Grand Prairie Daily News (Newspaper) - September 5, 1968, Grand Prairie, Texas Microfilm Box 45436 Texas T Texas GRAND PRAIRIE DAILY 222C 10 SECTION 1968 WEEKDAYS Prairie Scope By LOUISE GILBREATH SUGGESTIONS for names for the high school drill team keep trickling in This one is Gopher which comes form an anonymous donor who cautions not to be confused with so we LATE WORK come from the Universi ty of Texas at Austin that a spring grad Gerald was on the spring semester honor Johnson is the son of and Gerald 93ft SW 4th BUSY was the word for the business meeting at the Board of Realtors meet ing President Ed Smith re ported that the Realtors were to hear Browning Combs on the subject on the bond election Saturday in addition to hearing an insurance WOMANS CLUB reports that the group now has 317 Depart ments are getting into full swing with the return of September and school TUESDAY was quite a day for Mayor He flew in from north ern New Mexico Tuesday ar riving just at noon at Love Hur to make the city commission meet ing at city hall at he took a taxi from Dallas to Grand arriv ing at the appointed place at Then he wes reminded that Tuesdays meeting was an evening after The Waggoner household is quite a center of activity this week as time shor tens before Melissas wedding Saturday to David Harrison whats going on Police Officer Gatlin had stopped a moto rist for a traffic violation the other An 18yearold for reasons unknown took the occasion to throw an egg on the stopped vehicle and Officer Gatlin got an unauthorized egg shampoo in the bar CHANGES are occuring fast and fu in the pulbic school system these Leaving the administration build ing after 11 years as secretary in the su office is Helen wholl don students garb again this Shell be attending North Texas State University to complete her teacher certi Sitting behind the desk in Browning Combs office will be Mary Ann who had been assigned as an English teacher at Jackson Junior High this Formerly at Youngblood her teaches English at Adams Junior High also will be completing research for her masters thesis this Roy Carol who took maternity leave last has rejoined the school system and will be an English teacher at Jackson in Youngbloods Those of us who have had the oppor of working with Helen these past years will miss but wish her contin ued success in her new Planning grant asked for Guard armory site A blooming weed and 213 NE have twin red careless weed by the front entrance of their One measures nine feet and eight inches with a stalk of six and onehalf and the other one is eight and onehalf They have a feathery looking flower and reddish green Daily News Photo LTV research center dedication Friday Several hundred persons are expected to attend the dedication Friday morning of the foot research center in south Grand Called the Robert McCulloch Research Center in honor of the founder of the for mer Temco Electronics and Missile the facility will be formally dedicated at 10 Principal speaker will be Ed ward executive secretary for the National Aeronautics and Space Olin Teague chairman of the subcommittee on Manned Space Flight of the House Com on and will also give an and James chairman of the board and chief executive officer of and Clyde presi dent of also will who retired as chairman of executive committee earlier this year but who has continued to serve as chairman emeritus and a member of the board of will give the McCulloch will cut the ribbon opening the and Ling will unveil a portrait of The new located on the Outer Loop Freeway at Highway has been described as having the most modern and efficient executive and administra tive areas of any facility of its type in the Raymond LTV dent and technical said the cen ter is a blend of the academic and indus trial The research which has divi sions in and as is involved in basic re search programs primarily in fluid nuclear physics and the ocean Application for a planning grant of from the Department of Housing and Urban Development is expected to be filed with the regional office in Fort Worth City commissioners gave their approval for the application under the New Town in Town and the only other expected to be com approval of the urban re Cliff Cason of a consultant land planner and told the council this week that the redevelopment of the 117acre Guard Armory site on West Jefferson under the New Town in Town program would cost around The city expects to realize enough mo ney from the sale of the land to offset the citys portion of redevelopment which would include installation of water and sewer improvements and possibly other public It is proposed that the city build the Guard a new headquarters on 20 acres at the mu The project is feasible from a dollars and cents Cason told the Acquisition of the land is expected to cost around site im an additional Cason said that primarily the new HUD program was designed for residen tial although the type of development whether mul tiple family single family or some new concept would be utilized would not be determined until detailed planning is Some business develop ment and perhaps schools or recreation facilities would be After the property is planned and de land would be resold to private The New Town in Town program was designed to provide a means of disposing of federal surplus or land that is not being utilized to fullest Cason The concept is to develop a communi ty within a he one which would be self Planners are encouraged to use innova tive concepts in design of housing and land HUB had placed high priority on this Cason and anticipates that processing of the application in the regional office may be completed within the next two to three From there it will go to Washington for final approv al or County may expand new mental center County Commissioners were to receive a feasibility report Thursday on a pro posed expansion of the Menial Evalua tion which is less than n year Finances were expected to enter con Building Superintendent Jake who is preparing the re said cost of the initial complete remodeling was The expansion would cost a like he plus the increased building costs over the past The Center is located in the former County Jail facilities and serves as hold over and waystation for patients en route to the state institute at It has 30 beds and 10 additional beds held in storage for extra The suggestion for expanding came from County Judge Lew who presides at the Mental Illness He said the center is becoming overcrowd elementary schools included in bond issue proposals Two new elementary schools to Je built for operation by the tall of 1969 be fully partly and without design concept new to Grand Prairie Financing for the two new facilities is included in a million school bond issue to be voted on The bond pro gram lists the two elementary schools as the first priority items in an effort to meet increasing student enrollments due to burgeoning growth of the But the airconditioning and carpeting are not so much for comfort as they are to accommodate a new approach to teaching that calls for doing away with the traditional classrooms and replacing them with a large open space undivided by any permanent With the new design concept comes a new terminology in which what used to be called a classroom is referred to as a teacher The old library and center for audiovisual materials now is the learning resources or media cen Under the new a number of teacher stations are located on each side of the media Although the plan does away with builtin individual classroom areas can be de fined through use of portable room divid ers such as coat and other One of the main features of the open space plan is that it provides more flexi bility for Movable walls will make it practical to combine as many as 80 to 100 children for an instructional period at the same time as few as 10 to 15 students are together for other teach The teacher station design dates a team teaching approach in which several teachers cooperate in the in program of all the students instead of just one teacher instructing in all subjects for one particular group as is done now in the conventional method of Browning Combs said al though the schools are not committing themselves to fullscale team teaching City design item of discussion in community meetings the first year the new elementary schools are in it te likely this approach will be utilized for the first and second classrooms blocked off by use of portable dividers probably will be used for the most part after the build ings first but the open space design will allow the schools to keep our op tions open if a complete change to team teaching is decided on The build ings will insure facilities adaptable to team teaching if that option is Installation of full airconditioning is made financially feasible because the compact design of the buildings substan cuts down on the amount of or wall surfaces through which heat is lost in winter and gained in the Savings due from this are expected to offset the cost of airconditioning so that a new building with airconditioning isnt anticipated to cost any more than a building without airconditioning in the traditional design for structures to house the same number of The airconditioning also will be zoned so that only the portions of a building ac tually in use during hot weather will be If half of the teacher stations are not in use during a summer for then they will be shut off by means of a folding door so the cooling will not be The planned now for use in the media center and some of the teach er also is an innovation for local It will aid in reducing the trans fer of note throughout the facilities since the various areas will not be separ ated While design of the teacher stations and media center are other facili ties for the such as and remain fundamentally the the new buildings also will include an audio visual music and pose room for what are termed high noise The new concept will be utilized in a 24teacher station facility for the nor section of town and in a 30 or 36 teacher station building for the south The northwest building is expected to cost about to while the in the southeast probably will run between and Combs said school officials made trips to San and to observe buildings ei ther completed or under construction ac cording to the new design before settling on the concept for Grand In administrators studied lots of blueprints and plans for buildings all over fhe taking what they considered the best features from each and trying to improve even further on them before arriving at a decision for construction Architectural plans drawn up by Smith Warder still are preliminary now but are expected to become official when they are presented to the school board at its meeting at 7 Monday In the ad ministration Design of the city Carlyle Smith coordinator of the Goals for Grand Prair ie program and two interested Andy Anding and Doyle are shown with a zoning map qt city Design of the city will be one area of consideration for Grand Prairie meetings Editors Note This is the first in a series of articles discussing Goals for Grand Prairie and giving reactions of two individuals to each specific area of Others will be published up to the first of community meetings at which the public will be asked to give Design of the City will be one of the items of discussion when four communi ty meetings are held 17 and 19 to consider Goals for Grand to be answered yes or include the Grand Prairie planning and zoning commission establish and en force major design guidelines for devel near or adjacent to residential areas Grand Prairie establish a program to control signs and billboards Grand Prairie establish a program to provide underground rather than overhead utility services Grand Prairie acquire new land areas for future park and building sites Grand Prairie establish a program to beautify all major thorough fares into the community In discussing these Andy And manager of Southwestern Bell Tele phone said that the item on un utilities should be pursued to the greatest extent I say possible because our company has had years of experience in this ef and has found that in some extreme situations it is both financially and physi cally impossible to put utility service un The overall is noteworthy and should rank high in Of the other four Anding said he agreed with all of particularly the beautification of The sights along our thoroughfares are the first impressions that people get when they drive into the If these are then their impression of Grand Prairie is and with some first impressions dont Doyle in charge of planning and development for Great said that his opinions on utility lines underground are in keeping with On the item on he said that an effort in that direction would not only improve the looks of the but also would improve community We have noticed the pride that each of our industrial clients in Great South west has in keeping his own property We attribute this to the fact that our company puts forth a tremendous ef fort to beautify the surroundings and maintain the common areas to a high The same situation exists with the municipal He has a greater tendency to follow a beautification effort than to start one himself with little chance of Settling in North Carrier Parkway has another sunken spot after recent The citys public works department says that the dirt is settling around a storm sewer running underneath the street which leaves a void and allows the pavement to Barricades are and it will be repaired as soon as Daily News Photo
