Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 39, Ed. 1 Monday, March 3, 1980 Page: 1 of 14
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Regional Spell-Off To 6Bee’ In Burleson March 13
From a field of approximately 200
contestants, five Burleson students
have emerged spelling champions in
their respective schools and will now
face 15 other Spelling Bee winners from
schools in Crowley, Everman, Ken-
nedale and Mansfield in the Region V
Spell-Off here March 13.
Local school champs are Stacey
Williams, sixth grade student at Nor-
wood Elementary and daughter of Mrs.
Ursy Williams; Lori Branch, fourth
grade Mound Elementary student and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred L.
Branch; Valerie Lopez, Nola Dunn
Elementary School fifth grade and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilberto
Lopez; Dana Newman, fifth grade stu-
dent at Frazier Elementary School and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sterling
Newman; Tommy Milligan, eighth at Mound and Region V Spelling Bee
grader at Pauline G. Hughes Middle
School and son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Milligan.
Janice Muse, Title I reading teacher
STACEY WILLIAMS
LORI BRANCH
TOMMY MILLIGAN
DANA NEWMAN
VALARIE LOPEZ
coordinator, said the contest will begin
at 9:30 a.m. March 13 in the Burleson
Independent School District ad-
ministrative offices, 1160 S.W. Wilshire.
Bill Spurgin, schoof principal at Nola
Dunn, will be the pronouncer.
Winner of the Region V contest will
represent Burleson, Mansfield,
Crowley, Everman and Kennedale
schools in an All-Regron Spell-Off, spon-
sored by the Fort Worth Star Telegram.
The winner there will become eligible
for a trip to the National Championship
Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. in ear-
ly June.
Judges for the region V Spelling Bee
are Shirley Hoffman, head of the
Reading Department at Mansfield Mid-
dle School; Margaret Smith, librarian
at Hommel Elementary School in Ever-
man; and Judy Garver, resource
teacher at James A Arthur Elemen-
tary school in Kennedale.
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BURLESOH^STAR
For Mail Delivery (’.all 295-5278
Monday, March 3,1980 Burleson, Johnson County, Texas 76028
Vol. 15. No. 39
It's Inside!
SECTION A
Pre-School Screening.......
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Sports.......................
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Classified...................
SECTION B
Dew Tell!...................
Community Calendar.......
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Good Guys Praised..........
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Obituary....................
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In Service...................
folks
by Star Staff
BURLESON STUDENTS will be out
of school Friday while teachers will re-
main at their posts for in-service work.
But the kids will still have something
to do, at least in the afternoon.
A special matinee has been scheduled
at the Wilshire Cinema Friday after-
noon
Proceeds from the ticket sales will be
contributed to a special fund which will
be used to pay first-year costs of
establishing a Palmer Drug Abuse Pro-
gram in Burleson.
Watch for more details in Thursday’s
Star.
TIIE WARM weather last week may
have made you think about spring
cleaning, at least that’s what the
Burleson Area Chamber of Commerce
is thinking of.
The chamber hopes you’ll remember
its annual fall tent sale when you're
cleaning out your garage. If you have
Mass Transit Here?
Moving Day
At Library
Librarian Sandy Babb is keeping her
fingers crossed, but plans to have the
public library open in its new facilities
this morning (Monday). All available
city employees got in the act Friday,
moving books and shelves to the just
completed building on Johnson Ave.
Above, Ginger Sharp grabs another box
of books (that's Sandy behind Ginger)
and at left, Mary Douglas and Jean
Phillips (striped shirt) arrange the
volumes on shelves. Star Staffotos
stuff you want to get rid of that would be
good material for the chamber sale
later this year, give them a call at
295-6121. They'll pick it up.
Money from the tent sale will be used
to help pay off the note on the additional
property recently purchased for a per-
manent chamber office on Hillery
TODAY is the deadline if you’re plan
ning to enter The Star’s Eyes to the
Future Contest, matching names and
faces of local business people.
Your entry must be in by 5 p.m. today
(Monday). Winners of the contest will
be announced Thursday, and the pic-
tures and names will be re-printed and
matched so that you can test your ac-
curacy, whether you entered the con-
test or not.
MORE VOTERS may be registered in
the Burleson area this year, judging by
See Folks, Page 2A
Bti rglary
Suspect
Quizzed
Burleson police and postal authorities
are investigating to see if a 23-year-old
man arrested in Fort Worth was involv-
ed with the burglary last week of the
Burleson post office.
The burglary was reported at 6:30
Thursday morning by postal workers.
Entry was gained through a large post
office box apparently pried open and
the box forcibly removed.
The man was arrested while trying to
pass a personal check believed taken in
the burglary. He was being held by Fort
Worth police on a possible charge of at-
tempted forgery.
Police said items found missing in-
clude a hand calculator, 12 government
checks, four keys Rrpffstal vehicles us-
ed by Burleson mail delivery personnel
and 25 certified letters.
Police believed the burglar crawled
through a 12%-by-10Vi-inch opening
after prying open the mail box and
removing the drawer where mail is in-
serted.
The items believed taken were all in
the same general area, police said.
Police are not certain how the burglar
exited the post office.
Police said the area where items
were taken was last secured about 6
p.m. Wednesday and the burglary
wasn’t discovered until 6:30 am.
Thursday. They said employees started
work at 3:30 a.m. Thursday but were in-
volved in the distribution of mail and
did not immediately notice items miss-
ing.
BY JAMES MOODY
Mass transit for Burleson?
It’s not as far-fetched as it may sound
at first and, in fact, could be a reality in
the not too distant future.
Not intra-city subway service or
anything of that nature. That’s not too
likely for awhile. But a good probability
is that some type of commuter bus ser-
vice will be initiated between Burleson
and major employment centers in Fort
Worth and surrounding area.
That possibility will be more clearly
outlined by April 30, the target deadline
for completion of the draft service plan
by the recently created Lone Star
^ Transportation Authority. After that,
it’s up to the voters of Burleson and
other Metroplex cities-notably Fort
Worth as far as Burleson is concerned.
Voters will be asked in an Aug. 9 elec-
tion to approve a limited sales tax to
finance the transportation system.
Amount of the tax could be anywhere
between a quarter of a per cent and one
percent. Probably the LSTA will ask for
a full penny, which would mean-based
on the amount brought in by the one
cent city sales tax-that Burleson would
contribute more than $300,000 for opera-
tion of the system.
IF VOTERS IN BURLESON reject
the tax, then Burleson would not be in-
cluded in the transportation plan. If
voters in Fort Worth reject the tax, then
it won’t matter which way the vote goes
in Burleson because Fort Worth is the
key to the western subregion of the
Authority.
Dallas is the hub of the eastern
subregion and will be coordinated with
the western subregion if the tax passes
in both Fort Worth and Dallas.
However, rejection by Dallas would not
jeopardize the operation of the plan in
the western area.
Another meeting of the LSTA Ex-
ecutive Committee is set for 3 p.m
Thursday, March 6 in the Board Room
of the D/FW Airport Administration
Building. The public is invited to attend
this and all meetings of the board.
Citizen input into the development of
the plan is being solicited and a slide
presentation explaining possibilities is
available to any group. To reserve the
slide presentation or to arrange for
staff members to visit a group, contact
Cinde Weatherby, 640-3300, Ext. 156; or
Darrell Noe, 870-8004 in the western
subregion. In the eastern subregion, in-
terested persons should contact Jerry
Johnson, 827-3400.
Burleson, as well as other cities in-
cluded in the proposal, have been re-
quested to pass a resolution of support
for the Authority, but Burleson City
Manager Mark Sowa said that he
doubts such a resolution will be con-
sidered here until after the draft pro-
posal is completed.
AT THAT TIME, it will be possible to
get some idea on just how Burleson will
fit into the overall plan. If adeauate
See Transit, Page 2A
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What do you think will bring the most smiles to fishermen's faces dur-
ing March? A 20 pound string in their livewell? Getting the one that had
always gotten away before?
Well, either one could be true if the particular fisherman in question
were either female or insensitive to beauty. Most, however, will probably
flash the biggest smile when they open the March Girl of the
Month in Hawg Jaws, a magazine devoted to bass fishing.
That would be none other than 16-year old Nikki Samsill, a junior at
Burleson High School and a modeling school student for the past six mon-
ths.
Miss Samsill orginally auditioned for a spot on a television commercial
for the magazine. They eventually decided not to use a girl in the com-
mercial, but picked the Burleson resident from among five other finalists
to appear in the magazine.
She’s not sure just exactly which photograph of her will be in the
magazine whenjt comes out this week. Commercial photographer Phillip
Pool took about 300 shots of her last month during a four-hour photo ses-
sion. jL
All the sbfts^were taken outside and, although February was a mild
month, weatherwise, it wasn’t exactly swimsuit weather, she said.
It was the second modeling experience for Miss Samsill, who is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Samsill of 600 Lisa. Her first was just for
experience modeling clothes at a Fort Worth shopping mall one weekend.
She’s also a nominee for “Most Attractive’’ at BHS and is an entry in
the Miss Lake Whitney Contest which comes up in March She works as a
receptionist at Rattikin Title after school each day.
Her first professional modeling job was a big thrill to her, she said,
despite the fact that she admits she’s not really much of a fisherman.
Somehow we doubt, though, that many of the magazine’s subscribers are
going to mind that too much.
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Industrial Board Named
Burleson City Councilmen appointed
two temporary members to the newly
created industrial development board
to keep that project rolling and took ac-
tion on two other items that will help
clear the way for a walk-in restaurant
on IH 35W and development of a 171-lot
sub-division that has been lying idle in
far east Burleson.
The Burleson Industrial Develop-
ment Authority (BIDA) is planned as
an incentive to attract new industry to
this area by providing low-interest
financing for new plants or for the ex-
pansion of existing industries. Tax free
municipal bonds are sold to provide
that financing, but carry with them no
responsibility or liability to the city.
At the council’s first meeting in
February, the articles of incorporation
for the BIDA were approved and the
council had planned to add two more
names to those of the three incor-
porators to make a five-man board of
directors.
One of those five should be a council
member, according to a consensus of
the council, to provide a liason between
that board and the city council.
NO ONE IMMEDIATELY
volunteered for that job, however, so
ultimately two names were added as
directors so the necessary paperwork
could be sent to Austin without further
delay.
* City Attorney J.L. Phinney and Coun-
cilman Bob Johnson were given those
appointments but either or both may
resign at the first director’s meeting so
that some other person can be placed on
that board. Also on that board are the
Incorporators, Jerry Boone, Wayne
Hutson and Dr. Harold Putnam.
There is still a surveying problem to
See City Council. Page 2A
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