The Howe Enterprise (Howe, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 1, 1966 Page: 1 of 8
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The Howe Enterprise
VOLUME IV HOWE, GRAYSON COUNTY, . TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1966 NUMBER NINE
$1,000,000 Project Underway Here
Student Registration Slated Friday;
First Day Of Classes Next Tuesday
Grading, Other Construction, To
Begin Next Week Near Expressway
(See project layout on an inside page)
Grading and construction is slated to begin here next week
on a $1,000,000 housing and commercial development in the
western part of Howe adjacent to the new Highway 75 Express-
way, M. B. Swanner, one of the developers of the project, has
announced.
Engineers are this week completing pre-construction work
at the location.
HOWE'S
THAT
?
If all these “proposed pro-
posals” in the Howe vicinity
become realities, before long
Howe city limit signs can be
painted on the backs of those
of adjoining towns. Understand
Howe and Sherman’s are al-
ready back to back.
The two foremost proposals,
the new housing and commer-
cial development-, and the area
recreational facility, are entire-
ly different, however.
While the housing and com-
mercial development will be a
part of Howe, the recreational
facility, with site yet undecid-
ed, could be located anywhere
between Howe and Whitewright,
Bells, or Dorchester, or Sher-
man.
Steering committee, appoint-
ed recently by the Chamber of
Commerce members, is at pre-
sent trying to determine if the-
proposal is feasible.
Around 250 persons, who are
willing to contribute $100 to-
ward the program, must be con-
tacted before the committee can
proceed with the plan.
It’s voluntary.
o—o—o—o
Do you have a new next-door
neighbor, or are you a new-
comer to Howe?
Families moving to Howe will
receive The Howe Enterprise
free for one year, simply by
calling the Enterprise office,
532-3305. The gift is a courtesy
of the Howe Chamber of Com-
merce.
o—o—o—o
What’s happened to all the
July and August cotton pickin’
cotton. Here it is, school time,
and we haven’t seen a bale. |
Remember when we used to ga-
ther in the lint for what seem-
ed like six months before the
opening of school. Now 'h0y’re
opening at about the same time
o—o—c—o
Slow down when you see
a highway sign warning, “Cross
Road Ahead.” It you stay alert,
maybe you can find out what
made it so angry.
A faculty meeting at 9 a.m.
this morning (Thursday)- will
officially start another school
year in Howe. Registration of
all pupils is to begin at
9 a.m. tomorrow, Superintend-
ent Charles Thompson has an-
nounced.
All first graders this year are
required to file birth certifi-
cate, if n@t already filed, and
must have a smallpox certifi-
cate.
School will be dismissed Fri-
day at about 11 o’clock, Thomp-
son said.
Following a Labor Day holi-
day Monday, first day of class-
Classes Begin
At Tom Bean
School enrollment at Tom
Bean began Wednesday, with
a general assembly of students
at 9 a.m. First day of classes
was slated for today, with 8:20
as starting time. The lunchroom
was scheduled to open today,
also, wi;h prices of 30 cents
per day for monthly -tickets in
advance, or 35 cents daily for
individual tickets.
Labor Day, September 5, will
be observed as a holiday by
the school.
The Tom Bean system still
reeds a teacher with in major
in either English, math, science
or social studies, an applicant
who can teach drivers ed. Supt.
Tim Kelly said he is also seek-
ing a parttime school nurse.
News teachers include Mrs.
Susan Lentz, English and Bus-
iness; Miss Linda Groner, li-
brarian; Arthur Boyle, counse-
lor; Mrs. John Tram el, langu-
age arts, and Don Worsham,
head football coach.
Other teachers are Mrs. Carl
Cdle, Mrs. R. S. Scott, Mrs.
Don Worsham, Mrs. Lottie Vin-
cent, Mrs. A. S. Luby, D. H.
Chumley, Charles Thompson,
Mrs. Charles Thompson, and
R. S. Scott. Scott is high school
principal and Chumbley is ele-
mentary principal.
Cooks are Mrs. Faye Hil]/and
Mrs. A. B. Rodgers. Custodians
include A. B. Rodgers and B.
M. Dean. Rodgers also doubles
as a bus driver. Other drivers
are Burl Shields, V. R. Mont-
gomery, and Clifton DeBerry.
es will be Tuesday, September
6. Students should not arrive
at school before 8:15 a.m., the
superintendent added.
Classes will dismiss at 3:30
p.m.
Lunch prices this year will
be the same as last year: 10
day tickets for grades 1, 2 and
3 — $2.50, with single meal tic-
kets 30c; 10 Cay ticket for grad-
es 1-12, $3.00, and single meal
tickets, 35c.
Thompson said that all school
employes must have a T.B.
X-ray before September 1.
A science teacher, Jimmy
Rodgers, has been employed by
the local system. He is a resi-
dent of Sadler and taught in
Eustace last year.-.
Regular meeting of the school
board will be Monday night, at
which time the members will
consider the school budget.
Methodist - Youtli
Group Attends
National Assembly
Methodist Youth Fellowship
group from North Texas at-
tended the Western National
Assembly at Mount Sequawa in
Fayetteville, Arkansas, August
12 through 19.
Eight youths and two adults
from the North Texas Confer-
ence were in the group. More
than two hundred attended in
all, representing seven states:
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisi-
ana and Texas. Representativ-
es were white, Anglo, Negro
and Indian.
The youths were divided into
groups containing one youth
from each district. The groups
met and discussed problems of
different customs of their par-
ticular district. They exchanged
views on any and all subjects.
Miss Margaret McDonough is
president of the Sherman dis-
trict which includes Fannin and
Cooke Counties as well as Gray-
son. She served as representa-
tive of this district. Margaret
says she could talk endlessly
about the many interesting and
informative subjects they dis-
cussed during the meeting.
The p-lat provides for 335
residential lots, a 25-acre com-
mercial center, eight apartment
units with a total of 96 apart-
ments and a private club, swim-
ming pool and recreation area.
Known as Western Hills, the
development is the project of
the newly formed Howe Con-
struction Company, composed
of several persons. Major de-
velopers include M. B. Swanner,
J. W. Reed of McKinney, and
Bill Dunn and a Mr. Rapstein
of Amarillo.
The site will be open to any
contractors interested in build-
ing within the complex, either
residential or commercial, the
developer said.
The site, just west of the
new expressway and two blocks
west of the present business
section, contains more than 150
acres. Plan for the project was
more than two years in pre-
paring.
Proposed building to house
Howe State Bank is also plan-
ned near the Hanning-Street
Expressway intersection, Pres-
ident Cleon Hamilton said.
Scheduled for occupany by
January, 1968, the new bank
will have 5,000 square feet of
floor space, double the size of
Collinsville Here
Friday For Second
Scrimmage Game
Howe Bulldogs will contest
Class A Collinsville here Fri-
day night in the second scrim-
mage contest preceding the op-
ening game September 10 at
Pilot Point.
Coaches Norman Dickey and
Curtis Allen said thirty-three
hopefuls are working out each
night, in pads, in preparation
of the 10-game schedule.
Game at Pilot Point Satur-
day night, September 10, will
be against the B team.
the present bank, which was
completed only two years ago,
Grading was to begin this
week on more than two miles
of streets in the development,
including Hanning Street, Com-
mercial Drive, Western Hills
Drive and Swanner Drive, which
runs in three arcs from the
entrance at the northeast end
of the project to the southwest
end, a distance of 1.6 miles.
This part of the development
will cost an estimated $100,000.
Main residential section of
approximately 70 acres, is di-
vided into 300 residential lots,
with construction to start im-
mediately on 15 houses. In ac-
cord with the Federal Housing
Administration regulations, all
houses in the area will range
in pi’ice from $12,000 to $18,000.
Lots will cost from $1,600 to
$1,800.
A private club house, swim-
ming pool and recreation area
will be a feature of this sec-
tion of the development.
Entrances will be artistic
brick or stone gates.
Following a new trend in
housing artistry will be five
cover sites, along Western Hills
Drive from the main housing
section north to the Commer-
cial Center. Each of these sites
has lots for seven homes, rang-
ing in price of $20,000 upward.
Two services station sites, one
of which has been negotiated
by a major oil company, will
be at the entrance to the shop-
ping center at the proposed ex-
pressway access road.
A supermarket and seven sep-
arate sites for various shops
are also provided.
Along the north edge of the
commercial center, provisions
have been made for eight a-
partment buildings, with two of
the buildings slated for con-
struction in the near future.
Set aside for future commer-
cial development is 50 addi-
tional acres, south of the first
commercial area to be devel-
oped, and east of the covered
sites housing project.
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