Cedar Hill Chronicle (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1980 Page: 2 of 20
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age 2— CEDAR HILL CHRONICLE, Thurs., July 3,1980
Heat, rate increase nudging
utility bills skyward
Soaring temperatures
his summer, combine
vith a May 27 rate
idjustment are being
efiected in higher
onthly electric bills,
ccording to Ray
lhaver, Texas Power &
Jght Co. manager in
)uncanville.
In the 30-day period
nding June 15,1980, the
iverage temperature
vas 81.6 degrees. Over
hat same period in 1979,
he average
emperature was only
5.2 degrees.
The average high
emperature in those 30
days in 1980 was 92.8
degrees compared to
85.4 last year.
For the week ending
June 14 of this year
TP&L customers
consumed 19 percent
more electricity than in
the same week a year
ago.
TP&L officials believe
that if the weather
remains around the
100-degree mark, within
a few days the system
peak demand for
electricity could pass
last year’s mark.
“The increase in con-
sumption of electricity
by our customers is
caused by an increase in
use of their air
conditioners to combat
the higher
temperatures,” Shaver
said. “This naturally
will increase the use of
electricity and mean
higher bills.”
Mr. Shaver said that
some of the things people
can do to minimize the
increase in their bills
would be to keep their
thermostats set at 78.
degrees or higher and to
see that air conditioning
units are operating a
peak efficiency.
Customer require-
ments for electricity
reached still another
all-time high Tuesday,
as the Texas Power &
Light C. System say
demand reach a high of
5,198,000 kilowatts. The
peak came at 6 p.m., as
the temperature stood at
105 degrees. The day’s
official high (at DFW
Airport) was 106
degrees.
Today’s useage edged
out the previous record
of 5,134,000 kilowatts, set
just last Thursday (June
19) and was con-
siderably above the
previous high of4,926,000
kilowatts set back in the
summer of 1978.
contd. from page 1 ■ ■■OpGH"Sp3CG GXGWiptiOll
an open-space valuation of $140,070 on 18 parcels of
and with a market value of $5,630,690. Rosewood’s
1979 school tax was $51,239.28, as compared to their
jrojected 1980 tax of $1,24.64.
The open-space valuation of the Wylie property for
school taxes for 1980 was $61,710, compared to the
market value of $2,369,500. Projected taxes on the
property this year will be $561.56 or a $20,000 decrease
Tom 1979.
The open-space valuations on the Rosewood Corp.
and Wylie property will represent $101,069 of the
^162,093 the city and school district will lose to section
1-d-l this year.
Despite the new agricultural and open-space
valuations, persons and corporations qualifying for
;he exemptions face the possibility that additional
taxes will be levied in the future.
The additional or rollback tax is implemented if
property owners qualifying for agricultural or section
L-d valuations sell or divert the land to nonagricultural
use. Under open-space or section 1-d-l provisions, the
rollback tax is inacted only when the land is changed to
non-agricultural use.
The rollback tax extends back three years on
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tax Exemptions'*'/ (
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Tax “Relief’ Amendment 1980
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agricultural valuations and five years on open-space
valuations.
The Tax Relief Amendment has affec ted other parts
of Dallas County as well. Dallas County will lose
$53,000 in revenue due to a loss of $70 million in
property valuations because of the new law.
The City of Irving will lose $9,680 in revenue from the
Las Colinas Corporation, developers of some of the
most expensive property in the county, on land with a
total market value of $984,749. The section 1-d-l
valuation on the land in 1980 will be $4,727.
The City of Richardson will lose $10,681 to Hunt
Properties on land valued at $2.5 million, now valued at
$3 190
The Cedar Hill City Council and Board of Trustees
are currently in the process of planning their 1980-81
budgets, with the school district budget due Sept. 1 and
the city budget due Oct. 1. feet 0f water in the
Once the budgets have been determined, a tax rate neighborhood swimming
will be set depending on the total property value pooi or area stock tank,
assessted for the city and school district. Last year the - The hazards of these
city council set their tax rate first, then determined the caim waters
budget, causing extensive problems according to city
officials.
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Taxpayers
Drowning possible in pool
The terrors of the deep
are not confined to
murky ocean mysteries.
“The deep” can be a few
Country Day
Contest winners
Bublegum Blowing Contest
lst-Kevin O’Neal
2nd-Ray Chambers
3rd-Scott Camp
Jump Rope Contest
lst-Brandy Brantly-82 times
2nd-Laura Cashman-64 times
3rd-Chris Petree-56 times
Watermelon Seed Spitting
lst-Ty Burcham
2nd-Dugan Taylor
3rd-W. T. Reynolds
Arm Wrestling Exhibition
Match
60-100
Brenda Taylor
Drake Clark
100-120
Steve Russell
120-140
Ray Wiggins
Tracey Foster
140-170
Terry Bolton
W. T. Reynolds
Officers Hamilton and Ashmore
170 and above
Jim Strickland
Keith Noble
170+ left handed
George Osteen
Cow Chip Toss
Elton Hudson
Horeseshoe Contest
1st-Jackie King and Elton
Hudson
2nd-Joe Pit and Dr. Clark
3rd-Jim Strickland and Jack
Quinn
Washers
lst-Joe Potter and Keith Noble
2nd-Frank Crawford and
Richard Taylor
3-Legged Race
Over 10 years
lst-Don and Randy Covert
2nd-Tracy Foster and Jennifer
Hibbard
3rd-Terry Jeaotte and Jimmy
Sills
Under 10 years
3rd-Ronda Hopton-Jones and
Brandy Brantly
Liar’s Contest
Bert Jones
Vernon Clark
Mrs. Kimrey
Chicken Flying Contest
lst-“Bessie”, Jim Hibbard
2nd-“ Charles
Dugan Taylor
Douglas
Lindberg”
and Ruth
Tug-O-War Trophy Winner
Police Department
‘10’ Contest
Carolyn Gage
Cedar Hill experiences
hottest month ever
Cedar Hill’s official dust,
weatherman Greg Temperature records
Patton said that June of were broken on the
1980 was the hottest !'?.1,low!n?,d.a„y^Jun,e.J'
month ever recorded in
the Dallas, Cedar Hill
area.
Since May 16, Cedar
Hill has received only
0.86 inches of rain. With
eleven days of 100
plus degrees the rain did
little more than settle the
101°; June 19, 103°; June
23, 104°; June 24, 106°;
June 25, 109°; June 26,
113°, highest
temperature ever
recorded; June 27, 113°,
tied prior day; June 28,
112°; June 29, 108°; June
30,107°. June 18 recorded
103° but was not a record.
are
revealed by Texas
Department of Health
statistics that show
swimming pools and
tanks claimed about 45
percent of the 585 people
accidentally drowned in
Texas last year.
Major dangers of these
seemingly safe waters
are swimmers careless-
ness and overcon-
fidence, the Texas
Medical Association
(TMA) says. If they do
hot fake simple
precautions such as
checking the depth
before diving and
watching where they are
swimming, even
experienced swimmers
can hit their heads on
pool sides or bottom.
Submerged trees and
rocks add to dangers in
tanks.
Diving boards are
another springboard to
danger through
carelessness or overcon-
fidence. But even the
best swimmers can be
injured if a diving board
is slick or in bad repair.
Overconfidence in
estimating swimming
ability often plays a role
in drowning because of
exhaustion, which is
another big cause of
swimming pool
drownings. Stepping or
falling into deep water,
cramps and losing a
flotation device such as a
raft or inner tube also
are major causes of pool
drownings, according to
a federal survey.
Knowing how to swim
could save many people
in such situations but
often drowning victims,
especially young
children, do not know
how to swim even well
enough to get to the
nearby shore. Alcohol
adds to problems can
confuse even a good
swimmer and contri-
butes to some pool
drownings, TMA says.
TMA recommends
everyone learn to swim
at least well enough to
survive falling in water
and that adults keep a
close watch on young
children in the vicinity of
a body of water.
Teaching youngsters
about wise water
behavior is another
important task for
adults because it can
help prevent the perils of
overconfidence and
carelessness when the
child is older.
Enter Now
Pool Tournament
Lone Star vote August 9
The Speaker
Reports
A new Southwest a means of providing a
’Dallas County park and solution to the area s
ride lot and addition of mounting transportation
regional public transpor- problems,
tation services are County Commissioner
among early benefits Roy Orr represents
Cedar Hill would enjoy if Cedar Hill, DeSoto,
the Lone Star Transpor- Lancaster and Duncan-
tation Authority is ville on the^sub-regional
approved by local voters board which has evolved
in the special election the LSTA Service Plan.
Saturday, August 9, the The plan will go into
citizens for better effect in each
transportation said. community that
Cedar Hill is one of 64 approves the authority
communities in the on Aug. 9, provided
Dallas-Tarrant County LSTA also wins voter
region that will votq on approval in the centra
greatingjhe authority as pities (Dallas and Fort
the two
counties
Worth) of
principal
involved.
LSTA has been
described as the most
effective way to combat
traffic congestion
caused by the addition of
250 new vehicles each
day to metroplex streets,
to ease the energy crisis
and to insure the
convenient, transpor-
tation of people within
the metroplex.
The system will cost
less and work more
efficiently than today’s
almost total reliance on
freeways to keep pace
with traffic growth. It
will provide a
less-expensive alterna-
tive than private
. automobiles as a means
of getting to and from
work and other destina-
tions.
The long range goal of
LSTA is to build transit-
way corridors for the
exclusive use of
high-speed mass transit
vehicles. Decisions as
to what mode of transit
will be used in the tran-
sitways will be made as
technology develops
July 4th
Trophies will be awarded
to winners in each category
age brackets
12-13 18-17
14-15 - 18 & older
Entry Fee is^50i per person
each entry will pay 25* t per game
\ Blue Front Recreation
Center j
Jfj J[
107 Main St,
by Bill Clayton
AUSTIN—Each legislative
session the Supreme Court
of Texas is appropriated
monies by the Legislature in
order to perform valuable
ervices to our state. Most
ecently this Court was
appropriated a budget of ap-
rcximately one-third of
one percent of the total
amount of monies ap-
ropriated by the Leg-
islature for the present
>iennium. This is a com-
>aratively small amount of
nvestment for the
lumerous tasks performed
>y the Supreme Court.
Ifuties for which the
Jourt is responsible include
>rcmulgating rules of civil
>rocedure, rules of ad-
ninistration for the judicial
;ystem, rules of procedure
for the Commission on
Judicial Conduct; equalizing
icckets ir. the 14 Courts of
Jivil Appeals; overseeing
he State Bar and the
icensing of new attorneys;
tnd, of course, writing
pinions on individual cases.
The work done by this
judicial body has increased
iuring the last few years at
m unprecedented rate due
>rimarily to the increased
lumber of cases. While the
Justices write all c-f the
increasing number of
opinions, they need an
increased staff of attorneys
to research past cases and
write briefs on such cases.
Furthermore, the increased
work load puts a strain on
the available facilities and
equipment necessary to per-
form these duties.
Thus far the Court has
managed to keep up with
the duties assigned them.
However, 1 feel it is now
time to conduct a com-
prehensive review of this
Court to determine what
increased support services
are needed and to recom-
mend appropriate funding
for them. Therefore, the
House Committee on
Judicial Affairs has been
charged to undertake this
reviewn
We cannot afford to per-
mit our highest Court to ac-
cumulate a huge backlog of
cases. We must see to it
that the Supreme Court can
handle its work in trte most
effieient, thorough manner
possible. This committee
study will give us com-
prehensive detail of those
needs.
Cedar HiH Chronicle
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MEMBER 1980
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Hardin, Ken. Cedar Hill Chronicle (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1980, newspaper, July 3, 1980; Cedar Hill, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth714541/m1/2/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Zula B. Wylie Memorial Library.