis H.
Herndon of Fort Worth.
The accident occurred at
the Loma Street and Hwy.
174 crossing. A 9-year-
old girl, Windy Herndon,
and an 11-year-old boy,
Bryan Herndon, were tak-
en to St. Joseph Hospital
in Fort Worth with minor
injuries. The Herndon
auto received extensive
damage.
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The station wagon was
discovered five miles
south of Burleson by a
Burleson man and his son
when they went to feed
some dogs in that area.
The pair telephoned the
Burleson Police Dept.
Highway Patrolman Paul
Busby was the first offi-
cer to reach the scene and
said the engine was still
running with a garden hose week that he definitely will
A Fort Worth man was
| found dead in a station wa-
gon south of Burleson last
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Peace Alf Bowers ruled
the death a suicide.
Dead is Lester Leo
Richeson, 61, 5623 Wich-
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of Commerce; George
Bush, U.N. Ambassador;
U.S. Senators John Tower
and Lloyd Bentsen and
former President of the
United States, Lyndon B.
Johnson.
"One of the most in-
volved news stories I’ve
covered," said Fitzgerald,
"was the search for the
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Candidates File Early
For All Council Spots
career? "Money ... no not
really," he replied, "I
really enjoy meeting peo-
ple, and it's alot different
than a standard 8 to 5 job.
I think the most reward-
ing part of my job is the
people I’ve come in con-
tact with." Among some
of those people he has in-
terviewed are Jane Fonda;
Maurice Stans, Secretary
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The thing that counts
about the Postal Reform
Act of 1970 is that it gives
more authority to the local
postmaster and gives him
the same chance as the
bigger Post Offices at get-
ting help when he needs it
from higher authorities
on his problems. That was
the word this week from
Leonard Miller, acting
manager of the Fort Worth
Postal Service sectional
center. He spoke to the
Lions Club at a luncheon
Wednesday. Service is
improving under the re-
organization which sets up
the Postal Service as a
semi-private business. It
now treats its customers
as "customers" rather
than ’patrons", the word
formerly used to describe
people who did business
with the Post Office. That
ordinarily would mean
that if we didn’t like the
way the Post Office was
treating us we could go
somewhere else to do out
business. At least we
could if there were some-
where else to go. And in
fact, there are parcel de-
livery services that are in
competition with the Post-
al Service. Maybe some-
day they’ll get into the let-
ter carrying business ...
Incidentally, our story
last week about the city
letter carriers here tak-
ing to wheels in new de-
livery vehicles didn’t
mean that mail boxes will
have to be moved to curb-
side. The carriers still
will have to walk to the
door of your home to de-
liver mail. That means
they’ll be getting in and
out of their vehicles many
times a day. It might even
be more work than just
walking from door to door.
And they’ll have more de-
liveries to make since now
they’re carrying their own
parcel post packages that
used to be delivered by a
special truck. From their
standpoint, the new ve-
hicles might be less con-
venient and actually mean
SEE FOLKS PAGE 2
News to Larry Fitzger-
ald is more than listening
to a five-minute newscast,
to him it’s a full-time
profession.
Fitzgerald, who lives at
313 Robin Ct. in Burleson,
is a newsman for a popu-
lar radio station, KXOL,
in Fort Worth and is con-
stantly involved in news
events and is on the alert,
E ready to cover major news
stories as they happen.
Fitzgerald and his wife,
Marl Anne who works at
Alcon Industries, have
lived in Burleson since
1967 and have two chil-
dren; a daughter, Kelly, a
fifth-grader at Nola Dunn
and a son, Kevin, also a
Nola Dunn student in the
third grade.
It hasn’t always been
that Fitzgerald has held a
news position at a popular
station in a major mar-
ket. 'I started out working
at KCNY in San Marcos
and I’ve moved around so
much," explained Fitz-
gerald, "it seems like I’ve
worked in every tank-town
in Texas." More recently
Fitzgerald has worked in
this area at KBUY and
WBAP in Fort Worth, then
KCLE in Cleburne and
then to his present posi-
tion at KXOL.
His career in radio ac-
tually started at the Uni-
versity of Texas at Aus-
tin, where he majored in
radio and TV and grad-
uated in 1960.
Why did he chose the
radio news media as a
ON AIR — Burlesonite Larry Fitzgerald does his
thing as a newsman at radio station KXOL in Fort
Worth.
Boy Must Take Painful
Shots Unless Dog Found
Mat Gieser, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ron
Gieser of 212 Lester, was bitten by a dog Tuesday and
unless the dog is relocated the child will have to under-
go painful rabies shots.
Mrs. Gieser said Mat was riding his bike when a big
caramel colored dog bit him. The dog was identified
by a neighbor who said it could have been part German
Shepherd and chow or border collie.
The dog had no tags but could have been wearing a
flea collar.
Police and the city animal control officer searched
the area for some time but could not locate the dog.
"We’re not mad at anybody," said Mrs. Gieser; "we
just want to find the dog and be sure he is placed under
observation for the next 14 days."
This is the waiting period before Matt will have to
begin the anti-rabies shots unless the dog is located
and found not to be carrying infectious rabies.
It is possible the dog’s owners live in the Gardens
Addition near the Giesers' home. In .any event, persons
seeing te dog or knowing its whereabouts are urged to
contact the police department, 295-1118, or the Gies-
ers at 295-5151 or 259-4545.
The dog must be isolated for controlled observation
the next 14 days.
Rev. Rosswell Brunner is the new pastor of
the Burleson Church of The Nazarene...Page 3
What are your predictions on the Super Bowl?
Some say Miami will defeat the Cowboys. See
the Question of The Week feature by Dennis Key
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B.H.S. faculty men will test their skills in bask-
etball Friday night against the champion Red
Heads, an all girls team. See details.....Page 18
Overall, the plastic bag requirement for garbage
is working out well and citizens are cooperating,
says the City Manager...but only the bags should
be at curbside, not the trash cans....Story Page 4
Burleson voters this
week began to get a better
look at how State Legis-
lature races shape up for
the Democratic Primary
this spring.
A vigorous fight for the
office of State Senator in
the 22nd District, includ-
ing Johnson and 16 other
counties, was promised
when Tom Holmes of
Granbury paid his filing
fee and announced his
candidacy for the office
now held by incumbent
State Sen. Tom Creighton
of Mineral Wells.
Last week, C.C. (Kit)
Cooke of Cleburne an-
nounced his candidacy for
State Representative in
the District which includ-
es Johnson, Hood, Somer-
vell and Erath Counties.
Rushing Manning of
Burleson had already in-
formally announced his
candidacy for the seat in
the Texas House which is
currently held by J.E.
Ward of Glen Rose. Neith-
er Manning nor Ward have
filed.
Manning is a former
Burleson High School
teacher who already has
served in the Legislature
as a represnetatlve from
East Texas.
He told The Star this
Five persons have filed
. for offices in the upcom-
ing April 1 city election.
The two-year terms of
the mayor and city coun-
ooilmen in Places 2, 4 and
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run. He said he had al-
ready made many of his
campaign arrangements
and had gone to consid-
erable expense even
though the election is still
more than three months
away.
Holmes has taken Sen.
Creighton to task on sev-
eral issues including the
state sales tax.
Holmes has served in
the 51st District, as state
representative since
1964.
The state redistricting
board's realignment of
districts based on the 1970
census, placed Holmes in
state representative race
with Ward and he chose
Instead to run for the Sen-
ate against Creighton who
is an attorney.
Burleson formerly was
represented in the Senate
by J.P. Word of Meridian.
Word chose not to seek
reelection.
Realignment of both
senate and house districts
still is a matter which
will be settled by the
courts. Candidates con-
ceivable could file in one
district and wind up in
another. But the legisla-
tive races of all the can-
didates apparently will go
full blast regardless of
pending court decisions.
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6 will expire.
Billy Bob Grisso has
filed for election to the
office of mayor now held
by Clayton Boyd who is
not seeking reelection.
In the city council plac-
es, Roy Gandy of 229 Col-
lins Court and Roy Sam-
sill of 113 Gardens Blvd,
have filed for Place 2, a
position now held by Gris-
so. Ron Gieser is seeking
reelection in Place 4. Gie-
ser lives at 212 Lester
Street. In Place 6, Jim
Schumacher is also seek-
ing reelection.
In the School Board
election, three places are
to be filled, 3, 4, and 6.
Terms of Eddie Martin,
Place 3, and Mrs. Billie
|O,entine, Place 4, will
e^ire. In Place 6 a re-
placement will be named
by voters for the remain-
ing one year of the unex-
pired 3-year term of Joe
Neely who resigned last
October.
Superintendent Bill
Stribling said no one has
filed for any of the plac-
es.
Stribling stated: "After
last Tuesday’s meeting,
indications are that Mrs.
Balentine will seek re-
election; but then again no
official word has been
made yet. Ed Martin is
still deciding."
Filing deadline for can-
didates to any of the local
offices will be March 1
(30 days before the elec-
tion). There is no filing
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Burleson School Trus-
tees decided to purchase
about 2.7 acres adjacent
to the middle school cam-
pus Monday night. Price
is $10,400.
School board last year
had talked several times
about the property and the
possibility of locating
another school building
there. Some parents ob-
jected to having three
schools (Mound Elemen-
tary, Pauline G. Hughes
Middle School and a new
school) in the same area
because of traffic conges-
tion and the board tabled
the matter in 1971.
In the decision Monday
night, no definite purpose
for the land was stated.
Board president Stacy
Calvin explained to the
board that a developer in
the area who is responsi-
ble for extension of Thom-
as Street, potentially the
main traffic artery in the
area, had said he might
not carry the street on
through until a decision
was reached about devel-
opment of the small plot
of land adjacent to the
school. Apparently the
land was a key to develop-
ment of the area which
has several new homes
and lots platted formore.
The site had also befcn —
discussed as a possible
location for an adminis-
tration building for the
school district. Purchase
will be from the John
Schumacher Estate.
Several other items
were on the lengthy
agenda for the Monday
night session.
One was the extension
for two years of the con-
tract of Supt. of Schools
W.M. Stribling. The con-
tract is reviewed annually
in January.
Stribling took the posi-
tion here last summer af-
ter resigning a similar
office in Mt. Vernon, Tex.
In an agenda message to
the board Stribling said:
'These past six months
have been most reward-
ing. I appreciate your sup-
port and cooperation. In
considering my contract,
I would like to state that
you have been very gen-
erous with my salary. In
trying to keep within funds
available it would be
agreeable with me for you
not to consider a salary
Increase for next year. I
am happy here and I do ap-
preciate the opportunity
to work in such a fine
community."
In other action of gen-
eral interest the board:
--Approved advertising
for bids to install a fence
around the high school
baseball field. A plan sub-
mitted by board member
Bob Rushing called for
relocating part of the
fence on the east side of
the football stadium and
keeping both the baseball
field and the football field
within one high fence. Bids
also will be sought for
bringing a water and a
sewer line from Gregory
Street onto school prop-
erty with the view of ex-
tending the lines further
when needed.
In connection with the
athletic complex several
school men voiced ideas
about improving it. Head
coach Jerry Richburg,
Principal A.A. Kerr and
baseball coach John King
all gave their opinions in
relocating the baseball
diamond to face a differ-
ent direction, possible
SEE SCHOOLS PAGE 5
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J By Harry Rand
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Hutson, Wayne. Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1972, newspaper, January 13, 1972; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1263131/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Burleson Public Library.