Grand Prairie News Texan (Newspaper) - November 8, 1965, Grand Prairie, Texas 5 fcox 3066 e GRAND PRAIRIE NEWS TEXAN and About Your and VOLUME NUMBER 306 AN 21329 1965 111 MAIN STREET GRAND TEXAS TEN PAGES TODAY DIRECTORS of Citizens Savings and Loan Association shown In the attractively decorated board room of the new building at 701 Main are left to right Frank president Garland executive Sally secretary chairman ofthe board Donald treasurer ALLEN Traditional Savings And Loan Role Is Helping Build Local Community One of a series of articles In the Interest of banking in Grand By LOUISE When local financial instit lend money for new con struction In the they are expressing their confidence In the future of the city In the most basic of They are expressing their confidence not only In the man who will own the new but they are also in directly the the mat the person who sold the and on and on an almost endless chain of peo ple who will benefit IB some way from that one new home In savings and loan associations are chartered to furnish their community with facilities to further thrift and home and Citizens Savings and Loan Association prides Itself on the fact that It is that need for the Savings and loan associations grew out of building societies formed In New Mem bers put money Into the society for the purpose of granting members a loan to build a In the past 100 this philosophy has remained with savings and loan Hie whole concept Is that of membership and home owner Any community that is going to grow must have financial Institutions that lend and accept money In their said Garland ex vice president of Cit Savings and Organized in 1959 and chart ered by the State of Texas IH the association has ex strong growth In Grand Total assets IB were listed at 1 of this year found the total at or a growth In ex cess of million per The association moved Into Its modern quarters In April of this Building and fix tures cost In excess of and included room for future growth for the next several Also Included In the new building was a popular feature with hostesses and club chair mena attractively decorated community room which has had wide use since It was The community room Is one of many community service projects of the Others Include Unite d Boy Scouts of Cham ber of and other community chairman of the board of the association is mayor of Grand To Hear FW Banker as most citizens time to promoting community wide activities and to working for the citys One unusual way the associa tion promotes service projects Is through a large marquee type of sign In front of the building at 701 The sign Is changed frequently to carry various slogans of com munity to remind of special days or other events which affect Grand The associations big of Is making home about 95 per cent of which are In Grand and In providing Insured savings ac McGarrahan was named exec officer In July of this He has been active fn Un Fund Is on the Ur ban Renewal advisory and will serve In the YMCA during the coming Frank Ware Is president of the association and has long been Interested In Grand Prai Sally association has been with the company since It was McGarrahan came to Grand Prairie in from where he had with the Kilgore Federal Sav ings and Loan He and his wife have two They are members of the First Baptist this area has more promise for the future than any other area In with the possible exception of McGarrahan Being situated between Dal las and Fort Worth gives us an advantage that few areas of being located be tween two separate metropol itan The recent an of the new airport location adjacent to the present facility at Greater Southwest International should help our area The Trinity project will also have a definite effect on our area in the At Grand Prairie has eight new subdivisions with more to be off ering many businesses an op to The opening of new Industrial parks In Grand Prairie and In Great Southwest also gives our area the payroll and growth potential to make this city one of the better areas In the he And It Is the aim of the officers and directors that Cit Savings will continue to help the city fulfill the promise the future holds for and devotes a great deal of his By This being Cat the American Feline which sponsors the observance has released some data on cats arid the so Now dog dont give up According to the there are 21 million cats in the with 50 per cent being and other wise One of the goals of the so ciety is to certain cat myths and replace them with The societys report says that public health authorities de the senseless tion of many thousands of per each ca of destroying as 13 rats in a single night They add that used to eliminate rats factories anj insti should be fed ties of to offset the poi effect of and tails of But lets not e out the It has always seemed strange to ardent Jog fans enthusiastic at fan ciers are it cant the ex set by hundreds of dogs and cats who live together peacefully when they are under the protection of one When I was a child we had a Cocker Span iel dog named Taffy and a gray striped alley cat named The two were great friends and often shared the top of the picnic table for their sun when Tiger sustained a wound in an inaccessable spot on his Taffy cared for the wound by licking it several times daily in the way that ani mals There was never hos in their although the two often vied for the fa milys that in order to remain often have to the issue of Jogs versus cats in their conversations Why realize that Jogs and cats ideal pets hut suit i situation or living better than of this is to point out that 713 is for So lt their their And Jog if it will make you go ahead and a big bone arid pat on the head So lie wont left i what I plan to Jo for Vernon trust officer for the Fort Worth Nat ional will speak to mem bers of the Great Southwest As sociation of Life at their regular meeting Tues day at noon in the Grand Prair ie Inn Underwriter agents from the area including Arling Grand and Hurst will at tend the Forrester will speak on the ways that the trust department of a bank can assist the life in surance He was formerly head of the tax section of the trust depart ment before becoming head of the trust new business sec tion at Fort Worth He first began working at tin bank in Forrester is a member of the Matthews Memorial Metho dist Petroleum Ac Society of Fort Fort Worth General Agents and Managers Asso of Life American of Panther City Philatelic Asso North Worth Ki wanis Club and Financial Public Relations Smith To Go On Air Dale minister oi tne Tarrant toad Church of has been chosen Regional Co ordinator of the international Radio and program The Herald of Truth for die North Central States of Michi Wiscon sin and The broadcast appears on over 600 radio and stations in the United States and is broadcast to nu merous foreign countries in both English and native lan A joint statement Sunday by the Tarrant Road elders said We love arid appreciate Brother Smith very much and while we would much like to keep him we feel for to be able to make him available for this great and far reaching The going of Smith into this new field of endeavor is but another ex pression of the the congregation on reaching forth with the The 335 mem ber church has a weekly bud get of including a missionary budget of for The congregation sup ports 4 missionaries in 2 in and partially supports men in India and Hong Kong plus other good Smith stated We love Grand Prairie and regret leav ing very but we are thrilled by the challenge of the new He had 4 years experience as a daily and three years experience as weekly broadcaster on the Golden Minutes arid Message of the Master pro Smith has received state and national ac claim as a In 1962 he was the international run in speech competition of Toastmasters He is secretary of the local Toastmasters Club and is an officer in the East Texas West Louisiana District of the He also is a member of the local Bar Chorus and is widely known for his speleological cave exploring activities which have been featured in numerous periodicals and art mentioned in two books plans to move to North ern Indiana not later than die first of TEX AM WELL READ If you think people dont read the OranJ Prairie News just a piece fur The paper say ing that I errell is the county seat of man and that it is the riot the TvP runs through the the curse we un flinchingly hure Sunday after bolting into a discussion of T err e 1s proposed downtown irn It see ni s everybody in Prairie except the editor was about this geographical birds Now we So that makes it 100 per cent thanks to our readers TEX HONORED BY Dennis is presented the Evening Optimist Clubs Declaration of Merit award for the Young Tex an of the Month by Wayne club Winner of both the local club and Zone Is award for Denniss name has been entered in district KATHRYN A EN GP Senior Competes For District Award fireman trains a stream of water near the blaze of a house being burned as a public ser vice in the cleanup campaign along Main and Jefferson The department is assisting landowners and merchants along flie two thoroughfares In the removal of delapidated build ings as a part of the campaign to rid the area of such Dennis GPHS senior nominated by the Evening Optimist flub for the Young Texan of the Month award for October has been named Zone I winner and is currently in the competition for the district One of the four districts win ners is named as the Young Texan of the Month for the The Young Texan program is a nonprofit youth rec organization sponsored by the Troy Post Foundation and the Optimist Clubs of Its purpose is to reward young men who have shown outstanding qualities of and service to and At the end of each one of the monthly statewide win ners is selected Young Texan of the Year and receives a college specially designed trophy and an allex pense tour of the Two other young men each receive a scholarship and a tro son of Irene 034 SE 8th has participated in the Optimist oratorical winning the local and zone Last year he was named a semifinalist in the American Field Service nominations for Americans abroad He lias served as a local representa tive to Boys State in Dennis is in youth ac at the Eighth Baptist Church where he is a He is a parttime employe of the Daily News Last year Dennis was a mem ber of the track team at Of the local Rites Set For Ovilla Motive Funeral services for Mrs Louise Keesee of 161 will be held at Tuesday in the William Brown Funeral with burial in Shiloh Cemetery in Ellis A native of and six year resident of G ranJ I Mitchell died here She was a member of the Shiloh Presbyterian church in Ovilla and had also lived in Cedar Surviving Are a Morris of two Ann Hall and Carolyn Crowley of Grand two Pex Tune of ana of Grand Prairie and a Kilgore Dennis is an outstanding student he makes excellent grades and parti in extracurricular We are proud of his winning the Zone I nomination and wish him luck in the district District winner should be an within the next few Kilgore Services Today For Gillman Esther Olivia 820 Valley passed away here Funeral services were to be held 2 today in the Brown Funeral Burial is to be in Dale Cem A native of Neb Gillman was a member of the First Methodist Church in Grand Prairie where she was active in the Womans Society of Christian Surviving a Margery Wills of Prairie and two Gipsen News Item The Department has notified the railroad company that it will have to discontinue maid vice on the Sam Houston The article explains that railroads can not compete with private and trucking companies They have butlers and maybe Some of them could cer tainly use Can Dogs Talk Can dogs Walter our sports writing city says Whats he claims that Grand are smarter than ordinary This means that the smartest dog in Grand Prairie is the sharpest dog in the How else could it Starting Wiley who has earned the of Wiley will begin a search for the most in dog in Grand He will also let the News Texan public in on the hitherto and highly esoteric protocol of the If vou think your pooch ranks in the genius contact You wont win But your dog And might have a message of great im portance to relate through Wiley words and Wiley Thursday is barkoff Weather Forecast US Weather Bureau Grant Prairie skies will be mostly cloudy through with 70 per cent chance of Low to night near high Tuesday around C8 with light and var Sundays low was high This ings low was G with a high of around this aft World By INTERNATIONAL OTTAWA An estimated 10 million Canadians vote today in a national election that could signal the last hurrah tor one of two leading A bitterly fought two month campaign beset by scandal and bribery charges and threats of bombings left Liberal Lester Pearson and Conservative chief John Diefenbaker In close combat for Canadas political Willie Jones dashed 100 yards at a high football game here but scored only a big Police said commandeered a ambulance and rode the length of the He crossed the goal lino at 70 smashed Into a parked ripped down a chain link fence and careened across a highway coming to a Jones was charged grand larceny and 1XXS Princess Margaret and husband Lord Snowden charmed Hollywoods own royalty at a swank Beverly Hills dinner party that lasted into the wee hours The darkhaired glitter ing in a cream silk evening met the film tals elite at a party given in her honor at the Bistro Restaurant uy her close friend Sharman The royal couple left the shortly before 3 1XXNDON A new British proposal today opened the way for more talks in the seesaw battle of words over independence for The next move was up to Prime Minister an He has threatened to sever the colony from Britain by Christ British Prime Minister Harold Wilson sent another message to Rhodesia Sunday asking Smith to meet him on neutral in a new effort to halt a WASHINGTON President Johnson has appeared on live television 58 times in his than two years in nine more times than Dwight U Eisenhower in eight years 25 more than John Kennedy in nearly three This tabulation was compiled by Broadcasting a trade tion tor the radio and television
