El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 90, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 31, 1981 Page: 1 of 12
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L-N Photo by Chrla Barbee
Lloyd W. Nixon—Citizen Of The Year
EC Chamber Honors Nixon
Longtime Minister Named Citizen Of The Year
Rev. Lloyd W. Nixon, pastor
emeritus of the First
Presbyterian Church, was named
El Campo’s Citizen of the Year
Thursday evening at the annual
Chamber of Commerce and
Agriculture banquet
Another highlight of the evening
was the presentation of a plaque
to immediate past-president Josh
McCown. Oscar Griffin, 1981
Chamber president, made the
resentation prior to an address
y Earl Calkins, chairman of the
Houston Chamber of Commerce.
Nixon was revealed as the
community’s top citizen by Sam
Carroll Jr., a longtime friend and
parishioner.
In concluding his remarks prior
to naming Nixon, Carroll said, “It
is with pride and pleasure that I
introduce this individual who has
served his fellow man with
compassion, concern and without
prejudice.”
Nixon, who became the
seventheenth recipient of the
prestigious award, told the large
crowd that for one of the few
times in his life, “I am
speechless.”
“I guess all I can say is that my
wife, Lorene, and I decided in 1955
to make El Campo our home for
the rest of our lives. We still feel
that way, and you are stuck with
us,” he added.
In conclusion. Rev. Nixon said
simply, “Thank you for letting us
live here ”
Carroll recited the minister’s
varied background as he built up
to the announcement.
Nixon was bom in Hunt County,
Texas, one of five boys. He spent
his childhood at Brownwood,
graduating from Brownwood
High School and Howard Payne
College there, where he majored
in journalism and edited the
college newspaper.
He then moved to Abilene where
he served as program director for
a radio station, met his future
bride, and married her.
The Nixons moved to Lubbock,
where he went to work on the
newspaper. He then joined the J.
C. Penny Co. and worked with
that firm for the next 12 years.
He was drafted and served
three years in the U.S. Navy
during World War II. After his
discharge in 1946, the Nixons went
to Yoakum and three years later
he made the decision to enter the
(See NIXON, Page2)
Leader-News
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VOLUME 96 NUMBER 90
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El Campo, Texas, Saturday, Jan. 31,1981
25 CENTS
2 SECTIONS 12 PAGES
DORA SCOTT
TSTA President
TSTA Seeks State Legislation
State President Addresses El Campo Chapter
By AL ZUCHA
“Teachers. Our best hope for a better
world,” is the bumper-sticker slogan with
which Dora Scott, Texas State Teachers
Association (TSTA) president, closed her
remarks at the El Campo TSTA member-
ship meeting Wednesday night.
Scott was here to address the top four
areas of concern TSTA is expressing to the
67th session of the Texas State Legislature.
The four areas are salaries, group health
insurance, due process and collective
bargaining. TSTA’s recommendations are
as follows:
Teacher Salaries
On salaries, TSTA feels that educators
should be “at least allowed to keep pace
with the inflationary spiral by receiving a
10 percent raise each year of the coming
biennium, in addition to their experience
increment,” Scott said.
Scott, a 30-year veteran of teaching in
the Houston schools, said “Teachers
shouldn’t have to worry about money and
take a second job to support their family.”
In a recent publication on legislative
recommendations, TSTA maintains that
the proposal for 10 percent increases over
the next two years “will not offset prior
losses to inflation, nor will it allow
teachers to improve their position ap-
preciably, but it will allow them to main-
tain their present standard of living.”
Prior to Scott’s remarks, Superintendent
Jack Birtchet said, “Money is available
for pay raises but we’ve got to show we’re
worth it.”
Croup Health Insurance
TSTA recommends that the legislature
enact a group health insurance program
for educators. The state has been con-
tributing toward a health plan for other
(SeeTSTA, Page2)
short stories
Medal of Honor designate Roy
Benavidez learned this week that
the Lone Star Chapter of the 82nd
Airborne Division Association
uants to name the Airborne
Museum, located in the Battleship
Texas, after him. Benavidez was
a member of the X2nd Airborne
before going into the Special
Forces.
The letter stated, "At the last
chapter meeting the chapter
membership voted unanimously
to name the Airborne Museum the
Roy Benavidez Airborne Museum
in honor of a native son and Medal
of Honor winner. The chapter is
very proud of you. Also, after you
receive the Medal of Honor, the
chapter would like to honor you at
a dinner.” The letter was signed
by Allen Schoppe. Sugar Land,
convention chairman.
Benavidez. who was recognized
for his heriosm Thursday evening
during the annual banquet of the
F.l Campo Chamber of Commerce
and Agriculture, also received a
letter of congratulations recently
from the staff at the John K.
Kennedy Center for Military
Assistance.
The letter he received from the
public affairs officer at the center
staled. Me would like to add your
portrait to the JFK Hall of Heroes
as the 17th Gt-een Beret to be so
decorated for gallantry in Viet-
nam \s xou may know. I be Hall
of Heroes is a point of interest
along with the special Forres
Museum at Fort Bragg, and la
xtatted hx individuals and lour
groups on a daily basis Kerb
Medal of Honor rerlp lent to
honored by a large oil portrait,
underneath which is a plaque
engraved with the citation of the
action cited.”
Remember reading two weeks
ago about a boat ramp project on
the Colorado River near Wharton
in the Pecan Valley subdivision,
and that one obstacle confronting
the project was taken care of
when County Commissioner A. V.
Looper agreed to maintain the
site at Precinct 1 expense? Well,
the project may still be in
jeopardy. Wharton City Council
opened construction bids Monday,
and the lowest bid was SltO.OOO
over budget. The Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department had
budgeted 130.000 for the ramp, but
bids came in at $172,615 and
$370,643. Project engineers were
instructed to study the bids to see
what can be done about lowering
them.
And Jim Wall, editor of an oil
magazine in Houston, told El
Campo Kotarians Thursday that
Americans must face the fact that
their lifestyles must change, but If
handled properly lifestyles will
not have to suffer. "We will
survive and have a better world to
live in But we need to get busy
now and do what has to he done.”
he said.
Rotary President Irvin Foytifc
announced that next Thursday
will be KuraFl'rbon Dax at
Ko(ary. All Kotarians are en
lour aged to toke a farmer friend
to lunch with them that day
speaker wNI be Dr. William
MeeKTOfllPJt. Page!)
Roll Over Beethoven
This Cireenleaf Nursery truck slid over into the
ditch on East Alfred Street sometime around II
p.m, Monday. Charles Thomas, who lives on
East Alfred and was leaving his house on some
Houston deliveries, was the driver. No one was
hurt. Glen Lurdecke, Greenleaf shop supervisor,
said damage to the plants inside was negligible.
Area Property Taxes Due Today
Yea, it's tax time again
If you thought the credit companies were
demanding in their collection of post
Christmas bills, wait until the Internal
Revenue Service, ccunty. city and school
district get through with you
County, city and school taxes are all due
by Jan 31. so. if you tucked away a rather
unobtrusive looking envelope sometime in
October when the county, city and school
district sent out their tax statements you
had better dig into the bock of those
drawers and recoup those forgotten bills
All three entities exact a penalty on
citizens who are late in paying their tax
hills
When you were tardy in school,
sometimes the principal would send a note
home to your parents, but if you are tardy
with your school taxes, the local district
charges you I'* perc ent penalty charge per
month according to lamter Hester. VJ’lSl)
business manager
The c ity charges a 10 perc ent per month
penalty and a six percent annual interest
rate, according to Brenda Adams, assistant
tax collector for the city
Frank Konvtcka, county tax collsclor,
identified the county penalty as 01k percent
per month until July 31, when s pens It y plus
interest is levied
At present, the county, city snd school
district sll have difforent rate* at aseees
ment The county rate is 23 percent at the
f Nee TAXKB, Psgali
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Barbee, Chris. El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 90, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 31, 1981, newspaper, January 31, 1981; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1000037/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Wharton County Library.