The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 76, Ed. 1 Monday, December 9, 1974 Page: 1 of 10
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Motor Vehicle Burglary Prevention Methods Listed
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(EDITOR’S NOTE: In an
effort to keep local residents
safe from crime, the Kermit
Police Department has issued
another crime prevention
bulletin for the holiday
season.)
With the arrival of the
holiday season and Christmas
shopping, one of the most
frequent items reported to
police is theft of packages and
gifts from automobiles.
Motor vehicle security grows
out of habit in the individual
vehicle owner and, just as a
good maintenance program can
keep the vehicle in proper
'operating order, good
precautionary measures can
secure the auto from being
burglarized, local police
officers point out.
Motor vehicle thefts are
getting to be extremely
numerous, even though
manufacturers are constantly
improving anti-theft devices in
vehicles and laws are being
passed to protect owners.
Most of the time, in
protecting the contents of a
motor vehicle, the vehicle itself
is also being protected from
theft.
In order to give local and
area residents as much
protection as possible for their
motor vehicles and their
con tents these points have
been emphasized:
1. PARKING - In parking
the vehicle at night, park it in a
well-lighted area and always
lock all doors, regardless of
whether it is to be unattended
for an hour or a day. If the car
is at home, either place ib in
the garage and lock the garage
door or place it as close to the
house as practical and, of
course, lock all doors. There is
nothing that will deter a thief
more than a locked automobile
parked where he can be seen if
he starts tampering with it.
2. KEYS — Keys can be
duplicated and can save drivers
from embarrassing moments;
however, indiscriminate use of
keys can also result in a theft
of or from a vehicle. When
keys are left in a vehicle,
thieves have been known to
duplicate house keys, storage
room keys and any other keys
on the key ring. Never leave
keys in the ignition of an
unattended vehicle and don’t
place them in ash trays or
under the floor mat. .. they
can be found and duplicated or
stolen. When taking the vehicle
to be service, remove all but
the ignition key from the key
ring.
Leaving the keys in the
ignition switch of an
unattended vehicle is not only
dangerous, but also against the
law — the fine for this offense
varies from $1 to $200.
3. GLASSES AND VENT
WINDOWS — A very common
method for thieves to enter a
motor vehicle is through a
partially opened glass or vent
window. If the vehicle is to be
left out in the sun during the
summer, the vent ducts can be
left open to allow for heat
expansion and prevent glass
“blowout.” If no ducts are
available, a glass can be rolled
up and then the pressure on
the handle released just enough
to unseat the seal on the
window frame. This should
allow enough room to prevent
damage due to heat expansion.
4. LEAVING VALUABLES
IN THE VEHICLE - Thieves
make a point of “window
shopping” around parking lots,
especially during holiday
seasons, and are easily
attracted by such items as
purses, wrapped packages,
cameras and guns. Lock all
valuables left in the auto either
in the glove compartment or in
the trunk. Rifles should never
be left “displayed” on a rack in
the window of a pickup; this is
an open invitation to a burglar.
Also, be sure you have the
serial number of the stereo, if
you have one in your vehicle,
and a list of tapes.
5. CAMPERS - Campers on
pickups should be equipped
with locks and all items of
value removed and stored when
not in use. Curtains on campers
should also be drawn to deny
visual inspection of the inside
of the camper. The camper
unit should also be secured to
the truck so that it cannot be
removed from outside
(especially shell type campers).
6. HOOD LATCHES -
Hoods that are not equipped
with locks, need to be
equipped so they cannot be
opened from outside the
vehicle, but from inside
through the use of a remote
hood latch.
7. TIRES - Motor vehicle
tires represent a substantial
investment and all opeators are
urged to record serial numbers
of tires. Each tire has a serial
number and tire dealers or
local police officers will be glad
to show where the number is
located.
8. GASOLINE - With the
current energy crisis, an
increase in gasoline thefts has
been recorded and all vehicle
operators are advised to obtain
locking gasoline caps. A
locking gasoline cap is
relatively inexpensive, when
compared to a full tank of
gasoline, and will deter all but
the most persistent thieves.
“Extra” gasoline should never
be carried in the trunk or back
seat of a vehicle. Gasoline
fumes are deadly and highly
explosive.
9. BURGLAR ALARM
Motor vehicle burglar alarms
are manufactured and can be
purchased at a nominal cost
and are easily installed. These
alarms are reported to be
highly effective in frightening
burglars away and preventing
many burglaries.
10. VEHICLE
REGISTRATION - License
numbers, make, model and
other pertinent information is
every helpful to police in
investigating auto theft cases
and with this information,
police are often able to put out
an All-Points Bulletin to the
immediate area. If the theft is
discovered soon enough, police
will have enough time to locate
the stolen vehicle. Also, keep
either a copy or the original
vehicle registration at your
residence for easy access to this
information. Know your
license number by memory.
As in any burglary
prevention effort, the job of
law enforcement agencies is to
REDUCE THE TIME available
for entry and the job of the
owner is to INCREASE THE
TIME needed for burglars to
gain entry.
These precautions pointed
out by police have been known
to at least deter the potential
motor vehicle burglar by
denying him easy access into
the vehicle. “The harder you
make it for the burglar to
enter, the better your chances
are of preventing your
property from being stolen,”
stated Police Chief Melvin
Bartley.
The Kermit Police
Department will assist in every
way to promote motor vehicle
burglary prevention and
anyone with specific questions
or problems is asked to contact
local police at 586-2577.
The Winkler County News
FIFTEEN CENTS
Trustees To Review
Selection Procedure
Trustees of Kermit
Independent School District
Board of Education are to
review the status of
superintendent selection
procedure during the regular
monthly meeting scheduled to
be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday,
Dec. 10.
Guidelines for selecting a
new school superintendent for
the next school year were
submitted last month by a
screening committee and
, included in the guidelines was
authorization for the president
of the school board to contact
various university deans and
state education agencies, asking
for names of recommended
applicants.
Board members are also
invited to submit names of
candidates they would like to
have considered for the
position.
The position of Kermit
Schools superintendent is to
become vacant at the end of
the current school year when
Superintendent G. E. (Tommy)
Thompson retires.
Other items listed on the
tentative agenda for the
Tuesday meeting include:
Call to order.
Invocation.
Reading ofthe minutes.
Resignations.
New personnel.
Review multi-year contracts.
(See TRUSTEES, Page 10)
Prospective Jurors
To Report Thursday
The office of County Sheriff Georgette Davis, Margaret
Jerry D. Bell has notified a Denny, Mrs. Ruth Elms, Mrs.
total of 58 Winkler County R. R. Flattley, Patricia Garcia,
residents that they have been
f selected for possible jury duty
for the November-December
term of Winkler County Court.
All prospective jurors are to
report for possible jury duty
Thursday, Dec. 12, at 9:30
a.m. in the County Courtroom
of the courthouse.
Included in the list of
prospective jurors are 10
residents of Wink and 48
Kermit citizens.
Kermit persons named to
the jury panel are Mrs. Chester
Algood, Marcella L. Aranda,
Troy B. Atkins, Robert C.
Bandel, Adolph Frank Barta, J.
C. Bobo, Paul Brucks, Foy O.
Chambers,
Fontaine L. Cooley, Mrs. G.
* G. Crawford, W. R. Crispin,
Bond Forfeited
In City Court
Mrs. L. L. (Harriet Jane)
Gray of 601 S. Ave. D forfeited
a bond of $52.50 Saturday
morning, when she failed to
appear in Corporation Court to
face charges of theft under $5.
Mrs. Gray was arrested and
charged with theft in
connection with an incident
which occurred Wednesday,
Dec. 4, in Piggly Wiggly. She
posted bond and was released
from custody the same day.
The complaint against Mrs.
Gray was filed by the store
manager, Morrison Donaghe.
House fire Thursday, 1>;
I* Dec. 5, at 9:09 a.m. at 521 ’
South Maple. ji
Youtha Gregg, Doris J.
Grogan, E. B. Haggard, Diana
G. Hampton, Libby Hargrove,
T. L. Harville, Pablo C.
Hernandez, Mrs. H. G. Holman,
Ina Fay Houdyshell, Ruth
James, Mrs. Alvin B. Johnson,
J. L. Kingston, Mrs. B. E.
Long, Eddie Lopez, Mrs. J. H.
McClary, Mrs. Buford L.
Martin
Charles William Mason,
Patsy Mayer, William R. Miller,
Jack Mills, George Mitchell,
Frankie Nunez, Helen H. Piel,
Mrs. James Allen Reid,
Mary Sallese, Bessie
Singletary, Willie E. Smith, L.
A. Springfield, Mrs. T.
Springfield, Billie Jean
Thomas, Sharron S. Thomas
and L. A. Waddell.
Named to the jury panel
from Wink are John Bounds,
Mrs. Roy L. Davis, Mrs. Uzell
Geeslin, Henry A. Hawk, R.
Neal Hawkins, Ben Hernandez,
Roy Kelley, Dorothy Tomson,
James F. Walker and Lois
Wright.
Catholic
Youth Plan
Paper Drive
The youth of St. Thomas
and St. Joseph’s Catholic
Churches have organized a
paper drive to add to the Eddie
Almanza Fund.
In announcing the paper
drive Friday, the youth asked
that all local and area residents
save their old newspapers and
donate them during the drive.
The first pickup date for the
drive is set for Saturday, Dec.
14.
All residents who would like
to donate to the drive are
asked to call either 586-3583
(after 5 p.m.) or 586-2573.
PRESENT UNITED WAY DONATION
Officers of the 1974-75 Kermit High School Student Council
presented a donation recently to Winkler County United Way
Campaign president Fred Pearson. The donation was $93.06 and
was collected in a special “Junior Olympics” held in the KHS
Gymnasium. Participating in the event were members of each
high school class and a group of high school faculty members.
Shown making the presentation to Pearson are (left to right)
Debbie Glander, secretary; Barry Barrs, president; Kerry Giesler,
parliamentarian; and Don Roberts, vice president.
(Staff Photo)
Sheriff Arrests
Escaped Convict
Paul H.Posey an escaped
convict from the New
Mexico State Pennitentiary at
Santa Fe, N.M., was arrested
late Thursday night by Sheriff
Jerry D. Bell.
Posey, 22, formerly of
Kermit, was taken into custody
of Sheriff Bell at 9 p.m.
Thursday, after he contacted
local law enforcement officials
and indicated that he wanted
to give himself up.
He was taken before County
Judge E. C. Locklear Friday
morning and was given his
Magistrates warning and, at
that time, waived extradition.
Posey was reported to have
escaped from a work detail at
the New Mexico state
pennitentiary last March. He
was serving a 10 year sentence
for armed robbery.
Officials of the Sheriffs
Department reported Saturday
that New Mexico authorities
arrived in Kermit Saturday
afternoon and returned Posey
to New Mexico.
Schools To Hold
Testing Program
Kermit Public Schools are to
participate again this year in a
tuberculosis testing program
under the direction of Texas
State Department of Public
Health and County Health
Officer Dr. J. V. Gibson.
Administering the tests will
be the school nurse, Mrs.
Tressie Flattley, R.N., and Mrs.
Pearl L. Cobb, R.N., of the
Texas State Department of
Health.
follow-up tests of pupils and
associates as indicated. In
addition to the above
recommendation, the
legislative act made it
mandatory for all school
employees to have an annual
examination by a qualified
physician to check for
tuberculosis and that the
results be sent to the Texas
(See SCHOOLS, Page 10)
Hospital
Board
To Meet
Members of the Board of
Control to Memorial Hospital
will meet for their regular
monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 11.
The board will meet in the
cafeteria of Memorial Hospital
and will consider these items:
1. Call to order.
2. Reading of Minutes of
Previous Meeting.
Reading of Minutes of Joint
Conference Meeting.
3. Reports
A. Financial
B. Statistical
C. Hospital Administrative
Report
4. Old Business
A. Doctor Recruitment
B. Hospital District
C. Life Safety Code
Requirements.
5. New Business
A. Open bids for Rapid
Film Changer.
6. Adjournment.
Greetings
To
Servicemen
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PUTS TALENT TO WORK
A local young man, Rodney Hayes, is shown putting his talent
to work recently painting Christmas designs and scenes on store
windows throughout downtown Kermit. Rodney is a junior at
Kermit High School and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dennie
Hayes. (Staff Photo)
Council
Agenda
Released
The agenda for the regularly
scheduled Tuesday, Dec. 10,
meeting of Kermit City
Council has been released by
the offices of City Manager W.
G. (Jerry) Haynes.
Items listed on the agenda to
be considered by the Council
in the 7 p.m. meeting in
Council Chambers of City Hall
include:
1. Meeting called to order.
2. Invocation.
3. Public Notice of this
meeting as posted presented to
the Council and noted in the
minutes.
4. Approve minutes of
Regular Council Meeting,
November 26,1974
5. Receive petitions on
matters of business from the
audience.
6. Report on van for Fire
Department.
7. Consider Revenue Sharing
resolution.
8. Discuss changing date of
next regular meeting and
discuss Christmas activities.
9. Approve monthly bills.
10. Reports.
1. Tax Suits
2. Clean Up Campaign
11. Adjourn.
Clear to partly cloudy,
continued cool today through
Tuesday.
Parental consent letters are
now being sent home with each
first and seventh grade student.
These letters must be signed by
parents and returned to the
school, before the students
may be tested.
This program came into
being when the Legislature of
Texas in 1965, placed the
responsibility for consolidation
of tuberculosis control in the
Texas State Department of
Health, by passing of SB 130.
The ultimate goal is to
eradicate, not just control
tuberculosis in Texas.
In this legislation, it is
recommended that each year,
all first and ■ seventh grade
pupils in public, parochial and
private schools in Texas,
including pupils transferred
from another state or county,
be examined for tuberculosis.
It is also recommended that
this be done by means of the
harmless tuberculin test, with
Full Gospel
Meets Today
Chuck Redger will be the
featured speaker when the Full
Gospel Business Men’s
Fellowship meets tonight
(Monday) at 8 p.m. in Kermit
Community Center.
Redger is a resident of
Midland and he and his wife,
Judy, have two children. He is
a native of Kansas and has been
serving in the ministry since
1962.
In addition to being a
minister of the Word, Redger is
also familiar with working with
teenagers through Teen
Challenge in New York and in
the San Francisco area. He is
the director of Teen Challenge
Outreach for this area.
Everyone is invited to
attend.
| It Is Time 1
5 To Write Santa
6 Witfi Christmas just around the corner, it is time once
g again for all youngsters to write their letters to Santa
2 Claus. , ,
The Winkler County News will print every letter to
S Santa, so that he will know just what the boys and girls
8 want for Christmas.
8 Santa letters may be deposited in a special Santa Box at
$ The News and they will be forwarded on to the North
§ Pole in time for Santa to make his rounds on Dec. 25.
S All boys and girls are urged to write their letters just as
8 soon as possible and either mail them to Santa or leave
2 them at The News, so that their names will not be lett ott
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Parks, Phil. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 76, Ed. 1 Monday, December 9, 1974, newspaper, December 9, 1974; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1035140/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.