The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 1984 Page: 1 of 34
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★ THE BOERNE STAR
BOERNE, KENDALL COUNTY, TEXAS 78006
USPS 0-59-740
VOLUME 80, NUMBER 30
THURSDAY, JULY 19,1984
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“In order to check the back of the south gate and lock closed the north
high school buildings an officer must gate. They added their support to
The money was proceeds from for furnishing its new facility soon
ticket sales for a 50 calibre Hawkins to be occupied north of the city.
Marsh remarked that while many
organizations in the area respond to
EMS requests, Kiwanis has distin-
guished itself by asking about EMS
needs. The club carries EMS as an
item on its budget each year but this
year went beyond that to raise a
substantial sum to meet EMS needs
each of the buildings and then get authorized activities on the school
back in his car, lock and unlock the grounds.
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Ed Clouse and a delegation of wives
of local Kiwanians sold the $1
tickets at the recent Berges Fest
celebration to raise the money.
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The EMS unit, one of the
recognized best in the state, now
serves not only Boerne and vicinity
but about 100 square miles of
adjacent area.
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EMERGENCY NUMBERS
In Case of Fire Phone
249-2233
Police Radio Dispatcher
Ambulance Service
Phone: 249-2222
pointed out at the Monday night “Right now a thief or vandal can
meeting that effective and efficient get in quicker than we could ever
patrol of the high school grounds hope to,” commented Myers.
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READY FOR MOVE-The Boerne present location at Saunders and begin on Saturday, July 28, after
Post Office will open for business in East San Antonio Streets to the the morning mail has been
this handsome new structure July new structure on Blanco Road will distributed.
30. The move from the Post Office’s
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। A petition signed by 17 residents
; of the River Road park area was
• presented the Boerne City Council
Monday night, asking for strict law
I enforcement in the area and a zone
; change along the road from Main
| Street to the Kendall County Fair-
grounds.
| Phillip Miles Bell, a resident of
| the area, presented the petition,
i The group is asking that an
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; the use of the park area.
park his car, get out, walk behind Chief Myers in limiting
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River Road recently has been
widened and curbs are being
erected. Area residents are
requesting that:
1. No automobiles or motorcycles
be allowed in the park area—
except in designated, paved parking
areas.
2. Open and blatant consumption of
alcoholic beverages in the park be
discouraged.
3. Congregation of large parties, or
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Revenue-Sharing
Hearing Set Mondag
A public hearing on pro- hearing will precede next
posed use of federal revenue- Monday’s regular Council
sharing funds by the City of session.
Boerne will be held at 7 p.m. The city is expected to
Monday, July 23, in the City receive more than $30,000 in
Hall. revenue-sharing funds to be
The hearing originally had used for services or capital
been set for July 23, then projects. Individuals and
changed last week to July 30. representatives of organi-
Monday night, during a zations will be permitted to
regular City Council meeting, make recommendations on
City Administrator Ron the use of the funds during
Bowman and Mayor A. E. the Monday meeting.
Howell, Jr., announced the
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BY DAN AUILER work-study skills. Each category 99 per cent at the second grade level
Test scores, tax credits an then is divided into its own divi- in math computation to 72 per cent
educational television were on the sjons in math problems. At the
Boerne Independent School District Scores ranged from 53 per cent in Intermediate level the average
Board agenda Monday mght. Action spelling to 84 per cent in score in the fourth grade was 83 per
was also taken on a range of toPics mathematics concepts at the sixth- cent, while the fifth grade was only
that included the opening o e grade level, 63 per cent again in 78 per cent.
position for a full-time bus spelling to 87 per cent in Percentages are set against
mechanic. mathematics concepts and national scores for the same level of
Middle school students scored computation at the seventh-grade education. For example, the Boerne
consistently better than., average level and 72 per cent in capitali- eighth grade composite score for the
against the nation s middle sc 00 zation to 90 per cent in mathematics Iowa tests is 84 per cent, which
students in the 10Wa, Tes s problems at the eighth-grade level, means that Boerne eighth graders
administered last March. The Iowa Scores at the Primary level were scored better than 84 per cent of the
tests are divided into three areas, considerably higher, ranging from eighth graders tested in the nation.
Language Arts, mathematics and High school scores were not
Ay 7 7 p) _7 AT. available since the test materials
school Doard IV ixes were lost in the Marchfire which
• consumed the Boerne High School
Alcoholic Beverages wzazri.muams
“We’ll simply fold up our tent and store’s decision to open a store on night meeting with the board voting
pitch it somewhere else,” was the the Esser FM 474 corner was unanimously to discontinue the
reaction of J. Martin Davis, dependent on the school’s approval district s tuition tax credit plan. In
president of Lone Star Ice and Food for a beer and wine off premise the past, a landowner who s
Stores, to the Boerne Independent license. residence was outside the district,
School District board’s decision to Lone Star Ice and Food stores had yet who still owned land in the
object to the chain’s application for a entered into a tentative agreement district and paid school taxes on
beer and wine license for a proposed with the Heller Development that land, received credit against a
store on the corner of Esser Road Company to lease a free standing child s tutition, based on the amount
and FM 474. building in the shopping area. Heller of taxes paid on the landowner s
As required by Texas Liquor Development Company, Inc. is district property. Current tuition is
laws, Lone Star Ice and Food must currently constructing a shopping set at $900 for out-of-district
notify the district of application if center on the corner to be called students.
the building is within 1000 feet of “Garden Estates Shopping Center”. Tuition tax credits have rarely
the nearest part of any public school In an interview, Davis been of any substantial value,
property. If school officials object, commented that the company will according Franklin McAlhstor,
as Boerne trustees did, the case is respect the board’s decision. “Had I district business manager. After
referred to the County Court and been on the board I might have discussion, Charles Keeling moved
the County Judge decides whether voted that way myself,” Davis said, and the board unanimously decided
or not the license should be issued. “I respect the board’s decision that the district eliminate the
The site is near Boerne High and as I mentioned in the letter we tuition tax credit policy.
School. do not want to go to court with In other action, the board voted to
In this case, though, the County this—we'll simply fold up our tent request the Guadalupe Valley Cable
Judge will not have to decide and pitch it somewhere else,” Davis system to activate the education
because Lone Star lee and Food said. channel which, by contract with the
city, the cable system is required to
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A fTl A _ T Network, the board will request
Access I O fee 1100 IS access to the channel which wil
provide the opportunity to
After reporting to the Boerne gate. We’re looking at 30 minutes at broadcast a myriad of educational
City Council last week on his Main the minimum. I don’t have the programs at little or not cost.
Street crackdown, Police Chief Walt manpower to do this,” Myers said. Superintendent Rahm was given
Myers asked Boerne Public School Keeping one of the gates locked permission by the board to hire a
Trustees Monday night for better open and the other locked shut full-time bus mechanic whose salary
access and support in controlling would make patrolling the high is not to exceed $20,000 in an action
school properties. school much more efficient, described by board member Joe
Noting the inaccessibility of the according to Myers. He also asked Clark as absolutely necessary, ar
high school buildings and the that a ladder which straddles the commented that lives Were a
inefficient gate system, Myers rear fence be removed. stake” and that the board should act
immediately in order to maintain
the district’s busses.
- Curriculum for the 1984-85 school
year was approved, a progress
report concerning the district’s five-
year plan delivered and the
concessions contract with the
Athletic Booster Club was renewed
in other action by the boards.
SENATE CANDIDATE - Con-
gressman Phil Gramm of College
Station, center, Republican
candidate for the U. S. Senate,
poses with Boerne area backers
during a fund-raising reception last
week. Left to right are Mary Jane
More Money For Fair
While directors and volunteers Latest donors of $100 or more to
are putting in long hours working on the building fund include:
the new Exhibition Building, Chittim Ranch, Jane and Janey
donations continue to come in to Wentworth, George M. Spencer,
finance the new structure on the The First National Bank, Mr. and
Kendall County Fairgrounds. Mrs. Eddie Pressler, Mr. and Mrs.
Fair directors, many of whom are Ray Hall, Steve G. Persyn, P. E.,
working on the building on Boerne Pest Control (David and Ivy
weekends, hope to have the D’Spain;, Bexar Supply (Mr. and
Exhibition Hall ready for the 1984 Mrs. Ross C. Stamper), Mr. an
Kendall County Fair, scheduled Mrs. Lonnie Livingston, Allen
labor Day weekend Keller Construction Co., and Robert
and Jane Quick.
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General Election, said the election
offers Texans a “clear choice
between a conservative who shares
traditionlal Texas values, and a
liberal who is closer to Ted Kennedy
than he is to Texas.”
Steve Marsh, president of the
Boerne Emergency Medical
Services Association, appeared at a
Boerne Kiwanis dinner meeting last
Thursday with Karan Lemm, secre-
tary of the Association, to receive a
$1,300 gift from Kiwanis President
Jerry Bennett.
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gangs, which dominate certain areas
prohibiting the park’s use by
families with small children, and/or
senior citizens be discouraged.
4. Playing of “loud” music,
especially after 9 p.m., be
discouraged.
5. City, county and state entities
provide for frequent maintenance of
the park, cleaning up paper, cans
and bottles “so as not to discourage
normal use by those wishing to take .
advantage of such park facilities.
Bell said the group is requesting
the city to re-zone River Road from
Main Street eastward to the city
limits to B-2 (business), effective
immediately.
Bell said the group had been
turned down for the re-zoning by
the city’s Planning and Zoning
Commission, but that the
commission had left the door open
for further consideration.
River Road (Highway 46), Main
Street and Blanco Road are the
main arteries and most-traveled
streets in Boerne, Bell said, and the
recent widening and re-surfacing of
River Road has encouraged
travelers and vehicles, discouraging
' its use as a residential area.
The Council took the requests
under advisement, but authorized
City Administrator Ron Bowman to
prepare an ordinance calling for
parallel parking only on the south
side of Rivet Road and no parking
on the north side. The action came
at the request of The Texas Depart-
ment of Highways and
Transportation.
In other business Monday night,
the Council heard from Donna Hood,
who has been surveying business
establishments and building owners
along Main Street in regard to a
proposal that the city apply for
participation in the Texas Main
Street Project.
Ms. Hood, who is a member of the
Boerne Area Historical Preserva-
tion Society, said the Society has
not officially endorsed the project
but that members have provided
“unofficial support.” Howell and
Ms. Hood agreed that the city
should secure a sponsoring organi-
zation, such as the Chamber of
Commerce, to help coordinate the
city’s application for participation.
Also, Howell said, the city probably
won’t be ready to apply until next
year. Meanwhile, Ms. Hood said the
Council should be receiving letters'
from interested property owners
and business people regarding the
city’s participation.
The project would involve
improvements and restoration to
buildings along Main Street.
Griffin, Cindy Brockwell, Gramm,
Hostess Vivien Beckley and Lloyd
Murphy. Brockwell and Murphy are
Kendall County co-chairmen for
Gramm’s campaign. The
congressman, who faces Democrat
Lloyd Doggett in the November
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The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 1984, newspaper, July 19, 1984; Boerne, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1562169/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Patrick Heath Public Library.