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Page 2 - ALLEN AMERICAN - Monday, June 23, 1980
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The Allen American
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Staff Photo by Michele Ryan
Summer here again...
Summer is here again and with an excess of exactness that may
not be allowed in the future.
—Buddy
Hotline
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SHARON JONES
Bookkeeper
PAT CAMPER
Assistant Publisher
BUDDY CAMPER
Editor & Publisher
SHERRY JOHNSON
Assistant Editor
SHERYL STONE
Advertising counselor
JEANNE FORD
Advertising Manager
B.W.CAMPER SR.
Production Manager
EARLIS KOCH
Composition Manager
JACK STEIN
Operations Manager
Consumers should take precau-
tions against permanent skin
damage when exposed to the sun
over a long period of time. If you
are going to be outside take a safe
approach to tanning. Do not bake
yourself in the midday sun when
ultraviolet rays are most intense.
by MARK WHITE
Attorney General
Published every Monday and Thursday. Entered at the Post Office, Allen, Texas, 75002 as second
class matter. Subscriptions $9.00 yearly In Collin County. $14.00 elsewhere. Single copies 25
cents.
Member Texas Press Association, North and East Texas Press Association and National
Newspaper Association.
“V” area of the neck absorb the
most radiation, so remember to
protect those areas particularly
well. Lastly, choose the sunscreen
with the SPF right for you and
then go out and have a wonderful
summer in the sun!
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The
Consumer
Alert
Soft-hearted Richard Chumbley let one of his kids talk him into buy-
ing them a couple of rabbits for pets 3 weeks ago.
He now has 19 rabbits.
It's a
job...
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When The American acquired new computerized typesetting equip-
ment last year, we knew it would be just a matter of time before
something new would hit the market making this large investment
outdated, although it should continue to serve the newspaper for many
years.
This equipment allows us to accomplish just about anything we
desire in printing the newspaper, but I don’t think any of us realized
last summer that in less than a year the newest equipment available
for newspapers would provide a means of detecting misspelled words,
thus eliminating the need for proof readers.
The International Business Machine Corp., introduced their new
equipment last week and claim it has a built-in dictionary containing
thousands of words and with the push of a little button, everything
entered into the electronic gadget is automatically checked with incor-
rect words identified for easy discovery and correction.
Next thing you know, somebody will develop a machine that writes
our stories, eliminating the need for reporters.
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American graffiti
by The American staff
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Are they ready for their kids to fail?
The parents and school board at Dallas Schools are professing a
desire to crack down and return to the basics of ‘readin, writin’ and
'rithmetic. This came about after 5th and 9th graders scored low in a
state wide test.
If they really want to crack down they better be ready for the kids to
fail.
We can’t place all the blame on the school.
In response to parent pressure, social promotion has become a way
of operation for many school districts. My own children have told me
about students who received zero after zero and never turned a paper
in on time and often not at all. And yet the students know the child will
return and be promoted with the rest of the class.
It’s time that parents “bite the bullet” if they plan to have their
children learn what the teachers are trying to teach.
There’s an old saying Never look a gift horse in the mouth! That’s
usually good advice to follow when receiving a gift. But this isn’t
necessarily so when it comes to a “door prize” Buddy won at a recent
newspaper convention.
The device is supposed to be used for washing pictures in the
darkroom, but twice it’s malfunctioned and flooded the premises.
Which leads me to think some of Buddy’s cronies at the convention
knew the equipment was prone to malfunction and wanting to play a
joke on our publisher, rigged the drawing to make sure he’d be the
lucky winner.
I’ve got news for you guys (some of them read this newspaper), Bud-
dy doesn’t work that often in the darkroom and his innocent (?) opera-
tions manager has had to bear the brunt of their joke...and believe me,
it’s no fun mopping up a wet floor.
QUESTION: With all this bond money, why don’t we
have a nice picnic area and good small children’s
playground in the city? Ballparks and soccer fields are
great, but not everyone plays ball.
ANSWER: The answer is time and money.
According to parks and recreation director, John
Uland, these things which you want are “in the works,”
but “first we have to buy the land.”
Uland said that we will have more parks area when the
schools are built (and the adjacent parks developed).
Bond money for the first year of the project is being used
for land acquisition and improvements at Hillside Park
ball fields.
Three neighborhood parks are in various stages of
development according to Uland:
1. Hillside Park at the comer of Circle Cove and Rolling
Ridge should be completed in the middle of July. It will
not have picnic tables (not large enough). It will have
recreational equipment, such as wooden playground
equipment, swings, slides, park benches and lights.
2. Funds for Walden Park at the comer of Roaring Spr-
ings and Thoreau should be appropriated in the next year
of the bond program, Uland says. The park will have sw-
ings, sand pits and a jungle gym.
3. Rolling Hills Park at the Highway 75 and Glenwick
Place has recently been donated to the city. “It will be up
to council if any improvements are made at this site in
the near future, there’s no money now,” Uland said.
The park board to be appointed by the council in the
near future will be advisory to the council on future park
projects for the city.
Hotline answers questions about the Allen area. If you
have a question write The American at P.O. Box 27,
Allen, Texas 75002 or call 727-3352.
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It’s getting harder and harder to keep up with the Joneses in Allen
these davs.
Our back yard had always consisted of a tiny tree or 2, a patch of
weeds and an old dog.
So I thought we were really moving up when we added a bird bath to
the area.
But driving down the alleys and peeking through cracks in the
wooden fences in our neighborhood showed me just how far behind we
remain.
It seems like about a third of the houses had full blown swimming
pools. Others had hot tubs, gazebos, playhouses, swing sets, fancy
patios, spas, barbecue pits and all sorts of nice things.
Most also had good grass and large, healthy trees.
Ah, heck, who wants to keep up with the Joneses anyway.
—Buddy
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Rhein said NTMWD could nor-
mally deliver all the water needed
by customers. At the same time a
75 percent savings on electricity
is realized.
The unusual drain on electricity
was caused by heavy watering of
lawns because of the dry weather
and water leaks somewhere in a
water system north of Allen.
NTMWD was made aware of the
situation too late to prevent the
problems which followed, accor-
ding to Rhein.
He said he ordered the Lucas
booster pump turned on at 4:45
p.m. Tuesday when it became in-
creasingly difficult to keep
enough water flowing because
NTMWD officials at that time
did not know what was causing
the unusual demand.
But it apparently was quite a
while before the leaks were
This picture series, “It’s a
job...” runs each Monday in The
American showing people at
work in Allen, doing their job
and going about their business
on a day-to-day basis. If you
have a nominee for this feature
call 727-3352.
it comes the opportunity to
engage in many of our favorite
outdoor activities. Playing under
the sun, however, can prove cost-
ly when it comes to the damage
done to your skin. In recent years,
scientists have established that
chronic exposure to sunlight is
the chief cause of nonmelanoma
skin cancer in the United States.
The sun continuously bom-
bards the earth with a wide range
of radiation. While the ozone
layer of the earth’s atmosphere
protects us from the hazardous
radiation, it does not block out all
ultraviolet rays. The portion of
the ultraviolet spectrum that
burns the skin is UV-B. Although
UV-B rays constitute less than
0.2 percent of the radiant energy
reaching the earth, they cause
nearly all the sun’s harmful ef-
fects.
To avoid the sun’s harmful ef-
fects, consumers are provided
with many types and brands of
sun-screen products in the
marketplace. The effectiveness of
each product varies depending on
its “sunprotection factor,” or
SPF. An SPF is merely a multiple
of the time required by the sun to
produce any given effect on an in-
dividual’s skin. Perhaps the fac-
tor is most conveniently
understood when linked with
another sun-exposure unit, the
minimal erythema dose. The
minimal erythema dose refers to
the time it takes for a person’s
skin to turn slightly red when ex-
posed to the sun. If your minimal
erythema dose is 30 minutes and
you apply sunscreen with an SPF
of 3, you can figure that the time
it takes for your skin to redden
slightly will be three times as
long, or about 1 V hours. A sun
protection factor of 3 is not very
high. Most sunscreens have
SPF’s of 8 or greater.
How can you tell the SPF of a
particular product? Although not
yet required to print the SPF
number on the label, most
manufacturers have anticipated
proposed regulations by doing so.
Some, in fact, have carried their
labeling to degrees of precision
beyond the Government’s inten-
tion. The Food and Drug Ad-
ministration wants the products
designated by SPF ranges with
the lowest number in the range
appearing as the number on the
label. Thus, an SPF of 8 would
be the designation of all
sunscreens with SPF’s from 8 to
14. You will find on store shelves
some products labeled 10 and 12,
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People are always commenting to me about the wild tales my hus-
band makes up for his B.C. column.
Well, that wild tale about our outing to the Fairmont the other day
was the whole truth and nothing but.
I was afraid someone at the show would comment on my new per-
fune—High Octane No. 5.
And if you don’t believe me either, ask Roy Hagood of Comet
Cleaners. He cleaned Buddy’s white gasoline-soaked suit.
—Pat
discovered and repaired on the
rural water system.
“We had gotten by before by
using only the regular pumps dur-
ing peak hours and the booster
pump during off-peak hours to fill
storage tanks,” Rhein said, “but
the north system was using water
Tuesday at a rate higher than nor-
mal.
“It was one of those unfor-
tunate situations but fortunately
it was resolved quickly.”
He explained there was ap-
parently some problem in
discovering the water leaks and
had it not been for this unusual
demand on the system, the pro-
blem might never developed.
The unusual drain on elec-
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and water leaks somewhere
in a water system north of
Allen.
By turning on the pump before
10 p.m., NTMWD assured itself
of paying higher rates on the
pump for the next 16 months as
required by rate structures ap-
proved by the PUC.
Jim Taylor, district manager
for Texas Power and Light in
Plano, said this would mean that
a charge of $2.35 per kw or
horsepower would be assesed on
the pump.
This would total $1,880 per
month or $1,410 more than the
normal or off-peak charges of
$470 per month.
The higher charge would be
assessed for the next 16 months
which would mean additional
costs over that period of $22,500
whether or not the pump is
operated during peak hours.
Although there was a water
shortage, McCarty said steps
were taken by the city to assure
the best fire protection possible.
The Rolling Hills and
WhisLynge Hills area,
which have had problems in
the past, will continue to ex-
perience low pressure
because of inadequate water
lines.
He said Allen fire trucks have
their own built-in water supplies
and that Plano Fire Department
officials were also informed of the
problem and agreed to send
several of their trucks containing
water to Allen in case of fire.
“We were not without fire pro-
tection during this time, but it
wasn’t as good as we normally
like to have,” McCarty said in ex-
plaining the water shortage.
He also emphasized that cer-
tain sections of the city,
specifically the Rolling Hills and
WhisLynge Hills area, which
have had problems in the past,
will continue to experience low
pressure because of inadequate
water lines.
These problems will be averted
when the water line now being
constructed along East Main
Street is complete.
However, McCarty cautioned
that this project would not give
the city any relief until its com-
pletion sometime in the Fall.
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Kathy Eaton is a beauty
operator at Fran’s Coiffures.
“My specialty is
manicures and pedicures,
but I do just about
everything around here,”
she said.
Kathy lives in Allen with
her husband, Jimmy, and 2
children, Kris, 9 and Amy, 6.
“My main hobby is my
kids,” she said. “They love
to play sports so I spend a
lot of time running between
games.”
Kathy has worked at
Fran’s since its opening 9
years ago and has seen many
styles come and go.
The latest style in
manicures is “natural” nails
and she does mean natural.
“I pay from 25 cents to a
dollar for a fingernail depen-
ding on how good it is,” she
said.
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What makes you smile?
A few of the things noticed around Allen this week suggest happy
things which can be found on any day-
Togetherness—A golf foursome seen on a weekday on the McKinney
country club greens—2 men taking a holiday from work with their pre-
teenage sons.
Giving—Housewives who have spent hours of preparation for
teaching. Waiting on the steps of a church with a crowd of young
children for the start of vacation Bible school.
Simple things—A matched pair of horses in harness standing at a
fence reaching for a tall shaft of grass.
Friendliness—The ready smile of everyone you meet in the grocery
store and the quick answer, “I’m fine, how are you?”
—Sherry
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