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GOLDEN WEST FREE PRESS, INC. KERMIT, TEXAS
109 S. Poplar Zip Code 79745 Telephone 586-2561
Second Class Postage Paid at
Kermit, Texas 79745
M. M. Donosky .................. ......... Publisher
Bill J. Beckham.............Vice-Pres. and General Manager
Elgin L. Maikell ................... Managing Editor
Maud Green ....... .......................Editor
Jane Inskeep .......... ........Advertising Manager
Yvonne Dick............. ......... Circulation Manager
Gerry Smither ..........................staff Writer
Elgin L. Maikell ..........................Sports Editor
Henry Valdez ..............................Press Supt.'
This newspaper is dedicated to the spirit of civic progress; to the
unification of the townspeople in a common purpose for the
betterment of our community; to our churches, schools and
homes, ttjat Kermit shall ever be a good place in which to live
and rear our children. And, above all, honesty, decency, justice,
tolerance, faith in Almighty God — These shall be our citadel.
PANTHERS BLAST
BLACK STARS
In a recent edition of the Black Panther Party newspaper
(readership over 500,000) the Party spent two full pages
attacking fellow blacks who star in televisipn series.
The problem is, according to the rather inarticulate Panther
Press, “that 76 percent of the Black people who play roles in TV
dramas are playing the roles of police and government agents —
traitors to black people.”
Specifically pointed out are Bill Cosby of I Spy, Gail Fisher of
Mannix, Greg Morris of Mission Impossible, Robert Hooks of
N.Y.P.D., Clarence Williams of Mod Squad, and Don Mitchell of
Ironside whom they describe as “the right-hand man of a crippled
white pig.”
Panthers claim these are the only types of roles available to
blacks. One wonders if they’ve ever heard of Flip Wilson, Sidney
Portier, Jim Brown, Dianne Carrol, Nancy Wilson or the many
local black sports and newscasters around the country.
The point is, as usual, the Panthers are never satisfied. Then-
fellow blacks are portrayed in positions of high esteem in today’s
society, and they complain.
If black actors were instead portrayed as criminals they would
complain about that. If they were portrayed as prosperous
businessmen, then they would be guilty of exploiting the masses.
If they were portrayed as natives or in Amos-and-Andy routines,
then that is demeaning.
If they were portrayed 4s the revolutionaries the Panthers
purport to be, the Panthers would charge that the TV stations
were trying to create hatred toward blacks. And, of course, the
only course left is not to portray black actors at all, and that
would be discrimination! — Christian Crusade Weekly
The Winkler County News, Kermit, Texas
Monday, Oct. 11,1971
WASHINGTON
ID SMALL
BUSINESS
AS HEARD
BY HEARD
Wait and See
The sudden reversal of the
Federal economic plans leaves
many questions unanswered.
Perhaps the greatest of all
the questions Is what happens
after the 90-day freeze ends
early in November. Will the
lid be taken off or will even
more rigid controls be placed
on the economy?
* * *
Another question that is valid
at this time is whether or not
the present program is a half
measure.
* « *
Many leading economists
have said that the only solu-
tion for getting the nation out
of the condition it was put into
by a quarter century of wild
political spending and taxa-
tion would be the adoption of
an income plan.
* * *
Such a broad over-all plan
would not only freeze wages,
prices and rents, but interest
rates, dividends, profits, and in
fact all transactions.
* * *
However, it was chosen not
to go the whole route, hut
freeze only a part of the econ-
omy. The big question will be
whether or not there' can be
a healthy economy partly froz-
en and partly unfrozen.
* * *
The recession the country ran
into probably defies any appli-
cation of classic economics.
* * #
Usually, when unemployment
mounts, the demand for goods
©National Federation of Independent Business
and services declines, which
forces prices down. But this
nation has had perhaps the
unprecedented experience of
prices continuing upward as
employment took the down-
ward path.
* * *
It is also classic economics
that low cost imports into a
nation not only brings down
employment in that nation but
at the same time curtails the
cost of living. But imports in-
creased in volume, and the cost
of living increased.
* * *
In fact, everything that was
supposed to stop inflation hap-
pened, but inflation rolled mer-
rily on, and may still do so.
* * *
There has been only one
steady upward trend, and that
is the constantly increased tax-
es, largely at the state and lo-
cal level although the Federal
bite has not been small, either.
* * *
There are many opinions on
what the administration’s new
program will accomplish.
* * #
In the meantime, inasmuch
as economic trends do‘not re-
sult in immediate changes, it
is well to wait and see what de-
velops before becoming upset.
* * *
It is quite possible that as an
end result, it will be learned
that the major source of the
national economic problems is
high taxes. If so, no time should
be lost in cutting them to the
bone, no matter whose pet pol-
itical project falls by the way.
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WM
its nucimmr n
GROWING
WITH
AMERICA
Chilling Statistics From
Strategic Studies Institute
The Soviet Union has almost 45 percent more land-based
intercontinental ballistic missiles than the United States and is
increasing its troop strength as America cuts back.
That’s the ominous report from the London-based
International Institute for Strategic Studies, which released its
annual worldwide survey of military strength last week. The
institute found the situation particularly dangerous in Europe,
where the Warsaw Pact nations deploy three times as many tanks
as NATO and 2,500 more tactical planes.
Other highlights from the institute’s report:
* The Russians now boast 1,510 ICBM’s, compared with
1,054 for the United States.
* U.S. troop strength has declined from 3.5 million in 1968 to
2.7 million and is expected to dwindle even further, to 2.5
million in 1972. At the same time, the Soviets have increased
their military strength from 3.1 million to nearly $.4 million.
* A U.S. lead in submarine-launched missiles is rapidly
eroding. At present, we hold a 656-350 edge, but the Russians are
building seven or eight Y-class nuclear submarines a year. At that
rate, with the U.S. doing nothing, the Russians would pass us by
1974. — Human Events
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Paul
Harvey
News
Are Male Men And
Feminine Women
Going Out Of Style?
by PAUL HARVEY
Men with long hair, women with short hair; they’re really
none of our business. But they are the business of business.
Manufacturers and merchants have to know what’s now and
what’s next so that they can anticipate demands.
Will we all soon wear similar clothing? Is unisex apparel a fad
or a trend? Are men and women becoming a composite
creature?
The Wall Street Journal asked the question of clinical
psychologists and the answer was:
Are male men and feminine women going out of style?
“Yes.” For however long it lasts, the differences between men
and women, especially among young people, are disappearing.
Some evidence is obvious: the Women’ll, Lib, women and -the
gay liberation men. ^ ,
Other evidence is less obvious but, to a psychologist, more
conclusive.
The Rorschach inkblot test is an accepted tool for testing a
person’s concept of his own sexual role. There are jokes about it
and professional doubts about it but psychologists have used it,
supported by diagnoses, to develop their own scale of what’s
statistically normal-
What do you see when you see the inkblot — a man, a woman
or a butterfly?
Dr. Fred Brown is head of the division of psychology and
professor of psychiatry at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. He
has authored an article for the Journal of Psychology indicating
that in the last 10 years there has been a radical change in
responses to the inkblot test.
Men and women now tend to see a female rather than male
images when they look at any given card.
Historically if a man saw a female image he was considered
effeminate. If a woman saw a female figure, she was considered
masuline, aggressive.
And now much more than heretofore — especially among the
young — both see the same female image.
Dr. Brown believes men have grown tired of competing — are
abdicting their he-man leadership role — and women are
stepping in to fill the vacuum.
History shows that masculinity ebbs and flows. Socrates
expressed concern 2,500 years ago.
Chicago psychologist, Stanley Dale, says the new school
construes the brain to be “asexual” and expects the brain to
continue to overrule tradition for as far ahead as we now can
see.
Last spring, you and I watched a girl try out for professional
baseball with an impressive performance.
And we’ve seen a husky New York tenth-grade boy with
shoulder-length hair enroll in sewing classes, express a
preference for tending the children himself.
I don’t pretend to know how far this will go, but if effiminate
men and masculine women pass one another going in opposite
directions, and keep going, eventually we’ll just have the whole
switcharoo to go through all over again.
School Calendar I
MONDAY, Oct. 11
American Association of
School Adminstrators Rap
Session, Big Spring.
Texas State Teachers
Association District Committee
Meeting, Odessa.
TUESDAY, Oct. 12
Booster Club, High School
Cafeteria, 8 p.m.
HUNTER BAGS
LARGE HARE
A record-sized snowshoe
hare, which weighed 7 pounds,
1 ounce, was 35 inches long
and had an overall girth of 13
inches, was bagged by Tom
Peddle while hunting near
Augusta, Maine.
The length of the rabbit’s
hind leg was 5Vi inches and the
paw spread was 7/8 inches.
“I have known of snowshoe
hares weighing 5 pounds, but
in 33 years of hunting in the
New England States I have
never seen one this big,” said
Peddle.
THURSDAY, OCT. 14
Jr. Varsity Football,
Andrews, there, 7 p.m.
9th Football, Andrews,
here, 7 p.m.
Science Te achers
Association of Texas Meeting,
Austin.
Texas Foreign Language
Conference, El Paso.
FRIDAY, Oct. 15
Varsity Football, Andrews,
here, 8 p.m.
Science Teachers
Association of Texas Meeting,
Austin.
Texas Foreign Language
Conference, El Paso.
SATURDAY, Oct. 16
8th Football, Pecos, there,
10 a.m.
7th Football, Maroon &
Gold, 9 a.m.
Future Teachers of America
District Council Meeting,
Kermit.
Science Teachers
Association of Texas, Austin.
Foreign Language
Conference, El Paso.
Through The Years
ill*,
THE
FAMILY-
LAWYER
Doctor in Doubt
“I did my best.”
So said a doctor not long ago
when a disgruntled patient sued
him for malpractice. It seems that
the patient had been suffering for
eight years from a surgical wound
that would not heal. Now, de-
manding damages, he told the
court:
•‘I realize that the doctor did
his best. The trouble is, his best
was not good enough. After all
these years, he must have realized
his own limitations. What he
should have done was to send me
to a specialist.”
The court agreed, and the doc-
tor was held liable. The court said
that when a doctor hast or ought
to have) serious doubts about his
ability to handle a case, he has the
legal duty to send the patient to
someone who is better qualified.
A similar duty rests on other
practitioners of the healing arts.
Take this case:
A drugless healer, treating a
man who had severe abdominal
pains, gave him a vigorous mas-
sage and a strong laxative. Result:
the man died from a ruptured
appendix. In due course, his
widow sued the healer for mal-
practice.
25 YEARS AGO
Sunday will be moving day
for Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
Ledbetter of The Fashion
Shoppe, who are announcing
this week that their new store
will be open Monday.
Construction of 10 miles of
State Highway 302, east of
Kermit, was started this week
with the contract held by
Thomas & Ratliff of Rogers.
Contract calls for
reconstruction of the highway
from a point 1.7 miles east of
its junction with Highway 82,
known as the Monahans
Highway.
Designed and built like a
machine tool to do one specific
job, the new Miller-Lam
Building is hailed as one of the
most advanced automobile
service and sales plants in the
Southwest. Grand opening is to
be held Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. J, M. Lipham
this week announced the
engagement of their daughter,
Evelyn, to Cecil Odom.
Wedding vows will be read in
December. The prospective
bridegroom, son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. E. Odom, recently
received his discharge after
more than a year of service
with the Navy.
One of the largest bridge
parties of the season was given
Wednesday in the home of Mrs.
Oscar Maples. She and Mrs.
George Mitchell were hostesses
to six tables playing in the
afternoon and eight in the
evening.
Qualified voters of the City
of Kermit will vote Saturday,
Oct. 12, on the $300,000
water and sewer revenue bond
issue which has been called by
the city and, from many
quarters, has been hotly
contested.
20 YEARS AGO
One of Kermit’s youngest
businessmen is Fred Hudson,
12, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. C.
Hudson, 221 South Cedar. In
addition to attending Junior
High School, the youngster is
a route salesman for The
Letter To
The
Editor
At the trial, he insisted that he
had used the best treatment ac-
cording to his own school of
thought. Nevertheless, the court
ordered him to pay damages. With
plain signs of possible appendi-
citis, said the court, he should
have turned the case over to a
regular doctor.
Of course, the mere fact that a
treatment is unsuccessful does not
mean the doctor was at fault. In
another case a boy’s broken leg,
set by the family doctor, healed
with some permanent stiffness.
The family, claiming damages,
blamed the doctor for not calling
in a specialist.
But the doctor explained:
‘This was not an unusual case.
I have often handled similar
fractures, and there was no special
reason for me to expect trouble
with this one.”
The court decided this was a
legitimate defense, and dismissed
the case. Noting that medicine is
not an exact science, the judge
said no one would dare to be a
doctor if he had to guarantee per-
fect results every time.
A public service feature of the
American Bar Association and
the State Bar of Texas. Written
by Will Bernard.
Wish I’d Said
That
Nothing will remind your
wife of what she wants you
to do so surely as lying down
for a nap. — Duane C.
Griggs, The New London
(Iowa) Journal.
About 1.5 million women
were employed as private
household workers in 1970.
The total included baby-
sitters.
By the time he is 70, the
average American will have
used 26 million tons of water,
10.000 pounds of meat, 14
tons of milk and cream, and
9.000 pounds of wheat.
Odessa American and is a
pigeon raiser.*
In fast and furious action,
the Kermit Yellow Jackets got
back into their stride last
Friday night as they handed
the El Paso 2-AAAA High
School Tigers a 26-0 lashing
which upset all the dopesters
except The News’ Amos
Fuddle.
Lawson Lumber Company
is continuing full speed on a
new building at the comer of
Avenue A and East Austin
Streets. D. A. Lawson, owner,
reports Gulf Oil Corporation
has taken a 10-year lease on
the building.
Patients in Memorial
Hospital can now have part of
Winkler County Library
brought to their bedside
merely for the asking. This is
being made possible by a
rolling library presented to the
hospital by the 20-30 Club.
15 YEARS AGO
C. R. and Charles
Sparenberg were in Kermit this
—The Lonely Heart
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weekend inspecting progress on
the business building under
construction between Kermit
State Bank and Dunlap’s. The
brothers are building a modern
store building which will be
leased to C. R. Anthony. E. E.
Hixson is contractor. <
A four-man delegation
consisting of school board
members Walter Anderson, D.
L Handlin and Gilbert Phillips
and Superintendent Tommy
Thompson is attending the
annual meetings of Texas
Association of School Boards
and School Administrators in
Austin.
O. O. Whitten came to West
Texas as an Humble bulk
distributor almost as soon as
oil was discovered in Winkler
County. This year he is
celebrating his 28th year with
the firm.
Darrel Mayer, director of
special activities for Kertnjp
Schools, was guest speaker at f *
meeting of Kermit Jaycees this
week.
Officers were elected when ^
Northside Baptist Primary
Department met Friday. They
are Ann Bartley, president; ’
Sandra Weaver, vice-president /
Evelyn Stevenson, secretary;
Jodie Bartley, treasurer, and
Cathy Pruett, community-
missions chairman.
Vera Anne Baldwin;*
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve
Baldwin of Kermit, was one of
Texas Tech students presenting
a one-act musical as Texas
Tech Speech Department’s first-
attraction of the fall.
Washington
Roundup
Winkler County News
Kermit, Texas
Dear Bill:
Just a few lines to tell you
how much we enjoyed our visit
to Kermit and Winkler County.
Everyone was so nice and
hospitable. We were not
expecting all the attention and
red carpet treatment that we
received. We enjoyed the Lions
Club luncheon and all of our
visits to the nice parks, hospital
and the airport, schools,
county barns and maintenance
shops, and our visit to Wink
and their pretty streets, parks
and schools.
We certainly did appreciate
the giving of so much of your
time. We know you had many
other things that required your
time and direction. Your tour
through the newspaper plant
was very interesting and
enlightening to us. We never
dreamed such an operation was
going on there. That was my
first trip through a newspaper
plant since I was a school kid
and we were escorted on a tour
through the Dallas News, some
forty years ago. It is quite a
different operation now. Your
paper is a real asset to Kermit
and Winkler County.
If you are passing through
or in Morton, do stop by and
we will certainly scare up
something.
Yours truly,
Glen W. Thompson
“Drug abuse is nothing less
than a life and death matter to
countless Americans and for
the moral fiber of the nation.”
These words are from the
proclamation by the President,
setting aside the week of Oct. 3
as,./‘Drug Abuse Prevention
Week.” Congress has passed a
great deal of constructive
legislation pertaining to the
prevention and control of drug
abuse, climaxed by the
Comprehensive Drug Abuse
Prevention and Control Act of
1970. I supported this
legislation, and earlier I
sponsored a successful
amendment to the Economic
Opportunities Act, authorizing
the government to establish
community rehabilitation
centers for drug addicts. Many
millions of dollars have been
expended to prevent drug
addiction, and to control the
drug traffic that has become a
major enemy of our society.
Nowhere has the threat of
our nation’s stability appeared
more frighteningly than in the
number of drug addictions
among members of our armed
services. I was a member of the
House Armed Services
Subcommittee that studied
drug abuse among our
servicemen in Vietnam. We
made many recommendations
which have been put into
effect concerning amnesty
programs to induce the
serviceman who has become
addicted to drugs to seek
treatment. But even so, reports
from Vietnam indicate there
are still many who manage to
conceal their drug addiction
because of their ardent desire
to return home without delay.
These, and thousands
discharged earlier, with drug
addiction problems, are tragic
victims of the war, just as
surely as the men who were
left maimed and crippled by
gunfire or land mines.
For our veterans, present
and future, we must put forth
new efforts to provide the
treatment they need. To this
end, the House passed,
unanimously, on July 19, the
“Servicemen’s, Veterans* and
Ex-Servicemen’s Drug
Treatment and Rehabilitation
Act of 1971.” The Senate has
completed its hearings on a
companion bill and the
Veterans Committee is
expected to report the bill
soon. Passage of this bill would
be a fitting observance by
Congress of “Drug Abuse
Prevention Week.” It would
demonstrate our concern, not
only for drug abuse prevention,
but for healing the wounds
drugs have caused among men
who have served their country.
The Bill approved by the
House recognizes the fact
that the Veterans
16th DISTRICT
■ Cong. Richard C. White j
Administration, through its
excellent system of hospitals,
and clinics, has superior
facilities for the treatment of
drug addiction. President
Nixon, in a message to
Congress June 17, praised thC
VA facilities as * ,,“a .... gre^f-
national resource which can be
of immeasurable assistance in
the effort against this grave;
national problem.” (drugs *
addiction). “Restrictive and? *5
exclusionary use of these
facilities under present statutes
means that we are wasting a?*8
critically needed national, -
resource. We are commonly
closing the doors to those who.;
need help the most.”
The legislation approved by
the House and pending in the •
Senate would open some of
those doors. Basically, the bill
would accomplish three,
objectives: * '
1. It would authorize the *
armed service sto commit drug |
addiction victims still in the;-
service to Veterans1
Administration Hospitals. The .
VA would return the men to_
custody of the armed forces;
when their condition i$
stabilized, when the serviceman
refuses to cooperate, or wheats
it is found that treatment can %
no longer benefit him. Thess?
treatment will be at the?
expense of the armed forces -
who will reimburse th
Veterans Administration.
2. Every ex-servicemain with 1
a drug addiction problem may
be treated without charge atV*^
veterans hospital. Many of;
these have been dishonorably;”
discharged because of drug-
addiction. A person who has:
received a dishonorable
discharge is not a veteran; he is
merely an ex-serviceman and is
not entitled to other veterans*
benefits.
3. The Federal courts, in
considering narcotics addiction
cases among ex-servicemen
will be authorized to commit
them to the veterans f
administration for treatment. |
With these three provisions, |
it is hoped that the Federal ?:
government will be in a *
position to offer aid to every |
person who has become a j
victim of drugs in the armed ;
forces, whether he be in the
service, recently discharged, o^g
long out of the service and <a £
dangerous part of our drug |
using population. £ |
Many a serviceman, in*
Vietnam, became addicted to. *
drugs that could be bought for f
the small change in his pockef*
He returned to a society where,
it costs him $60 a day
support his cheaply gained*
habit. The nation owes him the j
opportunity to break this ha.bptp
and become a useful membf
of our society.
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