Grand Prairie Daily News (Newspaper) - October 15, 1973, Grand Prairie, Texas GRAND PRAIRIE DAILY NEWS Grand Prairies Newspaper Since 1908 PHONE 2625141 VOLUME 65 NUMBER 296 GRAND TEXAS OCTOBER 15e GP crime takes jump in August Major crime in Grand Prai rie jumped 26 per cent higher in August than the preceding month of and 11 per cent higher than August of last according to monthly police Increases were reported for all major crime categories except negligent homi cide and auto Armed robberies totaled five for as compared to only one in Other comparisons show one murder in August and none in Aggravated assaults went from 10 to burglaries rose from 45 to 58 and thefts over went from 74 to There were no negligent MISS HELEN STONE homicides for either Rape cases fell from four in July to only one in and auto thefts also declined from 21 for July to 17 for In 196 major crimes were reported for compared to Julys 155 and 177 for Police Service Manager Byron Harrison had no ation for Augusts sharp in except to note that most cities in the area were showing increases in certain categories like armed robber Minor crimes for August showed only a one per cent increase over Julys Combined major and minor crimes reported for August totaled producing an over all 18 per cent jump over but only a 2 per cent increase over August of last For the year thus far through August total crime is up one per but major crime alone is up seven per THE POLICE department figures also showed 147 of Augusts 275 offenses resulted in arrests for a 53 per cent arrest Thats up from Julys 44 per cent rate and last Augusts rate of 40 per The total crimes for this year are slightly higher than last years for the same time Arrests for this years crimes stand at or 54 per cent of those Jail arrests for August were comparatively lower than Julys but higher than Augusts for last For this 441 persons were jailed In police jailed 512 mut only 328 for Au gust last The number of tickets is sued by police for road and driving violations was also down in as com pared to 978 for Parking tickets went up from 17 to 28 over the two The value of stolen property in Grand Prairie for August was Police re covered of or per The breakdown shows taken in in in various types of theft and in auto There were no deaths from auto accidents for but 43 persons were injured out of 138 In there were two 147 to tal but only 27 in Comparing August in both years shows injuries were 59 per cent higher this even though no deaths occured and there were fewer total acci Grand Prairies fatality rate thus far this year is low compared to the same period last six persons had lost their lives in Only one has perished this Eric Trammel shows his third grade classmates at Florence Hill Elementary the pacemaker that was removed from his fathers Eric was al lowed to watch the in which his father re Dally Photo the experimental new nuclear Eric also showed the class a diagram of the pacemaker and played a tape of the Erics dad gets nuclear pacemaker By PAT PATE Daily News Staff Eric Trammell walked into his third grade class at Flor ence Hill Elementary recently with a special story to He had just watched an operation at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Dal las in which a nuclear pace maker was implanted in his fathers Eric was allowed to watch the operation with his County meeting set for foster parents The first countywide Fos ter Parent Conference will be at the First Presby terian Church in The conference begins at and winds up at Nita a welfare de case worker working Principals in meeting Several Grand Prairie school principals are attending the state Secondary Principals Association meeting in Hous ton Sunday through They include Gene South Grand Prairie High School Amos Adams Junio High RAY Junior High Marvin Jef ferson Junior and Don Jackson Junior in the Grand Prairie Anyone concerned about children and interested in improving the services to them is invited to The conference will provide an opportunity for people inter ested in foster children and the welfare departments program to get together and learn more about the children who need to be placed in foster for one reason or The dependent and neglect ed children are our main con Pierce Keynote is Helen the child leagues foster care She will speak on the Success and Failure of Foster After Miss the group will be able to break up in small groups for Topics for panel discussions will be Foster teens speak out a po role with our chil dren you as a team member legal rights attorneys dis cussing foster parents rights childrens rights and natural parents an inquiry meeting about becoming a fos ter parent Eugene Bum pass from the Childrens Medi cal speaking on line a panel discussion on handicapped children Bob Gooding of TV news will be on the multi cultural care Mary Green from the Childrens Workshop and Gene partici group panel members will be foster parents working with emo disturbed and young Pierce said also that a discussion on special gifted children will also be We do have a few gifted children in foster and they present a very different problem than the There is a fee to meet expenses and lunch will be covered on a hospital He was fascinated the whole she He just sat there with his mouth What made the operation so special was that the nuclear pacemaker is still in the exper with only 90 in in the United States so Three Texans have re nuclear but Trammell is the first in this area to undergo the The first nuclear pacemaker was installed only one and a half years The beauty of the nuclear powered model is that it is expected to last 10 to 15 possibly 20 to 30 as op posed to the old pacemaker which lasts an average of 18 As Trammell puts Eric will be grown dad needs a new A few days after the opera Eric gave a presentation to his taught by Brenda He brought the old pacemaker that was taken out and a taped broadcast of the Eric explained that his fath a school counselor in Ar had already had five operations since 1966 to have pacemakers The first operation was when Eric was 14 months when his father developed a rare heart block caused by rheumatoid His father was 35 and has needed an opera tion every 18 months to receive a new But this was first operation Eric had wit When his father developed trouble with his latest mercu it was de that he receive a nuclear The new pacemaker was installed in his upper right Eric explained the way the pacemaker It shuts off when the heart beats on its It comes on only when he needs he said Trammell further ex the mechanic to the The plutonium pellet in the pacemaker cre ates heat on one side of the and there is a cold element on the other This creates a little inside the pacemaker which creates electricity to power it The who live on Alspaugh have become experts on nuclear ers since the Trammell said the new pacemaker is mately the same size as the old a disk three inches wide and one inch and ia made by Her hus bands nuclear installed by a team of physicians from the VA Hospital and the Un of Texas Southwestern Medical is powered by a pellet of plu one of the ents of the atom She added that doctors are now working on an internal kidney her husband is still in VA getting adjusted to his new nuclear Role of private colleges explored by educator The president of Dallas Baptist College spoke recently to the Grand Prairie Rotarians on the role private are playing in higher educa Chariest Pitts noted that in he 1940s about over 50 per cent of the college students were enrolled in private insti But in private schools only had 17 per cent of Americas Some changes have definitely taken Look at Dallas County we have four community col leges and it is predicted that by 1960 we will have In Tarrant County there are with a number of five by He also cited the rapid growth of state schools such as the of at All of us in private higher education have given serious thought and much study to this He said billions of tax structured dollars to state sup ported schools have ed to their developme I dont thin any other country has or will develop anything to compare with our dual system of both private and state colleges is Educators to meet The years first meeting of the Dallas County School Ad Association is scheduled for in the North High School according to Ervin assistant superin tendent for personnel of Grand Prairie Speaking will be Stur of the Texas State Teachers He will discuss the proposed constitu tional revision to the Teacher Retirement He will also discuss ways school ad can assist TSTA with their most pressing prob All school administrators in the Grand Prairie district are invited to attend the Private institutions have made tremendous He then listed a term often used in conjunction with private colleges plus fac Most private institutions have a religious Pitts But we believe sci ence and theology should very well go We also be lieve in warm hearts and clear minds going The plus factors you get must come from these PITTS LISTED five areas of emphasis for a private school to put them above pub lic The first is fac Our faculty members have to have dual qualities a high quality in the area of their of We are very proud to say that over 50 per cent of our instructors have earned their doctors de But beyond we had over 700 well qualified applica tions for our faculty that we had to turn down The second dual Bitts is they must be active in their own Christian although it doesnt matter what denomina The second point of Pitts is a good sen se of The third is require for both faculty and Its a part tional process that the indi vidual must We have for in He also said that the speakers they choose to visit the campus throughout the year are also chosen based on certain Continued on page 7 Mayors father dies Constitutional part 1 Annual salaries due push Amendment One on the 6 the proposition that would allow for annual sessions of the legislature and a pay increase for ties two longstanding state issues together in what is gen conceded to be the most controversial of the constitu tion ballot The proposed which will be included in the revised Constitution Texans will be asked to approve in would allow for regular 180day annual sessions in odd numbered and 60day sessions regular sessions are now 140 for considera tion of fiscal and emergency matters in The governor could ex tend the 60day session for an additional 30 and the present system for convening special sessions is Amendment One also would increase the annual salary of members of the legislature from to and it would increase the per diem allowance from to for each day of a regular or spe cial and retain the mileage allowance paid law The proposed amendment would make several other changes in the It would require rather than biennial reports on antici pated in order to con form to proposed annual ses and it would provide a maximum period for appropri ations of one rather than two All Texas constitutions have provided for biennial sessions of the legislature except the constitution of and spe cial sessions have been peren at the call of the During the early days of Texas the legisla ture was permitted to set its own but this authority was revoked following Recon struction Days by the framers of the constitution of when salaries were limited after the first 60 The most recent amend ment on legislative salaries was approved by voters in when the current rate of annual salary plus per was Later proposals were re by Texans in 1969 and A proposal to let a commission set legislative compensation was rejected in The big push for annual sessions and the pay hike is being made this and or around the including press are backing this amendment for the dual proposition go bis way The legislator can no longer be considered a parttime Increasing complexity in the problems of state govern time spent in committee work during interims of the all leave little time for a lawmaker to tnd to his business or proponents of Amendment One The salary is not adequate to meet present day costs of and many qualified persons do not be come candidates because they are unwilling or unable to make the financial sacrifice involved in public Under the present salary a legislator is forced to engage in outside employ a business or profession in order to support himself and his and these outside interests could representat a conflict of interest to a law The question of annual ses sions has been fairly well ac by The pro posed amendment would in crease the length of the legisla tive session from 140 to 180 and proponents that this would give the legisla ture more time to analyze and consider important legislation and to reduce the rush at the end of the The year limited to fiscal and emergency would Delos the father of William mayor of Grand died at Saturday in Ste Memorial He had been a patient since Funer al services were scheduled at 2 Monday in the First Unit ed Methodist The Don Burial was to be in Brecken ridge Cemetery under the direction of Melton Funeral Bowles was born in Rock wall County and moved to Breckenridge in He was a graduate of Rockwall High School and a graduate of Denton now North Texas State in He taught school while study ing law and was admitted to the Texas Bar Association in He was county attorney for Rockwall County and practiced law in Dallas for a year before make possible annual state opening a Jaw office in Breck budgeting and and a more realistic evaluation of the financial condition of the Continued on Page 7 He married Edith Thomas in December of 1923 in Green He was instrumental in planning the early growth of He was a mem ber of the school presi dent of chamber of a 50year member of the local Lions Club and the Brecken ridge city attorney for 25 He was county Demo cratic chairman for 23 years and a delegate to the Demo cratic National Convention in He was a member of the Breckenridge Masonic Lodge for 52 years and was a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason and was a member of the York Rite and the Temple Shrine in He was a member of the First United Methodist Church and served as presi dent of the church board in Survivors include his wife Edith Kay Allen of Dallas William Grand Prairie eight grandchildren and one great grandchild Pallbearers include Ray James Frank Al Prad Patrick Thompson and James Bil The family has requested memorials to Stephens Memo rial
