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Revolutionary Program
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EDITORIALS
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SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $4.00PER
YEAR IN JOHNSON AND TARRANT
COUNTIES. OTHER AREAS $6.00
ANNUALLY.
‘I can gripe about it because I live
here, but no outsider better criticize
my town", to paraphrase an old axiom.
Turning it around, about the best
thing a visitor to a community could do
to be accepted is brag about the town he
is visiting.
World’s largest member of
the grouse family is the Aver-
hahn. It attains a weight of
15 pounds and a wingspan of
5 feet.
a past president and the other the
new president for 1971 talk with guest
speaker Dr. S.A. Self, right, of TCU
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been built in Burleson
with occupants involved
in a similar supplement
program for single fam-
ily dwellings. The pro-
gram allows purchase of
homes at reduced monthly
payments.
The apartment project
which requires the City's
resolution would be the
first of its kind in Burle-
son, however.
Vernon added that pas-
sage of the resolution
alone would not insure
construction of a supple-
ment apartment project.
Funds for such programs j
are alloted by a Federal 1
agency and the FHA is-
sues the commitment to
build.
ADDRESS ALL CORESPONDENCE TO THE EDITOR,
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BURLESON STAR, P.O. BOX 383 BURLESON.TEX-
AS 76028. PHONE 295 -4412.
Four national forests in Tex-
as have a total net acreage of
658,023 and cover part of elev-
en East Texas counties.
THE BURLESON STAR IS AN INDEPENDENT NEWS- ft?
PAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE 1NTREST OF
BURLESON AND ADJACENT AREAS BY BURLESON
PUBLISHING COMPANY, 108 N.W. RENFRO, BUR-
LESON, TEXAS 76028.
President Nixon was not exaggerat-
ing when he spoke of his State of the
Union program as revolutionary. And it
is no exaggeration to say that it will
call for an almost revolutionary burst
of activity on Congress’s part if the
program’s potential for good is to be
realized. The President has set forth
measures which would shake the fed-
eral grovenment to its foundations and
work great changes in the lives of tens
of millions of Americans.
It would be a serious mistake—prac-
tically and, we also believe, politically
—for Congress not to study President
Nixon’s bold and far-reaching program
carefully and with constructive good-
will. For there is a great deal in it
which, whether in exactly this form or
with adaptations, goes to meet a num-
ber of today's gravest problems. At
the very least, this program seeks to
make both the instrumentalities of
government and federal programs
more responsive to the needs of today’s
complex and troubled society.
♦Welfare reform, seeking to combine
a floor under poverty with work in-
centives, is desperately needed to bring
dignity and order out of a situation
which grows more chaotic and unsat-
isfactory daily.
♦Revenue-sharing with state and lo-
cal government has become an abso-
lute must if these are to be restored
to financial health and to social and
political effectiveness. Furthermore,
President Nixon is on sound ground
when he recognizes that the federal
government has become so immense
and remote as to be "musclebound."
Sixteen billion dollars is a vast sum,
but it is not too large for the vast job
which needs to be done.
♦We warmly welcome the Presi-
dent’s decision to confront the problem
of federal reform. Whether the amal-
gamation of the 12 remaining cabinet
posts into eight is the best approach
must await further study. But we ap-
plaud the idea of zeroing in on Econ-
omic Development, Human Resources,
Natural Resources and Community De-
velopment because these sum up in
broad but succinct outline so much of
today’s challenge to make life better.
♦It is natural that increasing thought
be paid to better and more equitable
health care for all. But each individual
must be allowed to choose that method
of healing which his conscience dic-
tates. Furthermore, care must be ex-
ercised that no profession, medical or
otherwise, be given undue influence or
power in national life.
♦Few physical changes could make
life pleasanter for more people than a
great national park, open space and
recreation program. It is desperately
needed.
♦An expansionary, deficit budget will
be justified to the degree that it stimu-
lates the economy, lowers joblessness,
without encouraging or maintaining in-
flation. This can be achieved, but it will
require bold and firm guidance and
control.
This program could work tremen-
dous national changes, most of them in a
needed direction. We urge that, in this
period of social, economic and political
crisis, this program be studied for what
it can do for the nation, not for what
it can do for party or politician. It will,
of course, require refinements. But let
these have the single aim of increasing
the program’s potential for good.
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RESOLUTION—
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gram cannot be estab-
lished in certain local-
ities unless the govern-
ing body of the locality
has given approval to
participation in the pro-
gram by resolution.
The City Council did
not act on the matter at
the last session but plac-
ed it on the agenda for
tonight’s meeting.
The petition being cir-
culated by several citi-
zens states opposition to
the Federal Rent Pro-
gram 236 in the City of
Burleson.
Several pages of names
have reportedly been se-
cured on the petition
which is expected to be
presented to the Council
tonight during a discus-
sion of the matter.
Deputy Director of the
Federal Housing Admin-
istration John Vernon of
Fort Worth said Tuesday
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that the passage of the
Supplement Program
resolution is only neces-
sary when 20 percent of
the units of a proposed
project are to be rent
supplemented.
A city must pass a
resolution of approval
before it can have the
benefits of the program,
Vernon said.
Vernon added that in an
apartment rent supple-
ment program, the par-
ticipant would pay an an-
nual rent of 25 percent
of his adjusted annual in-
come plus 1 percent of
the interest rate.
The adjusted annual in-
come is arrived at
through a 5 percent de-
duction from the gross
annual income of a fam-
ily and a $300 deduction
for each child.
The FHA establishes
the income limits under
which a person may qual-
ify for the supplement
program.
Vernon said that 50 to
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months, almost openly defying the wor-
ry of many of our citizens.
Dr. Self pointed out, for example,
that Burleson has obtained new industry
at a time when most industrial leaders
were not making any sudden moves.
Population has increased and appears
that it will not only continue the pace
but step it up. Average personal income
in this area has continued to increase
despite the fact that General Dynamics
and other mainstay plants have had
layoffs.
In short, the economy of this area
will continue to improve as it did dur-
ing a time when most thought it could-
n’t and wouldn’t, pointed out Dr. Self.
The TCU expert painted a rosy pic-
ture, true, but based on facts he had
discovered from his own studies and
observations, he was careful to point
out.
Truthfully, we can’t say we told you
so. We were beginning to get worried
that the economy here might slow down.
It seemed a natural assumption, con-
sidering all the bad economic news we
had read and heard.
Local business has remained strong
in most cases, although defense indus-
try layoffs the past several months
has caused concern on all fronts. In-
flation has eaten into profits, without
a doubt.
But, as Dr. Self sees it, the Burleson
area economy still will continue to
improve and, "...if I wanted to invest
in any part of this area, I would come
here first".
Maybe we should put him on the
chamber of commerce payroll. He may
have raised spirits more than any
speaker who could have been invited to
speak here.
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What this all boils down to, is that we ran the story,
too--without the income brackets. We knew that notes
showing those income brackets would be sent home
with students for their parents to see. We added in
our story that further information was available from
school officials.
As far as we know, local schools haven’t been told
that we should run another story. But now we’re half
.way expecting it.
It just so happened that we had news of more im-
portance than the space consuming table of income
brackets at the time it was brought to us.
But we wouldn’t want to be accused of depriving
some poor family of the free and reduced-price
lunches available to its children, either. That’s a
serious matter.
It’s just that we don’t believe the government is
going to help us keep a newspaper going, just so they
can have free space in it. If the government is won-
dering (we doubt it), newspapers sell space to pay
the bills of production, wages, distribution and
other overhead. Each newspaper has to edit stories
to take, advantage of what space is available in every
issue. We don't happen to believe that all govern-
ment press releases—and they could fill a waste-
paper basket each week--are as newsworthy as the
government agencies think they are.
And, after all, it is the newspaper’s decision to
make ... isn’t it?
Naturally, when Dr. S.A. Self, TCU
economics professor, bragged on Bur-
leson and said he was impressed with
the future of this area, he got a round
of hearty applause from his audience
at the Chamber of Commerce banquet
the other night.
Some of the things Dr. Self predicted
for Burleson and its trade territory had
already been heard. Local leaders
themselves have predicted a rapid
growth, based onpast studies and infor-
mation provided by various experts.
But when an expert makes predic-
tions of a rosy future for the very au-
dience he is addressing, the point is
more impressive.
Dr. Self is considered an economics
expert. He predicts the growth of bus-
iness, increase in population, expan-
sion of industry and constantly improv-
ing overall economic picture for this
area is bright indeed.
When pessimism is the by-wordasit
has been all across the country, until
recently when the stock market took a
leap in the right direction, it is almost
like a breath of fresh unpolluted air to
hear someone who ought to know say
that things are ’looking up".
Actually, considering layoffs in de-
fense plants and related industries in
the Dallas Fort Worth area, the local
economic picture has not looked bad at
all. In fact, it has even looked strong
at different times the past 12 or 18
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mileage of
routes. Dr. Harvey indi-
cated less than satisfac-
tory service from the
state when he asked them
for help in solving the
problem here.
Lambert, criticizing
rough roads in the area,
said many maintenance
problems have developed
with buses, including new
vehicles. He recommen-
ded that all power equip-
ment, such as power
steering and brakes, be
omitted from future bus-
He also said auto-
transmissions
not necessary.
Some of the power equip-
ment, he reported, has
given trouble in opera-
tion over the rough roads.
The board awarded a
contract for $13,923 to
put a rubbery like all-
weather surface on the
high school track. Work
is expected to begin in
about two weeks. Base
work was nearing com-
pletion ' early this week
of local.
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crowded to the point of
"endangering the safety of
students”, as board
member Jim Coontz put
it.
Dr. T.M. Harvey, su-
perintendent, and Roland
Lambert, director of spe-
cial services and in
charge of the buses, said
that some changes must
be made to relieve the
bus load situations which
becomes particularly ag-
gravating when a bus is
out of service for re-
pairs.
Pointing to the growth
in the rural area in the
district, officials pointed
out that at one stop re-
cently a bus picked up or
discharged more than 50
students at one rural
housing addition.
Trustees voted to place
an order now for a new
bus in order to be assured
of delivery before school
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for future industrial use
at a price which was con-
sidered more than rea-
sonable, especially con-
sidering the continually
rising prices of land in
the area.
Bransom was presented
a handsome plaque.
A plaque also was pre-
sented to immediate past
president Les Todd who
gave a brief report of
accomplishments during
the past year.
Ron Gieser will serve
as president for 1971. He
urged the chamber to in-
volve more people in the
effort to build and im-
prove the community. He
pointed out that Burleson
now is the 16th fastest
growing city in Texas and
the more members the
chamber has the better it
can function.
George E. Bransom Jr.,
president of the Burleson
Industrial Development
Corp, gave a reporter^
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GOOD SPIRITS—Two Burleson after the chamber’s annual banquet
Chamber of Commerce leaders, one , Thursday night. Les Todd, center,
was presented the past president's
plaque by incoming president Ron
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PART OF THE CROWD AT CHAMBER BANQUET
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We’re amazed at some of the things the federal
government does for us and to us.
Time was when Washington, to many people, was
that citadel of the nation high on a hill somewhere
near the Atlantic Ocean. We knew it had something
to do with running the country and we paid our taxes
so the nation could have a group of people '\ip there"
running things the right way. But most of the activi-
ty in Washington was about something that didn’t
affect us, we figured.
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Times have indeed changed, and now about every-
thing that happens in Washington is important to each
individual American. One way or the other, through
the Congress or one of the countless government
"agencies" that hand down mandates, everyone is in-
volved in the national scene.
Take for example the publisher of a weekly news-
paper in Atkins, Ark., who is resigned to the fact
that the government is now telling him what is news,
so he'll know what he should publish and what he
shouldn’t. He's resigned to it but he's still irked
because he feels there has been an infringement on
his right to make editorial decisions.
The publisher was annoyed because the government
said he didn't run—the correct way--a news release
which said additional funds were being made avail-
able to provide free lunches for needy school chil-
dren.
He edited the release and ran it, "still getting the
message across, in our opinion", he said.
To make a long story short, the school district
was notified that the approval of the application
for additional money was being delayed until proof
was received that the proper story appeared in the
local newspaper.
Complete information had been sent home by the
school to all parents. Apparently what the newspaper
failed to do was publish the wage bracket which
showed how much aid was available to families with
low income and saying exactly which children were
eligible.
Agriculture Department officials said that "proper"
publication was necessary to Insure that the school
district actually uses the money for the purpose
intended.
The idea was that by leaving out the income
brackets, the publisher made it impossible for poor
families to know if they were eligible for the pro-
gram. a
"Never let it be said," he wrote, "that the Chronicle
is against better fed school children." So, he com-
plied with the government's request that he run the
"proper" story.
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Hutson, Wayne. Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1971, newspaper, January 28, 1971; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1283384/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Burleson Public Library.