Yoakum Herald-Times (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 16, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 25, 1975 Page: 1 of 6
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INDUSTRIAL LEADER
PUBLISHED AT YOAKUM. TEXAS EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1975
VOLUME LXXIV.
SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT YOAKUM, TEXAS 77995
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Inferm. School For Re-Election
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The March Yoakum Bargain there or bring a bowl and take it
Dav will be observed the first home with you. As always, the
Rotary Chili Supper will be held
on February 27. The site of this
“eat all you can hold" affair will
be the Yoakum Primary School
Cafeteria and the hours are 5
p.m. until 7 p.m. Either eat it
With Betsy Moczygemba of in the FFA oriented field of
Falls City the winner, the other leadership and opportunity.
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Mirex Fire Ant Bait can be
picked up at the Yoakum City
Hall. The bait is in 2 lb. bags.
Directions call for 1 teaspoon per
mound applied when ants are
actively foraging. It is important
that the mound not be disturbed
when applying Mirex.
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Advertisers are reminded of
the Tuesday noon deadline for ad
copy for the March Bargain Day.
New participants are always
welcome.
All three incumbent Yoakum
City Commissioners whose
terms expire in April have filed
for re - election.
Mayor Harry O. Gibson filed
last Thursday, joining Aidermen
Michael Harbus Jr. and Walter
Coldewev who had filed earlier.
The election will be held Arpil
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The first official event of the
1975 Yoakum Leather Tom Tom
Festival, the Miss Yoakum
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To Reinstate
Sugar Act
WASHINGTON - Rep. Kika
de La Garza, Texas Valley
Congressman, has introduced in
the House a bill to reinstate the
U. S. Sugar Act, which was
allowed to die at the end of 1974
and sugar prices skyrocketed.
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four were 1st runner - up
Carlette Winkler of Cuero, 2nd
runner - up Carol Foxell of
Yoakum, Kathy Copeland of
Kenedy and Janie Dworsky of
Port Lavaca.
Thirteen high schools were
represented at the banquet for
which State Vice President
Kenneth Berry of Corpus Christi
was principal speaker. District
Vice President Susan Knippa,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A.
Knippa, represented Yoakum
during the program which also
featured a Talent Show .
The Talent contest saw Cuero
take 1st place while Yorktown
took second. in the song and
music revue, with the Yorktown-
ers amplifiers showing the most
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Best leadership (and charm) comes from the farm,
according to Area X FFA Vice - President Kenneth Berry, at
Center. At Yoakum Friday night for the FFA banquet, Kenneth
was principal speaker at a program at which Susan Knippa, Dist.
Vice - President, at left, represented Yoakum and Betsy
Moczygemba of Falls City, at right, won the Sweetheart contest.
Voting delegates from 13 cities picked the winner.
• - Photos by Leo Brier.
Five Finalists In Sweetheart
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St. Joseph's School also had
the 2nd and 3rd place winners,
according to school Principal
Sister Rogata.
Virginia's hobbies arc music,
swimming and a variety of
sports.
Second place winner was
Shirley Renken, Nth grader, and
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elo
Renken.
Third place honors were
copped by Jo Ann Jirkovsky. 7th
grader, and daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Dan Jirkovsky.
Lawrence Emerson. President
of the Yoakum Rotary Club, has
announces that the annual
De La Garza says his bill is a
revamping of the former sugar
program which operated more
than three decades with a system
of sugar imports and some
domestic subsidies.
„ i at MAYORHAR RY °' GIBSON pens Rotary Week Proclamation. The City Hall edict
prclaimedFeb. M . Rotary Week in Yoakum in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of
District President Scott Strau-
be of Yorktown MC’d the show.
Faculty leaders were FFA
Instructor A. G. Garrett of
Yoakum. Advisor Aldo Gohlke of
Yorktown, and Principal Melvin
Borchert, of Yoakum High
School.
High schools represented
were Yoakum. Victoria Stroman.
Victoria. Port Lavaca. Bloom-
ington. Runge, Falls City.
Kenedy, Karnes City, Yorktown.
Nordheim, Goliad and Cuero.
Open House Af
Yoakum High
Yoakum High School plans to
Have open house all week from
Mondav through Thursday:
March 3rd through March 6th.
Visitors are invited to come
from 9:00 a.m. until 3:45 p.m.
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LEATHER CAPITAL
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chili" by Ed Malinak, beans,
slaw, bread, and crackers plus
all of the coffee and tea needed to
wash it down. An added feature
will be an abundance of
homemade cakes, pies, and
cookies for the “sweet tooth."
Burt Witcher will chairman
the event with the aid of the
Yoakum Chapter of Young
Homemakers.
Claud B. Jacobs is general
chairman of this year's
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5 • 6 - 7. A variety of special
events is being planned. A street
dance, sponsored by the Yoakum
Jaycees with Faron Young as
featured star, is among
highlights of the festival this
year.
Sisters’ Hay
Loss Figured
At $13,500
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and stay as long as they wish and Tree Road w as finally doused
visit as many classes as they last week Wednesday with the
desire to visit. The subject is loss figure, based on current
"Seeing High School Learning in market prices, estimated at
Progress." $13,500.
Thursday. March 6th has been The blaze erupted Monday
designated as High School Day. afternoon and was fought by
If parents need their child's class firemen at various times before it
schedule they are asked to stop was allowed to burn out. There
by the Principal's office and a was no danger to surrounding
schedule and a guide from the property because it was located
student council will be furnished in a plowed field.
to show patrons the rooms. Cause of the fire was
Yoakum High School invites undetermined. The hay was
you to come to School and be our owned by Incarnate Word
Ykm Jaycees
Sponsor Circus
The Yoakum Jaycees will
sponsor a Fisher Brothers Circus
here March 14th at the Yoakum
City Park Grounds, it was
announced this week.
Advance tickets are only $1 for
adult or child. Tickets purchased
at the box office will $1.50 for
children through age 12 and $2
for adults.
More particulars will be
announced later this week.
Public Schools Week
This year March 3 - 7 will be observed as
TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS WEEK. Officials of Texas Public
Schools Week observance in Yoakum invite all parents and
concerned citizens to visit schools in the community during the
week and gain firsthand knowledge of their operation and scope.
The officials feel that a well - informed public is vital to the
maintenance and improvement of educational quality in the area,
and statewide.
Classrooms at all levels, elementary through high
school, will be open for public inspection during the week. The
work of individual students will be displayed in many rooms and
several schools are planning special presentations.
Parents are encouraged to talk to teachers, and seek
answers to their questions on the educational system.
To stimulate participation in the observance, some
schools are sending invitations home with children for TEXAS
PUBLIC SCHOOLS WEEK events.
Now De La Garza's bill would
remove all planting allocations
contained in the former sugar
act.
De La Garza hopes the new
bill will ensure stability in the
world sugar market. It was
referred to the House Committee
on Agriculture, of which he is
a ranking member.
SERVING AND Da^NUT COUNTIES
YOAKUM NATIONAL BANK, represented here by Bank President W. B. “BM"
Browning (right), was recognized for its 25 years of continuous membership with the National
Federation of Independent Businesses. The plaque was presented last week by NFIB District
Manager Jack A. Tully, representing the Washington • based organization serving 410,000
independent businesses throughout the nation. A non - profit organization, NFIB is dedicated to
the preservation of the free enterprise system. Through a program of monthly ballots, reports
from nearly a half - million independent and small businesses are tabulated and prepared ntWr
for the benefit of solons.
Serving nearly 200 firms in the DeWitt - Lavaca area and over 37,000 in Teana,
banker Browning said NFIB was an organization with business principles and goals that warrant
support of every independent business.' 'That’s why Yoakum National Bank has given its support
for the past 25 years", Browning commented.
Cheryl And Bill Win First in Area DECA
Bill Miller and Cheryl Janak will compete in the state contests
won first place in contests at the in San Antonio. Vickie Raz and
DECA Area IV Youth Leadership Kevin Giles will serve as
Conference Feb. 14 and 15 in delegates to this state meeting;
Corpus Christi. These four were among 12
Miller won in the sales DECA students attending the
demonstration and Janak in the area meeting.
advertisement division. They Students entering in other
both received placques. They See DECA P. 5 C. 1
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ByLeoBrier-- volume of the window - rattling. Schools Week in Texas. Our
Five finalists were named at table vibrating variety. plans are to exhibit students
the La Bahia District FFA Principal speaker Kenneth work and give the public an
Sweetheart Contest in Yoakum Berry delivered an inspiring opportunity to meet the
Friday night. address on the value of freedom, teachers.
On World Day of Prayer. Orthodox tradition will be able to ministries among migrant farm Emuspm Anensal nRclvRe
March 7. 1975. Church Women savor a service that includes workers; and support for the LGVGVG UWV»IIGI IJIjII Id
United in Yoakum will join elements from a liturgy dating Christian ministry in national
millions of people in a chain of back to the early centuries of parks. Dill AKar Rtf f AmmTHae
prayer spaning six continents. Christendom as well as elements in addition, offerings make Dill VAVU Dy LUIUUIIIIIIVV
This 89th celebration of World born of the Arab experience of possible gifts to short - term ■
Day of Prayer will be observed in Protestantism and Catholicism, projects to meet emerging AUSTIN - Lavaca County has been pending for nearly two
a thousand languages and opportunitiesand needs such as: was another step nearer to the years and the governor indicated
dialects by Protestant. Ortho reconstruction and rehabilitation creation of another hospital it would have been on call had
dox. and Catholic Christians in World Day of Prayer provides services to women and children district last week. A bill creating there been a special session
169 lands. an occasion for participation in a victimized by war; ecumenical the district cleared the House before the Constitutional Con-
• An International committcc nationwide offering which goes and international conferences Intergovernmental Affairs Com- vention.
chooses a theme and appoints a into afund called Intercontinen- forwomen: pilot projects in self - mittee and was reported
group of women from a different tal Mi ssion; theprocess..by hip programs for refugee favorably to the House last week. The. measure encountered
part of the world to write the which United Women day care centers, family Rep. Tim Von Dohlen of little discussion, except for one
worship materials for each year, carries forward its stewardship „. hea)th and nutrition Goliad sponsored the legislation remark from Rep .Ray Hutchison
. The Theme for 1975 is “Become through annual grants^ to Pdmltin And clinics. establishing the Lavaca Hospital of Dallas, according to the report
Perfectly One." a search for the agencies around the world in , District which includes an from Austin.
meaning of Christian unitv in the these five major concernsi assumption of outstanding ' notice the name of this
broader context of a pluralistic preparation and distribution of The First United Methodist indebtedness of the current district. It doesn't have anything
shaMH The worship service has Christian literature for women Church will be host to the World hospital operations. to do with natural gas, does it?"
bedprepared by the Women's and children in Asia, Africa, and Day of Prayer service this year The bill would allow the Hutchison joked in reference to
Ecmenical Prayer Fellowship of Latin America; education for on Friday, March 7. 1975 at people to continue to have good the financially troubled LoVaca
Egypt. Thousands of Christian minority women in new careers 10:00 a.m. Mrs. Thomas Rinn hospital services. Rep. Von Gathering Co., a natural gas
women who are outside the and for American Indian youth; will be program leader. Dohlen explained. The measure supplier involved in lawsuits.
The Rotary Club of Yoakum world w ho wear the Rotary program enables teams of young
will join more than 16.100 Rotary emblem. They are involved in business and professional men
clubs in 151 countries to observe service projects at every level to spend several weeks studying
the 70th anniversary of the from sponsoring scout troops to business and social customs in
founding of the worldwide building hospitals and schools. other countries.
service organization. According The Rotary Foundation. The Yoakum Club was
to President Lawrence Emerson, wholly supported by contribu- chartered on Sept. 27, 1923 and
the club will mark the occassion tions from individual Rotarians presently has 46 active
Wednesday noon featuring and others. sponsors an members.
Rotary past District Governor C. extensive program of education- The Club acknowledged a
C. Wclhauscn in a special al awards for overseas study by $100 contribution to the
program. ... college students, technicians. scholarship fund from Mrs. A. J.
Rotary, the first service club and teachers of the handi- House.
lor business and professional capped. This year some 700 Last week Rotary president
men. was organized by Paul awards with a total value of US Lawrence Emerson also recog-
Harris, a Chicago lawyer, on $3,400,000 were given, nized the newest member.
February 23, 1905. To combat A group study exchange Johnny Dornak.
the loneliness he found in the big '
city, he proposed his idea for a ppANI ANA vIAAI
club to three other men. IMULAIIA I IUI
Six months later the club had ROTARY INTERNATIONAL WEEK
21 members. In 1910, there were WHEREAS. Rotary International will be seventy years old
16 Rotary clubs and approxi- during the year 1975 and
mately 1.500 Rotarians. That WHEREAS. this worldwide organization has been
same year the first club outside dedicated from its beginning to community, vocational and
the United States was formed in international service and
Winnipeg. Canada. WHEREAS. the Yoakum Rotary Club has devoted its
Joday there are over three • energies and resources to the improvement and betterment of the
quarters of a million business City of Yoakum and
and professional men around the WHEREAS, the Yoakum Rotary Club has promoted and
developed many projects and programs beneficial to the City and
Citizens of Yoakum
NOW, THEREFORE. 1. Harry O. Gibson, as Mayor of the City
of Yoakum, Texas do hereby proclaim the week of Feb. 23 - 28
1975 as
Rotary International Week in Yoakum. Texas
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to
be affixed the Seal of the City of Yoakum Texas at the Municipal
Building, this 19th day of Feb. in this year of our Lord, 1975.
Harry O. Gibson
Tuesday. March 4 from 7 to 9
the Yoakum Intermediate School
will put their best foot forward
and show off their school.
The first week in March has
been designated as Public
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Virginia Patek
Champ Speller
In Lavaca Co.
Virginia Ann Patek. daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Patek
of Rt 2. Yoakum and a 6th
grader at St. Joseph School was
selected the first place Lavaca
County winner in the Spelling
June 5 in St. Joseph’s
gymnasium.
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Janacek, John E. Yoakum Herald-Times (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 16, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 25, 1975, newspaper, February 25, 1975; Yoakum, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1424160/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carl and Mary Welhausen Library.