Arlington State College - Reveille Yearbook (Arlington, TX)

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Dallas Becoming Electronics Center Forty years ago, Dallas students of then North Texas Agricultural College in Arlington could ride to school on the interurban, an electric railway linking Dallas and Ft. Worth. The interurban is gone, now, but several North Texas Agricultural College in Arlington each morning. Forty per cent of the Univer- sity's students are from Dallas County. Dallas is the financial and cultural center of the Southwest. With an estimated 800,000 population in the city and 1,250,000 in the county, it is the second largest metropolitan area in Texas. Dallas is also an inportant in- dustrial center, with several plants of Collins, Ling-Tempco-Vought and Texas Instruments, major electronics and aviation firms, hiring thousands, including a large number of UT Arlington students. Dallas is also an entertainment center, with State Fair Musicals, its noted Dallas Theatre Center and the annual State Fair, the nation's largest. In cooperation with its longtime rival, Ft. Worth, Dallas is building a S500,000,000 regional airport north of Arlington which will cover 20,000 acres. ' wjvo-X L . Y ' 1 A32 7 ' I0 ig: ifaf I I Serene reflections of the birth of a building. Y' l x :,.f- i K A unique fish-eye view of downtown Dallas. Photo by Fred Coston E N , ff. 'N 'TR i A , 1 1 . X T ' Nag l , ,Moc-if A5 4, ' 'Ni fa ' s 1 1' N.. hx 5 --wi .X YR. V sX,.,Qg,,:s ,K N0 - . Teil'-.525 f . s -AQ, , . xg eq.. -.. ,fixes .I - r . s . Ntiiif 3 E ' X axis .y 5 A 'Y X 433, wif? gffgazw 'Y ya sig, . 'ff v s Nil' , This if , J., ai -,1 nga . X K ,wx g y if-L . f'ff1, 5 . A3-M xxf fx ?'1xl'xl Aft! :gt'ih4'Q,,fs 'ings if , r ,ii iz V. .1 1. - V X ff P 'if X 'YW1 Rik. , ft, . .aflifaafifr .. ,S ,. Mx: -ffl, 'fx , . f ,Vos 'Q , 'Mt .-1. T if Sixers :V . . :X inajy, W .ft A f. -and sg. A X., 'in , , 39:1 37,21 xci','?33f', . it V, i' .I g , , s... f'.. vi Q all K Q l ' 2 1 . ! K,-, Qs NN a. v N NY 1 5 7 9' ar' l v O . FLA A Workman, putting the finishing touches on the exterior of One Main Place, rides high over the Dallas skyline

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l .1 ! I f r l 4 4 1 E Q 1 l l I l l in 'I 1 H I 1 1 l l 1 1 l 1 I l 5 l l il 1 1 1 I Fort Worth He tains Western A tmasplrere Although the Western tradition which has made Fort Worth famous is still a part of the city, the community has become an aircraft manufacturing center. General Dynamics-Fort Worth, employing over 15,000, produces the variable-wing F-111 fighter plane for the Air Force. Bell Helicopter builds a majority of the aircraft being used in the Vietnam war. In addition Menasco builds aircraft parts for many leading aircraft builders. Ft. Worth first gained prominence as a town on the Chisholm Trail, the most heavily used of the cattle trails from south Texas to Kan- sas and Missouri rail heads. The city became a railhead itself in 1876 and in 1900 Armour and Swift installed what were then the largest packing houses in the Southwest. Ft. Worth has a population nearing 400,000 with Tarrant County about 600,000. Over 40 per cent of UT Arlington's students are Tar- rant County residents. 0' f 1 o Long noted for their rivalries, Dallas and Ft. Worth joined forces to begin work on what will be the world's largest airport, a 20,000 acre, S500,000,000 facility to be located about 10 miles north of Arlington. g 4 s r P'- xv' X it.-ggi? vs, H 35 offgsu' The skyline of downtown Ft. Worth took on a different look this year with the completion of the 314,000,000 Tarrant County Convention Center K domed complex in the foregroundj. Photo courtesy Chamber of Commerce. I I J