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MONDAY
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Monday, March 10, 1980
Burleson, Johnson County, Texas 76028
Vol. 15. No. 41
It's Inside!
SECTION A
Property Exemptions.............2
Police Report................. — 3
Sports...........................4-5
Classified......................,5*7
SECTION B
Dew Tell..........................J
Church News......................2
Frazier Readathon............ 3
Scramble Winner......... 4
Business Review..................•
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A Grand Old Lady
What’s Going
To Become
Of The Old
Renfro-Clark
House Now?
She’s a proud and stately lady who has served her community well for the
past century or so. Considering her age, she’s still in pretty good shape,
too.
Her future is very much in doubt now, though, and some concerned
citizens are very-much concerned about her.
“She” is the Renfro-Clark House at 128 N. Clark St. For the past 10
years she has served as the only public library Burleson ever had.
Time wasn’t on her side as a library, however. The old house stayed the
same size as the city grew and the need for a larger facility became more
and more obvious. That larger facility was recently completed on
Johnson Ave. and at the first of this month the books and shelves were
moved to the new location.
But the owners of the building, the Burleson Library, Inc., are not
ready to put the grand old lady “out to pasture” just yet because they feel
that she can still make a contribution to the area.
It will take more than a half dozen or so concerned people, though
“It is a beautiful, proud, historical house that will go by the wayside as
so many of our things from the past do unless you are interested and will-
ing to work on the Board of Directors to see it remain as a club, museum
and art center for the community,” said Nancy Jones, a member of the
board of directors of the house as well as a member of the present library
board.
It will take time, energy and money to keep the house as a community
asset, she continued, and a meeting will be held soon of all persons in-
terested in the project.
If you’re willing to help, watch The Star for an announcement of the
time and place of this meeting. Interested persons can also contact a
board member-Mrs. Jones, Dora Ussery, Carolyn Winn, Lorena Har-
dgrove, Faye Mercer, Helen Ayers, Tillie Lace, Gretchen or Annie
Cromwell.
Mrs. Jones can be reached at Jones Funeral Home, 295-5211, or write to
Clark House, P.O. Drawer H, Burleson, if you are willing to serve on the
board of directors or are willing to help in other ways.
Cable TV Possible
Here Next Summer
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This time next year, Burleson
residents may be able to turn on their
television sets and watch such diverse
programming as a live telecast of an
NCAA basketball playoff game from
the Super Drum in Austin; a first run
movie; or, something really exciting, a
i city council or school board meeting.
Programs such as these are only a
small part of what will be available on
cable television and Burleson
households will apparently have that
option for their home sets within the
next year to year and a half.
City councilmen spent three hours
discussing the various aspects of cable
TV Thursday night in a public hearing
and workshop meeting and the concen-
sus of the sue members present was to
authorize the city staff to take bids on
cable TV at this week’s regular council
meeting Thursday night.
If that’s the case, the franchaise
could well be awarded by mid-May and
the system could be operational as soon
as 10 months after that, according to
Jerry Proctor, one of two represen-
tatives from Storer Cable Television
who were present Thursday night.
DIVERSIFIED PROGRAMMING is
just a small part of the total cable
television picture, the council was told.
Proctor said that local governments
would be provided channels for their
own use and that part of their
capabilities would be similar to mini-
computer systems.
Payroll, bookkeeping, school atten-
dance records & information retrieval
are just a few of the functions that
would be possible, said Bob Spurlin,
assistant BISD superintendent for cur-
riculum. He and another school ad-
ministrator, Fred Rauschuber, attend-
ed an all-day seminar on cable TV ap-
plications Thursday at UT-Arlington.
"It’s possibilities depend on your im-
agination and nerve,” he said they were
told at the seminar. “They feel those
possibilities are unlimited,” he added.
Two School Races Contested
3 City Incumbents
Running Unopposed
Both the city and the school had last
minute candidate filings Wednesday to
make a final count of eight persons in
the school board race and five in the ci-
ty council election.
Vera Calvin, of 111 S.W. Moody, has
signed up for Place 4 on the city council,
making that the only contested race in
the city election. Also vying for that
council seat is Charley Buckingham, a
plumber.
Mrs. Calvin is a registered nurse at
the Fort Worth State School.
Place 4 incumbent Mike Arnold did
not file for reelection.
Incumbents are running unopposed in
the other three city spots: Dennis
Barabas in Place 2 ; Bill Stowe in Place
6; and Robert E. Abies for mayor.
Over in the school race, incumbent
Anne English is unopposed in her bid
for a first full term in Place 1, but there
are three candidates seeking the Place
2 seat on the board and four are in the
race for Place 3.
Board President Maurice Shepherd
is the incumbent in Place 2 and is
challenged by A1 Evans and Bruce
Allen of Rt. 2, who filed late Wednes-
day.
Weekend
In place 3, the candidates are Bobby
Fortune, Sr. Tom Morris, Sr.,
Robert J. Ray, Jr. and Gary
Emery.
Absentee balloting in both elections
will begin on March 17 and continue
through April 1. During that period,
persons who will be out of the county on
election day-plus senior citizens-can
vote absentee in the school board race
at the school administration building,
1160 S.W. Wilshire, and in the city elec-
tion at city hall, 141 S.W. Renfro.
Candidate profiles will be presented
in a future edition of The Star.
Proctor agreed, noting that the
system already has the capability of
computer terminals, communication
between schools and fire and burglary
protection. Bookkeeping and banking
operations are now technically feasible
as well, he said, but are not yet “cost ef-
fective.”
That will be just a matter of time,
though, he believes, pointing out as an
example the reductions in the coat of
burglary protection. Originally the in-
stallation charge for that service was
up around 3750, he said, but has now
come down to about $250. He expects
that cost to drop still further in the next
couple of years as the industry ad-
vances.
ALTHOUGH NO ONE showed up to
talk about them as has happened in
other cities, council members were con-
cerned about the possibility of X-rated
movies being telecast to Burleson.
Much of the three-hour meeting
centered around that topic and about
the availability of religious programm-
ing of local origin.
About half of the franchaises that
Storer has contain stipulations pro-
hibiting the showing of X-rated movies,
Proctor said, so “we have no problem
with this (prohibiting them).”
The only problem with this, he said
-and City Attorney J.L. Phinney
agreed - is that it probably is not legal.
A court case would be hard to win,
SEE CABLE TV, PAGE 2A
For Burleson Police Dept.
Vandals
_ / * > _
Every Night Is Saturday
It has been Saturday night almost
every night this week for Burleson
police.
Police reported 15 arrests last week
on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday-
-days usually reserved for moderate ac-
tivity.
folks
by Star Staff
If you’ve ever tried to get information
on a problem from a federal agency and
couldn’t cope with the red tape, you
might consider discussing it with your
congressman.
The congressman from this district is
Phil Gramm, and you might have trou-
ble getting to Washington to see him.
But you an pass along your questions
to him through a special aide who
makes regular visits in Burleson.
Jamie Vick, Gramm’s special
representative in this area will be here
Wednesday from 9 a m. to noon at city
hall.
Bring your questions on Social
Security, veterans benefits or other
government programs and talk with
Ms. Vick.
SEE FOLKS PAGE 2A
Several of the arrests involved
consumption-or overconsumption-of
alcoholic beverages.
Police arrested five teenagers shortly
before midnight Thursday on Hurst
Road in the eastern part of the city.
In that arrest, a boy and girl 16 were
arrested for possession of alcohol, a boy
and girl, 17, were arrested for public in-
toxication and an 18-year-old woman
was arrested for violation of a
suspicious person ordinance.
Activity started shortly after mid-
night Tuesday with the arrest of a
31-year-old man for public intoxication.
After a report of a fight in the parking
lot of Western Place, police arrested
two men nearby.
One was jailed for simple assault and
public intoxication and the other for
public intoxication.
At 1:48 p.m. juvenile girls 14 and 15
were detained as possible runaways
and released to parents.
At 8:44 p.m. 17 and 18-year old men
were arrested for simple assault and
disorderly conduct after a fracas at
Newton and Wilshire.
Wednesday morning a 42-year-old
man was arrested for public intoxica-
tion at Highways 174 and 731 and a
29-year-old man was arrested at 7:52
a m. at Sunnybrook and Wilshire on
warrants.
Police arrested a 23-year-old man in
the 800 block of Sunnybrook at 7:51 a m.
Thursday after a report of a distur-
bance in the area. At first, the man was
unable to produce any identification.
Later he was identified and found to
be wanted elsewhere on warrants.
Police went all day without an arrest
Thursday until 11:36 p.m. when the five
teen-agers were taken in. During the
day Thursday, police investigated four
non-injury accidents, also a large
amount for a weekday with good
weather conditions.
Burleson police are investigating at
least 13 cases of vandalism that oc-
cured sometime Friday night or Satur-
day morning on five blocks in the War-
ren Park area.
Three calls were received by the
police reporting the vandalism and Of-
ficer Daryl Markum discovered the
others driving around the area.
The vandalism was on Jasmine Ct.,
Robert St., Harris St., Tarrant St. and
Newton St., Markum said.
Most of the incidents involved cars,
but garage doors were vandalized as
well, he said. The vandals let air out of
tires and wrote with spray paint on cars
and garage doors, according to
Markum.
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Textbooks, Personnel
Are On School Agenda
Burleson School Trustees will hear
recommendations for textbook adop-
tions from the Textbook Committee at
their meeting tonight (7:30) in the
Board Room of the Administration
Building, 1160 S.W. Wilshire.
Books to be adopted are in typing,
civil government, health education,
computer mathematics and automotive
trades.
Books must be approved by local
boards and the report filed with the
Texas Education Agency for a school
district to receive those books from the
state for the 1980-81 school year.
Trustees will also consider the
resignations of two middle school
teachers, the transfer of another
teacher and employment of two others
in a closed, executive session following
the open meeting. Another item in that
executive session will be the annual
review of elementary teacher con-
tracts.
Other items on a relatively routine
agenda include
-Value appraisals of school district
property for insurance purposes.
-Formal signing of an order calling
for the trustee election on April 5.
-Tabulation of bids for paper and
duplicator supplies to be used
throughout the district in the 1988-81
school year.
-A request from the three chapters of
Beta Sigma Phi for the use of the Nola
Dunn Gymnasium on April 26.
Blaze Extinguished
eson firemen extinguished a fire In a s
Briaroaks and Burleson firemen extinguished a fire In a storage building afcd
greenhouse at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday. Damage was estimated at 13,000 In the
building owned by Lannie Knight, according to Briaroaks firemen. Star Staffoto
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