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/.4 A-Burleson Star, Monday, March 31,1980
Burleson Duo Nets
District Doubles Title
ARLINGTON—The Burleson team of Tori Whippo
&2S and CMy Meyer took first place in girls doubles in the
District 4A-8 tennis tournament Thursday and Friday
at the UT-Arlington Courts.
Overall, the Elks finished fourth in the tournament
as Kim Davis made a top showing by placing third in
girls singles.
Meyer and Whippo qualified for the regional tennis
tournament in two weeks at Texas Woman’s Universi-
ty in Denton.
The first two finishers in district go to regional and
Davis will be alternate if one of the singles winners is
unable to enter the regional tournament.
Whippo and Meyer will be battling for a state tourna-
ment berth in the region that attracts the most 4A
schools from the most districts of any region in the
state.
The Burleson doubles champions were top seeded in
the tournament and advanced to the finals, finally
beating the No. 2 seeds Led Neathery and Vickie
Thompson of Arlington Lamar.
The Elks' other girls doubles team of Gail Pressel
and Kim Duraan won their first match before being
eliminated by Neathery and Thompson.
Davis won two matches before meeting top seed and
eventual champion Heida Eastman of Arlington where
she gave the champ her toughest match, losing 3-6,4-6.
She then won the third place match over third-seeded
Marcia Williams of Richland. Kim was fourth-seeded
in the tournament.
The boys doubles team of Jeff English and Larry
Deubler won its first match before losing to eventual
champions Harry Baker and P.L. Mitchell of Arl-
ington.
The other boys team of Paul Buckingham and Glenn
Steelman lost their opening match to the Arlington
Bowie team of Scott Pirkle and Andy Sypianin a three
set battle, finally falling 3-6, 6-1, 2-6. The Bowie team
eventually finished second.
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CINDY MEYER . .. district doubles champion
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Elks Not Playing ‘Weighting’ Game
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When all the weights are
'' added up, athletes in the
*"• ’Burleson High School off-
season football program are
f’: expected to havdlifted three
and a half tons in three days.
“We expect an increase of
10,000 pounds,” said weight
coach Joe Bill Bush
With only dead lifts still to
be tabulated, the Elks were
showing some big gains in
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CORRECTION
Appearing In our supplement of March 31, the Wooden Han-
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McGraw Edison Grass Shears Model G5127 The correct il-
lustration should have been "Floating Blade Grass Shears."
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have causeo.
several areas
Where last year at this
time only a handful of
athletes could bench press
200 pounds, 48 or 53 percent
of the boys in the weight pro-
gram, could bench over 200.
Ten are over 250 pounds
led by Milton Schriener who
has lifted 293.
The gains are even large
over the last test some six
weeks ago.
Where 37 athletes benched
over 200 pounds in testing
earlier this year, 48 went
over that mark this time.
Ten lifted over 250 pounds
compared to five in the last
bench press tests.
Bobby Dickson, Frankie
Aylesworth and Mike Sapp
tied for top honors in the
squat at 421 pounds each.
Four others lifted 400
pounds or more.
The Elks gained 1,000
pounds in bench press lifts
and 4,600 in squats.
Dead lift results were still
to be tabulated with cham-
pions in each weight class
also to be calculated from
dead lift results.
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BURLESON SCHOOL BOARD
SATURDAY, APRIL 5
•Qualified
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(Pd. Pol Adv By R.J. (Bob) Ray, Jr. 225 N.E. Taylor)
We know a fellow who
always travels thirst-class.
Who says people aren’t
kind to flies? Don’t they hold
cookouts for 'em?
This is one of those days
we re making about as much
progress as a fellow going
up a down escalator.
400 CLUB—Six of the seven who lifted 400
or more pounds in squat lifts last week are
pictured above. From left in the front row
are Leon Weaver, Chuck Cox and Lynn
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Jenkins. In the back row are Bobby
Dickson, Jon Shelley and Michael Sapp.
Not pictured is Frankie Aylesworth.
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Camping Family Style
by Angela and Ford Bothwell
©1960 Suburban Features
The National Park Ser-
vice has announced that
computerized campsite res-
ervation services will be
expanded from three to sev-
en of the country’s highest-
use national parks during
the 1980 camping season.
Six additional national
parks will accept reserva-
tions by mail.
It will be possible for
campers to make reserva-
tions this year at more than
600 Ticketron outlets nation-
ally, by mail or in person for
the following seven parks:
Shenandoah National Park
in Virginia, Great Smoky
Mountains National Park in
Tennessee-North Carolina,
Cape Hatteras National
Seashore in North Carolina,
Rocky Mountain National
Park in Colorado, Grand
Canyon National Park in
Arizona and Yosemite and
Sequoia-Kings Canyon
National Parks in Califor-
nia.
The seven parks have a
total of 17 campgrounds
with more than 3,000 camp-
sites.
No phone reservations
will be accepted. Reserva-
tions may be made up' to
eight weeks in advance of
the , planned camping dates
in person at Ticketron
outlets or by mail by writ-
ing: Ticketron Reservation
Office, P.O. Box 19992,
Washington, DC 20036, or
Ticketron Reservation
Office, P.O. Box 2715, San
Francisco, CA 94126.
Those writing will receive
a form on which they can
make a reservation for spe-
cific dates and parks. The
reservation charge is $1.75,
plus the cost of the camp-
sites, which range from $2 to
$4 per night. Reservation
forms are also available
from the parks involved and
from National Park Service
regional offices and Wash-
ington headquarters.
In addition to the parks
using the computerized
system, six other parks
maintain individual mail
campsite reservation
systems. For information,
write: Acadia National
Park, Route 1, Box 1, Bar
Harbor, ME 04609; Cumber-
land Island National
Seashore, P.O. Box 806, St.
Marys, GA 31558; Virgin
Islands National Park, Cin-
namon Bay Campground,
P.O. Box 120, St. John, V I.
00830; Ozark National Sce-
nic Riverways, P.O. Box 490,
Van Buren, MO 63965; Dino-
saur National Monument
(boat access campgrounds
only), P.O. Box 210, Dino-
saur, CO 81610, and Point
Reyes National Seashore,
Point Reyes, CA 94956.
Campsite reservations
may be made for multiple
nights, but most parks have
a 10-day to two-week limit
for stays.
Have more fun on the
water. Send for two free
booklets, “More Fon Per
Gallon” and “Two-Cycle
Boating,” by writing Camp-
ing Family Style, c/o this
newspaper. The words
BOATING BOOKLETS must
be on your outside envelope,
(c) 1080 Suburban Features
(Mg) CHARLEY BUCKINGHAM
Local Businessman
Place 4 - April 5 Burleson City Council
Help Burleson Grow
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