The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1960 Page: 1 of 11
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The Carrollton Chronicle
“SERVING CARROLLTON, ADDISON, COPPELL, NW. DALLAS COUNTY TOWNS SINCE 1904”
—Commended by East Texas Chamber of Commerce for Outstanding Community Service—
VOLUME: 56TH YEAR CARROLLTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1960 (12 Pages in 2 Sections) No. 20
SHOWN ABOVE is the architect’s sketch of the proposed $2,000,000 Glidden Paint
Company plant to be built in the northeast section of Carrollton near Josey Lane and
Belt Line Road on a 34-acre tract. The plant will employ about 100 persons.
INCUMBENTS WIN ELECTION;
661-VOTE RECORD SET HERE
It was a clean sweep for the
incumbents in the Carrollton
city election Tuesday which saw
a record shattering 661 citizens go
to the polls.
Helloing the incumbents’ cause
was a week of rumors which indi-
cated that Carrollton was to get
its second multi-million-dollar
industrial plant in the northeast
part of the oity.
Mayor Robert J. Mclnnish won
a second term with 335 votes. He
defeated Jesse R. Woody who re-
ceived 271, and Barrett Renfro
who had 36.
Winning decisively in their bid
for re-election to the city council
were Police Commissioner Bill
Hall and Dr. James A. Krise.
Krise received the largest vote,
(See ELECTION on Page 8)
ROBERT MclNNISH
Re-elected Mayor
RED CROSS DRIVE
HERE GOES
OVER QUOTA
Carrollton has gone over the top
with 100.65 per cent of its goal in
the Dallas County Red Cross mem-
bership and fund drive, it was re-
ported in Dallas at the fourth
luncheon. Jack Blanton, campaign
chairman in Carrollton, announced
that a total of $916 of a $910 goal
was collected.
The only other town over its
goal is Rowlett with Farmers
Branch second with 85 per cent
collected. The final report lun-
cheon was to be held April 7 in
the Roof Garden of the Adolphus
Hotel.
The County Towns section re-
ported 41.38 per cent of a quota
of $21,542. Overall percentage
reached 57 per cent at the fourth
luncheon.
BILL HALL DR. JAMES A. KRISE
Returned to Office Poll* Largest Vote
THE CHRONICLE print* more
local news than any newspaper,
daily or weekly, and tops all in
total circulation in Carrollton.
The Chronicle
Published Day
Earlier This Week
Due to the importance of the
Glidden plant story, The Chron-
icle is being published a day
earlier than usual so that all
area citizens may get the news
in both of our newspapers simul-
taneously.
THE EDITOR.
34 ACRES SECURED FOR $2-MILU0N
PAINT FACILITY ON COTTON BELT RR
CLEVELAND, Ohio (Spl.)—Plans for construction of
a major $2,000,000 paint plant employing approximately
100 persons at Carrollton were announced today by the
Glidden Company. Dwight P. Joyce, Glidden chairman and
president, said the company has acquired approximately 34
acres of land in the northeastern section of Carrollton and
plans to begin construction
within six months.
The Glidden Company, with
headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio,
operates three major divisions and
is one of the nation’s leading pro-
ducers of paint and related prod-
ucts. Sales of the paint division
last year approached a record
$90,000,000, an increase of 14%
over those of the previous years.
Southwestern Headquarters
Mr. Joyce said the new plant
would serve as headquarters for
Glidden’s entire Southwestern
region which includes Texas, New
Mexico, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Production will continue at the
company’s present New Orleans
plant which has been furnishing
most of Glidden’s Texas and New
Mexico requirements.
The plant is designed to pro-
duce the full line of Glidden con-
sumer paints and lacquers and in-
dustrial' products including special
maintenance finishes for oil field
equipment and the chemical in-
dustry.
Engineering of the plant pro-
vides for future expansion and
the company anticipates the pro-
duction of resins here as well as
increased output of the initial
products. Glidden also plans pro-
duction of a full line of finishes
and other products for pleasure
boats.
The $2,000,000 plant will be of
terraced single story construction
and is designed to make use of
natural sloping ground to facilitate
gravity flow in the production
processes. Raw materials will en-
ter the production cycle at the
higher level and finished prod-
ucts will be loaded for shipment
at the lower level.
The plant is designed for an
initial production capacity of up
to 200,000 gallons a month. In
building the plant, Glidden plans
to hire architects, contractors and
sub-contractors from the Texas
area.
To Employ 100
Anticipated employment will be
approximately 100 persons, most
of whom will be hired locally.
About half the staff will be in
technical and clerical positions.
“The plant will help us to im-
prove our services to our many
fine accounts in Texas and New
Mexico,” said Alexander D. Dun-
can, Glidden vice president and
general manager of the company’s
paint division.
“We are expanding our distri-
bution of products in Texas as
well as throughout the Southwest-
ern region and have outgrown our
capacity at New Orleans,” he said.
Mr. Duncan pointed out that a
major consideration in the selec-
tion of the Carrollton site was
the strong growth in recent years
of both population and Glidden
sales in the Southwest.
Another consideration was that
the site is the hub of an excellent
transportation system covering the
district for which the plant will
serve as distribution headquarters.
On Colton Bolt RR
The plant will be located on the
St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton
Belt) Railway and is served by
excellent highway and trucking
facilities, Mr. Duncan said. “In
addition, Dallas and its surround-
ing communities constitute a
major wholesale distribution area
which assures local availability of
materials, supplies and services,”
be added.
Mr. Duncan also noted that the
site has excellent water and
sewage facilities and that zoning
iis highly favorable to this type of
industry.
The new Glidden plant will be
slightly west and north of the new
Otis Engineering plant now un-
der construction on Belt Line Rd.
It will be located north of the
Cotton Belt RR near Josey Lane.
Praises City, RR Officials
“We are much indebted to the
city officials of Carrollton headed
by Mayor R. J. Mclnnish and Cot-
ton Belt Railroad officials who
were most helpful in all of our
discussions and were influential
in our decision to locate our plant
here,” Mr. Duncan said.
Glidden’s Paint Division manu-
factures and sells a complete line
of paints, varnishes, lacquers,
resins and related coating ma-
terials. Its business involves two
separate markets. The largest of
the two is trade sales which ac-
count for about 60% of volume
and consist of products used by
household consumers, the profes-
sional painter and building main-
tenance accounts. The company is
one of the largest producers in
this field.
The second market is industrial
sales, which consist of materials
used by industry as product fin-
ishes protective coatings, structu-
ral materials and for equipment
maintenance.
Currently a new Glidden prod-
uct, Spred house paint, will be in-
troduced to consumers throughout
the country. Spred house paint is
a latex-emulsion coating for ex-
terior wood siding and is regarded
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Sindik, Nicholas J. The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1960, newspaper, April 8, 1960; Carrollton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth728586/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carrollton Public Library.