New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung Thursday, March 3, 1983 Garden Ridge okays gas, garbage in increases By ROBERT JOHNSON Editor The cost of two important services natural gas and garbage collection will be going up in Garden Ridge soon. But since both increases were modest, no one on the Garden Ridge City Council voiced any objections. Beginning with the April billing, gas bills in Garden Ridge will be going up 46 cents per month, Entex, District Manager Robert Jones said. The increase is designed to cover cost of service, not to generate additional profit, he said. "It's less than one percent per customer," Jones said.
Garden Ridge roundup "It seems like a very modest increase to me," councilman Neil Craigmile said. By taking no action, council allowed the increase to take effect automatically. The other course of action would have been to oppose the hike, which would defer the new rate for 90 days, Mayor Betty McGranahan explained. However, if the rate was then approved, Garden Ridge customers would have to pay the higher rate retroactive to April anyway, she added. Sniffer dogs' visit turns up few drugs In the midst of six-weeks exams last week, sniffer dogs paid a visit to the New Braunfels Independent School District.
This is the third time drug-andalcohol detecting dogs from the Houston firm of Security Associates International searched New Braunfels High School and Middle School last Friday, Supt. O.E. Hendricks said. After a five-hour search the dogs came up with nothing more than what Hendricks termed "a controlled capsule" and a "broken rum bottle" both found on the high school campus. The capsule was an "over the counter cold medicine" and the rum bottle was found in the parking lot, Hendricks told school board members earlier this week.
Late last year the district agreed to hire the firm on a one-year trial basis to keep NBISD campuses free from drugs and alcohol and to educate students of the dangers involved with the misuse of these substances. Garbage service is handled by Gutierrez Disposal Company, and the new two-year contract calls for an increase of $2 (from $5 to $7) in the monthly fee. Again, there was no opposition, as rates had not gone up in several years, McGranahan said. "I think they've given us good service in the past," councilwoman Bobble Landrum said. In other action, council: Granted final plat approval to the Muennink Subdivision, a three-lot development at the west end of Gloxinia Drive.
The sticking point on this issue had been determining who was responsible for completing a cul-de-sac at the end of Gloxinia. It was supposed to have one, but Ladshaw-Miller, developers of Garden Ridge, did not build one, Planning and Zoning Chairman Bol Kolstad indicated. Jay Muennink, who owns the three lots and plans to build his house on one, said he was willing to put in the cul-de-sac, but was not willing to pay the entire cost. Craigmile said he would talk with LadshawMiller about the matter, but said, "my own opinion is it's a little late to go back to the original developer." If the developers are unwilling, the city may have to bear part of the cost, Kolstad said. Approved by consensus Craigmile's street improvement program for 1983, which includes installing new culverts on Garden Ridge Drive and Blazing Star Trail and seal coating Cinchona Trail and Bluebell Drive.
Learned that Al Baldowsky, coordinator of the citizens' security patrol, had resigned his post ef- Deaths Carol Lunday Stall photo by Robert Johnson Robert Jones outlines Entex's proposed rate increase Doeppenschmidt Funeral Home until 11:30 a.m. Friday. John E. "Cooter" Thomas Services for John E. Thomas of Corpus Christi will be at 3 p.m.
Friday at Ross Langham Mortuary, and a graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Chapel Hill Cemetery in Waco. The Revs. Jay Farrar and Dan Butler will officiate, with arrangements under the direction of Zoeller Funeral Home. Thomas, 57, died at 7:50 p.m.
Tuesday, March 1, at his residence. He was born on Dec. 13, 1925, in Munger, Tex. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Evelyn Thomas of Corpus Christi; two daughters, Mrs.
Emily Elaine Harborth of New Braunfels, and Mrs. Edna Faye Ivey of Cost, a son, William H. Thomas of Longview; two sisters, Mrs. Dona Brown of Hilsboro, and Mrs. Nadine Sneed of Bellmead, and two brothers, W.G.
Thomas of Bellmead, and J.W. Thomas of Airvill, Pa. 06X95 Five positions open on GVTC board By SANDRA JACKSON Each of the directors elected Staff writer Five spots on the Guadalupe Valley Telephone Cooperative Board of Directors will be up for grabs when the owner -members of the cooperative gather for their annual meeting April 14. Sponsored by the GVTC board, management and employees, the meeting will be held at the Civic Center in New Braunfels at 7:30 p.m. Anyone served by the cooperative is considered a member.
Nominees for director in District which serves the Hanco*ck, Sattler and Cranes Mill exchange, include the current director, Joseph C. Spain, as well as Robert L. Koons and Edwin A. Zwald. Fred Rose and Gary W.
Lindsey have been nominated for director in District 1I (Smithson Valley and Bulverde exchange). Rose is the incumbent. Director Jimmy C. Adam will be opposed by Earl E. Gilbert for District III, which serves the Kenberg, Sabina and Balcones exchanges.
In District IV, serving Rocky Creek and Saturn, director Bobby Atkinson will face Jerry T. Spencer. Nominees for District serving Kingsbury, Cost, Leesville and Westoff, will be J.B. Lester, presently a director, and James W. Houston.
year will serve three year terms. In its March newsletter, the cooperative reports a growth rate of 9.1. percent in main stations (new telephones in service) and an increase of 10.2 percent in extensions during 1982. GVTC realized a net gain of 852 main stations: and 524 extensions last year. The cooperative responded to 7,729 trouble calls last year, a drop of 12 percent from 1981.
Last year, the company worked 7,408 service orders, a 21 percent increase over 1982. In response to continued growth, the Cost area warehouse was completed last year, an addition to the Sabina Central Office was built, and construction of a maintenance shop was begun. Cooperative customers should note changes on their March 1 statements, now being received. GVTC has changed the method of billing local service, separating it into two parts: access line, and equipment and features charge. Some customers may also notice a slight decrease in their local service bill.
This is due to a recently-approved tariff charge necessitated when access line and equipment charges were separated. Anyone having questions about his telephone bill should contact the GVTC office at 885-4411. Margy Waldrip, school board president first suggested that the district use sniffer dogs because she was concerned about there being a drug problem at the high school. Last May New Braunfels High School principal John Turman disagreed with Waldrip and said that there was at most a "minimal" drug problem at his campus. Since then, Turman, a few other administrators, teachers and students have protested the use of sniffer dogs.
At a school board meeting in midJanuary, a couple dozen high school students complained to the school board that they were insulted and felt betrayed by the use of dogs on their campus since they said there was no major drug problem there. In each of the two previous searches of NBISD campuses (and parking lots) by sniffer dogs, very small amounts of drugs, alcohol or drug paraphernalia were found. Of the drugs found, most of it was marijuana residue, Hendricks has said. A graveside service will be at 1 p.m. Friday in Cranes Mill Cemetery for Carol Lunday of Canyon Lake Mobile Home Estates in New Braunfels.
The Rev. Al Houk of New Braunfels will officiate. Mrs. Lunday, 35, died at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, at her residence.
The daughter of Lyndon and Modene (nee Reeves) Stephenson, she was born on Oct. 31, 1945, in San Angelo. She married Jimmy Lunday on Feb. 11, 1978, in New Braunfels. She was a resident of Comal County for seven years, and was the proprietor of Carol's Ice House in Solms.
She is survived by her husband, Jimmy Lunday of Canyon Lake; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lyndon Stephenson; a daughter, Patricia Hildebrand; a son, Patrick Hildebrand; a sister, Zelda Jahns, all of New Braunfels; and two brothers, Kevin Stephenson of Edcouch, and Gary Stephenson of New Braunfels. Her remains will lie in state at Fluoridation process slow- Baker By DEBBIE DeLOACH says," Sohn said. "It's (fluoride) in the system, and it's not," Utilities Engineer John W.
Baker said Thursday, as he explained the slow process of fluoridating the city's water system. "We started the first pump at 10 a.m. Monday, but it will take three to four weeks before the fluoride gets three-fourths of the way through the water system," Baker added. "It's like carrying spoonfuls of water to fill up the pond." Baker said there had been no problems implementing the process, since the announcement several weeks ago from Utilities Manager Bob Sohn that fluoridation would begin on Feb. 28.
Now how long the city's water system will keep fluoride in it is a bigger question. City Council is looking at an April 2 referendum on proposed changes in the city election system. Fluoridation will also be on that ballot, and if the issue is defeated, "I'll do whatever the citizenry Calendar of Events Schools Braunfels High School Band Concert: 7:30 pin. Thursday, high school cafeteria. Organizations American Legion Comal Post 179: monthly meeting 7:30 p.m., Thursday at 410 W.
Coll. 1963 Graduates of New Braunfels High School: class reunion organizing meeting, 7:30 p.m., Thursday at Dittlinger Memorial Library. Traveling Friends: 7 p.m., Thursday, First Federal Savings and Loan Meeting Room. New Braunfels Insurance Safety Association: National Safety Council Defensive Driving course, 6:30 p.m., Thursday, second floor of Courthouse. For information call 625-8545.
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Friday.) The last fluoridation election was on Aug. 9, 1980. The issue passed by a mere 15-vote margin. Two years later, fluoridation was set to flow on Aug. 2, but on July 29, two separate acid leaks were located.
Repairs for damaged equipment delayed the implementation another seven months. Damage costs added to what Utilities had already spent on chemicals, total $40,476.05, Sohn said. The state has contributed $47,370, for a total cost of $84,518.05. That's a lot of money to spend for nothing, but "democracy works that way sometime," Sohn said. But for now, one drop of fluoride goes into each million gallons of water.
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