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86TH YEAR, NO. 234 ABILENE, TEXAS, 79604, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, 1967—SIXTY-FOUR PAGES IN SIX SECTIONS
10 CENTS DAILY — 20 CENTS SUNDAY
Associated Press (7P)
PRODUCTS OF PLANNING
Here's What City, County Bonds Would Buy
By BOB ARMSTEAD
and DON TABOR
Reporter-News Staff Writers
It was a complete job of
committee planning that brought
forth the $8,635 million bond
election in Abilene and the $4.75
million Taylor County bond the streets study, for instance.
election — both of which are
set for Feb. 28.
The Abilene bond election has
been largely the result of a
group of generous tightwads.
The 125 members of the
Citizens Advisory Study Com-
mittee spent 53 days in study-
ing possible improvements to be
included in an election; city em-
ployes furnished any informa-
tion which the citizens asked
24 hours; and councilmen logged to approve $2,450,000 in street center. They will not be lumped N. 3rd to N. 4th Intel section paving the loads, installing
a lot of hours in determining
final proposals. Everyone, in
fact, was liberal with time.
Nobody, however, wanted to
spend money frivolously. Take
If $25 million were voted we
could find a place to spend all
of it,” said Jerry Smith, city
public works director. But he
recommended $2.8 million.
Morey Millerman’s streets sub-
million in projects, but they re-
commended $2.65 million,
think we ought to double it”
said Councilman A1 Oglesby,
but he voted with the others to
for - and furnished it within trim it $200,000 and asked voters streets, parks, airport, and civic
improvements.
The city bond election includes
also $685,000 for parks improve-
ments, $3 million for a civic
center, and $2.5 million for
airport improvements.
Benefits Listed
Backers of the improvements
believe they would go a long
way in attracting more industry,
in moving congested traffic and
lowering accident rates, in
committee studied almost $8 lining tourism, in attracting
conventions, in booking cultural
I functions, and in adding to daily
enjoyment of living in Abilene.
Voters will approve or reject
each phase of improvements
in one package but will be
presented where voters can
approve or reject one, or two,
or more.
Projects recommended by the
citizens committee which were
not specifically omitted by vote
of the City Council include the
following:
1. $2,450,000 in streets,
drainage and traffic control im-
provements. Discussed were $1.7
million in paving and widening
projects on Barrow, Grape, In-
dustrial Blvd., N. 6th, N. 10th,
N. Willis, and a Stadium Way
loop serving north - south traffic
in the southeast part of the
city. Improvements at two inter-
sections were discussed — the
at Grape and the N. 10th to
N. 11th intersection at Grape.
Signals, Drainage
The committee also urged
$650,000 in normal street pro-
grams, $100,000 for signalization,
and $200,000 for drainage work
to help curb localized flooding,
including continuation o f
Catclaw Creek improvements
and initiation of Elm Creek
projects.
2. $685,000 for parks improve-
ments, including $92,500 for the
city cemeteries and $90,500 for
the zoo — both under jurisdic-
tion of the parks and recreation
department.
The $364,000 for parks im-
provement includes installa-
tion of sprinkler systems, pav-
ing, landscaping, picnic she!
ters, restrooms, playgrounds
and playground equipment at
parks under fairly heavy use.
The $83,000 for recreation im-
provements includes a party
house in Will Hair Park and
improvements to ball fields and
to the Fair Park tennis center.
The cemetery plans include
automatic sprinkler system, and
a new office building.
Zoo Plans
The zoo plans are designed
to conserve present facilities
rather than broad expansion.
Included are improving and
installing sewer system, paving
service roads and curbing
around fences, additional
housing, construction of a feed
storage building and cold-
storage freezer, and improving
of moats of several exhibits
where erosion has occurred. Al-
so included is $55,000 for con-
version to automatic irrigation
system at the golf course.
3. A $3 million civic center $350,000 for land acquisition,
including auditorium, banquet
hall, meeting rooms adjacent
to the hall, display space,
parking lot, and related neces-
sary items to be built in or
adjacent to the central business
district.
4. $2.5 million in airport im-
provements which just about aid.
remake the whole facility. Rec-
ommended are a $500,000 ter-
minal, $350,000 matching funds
chiefly to reconstruct and
lengthen the present runway in
order to accommodate jet air-
craft, $543,000 for a new north-
south offset parallel runway,
$527,000 for taxiway, $108,000 for
a concourse, $100,000 for build-
ing or relocation of the control
tower, $344,000 for terminal area
parking apron, $50,000 for an
entrance road, $20,000 for
parking area, and $8,000 for
fencing. Part of these improve-
ments are eligible for federal
County Picture
The committee members who
drew up the county plans were
generous too — with their own
time and money.
When the County Committee
See ABILENE, Pg. 3-A, Col. 1
The Tax Angle: Why You,
Too, Should Back Bonds
See Editorial, Pg. 8-B
FIRST VIEW OF ABILENE — Visitors to the Key
City get this first view, as seen from the door of a
Trans-Texas Airways plane. The attractive part of the
picture is T-TA stewardess Janyth Pelham of Pales-
tine. (The terminal was built from two barracks in
1953 for a temporary facility.) (Staff Photo)
Stung by U.S.
Power, Cong
Strategy Fails
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EDITOR’S NOTE - How has the
increase in American firepower and
The War, Page 2-A
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