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Burnet County Bulletin (Newspaper) - June 23, 1977, Burnet, Texas Child suspected in Bank bomb threat by John Weaver Burnett a ten to twelve year Oki boy it suspected of making the bomb theat against first state Bank in Burnet on Friday june 17. The threat was originally received at radio station Kalb and then reported to the proper authorities. At approximately 1.07 . The suspect allegedly called a Netts Wood at Kalb and reported Quot there is a bomb at the Burnet Bank set to go off in three miss Wood reported the Call to her Boss Harry j. Kaindl who called the Burnet City police within three minutes of the time the Call was received. Chief of police Jess Madden and Burnet county sheriff s deputies . Hullum and Gene schillings then went to the Bank which is located just across the Street from the court House. The officers and Bank president Herman Braley searched the Bank As quietly Anc As quickly As possible without alerting the customers who were in the Bank at the time. During the search employees of Marathon meeting continues the Bank were alerted of the threat and told to keep As Calm As possible in order to prevent Panto among the customers. As soon As the officers and Braley had a Chance they locked the Bank a bomb was not located by 3 . Employees left the Bank Well after 4 30 . At which time the three hours were past and officials Felt the threat of a bomb was gone asked about his first impression when hearing of the threat Braley said Quot i first thought that it was Only a prank but we had to take All precautions for the 15 or so customers in the Bank and the employees i am extremely proud of the local police for their getting Here within minutes of the threat and the Way that they handled everything. The employees Here did an outstanding Job by being Calm and collected during the excitement and not scaring the customers Here in the the Burnet pm inh Cor or. Inc . Box to i.j3. o xxx a thursday edition a vol. 104 no. 46 26 pages 3 sections ame 23.1977 Burnet trustees miss Highland lakes universe Betty Beseta of Austin won the Crown it Tho miss Highland lakes universe pageant Over Tho weekend St the ram Blind Rose in Llano. The blonde senior advertising major at Texas tech University will represent the Highland likes tourist association at the miss Texas universe pageant aug. 7-13 in Elpaso. Kathy Merkel of Llano and Lynn Morris of Kingsland respectively Ware first and second runners up. Bridgette Burnam of Marble fans was named miss photogenic and Noel Kane of Lakeway was miss Amity. Marble Falls surpasses Burnet in sales tax Austin a comptroller Bob Bullock made Public the City sales and use tax allocation summary thru the period ending May 27, 1977. The net payment for this period for the City of Burnet was $13,246.35, while Marble Falls had a net payment of $17,212. Marble Falls received $3,975.65 More dollars than Burnet. For the same period last year the City of Burnet was beaten by Marble Falls by approximately $2,100. The 1977 payments to Date from Marble Falls total $58,388.83 while from Burnet the total is $50335.95 for a difference of $7,452.88. The 1976 payments to Date from Marble Falls total $42,873.09 while from Burnet the total is $39,699.90 for a difference of $3,173.19. The City of Burnet has experienced an increase Between the 1977 and 1976 payments of 28 per cent while the City of Marble Falls has increased by 36 per cent. Other cities in the area included in this release Are Bertram an increase Between 1977 and 1976 payments of almost $1,000 and an increase of 23 per cent to Date Llano increased yearly payments almost $2,000 with a 5 per cent increase experienced Lampasas increased Over $6,000 Between yearly payments to Date and also experienced a 9 per cent increase. Comptroller Bob Bullock said his office had mailed checks totalling $39.3 million to 865 Texas cities for their june share of the one per cent City sates tax. The latest checks bring to $167.1 million the amount rebated to cities to Date this year a 15.1 per cent increase Over the same period last year. The City of Houston received the fattest Check-$7.5 million while Dallas and fort Worth received $4.8 million and $1.8 million respectively. The smallest Check was received by the City of Roanoke which got a Check of $15.79. Inside Burnet jail trustee Chart d in jail . At Schlueter to speak la Burnet june 30. P. As softball league sign up deadline . By motivation seminar Tuo Oday feature Lewis . As strongly opposed to Boer sales la Bertram see letters to editor. P. A4 Bertram Council faces name problem. P. By Complete to listings la yeller c Burnet a in act la of what May be the longest Burnet City Council meeting in history Council members continued to take no action on the chamber of Commerce recreation committee request for funds to construct a 6,000-Square-foot Concrete slab at the Industrial Park approved an already Long standing swimming Pool policy reappointed numerous City Board personnel and reviewed the proposed 1977-1978 budget before again recessing until this thursday for what is hoped to be the last episode of the Marathon meeting. Some Council members have speculated that the City s Landfill policy May be up for review and that the Council May vote to terminate the availability of the City s Landfill facility to outlying communities such As Bertram and Lake Buchanan. Some have suggested that the communities be put on 9 to 12 months notice that they will have to find other meant of disposing of their waste. The proposed budget projects $919,650.00 from electrical revenues $356,800.00 from general fund revenues and $174,550.00 from water and sewer. Total expected revenues Are $1,451,000.00 to cover proposed expenditures of $1,439,795. The proposed budget represents an increase of 22 per cent Over last year s budget. Yet to be considered is the proposed budget for the utilization of Revenue sharing funds to be received from the Federal government. City administrator Jack Tippit held a hearing last month on the possible use of the Revenue sharing funds but has not As yet made a formal presentation to the Council As to his recommendations on How to spend the meeting a Breeze Johnson City a in marked contrast to meetings of years past this year s Pedernales electric Coop annual membership meeting was a Breeze. The entire meeting lasted 23 minuted including the Reading of last year s minutes and All officers and directors were re elected by acclamation. The Only comment from one of the 116 members present was one of Praise for the Job the Coop is doing. Re elected from the 540 proxies represented were will p. Crow of District 4 and . Winters of District 5. Associate directors re elected �?~ho-hum1 tuesday Burnett Burnet school trustees to hummed through a routine session punctuated Only by a closed door executive session. Used school buses were sold through sealed bidding to Temple Baptist Church which bought a 1967 40-passenger Chevrolet bus for $1,000. . Smithey of Burnet was the High bidder on a 1965 Dodge 48 passenger bus for $533.33 and a 1960 International bus for $299. Bids were also opened for the Sale of used shop equipment and the bid was awarded to vocational education. Belton. Texas. Although their old was for Only part of the equipment offered. They were sold a band saw Jointer and a Wood lathe for $170 leaving a in saw Sander and electrical motor yet to be sold. Tax collector . Grissom re ported that tax collections were running 91.15 per cent. Quot i doubt that they were going to rear h 92 per cent this is just about where we were last year Quot reported Grissom. School superintendent Robert Wilkin commented to the Board that As the Law now stands Quot we will have to raise $105,000 More this year for Tho local fund than last year but went on to report that school superintendents Are speculating that or /50, now in committee May have a Good Chance of passage which would maintain the local fund require Manta at last year s level. Wilkin reported a profit for the year of $839 which he said could no a Fly be attributed to the snack bar revenues Quot most schools Are losing Money on their school lunch programs Quot said Wilkin Quot but our snack bar makes up the difference with revenues of $14,000.&Quot see Page 2

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