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Today is last chance
for school tax credit
Kindergarten signup
session set Tuesday
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5-part tax receipt form which the
office uses.
lowered the lot size requirements
for single family residences. 22
acres in the tract which is zoned
Moore to speak
at sports fete
be obtained at Allen High School,
Chaney’s Dairyway or at Allen
Pharmacy.
4. Each child must be registered
in person by a parent or guardian.
5. A child will not be considered
for placement until all above
information is complete and on file
with the school office.
Sitting at the controls of the city’s new computer terminal is Virginia Ragsdill of the
tax assessor/collector’s office. The computer handles tax data for the city of Allen and
the Allen Independent School District.
according to Tom Brian, publicity
chairman of the Athletic Club.
“These students spend much
time and energy in their athletic
endeavors and are deserving of
such recognition,” Brian stated.
“The club is honored to have
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Dinner will be served at 7 p.m. Little slugger
Tickets are $5 per person and may
numerous awards both as a player
and coach.
Bob Curtis in the Allen tax office
reported that as of Friday only
780 of the eligible homeowners
have qualified for the tax break.
Today is the deadline for getting
the exemption. “If they don’t
come in and sign the request for
the $5,000 exemption they will not
will be returned to the school
district by the state. Homeowners
who owned their home in the
district as of January 1, 1979 are
eligible.
The savings will amount to $50
less taxes for the average home-
owner in the Allen and Lovejoy
districts.
Lovejoy tax office is still waiting
for some of their forms also. Both
offices will be open Monday for
anyone who wants to take a few
minutes to sign their name to save
some money. The Lovejoy office is
open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The
Allen office is open from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m.
Promising baseball stars from throughout the Allen area
are getting set for the Allen Sports Association’s summer
baseball program. See related photos on page 9.
coach Moore as a guest speaker,” I
he said.
In other business the commission
set May 10 as the date for hearing
a re-zoning request for the proper-
tv of Mrs. S.P. Roddy. The
Roddy property is located on the
corner of South Butler and West
McDermott and the request is to
change it from R-6 to local retail.
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Jerry Moore, the new head
football coach at North Texas
State University will be guest
speaker at the Allen Eagle Athle-
tic Club All-sports Banquet on
Monday, April 30.
The banquet, which will be held
1 at Rountree Elementary School,
The system, which is the same as
used by the County for its
information, currently stores only
tax information for the city, “but
it could be programmed for other
uses in city offices,” Curtis states.
Transmission time for messages
can be as little as 3 seconds and no
more than 15 seconds even when
the computer is at its busiest.
The computer also prints out the
Over 1,000 homeowners in Allen
will not receive a reduction in their
taxes this year unless they make a
trip to city hall today and take a
few minutes to fill out a very
simple form.
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for local retail was not included in
the request for changes.
The zoning commission asked
Duncan to resubmit his plan
keeping in mind the comments
made by the homeowners. Duncan
agreed to come back with a new
plan.
instead of the usual 2. The students view it with little concern. “It’s
just like another R&R,” says Beaver Mortensen, president of the
Senior class.
School policies maintain that neat appearance is conducive to good
behavior. Students disagree, “We have to dry our hair daily to make it
look shorter,’ Beaver said, “and have to shave daily—since we can’t
have mustaches. But the staff can.” Most of the students thought that
having their hair clean should be the only stipulation put on them by
the administration.
Kathy Maxfield and Mary Lincoln are both senior girls who
transferred from Richardson schools. Kathy said, “I’ve learned a lot
here, but I learned more in Richardson. The school here is growing but
the rules are staying small.”
‘We were treated like adults in Richardson. We had a smoking hall,
took responsibility, and the kids were well-behaved,” said Mary,
echoing many of the students sentiments that they are treated with
distrust at Allen.
In other interviews, Anne Lynge, a Junior who has attended Allen
schools since Kindergarten stated, “many of the new kids just don’t
know how to conduct themselves and they get detention for talking
back or chewing gum.”
are interviewed and give their
will honor the Allen Athletes for I
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signed statement from a doctor or
county health department indica-
ting dates the child was immuniz-
ed against DPT (since age 4),
Rebeola (red measles), Rubella
(German mesales), and mumps.
If Rubeola was received before one
year of age, a booster is required.
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A pre-registration-orientation
session for Allen Kindergarten
students for the 1979-80 school
year will be held Tuesday at the
D.L. Rountree Cafetorium from
2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Principal James Marion says
registration requirements are:
1. All children must be 5 years of
age on or before Sept. 1, 1979.
2. All children must have a
certified birth certificate with a
county file number. Hospital rec-
ords are not acceptable.
3. All children must have a
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Nobody told me to cut my hair until the football season was over,” he opinions on
the student as “discipline”. At least half of the group had come from
other schools within the last 5 years and complained about the
academic level here. They maintained that discipline Would auto-
matically be better and not a problem if the “administration would be
more concerned with education and better schools,” as voiced by one
young lady.
95 percent of the class believed that students involved in athletic
| related extra-curricular activities are given preferential treatment.
Several of the students present were involved in athletics. One senior
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But it is not coniplery
impersonal.
“It instructs you to dim your
light on the board,” Virgina
reports, “it sometimes says,
‘Ouch!’ and at the end of the day
it says, “Have a nice evening! See
you in the morning.’ ”
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The Planning and Zoning
| ‘ Commission turned down a re-
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1 Duncan to change the zoning on a
101 acre tract of land South of
Allenwood Estates.
The land is bounded on the East
by Highway 5, on the South by
Bethany Drive, and backs up to
lots which front on Keith Drive.
15 to 20 residents of Keith Drive
and nearby streets objected to the
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(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the second in a series of articles said. Then he said he was told to cut it.
about the discipline policy at Allen public schools. In today’s article, The students pointed out the condition of the Ag Shop and believed
writer Sherry Johnson interviews students to get their opinions on the the school puts more money into athletics than anything else.
code and its enforcement.) Mark Randolph, senior, a transfer student from Corpus Christi, said
that when he first started school here he was failing American
By SHERRY JOHNSON History, “but then I took up golf, and my grades got better.”
Staff Writer Detention Hall after school is one tool the high school uses frequently
“They treat us like babies,” stated Kathy McGinley, a senior at Allen for discipline. This spring, 4 sessions a week have been scheduled
High School.
As could be expected, students aren’t overly fond of restrictions. Their
feelings about the dress code and discipline policies are no exception.
Monte Geren, AHS principal, recently gave this reporter the
opportunity to interview 60 students during their R&R period (that’s
rest and relaxation).
I arrived, with great trepidation as to how I would be received,
thinking of the “generation gap” and how long it had been since I was
in high school. I needn’t have worried because Sue Newman,
photographer and I walked in on a lively group of Seniors who were
more than willing to tell me their complaints and have Sue take their
picture.
I asked about discipline and found that a lot of things are viewed by
Moore is a graduate of Bonham
High School and Baylor Universi-
ty where he was twice a nationally
ranked receiver and captain of the
1960 Gator Bowl team. His coach-
ing career began with a 4-year
stay at Corsicana High School
during which time they were an
undefeated state championship
team.
Moore spent 8 years as an
assistant coach at SMU, and the
last 6 years he has co-ordinated
the I-Formation for the Nebraska
Cornhuskers. He has received
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Computer technology has come
to Allen City Hall.
The tax office has recently
installed a 1 computer terminal
which enables the city workers to
call up information on all property
taxpayers in the city and school
district with the touch of a
button.
The terminal is connected by
phone lines to a central computer
service in Waxahachie, Texas.
The ICC 40 plus data display
system is part of Western Data
Services Inc.,
The local tax office has had
information stored with the com-
puter for some time, but now that
the terminal is installed in the
local office the information is
virtually at their finger tips.
Virginia Ragsdale and Bob
Curtis who will operate the ter-
minal can make changes on the
keyboard to change information
and at the end of the day the city
can get a print out of the work
done for the day and the amount
of money posted during the day.
At the end of the month, a
monthly report is made which
may be compared with the daily
reports.
g “This will print out the bills for get it this year,” he said.
w us,” states Tax Assessor/Collect- The exemption applies to school
or Walter Curtis. property taxes and this money
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Camper, Buddy. The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 78, Ed. 1 Monday, April 30, 1979, newspaper, April 30, 1979; Plano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1416405/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Allen Public Library.