Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 35, Ed. 1 Monday, February 19, 1979 Page: 2 of 23
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labor.”
Ray Short--“I think it would be all
right. I don’t hardly use gas stations
on Sunday. Very seldom, in the case
of emergency only. I think it would
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guess if you got to. If they got to
ration it they got to, were we won’t
run out completely.”
Maude Halbert-‘!f they think we
are low on gas I think they should
because when our kids get ready to
grow up to be able to drive back and
forth to work, they ain’t gonna have
none because we used it all. And
these young teenagers, they like to
go out joyriding. They are just using-
up gas when there really ain’t no
reason to burn it up that way. They
(the government) should if they
think it’s going to help later on in
the future for our kids. That’s
exactly what they ought to do.”
BECKY ROLLINGS
black marketing.”
Kerry Morrow--“There’s people
who work on,Sunday, and I won’t
like it because I’m one that works
on Sunday, and if I’m out of gas I
can’t go to work, and if I can’t go to
work I can’t make a living, so I don’t
like it.”
Mrs. Norma Ferguson-'Tm a
nurse and I need gasoline. I live out
in Green Valley, and we got a lot of
teenagers out there, and I think if
they start riding that school bus and
let those cars park, then do their
running around after school, we’d
save a little bit of gasoline. We are
conservative on our amount...! think
it would be just great if everyone
else would just cut down a little bit.”
Jay Pasley-4! think it’s a great
idea-I believe every person should
close on Sunday. Six days you do a
lot of labor and the seventh day you
can rest and help the economy of our
nation as well as help the individual
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Because of the situation in Iran
which has reduced the amount of oil
coming into the U.S., the federal
government has been trying to get
the American people to conserve
gasoline. At the same time, various
agencies, particularly the Depart-
ment of Energy, has been formulat-
ing plans calling for such things as
allocations, rationing and closing
gas stations on Sundays.
Friday we asked several people at
the Burleson Post Office, “What do
you think of the proposed Sunday
gas station closings?”
Tom Starks - “It’s a bunch of
bull.”
Becky RoIIings--“In a way I think
it would be a good idea. It would cut
down on part of the people who are
traveling unnecessarily.”
Tom Campbell-“If it’s what’s
necessary in order for energy to be
conserved, it will be a good thing. I
hope it doesn’t lead to rationing and
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made at the NADA convention in Las
Vegas, Feb. 10. At the convention,
Boone and the other winners were
honored at a brunch and at the opening
business meeting attended by over
5,000 people involved in the automotive
industry.
A native of Texas, Boone, 42,
received a bachelor’s degree in market-
ing from Texas Christian University in
Cleburne to respond in time to save a
life, in a severe emergency, if that
ambulance must also travel out a
dangerous county road? Is this denial
of funds sheer negligance on the part of
Here are the names of the players
who support this action:
around. And those pesky batteries still
run down at the most inopportune
moments, like when you need them.
BURLESON STAR
Second Class Postage Paid at
Burleson, Texas
P.O. Pub. No. 079780
IhibscriptiohPnce$7.95T’erYear in
Johnson and Tarrant Counties.
Other areas of Texas $10.95
Outside Texas $11.95
A Mobile Outreach Station will be at
the Senior Citizens Center in Cleburne
between 9-11:30 a.m. on Feb. 23 to
accept applications.
Wayne Hutson...Editor & Publisher
James Moody News Editor
Chuck Hutson. Advertising Manager
Joe Rushing
Shorty Jones
Criag Patty
Kevin Timmons
Todd Massy
David Jones
Jeff Timmons
Monty Hall
Criag Kerr
Stewart Swinford
Tommy Ahlsted
Diders Badget
Jerry Messer
Leon Weaver
Danny Cannon
Steve Cline
Greg Tucker
Jason Jordan
Milton Schreiner
Glen Johnson
Tabby Bowland
Bernie Basket
Gary Giesland
John Shelly
Jimmy Harvey
ter farmer, and the TCU alumni
association. He also has participated in
driver training programs since 1967,
furnishing area schools with cars.
A member of the First United
Methodist Church, he has been chair-
man of the finance committee and a
member of the administrative board.
Boone and his wife, Cissy, who live in
Burleson, have two sons, both of
whom are students. His brother, Dan,
is vice president and general manager
of the dealership.
the Burleson High football team to the
members of the school board and to the
citizens of Burleson. It is mainly
written by me, Joe Rushing, a next
year’s senior.
Gentlemen, it’s time for us to have
our say about the matters that have
been going on. For the first time since
my freshman year the Elk football
team is going in the right direction.
You see, you don’t determine winners
and losers by looking at the won-lost
Tax payers in Johnson County, will
you PLEASE wake up? Do you know
that County Commissioners Court gave
themselves almost a 30% raise in
salary this year? Do you know that half
the county population resides and pays
taxes in the northern third of the
county? Do you know that commission-
ers refuse to subsidize an ambulance
service for these same tax payers?
Do you know that this county is
governed by a few who seem to believe
their positions are untouchable, for
they openly display amusement toward
concerned tax payers who care enough
to question their tactics? Do you know
why this type of governmental arrog-
ance is allowed to exist? Do you know
anything about your county tax dollars
and your county government and do
you even care? Have you ever heard of
“IGNORANCE AND APATHY”?
Are you capable of realizing that
while the rest of the country has been
■ screaming “Proposition 13,” Johnson
County tax revenue has been inadequ-
ate to substain properly maintained
county projects? Have you ever won-
dered why J.C. has a rural traffic
accident rate over 50% higher and a
rural traffic death rate over 68%
higher than the average if the 22
county Highway Patrol District 6A?
Are J.C. drivers that extra stupid or
are our roads extra dangerous?
Do you think that maybe the county
commissioners have negleted their
duty to the people by failing long ago to
implement a sensible and adequate tax
rate? Do you think maybe we have paid
MORE DEARLY in the long run?
Is it possible that for years, the
commissioners believed the people
were too ignorant to realize sensible
tax increases were necessary to pro-
perly finance county responsibilities?
both most recently awarded in 1977.
Active in community affairs, Boone
is a past director of the Burleson
Chamber of Commerce, and Bonham
Kiwanis Club, and a member of the
Lions Club, and Better Business Bur-
eau of Tarrant County.
In political and educational activities,
Boone has been a member of the
Democratic party’s steering committee
to elect Phil Graham, and is a life
his present Ford franchise in Burleson, member of FA A, honorary FFA chap-
in 1971, when he purchased Crawford - '
Motors, changing its name to its
present, Jerry Boone Ford. The deal-
ership was moved to new facilities at
850 Interstate 35W North in 1975. f
Boone was nominated for the TIME
award by the New Car Dealers
Association of Tarrant County, of
which he is president. He also is a
director of the Texas Automobile
Dealers Association, and a member of
the NADA. >1
In addition, he has served as chair-
Mike Redden
Mike Cowley
Richard Osteen
Scott Horn
Kevin Hunt
Dan Olson
Pat Hamilton
Chris Gibson
Derry Burnett
Terry Brown
Barry Hutson
Mark Bourland
Ken Nicholson
Jasper Castillo
Scott Bloxom
Chuck ’Cox
Lance Perkins
Frank Allsworth
Mike Szembruch
Randy Dean
John Garrison
Lee Stone
John Stafford
Guy Winfrey
Sam Fuhlendorf
Dear Wayne:
Once again politics wins over truth
and honesty in Burleson. As far as my
family and I are concerned Coach
• Barham is one of the finest men we
know. Some day maybe integrity will
be a part of the game in Burleson.
Sue Manning
240 S.W. Gamble
Burleson, Texas 76028
The Burleson Star is an indepen-
dent newspaper published twice
weekly on Monday and Thursday in
the interest of Burleson and adja-
cent areas by Burleson Publishing
Co., 319 N. Burleson Blvd., Burleson
Texas 76028. Any erroneous reflec-
tion of any individual or firms will
be corrected if brought to the
attention of the editor.
Address all correspondence to the
Editor, Burleson Star, P.O. Box 383,
Burleson, Texas 76028. Phone
295-5278.
too political. That’s right, POLITICAL!
How many of you gentlemen have been
to all football and basketball games at
Burleson? Or how many have been to
any of the workouts? If you think you
can get a man to come here and turn
Burleson into district champs over-
night then you’re sadly mistaken. It’ll
be us that’ll do it. Or have you
To The Parents Of Burleson.
Have anyone of you ever had a child
to run away from home? We don’t
mean an hour or two we mean days.
With only the clothes on their backs
and no money in their pocket? We
have!
Our 15 year old son ran away
Monday morning and we didn’t get him
back until Thursday. He has been very
frustrated for quite sometime.
It is a very long story but our
message to you as parents (especially
of teenagers) is simply this:
When your son or daughter asks if a
friend can spend the night, take a bath,
eat a meal, etc., check with his or her
family first to make sure they know
where they are.
It would sure save a lot of heartache
and worry for concerned parents. Kids
will think they are doing their friends a
favor by “hiding them out” but that
isn’t the answer.
Please be sure the next time your
son or daughter has someone spend the
nignt he or she is not a run-a-way.
Thank you for being concerned
(Name withheld by request)
around us? Yes the players.
If Coach Barham wasn’t a good coach
and nobody liked him it would be
different. But it’s not! You’re not giving
us a chance. I’ll say this bluntly, FOR
ONCE GIVE THE PLAYERS A
CHANCE!!! If your little son doesn’t
want the team to win, he’ll complain
about sitting on the bench, but he isn’t
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of the board members-on the contracts
of the four administrators apparently is
the cause of considerable confusion
that exists on the question of whether
the men have been terminated.
As Stribling said, however, the same
purpose can be reached by either of
two ways-taking direct action not to
renew a contract, or taking no action to
renew or extend that same contract.
The Star contacted each of the four
cuu c-ic.Y of
them also understood the board’s
action to mean that they were being
relieved of their duties at the end of
their contact term - June 30 for all but
Carroll who has another year remain-
ing.
Public response was immediate in
Barhaip’s case.
Members of the high school football
team circulated a letter supporting
Barham and submitted it to the
newspaper (see Page 2A).
The Star also learned that petitions
were being circulated to gain signatur-
es of parents and others supporting
Barham as Athletic Director and Head
“about 10 ot 15 minutes” to learn to
count to 100 using the finger calculat-
ing method, and a little longer for
children.
After learning how to count to 100,
the classes are taught simple addition.
If the problem is 12 plus 17, you
“designate 12 with the pointer finger of
the left hand and add 7 on the right
hand with the thunjb (5) and two more
fingers,” she said. -_
Though the method works easier
than it sounds, “it takes several week?
to get that far,” she said.
“Most people gain speed using the
finger calculating method,” Mrs. Fisher
said, “and children always gain. It all
depends on how fast they are already.
Mrs. Fisher said she teaches the
classes in two six week sessions. The
first six weeks covers the basics, such
as addition and multiplication, while
the second six weeks is spent on speed,
subtraction and division.
Demonstrating how effective the
method can be, she told of how her
7-year-old daughter Amy was failing
math.
“She had trouble borrowing and
carrying. So I explained how to do it
in the finger calculating method. With-
in three days, she had missed only one
of 83 problems.”
Maybe the finger calculating method
will catch on. After all, there aren’t
many saber-toothed tigers running
prove to you, and the rest of the
people who don’t know about winning,
that we are winners. That’s right prove
it!
Sure I know talk is cheap, real cheap,
but we can back it up. Can you?
There’s an old poem that reads:
Life’s battles don’t always go
to the stronger or faster man,
but soon or late, the man who wins
is the man who thinks he can!
Gentlemen, we think we can. What
about you?
$3,600.00 car expense was accomplish-
ed without raising taxes, while cutting
the budget elsewhere? Do you know
that if these salary increases were
compared to another county, J.C.
should be collecting over 2 times more
in taxes to equalize these salaries with
tax revenue? Can you realize that
regardless of these salary raises, a tax
increase must come? But, can you see
however, when the taxes are increas-
ed, the people will not have the almost
30% salary increases to gripe about,
for they will already be in the past? Is
it any wonder commissioners were so
happy with this years budget?
Do you know that with half the
county population residing and paying
taxes in the northern third of the t . ------
county, the Commissioners Court con- column. That goes for every team in
tinues to refuse to put a fair share of the State.
tax dollars back into the area as This past season we accomplished a
lot in our football program. Sure our
record was 2-7-1 but it could have
easily been 6-4 or 7-3. After the season
was over, we knew we still had a ways
tax payers? Is it not absolute ignorance t° &° to get to the top. And let me tell
for them to expect an ambulance out of y°u that we are well on our way. Yes,
— .... we are winners not by the
standards of the small minority, the 4
or 5% who gripe and complain because
little Johnny didn’t get to play.
Frankly, athletics in this town aire
this believed ignorance, commissioners
did not increase taxes for fear of the
next elections?
Could it be, of all the neglect of
county responsibilities to tax payers,
the one thing the commissioners court
did not neglect was their own salaries;
plus those of a few other select county
officials?
Do you know that the Commissioners
Court salary increases from $15,400.00
per year to $20,000.00 along with their Can begin to see the light!
B.J. Gill
Burleson, Tex. fl
An open letter to the people of
Burleson and the Burleson School
Board.
This letter is written by members of doing us or him any good.
“ ..... But if we don’t matter than why are
we playing the game?
You men make mistakes. So does
everyone else. But you can do some-
thing about it if you want to. I’m not
asking to repeal your decision but you
should at least consider it. And for one
time consider the quiet majority who
knows what kind of program we really
do have.
Also, again, consider us, the players.
We’ve had to put up with this for three
years now and it has to stop. It’s a
bunch of garbage!
But if you’re too puffed up to do
anything about it, then I think you
need to look at your personal standards
again. If you still think that the players
have no say-so in this matter then I
think it’s up to the rest of us in the
town who know the realy story, to fire
you!, for the lousy record that you
own.
One final note, we challenge the
entire board, no matter who the coach
is, to come out next year and watch us
And do you think maybe because of the county government?
Has not this county governmei}^
failed in its responsibilities to the
people in too many ways for too long,
while a few have controlled it all? If
Johnson county is an example of a
one-party controlled government,
Texas, as a state, must havq begun to
emerge from the dark ages with the
election of an opposing party governor. . forgotten that the whole game revolves
If the people will emerge from ignor- ------J —1------
ance and apathy, perhaps even J.C
LETTERS, LETTERS, WE GET LETTERS
Please Address All Correspondence To Burleson Star P, O. Box 383--Burleson
man of Ford’s Zone Dealer Council and
the Ford Dealer Advertising Fund, as a
board member of the Texas Independ-
dent Automobile Dealers Association,
and as president of the Fort Worth
Independent Automobile Dealers
Association. of the Burleson Independent School
Boone has led his dealership to many District Band and Drill Team that his
Ford honors, including two Distin- contract not be renewed.
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opinion that the meeting (MondayAwas tl
dismissed with the intention of giving! a<
them an opportunity to appear beford r<
the board regarding their contracts, tl
after which final determiniation would! C
be made.” 1 ir
“It was not my intention,” he said,!
“that final action was being taken. I felt’ B
like that was the way the other board
members felt, too,” Shepherd conclud-
ed.
“The board could not take final
action without giving them opportunity
for due process,” Coontz added.
He said he had been in contact with
■ / Barham on Friday to tell him of the
special meeting and to ask that he be (Football coach,
present. The superintendent will not
be at the meeting, he said, because of -Jk
reservations at a function of the A
Johnson County State Teachers Assoc-
iation.
The fact that no direct action was
taken by the board-a point agreed
upon by Stribling and at least several
tinues to refuse to put
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required by state law? And can you
believe these same commissioners are
now denying county monies to subsi-
dize and ambulance service for these
Both had one year terms remaining at
that time.
Board member Maurice Shepherd
went a step further in a public
statement released Friday:
“Insofar as Mr. Grace is concerned, it
is my opinion...it is to the best interest
District Band and Drill Team that his
contract not be renewed.
guished Service Citations, and four “Insofar as the other
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Army and National Guard.
Boone entered the automotive field
as a clerk at Dick Danner Ford in Fort
Worth during his college years. He <
joined Courtesy Motors, Fort Worth,
as a salesman in 1959, and in 1960,
became owner of Jerry Boone Motor
Co., a Fort Worth used car dealership.
In 1967, he acquired a Ford-Mercury
franchise in Bonham, Tx., and rebuilt
that franchise. His next move was to
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Hutson, Wayne & Moody, James. Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 35, Ed. 1 Monday, February 19, 1979, newspaper, February 19, 1979; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1337691/m1/2/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Burleson Public Library.