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Elvis in Fort Worth, Texas, on January 11, 1958

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Incredible footage colorization/restoration by 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐅𝐈𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐒 on Youtube.

I swear I felt I was watching a modern times interview, like our own time's artists. The original B&W footage is awesome by itself but this restoration is such a fantastic job I just had to share with you right after watching for the first time myself, since the video had been recently updated to Youtube (today, March 7, 2024, actually). I have to add that all that channel's content is fabulous. ♥

I'll share the original footage again, just in case you'd like to watch in B&W and without the music on the background:

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Footage uploaded on Youtube channel "Elvis Presley News" | Original source: UNT (University of Texas) Digital Library. On their website: "Creation Information: Bookmark this section WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Texas) January 11, 1958. This video is part of the collection entitled: KXAS-NBC 5 News Collection and was provided by the UNT Libraries Special Collections to the UNT Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries."

FOOTAGE INFO:

Elvis was at stopover in Fort Worth, Texas, on his way to Hollywood studios in Los Angeles, to begin filming 'King Creole'. On December 1957 Presley received his draft note from the Army. It's said he cut his sideburns shorter to look different for playing his character in King Creole tho, not because of the army.

In the interview above, there's a moment Elvis is asked about if he was worried cutting his famous sideburns off. He said "If it was a situation they'd cut them off and I never could have them anymore then I would worry about 'em, but I can grow it back."

#elvis presley #elvis #elvis the king #elvis fans #elvis fandom #elvis history #50s elvis #king creole #1958 #Youtube

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Will voters save the embattled Dallas County Schools bus agency?

DALLAS — New leadership at Dallas County Schools insists that they’ve cleaned house.

There was the forced retirement of a superintendent after questionable business dealings; a crackdown on careless bus drivers; an invited law enforcement investigation of agency’s finances; and this week’s board resignation of the former president. The agency says citations to bus drivers have plummeted from about 150 a year to 20 so far in 2017.

But will the changes be enough to convince voters that the countywide bus service provider should be spared?

Monday begins early voting on a ballot measure that will determine the fate of the agency that’s faced mounting criticism for shady land deals, drivers running red lights and a controversial stop-arm camera program.

The Texas Legislature ordered the election, giving voters will have the option of abolishing DCS altogether. If that happens, responsibility for bus service will return to the various school districts that operate in Dallas County.

DCS supporters say getting rid of the agency will mean more costs for local schools. They are hopeful that voters will see the agency has addressed issues uncovered by KXAS-TV (NBC 5) and others.

“We have made a complete overhaul,” trustee Kyle Renard said. “We are not the same organization…. It’s only been eight months, but we’ve made some remarkable changes.”

Board President Gloria Levario said an external audit reviewing the agency’s finances is expected to be completed before the election. She noted that DCS got into a desperate fight for its survival because trustees had been “bamboozled” by former administrators no longer with the system.

“Did we ever expect or anticipate that they were lying to us? No, not for a long time,” she said. “Not until people started getting annoyed with us asking questions. But as soon as things started smelling bad, we were moving forward, asking questions and turning over every rock.”

But opponents of DCS say it’s too late. Many Dallas ISD officials — including the superintendent — have aggressively sought the agency’s dissolution, saying its chronic problems have already cost them millions and have left children in a lurch, waiting for late buses.

They admit killing the agency will be a challenge: On the ballot, a “no” vote means the voter favors abolishing the agency and a “yes” vote means a voter favors keeping it. But few taxpayers are conscious of the bus agency’s existence. Many confuse it with Dallas ISD, the county’s biggest school district.

And the decision is on the same ballot as the City of Dallas’ proposed bond package, where officials are promoting a “yes” vote.

“Our challenge is to educate the voters that this is an unnecessary, unsafe and financially corrupt organization that just needs to go away,” said Sen. Don Huffines, who pushed for the agency’s dissolution. He and two Dallas trustees formed a political action committee to campaign against the DCS.

In the spring, lawmakers passed two bills that triggered DCS’ abolishment unless voters decide to keep it on Nov. 7, the general election date.

DCS is a countywide agency that provides bus transportation, technology and other services to some area districts. The agency levies a penny tax rate per $100 of assessed property value, raising about $20 million a year to subsidize costs. Dallas and Harris counties are the only two in the state with such a countywide bus system.

Agency officials say Dallas ISD is trying to force the agency to close because it would be the biggest benefactor, receiving the bulk of DCS’ assets should it be forced to close. But they say many financial factors aren’t being considered.

If school districts are forced to turn to other private vendors for bus service, DCS estimated that districts currently using its transportation would collectively have to spend at least another $43 million a year based on recent bids. Costs would quickly add up for fuel, insurance, technology and other expenses if DISD picked up the service on its own.

Dallas ISD is still doing its own cost analysis, said Superintendent Michael Hinojosa. But he noted that the district already spends about $50 million a year for services with DCS that the district isn’t happy with. He estimates that DISD could inherit about $70 million worth of buses.

“The biggest expenses are the buses themselves,” Hinojosa said. “But they won’t tell us which buses are still under lease that are assigned to us. We’ve been asking. We still don’t know.“

If DCS fails to win the vote, a dissolution committee will be appointed by Nov. 15 to oversee a one-year transition period as the agency winds down. The committee would distribute DCS assets and would continue to exist until all current DCS debt is paid off. The penny tax rate now paid by voters for DCS would continue to be levied, too, until all DCS debt is paid off. That could take years.

And dividing assets won’t be easy. DCS owns 632 buses outright, but another 889 are in various stages of leases. One bus costs about $100,000.

“The details in these two laws don’t make it as simple as people think it’s going to be. It might end up being quite chaotic and a quagmire,” Renard said. “If all the sudden a district doesn’t have the buses that they need to transport, what are they going to do on short notice?”

Hinojosa admits that this is uncharted territory, but said area districts are organizing so that no one is caught off guard. He said he’s in regular talks with other districts so that they are ready to proceed and pool resources with the expectation that all impacted districts would be represented on a dissolution committee.

“What we’re worried about is that all of us need bus drivers,” he said. “None of us have dispatchers or mechanics. There’s a lot of little details that need to be handled.”

Meanwhile, DCS officials plan to take their case to voters directly, meeting with neighborhood associations, political leaders and others.

They want them to know that despite downgrades from credit agencies that warn investors that DCS is at risk of bankruptcy, DCS’ bills are up to date and bankruptcy is off the table. But while they want to restructure debt so that finances are more manageable, lenders are reluctant to let them do so until the election outcome is known.

Trustee Renato De Los Santos, who joined the board this May, worries about the low turnout of most municipal elections and the overall confusion about what DCS is.

“But I’m looking to increased turnout because of the bond we have in Dallas and hopeful that the people who come out, that they support it and will also support Dallas County Schools,” De Los Santos said. “I’m hoping they’re going to be ‘yes, yes, yes’ all the way down.”

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