The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 16, 1967 Page: 1 of 8
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(The (ftarrnUtnn Chrmttriv
“SERVING CARROLLTON, ADDISON, COPPELL, N1* DALLAS COUNTY TOWNS SINCE 1904”
—Commended by East Texas Chamber of Commerce tor Outstanding Community Service—
VOLUME 61
(Official Publication of the City) CARROLLTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOV. 16, 1967 (8 Pages—5c Per Copy)
No. 1
FARMERS BRANCH FIRE CHIEF R. L. (BOB) YAGER
YAGER ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF
TEXAS FIRE CHIEFS
Farmers Branch Fire Chict R.
L. "Bob” Yager was elected presi-
dent of the Texas Fire Chiefs
Association at the Chiefs’ annual
meeting in Houston on November
6 and 7.
_The Texas Fire Chiefs’ Associa-
is a state wide organization
consisting of full time professional
THANKSGIVING
SERVICES SET
FOR NOV.
A Thanksgiving service for
people of all faiths, sponsored by
area church youth organizations,
will be held Nov. 22 at 7:30 p.m.
in Covenant Presbyterian Church,
1700 South Josey.
Kirk Drew, head coach of the
R. L. Turner Lions, will be the
featured speaker.
A choir, composed of members
Rev. Allen Named
To BGCT Board
LUBBOCK, Texas — Eighty-one
pastors and laymen have been
named to the Baptist General
Convention of Texas 192-mcmber
executive board.
Fifty-seven pastors and 24 lay-
men were named during the an-
nual sessions of the BGCT here.
The Executive Board meets four
times each year to conduct BGCT
business between annual sessions
and consists of pastors, laymen
and women from every section of
the state.
Twenty-nine persons were
named to three-year terms on the
hoard, 31 were re-clected and an-
other 25 were named to fill unex-
pired terms.
Rev. Wayne L. Allen, First Bap-
tist Church of Carrollton was
elected for one year term.
fire chiefs in the state of Texas, j of each participating youth group,
The association is affiliated with,
and a department of the Texas
Municipal League. The organiza-
tion presently has 60 members
from all sections of the state.
Chief Yager is a charter member
and was actively involved in the
original organization of the asso-
ciation while serving as president
of the Dallass County Fire'Chiefs’
Association in 1960 and 1961.
The chief stated that “I feel it
is an honor to serve as president
of the Texas Fire Chiefs' Associa-
tion, and I appreciate the confi-
dence of my fellow fire chiefs. I
will continue to promote the pro-
fession of fire fighter, to improve
methods of fire prevention, pro-
tection and extinguishment, and to
promote high standards of profes- j 1964--65 academic year,
sional ethics.” I Mr. Kammler was born
raised in the rural area of South-
ern Illinois and graduated with
highest honors from Southern Illi-
nois University, where he re-
ceived a BA in chemistry and a
BS in physics.
In 1964 he earned a MA in
mathematics. For the past two
years he has been employed as a
mathematician by the Research
and Development Laboratory of
the Apparatus Division of Texas
Instruments, Inc.
will lead the singing. Other youths
will give responsive readings.
A nursery will be provided.
-o-
Rotary Foundation
Week to be Feted
The Farmers Branch-Carrollton
Rotary Club will be recognizing j and ribbons the easy way this year.
Yule Wrappings
To Help Band
Carrollton and Fanners Branch
residents will be able to choose
their Christmas wrapping paper
Rotary Foundation Week at their
November 16 meeting at the Holi-
day Inn.
Guest speaker will be David W.
Kammler, a Rotary Foundation
fellow, who used his foundation
scholarship at the University of
Sheffield in England during the
and
Perry Junior Band students will
show samples of holiday papers
and ribbon next Saturday, Novem-
ber 18, in a door to door sales ef-
fort.
By ordering festive wrappings
from band members, local resi-
dents will be helping to send the
band to the Six Flags Band Fes-
tival of 1968.
NEW STATE SENATOR—O. H. (Ike) Harris is
the first Republican to represent District 8 (Dal-
las County) after winning over 17 opponents last
Saturday in a landslide. Harris polled 15,105
votes and his nearest opponent was Democrat
Bill Harris who got 3,718. Horace Houston, an-
other Republican ran third with 1,114 votes. The
winner is shown here with his wife, Ann, and
daughters, Gillian, 3, and Wynn, 6. Harris re-
ceived more than 71 per cent of the votes cast.
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MAXEY H. MAYO
Maxey Mayo Heads
National Printers
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Maxey
H. Mayo, president, Rogersnap
Business Forms. Inc., Carrollton,
was elected chairman of the board
of directors for the Printing In-
dustries of America, Inc., at the as-
sociation's 81st Annual Convention
held recently in Washington, D. C.
PIA is a non-profit, member-
supported association with head-
quarters in Washington, D. C.
Serving over 7,000 member com-
panies, it is the largest graphic
arts trade association in the coun-
try, providing its members with
a broad range of management
services.
A life-long printer. Mr. Mayo
first became interested in the in-
dustry as a youth. He worked in
a commercial printing shop while
in high school and throughout col-
lege. He graduated from SMU
with a degree in Business Admin-
istration and is a Registered Public
Accountant in the State of Texas.
A member of Young President’s
Organization, Mr. Mayo is the im-
mediate past president of the
Business Forms Section of PIA;
president of the Printing Industry
of Dallas, an affiliate of the PIA;
and a member of the Board of the
PIA Computer Section.
He also served as president of
the Manufacturing Member Sec-
tion of the National Business
Forms Association for 1965-66,
and has long served on the PIA
Board of Directors.
During World War II, Mr. Mayo
served in the Navy's amphibious
forces where he commanded an
LCI and an LST. He is a retired
Lt. Commander.
Mr. Mayo lives with his wife,
Mary Frances, and their four
children at 5611 Walnut Hill Lane,
Dallas.
FRANK ALLEN TUTT
Gunshot Wound
fatal for Youngster
Funeral services for Frank Allen
Tutl, who died Wednesday, No-
vember 9. in a Tyler hospital of
an accidential gunshot wound,
were held Friday. He was buried
in Rose Hill Cemetery in Tyler.
The Tutt youth was the son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Tutt, Jr.
He was hit by a blast from a 20-
gauge shotgun with which he and
a friend were playing. The shot
hit the Tutt youth in the upper
right thigh and he was taken to
the hospital for emergency treat-
ment.
Young Tutt was a fourth grade
student and had been in Tyler
since 1962.
Survivors include his parents:
two brothers, Michael J. and Todd
Lynn: a sister, Amelia Kay; his
paternal grandfather, J. G. (Elzie)
Tutt, Sr., of Carrollton; his mater-
nal grandfather, T. C. Aderholt of
Wiley; and maternal grandmother,
Margaret Jenkins of Bell Flower,
Calif.
(See ADDISON on Page 4)
BIG POWER PLANT
PLANNED BY
TP&L AND OTHERS
Texas Power & Light Company
and two other investor-owned
electric companies today an-
nounced plans to construct a pow-
er plant capable of producing
more than one million kilowatts of
electricity near Fairfield in Free-
stone County. Plans are contingent
on approval of the various regula-
tory agencies involved.
The plant wild be located on a
5.000-acre tract of land about 8
miles northeast of Fairfield, T. L.
Austin, Jr., TP&L president, said.
It will have an estimated maximum
capability of 1,150,000 kilowatts,
and will be a joint venture by
Dallas Power & Light Company
and Texas Electric Service Com-
pany of Fort Worth.
TP&L now has under construe-
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"HI, DADDY, THIS IS CHIP,” said 5-year-old
Don Grant, Jr., 2414 Community, Dallas, as he
recorded a Christmas message for his dad, $p. 4
Don Grant, stationed with the U. S. Army in
Vietnam. Helping him is Red Cross volunteer,
Mrs. Robert Swango. For the 11th consecutive
year, the Dallas County Red Cross, a United
Fund affiliate, is sponsoring a ‘‘Voices From
Home” Christmas program. Families of service-
i
men overseas are invited to record free 8-minute
taped messages, packaged and ready for mailinc
in time for Christmas at the following area lo-
cations: Carrollton Chamber cf Commerce, 110£
Elm, Monday-Friday, Nov. 20-Dec. 15 from 1C
a.m. to 3 p.m.; and Farmers Branch City Hall,
Nov. 22, from 4 to 8 p.m. Incidentally, Chip is
wearing a uniform his daddy had a Vietnamese
boy make for his son, which matches his own.
The Carrollton Chamber of Com-1
mcrce’s first Country Fair and
Sales Day at Perry Jr. High grounds
Saturday was a big success, Cham-
ber officials said.
| So many people asked for selling
! permits that all the spaces arranged
I for sellers were taken. Additional
space was obtained for the extra
participants by widening the fair
grounds.
According to the officials, all peo-
ple who brought articles for sale
reported a booming business. Many
of them were sold out as early as
3:30 p.m., and the concessions and
games were well patronized through-
out the day.
At 6:00 p.m. the formal flag cere-
mony was hold and the new city
flag for Carrollton was presented to
Mayor R. J. Melnnish. Present for
the flag ceremony were Kenneth J.
Hughes, Chamber president. Mrs.
Etta Mae Humphreys, nationally
known artist and designer of the
flag, and Mrs. Ernestine McClure,
the flag maker.
Following the flag ceremony, the
R. L. Turner High School band, un-
der direction of Lee South, gave a
concert. The El Centro Jr. College
singing chorus, under direction of
Dr. Arthur Southerland also took
part.
The Chamber is planning another
sales day in the near future.
HOMER DOOLEY
ELECTED ADDISON
MAYOR PRO-TEM
The Addison City Council Tues-
day night elected Councilman Homer
H. Dooley to serve as mayor pro-
tein of the council. Dooley will have
charge of the city while Mayor
Marcus Morris is recovering from
auto accident injuries at Brookhavcn
General Hospital in Farmers
Branch.
Sindik Resigns Post
The Council accepted the resig-
nation of Nick Sindik as a member
of the City Planning and Zoning
Commission effective this Dec. 1
with regret.
In a letter to the council. Sindik
said the press of personal business
and the fact that he had sold his
home in Addison were reasons for
resigning the |x>st he has held for
13 years, most of them as chair-
man of the commission.
OTHER ACTION
In other action, the council:
—Agreed to work out problems
relating to damage to Industrial
Drive which assumed damage while
a new sewer main was installed
adjacent to the street;
—Approved Ordinance No. HO re-
lating to a recently re-zoned Apart-
ment District on the south side of
Belt Line Road east of Inwood Rd.;
—Bill Stevenson, engineer for the
Beck Co., was granted permission
to lay a sewer main and metering
station, on a pro-rata basis set-up
so that an apartment complex can
be* built soon across from the foot-
ball stadium on the south side of
Spring Valley Road east of Marsh
Lane. The Council rejected another
plan, other than a pro-rata set-up.
as a means for laying the line upon
the advice of Plan Commission
Scene at Carrollton Fair, Sales Day
tion a 565,000-kilowatt generating ; purposes, containing some 15 bil-
plant on Tradinghouse Creek near | lion gallons of water when filled.
Waco and recently announced the Construction of the new facility
addition of a third generating unit I will begin in late 1968. The dam is
at its Valley Steam Electric Station expected to be completed in 1969
in North Texas. The Valley unit: and one of the generating units
will have an estimated maximum | will be .placed in service by late
capability of 375,000 kilowatts. 11971. The second generating unit
Austin said that the anticipated iis scheduled for completion in late
growth and power requirements t
in the service areas of the three! The new plant will utilize the
tion of lignite mines and lignite
fueled electric generating unit
will act as agent for the thre
companies in the planning, cor
struction and operation of th
plant.
Austin said that TP&L’s preset
(See TP&L on Page 8)
companies brought about the de-
cision jto construct the new Free-
stone County plant. Expected econ-
omies from the .project, he said,
will help offset the rapidly rising
costs of providing service to the
Company’s customers.
The power plant will consist of
two outdoor-type generating units
and will feature the most up-to-
date design in large steam electric
generating equipment. The new
units will use 1,000 degree steam
at 3.500 pounds of pressure per
square inch. Electricity generated
by the new plant will be fed into
a 345,000 volt system for use
throughout the service areas of
the three companies.
area's lignite deposits for fuel to
fire the boilers. As a result, Aus-
tin said, lignite mining operations
in the area will be started in late
1970, about one year prior to the
completion of the first generating
unit.
He said that by early 1973 some
100 to 150 persons will be em-
ployed full-time at the new power
plant and mining operations. In
addition, Austin estimated that
about 450 workers will be em-
ployed at the peak of the plant's
construction.
Forrest and Cotton Incorporated
of Dallas will design the dam and
related facilities. Industrial Gen-
erating Company, wholly-owned
Included in the construction j subsidiary of Texas Utilities Com-
plans is a dam which will form a 1 pany of Dallas, which has a wide
2,500-acre lake, for cooling water I range of experience in the opera-
Paper To Be Day
Late Next Week
DUE TO Thanksgiving Day
next Thursday, your newspaper
will be delivered a day later, on
Friday, sinee no mail will bo
delivered on Thursday.
Post Office boxholders should
receive their paper the usual time.
Those desiring an earlier copy
may secure one at any of our
newsstands at the usual time on
Wednesday noon.
Your cooperation will In* appre-
ciated and our business office will
be closed all day Thanksgiving.
THE EDITOR
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Sindik, Nicholas J. The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 16, 1967, newspaper, November 16, 1967; Carrollton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth728010/m1/1/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Dallas+County+-+Carrollton%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carrollton Public Library.