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The McKinney City Council Monday night learned that it is difficult to get local citizens to serve on the 1967 Board of Equalization. City Manager B. J. Cope told coun cilmen that several people have been requested to serve on the city’s equ alization board, but none of them have accepted. The McKinney City Charter states that a Board of Equalization must be appointed by June 1 prior to going into session by June 15. According to City Attorney Alex Orr, the City Charter does not provide an alterna tive. In other action Monday night, the Council appointed McKinney citizens to various boards and commissions. The only other board that was not set up for the coming year is the Lib rary Board. Mayor W. B. Finney told the council that “‘the Library Board has done a good job in planning the new public library building. I feel that the pre sent board should see the transition period completed prior to any changes being made to the board.” Councilmen agreed with the Mayor. Members of the city Planning and Zoning Commission were re-appointed. They are Dwayne Howell, Lee Beverly, Paul Hardin, Bill Christie, Dr. Char les B. McKissick, Dr. M. S. Minton, Mrs. Coleman White, Mrs. Alice Talk ington and A. H. Witherspoon. Councilman W. J. (Harlow) White recommended that the council reappoint the commission since P I board mem bers are familiar with the present zoning problems and thus will be better able than a new commission to prepare a new zoning ordinance. Appointed to the city Traffic Com mission were Jesse Reed, Jene Holt, Leonard Evans, George Webb, J. M. Whisenant, Laud Howell, Boyd Will iams, Jim Teegarten and Bob Crown. Members of the new Board of Ad justments are A. H. Eubanks Jr., Wil kins Camegys, E. L. Kissinger, Ly man D. Robinson, Louis C. Miller, and Ed Tatum and Reuben Johnson, alternates. The board must have five members present at a meeting. Orr was instructed to draw up a re solution naming appointments to the Boards of Adjustments and Planning and Zoning Commission. Parks Board members appointed are A. D. McGhee, Mrs. Laud Howell, E. A. Randles, Mrs. Wilma Wattley, Mrs. C. E. Winniford, Al Alford, Mrs. Derril E. Lance, Mrs. Al Ruschhaupt and Rollie Flohr. Appointed to the electrical board are Wilson Craft, Bud Lane, L. A. and Ralph Martin. Members of the plumbing board are Walter Bomar, Ray Bewley, Leon War den, E. B. Dixon Jr. and Winfred Taylor. Members of the present Library Board are Miss Fletcher Anderson, Warren B. Cochran, Mrs. R. C. Cole, Mrs. H. A. Finch Jr., Mrs. Harold J. Gregory, Mrs. Joe E. Sargent, Mrs. Tom W. Perkins Jr., Mrs. H.O. Greene, Miss Bessie Heard and Virgil E. Stogdill. To keep this Nation free has requir ed sacrifice from each generation of Americans -- Americans who valued freedom more than life -- Americans who remained true to the ideals which created this Nation.”’ These were the words of Co. Fred erick F. Ploetz of Sherman, deputy co mmander for Materiel at Perrin Air Force Base and a veteran of 80 combat missions as a pilot. He was a member of the famous ‘‘ Chenault raiders” dur ing World War II, ‘ American fighting men have tra ditionally refused to give in to an en emy. The war in Vietnam has continued to produce accounts of courage and her oism which reflect the heritage of Am erican servicemen in the defense of li berty.’’ Col. Ploetz told a gathering of over 400 persons for a Memorial Day program at the McKinney Job Corps Center for Women Monday afternoon, ‘* We can never adequately extol the sacrifices of our war dead; after all, many of us are here because they are not,’”’ Col. Ploetz said in observance of the 99th Memorial Day, Originally Memorial Day was set to pay homage to the Civil War dead and their fight for freedom; but since that time all who have died for freedom have been added to the observance. ‘~ Memorial Day focuses attention on our military tradition and inspires pride in it. It remainds us of those who died at Valley Forge, Gettysburg, San Juan Hill, Belleau Wood, Bastogne, Ta rawa and Pork Chop Hill. These men died for an important cause -- freedom. It is the same cause to which today’s servicemen are committed in Southeast Asia. ** It’s no secret that some Americans lack a basic understanding of why we are in Southeast Asia. Others question what we are doing there. The central object ive of the United States’ foreign policy is a peaceful community of nations, each free to choose its own way of life and form of government,” Col. Ploetz said, ‘* As the President has said so often, all we want is to get the nations in that part of the world to leave their neigh bors alone -- leave them to find their own destiny without outside pressure. We want nothing more -- no land, no sp ecial rights. The President has also made it crystal clear that we are will ing to help all of the nations of South east Asia, including North Vietnam, Americans are in the Republic of Vietnam today at the request of the free government of that nation. American airmen, soldiers, sailors, marines and coast guardsmen are in vietnam today because the outcome of what is happen ing there will vitally affect the future not only of Vietnamese and Am ericans -- but of free men everywhere. To defeat enemy aggression in Vietnam does not mean merely that we will have preserved the independence of South Vietnam. It will mean that we will have set back the whole pattern of en emy wars of liberation. It will mean that we are proving more determined and more powerful than the aggressors, on every front, in this total battle for men’s minds. It will mean that further hostile aggression will be more difficult, more uncertain and more uninviting. Col. Ploetz said every serviceman who demonstrates devotion to duty and country has the makings of a hero. Guests on the stage with Col. Ploetz were representatives from each branch of the Armed Forces of the U.S., many of them veterans of Vietnam action. The Memorial Day program was inspired by a solo by Corpswoman Ro sina Amar of Hawaii: ‘‘ You'll Never Walk Alone,’’Center director, Dr. Geo rge S. Kadera, gave the welcome add ress and Bill Griffin, community re lations director, introduced Col. Ploetz. The invocation and benediction was of fered by R. C. Cofield, center math in structor, Corpswoman Mary Bossette lead the group in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Mckinney Weekly Democrat Gazette
Mckinney, Texas, US
Thu, Jun 01, 1967
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