Arlington State College - Reveille Yearbook (Arlington, TX)

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Arlingtanites Nearing 90, 000 Like the University, the city of Arlington has experienced two periods of extensive growth. During the period 1950-1960, then Arling- ton State College grew from a 2,000 student junior college to a four year school with over 5,000 students. During that same period Arlington grew from 7,000 to 44,000 while at the same time changing from a semi-rural agricultural town to an industrial city. Major industrial growth began in 1954 with the opening of the General Motors Assembly Plant, employing over 3,000. In the last nine years, the college has ma- tured into a university complete with grad- uate studies and a 12,000-student population. The city during this time has grown from 44,000 to about 90,000, Most of the giant Great Southwest Industrial District was built during this time, along with its famous Six Flags Over Texas amusement park. Several thousand UT Arlington students live in apartments bordering the campus. Apartment construction, coupled with resi- dential housing and industrial building have resulted in weekly permits usually totaling over 31,000,000 ui Wk.. Torn Vandergriht, Arlington mayor since 1951, has been one of the major boosters of UT Arlington. and was one of the major workers in F' '.- x. Q'-25255 I 'sf' J 4 . ,,-DSI, i an -Q -4, Lv '. is, :.- M . Construction, such as the Bell Telephone installation being built near the UT Arlington campus has been a common sight in Arlington since 1953 when General Motors opened a major assembly plant. Student population has helped create an apartment boom.

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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

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