Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 10, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 14, 1979 Page: 5 of 16
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550-acre airport site is also a goal of
Solar power plans part of utility budget
Three zoning proposals
set for public hearings
Fair pageant deadline Wednesday
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City-county trade benefits both
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Sheriff’s office probe may go
to Wise County panel Aug. 22
the Airport Advisory Board, along
with other types of development. .
Dr Gene Wright, chairman-of the
rent-a-car franchise added
"There is no observation deck, no
restaurant," he added. “Pilots are a
strange breed They like to fly off
droning
pable joy
ung Texas
ided them
to such
/ment, fair
adequate
exchanging data by phone at'8 p m.
each day. With the new equipment, a
computer will operate the system on a
minute-by-minute basis to figure the
most efficient use of the generators.
Two persons have been added to
ialectic.
a longshot
the Texes
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the oil and
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the basic,
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limb down
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politics.
the 1 1972-
campaign,
t has been
afraid of
. A queen and a runner-up will be
selected in each category
Wednesday is the deadline for err-
tries in the 1979 North Texas State
Fair Pageant to be held Aug. 23 at the
fairgrounds on Carroll Boulevard
Entry forms may be obtained from
the county-extension office. Cour-
thouse Annex. 566-3607:
. Participants -must enter one of the
Some of the so-
called "bargain”
insurance
plans floating
around can end
. up costing
your company a
fortune.
Both in time
rather just keep it and not let anybody have it. We
get more out of it by leasing."
Renshaw said he thinks it will take at least two
years to put the park in operation, depending on the
amount of state or federal aid money the city
receives to help develop it. "It’s not in this next
budget, and that starts in April." he said
In addition to the proposed baseball park and
picnic area, Renshaw also said there might be a
parks department office constructed at the new site.
He added that this action will in no way affect the
facilities at Harmon Park.
In other action, the commissioners court asked its
legal adviser Ed Forbis to take another look at the,,
proposed countywide tax appraisal board.
Forbis suggested that the board take no action on
joining the taxing district, which would be made up
of five persons who'would hire an appraiser and sit 2
as the board of equalization, until Forbis can make —3
a. further study of its advantages. The main
disadvantage he found was the possible expense of
1 the board, which would be borne by the members of
the district. -
He also suggested that the county consider con-
tracting with the district to do the appraisal work:,
but still have the commissioners sit as their own
board of equalization. *
they are -—
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The job of county court coordinator, held by
Geraldine Foster, will be continued for the next
year, Denton County commissioners decided
Monday.
The position was reviewed recently by a special
evaluating committee, chaired by County Com-
missioner Chester Sparks, who delivered the
committee’s report Monday, recommending con-
what equipment exists and which
equipment would be most adaptable
to Denton. Then, if the program ap-
pears feasible, the city might ask for
volunteers to pay a monthly rental
and have a solar hot water system
installed. It is possible that some
loans might be made available to
encourage installation of the pilot
systems.
The City of Santa Clara, Calif , has a
program similar to the one being
studied It provides incentives for
Stan Thomas
Fule- Representative
(if money were available),’’ he said.
County probation officer Charlie Cole, Sheriff
Kenneth George, Judge Bob Scofield, Judge Bill
Boyd and several attorneys all told the review
committee the court coordinator was necessary and
should be continued.
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Show me why Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas
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□ I’d like to talk with one of your representatives.
Blue Cross
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Joe Hurley
Life Nules Special i-t
and money. -----------
Because you have to do all the paper
work — all the filling out and filing
of claims forms.
It literally puts your company into
the insurance business, and can mean
a lot of payroll and man-hours going to
doing the insurance company’s job.
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-■trainer ptane and'afratrUfier trashed 'Stewart, an airline -pilot, said he equipment comes jn. the airport will
at the San Diego airport ’ - • . • — 5 •
available technology to determine General Fund as the city's return on
----------- very real benefit
of direct claims handling with most
doctors and hospitals.
Call or write your local Blue Cross
and Blue Shield representative shown
here, and _
its Aug. 3 meeting, cast the only dissenting vote
Switzer said he was concerned the taxpayers did
not want to pay for the position, which is funded
through $7,400 of county funds and $10,600 from a
federal grant.
Switzer also noted that all the persons who
testified before the review committee were af-
filiated with the courts. “I can understand why all
tinuation of the position those people would be for it. I would be for hiring a
The court coordinator is responsible for helping county purchasing agent and reduce my workload
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
of Texas ,
said George Burlage. federal
Aviation- Administration officer in
Fort Worth.
FAA. which is responsible for air
traffic safety, became interested, in
the Denton airport while establishing
a traffic control area forD-FW.-
The'Denton airport was sliced off
the mapped control area, deliberately
omitted, to allow it to be used as a
satellite airport •
A 1975 FAA study determined that
i Second of a series on the new city
budget)
Denton's electric utility will operate
on a budget of $23.8 million in the year
beginning Oct.’ lewithout a rate in-
crease, but with the fluctuating fuel
adjustment charge covering a $3.9
million expected increase in the cost
ol. producing electricity, mostly
because of the cost of natural gas.
The $23.8 million electric depart-
ment budget, and a $4 7 million budget
for the water and sewer system are
major segments of the City of Den-
member of the Airport Advisory
Board that Denton had been omitted
from the D FW traffic control area
Curious, he pursued the question
He and Assistant City Manager
King Cole met with FAA represen-
tatives, Stewart said, to check on the
status of the Denton airport and the
possibility of FAA grant assistance
for airport development.
Since: those inital queries, the
federatageney has provided some
$720,000 in grants for land acquisition,
extension of the runway to its present
5,000-foot length, necessary for small
jet aircraft, and a long-range plan for
airport development.
• FAA then furnished an instrument
landing system and put in an installed
By KEN ATKINS
Staff Writer
DECATUR — Wise County commissioners and
the Decatur City Council agreed Monday to a trade
which will give the city a new park and the county
either some new office space or some $25,000
In their morning meeting, commissioners voted 3-
1 to trade 14.68 acres of their "poor farm” for the
former Rogers Hospital, which was donated to the
city several years ago by Dr. Ben Merritt after he
moved his clinic out of the old hospital.
The City Council followed suit on the trade at its
evening meeting, voting unanimously to accept the
county’s offer. According to city secretary Sam
Renshaw, the council thought the county’s offer was
better than the $25,000 offer it had received for the
hospital from a "Denton realtor
The only other bid submitted to commissioners
for their land was a $21,000 offer from Gordon
Hofstra, who owns part of the original poor farm
and has been teasing the rest Hofstra’s lease on the
land, which includes the traded portion, runs
through Sept. 30, at which time the county and city
will make the trade final and the county will
renegotiate its contract with Hofstra.
Bill Newton of Bridgeport was the only com-
missioner opposing the trade, saying, "I would
the three district judges, the sheriff, district at-
torney and probation officers in arranging the court
schedules so proceedings can move smoothly, the
report said.
County Commissioner Bill Switzer, who was a
member of the review committee but did not attend
That crash spurred improvements
to provide satellite airports, which”
meant more funds to the reliever
airports ’
A $650,000 grant announced by FAA
that will be used to make badly
needed improvements in the runway
at Denton Municipal Airport is a part
of a national program in which $100
million is allocated for satellite air-
port improvement over a four-year
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Provided in the electric budget are" Nelson said any solar hot water
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By NITA THURMAN
Associate Editor
Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport
has carried Denton Municinal Airport
along on its coattails into a new stage
. of development
"Because of the proximity of D FW
$ Commemorating fifty years- Woruing for a healthier America
DECATUR — Investigators of the alleged misuse
of funds in the Wise County Sheriff's Office hope to
present their findings to the grand jury Aug. 22.
according to District Attorney Brock Smith:
During a recent routine audit by County Auditor
Carl Privitt, some $2,400 in bond money and other
funds were discovered missing, and some $1,800 in
unauthorized expenditures were determined to be
either questionable or unauthorized
Smith commented Monday that his investigation.
had been going better than ne had expected, but the
grand jury hearing would be only preliminary
“It's a long and tedious process," he said, “and
we don't want in leave any possible lead un-
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would at least pay for themselves.
The City of Denton Utilities expects
to sell about $8 6 million worth of
electricity to' residential customers
and about $13.4 million to commercial
customers during the year. Expen-
erebaless you go to the people
=- who do the job for you.
Up to now, this has been done by budget, $360,865 is allocated for
Denton would be "a likely candidate period
was a
Give your company
the benefitofthebest.
capital improvements, such as
upgrading of lines and extending
service The city funds as much as
possible of such costs out of current
revenues to avoid paying interest on
capital improvement bonds.
became aware while he
taxiways and possibly the parking
apron
Money for the grants handed out by
FAA comes strictly from a tax
5 package of
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benefits
space in the building wings
The future as forecast in the long-
range study is based more on num~
bers.
Come 1992, the picture projected in
that study is a 10,000-square-foot
terminal building — it is now 1,600
square feet — a maintenance and
equipment building, fire and rescue
equipment building, much more
automobile parking, ah access
taxiway, improved entrance road,
plus the business-industry increases.
The final touch to that picture is a
heliport, complete with its own pad.
and parking area
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smaller field to which air traffic can
be diverted, relieving traffic at
metropolitan airports
While 'satellite projects were
already in effect, events at San Diego
tragically dramatized the problems of
mixing private and-commercial
. following categories: Little Miss,
between the ages of 3 and 6 years;
Junior Miss, between the ages of 7 and
12 years: or Queen, between the ages
of 13 and 18 years.
The grant, which represents 80
percent of total costs, will be used to
add a 3-inch asphalt overlay to the
5,000-fpot runway at the Denton air-
port, where crumbling areas have
been patched and repatched. The
overlay will also -extend to all
hanks to
to leave
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servation station operation, Giles
Smith of Aerosmith said, probably
within 90 days
Next improvement anticipated for
the airport is a control tower, but that__
will not come until traffic reaches an
annual average of about 200.000 — or
until there are regularly scheduled
daily flights at the airport, a
possibility Aerosmith is now con-
sidering
Traffic- count now at the Denton
airport, based on an FAA survey
made earlier this year, is 136.166
general aviation operations annually,
a figure that includes 111.309 local
— operations and 24.857 itinerant
, per at ions
The long-range plan for develop-
— funds Iof the—evaluation —of- a.
residential solar power program for
solar hot water heating and possible
pilot projects using solar power for
hot water heating ”
City Utilities Director Bob Nelson
said the‛$50,000 will finance the study
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airport users ultimately pay a
majority share of improvements
Airport Advisory.Board, projects such
possible businesses as other Fixed
Base Operators, overhaul facilities,
air freight, warehousing and such
marginal related operations as in-
surance or trucking.
Improvements to the terminal
building ire also needed, Wright said,
beginning with maintenance.
"We need a restaurant there the
lands I would like to see the grass
manicured So when dignitaries come
in that way, they would see
something Onlv rerentlv was there a
The Denton Planning Commission
will hold public hearings on three
proposed zoning changes Wed-
nesday.
Robert Cobb has requested the
property at 1021 Cleveland St be
changed from single-family to
neighborhood service classification
Grant Jacobson has requested a
change in zoning from single-family
and planned development to multi-
family classification on a 5-acre
J tract north of the proposed Windsor -
Drive extension and west of Stuart
Road
the investment in the utility system
In addition, the electric system will
pay the pity $539,387 for ad-
ministrative services
The cost of producing power is
expected to be $3,948,592 higher next
year because of the cost of natural
gas. Other major production items
are replacement of a system to take
the minerals out of the water used in
the electric plant and equipment to
allow better -economic dispatch of
power.
Economic' dispatch means that the
power systems of Denton, Garland.
Greenville and Bryan are linked so
that they can be operated at peak
efficiency. For example, it is better
for one plant to run full blast Than for
two to run at partial capacity, so the
system provides for the best use of the
various generators in the Texas
Municipal Power Pool
I
checked -t don’t have enough evidence at the
moment to draw any conclusions but I would like to
go before the grand jury pretty soon and get their
feelings about what we have already."
Privitt, who said he turned the case over to the
district attorney's office several weeks ago, also
under the direction of investigator Don King and said his office plans no further investigation on its
Parker County District Attorney James Rutledge, own but would aid other investigations.
John Stout has requested an-'
nexation and agricultural zoning on
1 58 acres south of the intersection of
U:$/ 380 and Cindy Lane
The commission also will receive
a report on land use issues in nor-
theast Denton and consider several
final plats. - \
Commission members are
scheduled to review final plats for
the Oakhill Addition; R.F Hare
Addition: Village, Phase III; R.E.
Ford Addition; Heritage Oaks;
Golden Triangle Industrial and
Alton Davis Addition,
D-FW airport gives lift to Denton’s facility
' approach lighting system, at a cost of ment of the airport forecasts a traffic
about $77,000, according to Burlage count of 140.000 by 1977. up to 179,000
"That kind of completed the airport by 1982, and on to 250,000 by 1992, the
itself," Burlage said • * " end of the study-period.
assist -in the installation of new
electric metersand to increase the
quality of existing meters in terms of
testing and calibration.
As it is now, meters are installed
and checked only on a spot need
basis. Nelson said the additions will
allow the city’s 18,000 meters to be
checked on a more systematic,
routine basis.
Water sales are expected to be $1.4
million for residential customers and
$1.1 to commercial customers. Sewer
fees should total $866,981 to residential
customers and $767,800 for com-
mercial accounts.
Funds have been included for a
water Conservation program similar
to the one the city already operates for
energy users It. will be an in-
formational program to help people
conserve water The item totals
$15,000
In the water and sewer distribution
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for a satellite airport,” Burlage said,
“because it is near a major
metropolitan airport.”
In April, the Denton airport’s status
was moved from general aviation to
3 reliever or satellite
A satellite or reliever airport is a •
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and possible pilot installations. It will ditures mainly will be $26 9 million to
be done in stages with a decision being produce the power,
made at the end of each phase on Also included in expenditures -is
whether to continue, he said, $1,885,789 to make payments on
First, a survey will be made to . system expansions and improvements
determine the extent of any solar hot made with bonds (debt service),
water installations already in Denton. . Another major item is $1,230,000
Next, a study will be made of the, expected to be transferred to the
bones and
I be found
oped their
in recon-
them by ,y ;
To add to airport capabilities, - Forecasts are based, the study said,— somewhere to another airport. have
Aerosmith Corp just sent an em- "on the assumption that development lunch, sit around the terminal
ployee through training torqualify as a of the types of industry that would use buildingand visit, and then fly home "
Denton City Councilman Dick certified weather observer When airport facilities would be en 2 , ....
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have an authorized weather ob- . mGEdi 00 _ ... add wings to the terminal building,
industrial development around the leaving a central lobby and a
restaurant or snack bar, with office
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