The Wylie News (Wylie, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1956 Page: 1 of 6
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THE WYLIE NEWS
Serving Collin County's Fastest Growing City
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WYLIE, COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1956
NUMBER 40
Mrs. Martin Named
Life Member Of PTA
Mrs. M. M. Martin
JAN. 31 DEADLINE
FOR PAYMENT
OF POLL TAXES
Next Tuesday, January 31, is
the deadline for paying poll taxes,
thereby qualifying residents to
vote in 1956 elections.
Residents of the Wylie area
may pay their poll taxes at the
First State Bank here through
next Tuesday in an arrangement
worked out by the Chamber of
Commerce in cooperation with the
County Commissioners Court and
the Collin County Tax Assessor-
Collector
W. O. Houston is in charge of
the poll tax booth and is on duty
from 8:.*'C a.m. until 3:00 p.m. at
the bank weekdays and on Satur-
day from 8:30 until 1:00 p.m.
The booth was opened Saturday
of last week and business has
been brisk to date, according to
Mr. Houston. A total of 62 poll tax
receipts were issued last Saturday.
Sales are expected to reach their
peak by the coming weekend.
1956 is a general election year
and interest is expected to be
high in elections from the local
level to the presidency. In Texas,
one must have paid his poll tax
to be eligible, unless he has
reached his 60th birthday.
Mrs. M. M. Martin has been
voted P.T.A.'s highest honor, a
State Life Membership.
Life Membership is a voluntary
gift, expressing respect and ad-
miration for the recipient, whose
devotion for children inspires rec-
ognition of the highest honor.
For her outstanding leadership,
a gift of love is extended to ex-
press gratitude for unselfish serv-
ice. Mrs. Martin has been a mem-
ber continuously for 27 years, and
has held all offices, most of them
more than once.
This year, Mrs. Martin is offi-
cial delegate from Wylie to the
County P.T.A., in which organiza-
tion she is also a vice president.
This is the first Life Member-
ship ever awarded in Wylie. It
was enthusiastically and unani-
mously voted at a recent meeting
of the P.T.A. The citizens of
Wylie can be proud of Mrs. Mar-
tin and her never-failing efforts.
The $25.00 fee for this member-
ship goes to the State Congress of
Parent - Teachers' extension fund,
and exempts the honoree from
paying further state dues. She re-
ceives a framed certificate and
State Life Card showing her new
status.
W-2 STATEMENTS
DUE BY JAN. 31
Employers were reminded t day
that the deadline for issuing W-?.
withholding statements to em-
ployees is January 31, according
to Ellis Campbell, Jr., District
Director of the Internal Revenue
Service office in Dallas.
If it becomes necessary to cor-
rect a W-2 alter it has been given
to an employee, a corrected state-
ment must be issued and marked
"corrected by employer."
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Parker and
children visited in Fort Worth,
Sunday, with Rev. and Mrs. Harry
Felkel and family. The Felkels
will leave in April to spend three
years in the Belgian Congo as
missionaries.
1955 WORK BY
U. S. ENGINEERS
OVER $35-MILLI0N
During 1955, Corps of Engi-
neers' construction in North-C'en-
tral Texas totaled an estimated
$35,000,000.
According to Colonel Ifarry O.
Fischer, Fort Worth District En-
gineer, a $35,000,000 construction
program has been accomplished
by private contractors working un-
der supervision of the Fort Worth
District, Corps of Engineers, dur-
ing the year now ending.
By far the largest emphasis was
on military construction projects.
During 1955 the new Abilene
Air Force Base project near Abi-
lene, Texas, involved a $22 000,000
expenditure.
Another large construction pro-
gram is also in progress at Fort
Hood where troop and family
housing, equipment maintenance
facilities, etc. are under way. New
Air Force Stations are also
planned at Lufkin and Ozona.
During 1955 the Dnlhs Fl"o
way project was advanced to iu,
half-way mark, Colo.icl Fi :i._t
added.
The $10,000,000 undertaking
will provide a harness for the
| often unruly Trinity River, pro-
tecting vital business and rosid n
tial areas and communication fa-
cilities.
A $4,000,000 Floodwav project
at Fort Worth is now in the fiinl
stages of construction.
The multimillion dollar con-
i struction effort now under way
will continue during the first lr;'f
of the coming year, Colonel Fisch-
er anticipated. The program to be
accomplished during the latter
i part of 1956 will however be do-
WYLIE TEAMS WIN
AT BLUE RIDGE
BY BIG MARGINS
Wylie's basketball teams con-
tinued their winning ways last
Friday night by soundly trounc-
ing the boys and girls at Blue
Ridge in conference games.
The scores were as follows:
Wylie Girls—75
Blue Ridge Girls—44.
Wylie Boys—75
Blue Ridge Boys—42.
The games left the local lads
and lassies in firm grip on first
place in the conference race, both
teams having been undefeated.
The Friday night games ended
the first round for the locals.
Gail Dempsey, versatile Wylie
forward, dropped in 27 points to
take individual scoring honors,
being followed by Margie Cross
with 18, and Kathryn Eubanks
with 16. High for Blue Ridge was
Richardson with 13 points.
Russell Clemmons, Wylie's pivot
man, was high scorer in the boy's
game with 22 tallies to his credit,
while "Chief" Montoya dropped
in 15 points. White of Blue Ridge
hit for 13 points.
Winter Moisture Readies
Land For Onion Planting
SURFACE PIPE SET
ON WILDCAT TRY
NORTH OF WYLIE
Surface pipe has been set for a
4200-ft. wildcat oil well north of
Wylie and full scale drilling op-
erations are expected to get un
derway as soon as weather per
mits.
The well is located about five
miles north of Wylie on the A. R.
Welborn place.
O. W. Killam of Laredo is drill-
ing the well and local interested
parties include J. R. Prince and
John L. Bostic.
NEWS SPONSORS
PHOTO CONTEST
CF SNOW SEASON
Local amateur photographers
this week are invited to submit
photos of scenes taken last week
during the big snow storm and
while the snow was still on the
ground.
Film dealers here reported a
big run on their products and it is
believed that a large number of
choice "shots" were made while
the white blanket of snow covered
the countryside.
Photographers are requested to
submit their pictures (as many as
they wish) by not later than
Thursday, Feb. 1. Pictures are re-
stricted to snow scenes of any-
type and any subject, and must
have been taken in the Wylie
area. Any size print may be sub-
mitted.
Three winners will be selected
from the pictures submitted and
these will be published in The
News. In addition, prizes will be
awarded as follows: First, $5.00;
Second, $3.00; Third, $2.00. De-
cision of the judges will be final.
Maynard Resigns As
Elementary Teacher;
Mrs. Collins Hired
Announcement was made this
week by the School Board that
Troy Maynard had resigned as a
member of the faculty of the Wy-
lie Elementary School.
Mr. Maynard secured a position
in the Ferris schools and began
his duties there Monday of this
week.
Employed to replace Maynard
on the Elementary faculty was
Mrs. Edwin Collins, the announce-
ment stated.
PIRATES WIN OVER
ANNA, PLAY HERE
AGAIN FRIDAY EVE.
The Wylie Pijates, both boys
and girls, roundly defeated the
teams from Anna, in games played
here Tuesday night at Birming-
ham Gym.
The girls won by a score of
63-36, and the boys were victori-
ous by a 73-41 count.
High scoring honors for girls
were even with Margie Cross and
Gail Dempsey each getting 22
points. Miller was high for Anna
with 18.
Hustling David McEuen found
the range for the basket for the
boys and hit for 21 points, fol-
lowed by Russell Clemmons with
j 17. Craven topped the Anna bas-
ketcers with 22 tallies.
Friday Night Games Here
Friday night of this week the
Pirates play Westminster here a*
7:30 in the second game of the
I second round in conference play.
A large crowd is expected for
j the Friday games.
Bids For Water
Facilities To Be
Taken February 7
Bids for additional facilities for
the North Texas Municipal Water
District will be taken at the office
here on Fob. 7, officials of the
district announced this week.
A. P. Rollins, manager for the
district, stated Monday that bids
will be opened at 3 p.m. on Feb. 7
for two pump stations to be lo-
cated in Garland and Dallas and
also for the Wylie-Rockwall-Royse
City pipeline.
Approval of plans for these fa-
cilities was completed at a meet-
ing of the district's board of direc-
tors, held here Friday night.
Mrs. Joe Rabb and son, Robert,
of Point, spent Tuesday visiting
friends here.
Plan o Business Man
Heads 1956 Red
Cross Fund Campaign
Newton J. Burkett, chairman of
Collin County Chapter, American
Red Cross, recently announced the
appointment of J. O. Harrington,
Piano business man as chairman
of the 1956 Red Cross Campaign
[ for members and funds.
Mr. Harrington is well known
to Collin County residents, having
been in the furniture and under-
taking business in Piano for sev-
eral years. Within the next few
weeks Mr. Harrington will be an-
nouncing appointment; of his va-
j rious campaign chairmen through-
out the county.
No campaign solicitation will bo
conducted in Wylie since the Red
Cross was made a part of the
| Wylie Community Chest drive
\ which was conducted during the
I month of October, 1955.
pendent upon future congressional
appropriations.
Roy DeLay of Laredo was a
weekkend guest in the J. R.
Prince home.
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Top news in the Wylie area the
past week has been the receiving
of much-needed moisture in the
form of sleet, snow and rainfall.
Beginning last Wednesday a.m.
with a downpour of rain, the
weather mixture has included
sleet, snow and drizzle, bringing
a total of approximately 2 inches
of moisture through Tuesday of
this week.
The precipitation ended over
forty days without the slightest
trace of moisture
The wintry blast of weather,
which dropped temperatures to the
16-degree mark, brought one of
the heaviest snowstorms in recent
years to the local area. Estimates
of the snow were from three to
five inches.
The moisture brought happiness
to local people, particularly farm-
ers and land-owners of the vicin-
ity. Many fields of grain were in
dire need of rain and numbers
of farmers had given up on get-
ting a stand of wheat, oats and
other small grain crops. The pre-
cipitation has greatly increased
chances for a normal grain crop in
many instances, and will put the
land in condition for the sowing
of spring grain acreages.
I Especially happy over 'the rain-
j fall were onion growers in South
I Collin. Onion farmers in the im*
| mediate vicinity had not planted a
single acre to date because of the
continuing harmful drought eon-
j ditions. Generally speaking for the
| past few years, considerable acre-
age has been planted by Jan. 15.
Indications this week from many
of the growers, including C. R.
j Ilillis, R. V. Groves, Geo. Gay,
[ Orville Kreymer and others, were
[ that planting would begin as soon
| as weather conditions were favor-
[ able. A few days of sunshine
1 would put the land in excellent
shape for beginning the 1956
! crop.
Arrival of plants from the South
Texas fields will probably begin
by early next week if the skies
clear.
The snow and icy conditions
caused dismissal of both the ele-
mentary and high schools Thurs-
day of last week. Also cancelled
was the regular meeting of the
Wylie Lions Club as well as a
scheduled meeting of the Ground
Observer Corps for last Wednes-
day night.
Luckily, very few traffic mis-
haps were reported and no seri-
ous accidents recorded because of
the weather.
Archie Steele of Fort Worth
spent the weekend with Mr. and
Mrs. John D. Houston.
Status Of Reservoir
Stages and Storages
As Of Jan. 19, 1956
Name Of
' Reservoir
Elev. Storage
(ft.) (ac.-ft.)
BELTON 562 168,70!)
LAKE DALLAS 510 43,480
LAKE LA VON 469 119,400
WHITNEY 517 344,200
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