59 Percent Phone Rate Hike Sought for Burnet
Continental Telephone Company filed with the Texas Public Utility Commission for a 59 percent rate increase for Burnet business lines and 44 percent for residential lines. If approved, Burnet business base would rise from 18.50 to 29.35 per month while residential would go from 9.25 to 13.35. Effective date is October 18, with state approval replacing local council action. The company cites service improvements, inflation, competition, and rising operating costs as razones.
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Burnet
Burnet Business
Texas Public Utility Commission
Continental Telephone Company
PAC
Continental Telephone
Public Utility Commission
Burnet City
PUC
State Utilities Commission
Continental
Howard Benton
James Fry
Derrell Cowan
Bill Wilcox
Richard Sanders
Marble Falls council sets zoning board and PUC hearing
Marble Falls City Council approved a five member Zoning Board of Adjustment with three nominees named and plans to contact two more residents. The panel will hear zoning appeal requests. A final plat for Nature Heights Subdivision was approved. A PUC hearing is set for Monday Sept 27 on the electrical franchise with PEC. The council also discussed ambulance service, depot work, a septic ordinance, bicentennial funding, and a future shift to a manager council form.
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Marble Falls
Zoning Board of Adjustment
Public Utilities Commission
Dick Zimmerman
Glenn Field
Roel Ramirez
Ed Davis
Nature Heights
Harvey Campi
Zimmerman
PUC
Marbie Falls
Pedernales Electric Cooperative
Commission
Bertram Hires Financial Advisor and Buys Land Near City Well
Bertram City Council hired Curtis Adrian of First Southwest Company as financial advisor after a presentation on sewer financing. The council approved purchasing land around the city well and revised the sewer project schedule with a $450,000 cost over 30 years. EPA funds are held until bonds sell. a February contract award and January 1977 bond submission are planned. Easement acquisitions involve about 15 properties, with potential future easement settlements and a Housing Authority possibility.
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Bertram
Bertram City Council
Curtis Adrian
First Southwest Company
Adrian
Farmers Home Administration
FHA
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Ken Odiorne
W.D. Ruble
H.muble
Odiorne
Burnet Library Building To Be Sold At Public Auction
Burnet County Library Board reps met with county commissioners to plan the sale of the old library building. The auction is set for 2 p.m. October 7 after three weeks of newspaper notices. The board cited a new law requiring county land sales at public auction.
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Burnet
Mildred Nored
Burnet County
State Health Center
Austin
Marble Falls School Board Sets Goals and Hires Teachers
Marble Falls trustees adopted four goals for the 1976-77 school year and voted to add sections to the fourth and fifth grades, hiring three teacher's aides and four substitutes. Goals focus on English instruction, community confidence, student pride, and fiscal responsibility.
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Marble Falls
Charles Hundley
Hundley
Shirley Rankin
Margaret Shirley
Jolene Williams
Lori Brady
Marianne Kidd
Millicent Burdett
Grand Jury Begins Interviews In Burnet County Inquiry
Burnet County government probes expand as 12 member grand jury in special session interviews 21 men and two women invited to present evidence. City Marshal Frank Hines and deputies Shelburn and Reid testified. a list of witnesses includes Herman Taylor Duke Rumpf and others. Authorities say proceedings are confidential and subpoenas may follow for those who do not appear.
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Herman Taylor
Duke Rumpf
Harry Ravid
Gene Stratton
David Crowder
Jordan Everette
Cecil Rhodes
E.B. Bowen
Dan Derrick
Francis Farquhar Chester Kincheloe
Thomas Ferguson
Johnny DeSpain
Ray Priest
Bob Johnson
Gary Turner
Roger Holland
Steve Moreno
Miller
Burnet
Grand Jury
F.A. Marshall
Louis Crump
Crump
Co. Atty
Eugene Russell
Judicial Qualification Commission
B. Pogue
Frank Hines
Clinton Ramsey
Howard Benton
Dayton Warden
Jack Mabe
Gu Green
Dorothy Yett
Ey Mack Hollingworth
Clay Lawson
Darrel Leach
Sam Barnum
Ruby R. Barton
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Joan Puckett
O.L. Kassaw
PEC
Pauline Berry
Edgar
Col
Jim Conine
Conine
Tanya Washington
Jill Corsi
Pam Frady
Cindy Bostic
Bulldog Panther
Barnet
H. Queen
Charmain Harris
Library Board
Ken Knight
Knight
Land Heritage
Leon Hough
Panthers
Sen
Manor
Cullar Studio
Burn and
Danny Reid
Sheriff's Department
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