Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 77, Ed. 1 Monday, July 13, 1981 Page: 1 of 12
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K«lUe Rodgers, a 12-year-old sixth grade student at Mound Elementary School,
has added another title to her long list of beauty and talent accomplishments.
Beauty Title Won
By Burleson Girl
Kellie Rodgers, daughter of Pam
Rodgers of Burleson and Will
Rodgers of Fort Worth, was crowned
"Miss Starlight of America”, Junior
Miss National Model winner in
Kilgore on June 12.
For her talent number, Kellie sang
“Tomorrow” from the Broadway
musical, "Annie”.
She will represent "Starlight” for
a year.
The 12-year-old sixth grade Mound
Elementary student began par-
ticipating in pageants when she was
six years old. Her first competition
was in a Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
pageant in Burleson.
Since that time there have been
numerous titles won by the comely
Miss. The latest was capturing the
1961 “Little Miss Cleburne” in the
Miss Texas Pageant staged there.
Kellie also models professionally
in Dallas and is listed with the Nor-
ton Agency in Dallas. She currently
has television commercials running
in this area.
For the “Miss Starlight” pageant
she was sponsored by Roberts Cut
Rate, Red Carpet and Johnson Coun-
ty Cattle Bam.
Federal Chorees Are Filed
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Robbery Suspect Captured
It turns out the man who robbed the
Burleson Branch of Tarrant Savings
And Loan may have been using a rub-
ber pistol.
A 36-year-old Arlington man arrested
Wednesday in Fort Worth faces possi-
ble charges in connection with the rob-
bery here and two other savings and
loan establishments.
Federal Bureau of investigation
agent George Clowe said James
Edward Ales, 36, has been charged with
violation of federal bank robbery laws
in connection with the June 16 robbery
of a Stephenville firm.
POLICE HERE WERE seeking state
against the man in connection
the robbery of the local firm,
and Sgt. Dorrita Keefer said
ition by J.D. Robots of the Fort
plorth police department’s major
le division broke the case.
They said Ales had voluntarily come
i the Fort Worth police department to
cuss another crime when Roberts
him from composite draw-
put out after the first two rob-
ies.
Police believed the same person was
isponsible for the robberies in
ephenville June 16, in Burleson on Ju-
ly 1 and in Abilene the day before he
WraTromD SIMILAR robbery in
less than a month had apparently caus-
ed the composite drawing to be review-
ed by numerous police agencies.
Clowe said Ales was arrested on a
downtown Fort Worth parking lot by
FBI agents while voluntarily allowing
Fort Worth police to search his van.
He said Ales was placed in the
custody of a United States marshal who
put him in Tarrant county jail. A bond
of $75,000 had been set in the federal
case.
Police are working on finding an ac-
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complice, if any, in the robberies, and
the weapon. They believe a toy gun that
shot rubber bullets may have been us-
ed. Police have recovered such a
weapon.
In each case, the man presented a
bomb—later found to be fake—before
exiting.
POLICE SAY WITNESSES saw two
persons exit in vehicles in the Burleson
and Stephenville robberies.
Similar vehicles were believed used
in the robbery here and the one in
Stephenville while a different vehicle
was believed used in the Abilene rob-
bery.
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CLEBURNE—Time is running out
for setting a tax rate to support the
1961-82 Johnson County budget. The
deadline was originally July 15, two
days away. But County Judge Tommy
Altaras said that date has been pxtend-
-J *1 July 22, eight working days from
that date, a budget and tax rate
has to be approved by commissioners
and in the mail to the state secretary’s
office in Austin so the budget and rate
can become operational on Oct. 1, the
start of the county’s new fiscal year.
Setting a tax rate is Item No. 17 on the
agenda, which commissioners will con-
sider in today’s regular session.
A controversial $4.6 million budget
was
and
B.B.
because of what they feel is an unequal
division of Road and Bridge Funds;
which in other years was split four
ways. Pet. 2 and 3 Commissioners A.J.
Lambert and Loyd Reese voted in favor
of the budget, probably because they
are to receive approximately two per-
cent more in funds than Atwood and
Aldridge. Altaras cast the deciding vote
in favor of an unequal division of funds.
Today’s vote for a tax rate will ap-
parently, unless something unforeseen
happens, meet the same fate as the
budget, a compromise vote.
. Whatever tax rate is decided, it will
be based on a new 100 percent valua-
tion, up from the 20 percent Johnson
Countians paid before the state man-
dated the increased amount. Since ob-
viously the old tax rate of 95 cents can-
not remain in effect because it would
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cause too great a tax burden for
payers, the commissioners must come
up with a rate that will support the
multi-million budget and still not work
a hardship on citizens.
«It has been estimated by County
duiditor Bob Wylie, the rate will be bet-
ween 25 and 30 cents.
Lowering the tax rate from 95 cents
Aldridge voting "nay”; Reese and
Lambert supporting the new tax rate
and Judge Altaras having to step in and
“save the day’.’ all in the name of expe-
diency.
But you never can tell about commis-
sioners and how they will vote until the
time comes and today will be the time.
Today’s agenda is another lengthy
one with 24 items to be considered;
There’s to be a report from a special
committee, who have been studying the
problem of acquiring more space for
the county attorney and tax
collector’s offices, by moving WJfe
(Ed) Carroll’s tax office to the Centror
Appraisal District office at 109
Main, a block from the county
house.
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Commissioners will’ also
request to remove one or t#o of the |
sent four telephones at the
Courthouse Annex;
telephone and a
telephone, which are I
Cat Policy
ed on 20 percent market value. In reali-
ty it represents an equivalent tax rate
of $1.30; up 35 cents from the old rate of
95 cents, when adjusted to the old
assessment ratio for comparison.
Aldridge told The Star Thursday he
will be present at today’s meeting to
consider a new tax rate. “But I’m not
voting for a tax increase,” he said em-
phatically.
So, today’s session looks like a repeat
of the June 8 meeting with Atwood and
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The True To Life Story
Of A Pig In A Blanket
The subject of cats scratched the
surface (that’s better than the furni-
ture, anyway) again Thursday night at
the Burleson City Council meeting.
The feline friends (or friends, de-
pending on whether or not you’re a cat
fancier) are still basically subject to
house arrest. Nothing was changed in
the wording of the city’s animal control
ordinance.
However, “be-claws” of the obvious
differences between cats and other
household pets, some policy changes
are now on the (hawing board.
Basically, the probable policy to e-
merge will be similar to what Mayor
Robert E. Abies expressed at the My 28
council meeting; “If It’s (cat) in its own
yard, I feel it should be a policy not to
See Cats, Page 2A
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The time: 3:41 a.m.
The place: Burleson Community
Center.
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A maintenance employee noticed
what appeared to be a body wrapped up
in a sheet in the corner of a room in the
building.
He called police.
Burleson officers Johnny Crawford
and Odell Woodard responded.
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Police located apparent body and,
after securing the area, unwrapped the
blanket and found it to be a frozen pig.
Additional investigation revealed the
pig was being left to thaw to be used for
a picnic for city employees Saturday.
A miscellaneous report wrapped up the
case.
Officers noted the informant “was
sure glad it was only a frozen pig.”
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Not Exactly Your
Usual Toy Airplane
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BY JAMES MOODY
It looks almost big enough to give
Orville Wright a lift off the ground. And
it’s certainly large enough to cause its
owner to cast a wary eye toward a
romantically inclined bald eagle.
The “big bird” has a wing span of
83% inches, is four and a half feet long
and is capable of reaching a top speed
of approximately 100 miles per hour. It
even has a radio, although it’s not used
to listen to the tw> country hits. Instead,
the radio is its lifeline to the ground and
its owner, Bob Dorsey of 845 Bellaire
Dr.
Dorsey has spent a year and a half
and has around $1,000 invested in a
jumbo model airplane—a scale model
replica of an American Airlines DC-3.
And to those skeptics who think the
giant twin-engined model is too big to
get off the ground, he can only point to
the future and hope. He has taxied the
plane on the ground, but it probably
won’t make its maiden flight until later
this month. He plans to enter it in
competition in the Jumbo Fly-In at
Lake Benbrook’s Thunderbird Field
July 18-19.
EVEN THEN, HE WONT be the
ground pilot. He’ll be the one with the
ashen face and the prayer on his lips
while a Fort Worth man, Ted White,
lifts the plane off the ground by remote
control.
White is considered one of the better
model airplane fliers in the area and
has had experience with the big models,
Dorsey explained.
Dorsey, who spent six months just
matching the color scheme to the origi-
nal plane, said he built it as an exact
replica of an actual airplane. Even the
numbers on the wing are the same as
EVERYTHING HAS TO BE aa au*
thentic as possible in a judged competi-
tion, Dorsey explained. The “cheese-
cake” is all put on before the judge*
take a look at the model and is an
attempt to make the model an exact
scale of the larger plane.
Then, even in flight, the plane must
operate like the original. For instance,
he wouldn’t get any points with the!
judges by making a model DC-3 do
tricks that the real DC-3 was incapable'
of doing. The top speed of the model is
also out or proportion to a DC-3 so the
model will be flown considerably slow-
er than it is capable of flying.
Three “tricks” are required in the
flying competition and Dorsey has,
planned a figure eight, a slow pass ana'
a shondel, which is a climbing, stalling
turn.
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The plane is construct
and balsa wood overlaid with silk,
said. It’s all hand painted and
Bob Dorsey with (take your pick) either a giant model airplane or a miniature jumbo jet
numbered except for the smallest let-\
tering on the plane, he said.
The detail is exact, he said, although
some of it is referred to as “cheese-
cake." That’s his term for soma of the
hardware added to the plane for show
but removed before takeoff.
According to its height off the ground,
the plane could be controlled by radio
as much as five miles away. Even up to
10 miles under certain weather condi-
tions. He never lets an airplane of his
get out of his sight, though.
“If you can’t see it, you don’t really
have control of it,” he said
Both engines have to be perfectly
tuned in order for the plane to fly
correctly, he said, adding that the
alcohol and castor oil mixture the plane
uses as fuel costs $12 per gallon.
BURLESON AREA FLIERS have a
field called Pokey Hill Field jwt off
McAlister Road and have tentatively
scheduled a Fun Fly there for Aug. 10.
A number of exhibitions are planned,
including a motorized hang glider. Hie
public will be invited and there will be
no admission charge, Dorsey said, al-
though donations will be accepted. Hie
flying chib Is attempting to raise e-
nough money to fence the field.
wTbe dune buggies and four wheel
always bad to be “in a rut,” It can tie
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pla ne flier. It doesnt take muchof a tire
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rut to cause an accident which could
wreck an expensive model plane, he
said.
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Moody, James. Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 77, Ed. 1 Monday, July 13, 1981, newspaper, July 13, 1981; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth761054/m1/1/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Burleson Public Library.