Friendswood News (Newspaper) - November 30, 1972, Friendswood, Texas An Independent Friends wood News VOLUME n November 1972 3321503 TEXAS Next Game At Port Arthur Saturday MUSTANGS OVERCOME RAIN AND INJURIES TO BEAT MAGNOLIA 66 M Comes On Penetrations Across The 20 Yard Line 4 To Magnolia 2 thit left only healthy back S1 lid kick that the I post highlight Brit playoff the Magnolia Friday Rain In It and trak by Beh regular sway Mat the only off will be ad this to Friends Tke field gave nen MOW ssss footing and id both to fumble t the bell Injuries tossed it up for er aid suffered a the rl effective a Coach rjr decided to try point after first touch The did not Taylors The annual tour of homes The general color suffered en sponsored by tht Heritage for this home Is wm wUw tnd pft depleting December 2 ud from 26 Christmas In the Many exciting and new ideas have been turned Into The lovely beautiful decorations as the American home of and Club haa worked against the Lloyd 612 South will feature traditional decora The home of and of Many stuffed 301 Christmas tree as gave the Club a new well as dolls made from challenge as It Is the first and pine cones will oriental home to be decorated highlight An Old Fashioned sines the tour was begun In DEDICATION IAIN staked floppy Bake bard tor this Photo by Bob Tour Theme Christmas Orient t euljr Uw fame and ru two Punt Tn tad flanker nck suffered a leg ud waa taken out He freshman Irby aton did Me action as J suit of cut Winston was was regular Charlie kto tod feMi Tke Taylor came tor carries for 127 OM Taylor run covered second period tie could not battled the ball The 108 promises Such Items ss a tree of corn shucks snd s nativity scene made from knitting yarn will help tell the story of Christmas in the early The basaar at the Kallus home will offer handmade Items as well as baked goods snd will bea good source from which you can shop early for Join In the spirit of as the Community Christmas tret lights are turned on during the special Share an annual svent when children sre Invited to bring s gift to under the tree to be taken to hospitalised The tree will be lighted Thursday November at on the Friends Church Make this a weekend by attending these The donation benefits the Dads Gunning For A Rabbit A dri ver who said ahe was trying to avoid hitting rabbit with her car hit t tret Instead and went Into a ditch on Winding Way at The driver was Holly of 701 North Clear Creek Police reported the car heavily damaged but there was no report of Injury to Miss Police gave Miss Morgan a ticket for negligent collision and for not having a drivers license In her Letters From Santa With Sewer Site Differences Aired North Pole Postmark noted as a chewed the half by the veils ground The rattled I first dswM to only one In the last game ended tied for first with Garland Smith six r the Magnolia M that dU Mt end up In The Usk for the game Mac points went tke will play Port Arthur Newton ea tke wta over may left FRIENDS WOOD MCWS st h Slop N Go Is K for the wests Hews also be ll at Box 777 or left at office of Publications MM SM Ralph Gonzalez following a workshop Monday that he will not support a bond issue to build a new sewer plant In the Polly Ranch sres If the Is used to treat sewage from League We have enough prob Gonzalez Let League City take care of Ita own The council hopes to get comparative data from the engineering firm of William at Its meeting next Monday on two possible plant sites in Polly The Council has agreed to delete polly Ranch and the surrounding 117 acres owned by from current proceedings In return for the donation of land for a sewer Under the agreement the city would permit Polly Ranch to be developed as a water Still unsettled is the location of the sewer plant The council originally discussed s site at the Intersection of Farm Road and Chigger A preliminary plat presented by Polly Ranch showed a site futher downstream at the confluence of Chigger Creek and Clear Mayor Ralph Lowe had to signing the Indic ating that he considered the proffered site less desirable than the one on and that he wanted all details tied down Lowe said each site location has Its pluses snd Gonzslez noted later that the 618 site would be more favorable to a projected Homea development In League Councilman have quest whether the elevation of the proffered site would be high Councilman William Patton quoted Billy who represents Polly Ranch as assuring the city that a suitable site would be If the site isnt suitable for a sewage we will annex Patton The council hss already approved the first of three required readings of an ordinance annexing Polly Walsh was originally supposed to bring comparat ive data to the workshop but left a message that he had not been able to get In touch with to determine exact ly where It telephoned during the workshop and relayed a message that the site would be staked this Patton said that if the city doesnt to use s site offered by Polly we owe him full market value for the other site Ion Lowe said the 618 site would cost an acre if Polly Ranch is developed as a water district and an acre if it Is Patton agreed with the figure but ask If the area Is not developed as s water district he site should be appraised by sn ent appraiser snd we should pay what an appraiser says Its During this Christmas season children may receive real letters from Santa postmarked North with assistance from some air force For the 18th consecutive year volunteers assigned out of Elelson Air Force Base In Alaska will utilize time to assist a mailing they Imagine will top the almost processed last year making a grand total of over over the To assist your child you may write him a signed Santa and place it In an envelope addressed to your Air 11 cents postage MUST be affixed to the Place the letter inside that Then place both Inside a larger envelope with 11 cents Air Mall stamp addressed to Santas Mail Bag APO Seattle These must be mailed 10 with Zip Codes to insure delivery before Christmas Personnel of Air Weather Services Detachment 9th Weather Reconnaissance postmark the envelope to the child the North and send it on its City Hall Expansion To Cost Santa Claus Is Coming Here FRIENDSWOOD Santa Claus Is coming to town at 10 Saturday and will take up his station at the Stones Throw Shopping His visit brini by the YO HI HOs a group sponsored by the Texas State Survey Committee and the Galveston County Historical The visit was by shopping center owned by Ed Stuart and by Charles will have candy for the hot chocolate and cookies will be sold by the YO HI FRIENDSWOOD The City Council asked for working drawings on plans to enlarge the present City The plans were drawn by the architectural firm of Kelly Estimated cost of the project la The plans call tor remodeling the space present ly used by the Friendswood Volunteer Fire Department and for adding more square footage to the The proposed expansion would provide additional space tor city offices snd the Police The city plans to build a new fire station at the corner of Sunset Drive and Farm Road 2391 on land donated by Cecil Cost of the new station hss at between to The city is also talking about building a new city hall sometimes in the future next to a proposed 9 acre city park on Farm Road 518 near Winding The parkland would be bought with the help of a 50 percent federal grant and the citys share of the parkland cost was estimated st Funds for the present city hall the proposed new tire station and the citys share of tlie cost of the proposed parkland would be Included in a bond Issue the council has been discussing for sewer plant Vandalism Rise In City Town Has Mafia The Christmas lights at the Stones Throw Shopping Center were ripped down and smashed early Monday in one of three acts of vandalism reported In Friendswood during the Thanksgiving The lights had been installed Saturday and Sunday with the last string hung at 5 We have some awfully sick people In town and the sooner the people in authority take notice of It the better it will commented Ed owner of the shopping Stuart said he was replacing the tights for everybody to Stuart said he had hung 12 of lights with 300 bulbs on the roof over the stores and on the Stones Throw sign in the front of the parking A ladder waa needed to fasten the to the Stuart said the vandals would not have needed a The strings were just stapled on and someone could have grabbed hold of them and pulled them he Everything waa pulled down off the roof and off the sign and then someone apparently just stomped on the and ground them to he Stuart said the damage amounted to about 160 worth of bulbs plus 10 to 12 hours of Friendswood Patrolman Rick Lawrence found the lights torn down at and police dispatcher Betty Merchant notified Stuart Stuart Merchant reported the light strings were atUl there but when he arrived at 8 all but three or four were giving rise to speculation that the vandals had returned after the Initial Stuart said that he had no theory about who tore down the but that we have had quite a few episodes over the put with local Chief Wright he had a possible A Throw store owner who agreed the light destruction waa awful asked not to be identified for fear of We have a mafia In noted an employee of the The were apparently hit between and In the Interim between Lawrences rounds at the shopping Wright It usually takes between one to two hours to make s complete round of the city at night but Monday between and 2 Lawrence waa checking Westwood Elementary School where he spotted an open Vandals struck the Westwood lum earlier during the Myrtle cafeteria reported to police late Sunday afternoon that she found a of eggs smashed in the and around the Al about 10 Saturday the Robert family on Ron Circle reported to police thai their garage had been Wright attributed the vandalism to hateful specifying that by kids he meant people under 20 and stressing that most Friendswood kids are not We have a good bunch of In he and Im very proud of our young there are Just a few maybe IS or 20 a bad element who do things like Dont blame this on the CO
