[News Script: Cornerstone] Part: 1 of 4
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CORNERSTONE -
L: BTTILDING
Tarrant C county's new thre& anK a half million dollar
jail building is ready for the cornerstone laying.Almost ready, anyway.
ETorkers are putting last torches
on th t y Juilding thaL's 'U y 'ai( Cor in co lb
cash. Next to it is the old criminal courts building,
which the new onQ will replace, and across the street
is the still-new civil courts building that also ise, completely free of indebtedness.
Because the Masons
t y're doing it this time nf'ficiating is 7obert C
..
Dillard, the masons' Grand 1ester in Texas and President
of the allas school board. A little wistfully, 'e says
1(e dishes the Pallas sc ool y tem was free of' (Ieht
f 'e a imattyr of special mricd to 'Jomnty JuEge Simpson.
Tarrant, he says, is the only major county in the Tnited
Stat- 'iss that's free of debt and Pays cash for what it
buys. County ligal ativiser Brown is preserit -- he ras
county judge backr in 1917 when the masons laid the1:45
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Cornerstone], item, February 16, 1962; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc977561/m1/1/: accessed April 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.