14 Jun 1962
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Newspaper
Irving Daily News Texan
Location
Irving, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1962
Page
1
Irving pair E. L. Hannon and Terry Lewis dominated the DNT fishing contest winning the largest crappie and the biggest bass respectively. Each received a rod and reel prize. Details appear in Bob Moore's outdoors column in today's Daily News Texan.
The Irv ing school tax roll jumped to 110,173,505 from 99,865,653 as optimistic officials forecast sharper gains this year due to new building permits. Charles Parks, school tax assessor and collector, cited industrial and commercial developments lifting the roll, with the largest single-year gain occurring without abnormal influences.
A jumble of notes covers telephone area codes, a juror summons, clothing misfits, Flag Day history, and rising tax rolls. It notes DDD dialing, local numbers, and a predicted Tex Tex Adams exchange, plus San Antonio suit woes and historic flag lore, with 1962 tax rates and past totals in Grand Prairie and Arlington.
A public hearing in Hurst discussed future transport aims for northwest Irving and the routing of new State Highway 121. The plan adds Spur 320 branching southeast off 121 near Fort Worth to Grapevine, with interchanges at Precinct Line, Norwood, Bedford Bedford Euless, and 157. The project aims to ease Mid-Cities traffic into Irving and Dallas by 1946.
Discontent flares after the zoning commission postpones a 75 acre industrial district project off Granwyler extension south of Carpenter Freeway. Developers seek L and K zoning with a $450000 land price, as Chamber officials push for outright approval without a protective permit.
Davis pushes for immediate industrial zoning in Irving while opponents cite master plan constraints and required hearings. Local realtor Borom urges swift approval to attract business and boost Irvings growth prospects, as commissioners weigh risks and benefits.
City planner Perttu Virtanen urges a complete update to the zoning ordinance at a Tuesday zoning commission meeting. He argues concrete restrictions on site backs parking lighting and other controls should be settled in a unified ordinance rather than left piecemeal by protective permits.
Architect Douglas Grogan hired to convert the old Sowers Road building into a maintenance headquarters as growth shifts the site toward district center. The board took no action on a JCC circus site request at Tiger Stadium and approved $8,260 of Venetian blinds for grade schools, while delaying a plan to phase out federal funding by September 1965.
UPI reports Pitman Moore Co shipped gamma globulin for 300 doses to the hospital ship S S Hope off Salavery Peru to fight an infectious hepatitis epidemic. Carl Sandburg to receive high school diploma on 85th birthday in Sandburg, Illinois. Mohammad Ali Bogra named Pakistan foreign minister. Russell Sherburne notes White Sands could host next U S manned space flights. Americans open a new museum roughly every four days, Smithsonian official says.
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