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Thursday, March 20, 1980 Burleson, Johnson County, Texas 76028
Vol. 15 No. 44
It's Inside!
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Growley
Coach
Resigns
KV BOB SONDEREGGER
Star Sports Editor
CROWLEY-Ray Sefcik, head foot-
ball coach and athletic director at
Crowley High School the past five
years, has resigned to take a position in
private business.
Sefcik will join the Western Company
of North America, the Fort Worth-
based company owned by Eddie Chiles,
in sales management
He said his initial training program
will be for seven months to a year in
Enid, Okla., where his family will move
at the end of the school year.
Sefcik’s Crowley team completed its
second successive 6-4 season in 3A foot-
ball last year In three years in 2A, Sef-
cik's teams shared district titles twice
and never had a losing season.
Sefcik said his decision to get out of
coaching is "for a greater opportunity
for myself and my family.
‘‘IT II AS BEEN A very rewarding ex-
perience to have been football coach
and athletic director at Crowley High
School,” Sefcik said.
“The school district is second to none
and the teachers are the greatest bunch
I've ever know The support of the com-
munity has been tops. It's a pleasure to
have worked here"
Sefcik will join (he firm in mid-April.
He is not new to the oil business. “I
grew up in Denver City and worked in
the oil fields in the summer,’’ Sefcik
said “My father retired from the oil
business about five years ago.”
Sefcik served as a football assistant
coach at Hobbs, N.M. and Haskell
before taking his first football head
coaching job at Matador in West Texas.
After winning a zone championship
and recording two winning seasons
there, he came to Crowley where his
teams posted a 30-9-1 record.
One of the top finishes in his tenure
came in 1978, the team’s first year in
Class 3A, when it finished second in the
zone to Brownwood, the eventual 3A
state champion.
APPLICATIONS ARE currently be
ing accepted for the post. His successor
will only be the third football coach in
the school's history.
Jerry Sanders was the first coach at
the school that started playing varsity
football in the late 1%0’s and Sefcik
came after Sanders resigned.
Sanders left to take an assistant’s
post at Richland and was at Judson
Converse (near San Antonio) for three
years before becoming head coach this
spring at Haltom.
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FIRST RIDER
It's doubtful the thrills experienced by the riders on this Super Loop will equal
that of this carnival worker who is high on the side of it during the setup earlier
this week, lie must he used to it though because the squeals didn’t begin until it
opened for business here Tuesday night. Star Staffoto by Donnie Tucker
BY DORIS E. WILSON
Staff Writer
CLEBURNE—The double-murder
trial of 24-year-old David Wayne In-
gram in Judge C.C. (Kit) Cooke’s 249th
Judicial District Court got off to a slow
start Tuesday with the tempo promis-
ing to pick up when witnesses start
testifying.
Ingram is charged with the Jan. 24
strangulation death of his wife, Joyce,
36, and the suffocation death of their
five-month-old son, David Wayne II.
The bodies of the two were found at a
low water crossing on County Road 1112
(Old Foamyw south of Cleburne) after
the defendant directed them to the loca-
tion. He will be tried first on the death
of the child,
Tuesday’s proceedings centered
around a pre-trail hearing with the six-
man, six-woman jury sequestered out
of the courtroom as prosecuting attor-
nies and defense attornies argued over
what will be admissable evidence.
District Attorney John McLean and
Codnty Attorney Dan Boulware in-
troduced the written reports and
testimonies of Cleburne officers, who
took Ingram from his home to the police
station and later to the scenes of the
crimes; Ingram’s dictated confession
to the cTimes; the black plastic bag in
which the baby’s body was wrapped;
and the light green sleepers the baby
was wearing at the time of his death.
Pre-trial testimony was also heard
from Doris Martindale, who lived next
door to the Ingrams on Baker Street in
Cleburne and often was babysitter for
the young child.
PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE crime
scene and of the five-months-old boy
taken at the morgue after his recovery
from Old Foamy were also introduced
by the state.
Testifying Tuesday were Cleburne
Chief of Police Claude Zachry and
police officers, Martin Griffith Jr. and
Lt. Lacey Laceman.
Over the objections of defense attor-
nies, Mike Rogers and Curtis Prit-
See Trial, Page 2A
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DAVID WAYNE INGRAM
Trustee
Candidate
Withdraws
One candidate has withdrawn from
the school board race, election officials
have announced, but his name will still
appear on the April 5 ballot.
Bruce Allen, formerly a candidate for
Place 2 on the school board, announced
Monday that he was withdrawing his
name from the race. Ballots, however,
were printed last week in order to be
ready for absentee voting when it began
Monday.
That leaves incumbent Maurice
Shepherd and challenger A1 Evans still
in the race for the Place 2 spot on the
board. Shepherd is currently school
board president and is seeking his se-
cond term on the board. Evans, of Rt. 2,
115 Jean Lane, is an assistant professor
at Tarrant County Junior College.
Other school races find i noun bent
Anne English running unopposed hi
Place 1 (she was appointed to fill out
one year of an unexpired term) and
four men seeking the Place 3 spot-Tom
Morris, R.J. (Bob) Ray, Jr., Gary
Emery and Bobby Fortune, Sr.
The Place 3 seat on the board will be
for a one year period to complete the
one year remaining on the term of Ken
Seawright, who has resigned effective
April 1.
Four seats are up for grabs in the city
election but the incumbents have
already nabbed three of them since
they are running without opponents. In
the only contested race, Vera Calvin
and Charley Buckingham are both
See Candidate, Page 2A
Providing Alternates To Drug Abuse
The U S. Bureau of the Census will
conduct testing in Burleson next week
for temporary positions as census
takers, according to City Manager
Mark Sowa
Sowa said the Census Bureau has
scheduled the city hall at 7 p.m. on
Tuesday, March 25, for the testing. Ap-
plicants should generally be able to
work up to 40 hours per week until cen-
sus data is collected here, he said,
although some part time positions may
also be available
Pay will range from minimum wage
to about $4 per hour
Successful applicants will be per-
sonally contacting households in which
the census material was not returned
by mail
THE MOTHER OF a Burleson resi-
dent died on Feb 23 in Afghanistan.
Omar Mir, who has lived in the U S.
for about 10 years, received a letter
from relatives last Friday informing
him of the death of his mother, Anwar
Sultan Mir. Friends of the family said
she was about 70.
Mir has worked at several Burleson
grocery stores and is now a licensed
real estate agent His wife Jackie, a
native Texan, is a teacher at Mound
Elementary.
FRAZIER ELEMENTARY School
PTO will see a program of gymnastics
persented by fourth, fifth and sixth
grade students of Greg Bowling at the
March 25 meeting, beginning at 7 p.m.,
in the school cafetorium A business
meeting will follow
IT WOULD BE HARD for the news
department to blame this one on a
typographical error and the State of
See Folks. Page 2A
BY DORIS E. WILSON
Staff Writer
If 1 could only see the road you
came
With all the jagged rocks and
crooked wavs,
I might think more kindly of vour
missteps
And only praise.
And if 1 could know the heart-
aches you have felt
The longings for the things that
never came,
I would not misconstrue your err-
ing then
Nor even blame.-Anonymous
For too long now, the prevalent drug
dilemma has been an all-consuming
topic for speculation of cause and prob-
able solution.
Sifting through all the theories,
parents, educators, medical resear-
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chers and law enforcement officials are
finding there are no simplistic answers.
But there is a ray of hope.
White House nar
drug policy ad-
viser, Lee
Dogoloff, said
in a recent ar-
t i c 1 e ,
‘‘Perhaps the
best solution to
the problem of
adolescent
drug abuse is
parents accep-
ting their
respon-
sibilities, in-
dividually and
in groups
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DR. FRANK VITRO
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“Through ignorance of what is ac-
tually going on,” he says, “or through a
feeling of shame and helplessness,
many parents have been abdicating
their responsibilities in this area, leav-
ing them at the doorsteps of schools,
social agencies, police and others.
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT is one
of the most hopeful signs for the coming
decade,” Dogoloff prophesied.
Dr. Frank T Vitro, Ph D., professor
of psychology at Texas Woman's
University in Denton, in an exclusive
interview with The Star, detailed some
of the parent-child nuturing ingredients
that should begin the moment a child is
born
Dr. Vitro is in Burleson schools a day
or two each week conferring with
classroom teachers on methods of com-
municating with the public as
specialists dealing with children and
adolescents.
He is the parent of an eleven year-old
daughter and a 15 year-old son. His
theories are practical as well as
academic.
In tracing the child-parent relation-
ship starting with the crib, Dr Vitro
said, “There is a bonding period that
takes place between a parent and child
in the first few months after birth. Since
mother is usually responsible for
bathing, feeding, comforting at this
period, the bond grows, especially
strong between them. This is another
reason for fathers to assume more of
the responsibility of the child in the ear-
ly months, so that the bonding can be a
part of their relationship, too.
“At the ages of 1*4 to 3, a child is
seeking autonomy.........an
independence... the urge to loosen apron
strings. Here parents fall into two ex-
tremes; one seeks to squash the ex-
ploration period by indifference or be-
ing over-protective.
“THEY EITHER TOTALLY ignore
the child’s accomplishments or show in-
difference...“You can walk now, so
what? I really don’t care what you do”
attitude squelches the spirit of a child.
“Or parents may instill fear by being
over-protective and deny the child op-
portunities for simple adventure.
Youngsters who come into adolescents
from these two extreme backgrounds
have a very difficult time establishing
what is called “adult identity.’’ Dr
Vitro said
The formula goes something like
this:
“The adolescent thinks: all of a sud-
den my biological makeup is changing
so rapidly I cannot totally realize that I
am no longer a child. I am not yet an
adult. I have to find out who I am and
what I am
‘‘What is my life all about’’ the youth
asks. What am I going to be later on?
All of these questions point to the
troublesome identity crises. The young
person, struggling out of the cocoon of
youth, thinks I am not a child, but 1 am
not an adult. The thing that complicates
it is that society expects me to no longer
act like a child and to accept adult
responsibilities, but they don’t allow me
adult privileges.
“BECAUSE OF THESE complica-
tions,’’ Dr. Vitro continued, “the
youngster vascillates . sways between
being a child and an adult...and it is
here that we have a critical point. It is
here that the child is vulnerable to any
influence that he or she feels may pro-
vide the answers to this identity pro-
blem. And so, for most teens, no, for
some teens, this becomes a matter of
succumbing to peer pressure.
“Everyone has a strong need to be
liked and needed by his group He may
do anything they tell him to do even if
it means experimenting with drugs.
Some may confuse “experimenting”
with “curiosity”, but usually ex-
perimenting is a sheer need for peer ac-
ceptance.
“Think,” Dr. Vitro commanded,
“how many youth can be identified as
starting to experiment with drugs all
alone by themselves? Very few. The
majority who begin have done so in the
companionship of peers.”
2nd In A Series
The psychologist went on to say that
drug usage can be identified as a
rebellion against authority.
“It begins as a rebellion against
parents...spreads into schools against
teachers ..and later against law and
order in general. It is my opinion."Dr.
Vitro ventured, “the primary cause for
this rebellion is a problem in com-
munication between the child and
parent, between the child and his
world
“AND SO THE RELATIONSHIPS
turn into a power struggle and the
adolescent becomes determined to win
at any cost. It may at first start in the
form of intentional failure at school,
then becomes a matter of violating
discipline codes; breaking restrictive
rules and eventually using drugs
because he knows that it will eventually
shame and offend parents.
Boredom and meaninglessness in
their lifestyles is another primary
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motivation for using drugs.
“Young people, who succumb to
drugs, have failed to establish any
clear-cut goals or objectives for their
lives and so their energies and efforts
get mis-directed Drugs become a
substitute for more desirable alter-
natives and so an effective intervention
program must be tried to identify those
more desirable alternatives.
“We need to give our young people
See Alternatives, P.2A
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PDAP Directors Are
Opposed To Expansion,;
Burleson civic leaders are still in hopes this week that some type of drug
abuse program can be initiated in Burleson, hut it apparently—or at least
possibly—won't be the Palmer Drug Abuse Program (PDAP).
Mayor Robert E. Abies has been notified by Fort Worth PDAP Director
Richard Gonzales that the board of trustees in Fort Worth has decided not toejG
pand into other cities at this time Aj
Letters to that affect were mailed out this week to all members of the
Burleson Good Life Commission, a chamber of commerce organization that
was backing the efforts to get a PDAP unit in Burleson.
It's not clear just what direction Burleson will now go, said Dr. Abies, but he
indicated he will call a meeting of the Good Life Commission for that specific
purpose
Options remaining are to investigate alternate programs, such as Volunt
of America, or establish an independent unit of the Palmer program instead
a Fort Worth satellite.
Another possibility is that Fort Worth might change its mind after the results
of a committee study are released. A special committee has been appointed to
survey just how well the Fort Worth unit is covering that city. If the report is
favorable, the board might change its policy on expansion, Dr. Abies said.
At any rate, any avenue taken is still going to cost money, he added, and tt^s
fund raising drive currently in progress will continue. Contributions can Ike
made at either bank, Dr. Abies said, and will be used locally in the fight against
drug abuse. Otherwise, money would be returned to the donar, he said.
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