Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 162, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 20, 1979 Page: 1 of 10
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The Stephenville Zoning
Board recommended that no
change be made on the zoning
of a land tract near the
Lifestyles
Obituaries
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home. Brad Allen, the land’s
owner, had asked the board to
recommend changing the
zoning from single family
residential to multi-family, so
COURTHOUSE SQUARE -This early phetograp shows part of
the Stephenville courthouse square, apparently in the Ws.
The picture was supplied by Joe B. Swan, a professor at San
Jose State University in Callfornia, who said he found the
picture among a number of family pictures. Bob Scott,
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Jerry Singleton, president;
David Cheatham, vice presi-
dent; and Hugh MeCleskey,
continuing as treasurer.
was sold by Allen it would be
used for apartments.
This was the second time
Allen's request for a zoning
change was denied.
Tickets for the banquet are
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Singleton, Bob Boone, Nor-
man Fisher, J. Louis Evans
and Tim TLompuon, as well as
the three Stephenville banks
and the chamber office.
he could build a nursing home
on the property.
City secretary Joyce Pem-
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Tarleton State University
Dining Hall.
Cummings said only 600
tickets will be sold to the
banquet.
Tommy Loy and his Upper
Dallas Jazz Band will enter-
tain for the banquet, playing
what has been called “Chica-
go Jazz." Loy has played the
National Anthem on the
tax rebate was one percent
lower than a year ago. Glen
Rose had the highest alloca-
tion increase in the Cross
Timbers Basin - 27 percent.
De Leon had the biggest loss in
revenue - 46 percent less than
their 1978 allocation for the
first two months.
Stephenville received a
$10,328.78 rebate for the city’s
share of the sales tax during
February. For the first two
months of 1979, Stephenville
has received $32,004.58 from
Price: 15 cents
One Section
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Vol. 110, No. 162
Local rebates this year on
the one percent city sales tax
have fallen below the state-
wide average increase, accor-
ding to a report from Bob
Bullock the state Comptroller
of Public Accounts.
The state average increase
for 1979 over last year’s
figures for the first two
months indicate an increase of
36 percent.
Locally, in Stephenville, the
rebate increase was only six
percent In Dublin, the sales
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trumpet to open most of the
Dallas Cowboys home games
since 1968. Loy formerly
played with the Cellblock
Seven, a popular Dixieland
group.
During the banquet, new
officers of the chamber for
1979 will be introduced, as will
the nine new directors who
have started three-year
terms. New officers include
Round Table, Senior Citizens Center, 1 p.m.
Contemporary Christian Study Group, Parlor
First United Methodist Church, 9:30 a.m.
Richard White. age 9, Stephenville
Cross Timbers Ratio - Partly (loud) and warmer with
chance of thunderstorms Tuesday afternoon becoming
fair Tuesday night and Wednesday. Afternoon highs in the
mid tax. Overnight lew in mid 30‛s. Wind warnings on
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February 20,1979
treasurer e the Hiatorical Hense Meneum, says the pleture wan
taken after 1892, the year the present courthouse was
completed. The picture was taken from south of the courthone
looking north ar northeast.
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attend the annual banquet and
membership meeting of the
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purchased their tickets are
urged to do so, Joe Cummings
says.
Cummings, past president
of the chamber, is chairman of
the banquet which will begin
at 7 p.m. Thursday at the
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TOKYO (API - A Chinese president. The relationship
Foreign Ministry official told between the two men has
the Lebanese envoy in Peking deteriorated since Carter took
today that Chinese forces will office, and some AFL-CIO
not move deeper into Vietnam officials here say Meany is on
and will pull out of Vietnam the verge of a complete break,
soon, Japan's Kyodo news Such a rift between’organized
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Chinese capital presidents is rare
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Aya- ____
tollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s Los ANGELES (AP) — An
revolutionary regime executed n-year-old boy with a broken
four more of Shah Mohammad hand trudged two miles to safe-
Reza Pahlavi's generals by fir- ty through waist-deep snow and
ing squad early today and said ice after surviving a plane
it would hound the ruler in exile crash in the rugged San Gabriel
until he could only find refuge Mountains, authorities said,
in South Africa or Israel. A female survivor — who
Their deaths brought to eight tried to make the trek but fell
the number of generals exe- and was unable to continue — AnE pmE — - - — r ------a
cuted by the new Islamic re- later died, authorities said TEA . E.EE“ Thetephenvuenrederartmentaniwereda
gime, and three more were me 01 Norman estad fire alarm attth is trailerhouseFriday at " ’ “ Thetraileris
2ii1.A u, m.l , 16 .DX. puMan. vue located on the Lower Granbury Road. The occupants, John
kilhedbyin ha vp Sixte enmore Jr. of Malibu walked into the Wooley and Ernie Gooch, lost everything in the trailer including
ex-officials have been reported Chapman Ranch Monday
condemned to death, and the afternoon and said he believed
roundup is continuing. his father, Norman Sr., was
WASHINGTON dead in the snowbound
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres- wreckage of a single-engine
Idem Carter, plagued by con- Cessna 172, along with flying
gressional criticism that he has instructor Bob Arnold, 27, of
been indecisive in setting for- Mar Vista
eignpolicy,.isomoningtosho AUSTIN,Texas(AP)-Gov. ide
his critics that what an aide na ___′ w-t- r-ft
called a “careful, thoughtful ements told legislators
approach" is working. The Monday key parts of his legis-
president is flying today to At- lativesprogramaare"emergen-
lanta to give two speecaes — C"mattersa stepIthat could
one on foreign policy and an- exPS tesactiononih m.. he
other on inflation and the budg- An emerseny bi can be
et brought up In the Senate be-
tween now and March 9 with a
Stephenville
Today
D.A.R. meeting, 1081 Harbin Drive, 2:30
p.m.
Women's Gymnastics, TSU vs. A&M,
WidsomGym,6p.m. 2
Earth County Association of Civic and
Social organizations meeting, Huey’s Village
Inn,12 noon
Erath County Women's Political Caucus,
Carnage House, East Washington, 7:30 p.m.
Stephenville Sportsmen's Club, Fiesta
, Room, Farmers First National Bank, 7:30
p.m.
Exercise, Senior Citizens Center, 10 a.m.
All day quilting. Oak Dale Community
LCenter ,
Mason's meeting and covered dish supper,
Masonic Hall, 7 p.m.
the state in sales tax rebates. $939.80, $939.80; Granbury,
Dublin received an alloca- $7,095.35, $12,506.91; Hico,
tion of $2,173.63 from the state 8792.19, $1,468.50; Strawn,
for February. The city has $956.98, $956.98.
received $3665.42 during the The state rebated
first two months of 1979 in $25,517,134.98 to cities during
sales tax rebates. February. The two month
Other area towns, their total for sales tax rebates was
Feburary allocations and $43,703,754.99.
their total allocation to date The city sales tax is
this year are: Comanche, collected by merchants and
$6,506.99, $9,961.94; Pe Leon, others along with the state
$2,320.97, $3,351.83; Glen Rose, sales tax and is rebated
93,169.41, $5,761 38; Gordon, monthly to cities in which the
$627.82, $627.82; Gorman, tax money is collected.
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BAL HARBOUR, Fla. (AP) two-thirds vote instead of the
- AFL-CIO President George four-fifths required in the first gh
Meany has lashed out at Presi- 60 days of the session. E
dent Carter’s handling of for- in the House, a bill desig- mm
eign affairs, opening a new rift nated by the governor as an
with Carter and possibly emergency moves to the top of g
signaling the beginning of a the calendar once it is ap- J--—
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EISIORE CASTLE! nis foggy scene tent tram Hamlet tart Fine Arts complex at Tarleton appear to be a medieval castle
the nearly opaque fog shrouding the Stephenville area made the under construction. (E-T Staff Photo by Jim Crawley)
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Downs, Bob. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 162, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 20, 1979, newspaper, February 20, 1979; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1501640/m1/1/?q=Simon+P+Holmes: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.