The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 82, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 1979 Page: 2 of 44
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The Winkler County News, Kermit, Texas
Thursday, July 12,1979
Softballers Named
To All-Star Team
Five members of each
Junior Division girls softball
team and three members of
each sophomore division
squad were recently named to
the Big ‘K’ Girls Softball
All-Stars.
The Junior Division
All-Stars include: Handlin
Insurance
Record Set
At WCCC
Jerry Reese of Brian, Texas
recorded a round of 61 on
Friday, July 6, on the
Winkler County Country
Club course to break the
course record of 63.
Reese shot 30-31 to gain
the mark. He had eight
birdies, one eagle, arid nine
pars in the round.
Witnessing the feat were
Hardy Cook, Thomas J.
Smith, and Nell Ross.
Martinez, Teresa Beal, Lynne
Sawyer, Patricia Couey and
Barbie Gillock; Kermit State
Bank — Jana Percifleld, Karen
Enox, Margaret Lewis,
Melanie Harbin, and Lisa
Arguijo; and Wink - Kim
Jacobsen, Brenda Huffman,
Cynthia Landry, Bertie
Christina Montgomery, and Deena
Collins.
The Sophomore Division
All-Stars include: Wink No. 1
— Daisy Montgomery, Shanna
Jacobsen, and Karen
Eggleston; Wink No. 2, -
Shelly McDonald, Kimberly
Dudley, and Kristi Jones;
McGuire Motors — Marie
Baucom, Christy Harrell, and
Skye Mobley; First National
Bank - Kristie Norwood,
Carol Me Elroy, and Rose
Mary Cordova; TASCO
Answering Service - Lavonda
Wade, Christi Thompson, and
Pricilla Estorga; and Winkler
County News - Linda Smart,
Sharron Babb, and Debra Gail
Richards.
Extension Agents Help County
Residents To Help Themselves
RECORDS FIRST
ACE
Bobby Herricks of Kermit
recorded his first hole-in-one
with an ace on the second
hole at the Winkler County
Country Club. Herricks used
an eight-iron and the shot
came in the club’s Fourth of
July Scramble. Witnesses
were Mike Spurlock, Denise
Spurlock, D. V. Edwards, and
Laura Mitchell.
Summer Track Sends 16 To State
Sixteen members of the
Kermit Summer Track squad
will be traveling to Waco on
July 27 and 28 to participate
in the state track meet. These
tracksters qualified for state
competition by finishing first
or second in the Regional
meet.
Members of the Kermit
team who will make the trip
are: the midget girls 440 yard
relay team of Leslie
Loughmiller, Joel Wright,
Lavonda Wade, and Sandra
Burkhalter; Peter Rameriz
and Terry Pendergrass in the
junior boys shot put and
Mike Kilgore in the
intermediate boys shot and
discus; Amy Brownlee 4n the
midget girls 440 yard dash
and long jump;
Kyle Clark in the junior
boys 880 yard run; Chuck
Moore in the junior boys 440
yard dash; the bantam 440
yard relay team of Garland
Whiteside, Paul Reynolds,
Paul Farmer, and Marcus
Parks; Lynn Whited in the
junior girls 880 yard run; and
Donald Whitfield in the
midget boys high jump.
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SAND CAR...Racing on the sands of Daytona Beach,
Fla., is history, but racers made of the famous white sand
are still with us. Lisa Secunda took to this “beachster” to
observe February 3-18 Speed Weeks at the Daytona Inter-
national Speedway, where racing continues to make
history.
Grass-roots representatives
such as County Agents Alan
Fires and Mrs. Charlene Hicks
underscore the contention
that only Texas A&M
University can truly call the
entire state its campus.
Fires, Hicks and the entire
Winkler County extension
staff are duplicated in varying
degrees at 251 other locations
around Texas-in all but two
counties-to help local people
help themselves. Help comes
in various forms, ranging
from advice about crops and
livestock to suggestions
concerning the most
economical and efficient
ways to run a household to
guidance for youth groups.
Specifically, Fires, Hicks
and their associates are
on-the-spot representatives of
the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service, one of the
major public service agencies
of Texas A&M.
The extension service has •
always been affiliated with
the overall institution
headquartered at College
Station, but the land-grant
and sea-grant university for
Texas has recently undergone
major transition to
incorporate its research and
public service agencies as
integral parts in carrying out
its unique mission.
This new concept, is
intended to faciliate free flow
of practical knowledge and
new technology between the
laboratory and classroom on
the one hand and, on the
other, the transfer of useful
information from the
laboratory to the ultimate
consumer-be it an individual
or industrial or governmental
group.
While Fires, Hicks and
their associates are officially
affiliated with the Texas
Agriculture Extension
its entering freshman, on a
percentage basis, placed in
the top tenth of their high
WU1V1 imw sch°o1 graduation classes. In
functioning as major units of rece^f years, Texas A&M has
the university are the Texas traditionally ranked first
Service, they serve as a point
of contact for all programs
associated with Texas A&M.
Other agencies now
through teaching, research governments with, problems
and public service, Texas’ ranging from police-'
first public institution communication systems t<K
continues to maintain its airport operations and animal*!
proud heritage and unique control,
traditions which date back to *Center for Energy and!
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Station, specializing in
agriculture research
concerning economically
important crops and
commodities, and the Texas
Engineering Experiment
Station and Texas
Engineering Extension
Service, which provide
comparable types of research
and self-help service for local
governments and industry
and, in certain cases,
individuals. Other research-
and service-oriented units at
Texas A&M include the Texas
Transportation Institute, the
Center for Marine Resources
and the Center for Energy
and Mineral Resources, with
the latter serving as manager
for the Texas Energy
Extension Service, a new
organization intended to help
Texans conserve energy and
save on fuel bills.
The level of Texas A&M’s
research activities is reflected
in the fact with it ranks first
in the Southwest in funds
received for such work and
among the top 20 institutions
nationally, according to the
National Science Foundation.
The university invests more
than $60 million annually in
studies ranging from
pollution control to highway
safety and e nergy
conservation.
While research and public
service activities have been
brought more directly into
the university framework,
teaching remains Texas i
A&M’s basic function.
Throughout the ‘70s it has
broadened its curriculum to
serve a student body that has
been the fastest growing in
the nation. Its 30,255
students include the nation’s
largest enrollments in
engineering, agriculture and
veterinary medicine. Students
studying * in other fields,
however, outnumber the
combined total for those
three fields for which the
university is best
known. Students who
choose to be Aggies rank
considerably higher than
average scholastically. College
Entrance Examination Board
statistics, for example, show
that entering freshmen at
Texas A&M score about 135
points higher than the
national norm (the nation’s
average was 897 for 1978) and
the Southwest in enrollment
of National Merit Scholars
and among the top 20 public
or private institutions
nationally.
The practical, relevant
approach is emphasized
throughout Texas A&M’s
teaching, research and public
service programs. Its
career-oriented approach to
education and the leadership
opportunities available
through its Corps of Cadets
and extracurricular activities
make its graduates prime
prospects for top jobs or
entry into preferred graduate
or professional schools. More
, than 550 businesses and other
I organizations recruited here
last year--approximately a
third more than the year
before-and offered salaries
e xceeding the national
average.
Texas A&M offers
| undergraduates degrees in 89
1 different fields and 203
degree options on the
graduate level. These degrees
are offered through the
Colleges of Engineering,
Agriculture, Liberal Arts,
Business Administration,
Education, Science,
Architecture and
Environmental Design,
Geosciences and veterinary
Medicine.
The university’s new
College of Medicine offers
students the opportunity to
begin their professional
medical training while still
undergraduates. Students
study on the College Station
campus for two years of
preclinical instruction-a
period which can coincide
with their regular junior and
senior years-and then
undergo (he clinical phases of
their medical studies at Scott
and White Hospital in Temple
or at Veterans Administration
hospital in Temple, Waco or
Marlin.
Texas A&M also offers its
undergraduate students an
opportunity to earn a
commission in any of the five
branches of military service
and continues to provide
more research officers than
any other college or
university in the nation.
Although participation in the
Corps of Cadets is now
strictly voluntary, it remains
the largest uniformed
Oct. 4, 1876. That day it working to help develop new;,
attracted six students, energy sources, such as
primarily from the immediate lignite, and to conserve; ;
area. It now attracts students conventional fuels, and also-
from throughout Texas (as serves as the coordinating
well as from every other state , group for the Texas Energy:-
in the nation and some 75 Extension Service, whidC;
foreign countries) and also provides advice regarding!;
takes its programs out to the ways to save energy and ciit ;
people--underscoring the costs. :>!;
concept that the entire state *Center for Marine
is its campus. Resources, coordinating^
In the final analysis, Texas grouP with a key role in the:
A&M is groups of people orderly development of the;:
state’s coastal zone and whiejb
provides administrative;;
support for the Sea GraijjE!;
striving to help other people
whether it be in the formal
classroom or otherwise.
For example, through its
various agencies, Texas A&M
is the:
Program, the activity which-
specializes
approaches
practical-.
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Institute, best known perhaps being on-the-spot specialists ;
as the group which developed who serve in a manner similar!;
such life-saving devices as to that of the country agent'jj
break-away highway signs, , *Center for Education ar|p
serves as the research arm of Research in Free Enterprise:
the Texas Department of striving to help Texans gain>‘;
Highways and Public better understanding of thj£ri
more than twice as many of organization of its type in the
nation, except for the service
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academies.
Women account for more
than a third of total
enrollment at the once
all-male institution. Even the
Corps is now coeducational,
with a second unit for women
added last fall.
Construction has become a
way of life at Texas A&M. An
extensive building program
has more than doubled the
value of the campus since
1970 in an effort to keep pace
with enrollment gains and
expanded programs. Current
value of the campus is in
excess of $300 million.
Additional facilities valued at
more than $150 million are
contemplated within the next
five years.
While constantly changing
to meet the needs of its
students, state and nation
Transportation, but it also is
active in projects ranging in
scope from airports to
pipelines.
*Texas Firemen’s Training
School, offering a variety of
instructional courses to
volunteer and full-time
firefighters throughout the
state-instruction which, in,
addition to saving lives and
property, can reduce
insurance rates in
communities which have had
a sufficient number of
firemen participate.
* Industrial Economics
Research Division, which,
among other activities, helps
small communities help
themselves attract new
industry.
* Texas Real Estate
Research Center, an agency
which conducts various
stridies related to land use
arid population trends and
offers professional
development courses for
career-oriented personnel in
real estate and related fields.
*Predatory and Animal
Control Service, which helps
people in cities with rat
problems and aids farmers
and ranchers in controlling
wolves, coyotes and other
wild animals which threaten
livestock.
*Texas Water Resources
Institute, which constantly
works to insure wise
utilization of current and
future water resources and
keep the water as pure as
possible.
*Texas Veterinary Medical
Diagnostic Laboratory,
standing guard to insure early
detection of any disease
outbreak which could sweep
through the state’s livestock
industries.
*Food Protein Research
and Development Center,
searching for-and finding and
per fecting--new and
unconventional sources of
protein, such as glandless
cottonseed, to feed an
increasingly hungry world.
* Electric Power Institute,
working to guard against
“brown outs” and “black
outs” by helping plan proper
methods of electrical
distribution and linkage of
different networks.
*Center for Urban
Programs, which helps city
economic system under
which the United States
operates.
Texas A&M also includes y
an array of highly;
sophisticated re sources,-
which, while basically ri
research tools, serve everyday®
needs. These include:
- A cyclotron (often:
called an atom smasher) used
in the treatment of certain •
types of cancer. -
- A wind tunnel which;
has been used by architecfsl' *
and engineers frorjC*
throughout the state in tests;*
to determine how w$I*«
skyscrapers and othef>A
structures will hold up jl;w
subjected to hurricanes an;dv
tornadoes. -yl
- A nuclear reactor used;!
by industrial firms as well as;!
by medical groups and other
universities to radiate various;!
materials. *K
On a still broader scale is
Tee Texas A&M University;'
System which includes:
- Prairie View A&M;^
University, comprised'AP
predominately of black;
students and ranks as the !
nation’s top source of
minority engineers and
military officers.
- Tarleton State
University, an institution
oriented toward agriculture
and teacher education but .
runs the gamut from drama
to nursing. -!w
- Moody College, a ®
marine-oriented institution
which includes the Texas
Maritime Academy, one of .
only six such activities in the
nation specializing in training ;
young men and women for ,
professional careers in the
maritime industry.
- Texas Forest Service, !
which helps make the best
utilization of the state’s
forestry resources, with its ™
activities ranging from
firefighting on the one hand
to lending a hand in planting
some million seedlings
annually for future forests.
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Brewer, Bert. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 82, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 1979, newspaper, July 12, 1979; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1058256/m1/2/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.