Council Ups Sewer Rates and Approves Zoning Actions
The city council approved an average 15.5 percent increase in sewer rates raising single family connections to $5 and apartment rates to $3 per month while water rates rose by a nickel per thousand gallons. They discussed bond funding, UPC adoption, and zoning changes including a 158 acre annexation plan and a four-fifths vote requirement for zoning shifts. A lighted athletic field at Schell Park was approved with a 50 percent Bureau of Recreation grant. Parking restrictions were placed on Avenue L.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shimek, Roming, Jacobs & Finklea
Ross Jacobs
Jacobs
Bob Ellis
Warner Richeson
Ellis
Lone Star Gas
UPC
Builders Coordinating Board
John Wadell
Ken Lambert
Fire Department
Avenue L
14Th
15Th Streets
4Th Street
Schell Park
Bureau of Recreation
Harrington-Bratcher-Dickey
Spring Creek Road
Alma Road
Political Clashes Erupt in China Report On Violent Protests
In multiple Chinese cities and Kiangsi Province clashes erupted as factions fought with improvised weapons. Posters in Peking claimed deaths, though experts could not confirm fatalities. The open letters criticized Kiangsi leadership for noncompliance and other errors amid a mass campaign.
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Hong Kong
UPI
China
Peking
Kiangsi
Kangsi
The
Sons
Do Ue Tisteers
Chingkangshan
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
Mao
Fair Hearing Debated In Collin County Triple Slaying Case
In McKinney a 199th Judicial District Court hearing examined whether Robert Excel White and James Owen Livingston can get a fair trial in Collin County. Defense attorneys urged venue change citing prejudice from heavy local media coverage and witnesses included business leaders and news outlets.
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James Livingston
Robert Excel White
Collin County
Jerry Kunkle
Livingston
Waco
McKinney
Mike Newman
199Th Judicial District Court
James Owen Livingston
Nick Worden
Luther Truett
Jim Caton
White
Tom Ryan
Tom O'Connell
Dallas Morning News
Dallas
Times-Herald
Wfaa-Tv
Kdfw-Tv
Caton
Dallas News
Plano
O'Connell
O’connell
Sherman Democrat
Robert I. Ellis
District Attorney Fails To Get New Assistant And Secretary
Collin County commissioners initially approved then reversed action to hire an additional assistant and a secretary for District Attorney Tom OConnell. The 3-2 vote denied the request after debate over courthouse space budget timing and impact on other departments. OConnell later sought travel allowance for a special investigator, raised to 250 dollars a month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom O'Connell
Collin County Commissioners Court
Raymond Jenkins
Odell Rushing
O'Connell
Bailey Dickerson
Carl Marion
W.G
Bill) Proctor
Marion
Jenkins
Rushing
Houston
San Antonio
Commissioners Court
O’connell
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Council
Lambert
Spring Creek Parkway
Antonio Campdera
Richeson
Joe Bill Griffin Jr
Louise Sherrill
Whitsitt
Planning and Zoning Commission
North Central
Texas
R.L. Harrington Jr
Tom Poole Jr
Farmersville Times
Harrington
Poole
Ryan
Wfaa TV
Dallas Times Herald
North Texas Municipal Water District
West Side
Renner Road
Shiloh
Carl Riehn
NTMWD
East Side
Mike
Daily Star-Courier
Texas Press Association
East Texas Press Association
Star-Courier
Jim Shriver
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