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The WEEKLY CHRONICLE
of Events in DUNCANVILLfc and CEDAR HILL
VOL. I—NO. 38
DUNCANVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1955
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10c Per Copy
Councilmen
Report On
Prog ress
DUNCANVILLE
Progress reports were made
Monday night to the_ City Council
on traffic lights and signs, house
numbering and city zoning com-
mission, and topping of parking
facilities in the business dstrict.
Alderman A. L. "Hank" McElroy
reported on various types of traffic
lights available to the city and
recommended that the council con-
sider procurement of used signals
from the city of Dallas. He and
Alderman Grady Pat Sims were to
confer further with Dallas officials
on full cost of the lights.
Sims, who has been ill the past
two weeks, reported that he and
concrete Contractor Archie Glea-
son hoped to begin erection of the
traffic signs within the week.
County Commissioner Denver
Seale will make a personal on-the-
spot inspection of the parking area
in the business district this week
with an engineer from his office
in order to make recommendations
on drainage of the area and hot-
topping it. Mayor Hopkins had dis-
cussed the project last week with
Mr. Seale.
To assure that house number-
ing would, be handled properly,
the council voted to have a quali-
fied engineer do the work. Be-
cause many streets do not cross
at right angles, and because there
are several areas without houses
along the streets, the process of
house numbering is too complicated
for laymen to handle competently,
it was felt. Engineer Homer A.
Hunter will be contacted for a bid
on the numbering job.
The Council authorized the Mayor
to name members for a new Zoning
Commission. He will then present
his recommendations to the City
Council which is empowered to
make the appointments to the
Commission.
In other action the city voted to
issue the school a building permit
without charge for the new gym-
nasium. This aotion was taken
because the school, like the city,
is a tax-supported organization.
Approval was voted on the sewer
plan submitted by John Benda on
the 34 lots he is developing in
Red Bud Park addition. The ap-
proval was graned, subject to
Benda's acquisition of necessary
easements, and subject to the sewer
being installed to the require-
See REPORTS on Page 6
INTEREST MOUNTING IN
SCHOOL TRUSTEE RACES
2 Vacancies
To Be Filled
OnCH Board
CEDAR HILL
Following Tuesday night's
deadline to file for office on
the Cedar Hill School board,
incumbent Trustees Ellis
Bray and David Danciger are
being opposed by Citizens
Association members Clyde
E. Brayton and Roy B.
Macon.
Although Citizens Association
leader I. B. Clark has stated that
the association was not backing or
sponsoring any candidates, it is
known that a recent meeting of
the group at the school building
was closed to reporters, because,
said Mr. Clark later, "We were
going to discuss candidates."
Meanwhile, Ellis Bray declared
that "The main issue is
between the policies of the present
board and the policies of the
Citizens Association. I feel that
the present school board has done
a good job and has taken a posi-
tive and definite step forward in
building a good school program
for Cedar Hill, and I think this
election will be a test of whether
or not the community approves.'*
Bray lives at 330 Cooper Street
with his wife and four boys and
one daughter. He is 41 and is a
physicist for Magnolia Petroleum
Company. He is seeking his second
elected term.
David Danciger, the other
incumbent, expressed the belief
that "Any community is incom-
plete without a good school system,
and that is what we are trying to
get. An adequate school is the
first thing anybody looks for when
moving to a new town." He also
believes that "In looking out
for the education of their family,
people are looking out for their
community. The only lasting way
to achieve a good school is through
sustained public interest."
Danciger, aged 32, lives on
See VACANCIES on Page 3
BRAY
MACON
Unhappy Property Owner Asks
Aid of Cedar Hill City Council
CEDAR HILL
A property owner in Continental
Homes Addition, " Dell Saindon,
appeared before the Cedar Hill
City Council Tuesday night to
request information on city utilities
for the addition, and to seek as-
sistance in obtaining compliance
from the developer in providing
services.
Saindon, who lives at 315 N.
Tenant, Dallas, owns one of the
thirty-eight lots in the addition to
which title has been transferred.
The other lots which have been
sold are still under contract for
deed, said Mayor Potter.
Declaring that he had been un-
able to get information from the
developers, Saindon announced
that he would like to have a meet-
ing of all the property owners.
Councilmen were sympathetic to
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the property owners' problems, but
declared they were unable to offer
concrete assistance until after
attorneys for the developer and the
city had worked out an agreement.
It was announced that Continen-
tal Homes had recently purchased
the back half of Wild Flower Addi-
tion from J. Henry Coleman.
Other action concerned:
Individual tie-ins to existing
water lines, and purchase of 20
water meters.
A decision for Cedar Hill to par-
ticipate with two memberships in
the Dallas County League of Muni-
cipalities at a cost of $18 each
annually.
A discussion of city insurance
coverage. The blanket accident
policy covering Volunteer Firemen
was awarded to Clark Insurance
Agency.
DANCIGER
BRAYTON
Letters To The
Editor
Dear Mrs. Barber:
I have your letter of April
14 and accompanying: copy of
your April 12 issue containing
an editorial with respect to
Santa Fe facilities at Duncan-
ville. I am having: the sit-
uation looked into immediately
and you will be hearing further
from us.
In the meantime, with kind,
est regards, I am
Sincerely yours,
F. G. Gurley, President
The Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railway System,
Chicago, Illinois
City Councils
To Seek Aid
Of Santa Fe
City Councils in both Duncanviile
and Cedar Hill voted this week to
seek greater cooperation from
Santa Fe Railway for their respec-
tive cities.
Duncanviile Councilmen dis-
cussed the desirability of having the
section house moved to another
location and of obtaining right-of-
way from Santa Fe to extend
Husted Street south to Florence
Hill Road.
Appearance of the section house,
they felt, detracted not only from
the business district which faces
it, but also from adjacent residen-
tial areas.
Extension southward of Husted
Street had already been recom-
mended in the traffic survey rfeport
made in January by Dallas County
Traffic Engineer W. C. Brandes:
"A rather obvious improvement for
traffic would be a widening and
extension southward of that street
to the west of the Santa Fe rail-
road tracks, from Camp Wisdom
Road all the way to Fourth Street
(Florence Hill Road). That would
provide alternate routes for the
heavy north-south flow when trains
interfere, and normally would
divide the traffic load between the
two."
Brandes further r ecommended in
his report that "The City should
require the railroad company to
See SANTA FE on Page 3
Re-Election
Sought by
Incumbents
DUNCANVILLE
Two slates of candidates
are campaigning for election
to the Duncanviile School
Board.
Opposing incumbents Tom
Sheffield, John Stafford and
Van Smith are I. T. Cawthon,
Roy Saucier, and James
Shook.
Eighteen supporters of Cawthon,
Saucier, and Shook signed a letter
which was sent this week to voters
in the school district, recommend"
ing their candidates "because of
their moral integrity, their level-
headedness, their ability to face
issues honestly and fairly."
While it is generally felt that
dancing in the schools is an issue
with the opposition candidates
and their supporters, the candid
dates declined to comment on the
issue.
Individual candidates and their
statements follow:
Tom Sheffield, S. Duncanviile
Road, is sales promotion manager
for Hydrotex Industries, Dallas.
He is 35, married, and has two
sons. He seeks re-election to his
first full term, having been ap-
pointed almost two years ago to
serve the unexpired term of W. J.
Goldman. His hope is "To continue
to conduct the business of the
school to the best interests of all the
students and to the best interests
of all the taxpayers. During the
present administration we have
built the new high school; and
the gymnasium is well under way
without having had to vote any
additional bonds. The band instru-
ments and band hall were also
purchased and the whole band
program set up within the last two
years."
Van Smith, Camp Wisdom Road,
is a farmer. Aged 42, he is married
and has three daughters and one
son. He is running for re-election
to his fourth term. He states, "As
See INCUMBENTS on Page 3
STAFFORD SHOOK
SHEFFIELD CAWTHON
in
SMITH
SAUCIER
CC Planning
2nd Annual
Clean-Up
DUNCANVILLE
Plans are moving for the second
annual Clean-up campaign in Dun-
canviile, to be sponsored by the
Chamber of Commerce. Grady Pat
Sims has been named chairman of
the campaign, with H. W. Wolver-
ton and J'oe Daniel to serve with
him.
Sims will name two other mem-
bers of his committee, and plans
will be made shortly as to date
and other details of the Clean up.
These plans will be co-ordinated
with Maj. J. W. Beighley and per-
See CLEAN UP on Page 3
Telephone Company Plans
For Open House Thursday
DUNCANVILLE
Doors of the Duncanviile tele-
phone building will swing open
next Thursday, May 3, and the
people of this busy community will
be special guests at a one-day open
house. The public tours will start
at 9 a.m. and close at 5 p.m.,
according to L. R. Griffin, local
manager for Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company.
Besides getting a complete be-
hind-the-scenes view of what it
takes to make the telephone system
here function properly, guests
visiting the open house wili be
treated to several entertaining, as
well as interesting, displays, the
manager said.
"We're taking this opportunity
to invite all the people of Duncan-
viile to visit their telephone build-
ing. We hope they'll have a better
understanding of the local dial sys-
tem and we think they'll get a
good deal of enjoyment from the
special exhibits, which will be
shown here for the first time,"
Griffin added.
Some of the items of telephone
equipment which will be explained
during the open house tours in-
clude the frame, where any tele-
phone number in Duncanviile can
be rapidly located; the ringing
machines; and the power plant and
big batteries, which keep local
telephones in operation.
Visitors will actually see how
cable is spliced in everyday prac-
tice as a high-speed expert con-
ducts this portion of the exhibits.
"Most folks have wondered at
one time or another how their own
voice actually sounds to others
See TELEPHONE on Page 4
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Barber, Hildred. The Weekly Chronicle (Duncanville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 26, 1956, newspaper, April 26, 1956; Duncanville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth437593/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Zula B. Wylie Memorial Library.