Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 62, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 13, 1976 Page: 5 of 36
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Wednesday . October 13, 1976
Roving Hen
Finds Way
Back Home
By L. A HARPER
Staff Writer
Heidi, the contented, prodigal
chicken, has returned home to her
roost
Her flight of freedom ended the
same day it began last Thursday
although her owners, Mr and Mrs
Roy B Mills of Roanoke didn’t
know that until around noon
Tuesday-'
That was when Heidi was returned
to the Millses, ending an odyssey
that had all the ingredients of an
adventure — at least for a chicken
THERE WAS a narrow escape
from a couple of hungry dogs, a last-
minute rescue, a three-day stay in a
strange land and, finally, the happy
homecoming
Heidi is terminally infected with
the traveling bug. and frequently
hitches rides into town with Mills —
as a stowaway roosting on the air-
filter.
Thursday, however. Heidi felt
fancy free as well as footloose when
she reached Denton Center shopping
complex, and wanted to play the
chase game with Mills alter he
discovered her
But the elusive egglayer out-
distanced Mills, who finally had to
go home to tend waiting chores,
leaving Heidi setting under a neigh
boring car
Friday morning. Mrs Mills called
the Record-Chronicle seeking help
from the public in locating a pet
game chicken, solid brown with
small spikes
BI T HEIDI already had been
located, unbeknownst to the locator.
Norman Lance, who works in the
receiving department at Denton
Center’s Sears store
i Lance was on his way to lunch
THE DENTON RUt ORD t HR ON It if
City
Hold
Page SA
Park Bond Funds
or Future Grants
advisory committee from 4 000 square
leet to about 5 300 square feet. Huck
By KERRY GUNNELS
City Editor
Il state and federal funding sources
are willing Denton officials want to be
able to acc ept additional giant money
for park development
to insure the city has sufficient
money in the bank tor local matching
funds it the city has the opportunity to
receive another park gi ant city of
ficials Tuesday dec ided to hold back *
_ about $400 000 in park bond funds until
1978
DE \ TON N is i cessful this ye at in
snaring a $400 000 grant for the com
Photo By LARRY BARR
HOME AC AN- Heidi the gypsy chicken w as on her loads her into a box w ith the help of Norman Line €
way back home to Roanoke Tuesday after a three day • who found the hen wander ins in Denton
stay in the big city Here, Peggy Mills, Heidi $ owner €
Thursday w hen hesaw twodogschase
a chicken under a car Upon
rescuing the frightened fowl, Lance
immediately began to wonder what
in do wilh her, since Heidi would
hardly fit in his apartment lifestyle
A coworker ol Lance s Gene'
Squires, volunteered to take the
unidentified hen to his mother. Mrs
Harold Squires, and her Aubrey
farm
■ As soon as I walked in the door
said Squires, "Mother said Haven’t
you read the paper’ That chicken’s
missing'
Three days later, Heidi was back
with the Millses During that time
the obliging hen left Mrs Squires
two eggs tor her troubles
she wasn’t even upset. said
Mrs Mills "She’s back in her roost,
setting again
“I certainly appreciate that tellew
who found her It it wasn’t tor your
paper, she d be an Aubrey chicken
now
till s ENDS another chapter in
Heidi’s saga, full her travels are
- probably far from over Mills
related another sojourn she made in
June
The lien dec ided to flop a ride to an
irgyle steakhouse with Mills again
without her driver s knowledge She
per ked .H ound the door of the
restaurant, trying to get in
5 man picked her up € ouldn 1
figure out where she belonged, and
finally gave her to another man
from Hlaslet in north central Tarrant
County
As you’ve probably figured out
the Millses got Heidi back a month
later with eight chirks
prehensive park improvement
program now under way It hopes to be
eligible for additional grant money by
the state s 1978 funding cycle
A staff proposal on how to proceed
with the development program was
unveiled to members of the city council
and parks and recreation board
Tuesday,
By and large it met with the ap
proval of both bodies who suggested
relatively minor changes in facilities
planned between now and next sum
mer -
Among the major decisions handed
dow n Tuesday » as" the ac > eptane e of a
significant inc rease in the cost of the
proposed senior v itizens center
said
Also the cost of constructing the
building has risen from the initial
estimate ot $25 a square foot to. $32. he
said * *
And finally the architect s recom-
mendation that the senior citizens
facility not GE constructed as an ad-
dition to the pr esent Civic Center but be
built across the creek from the round
building will make additional parking
and sidewalks necessary, the P&R
director said
sWtl I OK 1 of the stall proposal
for park improvement is necessary.
W hite said, in order to clear the way tor
state approval ot the plan which must
come is-tore the gi ant money is made
available a
In addition to the $400,000 grant, the
city last spring sold $1 million of the $1 8
million in-bonds approved last year for
park development
it w ill spend up to $1 2 million on the
proposed projects approved Tuesday
in the remaining $1 million inc luding
$800,000 in unsold bonds $600,000 is
carmarked tor two community
ORIGINALLY $100,000 was ear
marked lor the center But file at
- chitect s'estimateot the building seas',
based on recommendations—submitted
by a citizens advisory group is more
Than double that amount, City Manager
Jim White said
Several factors are responsible leu
the increased cost.. Parks and
Recreation Director Dick Huck ex
plained
First, the originalvze of the building
was increased on the advice ol the
recreation c enters .
Hit KI MINDER-will lie kept in
reserve in case the city is ottered ad
ditional giant money -winch requires
the city to mattli equally all-approved
grant funds
We can’t promise that well get
another penny in grant funds. White
said But we think we have a good
charice to do SB
Counc if members also appt oved stall
recommendations to build a road in
North Lakes Parkextending from
lie-lime Brae east to Georgetown Street
and to construct expensive water and
sewer extensions into that large, un
developed park area.
Gold Rush Tradition Goes On
TWU To Celebrate 25th Carnival This Week-
many people Let s hope that laughter
By ROY APPLETON III nesday on the TWU campus, amid the
Education Writer - oak trees near the intersection ot
. , T Locust Street and East University
Twenty-live years ago Texas State
College for Women (TSCW) was Drive
celebrating its golden anniversary
That same year the late Dr John A
Guinn,__then president of the local
college, decided festivities such as
carnival and parade would help involve
more students, faculty and local
residents in TSCW’s celebration
Thus, the Gold Rush Carnival and its
related activities were born
in the last 25 years the school has
Gone are the parade and extensive
dormitory displays' that formerly
helped mark Gold Rush festivities But
there is still plenty of cotton candy
games skits and music to fill an
evening at the carnival
The carnival will lie in operation from
Councilman
Criticizes
never stops, she said
on hand to provide laughter this year
will be a dunking booth a lollipop tree
a
moonwalk booth and numerous
sources of food and drink Enter
tainment will nil hide music from the
TWI Serenaders, a variety show and
dormitory skits ' ” ~
gained a new name (Texas Woman's
University), new leadership in
President Mary Evelyn B Huey and a
new look with the construction ot high-
rise towers and new classroom
buildings
But the Gold Rush Carnival still is a
major event on TWU s fall calendar of
activities
The carnival will come to hie for its
25th two-day round at 4 p.m Wed-
4 to lo p in Wednesday and Thursday
Cost is 25 cents per person, regardless
of age Free tickets are being .
distributed to Denton State School
students
- Theme of this year's carnival is the
"wild, wild West."
Gold Rush "is a chance tor us TWU
students, to become more involved
with the community Because through,
the community's efforts the success ol
Gold Rush has continued to rise," Mary
Kevetter. Gold Rush co-chairman, said
"Twenty live years ago Gold Rush
w as started to bring lu'n and laughter to
Bridgeport
Studies Suit
On Land Damage
BRIDGEPORT — The city attorney
here is preparing an answer to a suit
asking lor $125,000 in damages and an
injunction to stop flooding of pasture
land
The suit, filed by Donald Manning in
early October, alleges that the city
diverted surface water by constructing
a road in December 1974 The water
constitutes a public and private health
hazard, is a continuing tresspass,
eliminates the plaintiff s right to the
use and enjoyment of the property, and
has caused milk cows grazing on the
land to produce less milk, the suit
alleges.
The city is not guilty in the flooding.
City Manager Maury Brown said "The
water goes on the state highway down
the Fight of way into the creek, which
then backs up on his land," Brown said
Gold Rusli is sponsored tiy the TWL
Student Government Association
Proceeds from the event are used to
pt ox ide scholarships and loans to TW 1
students
As in the past local businessmen are,
supporting the Gold Rush effort with
contributions and participation in the
carnival festivities
Things are really going well for this
year’s Gold Rush were getting a
bigger response from area
businessmen than ever. Jacque
Harris, Gold Rush cochairman said .
Mrs Murray Kendrick is chairman of
the business and professional leaders
organization supporting the carnival
Selection
Ilie city council wants the parks and
- recreation board to begin reviewing
arehileetural-firms to design the two
proposed neighborhood recreational
centers approved in the 1975 parks bond
program
But Counc liman Bill Nash wants the
board to make certain that ar
chitectural firm is a Denton one
Nash was critical ol the P&R board’s
recommendation last summer to the
council to hire the Dallas firm of
Hatfield, Halcomb. Inc . to design the
senior citizens center now in the
planning stages.
Carter's ‘Brigade’
Plans Denton Visit
A busload of Jimmy Carter’s neigh-
bors. known informally as the "Peanut
Brigade, will visit Denton Wednesday
and Thursday as part ol a barn
storming tour ol Texas in a people to
people campaign in support ol their
former governor
The Georgians, all ol whom know
Jimmy Carter, range in age from 20 to
65 They are paying their own expenses
and are visiting more than 100 Texas
cities
The group will arrive in Denton
Wednesday afternoon They visit
Denton Center and Carriage Square
shopping centers beginning after 6 13
pm They will spend Thursday mor
ning touring the downtown square
before leaving for W ise County at 10:30
a in
____"Traveling mostly_on__farm-to--
market roads, stopping at barber
simps barbecue stands and v •» n i 1H •« »•
lawns, the brigade has brought the
I al ter campaign back to the grassroots
level where it first began," said Bill ’
Brannon director of Ilie Denton ( County
Demor ratio campaign
State Land Commissioner Bob
Armstrong, the cochairman of Car-
ter s Texas campaign, welcomed the
brigade to Texas
During the early primaries."
Armstrong said, "when other can-
didates had all the attention and the
media recognition, the Peanut
Brigade helped make Jimmy t arter a
w inner we are happy that Texas is one
of the five states they re going to
canvass for the November election
And they're also a great bunch of
people." Armstrong added. "I m sure__
Texans will like them and on Nov 2.
we re going lo see that Texas elects___
Jimmy Garter as well
Leading The Club
Staff Photo
fhe councilman repeated his
criticism Tuesday during a joint
meeting of the council and P&R board
to review staff proposals for park
development
What did the Dallas architects have
, th.it a local architect didn’t have ' he
asked later adding "I’llbet there s not
one brick different" from the building
designed by the Dallas firm than one
drawn up by a local architect
P&R board chairman Pat Cheek said
iTwas the council who asked the board
to review architects for the senior
citizens facility, a task board members
took seriously
Architects were reviewed under
generally accepted guidelines she said
She said Nash s critical comments
did us an injustice and made us look
like- fools"
I wish you would have told us you
wanted a local architect before you
gave us the job, not alter." she said in a
hot exchange with Nash
The Denton Kiwanis Club has a new-leader Rowe Meador left has taken
ot er the office of president fi om Bob Crouch. The installation ceremonies
were held Tuesday at -a club luncheon.___.
Four members of the council went
along with the boards recom-
mendation Only Nash opposed the
si-lection ol the Dallas firm
British War Correspondent
To Discuss Rhodesian Conflict
The Evening Muse
Sandy Gall. British war correspon-
dent whose film of the North Viet-
namese takeover of Saigon in 1975 was
televised throughout the world.
Thursdav will discuss the value of his
job as well as England s relationship
w ith Rhodesia during talks on the North
Texas State University campus
Gall, a reporter and newscaster for
Independent Television News (ITN) in
London, is on a four-week lecture tour
ot the United States as part of a Elliot
Winant Lecture-Fellowship
Gall will discuss the role of the war
correspondent and the foreign
correspondent at 11 a m Thursday in
Room 41I of the NTSU Student Union
Building
Hs will talk about Rhodesia
Britain's Last Colonial Problem at 2
p m Thursday at Room 222 of Wooten
Hall on the NTSU campus
Both talks are iree and open to the
public. A
Gall covered the Congo War the
Middle East War and the Vietnam War ,
1965-68 arid 1975) and witnessed the
Paris riots in)1968 while on assignment 1
for Reuters and ITN
Mark Twain the
famous writing man
was the best with the
words of our land.
out than to get out "
He wrote "there are two
times man shouldn't speculate
When he can afford
it and when he can't.!'
And this one can tear
your hair,
"When angry count to 4
when very angry swear."
for logistics
"There are 3 kinds of lies,
lies, damn lies and statistics."
And this he could write
with a shout
"It's easier to stay
Then with these words
he'd like to tease
"Get the facts at first, then,
distort them as you please.
Now this one might call
And this one shouldn't
be placed in a casket
"Put all your eggs in one basket
and then watch that basket "
We can think bn this one
as we stroll
"Be careless in dress if you must
but keep a tidy soul."
—Brooks Holt
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