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in a Bottlecap
Impact had been a 20 acre poultry farm owned by a
family named Perkins. An additional purchase of land swelled the would-be town
to 47 acres. Dallas Perkins, owner of the land became mayor and named the town
after his advertising business.
Twenty-nine signatures incorporated the
town in 1960, and the first order of business was to declare liquor sales legal.
With Abilene “dry” and a large
population of servicemen – it looked like a growth industry.
Two liquor
stores opened (no waiting) and Abilene lawyers were immediately put to work filing
motions to oppose the incorporation.
The courtroom fight went all the
way to the Texas Supreme Court. The court upheld both Impact’s incorporation and
the town’s right to sell liquor.
The population was sixty-one in 1970,
but after Abilene legalized alcohol
sales in the late 70’s, the liquor stores closed and Impact just blended into
the larger city.
Impact wrote a chapter of it’s own in the history of
dry-wet politics in Texas.
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© John Troesser |
Impact,
Texas Forum
Subject:
Impact Texas
Your
article on Impact, Texas is excellant. I wish to tell you about a recent development
in the continuing saga of Impact.
Mr. Dallas Perkins, the founder of
Impact, lost his wife a few years back and eventually went to live in a retirement
center. A long lime resident of the "greater Impact area" named Jack Sharp has
purchased a ten acre track from Mr Perkins which includes the main street, and
the buildings on either side of Impact Drive. Sharp, pastors a church which meets
in the former city hall building and he lives in the former residence of the Impact
police officer. The congregation is refurbishing the old Pinkey's location which
will eventually house the church.
Well, there you have it, the latest
from the heart of Impact! - Sincerely, Verl Hart, Mc Murry grad and curent
resident of Graham, Texas, Friday, March 10, 2006
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