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Newspaper
Deer Park Progress
Location
Deer Park, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1971
Page
2
The Deer Park Parks and Recreation Department starts Evening Exercise Classes on Tuesday February 16 meeting 7 to 8 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday for six weeks. Fee is 35 per session. For registration or information call 479-3002.
In a landmark find, the oldest written text dates to the 4th millennium BC, preserving Sumerian speech in cuneiform signs. The artifact sheds light on early language, administration, and daily life in ancient Mesopotamia.
Deer Park volunteers teach a four day first aid course for Celanese Corp employees led by Mel Ritter George Perry Paul Bond Glenn Sanders and others at no cost to students. Building permits issued include fences for Steve Crate and Ronald Livingston. Prisoner of war petitions are being signed at City Hall and Central Fire Station. Earl Embry of Deer Park made the University of Oklahoma fall honor roll with a 3.0 GPA or higher in at least 12 credit hours.
Update from page one shows a push for capital improvements with a brochure for Moody Investors due in April. A detailed five year program totaling 2.95 million dollars is reviewed, along with 1967–1971 projects in progress. Discussion covers apartment zoning plan preliminaries and a mobile home park issue involving Kowalik’s trailer costs and taxes. The commission defers Outlet 76 preliminary plans. Johnson and Greener present amended site plans and await revisions.
Hospital leaders Roper and Burgess report board approval of by-laws and attorney review. President Wallace forms committees to finalize hospital phases for Austin license. board meets 2nd and 4th Mondays at 7 p.m. Deer Park Civic Center. Wallace, a longtime State Farm agent, has deep ties here.
Mary and Maybelle lead the flight crew in a wax tuned Cessna prepared to race. The team checks the plane daily, uses radio and contact flying at 50 to 100 feet, and plans after sunset rest with towns along the route offering banquets. The Byers family, Deer Park residents, share pride in the aviation effort and Mary’s prior dental assistant work with Dr. Tom Simpson.
San Jacanton College board awarded a 1965 bid of 1965 dollars to Dena for a water line from the Marine Biology Facility to the city system at 535 S 42nd St Morgan's Point. Beaumont firm John Dollinger Jr Inc submitted a single bid of 1965 for 3 000 additional seats to raise stadium capacity to 5 000. Anchor Fence Co bid 2285 for replacing backstop at baseball field. Board accepted all low bids and will award contracts. Faris resigns as chair of the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Tech Dept, leaving for a Pakistan government project. Student Senate pres Charles Campbell proposed hair-rule policy changes. no action taken. Next regular meeting set for March 8 while some members attend the American Association of Junior Colleges meeting on March 15.
Editor notes efforts to locate Lcpl Mike Waddell’s mother Ella Wad dell after a Vietnam era letter from a REMF unit. The letter, from 1st Marine Division and Char Ma Co 1st Bn 1st Mar, says Wad dell was wounded by a bamboo viper but will return to the bush soon. The writer plans to subscribe to the paper and mentions a planned rotation to the States in about a week.
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