Cedar Hill Citizen (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 13, 1972 Page: 1 of 8
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FLYING HIGH! Tim Foster goes over the bar to
qualify for the Regionals in the Pole Vault at the
District Meet Friday at Crowley. Photo by Paul Webb
Boys Place Third
At District Meet
The Cedar Hill Boys
Junior Varsity Track
Team took third place at
the District Track Meet
at Crowley Friday after-
noon.
Teams participating
in the meet were Cedar
Hill, Crowley, Joshua,
Forney and Kennedale.
Coaches for Cedar
Hill said that they felt
that their team made a
a very strong showing
for a group of young
athletes.
Tim Foster took first
place in the Pole Vault
and qualified for Region-
al.
Randy Wilson was
third in the 100 Yard
Dash and third in the
220 Yard Dash.
Mike Redd was sixth
in the 220 Yard Dash.
The 440 Relay Team,
composed of Danny
Weaver, Wilson, Mike
Smith and Billy Phy,
placed third,
In the 120 High Hur-
dles, Phy was second
and John Fleeman was
fourth.
Danny Weaver placed
sixth in the 440 Yard
Dash.
Mike Norton was
second in the Shot Put
and fourth in the Discus.
Robert Switzer placed
sixth in the Discus, Fred
Reyes was third in the
880 Yard Run and Billy
Phy was First in the
Intermediate High Hur-
dles.
The Mile Relay Team;
composed of Rohn Hen-
dricks, Fred Reyes, John
Fleeman and Danny
Weaver, placed fourth.
Hall To Speak
At DECA Banquet
Robert Hall, Area
Consultant for the Dis-
tributive Education Area
2, will be the speaker at
the DECA Employee-
Employer Banquet Friday
night at Brennen’-s at
One Main Place in
Da lias.
Mr. Hall is the co-
ordinator for the Denton
Public Schools and is
serving his first year as
Area Consultant. He is
a dedicated and progres-
sive friend to both co-
ordinators and trainees
in the DE program.
Dr. Paul Brooks, su-
perintendent of Cedar
Hill Schools will give
the invocation at the
banquet.
The students and
their employers invited
to the banquet are Chuck
Williams, president of
the DECA Club, and his
employer, Vernon Sims
of P & S Grocery, Wayne
Pogue, DECA vice-presi-
dent, and his employer,
Bobby Sims of P & S
Drive In, Carol Watkins,
DECA treasurer, and Mr.
and Mrs. Warren Carney
of Carney’s Dress Shop,
Belinda Pierce, DECA
secretary, and Mrs.
Newell Curtis, her sup-
ervisor at Darnell’s
Florist; Teresa Singleton
DECA historian, and Mr.
Ashton, manager of
C olbert-Voiks and Perry
Carr and Mark Crawford
and their employer, Mr.
Carl Wilson of Wilson’s
Mobli Service in pun-
canv ille.
Also, Bill Mobley and
his employer, Mr. R.C.
Coley of Suburban Cam-
per Sales, Kim Lock and
Ben Golden, his super-
visor at Sears on Lamar,
Cindy Wolfe and Mrs.
Lou Stansbery of the
Foam and F’abric Shop,
and June Hester and Mr.
Boyd of Gibson’s Dis-
count Store in Grand
Prairie, Wick Mackenzie
and Mr. and Mrs. Presley
owner and manager of
the Radio Shack and
John Knight and Mr.
James Mobley, owner of
the Cedar Hill Citizen.
Mrs Deege
To Speak
To PTA
The monthly meeting
of the Cedar Hill PTA
will be held at 7:3 0
tonight, April 13. The
meeting will be at the
High school Auditorium.
Mrs. Deege from
DeSoto will be guest
speaker. Her topic will
contain a ‘pep talk’ for
PTA. Mrs. Deege is
President and President-
elect of the Dallas
County Council of PTA
She is also Budget and
Finance Director of
N orths ide Elementary
PTA, Parliamentarian of
DeSoto Pre-school PTA.
She teaches C.C.D.
Sunday School at St.
Elizabeths Catholic
Church in Dallas. She is
also involved in DeSoto
area Girl Scouts as
Organizer. In her ‘spare
time’ she enjoys sewing
and painting.
Your attendance and
participation is urged.
James Medford
Holding Revival
Mr. James Medford,
Cedar Hill Church of
Christ minister, is con-
ducting a Revival ser-
vice this week at
Sanger.
Cedar Hill Citizen
YOUR HOMETOWN PAPER
VOLUME I, NUMBER 32
Cedar Hill, Texas
10<t A Copy
Thursday, April 13, 1972
COUNCIL TO APPLY TO HUD
The City Administra-
tor reported to the City
Council at their Tuesday
night meeting that the
city had been advised to
submit a formal applica-
tion to HUD for the grant
to lay a water line to
Dallas. Cedar Hill is
one of s ix cities in this
region to be considered
for federal assistance on
water supply improve-
me nt.
After the Council
certified the passage of
the bond election and
the election of Jack
Woodrum, Phil Wood and
Crandall Haswell to the
Council, the councilmen
elected B.T. Layman
Mayor Pro-tern.
The Zoning Board
and City Council granted
Doyle Pierce a change
in zoning from R-2 to
Local Retail for property
located on Hickerson St.
In action that had
been postponed at the
last meeting, the council
approved the zoning
board’s recommendation
that Elmer Weaver be
granted a change in
zoning from R-l to A-
partment on a 15 acre
tract on Clark Road.
Also the council approv-
ed the plat presented for
B.B. Short’s Cedar
Brake Hills No. 2
Several members of
the Cedar Hill Saddle
Club were present at the
council meeting to ex-
press their opinions in
a discussion held by the
council to attempt to
determine the public
feeling concerning live-
stock in the city. No one
at the meeting spoke in
favor of additional re-
gulation of livestock in
the city. The matter
arose due to the com-
plaint of an individual
concerning the keeping
of horses on small lots.
The council did not take
any action in the matter.
The Council approved
an agreement with the
Dallas Butane Company
by which the company
will cease all distribu-
tion operation at the
Cedar Hill Road location
on or before Ausust 31,
1972. The tanks at the
location are to be empty
and purged by August 31.
Mayor T.W. Cannady
reported that he had
been negotiating with
Duncanville for an emer-
gency water supply for
the summer of 1972. He
said he had worked out
a plan that would allow
Cedar Hill to construct
an 8 inch water line
along Joe Wilson Rd.
from the Duncanville
line to Highway 67. The
line would enable the
city to get 100,000 to
140,000 gallons per day
from Duncanville. The
council gave Cannady
authority to proceed with
the matter, and to appear
before the Duncanville
Council to seek their
approval.
Dr. Crawford was re-
appointed City Health
Officer.
The election of Fire
Department officers was
approved the the Council
Notice was given of
a special meeting April
18.
The City Council and
Chamber of Commerce’s
Highway Committee will
meet with the Loop 9
Design Committee atlhe
Highway Department Dis-
trict Office April 13 to
discuss the possible
routing of Loop 9 as it
affects Cedar Hill.
JERRY JAMES shows some of the unusual doll furniture that he builds at his
home. The beautiful, unusual clocks were also built by the retired cabinetmaker.
Crowd Of 200
Attends Opening
At the formal opening
of his campaign head-
quarters, County Com-
missioner Roy Orr told a
crowd of more than 200
“...that working toget-
her the problems of Dal-
las County will be
solved.’’
“The problems are
many in a County as
complex as Dallas, but
with concerned citizens
such as you, we can
solve these problems
and build a better Dis-
trict 4, and a greater
Dallas County’’ Orr
stated.
“Thursday I had the
priviledge of introducing
a resolution to create a
County Drug Treatment
Center and County Judge
W.L. (Lew) Sterrett ap-
pointed Commissioner
John Whittington and
myself to work with other
public and private agen-
cies to see t.o the imme-
diate implementation of
this Drug Treatment
Center,’’ Orr continued.
“One of my opponents
recently started a malis-
cious slander campaign,
but when the parties
involved began bringing
the facts to the attention
of the press and the
public, he then stated he
must have gotten his
facts confused,” Orr
told the crowd.
“Dallas County can
not afford to have a man
such as this adminsiter-
ing a $45 million dollar
budget,” Orr concluded.
The campaign head-
quarters is located at
3333 Marvin D. Love
Freeway in Oak Cliff,
with the opening at 7:30
p.m. Thursday.
MEET CANDIDATE SET
Politically interested
group of young people
from DeSoto, Cedar Hill,
Lancaster and Duncan-
ville will sponsor a
‘Meet the Candidate’
night Tuesday night at
the DeSoto High School.
All state and county
candidates will be in-
vited to attend.
Fred Hart and David
Brooks, both students at
Mountain View College,
had the idea of the pro-
ject to help aquaint the
young people of this
area with those seeking
offices in the state.
THE GRANDFATHER’S CLOCK was built by Jerry
James at his Cedar Hill home. The clock works were
made in Germany.
School Progress Report
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Track & Court Complete
THE CEDAR HILL SCHOOL TRACK and Tennis Court has been completed.
All that remains to be done atthe track field is leveling of the area around the
track and the sodding of the grass. The beautiful, fenced track is a part of the
improvements approved by the people in the bond election.
JERRY JAMES MAKES CLOCKS
OF MANY KINDS, COLORS
Coco Bolo from Cen-
tral America, Rosewood
from Brazil, Ebony from
Africa and Zebra wood
from West Africa are
some materials used by
Jerry James, 304 Main
Street in Cedar Hill, in
his clock making trade.
Mr. James, who, at
65, said he has worked
with wood all his adult
“The second annual
FFA Parent-Son Banquet
will be held Monday,
April 17 at 7:00 p.m. in
the Community Center,”
commented Don West,
FFA Chapter President;
This is the yearly
event when we honor
our parents and outstnad-
ing FFA members and
adults that go beyond
the call of duty to help
better our program.
Some of the awards
presented to the students
are the Dekalb Award
presented to the most
outstanding Senior, the
proficiency awards in-
cluding: Farm Shop
Mechanics, Shop Safety,
Rural Electrification,
Home Improvement, Live-
stock Production , Public
Speaking, Natural Re-
source Development,
Agribusiness, Chapter
Star Farmer and Star
Watch Your Gas!
Hose Stolen
Let’s watch it neigh-
bors !
t Residents in the
Roberts, Hendricks and
Acres Street area had
better be watchful of
their gas these days.
It seems that some
enterprising young per-
son helped himself to a
length of hose about six
or eight feet long one
night this week from the
yard of Mr. and Mrs. N.
T. Williams Sr. The hose
disappeared from near a
bedroom window while
the Williams were sleep-
ing.
The only resaon that
the Williams could think
of that a person would
take a hose of this
length was to be used for
removing gasoline from a
car.
life, builds clock eases
and installs the works
as well as does clock
repair,
Jame s was "Born ’ in
Ohio in 1906, He later
moved to Oak Cliff where
he lived for ten years
before coming to Cedar
Hill. F or many years
James said he did
cabinet work and finish
Greenhand.
“We are looking for-
ward to a successful
banquet.” The evening
will begin with a meal
catered by Underwoods
of Dallas .
Entertainment will be
presented by the local
Nashville group—“The'
Cedar Hill Teaching
Staff and Administration”
The group includes
Coach Jim Willis, Coach
Tom Taylor, Dr. Paul
Brooks and Mr. Charles
Mitchell.
The guest speaker for
the program will be Mr.
Carl Sorenson from the
Texas Agriculture dept.
Mr. Sorenson lives in the
Oak Cliff area in Dallas
Plans are now under
way concerning the an-
nual Pre-School Round-
Up at Cedar Hill Elemen-
tary School.
The School will
invite next year’s First
Graders to visit School
for a half day later this
spring.
Two purposes are
served on this visit. The
children meet the teach-
ers and staff and become
familiar with our facili-
ties.
While the children
are with the teachers,
the parents will meet to
fill out registration
forms. There will also
Child's Name
work for home builders.
His clock making was a
hobby until he retired
from cabinet work in
January of this year.
James said that when he
retired he decided to
practice his hobby as a
trade. He actually start-
ed building clock cases
about four or five years
ago he said.
James also builds
miniature furniture such
as dining room sets,
slide top desks, baby
beds and other doll
house furniture. James
builds the doll furniture
as a hobby.
The types of clock'
cases that James builds
includes Mantle clocks,
Wall clocks, Steeple
clocks and Grandfather
clocks. He recently
compelted a Steeple
clock case which James
said is a rare style.
James also recently
completed a Grandfather
clock from Coco Bolo
wood. He installed Ger-
man works in this parti-
cular clock. He explain-
ed that a clock five feet
tall or higher is classi-
fied as a Grandfathers
cloc k.
Mr. James has a
daughter living in Dallas
and a son in E 1 Paso.
be a set-up to take
copies of the Birth
Certificates and vacci-
nation records.
This year State Law
requires that before a
child can enter First
Grade, his immunizations
must be up to date. Im-
munizations against five
diseases are required.
They induce: polio,
diptheria, Tetanus;
measles; and rubella.
If you have a child
entering First Grade
nexg year plase call
us at the Elementary
School, 291-4231, or use
this form and send ti to
the school.
Parents' Name
Address _____
Phone Number
Birthdate
FFA Parent-Son
Banquet April 17
Round-Up Planned
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Mobley, James F. & Mobley, Peggy. Cedar Hill Citizen (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 13, 1972, newspaper, April 13, 1972; Cedar Hill, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth568686/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Zula B. Wylie Memorial Library.