Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 10

1 10A 1981 FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM MONDAY EVENING JANUARY 5 1981 'S yj HEALTH MAINTENANCE OBESITY CONSULTANTS Medical Plaza Offict Building 600 Eithth Avnu Suit 330 Fort Worth TX 76104 (817)870-2226 William I Fetter MD announce the relocation of hi office to 900 College Ave 332-3249 Patrick Parith DDS announce the relocation of hit to 1100 Pipeline Rd Suite 102 Hunt Texat ffor the practice of General Den-tiitry Hour By Appointment 284-2300 Daisef a battles to keep gas line City officials balk at $404000 charge By JOE BELL Star-Telegram Writer Fort Worth officials are balking at a $404088 assessment for starting up the Tarrant County Appraisal District until the district justifies its proposed $24 million budget item by item The district an outgrowth of the stxalled Peveto tax reform bill officially requested $404088 from Fort Worth Dec 18 City Manager Robert Herchert though has asked the district's executive director Nelson Eichman to clearly "identify each item of that is anticipated by the district in 1981 Herchert also stated in a letter to Eichman that Fort Worth is seriously concerned with the necessity practicality" of the city's $404088 assessed allocation Cited especially for study and possible argument is the $1331438 the district has budgeted for salaries Herchert told Eichman the amount is and unrealistice when this amount is compared to the schedule of staffing you have provided for our review" Not only does the city desire an itemized identification of each budget item but is also wants details for appraisal contracts Assistant City Manager Morris Matson the liaison administrator to the tax appraisal district said the request for more budget details does not indicate Fort Worth is planning to try withholding financing from the district central Banu Trust is how offering NOW ACCOUNTS (Interest on checking effective January 1 1981) DAISETTA (AP) Residents of this tiny Southeast Texas town have won one battle a leaky natural gas service has been fixed but are now faced with having the service turned off despite their repair efforts may lose next Friday (at the court hearing)" said Mayor Harold McCann Sunday night after exhausted workers finished patching the city-owned natural gas line "If we lose we've got a lot of poor people that are in a sad situat ion A lot of people on welfare can't afford to switch to propane" The city won a temporary reprieve Saturday when a state district judge delayed a Railroad Commission order that would have shut down natural gas service in this town of 1100 But McCann said back-breaking efforts by city council members and volunteer workers who manned tractors and dug ditches for six straight days to restore the service may be for naught if a judge upholds the RRC ruling at a hearing Friday The city's problems started last Friday when RRC officials called an emergency meeting and ordered the system shut down because of leaks McCann said service to 12 homes had been halted and another 200 homes were experiencing line is on test and holding" McCann said Sunday after volunteers worked into the night hours to restore the system RRC officials said a two-hour pressure test would be needed before the gas could be turned on "We have the kind of equipment but an oil company sent a man out with gauges and logs and he got right on it had tremendous response from our liesaidthecity applied two months ago to the Farmer's Home Administration for a loan to repair the system but that no word has been received about the status of the loan will call the FHA (today) to see what the status of that loan application he said He added that other avenues of financing are open to the city but that the length of time involved might force people in the city to sw itch over to propane or electricity before the lines could be repaired He said the RRC was asking the city to patch the old trouble-plagued line to RRC McCann said the RRC is unreasonable in its demands adding that he hoped the hearing would be decided in favor of the city in hopes that someone a little farther up the line might give us some he On leave Airman Scott Streater son of Mr and Mrs Harlan Streater of Haltom City was recently on leave after completing basic training at Lackland Air Force Base St rea ter is a 1980 graduate of Haltom High School He begins training today as a health environmental specialist at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio Upon completion of trailing he will be assigned to the 301st Tactical Fighter Wing at Carswell Air Force Base central Trust 777 Rosedale at Hemphill 3327921 Member FD1C JANUARY COAT SALES 4 1 'Hunter' nets no opposition Reaction to UHF Channel 21's Sunday night airing of the controversial Academy Award-winning film The Deer Hunter consisted of only five calls this morning none of them opposing the showing of the R-rated movie switchboard operator Deborah Nelson said all five calls were from persons just wanting to know if the first portion of the movie which was shown Sunday night would be reshown soon all said they missed it last night because they thought they had to have cableTV installed to see it" Ms Nelson said Channel 21 is the newest television station in the Fort Worth-Dallas area Sunday was its first day to broadcast and will offer its prime-time programming only to those ho subscribe to it sometime in late February But until then its 21 hours a day are free The Deer Hunter hich won the Best Picture of he ear Oscar in 1978 as tu rned down for showing by officials of the three major networks because they did not believe the film could be edited to conform with their violence standards The movie which stars Robert DeNiro is set during the Vietnam War and has several graphically violent scenes some nudity and a great deal of profanity The second portion of the film ill be shown at 8 tonight Defense industry ailing committee study finds WASHINGTON (AP) A serious decline in the nation's defense industry is jeopardizing national security because it almost certainly couldn't step up weapons production fast enough if war broke out a new report says The study by a special panel of he House Armed Services Committee concluded that the Defense Department has failed to plan well for defense industrial preparedness are not buying the required ammunition equipment and weapon systems to fight even a short said Rep Richard Ichord D-Mo who headed the special 10-member panel whose report was released Sunday troops are outmanned and outgunned at almost every turn Plainly and simply we are not he said the event of a said committee chairman Melvin Price US defense industry would find itaimost impossible toexpand its weapons production suddenly and dramatically in the numbers necessary to sustain a prolonged Ichord said picture" that emerged during the study showed industrial base crippled by declining productivity growth aging facilities and shortages in critical materials increasing lead times skilled labor shortages inflexible government 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other person is saying! Too many times we really don't een care! Try just for one day to listen to the people around your family your friends your business acquaintances You might be surprised at the things you will learn about the insight you will have into their thinking and feelings Even if what they are saying might seem to be unimportant to you it might well be very important to them Take time today to look them in the eye and really listen! God gave us eyes to see ears to hear and tongues to speak Let us use them wisely LUCAS FUNERAL HOME 517 Sylvania and 6450 Brentwood Stair Fort Worth 1321 Precinct Road Hurst 2000 College Grapevine Misses' Coats 4 '-L f' Aiy SHOP 10 AM TO 9 rM MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAVDOWNTOWN STORE OPEN 10 AM TO 6 PM Ridgmar Seminary South Tandy Center Downtown Northeast Mall Plymouth Park Irving Forum 303 Arlington 284-6511 i.