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Thursday, July 31, 1980 Burleson, Johnson County, Texas 76028
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Rutless Renfro
The Renfro Rut will soon be no more as crews from the Missouri-Kansas-
Texas Railroad worked this week to improve the grade crossing at the service
track intersection with Renfro. The work, which was originally announced for a
couple of weeks ago, should be completed this week. Improvements to the main
track crossing Renfro was made earlier this year. Star Photo
Begins Aug. 11 In Alvarado
Old Settlers’ Reunion
The 88lh annual Johnson County
Pioneers and Old Settlers Reunion
kicks off Monday, Aug. 11 with a 6 p.m.
street parade in downtown Alvarado.
The queen contest will follow at 8:30
p.m.
Winners of both contests will recieve
cash prizes.
The queen will receive $50 and a
trophy, first runner-up will receive $30
and second runner-up, $20. The queen
and both runners-up will receive
charms.
Contestants do not have to live in
Johnson County but must be sponsored
by a club, organization, business or in-
dividual in Johnson County.
Entry is limited to the first 25 to com
plete registration. Entrants must be
between the ages of 15 and 21 not mar-
ried or previously married.
The contestants must also ride in the
Aug. 11 parade.
Registration
Registration is planned Thursday,
Aug. 28 for all high school students, ac-
cording to Principal Charles Boren.
Boren said photos will be taken for
student identification cards, fees will be
collected and other information
gathered. Class schedules will be issued
at home room on the first day of school,
Sept. 2.
Registration schedules:
8:30-9:30 am—Seniors.
9 a m —Freshman orientation.
9:30 a m.-11 a m. —Freshman
registration.
11-12:30 p.m —Sophomore registra-
tion.
12:30 p.m.-2 p.m —Junior registra-
tion.
Prizes and trophies for more than 30
enlrants will be awarded in the parade
contest.
The lop decorated float will receive
$100 and the second place float will
receive $50. The top decorated car will
receive $75 and second place, $25. The
lop religious entry will receive $40 and
the top decorated vehicle will receive
$25.
Trophies will be awarded to first and
second place entries in a number of
categories.
A baby contest is planned Aug. 12 at
7:30 p.m. Categories will be toddler to
2‘i and 2’i to 41^.
Singers from the Slephenville Opry
will provide a variety show Aug. 13. The
Country Westerners will perform Aug.
14.
Fiddle contests in three age
groups—35 and under, 36 to 66 and 67
and over—are planned Friday starting
at 8 p.m.
Prizes in each age group will be $35
for first, $25 for second and $15 for
third.
Each contestant will play two tunes
with three accompanists allowed.
Amplified instruments will not be
allowed.
The three age group winners will
compete for the honor of Reunion
Champion Fiddler.
The Texas Sundowners will, provide
the music Saturday, Aug 16 on the final
day of the reunion.
The Johnson County Pioneers and Old
Settlers Reunion started in 1893 and
was held at several locations annually
before settling into reunion grounds at
Alvarado.
Early dales for the reunion were set
on dates of a full moon because many of
the visitors camped out at the reunion
grounds, often riding a wagon from
Cleburne where train passenger ser-
vice was available.
Initial reunion members were those
who were in Texas prior to the Civil
War but membership was later chang-
ed to a 25 to 30-year residency require-
ment.
After land was purchased for the reu
nion, a pavillion was destroyed by a
tornado. A second pavillion was
destroyed by fire and has been replaced
by a metal structure.
Trustees Eye Tax
Hike,Teacher Raise
Four budget alternatives were
presented to Burleson School Trustees
Monday night and still a fifth is ex-
pected to be unveiled at the budget
hearing slated for Monday, Aug. 11. The
board also okayed a tax roll of
$188,288,040 as presented by the Board
of Equilization.
Superintendent of Schools Gordon
Cockerham made the budget presenta-
tions to school board members and
recommended they accept a proposed
budget calling for a $500 across the
board pay increase for teachers and a
12( hike in the tax rate.
This would result in a balanced
budget of $9,134,000 by utilizing $112,000
in reserve funds, he told the board.
Turstees will be taking another look
at that option at the budget hearing and
will also consider another proposal
which would increase the tax rate by
15c That extra 31 over Cockerham’s
original proposal would generate
another $55,000 which could be used for
teacher salaries.
The group of teachers present at the
board meeting Monday night reiterated
their earlier request of an increase of
$600 per year in local increment for
teachers with a bachelor’s degree and
$800 per year for those with a master’s
degree
IF ONLY TEACHERS salaries are
considered in the additional $55,000, it
could be just about enough to provide
that request.
Originally, the full membership of the
Burleson Classroom Teachers Associa-
tion had voted to ask for a $1500 in-
Acrease in the amount paid by the local
district above state minimum. After
meeting with trustees on several occa-
sions, however, a teacher pay raise
committee was formed and eventually
agreed on the $600 and $800 request.
Any less than that will not be enough
to alleviate the morale problem felt by
Burleson teachers, according to David
Buffington, president-elect of the
BCTA. “That’s the bottom line figure,”
he told the board, “but with that
amount most of us would feel we were
getting the support of the community.”
Teachers apparently had the support
from several persons who attended the
meeting to address the South Tarrant
County Airport issue.
One of those, David Sharp, noted that
“the biggest asset Burleson has is its
school system. Many people have mov-
ed here just for that reason.”
“All the new board members ran on a
platform of higher teacher wages,” he
continued, “and I have talked to many
of my neighbors and they are all in
favor of a tax increase to maintain the
high quality of the district and to pay
teachers what they need and deserve.”
He added that he didn’t feel BISD
residents would resist a tax increase as
much as the board might think. “If it
takes 20t, then let’s do it,” he conclud-
ed.
ANOTHER CONTENTION of Buff-
ington and other teachers was that they
had been working with the administra-
tion and board for some time in an at-
tempt to get a pay increase and were
now being lumped in with other groups
who had not actively sought higher
wages.
Included with teachers in the $500
proposal were secretaries, aides, clerks
and administrators.
“Teachers should be treated as a
separate group,” maintained Buff-
ington.
Cockerham agreed and noted that or-
dinarily this would be the case but
pointed out the low $150 local increment
that aides, secretaries and clerks are
now receiving. Imporved compensation
is needed in those areas as well, he said.
While teachers held firm to their re-
quest for $600 and $800 increases, it re-
mained a friendly dialogue between
them and the board and BCTA Presi-
dent Nadine Pope seemed to sum up
most of the teachers feelings when she
told the board “We know funds are not
prolific so we ask you to do the best you
can.”
COCKERHAM TOLD BOARD
members that in looking over the finan-
cial situation of the school district, he
found four areas of concern which
trustees should keep in mind while for-
Marshal Question Back
On Briaroaks Agenda
BRIAROAKS—The long-debated
marshal controversy here may come
to an end Tuesday when the city council
is expected to approve the employment
of Travis Hash as city marshal.
At a special meeting two weeks ago,
Hash was okayed for the job pending
his obtaining a bond. Current marshal
Jerry Scarbrough continued to serve
until his replacement assumed office.
Also on the agenda are three items to
be presented by Lee Glazener, all of
which will probably pertain to the mar-
shal situation. Glazener claims the door
of his car was damaged by Scarbrough
when he stopped Mrs. Glazener for an
alledged traffic violation.
Single Woman Seminars
A bill has been previously presented
to the council and a check issued by the
city, but apparently has never been
cashed.
Glazener will present a report from a
citizen’s committee, take up the proper-
ty damage question again and read a
letter to the city council.
Also on the agenda will be a vote to
confirm David Stockbridge as city
council treasurer and a proposal on
cable television by Slorer Cable Televi-
sion Co.
Slorer is the company that suc-
cessfully bid on the cable TV franchise
in Burleson.
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mulating the final budget.
These concerns are:
—Approximately $115,000 worth of in-
creased staffing that has been approv-
ed by the board. Increased school
enrollment will bring in only about
$15,000 in increased state funding, he
said, leaving the school district to ab-
sorb the remainder of that expense.
—Expiration of the state statute pro-
viding reimbursement of tax revenue
See Budget, Page 2A
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Trustees
Quizzed
on Airport
A small group of homeowners in the
Burleson area has requested the school
board to rescind a letter sent to the
Burleson City Council concerning the
proposed South Tarrant County Air-
port.
The letter neither gave BISD support
to the Oak Grove site, located entirely
within the Burleson school district, or
the Luck Field site, located in the
Crowley school district. It did,
however, mention the fact that the
school district might receive some tax
advantages if the Oak Grove site were
selected.
Ai last week’s Fort Worth City Coun-
cil meeting, the Oak Grove site was
selected for further study and Jerry
Chapman and David Sharp contended
the location is a bad one and would
never have been selected without the
okay from Burleson.
The chamber of commerce supports
the Oak Grove site, the city council en-
dorsed the idea of a south Tarrant air-
port and the letter from the school
district “has the effect of polarizing the
community” in favor of the proposal,
Sharp said, at least in the eyes of the
Fort Worth Council.
He also questioned the tax benefits
the airport would bring to Burleson,
pointing out that it would remove more
properly from the tax rolls—such as
Spinks Industry—than it would add to
it.
Property encompassed by the airport
would be tax exempt.
Both Sharp and Chapman requested
that trustees consider opposition to the
airport as an agenda item at a future
board meeting.
“If this were on the agenda tonight,
there would be standing room only in
here,” Chapman said.
According to Board President Byron
Black, the board has no immediate
plans to take sides on the issue, one way
or the other. The administrative staff
will lake a look into the affect that noise
from low flying planes might have on
school buildings, however.
Inside
Section A
Editorials.........................2
Police Report.....................3
The Ayes Have It........*.........4
Church News.....................5
Sports............................6
Classified.......................7-9
Section B
A Fateful Era............... I
New Voice for Twiki. --------------• • ®
v Section C
Country Star Well Played..........1
Drought Expands.................1
Debaters Win.,...................I
J.R.’s Price for Success...........3
By DORIS E. WILSON
People Etc. Editor
How to restructure your life after it
has been shattered by the death of a
husband, divorce or abandonment is
the discussion topic being undertaken
on Monday evenings in a summer
series of seminars for single women in
First Christian Church.
How to begin to put the tiny pieces of
a shredded soul back together into a
semblance of a human being with rights
and privileges is the beginning of the
long road Rev. John Butler, campus
minister for Texas Christian University
in Fort Worth, steered a group of
women toward in discussing “Creating
A Positive Single Image.”
“Lots of other people have control
over our image,” he said, “No matter
what age we are, married or single,
what others have to say has a way of
shaping our self image.
Married or single, a person should
have a positive self image, the campus
minister believes. “You have to believe
in that image for others to believe in it,
too.”
“Today’s society is unrealistic," he
told the group, “Everything is set up for
couples and that includes churches.
They are not mindful of the fact that 25
per cent of the adult population in the
United States are singles. . .and that is
a large group,” he added.
IT IS A CRUEL awakening for
women, after a death or divorce of a
mate, to find they suddenly “don’t
belong”; that they have no credit
rating, even though they may have
been the family bookkeeper for years;
that they are cut off from their married
friends because they “pose a threat.”
Facing all of these slamming
realities, Rev. Butler pointed out, the
single person has not changed. “You
are still a human being,” he told the
group.
There are many reactions to these
social and economic barriers. And it
depends up the personality of the single
person, how she re acts.
“In the face of these realities, the
single womah may re act by withdraw-
ing, pulling back, going into a shell. She
may become addicted, not just to
acohol or drugs, but addicted to eating,
reading rushing aboyt joining groups
whether she is interested or not.
“She may accept substitutes for a life
of her own, by living on the fringes of
her children’s or grandchildren’s lives
to take up the slack in her own life. New
things become a substitute fur what had
been.”
* “Her problem is how to continue to be
a loving, kind human being in the face
of all the garbage that, s thrown at
her,” Dr. Butler said.
“EVERYONE IS different, Everyone
is unique, but there is a general pattern
singles can adopt that will help them
acquire a positive self image, to see
themselves again as lovable and loved
persons.
“Depression is one of the things that
no one escapes, no matter what their
status. Depression in the life of a single
person is a natural response to what is’
going on around us in the world. But
when it turns self-centered at that point
you are in real trouble.”
Early on in the discussion, Dr. Butler
stated the session was in no way to be
considered as group therapy. “We want
to share what is going on in the world
and emphasize how to create your self
image by a series of patterns.
He asked the women to join in some
image games. “There are no right or
wrong answers. It is only a thought-
provoking process to help you step out-
side and evaluate yourself.”
The first of the games involved ask-
ing the women to imagine a large blank
wall as a painting. “Paint yourself on
that wall. What color are you? What do
you see when you imagine yourself on
that wall?”___
IN ANOTHER GAME, Dr. Butler
asked the women to imagine they were
facing a very tall wall. When they look-
ed upward, the wall extended endless
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