Now It’s ‘South Oak Cliff’ By WILLIAM A, WARD Statt Writer of The News TRINITY HEIGHTS, a designa- tion once given to most of the areas in South Oak Clif, is a vanishing name, Civle and business leaders of the vast area that now covers the region included in old Trinity Helghts, Lisbon and more recent additions is naw known as South Oak CHI, This region begins at the Santa Fe Railroad and extends to Beckley Heights and farther south, 11 laa big area and includes at Teast £0,000 people, so South Oak Cliff civle Jeaders like B, 0. Snel+ en, past president of the South Oak Cliff Kiwanis Club, and T. A, Vines, a Vice-president of the Oak Clift Chamber of Commerce, proudly say. oo OLD TRINITY HEIGHTS was a rea] estate divisinn developed about 1912 by a syndicate headed by G, G. Woodin, Assoclaled with him were R, M. Rordon and W, B. Johnson, the latter becoming the Dallas repre seqtatlve af the company, The first. public schoal In Trinkty Heights was opened in 1933 wilh Miss Eugenia Balch as its teacher, She later married W. B, Johnson, Tho change In name started about 12 years aga, when Vines and others interested in obtaining for South Oak Cliff a senior high choo! started referring to the areas south of the Santa Fe rail- road as South Oak Clitf, The name of the Trinity Heights Elementary School was’ recently changed to the Harold Budd Ele mentary School. Only a few years Ago a senior high echoo) was built in the area known as Trinity Jicights, but it was named the South Oak Clift High School, The South Oak Clift area ine cludes Elmwood, Wynnewood and the A, Harris Shopping Center, It has some of the finest resi« dences in Texas, Development in South Oak Clift has spread far south of Old Lisbon and to the southwest of Oak Clitt proper, The southwestern part of South Oak Clit only a few yeara ago Was farming area, It was here that the Old Jimtown Road once tan from Duncanville to Old Jim- town, This road no longer exists exe cept In the memory of old-timers. In its place is Hampton Road aah the heart of South Oak itt, oe OLD-TIMERS still remember the carly days of the addition and until recently a niume Jn concrete, Trinity Heights High School, was at the entrance to what is now the Harold Budd Elementary School. Trinity Heights was annexed to Dallas in about 1926, Annexation of Lisbon soon icllowed, Lishon, in deep South Oak Cliff, once was an independent city with a mayor, Police department and a post of five, That was at the turn of the eontury,