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DAWNING OF THE AGE OF EQUINUS?
TELL YOU WHAT... I'LL SWAP
MY OVERCOAT AND CAR
f=or your horse...
Star Gating
s
By Wayne Hutson
An Information Crisis
PART VIII-Finance
Texas Constitutional Revision
By Frank R. McKay
-W.H.
the
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BURLESON^STAR
nominated
for
a
SOLDIER of the month
Second Class Postage Paid at
Burleson, Texas.
Wayne Hutson
Janies Moody
is most prevelent in elemen-
tary school and the coffee
Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year in
Johnson and Tarrant Counties.
Other Areas $6.00 Annually.
Editor and Publisher
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have that dedication to this
city that is building it.
Happy New Year to all.
Thanks to each one
Jewel McClure
229 S. Scott
Time
Continued
Address all correspondence to the Editor. Burleson
Star, P.O. Box 383, Burleson, Texas 76028. Phone
295 4412
Folks
Continued from Pg. 1
Wendell Brister of Meridian
and Margaret Schumacher of
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our world wide work in the
mission fields, which has
been hit so hard by the dollar
devaluation.
The church has a commis-
Seems a bit foolish, somehow, to make a comment like:
“It’s a fast-movin’ world nowadays,” and “things are more
complicated today”.
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Jan. 2.
Margaret is one
son’s outstanding business-
women and Mr. Brister owns
a funeral home at Meridian.
Their many friends wish
them the best.
even between altering the
hours or leaving them the
way they are since it will be
lighter in the mornings in
just a matter of weeks. They
did indicate that the safety
programs at the schools
were now including instruc-
tions relating to darkness.
All the schools report in-
creased traffic around them
and a sharp decline in the
number of bicycles in the
racks.
High School Principal
mornings and bicycle riding has dropped
to almost zero since it is no longer daylight
when school begins. Star Staffoto
Hard To Do
Some things are hard to do -
army in like trying to find a baby sitter
Dear Sir:
The Burleson Seventh-day
Adventist Church would like
to thank the citizens of
Burleson for involvement
were
given in the 1973 campaign
Our concern is the way we are being
gently swayed from a position of “some”
concern to one of near fear.
Every announcement by the govern-
ment brings a new statistic which proves
even more that we’re in trouble energy-
wise.
We would prefer that the government
get all the facts, get them right, tell us,
and then say what is necessary to meet
the problem. A little information here and
little more there is not the right tact to
take with educated, thinking Americans.
Perhaps it was co-incidental that a story
in a daily paper this week noted that
voters now are more concerned with the
fuel shortage than about Watergate. In
the same edition was a story that quoted
Czar Simon as predicting a drastic change
in the life-styles of Americans due to the
energy shortage.
Sincerely,
Roger Will,
Deacon
The government’s talk about what to do
about the energy crisis is beginning to
grate on the nerves.
And William E. Simon, federal energy
administrator, is about to live up to his
nickname given by the news media. He
sounds more like a czar every day.
It is becoming clear that, for whatever
reason, one of the government’s official
energy policy under Simon is to gradually
prepare the public for the worst.
This week Simon let it be known
unofficially that he now believes there is a
50-50 chance of gasoline rationing, a ploy
that most Americans of World War II
vintage deplore.
ALONG WITH a new airport are a bunch of new terms.
__j we progressed through the traffic at the Texas
International terminal I was amused to see one sign which
much for 1
support of start our campaign in De-
cember of 1974.
May God bless you in the
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Mrs. Helen D. Wise, NEA
president, observed, how-
ever, that “the NEA does
not support delays or curtail-
ments of school integration
plans under the guise of
conserving energy.”
Secretary of Health, Edu-
cation and Welfare Caspar
Weinberger also expressed
concern that the prolonged
closing of schools would have
an adverse effect on under-
privileged children who de-
pended on the free lunch
program for meals.
For persons who have
definite opinions on school
hours locally, the board
meeting will be Monday
night at 7:30 in the Library
of Pauline G. Hughes Middle
School.
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“You are as young as your faith, as old
as your doubt, as young as your
self-confidence, as old as your fear; as
young as your hope, as old as your
despair. In the central place of your heart,
there is a recording chamber; so long as it
receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer,
and courage, so long as you are young.
When the wires are all down, and your
heart is covered with the snow of
pessimism and the ice of cynicism,
then-and only then-are you grown old.”
-Duncanville Suburban
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR j
“Could We Dare Hope?"
We would like to have
your approval to publish the
editorial in our own publica-
tion. THIS IS WEST
TEXAS.
FROM Pg. 1
'''A,
The Burleson Star is an independent newspaper
published weekly in the interest of Burleson and
adjacent areas by Burleson Publishing Co.. 108 N.W.
Renfro. Burleson, Texas, 76028. Any erroneous
reflection upon the integrity and reputation of any
individual or firm will be corrected if brought to the
attention of the editor.
growing spirit back to dust.
“Whatever your years, there is in every
being’s heart the love of wonder, the
undaunted challenge of events, the
unfailing, childlife appetite for ‘what next,’
and the joy and the game of life.
If by dribbling out a little information at
a time, the Simon group hopes to build up
citizens for the worst announcement, he is
succeeding. We are becoming hardened
and somewhat bitter.
But the slow process by which we are
being informed and the apparent rapid
process by which Simon appears to be
developing programs to fix our energy
problem do not seem consistent. Goven-
ment reports are frequent, yet they
contain only a little new information each
time.
Meanwhile business and the economy in
general are taking it on the chin not only
from slow deliveries due to dwindling
supplies of numerous goods but from a
worry on what steps to take next in the
fact of a problem that nobody seems to be
able to define exactly.
If we wake up one day and find out
we’ve been had at the expense of another
government bureaucrat’s bungling, the
popularity of the politician and the
government will be much lower than the
garbage man.
One poll, if you read such things, says
that the sanitation engineer is more highly
regarded than most professional men,
except doctors.
We wouldn’t want William Simon’s job.
He will never win a popularity contest.
But he might improve his image if he’d
shoot straight with the information...all of
it, good and bad. At least we then could
make some of our own decisions about
how to prepare for the future.
PROGRESS? Some folks might like to go back a few years
to more simple times.
Or, maybe, they’d just like to get away from it all. There’s
always the airport with a fast jet waiting to whisk us off to
far away places.
I had not had the chance to see ud close the new
Dallas/Fort Worth Airport until Sunday afternoon. First
flights in and out of the brand new facility will be this
Sunday.
It’s like another city. Brand new, imposing with its
futuristic lines...and a bit confusing.
The grand opening was held several weeks ago but a “dry
run” was staged Sunday just to see how the airport and its
personnel could handle a big crowd.
And it was a big crowd. Something like 100,000 visitors
were counted. At one point cars were bumper-to-bumper
three lanes wide for two miles outside the entry gates.
Only one minor accident was reported, an amazing
statistic in itself and a credit to airport design which pretty
well allows smooth flow of traffic.
DFW Airport is called the first of a new breed of giant
Ti, is the biggest airport in the nation.
One main road, the International Parkway spine road,
leads to everything. But watch your step. Everything exits
left.
There are hundreds of signs telling you where to go.
I did notice that there were no signs saying “one way”.
Later I figured out it was because every street is one way.
We say it anyway and everybody seems to understand.
We understand because we have lived and are living in a
period unmatched by any other time in history. Science has
changed our life styles.
I remember when we got our first telephone. I was
already a pretty good sized lad and used to borrowing the
neighbor’s phone until our family could afford one, but it still
was a big deal.
Not every family has a phone in these modern times, and
not everyone wants one.
But for those who have one the day is not far in the future
that our homes will video screen phones where we can see as
well as hear the other party.
A news release this week from Page-A-Fone in Fort
Worth noted that a new electronic switching system will
provide direct-dial paging in the whole Dallas-Fort Worth
area.
So, now some people don’t even have to stay by the phone
when they’re expecting an important call. They wear a
device on their belt or in their pocket that signals them when
they have a call. The signal is transmitted anywhere in the
area via FM radio band to the device which has its own
seven-digit metro phone number.
Progress is being able to answer your phone when you’re
away from the office.
On the other hand, to some people it means escape from a
busy schedule is impossible. No matter where they are, they
can expect a call.
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day of Daylight Savings Time-elementary
school principals report that auto traffic
Sincerely,
Jimmie Martin
Cost of state government in Texas has
been up about 5.6 per cent annually since
1967. Economy is an upfront priority in
nearly all Texas homes today. The same
goes for what is expected of state
government. Texas in 1875 was bankrupt
under Governor Davis. Reconstruction
government was a failure forcing the
writers on the 1876 Constitution to make
finance measures tightfisted.
Pay-as-you-go finance should be the rule
of thumb in any government. If this
principle is kept in mind by
Constitutional Convention, then we the
taxpayers have won half the fight. The
rest of the fight is to create a flexible but
simple system with the safeguards future
generations can live within.
Private groups want government to
finance their dreams, not only in education
but in other fields also. Public money
should be for public use only-let the
private sector finance their own dreams or
quit dreaming!
INCOME TAX
Graduated income tax is being touted as
a cure-all elixir but like castor oil, who’s
going to swallow it willingly? Not very
many Texans want income tax even under
Representative David Finney’s (Tarrant
County) proposal of abolishing other
taxes such as property, iw/^B <and others
which according to his figures equal 6.5
per cent of Texas income, both individual
and corporate. Representative Finney’s
proposal would be a limit of 6.75 per cent
on income. Not a bad proposal, but it won’t
sell in Texas even though it is fairer than
the present system.
Ad valorem tax was discussed under
the education section (Burleson Star, Nov.
8), but homestead exemption was not.
Amendment #3 on the November, 1973,
ballot extended homestead exemptions to
unmarried adults. The homestead exemp-
tion is the most popular item in the Texas
Constitution. Some business interests
have tried to lift the prohibition of
garnishment on homesteads for private
debts. Thankfully this hasn’t gotten off
the ground. Home is a precious place-
“keep your hands off’ should be the
message to the Constitutional Convention
delegates meeting in Austin this month.
HIGHWAYS AND TRANSPORTATION
Highways are a way of life in Texas. We
GUEST EDITORIAL...
What Is Youth?
What is youth? Probably one of the
finest answers ever given to this question
is that attributed to General Douglas
MacArthur. Here is what he said.
“Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is
a state of mind. It is not wholly a matter of
ripe cheeks, red lips, supple knees. It is a
temper of the will, a quality of the
imagination, a vitor of the emotions, a
freshner of the deep springs of life. It
means a tempermental predominance of
courage over timidity, of an appetite for
adventure over love of ease.
“Nobody grows old by merely living a
number of years. People grow old only by
deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle
the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles
the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear
and despair...these are the long, long
years that bow the head and turn the
Burleson Star & Staff:
I had this on my heart and
would like to put it in the
paper.
Let us make a point this
causing higher taxes. When taxes are
increased, the elderly suffer the most
because, of their fixed incomes.
There is also a proposal to define bonds
as a debt in the new constitution. The
courts have ruled under the present transport system with miles of guideway leading any place
constitution that bonds are not a debt. To ‘ — -
be fair, only permanent residents should
be able to vote on bond issues regardless at the new airport it will be much, much better than Love
of t heir property ownership as their rental T7,:~’J
or lease payments pay taxes indirectly.
LOTTERIES, BETTING
Lotteries and pari-mutuel betting as
ways of raising revenue may come up but,
like the local option issues, they would
spurn debate to the point of handcuffing
the convention. This, for the meantime,
will be left as is-prohibited-but in the
future, attempts will continue to be made
to remove the prohibition.
Texas has one of the most stable
financial state governments in our nation.
The desire of the constitutional conven-
tion should be to protect this stability,
exemptions and other protections for the
welfare of future generations.
(NEXT:: A general view of the
constitution and the citizens of Texas.)
you need to go. There’s a 25c charge.
Once a guy gets used to getting around to the right places
Field.
The best part of all is that you don’t have to walk sixteen
miles to find an airplane to get on-provided you don’t make
the wrong turn at the wrong place and wind up on the air
strip.
Picking up someone coming in on a flight will be much
easier, because there’s a separate level on which to drive
right up to the terminal. Dropping him bff for a departing
flight also will be easy because there’s another driveway
level for that, complete with escalator.
Everything is bigger and better, if you’ll pardon a repeat
of the old publicity hack’s worn out jargon. And nothing has
been left out.
If you do make a wrong turn, there’ll be a friendly
policeman from airport security to steer you in the right
direction. It happened to me Sunday. Wonder if they have a
jail at DFW Airport?
If help from the police isn’t enough, spiritual counseling is
available. Chapel facilities have been approved with a
central office in the Braniff terminal linked by phone to the
other three terminals.
A word of caution: Leave early for your first flight. Things
may be a little hectic for the first-timer. Better to wind up on
the airplane on time than to have to use the counseling
service provided by the D/FW Councils of Churches.
New Year 1974 to express
our appreciation and love to
our pastor and his wife, To
our police department, To
our fire department, To our
school teachers, To our
school board, To the Editor
of the Burleson Star and his
staff, To the city council and Bur)eson for
others, who are trying to anc| contributions that
make this city (Burleson) a ~ ZZZZ ~ r—o-
better place to live and raise in ’fhe month of December?
The contributions re-
ceived will go for disaster
relief, medical, and mission-
Coffee
Continued from Pg. 1
elusions. Changes have been
detected, however, parti-
culary by the students them-
selves and their parents.
“Most common comments
from parents have been that
the children seem to show
more affection at home and
that they eat and sleep
better,” noted Spurlin.
When asked for their
comments on the subject, all
the children replied that
they enjoyed their “coffee
breaks” twice daily and
agreed that they found it
easier to sleep at night.
None, however, felt that
there was any discernible
difference in their classroom
behavior.
“We haven’t noted any
radical changes ourselves,”
said Spurlin, “but the only
period that we have
thoroughly evaluated so far
is the three weeks just
before the Christmas holi-
days and that’s an exciting
period for all our student^.”
THE EIGHT BOYS and
one girl that are in the
program drink a cup of
coffee at 8 a.m. and another
at 12 noon. The beneficial
ingredient in the coffee is the
caffeine, which is not present
in large enough amounts in
soft drinks or tea to be
effective.
Ordinary perked coffee
won’t do the trick either; nor
will coffee that contains
sugar.
“Perked coffee keeps re-
circulating through the
grounds and ends up too
acidy to work,” explained
Spurlin. To solve that prob-
lem, the Hazlett Coffee Co.
which is represented locally
by Tom Starks, donated a
large drip coffeemaker to the
school and also furnishes all
the coffee used.
An artificial sweetner is
used instead of sugar for
those who like their coffee
sweet.
"You’d think that caffeine
would be the last thing in the
world a hyperactive indivi-
dual would need,” remarked
Spurlin, “but tests have
shown that it has the oppo-
site reaction on this type
person and actually has a
calming effect instead of
acting like a stimulant.”
IF THE PROGRAM event
ually proves to be successful,
the next logical step would
be to obtain parental per-
mission ot take children off
medication and try the coffee
on them, Spurlin believes.
It’s been done with good
results in other parts of the A.A. “Nick” Kerr reports
country, according to News-
week, and is both safer for
Dear Sir:
• Thanks very
your editorial in
our efforts to secure
reform spending bill.
Please send us a copy of coming year,
the December 20 BURLE-
SON STAR in which ap-
peared your fine editorial,
> no
problems at the high school
with the present situation
the children and cheaper for but noted that a change in
the parents. hours would have an adverse
None of the children in- effect on vocational students
volved in the program at this who worked a part of each
time were regular coffee day.
drinkers before, although
some sqid they drank it on
Saturday . mornings or
has been
January.
The son of Mrs. B.W.
Burleson° on their wedding Thornbury, Rt. 3, 916 Oak
Grove Rd., he recently com-
of Burle- pleted an 11-week nuclear
weapons maintenance spec-
ialist course at the U.S.
Army missle and munitions
center school, Redstone
Arsenal, Ala.
He entered the ; ‘
December, 1972, received when your TV set doesn’t work!
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honors may go to Army Pvt. basic training at Fort Polk,
William L. Youngblood. He La., and was last stationed at
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Youngblood is a 1972
graduate of Burleson High
School. His wife, Sharon,
lived in Huntsville, Ala.,
during his training. His
father, W.D. Youngblood,
lives on Route 2, Austin.
our children.
Let them know you ap-
preciate their efforts to ~ ......... ..........
make this a better city. They ary work throughout the
will be glad to hear from you world The funds are so
and to know you recognize urgently needed to continue
the job they are doing for .... .. ..
has picked up around schools in the you.
_ . - . . • After all, they are busy
and they have work to do
and family responsibilities
' .just like you^have but they siOn"to preach the "gospel’to
l 4k.„ ^11 woridi as spoken in
Matthew 24:14 to hasten
Christ’s coming.
The 1973 campaign was
most successful in reaching
our goal for Burleson.
We thank you again and
hope to see you when we
are all very dependent on these ribbons of
asphalt and concrete. Under the education
section was discussed the 25 percent laid
aside for education. What about the 75 per
cent left over? Urban areas are talking up
a robbery scheme very familiar to some as
“mass transit.” To head off such proposals
the Revision Commission was pondering a
change in the constitution wording to read
“state highways” instead of “public
roadways.” Mass transit will have to be
faced and sooner than we think!
Instead of fighting the inevitable, a
transportation division needs to be set up
under the Texas Highway Department.
The transportation department would use
the available engineers and facilities
which will become available as road jetports. It
construction is cut back. The urban transit
revenue would come from a tax on mass
transit fares with some aid from general
state revenue. A similar plan was
proposed in the last legislature and will be
brought up again.
Property owners only voting (or, having
only their votes count) on bond issues will
soon be invalid if present Supreme Court As
rulings continue their trend. l.„
In areas where universities and colleges referred to “recirculation”. What it meant was, if you missed
exist, the student vote is very large. This your turn you could go back via that shortcut. Otherwise
vote could pass an unpopular bond issue you’d have to go back to the main terminal road and start
over again.
Each terminal building is like a small town within the
boundaries of a larger city. Customers may park near the
terminal of their own airline or park in other areas and ride
to the terminal via Airtrans, an electronically controlled
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ENERGY SAVINGS?--An almost empty
bicycle rack at Mound Elementary School
seems to indicate that one form of energy
saved by Daylight Savings Time is the
energy a child normally expends pedaling
a bike to school. Since Monday-the first
Nationwide, there are a
number of fuel saving mea-
" ; y . mornings or sures being implemented or
“whenever Mother would let studied according to the
me.” They all stated that National Education Associa-
they particularly enjoyed tion, including:
their morning cup since it’s -Closing schools for an
still generally dark at 8:00 extended period of up to two
since daylight savings time months and making up the
went into effect. lost time on Saturdays,
The hyperkinetic problem holidays and during the
summer.
-Eliminating after school
probably will be unnecessary and evening activities.
for these children in a few -Closing schools when
years. Starting at that young temperatures drop below a
age, though if they keep certain level.
drinking it, by the time they --Lowering classroom
are teenagers they will pro- temperatures still farther
bably be able to tell tele- and revising bus schedules,
vision’s famed Mrs. Olson a ..... ‘
thing or two about coffee.
10, 1974
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