Dream On

The lead story in the September 22, 1962 Dallas Morning News: "Trinity River Navigation Receives Tremendous Boost" The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers report favors the development of a navigation channel from Galveston to Fort Worth to serve the "largest population in the world without access to navigation." "The idea of a navigable river tying the area into the vast network of waterways along the Gulf Coast and inland United States has been a North Texas dream for years."

Dream on, I suppose. More to the point, the economics apparently have not been there.

Air navigation was to be the future, but Love Field would be our main airport for another 12 years. Inter-city passenger trains still arrived and departed from Union Station daily. Interstate 35 was recently completed from downtown to Northwest Highway.

Friday evening, Jesuit scored its third straight shut-out win 26-0 over Fort Worth’s Our Lady of Victory. Don Erler and Sherman LaBarba were standouts. Sherman intercepted two OLV passes.

The game was played at the old Highlander Stadium, Jesuit’s home venue until? Does anyone recall?

The Cowboys and the Texans played home games in the Cotton Bowl this season.  The next year, the Texans would move to another city and change their name. 

More in the News: Weather was fair and warm. Upper 60s to upper 80s.

There were 12 pages of classified ads in that edition. Today there are two. The Internet was not even science fiction.