20 years ago…
June 9, 2005
W’BORO RUNOFF SATURDAY
Voters in Whitesboro will return to the polls Saturday to break the tie between city council incumbent Claudia Moore and rival Dale Thomas, who came away with 123 votes each in the May 7 election.
Both will be hoping to fill the last of two open council seats, the first of which was retained by incumbent Jim Keller (171), who defeated Virgil Blaylock (83), Mark Rogers (74) and Jim Hoenig (54).
30 years ago…
June 15, 1995
WHITESBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY ‘ON LINE’ WITH COMPUTER UPGRADE
A mass of cords and cables, installed Monday at the Whitesboro Public Library, will soon bring the world of high-technology communication to residents.
Librarian Ginger Garvin said the actual hardware, including five computer terminals, were brought into the facility.
Garvin said, “By the end of this week, people will notice the work stations set up in several areas of the library. We’ll have two patrons terminals at the front, one station in the reference room - which will have the CD-Rom capabilities, one terminal to be utilized for check-in and check-out; and one terminal for personnel use. Everything should be fully online by October, allowing us to check out books and access the entire system collection.”
After receiving just under $10,000 in donations, coupled with the city’s $15,500 budgetary allocation - implementation of the advanced computer network has become a reality.
40 years ago…
June 13, 1985
TURNER RESIGNS AS POLICE CHIEF
Whitesboro Chief of Police Tommy Turner, who was sworn into the Whitesboro Police Department three months ago, has submitted his resignation to the Whitesboro City Council in a special called meeting Tuesday night (June 11).
Turner will be returning to his former job as deputy with the Grayson County Sheriff’s Department where he had worked six years prior to taking the chief of police position in Whitesboro.
Having no qualms with the Whitesboro Police Department or city officials, Turner said he is resigning because he is an “investigator at heart,” and that when the sheriff’s department offered him his former job back, he accepted.
Turner officially begins with the sheriff’s department on June 16 as a field deputy and will continue working in the Whitesboro area.
60 years ago…
June 10, 1965
YOUNGER HOUSE TO RECEIVE MEDALLION
A local mid-Victorian house, located on Center Street in Whitesboro, will be presented with a Texas Historical Building Medallion and a 14-inch by 9-inch interpretive plaque attached below it Sunday at 4 p.m.
Master of ceremonies for the program and other guests have not been named, yet.
Glendall Jones, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Whitesboro, will give the invocation, and Sally Jo Sappenfield, a member of the local historical chapter, will read the history of the marker subject.
The program is expected to last one hour and the public is invited to attend. The house, which is owned by Beryl Sullivan, Mona Sullivan and Hortense Huey, was built in 1889 by Dr. R. N. Younger, and was sold to Frank E. Nichol in 1923.