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Page 2 - Section A - THE WYLIE NEWS - Wednesday. August 31.1994
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor:
The Aug. 17 article on the W1SD
bond program was very informa-
tive. However, it seemed to me that
the “what will it cost me?" if the
bonds are approved discussion was
the reverse of what our concerns
should be. The all important ques-
tion is, "what will it cost us if the
bond program is not approved?”
If we continue to have inade-
quate school facilities;
• it will cost us in terms of the
courses and programs we can offer
our young people. Additional class-
rooms, library, music, arts, and ath-
letic facilities are all provided for
in the plan.
• it will cost us in the attitudes,
interest, and safety our children
have in school. Imagine yourself
forced to spend seven hours a day
In the extremely over crowded con-
dition our schools are in.
• it will ultimately cost us in the
quality of teachers and administra-
tors in our school system. We now
have a great team in W1SD. But, if
we do not give them the proper
support, how can we expect them
to do their jobs to the best of their
abilities.
• it will cost us in Wylie’s repu-
tation for quality education. People
looking for a place to live, work,
and raise families certainly consid-
er the schools. These are the people
we want to come to Wylie to buy
our homes and support our busi-
nesses.
These are costs that we cannot
afford. We cannot afford to handi-
cap our children and teachers. We
cannot afford to damage our city
and ourselves. We cannot allow
WISD to deteriorate into a second
class school system. Vote for the
WISD bond program on September
24 and keep Wylie moving forward
into the future.
Brian Shuler
Letter to the editor:
We moved here five years ago
this summer. Not long after our
arrival information and letters to
the editors began providing mixed
feelings about a school bond elec-
tion. There was a great deal of con-
troversy. So when the issue began
again in 1993/94 school year, I
decided 1 wanted to know what was
going on and 1 did not want to hear
it second-hand. The school board
members and the superintendent
had public forums at each facility
in the Wylie Independent School
District. Some of these meetings
were well attended by the public.
The board listened carefully to
everything presented to them. It
was a hands on examination of
what they were responsible for. 1
learned a great deal about all the
facilities. I learned how much the
district has grown and is continuing
to grow. I learned how our state
scores in scholastics rank with the
state and neighboring districts. I
have had a sample tasting of what
is available for our kids. 1 had a
much larger picture in my mind. A
bond election for our school district
is approaching rapidly. Our district
is in great need of all the facility
recommendations made in the bond
proposal. 1 have attended each of
the meetings and spent a great deal
of time pondering all the objec-
tives, pros and cons of this subject.
It is still undecided as to the loca-
tion of the new high school facility,
but the board has set for itself
many requirements to be reviewed
before a final decision will be
made. Our school district is burst-
ing at the seams. With the
announcement about the Sanden
expansion, the district is going to
continue to grow and grow.
Without going into a great deal
of discussion about details, 1 want
to comment on what the bond pro-
posal will possibly do to the local
tax rate. Nothing will increase for
those citizens who have a frozen
tax rate. With all the discussion at
the public hearings and from the
news about the expansion at
Sanden, I honestly do not believe
that the tax rate will increase for
several years to come for the
remainder of the tax payers. If we
do see a tax increase, it will not be
from the expansion of facilities. It
will be from hiring additional
teachers and staff to give our kids
an education that will allow them
to join the work force at the end of
higTi school, prepare them for col-
lege, and/or prepare them for
everyday life.
I encourage you to take time to
vote in the upcoming bond elec-
tion. If you have questions contact
one of the board members. You
have many opportunities to vote in
this election. Hopefully the news-
paper will publish the schedule
several times between now and
then for your convenience. Let the
school board members and staff
know if you support all the efforts
they have made to prepare for this
bond election. They are devoted to
the job they have been elected to
serve in.
May God bless you today
and everyday,
Wanda Walters
Dear Editor:
I’m getting a little pul out with
the local mind set that Wal Mart or
other discount department stores
would force local merchants out of
business. When I first moved to
Wylie, I shared that point of view
and tried diligently to keep my dol-
lars local.
It has gotten to the point that I
would rather drive into Plano or
Allen for my shopping than put up
with the price gouging that goes on
in this town. If you’re lucky
enough to find what you’re looking
for, be prepared to pay almost
S4.00 for a bag of mulch, $25.00
for a kid’s t-shirt and $6.00 for a
rheam of ordinary copy paper - all
for the sake of keeping the dollars
local. That’s unfair and I am going
to start driving elsewhere every
time.
As any good capitalist knows,
restricting competition only raises
prices and lowers supply. Yes. the
Walmarts of the world compete on
a scale that few locals can, but the
world is changing. Companies like
Wal Mart also channel lots of
money and support into their com-
munities through sponsorship of
activities and school events. They
also provide jobs and benefits that
small downtown businesses can’t
or won’t.
The nostalgic ideal of the comer
drugstore is just that - nostalgia.
Only those businesses that provide
the goods a community needs at
prices it finds fair will succeed.
Small businesses that meet that cri-
teria will succeed, and without any
unnecessary sheltering by the city.
I resent tunneling my dollars
into a city that has no desire to
cater to the interest of its citizens.
Up to this point, I have seen little
indication that Wylie wants to
grow and keep up with the times.
Why should my family continue to
put up with high taxes, outrageous
monthly utility bills and unfair
price gouging to live in a commu-
nity that gives little in return?
The final test of this mind set
will be what the citizens decide to
do about our schools. Will the vot-
ers choose to stay in the same old
rut or make a change?
If it’s the same old thing, my
family will be looking for a good
realtor.
Signed,
Anna Burke
Dear Editor,
As an 8th grade student of Wylie
Middle School, I would like to
inform you of some things.
First of all, 1 would like to
encourage the citizens to vote
“FOR” in the bond election next
month. One of the reasons is
because in between classes at
school, most students are late to
most classes becauses there are so
many people in the hall that you
can’t move. Mr. Pearce tries his
best to do everything that he can to
keep the halls under control but it
really doesn’t work because there
are so many people. He even
releases the sixth graders four min-
utes earlier than the seventh and
eight graders to try and keep things
in order, but I don’t think it’s going
the way he was hoping.
Another reason you should vote
“FOR” the bond election is because
the classes are so crowded some-
times there aren't enough seats for
all the students. We range from 25
- 31 students in a class. I under-
stand that they face the same prob-
lems at the high school, and it’s
really scary to me that I may have
to go through the same thing next
year and for years to come if some-
thing is not done.
"Look, if you're hungry for a sandwich.
M e have plenty of salami."
Town of Wylie
William Sachse
By Beb Fulkerson
A (though there were several died in 1862.
/\ surveyors who came Soon Elizabeth was being
X jLthrough this area, wooed and won by William. By
including Dr. Daniel Rowlett in Fall he bad made a crop and had
January 1841, William D. Sachse married Elizabeth. He could hardly
wait to head back to the great
meadows in Collin/Dallas
Counties where he claimed his 640
free acres of land. A shrewd and
hard working business man,
Sachse later increased this 640
acres to more than 5,000 acres of
this fertile country. His holdings
were in Collin, Rockwall and
Dallas Counties. They spread into
became the
first to settle
here - the
first as
landowner,
the first to
farm this
black land|MR.i ____
and one of william Sachse
the first to be . .
a Collin County citizen. Although Dallas as far as the Gaston-HaskeU
the town of Sachse is in Dallas area. He was a smart man, much
County, Sachse had much land in better educated than the average
Collin County and claimed it as settler,
home. At first William and Elizabeth
His neighbors were few and far lived in three underground rooms
between. They were John Neely for protection against Indians and
Bryan, first settler of Dallas; John wild animals. A section of this
Mitchell, whose land was recorded dugout is still in existence today,
in Dallas but was said “to ride alter Sachse, himself, built this and
Indians”; Collin McKinney, for lined it with stones. Later a rock
whom our county and county seat house was added, but it burned in
was named, and a few others in the the 1920’s.
McKinney-Alien area; and a Mr. To William and Elizabeth four
Huffman of White Rock. A Mrs. children were born - Thomas
Scott was the first to receive a land Benjamin, James Alfred, Susan
certificate in Dublin near Murphy, Adeline and Ellen. Only James
but it is questioned that she ever Alfred grew to adulthood. Bom
came to this Land. September 22, 1849, he married
Born in Hereford, Prussia on Laura Belknap (4/1/1857 -
December 16, 1820 to Henry and 7/7/1933) ou January 27,1875. He
Mary (Kemp) Sachse, this passed away Feb. 6,1930. Both arc
energetic young man with buried iu the Sachse Cemetery, as
“dancing eyes’* got tired of dusting arc most of the family,
furniture in his father’s Prussian Deer, rabbit, buffalo and an
hotel. After his parent’s demise as abundance of wildlife were
a young man of age 20 years, he plentiful. In the 1840’s Sachse
headed to America. Only 75c was brought pigs but bears ate them,
in his pocket as he stowed away on Sachse had a greater craving Uian
a boat heading toward a new and for meat. It was bread ... not
promised land, the United States of corubread, but wheat bread. He
America. He landed in New York raised com which was beaten into
in August 1840. meal and later, purchased a small
From New York to Philadelphia hand mill to grind his com with,
to Pittsburgh to Missouri and on to but he had no wheat. The
Lamar County, Texas he roamed, following year he did raise wheat
searching for his dream. With which he ground in a small coffee
some other interested parties he mill. Elizabeth made them a
headed this way in 1844, arriving delicacy of “brown biscuits” to the
on January 15, 1845. Indians, delight of William,
thought to be the raiding
Comanches, forced this party back Sec this column next week and
to Lamar County. There Sachse read more about the William
found the beautiful Elizabeth Sachse family.
McCulloch, daughter of Mr. and ________
Mrs. Henry McCulloch of South
Carolina. A blacksmith and
ginsmith by trade, McCulloch had
Beb Fulkerson is a long time
resident of Wylie and has
a--------------------------- written a number of article
moved from Alabama to Texas concerning Wylie history.
and, later, to California where he
To Wylie’s
concerned Christians,
We thank you in advance for
your valuable support for our first
CARE CONCERT of the season
Wednesday August 31, at 7 p.m. at
Wylie’s First Baptist Sanctuary.
Please get your free tickets from
a committee member listed below.
The CARE CONCERTS are
sponsored by Wylie’s Christian
Community Care Center, a min-
istry of the Wylie Ministerial
So, please vote “FOR” the bond
election because I, as a student, feel
that a new school is needed. Please
think twice about your decision
because your vote could make a
difference. Remember that your
decision could make “YOUR”
child get a better education.
Sincerely,
Brooke Messer
P S. I would like to encourage
other students to write letters, too.
We are the ones who truly know
the situation. Talk to your parents.
Early pioneers had spunk
'W'magine yourself and your
I spouse loading up your nine
Jjchildren into a station
wagon and striking out on a two-
to three-month journey into a
largely unsettled and uncivilized
country you’d never seen before.
Stuffed into the vehicle with the
two of you and your four sons and
five daughters would be every-
thing you owned in the way of
food, utensils, bedding and fumi-
Weldon
Lacy
tore.
Today, most of us would dis-
miss such a prospect as “Mission
Impossible” and banish it from our
mind, but many families made
similar treks to this area of Texas
in the early to mid 1800s under
much harshers conditions than
exist in modem times.
One such family was that of
R.D. Jones and his wife Martha
Eliza, who with their nine chil-
dren left Tennessee in September
1855 and arrived in North Dallas
County in November that year,
traveling in a covered wagon
drawn by two horses.
Now, if you’ve ever seen—in a
museum, perhaps—a covered
wagon of the type the pioneers
used in crossing the country you
realize they’re not much bigger, if
at all. than a full-sized station
wagon.
Imagine 11 people and all their
belongings making the trip from
Tennessee to North Texas in such
a conveyance!
I learned about this hearty pio-
neer Dallas County family by
reading a collection of articles
which were written by Mrs.
George W. James (Martha
Catherine Jones) for the Garland
News in 1927. Mrs. James was
one of the nine Jones children who
made the trip by covered wagon
from Tennessee.
The articles, transcribed from
Mrs. James' longhand by her two
great-granddaughters, Mrs. G.W.
(Dororthy Olinger) Range and
Mrs. A.M. (Mimi Olinger) Davis
Jr., present a remarkable first-per-
son insight into the hard and diffi-
cult lives of settlers on die Texas
frontier.
“Our first slop in Dallas County
was at the home of Robert F.
Campbell, Esq., south of Plano,”
she wrote, pointing out that the
county was sparsely setded at the
time and that newcomers were
given a hearty welcome.
She said that Mr. Campbell, a
well-known landowner, gave her
father much important information
about the area “and extended us
many deeds of kindness.”
She further wrote, “Our first
impressions of Texas were the
vastness of the prairies and die
long range of vision. It seemed we
could see where the sky and earth
met. It was so different from the
home we had left which was sur-
rounded by bills and towering
pines.”
The first house the family
moved into was a log cabin near
the frontier village of Brecken-
ridge, now Richardson. Their
neighbors were the Jacksons, who
had a daughter named Audelia
who married John West, the
founder of the town of Audelia,
named in her honor.
“A farm of 50 acres was consid-
ered sufficient to grow all the
wheat, com and sorghum needed
for home consumption. There was
no market for them at this time,
and the principal buyers were new-
comers. The nearest railroad was
200 miles away,” Mrs. James
wrote.
She recalled that only a few
com and wheat mills existed in the
county, so the early settlers ground
com in coffee mills or pounded it
in pestles, adding that old-time lye
hominy was a great favorite of pio-
neers, especially in the winter at
hog-killing time.
Despite its harsh weather at
limes, frontier North Texas had its
compensations, Mrs. James
recalled, writing, “When spring
came, the prairies were like a vast
prairie garden. Flowers of every
hue spread out for miles.” In the
following passage, Mrs. James
spoke of transportation on the
frontier:
“Horse wagons were the chief
vehicles of conveyance in rural
districts. There were a few bug-
gies and carryalls, but for fast trav-
el they rode horseback. It Ux>k all
day to go to Dallas and return. If
there was any business or shop-
ping included, we would get up at
4 a.m., get breakfast, attend die
chores, get started by sunup and
arrive in Dallas about 10 a.m.
“On returning we always tried
to get across White Rrxk by sun-
down, as there was no bridge, and
the b;mk.s were very steep. It was
always a relief to get across.
“We would get home ;liter dark,
tired and weary, do up the farm
chores, then after putting in about
16 to 18 strenuous hours, retire to
rest.”
In 1858, Mrs. James wrote, her
father bought hind at 50 cents tut
acre and built two log cabins on it.
“The floor was made of pun-
cheons, splitting large logs into
slabs two feet or more wide, and
two or three inches, thick. 'The
splinters were removed with an
adz.”
Because of the scarcity of nails
and lack of lumber on die frontier,
solders built in the following man-
ner, Mrs. James wrote: “They
would get sized poles the length of
die house, split them in half, then
after the boards were laid they
would lay these split poles flat-side
See Early Page 4A
Alliance.
CARE CONCERTS -
1. Make us more aware of the
CARE CENTER as it helps the
people among us in need with food,
clothing, and shelter.
2. Allow us to gather to Praise
our Lord Jesus with music.
3. Remind us, we are all a part of
the Body of Christ.
4. Help us to introduce our
unsaved friends to our Best Friend.
And thanks too for making four
of the next 52 Wednesdays; Nov.
16, March 8, 1995, May 17 1995,
Aug. 30, 1995 - a regular part of
your church’s plans for the coming
year.
Care Concert Committee:
Debbie Congdon and Betty Lutz,
Saint Anthony’s Catholic; Dave
Eden, True Vine Fellowship;
Sandy Oveiman and Allen Stroud,
First Baptist; Linda Smyder, First
United Methodist; Ed LaPorte,
First Christian; T. M. Trimble,
MD, Chmn. Call if someone from
your church would like to serve on
(he committee.
T. M. Trimble, MD
The Wylie \i;tts
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