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BOB GLASGOW
. . .Wins Senate Nomination
GEORGE BLACK
. . .State Representative Runoff
BRUCE GIBSON
. . .State Representative Runoff
LOYD REE8E
.Commissioner Renominated
14 PAGES IN 2 SECTIONS
MONDAY
EDITION
Newsstand Price
20c
STUART HUFFMAN
.Renominated for Sheriff
4.
Monday, May 5, 1980
For Mail Delivery Call 295-5278
Burleson, Johnson County, Texas 76028
Vol. 15. No. 57
It's Inside!
Section A
School Survey.............
Offbeat, Cornflakes.......
.......3
Sports.....................
Police Report.............
.......8
Section B
People, Etc................
......1.3
Church News.............
In Service.................
Business Review..........
Runoff Will Decide County Tax Post
Office
Candidate
Joshua
Pet. 9
Burleson
Pet. 10
Burleson
Pet. 11
Lillian
Pet. *12
Burleson
Pet. 25
Joshua
Pet. 26
Burleson
Pet. 27
Johnson
County
State
Glasgow
273
216
286
110
247
144
155
4799
Senator
Parker
98
80
127
50
120
52
53
2059
State
Black
74
74
98
26
97
51
71
2158
Repre-
Gibson
235
146
221
120
205
119
94
4084
sentative
Luker
71
83
105
22
85
44
42
1331
Sheriff
Runnels
165
106
195
88
105
86
55
2880
Huffman
229
213
243
90
285
129
157
4441
County
Tax
Carroll
125
205 .
233
44
280
81
J 146
2409
Sellers
84
37
75
24
33
43
19
1729
Assessor-
Morgan
20
24
47
1 1
35
15
12
458
Lane
35
7
26
52
10
12
5
935
Collector
McJilton
128
46
56
37
50
56
13
1815
Comm.
Reese
—
—
171
140
—
—
—
1098
Precinct 3
Basden
—
—
291
46
—
—
—
530
Constable
Gregory
181
152
220
—
190
108
88
1009
Precinct 2
Curlee
198
118
135
—
108
101
86
776
Carter
265
212
303
113
264
168
153
4694
Presidential Kennedy
34
38
37
8
32
27
22
546
Preference
Brown
5
3
7
7
12
2
7
169
Uncommitted
70
55
82
48
61
26
30
1140
Incumbents Loyd Reese, Stuart Huff-
man and W.H., Gregory successfully
withstood challenges in Saturday’s
Democratic Primary but a runoff will
be necessary on June 7 to determine
who will be Johnson County’s next tax
assessor-collector.
Ed Carroll, presently taxman for the
Burleson Independent School District
and the City of Burleson, was the top
vote getter for the county tax job and
will apparently face Beverly McJilton
of Cleburne in a runoff. A recount is a
possibility, however, to determine that
second spot in the runoff. Less than 100
votes separated Mrs. McJilton from the
third place finisher, Bud Sellers, who
lives southeast of Cleburne.
In unofficial returns early Sunday
morning, Carroll had 2409 votes; Mc-
Jilton received 181B; and Sellers had
1729. Others in that race were Otis Lane
of Alvarado with 935 and Jackie
Morgan of Rio Vista with 458.
County Democratic Chairman David
Anderson told The Star Sunday that a
recount was a definite possibility when
the difference between candidates was
less than five percent. McJilton
received 24.7 percent of the vote while
sellers had 23.4 percent.
Sellers could not be contacted at his
home early Sunday morning for a state-
ment on his intentions.
IN AN ELECTION that saw two of
three registered voters in the county
stay home on election day in Johnson
County, neither the sheriff’s race nor
the Pet. 3 county commissioner's race
was as close as many election
observers had predicted.
Reese won a second term as county
commissioner by almost a two to one
margin over Carl Basden of Burleson
and Huffman had almost that big a lead
over Delphus Runnels for sheriff.
Unofficial returns showed Huffman
with 4441 votes to Runnels’ 2409. Reese
received 1098 votes while Basden, a
newcomer to the county political scene,
had 530.
In Pet. 2, incumbent constable
Gregory also had a comfortable 1009 to
776 margin over his opponeet, Steve
Curlee.
BURLESON BOXES ALMOST
without exception also went for the
county winner. The only discrepancy
was in Pet. 11 where voters preferred
Burlesonite Basden over imeumbent
Reese in the county commissioner’s
race by 291 votes to 171.
Carroll was overwhelmingly sup-
ported here, winning more than 50 per-
cent of each of the four Burleson boxes.
See County, Page 2A
Gibson Leads Field of Three
Glasgow Senate Choice
Burleson and Johnson County voters
went with the winners in the state
senate and representative races Satur-
day in the Democratic Primary.
Bob Glasgow of Stephenville took an
easy victory over Walt Parker of Den-
Reagan
Johnson
GOP Pick
Lowell Stroud of Cleburne unseated
longtime Republican County chairman
Jere P. Swatzell in an election that saw
Ronald Reagan beat George Bush by
more than two-to-one in Johnson Coun-
ty Saturday.
Unofficial totals showed Reagan with
950 votes to 452 for Bush in the
Presidential Primary.
Stroud beat Swatzell 785 to 647 in the
race for Republican County chairman.
Stroud said early Sunday he plans to
organize the Republican Party in
Johnson County in all 27 precincts. "I
intend to identify all independent and
Republican vopters and try to induce
them to vote Republican in
November,” Stroud said.
Area precinct totals in the
Republican voters and try to induce
Reagan race included:
Precinct 9—Reagan 86, Bush 42.
Precincts 10, 26 and 27—Reagan 145,
Bush 90.
Precincts 12 and 14—Reagan 65, Bush
48.
Precincts 11 and 25—Reagan 185,
Bush 93.
Stroud picked up much of his support
from Burleson, winning Precinct 11 and
25 (combined for the primary) with 150
to 50 votes and Precincts 10,26 and 27 by
114 to 51.
He led in Precinct 9 64-38 and in the
combined Precinct 12 and 14 by 55 to 31.
“I certainly appreciate the help from
Burleson workers and voters,” Stroud
■aid.
Krueger Visits
Burleson On His
Tour of Texas
HANDS ACROSS THE BORDER-Mexlcan Ambassador Bob Krueger, center,
chats with chamber executive Barbara Gieser and School Supt. Bill Strlbling
during a reception for Krueger here Friday.
Ambassador-To-Mexico-At-Large
Bob Krueger, on a good-will trip to
Texas last week, stopped over in
Burleson Thursday afternoon for a
reception in his honor in Burleson In-
dependent School District’s conference
room hosted by the Burleson Area
Chamber of Commerce.
Stressing the importance of keeping
on friendly terms with Mexico, Am-
bassador Krueger spoke of the new oil
production there.
“They have tremendous hopes their
vast new oil discoveries will give them
new recognition in the world. They sell
the United States about 80 percent of
-their oil, but how many people want on-
ly one customer? Mexico is no dif-
ferent. They want more than one, so
they are looking for other customers
and other countries are looking at Mex-
ico’s oil production,” Krueger pointed
out.
“Mexico wants to develop its oil
resources slowly and it can, in the
future, become one of the largest oil
producers in the world,” the am-
bassador stated.
Answering a question from the au-
dience, Krueger said there is very little
likelihood Mexico will ever become
communist-oriented.
“It is a country of deep contrasts; of
the very rich and the very poor. There
is little or no middle-class and the
likelihood of the very rich conceding
their wealth to communism is remote. ”
“Only about 13 percent of the land in
Mexico is fit for cultivation, so about 57
million in food is exported annually
from the United States to help feed the
people. The United States also provides
Mexico with about 85 percent of its
tourist trade.”
Deaths from heroin harvested in
Mexico has also been drastically cut in
half, Krueger told his audience, since
the United States contracted to spray
insecticides on the Mexican plants.
“Our country is intertwined and in-
terlaced with Mexico and there are a lot
of areas for cooperation. It is vitally im-
portant we keep our friendship and
good will. There is no other country in
the world that has as many people
crossing its borders everyday peaceful-
ly as the United States and Mexico. It is
as important as any country in the
world today,” he concluded.
Among the guests attending
Krueger’s reception were eight grade
students in Dale Duke’s classes, who
are taking a Spanish mini-course at
Pauline G. Hughes Middle School;
three middle school student council of-
ficers; also, students from Roy Daum’s
Spanish classes at Burleson High
School.
The reception was catered gratis by
Cliff Lopez, owner of Los Charros in
Burleson Plaza.
Krueger, accompanied to Burleson
by Dr. Arthur L. Raines of Cleburne,
Democratic Committee chairman,
spoke at a noon luncheon of the Rotary
Club in Cleburne and returned to
Cleburne after the reception here for a
poolside party at the home of Johnson
County Judge and Mrs. Tommy
Altara8.—Doris E. Wilson
ton in the race for State Senate, District
22, and Bruce Gibson of Godley was the
leader in the race for State Rep.,
District 33.
Gibson captured 43 percent of the
votes and will face George Black of
Stephenville in the runoff June 7. Unof-
ficial districtwide totals showed Gibson
with 6,827 votes to 5,817 for Black.
Garry Luker of Granbury was third
with 3,327.
The district includes Johnson, Hood,
Erath and Somervell Counties.
Glasgow led all but three coun-
ties—Denton, Cooke and Somervell—in
the state senate race to serve a
17-county North Texas area.
Glasgow outpolled Parker 4,799 to
2,054 in Johnson County and ended up
with an estimated 59 percent of the total
vote.
With some 64,000 votes counted in the
district, Glasgow had a lead of more
than 11,000. The unofficial total show
Glasgow with 38,042 votes and Parker
with 26,882.
The much larger Denton County went
heavily for Parker—5,080 to 1,727—but
didn't cast enough votes to counter
Glasgow's strength in the southern and
western parts of the district.
Glasgow told The Star early Sunday
morning that he had "a lot of empathy
for Walt Parker. He had a lot of good
Democrats working for him.
“I know how hard it is to campaign.
He (Parker) worked hard and he cam-
paigned hard, but somebody has to win
and somebody has to lose.
"We ran a ‘people’ campaign and
although the politicos in Austin said we
couldn’t do it, we won. We got into the
race late, but we had strong county
organizations with a lot of good people
helping.”
Gibson led in Johnson County with
4,084 votes to 2,158 for Black and 1,331
for Luker. He also won in Hood County,
Luker’s home county, with 1,565 votes
to 927 for Luker and 835 for Black.
Black captured the majority of votes
in his home County—Erath—with 2,184
to 836 for Luker and 827 for Gibson.
Black led in Somervell County with
640 votes to 361 for Gibson and 263 for
Luker. ;;•*
Burleson boxes wont for Glasgow
slightly more than two-to-one and
went heavily for Gibson with Luker and
Black finishing almost even in Burleson
boxes, far behind Gibson.
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