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BURLESON STAR—J ANU ARY 8, 1976-3
Indoor, Outdoor
Billie Balentine Named To Starts Honor Roll
Devoted Family Makes World Of Homemaker
Cookery Rates High
dislike for giggly girls and that was one of
of money when I married, but I learned it
of our age. We were married in a parsonage
Joe,
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I wore a gold crepe dress and a small hat
and he wore his uniform,” she recalled.
With the same
bilities of marriage, they thought.”
Mrs. Billie Balentine looks back and
laughs at the grim forecast given for her
marriage by well-meaning friends.
Their predictions, she admitted, were not
ous Danes.
The Danish Design exhibit
was necessary to reserve enough to meet
our obligations.
“With the economy being as it is, living
within one’s means requires discipline.
Noting another change she made after
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features of the fireplace include a
heat-a-lator, which circulates the heat into
the room thus cutting down on their fuel
bill and a built-in storage box for logs in
the hearth. The logs are fed in from the
outside, eliminating bark on the carpet.
The antique clock on the mantel at one
time belonged to Billie’s grandparents.
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"2’pkg. orange or apricot gelatin
1 large can apricots (drained and cut), reserve liquid
1 large can crushed pineapple (drained), reserve liquid
72 cup of each of the liquids reserved
10 marshmallows cut fine
Dissolve gelatin in boiling water. Add fruit and
marshmallows.
When cool, pout into 9 x 13 dish and chill until set.
Cook together the liquid drained from the fruit, V2
cup of sugar, 3 heaping tablespoons flour, 1 egg beaten
and 2 tablespoons butter.
Cook until .thick.
When cool, combine with V2 pint whipping cream
(whipped). Spread on gelatin and fruit mixture and top
with grated American cheese or almonds.
When firmly set, cut in squares and serve on lettuce
leaf.
all kind of products. Or as
designer Jacob Jensen stat-
ed when he was awarded the
1 stalk celery, chopped
V4 green pepper chopped
V4 onion, chopped
6 T Butter
1 C cooked rice
V4 tsp. salt
74 tsp. pepper
72 tsp. poultry seasoning
2 Rock Cornish Hens
74 C Burgundy wine
Saute' celery, green pepper and onion in 2
tablespoons butter.
Stir in rice and seasonings. Stuff hens with mixture.
Place hens in baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for
one hour and 30 minutes.
Combine wine and remaining butter; baste hens
with the wine sauce every 30 minutes during baking
time. Yield: 4 servings.
Discriminating
Brides-To-Be
CHOOSE Photography by
Chapman
arrival.
The Rudolphs have been
Burleson residents since last
September. Rudolph is em-
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and Service in Arlington.
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Two years ago the Balentines added a 20
by 28 foot den to their home which boasts a
rock fireplace, a poole table and table soccer
in addition to traditional furnishings.
HOUSE PLANT HOBBY
Billie’s hobby is house plants. She has a
Complete Wedding
— Arrangement Services
FOR YOUR WEDDING YOU WILL WANT EVERY-
THING PERFECT, DONE CORRECTLY, IN GOOD
TASTE. WE WILL BE PLEASED TO ADVISE THE
PROPER WAY, THE INEXPENSIVE WAY TO MAKE
THE RIGHT IMPRESSION. YOUR WEDDING AR-
RANGEMENTS SHALL BE BY CHAPMAN...AT YOUR
PLEASURE, ELEGANTLY TRADITIONAL OR
SMARTLY MODERN.
1705 Everman Parkway
Everman Tfexas
817-293-5584
MINI-DESCRIPTION
The words of their second daughter
provide a mini-description of our homemak-
er. “The unselfish and devoted manner in U1 guvcmuiciiv
heLf?mil^ViSitfOr® children in public schools and I don’t think
- - * - —1 they understand the situations in question-
especially in the South.
“I think they are doing the Blacks an
as a working program where
the first and foremost point
is the demand for the highest
artistic and technical quality.
And this is also the theme
of the exhibit DANISH
DESIGN IN THE 70’s at the
World Trade Center in Dal-
las, Texas, where a large
selection of modern Danish
design will be showns during
the period January 11 -
January 24, 1976.
For the first five days, the
exhibition - as part of the
Winter Homefurnishing
Market, will be open only to
buyers attending the mar-
ket. From January 17th it
will be open to the public.
The exhibition consists of
two sections: One showing
furniture, textiles, silver,
glass, lamps, jewelry, kit-
chenware and porcelain, the
OUTDOOR CHEF-Cooking out-of-doors
is a year around practice for Billie
Ballentine. Here she turns a barbequed
brisket-one of the family’s favorites. The
only time they go out to eat is when they
have a yen for seafood or Mexican food.
Husband Don is responsible for the
Exciting, thrill-packed
MIDWAY
• HORSE SHOW
WILD HORSE RACE*
GIRLS BARREL RACE
REGISTER for LUV
Courtesy Tarrant County Chevrolet Dealers
• Hudiburg Chevy City
• Bill McKay Chevrolet
• Jack Williams
Chevrolet
• Bruce Lowrie,
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pounds, 13 ounces and mea-
sured 21 inches in length
when he was born Dec. 18 in
Harris Hospital in Fort
Worth.
He has a brother, Joey.
Grandparents are Mrs.
J.B. Tucker of Burleson and
Mrs. and Mrs. R.L. Marion of
Fort Worth.
JUSTIN CLINT
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Tigner
of 216 SW Murphy are proud
to announce the birth of
their second child, a son, on
Dec. 18 in Harris Hospital in
Fort Worth.
Named Justin Clint, he
weighed eight pounds, one
ounce at birth.
He has a sister, Mindy,
who is two and a half years
old.
Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Don Tigner and Mr.
and Mrs. J.B. Crawford, all
of Burleson.
JOSHUA MICHAEL
Joshua Michael, the first
child of Mr. and Mrs. Steve
Sill of Burleson, made his
arrival on Jan. 3 in Harris
Hopsital in Fort Worth.
He weighed eight pounds,
three ounces at birth.
Grandparents of the new
arrival are Mrs. and Mrs.
B.A. Richards and Mr. and
Mrs. C.W. Rickman, all of
Warrensburg, Mo., and Dr.
and Mrs. James Sill of
Weatherford, Okla.
The little lad’s father is
pastor of First Christian
Church in Burleson.
LYLE JAMES
Mr. and Mrs. Larry M.
Rudolph, 325 Boulder Ct.,
are proud to announce the
birth of their first son.
Born Jan. 3 in Arlington
STEVEN LEE
The birth of a son is
announced by Mr. and Mrs.
J.J. Tucker of Rt. 3, Burle-
son.
Steven Lee weighed nine
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BASKING BY THE FIRESIDE - The
glowing embers in the Ballentine’s fire-
place add to the atmosphere of warmth
which prevails in their home. Here Billie
takes time out to enjoy the fire on a chilly
morning. The fireplace, which covers half
the wall in the den they added to their
home two years ago, is made of rocks
which came from Glen Rose. Unique
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“They said it would never work. moved to Woodbridge, Va. where her
“We’re too young to accept the responsi- husband, Bob Coultas, is stationed with the
U.S. Marine Corps. His rank is second
lieutenant and he is going to flight school.
Both daughters are Burleson High School
graduates and both married Burleson High
School graduates. Donna’s husband, Alan
totally^ unjustified. Jt was during World Magee, is an architect with a Fort Worth
firm and is working on his masters degree
at the University of Texas at Arlington.
~ a third grade teacher in
would like to have a greenhouse. She also
enjoys yard work and recently finished
painting the inside of the house.
In her dining room a collection of bells is
displayed. Each bell has a i' w ’ ’ ’ .2 1
and many were purchased while vacation-
ing.
The latest to be added to the collection is
a liberty bell which she obtained at the changed, but the Christian
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and most enjoyed the Caribbean cruise they
took last summer. “I can’t swim a lick, but I
love the ocean,” she related.
She and her older daughter, Donna, went
to Washington D.C. in August when Nina each wife would strive to give more than
She frequently cooks outside in a grill over charcoal.
More often she performs her culinary skills in the
kitchen, but always Billie’s family finds the dishes she
prepares impossible to resist.
Billie cooks barbequed brisket, for which the recipe
follows, outside. She either serves it immediately or
freezes it to be warmed in the oven (wrapped in foil)
later.
Also below is a recipe for Burbundy Rock Cornish
Hens, which is her husband’s favorite dish.
BARBECUED BRISKET
Brush brisket on both sides with barbecue sauce.
Cover and place in refrigerator for four to eight hours.
Use enough charcoal to cover an area twice the
length and width of the brisket.
Wpen charcoal is white, place brisket on heavy foil
15 to 18 inches from coals.
Turn every hour and brush with sauce.
(j%ntinue cooking until charcoal is gone (approx-
jwmely five to six hours).
F /can be left without turning and rebrushing with
mice, if it’s inconvenient to do so.
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outdoor barbeque. Utilizing the rocks left
over from the fireplace and a used oven, •
he accomplished the fete. The dog in the
background is one of the family’s three
pets. The also have another dog and a :
six-year-bld, talking crow.
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LUV Pickup
Vindergriff Register on Show grounds
Chevrolet | or dealers show rooms.
lad weighed in at seven
pounds, 15 ounces and mea-
sured 20 inches in length.
Lyle James has two sis-
ters, Lynn Ann, age 3, and
Tricia, 2.
Mr. and Mrs. James H.
Myers of Pontiac, Ill. are
Today, Danish Design is
an international concept.
Why? Among many inter-
pretations one of the most
pertinent, and probably also
most true, is the simple fact
that Denmark as a small
country without great natur-
al wealth, has to put great
Memorial Hospital, the little emphasis on design if Danish
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tive in a fierce international
competition.
Danish products must
compete on the strength of
innovation, quality and de-
sign.
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grandparents of the new shrewd buyers have found a
value in the refined simpli-
city that characterizes Dan-
ish productions. The Danish
note is sounded by a number
ployeed by Cummins Sales of prominent designers - not
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husband admits he’d rather eat at home
than go out.
“In my opinion, homemaking is a full time
job and my mother works hard and does a
good job-the best. I know because I lived in
her home for 20 years;.”
The family came to Burleson in 1959 and
has resided at the present address, 313
Gamble Street, since that time. There were
less than 1,000 students in the entire school
system then.
“This is the second house we have lived in ______ ________ _________
since our marriage. I don t like to move they set for the youth aren’t the best, and
around, said the petite brunette. number two, they don’t take the time to
The ^family attends First United Metho- communicate and understand them,” she
said.
Keeping the kids talking is of uppermost
importance, she asserted.
“Kids go through stages. It’s been my
experience that the best way to cope with
them-as long as it’s something decent that
- . . they want-is to go along with them until
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Adding more on her views of marraige
she said, “I really think many young people
enter into marriage for social reasons and
story behind it with the thought that it may not be lasting,
x . doesn't seem to me that they-look
upon marriage as we did. True, times have
changed and what is socially accepted has
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marriage hasn’t changed. The scriptures
are quite clear concerning morals and
marriage.”
Billie contends that if each husband and
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Danish furniture, of
course, is an important part Industrial Design Award:
of the exhibition DANISH “Design is a way of
DESIGN IN THE 70’S, communicating, design is a
Borge Mogensen, one of language. For every design
Denmark’s finest furniture the important thing is to find
designers, is represented by the meaning of the product
furniture designed 25 years itself so that people who see
ago but still in production it understand it.
and still among the best “I don’t think people buy
furniture of its type. In the things because they are told
younger crowd are archi-
tects Rud Thygesen and
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featuring thMIDS from
how fantastically good they
are. Most consumers, in my
Johnny Sorensen who are opinion, are interested in the
among those most popular product that is thoroughly
with young, design consci- developed.”
The exhibition is sponsor-
w ed by the Ministry for
at the World Trade Center, Foreign Affairs in Denmark
Dallas, is thus almost a
Who’s Who of Danish design-
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the importance of design
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ALL 8 P.M. & SAT. & SUN. 2 P.M. J4.00
SATURDAY 10 A.M. (Jan. 31) $3.00
MONDAY thru FRIDAY 2 P.M. $3.00
All seats reserved. Include 500 with
each order to cover return postage and
handling. Send check or money order.
Specify exact performances desired.
Rodeo ticket includes $1.00 admission
to grounds.
Address mail orders to Southwestern
Exposition and Fat Stock Show. P. 0.
Box 150, Fort Worth, Texas 76101.
they take-their marriage would have a
greater chance to survive.
She cites financial problems as the
leading cause for deterioration in marriage.
“Easy credit causes many couples to get in
over their heads and worry over financial marriage, she said, “Don had a distinct
problems creates many other problems. dislike for giggly girls and that was one of
“For instance, J had no sense of the value my habits. To please him, I broke the habit.
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War II. She was 17 at the time and her
fiance - a sailor with $40 to his name - was
home on his first leave. Donna is
“Our parents had to sign for us because Crowley.
ofour age. We were married in a parsonage Joe, a sophomore at Burleson High
in Alvarado with our immediate families School, is very sports minded and loves
and a few friends present for the ceremony, animals.
He was always active in pee wee and
little league sports. Presently he is playing
indomitable spirit she basketball and plans to play baseball. His
possessed at the time she took her marriage trophies including one for class favorite
vows, she forged ahead-determined to received in seventh grade, are exhibited
disprove the predictions of the Alvarado along with those earned by his sisters in the
homefolks. And thirty years later, the new den.
eighth area lady to become an Honor Roll joe also paints in oils and has one of his
Homemaker and Dr. Don Ballentine are still works, a sunset, hanging in the dining
very much married. room. He, too, likes to travel and visited
Although her’s worked, Billie isn’t an Nina and Washington D.C. at Thanksgiv-
advocate of early marriages. When she ing.
graduated from Alvarado High School- Both daughters were active in band
which at that time only included three years through junior high and high school. Nina
of study-She was 15. She worked as a played the clarinet and Donna the oboe,
secretary in Cleburne for a year before her Together they received an array of medals
marriage and felt she was older than her for their work in band. Donna received a
years. “War can make one grow up in a medal for first division in state band solo,
hurry, she noted. an(j ensemble contest in 1969 and was first
She worked in a college book store while chair oboe in the all state band during her
her husband was a student at A&M. Both senior year as well as being class
Billie’s and Don’s parents are pioneer salutatorian.
reutlen^? J°hns°n County. »pm sjUy about my kids,” Billie confessed.
Marriage is a two way street and both Daughter Nina and her husband, returned
partners must constantly work at it in order Virginia Friday after a ten-day visit
to make it succeed. during the holidays.
“If the entire institution of marriage was CIVIC PARTICIPATION
like the wedding day, everything would be To many Burlesonites, Billie is known for
great, but that s just not realistic, she said, her civic activities in the community and
HOMEBODY more especially for her contributions to
To Billie, her family and friends are her Burleson Independent School District as a
biggest source of pleasure. “I like being at school board member for nine years,
home. I could stay home seven days a week Last May 7 she was honored by the
and never be lonesome or bored. I do love to administration and trustees of the school
have company and to entertain in my home, district, at which time they presented her
My coffee pot is never empty. an engraved plaque in appreciation of her
I can t understand women who get bore.d service to the school board. “I wouldn’t ask
at home. It seems to me there is always for any more respect from members of the
something to do. board or administration than I received. I
‘I love people and like to help friends out, believe they respected my decisions,” she
especially where death or illness is said.
concerned,” she said. Perhaps she came by the position
Like his wife, Don too enjoys homelife. A naturally inasmuch as her father, Pat
veterinarian, he is a member of the training Walker, served on the school board for 12
staff for APHIS, a branch of the Depart- years in Alvarado, where he continues to
ment of Agriculture. A government em- make his home. Don’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
ployee for 26 years, he has been officed in J.T. Ballentine, live on a farm near
Denton for the past two years. In his work Alvarado.
he prepares materials to be used in training Presently she isn’t a member of any local
meat inspectors. organization. She is past president of
They were married seven years before Burleson Newcomers Club and was a
having children. member of Burleson Garden Club. She is
Their three children are Mrs. Donna licensed to sell real estate, an occupation
Magee, Mrs. Nina Coultas and 16-year-old which sl*£ for a few yeafs.
' J°e- Concerning today’s schools, she said, “I
definitely think the federal government has
too much to say about the way we run our
schools-and us as individuals for that
matter. I don’t think those in influential
positions in the federal government have
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and guests in her home makes them feel
welcome.
“Her home is warm and pleasant and she x
enjoys cooking and baking. Even her injustice as well as the Whites when they
encourage them to do things they aren t
comfortable doing.”
ABOUT TEENAGERS
As to the problems confronting teenagers
today, she says, “I believe the peer
pressure on the high school level is greater
than in the colleges and has a detrimental
effect on them. She also maintains that peer
pressure is greater now than at the time
her daughters were in high school.
“The main thing wrong with the youth is
their parents. Number one, the examples
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