March of Dimes leaders map Carrollton drive kickoff
Mrs Tom C Dye represented Carrollton at a Dallas County March of Dimes meeting at Holiday Inn Central in Dallas to finalize plans for the January campaign. About 75 people attended as color slides shown by Miss Marge Barre depicted arthritis patients treated at Parkland Memorial Hospital.
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Tom C. Dye
Hood Street
Carrollton
Holiday Inn Central
Dallas
Dallas County
Marge Barre
Arthritis Clinical Study Center
Parkland Memorial Hospital
March of Dimes
National Foundation
Barre
Mary Jane Duffee
Louis H. Paradies
Kathleen
Hearing Set in Trinity Project Hearing on Trinity watershed upgrade planned
A hearing is scheduled for Wednesday December 20 at 10 a.m. in the Texas Hotel Fort Worth to present Army Engineers plans for Trinity watershed improvement. The Elm Fork Floodway is estimated at 17 million dollars as part of 712 million dollars for Trinity channels levees and interior drainage. Funds also include 22.2 million for West Fork Floodway 11.5 million for Dallas Floodway Extension and 2.5 million for agricultural levees across Dallas Denton Tarrant and surrounding counties.
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Texas Hotel
Fort Worth
Elm Fork
Trinity River
Carrollton
U. S. Army Engineers
Congress
Trinity Watershed
Trinity
Lewisville
Grapevine Dam
Denton Creek
Dallas
Denton
Tarrant
Trinity Improvement
West Fork
Ft. Worth
Anderson
Henderson
Ellis
Kaufman
Carrollton Chamber Nominates Directors for River Realignment Board
The Carrollton Chamber of Commerce plans a five member board election this month as a $55 million project realigns the Trinity River from the Houston Ship Channel to Dallas and Fort Worth. Flood control improvements include levees and channel changes benefiting Farmers Branch Carrollton Coppell Irving and Dallas. A Dec 20 hearing urged attendance and data gathering from Army Engineers. The nominating committee lists ten candidates with ballots due Dec 11 and new officers to be chosen after the full board is selected.
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Carrollton
Trinity River
Houston
Dallas
Ft. Worth
Elm Fork
Carrollton Dam
Farmers Branch
Coppell
Irving
Bourdon Smith
Joe Rady
Weldon Fox
Adair Dyer
Mel Orman
Fort Worth
Army Engineers
W. T. Corby
R. J. McInnish
Ed Pledger
Boyd Newman
John Sartis
Co. B. Dean
Farmers Branch Chamber of Commerce
Dean
Farmers. Branch Chamber
Soya Newman
Jack Blanton
Edward Quintana
Carl Fleming
Robert Melanigh
John Lowrey
Gene Biggerstaff
E. E. Willits
Jesse Woody
Abe Godfrey
City Council Rezones Downtown Carrollton Districts
The Carrollton City Council rezoned a downtown area from Residential to Multiple Housing and Commercial after a zoning hearing. The vote was 3 to 1 with one abstention, following a recommendation by City Planner Bob Hollin. The change covers zones near Denton Drive, Cotton Belt, Perry Ave, and College and Main streets.
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Carrollton
City Planning Commission
Denton Drive
Cotton Belt RR
Perry Ave
Carroll
College
Main and
Worth
Jackson
Main Streets
Bob Hollin
Carrollton Post Office Extends Hours for Christmas Rush
The Carrollton Post Office will stay open all day this and the next two Saturdays to handle Christmas mail, announced postmaster Bill Sumner.
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Carrollton
Bill Sumner
Quote on private enterprise from Fillmore California Herald
The quoted line from the Fillmore California Herald asserts that private enterprise drives national development and that without it the United States would be among underdeveloped nations seeking foreign capital and aid. The excerpt emphasizes faith in domestic initiative over external aid.
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United States
Hamilton v. B. Riggs
Fillmore
Calif
Rotary Club to Hear George P. Cullum Sr in Carrollton
Rotary 581 District Governor George P. Cullum Sr of Dallas will speak at the Carrollton club luncheon Thursday at 12 noon in the Tower Restaurant. He heads Rotary 581 and has long worked in sewer and water works construction with Cumum Construction Co. His son George Cullum Jr. runs the business this year. Cullum, 66, attends Oak Lawn Methodist Church and holds several civic and church roles in Dallas.
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Rotary
George P. Cullum, Sr
Dallas
Carrollton
Rotary Club
Tower
Cullum
Cumum Construction Co
East
Texas
George Cullum
Oak Lawn Methodist Church
Grandfather Cullum
Texas Society For ‘Crippled Children
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Kathleen Dye
Parkland
Robert Langdon
Farmers Branch Mod
John E. King
Dye
Ollivene Patterson
The
Trinity Project
Carrollton C
Chamber
County Industrial Home
C. C. Young Memorial Home
Southern Methodist University
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