The Deer Park Progress from Deer Park, Texas • Page 1

Win District 23-4A Championship The Deer Park Progress invites Good For Two Tickets When Presented At The Port Theatre Box Office Good For Two Tickets When Presented Sam Johnson The Deer Park Progress Invites 4632 Luella Deer Kenneth Dickey Now At The Colonial Drive In Box Office Showing Park Progress 2414 Now Pickerton Showing FIVE EASY PIECES 'THE OFFICIAL VOICE OF DEER PARK SINCE 1957' PATTON VOL. 12, NO. 22 TELEPHONE 479-5263 THE DEER PARK PROGRESS, DEER PARK, TEXAS FEBRUARY 25, 1971 PRICE I0 CENTS Notable Notes Council Approves Mobile Home Park Optimist Meet And Meeting The Deer Park Optimists will hold their first March meeting Thursday, March 4, at 7 p.m. at the Hickory House, Visitors are welcome. Ball Registration Next Saturday, Feb.

27, will be the last day for PeeWee and T-Ball baseball registration, Registration is at the PeeWee Field House (directly behind the Center St. Fire Station, on 13th St.) and will be from 10 a.m, to 4 p.m. There is a $6.00 registration fee and each boy must furnish a birth certificate to prove that he will be seven before Aug. 1, 1971, and not over 10 by the same date, Concert At San Jac A concert featuring Tellonious Troll will be presented Friday, Feb. 26, at 8 p.m.

Glocomb Auditorium at San unto College. Prior to this engagement, Tellonious Troll toured as a backup group! to Credence Clearwater Revival. They have also appeared with Poco, Bob Dylan and Sly and the Family Stone. Recently they appeared Atlanta Pop Festival, as well as number of colleges around the United States. Admission is $1.50 and tickets may be purchased at the door, Boy Scouts New Scout Troop 915 of Deer Park is in need of donations of camping gear or tents.

All donations are income tax deductible, The troop will appreciate all donations made, If you wish to make a donation, call Ray Dean at 479- 2588 or E. Maxwell, at 479- 1660. Around Town The Progress had two early Monday morning distinguished visitors COUNCILMAN JAMES L. COOK and MAYOR EARL E. DUNN.

BILL BLACK paying an infrequent visit to The Progress Monday, JUDGE J. B. MASTERSON says he doesn't run a "Kangaroo Court," but he laughingly says, "I have a 'Kangaroo' running my court." This is apparently a pet name he has for his GIRL FRIDAY MRS. LORNA NELSON he says she is the most etficient person and the best in her job he has ever seen COUNCILMAN COOK told the Progress that he and MRS, COOK took another trip over the weekend to take Mrs. Cook's mother home and visited briefly with them, MR.

and MP. ALTON VAUGHAN, in then drove on to Nac, ouches for a visit with some friends, MR. and MRS, PETE WOODRUFF and FAMILY, Deer Park's (almost new) AND DIRECTOR: and MRS. RONALD DOWNING are looking forward to their first visit from the stork in May The Progress finally succeeded in getting a paper to MRS, MARY LOU STIFLE last week after trying for eight weeks thanks for your patience, Mrs. Stifle, perseverance usually pays off We are still trying to get you a paper COACH RAY LANDERS bet we'll make it yet! DEER PARK HIGH SCHOOL, PRINCIPAL FELTON WAGGONER helps on an identification PATRICK KRONIN knows a bargain when he one CECIL CUMMINS honks and waves as he drives by real neighborly of him.

The next regular meeting of the Deer Park Planning and Zoning Commission will be held Monday, March 1, at 7 p.m, at City Hall. City Meeting The Deer Park City Council will hold its next regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 9, at City Hall, 1302 Center Street. Firemen's Meeting Deer Park Fire Chief Odis Chappell last week attended the North Texas Firemen's Association meeting and the association voted to back him for fourth vice president of the Texas association. Chief Chappell is unopposed for the office thus far, New Fireman pleted his training and tests and has been accepted by the membership of the Deer Park Volunteer Fire Department.

Discussion Group The next meeting of the Library Book Discussion Group of the Deer Park Public Library will be held at 7:30 p.m. March 10 at the library, book to be discussed will be "Dying We Live," translated by Reinhard C. Kuhn, This book is an extraordinary coliection of letters and other writings of men and women from all walks of life who resisted Hitler and were martyred, according to Miss Joyce Miller of the DPPL, The library will have copies available shortly for those interested in the discussion, Police Meet Deer Park Police dispatchers Orie Willis and Elma Lewis attended the Southeast Texas Communications Association monthly meeting Monday, Feb. 15, in Pearland, Votes To Recommend Re-Zoning Members of the Deer Park Planning and Zoning Commission Monday night, Feb. 15, held a public hearing on the proposed rezoning of a tract of land on the corner of Spencer Highway and College Park Drive, from Apartment District to Neighborhood Retail District to permit the construction of a service station.

The request for rezoning was submitted by Jack G. Simpson, The tract is located in the southeast corner of Reserve College Park Sec. 1. In a regular meeting of the commission, following the public hearing, members voted to recommend that the City Council approve the request, Members made a study and will make a recommendation to City Administrator Clovis D. Mann on a five-year Capital Improvements Program for the city of Deer Park sometime this week, according to Chairman Robert Leezer, See RE- Page 2 Deer Park Retery THE ROTARY CLUB SAFETY COMMITTEE REMINDS YOU TO ALLOW PLENTY OF TIME FOR TRAVEL, CHANGE DRIVERS IF POSSIBLE EVERY FEW HOURS.

STOP OFTEN FOR REST BREAKS, WHICH GIVE YOU AND YOUR CAR A CHANCE TO COOL. OFF. Rezoning Okayed The Deer Park City Council Tuesday night approved on the first of three readings Ordinance No. 789 which changes 5.12 acres on Durant Avenue, from Single Family District No, 1 to Light Industrial and Commercial District No. 9, following a recommendation by the Planning and Zoning Commission that such action be taken.

The request for rezoning of the property was made by Tolar, director of Public Works for the city for the past 20 years. He disclosed Tuesday night that "he was not alone in the project, that his partner was John Van Trease, Deer Park builder a and developer. Prior to the council meeting, a joint public hearing on the rezoning request was held at City Hall by the council and Planning and Zoning Commis- On First Of sion, In the public hearing Tolar was asked by Chairman Charles Gunn of the commission if he planned to use the property for any other use than a mobile home park, Tolar told him that this was the use planned for it and he would like a stipulation in the ordinance that this was to be the only use intended for the property in question, Tolar said, "I don't think I brought a lot of big black clouds to the city. I have a lovely home here and I intend to live here, I am not going to bring to you and the city any discredit." He said this in answer to Gunn's question about the use of the property. City Attorney Paul Strong had prepared two ordinances in anticipation as to the council's pleasure on the rezoning request.

One ordinance was the Three Readings A the 5,426 DEER PARK RESIDENTS SIGN PETITION Deer Park Jaycee President C. Moninger (left) and Mrs, Martha Bingham of Deer Park triumphantly display a proclamation and picture of the official signing of the proclamation calling upon all citizens of Deer Park to sign a letter requesting the immedtate release cf American Prisoners of War. Bob Armstrong, chairman of the Jaycee project here, holds petitions signed by 5,426 residents of Deer Park calling for the release of the POW's. Deer Park's goal was 5,000 signatures and the two men and Mrs, Bingham were proud to add their signatures to those collected in Houston, which were taken by 17 from the greater Houston area to Paris representative of 17 men missing or captured from the greater Houston area, Mrs. Bingham, who is a member of the National League of Families of Missing in Action or Prisoners of War, has a nephew, Terrill Alford, a helicopter pilot who went down in November of 1969 behind enemy lines.

He is one of two Pasadena men missing. The other one is Donald Luna, both Pasadena High School graduates. Deer Park To Deer Park To Meet Be Location For Zone Meeting Clear Creek March 2 The Deer Park Optimist Club has been notifled that Deer Park will be the location of the annual zone meeting tentatively set for March 18. Lt. Governor Ben Barnes will be the guest speaker at the meeting.

The DPO was chosen for this honor because they are the first club in the district to increase their membership 100 per cent. President Charles Grant also pointed out at the organization's last meeting that since between October 10, 1970, and Feb, 1, 1971 the Club has risen from 67th in See OPTIMIST Page 2 MARCH 1-5 Public Schools Week Deer Park Schools will join schools throughout Texas in the observance of Public Schools Week, March 1 through the 5th, This year marks the 117th anniversary of public schools in Texas. The local observance was officially proclaimed by Mayor Earl E. Dunn of Deer Park in ceremonies at City Hall Tuesday, Feb. 23, as an official proclamation was signed, Earl Kahla, assistant principal of Deepwater Junior High School, is serving as co-ordinator of the Public School Week observance in Deer Park.

Educators and Texas Ma- Dedication Of New Wing Set February 28 The Central Baptist Church, 121 W. Oak Street, Deer Park, will hold a revival and dedication services of a new educational wing and newly remodeled sanctuary beginning at 10 Sunday, Feb, 28, at the church. The church has just completed its building program which included the new eduSee CHURCH Page 2 -PROFILE: MAYOR EARL E. Don't Like To Fish Or Hunt. Politics Is My Thing" By ANN OWEN Earl Dunn is the mayor of Deer Park.

He was the first mayor of Deer Park and the third mayor of Deer Park and the sixth mayor of Deer Park. There have only been three other men who have served as mayor and Earl Dunn has been in office three years longer than the collective years served by the others. Earl Dunn is the mayor of Deer Park. And being mayor is Earl Dunn's life. love politics.

I don't have to come up to City Hall every day. It's not required, but I spend my time here doing things for the city because I enjoy it. "I hope to spend the rest of my time in politics. If it weren't for that I don't know what I'd do. I don't like to fish or hunt, Politics is my thing." Although the mayor was a charter member of Deer Park's Optimist and Rotary clubs, he says he is not in any civic organization now.

"A politician or public official doesn't have any business in civic clubs because it gets too political. I don't think it is fair to either side. Organizations express themselves more freely 11 a politician is not there. The mayor and council should represent all of the people and not have their minds made up by a few people or any one group," he says. The mayor says he likes to talk to all of the people.

This is one of the reasons he is looking forward to the imminent campaign, "I enjoy the campaign as much or more, I like to talk to the people to hear their views and a lot of times I get lot of ideas talking to the people about issues, In any con- setting up of a new zoning district, District No. 12, The Mobile Home District, which included some rather strict regulations for use of the property for this purpose such as uses, building height, lot area that may be used for the main building and any accessory buildings, square footage of the home, side, front and rear yard requirements and -street parking requirements for each home. Council unanimously disapproved the adoption of this ordinance after a motion that it not be adopted by Bob Staton and simultaneously seconded by Bob Linberger and Bill Chmylak. Staton made a motion that Ordinance No. 789 not be adopted and it was seconded by Chmylak.

This motion was defeated and the motion that the See PARK Page 8 sons (sponsors of the event) are hoping for a record turnout of parents and other interested community members, Each Texas citizen is encouraged to visit a public school in his community during this week. Many activities will be evident in the Deer Park Independent School District during Texas Public School Week. Major emphasis during the week is to provide parents with opportunities to visit the local schools. Scheduled events are as follows: Carpenter Elementary: Parents and interested members of the community are invited to visit classrooms during the week and sign the classroom attendance registers. Deepwater Elementary: Open House will be held on March 2, at 7:30 p.m.

in conjunction with the March PTA meeting. There will be a visitation period in the classrooms and refreshments will be served in the cafeteria, Parents are also invited to visit 1 the school during the week. Deer Park Elementary: A letter to parents will be published to indicate the schedule that will be followed in classroom visitation. Inter- ested members of the community are welcome to visit the school and class areas any time during the week. See SCHOOL Page 2 Candidates File For DP Election The Deer Park Deer are scheduled to meet Houston Lamar at 8:30 p.m, Friday night in spacious Hotheinz Pavilion as part of a schoolboy doubleheader.

Madison, another Houston entry, will tangle with Cypress- Fairbanks in a 7 p.m. opener, The game will serve as warm-up match for the Deer's all Important bi district clash with powerful Clear Creek March 2, That contest will also be played at Hotheinz Pavilion, with a 7:30 tipoff planned. Deer Park, of course, won the District 23-AAAA championship this year, its second straight cage title, Lamar took the honors in 19- AAAA, while Madison was the 20-AAAA kingpin and Cy-Fair the champion of 16-AAAA. Tickets for the Friday bash are now on sale at the high school offices. Pre-game ducats can be purchased for $1 (both student and adult tickets), while the price goes to $1.50 at the gate.

Meanwhile, tickets for the bi-district game with Clear Creek can be purchased for $1.50 for adults and $1 for students. As of late Tuesday evening only four candidates had filed for four positions, mayor and three council seats, that residents of Deer Park will go to the polls to vote on in the annual Deer Park City Election set for Tuesday, April 6. Filing for mayor are incumbent Earl Dunn and former City Councilman W. E. (Bill) Black.

Incumbent James L. Cook has filed for Position 1 on the council and incumbent Jimmy A. Burke has filed for Position 2. Incumbent Stanley Young of Position 3 has indicated that he will file for re-election, but has not filed as of this date. Deadline for filing is noon Saturday, March 6, according to City Secretary Mrs.

Dorothy S. Martin, who said that absentee voting should officially begin March 17 if official documents arrive on schedule, troversy the more views you have the better off you are. And to get telephones. After we incorporated, we had a little Any time anyone thinks he doesn't need advice then he'd better bargaining power. The incorporation got the city going on its get out of politics.

I've learned more being mayor than I growth, would have in eight years of college. Especially in those first "We decided that incorporation was better than a fresh six years. When you have the responsibility, you don't forget water district because the citizens have more to do with the it so easily." city and another city can't annex you if you're a city. We Those first six years the mayor referred to were not so fought Pasadena and Houston all the way. The annexation of long ago in actual time, but were eons ago in the development the channel industries went all the way to the Supreme Court.

of the city of Deer Park. "Let me show you how much we've grown. We started out When Earl Dunn and his wife, Chloe, brought their family getting $25,000 in taxes from industry and now we get to Deer Park in 1943 there was no city. There were no $959,778.54. This is the main reason that Deer Park is in the sewers and the family's water came out of a well.

There was shape it is and why we have such good bond rating and that we one telephone. There were no paved streets, no police pro- don't have a garbage collection fee. tection and no fire department, The Dunns came to Deer Park "It's a good feeling to look back and see the changes that because it was close to Shell, where Dunn worked, have been made. I feel responsible when I see concrete streets A few years after the Dunns became residents, "someone and the water and sewer, especially when I remember not being called a meeting in the school house to talk about getting able to drive down Center Street without falling in a hole, water out here and I was elected to be on a three-man com- "In our first six years, the mayor was the executive and mittee to explore the idea of either forming a fresh water talk about headaches we had them, The hardest thing to get district or incorporating. We chose incorporation, going was the fire department, Once we got it going it took off, "We had the incorporation election and it carried by a The reason it did get started was because the women got big majority and I ran for mayor and was elected.

This was together and organized the Fire Belles. in 1948 and according to the statute we had to have an elec- "I really liked the strong -type of government better tion in '49 and I got beat and was out a year. I ran for council because it puts the responsibility on the elected official and and got elected and then the following year when the mayor's not on someone hired." (The mayor explained that he was position came up, I ran for it and was elected, I served three not talking about the city administrator, personally, but about terms. the system. "I think Clovis Mann is a good administrator," "Then Jimmy Waller W.

A. Carpenter served two terms he said.) each and now Fm in my Hard 1 "At first it was a little difficult to switch over," (From "I originally ran the city. Please See MAYOR DUNN Page 2.