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SCHOOL BOARD 1:20 -1-
Board President Atwood McDonald
tonightts meeting of the Fort Worth School Board by
recognizing Fort Worth rancher J. T. Stephens.
STEPHENS UP
Now Stephens has no axe to grind with the board...
quite the contrary. As he tells the board, he has
come to help them out. He says he hears b they
are looking for a site in southwest Fort Worth to
build a new school, and, he says he can solve their
problem. He is prepared, he says, to donate
72 acres of his ranchland. The property lies about
half a mile south of Wedgewood Junior High School.
PAPERS
And, Stephens says he has even gone so far as to deed
the and to the School Board, and has brought the
deed papers with him. Board President McDonald is
toohap
onlj to accept the land, and says a high
school, a football stadium, and a new elementaryschool will be built on the 72...acre tract.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: School Board], script, October 7, 1964; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc966533/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.