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Cliff on, Texas
Thursday, July 29, 1971
Al! Our New Housing Uni
Will Still be Catch Up
Clifton area residents with nice,
snug homes surely are getting tired of]
The Record’s series of regent editorials-
on local housing problems, hut we must’
insist that this is the most critical ‘Strike’
against Clifton’s growth and ri?velop-
m mt^.and-. av« .-intend- to TTedfgi'vr
away at a’l angles of this situation until
some relief is-found.
Below is a letter received Satirdav
(in reply to a letter written to him Julv
19 a'vt published in this spa^e last week'
fvnm Texas’ United States Senator I.lovd
Bentsen. For those who might not read
our letter to the Senator, published last
week, we took two rages to complain
about the fact that it has been more than
three and a half years since wp applied
for housing, our criticism of HUD’s red
tape, and the letter appealed to the Sen-
ator to help us. Also we sent him 13
documents testifying to the time lag in
our program.
nind is that these new homes ARE NOT j
b 'EXTRA" housing! They are indeed,
‘CATCH UP" rental housing that Clifton
[should have had 10 years ago! I dare sav!
that there are 59 to 75 nersons
in various Clifton industries an
es VrluThave
cause they can’t find a housp herp Our1
growth can only l a accomplished if we
pitch ri-dd in and creale twice this many
rental units.
Naturallv this letter was mailed one
dav before HUD finally sent us a letter
authorizing us to advertise for construc-
tion bids when 20 some odd changes in
the architect’s plans had been made. In
our opinion the fact that this authoriza-
tion has finally come, after more than
tumn y^arc of red tape, do°s not excuse
HUD for their unreasonable time lap—
that is. if we couldn’t qualify, then thev
should have told us two years ago. so we
could have gone another route. But this
is another story, and now that we’ve final-
ly gotten this far. perhaps we should stop
and analyze our local housing situation:
(6) One m-on reason whv Clifton is
hehind in its abilitv to provide rental
b^sino is hpr-ause we started latn. Som«
folks thought government proieets would
hurt the local building and trades sun-
rjiors nnd contract er<!. Tins simnlv is not
true. They are building houses for peo-
ple that can aftord to build homes, and
they have never been busier in history
than thav am now. If anvonp doesn’t be-
lieve this, then ask them, Hke we did.
The reason /or this is simple. The peo-
ple that need rental housing are the poor,
the voting families who have not been
working long enough to have saved e-
nough for a down payment on their own
home, and those new families who would
like to rent awhile until they decided
where to buy or build.
i»*y
"*(}i Maybe in a month or two we can
start construction on these 32 housing
units (16 for elderly and 16 for non-elder-
ly low income families ). This project
sponsored hv Clifton Housing Authority,
financed with a Dent. of Housing and Ur-
ban Development (HUD) loan.
Also it should be remembered that
local building and trades people and sup-
pliers have a chance to bid on these two
government loan housing projects too.
Hn the case of the 14 housing units, one
lo^al comnany was one of the two lowest
bidders, but this project’s construction
contract has not been let, pending re-
ceipt of the government’s loan. This
Farmers Adm. loan monev was approved,
it was learned Tuesday, so this contract
should be awarded soon.)
(2) Another Clifton organization, the
Clifton Industrial Apartments, Inc., a non-
profit organization, is sponsoring the
building of 14 2-and-3 - bedroom homes
(not apartments as reported in the errone-
ous Waco newspaper story Tuesday)..
through a Farmers Home Administration
loan. These homes will also probably be
constructed within the next couple of
months, for medium and above income
families.
It should be also remembered that
creating housing for new families enables
more jobs and more industry expansion
here. The more jobs, naturallv the bet-
ter the local economy and eventually the
more people who can afford to build
their own homes.
(3) These two proieets will total 46
homes FOR RENT in Clifton which should
surely relief our situation to a great ex-
tent.
(4' We hope that some or all of those
who qualify for the 16 elderly units of
the HUD low-rent housing, will be elderly
persons who will be giving up a larger
home that they no longer can maintain,
and that these people will see fit to rent
their former homes to new Clifton resi-
dents. This will also help.
(5) But what we all need to keep in
Mith all this going on, this news-
paper behaves that Clifton is ripe for a
privately owned apartment project to be
built here! In past years, it has not been
economically sound to build new rental
units, because rent was too low to make
the units pay the owner—hense the long-
term. low - interest government loans,
have been the only way — but we be-
lieve this situation is gradually changing.
Couples who have rented apartments in
college towns and in the cities, are used
to paying high rent. There is no valid
reason why rent on apartments, if they
are nice, in Clifton should be so low they
can’t pay off the building loan. These
rents can be raised and still be fair to the
tenant and still be lower than rent on
comparable apartments in the cities.
—Sam Logan
GRAND PRIZE WINNERS — Mr. and Mrs. George V.
Patrick of Cranfills Gap were winners of the grand
prize in the recent drawing held by Western Auto
Store here. They are pictured here with the prize, a
S55 lawnmower. —Record Staff Photo
FISHERMEN'S
REPORT
I netted good catches of catfish,
black bass, sandies and crappie.
Grashoppers proved to be suc-
cessful bait for some nice chan-
nelcat for a local foursome who
caught 48. An angler caught 20
blacks up to 4 pounds. Also dur-
ing the week, a couple caught
150 crappie. The largest string
of sandies was 207 caught by a
family group. The level of the
lake is 519.20— slightly up from
last week. Best reports are:
DRAWS WINNING TICKET — Lvndell Smith shows
the winning ticket he drew out of the registration hop-
per during th-2 recent W’estern Auto Store drawing.
Floyd Gray, owner of Western Auto Associate Store,
is standing behind.
-Record Staff Photo
Ronny Moore is Mission
Planning Engr. at NASA
For Current Moon Flight
HOUSTON- Ronny H. Moore,
to meet mission objectives and
to provide for contingencies
should they arise.
Moore, a 1961 graduate of Val-
ley Mills High School, received
Seaman Bon Luce
Returned to Duty
Aboard 'Ticonderooa'
-Navy Seaman Ben VV. Luce
son of Mrs Burnice Sanders qI
Route 1, Walnut Springs, Tex
has returned to his homoport ,1
San Diego aboard the ami sub,
marine warfare aircraft canv
USS Ticonderogq alter a four,
month deployment lo the IndiJn
Ocean and Western Pacific.
During the cruise, his Shjp
operated in the Philippine Sea, the
South China and East China seas
and the Sea of Japan and over
a wide range of the Northern
Pacific.
The 27-year-old warship Ticon-
deroea has the unique distinction
of being the only anti-submarine
warfare aircraft carrier in the
Pacific Fleet.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Laguna Park
Rev. JOE STEVENS
SUNQAY:
Sunday School—10 00 a m
Morning Worship—11:00 a.®.
son of Mr and Mrs Os^o W ,his B- s- degree from Arlington
Moore, of Valley Mills', is among j j?*-' Sta‘e wifo,
the thousands of U. S. snace junda, is the daughter of Mi . and
team members whose individual
work makes the coming Apollo
15 moon shot possible.
Moore is a National Aeronautics
and Space Administration em-
ployee at the Manned Spacecraft
Center in Houston.
He works as an engineer in
the mission planning and analyses
divison that his designed the
overall plans for the seventh
U. S. manned flight to the moon
. . . Our Senator Did Help
United States Senate
Committee on Public Works
Washington, D. C. 20510
July‘22, 1971
Mr. Sftn^ D. Logan, Jr.
Commissioner
Clifton Housing Authority
Clifton, Texas 76634
ington to see what can be done to expe-
dite this matter. Just as soon as I have
their report, you will be hearing from me
again.
I appreciate this opportunity to be
of assistance.
Sincerely
Lloyd Bentsen'
Dear Sam:
Thank you for delineating the prob-
lems the Clifton Housing Authority has
encountered with HUD. I certainly share
your deep concern over this time lag.
I’ve contacted HUD officials in Wash-
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Received a fcMow-up
phone call from Sen. Ben»sen's office in
Washington to inform us that HUD funds
had been frozen for this project, for some
time, but that now HUD saw no reason
cr any more time lags in this project.)
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The true fisherman on Lajce
Whitney who d>,d not mind get-
ting out and getting wet in our
welcomed showers this week
UNCLE GUS’ LODGE- Don
Davis, of Stephenville, 50 sandies
on jigs.
MURT’S LODGE- Tom Car-
lisle and family of Waco, 80
sandies— nice size, on lures.
GLANCE AT THE PAST
Mr. Armstrong of Meridian, 3
b'acks to 3 and three - fourths
po"nds on p’astic worms.
FISH HOOK LODGE - Bill
Rawlings and family of Wich’ta
Fa'ls auH David and Lou Stamps
of Amarillo, 207 sandies on arti-
ficial bait, men sj?e.
ROCKY CREEK LODGE -
Mr. and Mrs. Wavue Hilcher of
Clyde and Mr. and Mrs. Bud Hil-
cher of Hcrmleieh, 46 sandies.
Mr. and Mrs. James Dunn of
Dal'as, 100 sandies and crappie
and a 2 and one-fourth pound
catf’sh. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bryan
nf Waco. 42 sandies and 14 crap-
pie and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
England also of Waco, 17 sandies.
Please report pood catches to
Olson’s Mobil Station in Clifton,
or the Clifton Record, and we
wilt be glad to take pictures or
we’ll use your pictures of excep-
tional catches to be run in the
Record.
Mrs. Jeff Bland of Crawford.
Dr. H. H. Gerdes
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From the Files of The Clifton Record
?C Years Ago, July 27, 1951 i Those attending from Zion’s
Cranfills Gap Chapter of the i Church W omack were Emma
Future Farmers of America was!Louis Mcinkowsky, Dorothy Ann
honored during the State FFA [Thiele, John Rueter, David Con-
Convention held in Houston on rac* ar|d Albert Ilenntg.
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For Rental of Building contact
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YOU'LL KNOW WHY WE'RE TOP
EXPERTS IN MOTOR OVERHAULING.
HERZOG and DYER GARAGE
320 W. 3rd — Clifton
Phone 675-8678
July 11-13 when one of its mem-
bers. Guy Wendell Finstad, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Finstad.
received the Lone Star Farmers
Degree.
Werner Philipp, Clifton Future
Farmer, has been awarded the
Santa Fe award as State FFA
Officer to Kansas City for the
nt'onal FFA Convention in Oct.
W’erner, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Philipp, was named]
vice president of the Texas Fu- j
ture Farmers and served in that [
capacity at Houston this summer j
at the state convention. It was j
at this convention that Werner ;
was named Lqne Star Farmer, j
an honor that Voes to only one
ir, a hundred FFA members.
*******
Fire Sundav destroyed the
home on the Henrv Liope place
occupied by the Rill Ro^tschke ;
family near Mosheim. The house
b"rned to the ground, and every-
thing in it was a comp'ete loss.
Mr. and Mrs. Rootschke were
not at home at the time, and the
cause of the fire is not known.
The smokehouse, near the house,
also burned. f
*******
As much as an inch and a half
of rain was reported to have fall-;
en last Tuesday near Norse, and
in other areas scattered showers
amounted to about one inch.
The Waco Area of the Zion
Evangelical and Reformed j
Church fathered at St. Paul’s j
Church, Marlin, for its quarterly
meeting Sunday.
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Logan, Sam D., Jr. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 29, 1971, newspaper, July 29, 1971; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth797213/m1/2/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.