The Ballinger Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 19, 1968 Page: 1 of 12
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Ballinger, Texas 76821, Thursday, Sept. 19, 1968
Vol. 82 No. 24
Phone ill Departments: 365-3501
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as his major.
the University of Texas at Ar-
omore.
ter at Mr. and Mrs. Gordaa
freshman elementary major at
Calendar of
Events
con-
Ballinger School Events
Those from this area
Alfred Mutter; Charles Feist,
entomology major
Meeting
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shown
Unit of the
Society, Tex-
Donald Spieker, a
physical education
Mrs Walter Lange Jr. win *
attending St. Mary’s Universi-
Mrs. W. P. H
the founder!
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on Hutchings Ave. According
to Doug Cox, High School Prin-
cipal, they may be purchased
there until Friday noon Sea-
son tickets may still be pur-
chased at the tax office, Cox
said.
con-
voy
Ballinger Bearcats will play
their first home game here Sat-
urday evening when they meet
the San Angelo Jr. Varsity
team
Tickets for the game are now
on sale at the School Tax Office
m.
Y. H. A. in Brown-
HIGH POINT Defensive player at
the game with Brady Friday was
Mark Travis, No. 17, linebacker on
defense.
September 26:
Football — Eldorado
Today, however, some of these for-
gotten foods are making a comeback,
impelled by agricultural research and
the race against worldwide starva-
tion.
given by Roff W Hardy Pres-
ident of WTU. Entertainment,
“An Evening In Song” will be
rendered by Michael Waco with
Mrs. J. Richard Dishinger as
accompanist.
Community Room of First
Savings A Loan Association.
All members of the Board
are requested to be present
for the meeting.
THURSDAY AT 711 HUTCHINOS AVENUE. BALLINGER, TEXAS. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: S4 PER YEAR IN RUNNELS COUNTY: »9 PER YEAR ELSEWHERE
Proceeds from
rides will be »
tnann; James Wanoreck, son
of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Wano-
reck; Frances Wood, a senior,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. B.
Wood; Rickey Hallford, son of
the Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Hall-
ford and Steven Baird, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Baird.
Returning to Angelo State Col-
lege will be Tommy Brunson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W.
Brunson; Jacinto Busenlehner,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Busenlehner; Emmitt Jackson,
son of Mrs. Gladys Jackson;
Jimmy Freeman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Freeman; Buddy
Harris, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. C. Harris; Tommy Thomp-
son, son of Mrs. Mary Thomp-
son; James Baker, a sopho-
more majoring in accounting,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy E.
Baker; Ronnie Maracek, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Mara-
cek; Harry Cowan and Frances
Cowan, son and daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cowan;
and Robert McGarvey, son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. McGarvey.
Tommy Lynn Halfmann, jun-
ior biology major, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Omer Halfmann of
Rowena; Janelie Ann Half
mann. freshman, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Omer Halfmann
of Rowena: Sandra Gully soph-
orome physical education maj-
or, and Diane Gully, nursing
major, daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. B. J. Gully.
phenville.
Preston Walters, son of Mr,
and Mrs. M. S. Walters, wffl bn
a freshman at Tarleton State
College at Stephenville.
of Mr. and
BruchmiUer and Janice
daughter of Mr. atet^
man Goeta, are
Runnels County
American Cancer
as Division will have their reg-
ular meeting next Tuesday,
Sept 24. at 7:30 p m in the
and Mrs. Edwin Vogelsang, will
return to NTSU. Lipda Koller,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark
Koller will be doing post grad-
uate work there. Others enroll-
ing will be Melinda and Martha
Masoh, daughters of Mr. and
Mr^. Weyman Mason; Melinda
will be a senior and Martha a
sophomore. Robert Isbell, son
Thursday, September 19:
Junior Class Assembly, BHS
Auditorium. 10:52 a. m.
Junior Varsity Football. Win-
ters, here, 7:30 p. m.
9th Grade Football, C-City at
C-City, 7 p. m.
Saturday, September 21:
Varsity Football. Bearcats vs
San Angelo Junior Varsity,
here, 8 p.
Area IV
wood.
The United States raises 38 major
food crops. Although about 95 per
cent of our food is taken from only
2<> crops including the principal meat
sources, these, are transformed by the
time they reach the supermarket into
more than 5,000 different kinds of
food products — fresh, canned,
-centrated, frozen, dehydrated,
name it.
Recently, reports IBM’s “Think”
magazine, two teams of plant hunters
from Israel and the U.S.S.R. were
looking for a nourishing tuber crop
that would thrive on lands too dry and
hot for potatoes.
They found it in the American
helianthu?. a once important but long-
ahandoned root that grows in the arid
West.
chemistry major
Yet, according to one botanist, at
least 80.000 plant species are edible
and nutritious. Only about 800 of them
have ever been cultivated as food
crops throughout history, and most of
these have been forgotten.
In the United States itself, the cen-
sus of 18:10 recorded 129 food crops.
Since then, for any number of reasons,
we have lost 91 of them.
The Israeli explorers also found an-
other once-great American food crop
listed in the 1830 census as Indian
parsnip. It can be converted into ex-
cellent bread flour and yields about
three times as many digestible calories
per acre as the best wheat.
Danish agronomists have rediscov-
ered another American tuber, this
one a species that grows on .wet lands.
Known as tuckahoe, it is believed to
have been Oie first native food de-
veloped by settlers of the Jamestown
colony.
The tubers weigh up to five pounds
each, are flavorful, highly nutritious
and can be used as a flour source or
baking vegetable.
The search for new-old foods goes
on in other lands as well. In Central
America, 135 different species of ed-
ible plants have been identified and
analyzed and at least seven of them
are being developed as commercial
crops.
One of them is a four-way food pro-
vider called chayote ... Its fruit is a
nourishing squashlike vegetable. The
roots are good toasted. The leaves
make excellent cooked greens and-the
flower adds a nourishing, tasty flavor
to other dishes.
But the development of new food
sources, together with improvements
in the yields of traditional crops, gives
hope that the threat of atarvation will
By contrast, in 87 countries
sidered to be food deficient, the aver-
age number of food crows is fewer
than six. The world average is about
11.
will attend Tarleton.
Danny Kotrlik and Joe Kotr-
lik, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Kortlik will enter TarMea
State College. Danny is ,• fresh-
Ballinger Students
College Bound
Dellas, Tx. 75235
Thursday
9th Grade
at Eldorado, 7 p. m.
8th Grade Football — Brady,
here, 5:30 p. m.
Friday, September 27:
Varsity Foetball — Sonora
Sonora.
Junior Varsity Football
Sweetwater, 7:30 p. m.
Eden Lions
Barbeque
Postponed'
The barbecue and carnival
sponsored by F.den Lions Club
was postponed from the an-
nounced date, last Saturday,
until September 28. due to the
heavy rains Friday and Satur-
day of last week.
All events scheduled for las!
Saturday’s activities will be on
the upcoming date.
Tickets for this annual affair
are $1 for adults and 90 cents
for children. 1
the dinner and rides — „
used for cominunity improve-
ment.
The carnival will be open for
DEFENSIVE HALFBACK
Howard McDaniel, No. 85, was sec-
ond on defense at Friday’s game.
Stiff Photo
the threat of starvation in
many areas of the world we sometimes
wonder how can all the, people of the
world be fed. An interesting article
was published in the Jackson Sun,
Jackson, Tennessee, recently titled
“Forgotten Foods May Come To Res-
cue of the Underfed.” Here is the arti-
cle . . . The quantity of food a nation
can provide its people is net the only
gauge of its relative prosperity in a
world that is predominantly under-
fed. The variety of.food that is eaten
also differs markedly between coun-
tries.
An old man surprised everyone with
his cheerfulness since he seemed to
have an unusual amount of trouble
and relatively few pleasures. When
asked the secret of his cheery disposi-
tion, he replied, “Well, you see, it’s
like this. The 'Bible says often, ‘And
it came
stay’.”
ATTEND DEDICATION — Among the descendants of the
founders of Pieketvllle wh<> attended the dedication of the
historical marker Sunday a^emoon were from left to right,
* Mi^Lucy Kittrell and, Mrs. ^ace Rankin of Winters, and
Graduation — vacation —
matriculation — as old as
man’s quest for knowledge —
as new as today’s headlines, is
the eagerness, hope and trepi-
dation with which last year’s
high school seniors start the
annual trek to become this
year’s college freshmen.
. A large group of Ballinger
students will be enrolling in
colleges and universities
throughout the state.
Angelo State
Angelo State College will get
a fair share of the students,
some of whom will be entering
for the first time and others who
will be continuing their studies.
Among those attending will be
Gary Flanagan, son of Mr. and
Mrs. M. F. Flanagan; Debra
Stevens, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. R. H. Stevens; Judy
Burkes, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Lynn Burkes; Janett
Wade, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Wade whose major
will be home economics;
Linda Buxkemper, a phy-
sical education major,
daughter of Mr and Mrs. W O.
Buxkemper; Sharon Schwert-
ner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. J. Schwertner; Debbie Witt,
daughter of Mrs. Gladys Witt;
Cynthia Hays, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Hays; Terry
Watts, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Watts; Stephanie Cox,
daughter of Mr and Mrs. El-
dridge Cox; Martha Witt,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. .Bill
Witt; Susan Coleman, a speech
major, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Buck Coleman;
Gayle Terry, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. B Terry Jr.; Tim
Hufstedler, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Hufstedler; Gilbert
Armendariz, son of Mrs. Nick,.
Gallendo; Joyce Halfmann,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.
R Halfmann; Eddie Gottschalk,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed- of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Isbell,
ward Gottschalk; Stanley Bil-
brey, son of Mrs. Charles Bil-
brey; Mike King, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jack King; Ronnie
Halfmann. son of Mr and Mrs.
Edward Halfmann; Gary Gal-
lant, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M.
Gallant; Mickie and Mikell
Lindemann, daughter and son be a student at A &I
of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Linde- in Kingsville where
Bearcats Play First
Home Game Saturday
Cancer Society Board
Meets Tuesday
State College; Terry
senior, son of Mr.
will be a senior. Dickie Middle-
ton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Middleton, a sophomore; Ran-
dy Baker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Unda Brt
Johnny Baker ; Colleen Harwell,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cole-
man Harwell.
Willie Earl Washington will
and Mrs. Seth
rolled at Southern
University in Dallas where ha
is a freshman.
Michael Barrett, son of Gan-
WTU Employees
To Attend
Approximately 2no “Ruffles
and Ready ' ladies of West Tex-
as Utilities will come from the
SO counties served by WTU
for their annual conference in
San Angelo, beginning on Sep-
tember 22 Mrs Joyce Drake.
Mrs Olene Baker. Mrs. Elva
Hauser and Mrs Majorie
Prince, all of Ballinger will
attend The conference, con-
ceived 14 years ago. is design
ed to develop leadership quali-
ties in the women office work-
ers and help them serve the
public better.
The San Angelo District Office
is the host for this year's con-
ference which will get under-
way with a pre conference din-
ner Sundav evening at Shakey’s
Pizza Parlor.
The day’s activities will be-
gin with a workshop in the
morning at the River Club. W.
H Rampy, local manager, wilt
officially welcome the ladies.
Tlie theme. ’'Ruffles and
Ready” will be carried out in
the speeches, skits and panel
discussion.
The evening session will con-
vene at the San Angelo Country
Club with the address to be
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