The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 1979 Page: 7 of 43
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Carthage and Panola County are indeed fortunate to have this fine
educational facility that affords learning opportunities to the local youths as
well as students from across the nation and beyond the oceans.
Because of its broad and far-reaching influence for the advancement of
learning, for cultural development within our community, and for the
enlightment of minds at home and abroad, Panola Junior College deserves
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On this, the beginning of a new school year, we would like to express our ap-
preciation for the tremendously important work of our local college, Panola
Junior College. It is dedicated to the high ideal of preparing young men and
women for useful and rewarding lives, for solid and worthwhile contributions
to society and for an intelligent response to the future needs of the community
and our country
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Southeast Asia the Duncans
lived in Thailand tor 16 years
and in Burma tor nearly three
years Prior to that, the Dun
vans lived in San Francisco for
16 years Then moved to Car
thage a little over a year ago
While in Southeast Asia
Duncan worked as a civil
engineer for a consulting firm
that specialized in water
resource development His
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rado in a big way At the time
Bangkok had the only television
station in the country Lassie
was the prmar American
program shown on television
there Other than the collie s
harking the Thai had a mar
v eious way of dubbing English
fashioned in one piece
way...and in the same
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popular
The Prime Minister of
Thailand also used telev ision as
a medium to inform the people
giving them a great feeling of
self respect and the impression
of an interested government
According to the Duncans, that
Prime Minister had close to 100
wives
Concerning transportation
wife Helen did special taxis joined bicycles as the
assignments in connection with leading ways to get around In
her husband s work She is also response. natives started
a portrait artist wearng black trousers and
in Thalland they lived in a white shirts as a status symbol
residentialareain Bangkok the The Duncans had a car. but
capital and bv far the largest found that the heavytraffic in
cit in the country Bangkok Bangkok made it difficult to
had a population of 3,000,000 Park Taxis roamed constantly
people when the Duncans were and bargaining was used to
there Mrs Duncan notes that bring fares down Mrs Duncan
Bangkok became much more laughingly says she was
modernized in the years probably one of the frst women
following their move there in drivers there
-1957 Following their long stay in
When we spent’our first Thailand. Duncan s work
Christmas there in 1957, many carried the two to Rangoon, the
people had never heard of capital of Burma, a country
Christmas Since they didn't they found extremely different
have fir trees, we used a palm from Thailand A socialistic
tree for our Christmas tree," ty pe of dictatorship ruled there,
remembers Mrs Duncan and the people were extremely
However the couple savs that restricted in movement
the Thai people accept Duncan even had to be ac
modernizatioz. and foreigners companied by a Burmese of
more readily than nearby ficial in his work He says that
nations this was the first American
We had a lot of wonderful company that had a contract
friends m Thailand, fondly with the Burmese government
recalls Duncan in 12 years
Perhaps why the Thai people The Burmese had
have an "entirely different nationalized everything
outlook from most Asians Everything belonged to the
stems from the fact that government It was as closeto
Thailand is the only country in communism as you 11 find.
evening cours ar 3ld ablr for full time j/'d part
time stuce its
the pirasurr ot greeting Mrs
Elasticized waist blouse for
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Junior miss 8 through Missy 20.
div duals The Burmese were a
low income people, but those
who had it imainly the Indians
and Chinese living in Burma
used jewelry to buy property
Also a military people the
Burmese were not as in
dustrious as the Indians and
Chinese living there Resentful.
Duncans say they rode
elephants through 25 foot tall
grass in the jungle
Subsequent to their Asian
exploits Duncan worked six
months in Africa His wife
proudly refers to a letter he
later received from the
executive director of CARE in
New York The civil engineer s
design of a granary for use by
the Africans saved CARE and
$25,000. Mrs Duncan says
ARISTOTLE SAID, "ALL WHO
HAVE MEDITATED ON THE ART
OF GOVERNING MANKIND HAVE
BEEN CONVINCED THAT THE
FATE OF EMPIRES DEPENDS ON
THE EDUCATION OF YOUTH."
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the Burmese drove many of
them out An Austrahan teacher
in Thailand taught Mrs Dun
can s portrait painting
in addition to living in those
countries the Duncans spent
time in many other Asian
nations including Indonesia
and Nepal where they
vacationed to a place called the
Tiger Tops a resort where
vacationers were provided
rooms up in the trees There the
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$ *o earn j d-grer or seek selt mprovement
tnd UT Tyle1 Can meet your neecs Day and
Kev Chester Haynes ot and Km in Arlington They
Dalas spent last • eek with has attended a performance of
Parent Mr and Mrs [ ( I on t Drink the Water at the
Haynes while conducting a Dallas Musk Hall starring Paul
revival at Liberty in Rusk Lynde
Count Gus Seeger of Kilgore spent
Mr Marv Brown and Mrs last week with his grandpar
Ruth Robanson spent last wee* ents Rev and Mrs otte Reed
in Georgia where they visited Other guests over the weekend
relatives in Hoganville. Molena were Mr and Mrs Tim Seeger
and Newman They also visited and Gae and Rev and Mrs
the Jarrell PlantationIMFRuund Dale Reed of Kilgore
Rock While in Planthey had Allen Bellamy and Mrs Doris
Southeast Asia that has
remained free of European
colonization indeed. Thailand
literally means "free land
Called Siam since the four
teenth century, the country's
name was changed in 1939
Siamese cats and twins
derive their name from Siam
in Bangkok, the Duncans had
house servants, which also
guarded against intruders
Partly because the wage scale
throughout the (intent was low
cas little as 12 cents a day for
some labor), petty thievery was
quite common Stealing in
creased in frequency as the
ideas of modernization set in.
points out Mrs Duncan
However, the Duncans lost
practically nothing
The Thai are basically very
honest people We had one
servant there for 16 years She
would have given her life for us
We had a fine relationship with
the rest of the Thai people," she
says
Regarding native religion,
approximately 90 percent of
Thailand's inhabitants at the
time were Buddhists There
were also other denominations
that had missions in Thailand
Thai males were required to
spend time in Buddhist temples,
at which time they learned the
religion
Every home there had an
image of Buddha Wats. or
temples, also had huge images
of Buddha Theoretically, the
Buddhists are not to kill
anything, even a mosquito, but
that doesn't mean they can't be
vicious in fighting in Thailand,
the Buddhists are not a militant
group as in Vietnam and
Cambodia," comments Dun
can
Weather in Thailand consists
of a long wet period and a dry
season Monsoons, seasonal
winds marked by heavy rains,
commonly occur The average
year round temperature is 86-88
degrees Fahrenheit, says
Duncan, who adds that
Thailand is much more humid
than Carthage Bangkok is also
hotter now because of the wide
asphalt streets, tall buildings
and other modernizations
One of the favorite foods there
was hot Siamese curry served
over rice, the chief food of the
country Popular side dishes
included chopped bananas,
raisins and bacon foods which
were used to help cool the curry
“We were weeping from the
heat of the food We didn't eat
too much currv However, the
Siamese curry was not as hot as
that in Ceylon I an island
country in the Indian Ocean I
don't think they have hotter
food any place in the world
Some of the best food we had
was Chinese they're mar
velous cooks, exclaims Mrs
Duncan Naturally, chop sticks
were used in eating
A piece of cut bamboo filled
with a mixture of sticky rice,
coconut milk and palm sugar
toasted over an open fire and
green mangoes (fruit were
also popular treats
The natives there went for
Clay ot Seabrwk w ere guests o
Mr and Mrs J B Wedgeworth
last weekend
Jackie Wedgeworth visited
over the weekend with a frend
in Midland
Mrs J i Kersh and James
Rex attended a cousin s reunon
at the home of Mr and Mrs
Perry Huffman in Marshall
Saturday
Mrs J B W edgeworth and
John attended summer gradua
ton at A AM I Saturday John
returned and spent the weekend
w’lth his parents
Mr and Mrs Jimmy Gary J
E and Letsa and Mrs Viloma
Beckham attended the Burke
family reunion in Henderson
Saturday
Mrs Steve Hollamon of
Tulsa Okla visited last wee*
with her parents Mr and Mrs
J H Gray Other guests in the
home over the weekend were
Mrs Robert Tiller Rob and
Chris of Elysian Fields Mr and
Mrs Roy Edmonds. Angrha
and Stephanie of Nacogdoches
Mr and Mrs Jimmy Huff
Gina and Bill of Monroe La
visited over the weekend with
Mr and Mrs R G Reed
Rev Donald Potts of Mar
shall was guest speaker at First
Baptist Church Sunday The
pastor. Rev T A Crow, is ill
Guests of Mrs J C Kersh
and James Rex over tne
weekend were Mr and Mrs
Robert Fletcher and Melissa.
Mrs Virginia Baker of Houston
and Mrs W M Bowen of
Pasadena
VITAL RECORDS
Parliament on Aug 17. 1836
provided for registration of
births, marriages and deaths in
Britain
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proclaimed California s an
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on Aug 17, 1846
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Stevens, Jim. The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 1979, newspaper, August 23, 1979; Carthage, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1430483/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sammy Brown Library.