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©lie Carrollton Clmmirlr
“SERVING CARROLLTON, ADDISON, COPPELL, NW. DALLAS COUNTY TOWNS SINCE 1904“
—Commended, by East Texas Chamber of Commerce for Outstanding Community Service—
VOLUME: 53RD YEAR
CARROLLTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1957
No. 44
Methodists to Honor
Former Pastors Sunday
This Sunday, the congrega-
tion of the First Methodist Church
Carrollton, will be hosts to an
Open House and Reception honor-
ing their former ministers. The
Methodists have just completed
their new sanctuary and the first
unit of their educational facilities
at the new location on Walnut
Street.
Rev. Gordon D. Casad, pas-
tor, wishes to extend to the citiz-
enry of Carrollton along with
friends and former members of the
church an invitation to come and
visit the church Sunday afternoon
from 3 to 5.
Former ministers invited to be
present are: Rev. C. B. Fielder.
Greenville; Rev. Lewis Stuckey of
Dallas; Rev. J. W. Slagle, Gaines-
ville; Rev. R. S. Kerr, Paris; Rev.
D. A. Ross, Lubbock; Rev. L.' B
Trone, Pecos; Rev. Orbin Turner,
Odessa; Rev. Felix Kindell, Dallas;
Rev. G. C. Randolph, Dallas; Rev.
Glcndall Jones, McKinney, Rev.
Robert Ridley, Dallas; Rev. Leon
Turner, Burkburnett.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart, president of
the Woman’s Society of Christian
Service, and members of the so-
ciety will be responsible for the
reception. Officials participating
in the occasion will be Charles
Blalack, charge lay leader; John
Mitchell, chairman of the Official
Board; Hamlyn Morgan, chairman
of the Trustees; A. M. Tinsley,
building superintendent, and J. D.
Btier, church school superinten-
dent.
CARROLLTON PTA
NEWS
(By The Publicity Committee)
TO ORGANIZE THREE GROUPS
The Carrollton PTA met in the
home of Mrs. H. H. Shelton Sept.
19. There were 75 members pres-
ent. We were very glad to have
Mrs. Sue Goodwin, who is county
district chairman; Mrs. Dorothy
Riggs, president of Farmers
Branch PTA; Mrs. Mary Schecter, _ _ _
president of Valwood Park PTA; ag™e * *hat if StudenJt brcaks a
1 safety rule while riding his bi-
CARROLLTON ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL NEWS
By Reporter
SEVENTH GRADE
STUDYS SAFETY
Mrs. Pickett’s seventh grade is
taking an interest in safety. We
think many car and bicycle acci-
dents could be avoided. We have
chosen topics to work on to help
prevent accidents. Some students
are interviewing people and ask-
ing them questions about safety.
Some of the questions are these:
What do you think about having
safety rules for students? Have
you seen any student recently dis-
obeying safety rules? What did
you do about it? Which safety
rule is most often broken?
We are receiving some very in-
teresting answers. Most people
E. L. Kent, principal of Carrollton
Elementary School, and R. L.
Turner, superintendent of our
schools.
The PTA voted to have three
separate PTA’s. They will be the
Carrollton High School, Carrollton
Elementary and R. E. Good Ele-
mentary. The Carrollton PTA of-
ficers will continue to function
until all three PTA groups have | CHARTER TO BE OPENED
been organized. The budget was
read and approved.
cycle, the bicycle should be taken
away from him for a week or two.
It seems that the rules most often
broken are bicycles not stopping
for red lights and bicycles being
ridden down the street two or
three abreast.
Some students of the class are
working on safety charts. Others
BY UNITED LUTHERAN
I MISSION SUNDAY
All parents of the Carrollton
Elementary School are urged to at-
end a PTA meeting Tuesday, Oct.
1, at 7:30 p.m. in the school cafe-
torium. A nominating committee
will be selected to secure the PTA
officers for this year.
LIONS FACE TIGERS
AT IRVING FRIDAY
Next Sunday, September 29, is
Charter Sunday at the United
Lutheran Mission worship service
at 11 am. in Farmers Branch
school. During the service, the
charter will be unrolled and those
who want to become charter mem-
bers of the Mission will come for-
ward to sign.
There will a short dedicatory
service in connection with the
charter. The charter will be open
each Sunday morning for any who
desire to join the Mission.
atim
Eldon W. Brake of Crosby
Road, Carrollton. Survived by
sons, W. W. Brake, Dallas; V.
E. Brake, Carrollton; daughters,
Mrs. Estell Warner, Lima, Pa.; Mrs.
Juanita Whitlock, Mrs. Lois Jones,
Carrollton; Mrs. Colleen Allen,
Fort Worth, Services were held
Monday at 10 a m. in the College
Avenue Baptist Church with Rev.
H. 0. Moore officiating. Interment
was in Perry Cemetery with
Rhoton Funeral Home in charge.
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DOING GOOD
We look into the long avenue of
the future and see the good there
is for each one of us to do, when
we realize after all what a beauti-
ful thing it is to work, and live,
and be happy.
—Robert Louis Stevertson
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The CHRONICLE prints mors
local nows than any other news-
paper, dally or weekly.
are writing a play about safety
which are calling “Danger Dan
and the Angel." One student has
written a poem about safety.
ANN LOVELACE and
GLENDA VAN METER
• a a
This is the safety poem:
SAFETY
Don’t be a “Danger Dan";
Grow up and act like a man.
If you give in to childish pranks,
You’ll end up borrowing from
blood banks.
Try to be a “Safety Sam”;
Don’t play tricks and act like a
ham.
Observe the rules and you will see
What a wonderful thing safety
can be.
ALITA LISHNESS
The Carrollton Lions football
squad, off to a slow start with two
straight losses, journeys to Irving
Friday to meet the Tigers there.
The Tigers in their first start
came out on the short end of a
19-0 score.
Game time has been set for
8:00 p.m.
During the next two weeks the
Lions play two straight home
games against Terrell and Lan
caster, both non-district foes.
District play starts here with
Brewer the visitor on Oct. 18 and
Diamond Hill (here) on Oct. 25.
Lose to Brian Adams
Last Friday night the Lions lost
to a new Dallas high school, Bryan
Adams, by a 20-12 score. It was
the first football game for the
new high school.
Neither team scored in the first
quarter, but Bryan Adams' Larry-
Brown got the new-comers off to
a good start in the second period
with a 4-yard scoring punch over
the center of the line. Marvin
Brandon ran the extra point and
the half ended 7-0.
The Lions came within one point
in the third quarter when Fullback
Ken Chambers took a handoff and
galloped up the middle for 74
yards, one of the longest runs of
the night. The extra-point try
failed.
Brief Items
From Other Cities
j CLINT MURCHISON'S PLANE
LANDS AT ADDISON AIRPORT
CITY OF FARMERS BRANCH
Bryan Adams’ Brown and Jack APPROVES $1,095,000 BUDGET
Phillips teamed up to score the;
other two markers for the Dallas The Farmers Branch city coun- The private plane belonging to
club. The Lions made their last j Monday approved a $1,095,000 Clint Murchison, millionaire oil-
touchdown in the fourth period! <*y budget for the fiscal year fol- j man> financier and railro,d necu.
when Larry Moseley carried it I lowing a public hearing. j
The council also approved an or- ’
over from the eight.
COUNTY BOND VOTE TO BE
SET FOR NOVEMBER 5
A proposed Dallas County road
bond election totaling about $17,-
272,000 is expected to be set for
Nov. 5 to coincide with a state-
wide election on amendments to
the state constitution.
Funds from the bond issue, if
approved, would match $28,222,000
already allotted by the State High-
way Dept, for construction and
right-of-way buying on federal and
inter-state freeways and state
highways.
dinance levying the $1.25 tax rate.
City Manager Jack Gray said the
tax rate is pledged for debt serv-
ice of 42c and for general opera-
tions of 83c. The debt service will
finance $412,000 worth of capital
projects for the 1957-58 portion of
the recently approved bond pro-
gram.
The following breakdown of the
city budget was adopted:
Total general budget $
Total capital projects
373,170.00
722,000.00
Total to be spent .. $1,095,170.00
General Budget
......$134,312.00
Supplies, materials ..
94,250.00
Professional and special
Services ..............
..... 9,044.00
Equipment and
maintenance ......
23.910.00
Capital outlay .........
.... 32,800 00
Interest and Sinking
Fund .....................
.... 78,900.00
Total .....................
......$373,216.00
Total Operations
Budget .................
$ 373,000 00
Total Bond Program
Budget ..................
722,000.00
Grand Total
$1,095,000 00
MISS CHARLENE MYERS
NEW 35-ACRE SHOPPING
CENTER PROPOSED FOR
FARMERS BRANCH
The Farmers Branch Planning
Commission has set Tuesday, Oc-
tober 5 as the date for a public
hearing on a proposed new shop-
I ping center planned by W. L.
Earnhart covering about 35 acres.
The tract is located at the inter-
section of Valley View Lane and
Dennis Road in Farmers Branch.
The proposed village will front
907.5 feet on Valley View and
approximately 1,680 feet on Den-
nis Road, it was learned.
landed at the new Addison
Airport Saturday where it will be
permanently based.
The plane, a DC-3 was accom-
panied by another similar type
plane owned by Delhi-Taylor Oil
Co.
Mr. Murchison’s son, John, is
vice-president of Addison Airport,
Inc. W. T. Overton is president of
the firm and Henry Stuart, man-
ager of the airport.
• • •
ADDISON WATER WELL
TO BE DUG DEEPER
The new water well for the City
of Addison will be dug deeper
than the 950 feet reached so far,
it was learned from reliable Addi-
son sources.
The water well is now being
dug on Addison Airport property
and will eventually be turned over
to the city.
It was not immediately learned
how deep the well will be dug but
Is expected to go down to a more
satisfactory level for an ample
water supply.
Homer Hunter Associates are en-
gineers for both the airport and
the city on the project.
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COPPELL GRANTS
TELEPHONE FRANCHISE
The city council of the city of
Coppell announced that it has
granted the Coppell Telephone Co.
a 25-year franchise to operate in
Northwestern Dallas County.
Mayor R. M. Johnson said the
council acted after the telephone
company promised to install dial
telephones and to erect a new ex-
change building in Coppell.
The company, which also owns
the telephone exchange In the
town of Keller in Tarrant County,
is installing a 300-phone dial sys-
tem in Coppell, Mayor Johnson
said.
HOME DEMONSTRATION
CLUB NEWS
By Club Raportar
tOOGOOOOOGGdSOOOGGGOeGg#!
ADDISON CLUB MEETS
The Addison Home Demonstra-
tion Club met Sept. 17 at the Addi-
son Community House. There were
10 members and one visitor pres-
ent.
We enjoyed a wonderful foods
demonstration prepared by Mrs.
Carl Verbick and Mrs. W. A. Kelly.
They were delicious one-dish
meals. .
Officers for the coming year
were elected. They are the follow-
ing: President, Mrs. Julia Verbick;
vice-president, Mrs. Buena Collins-
worth; secretary-treasurer, Mrs.
Willie Mae Lewis; reporter, Mrs.
Earline Dooley; council delegate,
Mrs. Tiny Kelly; recreation leader,
Mrs. Cleo Smirl; parliamentarian,
Mrs. Wynnelle Witt.
Program committee, Mmes.
Buena Collinsworth, Mary Woods,
Imogene Morris; Finance commit-
tee, Mmes. Earline Dooley, Cleo
Smirl, Winnelle Witt; exhibit com-
mittee, Mrs. Williamson, Mrs. Witt,
Mrs. Woods; expansion committee,
Mrs. Woods, Mrs. Smirl, Mrs.
Dooley.
The Home Demonstration Club
will have a family night Oct. 3.
Supper will be served for mem-
bers and their families.
The club furnished 30 dozen
cookies for the Veteran’s Hospital
Monday, Sept. 23.
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DISCRETION
Open your purse and your mouth
cautiously; and your stock of
wealth and reputation shall, at
least in repute, be great.
—Zimmerman
Carrollton Citizens to Take
Salk Shots at Farmers
Branch and Addison Friday
BIRDSONG NAMED DALLAS
DISTRICT MANAGER
CHARLES L. BIRDSONG
Charles L. Birdsong of 2554
Wasina Drive, Farmers Branch, has
been named Dallas district man
ager for Woodmen Accident and
Life Company of Lincoln, Nebr., it
was announced this week.
OPPORTUNITY
There sometimes wants only
stroke of fortune to discover num-
berless latent good or bad quali-
ties, which would otherwise have
been eternally concealed; as words
written with a certain liquor ap-
pear only when applied to the fire.
—Gerville
Funds Earmarked for
2 More Hwy. 77 Lanes
State Highway Department offi-
cials Saturday announced that con-
struction will begin about Jan. 1
on two additional lanes on the
east side of Hwy. 77 from Farmers
Branch to Tom Field Circle.
Also announced was the authori-
zation of $2,000,000 for right-of-
way use for a proposed rerouted
Expressway 77 west of the present
two-lane artery.
The $2 million right-of-way pur-
chase authorized by the Highway
Commission will be used to acquire
land for the new route south and
west of the connection at Farmers
Branch.
Right-of-way funds were ear-
marked for a e^-mile stretch from
Farmers Branch to a projected in-
tersection with Bachman Blvd.,
west of Harry Hines.
Highway officials said the early
1958 work will include widening
to four-lane status a five-mile sec-
tor of Hwy. 77 from below Farm-
ers Branch to the Circle, where
the highway now is only two lanes
and a bottleneck could occur after
the north Freeway here is com-
pleted soon.
The right-of-way on the east side
of present Hwy. 77 has been ac-
quired for some time. Cost of the
extra two lanes is estimated at
$700,000.
State Highway officials said the
(See Hwy. 77 on back page)
An Editorial
OCTOBER IS PTA ENROLLMENT MONTH—
October has been designated as “PTA Enrollment
Month” in Texas.
There are few of us who would not give or do anything
possible to give our child a better “break” in life than we
ourselves had. Fewer still are those of us who would deny
that a good education is the best “break” possible to bestow.
There is a tendency, nowadays, for parents to enroll a
child in school and transfer to the teacher the entire respon-
sibility for his or her education at least for that year.
But learning does not confine itself to the impressions
made on the child’s mind by the teacher alone. While the
responsibility for protecting and guiding the child may b<
thus shared for a short time each day, their education must
be continued at home by the parents.
This shared responsibility for educating a child in all
facets is the reason for the existence of the PTA—a common
meeting ground for the school teacher and the home teachers
in the interests of the child.
You might ask; “What does my belonging to the PTA
mean to my child?”
As the love of the sport and the will to win come easy
so the child will press on in study when his parents and his
teacher are rooting for him as he plods the pages of the
book. Someone must care!
Show your child you care—that you’re pulling for him
in school and at home. Join the PTA today!
*74e Cdito*
MISS MYERS TO WED LARRY
LEE ULAND NOVEMBER 29
Mr. and Mrs. Roy W. Myers,
1201 Clint, Carrollton, announced
the engagement and approaching
marriage of their daughter, Char-
lene to Larry Lee Uland, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Talmadge Uland,
Plano.
The wedding will take place
Friday, November 29 at the Car-
rollton First Methodist Church. I
The Rev. Gordon D. Casad will j
officiate at the double-ring cere-.
mony..
Be Safe ... Take Your Salk Shot
Friday in Farmers Branch - Addison
Sale of Local Educational Bldg.
Makes Change Necessary
The third in a series of Salk polio vaccine shots will be
given Friday, Sept. 27 to thousands who participated in the
first two area clinics, Dr.
Eugene M. Massad, coordina-
tor, announced.
Shots will be given at Farmers
Brahch and Addison only due to
the fact that the Carrollton Meth-
odist Church Educational building
was recently sold and all furniture
Over 200 church officers, Sun j has been removed fram the
day School teachers, Training I premises, Dr. Massad said.
and committee; Carrollton residents were urged
elected by the j (0 g0 tbc \yet)b Chapel Method-
ist Church Education Bldg, on Val-
FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH NEWS
(By Th« Church Reporter)
Union leaders
members were
church last Wednesday evening to
assume leadership on October 1,
which is the beginning of the new
church year. These workers will
be installed following Sunday
School and promotion day services
this Sunday morning.
Glenn Odom will continue to
ley View where the time period
has been extended from 8:00 a m.
to 8:00 p.m.
At Addison, the Addison School
will serve as the clinic during the
hours 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. This
clinic is also open to the public
serve as Sunday School superinten-; f()r any sb(ds ;n fbe series.
dent and John Boyd will continue
as Training Union director. Roy
Mitchell will continue to serve as
church treasurer and Mrs. Ray
Owens was re-elected as church
clerk.
...
Rev. D. B. Russell, pastor of
First Baptist Church, Rylic, will
begin revival services in our
church Sunday morning, which
continue through Sunday, October
6. Don Wiley will lead the music
and Earl Perry and Mrs. Fred
White will lead the Booster Band
Prayer meetings will precede the
evening services beginning at 7
p.m. and morning services will be
held at 10 a m.
The pews will be filled each eve-
ning by adult and young people’s
Sunday school classes. Every mem-
ber of these 18 classes has an as-
signment for one evening during
the week. Along with their pew
assignment, everyone also has the
name of a family or individual
who is not a member of a church
in Carrollton, and these will be in-
vited to the services that evening.
• • •
You are cordially invited to
worship with us during these re-
vival services or at any of the
regular services of our church.
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CONSCIOUSNESS
Two men look out though the
same bars:
One see the mud, the one the
stars.
—Frederick Langbridge
THE CHRONICLE prints
local naws than any other
paper, daily or weekly.
Are you financially responsible
for damage your automobile may
cause? M. L. COKER INSURANCE
AGENCY insures you for your
Liability.—(Adv.)
Stresses Importance
Dr. Massad stressed the im-
portance of the approaching third
shot in his announcement and
urged public cooperation.
“Medical men learned a few
years ago that two shots were not
sufficient to gain permanent im-
munity from the’dangers of polio,”
he said, “and the general public
should take this fact into consid-
eration.”
Asked whether failure to take
the third shot would necessitate
a new series of three, Dr. Massad
said: “The third shot is deemed
one of the most important of the
three in the series. Unless the
shot is taken according to proper
spacing of a 6-month waiting
period between the second and
third shots it is apparent that the
first two shots will go for nil.”
Dr. Massad gave high praise for
the success of the first two area
clinics when nearly 2,000 received
the Salk treatment.
“But of more importance was the
fact that the record speaks for
itself in this area. The first two
shots put us past the recent sum-
mer in great style and we have
much to be thankful for."
Those failing to receive their
third shots Friday will be able to
do so at the October clinic, Dr.
Massad concluded.
The same nominal fee will be
charged for the vaccine.
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STORM SEWER WORK STARTED
ON CARROLLTON LOOP
The W. G. Cullum Construction
Co. of Dallas started work on the
storm sewer down the center of
South Broadway Street and the
project is well underway.
The storm sewer project is pre-
paratory to State Highway Dept,
paving the business loop, a 1.9-
mile-long project.
Water and gas lines have already
been relocated for the wider
Broadway Street connections with
Freeway 77.
FORD DEALER Lee O. Jar-
men, Jarmon Motors of Carroll-
ton, (right) greets John F. Hef-
lin of Ford Motor Company at
a unique, five-day seminar
Held at Dearborn, Mich., re-
cently. The seminars are held
especially for Ford dealers
whose duties prevent them
from spending a full month
away from their businesses at-
tending the regular Ford Divi-
sion Merchandising School
classes. A feature of the semi-
nar was two-way open discus-
sions led by dealer panels to
focus study on every facet of
automotive retail merchandis-
ing and management.
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