Plano ISD Targets Conservation and Solar for 1977
Plano Independent School District plans energy conservation measures, school financing legislation, and a new bond program for 1977. Enrollment is expected to exceed 19 000 with 2000 additional students. The district seeks a solar heating grant for Carpenter Middle School and will study solar plus conventional heating as a backup for cloudy days.
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Plano Independent School
H. Wayne Hendrick
Texas Power & Light Co
Hendrick
TP&L
Bill Hall
PISD
Energy Research and Development Administration
Carpenter Middle School
Plano
Plano schools face funding changes and bond planning for 1977
Plano Independent School District officials expect state funding legislation to shape next year’s budgets and may trigger a new bond campaign to fund classrooms for an anticipated 10 000 new students over five years. Plans include a 9 10 grade high school, a new senior high stadium, Carpenter Middle School, and Saigling Elementary opening.
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PISD
Dr. Hendrick
Plano
Hendrick
Saigling
Carpenter Middle
Saigling Elementary
H. Wayne Hendrick
Mike Newman
City County Closings For New Year Holiday
City and county offices and all financial institutions will be closed Friday for New Year’s Day. City offices, landfill, and animal shelter shut. no garbage pickups. Regular routes resume Monday. animal emergencies via Plano Police Dept at 424-5678. Plano ISD keeps offices open Friday. USPS and state offices open. classes resume Monday Jan 3.
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Plano
U.S. Postal Service
Auto Crash Kills Three In McKinney
A late Tuesday collision on State Highway 380 in north McKinney killed three people and seriously injured another. Lele Fay Hanse 32 driver Tracy Hanse 18 months and Hazel Walker 60 died. Dena Hanse 2 years old was hospitalized in fair condition. The truck driver was uninjured. All victims were from Anna.
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north McKinney
Lele Fay Hanse
Tracy Hanse
Hazel Walker
Dena Hanse
State Highway Patrol
Anna
One Person Is Arrested By Plano PD
A 56-year-old man was arrested by Dallas police after the vehicle theft. The Plano owner flagged down a patrol unit and the man was charged with theft over 200 dollars. expected to be upgraded to unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. Plano officers logged 73 calls, four residential Burglaries, six thefts, a coin machine burglary, and one criminal mischief case. Three accidents occurred including a 1960 Chevrolet striking a gas pump on FM 544. other collisions involved a 1955 Chevrolet and a 1976 Cadillac. SH 289 and SH 121 intersection saw a 1963 Chevrolet and a 1970 Chevrolet crash.
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Dallas
Plano
Chevrolet
Larry Dale Bell
Rockbrook
FM 544
Avenue G
Reginald Todd Miller
Glenwood
Cadillac
Marian Arlene Johnson
SH 121
Mary Lee Gentry
Wichita Falls
Verne Ray Caldwell
Frisco
Economic Indicators Rise 1 Percent in November
The Commerce Department reports the leading index up 1 percent in November, the strongest gain in five months, with six of ten indicators rising and four falling. The 12-factor index stands at 127.5, showing renewed signals of economic recovery after prior declines and inflation adjustments.
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WASHINGTON
UPI
Commerce Department
Judge Prashaw Passes in Plano at 81
Judge Cecil J. Prashaw longtime Plano civic leader died last night in a local hospital. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Thursday at First Presbyterian Church of Plano with entombment at Crown Hill Mausoleum. He founded the Plano Blood Bank and was elected justice of the peace of the Aarth precinct in 1974 after an April 1973 appointment. He moved to Plano in 1963 and led the Plano Chamber of Commerce twice as president and chaired the United Fund campaign. He was Ruling Elder Emeritus of the First Presbyterian Church.
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Cecil J. Prashaw
Plano
justice of the peace
First Presbyterian Church
Jay Carter Paul
Maurice Barnett
Crown Hill
Plano Blood Bank
Prashaw
justice of the peace of
Aarth
Collin County
County Officials To Be Sworn In At Special Ceremony
County and precinct officials will be sworn in at 10 30 a m Saturday New Years Day in the District Courtroom McKinney The event is open to the public and followed by a reception to honor the new officers Judges Tom Ryan and William Ralph Elliott sheriff and other officials will take oaths along with constables and justices of the peace Two Plano and Sherman officials and Collin County judges will be sworn in at the courthouse second floor.
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Plano Independent School District
Hendrick
McKinney
Tom Ryan
Plano
William Ralph Elliott
Sherman
Bailey Dickerson
Wallace Webb
Bill Jouette
Jerry Burton
Helen Lawson
Grady Mills
George Johnson
Bob Bell
Lewis Hoffard
George Arie
J.P. Leftice
Justices of the Peace
Joe Steenbergen
John K
Buddy) Newton
Collin County
Council to Consider Annexation at Spring Creek and Alma
A special City Council meeting is set for 5 p.m. Thursday to discuss an ordinance annexing 58.17 acres at the northwest corner of Spring Creek Parkway and Alma Road. The landowner is listed as W E Winn.
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Spring Creek Pkwy
Alma Rd
W.E. Winn
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