The Wylie News (Wylie, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 21, 1978 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume 31: Issue 14
THE WYLIE NEWS
Devoted To The Best Interest Of Wylie Since 1947
Wylie, Collin County, Texas
Thursday, September 21, 1978
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Thought for the Week:“A doctor friend has a
remarkable record of getting the menfolks
who come to him for physicals to take better
care of themselves. He just reminds them
casually that more than 60 percent of the
wealth in the United States is in the hands of
widows.”
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The recent passing of the Rev. Charles C.
Klingman is of interest to a number of
Wylieites. Rev. Klingman was a native
Kentuckian and lived to the ripe old age of 97.
He received two degrees from S.M.U. and
was pastor of a number of Christian churches,
including Wylie for a number of years. In
addition, he taught school and was the author
of several religious publications. Well
educated, he possessed a keen mind which he
used to the fullest. He served as a missionary
to Japan for four years. While here, he was
active in the entire life of the community and
went at full speed even though at that time he
was up in years. Surely, his was a life lived to
the fullest!
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FROM OUR NOTES: We have to take our hats
off to Joe and Pat Stone. They are the
publishers and editors of the Sachse Sentinel,
a monthly publication which does a pretty fair
job of bringing the news of that bustling
community located just down the road. It’s a
real community service and we commend
them both!......Those Wylie school bus
drivers are to be congratulated for having
recently received safe driving awards
spanning over a long period of time. Parents
of school children who regularly ride the buses
may feel a bit safer with their youngsters in
the hands of excellent drivers like we
have......McKinney has a Community Chorus
beginning its second season. They say no
experience is necessary, just the enjoyment of
singing with other people. Sounds
great!......Wylie Lions Club involved in
another great project, their annual calf sale,
dtfitch in and help out. Every penny they raise
^pii any project goes for community activities to
benefit some group doing good......North
Texas Water District directors and
administrative personnel planning their
annual retreat for major and long-range
planning purposes the latter part of this
month......Possibilities look good for
continued brisk demand for local housing as
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A course will be offered each
Sunday afternoon in Ocotber
from 4:30 to 6:20 at the First
Baptist Church. The course
will deal with problems
unique to those of singles.
Sessions will deal with:
Society In Transition, Single
By Choice, Single After
Marriage (Widowed or Di-
vorced), Single But Not
Single (Separated) and many
other topics of interest to the
group.
Dr. Dick Ivy, Ed.D., and a
Dallas Counselor will be
instructing the course as a
service of Dallas Baptist
College. A fee will be
charged for the ten hour
course, however. For pre-en-
rollment, $9.00 and $10.00
regular.
In addition to this course, one
on family enrichment will
also be offered during the
same hours. Dr. Bob
Abrahamson, Ph. D., Clinical
Psychologist with Life Coun-
seling Center in Dallas and
Mr. Don Sewell Ed. D,
M. Edu, in Plano will be the
instructors for this course.
The Family Enrichment
course will deal with parental
releations, myths of mar-
riage, building trust, sex,
guilt and anxiety, parenting
teens, and communications.
The courses are open to
anyone in our community
who desire participation.
SALE TO BENEFIT
NEVADA FIRE DEPT.
Saturday morning, Sept-
ember 23, at 8:00 a.m. at the
Community High School
Auditorium in Nevada, Texas
the Amway Distributors will
donate 30% of all sales of
their household products to
aid the Nevada Volunteer
Fire Department.
Every good neighbor is urged
to come on out, and walk off
with a bargin that will, at the
same time, give a gift to the
Nevada Fire Fighters.
The Wylie Lions Club met on
September 7, 1978 with some
twenty-five persons in at-
tendance. Mr. Danny John-
son officially started the Calf
Give-Away and is currently
giving tickets to all Lions
Club Members.
The Lions Club voted to
donate $50.00 to the Wylie
Fire Department for their
efforts in helping with the
boat races.
The Lions Club also received
a thank you note from Ms.
McCaghren for the $300
scholarship donated to Wylie
High School annually.
Flowers were sent to Lion
Herb Wilhite in St. Paul’s
Hospital, Dallas.
Wylie Lions Club members
will be calling on the general
public in the next three
weeks with tickets for the
Calf Give-Away and will
solicit your donations.
Lake Elevation
Elevation at Lake Lavon
remained static over the past
week with a reading of 483.18
ft., up from 483.17 ft. for the
previous week. Storage was
listed at 290,600 acre-ft. The
slight increase was due to
last week’s rainfall, first of
any significance in several
weeks.
MURPHY PLANNING
AND ZONING MEETS
The Planning and Zoning
Committee of Murphy will
meet, Thursday, September
21, at 7:30 p.m. at the City
Hall Council Room. This is a
regularly scheduled meeiing.
All citizens of Murphv are
invited to attend.
PERSONAL
Martha and Benny Cryer
have been spending the past
week in Austin, babysitting
granddaughter, Libby, while
Libby’s parents, Sharon and
Richard Glover have been
vacationing on the island of
Bermuda.
Council Approves
Annual Budget
This years budget was
approved by the City Council
in Regular Session on
Tuesday, September 12,
1978. The current tax rate of
$1.10 per $100.00 valuation
of 50% of the assesses value
was passed with no in-
creases. The taxable valua-
tion for real and personal
property increased from
$11,032,160 for 1977 to
$12,346,619 for 1978. This is
an 11% growth in the values
which represents new hous-
ing construction, new annex-
ation, new subdivision of
undeveloped land and per-
sonal property on new
businesses.
The budget committee com-
prising of the City Manager
and two councilpersons
appointed by the Mayor
considered the needs of each
department in formulating
the budget presented to the
Council.
A study was undertaken this
year to determine if the
revenue created by the
service departments such as
sanitation, streets, building
inspection, water and sewer
were supporting themselves
by the rates charged. The
most alarming fact which has
caused great concern was
that the sanitation depart-
ments revenue which in-
cludes the garbage service
fee and land fill fees paid for
only 71% of its operation.
The balance of the 39% of
operation expense was paid
by tax support revenue.
Melinda McCaghren, Wylie freshman at East Texas State University, is surrounded by books in
the university bookstore as she locates the texts needed for her classes. Results from a recent
study showed ETSU freshmen to be above the national average in reading skills, although a
large percentage needed remedial help. Melinda is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.M.
McCaghren, 417 Briarwood Drive in Wylie.
Garden Club Has Tea
Wylie Garden Club had their
reassembly tea at the home
of Mrs. Clyde Parker. The
next meeting and outing will
be October 17 at the State
Fair Garden Center.
Hot and Humid
Pirates Defeat Se -12
Wylie's Maroon and White
Pirates travelled to Seago-
ville last Friday night to take
on the Dragons. The contest
was billed as a tough physical
contest between a 3-A district
contender and last year's 2-A
state champs. It turned out to
be just that, but the Pirates
were more than equal to the
task as they posted their first
win of the young 1978
football season by a margin
of 20-12.
The real fire-breather among
the Dragons was tailback
James Collier, a 9.2 second
sprinter around whom the
blue and white have built
their offense. But a stingy
Pirate defense limited the
speedster to 127 yards
rushing, three yards less
than Wylie's own Rick
Blackman who posted 130
yard rushing effort for the
evening.
Wylie’s first scoring threat
was thwarted when Rock
King’s attempted thirty live
yard field goal attempt went
slightly wide of the mark. It
didn't take the junior
quarterback long, however,
to mount another drive, and
with 1:39 left in the first
quarter, he connected with
flanker Roy McClendon on a
forty yard touchdown pass.
King added the conversion
kick to hand the Pirates a
seven point lead. There was
no scoring in the second
quarter and Wylie took a one
thouchdown cushion in at
halftime.
The Pirates kicked off to open
the second half and lightning
struck in the form of number
twenty-one. Collier. He
gathered in the ball on his
nineteen yard line and raced
eighty one yards for the first
Seagoville touchdown of the
night. David Smith's PAT
attempt was blocked by Joey
Kirboand the Wylie lead was
cut to one point.
At the 3:18 mark of the third
quarter Mark Whitehead
recovered a Dragon fumble
and just thirty six seconds
later King carried the ball
into the end zone from three
yards out, then added the
PAT kick himself to put the
maroon in front by eight
points.
Wylie threatened again in the
fourth quarter when McClen-
don intercepted a Seagoville
pass to give the Pirates the
ball on the Dragon’s twenty
one yard line, but the drive
was stopped when a Wylie
fumble was lost to Seago-
ville's Reginald Rivers. With
just 2:58 remaining on the
clock, Seagoville quarterback
David Smith scored on a forty
six yard keeper. The two
point conversion attempt bv
Collier was stopped short and
Wylie clung to a two point
pad.
Everyone in the stadium
expected the on-side kick and
the Dragons did not let them
down. The twelve yard roller
wen to no avail though, as
Wylie’s Chris Winters fell on
the ball to begin the final
maroon drive of the night.
The final desperation passing
attack by the Dragons was
ended when Rick Blackman
intercepted on the forty one
and raced to pay dirt. The
PAT kick was wide but went
almost unheeded as the clock
ticked off the final seconds
showing a score of Wylie 20
and Seagoville 12.
Exceptional performances
were turned in by Rock King,
Roy McClendon and Rick
Blackman.
Wylie's next opponent is
Cedar Hill. The contest is
scheduled for 8:00 p.m. at
Cedar Hill next Friday night
September 22 and is the last
of the pre-district games.
Based on the proposed
operation expenditures, the
current rate structure would
have supported only 59% of
the cost of the sanitation
department. Therefore, the
garbage service fees and
landfill fees were raised. It
was determined that the cost
per pick-up/day on residen-
tial service was $.32 and $.21
for commercial service. It
was also determined that
many commercial accounts
were receiving service for as
much as three times the rate
classification they were
under. Before the survey was
run, 79 businesses were
being charged for 1-4 cans
per pickup, one was charged
for 5-8 cans and five were
charged for 9-12 cans. After
the survey, 48 businesses
have 1-4 cans per pickup, 19
businesses have 5-8 cans,
and 16 businesses have 9-12
cans. Several businesses
have over 12 cans per pickup.
Under Ordinance #78-28, the
new rate effective on 9-21-78
for residential garbage ser-
vice will be $4.00/month.
The commercial rates will be
$8.50/month for 1-4 recep-
tacles, $17.00/month for 5-8
receptacles, and $25.50/-
month for 9-12 recepta'les.
Commercial businesses with
unusual sanitation problems
will pay $25.50 minimum
plus a variable rate based on
the extra services. The
schools garbage rate will
increase from $27.00/month
to $126.00/month. With
these rate changes which
were approved by the Council
the Sanitation Department
will support itself without use'
of ad valoreum tax.
Another change reflected in
this years budget is the
addition of one more
patrolman in the Police
Department to double up on
weekends and nights to
enable the police to patrol
more.
It is anticipated that the
Wastewater treatment plant
improvements will be made
this fiscal year which will
require an adjustment of
sewer rates later in the Fiscal
year to cover the new bond
requirements. The Council is
also trying to find funds for
the installation of the 250,000
gallon overhead water stor-
age which is badly needed.
The city plans to replace
some equipment and vehicles
in the street, water and police
department this year.
The total expenditure budget
approved for fiscal Y’ear
1978-79 including bond
payments was $615,204, with
the total revenue budget set
at $590,577. The difference
will reduce the reserve fund
by $24,627.
Hartman Elementary P.E. Noted In National Publication
Superintendent, Don E. Whitt, Wylie ISD. received
notification that the project HOPE physical education
program at Hartman Elementary School had been recorded
and published by Educational Resources Information Center
as an Exemplary Dissemination Project for Elementary
Physic*1 Education. Hartman's p e. program, project HOPE,
which is an acronym for Health and Optimum Physical
Education was used to demonstrate how information from
various educational geographic regions can be disseminated
through-out the United States.
I he project HOPE program was originated in Ocilla. Georgia.
Through the Dissemination Process Superintendent Don
Whitt, Principal Wally Watkins, second grade teacher, Sue
Sa. third grade teacher, Marcia Eavenson were flown to the
Ocilla site for a three day in-service to prepare the project
implementation in Wylie's Hartman Elementary School.
The basic intent of the HOPE program is to allow for
individual differences within the physical eduation activities.
The program has received much attention throughout the
United States and numerous visitors from many areas of
Texas have been to the Hartman campus to solicit indept
information and guidelines to implement the program.
Hartman Elementary School is seeking to become a state
adopter demonstration school in which teachers and
administrators from all over Texas could come for intensive
training in the physical education pngram.
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