Waco Tribune-Herald from Waco, Texas • 28

Wtfl Cribune fferalA Page Sec Waco Texas Sunday August 1 1954 ROM READERS: Money Reason or Shape of Parks Editor: (Plenty of people using them Where can you see such a thing in Waco Take a look at Sul Ross a dry parched area with nothing but a few swings under a tree wholly uninviting Even children arenjt drawn to a place like that No it is not money we need We need an interest from those in au thority an attitude of appreciation a desire and a will to have some thing besides blocks of concrete Where shall we find them? The few small parks we have in Waco were secured through the efforts of the women of this town led by Miss Kate riend Ixwk at them now! Perhaps it is time for the To tha TMifnr! Recently you editorialized upon the deplorable condition of our city parks and closed your remarks with the much heard phase of course we know there is not money enough to do the necessary things I do not believe that a lack of money is wholly responsible for the existing conditions in what few parks have It does not take money to ask the workmen in the park to spread a pile of dirt that we individuals secured permission to have placed there by street workers in an ef fort to "protect roots of trees that have suffered from continued ero sion by flood waters The pile of dirt has remained there over a year and has never been touched It does not take money to see that workmen sent out by the City Wa ter Works do not build eight fires women to take over again Sincerely Benulah Duncan 601 North Twenty fourth Street Reader Is Grateful or ire Station Story on a half block of grass in a city park Thus destroying the possi bility of growing anything there for a long period of time If an individual were to bum an excess of leaves against the curb he would be rebuked and possibly fined To the Editor: I want to thank you and Mr Woody Barron for the delightful feature story on the old Central fire station I particularly enjoyed the account in the Times Herald of the old steam boiler flying down Caterpillars' It does not take money to pre vent the Gas Company from storing their monster caterpillars night after night upon this same stretch of grass leaving two wide swaths which they filled up with gravel Come and see it It does not take money to keep workmen sent into the park to cut away undergrowth from standing on the ground and cutting lower limbs from trees with hatchets leaving a jagged extension of a foot or more subject to decay and insects thus leading to the destruc tion of the whole tree A valuable tree should be handled only by an I it VrtH in or even a year Why is there no HeH's Hill I am not exactly an timer but my very first mem ory of Waco happens to be of that horse drawn fire wagon We had just moved to Seventeenth and Clay in Waco from Chilton in 1918 Up until that time my knowledge of fire and brimstone had been gained entirely at old fashioned revival meetings in alls County and somehow when I saw that thing boiling away and tearing down Bell's Hill my 6 year old mind connected the two and I fainted dead away I remem ber ever seeing it again but 1 shall never forget it it was a thing of awesome splendor and beauty Sincerely Mrs Robert Carney supervision of these things? I'pproot Tree It does not take money to deter a group of workmen sent out by the city to clean the creek on Co lumbus Avenue from uprooting the lovely trees on private property They drove the monster machine down a private driveway pot stuck in the creek and then declared they get out without up rooting two exquisite willows and one pecan tree The trees should not have been sacrificed and the machine should have been disman tled It does not take money to soe that a construction company em ployed by a private firm does not literally and unnecessarily destroy a little stretch of park that was known as one of the beauty spots of the town to say nothing of the flood hazard they have created Protests and appeals for help fell on totally deaf ears This is on North Twenty fourth Street be tween ort and Sanger avenues It is high time we establish some definite ordinances as to how far this sort of vandalism can go Improved by Santone I Article Appreciated urniture irm iTo the Editor: We are profoundly grateful to the fine article about our plant which was written by Jim Knight and which appeared in last Sunday's edition of your paper Needless to say the article was received with much enthusiasm around here and of course we are proud of the progress we are making here in Mexia We appreciate your interest and publicity very much While at the Dallas market I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs i Lincoln who was collecting infor I mation for a future article about lour furniture During the course of lour conversation Mr A Swen son vice president of our company i walked up and he expressed his for the publicity you i had given us We sincerely hope that you will i find time in the near future to come to Mexia for a visit with us iand that we may show you our i plant Yours very truly UTORTAN URNITURE CORP TEXAS I recently toured the city of San i Munder Mgr Antonio I was impressed by the number of small parks scattered The postal savings sys over the city They were beauti tern with deposits of $25 11000000 fully kept with water sprays in ac is the world's largest savings bank tion and furthermore a line of says the National Geographic So trees with seats under them and ciety fteat wwied CHRYSLER AIRTEMP AIR COOLED AIR CONDITIONING WITHOUT WATER LIVE' IN THE THE 1825 18th DIAL 2 6515 Now you and your family can live in a healthier more comfortable cleaner at mosphere every day with Year Air Conditioning that cools without water re quires no plumbing costs less to install and less to operate And we can put a Chrysler Airtemp Air Cooled System in even the smallest home because it uses no living area floor spaca Come in or call for free estimate I ri 3 i I AV $nolldne i AIR CONDITIONING TN 8 PLAT ON Ml! A TINO AWXXMOt An 4 If A 1 BBHl v' jC iilsSS T'A' I 1 POLIO EMERGENCY Three key of the McLennan Polio Chapter (left to workers in the battle against polio in this county ready supplies for the emergency fund raising campaign Aug 16 31 Mrs Leslie Stratton women's chairman Miss Betty Dosher chapter secretary and Mack Byrom chairman right) will head up the campaign By rom said funds collected in'the January drive this year have not been sufficient to carry out the full scale of the polio campaign (John Bennett Photo) March of Dimes Seen As Polio Crisis Cure The staggering costs of patient care and a two point polio preven tion program have created a cri sis that only the Emergency March of Dimes can solve Mack Byrom chairman of the McLennan Coun ty Chapter of the National ounda tion for Infantile Paralysis said Saturday That is why a special drive has been set for Aug 16 31 in McLen nan County The chairman said the total raised in last March of Dimes was not enough to continue payment of natient aid bills this year in addition to meet ing the costs of the vaccine trials and purchase of increased quan tities of gamma globulin far this year we have spent $17294 for aid to our polio pa tients both new and old It is obviously impossible to cut back on patient care so we must again place the problem before the peo ple of our country The Emergency March of Dimes gives all of us the opportunity to help fulfill our public trust We already have re quested $8000 in emergency aid from the National oundation and have received $4000 which was all that could be sent But we need more if we are to continue to help Byrom said Chapter funds are used almost entirely to aid patients Byrom said This primary obligation also con stitutes the largest financial load of the National oundation head quarters: perhaps as much as $33 50C may be needed for patient care this year he added 1954 national March of Dimes raised $55 million yet this falls at least $20 million short of meeting the minimum needs of the current year for polio prevention and patient Byrom said incidence throughout the na tion is disturbingly high In the first half of 1954 it was one third higher than the average for the same period during the last five years No one in McLennan County would want io see our patient aid program jeopardized or our polio prevention efforts grind to a halt We are confident that our people will rally to this Emer gency March of Mail Center Move Studied WASHINGTON A plan to transfer the main Texas bulk mail distribution center from Texar kana to Dallas is reported under consideration at the Post Office Department The plan would involve some 250 employes and a $2000000 con struction program McCaskill of ort Worth head of the a Oklahoma branch of the Postal Transporta tion Bureau was reported to have recommended the transfer Paul acting asst post master general said McCaskill has submitted a survey showing that the change would bring tial and improved serv ice Playground Attendance Moves Higher overall playground at tendance for the week was 9056 which was 3232 more than tha 4814 at this same time last year the Parks and Recreation Depart ment announced Saturday Attendance was the largest at Jefferson Elementary Crestview Elementary and Waco High with 355 297 and 260 respectively The largest Negro attendance was 1 772 at Kirk Wilson Swimming and movies topped participation in special activities with tennis and twirling following in that order The total attendance to date has been 59026 and the special activi ties are thought to be the reason for holding the attendance well above last year records The cool spell at the late part of the week boosted attendance at most of the parks The playgrounds program will close officially Aug 27 S25800000 Is Awarded In Military Construction ive Southwest states including Texas received $25800000 in mili tary construction contracts in the first quarter of 1954 the ederal Reserve Bank of Dallas reported Saturday This compares to 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