The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, September 4, 1959 Page: 3 of 8
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CARROLLTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1959
THE CARROLLTON CHRONICLE
F. & B. Camera
& Card Shop
Locales In Center
The F. & B. Camera and Card
Shop, 124 Farmers Branch Shop-
ping Center, opened September 2
under the ownership of Frank and
Betty Subjeck, local professional
photographers.
The shop stocks the largest as-
sortment of famous Hallmark
Greeting Cards in this area, and
the owners assure residents of
Farmers Branch and Carrollton a
real one-stop card shop. Through-
out the year various displays will
brighten the special occasion days,
such as Valentine’s Day, Mother's
Day, Christmas, etc.
The card shop will be under the
management of Betty Subjeck,
long time resident of Farmers
Branch. She invites her many
friends to come in, visit, browse
and enjoy the colorful cards on
display. A complete name emboss-
ing service will be provided also.
Various cameras, movie and
still; photo supplies, film develop-
ing service including all types of
color printing are offered in the
Photo Shop, and advice will be
freely given to help improve any
person's pictures.
The camera shop will be staffed
by Frank and Betty Subjeck who
offer over 20 years of varied
photographic experience. Frank
has been staff photographer on
several larger eastern newspapers
and is a former New York State
studio owner. He presently holds
a position a; color photographer
and color separation specialist, the
highest skilled position in the
graphic arts, at a Dallas photoen-
graving company. The skill and
experience of Frank and Betty are
for the asking, come in and
get acquainted.
The first and only professional
photo studio in Fanners Branch
and Carrollton, is being operated
with the Camera and Card Shop,
by Frank and Betty, and provides
a complete photographic service to
the residents, who formerly had to
go to Dallas for photos. Various
special offers on baby photos
will be made periodically, through
advertisements in this local news-
paper. Wedding portraits, com-
mercial photos and all other
studio services will b£ provided.
Everyone is invited to stop in,
visit and register for free prizes.
The owners say that the shop
may not be the largest in the new
shopping center, but it surely will
be the friendliest, stressing serv-
ice, advice and quality, before
price.
Convenient shopping hours,
from 12 noon until 8 p.m.,
gives the busy housewives and
folks who work late a chance to
take advantage of the many serv-
ices provided by this new enter-
prise.
SKILLERN S DRUG
OPENS MODERN
STORE IN CENTER
Formal opening of Skillern’;
Departmental Drug Store No. 43
is now in progress, according to
Rae Skillern, president and gen
eral manager of Skillern’s.
The new tore is located in
Farmers Branch Shopping Center
at Valley View Lane and Denni-
Road.
The Grand Opening features
hundreds of items at drasticalh
reduced prices, according to Mr
Skillern, including household
drug, toiletry, clothing, gifts
stationery, school supplies, candj
and cigars.
One-stop shopping service
ample parking facilities, and de-
partmentalized merchandising are
outstanding feature-? of the new
Skillern’s Drdg Store. A modern
scientifically equipped prescription
laboratory, up-to-date fountain
watch repair service, complete
film sen-ice and photographic de-
partment are also available.
‘‘Every' facility of our million
dollar warehouse, carload purchas-
THE F. & B. Camera and Card Shop has opened Us doors in
the Farmers Branch Shopping Center. The store will be con-
veniently open between the hours of 12 noon to 8:00. Betty
Subjeck (above), and her husband, Frank, are the owners and
operators. —photo by Subjeck
..a study in &ood Lighting
Ttape«/ Li/jktl
Home work requires the best
in lighting to keep young
eyes right ... to avoid eye-
strain. So be sure your chil-
dren have proper lighting in
their study room. But
whether you have school
children in your home or
not, your home should be
light conditioned right for
more enjoyment of nights
for work or play. See your
electric dealer soon for table
and floor lamps and other
lighting needs.
TEXAS POWER A LIGHT COMPANT
Reading ’n Writ-
ing Require
Good Lighting
ing, personally supervised kitchen,
bakery and ice cream plant will be
utilized,” said Mr. Skillern, “to
•bring to the residents of the rap-
idly expanding Farmers Branch-
Carrollton area, the friendly,
modern services typical of all
Skillern’s Departmental Drug
Stores.
L. FRANK GRAVLEY
L. Frank Gravley, pharmacist at
Skillern’s Departmental Drug
Store, No. 43, In Farmers Branch
Shopping Center, lives with his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B
Gravley at Carrollton, just two
miles from the new store at Valley
View Lane and Dennis Road.
The store was formally opened
Wednesday, September 2. The pre-
scription laboratory is completely
stocked with all pharmaceuticals
necessary to fill doctor's and den-
tist's prescriptions. It is equipped
with the most modern devices for
scientifically measuring ingredi-
ents down to 1/ 1000th of a grain.
Rae Skillern, president and gen-
eral manager of Skillern’s, beamed
with pride when he announced the
appointment of Mr. Gravley as
pharmacist at the new store. Mr.
Gravley was the first applicant re-
ceived into Skillern’s Scholarship
Training Program inaugurated in
1954.
Under the scholarship plan,
Skillern's completely financed the
college training of any boy or girl
who meets the requirements for
scholarship on a loan basis.
Mr. Gravley was recommended
by his highschool principal for a
scholarship while he was a junior
at Carrollton High School. He was
employed at a Skillern’s Drug
Store that summer and on each
subsequent summer during his
training period. Starting at the
soda fountain, Mr. Gravley has
worked in all departments at dif-
ferent Skillern’o stores, including
work as relief pharmacist since his
graduation from the College of
Pharmacy, University of Texas, in
June, 1959.
His employment record has been
excelled only by his scholastic
achievements, and Mr. Skillern
feels that he is more than ready to
assume full responsibility of the
new Skillern’s prescription labora-
tory.
Mr. Gravley stated in interview
concerning the Skillern’s Scholar-
ship Training Program: “It is a
wonderful way for a student inter-
ested in pharmacy to receive fi-
nancial assistance and actual on-
the-job training. Scholarship stu-
dents are under no compulsion to
work for Skillern’s when we re-
ceive our degree in pharmacy, but
we know Skillern’s operation by
that time and feel more at home
there. 1 doubt if any of us would
want to work elsewhere.
Students are selected for schol-
arship training on a basis of char-
acter, school grades, and interest
in pharmacy.
Mr. Gravley is single, and aside
from his interest in pharmacy,
lists water skiing as his only hob
by. He is a member of the Metho-
dist Church and the Texas Phar
maceutlcal Association
At the University of Texas, he
pledged Phi Delta Chi fraternity,
•nd served as corresponding sec-
retary and again as president of
the chapter He also belonged to
the Long Horn Pharmaceutical As-
sociation in Austin.
MRS. HAZEL WHITLOCK
Mrs Hazel Whitlock, manager
of the newest Skillern Drug Store,
Farmers Branch Shopping Center,
bears the unique distinction of be-
ing the only woman manager in
the 43 stores owned and operated
by Skillern Drug Company in
Texas.
Mrs. Whitlock was appointed
manager of Skillern’s No. 6 at
Pearl and Bryan Streets, Dallas, in
1944 and managed the store until
the building was torn down late in
1958 She was temporarily as-
signed to Store No. 9, Elm and St.
Paul, where she served as manager
during the past eight months.
A native of McKinney, Mrs.
Whitlock joined the Skillern or-
ganization 19 years ago. According
to Rae Skillern, president, Mrs
Whitlock showed unusual en-
thusiasm and exceptional ability
right from the start.
"Her sincere desire to help
people, her willingness to do a
little more than is expected of her
together with her eagerness to
learn and her sound merchandis-
ing sense are largely responsible
for Hazel's rise to managership,"
said Mr. Skillern. “The complex-
ities of today’s merchandizing
methods demand unusual execu-
tive ability to manage a Skillern’s
drug store. Mrs. Whitlock’s record
of achievement in this field is out-
standing."
Mrs. Whitlock has worked in
every department of the store,
except the prescription laboratory,
where only qualified, registered
pharmacists may serve.
Ro idents of the Farmers Branch
and Carrollton communities may
be sure of efficient, courteous
service at the new Skillern’s
store; and, according to Mr. Skil-
lern. “they can depend on it that
the jovial Mrs. Whitlock will ad-
here to Skillern’s policy of operat-
ing the friendliest drug store in
the neighborhood."
SAFEWAY-
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serve stocks of all items in the
store, cold rooms for produce,
dairy products and frozen foods.
The glassed in meat cutting and
wrapping room with nearby cool-
ers are visible to the customers
and are located immediately be-
hind the self-service meat coun-
ters.
Other points of interest to
family shopper will be found
throughout the store. The Early
American bakery goods fixtures
presents these items in pleasant
;urroundings and is readily acces-
sible to the shopper. Frozen foods,
j beverages, houseware items, and
many other departments are de-
signed with the customers’ interest
and convenience in mind
ated preparation rooms were de-
veloped and have since become
standard equipment in all of Safe-
way’s stores.
The company has invested some
$41 million in its facilities located
in over 70 cities of the state.
Warehouse facilities have recently
been completed to serve the area
with more than 3,000 items carried
in its retail stores.
The Farmers Branch store rep-
presents the most advanced ideas
in food retailing developed by the
t(,c j company. It is designed to serve
this fast growing area with the
most modern facilities developed
by this industry.
New Meat Department
The selection of meat items in
Safeway’s newest store is espe-
cially important to the family food
shopper. Safeway people attach
much importance to the operation
of this department for here the
Shopping hours for the new 1 items are selected that will form
PICTURED ABOVE is Edward Rose, manager of the M. E.
Moses Store in the Farmers Branch Shopping Center. The
store Ls featuring numerous specials during the first two weeks
of its Grand Opening. —photo by Subjeck
M. E. MOSES' 17TH STORE LOCATED
IN F.B. SHOPPING CENTER
Grand Opening of the new M. E.
Moses Co. 5 cent to $1 store in the
new Farmers Branch Shopping
Cen er was announced Wednesday
by M. E. Moses, president of M.
E. Moses Co. The Farmers Branch
store 1} the 17th Moses store in
the Dallas area.
A Grand Opening Celebration
Sale, featuring many special
values for this event, is now in
progress and will continue the
balance of this week, and through
next week. Free treats for the
kiddies and free ivy plants for
the ladies will be offered during
this event.
Registration can be made
at the new store for a host
of free prizes to be awarded to the
lucky winners. First prize will be
a $1000 government bond, fol-
lowed by majiy other valuable
prizes.
Rose Is Manager
Ed C. Rose has been named
manager of the new unit. Mr.
Rose has been employed with the
M. E. Moses Co. for 10 years.
The new self service variety
store consists of 11,000, square
feet of space, has year around air
conditioning, slim line lighting,
automatic magic carpet doors, and
many other outstanding features
Mr. Moses said the most mod
furnishings, including muti-Ievel
gondola type counters, and cus-
tom designed displayers, have been
j used to conveniently display one
of the largest assortments of va-
I rietv store merchandise in this
area.
A pets department features a
complete line of tropical fish as
well a? goldfish, and a complete
assortment of aquarium supplies
The store also has a horticultural
section with a variety of plants.
A wide selection of china and
pottery novelties are available
Complete dry goods sections fea
tures special lines of ladies, chil
dren's and men’s outerwear, un
dorwoar and accessories.
The history of M E Moses Co.,
a Texas organization dates back to
1924, when Mr. and Mrs. M E.
Moses opened their first store in
Paducah. Texas, in a small build-
ing 12x40 feet with a $1,500 stock
of merchandise. The following
year store number two was opened
in Quanah, Texas, where the com-
pany office and warehouse were
established In 1935 the general
offices and warehouse were moved
to Dallas.
This central buying office and
warehouse in Dallas enabled them
to be near representative markets
all over the United States as well
as foreign markets to serve all of
the stores with the latest up-to-
date merchandise.
30 Stores
M. E. Moses Co. operates a total
of 30 stares, all dn Texas, except
one located in Mangum, Okla
From the beginning it has been
the motto of ail Moses stores that
no sale is complete until the cus-
tomer is absolutely satisfied,
and that means any customer can
obtain a refund or exchange on
any purchase, no matter how
small.
M. E. Moses Co
owned Texas Company
Moses is still very active in the
operation of the store;.
Mr. Moses said, “It is our aim
to continue to grow in the Dallas
County area and we have put forth
every effort to give the residents
store will be from 8:30 a m. to
9:00 p.m., Monday through Satur-
day. The store will not be open
on Sunday.
Safeway’s Expansion
Since entry into this area in
1928, Safeway Store; have contin-
ually advanced retail food services
to the public by developing new
and modern retail and backstage
facilities.
Following' World War U the
is a privately company entered a program to
and Mr 'bring >ts facilities up to date,
j utilizing the most advanced devel-
I opments in the industry. Large
the nucleus of the family meal.
From the meat selection the shop-
per plans her purchases in other
departments to round out the
meal.
The meat department of the
new store is headed by Bill York
who has some six years service
with the Safeway company. The
department is staffed with quali-
fied, especially-trained employees
who prepare the retail cuts and
displays from the wholesale or
prime cuts of meat. Glass enclosed
refrigerated work area is located
in view of the shopper immedi-
ately behind the self-service coun-
ters.
The meat cutting and prepara-
tion room is equipped with new
and modern meat handling equip-
ment. Net weight scales are pro
retail stores were designed with
many new and advanced ideas in
food handling incorporated. Large
air-conditioned buildings were
built with large off-street parking
of Farmers Branch and surround- j areas provided for customers..
ing area the most modern and up- j New refrigeration equipment such j vided ,hat compute and print the
to-date store possible for their j as the frozen food cases, self-serv-
shopping pleasure and eonveni- j ice meat counters, and refriger-
ence." j - ---------------------
Mr. Moses credits the continued
growth of the firm to “courteous j
service, complete customer satis-
faction, and supplying quality
»
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with \ (
wart
anag*r
FLORENCE SHWIFF
merchandise at fair and economi- j
cal prices.”
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
IN VISTAVISI0N AND TECHNICOLOR •
Starts
TEACHER OF PIANO
• • •
MUSIC READINESS COURSE
FOR BEGINNERS
• a •
2819 ROYAL LANE
LA 6-6928
CH 7-5741
labels for each item prepared
The customer’s price does not in-
clude the weight of wrapping ma-
terial used —only the weight of the
meat itself.
Safeway has a long established
program of selling only top U. S.
grades of meat. Its standard of
close trimming and its money-
back guarantee assure; every cus-
tomer of a satisfactory purchase
from gleeming surroundings of
this most important department of
the store.
Safeway Research
Safeway people like to think of
of mind." By this is meant that
Safeway people all are seeking a
better way to do things—nol only
in the technical laboratories and
other specialized departments,
but at every stage of its opera-
tions—from the source of supplies
at the farm to the homes of
the customers where the finished
products are ultimately used.
Safeway people are constant
looking for “a better way" Uir
the application of research •'uh>'
ciples. The field buyers inspe^- -
the farmer’s crop, the meat
cialist looking over a herd
steers, the plant manager with
processing problem, the
house manager, the store manager
—in all phases of the business
and at all stages from the farm
to ihe kitchen — research con-
tinues.
The new Farmers Branch store
is Safeway’s newest and show;
the end results of a tremendous
amount of research. The store lay-
out itself and the fixtures in it
represent the latest developments
from years of study by retail
management and by Safeway’s
service departments.
The color scheme and wall
signs have been worked out by a
special task force of Safeway men
from a dozen company operations.
The lighting is the result of study
of the unique problems of store
illumination by specialists in this
field. Shelf space requirements
have been studied on the basis of
the weekly sales of each item, and
measured in terms of cubic inches
Even the problem of keeping
the asphalt tile floor clean and at-
tractive has been studied. A ma-
chine has been developed, with
the assistance of Safeway re-
searches, which scrubs, rinses,
(fries and waxes the floor in one
operation, completed in one hour
and a half by one man.
No item, no problem, is too
minor for study, if it leads to im-
provement. The search for a bet-
ter way goes on unceasingly.
-o-
PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS
James Feed Store
& Used Furniture
1015 So. Broadway
Carrollton, Texas
SKILLERN'S PHARMACIST
And Throughout ihe year, see our displays of Hallmark Cards for special occasions such as Christmas, Valen-
tine's. St Patrick's Day, Easter, Mother's Day. Father's Day, Graduation, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and New Year's.
You'll enpy shopping for your Hallmark Greeting Cards in the pleasant atmosphere of our new card
department, where there are always friendly people, ready to help you. And you’ll like the convenient, easy-
to-see displays of lovely Hallmark Cards-the cards that tell your friends "you care enough to send the very best “
We’re looking forward to your visit
F. § B. Camera and Card Shop
124 Farmers Branch Shopping Center
Phone CH 7-5069
CONVENIENT SHOPPING HOURS: 12 NOON TO 8:00 P.M.
— REGISTER HERE FOR PRIZES —
FILMS, CAMERAS,
PHOTO SUPPLIES
PHOTO STUDIO;
BABY PICTURES;
PORTRAITS, WED-
DINGS; COMMERCIAL
FRANK GRAVLEY
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Sindik, Nicholas J. The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, September 4, 1959, newspaper, September 4, 1959; Carrollton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth728284/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carrollton Public Library.