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Boxing
tourney
set Saturday
nationwide, Barton says. They
were Dr. Thomas Lee of the
University of Texas, Fred Ebbs of
Indiana University and Claude T.
Tallenettes show.
“The judges commented on the
enthusiasm of our band,” Barton
said, “they said our performance
was the most exciting. The judges
said that the general feeling and
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This is only the third time the
band has traveled out of state and
Barton said he was particularly
proud of the band because the
music had been worked up by the
band in just 5 weeks. During that
time the band had also done the
identification.
Another method to combat the hot checks is to warn other merchants
and compare notes if someone is passing bad checks in the area.
Clifford Hart, manager of Woody’s, also keeps a control list which
shows him the name of anyone who has ever written a bad check in his
store.
If a merchant is not sure if a check is good, he may call the bank and
verify the account, according to Gunther Weiniger, vice president and
head cashier at Allen State Bank.
ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE used by the bank and many big city
merchants is a check service which serves as a clearing house for
information on bad check writers and supplies the information to
WHAT CAN BE DONE to halt the growing number of “hot” checks?
Most common practice is to require complete identification.
Jack Pepper, assistant criminal attorney for Collin County,
emphasizes that a hot check can be collected only when the writer is
located.
“It is most important for us to be able to identify a person if we should
have to issue a warrant,” Pepper says.
Chaney says it hurts him most when a new person in the community
comes in and gives him a quizzical “don’t trust us” look when getting
identification for checks.
“The problem is, I’ve trusted other people,” he says. And he’s got the
worthless paper to prove it.
A person’s drivers license is the best ID and Chaney has found that
few people object to showing their license. He believes that 75 percent
of all bad checks are honest mistakes. But he still asks for
pre ject When a major contractor is
al eady on site.
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YARBROUGH’S BID of $123,
680 was accepted. The company
plans to start immediately on the
building, which will be located
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[Staff photo by Sue Newman]
First phase of the Bethany Road apartments is nearing comnletion near Boyd
chartered bus on Friday arriving
at Kansas City in time to have a
rehearsal at their hotel.
The band performed at the
Worlds of Fun Amusement Park
Concert Hall at 8:30 a.m. Satur-
day morning and then the stu-
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by SHERRY JOHNSON
Staff Writer
member companies.
Also, the bank does sometimes close out the account of a person who is
an habitual bad check writer.
If all attempts to collect fail, the merchant should go to the district
attorney’s office with the bad check.
Pepper notes that the DA’s office gets approximately 200 hot checks
referred every month.
In some instances, a check written and returned for “insufficient
funds” or “no account” is prosecuted as a regular “theft” case.
In other instances, the DA’s office tries to collect the check. If
unsuccessful, a warrant is issued for the arrest of the writer.
In the end, everyone gets “burned” by hot checks.
excitement of the kids was
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between the gymmasium and high
school.
Hopefully, the project could be
completed at about the time
school starts, Dr. Hom says.
The board also discussed plans
for landscaping the high school
and developing a master plan for
the 32-acre high school site. The
plan would include long-term
solutions to such problems as
drainage and utilities.
A sabbatical leave program
also was okayed by the board to
stimulate further graduate study
by the faculty. The program is
designed to compliment a pro-
gram approved last year that
provides for increased pay for
12-hour increments of college
credits earned. The 12-hour plan
is partially responsible for bring-
ing the total number of AISD
teachers enrolled in college
courses from 4 in 1977-78 to 15 in
1978-79.
Dr. Hom pointed out that
maximum cost of the sabattical
leave program to the district
would be $7,000 per year.
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Lovejoy students
to register
Kindergarten registration for
students in the Lovejoy Inde-
pendent School District will be
held from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and
from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Friday.
Superintendent Gilbert Hess
says that students age 5 before
September 1 are eligible to attend.
Parents accompanying the
students are reminded to bring
medical records and a registered
birth certificate.
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ed the “Outstanding Perform-
ance” award, being chosen as the
best by the judges of all the bands
in the class.
The 3 judges are known
The Allen Eagle Band was
judged Superior and Outstanding
Performance in their class in their
first entry into national competi-
tion at Kansas City Saturday.
The band, playing under the
direction of Charles Barton, com-
peted against 12 bands from 6
states in their class.
Bands from Texas, Oklahoma,
Arkansas, Nebraska, Missouri
and Kansas competed. The 3
judges gave the band the Superior
rating—Division 1 at the con-
clusion of their morning perform-
ance Saturday.
At the end of all the perform-
ances, the Allen band was award-
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IN OTHER BUSINESS, the
board:
• appointed board of equalization
consisting of T.H. Ereckson,
William T. Ray, Glen Renfro and
alternate Leland McJunkins. The
group will probably meet near the
middle of June to certify the 1979
tax roll;
• approved application to receive
school lunch commodities;
• approved final interior color
selections to phase 1 of the high
school;
• amended the 1978-79 operating
budget; and
• renewed contracts of 4
teachers, .accepted the resigna-
tions of 2 teachers, appointed
Keith Watson as attendance offic-
er and hired 4 teacher replace-
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Elementary. The 2-bedroom units, due to open July 1, will be the first major apartment explained that this is not un-
cumpnex ror Alen. common since contractors are
hesitant to bid on a smaller
dents had the rest of the day to
The program performed by the enjoy the park as part of their
Smith of Winger-Jones Music, band was Inglesina by Delle Cese trip.
and Divertimento for Band by “It was a tremendous trip,”
Persichetti. Barton said, “we took 61 band
Assistant director Chuck Brous- members and 20 parents and
sard praised the band and said everyone had a good time.”
they, “played well over their The band had to return to Allen
heads.” Sunday and missed the awards
The band had raised funds to ceremony, but are looking forward
Members of the board of trustees
of the Allen Independent School
District swore in newly elected
members and approved a bid for
construction of a high school
commons facility at their Monday
meeting.
Elected to 3-year terms in April
were incumbents Dr. E.T. Boon
and Jerry Carson. Dr. Roger
Powell won the seat vacated by
retiring Bill Beaty.
Holdover board members are
Ward Paxton, Pat Dillard, Jim
Kerr and Howard Snider.
A major item on the agenda for
Monday’s meeting was discussion
on contracts for the proposed high
school commons building.
Yarbrough Construction Com-
pany, which is doing the work for
the current high school additions
project, was the only firm to
submit a bid on the commons.
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Growth of Allen has brought several big city problems here, including
checks with “bounce.”
As “hot” checks become more and more common, the cost to
consumers, who must eventually pay for the losses, goes up.
Wal-Mart manager Gary Case says the problem is worse here than in
the small isolated town he came from in Mississippi.
“We get more than our share here,” he says. And Case believes that
Allen’s location near a metropolitan area aggravates the problem.
Many of the “bad” checks received at Wal-Mart come from out of
town, particularly from Plano and McKinney. Case defines a “bad”
check as a check which cannot be collected.
“Some people will open an account in a bank with $50 and write $500
worth of checks on it,” he says. “Others travel coast-to-coast living on
bad checks.”
Roger Chaney of Chaney’s Dairyway says he wants to trust people
and feels the number of bad checks he gets puts a hardship on the good
customers.
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Camper, Buddy. The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 81, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 1979, newspaper, May 10, 1979; Plano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1416408/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Allen Public Library.