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2,353 people move to Allen in 1980
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Monday, January 5, 1981
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makes staff changes
Judge Sue Holland.
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Commissioner-elect Howard Steenbergen will hold at a later
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Local business deals in animal parts
Foods in Fairbury, Nebraska.”
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Gail Goodman, Bob Caldwell, Jon Goodman and Joe Chenoweth
Christmas trees sold
Sheriff Joe Steenbergen
Lucas council
let people pay what they could, or
take one if they couldn’t pay,”
Chenoweth says.
Jon Goodman, of Goodman
Homes, says the homebuilder
wanted to help the Jaycees.
“They had so much trouble, we
wanted to help out,” he says.
The Jaycees planned to use
their anticipated $5,000 profit for
community projects.
Chenoweth says the actual pro-
fits have not been determined.
English Oak; Mac White 701 Sun-
ny Slope and Charlotte Highland,
803 Valley View.
Also, P. Stephen O’Hara, 1114
Sandy Trail; Douglas Kelmer, 147
West Way; M. Santarcangets,
508 Red Oak; Larry Gillen, 568
Cumberland; John Bozone, 813
Meadow Mead; Cindy Bailey, 525
Hanover; Tommy Allen, 706
Roaming Road; Ronda Bowen
Storey, 905 Meadow Mead and
Margie Melton, 721 Circle Cove.
Also, Douglas Quebe, 523
White Oak; D.R. Lewis, 562
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taken their oaths of office and in
at least one case, a shakeup in per-
sonnel is underway.
Joe Steenbergen, who began his
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by Keith Taylor
Staff Writer of The American
If you spend a couple of hours
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Partners in the Prairie Creek Commodities Cor-
poration, Stan Huffhines, left, and Billy Long,
seated, look over a list of potential buyers with
secretary Tricia Burns.
regulations. Article 7.00, 7.01;
Section K, numbers 3 and 4 deal
with the disposal of waste
material.
Article 8.00, 8.01; Section J
recommends that any public
building should be for the benefit
of the citizens of Lucas. Section R
of the same article deals with the
city’s water supply and prohibits
any water, other than drinking
water, from entering the lines.
Article 9.00, 9.01; Section DD
covers the use of public utilities
for industrial waste material.
Following the public hearing,
the city council will meet to
discuss the annexation of 8 tracts
of private property, a total of ap-
proximately 305 acres, into the ci-
ty limits.
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sand pound truck loads of animal
parts to their office here in Allen
with the intention of unloading.
“We never see the things we
sell,” says Long.
“But we do know what it looks
like,” comments Huffhines quick-
ly, who pulls out a 2 inch thick il-
lustrated booklet of parts they
sell, edible and inedible.
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THE 2 GOT MOST of their
training through their ex-
periences in the meat business.
Long worked in the Gooch
Packing House in Wisconsin
while attending college.
Huffhines worked as a meat
trader at Trinity Valley Foods in
Dallas.
Huffhines, who now lives in
Fairview, and Long, who lives in
Allen, say they located in the city
of pride and progress because of
its convience and the value of the
property at 103 Allen Drive.
“Since all of our business is
done over the phone,” adds Long,
“it doesn’t matter where we are.”
Any advice for persons in-
terested in getting into the meat
broker business?
“First off they have to be men-
tally incompetent and enjoy
working 9 to 4,” they both laugh.
4-year term as Collin County Thornton was scheduled to be date.
sheriff when his oath of office was sworn in as the Precinct 1 Major changes in other county
administered Thursday, January representative today. offices have not been announced
1, began almost immediately Webb is beginning his second by elected department heads.
making changes in his depart- term as representative of Precinct
_____ 3 which includes the Allen-
Steenbergen is one of 11 of- Fairview-Lucas areas and now is
ficials who began their new terms the only Democratic member of
November’s general election have County Clerk Margie Craft; Com- A chief deputy and lieutenant
missioner Jerry Hoagland and are yet to be named but these ap-
Collin County Court-at-Law pointments are expected to be an-
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Shortly before noon on the first jailers are scheduled to be replac-
day of 1981 several county of- ed by the new sheriff who also
ficials, including Alien’s represen- must name the department’s top
tantive, Precinct 3 Commissioner officials.
Wallace Webb, officially began One of those positions has been
4-year terms. filled by the naming of John
Others taking their oaths in- Holton to an investigator’s posi-
Sheriff takes office.
During the last year, Allen
gained 2,353 persons with 78 new
families moving to Allen during
December.
The 1980 total exceeds
newcomers in 1979 when 2,252
people were estimated to move
here.
New families to the city this
year numbered 865 with 56 in
January; 93 in February; 87 in
March; 68 in April; 50 in May; 58
in June; 52 in July; 75 in August:
85 in September; 94 in October;
69 in November; and 78 in
December.
Based on 3.4 persons per fami-
ly, and an estimated 20% moving
away, this figure reflects approx-
Misenhelter, 536 English Oak;
Dave Michalek, 1114 Lawn
Meadow; Joe Huse, 560
1, receiving his oath as 199th personnel changes in the sheriff’s
District Court Judge. Roach department although he hasn’t of-
replaces Tom Ryan who retired ficially made those changes
after serving 10 years on the known to the general public.
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Oldbridge; William Moehring,
534 English Oak; Lena
McGowan, 528 Northridge; Elena
Tervinc, 923 Roaming Road and
Withers Smith, Jr., 202 S. Butler.
Also, Michael Laws, 517
English Oak; Keith Evans, 103
Greeting Gate; Judy Hathaway,
720 Wandering Way; Jim
Henderson, 628 Wandering Way;
Henry Fox, 547 Ridgemont; Lon-
nie Hayes, 815 Cypress; Melinda
Wright, 205A Bonham; Russell
Tate, 565 Oldbridge; Victor Ortiz,
521 Northridge; Mrs. Paul Perry,
630 Valley View; Cindy Sherk,
525 English Oak; Kenneth Pelzer,
707 Cypress and Brad Long 539
Cumberland.
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with these guys, in all likelihood part.
you may never eat lunch meat So what parts do you sell to
again. In fact, becoming a these meat packers that they use
vegetarian may seem a good idea, in making lunch meat, I asked?
They call themselves “Well,” they both laugh evily,
“wholesale meat brokers” and “beef heart caps, beef tongues
$ they work out of the Prairie Creek and salivary glands, plus a whole
Commodities Corporation on lot of other goodies."
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elude: Tax Assessor-Collector tion. Holton left a similar position to discuss
Helen Lawson; Justices of the with the Allen Police Department
Peace Glen Swaner and Kenneth to accept the appointment. waste disposal
Bangs; Constables Jerry Kunkle, Steenbergen, a former justice of
Jerry Juvenal, Rowland Kreymer, the peace who defeated incum- A public hearing on amend
J.P. Loftice and Bob Bell. bent Jerry Burton for the ments affecting waste disposal
and other provisions of the zoning
ordinance will precede the regular
meeting of the Lucas City Council
tonight.
All amendments deal with use
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Bethany; Ricky Shields, 536
Windsor; Charles Praide, 308 E.
Coats; Steve Happer, 1106 Sandy
Trail; Edna Noreen, 914 Valley
View; Jim German, 525 English
Oak; William Bodie, 507 Red
Oak; Daniel Brantley, 539
English Oak; David Bland, 533
English Oak; Hessie Norman, 308
St. Mary and Barbara Jenkins,
206 Coats.
' Also, Richard LeMay, 554
Hightrail; Paul Zdanek, 523
English Oak; Mary Tod, 908 High
Meadow; Mrs. Richard
Mathieson, 526 English Oak;
Tom Hurst Jr., 543 Hanover;
Stephen Caley, 519 Cedar Elm;
Walter Lee Wilkerson, 527
after being elected. sioner Richard May and County
John Roach was the first new Judge Nathan White.
official to take office on January Steenbergen has made several
Despite problems with city or- ed city ordinances required a
dinanc.es delaying sales, the saga master electrician licensed in the
of the Jaycees Christmas tree pro- city to do work necessary for in-
ject has a happy ending as a local stallation of lights.
homebuilder “bought” the re- After publicity “at least a hun-
maining 145 trees at the end of dred people came and offered to
the holiday season. help us,” says Joe Chenoweth,
Goodman Homes paid the vice president of the Jaycees.
Jaycees $2 a tree to help offset ex- Lights were finally installed,
penses on the tree sales. but in the week before Christmas
The Jaycees were not able to quite a few of the 612 trees re-
hold night sales the first week in mained on the Highway 5 lot.
December because recently pass- “During that last week we just
on the first day of 1981. Several the commissioners court.
others elected in the general elec- Thornton and Hoagland are
imately 265 people moving into Sanden, 522 English Oak; Chris
the city this month. Ostrander, 205 Cedar; Brad Dun-
New residents, according to can, 517 Red Oak; D. Welden
water meter deposit records are Recer, 506 W. Main; Christopher
as follows: Bishop, 811 Meadow Mead and
Barton Black, 516 English Oak; Tommy Williams, 619 Wandering
Arlene McNary, 567 Ridgemont; Way.
Gregory Edwards, 736 Meadow
Mead; Michael McGee, 528 Also, Helen Janacek, 530
Hanover; Robert Miller, 919 Cumberland; Robin Chambers,
Rivercrest; Arthur Jutte, 512 Red 544 Hightrail; Steven Gillean,
Oak; Ampom Le, 530 English 916 Sunny Slope; Joanne Foster,
Oak; Billy Taylor, 533 Sunny 530 Hanover; Gayland Smith,
Slope; J.P. Little, 307 S. Butler 130 West Way; O.B. McClure,
and George Rogowski, 532 706 Sunny Slope; Elvin Stephen-
English Oak. son, 621 Wandering Way; Rose
Also, James Esillis, 518 Guthrie, 618 Roaming Road and
English Oak; Dr. H.M. Harris, William Morris, 704 Sunny Slope.
101 N. Greenville; Randall Also, Michael Carmack, 529
The company is made up of Bil- Huffhines buy are purchased
ly Long and Stan Huffhines, part- from the major meat packers in
ners, and their executive the country then sold over the
secretary, Tricia Bums. phone.
Exactly what is a wholesale “We buy from someone in
meat broker? Nebraska, Missouri or here in
“We sell edible and inedible Texas,” says Long, "and then we
animal parts to pet food canners ship it to wherever it’s needed.
and meat packers,” says Long. The west coast, the east coast or
Their clientele list reads like the sometimes Mexico.
Who's Who of the pet food Their dealings with Mexico br-
business. ing up some of Long and Huf-
“We do business with com- fhines more unusual moments.
panies such as Alpo, Kal-Kan and “Turkey tails are big in Mex-
Carnation, just to name a few,” ico,” Huffhines laughs. “We buy
says Huffhines. them in El Paso and then sell
“We sell the inedible parts to them to the Mexicans who deep
them.” fry them.” The 2 men gag.
“And the edible parts,” adds Other unusual moments in the
Long, “are sold to Custom Packs pair’s 8 years of business together
Meat in Nashville, Hubbell and include selling horse meat, which
Sons in Houston, Raymond Jay is legal in most states. They’ve
Adams in Dallas and Fairbury also had truckers bring 40 thou-
More than a dozen Collin Coun- Taking their oaths shortly after sheriff’s office, has not named his
ty and state officials elected in being elected in November were top 2 assistants.
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Johnson, Sherry. The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 48, Ed. 1 Monday, January 5, 1981, newspaper, January 5, 1981; Allen, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1423207/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Allen Public Library.