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Thursday, February 28, 1980 Burleson, Johnson County, Texas 76028 Vol. 15. No. 38
It's Inside!
SECTION A
Letters To Editor l ,
People. Etc. 4
Sports *-7
Classified Mi
SECTION B
Week's Homemaker 1
School Menus • •
SECTION C
VOE Winners 1
Huguley Report 3
Hughes Open House 4
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Sick Pay Approved
First Division
Hand Ratings
The following Burleson High School band members received a first division
rating at the UIL Solo and Ensemble Contest last weekend at the University of
Texas at Arlington. They are (l-r) Front: Sandy Norman, Paula Babb, Darla
Perdue, Sherry Tidrow and Lisa Evans. Middle: Vonnie Bailey, Kimberly
Beiders, Kim Lowe, Karen Albrecht, Allison Pitts and Anita Miller. Back:
David Luquette, Joe Robinson, Tom Gibbons, David Atchley and Doug
McAlister. Star Staffoto. V
Denton Legislator
Files For Senate
DENTON-Veteran legislator Walt
Parker of Denton, one of the state's bet-
ter known lawmakers, has announced
his official candidacy for the Texas
State Senate seat being vacated by
retiring Senator Tom Creighton.
Parker, a builder, farmer, rancher
and teacher, was elected to five terms
in the state legislature. In addition, he
has served as the state’s first Executive
Director of the School Tax Assessment
Practices Board, and as an assistant to
the President of North Texas State
University.
In beginning his campaign to occupy
the Senate seat for the 22nd District,
Parker stressed three basic points:
-His experience in state government.
He was a House member from 1969 to
1978 and points out that such ex-
perience will enable him to be more ef-
fective, more quickly, for the district in
the Senate.
-His familiarity with the district. A
Ft Worth native who moved to Denton
following high school, the 62-year-old
Parker has been active in teaching and
coaching football in area high schools,
in farming and ranching in Johnson
County, and in the building industry in
the area for 40 years.
-His record of concern for and ser-
vice to the community. Long active in
civic affairs, Parker’s record of service
to his constituents prompted a special
“Salute to Walt Parker” in Denton two
years ago.
In addition to his business activities
and legislative service, Parker was a
National Football League referee for
several years, and today still is an Of-
ficial Observer for the NFL, grading
and judging the activities of on-the-field
officials. Parker is well-known
throughout tne district for speeches to
various civic clubs and schools about
professional football.
The 22nd District embraces a sprawl-
ing 17-county area of North Central
Texas, extending from Gainesville to
Hillsboro on the eastern edge, and from
Graham to Comanche on the western
edge. All of Johnson County is included.
WALTPARKER
Announces For Senate
Girl Injured Slightly
When Struck By Auto
A six-year-old student at Nola Dunn Elementary was injured slightly
when struck by a car while waiting for a school bus near her home at
about 7:20 a m. Monday
The child, Jennifer Cimics, 6, daughter of Donna Cimics, 125 Woodland
Dr., was treated and released at Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth.
According to Texas Highway Patrol investigators, the girl apparently
walked into the right side of a slow moving car while waiting for a school
bus.
The highway patrol said the driver of the car was not aware that the
child had been struck and left the scene. The driver, also a resident of
rural Burleson, was contacted later but was not issued a citation. Police
said his car suffered no damage.
Trustees
OkayNew
Policy
Teachers and students alike will
benefit from a new board policy passed
Monday night by Trustees of the
Burleson Independent School District.
Designed to encourage teachers to be
in the classroom as much as possible,
the new policy has an eventual cash in-
centive for teachers who do not use up
local sick leave days.
Currently, once a teacher ac-
cumulates the maximum 35 days of
local sick leave, he or she loses any fur-
ther sick leave days that might be ac-
cumulated. Beginning with the 1980-81
school year„however, a teacher will be
paid $30 per day for up to five days of
unused sick leave each year after the 35
days have been accumulated.
With five days of local sick leave per
year, it would take a minimum of seven
years of service to the school district to
accumulate those 35 days. Presently,
approximately 30 teachers in the
district have those 35 davs ac-
cumulated, Supt. of Schools Bill Strid-
ing told the board Monday night.
There is no limit on the number of
state sick leave days that can be ac-
cumulated by a teacher. Those days,
unlike local days, can be transferred
from district to district if a teacher
changes jobs.
“I THINK IT (the new policy) would
be a good thing,” said Board Member
Ik‘»a Ussery. “I’d rather have the
regular classroom teacher there
whenever possible.”
Stribling agreed that it was best for a
class to have its regular teacher, but
added that a big problem was that the
district “just can’t find substitutes.”
The sick leave pay would be included
in a teacher’s August check of each
year, Stribling said.
The board also approved a capital
outlay of more than $50,000 for new
musical instruments for the band
department; approved the purchase of
bleachers for the tennis courts at the
middle school and high school and at
the high school baseball field; heard a
status report on the volunteer pro-
gram; and approved a request for the
use of school facilities.
According to Richard Crummel,
director of Bands for the BISD, the
band program has a lot of the larger,
more expensive instruments on its in-
ventory sheets that should be classified
as “junk”. “They're not playable, he
told the board, and “it would cost more
than it would be worth to fix them up.”
He also cited the need for instruments
for the jazz band that is to be formed at
the high school.
ABOUT 65 PERCENT of these new
instruments, he said, would be used in
the middle school by beginning band
students “A beginner needs a quality
instrument to learn on,” he said. “They
have enough problems without having
to fight the instrument, too.”
Smaller and less expensive in
See Sick Pay, Page 2A
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Infrequent (Observance
Billy and Kristel Hughes will be celebrating their second birthday
tomorrow and have invited 18 children from their second grade classes at
Mound Elementary school for the party.
Two year olds in the second grade? Pretty precocious kids, huh?
Well, not as much as you might think at first glance. They’re
celebrating their second birthday all right, but the twin children of Mr.
and Mrs William M. Hughes will actually be eight years old tomorrow.
In case you’ve forgotten, tomorrow Is Feb. 29--that odd day that rolls
around once every eight years and gives new hope to spinsters
everywhere.
Chances of a single birth being on Feb. 29 are about one in 15 million,
Becky Hughes said, so you can see how unusual it is to have twins born on
that date.
The Hughes family has lived in Burleson at 100 Cliffside Dr. for about a
year. The twins were born in Everett, Wash.
and on what date do they celebrate their birthday on regular years,
Feb. 28 or March 1?
Whenever it’s the most convenient, Mrs. Hughes said.
Huguley Hospital
Third Anniversary
Huguley Memorial Hospital is
celebrating its third anniversary of
operation March 2, but it won’t be serv-
ing the traditional ice cream and cake.
Refreshments at the celebration will
consist of orange juice.
If recreation at an average birthday
celebration seems a little boring too,
Huguley invites anyone interested to
run in the TexaStyle 5,000 meter (3.1
miles) race. The excitement begins at 2
p.m. when the runners will be signaled
to start.
The public is invited to attend the
Health Fair and foot race. Late
registration for the race begins at 12:30
p.m at the hospital. The Health Fair
begins at l p.m. and lasts until 5 p.m. It
is not necessary to run in the foot raefc
in order to attend the Health Fair, or
vice-versa.
Guests at the hospital will guide
•themselves through the Health Fair in
the hospital, stopping at demonstra-
tions, information booths, or health
screening stations along the way. *
Entry fee for the TexasStyle, 5,000
meter foot race is $5. Each participant
will receive a commemorative Tex-
aStyle T-shirt, and the first three
finishers in each age category will
receive a trophy.
For more information on the Health
Fair or the TexaStyle 5,000 call the
Public Relations Office at Huguley
Memorial Hospital at 293-91)4, Ext. 356.
folks Facing Up To The Proble
by Star Staff
Volunteer firemen in our area have
worked like Trojans the past couple of
weeks. Grass fires and brusn tires nave
broken out on a regular basis,
sometimes several at a time in dif
ferent locations.
And the firemen have done tremen-
dous jobs.
Word from spokesmen for the
Briaroaks Volunteer Fire Department
this week was “thanks”
They and a big number of other
departments were jointly involved in a
huge blaze last week in the Egan area.
They asked us to give a special
thanks to the folks at Joe D’s Jiffy Mart
south of Burleson on 1-35.
The store provided cold drinks and
snacks without charge to the firemen,
and even delivered cold drinks to the
guys on the front lines Wednesday of
last week.
Other folks helped, too, including the
auxiliary, and the firemen really ap-
preciate it, we know for a fact.
AROUND THE AREA, the Fort
Worth Symphony will offer discount
tickets to the handicapped for their re-
maining major series concerts this
See Folks, Page 2A
P ori Worth Director Looks At Criticisms Of PDAP
BY JAMES MOODY
MANAGING EDITOR
“I think the main thing all this
(adverse) publicity did was to make us
grow up a little as an organization. It
really made us step back and take a
good look at ouselves.”
The speaker was Richard Gonzales
director of the Fort Worth unit of the
Palmer Drug Abuse Program (PDAP).
He was answering recent criticisms of
the program in a rather strange way-
by agreeing with much of them.
Officials of PDAP are not trying to
hide from any charges made against
the program, he indicated, but instead
are trying to learn from them and,
where applicable, even make changes.
The National Board of Directors in
Houston is investigating some of the
charges that have been leveled against
the program, he said, and for the time
being at least have dropped its associa-
tion with Contemporary Health Ser-
vices in Houston.
It was that association that has
drawn the most criticism nationally,
especially the retainer fees paid to
PDAP Founder Bob Meehan and to
local unit directors as consultants.
At one time, Meehan and all or most
of the directors were paid consultants
to Contemporary Health, he said, but
that situation no longer is true. Meehan
is still a Comtemporary Health consul-
tant but left as director of PDAP in
November. Unit directors are no longer
on the Contemporary Health payroll
BEING A CONSULTANT had
nothing to do with the number, if any, of
drug abusers who were referred to a
Contemporary Health Hospital, Gon-
zales said, but admitted that “It looked
bad and we don't do that anymore.”
Since an association with any profit-
making hospital could be grounds for
suspicion, the PDAP program will
more than likely approach any other
agreements with caution. Currently,
there is no psychiatrist on the Fort
Worth staff and that unit does not have
access to a full range of medical ser-
vices, Gonzales said
A number of institutions in the
Metroplex area are currently being
checked out by the Fort Worth PDAP
Chapter, though, and Gonzales believes
that “with the help of my board, I think
Last Of 4-Part Series
we’ll be able to solve this problem
soon.”
That solution may come in the form
of several different institutions,
however, since so far he has been
unable to come up with any one place
offering all the needs that a drug abuser
might face.
Another oft noted fault with the
PDAP organization is its lack of
records, case histories and statistic*.
WHILE ADMITTING THIS situation
does pose some problems, the Fort
Worth director is not convinced the lack
of records is all bad. In fact, he believes
“One of the greatest draws of the pro-
gram is that we don’t ask any questions
(of those seeking its services).”
Anonymity of both parents and drug
abusers is an important part of the
program-much like AA, after which
PDAP is patterned-but Gonzales
thinks that some kind of happy medium
can be achieved. Having a set of
records complete with case histories
and followups would help the program
improve its services, he said, even if no
actual names were used.
Finding the program’s strengths and
weaknesses, successes and failures will
"help us to be better counselors and im-
prove the efficiency of the staff
overall,” he said.
Developing some kind of records
system is a priority of the Fort Worth
Board of Directors, Gonzales added.
ONE AREA WHERE they do take
special care with their records is in the
program's financial transactions.
Books are audited annually by the/Fort
Worth firm of Deloitte, Haskins and
Sells and a complete report made by
that company to the PDAP Board of
Directors.
Perhaps it’s a type of backlash to all
the criticism the program has received
in its dealings with Contemporary
Health. Or possibly a response to the
only area where PDAP seems to have
suffered from the adverse publicity^
financially.
Since no charge is made to persons
utilizing PDAP’s services, most of its
operating funds come in the form of
grants and donations, neither of which
become easier to obtain in the face of
negative publicity.
As far as the growth of their clientet
is concerned, though, any publicity
must be good publicity since more and
more people are turning to PDAP for
help and the number of cities wanting
on the band wagon is growing cpitstant-
ly- |
There are now over 110 cites in-
terested in obtaining a unit of Ute pro-
gram, Gonzales said.
BUT WHILE AREA MEDIA dldn’j
overlook the ties with Contemporary
Health or the lack of an adequate
record system in their reports of
See PDAP, Page *A 51
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