Cedar Hill Chronicle (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 27, 1980 Page: 1 of 24
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Council appoints board members
(L-R) Front: Terry Reeves, Billy Carmack, load
Boortz. Back (1-r) Coach John Rich, David Richard-
son, Doug Johnson, Albert Lacy and Coach David
Pecor. Staff photo
Roundbailers begin title defense
W inter must be bearing, because footbmis are being
put away and basketballs are appearing at the CHHS
gymnasium as the Cedar Hill Longhorns begin
preparations for the upcoming 1980-81 season.
The Horns are coming off an impressive 1979-80
season that saw them post a 18-11 record, win the
district championship, and advance two rounds in the
state play offs before losing to Coleman.
Despite losing big guns Eddie Hutson, Jeff Smith,
and Kevin Kaigrepont, Cedar Hill returns six players
from last year’s championship squad. Returnees are
seniors Todd Boortz, Terry Reeves, Albert Lacy, and
David Richardson, juniors Billy Carmack and Doug
Johnson.
Head coach John Rich and assistant David Pecor
opened practice Monday for the new season with 25
players showing for spots on the varisty and junior
varsity rosters.
“It’s a fairly good turnout,” Rich said, “the first
year I was here (1977) we had only nine players show
up for varsity and junior varsity and had to recruit
players.”
Despite losing the team’s leading rebounder in the
all-district Hutson and play maker in Smith, Rich feels
that the Longhorns will enter the season with solid
height and experience.
“We won’t have as much depth as last season,” he
said, “but we will be just as good as last year’s team
with the first six or seven players.”
In addition to the six returning lettermen, Rich said
that help could be expected from Andy Colquitt,
Jeff Bailey, and Scott Williams.
In the first six players the Longhorns will have
adequate height with all either at or above six feet.
Johnson, who played varsity as a freshman, is the
team’s tallest player at 6-4, followed by Richardson at!
6-3.
“Johnson has matured &nd put on some weight
during the past year,” Pecor said, “he should be one of
our key players and we expect him to really come
through for us.”
The extended football season caused cancellation of
the first game last night against Evangel Temple and
probably the Dec. 2 match against Forney as the Horns
prepare to get in proper condition for the Dec. 4-6
Robinson Tournament.
“Conditioning will be the hardest part of getting
ready,” Rich said, “but this is the fourth year of our
program and all the offensive and defensive drills
come back pretty quickly to the experienced players.”
Rich said ,that the Longhorns will stay with the
high-low post type offense with the same basic
offensive patterns, but that there will be a few new
wrinkles for opponents.
He added that Cedar Hill should be very competitive
in District 12-AAA this season with Ferris and
Midlothian looming as the teams to beat.
“Ferris always has a good team even though they
lost some key players and Midlothian will be tough
since they only lost two players from last year’s
team,” Rich said.
‘‘ But the late start is probably a good thing,” he said,
“because we usually peak in the second half of district
after all the other teams have peaked.”
Following the Robinson Tournament, the first regu-
lar season game for the Longhorns is at 8 p.m., Dec. 9
against Forney in Cedar Hill.
At their Monday night meeting, the Cedar Hill City
Council approved appointments to the board of
equalization and electrical board and an extension of a
sewer line on Clark Road.
The council voted to meet on Monday and Tuesday
this week in order to attend an 8:30 p.m. meeting
Tuesday night with Grand Prairie officials concerning
city boundaries around Lake view Lake.
The meeting was a continuance of earlier
discussions between the two cities on ownership of
disputed property on the east side of the lake.
On the appointments, the council unanimously
approved John Rowan, Bob Graham, and E. A. Scott to
the board of equalization and approved the appoint-
ments of Troy West, Brownie Peters, Dan Dean and
Bruce Jones to the electrical board.
In other action, Councilman T. W. Cannady made a
motion to approve a sewer line extension from the
Clark Road interceptor sewer line to Astoria in Cedar
Hill East Addition. There was also a motion to approve
a utility crossing 500 yards south of Parkerville Road
and have it incorporated into the bid with Fox & Jacobs
Inc.
The motions were unanimously approved.
The council also approved a motion by Cannady
referring to the city staff a request by tax assessor/
collector Brenda Russell to hire a part-time employee
for the tax department. The council agreed an
employee could be hired if funds were available in a
three month period.
The council also officially adopted the ordinances in
the city charter amendment election and included
them in the city charter.
Senate approves Gramm water bill
The Senate has
approved and sent to the
White House a bill by
U.S. Rep. Phil Gramm
which will ensure
continued protection of
America’s drinking
water without a new
layer of. costly
regulations on water
utilities and energy
producers. The
measure, which amend
the Safe Drinking Water
Act, was approved by the
House Sept. 23.
The Gramm bill
provides an exemption
from v the proposed
Environmental Protec-
tion Agency regulations
concerning underground
injection of water in the
production of oil and gas
for those states which
have effective water
quality programs.
The bill also extends
for three years
exemptions from the
proposed E.P.A. regula-
tions which can be
granted by the States to
small water utilities
which can’t afford the
expensive technology
Contd. page 2
Holiday Closings
The Cedar Hill
Chronicle office will be
closed on Thursday and
Friday of this week. The
office will reopen at 8:30
a.m. on Monday, Dec. 1.
Officials from Moore
Industrial Disposal Inc.,
who handle garbage
collection for Cedar Hill,
said that there will be no
garbage pick up on
Thanksgiving Day.
Service will continue on
Friday, Nov. 28.
All city offices will be
closed on Thanksgiving
Day but will reopen on
Friday, Nov. 28 from the
regular operating hours
of 8 a.ra.-5 p.m.
Bullock files liens
on corporations
totaled $340.8 million.
The tax is levied at a rate
of $4.25 on each $1,000 of
stated capital, surplus
and undivided profits of
corporations doing
business in Texas or
State Comptroller Bob
Bullock recently said he
has filed 12,443 tax liens
against corporations in
Texas who are delin-
quent in paying
franchise taxes.
The liens will prevent
the corporations from
selling assets until the
delinquent taxes are
paid and is one of the
final legal steps
necessary to revoke a
company’s corporate
charter.
The delinquent
companies represent a
small percentage of
more than 243,000
corporations doing
business in Texas, he
said.
Corporate franchise
tax receipts during the
state’s last fiscal year
$4.25 on each $1,000 of a
company’s real
property.
Bullock said the
corporations being filed
on for back taxes have
been notified of the
delinquency and told
that the company’s right
to do business in Texas
has been forfeited.
No estimate of the tax
owed the state has been
made, Bullock said,
because the delinquent
companies have not filed
returns from which to
make an assessment.
LYNN SUMMERS, 26, recently completed training at
the Dallas County Sheriff Department’s Reserve
Police Officer Training Academy to become a member
of the Cedar Hill Reserve Police Department.
Summers, who completed the 130 hours of training at
the top of his class, is co-owner of Summer’s Mailing in
Cedar Hill. The Cedar Hill Reserve Police Department
announces that openings remain on the department.
Longhorn playoff hopes dashed by high flying Eagles
After winning all 10 regular season games, the Cedar
Hill Longhorns finally met their mach last Friday ar
the Allen Eagles defeated the Homs 48-20 in the
bi-district match.
The Longhorns started the game in the right
direction however, as Terry Reeves took the opening
kick off and raced it back 97 yards for a touchdown.
Will Daniel added the extra point and things looked
very good on the Cedar Hill side of the field.
But Allen, with the help of some costly Longhorn
fumbles and penalties, roared back behind the running
of Mark Lewis and running and passing of Troy Taylor
to take a 28-7 lead over Cedar Hill at the half.
Early in the third quarter the Eagles continued to
mount the score with a 67 yard drive that put them up
35-7 and the Longhorns were primed to roll over and
play dead.
However, dispite being in a position that they had not
experienced all season, Cedar Hill bounced back and
the two teams settled down to a hard-hitting second
half.
Taking the ball on their 23 yard line, the Longhorns
began a long drive to try and get back in the ballgame.
Dan Uland hit Doug Johnson for 12 yards and a first
down, Jay Gardner ran for another first. Uland then
hit Ricky Pendley for the third straight first, Ronnie
Mitschke picked up another on a key third and five
play, Uland once again hit Johnson for a first and goal
at the two, and Gardner ran it over for the score.
On the two point try Uland made a valiant second
effort but was stopped inches short and the score
JIMMY SHAW (45) heads upfield after snaring Dan
Uland pass in third quarter action against Allen.
remained 35-13 in favor of the Eagles.
After recovering an onside kick attempt by the Long-
horns, the Eagles drove down the field consistently
before Todd Boortz stepped in front of an Eagle
receiver for an interception at the three.
After a first down pass from Uland to Jimmy Shaw,
the Longhorn drive sputtered and the Eagles took over
on the Cedar Hill 44 where they drove for a TD that
boosted the score to 41-13.
The Horns kept driving back however, and Mitschke
drove over from the one yard line to narrow the gap
once more to 41-20.
The Eagles added one final touchdown late in the
fourth quarter for the final tally of 48-20 as the 28 points
in the first half proved to be too much for the
Longhorns to overcome.
Cedar Hill also received a scare late in the game
when Mitschke took a vicious shot to the head on a
running play up the middle. The junior back lay
motionless for over 15 minutes before an ambulance
carrield him to a nearby hospital. Observation reveal-
ed that he had suffered a concussion but was not
seriously hurt.
Despite being down by at least three touchdowns for
most of the second half, the Longhorns failed to roll
over for the Eagles. The second half was a hard-hitting
affair with several hard tackles delivered by Longhorn
. Allen Hobgood and Brad McLemore. Mitschke led the
offensive charge with 68 yards on 17 carries and Jay
Gardner with 40 yards. ' •
The Longhorns finished the season at 10-1 and have
now won or tied 19 of their last 21 games and captured
two consecutive district championships.
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