The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1968 Page: 1 of 12
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McKinney, TEXAS, Thursday, august 22, 1968
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VOL. 81, NO. 49
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Roberts Believes Johnson
Would Accept Nomination
BY ELIZABETH AND WOFFORD THOMPSON
Presbyterian Minister,
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just where they stand on all the
issues. We need it all stated posi-
tively and clearly in order that
in November the voters will be
able to elect the kind of people
who will not promise Utopia but
At the recent annual meeting
of the McKinney Industrial Foun-
dation. Inc., held in the Commun-
ity Room of the Collin County
National Bank, new officers were
elected, the year’s activities re-
BY NINA THOMPSON KRESSLY
crime, that is the bill to pass.” It the Senate.
growing in her yard a vast variety of plants,
including Boston ferns, caladiums, oleanders, a
beautiful rubber plant and many others. Mrs.
Dennis is pictured with the plant. (McKINNEY
EXAMINER PHOTO)
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Dowell, MHS teacher.
Bill Griffin, public relations di-
rector at McKinney Job Corps
Center and his wife, Pat and six
year old son, Randy have return-
ed from a vacation in California,
Las Vegas and Grand Canyon.
David Henry, son of Mr. and
Mrs. B. L. Henry, is to be con-
gratulated on making the Dean’s
List for the spring semester at
Baylor U.
Pearl Largent and Mary Ruth
Jones of Allen represented the
Owl Club and Miss Minnie Cald-
well the Edelweiss Club at the
meeting of Texas Federation of
Women’s Clubs in San Antonio
last week. They reported a stim-
ulating meeting, and it was bound
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The annual Rosamond Home-
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THEY GROW THEM BIG IN TEXAS . . . This
giant elephant ears plant is growing in the
yard at the home of Mrs. Virgil Dennis, 402
Leland. It is something you almost have to see
to believe, but the plant stands 7 and % feet tall
with leaves 41 inches from top to bottom and
31 inches across. Mr. Dennis, who was skeptical
about it all, dug the hole for the large bulb
which Mrs. Dennis planted about April 1. He
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rington arrived August 19 in an t byterian Sunday. He is the son
Austin hospital, weighing seven! of Ruth and Horace Dowell of
pounds and six ounces. She’ll be m
calling Gayle and Wayne Bar-
rington Mother and Dad. She has
three big sisters to welcome her,
too — Elizabeth, Margaret and
Katherine.
Katie and Pat Price of Denton
left Love Field Sunday for two
weeks in Mexico City and Aca-
pulco. Her parents, Martha Lou
and Jeff Wharton took them to
the plane.
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Pam Parks of San Antonio. Sun-
day guests were Laura and Lar-
gent Parks, also a nephew of Dal-
las.
Lou Steed of Allen, who does
much volunteer work in McKin-
ney, writes on her renewal,
“Look forward to getting The Ex-
aminer each week — it helps me
keep in touch.
David Whisenant, son of Ruth
and John M. Whisenant and Louis
Miller, Sibyl and Louis Miller’s
son have returned from a vaca-
tion in New Orleans, Galveston
and San Antonio.
Recommended reading: "Tell
No Man” by Adela Rogers St.
Johns —a compelling novel about
a contemporary man who endeav-
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ed but because her leaders have
failed. What America needs are
leaders to match the greatness of
her people.”
Those were words spoken by
There will be an open meeting
to the public held Friday after-
noon, August 23rd, at 2 o’clock in
the Dulaney Room of Memorial
Public Library with the 4-H girls
giving the pattering therapy
treatment to Sandra Spurgin, who
has had brain damage and is re-
ceiving much benefit from the
therapy treatment that is being
given her. This is a very worth-
while program and everyone in-
terested is invited to attend. The
Collin County Home Demonstra-
tion Council is sponsoring this
program under the leadership of
Mrs. Faye Hodges, Council Chair-
man.
“America is in trouble today will stand up and tell the people
not because her people have fail-
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All pets must be on leashes, in
cages, or otherwise suitably con-
trolled. Oh, yes . . . one final
restriction: poisonous snakes may
not be entered.
Additional information regard-
ing the show may be obtained
from any of the Scouts of Troop
303, or by calling the Heard Mus-
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Scout Troop 303 Sponsors
Pet Show At Heard Museum
munist party’s candidate
President.”
(2) LB J is demanding a
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Witherspoon and Nellie Ritch, ored to obey Christ’s Command-
September 1 at the Rosamond
Baptist Church. Those who form-
erly lived in the community are
invited to attend. Charlie Bell
is-,p resident of the Homecoming
celebration, and Tommie Shatley
is secretary- tresurer.
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the nomination by the Republi-
can Party to carry its banner in
the coming November election of
a president.
In my opinion that statement
is true. America is in trouble. We
find ourselves bogged down in a
war which we cannot win, or
won’t, we have minority groups
dictating to the majority; we find
ourselves laden down with tax-
es, and we find our streets unsafe
to travel after dark.
There have been too many
promises and not enough action.
Each aspirant for the great of-
fice of president of the United
States, with great show of orat-
ory, promises many things to
everybody. But after getting el-
ected, that seems to be the end of
it.
In a recent “Letters from Read-
ers” column of the Dallas Morn-
ing News one writer said “I like
the. political conventions just as
they are, delegates putting in a
plug for the home state and all
the other hoopla. Three days of
the best show for many months,
and I can hardly wait for the
next one.”
I agree that the convention are
some of the best shows television
has to offer, but is that the way a
man should be elevated to the
presidency of the United States?
We need candidates for the
presidency and the Congress who
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He did have a good word for
Judge Thornberry, however. “He
is a liberal all right, but he be-
lieves in following the law.” He
pointed out that he has a good
background for the job, having
served as a deputy sheriff, a
member of the legislature, a fed-
eral appeal judge and a member
of Congress.
In regard to Ramsey Clark, At-
torney General, the Congressman
said, “I don’t think Clark is or-
iented to the thinking of the peo-
ple in Texas and the United Stat-
es. He is the most controversial
man in government.”
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the city, agreed to help develop a
lot on which Morgan Dallas Cor-
poration would open a plant in
the. south part of town. The de-
velopment was done at a cost of
$3,500 and portable building con-
struction plant now operates
there. The plant employs about
30 people.
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Rita and Truett Smith of Wylie
and Doris and "Clemo" Clements
of Lewisville. We didn’t see the
Dick Layton family, but I’m sure
they were there since they have
season tickets. Tom Hughes al-
ways, gets the top shows for Dal-
las, and Peter Wolf’s sets are ter-
rific.
Bobbi and Bob Lee, Donnie
and Lori leave this weekend for
a vacation in Philadelphia. They
will be visiting his parents, Dr.
and Mrs. Don Lee who have re-
cented returned from an around-
the-world three months tour.
Elizabeth and Congressman
Ray Roberts returned to Wash-
ington Tuesday after several days
in McKinney and his district.
We’re all proud of our represen-
tative and his attractive and tal-
ented wife.
Charles Dowell, Associate Di-
g
I came across these two news
items in Human Events. If you
nave missed them, you may be
interested:
(1) “While the Gallup Poll re-
veals that the majority of the
American people don’t give very
high marks to the Supreme Court,
Mrs. Charlene Mitchell recently
told a reporter for the Miami .
News that she views the tribunal
with esteem, calling it “a very
good court, at the moment.’ Mrs.
Mitchell, by the way, is the Com-
effort to correct some of the
many problems with which we
are faced today.
We don’t need the issues cloud-
ed with a lot of “talk” which
tends to appeal to emotions and
not common sense.
If Merrett and Clyde Horn are ' rector of Community Action Ser-
looking unusually happy these ' vices in Oklahoma City and an
Hoofed Animals, Wild Mammals,
Rodents, Reptiles, Fish, and Mis-
cellaneous. First, second and
third place prizes will be given
in each category.
In addition, all pets will be eli-
gible to compete for other awards,
such as Tallest, Shortest, Heav-
iest, Lightest, Wildest, Most Un-
usual, Most Colorful, etc.
The show will be open to pets
owned by young people, through
high school age, from all parts
of Collin County.
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The Boy Scouts of Troop 303
of McKinney are going to sponsor
a Collin County Youth Pet Show,
in cooperation with the Heard
Natural Science Museum and
Wildlife Sanctuary.
The date of the event will be
Monday, August 26, and it will
take place at the Heard Museum,
located southeast of McKinney on
Farm Road 1378. Registration will
begin at 6:30 p. m.
Judges for the show will be
comprised of Patrol Leaders
from each of the four patrols of
the troop, plus Mr. Hal Kirby,
Director of the Dallas Natural
History Museum.
All pets other than dogs will
be welcomed to participate in the
show (there will be a separate
dog show held at a later date). A
pet may be entered in one of
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to be fun with Pearl Largent
along. She believes in being
“where the action is” and there’s
instant action wherever Pearl is!
They enjoyed HemisFair, too.
Pearl’s weekend guests were
her nephew Ernest Parks, his wife
Elizabeth and their daughter.
tasy” by Marcia Davenport — a
personal record of music, litera-
ture and politics in America and
Europe over half a century.
The following quotation in the
Allen Baptist Church bulletin was
sent to us by our correspondent,
Mrs. W. R. Taylor: “Man is never
so tall as when he kneels before
God; never so great as when he
humbles himself before God. The
man who kneels to God can stand
up to everything.”
—Mrs. Lola Finley
. Mrs. W. C. Monroe has return-
ed to her home in Dallas after a
visit with her niece and husband,
Oleta and Wade Huffman on
Woodlawn Road. Mrs. Monroe is
a former McKinney resident and
Collin County native.
Chloe and Joe McKinney re-
cently visited their son and fam-
was originated by Bob Casey of
Houston.
On the subject of welfare, Con-
gressman Roberts said, “We have
spent 30 billion dollars of the
people’s money and have got
nothing for it.” He feels that there
is entirely too much overlapping
of the welfare programs, too
much give-away. “And now they
want to put social security in the
welfare bracket, giving to persons
who ned it, even those who
have not paid in a cent.” This
he strongly opposes.
He feels that the answer to
unemployment is to let industry
train people for jobs. Some time
ago, Cong. Roberts proposed a
bill which he likens to the WPA.
The bill proposes to put unem-
ployed persons to work on pub-
lic projects. But it has never got-
ten out of the committee, he said.
“There are so many agencies
giving tax payers’ money away,
something must be done,” he em-
phasized.
On the subject of the Supreme
Court appointees, the Congress-
man had this to say; “Abe Fortas
would make Warren look good.”
He said he hoped the Senate
would stand firm on their opposi-
tion to approve his appointment.
Roberts pointed out that the
House members have nothing to
do with the approval of the ap-
pointments; it is entirely up to
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ployed from 75 to 125 persons.
The foundation worked with
the industrial team of .the Cham-
ber of Commerce to bring the
Fisher Governor Company to Mc-
Kinney..
It was in September of 1965
that the foundation became in-
terested in the Industrial Park
idea and started negotiations with
the Pecan Grove Cemetery As-
sociation to purchase land for a
street to extend to what is known
as the Couch property, east and
south of the Textile Mill. Pro-
perty was obtained from the
Cemetery Association for a street
paid for by the city and extend- l
ing to Farm Road 546 and through J
the Couch property. The founda-
tion and the Chamber -of Com-
merce Site Committee- have op- 1
lions on the property. .
In November, 1965, the Indus-
trial Foundation, working with ‘
million advance from publishers
interested in his memoirs. Acting
as Johnson’s literary agent is
Arthur B. Krim, a wealthy New
York lawyer and former finance
chairman of the Democratic Na-
tional Committee. The memoirs
will be based in large part on
data now being compiled at tax-
payer expense by each govern-
ment agency. Reportedly interest-
ed in the Johnson volume: Dou-
bleday, Harper and Row, and Mc-
Graw-Hill.”
ily, Joe Charles and Mary Mc-
Kinney and Collin in Albuquer-
qque. They helped to celebrate
Collin’s sixth birthday. On the
way back they stopped in Perry-
ton to visit Shirley and Don
Cooper and family.
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now has to admit that his wife has the prover-
bial “green thumb.” Mrs. Denis says she wafers
the plant twice each day and.jertilizes it occasio-
nally. A true flower love, Mrs. Dennis has
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ADJ./AA Steve Forte’ left
Monday, after spending a leave
with his parents, Maree and Ray
Forte’, for seven weeks of special
training in San Diego before
shipping out on an aircraft car-
rier.
Good to have Mrs. Clara Foley,
efficient office deputy for Sheriff
Red Hand, back among her
friends following surgery in Col-
lin Memorial.
Mrs. L. R. Funderburgh of
Plano says Happy Birthday with
an Examiner subscription to Mrs.
W. R. Malone of Denton.
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Mogle of
Grants, N.M., have been visiting
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
Hendricks on Anna, Route 2.
“Mama Carr”, Kath e r i n e
Thompson, Nina Kressly and I
had a mini-vacation last week at
Runaway Bay on Lake Bridge-
port. That is a beautiful spot, and
we really enjoyed it. The ac-
comodations at the Inn and the
food were excellent.
Seeing the ever-popular “Sound
of Music” at State Fair Musicals
Sunday was a thrill for us. Also
enjoying the show were Editor
and Mrs. Bennie O’Brien of Ce-
lina. With them were their at-
tractive daughter, Patricia Hurt
and grandson, Keith Hurt of Dal-
now being considered was dis-
cussed"
The financial report shows as-
sets of $7,223.01 cash and $24,368.
in U. S. Treasury Bills, making a
total of $31,592.01.
The McKinney Industrial Foun-
dation, a non-profit organization,
was chartered under the laws of
the State of Texas in May, 1958,
with the purpose of developing
industry in the city through the
combined efforts of merchants,
corporations and individuals.
The foundation was organized
with capital stock of $40,000 divid-
ed into 800 shares at $50. each.
Later is became neecssary to re-
duce the stock to $26,000, the
amount being the actual paid-in
par value of 538 shares at $50.
per share.
The foundation has attempted
to keep the activities on a sound
footing and through the years has
considered numerous proposi-
tions, many of which have not
conformed with the purpose of
the foundation as outlined in the
charter.
The foundation was instrumen-
tal in the building of the Ere
Manufacturing Company. A tract
of land was purchased- at the cor-
ner of Highways 75 and 24 and
resold to an investment company
to build the plant, which em-
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Mobil X-Ray
Unit Here
This Week
The Christmas Seal Mobile X-
ray Unit will be back in Collin
County this week.
Here’s the schedule:
Wylie, Wednesday, Aug. 21,
near First State Bank, Ha. m. —
2 p. m. and 3 — 6 p. m.
Plano, Thursday, Aug. 22,
Plano North Shopping Center,
18th St. and Ave. K.
McKinney, Friday and Satur-
day, Aug. 23 - 24, near the
Courthouse.
Chest X-rays are offered with-
out charge to all adults, fifteen
years and over.
Arrangements for the unit’s
location and volunteers to assist
with the registration desk are be-
ing made here by County Clerk,
James Webb, Vice President of
the Dallas Area Tuberculosis As-
sociation.
The Christmas Seal agency
recommends a chest X-ray an-
nually for all adults. The X-ray
film helps doctors detect many
types of chest abnormalities such
as cancer, heart disease and em-
physema, as well as tuberculosis.
This is a free service paid for
by contributions to Christmas
Seals.
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viewed and a financial report
made.
J. M. Whisenant was elected to
serve as president. Laud Howell
was named secretary-treasurer,
and Boyd Williams, C. H. Ray and
Jewel Abernathy were elected to
serve as directors for a 3-year
term.
Industrial Park to be located in
Southeast McKinney on land
known as the Couch property
was discussed. Construction of
the proposed industrial center
will begin as soon as the proposed
FM 546 is completed from High-
way 75 east through the property.
Construction of the road is ex-
pected to be started sometime in
the fall.
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If Vice-President Hubert
Humphrey is not nominated on
the first ballot at the Democratic
Convention next week the Presi-
dent will accept a draft is the
opinion of Congressman Ray
Roberts.
In an interview with the Ex-
aminer, the Congressman said,
“President Johnson is not going
to let anyone tamper with his
foreign policy if he can help it.”
He further stated that he is
convinced that the President was
perfectly sincere in his statement
that he would not seek the nomi-
nation, but the situation has
changed. “Olin Teague called the
shots right, down the line when
he said the President would allow
himself to be drafted under the
circumstances,” Cong. Roberts
said.
He feels that the intensive phy-
sical examinations the President
has been through in San An-
tonio were prompted by the pos-
sibility of such a situation aris-
ing, and he has found he is just
as sound physically as he was in
1966. Mrs. Johnson, he added,
does not want him to serve anoth-
er term.
The Congressman added fur-
ther, “I am a hawk and I think it
is ridiculous to let a small coun-
try like North Vietnam hold our
country at bay.”
Cong, and Mrs. Robetrs were
leaving Tuesday for Washington
in order for him to get his desk
cleared of a number of things be-
fore the convening of the Con-
gress Sept. 4. During his 2-
weeks stay in Texas, Cong. Rob-
erts has traveled thousands of
miles over his entire district.
In answer to a question Rob-
erts said very positively, “I am
opposed to gun control.” Enlarg-
ing on the subject, he cited the
Sullivan law_ which has been in
effect in New York for a number
of years but has not"resulted in
decreasing crime.
“It will only be the law abid-
ing citizens who will register
their guns, not the criminals.
Any 14 year old boy can build a
gun that can kill,” he said.
He came out strongly for the
Casey bill which has been before
the Congress for three years with
no action taken, a bill which he
strongly supports. The bill would
make the use of a gun in a felony
both a state and federal offense,
with a minimum penalty of 10
years imprisonment and 25 years
for the second offense, with no
parole.
“If the people want to stop
Enroll Monday
All incoming first graders for
the 1968-69 school term are to be
enrolled at their respective ward
schools on August 26. Registra-
tion will begin at 9:00 a. m. on
that date. No school buses will
run for this registration.
Parents are requested to bring
their child to the school in their
attendance area for this impor-
tant registration session. If they
have been approved for an emer-
gency transfer bring the transfer
approval letter along with the
child’s birth certificate and im-
munization record for DPT, Polio,
and Smallpox.
All first grade children from
the Doty attendance area who
would have attended Doty this
coming year are to report to the
Doty School for their school as-
signment for 1968-69. They will
be assigned and then directed to
the particular elementary school
that they will attend next year.
Emphasis is being placed on
this pre-registration period for
first graders and all parents are
urged to bring theif children to
the school on that date. This will
enable proper planning to be
made prior to school opening on
Tuesday, September 3.
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