Heard on the Street…

.,. Frank X. Tolbert. former Dallas News columnist. Texana expert, and chili connoisseur, has enjoyed such success with his two local chili parlors that plans are in the works to build several more. Frank, as always, is thinking big – one of the proposed sites is Anchorage, Alaska.

. . . SMU football coach Ron Meyer may be working Methodist miracles. A recent item in Sports Illustrated lists the best crops of high school players recruited by major colleges this year. Among such predictable giants as the University of Texas and the University of Michigan was the tenth best: SMU.



. . . Dallas’ big banks are keeping a wary eye on little Guardian Savings, one of the city’s smaller savings and loans. Guardian recently offered a new form of savings account. from which it can pay the customer’s bills – the closest thing yet to a checking account with interest. The phenomenal success of similar programs in Houston has proved a boon to the savings and loan institutions at the expense of banks.



. . . Attorney Richard “Racehorse” Haynes’ appeal of the murder conviction of 16-year-old Lucinda Stout could break some significant legal ground. The most interesting of Haynes’ complaints in his motion for a new trial is the allegation that Miss Stout was certified and tried as an adult in the case because there were not adequate tacilites in the state for female juvenile felons – an inadequacy which Haynes claims amounts to sex bias in the Texas judicial system. If Haynes is able to get a new trial on these grounds, Miss Stout’s appeal could bring about a significant change in Texas’ juvenile corrections system.



… The recent fund-raising party for the Texas Observer, journal of old Texas liberalism, drew support from some unusual places. Organizer Kirk Purcell. a Dallas assistant D.A., managed to get Bill McKenzie. conservative Republican County Chairman, to sell a fistful of tickets to the fund-raiser and attend himself. What’s more. Purcell got conservative former city councilman Fred Zeder to chip in MX) bucks.



. . . When former anchorman Ray Walker left his post with Channel 4s Eyewitness News for a similar position in Seattle, the part-ing was reported as amicable. Insiders say not so, however, suggesting Walker had long been unhappy and frustrated at KDFW and jumped at the chance to leave. The station has not yet filled his chair, but is looking at candidates both inside and outside the station, and both inside and outside Texas.