Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1976 Page: 1 of 24
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Teague
To Visit
Burleson
Vol. U
No. 25
Burleson, Johnson County, Texas
Thursday, April 15,1976
1975
Hearing May 4
OPTIMISTS TO STAGE
EGG HUNT SUNDAY
On New Zoning
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within the city of Burleson tion will be in the vicinity of asked to bring his
Commissioners
Okay Jail
Improvements
eggs. Included among the
Johnson County Commis-
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Folks
BY THE STAR STAFF
His schedule calls for one
School District.
Essentially, the field trip
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Main item of business to
be considered by the board is
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told; commissioners at that
timp.
WHAT’S IN A NAME?--Ever since the days of
Shakespeare, they’ve been saying that there’s nothing in
a name [“A rose by any other name, etc. etc.], but you
might get some argument from the girls who run against
the Sanderson sisters in the 80 yard hurdles. Sheryl [1] is
a two year regional qualifier in that event and holds the
district record and this year her sister, Suzanne, placed
second at district and also qualified. Eleven other
Burleson girls also qualified for the regional meet April
23-24. James Moody writes about the district champion
Elkettes in this week’s Star Sports. -Star Staffoto
Eight students from Bur-
leson High School left Mon-
tect Charles Welch of Miner-
al Wells, will include the
Trip “provides our students
with an opportunity for
cross-cultural contacts, per-
sonal involvement and aca-
Particitpating students
will be given full credit for
attendance during the time
1 was
first division rating
are the proposed zoning
regulations. Written notices
of the hearing were being
of record.
Twenty zoning districts
are set out in the new
Band Festival that received
two first divisions.
Seventeen middle school
con-
A public hearing will be
owners
Sunday, April 18, the Great
Burleson Easter Egg Hunt
assault'in the court of
tice Vernon Asher.
According to the attend-
ant on duty at the time, two
men entered the station
After Sgt. Lamond Yates
arrived on the scene, the
Fort Worth police were
notified that the car was
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when he ran for Mayor of
Burleson and was succeeded
as chairman by Charles E.
Hutson.
Mayor Ables and other
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WALKATHON WINNERS-Prizes were
awarded this week to winners in the
March of Dimes Walkathon. The awards
were made by BHS STudent Body
President Gary Knox. Winners were [1-r]
Pat Click, most money earned [$111];
Stefanie Shaw, youngest walker; Kelly
tion); and a final alternative the awarding of a contract
was to build a new facility
and turn the old one into
juvenile detention center.
Ham, first to finish; Knox; and school
board candidate Bobby Richardson, oldest
walker. Total amount collected was
$1,071.50 and sponsors extended then-
appreciation to all donors and walkers
who made the drive a success.
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asked to approved regular
monthly expenditures.
who will belisted on the
ballot for Bentsen in the
presidential primary.
The nominees are Richard photo scanner camera at the
station.
The owner of the car was
identified from a picture and
Special Board Meet
On Stadium Expansion
A special meeting has
been called for 6 p.m. this
evening by Trustees of the
.pacity of 24 beds; a plan to Burleson Independent
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In Robbery Here
TwoFort Worth men have chatged with robbery by
- , , - r taken into custody by assault” in the court of
which untA roCunt?yA uYaS Burleson police in connection -Johnson CduntyPeac^ Jus-
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He resigned his position night at the Hill’s Gulf
U----™------< station on S.H. 174.
William Mathew Lane, Jr.,
of 2248 B Jacksboro, and Friday night and one pre-
tended to look at the tele-
phone book while the other
kept the attendant occupied.
The man looking at the
telephone book opened the
cash register and took $115
while the attendant was
outside with the other man,
the attendant told police.
Hearing the bell on the
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Congressman Olin E. Tea-
gue will be in Burleson
Monday morning, April 19,
making one stop among
several in Johnson County in
his campaign for reelection
in the Sixth District.
A bus tour has been
arranged for the congress-
man with a stop here from 10
to 11 a.m., Cleburne from
11:30 to 1 p.m., Hillsboro
from 1:45 to 2:45 and Alvar-
ado from 3:30 to 4:30. Visits
to other county towns also
were planned.
The campaign bus will be
in the Buddies Super Market
parking lot in Burleson, said
Richard Baker of Grand-
view, Teague’s campaign
manager in Johnson County.
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to bring Mom, Dad and all
“There’s plenty of eggs,
prizes and fun for all,” he
Charles Lewis Hatcher, of
1460 Ambassador, were
A BHS graduate, Monty
Briley, will sing with the Hill
Junior College Ensemble for
the Lions Club box supper in
Clifton April 20.
MORE INFO on the Bi-
centennial:
The Bicentennial Commis-
sion meeting scheduled for
tonight has been changed to
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 20,
at city hall. Reports from
several committees are on
tap.
One of several committees
hard at work is the group
working on the Fine Arts
Festival and Fair to be
sponsored by the high school
and middle school student
councils May 8.
Adults, too, are invited to
participate in any way, even
to the point of clubs operat-
See Folks Page 2
tibns of the half acre lot on
which the jail is located.
Other options included a
plan to extensively remodel
the present facility to give a
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build a completely new faci-
lity on another site (this
would be a 12-17 bed unit
due to the $200,000 restric-
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sections, general retail, cen-
tral commercial, light indus-
trial, heavy industrial and a
planned development dis-
trict as well as others.
Each zone will be for a
specific purpose with new
zones created as the needs
arise. Any new territory
annexed into the city will
temporarily come in as agri-
culture classification until
permanent zoning is est-
ablished, unless otherwise
specified at the time of
annexation.
Written s
show the kinds of structures
or enterprises which are {ng
Mount Vernon’and York- allowed in each district. In
town See Zoning Page 2
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THE $2 BILLS are back.
They are not alone.
Police report that a num-
ber of fake bills are surfacing
locally but you don’t have to
look too carefully to spot
them.
They’re not exactly coun-
terfeit, they,re just fake bills
made from one dollars bills
the corners of which have
been covered with corners
from five’s or 20’s.
Don’t be caught short.
Make sure you don’t give
change for a twenty and
wind up loosing 19.
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Collins is becoming nationally known for
his speed in the quarter mile and that he
has brought a Hot of good publicity to
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following BHS students: sen-
iors Bobby Behnke, Marcia search project.
Hill and Jimmy Key; junior High school students from
Mark Goldston; and sopho- all over the nation are
mores Joe Bob Young, John participating in the field trip
Jobe, Bryan Holley and Gary with faculty sponsors going
Boren.
Two hours of college cre-
dit are available with the
trip providing a student
meets all the requirements
TEXAS PRESS
ASSOCIATION
addition of 1840 more seats
at the stadium, the construc-
tion of a new press box, two demic growth.”
concession stands and con-
verting the present conces-
sion stand area into a
dressing room for visiting of the trip, he added,
teams. Essentially, the field trip
When completed, the sta- participants study revolu-
dium, pressbox and other tionary, contemporary and
improvements will come up international government
to 4A standards, said Welch. an{j culture within both a
The board will also be historical and modern sett-
ing Earnest explained. The
study group will spend three
days each in New York City
and Washington, he said,
and one day in Williamsburg,
with side excursions into
Philadelphia, Alexandria,
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for a major expansion at
Burleson High School. The
project, estimated at $175,
Since expansion is limited 000 by school district archi-
at the present facility, it was
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Works in the Burleson
campaign of the American
Cancer Society can be proud
of the jobs they’ve done.
At mid week more than
$1615 had been turned in by two-story due to the restric-
volunteer solicitors. ' -----
Goal is $1976. Money is
still coming in and you can
still help by sending a check
to the American Cancer
Society in care of Farmers
and Merchants State Bank.
Memorials or donations in
honor of a living person will
be accepted, said chairper-
son Mary Norris.
$200,000 available from local
funds.
At the previous meeting,
commissioners were pre-
sented with four alternatives
for increasing jail capacity.
The one they accepted will City today
add between 4500-5000 Washington D.C.
square feet to the present
structure which has about
7,000 feet.
The new addition will be
BAND TROPHY-The eighth grade band from Pauline G.
Hughes Middle School received a first division rating in
both concert and sight reading Saturday at the
Castleberry Band Festival. Holding the trophy are band
officers [1-r] Amy Innmon, president; Shane Stokes,
vice-president and Ken Hill, secretary-treasurer.
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map. would almost think that they going to support future
The meeting, to be held at were going to have some- Optimist Club projects,
the Mound School cafe- thing to do with putting the Usually reliable sources at
■ - - ’ • eggs there as Optimists the Optimist Club have also
further narrow the site down informed the Star the the
to the three baseball dia- Optimist Zupper Bunny will
monds at the park. make his final appearance of
Diamonds will be divided the year in Burleson during
according to age grouping of the Optimist Easter Egg
children and at 2 p.m. Easter Hunt.
~ The bunny is reported to
have invited all area boys
begins. All children age 0-12 and girls to come on out to
guidelines to the zoning years are invited to hunt the the big Easter egg hunt and
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5,000 or so regular candy their friends,
eggs will also be more then
100 prize eggs. Prizes will be
stuffed toys, posters, gift said.
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k board in dealing with “gray
k areas”, according to spokes-
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I Zoning standards are de-
i tailed in a 77-page document
8 which has taken about six
g months of work to complete,
g Coming later is another
document which will list
regulations for subdivision
development.
The work is being done by
Marvin Springer and Assoc-
iates, urban planning consul-
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The firm has worked close- * „ „ v „
ly wioh the zoning t>oard taken into custody by
which until recently was Burleson police in connection
headed by Dr. Rbbert Ables. with a robbery last Friday
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Bands from Burleson High band. They received a first
School and Pauline G. Hugh- division rating from all four
es Middle School fared well judges and were one of only
last weekend at a band two middle schools partici-
contest at Castleberry High pating_ in the Castleberry
School.
The BHS Varsity Band
received a first division
rating both in concert and bands competed in the
sightreading as it prepares test,
for the UIL Concert and The middle school
Sightreading Contest May seventh grade band received
5-6. a third division in both
Junior Varsity Band was concert and sightreading,
given a first division rating Seventh grade band direc-
in concert and a second tor is Joe Chase and Cheryl
division in sightreading. Pittman is the director of the
Two first division ratings-- eighth grade band. Robert
in concert and in sightread- Grace is director of bands
ing-were also earned by the for the Burleson school sys-
eighth grade middle school tern.
Johnson County Commis- Commissioners deferred
sioners Monday morning ap- that decision until Monday’s
proved a plan to expand the meeting, however they
county jail to a 34 bed seemed to have their minds
facility. made up at that time. The
The project-with a price entire meeting only took
ceiling of $200,000--includes about a half hour,
renovation of the present Even when the project is
area and the addition of a completed, the new facility
new wing at the rear of the will still fall short of what a
present building. COG financed study has
County Judge C.C. “Kit” indicated is needed. Accord-
Cooke had told commission- ing to that study, the county
ers at the previous meeting , needs a 36 bed facility now.
that there now seemed little Agvl980, the county will need
chance of getting a federal S^eds, the study said, and
grant for the project from tilt number will increase to
the North Central Texas 44 in 1985 and to 55 in 1990.
Council of Governments. Johnson County received
“We need to make some $34,600 from COG as funding
kind of decision on this and for Phase I of the project
we -need to do it now,” he which included a study to
determine needs and make
final plans for the jail.
Additional federal funding
had earlier been anticipated
since the county had only the day on a week long Bicen-
tennial Field trip to New
York, Washington, Philadel-
phia and other historical
points in the Eastern United
States.
Slated to leave Slew York
on a bus to
are the
torium, was called during a
special session of the city
council Tuesday night. Only
four members, enough for a
quorum, were present for
the abbreviated session.
The new ordinance has
almost completely re-written
existing regulations and
given a more flexible set of
Baker of Grandview, Mike
Collins of Eastland and Bar-
bara Nunneley of Nocona.
Although Sen. Bentsen taken into custody when he
has said he no longer is a attempted to recover his car
candidate for the Democratic from the police department,
nomination for president, he The other man was identi-
still could be hold powerful fied from the photo files of
specifications influence at the Democratic the Fort Worth PD and
National Convention depend- picked up at his home.
’ j on delegate strength he Both men were identified
can muster in the May 1 in a lineup, but both declined
Primary. to make a statement.
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The weekend weather
forecast calls for it to rain
Easter eggs on Burleson-
over 5,000 of the candy
variety.
Greatest concentration of
the sweet chewy precipita-
• held for all property
on May 4 for the purpose of Bfrtlett Park, ^according to
reviewing a new zoning .-~2
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certificates, free eats and
much, much more, say the
Burleson Optimists.
All prizes for the hunt
have been donated by local
merchants.
Each child hunting eggs is
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basket to put them in. A
officials of the Burleson concession stand will be open
ordinance and zoning district Optimist Club. In fact, you at the park with alljjroceeds
Optimist Club projects.
Usually reliable sources at
informed the Star the the
along with each group. The
BHS students are included
with a group from Lake
Highlands and Richardson
and do not have a teacher
representative from Burle-
son with them.
According to BHS Coun- regulations including agri-
selor Melvin Earnest, this r
unique Bicentennial Field and multiple-family dwelling May 1 Democratic primary.
m_.-_ «-----.-j-------districts, mobile home dwell- Hie cchcdalc calls far cr.c
ing and mobile home park appearance in the county, in V11„V „„„
designations, parking, office the Cleburne Municipal heading north from Burle-
i building, at 3 p.m. son. Fort Worth officers
Also on hand will be the stopped the car on Oak
three delegate nominees Grove Road near I.H. 820,
from this Senatorial District but the two. occupants escap-
who will belisted on the ed on foot.
Good photographs of both
suspects were made by the
the money back, but could
not detain the two men who
and the presidential got in a car and left.
GOOD WILL AMBASSADOR-Two time
state champion Mark Collins was officially
made a Goodwill Ambassador for Burleson „ -j wt -
this week by the Chamber of Commerce. Burleson. Presenting the award to Collins
Chamber Manager Dennis Key noted that is H.C. “Happyl Apperson and Key.
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Eight Studen ts I/$dve
On Bicentennial Trip
such as notebooks and re- city officials urged property
owners to visit city hall if
they desired to look at the Bentsen Will
new zoning district map
before the public hearing. ,
Also available for inspection y ISlt Goilllty
ara the nrnnncorl 7nnin(T
U.S. Senator Lloyd Bent- o
- - sen will be in Johnson register, the attendant went
sent to all property owners County Friday for a meeting back inside and confronted
with supporters and cam- the man. He managed to get
paign workers. He is a
candidate in both the senate
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culture land, single, double preference primary in the
districts, mobile home dwell-
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