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JURY WHEEL 1:15 -1-
Dallas County needed a new jury wheel; a device used
to select veniremen. Commissioner Mel Price was not
satisfied with the low bid sof 278 dollars for the new
wheel, so he his fellow commissioners he could
baild it for 100 dollars less, and got the job. Today
he delivers his handiwork to the Dallas County Records
Tedo it yo rse c mini siui
Bui ays the device for 195-
dollars, a savingsto the taxpayers of some 83 dollars
/ he will pay the money
under the lowest bid."
for the wheel into Price's precinct Road and Bridge
fund.
STERRET AFTER IGN ON BUILDING
In the Central Jtry Roo, County Judge St rrett looks
over some of the past jury wheels, including a f
.D2U Ce-
confiscated from some long-ago gambler. That is
a nice touch of poetic justice...the hapless gambler was
probably convicted by a jury from his own
Commissioner Price says those days are
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Jury wheel], script, June 11, 1963; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc976099/m1/1/?q=%22..%2F1963-06%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.