The Ballinger Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 33, Ed. 1 Monday, October 20, 1969 Page: 1 of 6
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Beyond that, the communists,
communist splinter groups and
assorted revolutionaries such as
the Black Panthersand the SDS
hope to shatter the morale and
unity of the American people
and lay the groundwork for a
real revolution inside the United
States.
indirectly granted $200.-
the National Black Eeo-
Development Confer
that
The nation is in a
peril, for many people who
should be standing firm against
revolutionary forces have been
duped into aiding' the New Left
or simply don't understand the
threat that exists to the Ameri-
can way of life and U.S. security
overseas.
The tragedy of misunder-
standing is evident in
tions of the churches,
ample, many members
Protestant Episcopal
were shocked recently
special convention of the denom-
ination
(MM) to
nomio
ence, the organization
adopted the notorious, pro- rev-
olution “Black Manifesto.” In
many parts of the country and
in several denominations, con-
cerned churchmen are making
a silent protest by withholding
their contribute ms to church
bodies that aid revolutionary
groups.
That this is a time of testing
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SECOND
Time Around
October and November con-
stitute a time of testing in the
United States. Powerful forces
are arrayed against America,
hying to weaken the country at
home and abroad.
Fortunately, only a minority
of Americans support leftist
causes. But this minority is loud
and militant. Moreover, it is su-
perbly organized for propaganda
purposes and has succeeded in
enlisting the support of numer-
ous dupes who mistakenly think
they are promoting ‘peace”
when they join in the Vietnam
Moratorium and similar pro-
tests. A hard core of radicals
and New Left supporters in Con-
gress, such as Reps. Allard K.
Lowenstein and Shirley Chisolm
of New York, have managed to
attract tremendous
from the liberal news
Last week's so-called Vietnam
Moratorium and other Vietnik
demonstrations planned this
month and next have as their
real objective not simply the im-
mediate withdrawal of U. S.
troops from an anti-communist
struggle, but the defeat and hu-
miliation of the United States
and its total disruption within.
First of all. the planners of
the Vietnam Moratorium — the
stoppage of school and college
classes — aim at applying- such
intense pressure on President
Nixon that he will immediately
order all U. S. troops out of
Vietnam, thereby assuring vic-
tory for the Viet Cong and the
Hanoi regime. The communists
have been unable to win on the
battlefield, but believe they can
confuse and trick Americans in-
to accepting a peace that
amounts to victory for commun-
ism in Asia.
Vol. K3 No. 33
PUBLISHED MONDAY AND THU RS DAY AT 711 HUTCH INGS AVENUE, BALLINGER. TEXAS SUBSCRIPTION RATE. «4 9B PER YEAR IN RUNNELS COUNTYi «B.9S PER YEAR
Ballinger, Texas 76^21, Monday, October 20. 1969
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PHONI ALL DEPARTMENTS: 14B-3BO1
'.Icrof I Center Inc
P. O. Pom 45456
Oaiias, Tm. 75255
Farm Bureau.
as
for the statewide farm
three in an department
safe driving, fire pre-
the
the
About 1,000 farm people are killed
each year on farm tractors and ma-
chinery. while over 750,000 are injuried
seriously. Texas farms are the scenes
of some 25 to 30 tractor fatalities and
20 to 25 farm machinery fatalities each
year.
Tractor and machinery safety has
been added to the very popular fire and
auto demonstrations that have been used
by the Texas Farm Bureau to promote
safety for the past decade.
safety for the Tex-
and initiates, pro-
He has been active in both agricuL.
ture and civic organizations He has
received the Ix>ne St^ Farmer degree
from the Texas Association of Future
Farmers of America; and the Sam
Houston Collegiatt.^FA Chapter’s Ce^ti-
ficate of Merit. - J- S
A native of Barclay in Falls County,
Smetana graduated from high school in
Rosebud in 1949 and from Sam Houstonk
State College al Huntsville, where he
received a bachelor of science dgree'
in vocational agriculture in 1953.
Since, hi# employment by Texas
Farm Bureau in June 1960 he has' pre-
sented over 100 safety education dem-
onstrations each year Under his guid
ance, the TFB Safety Department has
coordinated highly successful safety
seat belt, fire extinguisher and slow
moving vehicle emblem projects through
most of the 200 County Farm Bureaus in
which thousands of the safety devices
have been sold to the organization mem- •
bership on a cost basis.
rearward upsets, hitching and unhitch-
ings, speed, horseplay, refueling, use
of the SMV emblem, use of roll-guard
and crushproof cab for operator protec-
tion, seatbelts, maintenance and extra
passengers. plus other contributing
factors to accident prevention.
This program is being brought to
Rotary Club under sponsorship of
Runnels County
He heads a
which conducts
vention and tractor safety demonstra-
tions for high schools, civic clubs and
other organizations all over the state.
After graduating from college,
Smetana was employed by the Texas
Department of Agriculture in Austin.
Smetana directs
Farm Bureau,
motes and supervises farm and ranch
safety programs
organization.
District changes
told for next year
Changes in disdtrict assignments
for high schools was announced last
week by University Interscholastic
League officials.
In the shakeup, which comes every
two years, Ballinger will be assigned to
District 8-AA for the 170-71 and 71-22
school years.
Other schools in District 8-AA will
include Cisco, Clyde. Coleman, Eastland,
Hamilton and Winters.
Currently Ballinger is assigned to
District 7-AA, olong with Winters, Ham-
lin. Haskell, Stamford, Anson, Merkel
and Coleman.
Check-off ok d for
grain sorghums
Grain sorghum growers have ap-
proved a commodity check off referen-
dum in 29 High Plains and Panhandle
counties and named a 12 member board
to administer the program. Texas Agri
culture Commissioner John C. White has
announced.
Results of the vote by mail were
certified to Commissioner White by El-
bert Harp, executive director of the
Grain Sorghum Producers Association at
Lubbock
The program was approved by a
74 1 per cent majority of votes casts.
The 12 elected members will operate
as the Texas Gram Sorghum Producers
Board (High Plains Area ) New mem-
bers are as follows: A R Dillard. Here-
ford; A W Anthony Jr, Friona. Don
Marble. South Plains; K B Parish.
Spring Lake; Melvin Barton. Dimmitt;
E C. Witten. Edmondson John Gil
breath. Hart Ralph D (.Mabry, Peters-
burg. C. C. "Pap” Reed. Kress; C P.
Smith. Hale Center; Charles Heck Jr.,
Nazareth; and Larry Witten. Olton.
The grain sorghum farmers became
the second commodity group in Texas
to organize under the check off pro-
gram authorized bv the 61st legislature
under House Bill 764.
The bill enables growers of various
commodities to assess themselves for
purpises of product promotion, educa-
tion research, and disease and insect
control.
Organizational meeting of the board
was to bo held in 1-ubbock last week,
White said
New traffic plan in >
today at elementary
— No loading or unloading of students
will be permitted on the Eighth Street
side of the elementary school building
at any time.
New traffic regulations around the
Elementary School will go into effect
today, Ballinger Chief of Police Eskell
Powell said late last week.
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school, between 7:30 a m. and 8.30 a.ID.,
and between 2 30 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tickata
will be issued to vehicles parked in thia
area during these hours.
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of Norton and James
will be for through traffic only.
on the Avenue A aide of the building
only. •'>
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The official delegates are elected
from the 419 TSTA local association
throughout the state and certified by
districts on the basis of one delegate per
100 members or fraction of 100. Every
local association in the state is entitled
to at least one official delegate.
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They are among 1,288 certified mem-
bers of the 1969 House of Delegates
which will meet on the last day of the
convention to discuss and act on pro
posed amendments to the TSTA consti-
tution, new policies, recommendations
of standing committees, and other busi-
ness.
Featured speakers include Gover-
nor Preston Smith, Sam M. Lambert,
executive secretary of National Educa-
tion Association; and Charles D. Holley-
man, superintendent of schools at Mus-
tang, Oklahoma.
With total membership in TSTA ex-
pected to hit a record 124,000 this year,
attendance at the convention will prob-
baly total about 8,000.
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— Ninth street (between Broad Ave-
nue and Avenue A) will be closed to
traffic between 7:30 a m. and 3 30 p.m.
This is the street on the first grade”
side of the building Only faculty and
staff parking will be allowed on this
block.
— No parking of cars or other ve-
hicles will be allowed on Broad Avenue,
the street in the front of the elementary
Signs are to be in place, lanes have
been painted on the streets, and officers
will be on hand to direct traffic in the
new pattern, he said.
It is extremely important that par-
ents use good common sense in driving
around the schools, Powell emphasized.
He asked that they do a little bit of
planning before leaving home — in such
jnatters as seeing that children have
their lunch money, have said their good-
byes, and the like. By doing this, he
emphasized, a car full of children can
be emptied in about 25 seconds rather
than three or four minutes.
The plan will include these basic
items;
•Uowtd
traffic.
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VFW will host
district officer
Thursday evening
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Trick or Treat
asked for Friday
Freddie Tyree
Williams of Wingate wil lie official dele-
gates at the 91st annual state conven-
tion of the Texas State Teachers Asso-
ciation meeting October 23-25 in San
Antonio.
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Tyree, Williams will
represent county
at TSTA meeting
— Loading and unloading
dents on Broad Avenue will be
only from the outside lanes of
Inside lanes will be for through traffic.^
Students may be unloaded from canon
either side of Broad Avenue (next to
the playground or next to the ■cboc*
building )
Max Lewis, District Commander,
wil) be speaker for the program.
Ail members are urged to attend
the meeting, a post spokesman said.
Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet
at 8 p.m ^Thursday, October 23 in the
County Veterans Service Office on
Strong Avenue
Trick or Treat for Halloween
year is being urged for the night of
Saturday, October 25, to correspond with
■the Senior l(alloween Carnival, Chief
of Police Eskell Powell said.
A football game is scheduled for
Ballinger on the 31st, Powell said, and
traffic conditions will make it hazard-
ous for children to be out on their trick
or treat excursions.
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With help and cooperation ftMl
everyone, and with as few delay** M
)>osBible in picking up children and
ting them out, the traffic situation sMUR
be considerably improved, he continual.
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He especially urged parents to M
sure their children were outside Ru
building, ready to be picked up baM*
they enter the pickup lanes around M|
school. By doing this, he pointed out,
delays will be avoided and traffic fgR
move more smoothly.
- Vehicles
lay ot traffic,
unattended, and those doubiaparkod .wife
be issued citations, Powell said. —7^
Parents are urged tn arrange pMh
up points about a block away from'
school building for their children, - te
order to avoid traffic congestion at thi
school.
They are also urged to unload ail
children from the car at one PQtat, IW.
er than attempt to drive to the lifimR
doors of the school as baa been' fR
practice
elementary school building, will be open;
for one way traffic only, going fros^
Ninth Street toward Eighth Street .nW
will be in effect between 7:30 and l;N
a m. and 2 30 to 4:30 p.m. Lane next to
the school buildings will be for loadinc
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— Students will be allowed to croon
Broad Avenue only at the marked iib
tersections. Those students observed go-
ing across streets at points other than
at InteraectiOM will be subject to dis-
ciplinary action by school authorities.
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Farm safety demonstrations
due at Rotary on Tuesday
Members of the Ballinger Rotary
Club will have an opportunity to see
for themselves the false sense of securi-
ty man may have while operating a
farm tractor.
A graphic demonstration using min-
iature tractors and equipment will be
used to illustrate actual occurrences at
the meeting of the club Tuesday noon,
according to E E King, program chair-
man, and Hugo Vogelsang, Farm Bu-
reau president
Joe Smetana, safety director for
Texas Farm Bureau will use a film to
show how lives can be saved and in-
juries reduced bv the use of a roll guan!
or crush proof cab.
Things that will be pointed out dur-
ing the urogram include overturns and
1 Joe Smmttini
. . . Rotary sptaker
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Perry, Richard H. The Ballinger Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 33, Ed. 1 Monday, October 20, 1969, newspaper, October 20, 1969; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1184335/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.