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...HELEN GROVE MEYER Hamden, Conn...
This week James Van Fleet, slated for retirement on March 31, was getting ready to go home to his small orange grove in Florida.* Said U.N. Commander Mark Clark: "General Van Fleet has earned the gratitude of his country and of the free world...
Bottled in Bonds. For some months Pleasant Grove had been considering the transfer Many people were convinced that if Dallas would only take over, better schools and lower taxes would result. Furthermore, the Dallas school board hinted that it might eventually be willing to annex Pleasant Grove. Then the Dallas board began running into trouble with its new $24 million bond issue. By Texas law, the Dallas district could not expand an inch until all its bonds were sold...
While waiting for that happy day Pleasant Grove's own school board went on with its regular work. For one thing it chose a site for a new high school, and in the process began condemning the land of several prominent property owners. The property owners promptly decided that the only way to stop this sort of thing was to bring the annexation issue to a head. They began circulating petitions calling for a special election, hired a hillbilly band to rally support. When election day came, a few interested citizens dutifully trooped to the polls. By a slim...
...leading abolitionists. Meanwhile Superintendent Dale Douglas ("I'm a chief without Indians!") began appealing to the county superintendent for help, and was told that the county could only take over small communities with 125 students or less At week's end the citizens of Pleasant Grove had but one course left: to call another election and vote their school district back into existence...