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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRan Boswell: Profile; newspaper article (07-27-1961)i July 27, 1961 10o Brazos Valley REVIEW Your Weekly Area Photo Feature SERVING Magazine 40,320 READERS Cover Story Page 3, Poison Ivy D. B. Cofer Box 325 College Stgtion, Texas lo---1-62 Vft tsenirs l~lr►~~r Don't Miss-Egypt Land of Contrast, Secret of A Thriving City- An Able Manager By Ran Boswell The City of College Station was incorporated in 1938. Residential areas have been developed on three sides of the Texas A. $ M. College property. These neighborhoods have been developed uniformly, becoming scattered only on the fringes. The city's zoning ordinance has aided orderly growth in this respect, preventing the random scattering of businesses which characterize the growth of cities who do not have zoning. It is hard to pick a past trend in the city of College Station's growth which would suffice as a base for future predictions. The city was first enumerated in a census in "1940 with o population of 2,184. In 1950, the City of College Station had increased from 2,184 to 7,925, an increase of Ian Boswell 263 per cent. From 1950 to 1960, its population gained an- works plans for a new muni- other 43 per cent. The large percentage increase in the cipal building in the near future. The new building will be located decade 1940 to 1950 was a result of a change in census on land the city has acquired which counted college students in the local enumeration fronting on Highway 6 between , ulation for the first time. The rate of increase for the o Francis i and Gilchrist navenues. t s a r e p p last ten years is probably a more valid one to project for or plann d for the College Station predicting future growth. At this rate of 43 per cent in- ceme?ery, already a place of crease per decade, the population of the City of College beauty that is well maintained. Further landscaping is planned Station would increase to 17,450 in 1970 and 25,000 in to provide a vista toward 1980. These-figures include the students of Texas A. & M. the nearby small lake and an College and their families who are living in the city of irrigation system will be in- h e water- stalled to permit t College Station. ing of grass and shrubbery The growth in population is primarily caused by the ex- during the dry months. Plans pansion of the Texas A. & M. College: Both in student en- also are being formulated for ' water tower to i f rollment and in research and extension activities. a on o erect supplement the pressure now Ran Boswell l P f available from Bryan and A&M College water systems. i ro e: Company. When they sold that In its population growth the College Station has grown business in 1946 he was asked city has attracted the highest all sm from surround- by the College Station city ad- type of citizens and is justly College A&M ing the the ollege campus ministration to "straighten known as a residential com- sides, on three' ' sides, and with a out" the municipal books, a munity of the best type. Ori- population of 2,300, to a com- task which he estimated would ginally the home of college t community of 11,074 take three months, personnel exclusively, the city in the e 15 in years that Ran B One thing led to another and now numbers among its zesi- well has been connected with th in 1952 he was named city mana- dents many of the leading busi- the city government. ger. During his tenure in office , ness and professional men of "A job that I was called to College Station has grown and Bryan, its neighbor on the north. for a three-month period has developed in size, in facilities. Property values are protected grown into a position that I and in services. by a zoning ordinance modeled couldn't bring myself to leave, On the physical equipment after the best in the nation. Mr. Boswell said. "We have a side, the city has built a $375,- In all of these developments community that not only has 000 sanitary sewerage system; sys- one of the finest school h i the hand of Ran Boswell is A quiet his influence felt s en n t e a acquired 400 customers the terns in state, w d l have a College Hills area formerly lace li i htf h , . , e even-tempered man, he is mo- p a e s u at g cit_y t served by the REA system; is dest and declines to take per- to live and we are well on the currently engaged in a com- sonal credit for the many road to making it one of the " prehensive street improvement changes that have taken place beauty spots of Texas. and paving program. P o l i c e in College Station since he went Mr. Boswell came to Bryan protection has been expanded there on a "temporary basis in 1932 and with his father and improved in recent years. 15 years ago--but the evidence operated the 7-Up Bottling The city council has. "in the is there.