Burleson Dispatcher (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 27, 1983 Page: 1 of 8
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Burleson, Johnson County, Texas
Volume 22
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Number 30
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JULY 27, 198J
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Looking Back With Lucy .
Bethesda Says:
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
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From The Burleson* News
July 27, 1939 ’
The
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From The Burleson Dispatcher
July 24, 1963 .
On July 13, Miss Carol Calvin
was installed as vice, president
of Silver Arrow Theta Rho
Girls Club No? 4 in Fort Worth.
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wife,
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Mrs. M. C. Green and
Charlie and Boyd
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below wAt is needed, but there
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Airman Second Class Thomas
J. Garrett Jr., has arrived at
McGuire AFB, New Jersey for
ing place at the
Burleson
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tended the installation were:
Mrs. Alice Scott, Mrs. Dorothy
McKenzie, Mrs. Agnes Smith,
Penny Smith, Debbie Dunn,
Lynn Calvin and Mr. and Mrs.
Stacy Calvi. At the recent in--
duct a fJ
budget aq
tax rate |
they will I
on the tai
baord ma
the 19838-fl
Final bus
the 1982-S
approved!
In anoj
board dil
$770 sen!
because o
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The dev
request to
the 20 acn
leson Cem
bility drofced.
park will/
that the p -k
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frees will
nbrth and
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mobile hoi
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Thoroughbred Mechanical Ra-
cing - Armadillo Tournament
teams from all over the State
Pay Your Telephone Bills and Lone Star GaiyBill® Here
DISPATCHER OFFICE - 124 W Ellii mi - 295-1177
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er tax matter, the
vote to rescind the
r citizen exemption
a conflict with state
iued on pa
Association.
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Rev. Ed Schmeltekopf is
sisting in revival services
the First Baptist Church
Granbury this week.
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average daily attend-
io, the 99 percent ed-
ition’ used to estimtac -
collections is prob- '
, So the gap between '
and r expenses will
not. be so far apart. .
hcrease of'just under
slOO vali ation. An increase - of
approxin atejy eight percent
would ac 1 about, eight’cents to
that rate For a housejwith an
j assessed valuatiba ^oh $40,000
if ter all Seductions wou]dmea®
a year!
The t
hte date' or a'Tiudget‘workshop
and to a cept the certified tax
roll frori the- .Johnson County
Plaza Shopping Center parking ments or teachers that moved L^also
'1/X* lrvr«n*zx/4 am Unnr 17 A Uon Ixxxcm 3 tin AVtV*riAtim Qr»aiP ‘ , i
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ming pooh
ketball cot t
EL -date of the regular
eting/ . •
■ 18, trustees will con*
iblic. hearing on the
I vote on the proposed '
k 10883. On Aug. 29, _
ibid a public heraing
irate and on Aug. 31
nbers will" approve
and-the lS*3.-tax"Fate.
get amendments of
I budge wtill also be
leductions. would mean ~
tax increase of $32.
rd h^s^et-Aug^4-as-_
Charlie and Boyd and
have gone to West Texas
spend a few days, with relatives
and will visit Carlsbad Caverns
while in that section.
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Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Brstier
of Denison spent the week-end
here with relatives Their son,
Mit, who had been visiting
here, returned home with them.
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Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Hayes
and son, Barry, left Mnoday
morning for a ten day outing
at Port Alto Mrs. Hayes had
spent most of the spring and
summer here with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Loyless.
After the outing, they will re-
turn to their home at Edna
☆ ☆ ☆
Mr. and Mrs. Truett Hard-
grove had as their gu&sts Sat-
urday, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Rogers and Mr. and Mrs. Har-
old Farring and children, Bet-
ty and Harold, Jr., of
Worth.
Mrs. Thomas Garrett.
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Mrs. Bert Wheeler and
son ;
and Mrs. M. B. Wheeler
Freeport, have returned from a ‘
visit with another ^on, David
C Wheeler and fan >.y in Rome,
New York. They
in Montreal and
da.
nual reunion of Johnson County MllSCUlar Dystrophy
Pioneer’s Associatino and was
a friedly caller at the News
office. , ,
POSSIBLE SCHOOL! TAX
INCREASE FOR BlftLESON
assignment with a Military
Air Transport Service unit, fol-
lowing a tour of duty on Okin- • Everyone
awa. He is the_son of Mr. and |outand have fun while you help
1 fight muscular dystrophy.
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and daughter-in-law, Mr. i IN THE SERVICE
July 12 (FHTNC) — Marine
Cpl. Mark A. Tupica, sbn of
Michael L. and Mary; M. Tupi-
ca of 1913 Hardgrove Lane,'
Burleson, Texas, has been pro-;
moted to his present rank while i
serving with 1st Marine Divis->
ion, Camp Pendleton, Calif. |
A 1981 graduate of Burleson
High School, he joned the Ma-
rine Corps in June 1981. > , . .
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son, Ben Jr„ and family. They
were accompanied home by
rge Witt and Dudley Wicker.
J. F. Pardue of the Alvarado
Bulletin was in Burleson las
week, publicizing the 47th an-
a * ■ f
ling change
Id from the
it covered a . '
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but/down the 1
h < - htif '
-tfexr’to Bur-
1 behind^ No-
The mobile
136 uflits, 54 f
<dult unitslan $1 family units,
ill include a play-
id, cl(> hojse, two swim-
and tennis and b^s-
ts. I ?
ir said’
111 be surround
I high fence anf \ (
planted on the'
[ boundaries. .-: ’
.said that •>.
e restricted * tp . • • '
aits* built in 19B •
ark. wiy accona-
Ihgle^wide < ant
wle'homes*.* -
George Bransom, Jr., leaves
this week-end for San Antonio,
where he will enter training
camp for a week, before em-
barking on a tour of the West
Coast to play football at Los
Angeles and San Francisco.
Gerog e.star guard for A&M
team last year, vyas selected
among other southwestern con-
ference stars to play against
the Pacific coast stars,,
first game will be played
Aug. 11, at San Francisco.
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At her beautiful new home
in the south part of town,
number of her relatives and
friends congregated one day
last week for a genuine “house
warming,” at which, time Mrs.
J. J. Roddy was showered with
beautiful
. Some for-
ty or more guests were present
to enjoy the happy occasion. ,
, Duane Garrett has returned
home after spending two weeks
in Wichita Falls and one week
in Dallas.
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■> Ed Doolittle took note Satur-
day night during the session at
* the country^’’store that the old
saying about “clothes making
hte man” has took on new
meaning in this country in the
' last few years. The width of
.neckties and coat lapels come
and go, Ed told the fellers, the
length of skirts go up and down
on the few wimmer that wear
em, and styles . and colors
change as often as designers
can think up new ones. But
what changes the most, and
what tells us the most about
ourselves, Ed went on, is our
reasons fer dressing up and
down.
Fer instant, Ed said, 30 year
ago ever family had work clo-
. . thes, Sunday clothes and doc-
tor' clothes. When somebody
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Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Croom
will leave August 1 on an eight
day trip to Mexico. Mr. Croom
was awarded the expense paid
trip by the Insurance Company
he works for. He was among
the top fifteen men in sales.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H Reeves
have returned from a month’s
visit with their daughter, Mrs,
Juanita Smith and family
Sacramento, and their
Booth Wood and family in Ba-
kersfield, California.
ft ft ft
Ray Don Williams, Marine
Reserve, left Sunday ifor Cali-
had to go to the doctor he put quite- a' number of
on the wors rags juh* house and useful presents,
in jiopes of squeezing a little ty or more guests w
pity out of the doc and holding
the bill down. Nowadays if the
doctor’s receptionist thinks
you’re a bum you git the bum’s
- 2 rush right out the door. And
there ain’t no need to show up
at the hospital looking like a
Goodwill reject unless you
brung along your insurance
. policy and four ways to prove
you’re overed. If you got prob-
lems in paying, Ed said, fergit
the pity plan.
' Farthermore, Ed said, clothes
has took on new meaning) in
our system of justice. Not to
long back the feller charged
with murder would come to
court wearing standard jail
clothes, blue jeans and blue
shirt, maybe even handcuffs,
Now pick out the fanciest dress-
er in the place and you .got
the defendant. The convicted
• hired killer on trial fer knifing
—^-a prison guard looks like * he
couldn’t dirty his hands with
anting more violent that
skimming a few million off his
company’s pension plan.
Ed was of,a mind the defense
lawyer is trying to create a
new creature in the eyes of the
jury. The lawyer invests in cus-
t mo oguv damsetstii
tom made suits to give the
jury the notion the guy with the
fresh haircut and clean finger-
‘ • hails couldn’t be the grubby,
mean eyed feller arrested at
the scene of the crime holding
the smoking gun.
General speaking, the fellers
agreed with Ed, .but they was
disagree don reasons fer the
change in^ court clothes. Zeke
< • Grubb said he cuoldn’t figger i jy were C. L. Bqptrf and
whose rights was being abused junior> Tom McDowell,
and protected, but, fer sure the storey, G. 7E. Bean, Mr.
☆ ft ft
Miss Pauline Self, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Lon Self, is
engaged this week as a model
for the National Fashion Ex-
hibitors in Fort Worth.
A group of Burleson fisher-
men left here this week for the
’►Texas coast. Those in the par-
son,
BiU
_ _ r and
victims don’t git a- change to j^rs Artie Jones and son, Geo-
faMress the jury. '
Bug Hookum, fer one, was
(Continued on page 4)
Rebekah Lodge, Carol pinned
the Past Noble Grand jewel on
her mother, who was the out-
going Noble Grand. •
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J. H. Clinkscale was a very
happy fisherman, when he lan-.
ded the prize Rainbow Trout,
measuring 21 inches and 3 Mt
pounds, while fishing in Red Ri-
ver, N. Mexico on July 18. He
was awarded a fisherman’s
certificate by the Trout Assoc-
iation. Mr. Clinkscale and his
family are vacationing at the
Lewis Ranch in Red River.
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Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hill are
vacationing this week in Tulsa
Oklahoma; arid visiting their
as- The Planning and Zoning
at Commission had voted on June
in 14 by a 4-2 vote, to deny the
request for a mobile home
and boxing exhibitions, hot-air j fund assignment.
Cockerham said that the one
bright spot in the situatino was
that the reevnue forecast of i
$11,635,054 is probably low be-
1 cause the figure is based on a
an ■'kinds's'u'ch’Is mwradoftl no-g»wth,projection but with,
talers, hot°dog51,‘'^‘~and past few months, enroll-
ice-cold Coke wli be avaiable.
An old-fashioned cake walk, a
. silent- auction, and the Burelson
Police and Fire Department’s
Rescue Exhibitio nwill also be
featured.
cept the certified tax
Central / ?prai$ad District. This
a million dollars in the red. He
believes that much of the prob-
lem lies with the failure of the
! state legislature to - pass an
, adequate school financing bill, j jj*.
i He said the BISD was given
I about $325,000 in increased ob-
; ligations by the state this .year
ig to benefit the Muscular Dye- ■ b,ut, received more
-state money than last year.
P y ,Much pf the additional expen-
Extra space in the Wal-Mart diture was in salary adjust-
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’lot located on Hwy 174 has been a step, up the experience scale. |
designated to make room or |The state will give the district
the many varied activities plan thatz money • but will take it
ned for the Jamboree. Some away through reduced equalize- ■
of these are a shoot-out, karate tion aid and an increased local j
and boxing exhibitions, hot-air | “** ‘
ba loon rides, mechanical bull,, (
mechanical armadillo racing,
a street dance, several live
bands, a disc jockey, a dunking
booth, soccer kick and other
carnival-type games. Food of
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Ben Jr. and family, where they»nachOs,
W dlvl lllvivil , -
fried chicken, ’ Je Src>wlh f sPurt ■
ment is almost certain to be
up. That will bring in more
funds from the state that are
-200,000 in revenue—still
oom to trim'elpendi- •
two of hie MtivitiK tak-‘!“ balance a budeet that is,' budget S12.W.0P- ’ ' ’ i
. . . . ' clirrhtlv nvor thrwi.nnarfprc nr „ ' ' . . .
jion,
also visited
ie ' Fana-
Some type of tax increase based
will probably be. necessary this , ance. Ai
year in order to balance the lection i
of Texas will be converging budget and maintain the exist- local taj
on the city of Burleson on Aug- level of instructional pro- ably lov
list' 27, 1983 for the Texas State 1 grams in the Burleson schools, revenue
Championship Thoroughbred I1* is definitely certain that any probably
MechanicaT Racing Armadillo. increase in the school tax rate A tax
Tournament. The State Cham- j will be less than eight percent, eight pe ^nt would add about *
Guests "from Burleson who at- Superintendent
oughbred Meehanifal Racing I Cockerham, administrators are
Armadillo Tournament ;
4th Annual phBhfiy^over^ree-qMrtMs di Curren%tai'rtae is'7824 .per '
Muscuar Dystrophy " ""
stail'ation' ceremony of" BuriesJI Jjamb°re“ ^r,for
7 August 27,- 1983 from 12:00 noon,
until 12:00 midnight, his annual
event has been grwoing every
year bbtK in numbers of ac-
tivities planned and in numbers
of people attending and spend--
HOME PARK P
j The Burleson City Council
unanimously passed an ordi-
nance allowing a mobele home
pai< to be built in the eastern
part of Burleson behind Red-
man Industries, a new manu-
facturer of mobile homes.
The 6-0 vote (Dennis Bara-
bas absent) came on the first
reading of the ordinance. The
ordinance was approved with-
an amendment by John Daniel^
the cour
{does not intend to hinder
fornia, where he reported for curront future developm
active duty for two Weeks with of light industry in the adjac
the Marines. Mr. Williams is areas and would not take
manager of the local branch of j.jOn restrain noise, dust,
ted with light industry for the
j convenience of the mobile
home residence.
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Deering, Hazel. Burleson Dispatcher (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 27, 1983, newspaper, July 27, 1983; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1262350/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Burleson Public Library.