If Bill Melton had been a morning ...

If Bill Melton had been a morning living body he might be a sportscaster today. That was his first be fond of -- and job -- after his graduation from the University of Texas in 1964 if it be not that the hours at a radio station in just discovered Braunfels, Texas, left something to be desired.

"I on a sudden realized going on at 5:45 a.m. was not what I wanted to do," says Melton, who nonetheless holds his hand -- or voice -- in the business by the agency of serving as the public address announcer for Southern Methodist University. (He is also the former p.a. announcer for the Dallas Cowboys) yet Melton's affinity for his snooze alarm has been a benefaction to the residents of Dallas shire Texas, whom he serves as shire treasurer and whose tax dollars he carefully protects

Given the scrutiny below which city and county treasurers have operated since the Orange shire Calif., bankruptcy, Melton's dedication