Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 1975 Page: 4 of 16
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4—BURLESON S TAR,JUNE 12,1975
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first session of the annual
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Summer Cheerleaders Clinic
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soil and the infestation of
moss in the
cypress are
damage from soil compac-
tion. This trail provides an
opportunity to view Twin
TENTS ARE TOUCHY
Unless you have spent
some time in a tent during a
rainstorm you may not know
that no matter how well the
canvas roof is water-proofed
it will leak wherever you
touch it from the inside.
Furthermore it will con-
tinue to leak at that same
spot until the tent dries out
completely.
So. let "hands off’ be your so magnetic in the few years
policy. the state park has been in
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everyday routine and rush
and find it in this tranquil
setting. He and his staff are
enthusiastic about perpetu-
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in the rest of the
acreage.
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Burleson Special Edu-
cation Students made a big
“splash” Tuesday at the
Texas Special Olympic Swim
meet at TWC in Fort Worth,
winning five first place rib-
bons.
The Burleson tankers also
captured a second and a
third place ribbon.
Anita McDonald
Parker Jarrell were the big
winners for Burleson, taking
first place in each of the two
events they entered.
Jarrell, swimming in the
boys intermediate division,
took first in the 25 yard
freestyle with a time of 24.5
and then came back and won
the 50 yard freestyle in a
time of 53.7.
Miss McDonald, a junior
mediate division as Phil
Badgett won a second place
ribbon.
All four Burleson students
comprised a 100 yard free-
An unusual feature of this
: is the rangers on
horseback. Since much of the
area cannot be reached by
vehicle, the
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monitor activities and assist
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on Tournament Day and in
line for the weigh-in by 3:30
p.m.
A fish fry is also included
in the day’s activities.
Next meeting of the Bur-
leson Bass Club will be at
7:30 p.m. July 7 in the CB
Club Building.
First step in selling your home is fixing it up. Of
course, you may like the improvements so much, you’ll
decide to stay.
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can help it.
It’s great charm is the
unspoiled, primitive nature
of the country, which
visitors can either enjoy in
the manner of the pioneers
or in the full comfort of
modern camping facilities.
The combination has proved
Choosing a mover? According to the Interstate
Commerce Commission, companies now must offer
you a report on how well they performed last year
according to a number of criteria.
Rule of thumb: spending twice as much on a better
mattress will probably get you five times as much
wear out of it.
girls division contestant,
won coming and going so to
speak. She took first place in
the 25 yard freestyle with a
clocking of 27.9 and then
turned over and won the 25
yard backstroke in a time of
31.4.
Jimmy Beaird won the
other first place ribbon by
winning the 25 yard free-
style in 28.3. He competed in
the senior boys division.
It was a one-two finish for
Burleson in the 25 yard
freestyle in the boys inter-
existence that the admirers
unknowingly could well
destroy the very thing that
drew them there.
Most affected are the
hauntingly lovely tributary
drainages of the Pedernales
River. Water runs in many
of these drainages the year
around and the banks nor-
mally are covered with
delicate maidenhair fern and
southern shieldfern, but
some of these areas have
become so worn that the
department staff is imple-
menting alternate means for
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seven miles of trails over-
looking some of the more
fragile areas, so that hikers
can see and enjoy the natural
beauty without harming it.
A typical interpretive sign at
the Twin Falls area along the
Hill Country Nature Trail
explains the necessity for
such restrictions.
“Twin Falls has been
carved out of the limestone
by Bee Creek in front of you
Burleson Bass Club will
stage it’s June Tournament
this weekend at Lake Pales-
'tine. Tournament head-
quarters will be the north
side of Flat Creek Bridge
just off Highway 315.
Times for Pot Day Satur-
______ day are 5:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Saturdays. A family and from 2 P-m- ,to 7:30 P-m-
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Fishermen can win 60 per
cent of the pot for Big String
and 40 per cent for Big Bass.
The tournament Sunday
will get underway at 5:30
a.m. and continue until 2:30
p.m. Entry fee is $10 per
team.
Trophies will be given for
Big Bass and for Individual
Big String.
Cleburne Challenge Tour-
A voluntary, controlled nament is set for June 28 at
camping program has been Lake Whitney on Plowman
1 ------ Creek. Entry fee is $6 per
person. Contestants are ask-
coveted Gold Cup title, the
Mt. Valley team will be
competing against 24 other
country clubs representing
14 states and two Canadian
provinces.
A Mt. Valley team won
first place in district compe-
tition at Las Vegas in March
to qualify for the finals.
Making the trip this time are
Silver Bransom, Sam Lyle,
Ed Findley, Bill Hill, Bob
Guhl, Mutt Goodspeed,
Charlie Durkee and Leo
O’Dell. They will be accom-
panied by Mt. Valley golf pro
Phil Gray and Homer Pool.
Pool and Richard Jones
played on the team that won
the qualifying round in
March. That team shot a 460
and actually finished one
stroke behind another Texas
team which was later dis-
qualified because a member
of the team did not belong to
the country club.
The winning team of the
tournament will be present-
ed with an exact replica of
the Gold Cup valued at over
$3,000 and will be honored at
a gala cocktail party Satur-
day night in the Terrace
Room of the Desert Inn.
Valued at $300,000, the
actual Gold Cup is perma-
nently displayed in the
Desert Inn lobby. Created
by a renowned San Fran-
cisco jewelry firm, the cup
contains over 15 pounds of
14-karat gold and took over a
year of hand-crafting to
complete.
Where skylights are TOO effective (too much
heat and light coming in), designers have substituted
white translucent panes.
Parisian architect Hans Walter Muller is famous for
his inflated “bubble” structures, similar to the bubbles
that surround some tennis courts here. One inflatable
church folds down into a 2’ x 4’ package.
If you’re ready to move, see Curt Apel & Associates,
Realtors, 124 W. Renfro, 295-8171. We’ll show you
homes just right for your family, with all the special
touches you’ve always wanted.
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So, for the second time in
less than six months, the
Burleson Boys Club is look-
ing for a place to hang its
“home, sweet home” sign on.
Chances of hanging it
anytime soon on the acreage,
donated to the club by a Fort
Worth woman, are slim
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charitable foundation. There
is not enough money in the
building fund to begin con-
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AUSTIN-Will success
spoil Pedernales Falls State
Park? Not if the Texas Parks
and Wildlife Department
and the staff of this excep-
tional wilderness-type park
the general ratio
undeveloped acreage is ap-
proximately one to four, but
at Pedernales Falls State
| Park it is one to several
hundred. Mowing is only
carried out around the
most visitors that they are
developed picnic and camp- looking for escape from the
ing areas in order to retain ’ ' '
the wilderness aspect else-
where. Wildlife roam free in
their natural habitat.
The tournament was
scheduled to get underway
workouts both at the TCU pool and at Mt.
Valley. They are [1-r] standing: middle
school teacher Mrs. Brenda Mathias,
Parker Jarrell, Anita McDonald and
Coach Mrs. Beverly Reifel. Kneeling:
Jimmy Beiard and Phil Badgett.
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AUSTRALIA’S Lovely Eda
Telac causes head turning
among young and old men alike
on Australian beaches. Young
ones check her out for the more
than obvious reasons.. old ones
take that second look because of
Eda’s strong resemblance to
yesteryear’s screen queen Rita
HaVworth.
this morning and continue
through Saturday.
Presently the largest
USGA sanctioned amateur
golf tournament in the
world, this prestigious event
is a culmination of eight
months of qualification and
elimination played with an
original 2,500 amateur golf-
ers throughout the U.S. and
Canada. Vying for the
Burleson Boys Club
members can use the
Panther Boys Club pool,
1501 Lipscomb in Fort
Worth this summer, said
BBC Executive Director Roy
Gollahon this week.
The summer schedule for
weekdays is 10 to 11 a.m., all
ages; 12 noon to 1 p.m., 13
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ages; 12 noon to 1 p.m., 13 ? ““-
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2:30 p.m. for 12 years and i |
under. Beginners may use ! jj
the shallow end Monday, 'll
Tuesday, Thursday and Fri- < ®
day from 7 to 8:30 p.m., all '
ages.
Saturday schedule is from
10 to 11 a.m., boys 12 years
and under; 11 a.m. to 12
noon, 13 years and over;
12:30 to 1:30, 12 and under;
and 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., 13
years and over.
Girl members of the BBC
may swim from 2:30 to 3:30
p.m. on F
swim is also available at this
time.
The fabled boll weevil
doesn’t have anything on the
Burleson Boys Club when it
comes to “looking for a
home”.
Saturday is moving day
again for the BBC, according
to Executive Director Roy
Gollahon, but as of mid-week -
it wasn’t certain just where unless help comes from
Burleson’s largest youth -1-- x ’
organization was moving to.
For the first years of its
|h existence, BBC was nestled
|;< comfortably in the gymna-
LAS VEGAS, NEV-
VADA--A team of eight
golfers from Mountain Val-
ley Country Club is here this
week to compete in the
International Gold Cup finals
being played at the world-
famous Desert Inn and
sion of the clinic to recognize Country Club,
spirit squads for their
accomplishments during the
session.
schools. The session will end
tomorrow.
Students attending the
clinic from Burleson High
School are Varsity Cheer-
leaders Shelly Apel, Cindy
Jean, Shanna Martin, Kath-
<^4*,...^,, leen Rushing, Brenda Silk-
wood, Melissa Tremble,
Nancy Tremble, Jackie Wes-
son and Jill Wilson.
Dr. Curtis Owen, TSU
band director and clinic
coordinator said that the
,3staff of the clinic are all from
the National Cheerleaders
Association.
Students will learn new
spirit ideas, crowd spirit
psychology, sportmanship,
spirit chants and skits and
planning spirit pep rallies.
An awards program will
be held Friday at the conclu-
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Volunteer coach of the
team was Mrs. Beverly
Reifel. Whe worked with the
middle school students sev-
eral times a week both at the
TCU pool and at Mt. Valley.
Mrs. Brenda Mathias has
also been active with all the
Special Olympic youngsters.
SWIM MEET WINNERS -Elk swimmers
from the Burleson Special Education
classes won five first place ribbons plus a
second and a third place ribbon Tuesday
at the Texas Special Swimming Olympics
in Fort Worth. The group has been in
training for a number of weeks with
1 sium at Nola Dunn Elemen-
J tary School. It wasn’t the
greatest quarters in the
world, but it served its
purpose.
Then twoard the end of
the past basketball season,
the old gym was condemned
for health reasons by Burle-
son Health Officer Donald
Paxston.
First Baptist Church came
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„ temporary home for the
BBC offices across the street
from the church and the
school district allowed the
use of the middle school gym
for a single elimination cage
tournament to decide the
basketball championships.
Now, however, the church
has hired a youth director
who needs the small building
as an office for youth activi-
ttes.
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park visitors to experience and Regal Creek coming in the developed area
e area. down from the right. In the there are 70 camping sites,
One is the development of midst of the dry uplands this each fully equipped with
Hill Country Canyon offers a water and electricity, plus a
moist preserve to a variety general restroom with
of ferns, mosses and other showers and a sanitary
moisture-dependent plants, 'dump station. In addition,
Once covered with lush ferns there are 50 picnic sites and
and native grasses, the floor a restroom without showers,
of the canyon below has
suffered compaction from At another location in the
the feet of many hikers. Bare undeveloped portion of the _ .
soil and the infestation of Park there is a primitive gram of wilderness preser-
ball moss in the large group camping area avail- vation is courteously ex-
indicators of able by reservation for Boy
Scout, civic or other similar
groups. This area has no
facilities other than an
Falls without trampling the access road and chemical
area. Help protect and toilets. For those who want
preserve this area by re- to rough it completely, ■
maining on the trail as you primitive camping is offered
continue to enjoy your hike.” in the rest of the vast
Formerly known as the
Circle Bar Ranch, the 4,851-
acre park site is 33 miles park
west of Austin off U.S. '
Highway 290. When sold to
the state in 1970 it was a vehicle, the mounted
treasure of natural beauty, rangers can effectively
monitor activities and assist
Park authorities resolved visitors in the back country
to preserve its natural wild
features as much as possible.
Construction of public facili-
ties and headquarters has Pedernales River frontage
been centrally located in as part of its attractions,
order to leave the greater Placid and extremely beauti-
area untouched. An idea of ful, the river can also be very
this can be gained from the dangerous if due caution is
fact that in most state parks not taken by swimmers and
the general ratio of waders.
Park Superintendent Jer-
ry Bynum says the park fills
a definite need in this
harried modern age. It is
obvious from the faces of
most visitors that they are
instituted, but if visitors
cannot be accommodated the .
staff will make calls and do ed to be registered by 6 a.m.
all they can to locate them at
surrounding parks. The pro-
vation is courteously
plained and so far has met
with understanding
response from the public.
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