Cedar Hill Chronicle (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 19, 1981 Page: 2 of 20
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Commentary
REPRESENTATIVE
Ray Keller’s
CAPITOL REPORT
With the Legislature now out of. session many people
begin to wonder what actually goes on in state
government during the interim. State government in
Texas is the biggest business there is so despite not
being in session, parsing laws, the work still goes on
particularly in the committee process. You see, we in
the Legislature use this time to hold hearings on issues
we anticipate the next session will address. We will be
familiarizing ourselves wish the issues and actually
develop legislation in preparation for the next
session.
Speaker Clayton recently gave the House
Committees their interim work assignments saying,
■Interim charges enable the committees to make good
use of the interim months. Moreover, bv reading the
final reports of other committees, legislators have
up-to-the minute research on many difficult topics of
legislation.
Some of the highlights of these assignments include
business and industry committee comparing the
Texas condominium housing laws with other states
and determining the need for revision along with
studing the effects of the Texas Blue Law and its
impact on the state's economy The Employment
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Practices Committee is going to be studying the Crime
Victim Compensation Act and develop solutions to its
present funding problems.
The Higher Education Committee will be looking at
yltei native tuition policies as well as current charges '
at state colleges. Human Services will be investigating
battered children while the Insurance Committee will
be monitoring the"success of the new mandatory auto
liability insurance laws.
One Committee I serve on, Intergovernmental
Affairs, has a full agenda and has already begun its
work. We held a meeting in Harlingen to discuss inter-
national free trade zones and their effect on our state’s
economy. It was most informative and led to some
ideas on how the state can encourage this sort bf
development to stimulate our economy. Also we are
going to be looking at the broad picture of county
government, its pitfalls, problems and assets and no
doubt make some controversial recommendations to
the Legislature.
So the State Legislature continues to be busy and
hopefully productive. If you have an interest in the
activities of any one committee please feel free to call
my office for details of their meetings.
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The Cedar Hill Middle School 1981-82 cheerleaders
pictured above are, front' (L-R) Cindy Stevens,
Gretchen Duncan, Debbie Hensley, Angie Kimble.
Letters
to the
Editor
The family of Shorty Wilson acknowledges with
gratified appreciat ion to ail our Christian brothers and
sisters in Christ for all the food, calls, gifts, visits,
flowers and especially their prayers during our time of
sorrow and needs.
Our friends are truly a blessing to us. God love you
one and all
Mrs. Shorn Wilson and family
Cedar Hill Chronicle
P.O. Box 159, 109 Main Street, Cedar Hill, Tx. 75104
COVERING SCENIC CEDAR HILL
TOWER CITY OF THE SOUTHWEST
MEMBER 1981
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TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
Royce Brown......................... Publisher
Tim Murphy............. .....Editor
Judy Hulsey......................... ....Production
Manager
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State Comptroller Bob
Bullock reported that
gross sales in Texas for
the second quarter of
1981 totaled $77.3 billion.
He said second quarter
sales this ydfar passed
1980 second quarter
sales by $12.6 billion.
Bullock also said the
sales tax analysis for
April, May and June of
this year shows 269,044
reporting outlets
compared to 245,047
reporting outlets in the
second quarter of last
year.
First and second
quarter gross sales in
Texas for 1981 now total
$148.1 billion.
Second quarter sales
in 1981 for Harris County
were $22 billion as
recorded by 44,997
reporting outlets
compared to $17 billion
reported in the second
quarter of 1980 by 40,478
outlets.
Gross sales reported in
pthev major.urban areas
Included: Dallas County,
$10.8 billion, up from $9.4
billion in the second
quarter of 1980, and
Tarrant County, $4.2
billion, down from $4.6
billion in the second
quarter of 1980.
Chamber meets today
The Cedar Hill
Chamber of Commerce
\jdll hold their monthly
meeting today beginning
at 11:45 a m. at the
Northwood Institute on
FM 1382.
Guest speaker will be
Catherine Matz, who will
present a program of
“Self Image
Psychology.” Matz is
president of A New Day
and has spoke at several
past chamber meetings.
Back (L-R) Sherre Carter, Robin Douglas, Shelly
Toon. Not pictured is sponsor Shirley Nicholson.
Cross sales up in Texas
City known for wrong reasons
By Tim Murphy
Slowly, very slowly, Cedar Hill is becoming known to
the outside world.
The city has been isolated somewhat in the past and
largely ignored by the large Dallas papers and
television stations, except for every 10 years or so
when an airplane smashes into one of the television
towers out here.
But in the past year Cedar Hill increased its
publicity output.
The city made the pages of one or both Dallas papers
for several lawsuits, including one concerning a
disgruntled landowner who had some allegedly junk
cars removed from his property and one involving a
former city councilman and one local bank.
Cedar Hill also graced the pages of the Dallas
papers for a rape of two children by a Grand Prairie
man, a body being found in an abandoned vehicle and a
woman who committed suicide in her car in northeast
Cedar Hill.
Last October Cedar Hill again made headlines and
newscasts when a small aircraft collided with a guy
wire on the KVTV television tower.
The city also appeared in both Dallas papers last
May when police apprehended a prostitution
ringleader at a nudist colony located between Cedar
Hill and Midlothian.
Again in May, the city led off a KXAS 10 p.m.
newscast with allegations of shennaigans by some
council members dealing with city deposits with a
local bank.
*To people who live in Dallas or read Dallas papers
and watch local news for their information, Cedar Hill
must seem like quitea wild place to live.
Overall, the city does not make it into a major paper
Berryhill wins
final contest
or newscast unless there is a crime, an alleged crime,
civic misdeeds, or violence.
A few weeks ago the Dallas Times Herald ran a
feature section on the different cities that make up
Dallas County. The feature covered places to shop,
quality of schools, home price ranges, and just general
facts about each city in the county.
Every city that is except Cedar Hill.
When contacted by one source as to why Cedar Hill
was omitted, a paper spokesman said that Cedar Hill
was not an incorporated city thus it was not
considered.
Well, Cedar Hill has been incorporated since the
early 1970’s.
Another caller found out that the city was excluded
because Cedar Hill does not spend enough advertising
dollars in that paper to justify including them in the
special section that ran that week.
At least the football team gets to make the pages of
the larger papers for doing something positive.
Tom Hasse
Dot Berryhill of
Midlothian won top prize
of $15 in the last week of
the Chronicle Football
Contest.
Berryhill correctly
picked 12 of 16 games
and was within 23 points
of the Cedar Hill-Mid-
lothian score to pick up
her third winning check
of the season.
Billy Boswell of 702
Lisa Lane in Cedar Hill
collected second place
prize money of $5 by
connecting on 11 of the 16
games.
For the firest time this
season all contestants
missed the tie-breaker
game as the Midlothian
Panthers upset Cedar
Hill 26-17. Other games
fooling contestants were
Alabama’s 31-16 win
over Penn St., Rice's
17-13 upset win over
Baylor and San
Fransisco's 15-12 loss to
Cleveland.
Of the 13 contestants to
win prizes this season,
Ellis Kilgore of Cedar
Hill led with $55,
followed by Berryhill’s
$45 and $37.50 won by
Cathy Nicholson.
Nicholson also won the
only $10 bonus of the
season for correctly
predicting all games in
the second week of the
season.
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