Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 125, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 26, 1976 Page: 1 of 44
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DENTON Record-Chronicle
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ATH YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE — NO. 125
DENTON. TEXAS. SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26. 1976
44 Pages in I Sections
35 Cents
Your legislators
facing heavy agenda
— Page 12-A
Celina, Denton
pace all-area team
Page 1-C
Gunfire mars
lay of peace
Decatur man victim
of robbery attempt
By L. A. HARPER .
Staff Writer
Crime rarely takes a holiday, even
during Christmas, as the contrast of
violence marring the special season of
peace made Christmas 1976 little dif-
ferent from Christmas past
A.Christmas party ended in tragedy
Mor a Decatur man, who was shot to
.=. death early Saturday in an apparent
retopery attempt according to the
Tarrant County Sheriffs Department
Michael Floyd Manning, 32, of
Decatur was killed from rifle wounds in
toe chest and abdomen after, two men
broke in on a small Christmas party in
a Jeetersville convenience store in
northern Tarrant County investigating
officers reported
The store’s owner said that he
Manning and six others were in the
store at about 3 a m for a Christmas
gathering when two men broke in and
sprayed the store with semi-automatic
rifle fire, authorities said. .
The celebrants were opening
presents when the melee occurred Fort
Worth police had three suspects in
custody late Saturday
IN DEMON A Louise Street apart-
ment dweller w ill return home from the
holidays to hear about a break-on at her
residence on Christmas Eve
Denton police said the apartment
manager and another witness reported
the apparent break-in Friday after
noticing the alisent woman s front door
open
Investigating officers assessed entry
had been made by breaking in a back
bedroom window and found that a
dresser had apparently been searched,
with one drawer left on the floor
Bur losses cannot be determined until
the woman returns
Denton was apparently luckier than
the rest a me state and country as far
• as holiday accidents went.
As of late Saturday, the worst ac-
cidenit recorded in the country involved a
' motorcycle running off the road
resulting in injuries tor which toe
driver. Larry Wayne Alford of 300
Bryan, was treated and released at a
local hospital
in Texas, the traffic death count
which began Thursday evening had
reached 24 by late Saturday.: Total
violent deaths stood at 34, including
shootings, three stabbings and five fire
deaths , 4
. LOCAL OFFICIALS were still busy
keeping potential accidents from
happening however, as Deatom
sheriff's deputies city police, highway
patrol units, and Lewisville and Lake
Dallas police cited 12 cases of drunken
driving and four of public intoxication
Christmas gift:
A child’s first taste of love
NORTH
Rough sledding
EbITOR'S NOTE This is the first of
a two part series about the Denton
County Foster Home program
By NITA THURMAN 1
Regional Editor —
1 was late Christmas Eve, and cold,
and the child huddled inside a coarse
blanket
Behind her, lights on a Christmas a
tree glowed through the dimness in a 1
.earner of the police station 1
There was no glow reflected in the
child's eyes, only a momentary gleam
of fear hehind the stark acceptance of to
knowing too much trouble too soon 1
Far that child, lost through the s
neglect of parents, Christmas Day *
■ brought a warm bed, clothing to
replace the blanket which a policeman
had taken from a cell and placed
around here when she was brought in
S tor help wearing only underclothing
Christmas brought the gift of love
Christmas Eve by police officers, must
UPs Telephoto
Motorists along I-55 just outside of St Louis were greeted Saturday by the
sight of this familiar figure using a somewhat unconventional method of
travel Hr wouldn't give his real name, saving that he had put in a hard
day's work and he hoped he could get a ride home
THE CHILD w is one of many that
routinely go through the Denton County
child welfare office, children who are
abused, neglected or abandoned
Foster parents take them in tor a few
hours, a night or for months Their gift
of love is not seasonal, but a continuing
acceptance that absorbs a child into
family life
Case workers are on call turn about,
to respond to need at any time
The ultimate goal is maintaining the
family, and the first step is to help
there
When a child, like the one cared for on
Jetliner crashes into mill
killing passengers, workers
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Rescue
workers pulled charred bodies.
Saturday from toe wreckage of an
Egyptian jetliner which plunged into a
textile mill and exploded early Christ-
missing and presumed dead.
Egyptair officials ■ Cairo said a
team of experts was on its way to
search for the flight recorder to learn
_____ - why the plane crashed a mile short of
mas morning About 69 persons were the Bangkok airport runway.
batoned MBed including all the jets Bangkok police said may
passengers and several workers.
Officials said about 40 bodies were
recovered before the search was
suspended to await" the arrival of
Egyptian aviation experts
Airline officials in Bangkok said
there had been at least 51 passengers on
tor Egyptair Boeing 707 jetliner, and
police said at least 18 mill workers were
corpses were charred or mangled
beyond recognition and the plane and
factory were totally destroyed They
said it was the worst aviation disaster
in Thai history.
Supichai Phindabun a 30-year-old
mechanic employed at the factory, said
he was returning to his post at toe end
of the break who he heard toe jet
scream low toward the compound,
smash the tops of nearby worker
dormitories and crash into the factory.
Then I saw three explosions." 7
Supichai said “One man and two
women came out of the factory’ burning.
The man jumped into a canal 1 think he
\ died
"1 heard many people screaming and
crying inside the factory," he said.
Other witnesses said the jetliner'
came in low in the predawn fog
Christmas day and sheared the roofs off
several buildings and tops ol coconut
trees before thundering into the Thai
Teijin textile factory.
There was no glow
reflected in the
child s eyes, only
a momentary
gleam of fear ...
Somme are iK the path to delinquency
children who have learned — or been
go to a temporary foster home, a court
order through a district judge is _______
required He also is on call at all hours . taught — to steal simply to subsist.
• Through 10 months of this year 202
.children have become statistics at the
child welfare office here
The greatest number — 70 of them —
are there for inadequate care, neglect,
sometimes deliberate but often through
ignorance.
SOME LITTLE ones are left alone to
care for themselves or even younger
sisters or brothers
Some afe battered children, beaten
and injured when parental emotions
run amok — or deliberately and
assistance can remove the spectre of
hunger
Sexual abuse, emotional abuse
uspicatile problems with parental-
child relationships — all find their way
into child welfare statistics
Referrals a a child in trouble bring
first in exploration of the home
shiatiom and an attempt to correct the
Secnetimes physical abuse is punish-
ment »• severe, and counseling with
the parents can correct the situation.
Education to Nutrition and infant
care can dispel problems of neglect
Advice on obtaining financial
ONLY WHEN there is obvious danger
to a child is it removed. Sometimes the
removal can be temporary and ,
foster home is a temporary haven unni
the family can be put back together
Or the foster home cm become long
term care, a home tor toe child while
legal step progress through the court
to find has a better chance tor the
future
The number of children placed m
—foster homes ebbs and flows. Now there
are 13. a low number, according to chill
welfare officials
Some 60 more continue under enid
welfare supervision, to institutions -
placed with relatives, «• remain win
their parents in a counseling program."
The statistics here are one small
segment of a massive problem.
Last year, across Team 1M children
died from abuse, and or neglect, ac-
cording to state Department to Welfare
figures. From 600 to 700 are injured
from abuse each year
For a year DPW listed 15.800 reports
to abuse and neglect involving more
than 25.000 children a, Texas Ome third
of the reports were found to be valid,
another one-third were unfounded. The
remaining one-third are in the gray
area of “not proved, but suspect.”
For some, there * not time left
For many more, the gift of love af-
fered through child welfare and foster
parents may be their last chance
NEXT The story of 13 families.
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Universities take look at preliminary budgets
By (MAMA KUTSKY
Education Writer
Officials at Denton’s universities
have received their first look at one set
of budget recommendations for the
next two years.
And, perhaps predictably, they aren’t
saying whether they’re pleased er
hashed out by the Legislative Budget
Board G.BB.
The LBB figures “appear to be
preliminary.” said John Carter, vice
president for fiscal affairs at North
Team State University.
Dr Dave Gates, Texas Woman’s
University's vice president for
management, pointed out that the
governor's staff, the Texas House and
Senate will each prepare their own
versions of appropriations bills before
the legislature's conference -| rm inti.
meets to work out a final compromise.
-WE WoNr really know what the
budget will be until June,” Gates said.
However, two years ago, he said, the
appropriations bill followed most of the
recommendations of the LBB
The LBB recommended that TWU
and NTSU each receive about one third
more funds in 1978 than are budgeted
for 1977 That would increase TWU's
budget from about $14 million to $21
million and NTSU's budget from $24
million to $34 million
Though TWU asked for $25 million
and NTSU $42 million, the recom-
mended increases are among the most
suggested for the 24 public colleges and
universities in Texas Other univer-
sities were recommended for overall
funding varying from about 20 to 33 per
cent increases in their 1977 levels
TWO AREAS of general concern for
Carter and Gates were funding for
renovation of buildings
"We would hope that the Legislature
might consider other items under toe
major repairs we have six different
items and received recommendations
for two of them," Gates commented
For example, in the Music and Speech
Building, a $323,000 item not recom-
mended, there are window lees practice
rooms without air conditioning, he said >
Carter said that NTSU has a request
before the LBB to send a representative e
to re-examine Marquis and Terrill
Halls for funding possibilities. NTSU
officials plan to remodel the two dorms,
currently in use as offices and special
class labs, to suit their current uses at a
Total cost of $1 03 million
THE Fttot MA LAS used by the LBB in
making their funding recom-
mendations were also unclear to
Carter NTSU followed various for-
mullas recommended by the Coor-
dimaring Board to Texas Colleges and
Umisersities a making its requests.
Carter said
Of course, we used the level four ■
the formulas,” he said Level four is the
highest formula level a university may
request, though an institution may
request more than toe formulas allow,
be added
Another area which concerned Gates
is funding for human nutrition
research The LBB recommended a cut
to about $25,000 from 4977 * I975, mm-
stead to increasing the amount, as TWU
officials hoped
Otoe $100,000 item not recommended
far continued funding at TWU to
education development ■ nursing and
health sciences. km Gates said funding
tar toe program ■ gradually being
reduced over a period of years. ,
WILE I doese t come as a shock
to see that toe LBB n ommitting this
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Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 125, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 26, 1976, newspaper, December 26, 1976; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1703425/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.