Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 67, Ed. 1 Monday, June 4, 1984 Page: 3 of 46
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Burleson Star, Monday. June 4, 1984-3
Chamber luncheon program
Of beauty & bureaucrats
A Hollywood scriptwriter would prob-
ably label it “The Beauty and the
Bureaucrats.” But then a Hollywood
scriptwriter probably wouldn’t be
working on a screenplay about a cham-
ber of commerce luncheon in Burleson,
Texas.
That would he his loss, though, as the
June 7 luncheon of the Burleson Area
Chamber of Commerce looks to be both
interesting and easy on the eyes. The
leading lady, pf course, will be a young
lady all of Burleson is very proud of and
will be pulling for in the upcoming Miss
Texas Pageant-Cheryl McMahan ,
Miss Burleson.
Although Burleson women have car-
ried the banner of other municipalities
into the Miss Texas Pageant, Miss
McMahan is only the third woman to
hold the title of Miss Burleson. The
pageant was re-activated this year
during the Burleson Good Life Days
celebration. Coordinating the event,
which drew a crowd of 650 to the
Norwood Gym, was the Beta Alpha
Alpha Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi.
Miss McMahan attends UTA and
works part-time at F&M State Bank.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim
McMahan of Briaroaks.
WHILE SHE CERTAINLY fills the
“beauty” portion of the suggested title,
the other two guests at the luncheon
hardly fit the description of bureau-
crats, although both are heavily into
government service. Recently elected
mayor Jerry Boone will address the
luncheon as will new city manager Ron
Crabtree.
Crabtree assumed his duties here
during May, replacing Mark Sowa, now
the assistant city manager at Amarillo.
The new Burleson city manager is 35
years old and holds two degrees from
Texas A&M University, a bachelor’s
degree in building construction (1970)
and a master’s degree in urban plan-
ning (1972). He served as planner for
the City of Austin for a year and a half
and director of planning and assistant
city manager in Orange for ll'/2 years.
Unlike the city manager, Burleson’s
new mayor is not new to the city. Jerry
Boone took over the Ford dealership in
Burleson in 1971 and operated Jerry
Boone Ford until March of 1980 when he
sold it in order to pursue other bus-
iness interests. He is now the owner of
the Interstate 35 Business Park in
northeast Burleson.
Other business and civic activities he
has been engaged in while in Burleson
include serving on the board of direc-
tors of two Burleson banks, president of
the Fort Worth Independent Auto Deal-
ers Assoc., president of Tarrant County
New Car Dealers Assoc., chairman of
Tarrant County Ford Dealers Adver-
tising Group, member of the board of
directors of the chamber of commerce,
on the advisory board of the Girl Scouts
of America, and on the board of the
Texas Automobile Dealers Assoc.
BESIDES HIS POSITION as mayor,
other political posts he has held include
being a member and chairman of the
Johnson County Central Appraisal Dis-
trict and a member of the board of
directors of the Burleson Industrial
Development Corp.
A native of Fort Worth, he graduated
from TCU in 1958 and began operation
of his first car dealership in 1960. Prior
to taking over the Ford dealership here
in 1971, he acquired the Ford-Mercury
dealership in Bonham in 1967
He and his wife, Cissy, have two sons,
Ryan and Greg.
Reservations for Thursday’s lunch-
eon can be made by calling the cham-
ber office, 295-6121. Tickets are $6 and it
will be held in the Fellowship Hall of the
First United Methodist Church. The
luncheon is open to everyone, whether
chamber members or not.
Jerry Boone
Cheryl McMahan
Public hearings called
on airport annexations
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Honorary Chapter Farmer
Bill Wail shows his Honorary Chapter Farmer plaque to his wife after receiving it
at the annual Member-Parent Banquet of the Burleson High School Chapter of the
Future Farmers of America. Wall has been active in the Johnson County Junior
Livestock Show for a number of years and his feed store serves as an agriculural
co-op training station for students enrolled in the vocational agriculture program.
A public hearing has been called for
June 12 and June 14 on the deannexa-
tion and annexation agreement that
settled the South Tarrant County Air-
port dispute between the cities of Bur
leson and Fort Worth.
Both hearings will be held at city hall
beginning at 7 p m.
Approximately 236 76 acres will be
deannexed by the City of Burleson and
subsequently annexed by Fort Worth
Most of the land lies within the bound-
aries of the proposed airport. All the
land has been—or will be—purchased
by the City of Fort Worth. The land
swap also gives Fort Worth all the land
which will be utilized for the right of
way when Hardgrove Lane is rerouted
By giving up half of the new road,
Burleson will be responsible for none of
the costs of construction on the rerouted
Hardgrove Lane.
In return for that land, Burleson will
receive about 80 acres of land on the
west side of 1-35. That land lies between
Hardgrove Lane and a point 900 feet
south of the center line of McAlister
Road and between the interstate high-
way and the railroad right of way
Twice the land swap was suggested
editorially by Tin- >/<ir as a possible
solution to the dispute between the two
cities—the first time over a year before
negotiations actually began. The ra-
tionale was that such a trade would give
Fort Worth jurisdiction over all the
land within the airport and Burleson
would gain by acquiring some valu-
able—and much needed—interstate
frontage
The airport topic was a hot election
issue two years ago in the council and
mayor's race with voters seeming to
give the nod to anti-airport candidates
Several attempts to block the airport,
including suits and countersuits bet-
ween the two cities, failed to resolve the
Issue By the following election, the
mood of the voters had apparently
switched The majority of council mem-
bers then believed that the airport was
imminent and that it would be in
Burleson's best interests to work out a
settlement as beneficial to Burleson as
po"ssible
Diplomat bought girls
George H. Butler, nephew of a
prominent Massachusetts con-
gressman, was appointed consul
general in Alexandria, Egypt, in
1870 He promptly dismissed all
consular agents, auctioned off
their commission and purchased
dancing girls. He was involved in
a brawl with three former Confed-
erate officers shortly before he
was recalled in 1872
A wild tom turkey may have as
many as 14 females in his harem.
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Moody, James. Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 67, Ed. 1 Monday, June 4, 1984, newspaper, June 4, 1984; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth760875/m1/3/: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Burleson Public Library.