Cedar Hill Chronicle (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 1976 Page: 1 of 12
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TEXAS PRESS
ASSOCIATION
1976
First Place, Column Writing
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COVERING SCENIC CEDAR HILL TOWER CITY OF THE SOUTHWEST
Presenting The News Without Fear Or Favor
PER COPY
Vol. 13, No. 19
Cedar Hill, Texas 75104
Thursday, December 30, 1976
*41' •
we go
FORWARD
We look to new horizons as we
continue to build this great nation
of ours. We will rediscover the
important values that give us heart
and strength, as we go forward into
the jVcw Year with trust,
brotherhood and prosperity.
TP&L Requests Hike
In Local Power Rates
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Opposition To Dump Top
CH News Story Of 1976
Cedar Hill's fight to
prevent a landfill (garb-
age dump) from being
established just Outside
its borders has been
chosen the top story of
1976 here.
The fight, to this point
successful, may or may
not be over — depending
upon to whom you are
talking.
Grand Prairie and
Arlington, particularly
the former, played a
tought political game in
an effort to establish the
dump just outside Cedar
Hill's southwestern city
limits.
An organization of pri-
vate citizens here, the
Anti-Site 8 Committee,
joined with Dallas
Baptist Association to
win the battle to this
point.
Dallas Baptist Associa-
tion operates the scenic
Mount Lebanon Baptist
Encampment, which
would have ajoined the
dump site.
Top 10 news stories of
1976 were selected by The
Chronicle's staff. Others
are:
The disappearance of
Mrs. Minnie Lee
Cannady, member of a
prominent Cedar Hill
family, was story
number two.
Mrs. Cannady's body
was found more than two
weeks after she
apparently wandered
from an area
convalescence home.
Death was attributed to
natural causes.
Third ranking story
was the saga of Gordon
and Ida Flint.
The two gained
national exposure when
Flint said he had to file
for divorce in order to
gain increase welfare
benefits to pay for his
wife's care in a nursing
home.
Contributions came in
from all over the nation.
The story ended in con-
troversy, however, when
charges were leveled that
Flint's true financial
picture had been
distorted.
Controversy, political
this time, surrounded the
fourth rated story.
It involved the with-
drawal from the general
election ballot by State
Representative Calvin
Rucker, after he had won
the Democratic nomina-
tion for re-election to
another two-year term.
Rucker, who moved
from Cedar Hill to Austin,
and was accused of
deserting the ballot in a
political trade favoring
former State
Congressman FredOrr of
DeSoto, who got the
belated Demo
nomination and won the
seat in November.
Approval of $4 million
in school bonds in
mid-May was the fifth
ranked story.
Coach Raydene Dren-
nan's Scarlets (girls)
won the 1976 District
12-AA basketball and
track titles to place sixth.
Seventh largest story
was the donation of a
park to Dallas County
here by a local resident.
The donor threatened
to withdraw the park site
after County Commis-
sioner Roy Orr revealed
three City Councilmen
here had asked his help in
finding another city in
which to locate the Dallas
County Sheriff's
Sub-station now in Cedar
Hill.
When the park donor
protested the lack of
protection for his pro-
posed park, Council voted
to ask the Sheriff to retain
the sub-station here.
Change in political
control of City Council in
April's City Election was
the eighth rated local
story.
The resignation of City
Judge R. W. Hartin Jr.
and the naming of Robert
Jealouse as his successor
was the ninth ranked
story.
Tenth rated story was
the naming of Ed
McCarley as Police
Chief, following a year of
political unrest that
threatened, at times, to
destroy the department.
Electricity rates are
expected to increase in
the near future for Cedar
Hill residents.
Texas Power & Light
Company has filed for a
rate increase—which
comes not too long after
requests for increases in
both telephone and
natural gas rates here.
Cedar Hill is also facing
soon an increase in costs
for water furnished by
City of Dallas.
Ray Shaver, local
JV Girls
Lose One,
Win Two
Cedar Hill's Junior
Varsity Scarelt-Bs
opened Distrist 12-AA
play with two wins and
one loss.
Coach Raydene
Drennan's Scarlet-Bs lost
their opener in overtime,
51-49, to Midlothian's
girls here in Longhorn
Gym.
The next night they
came back to humble
Wylie, 37-8, here.
They took Allen, 37-31
in Allen Monday,
December 20.
Lori Lawrence pumped
in 28 points to lead the
scoring against
Midlothian, while Kim
Sims and Angie
McLemore each scored
eight and Kim Howeth
had five points.
Lawrence also had six
rebounds and seven
steals, Howeth had two
and one, McLemore one
and four and Sims one
rebound.
Defensively against
Midlothian, Cindy
Rosales had 10 rebounds
and five steals, Jana
Brown had five and three,
Stephanie Bacak three
and three and Lisa Bell
three and none.
In the Wylie game, Lori
Lawrence had 13 points,
while Donna Taylor had
eight, Sims and Howeth
five each, Sara Tucker
three, McLemore two
and Jennie England one
point.
England had four
rebounds and one steal,
Howeth one and three and
Lawrence none and four.
Defensively for Cedar
Hill in the Wylie contest,
Debbie Stearman had
five rebounds and two
steals, Bell three and
four, Rosales none and
five, Brown and Bacak
had three and two each.
In the Allen match,
Lawrence led the locals
in scoring with 24 points,
while Howeth had six,
Sims three and
McLemore and Taylor
two each.
Lawrence had six
rebounds and seven
steals and Howeth had
five and one.
Defensively in the
victory over Allen,
Brown and Stearman
each had six rebounds
and one steal and Bacak
had two of each.
The Scarlet-Bs are now
9-2 for the year and 2-1 in
District competition.
Their next game is
another District contest
against Red Oak here
Monday, January 3, at 6
p.m.
manager for TP&L,
reported the request for
an increase in rates.
In a prepared state-
ment, TP&L said through
Shaver:
Texas Power & Light
Company has filed with
the Cedar Hill City
Council and the Texas
Public Utilities Commis-
sion in Austin, a request
for a rate adjustment
that is expected to
increase company reven-
ues by $135 million,
system-wide.
The rate increase, an
overall 34 percent, is
based on actual opera-
tions during the test year
ended September 30,
1976. If the use of
electricity experienced in
that period continued, the
percent increase would
yield some $165 million.
However, as a result of
higher electric prices, the
company anticipates
increased conservation
will reduce the actual
return to $135 million.
Ray Shaver, TP&L
manager, has asked to
appear before the City
Council to discuss the
rate increase.
Shaver said the
increase is expected to
meet the company's
financial requirements
through mid-1979, based
on current economic
trends.
While the average
rates charged will be
increased 34 percent,
Shaver says the company
is continuing its efforts to
bring all rates to a level
that more closely reflects
the costs of serving each
class of customers as
required by the Public
Utility Regulatory Act.
Thus some rate adjust-
ments will be highter
than the 34 percent, while
others will be lower.
Local '76
Sales Tax
$17,592.84
City of Cedar Hill re-
ceived $17,592.84 in city
sales tax rebates during
the 1976 calendar year.
State Comptroller Bob
Bullock said last week
that Texas cities received
a total of $302.8 million in
city sales tax rebates
during 76 calendar year,
a 14.4 percent increase
over 1975.
"The jingling of those
cash registers has been
music to ears, both at the
state and city level," he
said.
Bullock's office mailed
checks totaling $50.6
million to 864 Texas cities
as their December rebate
of the one cent city sales
tax.
The December rebate
was $9.8 million over that
for the same month a
year ago.
The biggest
check—$10.3 million-
went to the City of
Houston. Tiny
Bloomburg will receive
the smallest—$4.42.
The city sales tax is col-
lected by retailers along
with the four percent
state sales tax. The
comptroller's office
rebates to the cities their
share on a monthly basis.
For example, average
residential rates will
increase 38.8 percent,
school rates will go up
40.2 percent, and
municipal rates will rise
37.8 percent. On the other
hand, commercial rates,
on the average, will
increase by only 25.9
percent. Industrial rates
will be adjusted 24.9
percent.
Rapidly rising costs in
almost all phases of the
production and distribu-
tion of electricity were
cited as reasons for the
request.
The company received
an increase in 1975.
However, company
officials say past
increases have not been
adequate to halt
deterioration of the
company's financial
condition.
N atural gas, in the ne ar
future, will not be
available in sufficient
quantities for electric
utilities to use as a fuel in
generating plants.
TP&L is in the midst of
a massive program to
build new generating
plants to be fueled by the
more available and less
expensive lignite. A
nuclear power plant is
also under construction.
"To accomplish this
task," Shaver said,
"TP&L must raise
hundreds of millions of
dollars each year.
Present rates simply will
not support the tremen-
dous requirements for
capital in changing from
the construction of gas
generating facilities to
lignite and - nuclear
generating facilities and
to meet the future
electric energy
requirements of our
customers. Neither will
present rates provide a
fair return to holders of
the company's common
stock.
'' At present, we are one
of only three utility
companies in the country
with a coveted AAA bond
rating. Our current
financial position does
not support that rating.
We must improve our
financial position, or lose
that rating. If our credit
is downgraded, we will
pay higher interest rates,
and fewer investors will
be willing to invest their
money in TP&L. These
higher costs of money
must be passed on to our
customers.
"Texas Power & Light
is making every effort to
keep the cost to our
customers as low as
possible and these efforts
will continue. But
unfortunately, the
pressure of rapidly rising
costs has brought us to
the point that we must
have this increase to
meet our customers'
energy needs."
Scarlets Open
District Play
Cedar Hill's surprising
Scarlets opened the
1976-77 District 12-AA
basketball title chase
with two victories and
one loss.
Coach Raydene
Drennan's Scarlets fell,
33-31, in the opener
against Midlothian's
girls Monday, December
13, here in Longhorn
Gym.
They came back the
next night, also at home,
to topple Wylie 61-44.
Monday night,
December 20, they
journeyed to Allen and
brought home a 47-40
victory.
Shannon Lacy led the
scoring against
Midlothian with 19 points,
while Carolyn Gage had
four and Teresa Knight,
Pam Knight, Tami
Williams and Debbie
Wright each dropped in
two points.
Gage had three
rebounds and four steals,
Lacy and P. Knight three
and three each, and T.
knight and Williams two
and one each.
Defensively against
Midlothian, Dana Lacy
had nine rebounds and
eight steals, Shelly
Hancock four and four,
Rosanna Bailey four and
three, Jalynn Barron
three and three and
Colleen Bonney one and
three.
S. Lacy led the scoring
parade against Wylie
with 20 points, while P.
Knight had 12, Wright 10
and Williams two.
Wright had two
rebounds and four steals,
P. Knight and Tami
Williams each had three
and one and S. Lacy two'
and two.
Defensively for Cedar
Hill against Wylie,
Bonney had five
rebounds and three
steals, Hancock two and
two and Barron two and
one.
S. Lacy continued her
scoring rampage against
Allen with 19 points, while
P. Knight got into double
figures with 12, Ga^ 2 had
nine, T. Knight five and
Williams two points.
Gage had five rebounds
and seven steals, T.
Knight four and three,
Williams three and three,
S. Lacy three and two and
P. Knight three and one.
Defensively against
Allen, D. Lacy had nine
rebounds and five steals,
Barron had seven and
three, Bailey six and two,
Hancock five and three,
Bonney four and three
and Lauri Watson two
and one.
Watson, who has been
out of action due to hip
surgery, got in her first
playing time of the
season against Allen.
She is expected to con-
tribute to the Scarlets'
efforts in District play.
Watson is only one of
two lettermen on the
freshman - sophomore
dominated squad fielded
by Drennan.
The Scarlets are 13-4
for the year and 2-1 in
District play.
Next Cedar Hill contest
is a District encounter
with Red Oak Monday,
January 3, here.
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