The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 207, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 25, 1980 Page: 1 of 20
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. Vol. 90, No. 207
Sunday, May 25, 1980
Alvin, Texat 77511
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Bake-Off, Poster Contest Winners Announced
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com. squash and tomatoes in the spring,
and cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower,
carrots, beets, turnips, and various
kinds of greens in the winter, he said.
Alvi Sun pnw, By Lor Banner
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The main speaker of the evening will
be Kenneth Lipscomb, class valedic-
torian. The invocation will be delivered
by class President Denise Pucek,
followed by a welcoming address by
class salutatorian Cathy Collier.
AHS Principal Virgil Tiemann will
Mary Wagener won first place in this
division of iced and layers cakes while
Jeanette Dornak placed second and
Angie Turvey placed third. •
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dener need only till the soil thoroughly
once and after that it remains fairly soft.
Homer added it’s helpful to mix in
other kinds of dirt with the native soil,
but at any rate one should get the spring
garden thoroughly tilled in the winter
Shirley Noak won first place in this
decorate 3 — ....... -
your time at 30 cents an hour, otherw ise
you loose money. But if you enjoy it, it’s
definitely worth it" -
Aubrey Homer also finds a link with
his past through his vegetable garden.
Homer works a 40-foot by 145-foot plot —
three miles outside of Alvin owned by an
old friend who was widowed a few years
ago.
Chris Williams won first place while
honorable mention winners were Robert
Fick, John Ramirez, Dulcie Summers,
Billy Dalmolin and Deanna Novak.
FIFTH GRADE
Meyer, Corresponding Secretary Tanya
Patterson, Treasurer Sherrie Misterek,
' and Parliamentarian Betty Banks.
Baccalaureate services for the
graduates will be presented at 8 p.m.
Sunday in Marguerite Edwards
Auditorium. The sermon will be
delivered by Dr. W.E. Thom, former
president of Dallas Baptist Coll-ge.
The invocation will be given by Jay
Still, student body president, and soloist
Kyle Hargrove will sing “Over the
Rainbow,” by Harburg & Arlen. 1
The exact number of graduating
seniors will not be known until final
semester grades are computed, a school
spokesman said.
Forty-four seniors will be honors
graduates, including 10 "magna cum
laude” and 34 “cum laude" graduates.
The class, song of the Seniors of '80 is
Free Bird," a classic work of the late
musical group Lynyrd Skynyrd; the
class colors are burgundy and silver and
the class flower is the burgundy rose
Other class officers are Vice President
Ann Foster, Recording Secretary Kathy
Staff Writer
With grocery store food prices con-
stantly rising and no end in sight many
Alvin area residents are raising their
own fresh vegetables in backyard and
rural gardens
Wilson said he is not sure whether
most of the increase has been with
people beginning gardening for the first
time or with old gardeners who have
recently moved here.
Both Doss and Homer said the main
problem with gardening in the Alvin
area, aside from the bugs, is with the
hard soil. However, Doss said a gar
KEY WEST, FLA. (UPD - CUBA has rejected a proposal by the United
States, Great Britain and Costa Rica to open discussions on Cuban
refugees who have been streaming into Key West.
Winners in two Frontier Day related
contests have been, announced by Alvin
Rotarian Charles Wilson.
In the poster coloring contest held in
primary and elementary schools in the
Alvin school district, the following
students are winners. First place win-
ners received a plaque while honorable
mention winners received a ribbon.
KINDERGARTEN
Jody Brenton won first place while
honorable mention winners were Andy
Boren, Janet Turner. Jody Autrey, Jill
Tobin and Samantha Thompson.
FIRST GRADE
Leon Charleston of Ceico Home Center
said he has not noticed any change in the
popularity of vegetable gardening this
year. “Our sales of related products has
been at least as strong as it was last
year," he said. .
However, he added articles he has »
seen in trade publications show a major
increase in the South and Southwest in
AHS Seniors Ready For Diplomas
400-Plus Graduates To Be Named Tuesday
DIVISION TWO
Jeanette Dornak won first place in this
bundt-pound cake division while Paula
Bennett placed second and Sherri
Rogers placed third.
DIVISION THREE
Jeanette Dornak also won first place
in this fruit pies division while Kay
Hoskins placed second and Irma
Mendoza placed third.
- DIVISION FOUR
Mary Wagener won first place in this
division of nut pies while Lu Anne
Glardon placed second and Mrs. R.F.
Thomas placed third.
DIVISION FIVE
• Alvin - Partly cloudy through Sunday
Low tonight mid-70s. High Sunday low
80s immediate coast to near 90 inland.
South and southwest winds 10 to 15 mph
tonight. Outlook for’ Memorial Day,
partly cloudy and warm with a slight
chance of afternoon showers and
•thundershowers. - ■.
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months, so that the soil has had some
time to enrich itself before spring
planting.
apple. Homer says it’s good to slice up
and eat with dip.
Homer also plants a winter erop:
spinach, okra, beets, carrots, cabbage,
broccoli, and similar vegetables.
In this part of the country bugs and
other pests are a real problem but
Homer said he prefers not to use in-
secticide when he can avoid it.
Alternatives to insecticides include
using hot water on ants, putting sand in
the tops of corn to deter screw worms,
and just watching the garden carefully,
and picking off bugs as they appear, he
said.
"The chemical companies and the
media have not been fully informing
consumers about the long-term risks
(such as cancer) of some insecticides,”
Homer added.
The bug problem has turned many
people off to gardening, said A.W,
Newman, owner of Newman's Garage in
Alvin. He explained the bugs plus cold,
rainy winter weather have cut his sales
of garden supplies 10 percent this year,
although previous years have been
pretty good.
NEW YORK (UPD - THE LAST-GASP negotiating which produced
baseball s new four-year agreement Friday morning left a hangover of a
possible strike in 1981 and the scars of heated debating.
World
News Round-Up
Local
THE ALVIN CHAPTER ULIMITED wiu hold its regular
monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Knights of Columbus Hall.
MOTHERS DAY OUr AT First Baptist Church has vacancies for 3- and
year-olds. Persons may call 585-5115 or 331-0463 for more information.
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GARBAGE IN ALVIN WILL NOT, be picked up Monday because city
employees will observe the Memorial Day holiday. Monday's garbage will
be picked up Tuesday and Tuesday’s garbage will be picked up Wed-
nesday Garbage pickup will return to its normal schedule Thursday.
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State
GALVESTON (UPD - TWENTY CUBAN REFUGEES and five u.s
residents rescued from the Gulf of Mexico by a Texas-bound tugboat were
met by Coast Guard, Customs and Immigration officials who put the
refugees aboard buses for Fort Chaffee. Ark.
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AUSTIN IUPI) - ATTORNEY GENERAL MARK WHITE has ruled
that Texans who voted in either party's presidential primary on May 3 will
Anaer allowed to sign-petitions for the independent candidacy of John
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But is it worth the expense of buying
- gardening equipment, seeds, fertilizer
and insecticides, and the back-bending
toil involved?
Grubbs, and Scott Van Ness won
honorable mention.
SIXTH GRADE
Audrey Korenek won the first place
plaque while honorable mention ribbon
winners were Jennifer Vidrine, Bobby
Nelson, Roberta Hagger, Nina Halford
and Pam Stephens.
SEVENTH GRADE
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In the Delta Savings Frontier Day
bake-off contest, winners were as
follows:
However, with the money saved by not
"O Lord, it is good to give thee thanks, to espuyingastorsyegetables. ones could pay
sine t0 thypame, ° Most High," hW^r a‘S first season ’
salm in the spring and summer Homer
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Alvinites work hard in preparations for
Saturday's Frontier Days celebration.
Dr. Emmett McKenzie and Dr. Bill
Wineinger I left photo I place a protective
tarpaulin over a parade float. Rotarians
I center I unload wooden slats to be used
for building booths. Alvin Evening Lions
Hub members ( right ) assemble their
organization's booth. %
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"I would have it in my own back yard
except I would have to give up the trees.
All the roots running around cause
problems’ and also you can’t grow a
garden very well in the shade," Horner
explained
Homer, who teaches science at Alvin
High School, said he spends an average
of four to five hours per week tending his
garden. Most of the time spent is in
tilling the ground and planting, he said.
Once that is done all that is needed is
occasional weeding until harvest time.
The main value Homer sees in his
garden is thespectat nutritional benefits
of fresh vegetables What he can't eat
. immediately he freezes.
“You get them fresh and put them in
boiling water for half aminute, then put.
them in cold water. Right after that you
stick them in a plastic bag-and freeze
’em," he explained.
"I feel like I save a great deal of
money My wife hasn’t bought any
vegetables at the store all month. •
However, this year I didn't have to buy
soil working supplies - tillers and the
like."
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give introductions, Alvin Independent
School District Superintendent Emmett
McKenzie will make the offical
presentation of the class, and AISD
board President Pete Nash wili present
the diplomas.
The Alvin High School Band wil
provide the traditional musical ac-
companiment, playing the processional
the national anthem, the school song,
Hail Alma Mater,” and the recessional.
Members of the National Honor
Society will serve as ushers for the
event.
SECOND GRADE
Sandy Rice won first place while
honorable mention winners were
Kimberly Shaw, Michael Barnett, Sheri
Mitchell, Jeremy Stone and Jackie
Whittle.
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An expected 433 Alvin High School
seniors will mark May 27 as a milestone
in their academic careers as they
participate in graduation com-
mencement exercises at 8 p.m. in Alvin
Memorial Stadium.
THIRD GRADE
Morgan McMillan won the first place
plaque while Kari Sas, Krista Sanchez,
i • For many, such as Bill Doss, much of
■ the reward is in the gardening itself.
Doss raises spaghetti squash, sweet
I potatoes, peas, okra, tomatoes and other
I varieties of vegetables in a lot he leases
I near Liverpool.
“It's a hobby and a pastime. I like to
I fish and hunt but a lot of the time instead
I of fishing I work in the garden - it’s
I about as much fun,” he said.
J Doss explained he was reared on a
E farm in Tennessee and now works for
a Brown 4 Root both here and in
"7 ,1 Louisiana. Gardening helps remind him-
| of his younger days
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Weather
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (UPI) - SOUTH KOREA'S former in-
telligence chief and four of his aides were hanged today for assassinating
President Park Chung-hee, and in the revolt-scarred provincialcapital of
i Eangja, gunbattles between protesters and array troops shattered an
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Guarding The Vegetables
Backyardvegetable gardens, such “ this one in Hmerest discochting labor, the gardens save them mone, a
Village.are becoming more commion as consumers react to providehigher qualityvictuals. yand
rising food bills by growing their own. Gardeners say that.
Robbie Johnson won first place
Honorable mention winners were Kern-
Van Ness. Steven Mrsfall, Ma ’ Ki —Me first place
Subert, Elizabeth Rusch, nd Nicci plaque while LisaWylie, Donna Lam-
— _ - ' " beth Tracey Struckmeyer, Gregg Angie Turvey placed third. ' Scherbehplacedthird.
Vegetable Gardens Fight Inflation, Improve Diet
By SCOTT BIESER effort and expense, he said, “if you count raises such staples as corn, potatoes, gardening products sales. — I
Squash, peas, okra, cucumbers and Gene Wilson of Wilson Feed & Supply
onions but also a strange plant called says his sales of gardening supplies are
Kohlrabi, i v i v , : noticably higher this year. The most
Kohlrabi looks like an above-ground , popular seeds are for potatoes, beans,
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Looney, Richard. The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 207, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 25, 1980, newspaper, May 25, 1980; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1493499/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Alvin Community College.