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PENTON Record- CHRONICLE
73RD YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE — NO. 316
DENTON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 4. 1976
32 Pages in i Sections
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Proposed Budget
Tops $30 Million
Cost-conscious city council members are
looking over the preliminary draft of a
proposed $30 3 million city budget for 1976-
Hand-delivered to the council Monday
evening, the deadline for submission to the
council, copies of the budget prepared by
C ity Manager Jim White shortly before he
left for vacation — were made available
Tuesday
Whites budget package, however, does
not represent a reduction in city ex-
penditures as requested by the city council
REVISED FIGURES from 1975-76 in •
dicate $25 7 million in expenditures, com-
pared to proposed expenditures next year of
#3o 3 million
Proposed revenues are expected to top
#30 8 million, compared to the $27.5 brought
in the present fiscal year
Councilman Bill Nash, who convinced his
colleagues to go along with a proposal
asking city department heads to cut their
budget requests by 3 per cent of present /
expenditures, was not happy with White s
budget proposal
"No. I’m not pleased with the budget, at
all." Nash Mid
Although he expressed pleasure that some
departments showed reductions in budget
expenditures, he Mid other departments
apparently ignored the council directive -
in a brief budget message to the council
however, White admitted the budget does
not meet the council's guidance of a # per
cent reduction in discretionary ex
penditures
“TO MEET this mandate of the council
will require reductions in our current levels
of service which are policy decisions that
must be made by the city council.” White
Mid
White’s proposed budget also includes
provisions ior an increase in city property
taxes from $1 70 to $1.78 per $100 assessed
valuation.
For the owner of a *30.000 home, that
would spell an increase in taxes from $204 to
$213.60 a year.
Even without the council directive to cut
expenditures, some paring of White's
budget package would be necessary
Proposed expenditures from the general
fund are placed at #7,073.042, while an
ticipated revenues are placed at $6,766,729
- representing more than a #300.000 deficit
The biggest culprit for the large budgel
jump from this year is fuel costs, which are
expected to rise from $7.1 million in 1975-76
to more than #10 6 million next year
IX THE ELECTRIC production depart-
ment alone, proposed expenditures are
expected to rise from a little less than $8
million this year to more than #117 million
next an increase of about $3.7 million
in the general fund, four city departments
have decreased budgets requests the legal
department, whose proposed expenditures
fall from $135,523 this year to $129,960 next,
community development, from $315,994 to
$310,992: traffic control, from $108,478 to
$94,140; and the municipal airport, from
$15,195 to $13,870.
Departments showing the largest in
creases in proposed expenditures were solid
waste collection, from $563,407 to $591,818
next year solid waste disposal from $71 .402
to $90,823 police, from $1,060,428 to
$1,108,707; fire, from $875,494 to $928,426:
and parks and recreation from $129,859 to
$148,668
About $200,000 from the general fund has
been placed in a special "manager s con
tingency fund and is designated for em-
ploye salary raises around the first of next
Now For The Kickoff
North Texas State Head Coach Hayden Fry told an enthusiastic
crow d of local business and professional leaders that the eyes of the
football world, television networks and bowl selection committees
are on Denton this year. "We must demonstrate to those people that
we can draw a crowd at home if our development program is to
Staff Photo By JIM MAHONEY
continue." Fry said at the kickoff breakfast at the Union Building
Wednesday morning The theme of this year's drive to sell 8.000
season tickets for home games is the economic impact a successful
nationally recognized program at NTSU can have on Denton.
City Memo Issues Warning To Staff
By KERRY GL NNELS
City Editor
year
Similar funds are in both the electric and
the water and sewer department budgets
The details of the proposed employe raise
haven't been determined yet
Asst City Manager Jack Owen has issued a
- memorandum to city department heads warning
them that a final decision on the budget is a policy
matter, and Me decisions made by the city council
should not be questioned by members of the stall
Copies of the memo were circulatedin City Hall
Tuesday although some department chiefs had
not seen it by late afternoon
staff and the council over budget decisions.”
Council members, who earlier directed all
department heads to cut their budgets by 5 per
cent of last years expenditures, will be
scrutinizing city expenditures as never before
The memorandum apparently comes in
Owen denied that he had been instructed by the
council or any council member to w rite the memo,
but he stopped short of saying it was not prompted
by council pressure
Air Crash Kills Winner
Owen, who is in charge of city operations in the
absence of vacationing City Manager im White,
said the purpose of the memo is to. “try to keep
down any conflicts that might arise between the
"Why don’t you ask the council’' he said.
Councilman Joe Mitchell — who voted along
response to publicized comments from library with Bill Nash and Ben Ivey to cut back on the
officials on the effects of a city council decision to library's original budget request - admitted he
keep library expenditures at last year's total and his colleagues have discussed the response of
The library had requested a $17,000 increase in library officials to the council’s budget decision
expenditures responsible mainly , library officials We've all talked about it yes " he said when
say, because of rising utility bills, salary ex- asked it Owen s memo came as a result of input
penditures and repair of the library building's : from the council.
roof See COUNCILMAN, Page 24
Of Missouri Senate Race
ST LOUIS (UPD — Rep Jerry Litton, D Mo
scored the political upset of the year in Missouri
but he died in s fiery airplane crash without ever
learning of his greatest victory
The deaths of Litton his wife Sharon and their
two children in a plane crash near his hometown of
Chillicothe Tuesday night cast a pall over one of
the largest voter turnouts in the history of
Missouri’s party primaries:
Litton defeated Rep James W Symington, D.
Mo. son of retiring Sen Stuart Symington, and
former Gov. Warren E Hearnes for the
Democratic nomination for senator Litton started
the race with little name identification outside of
rural Missouri, but his weekly statewide television
show "Dialogue with Litton" gained him some
voter support.
HE ALSO spent almost $1 million campaigning
and days before the election had pulled within 4
percentage points of Symington in statewide polls
On election night his campaign rolled up nearly
45 per cent of the vote in a 12-candidate race, and
Symington and Hearnes split most of the leftovers
But Litton's airplane crashed shortly after
takeoff for his victory party in Kansas City And
that was the story of the election
"Jerry’s parents and Sharon s parents were at
the party at the Plaza'Hilton, said Carolyn Ash
lord an aide from his Washington office We got
a call that he had left Chillicothe so we could come
to the airport and pick him up. Then there was a
call that the plane didn I come, and then there was
an eyewitness
WE LNNOL NO ED it to the staff about 11
o’clock It was just shock, disbelief They were all
volunteers who had worked very, very hard for the
last seven months No one could comprehend it
because we had all seen him so recently.”
The crash came only hours before the first
substantial returns showing Litton taking a
commanding lead in the race
The Symington and Hearnes election parties
closed after receiving news of the tragedy
"Go home and My a prayer," Symington told his.
supporters many of whom left the St Louis
headquarters with tears in their eyes
With 10 per cent of the vot counted early today,
Litton held 311,424 votes or 45 per cent Hearnes
Jerry Litton, above, died in a plane crash near his
home of Chillicothe, Mo., Tuesday night with his
wife and two children after scoring an upset
victory in the race for the Democratic nomination
for the U.S. Senate.
was second with 182,421 or 27 per cent and
Symington third with 171,857 or 25 per cent
Kansas City Mayor Charles B Wheeler a fourth
major figure in the race, held barely 1 per cent of
the vote with 7,982 *
MUTUAL AFFECTION - Tinker the cat and Doodles the baby
rabbit find themselves a content family of two at the home of
Dentonites Jane and Roger Hight, along with an assortment of
other animals The cat took a liking to the tiny rabbit when the two
Staff Photo by ROBERT HART
were brought together She now mothers Doodles, placing with the
rabbit and try ing to console it after Mrs Hight stepped on it and
broke its jaw. The animals are both runts, and bv sticking
together, they are surviving.
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DENTON AND VICINITY:
Generally fair tonight Partly
cloudy and a little warmer
Thursday LOw tonight 68 to
74 High Thursday 92 to 98
WEATHER REPORT
Low This Morning
High Tuesday.
Low Tuesday
High Last Year
70
89
72
93
Low Last Year ,,
The svn sets today at B: 28
it rises Thursday at 6:49
— RAINFALL
Last 24 Hours
Total For Month
Total For Year
Normal For Month
71
25.20
2.39
Last Year To Date 26.7
Inside Today
MRS J. w HOPSON, who will celebrate her cen-
tennial birthday Aug 12, talks about the amazing
progress, she has witnessed the close relationships
she’s shared and a spiritual philosophy that has
sustained her during 100 years of life Lifestyle, Page 1C
THE TEX AS Rangers fell back into their hitting slump
Tuesday night and the California Angels scored a 4-0
victory Sports. Page ID
Contact
My mortgage company recently increased my
monthly house pay ment $8 per month. The company said
the increase was for future insurance needs."
However, I am purchasing the homeowner* insurance
policy myself - it is not being purchased by the mor-
tgage company. Is there any way I can prevent this
increase? — Jack K.
Mortgage companies are not regulated by any state or
federal agency as to their use of escrow funds
Therefore, there is no administrative procedure
available to challenge a mortgage company’s mowed
in your monthly payment
Runts Share Good Life
With Local Pet Lovers
By ROY APPLETOX III
Staff W riser
Sometimes runts have to stick together —
especially if they are a frustrated mother
and a motherless son
Look at Tinker and Doodles Life’s
traumas came calling at an, early age, but
the pair has found companionship and
mutual affection breed the good life
The high life for Tinker, a two-year-old cat
of the nothing special" breed centers
around the care and comradeship of Doodles. 1
, a baby rabbit every bit of four inches long.
And for Doodles much of the day passes with
his feline friend ly ing nearby, toting him in
her mouth or w ashing him with her tongue
“They lie together for hours and hours,
relaxing and nuzzling each other," said
Jane Hight, who, along with husband Roger,
brought the two friends together at their
home, 2302 Fowler.
"Tinker licks Doodles and carries him
around in her mouth like she would her ow n
kitten She picks him up and tries to carry
him into a dresser drawer ,, or under the
couch," she said
it seems only fitting Tinker and Doodles
should become friends and in the home of
Jane, 2 and Roger, 28, at that The Hights
are animal lovers — owners of three dogs,
three cats, two rabbits and tropical fish —
and proudly awaiting the October arrival of —
, a child.
Tinker was the runt of the mother's litter,
and the Hights kept her "because she was so
ugly no one would take her " Motherhood
passed the cat by when a uterine infection
killed her only litter of kittens and
necessitated removal of her uterus.
Enter Doodles, the runt of a litter of is
I baby rabbits who were fighting for their
mother s nine nipples at a local feed store
when Jane came to the rescue She bought
an older rabbit at the store and agreed to
take Doodles as a gift as his chances of
surviving with his mother were slim. At the
time — June 13 - Doodles was three days
old and the "size of a thumb."
The two met as soon as Doodles became
strong enough to leave his cage — which wan
about the time Tinker underwent her
operation - and sweet harmony was born.
But the down side of life has struck
Doodles again Jane accidentally stepped on
the tiny rabbit last week, breaking his jaw
"Doodles has been keeping to himseir
pretty much these days," Jane said. “He
just lays in his cage or sits out of the way
She Tinker > looks for him and relaxes with
him some but the licks too hard and
hurts his jaw.". :
Will life’s traumas ever end’
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