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athletic event for high schools
Kubiak of Hockdale which ad
ded Ilf* 5 million to a pay raise
for state employees If given
final approval, it ensures that
low level state employees
receive a * 2 percent raise this
At the same Ums, the Senate
Finance Committee reported
John Bryant, the bill prohibits
buyinc or selling tickets for
Editor's note; The Old
Philosopher on his Johnson
By LYNOIll WILLIAMS
Tenos Press Association
Primary Election Changes
The Democratic state steer
ing conunitte endorsed a bill
moving primary elections
from May back to July, a
schedule used in Texas until
I95f> when the law was chang-
ed to help Lyndon B
Johnson's presidential hopes
an unorthodox answer to an
election problem this weeh.
Slagle won praise for his
pragmatic approach to this
and other issues, which some
believe is healing the rift bet-
ween the liberal and conser-
vative factions of the
Democratic Party
or colleges Bryant sidestep-
ped attempts to include pro-
fessional sports, explaining he
did not want to pick up over-
whelming opposition
A similar bill was approved
earlier in the Senate
Taken from the file* of the
Stamford American May 13.
1971
Me-
ant!
outraged some people and
they want a law prohibiting
the networks from doing it
again.
That’s the trouble with this
country. The only answer
some people can think of to a
problem is to pass a law.
The networks can be stop-
ped form prematurely an-
nouncing election results if
version will be made on the
Senate floor The House
budget bill is 847 2 million
below the expected state in-
come
The final budget will be
shaped later thia session m a
joint House Senate conference
committee
Salutatorian is Bobby
Prichard with 96 71 grade
average and the highest rank-
ing girl is Carolyn Reed with a
95 43
According to Superinten-
dent Woodie Beene, the 1971
senior class is one of the
strongest academically in re-
cent years Of the top nine
students, none have a grade
point average of less than
93 91
Erank Gomez was named
Outstanding DE student of the
year at the annual DE banquet
held Monday night Randall
McGary presented Gomez
with his trophy Gomez is
employed by Green's Machine
and Radiator Works
Karen McKeever, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
McKeever, was one of 887 can-
didates for degrees at West
Texas State University May 9.
Miss McKeever earned the
Bachelor of Science Degree
with a major in elementary
If passed, the bill will con-
siderably shorten the political
campaign season Primaries
will be held the third week of
July, primary runoffs will be
held in late August, and
general elections will remain
at the front end of November
Week
Don Walket was named
Party chairman Bob Slagle
won kudos for pushing the en
dorsement of a bill sponsored
by his hometown buddy Rep
Bob Bush. D-Sherman.
New Rilh Signed
At the end of last week Gov
Bill Clements signed into law
a bill raising the state's
minimum drinking age to 19
The new law goes into effect
on Sept I
Publisher
... Editor
Advertising Manager
iprlatlona bill
week-but in dif
Proponents argued the cur-
rent long season ia too much
for both voters and can-
didates A shorter campaign
season makes for a highr
voter participation and less
expensive campaigns
"Where are all the 18 year-
olds?" tTements quipped at
the signing ceremonies
"They’re all out drinking
while they still can. " respond
ed Rep. Henry Allee, a House
sponsor
Clements also signed a bill
requiring competency testing
and certification of public
school teachers The new law-
will require college graduates
to meet standards set by the
Texas Education Agency
before they can receive
teacher certiflcatee Current
ly certified teacher* are ex-
empt from the testing pro-
gram
The Stamford EEA Chapter
held their annual awards ban-
quet Thursday night with
several members receiving
awards
William McCorkle was nam-
ed Star Greenhand member
Brad Glenn, Gary Ender and
Larry McLellan received their
Lone Star Farmer degrees.
Russ Baize took top honors
with his Star Chapter Farmer
award He also received
awards in poultry, fat swine,
commercial calves, and beef
breeding Russ received two
National Foundation awards
in Livestock and Public
Speaking
• Honor students for the
graduating class at Stamford
High School were announced
this week with Matt Selmon
named Valedictorian
Selmons grade average is
Wardwell, chapter vice presi-
dent, will be master of
ceremonies Weldon
Holbrooks and Brad Rowland,
vocational agriculture
teachers, will make brief
talks
Scottie Pryor and Fred Hud-
son sang several selections for
the Rotary Club program
Tuesday They were accom-
panied at the piano by Tee
Selmon
The high school students are
members of the Stamford
Fine Arts Club and the pro-
gram was presented in
Scalptag Bill
A bill outlawing ticket scalp-
Also added was 810 million
for faculty salaries in state
colleges and 12 million for ex
ceptionally intelligent
students in public schools
Also included was a 35 per
cent pay raise for statewide
elected officials, from 851,000
now to 865.700 in 19K2 and
The highlight of the major league
baseball season so far has boon the
amazing play of the Oakland A's. It
wasn’t but two years ago that
Charlie O.’s dynasty had collapsed
to the bottom the heap of the Major
.’Afl it took for the A's to get their
act together was a new manager
and better coaching. Brawler Billy
Martin was hired as the manager,
the coaching staff updated and
. AUSTIN - Both the House
the theme of the annual
Junior-Senior banquet to be
held Saturday night at the
cafeteria Dr. Hugo B.
Haterius, pastor of Bethel
Lutheran Church, will be the
speaker
Entertainment will be “A
Carnival of Melody" and will ,i
feature Scottie Pryor,
Suzanne Nancer Sarah
Callum, Fred Hudson
Jimmy Harkins
Regina Letz of Old
won first place in the Class B
State Tennis Finals held last
week in Austin.
Her brother, Russel, was
eliminated by Rockspring's
Gerald Anthon in his bid for
the Boy 's Singles Title.
Gary D. Wakler was
presented the Superior Cadet
Award at the Army ROTC
awards ceremonies held at
Texas Tech Theater April 29
The awards ceremony
culminated ROTC activities
during the past school year.
Walker is a liberal arts ma-
jor and is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Weldon Walker of Stam-
ford
Editor’s Note. The following
letter was sent to the Stamford
Day Care Center from U.S.
Congressman Charles
Stenholm.
For All
Your Needs
penditure* in excaaa of
available revenues
Addition*! cute to the ■Seqste
The proposed bill also in
eludes an additional 83 4
million for higher salaries to
Department of Public Safety
officers and narco’ics officers
House speaker Bill Clayton
has been adamant in hurrying
the appropriations bill to a
finish before the legislature
begins voting on the redistnc
ting bill
’Debate on redistncting will
probably begin the third week
of May
New Kensington, Pa
January 22, 1928. As the
final bottle rolled down the
line, Alcoa’s John Sharp ac-
cepted congratulations
Guests from the American
packaging industry had just
seen a unique new capping
process in action
Dear Valta:
Thank you so much for one
of the highlights of my recent
visit to Stamford and the Day
Care Center last Friday.
It is always a pleasure to
visit with homefolk, and the
visit with the youngsters and
their ceremonies at the flag
presentation was one of the
most inspirational times of my
life. Little children are so
sincere and eager, and they
are what we are all striving to
teach to love America, for
they are our future citizens,
those who will love and keep
(S»« ‘Letter’ page 10.).
Voters fool
Census Buroa
on voting
to the
Editor
mb *A. e g by Grig Jaklawlc*
Editorial
This change has been made
necessary by shifting of
population within the city and
was approved by the school
board at its meeting last
Thursday night
Annual Father and Son Ban
quet of the Stamford FKA > WW0>*tion el iiatanU Music
chapter will be held Friday
mgth in the cafeteria with the
awards session to follow in ttje president of the Stamford
auditorium
House Verstau
Th* House added more than
1100 million to the tall original
ly pre-ared by the Appropria
tiona Committee for a prapoa
ed total budget of 83* 55
billion
House members overrode
the committee bill to give pay
raise* to teachers and state
employees
In House debate, teacher
pay raiaee were kicked up
from M.6 percent already in
the bill to 87 7 percent over the
next two years, an added 824
million The Senate bill pro-
vides for a M percent raise
House members approved
an amendment by Rep Dan
in
the doormat
after just two games,
ord Jets are fast becom-
ing a pennant contender.
I'm referring to the minor league
team managed by John* “Billy
Martin" Wendebom and coached
by none other than the author of
thia column.
After taking It on the chin by a
combined score of 58-8 in their first
two games, the Jets battled the
league-leading Pirates to the wire
Monday night before losing if 12.
Indications are that the Jets are
about to take off
The first three games have been
a learning experience for the kids
but maybe more so for this coach.
Trying to keep track of 14 kida at
one time really wears me out. How
In the world the old woman in the
shoe took care of all her kids I'll
never know.
Their attention span is like tax
relief from the
government. .almoat nonexistent.
One minute a kid is in position,
glove down and alert and the next
minute he or she ia looking off
towards space or watching a beetle
crawl across the grass.
We had one player Saturday that
chased after her cap after it blew
Jake, I believe this is where
we turn to the right!”
Taken from the files of the A steak supper will be serv-
Stamford American May 11, ed to the boys, their fathers
I9S1 and local business men
Numerous individual
A major change will be awards will be given Leo
made in two Stamford schools ‘
with the beginning of the fall
term Oliver Street will
become a primary school,
housing the first three grades,
and Reynolds will become an
elementary school, serving
the fourth, fifth and sixth
grades
Teacher pay raises compose
big chunk of House budget
Brad Rowland and Weldon
Holbrooks are advisors
South of the Border will be more people will join the 6.5
million who misinformed the
Census Bureau. When you
come out of the polling place
and some TV reporter asks
how you voted, tell him wrong.
The network will rush the
results out and wind up
hilariously fooled. One or two
tailspin* like that and the net-
work* will go back to waiting
like the rest of us This pro-
cedure is not recommended
when you making out your in-
come tax.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
Off while play was going on.
We can’t get through practice
without someone complaining that
he or she is going to die of thirst At
the other extreme, , I've had to
replace a player in the game
because he had to go use the
restroom
What really brings gray hair is
coaching the baserunners When
you yell “Go!" on a passed ball, it
takes the kid an eternity to
remember that 'Go! ” means run to
the next base
What probably made the dif-
ference Monday night was the pre
game bubble gum handout Chom-
ping on strawberry gum seemed to
fire-up the kids What would they
do if we promised them a milk
shake after the game?
I've discovered, too, that you
constantly have to keep an eye out
for all of them or they'll kill each
other. Just playing catch can be
hazardous to their health
The kids are learning and with
learning comes the questions.
“Coach, why does he throw the ball
crooked?” or "Coach, which posi-
tion is ’infield'?"
Thank heavens the Little League
bigwigs decided to let girls play. I
don't know where we would be
without our girls. One fellow on our
team has learned that being a male
chauvianist doesn't cut the mustard
when she is bigger than he is
You know, coaching these kids is
a lot like being a parent. Since I'm
not one of those, I've had a lot of
learning to do. Maybe I've learned
I don't want to be one...it's a rough
job.
Without all the learning going,
you can understand why the Jets
about to take flight. Now if we can
just figure out a way to beat those
dang mosquitoes.
Dear editor: ♦ J"
The U.S. Census Bureau
issued some figures the other
day showing that 93 million
people said they voted in the
Presidential election i last
year, when actual voting
figures showed onlyu 86.5
million really voted.
In other words, 6.5 million
people were putting the Cen-
sus Bureau on. I don't know
why, unless they figured it
wasn’t any of the Census
Bureau's business. How or
whether you vote 1* like your
bank balance, it’s private. I
know a man who, walking
down a street in his home
town, glanced up at the bank's
time and temperature sign
and noticed it read "10.39." He
rushed inside and demanded
to know why the bank was
advertising his bank balance.
But what I’m getting at is
the splendid possibilities of-
fered by the frame of mind of
those 6.5 million citizens who
misinformed the Census peo-
ple It’s the answer to the
_ smart-aleck TV networks.
Changes to Oliver, Reynolds
tial election before all the polls
( closed, by asking people as
Friday morning at a breakfast they came out of the voting
held in Nat’s Cafe. He sue- booths how they voted. This
ceeds former president, Bill
Pritchard.
Other officers elected in-
cluded Lynn White, vice presi-
dent; Orbie Lovvorn,
treasurer; Clement Richards,
reporter; and Jerry Neuman,
secretary
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