The Wylie News (Wylie, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 20, 1964 Page: 1 of 4
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Welcome to Wylie!
NEAR THE LAKES
TWO RAILROADS
Vz HOUR TO DALLAS
THE WYLIE MEWS
Serving Collin County s Fastest Growing City
Welcome to Wylie!
PLENTY OF WATfcR
PLEASANT CLIMATE
MANY CHURCHES
VOLUME SEVENTEEN
WYLIE COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, AUG. 20, 1964
Number 15
This column was particular-
ly interested in reports of a
survey conducted by Marvin
Springer and Associates of Dal-
las in connection with the pro-
posed "outer - outer" highway
loop in Dallas County. It had
to do with a population study
for the metropolitan area and
projected the growth through
1985. Counties in the metropoli-
tan area include Dallas, Collin,
Denton and Ellis. The report
predicted that the area would
double its population by the
year 1985. It predicted that
Collin County's population by
that year would reach t h e
145,000 mark. This becomes all
the more interesting when one
takes into consideration the
fact that the 1960 census fig-
ures showed our county to have
wJightly more than 44,000 inhab-
itants. Really, when you stop
and think these estimates stag-
ger you because you begin to
realize the changes that will
have to come if our county is
to adequately take care of
more than three times our pres-
ent numbers within the space
of the next twenty years,
☆☆☆
First things which come to
our mind that would require at-
tention include the highway
and roads system, the ever-in-
creasingly i m p o rtant water
problem, the health facilities,
for more court house space, in-
creased demand on law ei>
forcement agencies, and the
mere urgent need for junior
college facilities. These ane
just a few, to be sure, but for
the time being let's take a
look at these.
☆☆☆
Certainly with a tripled pop-
ulation the county would have
to have improved roads. Plans
now call for extension of the
county's three major highways
to its borders. These include
U. S. 75 and State 78 and 121.
These extensions should be com-
pleted within the next two to
three years, but they can hard-
ly be expected to more than
take care of the present needs.
In fact, past experience
proves that they are almost
outgrown by the time they're
completed. Surely, much more
detailed planning pointing to
traffic will be a must on these
highways, as well as attention
given to a more complete farm-
to-market road system prior to
our reaching the 1985 expected
figures.
~A.~V._A_
Collin County is fortunate to 1 Hospl'al ,lssued
roOAfn L'nrttr nn
General Soaking Rains Bring Needed
Relief To Drought - Parched Farmlands
%
the five-inch mark.
Last rainfall of any signift-
benefit pas-
ners to get
,iii sowing of
W: in pro-
iu will
hay
the
vere
cx-
ness
a in
MEL-CHAR APARTMENT COMPLt TED—Wylie's first modern
multiple-unit oportrnent I c.e >• • • • receiving finishing touches this
week and tenants began moving m Located at the corner of North
Jackson and West I wn Street , the apartment contains four one-
******
bedroom and two two-bedroom units It was built by Melvin K. St
John, local builder, and will be owned and managed by Mel-Char
Investment Company. (Photo by Howard McMillan) '
First Grader's To
Register Thursday,
August 27th
All children who an'' enter
ing the First Grade of the R
F. Hart ma n Elementary
School will register from 8 to
12 a.m.. Thursday morning.
August 27th.
Each child will need to tin
nish the school with an accept
Corps Of Engineers Project Clerk
Here Is Former U.S. Navy Writer
Tin Project Clerk of the La- of his work, and he favored us reer as a Navy man himself.
von Reservoir office of the U. S. with a huge scrapbook, a fab- Many readers will guess that . ,
i di ps of Engineers here at Wy-. ulous collection which began in the person referred to could be regular meeting of the Wylie atures. ^ ®- Dickson, acting
. m nnnirnn / • ♦ 1 > / /Hi ' t '1 '
Biggest news story in this 'late fields of the melons
area of Texas over the past Perhaps most pleased oy the
weekend was the beneficial rain- four inch* s -f moisture were
fall which brought much-need cattl< men Their plight was es-
ed earth soaking moisture to Specially hazardous because of
thirsty farmlands, yards and the hot. dr., summer months,
pastures. Many had sold off portions of
The rain first put in its ap- their herds at sacrifice prices
pearance last Friday night, con- and othei "holding on"
tinuing throughout most of Sat hoping for break before the
urday and Saturday night. Sun- winter rii'mths
day and Monday were mostly Tl>" rain
partly cloudy, but rain set in tun ena1
again early Tuesday morning land in '
and continued in this area for grain • -
most of the day. viae
According to the U. S. Corps ;"d dw
of Engineers at Lake Lavon Additioi.
rainfall up until 8 a.m. Tues- crops will b<
day had amounted to 4 19 inch- moisture
es. Tuesday's precipitation was Wylie '
expected to push the total above gleeful \< r
pressed optimisim for
over the coming months.
cance in this section was the One local store i-wne" report-
j first week in June. Over sixty ed Monday was the best day
| days of searing temperatures he had in months" as the cool-
without moisture had baked the er weather and school days
| earth causing severe cracks in; just ahe,.d cmed o bring out
Ithe ground. Grazing lands had the iopj ••
jdried up and considerable dam- Tll„ alMt.Jcje 0f [|ie people
age was sustained by growing | seemed to change overnight."
crops. Cattlemen were in a •
'rious plight due tq the i.r:
conditions.
Lake Lavon received a slight
[ increase from the rain, al-
though most of the moisture
soaked into the ground Reser-
voir elevation on last Thursdav
August 13, stood at the 470 21-
ft. mark. By 8 a.m. Tuesday
morning the elevation was 470 -
43-ft., or an increase of 0.22-
ft. The lake elevation had stead-
ily declined over the past sev-
eral weeks.
Additional slight increas- v;rs
es were expected from Tues-_ ne\ is
day's continuing rainfall. f< rm
North Texas Municipal Water tee f.
District officials reported a i <
significant drop in water d' op
New School Supl.
Is Lions Speaker
At Tonight's Meet
Charles Lamb, Superinten-
dent of Wylie schools, will be mands following the moisture
the principal speaker at t h e and its resultant cooler temper
he related.
Tempera re continued to
range from the lower seventies
to the upper eighties since the
rainfall and caused many to
predict that the heat wave had
been finailv broken.
Mrs. Royland Boyd
Member Of Demo
Platform Group
id Boyd of McKin-
;mber of the plat-
r ilutions clmit-
itional Democrat-
•ii of 1!*64, which
.londav in Atlantic
ompanied
have Lake Lavon within its
borders, and most county towns
of any size are a part of the . ,.
North' Texas Municipal Water Te'anus' Po10' and Smal'P"x
Because of the state and lo
District which utilizes its con-
servation storage. The NTM-
WD has been diligent in its
effort to further expand and en-
large the local lake and a pro-
gram to more than triple its
existing supply is well along
toward realization, but popula-
tion forecasts show that t h e
..vea must look beyond local
urces prior to the year 2,-
000. Constant attention must
be given by the water district
officials to this all - important
problem for certainly no area
will grow larger than its water
SUPPl'V i "n'Y ! Wylie H'8h Schn"1 studen,s
'Die county's health facilities ■ worn enrolled on Monday and
must be kept in step with, ,liesday of this week in prep-
population demands. The Col- ara,lon of lh<' official start .(
lin Memorial Hospital with its j classes on_ Monday August
present 100 - bed facility is! ^er.e re8's,eretj Monday and
already past being adequate. . S('nl<"s
Plans are underway to enlarge!
its quarters as much as feasi
i a former U. S, Navy man December of 1929. none other than Peter Case
and. a writer of considerable, x|ie collection contains, na-! Reilly, now lost somewhere in
ibility turally, many of his articles, 'he hills of Idaho.
\lbert W Ea on was a career various clippings of interest, Eason and Reilly became ac-
! a e ., r,' .' (>r," lc<lU', ' 01 \ V\ man and spent much of j plus some choice cartoons of quainted at the U. S. Naval Hos-
his time as a Chief Pharma- the era.
l is! Mate while on duty with jp conversation with him we and became steadfast friends,
I icie Sam's fleet, but he ac- developed quite sometime ago a friendship which has sur-
iiuired quite a reputation as a j that he was well acquainted I vived the long span of Navy
newspaperman writing for with a former Wylieite who; service, plus the many years
Oi R NAVY" during the thir-i amassed an outstanding ca- j of retirement.
tics
I n n an interesting type m ■ ■ ■
who ha seen much of V 011 111 1*1611101131
), and a health
record showing that the child
has been vaccinated for
Whooping Cough. Diphtheria
Lions Club this week. general manager of the district
The meeting is set for to- reported Tuesday that
night at 7 o'clock at the Metho- treatment facilities pumped
dist Annex. total °f 50 million gallons on
Mr. Lamb is the new head August 12. On Sunday, Aug.is
nital in New York Citv in 1924 of ,lle 10 c a 1 schoo's, having 16- following the rain, the no-
been elected to succeed R. F. mand dropped to 12 million pal-
Hartman, who retired at the 'ons- The water district has had
end of the past term. record demands made ot it
Members of the club are .^is summer.
band, Ro
McKinni"
nd Bo
by her hus-
vd well known
jllin County at-
>d left Sunday
in discussions
the committee
C this week.
> has been ac-
Party cir-
eral years,
cal requirements of recording
the Birth Certificate, and film,
the health record, assigning'
children to grade section uul
general enrollment pro.• i dim;
j it is very important that each
j First Grade Pupil be present
at this date for regis1 ration
High Schoolers Are
Enrolled Monday,
Tuesday This Week
In fact, as we were
urged to attend tonight's meet-; The wee^end moisture
. . ing at which time the speaker ec* harvest °J 'f11- '364
um jing, js eXpected to outline plans for rroP- ^ ^ , ,roves: 'ca, ^
Hospital Audit
Report Received
. . .o expected to outline plans for lf,roP K v Ju[oves; R1"
through this massive scrapbook (he ^omi schoo] ^ djs_ ner. reported his gin had pro
we ran onto a.feature article j per-sonnei and curriculum cessed thir,y bales Pnor to the
carried in the "Our Navy mac- chang£ and genera,ly bring Irain and that "we would have
members of the community up
to date on what's taking place
in the local school system.
mag
azine, issue of Mid-February.
1934, and entitled "PETE REIL-
LY RETIRES". The author^
You guessed it: Albert W Ea-
son, CPhM, USN, USS Paul
Jones!
But that's another story and
one which we intend to expand
Wylie Quarterback
Club To Meet
Aug. 20 (Tonight)
ble, and projections should be
made for its growth to 1985.
☆☆☆
Collin County courthouse fa-
cilities must be taken into con-
sideration as they are totally
inadequate to handle any-
thing like the proposed expan-
sion. In fact, recent stories in-
dicate that certain depart-
ments and offices are over-
crowded and must have addi-
tional space. In order to have
efficient county governm e n t
these problems cannot bo al-
lowed to continue to exist. Prop-
er planning should be given to
this matter and such planning
by all means should take into
consideration the 1985 popula-
tion estimates.
☆☆☆
Interested county c i t izens
must do some serious thinking
about their law enforcement fa-
Continued on Page 4
Students were furnished with
information relating to curricu-
lum changes, class sched
ules and othei details for the article
coming term. servic e
the world. A native of Atlanta,
Texas, he retired from Uncle
Sam's Navy in 1946, after do-
ing a lengthy hitch, and after
a few years following his re-
le m, decided to cast his lot The semi - annual audit re-
W';h the L S Corps of Engi- port of the financial operations
of Collin Memorial Hospital has
Hi- career with the Corps be- been received. Mr. C. Truett
an in and for the past Smith, Chairman of the Board on at a future date.
u* years has been with the of Governors, announces copies j Meanwhile, Albert Eason,
local ii e which supervises of the audit are on file in the; Project Clerk at Lake Lavon,
•pi ra' ion • at Lake Lavon, one offices of the County Judge, commutes daily from his Dal- Th e Wvlie Quarterback l,luo': "" """
■"ies under the jurisdic- the County Auditor, the Mc- las home to his Wylie duties, (-.]uh wi|| ^'ave jts fjrst meet. lands and those in the bottom
,f 'ac I art Worth District Kinney Examiner, the Courier- but he does take time out oc- jn„ of the 1964-65 season on 'anc^s-
iff let He is Project Clerk in Gazette, and Collin Memorial | casionally in between to fill us Thursday night August 20th at 11 wi" make the b°"s 'arK
'I. Lavon etup. Hospital. These records are in on some of the experiences 8 30 p m in the Elementary er and Pt>rmil them ,0 ™atur:'
F, ion's background is inter- open for public inspection. | shared by a couple of country Schoo, cafetorium ' ' an orderly fashion. one
cstinj; to a fellow - newspaper-1 The books of Collin Memorial ! boys from Texas, one from At-j Membership cards for the ?Pr !n, ., ,e, .
ii 11. During his Navy days, he Hospital are audited each six ^nta, the other from Wylie, new season will be on sale, andlW? C^°r in^t 1.
htn ame interested in writing, months by an independent au- across a number of U. S. Navy new coaches will be intro- JTJa c ^ e - «i
and across a long span of years diting firm. Morrison & Morri- |years- duced at this meeting. A color; uotfLa^omn
contributed numerous feature son, Auditors, of Dallas, Tex-J And thoy do give some new j ifilm of the 1964 Cotton Bowl
to Our Navy", a as, performed the present au- life to somewhat otherwise dull, Game will he shown.
publication. We pre- dit. The audit reflects a six-! days. In fact, so much so that
been in full swing this week
had the rains not come."
Many farmers had defoliated
their crops early last week
planning to begin stripping op-
erations Monday. Particularly
was this true of the earlier
fields.
Numerous reports indicated
that the rains would benefit the
late cotton crops, including
those on the heavier type black-
10 participate i,
and meetings of t
in Washington, D
Mrs Boyd who
tive in Democrat
cles for the past i
is currently serving as Com-
mittee Woman from the Ninth
Senatorial District of Texas on
the Texas Democratic Execu-
tive Committee
composed of one man and one
woman from each of the fifty
states John H Crooker, Jr of
Houston is he other Texas rep-
resentative on the important
body
bert o
of the
Prio:
mittee
leased
To b«
ocratic*
Texans
ongressman
Oklahoma is
Carl Al-
chairman
on.
the f
the Nation
he
one
this
later
Enrollment figures wili be
available for next week'* twie
vail
iled 0.1 him a few weeks ago month gross volume of busi-
; I *. rtt-n.il*>*"
to bring us a few ' samples
BACK - TO - SCHOOL EDITION
TO BE PUBLISHED AUG. 27
The "Back - to - School" edition of the Wylie News
will be published next week and will be issued on
Thursday, August 37th.
The issue will carry a number of pictures and items
of interest to both students and parents. In addition,
Supt. of Schools Charles lamb will have a statement for
the edition.
Advertisers and news contributors aie requested to
have their copy iri the office by not later than 2 p. m,
next Tuesday, August 25. A number of extra papers
will be printed.
ness of $592,630.50. The audit
opinion reads, "In our opinion, |
the accompanying Statement
of Assets and Liabilities and
Statement of Income and Ex
penses present fairly the finan-
cial position of the Collin Me
tnorial Hospital, McKinney,
Texas, at June 30, 1964, and
the results of its operations
for the period then ended, in
conformity with generally ac-
cepted accounting principles."
we hope to share them with our
readers from time to time.
Halted temporarily, also was
harvest of the cantaloupe crop
™ . . . . , Good success has been report-
This is an important meet- ^ b those g who hnd
ing as new officers will be 1 z
a
riod of 5
nation's
quale fo
the convei
majorltv i
t onti
g for the corn-
Mrs. Boyd re-
illowing statement;
ointed by the Dem-
f as one of the two
he important Plat-
esolutions Commit-
Democratic
1964 is certainly
as well as a ser-
ility, in this pe-
ind unrest in our
I feel nade-
task.
d believe we can
rm that will be
•he delegates of
, and one that a
e good people of
on Page 4
elected Plan to attend.
Week-end visitors with Mrs.
Dess Housewright were Mr.
and Mrs. Claude G. House-
wright and Ronnie; and Billy
J. Housewright all of Dallas.
"POLITICS
'64"...
.... PUNS AND
POSITIONS
Governor John Connolly is making Texas one of the
finest chief executives in the state s history. On this most
observers agree. He came to the office with a back-
ground steeped in business, law and public service and is
what might rightly be termed a "practical politician." His
grasp of state affairs has enabled him to furnish pro-
gressive leadership to a growing Texas, and he has ex-
hibited remarkable insight and understanding into our
problems. In addition, he has done an almost unbelievable
job in unifying forces within the Democratic Party in the
state. A great majority of Texans will be watching with
keen interest and with an understandable sense of pride
as he plays a major role in next week's convention in
Atlantic City.
1964 Pirate Football Schedule
Wylie High School
There
Sept. 11 .
Royce City
Here
Sept. 18 .
Here
Sept. 25 .
There
Oct. 2 . . .
. . . Here
Oct. 9 .
OPEN
Oct. 16 .
There
Oct. 24 .
. . . There
Oct. 30 .
Here
. . . Here
Nov. 13 .
'Denotes Conference Games
All Games Slated for 8 p m
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