Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. [14], No. 15, Ed. 1 Monday, December 11, 1978 Page: 2 of 18
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to some people who perenially enjoy Christmas to most-six (The above four children are from Mrs. Nadine Pope’s
and seven year olds. And what better question to aski'hqixi class.)
than “Do you believe in Santa Chius?” ••, ,1s) • Chris Mora, son of Mr. and Mrs. Juan Mora, 725 Charlyne
In this increasingly more sophisticated world of ours it is a Dr.: “Uh-hunh. I hear him every Christmas come down the
pleasure to report that most of thi.'first graders at Mound chimney. He has to climb in it. I want a radio-controlled •
Elementary School still do believe.';Thi? is what they had to • R2-D2 and a bike-a ten speed.”
say: . ■ 1 : 1 i^W-; L- A .7 Jennifer Neale, daughter of Mr. and MRs. James Neale,
Ryan Knisely, son of Mrs. Lynhie. Graham, 512 Janie, 244 N.E. Murphy: “I do. I asked for some boots and a dolly
Lane: “Uh-hunh. I don’t‘know (who he is) but I believe in - and a playhouse and a play place.”
him. I want a remote control track. That’S one^of those; Jason Ballinger, son of Mr. and MRs. James Ballinger, 400
things where you push down the button and the carsiSUrt-L.N.W. Renfro: “Yeah. He gots a long, old beard and white
running around the track.” ^7 • 7:’hair and he lives at the North Pole.” We asked Jason if he’d
Debbie Forstner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.7; jbhi) 7 ever been to the North Pole and he said, “Unh-unh. Neither
Forstner, 118 Michael St.: “Yes. Helives at the North Pole,”/ .have you.” Jason wants a race track for Christmas, and said
Debbie said she’d been to the North Pole to visit. Santa L he’d been good all year, “a little bit.”
“about three times” but he wouldn’t let her help build the Clarinda Osborn, daughter of Mr. and MRs. Bill Osborn,
toys. , „ . am?L /L 'V;'T04 Barbara Lane: “Yes. He’s a tall man and has a beard and'
Cory Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs^ PauI Smith, Rt. 5, Box‘7 red suit. He lives at the North Pole. I’ve been to the North
850: “Yes. He’s a man with a bearcl. He lives at the North Pole at Colorado Springs. It has a park, kind of, and lots of
Pole. I want an electric twain an‘4 a racetrack.” rides. Santa lives there in his house.” Clarinda said she
Jennifer Scott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Scott, 225.1 forgot what she asked for for Christmas, but, “He knows.
Betty Lane: “I don’t-know. SeeBwhen Mrs. Smith (her .. Santa Calus knows.”
teacher) was a little gir she woke up one morning and Santa (The above four children are from Miss Glynda Huffs
Claus, I think, left footprints on her fireplace and she got. qne . class.)
of her dad’s shoes and they were smaller. I don’t kndwTf I Shirley Franklin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Franklin,
believe in Santa Clause or not. This footprint was longer520 Sandra: “Yeah. He brings toys. We don’t have a
than her dad’s shoe. He’s supposed to live at the North ^chimney, though. He comes in our back door. He lives at the
Pole.” B North Pole. He has a red hat and a white ball on top of his
(The above four children are from Mrs. Jo Ann Smith’s hat, a black belt and a red jacket. I haven’t been to his place
class.) yet (to tell him what she wants for Christmas).”
Shellye Benoy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Benoy, 103 Traci Vick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sammy Vick, 110
Murphy: “Yes. He lives in the North Pole. I haven’t made up' S.W. Taylor: ”Yes. He lives at the North Pole. I asked for a
my mind yet (what to ask for).” Barbi and a stretch octopus for Christmas.”
Miles Wills, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Wills, 212 Amy: Kaare Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Martin, 739 N.W.
“No. He’s not real.” But Miles DOES believe in presents. Wood: “Yes. He has a white beard.” Kaare said he asked for
“I’m gonna get, maybe, a'lectric race car track and one of “lots of stuff’ for Christmas.
those vans that have a canoe on top of it and a motorcycle in. Scott Massey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Langford, 213
the back.”_ ~ B ' .1. S.W. Taylor: “Yeah. He gots a white beard and gots a red
Steven Malone, son of Mrs. Gay Malone, 617 Todd Court: suit on and a white ball on his head. I saw him at Wai Mart. I
“No. He’s your parents. I saw Santa Clause before. I woke know where he lives but I forgot. I asked for a soccer ball
up. . . I heard some bells rining. . . I got up and it was and one of them guns that shoots them big robot
momma ringing bells and she was Santa Claus.” Steven deals. . . them deals . . .robot deals.”
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Challenge Of Age
Burleson Police Chief
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Tax Office Procedures
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Burlesonite’s Father
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ing and woke him up by placing
EDITORIALS
than Chief Barns. He has belonged to
the association ever since he became,
police chief here.
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HOMER BARNS
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TO THE STAR
CALL 295-5278
Old age must be recognized as both a
challenge and a problem, if for no other
reason than because more and more
people are living on past the middle
years.
Advances of medical science nave
presented the great majority with this
opportunity. It is a challenge to be
preferred to the prospect of an early
demise, which other generations had to
face, but longer life pses some trouble-
some questions. Can even those who
look forward to a reasonable degree of
RAY RUDDELL
Ray Ruddel, 74, of Oblong, Ill.,
father of Mrs. Annie Cromwell of
.Burleson, died Dec. 7 in Cham-
paign, Ill. following a lengthy
illness.
; Mrs. Cromwell, an employe of
The Burleson Star, left Burleson
early Saturday morning to at? -
tend the services which were
held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the First
Christian Church in Oblong.
Ruddell is also survived by his
wife; one other daughter; two
step-sons, seven grandchildren
and one sister.
happy during the latter years?
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any particular individual because the
future holds too many unknowns. Butdt
school buses which the school district
owns but which are not operable,
before the buses can be advertised for
sale, permission must be obtained from
the local board and the Texas Educa-
tion Agency.
A request from Stibling to dismiss
school at 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 15, so
he can . meet with school district
employees to discuss a suggested
revision in the sick leave policy.
ask ourselves what we are doing wrong when students were scoring as high in
and what we are doing right,” he said. * -- —
Board Vice-PResident Ken Seaw-
wright then asked “What do we do
when we spot a weakness?”
As an example, Dr. Stokes noted
that last year reading and math
through, <
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Homer Barns, police chief in Burle-
son for the past 12 years, was recently
elected as president of the North Texas
Police Chiefs Association.
His term of office will run
the calendar year of 1979.
Previously, Barns has served the
organization as secretary-treasurer,
second vice-president and first vice-
president. Currently he is first vice-
president of the organization which:
includes 12 north Texas counties and
most of the police departments in the '
Metroplex.
Meetings of the association ate held
once a month in a city of a member
police chief. Members also meet annu-
pertaining to law enforcement?
Basically , the organization serves as
a communication link between differ-
ent departments, Barns said, so police
chiefs will be aware of problems other
departments are experiencing and how
they are being dealt with.
Only one other member of the
organization has been a member longer
1 on each question
and also how each student in that class
scored. If a skill is found to be deficient,
then corrective action can be taken
whether it’s an entire class or only one
individual.
BECAUSE OF THE LACK of home
room settings at the high school, a
problem of getting the information
back to teachers and parents has been
noticed at that level, said Dr. Stokes,
bmt added that parents of a child at any
level are encouraged to visit schools
and discuss results of their child’s test
with teachers or counselors.
Despite encountering a few pro-
blems, however, the tests definitely
“help keep us accountable,” Dr. Stokes.
And what they tell us about the
students here is that “we havd an
average group ui smueuvs wnu are
performing just a little above normal,”
Dynamic Force
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Advertising’s dynamic force in the depend upon advertising.
growth of American business would be This faith is reflected in the ever-
difficult to underestimate. ' ‘ growing extent to which big business,
Without it the nation’s cherished small businesses, and people of all
freedom of the press might be an walk£ of life depend upon it. Those who
empty phrase. Advertising makes it abuse advertising know that they
possible for the press to serve the invite riot only the wrath of the public,
public on its present scale. but also action at the hands of such
In early Roman days the customer bodies aS the Federal Trade Commis-
was guided by the Latin phrase, sion, the Food and Drug Admimstra-
“caveat emptor” -- let the buyer tion and others. “Caveat emptor” has
beware. Now the public knows it can given way to “advertising emptor.”
precisely as well as was anticipated
their class f*.
THE ACHIEVEMENT TESTS by
themselves can not provide nearly as
much information as these tests com-
bined with IQ tests, Dr. Stokes noted.
In this way, students or groups of
themselves instead of others.
Both the seventh and the ninth
grades are good examples of this. Each
showed declines (from last year’s
classes) in reading, spelling, total
language, total match and the total of
all scores. In each instance, though, the
classes are making exactly what they
were anticipated to make when age, coming from thejj; son’s bedroom,
sex and IQ of all members are taken ' F ’ ’ ' ”
into consideration.
It would be presumptious to
★ Testing Shows Results In BISD Curriculum
possibility that older students are not of how the class did
as conscientious about taking the test.
One thing that may have brought
down Burelson scores to some extent
was the inclusion of special education
students into the program (only one
group of special ed was not included):
Dr. Stokes feels however that prograir
evaluation is just as important for
these students as for any other group
of students.-
Primarily, the tests are designed to
I point out weaknesses and strengths in
the instructional program at all levels,
Stokes pointed out. With this year’s
results and a comparison now available
from last year’s testing, changes can
now be more effectively recommended
and then instituted, he said.
Test results also help teachers with average group of students who are
their classes and with individual stud- performing just a little above normal,”
dents since each teacher gets a readout he said.
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IF TEST RESULTS are strictly
valid from second to 11th grade, then
is becoming clear to- more and more
people that old age is something to be
planned for.
Is it possible to plan a healthy old
age? It is certainly feasible and sensible
to lay plans that will be likely to result
in the maximum possibly degree of
physical well being. There is a certain
know-how to be acquired, and it is
within the capacity of everyone to
acquire it if he is prepared to listen--
and to act on what he learns.
economic security be healthy and Old age can be healthy for many who
will live past three score and 10. The
No one can provide the answer fbr individual can do much to achieve that
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good health earlier in life.
It’s useless until we sit down and program was lacking, he concluded,
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that subject as anticipated by their
abilities.
Other factors to consider include a
lesser lack of effort on the part of
secondary-particularly high school-
__ students on a test that does not
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weaknesses. In an attempt to correct
Elected Assoc. President
results indicated certain district-wide- introduced here.
weaknesses. In an /attempt to correct “We don’t let the testing program
the situation, teachers, principals and plan our curriculum for us,” Dr. Stokes
counselors were consulted and certain said, noting that test results might
changes made in instruction, he said. show fourth graders low in an area that
Interpretation of results can some- isn’t even taught here until that grade
times be misleading, though, and is level-
never as simple as it at first appears to
be, Dr. Stokes told The Star later.
In reading, for instance, this year’s apparently Burleson elementary grad-
tests show that both the third and the es all have an IQ of over 100 and
fifth grades are showing an improve- secondary grades are all below that
ment over last year’s test results. That
in itself is not all that significant
without considering other factors,
though, he said. One of these variables
is that this year’s third and fifth grades
are a different group of students from.
figure. More likely,_though,' is the
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last_year and can’t really be compared, youth’s bedroom with a large hole in
Another.is that alb groups are doing his neck, police said.
precisely as well as was anticipated According to the statement given to
according to the average IQ level of police, the youth said that the man,
who was a friend of the family, came
into his room early Wednesday morn-
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something, up to his nose and telling
him to breath.
The youth then said that he and the
students are really competing with . man struggled and that he was able to
grab a pocket knife from a table near
the bed. According to the youth’s
statement, the man took the knife
away from him and opened it but that
he was able to get it back.
The struggle was still in progress
when the boy’s parents came to the
room after being awakened by noises
Funeral services for Wells were held
Friday in Shannon’s South Chapel in
Fort Worth.
School taxes top a 13-item school
board agenda tonight (Nonday) in
what will probably be the.last board
meeting of the year:
The next regularly scheduled meet-
i ing (the board meets on the second and consideration of a supplement to the
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mas day and one of those 13 items on
the agenda will be a recommendation
from Supt. of Schools Bill Stribling that
the meeting be canceled.
Other items include:
-A report from BHS Instructor Blair
Lybbert on the outstanding success
this year of the forensic department at
the high school. They have won the
Sweepstakes Trophy at two major
debate tournaments already this year.
Back On School Agenda
-A request from Bob Grace, director
of bands for the Burleson schools, to
hold a band concert of Christmas music
on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 17.
-A closed, executive session for
fourth Mondays) would fair on Christ- substitute teacher Ust.^
Trustees have addressed the issue of
tax office operations on several pre-
vious occasions, including workshop
sessions. At one of those previous
meetings, a list of suggested revisions
was drawn up from suggestions by
school board members.
Main concern of board members is
equity in the tax system-something
that some taxpayers claimed did not
exist here after receiving notice this
This was the final year of a four year
revaluation program.
Tax Assessor-Collector Ed Carroll
will be unable to attend the meeting'
since he is scheduled to be in Austin
attending a workshop,, but tax office
clerk Ruth Turner is expected to be
there to represent the tax office.
The Burleson Star is an indepen-
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weekly, on Monday and Thursday ih
the interest of Burleson and ’adja-
cent areas by Burleson Publishing
. Co., 319 N. Burleson Blvd., Burleson
, Texas 76028. Any erroneous reflec-
tion upon the integrity and reputa-
tion of arty individual or firms will
be corrected if brought to the
attention of the editor.
Address all correspondence to the
Editor, Burleson Star, P.O. Box 383,
Burleson, Texas 76028. Phone
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