Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1974 Page: 8 of 20
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Nursing Center will open Sunday
Title ! open new program
Starr County's first total
nursing home facility will of-
ficially open its doors this
Sunday afternoon with an open
house for the public.
Horine and Hobbs and
associates will open the 100 bed
nursing home located at 500
Bridge Road across from
customs house at the In-
ternational Bridge to Camargo.
Perry Horine, general
manager of the nursing center
told the Herald Tuesday
evening that the Rio Grande
City Nursing Center has
already admitted their first
patient.
"We really believe that Rio
Grande City and Starr County
were ready for such a facility
and I think that they deserve
the very best and that is exactly
what we have tried to provide
with our facility." Horine said.
Horine says that the company
operates a 100 bed center in
Falfurrias, which the company
opened last April and similar
centers in Kingsville, Port La
Vaca and other cities.
Local CAG granted
$42,208 for program
Governor Dolph Briscoe
announced approval Friday of a
$42,208 Office of Economic
Opportunity grant to the
Community Action Council of
South Texas in Rio Grande City.
Funded under Title II of the
Economic Opportunity Act, the
grant is effective retroactively
from Dec. 1,1973, through Feb.
28,1974, and allocates $12,831 for
administration and $29,377 for
General Community
Programming.
Governor Briscoe said the
grant enables the agency to
continue providing referral
services to low-income persons,
conducting sewing classes, and
aiding low-income persons in
v '*
t
obtaining medical treatment
and immunizations.
Administration program
funds are used to continue the
agency's general planning and
management functions.
Grant processing for the state
was performed by the Texas
Office of Economic Op-
portunity, a division of the
Texas Department of Com-
munity Affairs.
Title VII
r
advisory
committee
A meeting of the Title VII
Bilingual Advisory Committee
will be held on Jan. 18,1974 7:30
p.m., at the Bilingual Office for
the purpose of reviewing the
program proposal for 1974-75.
Mr. Juan E. Saenz urges all
members of the committee to
attend this meeting so as to
provide recommendations for
revisions.
All parents are invited to
attend. Parents unable to at-
tend the meeting may send
recommendations for program
revision with any member of
the advisory committee.
JOINS SOIL SERVICE --
George Willis has just assumed
the newly created position of
Range Conservationist for the
Soil Conservation Service The
Starr County Soil and Water
Conservation District has been
asking for assistance in this
capacity for a number of years
and until presently funds have
not been available. Willis will
represent the Soil Conservation
Service and the Starr County
Soil and Water Conservation
District in all phases of Range
Management. He has a B.S.
Degree from Texas
Technological University in
Range Science with majors in
Wildlife Biology and Botony.
His career began in Snyder,
Texas on June 1969, where he
was stationed for 6 months and
then transferred to Colorado
City, Texas until the present
date. Willis' hometown is
Junction, Texas where his
mother and father reside. His
wife is from Jal, New Mexico
and the former Joyce Marie
Coopur. They have two boys Nat
(9) and Kent (5) who both at-
tend North Grammer School.
Aliens
must
register
According to Joe F. Staley of
the San Antonio Immigration
and Naturalization Service
office, the information fur-
nished by aliens in reporting
their addresses has been
declared confidential by
statute.
These reports must be sub-
mitted during January each
year by all aliens in the United
States, with few exceptions.
Forms on which to submit the
reports are available at any
Post Office or office of the
Immigration and
Naturalization Service. Persons
wiio are unable to pick up a
form because of illness, or other
reasons, may have a relative or
friend obtain a card for them.
The card should have an 8
cents postage stamp affixed
and placed in the mail.
Parents or guardians of
aliens under fourteen years of
age submit reports for such
children.
The facility according to
Horine will ultimately employ
some 65 employees and have a
yearly payroll of a quarter
million dollars. The Rio Grande
City Nursing Center will be
administered by James
Rodriguez of San Benito who
has moved in Rio Grande City.
Rodriguez has five years ex-
perience in nursing home
facilities and is fully licensed
under state requirements.
The nursing center is fully
qualified under Health,
Education and Welfare
Department standards as a
Medi-Caid Intermediate Care
III Center.
The open house is scheduled
for Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m.
and will feature an open house,
live entertainment and refresh-
ments. The public is urged to
attend.
The Title 1 Coordinator, Miss
Elma Rose Gonzalez, has an-
nounced the introduction of a
unique program called PREP
(Personalized Reading Enrich-
ment Program). According to
Romeo Lopez, Curriculum
Supervisor, PREP is designed
to encourage more students to
want to read. Research has
shown that the lack of ability to
read and read well is the most
critical problem facing public
education today. It has been
found that reading skills are
greatly affected by reader
attitude. Reader attitude, in
turn, is influenced by ac-
cessibility to interesting books.
The PREP program will be
used by all of the Titll I
Remedial Reading teachers.
These classrooms will ha*/e
access to a wide selection of
high interest level books
available to the students,
covering a wide range of sub-
ject matter and representing
selections of immediate reading
levels.
As a parent, you can play a
very important part in the
PREP program. A recent
survey conducted by the Gallup
Survey found "parent interest"
as one of the most important
reasons why some children do
better in school than others. The
survey of 1,045 mothers found
that 79 per cent of the high
achieving first graders were
read to regularly in their early
years. It also discovered other
factors common to better
students: the availability of
books in the home, parental
stress on going to college, less
time in front of the television, a
favorable student and parental
attitude towards school, good
behavior school and parental
interest in the child's daily
schoolwork.
It's Working
People Like
You Who
Help Keep
The
keep in mind — each goal that is reached
on the job ... in the community reaches out
to touch others.
LA CASITA FARMS,INC.
RIO GRANDE CITY
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Trejo, Raul. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1974, newspaper, January 17, 1974; Rio Grande City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194441/m1/8/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.