Cedar Hill Chronicle (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 11, 1980 Page: 1 of 28
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Thursday, December 11,' 1980
City Council tables action on
oil exploration survey
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At their Tuesday night meeting the Cedar Hill City
Council agreed to table action on approval for a
seismic survey for oil exploration south of the city.
The request had been made by Amoco Productions
for a survey along the right-of-way property along
Bear Creek Road south of the city which is subject to
approval by the Dallas County Commissioners Court
and the council.
City manager Frank Proctor said a representative
of Seismic Resources Inc., who were hired by Amoco to
perform the survey, told him the search would be
performed on the right-of-way property and would not
involve private property.
Proctor said that the company felt that there were
good indications of oil south of Cedar Hill and that
Seismic Resources were hired to make the search.
The commissioners court had already approved the
survey for Precinct 3, but in order for Seismic
Resources to continue explorations into another
precinct or enter into city limits new permission is
required by the county and the city council.
Councilman T. W. Cannady then made a motion for
approval of the survey subject to county approval, but
councilman C.1 D. Bohannan rejected the idea, stating
that the company should have to pay fees to land-
owners for the survey instead of “taking the cheap way
out” by using the right-of-way.
City attorney Lewis Sifford also instructed the
council to request documents for indemnity and in-
surance purposes covering possible damage during
the survey.
Councilman Frank Tidwell then made a motion to
table the matter until a later meeting and the council
agreed.
In other action the council adopted an ordinance
changing the zoning on 8.45 acres at Belt Line and
Mansfield Roads from R-l residential to special use for
construction of a transmitting tower.
Local gasoline thefts continue
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KENNETH TODD HENSLEY of 1111 Randy is all apparently lost control ofher 80 Camero as she turned
smiles even if his 79 Monte Carlo is smashed, because onto Kingswood Drive from Highway 67. The streets
no one’was injured. Renea Danette Short, 1019 Tower, were wet reported Officer Susie Chambers.
Horns hang tough to win tournament
The Cedar Hill Long-
horns basketball team
jumped off to a good
start this season as they
swept three games and
captured the Robinson
Varsity Tournament last
week.
“We played against
so me good competition,”
coach John Rich said,
“and we think the kids
held up pretty well.”
In Thursday’s opening
contest the Longhorns
went up against the
5-A AAA WAco Richfield
junior varsity and came
away with a 74-58
victory. Junior forward
Billy Carmack led the
Cedar Hill scoring with
22 points, followed by 18
apiece by seniors Todd
Boortz and Albert Lacy.
The Longhorns
jumped out to an early
The past week was a
quiet one for Cedar Hill
police, but a string of
gasoline thefts continued
and a collision at
Kingswood Drive and
Highway 67 resulted in
two demolished automo-
biles.
Two gasoline thefts
were reported at the
S-Mart Drive In Grocery
on Belt Line Road and
one at the Super Ice
House on Clark Road,
police said. No suspects
have been arrested.
A collision occurred at
fyijigswood ymd Hwy: 67
when a 1980 Camaro
driven by Renee Short of
Cedar Hill skidded on
wet pavement and
collided with a 1979
Monte Carlo driven by
Kenneth Hensley.
Neither driver was
injured.
Cedar Hill Police Chief
Steve Campbell also
urges residents to take
extra effort to lock their
automobiles while
shopping during the
holiday season to help
prevent thefts in Cedar
Hill.
Campbell also
reported that the Cedar
Hill police cars will be
repainted next week.
The new colors will be
solid white with a blue
stripe.
The police auction will
be held next Tuesday at
10:30 a.m. at the pound
on Clark Road.
Numerous bicycles,
automobiles, and police
cars will be available.
Christmas show Dec. 13
The Spotlight Dance
Studio of Cedar Hill
announces that their
Annual Christmas
Program titled “Texas
Christmas Show” will be
held on Saturday, Dec. 13
at the Cedar Hill Middle
School Auditorium.
The Midlothian studio
students will perform in
the program at 11a.m.
with the Cedar Hill
studio students perfor-
ming at 12:30 and 2 p.m.
There will also be a
special country and
western demonstration
by pre-teen dance
students. The public is
invited and there is no
ad mission charge
20-10 lead in the first
quarter and stayed even
the next two quarters
before increasing their
lead in the final stanza.
“We got off to a good
start,” Rich said, “and it
was nice to beat my old
high school, too.” Rich
coached at Richfield for
nine years before
coming to Cedar Hill.
In the second game,
despite what Rich
termed a less than
brilliant effort, the
Horns managed to get by
4-AAAA Waco Connally
55-44. The two post men,
David Richardson and
Doug Johnson provided
the main fireworks in
this one, scoring 13 and
12 points.
‘ ‘ Our two inside people
(Richardson and John-
son ) really played a good
game and controlled
underneath the board,”
Rich said.
In the Connally
victory, Lacy also added
nine points and Carmack
and Andy Colquitt
chipped in eight and
seven respectively. Rich
also added that the
team’s free throw
shooting improved in the
second game with 13 of 23
for 57 percent.
“We’re trying to reach
an average of about 75
percent per game on our
free throws,” he said.
“It’s mainly a mental
thing, but they can be a
key factor in the game.”
In the championship
game the Longhorns
really found their touch
on free throws as they hit
on 24 of 28 for a whopping
87 per cent that proved
the difference in a 78-74
victory over McGregor
(3-AAA).
The Horns led 36-33 at
the half, but fell behind
53-48 as the fourth
quarter began and Rich
decided to switch from
his zone defense to a full
court press.
The move worked as
Cedar Hill forced
numerous turnovers on
McGreogor and poured
on 30 points in the final
stanza for the four point
victory;
Carmack
scoring for
time with
followed by
led the
the second
30 points,
Boortz’s 19
and Johnson and
Richardson, with 11 and
10.
contd. page 2
DAN ULAND was named most valuable defensive
player in District 12-AAA during the 1980 football
season. For other all-district selections turn to page 3.
•Retirement not part of city employees vocabulary
By
Tim Murphy
In this age of automation and constantly moving
people, it’s becoming a rare occurrence when a man
works 35 years for a single employer and only misses
four work days in the process.
Stanley Davies, currently employed as a main-
tenance worker at the Cedar Hill City Hall complex,
did just that however, as he worked for the Chrysler
Corp. in Michigan from 1937 to 1972.
Davies went to work in the automobile plant in the
suburbs of Detroit at the age of 26, long before
encroaching automation began to take over and
replace some of the human tasks.
The retired auto worker remembers when there was
only a single Chrysler plant before the company
expanded to 23 different plants in the Detroit area to
handle various phases of the operation. He also
remembers when automation came to the industry in
1958.
“The automation was okay if the machines were
working well,” he said, “but sometimes things didn’t
work so good.”
Davies remembers once suggesting to his foreman
increasing air pressure from 80 pounds to. 100 pounds
on a 1/16 inch drilling in the engine that had caused
imperfections on the water pump in 1,800 motors or
units.
“The problem was not being noticed until the units
were ready for the assembly line and they had to be
” Vio coiH “Affpr mvhilp tViPV tried the
suggestion and it worked and the cuts were truer.”
For his efforts in helping correct the automation
problem, Davies received a bonus of S97 from
Chrysler, but money, like most things, was worth more
back then.
Before he started in the auto industry, he worked for
a power company making 45 cents an hour climbing
telephone poles to repair the replace transformers.
“I didn’t know you were supposed to come back
down circling the pole, but after the first try I learned
the right way,” Davies said. “I just started straight
down and I came straight down alright. I got skinned
up pretty good but everybody got a laugh out of it.”
While working for the power company, Davies could
not resist the te mptation of the higher wages of 55 cents
an hour offered by Chrysler and applied for the job.
“The fore man didn’t believe I was 26, but said I could
have the job if I went home and got my birth
certificate,” he said. “1 got the job the next day.”
Even though the wages of those pre-inflation times
do not sound very appealing, Davies remembers 20
cent haircuts and purchasing a brand new 1940
Plymouth for $625 total price, not just the down
pay ment.
Discussing the four days he missed from work at
Chrysler in 35 years, Davies almost sounded
embarrassed that he had to miss that many.
“On two of the days it was impossible to go to work
because of the snow,” he said. “Sometimes after a
heavy snow I would show up and the would say ‘go on
home Stan’ because not enough people showed up to
Stanley Davies
run the machines.”
Another time, even though his wife insisted, Davies
failed to put his car in the garage and during the night a
heavy snowfall completely covered his car, piling up
snow to the windows on his house. He tried to tunnel out
to his stranded vehicle, but it was impossible and he
was forced to miss one of his rare days.
In 1972 Davies decided to retire from Chrysler after
he was informed that the pension from the union would
pay him $219 a month for the rest of his life.
“I remember we had to go on strike in ‘52 for the
pension plan and the company thought they would
break the union,” he said, “but after the strike the
company recognized the union and we got the
pension.”
In November of 1976, four years after retiring,
Davies moved to Cedar Hill from Michigan where his
daughter Doris Dunham and her husband live at 118
Halifax.
Shortly after arriving and refusing to remain
completely retired he worked some temporary jobs
that included being a Santa Claus, before coming to
work for the city. He likes Texas and Texas weather,
even though people still tell him he has yet to learn ho w
to “talk Texan.”
When askd once by a job-jumping relaive why he
worked so long for Chrysler, Davies replied, “it’s
simple, I had to make a living and it just came natural
to me to operate the machines.”
“Besides if you don’t stay at one job very long you
never get seniority either,” he said.
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