The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 6, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 22, 1972 Page: 1 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 24 x 17 in. Scanned from physical pages.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
he AAllen American
g*
*e88aa
*
Price 10c
Allen, Texas
Vol. 3, No. 6
Tuesday, Aug. 22, 1972
Councilmen stay late;
Quarterback Club
t
elects Beaty .McElyea
...
hold line on city
taxes
■ ■■
8
U
rn’
f
>
*
t
p
l
Princeton
(9
a
J
}
t
I
It
A
3
.e
7
Lake Lavon visitors down
*
■
k w.
A
F
■■
m
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE, 1972-73
ALLEN HIGH SCHOOL EAGLES
Farmersville
Community
Howe
Allen
Collin county has
new commissioner
Royse City
Allen
Allen
PLACE
Frisco
Allen
Allen
Bus to be available
for school trips
Honored by the Allen City Council Thursday were (from left)
Charles Fowler, mayor for a day; Ed Henderson, police chief
OPPONENT
Frisco
Pilot Point
Whitewright
Howe
Van Al sty ne
Royse City
Crandell
NOW THE COUNCIL has much more
complicated business and meetings
often run to near midnight, as did this
week’s session.
Story has served under 3 mayors.
Watson served 9 years from 1953 to
1962. Then Gentry Jones was elected to
3 2-year terms and held office during
the 1962-68 period when Allen began
440”
Eagles to meet
Anna in scrimmage
The Allen Eagles face Anna this
Friday at 8:00 p.m. in the first regular
scrimmage of the 1972 season.
At the intra squad scrimmage last
Friday, a large group of local fans
were there to see the new Eagles.
I .
’ 4-
h
■ ;
• I
f 4
(
[Oct. 27 •
Nov. 3 •
i 4
r
Farmersville;
33
I
3
I
I
I
5
3;
.............. ..........................1
I
DATE
Sept. 8
Sept. 15
Sept. 22
Sept. 29
Oct. 6
h
■.
I
s
for a day; and David Thom, fire chief ior a nay. nney.were
named for the honor during youth day of the Allen Centennial. |
l
F /g‘
..
, A
3^ 3
valuations are $7 million 684 thousand.
This dramatic increase represents a
jump of almost $3 million in valuations,
due mostly to new construction and
annexation of additional land to the
city.
Hunters welcomed Oct. 13 •
at Rod & Gun Club Oct. 20 •
Suicide is ruled
in local shooting
Students who live east of Highway 5
and less than 2 miles from school may
meet at the high school on the south
parking lot between 8:10 and 8:15 each
day for a free ride to the elementary
school, according to D.L. Rountree,
superintendent.
The students will be transported to
the elementary school and in the
afternoon will be returned to the high
school at approximately 3:35 p.m.
Parents who have students in grades
1-3 must make arrangements to pick up
their children at 2:30’)set pragraph ove
Parents who have students in grades
1-3 must make arrangements to pick up
their children at 2:30 p.m. because
personnel is not available to take care
of them after this time, Rountree says.
“THE JOB GETS more and more
complicated every day,” says Story.
That’s why he decided to retire and
let a younger man try to keep up with
the fast pace.
Story is still interested in Allen’s
continued progress and looks forward
to seeing the city he’s called home all
his life grow. But for once Story will be
watching the city business from an
unfamiliar vantage point—on the
sidelines.
h
Dh
e
A.C. Story ending
career with city
r
"v,
— •)
i - .
One of the highlights was
Suicide was ruled the cause of the
Sunday night death of a 56-year-old
Allen man.
The man, age 56, was found by
officers at 102 W. Belmont following a
call to the local department at 7:50
p.m. Sunday. Officers found the 5’6”
190-lb. man in the rear bedroom of the
home.
A single shot from a 30-30 rifle had
been fired through his head.
Justice of the Peace McVay ruled
death by suicide.
Name of the man is being withheld
pending notification of relatives.
showing signs of growth. ’ Current
mayor Frank Dugger was elected in
1968 and is now beginning third term of
office.
But the man who has worked closest
with Story is Watler Curtis, tax
assessor-collector. Walt has been in the
office daily with Story since 1959.
As city secretary Story has a
multitude of jobs including keeping up
with the water bills, paying city
employees and city bills, making
certain builders file the proper permits
and keeping track with countless other
items of city business.
a cV
- -
JI
F /
The man who has spent more hours
than anyone on City of Allen business
will retire next week.
A.C. Story, city secretary when Allen
incorporated in 1953 and an unofficial
city official even before that, will turn
over the reins of the secretary’s job to
Bob Montgomery on Sept. 1.
Story’s career of handling city
business dates back to 1945 when he
retired as a farmer outside Allen to run
a bank exchange for local merchants.
At the exchange, he cashed checks and
made change for residents. His salary
was paid by local merchants.
He took on increasingly more duties.
At one time he ran the exchange, drove
a school bus and collected bills for
Texas Power & Light Company and
Lone Star Gas.
WHEN THE CITY incorporated in
1953, Story quite naturally became the
first city employee.
He was almost first mayor.
“When they made out the ballots, we
were told that there had to be 2
candidates. Virgil Watson filed—but no
one else would,” said Story. “I didn’t
want the job but filed anyway so the
election would be official. That’s when
I became Watson’s unofficial campaign
manager. I tried to persuade all my
friends to vote for him.”
Apparently Story wasn’t able to
persuade many friends because he
almost won anyway. Final count was 48
for Watson and 39 for Story. So A.C.
became city secretary.
In those days the typical council
meeting was a far cry from those of
today. “Many times we’d call simply
call the meeting to order, approve the
minutes and adjourn.Next meetingwe’d
do the same,” Story recalls.
Area shotgun hunters will have an
opportunity to sharpen their aim just
before the hunting season gets
underway by practicing skeet or trap
shooting at the Texins Rod & Gun Club
on Sunday, Aug. 27, from 1 p.m. until 7
p.m.
Guest fees will be waived during the
Dove Hunters Warm-up and the range
fee will be $1 per 25-bird round.
Ammunition and guns are available.
The Texins Rod & Gun Club is
. sponsored by the non-profit Texins
Association of Texas Instruments
employees. The Club is located two
miles east of Allen, on Allen Heights
Drive.
-—"
. » f
J
j
sgP
nef J
M
i
\
m
A682 *
Recreational interest in Collin
County’s Lake Lavon dropped off last
month as compared with the 17 other
area lakes in the Ft. Worth District of
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Lakes.
While visitors to the local lake stood
at 283,489 or nineth place among the 17
lakes, for the month of July, Lavon
maintained a sixth place rating for
visitors among the lakes since January
1, 1972. A total of 1,451,143 visitors
have traveled to Lavon this year.
Placing ahead of Lavon in the Ft.
Worth District for the year were in
order Lakes Whitney, Grapevine,
Benbrook, Sam Rayburn and Somer-
i «
City councilmen worked again until
midnight Thursday at their regular
meeting with taxes, water, new
developments and dogs taking up the
major portion of the agenda.
Tax rate for the upcoming year was
again unchanged and the rate will
remain at $1.25 per $100 valuation. Tax
rolls also were approved at the
meeting.
Even though the tax rate will remain
the same, the city will have
substantially more money in the tills
for the coming fiscal year. Reason is
the leap in valuations of city
properties. Total valuation for 1971
was $4 million 897 thousand. Now, total
hearing to finalize the land change to
Allen is set for Sept. 7 at the local
council meeting.
Daniel, who purchased the land from
the Albert Smiths, plans to ranch estate
type development. The land is located
off Jupiter Road.
14 residents living near the Daniel
property but still in Plano appeared
before the council to see if the water
could be made available to them as
well. Councilmen agreed in principle
that the water line could be tapped and
sold to the Plano residents. The 2
groups will meet later to work out
details.
The council also discussed plans for
the Rolling Hills Estate addition to be
developed by Don Jones on 35 acres
north of the Whis-Lynge addition. 107
lots are in the plans. The Planning and
Zoning Commission has given its
go-ahead to the development.
1
- '
A
nz
bk
Nov. 10 •
3 t HOMECOMING
3
3 O DISTRICT
Heavy Labor Day traffic
predicted by DPS director
■ ■• . : T nT
/
e
The Allen Quarterback Club has
organized for this year with the
following officers: Co-Captains: Bill
Beaty and Bob McElyea; Secretary-
Treasurer: Mrs. Tom Inkman; Mem-
bership: Ray Henderson and Mrs. Bill
Beaty Publicity: Ramon Womack.
Next meeting of the Club will be
Friday night at 7:30 p.m. just prior to
the scrimmage with Anna. Member-
ship dues will be collected at that time.
Date for Homecoming has been set
for September 15. The Quarterback
Club will again sponsor the Bar B-Q.
Cost will be: Adults, $1.75 and
children under 12, $1.45. Ernie’s of
Greenville will cater the Bar B-Q which
will be served from 6:00 to 7:15 p.m.
Tickets will be on sale in the near
future.
A <
,19 5
g ,S .Mala
1
Al
ville. In the month of July these lakes
and Lake Belton, Canyon and
Lewisville had more visitors than
Lavon.
The top recreational activity at the
lake was fishing, with 124,373 fishermen
coming to Lavon in July. Swimmng
caught the interest of the next highest
number of people as 76,795 swimmers
visited Lavon, Picknicking drew 61,431
visitors.
Other activities drawing a number of
visitors were boating, sightseeing,
skiing and camping.
This year a total of 19,516,343 people
have visited lakes in the Ft. Worth
district.
rural and urban fatal wrecks will be
reported to the news media of Texas
three times daily.
As is customary on major holidays,
all available DPS patrolmen will be
placed on duty throughout the state.
They will make full use of radar and
breath testing instruments in an effort
to curtail the major causes of fatal
accidents—excessive speed and drunk
driving.
“These educational and enforcement
programs will have an impact, but a
great deal of the responsibility of
accident reduction rests in the hands of
individual Texans. I am appealing to
all our citizens to join with us in saving
lives by ‘Driving Friendly,’ both during
the holiday and throughout the
remainder of the year,” Speir said.
Ma
■
■
i I ' f I
f : _
“yA
Collin County has a new county
commissioner.
She’s Mrs. W.E. Garner, selected by
Judge W.G. Proctor and commissioners
Carl Marion, Bailey Dickerson and
Raymond Jenkins to fill the unexpired
term of her husband who died
suddenly
23032
A8Wi±6
A . - J
, A
am"
F > i nm
F Viyt
a -1
touchdown run by Bobby Day. On
defense, Gary Marion would have to
received “The Stick of the Game”
award for one of his teeth-rattling
tackles. “Overall the team looks in
exceptional physical condition for this
time of year—the Eagles appear
ready,” according to Bill Beaty of the
Allen Booster Club.
4 "fl
,i M.-4
IN OTHER BUSINESS the council: ‘
• honored David Thom for being,
“Fire Chief for a Day”, Ed Henderson
for being “Police Chief for a Day” and
Charles Fowler for being “Mayor for a
Day.” The observance was held in
connection with Youth Day of the Allen
Centennial.
• decided to ask for bids on the city’s
1968 Plymouth sedan. Sealed bids will
be opened by the council on Sept. 7.
• thanked Carl Gilliland for helping
get the city’s key rate on fire insurance
lowered to 81 cents on commercial
property.
• gave approval to changes in plans
for the Rock Creek Estates develop-
ment at Forest Grove.
• received copies of the city audit to
be studied and discussed at the next
meeting.
NEED FOR REPLACING the
retiring A. C. Story as city secretary
was discussed by the council. Story,
who submitted his resignation last
month, stood firm in his intentions to
retire despite city requests that he stay
on.
Urgency of finding the replacement
was pointed out since the resignation
becomes effective Sept. 1.
The council voted unanimously to
hire Bob Montgomery as acting city
secretary. Montgomery, an Allen
resident for the past 2 years, has been
active in city affairs and had expressed
an interest in the job. Since the job
must be filled by Sept. 1, the council
decided to forego the drawn-out
procedure of taking applications and
holding interviews and to hire
Montgomery. At the end of 90 days,
the council will re-assess the situation.
The city’s dog problem also got
another look. Policemen have been
having difficulty enforcing the city’s
leash law because the stray dogs flee at
the sight of a uniform. The city voted
by a 4-1 majority to purchase a
tranquilizer gun to be used by the
police department to assist in the
capture of loose dogs. Clifford Hart
voted “no” because he feels a
policeman’s job should not be to chase
dogs.
Colonel Wilson E. Speir, director of
the Texas Department of Public Safety,
today estimated that statewide traffic
accidents over the Labor Day weekend
will claim 48 lives.
The Labor Day holiday, as set by the
National Safety Council, is a 78-hour
period from 6 p.m. Friday September 1
to midnight Monday, September 4.
At the close of the Labor Day period
last year, a DPS tabulation showed that
41 persons had died in 34 traffic
accidents. Late deaths pushed the toll
to 43 persons killed in 36 accidents.
Spiers said the DPS and local law
enforcement agencies would be taking
all possible steps to reduce the holiday
death toll. A special “Operation
Motorcide” will be in progress over the
Labor Day weekend and tabulations of
Ilf
III"
pu
L ■gaa
,d
/ if
I
.--Ml
rr " “
L
W2hh
I j
I
l ..
' SI
- ■
PLANS FOR WINDRIDGE NO. 2,
with its townhouses, have also been
approved by the Planning and Zoning
Commission. The council also
discussed this development. This
portion of Windridge is located on the
southeast portion of the city with
frontage on Highway 5 and Jupiter
road.
Work is also ready to start on
Windridge No. 1 (just north of
Windridge No. 2) with 62 acres and 298
lots to be developed.
Another 4 acres has been purchased
and is in the development plans. A
public hearing to annex this acreage is
set for Sept. 7.
Also set for public hearing will be
annexation of Jerry Burton’s property
in Forest Grove Estates. This hearing
public hearing was held on the
annexation and residents of Forest
Grove, represented by John McCraw, a
McKinney attorney, appeared in
opposition to the annexation.
The council discussed the situation at
the Thursday meeting and, upon advice
of their attorney, will proceed with the
annexation.
PLANS TO TIE onto the North Texas
Municipal Water District line from
Lake Lavon early next year has
brought more land into the city of
Allen. Oliver Daniel, who owns 100
acres which had been in the city of
Plano boundaries, petitioned to have
the land dis-annexed from Plano and
annexed to Allen. The change was
approved by Plano and a public
Community
I
, 0 *' ’
J l
r4 ,y
T J A 1
. Vh
Th V A
" A"A
N 4
wr“IM All
.A
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Camper, Buddy & Camper, Pat. The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 6, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 22, 1972, newspaper, August 22, 1972; Allen, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1459620/m1/1/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Allen Public Library.