Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1977 Page: 1 of 18
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Dr. Phil Gramm Speaks Here
Inflation Blamed
On Deficit Spending
Pupil Tally
Tops 4700
Pickup
Hit
KiU Hui
rt Man
was again struck
'/Joseph AaronJHe^t-
Saves Baby's Life In Fire
Clinic
Breakin
Although Wilson didn’t think much
about his actions, Southwestern Bell
thought they were above the call of
United Way
Goal Set
duty and recognized the installer’s
heroic actions by awarding him the
Bronze Theodore N. Vail Medal and a
check for $250.
Once outside, he revived the baby by
slapping him on the back and then gave
the child water from his vacuum bottle.
Having made certain the child was
alright, Wilson went about his business
as usual.
Southwestern Bell officials were not
aware of the incident until a fireman
called trying to locate the man who
saved the baby’s life. A quick check
through company records showed that
Wilson had been working at the
apartments during the fire. When
asked why he hadn’t mentioned the
incident to his fellow workers, Wilson
commented, “I didn’t think much about
it. Anyone would have done the same
thing.”
iigated several
■e Labor Day
rauto-pedestrian
'iat resulted in the
death of the year
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nts involved an auto
Theodore N. Vail Memorial Fund
was established in 1920 in honor of
Theodore N. Vail, president of AT&T
from 1885 to 1919, to perpetuate the
ideals of Vail through recognition of
employee acts and services in emer-
gencies which reflect his concepts of
responsibility for the public service.
The income from this fund provides
awards for telephone employees in
recognition of noteworthy public ser-
vice.
Labor Day Mishaps
Keep Police Busy
don’t need any gasoline to get around,”
ood or better than some automobiles
-Star Staffoto
Enrollment in the Burleson Public
Schools climbed past the 4700 mark
this week as a morning attendance
check Wednesday of the six schools in
the district totaled 4705, a gain of 82
students over opening day enrollment
of 4623.
This is about a dozen more students
than were counted in Burleson schools
on the Tuesday after Labor Day last
year. Classes had been in progress for
two weeks prior to Labor Day in 1976,
however, and only one week this year
since the school year was shortened by
the state legislature.
Traditionally, there is an influx of
new students immediately after the
Labor Day weekend. Since the holiday
is so close to the start of school this
year, school enrollment may continue
to climb for another week or so until it
begins to level off.
There were 4694 students enrolled in
public school here after Labor Day last
year. By the end of the school year,
4585 students were attending school.
Much of the student gains in the
district have been at Burleson High
School where Principal A.A. “Nick”
Kerr reports there are now 1476
students, more than 50 above the first
day attendance.
Other schools and their enrollment
as of Wednesday morning were Nola
Dunn Elementary, 532; A.E. Frazier
Elementary, 582; Mound Elementary,
750; J.W. Norwood Elementary, 584;
and Pauline G. Hughes Middle School,
781.
BY WAYNE HUT SON
Dr. Phil Gramm, acting like a man
running office, blamed continued infla-
tion and unemployment on deficit
spending by the federal government in
a talk before members of the Burleson
Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon
Wednesday.
Gramm, professor of economics at
Texas A&M University, is expected to
announce sometime this month that he
A 29 year old Hurst man beca
Burleson’s third traffic fatality of-/
year-
over the Labor Day weekend.
Ronald Leroy Evans, of the Br</w
Trail Apts, in Hurst, was struck by/tw
pickups while attempting to crossfr S
174 at 5:20 Saturday evening. He ftvas
pronounced dead 20 minutes later a
Huguley Hospital.
According to police reports, Evan
had spent the day dove hunting wit
some friends in the area aroun
Burleson. They had stopped thei
pickup truck on the northbound should-
er of SH 174 about 430 yards north o|f
CR 1021. Evans had ran over to th
other side of the highway and was o
his way back to the parked truck when
he ran into the path of the first pickup.
Witnesses told police that Evans
apparently did not see the truck driven
by Clifford Lee Moores of Irving.
He was knocked 40 feet by the
impact into the outside lane where he
homes in August of 1976, making a
total of 75 for the first eight months of
that year.
One commercial permit was issued
during August. Carl Basden took out
an $80,000 permit for Phase II of his
new Basden Shopping Center in the
200 block of S.W. Wilshire Blvd.
Residential permits amounted to
$677,800 for new construction with an
additional $20,800 in four permits for
home remodeling.
Five permits were issued for garages
and other buildings for a combined
value of $1,625; four fence permits
were issued for $2,286; and six miscel-
laneous permits totaled $29,250.
In all, 44 permits were issued during
the month.
Vol. 12. No. 46
-Burleson, Johnson County, Texas-
Thursday, September 8, 1977
Reported
In what was almost a repeat perfor-
mance of a similar incident five months
ago, the office of Dr. James Heberle on
SH 174 was broken into this week.
Burleson Police said entry was
gained into the clinic through a window
on the south side of the building, the
same window that was used in an April
7 break-in.
As in the first incident, no narcotics
or other drugs were reported missing.
Dempsey Eakin, the investigating
officer, said that entry was made into
the building sometime between 6:00
Sunday evening and 9:30 Monday
morning. He said that some vitamins
were taken as well as a roll of postage
stamps, a small black and white
television set and a stethoscope.
The presentation was made by Paul
Parker, Southwestern Bell general
manager - customer services, Fort
Worth Suburban.
A fund to help the family of
14-year-old Dudley Beck with his
hospital expenses has been established
at Farmers and Merchants State Bank.
Friends of the family said expenses
have been heavy since the 8th grade
Pauline G. Hughes Middle School
student was hospitalized for surgery in
July with cancer. He is one of twin sons
of Mr. and Mrs. Don Beck of Briaroaks.
Dudley also had surgery about a
year ago and is paralyzed from the
waist down. He is in St. Joseph
Hospital in Fort Worth.
Contributions can be made to the
Dudley Beck Fund” at the bank, said
Gloria Worrell, a neighbor.
MAYOR ROBERT ABLES was the
umpire at second base for a “celebrity
SEE FOLKS PAG E 3 A
His bicycle then ran into the side of an
auto driven by Cheryl Ann McNeeley
of Burleson that was traveling in the
right lane.
Two ambulances were on the scene
within minutes, but the boy was taken
to his home with only minor injuries.
The driver of the car-reported that she
struck her head on the windsfcielf’
was not serious, either.
Another accident, also at a SH 174
intersection, resulted in a car running
into a ditch to prevent a collision with
another car.
That was at FM 731 and SH 174
Monday afternoon. One auto pulled
SEE MISHAPS PAGE 3A
LABOR DAY TRAFFIC—Riding along on a one horsepower vehicle on the
IH35W service road Labor Day were the families of Ray Norris of Haltom City
[1] and Charlie Pierson of Rt. 2, Burleson. Norris built the wagon and another
larger one that he has had as many as 24 horses hooked up to. “As long as you
have a horse that’s feeling his oats, y< ’
they noted. And their pace was as
caught in the heavy holiday traffic.
At $7,129,287
The Greater Tarrant Area 1977
United Fund campaign got underway
Sept. 1 with a Kickoff Luncheon in the
Sheraton Hotel in Fort Worth.
Goal for this year’s campaign is
$7,129,287 and three persons from
Burleson are among the 15,000 volun-
teers that will be helping in raising that
goal.
Serving as loaned executives in this
year’s United Way drive are Jay
Darnell of Farmers and Merchants
State Bank; Beverly Brooks of Burle-
son State Bank; and James Moody,
news editor of The Star.
They will be calling on Burleson and
Fort Worth accounts in an attempt to
help businesses conduct employee
campaigns. Loaned executives from
Fort Worth will also be calling on many
Burleson businesses.
The campaign runs through Oct. 21,
the local volunteers said, and funds
raised will be used for the operation of
118 social service centers around the
Tarrant County area. An estimated
half a million persons will benefit from
United Way agencies during the next
year, they said.
This year’s goal is 9.4 percent higher
than in 1976, but the campaign is
already off to a good start with reports
from early bird campaigns conducted
at several Fort Worth businesses and
organizations. Although the final figur-
es are n°t y®t tabulated, campaign
officials say these early campaigns
have done extremely well and point to
a successful overall United Way Drive.
Besides local residents benefiting
from many services offered in Fort
Worth and other parts of Tarrant
County, United Wav funds are also
will seek the Sixth District seat in
Congress now held by Olin E. (Tiger)
Teague.
His appearance at the chamber of
commerce luncheon was billed as
non-political but he met later in the day
with supporters and local dignitaries at
a political coffee held at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Gieser.
Gramm said the energy problem
could be solved with leadership in
Washington which allowed the free
enterprise system to work and the
imagination of technical experts to be
applied to a solution.
Giving statistics on inflation, unem-
ployment and the energy situation, Dr.
Gramm said that the country has faced
five major and two minor periods of
inflation in its history. Each, he said,
was caused by deficit government
spending and the government printing
more paper money to finance unbal-
anced budgets.
He said he believes the $43 billion
current federal deficit could be elimin-
ated by balancing the budget. That
would mean a slowdown in government
spending and living within or below the
nation s 12 percent annual growth rate
in tax collections.
The budget could be balanced by
1981, he said, if government spending
was held to a five percent increase each
year.
That is the same rate of increase for
the average individual’s after-tax in-
come, he said.
Another problem with inflation is a
decline in saving by individuals and a
resulting loss of capital which can be
provided for business and industrial
expansion which in turn creates jobs,
he said.
“If the federal government would
balance its budget we could eliminate
deficit spending, interest rates would
fall and new jobs would be created,” he
said, adding that inflation has cut the
average savings rate of the individual
from 18 cents of the after-tax dollar in
1955 to 12 cents today.
On the energy question, Gramm
chided the President’s federal program
from the standpoint that “we don’t
need someone to dream up solutions.
We have a good example right here in
Texas.”
Texas’ competitive oil and natural
gas pricing system, its offshore drilling
activities and stripmining for coal with
80 percent reclamation could be copied
by other states, especially the North-
east he said.
„ . . AU energy is not in Texas, he said, in
^unty, United Way funds are also criticism of politicians on TheeasiToSSt----
used to help support the Burleson Boys who discourage new energy develop-
Club and various scouting groups. see gramm page 3a
FOLKS
BY THE STAR STAFF
Cartanza toid police that he had been
lehind the first pickup and was in the
rocess of pulling around the other
ehicle when the driver of the first
ruck slammed on his brakes. He said
hat he then saw an object in front of
lim and also put on his brakes but was
nable to avoid hitting the man.
I EE ACCIDENT PAG E 3 A
er,;
seriously injured Monday at 7:25 p.m.
when the bicycle he was riding collided
with an automobile near the intersec-
tion of N.W. Renfro and Wilshire.
Police said that the boy came out of
the Buddies parking lot and pulled
between two cars that were stopped
waiting for the traffic light to change.
18 PAGES IN
TWO SECTIONS
15’
Homes Spur Record $7.^
Million Building Pace
New residential construction con-
tinues to set the pace for building in
1977-a year that already had smashed
all previous annual totals by the time it
had completed its fifth month.
Permits for 24 new homes were
issued by the Burleson City Offices last
month, bringing the total for the year
up to 148, almost twice the number of
1976 h°mes star^e(^ through August of
Total valuation of building permits
for August was $811,761. This brings
the total for the first eight months of
the year past the seven million dollar
mark to $7,233,766.
Last August, permits totaled $311,
210 bringing the 1976 total to $2,429,’
573. Permits were issued for nine new
SECOND DISTRICT JUDGE!—Johnson and Somervell Counties got their
second district court and judge Thursday when C.C. Kit Cooke [right] was
sworn in as judge of the 249th State District Court. The oath of office was
given by E. Byron Crosier, 18th District Court Judge, in his courtroom which
was filled to capacity with state, county and local officials on hand to extend
best wishes to the new magistrate. A reception followed the swearing in
ceremonies. -Star Staffoto
H° n°i?rD F0.Rv,SAVING ^IF®"Pa e Pafker’Wilson of Rt. 1, Burleson in recognition of his heroic action,
ern Bell General Manager - Customer Services, Fort Worth, Wilson crawled into a burning apartment last summer in
[L] presents the Theodore N. Vail Medal to installer Luther Fort Worth to rescue a baby.
Burlesonite Cited For Bravery
Saving a life is not an everyday affair
for Luther H. Wilson, of Rt. 1, Burleson
but when a baby’s life was threatened
by a fire, Wilson didn’t hesitate about
risking his own safety to rescue the
infant.
Wilson, a Southwestern Bell Tele-
phone Company installer, had been
removing, telephones from a Riverside
Village apartment in Fort Worth when
he noticed another apartment ablaze. A
hysterical mother told him her infant
son was sleeping on a sofa in the living
room of the burning apartment.
Due to prior, on-the-job, safety
training, Wilson knew that the air close
to the floor is clearer when there is
smoke, so he scooted on his stomach
across the apartment floor until he
found the sofa. He pulled the uncons-
cious baby from the sofa and inched his
way out of the burning apartment.
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Hutson, Wayne & Moody, James. Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1977, newspaper, September 8, 1977; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1211951/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Burleson Public Library.