Red Cross Talks Day Set for Mothers Day Messages
Red Cross announces a Talking Letters day to help service members receive messages from home for Mothers Day. Volunteers will record eight minute messages on unbreakable plastic dives at the Walwood Village Shopping Center in Farmers on Friday May 3 from 10 am to 2 pm. Families should prepare notes in advance and include the serviceman's complete address and serial number.
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Red Cross
Carrollton Red Cross
Jack Blanton
Walwood Village
Farmers
Three Yale Alumni Assigned to Turner High School
The Yale Club of Dallas announced the appointment of three Yale alumni to work with the counselor at R. L. Turner High School to advise students on Yale University opportunities. The appointees are Ray G. Sheldon, Jack Wahlquist and Matt Kasischke.
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Yale
Turner High School
Yale Club of
Dallas
R. L. Turner High School
Yale University
Turner
Ray G. Sheldon
Jack Wahlquist
Matt Kasischke
Insurance Group to Hold Meeting May 7 at Dallas Federal Building
The Carrollton farmers ranch Association of Insurance Agents will hold its regular quarterly meeting on May 7 at 7 45 a.m. in the Friendship room of the Dallas Federal Building. All agents in the area interested in joining may attend to learn the requirements.
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Carrollton Farmers Ranch
Association of Insurance Agents
Dallas Federal Building
Farmers Branch council renames Dennis Road segment to Josey Lane
At a special meeting the Farmers Branch City Council changed the Dennis Road segment inside the city to Josey Lane and reversed a nearby stretch to Dennis Lane from Valley View Lane to Fyke Road. Property owners will be advised by mail. street numbers likely unchanged.
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Farmers Branch City Council
Dennis Road
Farmers Branch
Josey Lane
Valley View Lane
Farmers Branch School
Fyke Road
Dennis Lane
Mall
Summer School Art Program Planned at R L Turner High
The art department of R L Turner High plans a summer program for 1963 offering high school art credit. Classes will have at least 20 students, with tuition of 15 dollars per 2 credits and a 2.50 dollar art supplies fee. The program aims to provide a profitable and enriching use of summer time for students.
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R. L. Turner High School
Toastmasters District 25 Spring Conference and Contest
Toastmasters District 25 will hold its 16th annual Spring Conference May 17 and 18 at the Holiday Inn Central in Dallas. The meeting will bring together leaders from over 70 clubs spanning Wichita Falls to Shreveport and Denison to Temple to learn leadership in communications. A district club management educational session is set for Saturday morning May 18 with a seminar theme focused on education.
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Connie D. Byrne
R. L. Turner High School
Engineers Club of Dallas
Dallas County
Byrne
Baker Hotel
Crystal Ballroom
Engineers Club
Harold Stinebaugh
Toastmasters
District 25
Holiday Inn Central
Dallas
Wichita Falls
Shreveport
Denison
Temple
Toastmasters District Holds May Business Session and Contest
The district will conduct a business session and officer election on Saturday afternoon. The speech contest and banquet follow that evening at 7 p.m. on May 18. The winner advances to the international contest in St. Louis on August 23 with over 1000 Toastmasters attending the local convention. The public is invited.
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St. Louis
Carrollton Improvement League Elects New Officers
Carl Fleming of Otis Engineering Corporation was elected chairman succeeding Ed M. Quintana. Jim Upfield became co chairman and Kenneth Hughes was chosen secretary treasurer.
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Carl Fleming
Otis Engineering Corporation
Carrollton Improvement League
Ed M. Quintana
Jim Upfield
Cochairman
Kenneth Hughes
City Council agrees to buy strip of land for drainage
The Carrollton City Council unanimously approved purchasing a 50 by 559 foot drainage strip from Kenneth Moore for 12500. The two buildings on the land will be removed at city expense and debris cleared. Other actions included storage tanks, diving units, a wall at the Civic Center, a concession permit denial, civic-center equipment estimates, and widening College Avenue.
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Kenneth Moore
Mr. Moore
Northwest Boone Co
F. M. Road
Railroad Commission
Carrollton
Civic Center
Woody
John Laffity
Keller Springs Road
John Sarris
Sarris
College Avenue
Crosby Road
Walwood Park
Webb Chapel Bridge Opens in Farmers Branch Project
Motorists on Webb Chapel Road welcomed the completed bridge last Friday as a joint county city project. The reconstruction cost the City of Farmers Branch eight thousand five hundred dollars.
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Webb Chapel Road
City of
Farmers Branch
Chaplain General Robert P. Taylor to Speak at Dallas Luncheon
Chaplain Major General Robert Preston Taylor, Chief of Air Force Chaplains, will headline a Dallas Pastors Association event at a noon May 13 luncheon hosted by the Dallas County United Fund at the Statler Hilton. The Henderson Texas native and Baylor Southwestern graduate has 26 years in service, including 42 months in Japanese prison camps and 14 weeks in solitary confinement for aiding patients. His honors include the Silver Star Bronze Star and Presidential Unit Citation with two Oak Leaf Clusters. He and his wife Mildred Good of Carrollton reside in Vienna Virginia with their son Robert P. Taylor Jr.
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Dallas Pastors Association
Dallas County United Fund
Statler Hilton
Robert Preston Taylor
Air Force Chaplains
Taylor
Henderson
Texas
Baylor Universe
Southwestern Baptist Seminary
South Fort Worth Baptist Church
Mildred
Garden Awards To Be Given Again By Local Group
The Beautification Committee of Carrollton Garden Clube and the Woman's Study Club announce that garden awards from last summer will be awarded again this year. Judging covers areas including North side of town to the railroad and College to Cox.
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Carrollton Garden Clube
Woman's Study Club
Carrollton Home
College
Cox
Josey Lane
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Danny Thomas
St. Jude Research Hospital
Memphis
Tenn
Carrollton and
Maureen du Monnly
Old North Road
Webb Chapel
Robert P. Taylor
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