The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 3, Ed. 1 Monday, July 30, 1979 Page: 1 of 14
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Public hearing set to discuss school tax
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Monday, July 30, 1979
Allen, Texas
Vol. 10 No. 3
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Susan Anthony dollar
getting rude reception
Engineer Charles Crouch [left] will pre-
sent the plat for Fountain Park East.
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Most of the coins which contain
no silver seem to be used for
collection purposes. Allen State
Bank noted that a lot of people
don’t think the coin is worth a
dollar when it’s handed out by a
teller.
“Most have been taken by kids
walking by,” said Sergeant
Booth. “A lot of thefts could be
prevented if people would lock
doors,” he said, “a thief will pass
by a locked door and go to 1 not
locked.”
The school board expects to set a
date to adopt the tax rate at
tonight’s meeting.
taxes is 20 percent because of
recent revaluations to commercial
property and new growth. The
present tax rate is expected to
generate $279,835.
All of the members of the school
board voted in favor of increasing
tax revenues, and pointed out the
following points to be considered:
•the proposal to maintain the
current tax rate of $1.18 will mean
than was paid last year. Persons
over age 65 will pay $61.95 less;
•this completes the final phase of
a 2-year tax equalization pro-
gram. Now, tax responsibilities
will be more equitably shared by
the various property categories.
ask the commissioners court to
accept the responsibility of paving
Lovejoy board
to meet Tuesday
The Lovejoy School Board will
have a special meeting Tuesday at
7 p.m. to fill 2 teaching positions.
An executive session will be held
to interview teaching applicants.
Meeting will be held at the
school.
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Bicycles are one of the most common thefts from open
garages. The Allen Police Department often finds them
abandoned after the “joy ride” is over. But many local
residents who think small towns are safe never recover
their bikes and other items stolen when doors are left
open, unlocked and unattended.
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by SHERRY JOHNSON
Staff Writer
Approximately $2,500 of the new
Susan B. Anthony coin have been
Circulated in Allen, but not many
of them are showing up in local
store registers.
gone. The purse and wallet were
found in some bushes, but $35
was stolen.
Most of the burglaries in Allen
are done by kids, according to
Booth. Something is left to tempt
them and they take it.
A homeowner in Allen recently
discovered that shotgun shells
were missing from his garage and
said he felt that they were taken
while he was home and the garage
door was open.
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An open garage door is like an
open invitation to a burglar—and
many people are finding that even
small towns are not immune to
theft of property.
Many people believe they are
safe when they move into a rural
area and leave their garage door,
house door, or car doors open—
only to have their property stolen.
The most common burglary in
Allen is from open garage doors
and most often stolen are bicycles.
Sergeant Phil Booth of the Allen
Police Department said that in the
last 3 weeks 4 bicycles have been
stolen from open garages.
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as last year, homeowners will be
actually paying less than they did
last year.
The increase in total tax collected
by the board is the cause for
tonight’s meeting. A state re-
quirement is that anytime an
overall increase of more than 3
percent is anticipated, the board
must hold a hearing.
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The new Susan B. Anthony dollar coin is being treated
more as a novelty than a coin of the realm. At least $2,508
of the coins have been distributed in Allen but most people
want them for collection and some people refuse them
when offered by the bank or local retailers. Marion Clark
6 of Allen State Bank compares the coin with a quarter.
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IN THE LAST 3 months, 8
burglaries have been reported in
Allen from an open garage or
house door. There have been a
total of 13, counting items stolen
from the yard and open space.
A woman left her purse in her
convertible car parked on the
street in front of a friend’s house
while she visited in the house.
When she came out, her purse was
a tax increase for commercial and
industrial property owners since
their property values were in-
creased this year for the first time
in 14 years;
•commercial and industrial
property owners received a tax
decrease last year when the rate
was lowered from $1.50 to $1.18;
•homeowners received a tax
increase last year because values
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OPEN GARAGE doors are a
year-round problem, but unlocked
doors and windows are more
common during the summer, ac-
cording to police reports.
When the children are running in
and out of the house, doors and
windows are often left open or
unlocked.
Once in the garage, a burglar
normally has no trouble gaining
entry to the house. Most people
fail to lock the door from the
garage or use a lock that is easily
forced.
“They’ll steal anything, given
the opportunity,” Sargeant Booth
said, “from chocolate chip cookies
to cameras or radios.”
“One man came back up to the
bank thinking I had shorted him
on his change,” said teller Marion
Clark. “He was counting the
dollars as quarters.”
Wal-Mart manager Larry Parten j ]
said his store had a meeting of . e
checkers when the coins came out
to warn them to watch for the
coins and the closeness of their
size to the quarter.
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THE POLICE arrested 4 young
boys last week and found $250
worth of household items which
the boys had taken from a
neighbor’s home in Walden Park.
The boys, 3 14-year olds and a 12
year old entered an unlocked back
door and took games, penants,
and whiskey, among other things.
Since the boys lived in the
neighborhood, and the parents
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homeowner did not prosecute.
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THE NEW COIN is approxi-
mately the size of a quarter.
Stacked up, the new coin is
between the half dollar and the
quarter in size. And that’s the
reason a lot of people give for not
carrying them. “I’m afraid I’ll get
them mixed up with the other
coins in my billfold and give them
away for quarters,” said a local
customer at a grocery store.
Local retailers haven’t had much
problem with the coin.
■ Property owners interested in
■ Stacy Road will appear this
■ morning at 9 a.m. before the
■ commissioners’ court to present a
■ petition demanding that the
B county pave the road.
■ Verlin Fisher, city councilman of
fl Fairview, requested the appear-
ance and will be presenting a
petition which approximately a
- dozen property owners have been
circulating.
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• getting these signed,” said Kath-
L leen Fisher, Verlin’s wife. Mrs.
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fl in with a total of 125 signatures,
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• were still being distributed.
The property owners have
obtained signatures from any
Collin County residents interested
in the road. It is a 3-mile road
between Highways 75 and 1378,
crossing Highway 5, and with an
exit off 75.
The property owners decided to
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PARTEN SAID that they are
handling the coins only as
brought in by customers and are
not getting them from the bank as
change. “Most customers just
don’t care for them,” he said.
Patti Frie, bookkeeper at
Moseley’s said the checkers don’t
have an extra compartment for
the coins and must keep them
separate.
The coin is said to jam quarter
slot machines, also.
The bank doesn’t have a slot in
their coin holders for the new
coins, and head teller Sandra
Mears said they just have to put
them in a separate place from the
other coins.
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burglaries have been reported in
all areas of the city. Sometimes
bicycles are stolen, ridden for
awhile before they are abandoned
and the police recover them, but
some of them are never found.
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on residential property were
raised and the rate was not
lowered proportionately;
•maintenance of the current
$1.18 tax rate will not increase the
amount of taxes paid on homes
since their values remain the
same;
•each homeowner who applies for
the new homestead exemption will
pay $44.25 less in school taxes
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People working outdoors constantly battle the weather.
After working in the boiling sun on the landscaping job at
Allen State Bank, Doug Delaney was pleased when the
clouds came—at least for a few hours. But then came the
rain.
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The road was authorized as a
farm to market road on June 1976 "
but has not been built because of
hold outs for right of ways.
11 property owners along the -05
road have refused to give up part 20
of their land for the road. A farm
to market road requires 120 feet of
right of way compared to 50 feet W
required by the county.
“We feel like this road is gngs
dangerous,” said Mrs. Fisher. “It
is a route for emergency vehicles ibz
and a bus route and it needs -3
paving now.”
The road and bridge have not ia-
received any maintenance? work K-e-
during the winter according to
people who travel the road. \A/+ inh
The property owners are sixth on V-
the agenda of this morning’s
meeting.
Planning commission
to meet Thursday
2 subdivisions are on the agenda for
b • discussion at Thursday’s meeting of
the Allen Planning and Zoning Com-
mission.
s Engineer Charles Crouch is due to
present a plat on the proposed
Fountain Park East subdivision. The
first area planned for development will
be an extension of Rivercrest Drive
near the proposed elementary school.
Fountain Park East is a proposed
242-acre development being planned
by developers Del Morton and Joe
Duncan.
Phase 1 of the project includes 67.5
acres of homes, 20 acres for the
school/city park site and 4.6 acres of
commercial property.
The proposed 180-lot Oak Hill
addition being planned by Fox and
Jacobs just north of Bethany Drive is
also due for discussion. The area will
have more of the Toy homes.
The commission also wil see the first
draft of a proposed comprehensive
plan for the water and sewer depart-
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the rock road as a county project
and abandon the farm to market
road.
“We are not against the farm to ,
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Wh A public hearing will be held
tonight at 7 p.m. in the Allen
High School Library to hear
discussions on setting the school
tax rate.
The school board has pointed out
that the formal hearing does not
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paying more taxes than last year.
If the tax rate remains the same
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Camper, Buddy. The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 3, Ed. 1 Monday, July 30, 1979, newspaper, July 30, 1979; Allen, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1417068/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Allen Public Library.