Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 139, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 11, 1979 Page: 1 of 32
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Editorials
Food News
Horoscope
Notepad
School Menu
Sports
Weather Map
Complex for elderly
Weather delays housing project
LIVES GOING UP IN SMOKE — Ac-
cording to the United States surgeon
general, that is. A report released today
“overwhelmingly” finds smoking is a
major health danger, officials say. But
despite warnings, Americans continue to
light up. Page 5A.
stop the mud problem.”
Carter said a special mulching
Ice and snow fell from Denton skies
again Wednesday afternoon, covering
the city with another blanket of white
this year. Conditions remained better
than those during the ice storm a week |
ago, though. Mike Ridgell, a worker for
the Scripture Building project, shovels
away some of the white stuff on the north
side of the building at the corner of Elm
and Oak Streets on the square. See .
weather stories, Page 5A.
By JESS BLACKBURN
Staff Writer ■ _ '
“I told the contractor I’d pay for his
Thanksgiving dinner, but I wouldn’t
pay for his Christmas dinner. Now it
dismissal of four prospective jurors
and two others were excused for cause
during the first day of individual
questioning of potential jurors
' Wednesday in the capital murder trial
of John William McCrory.
McCrory, 27, of Argyle is charged
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Denton Utility Board members
Wednesday recommended the City
Council approve a sale of $4 million in
revenue bonds in early March to pay
for the expansion of the city’s waste
water treatment plant and for im-
provements in the city's utility
system.
The action came during a regular
meeting of the board.
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“We find elderly tenants take pride
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housing project for the elderly at
Coronado and Bell.
SAY CHEESE! —The many ways to
Incorporate cheese in your menus are
explored on ’Page IB. Try several
varieties — from soups to appetizers,
cheese is packed with protein and hearty
flavor.
5:47.
Last 24 hours
RAINFALL
Last 24 hours
Total for month
Total for year
Normal for month
Last year to date
, CAMBODIAN OFFICIALS FLEE —
Former Cambodian Deputy Premier
leng Sary fled by helicopter from his
country to Hong Kong today, and other
Cambodians were also reported at-
tempting to leave the county recently
invaded by Vietnam and Cambodian
rebels. Page 2A.
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November, but pork prices slipped.
Prices were higher for processed
poultry, fruit and vegetables, dairy
products and candy. Prices of eggs
dropped 4 percent.
The price of gasoline, sold at the
refinery, rose 4 percent in December,
and kerosene rose in price by 2.8
percent.
The report measured finished
goods, or the price of products just
before they are sold to consumers.
The Producer Price Index for
Finished Goods stood at 202.4,
the Federal Center on Loop 288, was
pronounced dead at the scene by
Peace Justice James Erwin. His body
was taken by emergency ambulance
to Flow Memorial Hospital.
Investigators said the shot that *
felled Clay apparently was fired
through a kitchen window, where a
hole in the glass was found. Police
also said they found footprints
beneath that window leading across
the yard and into the street.
Clay’s body, surrounded by weeping
family members, was in the living
room, where he apparently died, when
police and ambulance attendants
arrived, according to reports.
An investigation into the death is
continuing today.
recommending the council purchase a
liquid sludge land disposal truck for
use at the sewage plant. >
The truck has been used under lease
to spread treated sewage from the
plant on fields adjacent to the facility
in order to handle the city’s demand
, for sewage treatment.
The truck will cost $50,000. _
- JESS BLACKBURN
Of the sale, $2.3 million would be
used to finance the city’s 25 percent
funding share of a sewage treatment
plant expansion. The U.S. Environ-
mental Protection Agency will
finance the remaining 75 percent of
the $9.2 million project.
Currently the city is daily
processing 7 million gallons of sewage
through a plant designed to handle 6
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complex, is the mud which washes
down Bell from the construction site
and onto the residential streets north
of the units.
“We have tried to do something
about the mud, but there really isn’t
Preston used two of their 15 peremp-
tory challenges, which allow at-
torneys to strike potential jurors for
other than statutory reasons, in
gaining the dismissal of a man and
woman, both of Wichita Falls.
See McCRORY, Page 2A
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“We began construction last
January and immediately had two
months of poor weather,” he said.
“Then we had several months of dry
weather and now we’re hitting the ice
again.”
According to his contractor, Belco
Construction Co. of Temple, Carter
said about 40 working days remained
on the 140-unit complex.
“Which means we may open by .
A 55-year-old Denton man was
killed by a shotgun- blast apparently
fired through a window of his home at
1706 Morse about 7;40 p.m.. last night.
Henry Clay Bell Sr., an employee of
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wholesale index
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rising
costs of gasoline, food and machinery
pushed wholesale prices up 0.8 per-
cent in December as inflation kept up
its momentum, the Labor Department
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For all of 1978, wholesale prices rose
9.1 percent, the biggest such increase
since an 18.3 percent jump in 1974, the
department said. In 1977, prices went
up 6.6 percent.
The wholesale price figures are
important because they are an early
sign of what consumers can expect in
the way of price changes in the next
few months.
The 0.8 percent increase for
December was the same as in
November and about average for the
past four months. If averaged out over
an entire year it would amount to 10
percent — slightly above the 9 percent
to 9.5 percent rise in the Consumer
Price Index projected for 1978.
Wholesale food prices, which had
eased in November, resumed their
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Beef and veal prices turned up in
December after declining in
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DENTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 11, 1979
“But this is elderly housing. The
elderly take great care in their homes.
Maintenance in these facilities is
generally small compared with other
complexes,” .he said.
An official with the Department of —,
Housing and Urban Development in much we can do,” Carter said. “When H
Dallas said upkeep on elderly com- the weather improves, we will be "
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meaning that wholesale products that
cost $100 in the base period of 1967 cost
$202.40 last month.
The report was released as urban
officials and the Senate leader of
President Carter’s party were giving
the administration little en-
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million gallons. Ordered by the Texas Found by consultants to have a cash
Department of Water Resources to deficit of $727,000 at the end of fiscal
comply with state regulations by next 1977, the water and sewer department
January, the city secured the grant to now boasts a 2.14 bond coverage ratio
expand its facilities. — that is, revenues in the department
The City Council approved a water are enough to more than twice pay off
and sewer rate increase last summer the water and sewer debts, Bill
to provide enough revenues in the McNary, city finance director, said,
water and sewer department to “We needed $4.5 million in net
adequately cover a bond sale. revenues for coverage of the bonds,”
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he told the board. “At the end of the
year, our auditors said we had $5
million in revenues for a 2.14
coverage. Our financial advisers
indicate we will have no problem in
issuing another $4 million in debt.”
With the issuance of the bonds, the
debt ratio should fall back to about 1.3,
McNary said.
In other action, the board approved
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on a rent subsidy program, has “We haven’t had any trouble selling
created some concerns in the sur- homes in that area," George Camp-
rounding neighborhood in North bell with Tom Fouts Realtors said.
Denton. “And we are getting the price the
“Everyone is afraid we’re building owner wants. I think the residents’
looks like I’ll be buying hiyn Easter another Dreamland and the complex concerns were in the early going,
dinner,” Jim Carter, director of the will soon deteriorate and bring down when the project was starting.’
Denton Housing Authority, sajlfthe .. the value of homes around it," Carter Another. concern, and still a
delays in opening Heritage Oaks, a ' said. e problem for residents around the
storm, trace melted
Area rainfall: .6 melted
precipitation at Krum $
Cloudy
DENTON AND
VICINITY — Cloudy
and not as cold today
and Friday. Low tonight
35; high Friday low 50s.
Decreasing cloudiness
Saturday; mostly fair
and colder over the area
Saturday night and
Sunday, with tem-
peratures warming
Monday. Highs during
the weekend in the 40s;
lows in the 20s.
WEATHER REPORT
Low this morning 31
High Wednesday 37
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May,” he said. Denton realtons also do not project prevent a run-off of soil would be used u I
Construction of the $2.07 million the housing complex-to-have-adverse,on the slopes of the complex. The _ 2 „ . n u"
facility, which will house elderly effects on real estate values for the grass, with the trees and bushes 508,85 - ner«age uaaa noU18 project
people and some handicapped persons homes surrounding, it. See HOUSING DELAY, Page 2A for the elderly at Coronado and Bel has tem-
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By CAROLYN BARNES with the rape-strangulation, death of
Staff Writer 417-year-old Jeana Melissa Walker of ,
WICHITA FALLS — The Flower Mound.
prosecution and defense each used County-District ’Attorney Jerry
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Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 139, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 11, 1979, newspaper, January 11, 1979; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1596576/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.