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THE WYLIE NEWS
Devoted To The Best Interests Of Wylie Since 1947
Volume 25: Number 29
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Wylie, Collin County, Texas
Security Benefits
Paid To Texas
Residents In 1972
Thursday. January 11, 1973
City Represented
At Rate Briefing
Five Generations Of Wylieites
The five generation picture was taken Christmas Day at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. J . R . Cryer. The five generations are Mr. John W. Gracy; his daughter,
Jessie Cryer; his grandson, Benny Cryer; his great grandson, Danny Cryer
and his great great grandson , Gregory Cryer. All live in Wylie.
During 1972:
Rainfall Deficient
By Dangerous Margin
Rainfall in the Wylie area
in the past year was de-
ficient by an alarming
margin, statistics show.
According to Glenn
Daniel , local records
keeper , this section of
the state received only
20.12 inches of rain in
1972, and this compares
with an annual average
over the past thirteen
years of 36.27 inches.
Daniel has been keeping
such records for the 13-
year period.
December was another
H *ir m/.nt-h chnu/incr nrp-
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cipitation of only 1.17
inches and this was ex-
ceptionally dry when
compared with December
of 1971 when 8.45 inches
was recorded.
Wettest month in 1972 was
October which showed
5.23 inches. Driest month
of the year was February
which registered 0.32.
iy
1963, was drier than 1972
during the 13-year period
Daniel has kept statistics.
In 1963- 20.1 linches was
recorded. Wettest year in
the period was 1966 when
a whopping 42.66 inches
was received.
Precipitation was re-
corded here for seven
days in December just
past but heaviest rainfall
of any one day was 0.53
inches on December 12.
Observers are concerned
over continued lack of
moisture. Many feel that
the area may be entering
a drouth period and puini
to the severe dry spell
in the mid-fifties.
Farmers say that ad-
ditional moisture is
needed, especially at this
time of the year to ready
fields for spring planting
and to tide crops over the
hot summer months.
North Texas Municipal
Water District officials
are keeping an eye on the
elevation and storage
levels at Lake Lavon.
Throughout 1972 the re-
servoir was below its 472-
ft. normal elevation and in
the early Fall sank to a
record low since the lake
was completed in 1953.
Meanwhile , current fore-
casts are for continued
" drier than usual"
weather over the next few
weeks.
Welrome
To Wylie!
The News and all of Wylie
is happy to welcome to
this fair city "China
by Tulia" in Downtown
Wylie.
Also to be welcomed
are:
Thomas A. Morgan of
402 B. S. Jackson
Percy Wells at 412 S. 1st
A record $1,842,901.00
was paid out in social
security cash benefits to
residents of Texas in cal-
endar year 1972.
The social security
checks delivered early in
October were the first to
reflect the 20 percent in-
crease in benefits enacted
July 1,1972. That July
legislation also made
social security inflation-
proof. Benefits will in-
crease automatically in
future years to keep them
up to date with increases
in the cost of living.
Further improvements in
benefit provisions of the
law , enacted in the
Social Security Amend-
ments of 1972, signed into
law by President Nixon
on October 30, will bring
additional benefits to
several million of the
28.4 million men , wo-
men , and children now
receiving monthly social
security checks.
For example , older
widows whose benefits on
the average have been
lower than those of any
other beneficiary group,
will receive additional
increases with the checks
they get early in
February.
'Many other changes will
also affect benefit levels
on into the future—
benefits for men will be
computed on the more
favorable basis that has
been true in the past for
women. Higher benefits
will be available for per-
sons who work past 65.
A special minimum bene-
fit for the low-paid, but
regular worker under
social security will as-
sure a benefit of at least
$170 a month. Further,
people who work while
they get social security
checks will always be as-
sured that the more they
earn, the more total in-
come they will have. Of
the social security
benefits paid to bcnefici-
aries in Texas during
1972, $1,153,101.00 went
to retired workers and
their dependents and
$482,220 to the survivors
of workers who have died.
Another $207,520.00 to
severely disabled
workers under 65 and
their dependents. Nation-
ally, social security cash
benefit payments in 1972
totaled $41,607,000,000 .
This was over $4 billion
higher than in the previous
year. An estimated $51.8
billion in social security
benefits is expected to
be paid out in cash bene-
fits in 1973.
At the end of December
1972, 28.4 million men,
women , and children were
receiving monthly social
security benefits, one out
of every 8 Americans.
Over a million persons
were added to the bene-
fit rolls during the course
of the year.
Retired workers and their
. dependents account for a-
bout 63 percent of all those
receiving payments. The
survivors of workers who
have died , including
children and their
widowed mothers , aged
widows , and widowers,
and aged dependent
parents, make up close to
one-quarter of all those
receiving social security
payments. Another 11
percent are disabled
workers and their depen-
dents.
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Although social security
is often mistakenly looked
upon as a program for
the elderly, over 26 per-
cent of all beneficiaries
are under age 60 and 15
percent are under age 22.
Four Die In
County Crashes
In December
During the month of
December the Texas
Highway Patrol in-
vestigated 50 motor
vehicle accidents on
Collin County rural roads.
Of these 4 were fatal ac-
cidents in which _4
person(s) died, 13 were
personal injury accidents
in which 27 person(s) were
injured and 33 property
damage accidents.
To date JJi jierson(s) have
Bank Figures
Show Increase
First State Bank here has
registered substantial
gains in its 1972 opera-
tions, according to figures
released by the institu-
tion at the end of the
year.
Regulatory agencies cal-
led for a statement of
condition at the year's
end.
Total resources of the
local financial in-
stitution were listed at
$ 8, 097, 562. 48, which
amounts to an increase
of $1,266,089.60 over the
end of 1971. At that
date a year ago re-
sources stood at
$6,831,472.88.
Deposits reflected a gain
of $1,185,587.79 for the
12-months period. They
ended the year of 1972
at $7,566,782.02, up from
$6,381,194.23.
Other statistics of
interest included those of
loans and discounts and
bonds owned. Loans
showed and increase of
$224, 699. 72 and were
listed at $3,052,503.47 on
the year-end statement.
Bonds owned by the bank
increased by $381,951.17
to an all-time high figure
of $3,442,303.25.
President C. TruettSmith
told The News this week
that "1972 was a very good
yearj as reflected in the
bank's growth figures."
He pointed out tne con-
tinuing growth of the area
is reflected in the finan-
cial figures.
Stockholders of the bank
held the annual meeting
Tuesday afternoon of this
week and actions of that
meeting will be reported
in next week's News.
died, 196 have been in-
jured in 353 motor vehicle
accidents on Collin County
rural roads in 1972.
Elevation at Lake Lavon
was at 468.97-ft. this
week, compared to 468.80
a week ago.
Receives Doctors Decree
Rev. Harvey Dan Moore,
Pastor of the First Chris-
tian Church of Wylie ,
has completed the Doctor
of the Ministry degree
from the Brite Divinity
School of Texas Christian
University .
He has been commuting
to Fort Worth each week
for classes. Dr.Moore
received his Bachelor of
Arts degree from Chap-
man College in Orange,
California, and then com-
pleted the Bachelor of
Divinity and Master of
Thelogy degrees at Brite
Divinity School where he
continued to work on his
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Dr. Moore has pastored
the First Christian
Church of Wylie for two
and one half years. The
congregation presented
h I m with a seventeen
volume set of commen-
taries by William Barclay
in, honor of his newly
earned doctorate.
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REV. DAN MOORE
Weather
The city Council was re-
presented at a met
Tuesday night in Dallas
at which time General
Telephone Company of-
ficials sought to justify
their recent rate in-
crease request for a num-
ber of area cities.
Mayor Cecil Hackler and
City Manager Dennis
Woodard attended the
meeting . The regular
City Council session, due
to be held Tuesday night,
was postponed until Jan-
uary 16 at 7:30 p.m. so
that local officials might
attend the briefing ses-
sion.
(The News' deadline would
not allow us to publish
a report of the Tuesday
night meeting but planned
for next week's Issue Is
a detailed story).
The phone company has
requested rate hikes in the
cities of Wylie, Car-
rollton, Garland, Irving,
Lewisville , Piano and
Rowlett. The increases
vary but are considerable
percentage-wise and are
expected to meet stiff
opposition from cities in-
volved.
For example, in Wylie
rates for one-party resi-
dential would go from
$8.60 per month to 11.3C
per month. |
Metro service rates went
into effect here in Octo-
ber of 1971.
The News has learned that
City Mgr. David Griffin
of Piano has requested a
meeting of all tne citie:-
involved to discus in de-
tail the proposed
hikes and to plan what
action , if any, may be
taken on a unified basis.
A discussion of the pro-
posal may be expected to
appear on next week's
Council agenda, officials
indicated.
,The Lonely Heart,
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At the present time tem-
perature reading is 17
degrees. Freezing rain
ana snow predicted.
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Major Expansion In 1972
One of the major expansions for a local industry in 1972 was that of B.E.H. Extrusion Dies, Inc. The
attractive new building is pictured above and houses an industry which had its beginning in Wylie. It
is located in the rspldly industrial area just off Highway 78.
(News Staff Photo by Bob Smith).
Showing Modern K<|uipment
The above photo shows the spacious interior of the B.E.H. building and a part of the modern machinery
and equipment which produces goods for delivery over a wide area to customers of the home grown
ndustry. B.E.H. officials report being well pleased with their expansion program and indicate that
1973 looks like another good year. (News Staff Photo by Bob Smith).
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The Wylie News (Wylie, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 11, 1973, newspaper, January 11, 1973; Wylie, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth342465/m1/1/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Smith Public Library.