The Wylie News (Wylie, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 1955 Page: 1 of 8
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Attend The
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VOL. 7
WYLIE, COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1955
NO. 51
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ALL SET FOR EASTER—Pictured above is "Bubba" Webb,
who appears to be ready for Easter with a generous supply of Bun-
nies. "Bubba" is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Webb of Wylie,
and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Billy John Webb of Garland. Numerous
egg hunts and picnics have highlighted the Easter season for the
city's youngsters.
Churches Spotlight
Easter Observances
Hampton, Shields
Elected As Members
Of School Board
Oathcr Hampton and Charlie
Shields were elected as members
of the Wylie school board in Sat-
urday voting.
A total of 89 votes were cast
with the following results:
Oather Hampton—74.
Charlie Shields—55.
Carl Ward—48.
Both Hampton and Shields are
members of the board and were
seeking re-election. They were
named to three-year terms. Hold-
over members on the board are
Jack Parr, Virgil Deal, Russell
Addington, Dr. L. M. Morrisset
and M. M. Martin.
The election was held at the
City Hall and officials were E.
Housewright, Oscar Houston, Ed
Davis and Glen Daniel.
Lions Club To Honor
Basketball Girls At
Thursday Meeting
The Wylie Lions Club will play
host Thursday evening to Coach
R. C. Dodd and his 1955 girls'
basketball team, third place win-
ners in the regional playoffs at
SMU this season.
The meeting will be held at
the Methodist Annex at 7:30 and
the WSCS will serve dinner.
A varied program of enter-
tainment has been planned for
the evening.
Dr. Trimble At Clinic
This Week While
Morrissets In Lubbock
Dr. J. W. Trimble of Ft. Worth
is at the Wylie Clinic this week
while Dr. L. M. Morrisset is on
a week's vacation.
""Dr. and Mrs. Morrisset and
Mike left Monday afternoon for
Lubbock to spend a few days vis-
iting relatives. They plan to re-
turn over the week-end.
Dr. and Mrs. Trimble and two
sons are occupying the Morrisset
home for the week.
Wylie churches were set this
week to handle the largest crowds
of the year for their Easter Sun-
day services.
Marking the significant relig-
ious occasion with special Easter
services arc all of the churches
in the area.
All slated special Sunday morn-
ing services with emphasis on the
Resurrection. Special music, ap-
propriate for the occasion, was
listed for most of the groups. A
number of churches are in the
midst of revival services, usual
Easter season events.
Union services were held three
nights this week, as follows:
Tuesday night at the First Bap-
tist Church with the Methodist
pastor, Rev. Kifer, preaching; on
Wednesday night at the Metho-
dist Church with the Christian
minister, Rev. Klingman, the
speaker; and Friday night at the
Christian Church, the speaker
will be Rev. Jones of the Bap-
tist Church.
Revivals Predominate
A number of revivals are in
progress in the area.
The Shiloh Baptist Church will
bring to a close Sunday a ten-
day revival. Rev. I. E. Driggers,
pastor of the church, has been
conducting the services.
The First Baptist Church here
will begin a revival Sunday with
their new pastor, the Rev. P. E.
Jones, doing the preaching.
The Sachse Baptist Church
began a revival Wednesday eve-
ning to run for ten days with
the Rev. C. W. Bishop of Collins-
ville as guest speaker. Rev. Billy
Joe Harris is pastor of the Sachse
Church.
Rev. R. D. Nance, pastor of the
Assembly of God Church, plans
specials Easter services, and the
members of the Church of
Christ here indicated they were
to observe the day with emphasis
on the Resurrection.
Services arc slated at St.
Anthony's Catholic Church at 7
o'clock Sunday morning. The Rev.
Albert Tyl will say the Easter
Mass.
A number of worshipers will
attend sunrise services at various
places to begin the day in praise
for the glorious Easter event.
American Tool Plant To Locate Here
Collin County PTA
Council To Meet
Here Next Tuesday
The meeting of the Collin
County Council of the Parent-
Teachers Association will be held
in Wylie next Tuesday.
The meeting will be held from
9 a. m. until 1 p. m. at the
Methodist Annex. Registration
will be from 9 to 9:30 a. m. and
lunch will be served at noon.
Rev. C. C. Klingman will give
the devotional and the guest
speaker will be Mrs. Jasper Bar-
ron of Dallas, Second District
President.
Pupils from the Wylie schools
will present the program.
Richardson, Boyd
And Green Winners
In Tuesday Voting
Fortytwo votes were cast in
Tuesday's city election with Bob
Richardson, Buck Boyd and Will
Green winning three council
places at stake.
These three names were the
only ones on the ballot, but R. S.
Posey received 16 write-in votes.
The Councilmen were elected
for two-year terms. Holdovers in
the City Council, not up for elec-
tion were Mayor John Edgington,
Councilmen M. F. Allen and Rod-
dy Groves and City Secretary W.
W. Housewright.
Richardson received 42 votes,
Boyd 40, Green 21 and Posey the
16 write-ins.
Oscar Houston, Glen Daniel
and Ed Davis were election offi-
cials.
Salk Vaccine To
Be Available Here
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Anderhub
and M. A. Willis were Sunday
guests of Sgt. and Mrs. Thomas
E. Moore and family in Waco.
The much-talked about Salk
polio vaccine will be available to
some 1800 Cbllin County first
and second graders in the latter
part of April, provided the vac-
cine receives its Federal license.
The announcement was made
this week by Winfred Taylor, Se-
nior Sanitarian of the Collin
County Health Unit.
Final decision awaits the re-
port of Dr. Francis and the Po-
liomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation
Center at the University of Michi-
gan. These scientists are study-
ing records on 1,830,000 children
who were included in the 1954
trial of the Salk polio vaccine.
Statisticians and scientists are
working around the clock to has-
ten the report that will enable
the vaccine to be licensed.
Dr. L. M. Morrisset announced
this week that the Salk vaccine
would be available at the Wylie
Clinic for those not covered in
the school innoculation program.
This includes pre-school children
and those above the second grade,
including adults.
All available information to
date points to the fact that the
I vaccine will be reported as being
very successful, pans are being
made to go ahead with the pro-
I gram. Manufacturers are now
| producing the vaccine and the
j National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis has ordered 9,000,000
shots of the vaccine so that if
j and when approved the immuni-
' zation should be able to start
! immediately.
Locally, the program is being
administered under the supervi-
sion of the Collin County Health
Unit .along with the cooperation
of the physicians who compose
the membership of the Collin
County Medical Society.
Winfred Taylor of the Health
Unit stated that vaccination clin-
ics wil be set up in strategic lo-
cations over the County and in
McKinney.
School officials have been fur-
nished parental request forms
which will be sent home by first
and second graders along with a
letter to the parents. Mr. Taylor
states that the polio vaccination
will be entirely voluntary. Chil-
dren will receive vaccination only
upon the returned and signed re-
quest of their parents. The vac-
cine will not be given to any
child who fails to bring back one
of the forms, and it must be
properly signed by the parent.
The March of Dimes purchasad
vaccine will be offered to the
following groups:
1. Children in all communities
who are enrolled in the first and
second grades of public, private,
and parochial schools as of
Spring 1955.
2. All children who were en-
rolled in the first three grades of
schools in the 217 field test areas
at the time of the 1954 vaccine
field trials, but who did not re-
ceive the vaccine.
First and second grade school
children were selected because of
the high polio incidence in their
age group and because their ac-
cessibility in school would speed
completion of the vaccination
program.
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Operations To Begin
By May 1; Special
Production Slated
The American Tool and Manu-
facturing Co., Inc., is moving to
Wylie.
The company, presently located
in Garland, has rented the Bostic
Building, former home of the
Johnston Co. plant, and plans to
begin its move to Wylie around
April 15 with operations to begin
by May 1.
Announcement of the contem-
plated move was made this week
by George W. Spangle, vice pres-
ident and general manager of the
concern.
The young company, also known
as "AMCO," was founded in
1946 by W. L. McC'omas and was
operated intermittently by Mr.
McC'omas through 1953.
In early 1954, McComas and
Spangle formed a partnership and
operated as such until the firm
was incorporated within the past
few months.
Operations will be centered
around the production of hard-
ware for the electronics industry,
plus specialized tooling for com-
mercial usage.
Officers of the firm include:
Mr. McComas, president; Mr.
Spangle, vice president; James O.
Rea, secretary; and William H.
Raasch, comptroller and treasur-
er.
These four men, together t with
Charles E. Tobin of Dallas, com-
prise the firm's board of direc-
tors.
The firm's officials have a to-
tal of sixty-six years experience
in the field of tool design, engi-
neering, manufacturing, sales
and accounting.
In commenting this week on
the move to Wylie, Mr. Spangle
stated that "we, at American
Tool, feel that Wylie is an ex-
panding community with folks
that will appreciate a new and
young manufacturing business.
For these reasons it was decided
to settle in your community."
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Rev. P. E. (Bill) Jones
. . . New Baptist Pastor
He is not here; for He is risen, even as He said.
Come, see the place where the Lord lay. —Matt. 28:6.
May this great joy of Easter be ours today as we
take our place with the worshipers who go up to
the house of the Lord. May we lift our voices
with all who sing " 'Christ the Lord is risen today,
Alleluia!'"
We wish you a most Glorious Easter season.
Rev. P. E. Jones To
Assume Pastorate Of
Baptist Church Here
The Rev. P. E. (Bill) Jones ar-
rived in Wylie Tuesday to as-
sume the pastorate of the First
Baptist Church.
Rev. Jones comes to the local
church from Tyler where he has
been serving as pastor of the
Lake Park Baptist Church.
He attended the University of
Oklahoma and Southwestern Sem-
inary in Fort Worth. He has been
active in evangelistic work and
after retiring from that work
served as pastor at Cooper, Col-
linsville and Tyler.
Rev. and Mrs. Jones moved to
Wylie Tuesday and are residing
in the Baptist parsonage on First
Street. They have two children,
a daughter four years old and a
four-months old son.
Rev. Jones will begin his work
here Easter Sunday with a revi-
val which will continue for ev*
eral days.
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