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Burleson Star, Thursday, March 17. 1983 —3A
Boosters meet
The Big Red Booster Club will meet Monday, March
21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Burleson High School cafeteria.
On the agenda will be a discussion on the spring a]l-
sports banquet which will recognize the varsity
baseball, tennis, volleyball, golf, and track teams
Also, a nominating committee will be appointed for
the nomination of new officers for the 1963-84 year
All interested persons are invited to come and par
ticipate.
Film presented
A 20-minute film showing the restoration of the
governor's mansion in Austin will be shown Sunday.
March 20, at 2:30 p.m. at the McPherson House in
Joshua
The film presentation is being held by the Joshua
Historical Society For more information, one may call
641-8042 or 295-8449
Coupling topic
“Coupling and uncoupling" will be the topic of
discussion at the next meeting of the Burleson Area
Singles Friday, March 1% at the First United
Methodist Church in Burlcaga.
larry Alland, a pastor^ yunselor and director of
the Samaritan Counselingafti(£r of Fort Worth, will
lead the discussion starting gt 7:30 p.m.
Any singles from the community are welcome to at-
tend. For more information, one may call Don Thomas
at.295 5832 or 295-2319 or Kay McFarland at 295-1166 or
926-1179
Session Monday
The regular meeting of the Joshua Independent
School District trustees will be held Monday, March 21,
at 7:30 p.m. in the administration building
Among the items on the agenda will be approving the
textbook committee report
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to summon ambulance or emergency
services,” he envisioned
Ellis, a native of Fort Worth, served
in the U S Army Signal Corps for four
years. He spent 30 months in Germany
and 10 months in Vietnam.
Upon his discharge in 1969, he went to
work for the General Telephone Co of
Irving, where he lived until 1973, when
he moved to Houston. There, he was
self-employed as an engineer contract-
or for Southwestern Bell He moved to
Burleson in 1980
He and his wife, Gay, live at 601
Christopher in Timber Green, just of
CR 600 Their son, Matthew, is 15 and a
Burleson High School freshman
Frank Smith offered
scholarship at TCU
Frank Smith of Burleson is
one of some 20 outstanding
high school seniors from
across the nation who have
been offered a Chancellor’s
Scholarship at Texas Christ-
ian University for the 1983-84
academic year
The Chancellor’s Scholar
program, begun in 1963-64,
has attracted, top-ranking
students from throughout the
United States to TCU The
full-tuition awards are given
on the basis of high rank in
their high school classes and
minimum scores of 1300 on
the Scholastic Aptitude Test
or 30 on the American Col-
lege Test
With satisfactory aca-
demic accomplishment at
TCU, the awards arc renew-
able to the completion of the
students' baccalaureate de-
gree programs
TCU, an independent insti-
tution related to the Christ
ian Church (Disciples of
Christ) since its founding on
the Southwestern frontier in
1873, offers 15 bachelor’s de-
grees in more than 50~fields
of study through its five un-
dergraduate schools and col-
leges. In addition to master's
degrees in some 50 areas of
specialization, the U’niver
sity has doctoral programs
in English, physics, chemis
try, history and psychology
as well as three master's
degrees and the Doctor of
Ministry through Brite Di-
vinity School
Smith, son of Mr and Mrs.
Richard F Smith of Rt 8
Box 460, is a senior at Burle-
son High School He is plan-
ning to study journalism
If you worked for two or more employers during 1982 and
received wages totaling more than $32,400 IRS suggests you
check the Social Security amount on your W-2 form If it
shows more than $2,170.80, you can claim the excess as a
credit on your tax return, the IRS says However, if you file a
joint return, you and your spouse must make separate com-
putations
The IRS added that, if you worked for only one employer
and more than $2,170 80 was withheld, you may not claim the
excess as a credit against your Income tax. Your employer
should refund the overcollectian to you
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Melissa l.al.ondr points out safet\ violations on a bicycle selected at random from
the bicycle rack ot A.E. Frazier. Frazier students (clockwise from upper left)
Hubba Vincent, Mary l.aUonde. Shawn Tatum, Yasemin Yagmur, Rodney Allen,
and Georgia Palmer listen carefully during the prograni/project of the Burleson
High School DKCA chapter for civic consciousness.
DECA shows
safety program
The Burleson High School
chapter of the Distributive
Education Clubs of America,
under counsel of Bob Hens-
ley, recently produced a bi-
cycle safety program for
Frazier Elementary as a
project for the area Career
Development Conference
contest.
The BHS chapter, number
401, placed second in the
contest held in Temple,
therefore qualifying for the
state contest in Houston
April 21-23. The project was
entered in the category of
Civic Consciousness and was
one of 120 entries from the
area
The program itself was
performed by the DECA
group in December. The stu-
dents in the group then wrote
a report containing the bene
fits, advantages and pro-
blems of their project which
was submitted to the contest.
If the chapter's entry wins in
Houston, they will go on to
the national Career Develop-
ment Conference in New Or-
leans
According to Melissa La
Londe of the DECA group,
the chapter chose bicycle
safety as a project in order to
give children an "awareness
about how careful they must
be when riding a bicycle”
LaLonde said the chapter
would like to give special
thanks to Robert Griswold,
principal, and the students of
A.E. Frazier for their coop-
eration. They also thanked
Harold Simmons of the Safe-
ty Council of Fort Worth and
Tarrant County for his help
in making the project a suc-
cess
Sports Commentary
With Stewart Applin
Mondays in Star ★Sports
Restitution okayed
The first steps toward implementa
tion of a juvenile restitution program
were taken Thursday night by the
Burleson City Council but a companion
measure- a peer jury for first time
teen traffic offenders- w as sent back to
the drawing boards
First reading on the restitution ordin-
ance was passed by a unanimous vote
without any changes being made by the
council It provides for a program in
which juveniles can work on a public
service project as an alternate to tradi-
tional forms of punishment. Only first
time offenders would be eligible for that
program
For instance, if a juvenile is involved
in an offease in which city property us
damaged or vandalized, then he would
repay the city by working for a city
departmental the prevailing minimum
wage until the debt was repaid
If another person's property was
involved, then that person must be fully
reimbursed and the juvenile would
perform work for the city at the rate of
eight hours work for each one hundred
dollars of damages done or property
taken.
FOlt OFFENSES IN which no pro-
perty damage is involved, 10 boors
work would lie required for Class “C"
misdemeanors; 2(i hours for Class "B"
misdemeanors, and 40 hours for Class
“A" misdemeanors
The program dot's not apply to any-
one charged in a traffic violation or a
felony.
An existing city employee will be
designated as a supervision officer to
be sure that the assigned tasks are
completed.
City officials believe that a public
service restitution program will be a
nore effective deterrant to vandalism
and other predominantly juvenile
crimes than a simple fine, particularly
since fines are not generally paid by the
juvenile anyway
While the restitution program ap
pears likely to be implemented after
one more reading by the council, the
peer jury program is anything but a
certainty.
THERE W AS DISCUSSION on var
ious aspects of the ordinance and even
tually it was tabled instead of being
taken to a vote on first reading Some
mention was given to tying the program
in with the school system, but it was
also argued that a teen traffic offender
from Crowley or Joshua would feel
little positive peer pressure from a jury
of Burleson students
Mayor Scott Butler was skeptical that
enough student volunteers could be
found to sit on the jury if it were not
connected in some way with the school
system Two school board members in
the audience, Dora Ussery and Char
leen Wallace, both agreed that the
concept was a good one and that they
felt die school district would be willing
to work with the city in any way to
implement the program
Despite some areas of disagreement.
Dennis Barabas said he felt it was a
good thing and was reach to vote for a
peer jury on first reading
BlTLEIt. HOWEVER, said "I'm
opposed to it in any case, Ixd couldn’t
vote for it at all unless it's more in line
with what Vera wants."
Vera Calvin, Parks and Recreation
Director David Petika, and park board
members Diane Lybhert and Caroline
Carroll had all made a trip to Temple to
watch the peer jury in operation there
Mrs Calvin reported to the council that
the jury was coordinated through the
high school government cluss She said
that while writing safety themes was
also a part of the punishment_at Tern
pie, ^tudeut^theuf W days
linstrad'bf 30* to„i?xn<niptish that task
and that content alone was judged op.
the assignment Grammar and spelling
were not consider*”
Butler listed a series of questions that
he felt the council would have to have
liefore acting on the peer jury. He said
the council had no figures on the
severity of the problem or what the
program would cost, that the council
needed to know how many first time
offenders to expect in order to schedule
court sessions
The mayor pointed out that the ser-
vices of a large number of city person
nel would lie required, including the
municipal judge, the city attorney and
the city clerk and that none of these
people were current!) being paid to
provide that function
"It's going to cost us to operate it on
one side and reduce revenue on the
other,” he told the council
After a motion by Mrs Calvin, the
council voted 7-0 to table the matter
IN OTHER ACTION at the meeting,
the council:
—Approved by a 6 1 vote a contract
with Wayne Snyder Associates to pre-
pare a comprehensive master plan for
the city.
- Approved an agreement with the
City of Fort Worth to provide sanitary
sewer service to a lol on the northeast
corner of Hardgrove Lane and IH-35.
—Approved the final plat of 40 lots on
and around a proposed street in the
Summercrest Addition The street will
be on an extension of Summercrest
Boulevard a block past the new street
currently being cut through.
—Approved specifications and au-
thorized a call for bids on the conces-
sion rights at the municipal pool.
- Approved on second reading an
ordinance adopting the 1979 Uniform
Fire Code A provision was also added
to the code which would require two
doors in all single family dwellings built
in the city Existing homes would not be
affected.
—APPROVED ON SECOND reading
an ordinance requiring fences to be
built around private swimming pools.
Approved a resolution urging the
state legislature to abolish or make
major reforms in the Public Utilities
Commission. This squeaked by on a
4-3 vote with Roper, Mrs. Calvin, and
Bob Johnson casting dissenting votes.
Their baijjc objection seemed to be that
small communities did not have the
expertise to make these decisions and
that outside consultants would gener-
ally have to be retained tp settle rate
CaSes.
"It's cost prohibitive,” said Roper.
"We would be tacking costs on to the
citizens instead of helping them with
their rates "
- Passed on first reading a “re-an-
nexation" of property owned by Carroll
Graves. Because of a governmental
technicality, the annexation process
must be repeated if the city is to receive
revenue sharing funds.
Heard questions from a citizen
wanting to know the current status of
the airport situtaion; provided no an-
swers to same citizen.
- Instructed the city manager to
continue "land swap" negotiations with
Fort Worth and instructed the city
attorney to prepare to file a lawsuit to
stop the airport.
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DON'T DIVORCE!
WORK HARDER!
kind of advice
from couples who
from a
divorced
You would expect this
preacher, right? This is
and'then wish they hadn't.
In the September 1982 issue of Family Life Today
magazine there was an Interesting report from Dr.
Mavis Hetherington, professor of psychology at the
University of Virginia. In a study on divorce in-
volving couples who had been divorced for one
year, most men and women said they felt they should
have worked harder at their marriage.
The figures were these: 63% of the men and 73%
of the women felt they had made a mistake, and could
have worked out their problems. How tragic that
these marriages could have been saved if the people
involved had only worked harder.
Two observations:
1- ALL MARRIAGES HAVE PROBLEMS. Do not think
that you are the only couple who have ever had
troubles. Commit yourself to working through the
problem.
2- NEVER CONSIDER DIVORCE AN OPTION. When you
took your wedding vows you promised, "....for better
or for worse...till death do us part." Just because
people of the world are divorcing every time some
problem arises does not mean it's right. The couples
in the survey mentioned above overwhelmingly wished
they had worked it out rather than divorce. C.od set
up the family for you to stay married. Jesus said,
"...what God has joined together, let man not separ-
ate" (Matthew 19=6). _ v
Burleson Church of Christ
820 S.W. Wilthin (Hwy. 174)
Burleson, Texas 76028
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