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Page 2—ALLEN AMERICAN—Thursday, September 14, 1978
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Football time again.
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by Lyndell Williams
by Lyndell Williams
dear editor
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TEXAS PRESSASSOCIATION
City-wide talent show
scheduled Sept 23
ANY WIFE in the Allen area can
tell you--it’s football time again.
gas for less than Texans pay. He
accused the federal agency of
Dick Bowers,
Allen, Texas
“I've got 15 gas wells, 38 oil wells, and I'm goin’
broke haulin’ drinking water to my cows . . .
PAT CAMPER
Co-editor
dragging its feet, out of fear
evidence would require higher
rates and embarrass the Carter
administration in dealing with
Congress.
Thursday, September 7
Officers investigated a minor
accident at Federal and FM2170.
An abandoned vehicle was
checked at US75 and Cottonwood
Wednesday, September 6
Fire units responded to a smoke
alarm in Windridge. Units were
unable to locate the location of the
smell.
Units responded to an emergency
call on Fairhaven.
Emergency units went to the
rescue of a subject on McDermott
who had fallen. The Plano ambu-
lance was notified.
A parked vehicle was checked at
US75 and Bethany. The car was
Creek. It was registered to a Tom
Bean man.
Another vehicle was checked It
belonged to a McKinney man who
had abandoned the vehicle at 1
US75 and Bethany.
BUDDY CAMPER
Publisher
Moore Named
Dr. Raymond T. Moore will
succeed Dr. Fratis L. Duff as
commissioner of the Texas De-
partment of Health.
The State Board of Health
unanimously selected Moore. He
will become commissioner some-
time prior to January 1 when Duff
retires.
Moore, a veteran public health
officer, came to the state health
department four years ago as a
deputy commissioner. He earlier
had a long career with the U.S.
Public Health Service and once
practiced medicine in Seguin.
SUE NEWMAN
Photographer
EARLIS KOCH, TORESCA
FOSTER, ANN LYNGE
Composition
BRIAN POLLARD
Circulation
ITEM: Lewis Enderman, age 28,
was treated yesterday for a brok-
en jaw, two cracked ribs and
multiple lacerations. After treat-
ment, Enderman was taken to the
county jail where he joined his
accomplice, Billy Ray Waldheim.
Both men will stand trial for
attempted robbery. The two men
broke into the house of Chester
Ford last Sunday afternoon at
2:45 p.m. While Enderman held
Ford at gunpoint, Walheim be-
gan renoving valuables from the
house. Ford offered no resistance
until one of the intruders attempt-
ed to carry off the television. Ford
yelled, “No man is going to take
my set until the game’s over!”
and attacked the two robbers.
Police arrived just in time to same
the two robbers’ lives.
Member Texas Press Asociation,
North and East Texas Press Associ-
ation and National Newspaper Aseod-
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Bids Taken
The State Department of
Highways and Public Transpor-
tation accepted bids this week on
Short Snorts
Texas Democrats are holding
their state convention in Fort
Worth this weekend. Republicans
met in Dallas last week.
A public hearing on local rail
safety hazards is scheduled for
September 26 in Beaumont.
Average calendar day allowable
RICHARD SLAYMAKER
Advertising Manager
Published every Monday and Thurs-
day Entered at the Pbst Office, Allen,
Texas 75002 as second class matter.
Subscriptions $9.00 yearly in Collin
County, $14.00 elsewhere. Single cop-
ies 25 cents.
AG Opinions
Counties are not required to set
their tax rates by July 20, as are
other units of government that
rely on the county tax assessor-
collector, Attorney General John
Hill said.
In another recent letter advisory
opinion, Hill concluded that ap-
pointment as a police officer of the
brother-in-law of a chief of police
under the civil service law would
violate the nepotism law.
Friday, September 8
Officers located a 14-year-old
truant juvenile and returned him
to the high school.
A report of malicious mischief
was investigated on Sandy Trail.
Juveniles were shooting BB guns
in the area.
Officers investigated a minor
accident at FM2170 and Highway
5.
A minor accident was investi-
gated at Highway 5 and High-
trail.
Officers investigated an accident
at US75 and the Shell station. A
Plano ambulance was dispatched. ,
Saturday, September 9
An abandoned vehicle was
checked on Rock Ridge Road east
of Allen. It was registered to a
Houston man.
Officers checked a report of a
broken windshield on an automo-
bile at Hanover.
A report of 2 women fighting was
investigated on Cumberland. The
fighting had stopped when of-
ficers arrived.
A report of a woman carrying a
gun on Coats was investigated.
Police checked a parked vehicle
at Federal and Main.
Police checked a parked vehicle
at the Allen Clinic.
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husband Edward. The couple has
been married for 15 years. At the
divorce hearing, she told the
presiding judge that she and
Edward seemed to get along well
enough most of the time but
things became intolerable every
year during football season.
“From September to January all
he does every weekend is sit in
front of the TV set and watch
those darn football games,” she
told the judge. “He never took me
anyplace. Finally he agreed to
take me out one Sunday. Do you
know where we went? To Ed and
Mabel’s to watch the game on
their new color set, that’s where!”
registered to a McKinney woman.
Another parked vehicle was
found located in a ditch at US75
near Rowlett Creek. The vehicle
was registered to a Dallas man.
A parked vehicle was checked at
Main and Highway 5. Registra-
tion showed it to belong to a
Honey Grove man.
Police checked a vehicle which
had been left at the high school
parking lot. It was registered to a
Dallas man.
An abandoned vehicle was
checked at the parking lot of
Chaneys Dairy way. It was regis-
tered to an Allen man.
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the figures stand, many large
school districts would lose a
substantial amount of state aid.
The state now pays about 85
percent of school operating costs.
A constitutional amendment to be
voted on in November would allow
the legislature to remove intan-
gible property from the tax base.
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by the Allen Eagles, meaning the
7th, 8th, 9th, JV and varsity
teams. And shame, shame on
those who miss an opportunity to
watch the local Pee Wee teams
play on Saturday.
But...in my opinion the game is
suffering a teeny bit of overexpo-
sure on the tube. 15 to 20 hours of
televised football eac’ weekend is
too much. And that’s not count-
ing the Monday night football
game.
’ 'en Mikus, who writes a column
for The American on Mondays,
has the same opinion. He feels the
bulk of leisure activity in all too
many households is centered a-
round the schedule of televised
games and football is becoming
less a sport anu more of a religion.
He fears future newspaper items
might include examples such as
these:
ITEM: Mervin Burkle notified
police officials that his wife of 18
years become despondent over
their relationship and decided to
leave home. Burkle reported that
he found a note, dated Thanksgiv-
ing Day, saying that evidently he
cared more for football than he did
for her and that she had no
alternative other than to leave
him. Burkle commented that he
was unaware that his wife was
gone until he found the note late
Sunday after th final football
telecast of the weekend.
ITEM: Mrs. Audrey Schneider
was granted a divorce from her
trophies will be presented in two
categories to the winners of the
talent show. Winners will be
decided by a panel of judges.
The Methodist Men invite
everyone intersted in performing
to contact Jim Wolfe at 727-3430
or Sam Harris at 727-5910 for
entry information.
Talent show contestants should
be amateur only. However, a time
slot on the program will be
provided for professionals who
would like to entertain.
as enthusiastic about the flag and
the Star Spangled Banner as we
are about our Allen Eagles? Does
it make me less of a man to get a (
little misty eyed and choked up
when I hear a fine group of good
folks, Allenites, Americans, sing
out proudly, “Oh say can you
see...?” I hope not!
Hear you at the game Friday
night.
Hill Sues
Hill went to court last week to
force the Federal Energy Regula-
tory Commission to set new
interstate natural gas prices.
FERC hasn’t fixed prices for two
years.
Hill said he lost patience,
because the commission’s post-
ponement means out-of-state con-
Earlis Koch is one example of an
informed wife who knows football
season has started.
After all, didn’t Gary go to the
Cowboys season opener against
Baltimore, watch the Allen JV
and freshmen play Thursday
night, go to Whitesboro to watch
the EagLs play Friday, visit a
couple of the Pee Wee games on
the local field Saturday afternoon,
attend the SMU-TCU game in the
Cotton Bowl Saturday night and
get home in time to watch the
same game replayed on television.
And by then wasn’t it Sunday
again and time for the Cowboy -
New York game and several
others on television.
As if this isn’t enough to
thoroughly depress every wife
who has trouble getting her
husband out of the house (except
when he’s attending ball games),
the 3 television networks have
recently announced they will be
televising more college and pro-
fessional football games this year
than ever before.
Local ladies (save the few who
get to stay home days and watch
“As the World Turns” weekdays)
can now kiss their RCA goodbye
until February. It will be a long
season.
I like to watch football. And I
feel it is every local person’s civic
duty to attend every game played
The 402
American
Phone 727-5531 Allen, Texas 75002
is being played, are kids running
around, people (of all ages) talk-
ing, bubble gum being popped
and cigarettes being lit as our
banner is raised and the music
plays? Why aren’t we at least
standing at a respectful attention,
or saluting with hand over heart,
or even joining our voices in the
inspiring words of our National b
Anthem? .
Could it be we’ve forgotten the
words? Do we not care? Would we
be too “square” or “corny” to be
181,284 wells as of September 1
totalled 3,592,032 barrels.
Highway facilities are nine
percent higher this year than last.
The Department of Public Safety
said 2,429 lives have been lost.
State cigarette stamp tax
collections for the fiscal year
which ended August 31 totalled
more than $298.6 million, an
increase of $12.1 million over the
previous fiscal year.
Collections from the sale of
stamps on liquor, beer and wine
amounted to $1.8 million, an
increase of $70,959. The latter is
imposed on tourists who bring
alcoholic beverages into Texas
from Mexico.
The turnover rate in state jobs
was 23.68 percent in 1977—com-
pared with 31 percent a decade
ago.
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ITEM: Tragedy struck at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Witherspoon. At 1:13 p.m. Sun-
day, the city fire department
answered an emergency call at the
Witherspoon residence at 1151
Elton Drive and found the house
in flames. Two rooms were com-
pletely destroyed. Mrs. Wither-
spoon, and her eldest son were
treated for smoke inhalation.
When firemen arrived, they found
Mr. Witherspoon was quoted as
saying that he intended to help
the family fight the fire, but he
figured that they could “hold it
off” until halftime.
ITEM: The National Association
of Football Followers has filed a
class-action lawsuit against the
area churches. The suit was filed
by the Association after they had
petitioned the churches to delay
Christmas Day services until the
day after Christmas so as not to
conflict with the Christmas Day
football telecasts. In a statement
to the press, Elwood P. Miller, the
Association spokesman said, “We
asked the church officials to
change their schedule of services
to avoid a conflict. We felt that
such a change would be in the best
interest of religious freedom, NBC
Sports and the NFL. We asked
them as nice as we could but they
refused to delay Christmas even
one day. Evidently they don’t
realize how important these
games are. My God, is nothing
sacred to these people?”
Monday, September 4
Police checked a parked vehicle
at US75 and McDermott. It was
registered to a Dallas man.
Texas, meanwhile, according to
Hill, is losing severance tax
revenues due to the delays, since
higher interstate prices would
generate more tax revenue on the
gas. The attorney general asks
Federal District Judge Jack Ro-
berts to enjoin the commission
from failing to set rates speedily
and to order it to fix a framework
for the proceeding.
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Deadline Passed
City governments which will
repeal the one percent city sales
tax on residential gas and electric
bills October 1 were given until
early this week to notify the state
comptroller.
Comptroller Bob Bullock said it
is absolutely essential his office be
provided the irforrcation immed-
iately.
October 1 is the e. liest date for
repeal of the local levy under a
new law passed in special session
last month.
Cities which repeal the tax after
that date must wait a full calendar
quarter.
The four percent state tax on
residential utility bills was re-
pealed automatically October 1.
The local levy also will be repealed
October 1, 1979, unless city
governments vote to continue it.
Cities whose governing bodies
want to can, by majority vote of
their councils, repeal the local tax
effective October 1, 1978, when
the state tax break begins.
Bullock said 39 cities had
informed his office by September
1 they intend to repeal the city
tax, while 45 others said they will
keep it.
Tuesday, September 5
Officers delivered an emergency
message to a resident on Hanover.
An abandoned vehicle was
checked at the Shell station.
Officers arrested a man on traffic
violations and transferred him to
the county jail.
2 white males were charged with
making alcoholic beverages avail-
able to a minor. Charges of a
minor in possession also, were
filed.
An abandoned vehicle was
checked on Bethany Drive and
US75. It was determined the
vehicle had been in an accident. It
was impounded. Owner of the
vehicle shows a San Antonio
address.
Officers checked a report of a car
stolen near downtown Allen.
Dear Editor:
Even as a relatively newcomer to
Allen, I have had ample time to
observe four distinct seasons that
annually descend on North Cen-
tral Texas. They are, of course,
Winter, Spring, Summer and
Football. While I tend to think
that the importance attached to
football in this community is
somewhat blown out of propor-
tion, even at the expense of some
other worthwhile endeavors, I
have to admit that it isn’t ALL
bad, and I too enjoy the spirit.
It is indeed gratifying to see a
while town enthusiastically sup-
port the local team with painted
up store windows and wholesale
game attendance. We surely must
be an All-American town! Well,
almost.
If we are indeed the All American
community we should hope to be,
why are we so indifferent to the
playing of the National Anthem at
the beginning of the games?
Why, when the National Anthem
55 highway construction con-
tracts.
Work to be undertaken through
the regular monthly letting totals
approximately $55 million.
About $15 million of the total
goes for construction of Interstate
Highway 27 in Lubbock from 0.2
mile south of Loop 289 to 1.3 mile
north of the Monroe overpass.
Another $713,000 goes to four
new structures on State Highway
288 in Brazoria County between
SH6 and Farm to Market Road
1462, closing gaps in nwvement
construction let last month. Other
contracts include safety projects,
bridge modernization, railroad
crossing protective devices, pave-
ment widening, traffic control,
deyices and ramp modification.
Taxable wealth of Texas has
increased from $232 billion to $464
billion since 1975, according to a
new report of the School Tax
Assessment Practices Board.
The figure (unlike the 1975
compilation of the Governor’s
Office of Education Resources)
includes intangible property like
bank accounts, stocks and bonds
which are seldom taxed.
About a third of the total is made
up of intangibles, two-thirds of
real property, School Tax Asses-
sment Practices Board Executive
Director Walt Parker estimated.
School districts get state aid on
the basis of their taxable wealth.
In effect, poor districts get more
aid from the state, and rich
districts get less.
The STAPB report calculates 82
percent of intangible property is
located in 52 major counties.
Houston has $44 billion or 28
percent of the total. Six Standard
Metropolitan Statistical Areas
have 62 percent of the intangible
wealth.
Under a 1977 act, the legislature
directed Texas Education Agency
to use STAPB figures in distrib-
uting state aid to school districts.
Parker said he expects a third of
the more than 1,000 school dis-
tricts to appeal board values. If
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STATE CAPITAL
A city-wide talent show spon-
sored by the United Methodist
Men’s Club is scheduled for
September 23 at the First United
Methodist Church in Allen.
The day’s events include a
carry-out barbecue, barbecue
plates, cake walks, professional
entertainment and the all-city
talent show. Price of the barbecue
will be $3.50 per pound.
Plate lunches are $3 for adults
and $2 for children.
First, second and third place
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Sunday, September 10
Theft of a newspaper stand was 9
reported on Ridgemont.
A domestic problem was ]
investigated on Anna.
Officers impounded a vehicle at
US75 and FM2170 at the owners
request. It had been involved in
an accident at the location. (
Report of youngsters playing in a j
vacant house on Sandy Trail was
investigated. j
Officers recovered a stolen ■
vehicle on Stacy Road.
An accident involving a tractor
overturning and injuring a man on}, '
Jupiter Road was investigated. I
The plectron sounded and emer-
gency units responded.
Officers investigated an accident
at Main Street and Highway 5.
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Camper, Buddy & Camper, Pat. The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 14, 1978, newspaper, September 14, 1978; Allen, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1417033/m1/2/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Allen Public Library.