The Wylie News (Wylie, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 49, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 21, 1965 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME SEVENTEEN
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NOTES FROM A BUSY
WEEK: The Easter observance
was the big news in Wylie over
the weekend. Wylieites joined
all last week in religious serv-
ices at noonday under the di-
rection of the Ministerial Alli-
ance. The deeply religious
event was climaxed with Sun-
day workshopp services when
most local churches reported
record crowds. The weather
man cooperated beautifully with
ideal conditions enabling t h e
usual display of bonnets and
new toggery School teacn- ., ,,
ers and students alike reported a consid<,rable amount of mon-
enjwable Easter holidays. They ey-
closed shop for Friday and M,)n- Through April 10, 1965, there
day, returning to classes on was l6."? cars, 5,238 trucks,
Tuesday, Incidentally, it will and 1 830 ot,1Pr vehicles reg-
]>e their last respite from work istered.
jHefore the end of the term next Mrs. Nelson has paid t h e
month. Congratulations to State $317,462.90 in registra-
a former Wylieite. TROY MAY- tions, the County $175,000 00 in
NARD. He's been presented a registrations and $11.861.75 in
distinguished citizens award by fees, making a total of $504,324.-
the Arp Chamber of Com- 65 paid the State and County
merce. He f rmery taught in from February 1, 1965 through
the local schools. . . Enjoyed April 10, 1965,
Welcome to Wylie!
NEAR THE LAKES
TWO RAILROADS
Vi HOUR TO DALLAS
THE WYIIE NEWS
Serving Collin County s Fastest Growing City
Welcome to Wylie!
PLENTY OF WATfcR
PLEASANT CLIMATE
MANY CHURCHES
WYLIE COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, APRIL 21, 1965
Number 49
Mrs. Nelson
Reports On Car
Registrations
Car registration for the year
of 1965 is about completed, with
the exception of the cars that
are bought and registered all
during the year.
Mrs. Doyle Nelson, Collin
County Tax Assessor - Collec-
tor, says that this has been
the biggest year in registra-
tions but with the efficient help
of her office deputies and her
substations, she was able to
pay the State and County quite
Quarterback Club To Host All
Sports Banquet Friday Night
r*" V • fL £ :;k U
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seeing WALTER HOUSE-
WRIGHT from San Benito re-
cently when he was here for a
visit with relatives. He's now
retired from ;i lung banking :;a-
reer Here for a visit last
week with the NATHAN ELD-
RIDGES were CLIFF and
MARY HUDDLESTON and
daughters from Louisiana "lt" Allied Medical Careers
Mrs. Huddleston is the former Club w.i" ",ect Ttmrsday after-
Allied Medical
Careers Club To
Meet April 22
noon, April 22nd, at 3:30 p.m.
in the Home Economics Room
Mary Eldridge. . . Wylie Gin-
ner RODDY GROVES reports f . . .
this week that approximately ofMthc 'ocal High School
fifty per cent of the cotton has Mrs' Lnu,se M'""r
been planted in our area. Says
that some is up to a stand. . .
Wylie BaptisLs are going to
church mis week attending a
revival underway. Guest
preacher is the REV. LLOYD
ELDER, pastor of the College
Sation Baptist Church. Serv-
ices will continue through next
Sunday and DR. GILBERT
Mrs. Louise Miller, Regis-
tered Laboratory Technician;
and Mrs. Janice Hampton, As-
sistant Laboratory Technician
at the Wylie Hospital, will dis-
cuss all phases of Laboratory
work.
The club will have a party
Friday April 23rd at the Wy-
lie Community Center at 7:30
p.m. Awards will be given at
CALLAWAY, local pastor, says 1^'^',° ""Vh Pare"ts/re
y.u've still time left lo ■mend esPeu',ll> lnvlted to a end
Weekend traffic was ex-
ceedingly heavy on Highway 78
and other roads in our section.
If you don t believe it, then you
weren't one who tried to cross
the highway and Ballard Street
on Sunday afternoon. It was al-
mot impossible with cars on
cither side stacking up as many
as ten deep at times. . . MR.
and MRS. R. A. JOHNSTON,
JR. left Monday for an extend-
ed business and pleasure trip
to Europe, a journey they've
been planning for months. . .
GARY RODDY represented
Wylie as a juror of the week in
McKinney's District Court, . .
In town Mondav morning from membership rates and to the
Greenville were JAMES a n d Privileges of the Association un-
BEVERLY SHAW and their ti! ,he a8e of 21 At that time
young daughter, SELENA, . Junior members are eligible to
. . .Copcvillc was represented convert to lifetime member-
here Monday by ALLEN WAT ships in the Association.
John Gooch Made
Jr. Member Of Am.
Angus Association
John R. Gooch, Jr., Wylie,
17, has been granted a junior
membership in the American
Angus Association at St. Jo-
seph, Missouri, announces Glen
Bratcher, secretary.
This new junior membership
entitles the member to register
purebred Angus at regular
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THEY'RE BITIN' AT LAKE LAVON — And the above photo is proofi
One warm day last week the party pictured caught a total of 121
crappie in the local lake all in the space of a couple of hours. Shown,
left to right, are Darrell Miller and Judy Miller of Dallas; Mrs. Tiny
Keene, Mrs. Hazel Roddy, and Robert Roddy, all of Wylie, with a
part of their cato^i They were fishing from a boat on the west side
of the lake. The ideal weather of the past several days has brought
out throngs of anglers, most of whom have reported unusually good
luck. (Photo by Raymond Ellis'.
Cemetery Group Names Directors;
Improvement Fund Reaches $1918
Don't Chase Fire
Trucks, Chief Of
00 Police R*3 Asks
Please do not chase t h e SF
John was one of 255 young
people in the United States to
memberships
KINS, groceryman there. . .
Lake Lavon concessionaires re
ported a good weekend. Fish- receive junior
ermen were out in droves, and Isat month.
'^•pre boats were out than any
7-aer previous weekend this
year. Proof that fishing has
been good may be seen in the
picture in this week's issue
which shows a quintet of ang-
lers with a huge catch. Fishing
from a boat in waters on the
lake's west side they almost
caught the lake dry.. Con-
gratulations to MR and MRS
PAT HOUSEWRIGHT who cele-
brated their golden wedding an-
niversary at a Sunday afternoon
open house The Wylie
track team finished second in
the District 15-A competition
held at North Texas State in
Denton The local tlunly clads
have had a fine season, and a ,'m'1.er
number of the boys will be go , , ,
ing to the regional meet Mike m^' ,'lt' croP should be
Hale came out second in the 1,1 ground by Saiturday
high jump competition in the Groves estimated this
Garland meet last Saturday week-
which included th ise lads s'i- Reports are that a number
gible for regional competition fields are up to a good stand
from all schools in the area, an(' a 8n(Xt start.
Class - A through Class 1-A. . .
The I C WINGFIELDS in Fort papermen paid us a call last
Worth over the weekend . . week .Local stores report-
Wy'ie Garden Club mem ed a good business weekend,
bers really "pitched in" for The warmer weather produced
their annual flower show dis a brisk Easter business;
plays Wednesday in the bank crowds were plentiful and some
lobby They moved in Tuesday interests talked in terms of rec j
Fair Weather
Boosts Planting
Of Cotton Crop
Wvlie farmers were getting
in their licks this week land
last) especially in the area of
planting the 1965 cotton crop.
Fair, warm weather over the
past several days has enabled
growers to plant approximate-
ly 75 per cent of the acreage
for the year, according to R.
V. Groves, local grower a n d
A new five member board of
directors was chosen at a meet-
ing of the Wylie Cemetery As-
sociation last Friday afternoon,
and officials announced t h a t
the improvement fund had
passed the $1900.00 mark.
The meeting was held in the
Dividend Room of the First
State Bank at 3 o'clock.
Elected as directors for the
ensuing one-year term were
Jick Housewright, Lee Kirby,
Claud Allen, M. M Martin and
C. Truett Smith. The directors
elected Jick Housewright as
chairman ind M. M. Martin
as vice chairman. The board
then named Mrs. Kathleen
Moore as secretary-j-easurer.
M. E. Wood was chosen to
"With fair weather continu-
aftern on and had the p'ace a
glow by open house time
Wednesday at 2 o'clock. A com-
plete report will be forthcom-
ing for next week's issue . . .
BOB and LOUISE RICHARD-
SON visiting here Sunday af-
ternoon And CLEMO CLE-
MENTS of Lewisvllle and one
of the state's best known news-
ord sales. Wylieites hur-
ried to beat the April 15 dead-
line for filing income taxes and
indications are that most made
it . . , Wylie Methodists met
Wednesday night for a covered
dish supper followed by their
fourth quarterly conference
prior to the end of their church
year in May.
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SHOWN HERE are four members of the
Wylie Future Homemaker s Club taken
while attending the Area Future Home-
maker s Meeting in Denton on March
27th. From left to right are Vivian
Green, Jeanne Fulkerson, Louise Mai
tinez and Elaine Clark. Elaine is pre-
sident of the local Chapter.
be in charge of maintenance
for another year.
The improvement fund which
was started a few months ago
has reached a total of $1,918 -
00. according to a report made
at the meeting Principal use
of the funds will go toward the
installation of permanent type
streets in the cemetery. Accord-
ing to Mr. Wood, this work will
get under way in the next few
days.
The annual maintenance con-
tributions will be received next
month, according to a decision
made at the meeting Cards
will be mailed to all interested
parties around May 1 Approxi
mately $1,000 is needed annual-
ly to care for the lots.
Still under consideration by
the group is the proposal to
set up a permanent fund for
the future perpetual care of
the cemetery. The directors re-
ported they were encouraged
by the response and interest
in the proposal and hoped to
have specific details available
within the next few weeks for
presentation to lot owners
Mrs. A.K. McDonald
Honored At Dinner
Mrs A K McDonald was
honored Sunday with a family
dinner at Harris Restaurant in
Garland in celebration of her
I birthday
Twenty eight relatives a n d
I friends enjoyed the occasion.
fire trucks!"
That was the request com-
ing this week from Wylie P<>
1 lice Chief Robert D. Rice.
Numerous complaints h a v e
been made lately concerning
local citizens chasing the fire
vehicles as they are en route
j to fires.
"This practice greatly ham-
pers the fire equipment and
the volunteer firemen in get-
ting to the scene of the fires,"
Chief Rice stated, and t h e
practice must stop."
We are asking the coopera-
tion of all our people in this
respect, and unless we receive
their assistance we will be
forced to take action," he said.
Cemetery
Foundation Meets
Sunday. April 25
The annual meeting of the
members of the Cottonwood
Cemetery Foundation will be
held Sunday April 25, 1965 at
2 30 p.m., at the Cottonwood
Church of Christ.
Four Director Trustees are to
be elected and other important
business transited at this
meeting All interested parties
are urged to attend
Present officers of the organ
ization are Carl Foster, presi-
dent; Judge Dee Brown Walker,
vice president and Mrs Agnes
Eaves, secretary treasurer
Trustees ore Du k Spencv Mrs
Ora C. Hooper i L. Adams.
(. W FiMi'i Henry Ratterree
P M White Roy l.<wis Newt
Foster and B C Woods.
The Wylie Quarterback Club
will honor school athletes at
an All-Sports banquet this Fri
day night and present an Ath-
lete of the Year" award.
The banquet, expected to at-
tract between 150 and 175. will
be he'd at the Harris restau-
rant in Garland at 7 o'clock
Jerry Tubbs. a center and
linebacker for the Dallas Cjw-
boys. pro football club, will be
the principal speaker for the
occa-ion according to an-
nouncement made this week
At the conclusion of Tubbs'
speech, a question and answer
session will fllow.
Honored will be members it
tin Pirate football squad both
boy and girl- basketball teams,
and the Pirate track ujuad
Head football Coach G r a d ■.
Burnett. Head basketball "oaeli
It ' Dodd. and Assistants
.John Page aid iariand Lay
all wi.l be honored at the ban-
quet
Other honored guests will in-
c'ude members of the school
board and their wives, and top
administrative officials of the
schools
Wylie s athletic teams this
year have fared exceedingly
well in competition The foot-
hill team compiled one of the
finest records in the school's
history winning nine games
and losing only one over the
seasor play
The local teams compete in
District 15-A competition
Both boys and girls basket-
ball teams had favorable sea-
sens Both teams won their dis-
trict after tough battles <\ith
top flight opponents and both
boys and girls had outstanding
season records They also
placed high in numerous pre-
season tournaments B o t h
teams wi re eliminated in the
bi-district by narrow margin-
The Wylie track t e a m en-
joyed its best season in history,
winning a number of individ-
ual meets against top squads
in the area They c pped sec-
ond place in the district and
a number of lads will be enter
ing regional competition this
week.
Charles Gothard is president
of the Quarterback Club an or-
ganization which promotes all
rts in tiie local schoois
Chester Simmons is vice presi-
dent and Dave Miller l- the
secretary - treasure. J e
George has been active in ar-
ranging Friday nights banquet
program
We have enjoyed one of the
finest years in athletics in the
schools history, an official of
the gr<>up tated Tuesday and
we have chosen this method
to honor all the boys and girls
and c< iches who have worked
so hard to make the records
possible
Mrs. Davis Hostess
For Dinner And
Easier Egg Hunt
Mr- Ed Davis was hostess
Sunday for a family dinner and
Easter Egg Hunt in the after-
noon for her grandchildren and
great grandchildren Mrs
Emogene Westphal and Mrs
Marie Dillehay. daughters of
Mr- Davis, assisted in the en-
tertaining.
Enjoying the day were Mr
and Mrs \jg Davis and Mrs
Edna Toone all of Dallas. Mr
and Mrs Oscar Wimms, Bar-
bara Jean Riehord. and Buddy
Rosson all of Quinlan, Mr and
Mr- Roy W Westphal. Gary.
David and .Iconic .ill oi Mes-
quite
Mr and Mrs Paul F.stes and
baby of Abilene were week-
end guests of his grandmother
Mrs S G Allison Mrs Alli-
son returned to Abilene Sun-
day with the Estes' tor sev
eral weeks visit
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