Duncaville Weekly Chronicle (Newspaper) - April 12, 1986, Duncanville, Texas PUBLIC E. WHEATLAND 11 TX 75116 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION CF THE SUPERB 1986 Suburban Publishers 26ih Number 41 S cents 12,1986 Phillip L. Hamilton Staff decision on the rezoning of the Acton Elementary School attendance area was tabled Thursday night after parents said the current and proposed districts segregate living in the Woods During the called the Board of Trustees of the Independent School District voted to postpone the decision and appoint a committee to study the two attendance board had planned to consider a proposal to rezone the Acton district to include all of the area bordered Camp Wisdom 20, Cedar Ridge Drive and the western edge of the school The rezoning would have resulted in elementary school students living in apartments under construction near Duncanville High School to be bussed to in stead of attending Hastings Elementary Currently Hastings Elementary is board tabled the parents and the Community Forum said students should not be bussed to Acton while children living near the school have to walk to Smith They also said children living in the Woods who have to attend Smith Elementary are segregated from the other children in the Todd told the board that the Woods addition has been around by the school district on the attendance that since page 2) Proposed area for city Apartments under Elementary land not placed iij an attendance zone Run ballots cast in the Place 2 school board race will be recounted at 9 a.m. Monday at the Duncanville Independent School District Administration a called meeting Thursday night the board voted to approve a request by Robert McComas for the When the were tallied April 5 McComas trailed Clifton Hyman Jr. by nine to the original Hyman collected 1,451 votes while McComas received 1,442 board appointed a committee to oversee the Following the the board plans to install the winners of all three new board members Monday night during the regular board members canvassed the election returns during the meeting and declared winners in the Place 1 and Place 3 board proclaimed Whiddon the winner in the Place 1 He collected 1,515 votes while Clark garnered 1,409. In the Place 3 race Dan who collected 1,455 was named the He defeated Ed 958; Fred 301; and 207. counting the ballots a second time fails to give McComas a he will have to pay for the cost of the if the recount makes him the the school district have to pick up the tab for the ballots being counted a second Karen Ranspot News one of the 250 plus people turning out for a Tuesday hearing on a proposed income project near Duncanville spoke in support of the rest of the mixed of investors and school representatives told the Dallas Housing Authority the area can neither afford low income residents nor provide the services they speaking against the project included representatives of both the Duncanville and Oak Cliff Chambers of Commerce as well as a Dallas Independent School District high school principal Although half the within the Duncanville school Superintendent Ed Stevens said the district does not plan to take a stand on the he was at the hearing as an Although Stevens did not City Council James Tow told the board he did not believe the board had answered the questions raised by the out a member of the Urban League told him the proposal would create a Tow suggested concerned residents consider pursuing legal remedies if the board failed to address their proposed 106 unit project will be located on 10 acres in the 3700 and 3800 blocks of Country Creek The three and four bedroom single family homes would replace 106 units of the Washington Place project that was sold to Baylor of the area residents including several were quick to point out their objection to the project stemmed from economic considerations and not a plaintiff in the Washington Place lawsuit that resulted in a court order defining how the Housing Authority should replace the low income housing called the proposed project a in an lacking the services former Washington Place could walk don't know why the Dallas Housing Authority wants to put people in areas where they would not have access and retail Wooten who called the proposed the project a used many of the presented by the president of the homeowners association in neighboring 256 unit page 2) Phillip L. Hamilton Staff a meeting where there was plenty of name-calling Thursday the Dallas Housing Agency reopened its search for suitable locations to build federally subsidized Board of Commissioners of the in a special meeting at 8 a.m. Phillip L. Hamilton Staff the United States cycling teams swept the 1984 Olympic Games in Los cycling has erupted in waves of enthusiasm throughout the United But long before the sport was popular in the cyclists were competing in events in other parts of the Long before the excitement generated by the games resulted in the first Quad Cities Classic hst cyclists from other were cycle in Duncanville this week for the Quad Cities are products of the enthusiasm for cycling other have Schmacher and Valerie Chartrand are who compete around the enthusiasts will remember Schmacher from the 1984 The German woman placed third in the road race at the gamesT During the years she has been Schmacher has done quite She is a member of the German national team and it known by fans who follow Yet she hasn't reached her goal who is sponsored by has set her sites on becoming World Champion in the Women's got involved in cycling at a young In cycling has been a part of her life since Her father 4 cyclist aad she grew op lu around the Following in her father's Schmacher started cycling and for the past seven years she page 3) action on a resolution approving the construction of a 106-unit low cost housing project in Oak The resolution called Tor the project to be built in the 4700 block of Country Creek commissioners voted to delay a decision for two weeks to determine if there are other sites in Dallas where at least some low cost residences can be Duncanville Commerce has joined with the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce in opposing the The proposed site is on the north boundary line of the Duncanville Independent School Half of the students living in the project would attend Duncanville Farrell called for the delay saying that the board should page 2) 1 i provide office vZ completed within National Bank as well as other I lie building wilS be located at the corner or Hwy. 67 Properties Inc. of Dallas unveiled plans for a three 47,000 square at iUs 67 and at a Wednesday press next to the existing Duncanville National Bank the new office would provide additional office the bank as well as offices for take piace in the next 90 to 120 days with an estimated 10 to 12 month construction said Tommy Horton of Commercial Realty leasing agents for the million office will be one of the largest in the Dallas Horton office is being built on 2.4 acres recently purchased by Properties and will help meet general need in the community for first class office Horton addition to the lot bordering the Duncanville National purchased the bank land and building and will lease space back to the Horton said he has already begun contacting potential for the building but said the bank lease is only one that has been
