The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 76, Ed. 1 Monday, December 9, 1974 Page: 4 of 10
ten pages : ill. ; page 24 x 17 in. Scanned from physical pages.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Page Four
The Winkler County News, Kermit, Texas
r
Congratulations
The Winkler County News
extends congratulations to the
following parents whose
babises have been born in
Memorial Hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lara, a
son born Dec. 4.
Cantata To
Be Held
Sunday
Community Church Choir
will present a Christmas
Cantata Sunday, Dec. 15, at
the regular 11 o’clock worship
service hour.
Name of the cantata is Night
of Miracles, written by John
Peterson. Mrs. Ed Halfast is
director.
The public is cordially
invited to attend, Rev. J.
Robert Hawkins, pastor of
Community Church, stated.
Sp.4 Leslie Rush
Is Now Assigned
As Infantryman
The 1st Cavalry Division of
the U. S. Army at Ft. Hood
announced recently that
Specialist 4 Leslie G. Rush has
been assigned there as an
infantryman.
Sp.4 Rush, 21, is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Rush of 926
East Waco and is now a
member of Company A, 75th
Infantry, of the 1st Cavalry
Division.
Church of God
Revival Services
Are Underway
Rev. Ralph Rooks, pastor of
the Church of God, has
announced that the church is
now conducting revival
services.
The revival began Sunday,
Dec. 8, and evangelist for the
services is William Carnley of
Kilgore.
Services begin nightly at
7:30 p.m. and the public is
invited to attend.
Christmas
Program
Scheduled
A Christmas program, We
Celebrate a Tree, will be
presented Sunday, Dec. 15, at
8 p.m. by Zion Lutheran
Sunday School, according to
Rev. Thomas Hedtke, pastor of
the church.
Under the direction of Mrs.
Art Ziebarth, the service will
include scripture readings and
carols.
The public is cordially
invited to attend.
Monday, December 9,1974
From Louisiana
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Norman of Louisiana recently
visited in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. John Lee Stuart and
David. The couple will be
residents of Kermit soon.
Home from College
Terry Shipley, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Bob Shipley, was
home recently for a visit. He
attends Angelo State
University.
Hospital *
; i
«’
j
Notes
Falling Stars
According to the religion of
Islam, falling stars are firebrands
flung by good angels, to prevent
evil spirits from drawing too
near to the gates of paradise.
The following patients have
been dismissed from Memorial
Hospital since Dec. 4: Mrs.
Robert Jones, Debbie Frieir,
Charlie Teasly, Brenda Hanna’
O. B. Middlers, Dana Dudley,
Ed D. Posey, Harald Meyer,
Althes M. Dyche, Mrs. Amon
Justice, Jake Petty, Bill Pollard
and Addie Norton.
.
i
WKfmm iwmmmm
ll
11 „
v-\V<S
1
#£ w 1
PRESENTS CHECK
Ed Logan (right), president of Kermit Downtown Lions Club, is shown presenting a check for
$200 to Calvin Workman, president of the Yellow Jacket Booster Club. The check, which was
presented during Thursday’s noon meeting of the Lions Club, will be used to help finance
continued work on the Booster Club’s community activity sign on the courthouse lawn.
Prime Time
Good Advice for Aging Gracefully
By Bernard E. Nash
My family physician and
friend for many years was a
kindly and thoroughly compe-
tent practitioner who, as far as
I could determine from our
many conversations, had but
one constant complaint—popu-
lar magazine articles and books
about newly discovered exotic
diseases and still experimental
“miracle” cures for some of our
better-known ailments.
Although he
was never the
kind of doctor
who favored
keeping his pa-
tients unin-
formed about
medical devel-(
Bernard Nash opments, * my
friend would wince whenever a
patient came into his office
clutching a well-thumbed maga-
zine, folded open to a medical
story, and demanding to know
why this new technique—
which, at that point, had usually
been tested only on white mice
—wasn’t being used to cure him
or her. Gently, he would ex-
plain the remote experimental
nature of the process, and then
painfully observe his suffering
patient's disappointment as his
or her false hopes crumbled.
Equally disturbing to my
friend was the needless alarm
that similar stories promoted
among many people (very few
of whom could honestly be
called hypochondriacs) who
would turn up in his waiting
room convinced that their
otherwise minor symptoms
meant that they were afflicted
with the dread disease about
which they had most recently
read. Still, there was relief in
observing a patient’s relief upon
being told that he was healthier
than he had thought—and, too,
such false alarms were often the
only thing that would bring some
people in for what should have
been a regular examination.
In recent years, literally mil-
lions of words have been written
about aging in popular maga-
zines and books—and many
gerontologists are beginning to
voice sentiment similar to those
of my former physician.
While I don’t totally agree
with them, their complaints are
not without considerable justi-
fication since much of what is
being published is little more
than a waste of time and paper.
Still, even the worst of these
are not necessarily harmful, and
like the magazine article which
prompted people to make long- cypher’s, book—and I don’t
overdue appointments with my
friend the doctor—they may
even do some good by encour-
aging readers to think about
(and hopefully prepare for)
their own old age, a subject
which had for decades been al-
most totally ignored by the mass
media. - ,
Fortunately, from time to
time, there have been a few
exceptionally good books on
aging to be found amidst the
aforementioned wasteland of
words, and I would like to rec-
ommend two of these.
“To The Good Long Life”
by Morton Puner and “Getting
Older and Staying Younger” by
David D. Stonecypher Jr.,
M.D., cover essentially the same
range of subject matter, but from
slightly different points of view.
Puner is primarily a writer with
an impressive involvement and
background in gerontology,
while Stonecypher is, a prac-
ticing physician dealing frequent-
ly with older patients and their
overall life situations. Thus,
Jr
OVERSEAS EMPLOYMENT
★TOOL PUSHER
★DRILLERS
★ DERRICKMEN ★RIG MECHANICS
Major U.S. drilling contractor, operating world wide land and
offshore, solicits qualified applicants with drilling rig
experience for the above classifications. Interviews will be
held by Hubert M. Pittman and Chris Bryan (from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m.):
Thursday, December 12
Roswell, New Mexico
Ramada Inn 1310 N. Main
(505) 623-4021
Ramada Inn
Friday, December 13
Hobbs, New Mexico
(505) 397-3251
501 N. Marlin
Santa Fe Drilling Company
A Division of Santa Fe International Corp.
P. O. Box 1946 Odessa, Texas 79760
(915) 362-0241
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Sszr
To Work
Dr. Jerald Johnson,
executive secretary of
Nazarene World Missions, and
the missionary staff were
meeting in Mozambique,
October 21, when a political
disturbance broke out which
resulted in numerous deaths
and woundings.
Rev. and Mrs. Kenneth
Singleton and Fairy Cochran
were injured by flying objects.
Their car was caught in traffic
when the riot began.
Dr. Johnson and some other
missionaries found refuge in a
Swiss mission. The next day all
were evacuated safely from
Mozambique.
The men missionaries have
returned to continue the work
there and plan for the eventual
return of the others.
SAND HILLS DISTRICT
Dist. Chrm. — Rev. David Northcutt
Dist. Comm. - Gene Paschall
DECEMBER
Monday, Dec. 2 - District Annual Banquet — 7:30
p.m. First United Methodist Church Education Building,
744 Jeffee Drive, Kermit. All Scouters and their wives or
husbands should attend this great fellowship. The cost is
$3 per person.
Thursday, Dec. 9 - Buffalo Trail Council Annual
Business Meeting.
JANUARY
Monday, Jan. 13 — District Committee Meeting and
Scout Arama Kickoff. Pyote Community Center. 7:30
p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 23 — Council Annual Banquet, Big
Spring.
CONGRATULATIONS to Audry Baker of Pecos who
has been elected District Chairman for 1975 and a big
THANKS to Rev. David Northcutt and his fine committee
for a great job well done in 1974.
Our New District Executive - Dave Dunn, his wife
Jackie, and their 10-year-old son will be moving to the
Sand Hills District Jan. 1, 1975. Dave and Jackie are both
West Texas natives and are now living in San Angelo
where Dave is attending San Angelo State.
n
School Schedule
where Mr. Puner describes, Dr.
Stonecypher prescribes.
Because Mr. Puner has read
and researched extensively, his
book easily lives up to its sub-
title, “What We Know About
Growing Old.” It may not be as
exhaustive as Simone de Beau-
voir’s encyclopedic “The Com-
ing of Age” (which is currently
available in paperback for those
with sufficient patience and
stamina), but it is more acces-
sible to the general reader, and
at least equally thorough—even
including a chapter on the new
“science” of gerontology, its
origins, professional organiza-
tions and practitioners.
One thing that particularly
impressed me about Dr. Stone-
know if it is a reflection of his
being an eye specialist—is that
its print is somewhat larger than
that of most books, a most
thoughtful concession to readers
with optical difficulties.
Both books survey the phys-
ical, psychological and social as-
pects of aging today, including
retirement, work after retire-
ment age, anticipation of death,
senior sexuality, health care, and
the politics of a growing older
population. While Mr. Puner’s
opinions are reflected in his
comments and, of course, in his
choice of material, in the end,
he invites the reader to draw his
or her own conclusions. Dr.
Stonecypher is somewhat less de-
tached; he knows where he
stands on various issues, and
makes sure that we do, too.
My old family physician died
a few years ago, but if he were
still with us today, I have a feel-
ing my friend would heartily
approve of these two books—
and probably insist that his
middle-aged and older patients
read them.
(Mr. Nash is the executive di-
rector of the nonprofit, non-
partisan, National Retired Teach-
ers Association, and Arnerican
Association of Retired Persons.)
MONDAY, Dec. 9
9 th A&B Basketball,
Seminole, here, 5:30 p.m.
7 th “A” Basketball,
Seminole, here, 5:30 p.m.
8 th “A” Basketball,
Seminole, here, 6:30 p.m.
Texas Elementary Principals
& Supervisors Association
Convention, Fort Worth.
TUESDAY, Dec. 10
Varsity & Jr. Varsity
Basketball, Stanton, here, 6:15
p.m.
Texas Elementary Principals
& Supervisors Association
Convention, Fort Worth
Regular School Board
Meeting, Administration
Building Board Room, 7:30
p.m.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 11
Tuberculin Testing for 1st
and 7th graders with consent
of parents, State Dept, of
Health
Texas Elementary Principals
& Supervisors Association,
Fort Wo th
THURSDAY, Dec. 12
9th Basketball A&B, Crane,
here, 5:30 p.m.
8th Basketball, Monahaiis,
here, 6:30 p.m.
7th Basketball, Monahans,
here, 5:30 p.m.
State Committee Meeting,
Texas Classroom Teachers,
Austin
Committee Meeting,
Instructional Needs, Region
XVIII Education Service
Center, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
District Texas Association of
Secondary School Principals
Meeting, Odessa High School,
8:30 a.m.-l:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, Dec. 13
Varsity Basketball, Denver
City Tournament
Jr. Varsity Basketball, Pecos
Tournament
8 th Basketball Crane
Tournament
7 th Basketball, Crane
Tournament
State Committee Meeting,
Texas Classroom Teachers,
Austin
SATURDAY, Dec. 14
Varsity Basketball, Denver
City Tournament
Jr. Varsity Basketball, Pecos
Tournament
8 th Basketball, Crane
Tournament
7 th Basketball, Crane
Tournament
American College Testing,
Kermit
In most Apache tribes the
bridegroom went to live in his
wife’s community, and all
Apaches showed respect for a
mother-in-law by never
speaking to her, points out the
National Geographic Society’s
new book, “The World of the
American Indian.”
From Scott Patton, Sarasota,
Florida: I remember — barely —,
way back to April 6, 1917. That) >
was the day the United States de-
clared war on Germany. Panama
and Cuba soon followed our ex-
ample. Some months later, in De-
cember I think, we declared war
on the old and faltering Austrian
empire, too. President Wilson
kept pointing out that we were
“associates” in the war. England
and France were in their hours
of greatest need. The United
States appeared aloof in the early
stages of our commitment. It was
many months before we really
contributed much in the way of
military assistance in the war
against Germany. The first peo-
ple to see action were the navy
and marine corps. We were wor-
ried about protecting the Panama
Canal.
As I remember those early
days of our entrance into the war '
the Allies were really having a
hard time of it. We weren’t ready
for trench warfare. It wasn’t
long, though, before the great
American spirit prevailed and
the country rallied to help halt
— temporarily — the German de-
sire for domination.
(Send contributions to this column to Tho
Old Timer, Box 639, Frankfort, Ky. 40601.)
‘Battered CtiiliT Syndrome’
Is UTPB Workshop Topic
Have Visitors
Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Thigpen
of 447 N. Ave. C. were visited
during the Thanksgiving
holidays by their children and
grandchildren. Visitng in the
Thigpen’s home were Mr. and
Mrs. Durwood Thigpen and
Michelle of New Orleans, La.;
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Napier, Beth
and Davis of Lubbock; and Mr.
and Mrs. Jimmy Strickland,
Randy, Jay and Terry of
Kermit.
A Battered Child Syndrome
seminar will be held on The
University of Texas of the
Permian Basin campus
Wednesday (Dec. 11) at 1 p.m.
Dr. William D. Furst, local
pediatrician and associate
clinical professor of Pediatrics
at Texas Tech, along with
Martin Theophilus, Supervisor
of Ector County Children
Services (ECCS) will be
directing the seminar-work-
shop.
Miss Mollie Whittington,
program director of Social
Services for the Midland-
Odessa area, will be on hand to
discuss how various child
abuse-child neglect cases are
handled and will give examples
of particular situations.
The purpose of the series is
to create informed awareness,
within the community, of
existing problems in the West
Texas area; to provide
educational and informative
material that is available. from
the state; and to develop a
skilled and informative team of
interested people who can
provide effective treatment for
child abuse problems.
People participating in the
seminars include UT Permian
and OC staff and students,
district court judges, local
attorneys invited through the
Ector County Bar Association,
members of the Ector County
School System, interested
personnel from the regional
planning commission, and local
medical agencies including
mental health, welfare, police
department, hospital and
nursing, LVN training
programs, and emergency
medical technicians with local
fire departments.
This is the final session in a
series of four such workshops
to be held in Ector County.
Previous sessions have be6n
held at Medical Center Hospital
and on the UT Permian
campus.
All interested persons who
would like to work with the
regional program and who
would like to find out what is
happening with the latest state
developments are invited to
attend.
SEW WHAT?
THIS WEEK’S PATTERN’S
BY AUDREY LANE
WORK HARD FOR YOUR MONEY?
Let Your Money
Work for You
We know it doesn’t come easy. We
respect hard-earned money. That’s
why we offer the highest interest
the law will allow on our savings
accounts. We think it’s only fair!
Come talk over our various plans.
We’ll find the best one for you!
Cosy Robe
Here's a robe for a youngster that's
easy to make. It might be a happy
thought for a Christmas present, if
you can bring yourself to hold it
that long. No. 3239 comes in sizes
4, 6, 8, 10, 12. Size 8 takes 2'/j
yd. of 35-in. fabric.
A wardrobe is not complete un-
less you have a bolero or two. This
one is crocheted in a pretty stitch.
Send for Pattern No. 958.
100 INi. Cedar KERMIT 686 6648
Send 50t for each dress pattern,
30t for each needlework pattern (add
I5< for each dress pattern, I Of for
each needlework pattern for mailing
and handling) to AUDREY LANE BU-
REAU,Morris Plains, New Jersey 07950.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
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/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.