Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 41, Ed. 1 Monday, March 8, 1982 Page: 1 of 42
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DOHA CSSERY
MAURICE SHEPHERD
BOBBY D. SMITH
BYRON BLACK
CHARLENE WALLACE
Five Of Seven Local Races Contested
The deadline has come and gone, the
candidates are at the starting blocks,
and the race has begun for seven
elected positions in the city and school
govern ment
Two of the sev en races won't be much
of a contest, however, since there
weren't enough candidates to go
around Charlene Wallace has no op
position for a second term in Place 6 on
the school hoard Another woman, Vera
Calvin, is also unopposed for a second
term in Place 4 on the city council
The other woman incumbent. Dora
Cssery. will he challenged by Bobby I)
Smith in Place 7 on the school board
And Board President Byron Black
drew an opponent on the last day of the
filing period Maurice Shepherd is also
seeking the Place .i spot on th«> board
Place (> on the city council also
became a contested race on the last
da\ Incumbent Bill Stowe now faces a
challenge from Billie Clark
THE OTHER COUNCIL seal 'natures
a three-candidate battle between in
cumbent Dennis Barabas, Jerry Boone,
and Patsy Cunningham.
It's a two-way race for the mayor's
post with Loy Norris and Scott Butler
both seeking that position Incumbent
Robert E Abies is not seeking re
election
Each candidate wall tie asked to res
pond to a list ol written questions
prepared by the Burleson Chapter of
the League of Women Voters and the
results w ill be published in the March 29
edition of Thr Nfor
The League is also planning to spun
sor a candidate s forum in which all
candidates will be given an opportunity
to express their views and answ er ques
lions from the voters
Absentee voting begins a week from
today Monday . March IS at city hall
for the city elections and at the BISD
Administration Budding for the school
board races. Last day of absentee
voting for the April :i election is March
90
Eollowing is a brief biographical pro-
file of each of the five school board can-
didates
SCHOOL ELECTIONS
Byron Black—The incumbent in
Place i. Black has spent two of his thret
years on the board as president He
lives a' HD Beverly Dr in Hogan Acres
anil his wife Barbara is a fifth grade
teacher at A E Erazier Elementary
They have twin boys, Ronald and
David, both sophomores at Burleson
High School
Black works as a delivery service
analyst for the Port Worth Manage
ment Section Center of the L S Postal
Service and was formerly in the
Burleson Post Office A 20-year veteran
of the postal service, he is vice
president of the National Association of
Postal Supervisors. EW Branch, a
member of the chamber of commerce,
on the board of directors of the North
Texas Area Association of School
Boards: and works on the legislative
network for TASB
Maurice Shepherd—Shepherd was
running as fhe incumbent in Place r>
three years ago. but is in the role of
challenger this time around He served
as president of the board one year dur-
ing his three year term.
Shepherd and his wife Faye live on
Rt 2 where he is a rancher stockman.
He is retired from the Federal Aviation
Administration
He is a member of the chamber and
also belongs to the Burleson Lions Club
Shepherd is also on the board of direc
tors ol the Bethesda Water Supply
Corp a district director for the Dai
Worth Soil Conservation District; and
on a committee for the study of long
range planning for Johnson County
Memorial Hospital.
Bobby l>. Smith—Smith is a political
newcomer to Burleson, but certainly no
newcomer to the city itself He is a
lifelong resident of Burleson and
graduated from Burleson High School
in 1 966
Smith lives at 228 Harris with his
wife, Donna, and their two children.
Scott. 6. and Kimberly. 2 He works as a
manager of logistics contracts for Beil
Helicopter and has been with that com
pair, for 15 years He is seeking Place 7
Dora Cssery —Mrs. Cssery is the
Place 7 incumbent and is currently
vice president of the school hoard and
is seeking her second te> m of office She
and her husband and childr< it reside at
904 Sundow n i't
She is a past president of the Bui !.■ or.
Library Board, the A E Crazier PTO.
and the Burleson Garden i Iwh and a
past vice-president of the Burleson
Youth Association She also lormerlv
served as secretary for the Community
Education Advisory Committee and is
also a member ■ >i the Burleson Chapter
of the League o' Women Voters, the
Burleson Association for the Talented
and Gifted, the Texas Association of
School Boards, and the Gemini Club
Charlene V\ allace— Running unop
posed lor a second term in Place 6. Mrs
W allace is a former justice of the peace
m Burleson, serving in that capacity for
six years She was nominated for
Burleson W'oat.r-. 1 the Year honors in
1979-811 and y.u-. 'hr tuv, president of tfie
Frazier PT \ She m r\ ed three years as
president a v >. more • urs as a
member of 11, •ovuLvc hoard on fhe
PTA She is al.v a nr-mber of the
I,e-ague ol Wumii. \ ot>., -
Mrs Wallace is al.-.o an elder a! St.
Matthew Cumberland Presbyterian
Church She and h a husband. Charles.
In - at !92 N.W Wanda Wav
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Stocking Vp
Odell Schmitt lakes advantage of falling gas prices to fill up a five-gallon storage
can in the trunk of his car. Like other Burleson residents, he was among those
pleased by the reduced cost of gas the past two weeks.
Fueling Around Cheaper
By STEWART APPL1N
Burleson area motorists have been
pleasantly surprised in recent days
when they pull into a service station to
fill up
Texas drivers and drivers throughout
the nation have been treated the past
two weeks to a reduction in the price of
gasoline of four cents or more. Burleson
service station owners interviewed Fri-
day indicated that the price of regular
gas w ill probably go below $1 a gallon in
the near future. Die lowest its been
since the summer of 1979
When the price of regular jumped
from 60 cents to over a dollar a gallon
after the Memorial Day crunch of 1979,
most forecasters predicted a $2 per
gallon price by the summer of 1980.
However, a glut of oil on the world
markets the past two years, caused in
■ large part by conservation by Ameri-
cans, squabbling among OPEC coun-
tries, and the production of low-cost
crude oil from the North Sea, lias
produced stable prices in 1980 and 1981
and gradually lower prices this year.
A SPOT ( HECK of gas station prices
in Burleson revealed a range for regu-
lar from $1 08.9 lo $1.16.9 Friday after-
noon with an average price for self-
service regular at $1 12. Gas prices for
regular in Fort Worth varied between
$1.04.9 to $1.14.9 and unleaded $1.11 to
$122. „
Troy Cooper, owner of Burleson Tex-
aco and two other local stations, pre-
dicted that regular prices would drop
below $1 by the end of the month. “It’s
kind of like they used to be,” Cooper
said of the dropping prices He said that
his customers have been pleased with
the reductions "Everybody seems to
have a positive attitude about it Every-
body’s glas to see it “ He said that sales
over the first two months of 1982 were
25-20 percent higher than the same
period last year
J.T. Bingham, owner of Bingham's
Exxon in Burleson, was a bit more
skeptical of the falling prices In the oil
business 54 years, he said that gas
prices might fall until autumn, in
creasing demand and using up the sur-
plus oil, then there may well be another
“shortage” and prices would go up “It
will be under $1 a gallon by Sept 1,” he
said.
“They'll (the oil companies) try and
get us is a bind again," Bingham
opined. “They’re nobody's fool when it
comes to swindling the public ”
BUSINESS HAS STAYED about the
same for Roland Brooks, owner of
,Roland’s Gulf Service Station. He said
that if the OPEC countries keep fight
ing the price of regular could go down to
90 cents a gallon. He reported that his
customers have been happy, “They’d
like it to go down to where it was,” he
said of prices. “Of, course, if your
customers are happy, you are.”
Major company and independent
representatives stated that supplies are
very large and demand has been histor-
ically low. Refiners are now in Die
process of switching from manufacture
of heating oil and diesel fuel tosummer-
grade gasoline and must get rid of
their present stock before stockpiling
(he summer gas.
Missed Days Won’t Be Made Up
March is generally regarded as the
windy month, but most Burleson stu-
dents will probably be pleased to find
out that the otherwise ill winds earlier
this year have blown them some good
news
The cold weather and ice brought on
by those winds caused the loss of four
days of school that many students and
teachers a like feared might be made up
during the Spring Break or at the first
of the summer
One day has already been made up by-
switching a teacher in-service day and
an instruction day. The other three
days will apparently not have to be
made up A revised calendar is one of
the items which will be facing school
trustees when they meet tonight (Mon
day) at 7:31) in the Board Room of the
BISD Administration Building
The Texas Education Agency, which
requires 175 days of instruction each
year unless a variance is granted, has
verbally approved a request by BISD
Superintendent Gordon Cockerham to
shorten the school year here to 172
days Written confirmation is expected
within a few days
TEA asked school districts to makeup
days whenever possible, but specifical
ly noted that the makeup days should
not be scheduled during the Spring
Break or at the end of the school year
Instead, teacher in-service days should
be converted to instruction days when
ever possible.
WITH ONLY TWO in-service days
remaining on the BISD calendar. Bur-
leson could not add any instruction days
and still follow the TEA guidelines
Many teachers here have already
earned in-service credit to replace the
in-service day scheduled for April 9 and
May 29 in-service day is at the end of
the school year
One of those bad weather days creat-
ed some concern for members of the
Burleson Classroom Teachers Associa-
tion. Due to a natural gas curtailment,
no classes were held on Jan. 12 but
teachers were asked to report for an
in-service day. Some out-of-town teach-
ers did not report to work, however,
because streets were icy that morning.
Those teachers were docked a day’s
pay by the district and some BETA
members felt the decision was not
handled in the same manner by every
campus
It was stated by some teachers
that the communications committee
was ineffective and prevented teachers
from appealing a decision of the super-
intendent directly to the board of trust-
ees. At a subsequent board meeting, a
delegation of teachers asked the board
for an answer to two questions. Board
President Byron Black promised an
answer in writing.
His replay, sent this week:
QUESTION—Is the communication
committee the only avenue for teach-
ers' concerns and appreciations to pre-
sented to the school board''
ANSWER—The communications
committee does provide the process
whereby teachers of the BISD can
provide input to the board on matters of
district-wide significance Individual
employee problems should be resolved
with the immediate supervisor If that
procedure is not satisfactory, then it
can be appealed to the superintendent
or his designee, and on to the board as
the final appeal if not resolved at that
level
QUESTION—Is the “hearing from
partons" portion of the agenda the only
wav that we as professional personnel
can voice our concerns and apprecia-
tions to the board concerning school
matters?
ANSWER—As the agenda is present-
ly structured, you may address the
board in open session during that por-
’ion reserved for patron comment As
an employee of the school district, if
you have concerns related to school
operations, you should utilize the exist-
ing policy and procedures to express
same to the board. In noway, as long as
The ABC’s of Success were graphical-
ly and humorously prescribed bv guest
speaker Morris Sheats of Mansfield at
the Burleson Area Chamber of Com-
merce luncheon Thursday in First Unit
ed Methodist Church.
Introduced by Rev Ijeaon Johnston
as a motivational speaker, Johnston
noted that Morris’ speech would not be
political even though he is a candidate
for a political office.
“We won’t mention what office, ’
Johnston said, “but after you hear him,
you will want to find out "
Sheats is a Republican candidate for
representative nomination in the new
26th U S. Congressional District.
He is also president of the Leadership
Institute in Arlington, involved in the
sale of motivational tapes and seminar
presentations
"YOUR ATTITUDE W il l, determine
your altitude in success.” Sheats said in
opening remarks “You have to deter
mine what you are going to do w ith your
life before you can be successful."
The ABC’s in Sheats’ success formula
are A for Acceptance: “You have to
learn to accept people where they are.
Learn how to stop trying to change
everybody and accept people as they
are makes for a happier life."
The “B” is for Balance: “You need
balance in your life; in work and play
Are you a fun person lo live with-' It is a
serious world we live in, but it isn’t
going to get any better by being nega-
tive and being down on everyone. You
can’t work all the time You have to
take time to have fun. There needs to be
balance between work and play for
families to grow up strong,’ Sheats
recommended.
Communication with others has the
biggest role in ABC’s success role.
“You can’t accept people as they are,
have balance in your life, if you can’t
it is legally and ethically permissable.
are employees denied an opportunity to
address the board but should exhaust
all existing policies and procedures to
resolve the problem prior to same
"having to be considered by the board
Which apparently means there will
be no change inthe channel of commu-
nications.
The board is also expected to act
tonight on an offer by the Burleson Area
Chamber of Commerce to purchase an
acre of land from the school district. In
order to comply fully with all TEA
regulations regarding the sale of school
property, the district took bids on the
acre and the only bid received was
$9,(XX) from the chamber
A building is planned on the site by
the chamber Location ol the lot is on
the district’s 80 acres bounded by
Highways 174 and 731 The chamber lot
would begin about 2(X) feet from the
private property line on the northern
communicate,’’ he said
LACK OF COMMUNICATION can he
caused by three factors, Sheats pointed
out "D failing to listen, lo really
listen, 2) Blaming someone else for
mistakes, instead of facing up to a
problem with a simple “ves or no”; 3)
Assuming you do understand, when v ou
really don’t,’’
Sheats concluded by reading Itud
yard Kiplings’ “If”
Rev Mike Wills, pastor of First
Christian Church, gave the invocation.
Los Sells, president of the Ambassa
dor Club, expressed appreciation to
businessmen arid Ambassador Club
members in the recently completed
campaign, when 51) new businesses
end of the tract facing 174.
ALSO ON THE BOARD agenda for
tonight is
Discussion of a plan toallow retired
employees to continue health-care cov-
erage through the BISD at their own
expense
Considering approval of the BISD
acting as fiscal agent for an expanded
special education co-op for visually
handicapped students
—Considering personnel matters and
student discipline
Awarding the contracts for photo-
graphy services and student pictures
Approval of the 1981-82 bus routes
and the tentative 1982-83 routes
Acceptance of the textbook com-
mittee report
Consideration of the monthly report
from the lax office and the financial
statement of district operations.
Presentation of a program by Paul
me G Hughes Middle School
were added to the chamber of com
merce membership roll
Elbe Hadsall. president of the Burle
sor. Unit of the League of Women Voters
of Texas, announced a Candidates'
Forum will be sponsored for city and
schon) candidates on March 29 at 7:30
p.rn in Mound Elementary School She
also reported a Voters' Service Guide
will he published in the Burleson Star
before the May primaries so that voters
can cast an informed vote
Chamber president Gordon Cocker-
ham announced that Chuch Mills, new
Burleson High School athletic director
and head football coach, will be guest
speaker at the chamber s April lunch-
eon DORIS E. WILSON
Morris Sheats, Gordon Cockerham discuss ABC’s of success.
Success Is As Easy As ABC
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