Plano Daily Star-Courier from Plano, Texas • Page 1

PLANO Collin Loading Industrial Cltv VOLUME 77 THE PLANO STAR- COURIER WINTER WITH US High winds and chilling tem- peratures have prevailed since the last issue of The Plano Star Courier. The mercury has plunged down to the 32-35 degree level each morning and once registered 28 degrees. The winds have made the temperature seem colder. Highs in the 40's and 50's have been recorded Fortunately, no precipitation has fallen, during the past several days. OF BANQUET Keep in mind the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet Thursday night of this week.

March 11 A gram has been arranged and a good meal planned. If you haven't purchased your ticket, do so without delay and attend the banquet and program. enjoy the event. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Joel Jenkins, young son of Mr and Mrs. J.

Jenkins of Dallas, celebrated his birthday Sunday when his grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Floyd of Plano, entertained for Joel and other relatives. Of course there was the traditional birthday cake, which Joel enjoyed immensely as did his older sister, Lori.

Both Joel and Lori are among our finest young friends. i- GONZALES FOUNDATION. We have long been closel yas- sociated and we re proud to boast of the fact with the Texas Rehabilitation Center of the Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation Happy we were, then, to receive a copy of a letter mailed to the Plano United Fund and signed by Lynn Smith, executive Secretary In part, the letter said: "It is my pleasure to acknow- lege receipt of your Fund's contribution to the TRC of the Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation. Enclosed is our receipt in the amount of $420.00. We are very grateful for your continued support and interest in our program here and it is with deep appreciation that we, once again, say May we also extend you a most cordial invitation to visit the Foundation at any time you are in this area.

We believe you would be pleased to observe the manner in which your money is being used to help the physically disabled people of our state. (Signed) LYNN SMITH, Executive GROWING CITY If you don't think Plano is growing, just take a drive some day over the city and you'll be amazed at the new homes that are going up Accompanied by our Better Half we took such a drive the other day into all sections of the city and were surprised not only at the number of new homes being constructed, but at the "Sold'' signs at the homes, some of which had only the foundation poured. This would indicate to us that there is a great demand among people from a wide area to come to Plano. SOUTH COLLIN'S LARGEST CIRCULATED NEWSPAPER PLANO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1965 Collin Fastest Growing Town NO 27. School Bond Election Set March 13 Second Baptist Church Open Second Baptist Church.

804 Training Union attendance and The Board of Trustees of the I local schools have unanimously called a school construction bond election ror Saturday, March 13. The election will be conducted at the Cox Junior High Gymnasium Polls will be open at 8:00 am and close at 7 00 pm. announces Supt of Schools Wayne Hendrick The school trustees are re questing voter approval on two separate school construction propositions: PROPOSITION requesting approval to sell $840 000 00 of bonds to finance immediate school construction, and PROPOSITION requesting approval to sell $730.000 00 of bonds to finance school construction which is scheduled to be gin in the fall of 1966 Each proposition will be voted on separately Proposition I includes funds for the completion of Mea dows, Mendenhall and Sigler Elementary bring them up to 720 student 17th. will hold open house and dedicate the new addition to their building Sunday. March 14.

Rev. G. B. Bradshaw. Supt of Missions for Collin Baptist Association, will preach the dedication sermon at 10:50 a.m.

Open house will be held from 2 to 5 in the afternoon for the people of the community to see the new building. We are proud of our beautiful church and are thankful to God for His wonderful blessings upn said Rev. R. E. Prince, pastor of the Church.

fellowship of this work has been Rev. Prince continued, the most part was done by men of the Church donating their time and The Church now has facilities to double its Sunday School and the seating capacity of the auditorium has been increased by about 50. The entire Church is beautifully finished. The walls and ceiling of the auditorium are an off white with Mahogany paneling. The pews are a blonde oak.

John Kerley was the Chairman of the Building Committee composed of Ira Goodlett, Jack Cardwell, Jerry Covington. Billy Walker and J. B. Jenkins. Rev.

Prince stated Baptist is now ready to move forward in building a greater Southern Baptist Church in Plano to the glory of Church members invite everyone who is seeking a church home to visit them and say thou with us and we will do thee PlansReadyForCofC Banquet Thurs. Eve A steak dinner and the Plano Chamber of Com a speech by a world famous merce Banquet Thursday night humorist and author will be announces Argus Parks, pres served up to everyone attending ident I i 1 1 4 1 9 tfe 4 Pancakes Will Be Ready For At Plano Community House Pancakes will be cooking, bacon and sausage will be sizzling in the skillet and coffee will be brewing Saturday morning at the Community House when the Lions Club members will begin serving breakfast at 6:30 a.m. Salvation Army Truck Due Here The Salvation Army truck will visit Plano on March 15 and 16. Call 995-4170 if you have household or business discards for the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army needs small appliances, bedding, and furniture.

Household discards given to the Salvation Army support a vital program of rehabilitation Over 75 men are currently seeking new hope in life through the services of the rehabilitation center. Salvage and discards are the sole source of support for the Men's Rehabilitation Center. Serving will continue throughout the day for lunch and supper so if you get up in time for an early breakfast, drop by for a late breakfast. Then go back for lunch and supper. Tickets are selling for only $1.00 each and will entitle you to sausage or bacon, all the pancakes you can eat and milk or coffee.

The Lions will continue the pancake service until 10 p.m. that evening. Your ticket also will give you a chance for door prizes to be given away Saturday evening First prize is a complete outdoor charcoal cooker. Second prize is twenty-five pounds of paper shell pecans. Other local service clubs are selling tickets also and all proceeds will go to the Special Development School.

Buy your tickets, make a date with all members of your family and eat pancakeg with the Lions Saturday at the Community House. In addition he said "we are trying to arrange for a personal friend of President Johnson to come to Plano and escort our speaker General Hans Christoffersen of Coperthagen, Denmark, who is in the United States under the auspices of the State De oartment's Reciprocal Speakers Program, will arrive in Plano Thursday afternoon He hopes to take back to Den mark the spirit and ideas which nave made Plano a model city of growth and progress General Christoffersen is considered one of the finest after dinner speakers and is usually accorded a standing ovation following his appearances Master of Ceremonies for the banquet will be Wayne Hendrick, superintendent of Plano Public Schools. The annual banquet will be held in the Plano High School cafeteria. I A few remaining tickets to i the event are available through the Chamber of Commerce of fice or ticket committeemen Cecil Prashaw, and George Cox Tickets are selling for $3 75 each. Chamber officers and new di rectors elected for 1965 will be installed at the banquet.

Presi dent for 1965 is James Stalker, JAMES STALKER president of Home Metal Prod iucts. Re-elected vice president was () Field. Jr and Alex Schell III will serve as see retary treasurer Also to be irecognized is the Board of Di rectors 1 We hope to make this the most enjoyable and the finest of Commerce ban quet in a number of years 1 xnow every citizen of Plano, whether a Chamber member or not. will benefit from the program." emphasized Mr Parks BRENT JORDAN WRAY, assisted by his mother, Mrs. W.

E. Wray, practices walking at the Cerebral Palsy Treatment Center of the Dallas Society for Crippled Children. Local Youngster Aided By Easter Seal Sale Four year old Brent Jordan efforts ot the Dallas Society for Wray of Plano and hundreds Crippled Children, of other Dallas area handi- Hreni, son of Mr and Mrs. capped children are being Kugcne Wray of 906 Hag- helped to achieve more normal 8ard in Plano, suffered brain and fruitful lives through the Continued On Page 2 11 Candidates Seek City Councilman And School Posts Harrell Pledges NT Fraternity Mike Harrell of Plano is one of the 187 spring semester pledges to 10 social fraternities at North Texas State University. Harrell, the son of Mr.

and Mrs Henry Harrell, 1729 14th. is pledging Pi Kappa Alpha. He is a freshman speech and drama major. Tentative O. K.

Direct Tel. Service To Dallas Attending the funeral of Bryon Schaff, Sr. in Shreve port. La Monday March 1, were Mr. and Mrs.

Bill Goodman David on Schaff, Sr. in Shreveport. For your FHA or conventional home loans, see the DAVID Mc- CALL INSURANCE AGENCY. According to Harry S. West, District Manager for General Telephone Company, representatives of the Company have recently reviewed with the City Council the status of negotiations with Southwestern Bell Telephone Company to provide a direct telephone tie-in with the Dallas Metropolitan Area.

Flat rate calling to this area has been an item of major interest in Plano for several years. Highlights of the review in chronological order were reported by West as follows: "The first formal action was taken in 1959 when the City Council requested that General Telephone make a survey of Plano's long distance calling habits to the Dallas area. At that a few subscribers in Pla- thata few subscribers in Plano were making the majority of calls to Dallas. The majority of customers made few calls to Dallas. a result of this study, the Plano City Council requested that General conduct an annual study about Dallas calling and report the results to the City Council.

A review of these studies shows that long i stance calling to Dallas increased until 1962 In 1962 customers with heavy calling to Dallas began to subscribe to foreign exchange or direct line service to Dallas. Long distance studies since 1962 have shown a decreased interest, but this picture is distorted largely because there are now some 140 subscribers with direct Dallas or Richardson lines. after making the community of interest studies over a period of years that Plano was approaching a point where the establishment of direct service with Dallas might be economically feasible, General began detailed studie in the latter part of 1963 to develop a plan for Plano's participation in Dallas service. Preliminary studies were completed in March, 1964 and meetings were held with Southwestern Bell. At the meetings with Bell, General outlined its proposal which, simply stated, was an arrangement whereby all but a few rural customers of Plano could call Dallas central zone exchanges and Richardson.

the meeting. Bell indicated that proposal would have to be studied and approved by top management. General was optimistic about approval and thought final cost information would be available by the end of 1964 December, 1964 Bell formally rejected proposal saying that in order for Plano to be tied into Dallas service. Plano must conform Continued On Page 2 With filing deadlines over. Plano voters are assured plenty of voting in the school trustee and city elections to be held in April.

The school trustee election will be held Saturday, April 3 and the city election the following Tuesday, April 6. No new names have added to those seeking council man posts since the last issue of The Plano Star-Courier, with five candidates seeking three places to be filled in the city election Candidates met at the City Hall Monday and drew fur places on the ballot, as follows: James Lewis, Robert Chronister, Geo. A. (Lexi Newbill, Prashaw and I)r Robert C. Forney.

Two of the above are run ning for re-election Messrs. Chronister and Forney. In the school trustee election, three new candidates an r.ounced since the last issue of The Star-Courier, making six candidates in all to be voted on WEEK-END IN WACO Mr. and Mrs. Rex Strange of Plano and Miss Faye Strange of Garland spent the week-end in with Misses Betty and Martha Strange.

They attended the preformanee or University at Baylor University Saturday evening. Misses Betty and Martha were in the Alpha Omega sorority skit in the show. See us for all your FHA or conventional, home A. SCHELL. Jr.

SON, Insurance. for the three places to be filled The six candidates are Mrs Nina Kessler, Noel Smithson and Rohm Campbell, seeking re-election, and the three new candidates Phil Vaughn. Turner and Mrs Joyce Malcolm i Davis some improvements at Doug lass Elementary, purchase of three future school sites, additional parking area at Meadows and Sigler Schools, side walks and street improvements i 18th north of Mead ows School some laboratories for the high school and a folding divider to provide separate physical education facilities for hoys a girls at the high school Proposition ll i ooo no i includes funds to construct the first sections of two new ele- i mentary schools (construction I scheduled to begin in the Fall 1 of 19661 and the necessary site improvements I Plano schools had a net (gain this past September of 419 I students over the previous average Supt Hendrick said This gam alone would almost fill an average size elementary school. Projections call for a gain of 574 students this coming fall over present enrollment and a net gain of 643 students the following year The items included in tins bond issue are in items to avoid the educationally harmful affects of over crowding small children in school classrooms The School District's financial adviser has informed the school trustees thiit a tax rate increase not to exceed 8 cents per $100 of assessed valuation might be necessary to finance the entire program However, if growth does not occur as projected and future building needs can he beyond 1966. it is entirely possible that additions to present tax rolls will provide adequate revenues without an increase in the tax rate These findings are based on the present basis of assessment All qualified voters living in the Plano Independent School District are encouraged to vote in election To be a qualified voter one must have lived in this school district for at least the past six months, and the state for 12 months; have a current poll tax receipt or exemption and bo the owner of property (real or listed on the tax assessor's roll VISITS IN HAWAII Mrs Geneva Rainwater, own er of Ram water's Snack Bar on Avenue K.

left Tuesday for Hawaii to visit her son, Ken Armstrong, who is stationed there while serving his country in the Navy She will be hack home in time to re-oper. her Shack Bar Monday, March 22 GROUND BREAKING CEREMONIES for Faith Baptist Church held recently show left to right: Jack Ryan, chairman of the Board of Deacons, Leonard Young, Chairman of the finance Committee; Rev. Mac Pope, Church Pastor; Bill Ryan, chairman of the Building Committee..