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THE ABILENE, TEXAS, REPORTER-NEWS
Page 2 Wednesday Evening, January 8. 1947
Welfare Agency's Case Work
Service Increases During '46
By EARLE WALKER
Putting bread Into mouths and
roofs over heads is only part of
the work done regularly by the
City-County Welfare department.
Aiding needy persons to solve the
social and health problems that
nearly always accompany finan-
cial distress is also a big item,
said Mrs Margaret Schmidt, execu-
tive secretary, in reviewing the or-
ganization’s 1946 activities.
“During 194« the number of re
quests for counsel and assistance
toward solving these allied prob-
lems showed an increase over pre
vious years, although the total ap-
plications for financial aid did not
gain, ” she reported. "The greatest
change which our agency has un-
dergone since the war ended is the
shift from the need of financial re-
lief to the need for social counsel,
which in our terminology is called
case work service ”
• • •
allowing him to repay the depart-
ment by installments
* * *
Applications for help of all
kinds during the year totaled 460,
including 278 new cases and 182 re-
opened Fully half of them were re-
jected.
February, March and April were
the peak months as to the number
of families contacted There were
101 families contacted in February,
the same number in March and 100
in April The smallest number, 75.
was involved in August The load
at the end of the year was no
heavier than at the first. 8 fami-
lies being contacted in January
and 84 in December
Organized in 1926. the depart-
ment is financed through tax
funds of Abilene and Taylor coun-
ty on a 50-50 basis It is not in-
cluded in the Community Chest
and does not make drives for pri
Mrs Schmidt said that practi
cally every person who requires
monetary aid also has a kindred
problem of social or health nature.
Poor housing resulting from pov-
erty has much to do with bad
health and family disciplinary
■problems, she pointed out.
The departments financial as-
sistance to the needy during 194«
totaled $6,410.07. This included
$1,095.38 for food, $41.60 utility
bills, $24.25 board, $193 95 new
: clothing, $964.71 medicine, $3,-
547.40 hospital bills, $260 burial
and ambulance and $282 78 mis-
' cellaneous.
vate funds. However, private con
tributions are made at time# for
individual cases
The program is administered by
a staff of four persons under the
direction of city and county offi-
cials, together with an advisory
board of lay persons All bills are
submitted to the city commisaion
and the county commissioners
court for approval and payment
after being audited in the same
FKOM FAR-OFF TIBET—Two sisters, Marguerite (left) and
Maribel Bare, who were born and reared in Tibet, have come
to Abilene Christian college to continue their academic stu-
dies. Marguerite is enrolled in the college and Maribel in the
demonstration school. Both plan to return to Tibet to teach
the natives when they complete their education.
THEY FLAN TO RETURN
Sisters Reared in Tibet
Are Among ACC Students
Abilene Christian college has with very little animal protein
among its students this year two included in their diet On
sisters who were born and reared holidays, popped rice took the
country of place of popcorn and candy. Fes-
tivity was rare, as conditions were
in the little-known
Tibet.
These girls. Marguerite and even worse than pictured in Amer-
Maribel Bare are the daughters ican periodicals, according to Mar
of Dr. and Mrs. N. H Bare who guerite. Scientific medicine was
moved their family from Nebras- virtually unknown To help relieve
Administrative expenses amount-
% ed to approximately $500 a month
Some grateful persons repaid
- part of the money. A total of $1.-
20794 was refunded in this way.
the bulk of it representing hospital
; bills.
The department often aids a
needy person to receive hospitili-
. zation by paying the account and
manner as all county bills
Personnel includes Mrs. Schmidt,
executive secretary: Mrs A. M.___________.
Jones, intake secretary; Mrs. Es-ka to Tibet in 1925 to do medical this situation and to preach the
ther Sharp, stenographer and case
worker, all at the Abilene office in
the courthouse: and Mrs. Elma
McFarland, in charge of a branch
office at Merkel. The city of Mer-
kel shares in the expenses of the
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Britain Plans
Revolutionary
Realty Measure
LONDON, Jan. 8 —(P— A revo-
lutionary planning bill, which
would delegate control of all future
real estate development in Brit-
ain to state-appointed planning
authorities, is expected to be ap-
proved in principle in the house
of commons before the end of the
month.
The measure will supplant a
number of town and country plan-
ning acts which date back to 1907,
but wil not affect a new towns bill
under which the government hopes
to relieve congestion by building a
whole series of small cities of 50-
000 to 80.00 people a few miles out-
side major metropolitan areas such
as London, Manchester and Bir-
mingham.
The government announced the
measure last night in a white
paper which said that "any result-
ing increase in land value is to be
collected in whole or in part by
the state, in the form of a develop-
ment change, which must be paid
or secured before the development
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8 First Bapti:
missionary work Except for a Gospel was Dr. Bares purpose in
short visit to the United States in living in Tibet.
1932. the Bare children. Edgar, ** *
Garland, Marguerite, and Maribel. Since there were no schools ac-
spent their childhood in Tibet cessible to the children. Mrs. Bare
and along the China-Tibetan bor-taught them subjects they would
der where their father served the have learned in American gram-
poverty-stricken natives as a doc- mar and junior high schools. When
is carried out. —
Increase in land value which ac-
crues without development would
be left with the owner.
Lewis Silkin, minister of town
and country planning, discussing
the bill at a news conference, said
there is no reason why a person
should buy land and make a profit
on the land itself."
Silkin pointed out, however, that
central land boards established un-
der the bill would not necessarily
take the whole profit” resulting
from development.
The bill would set up a fund of
$1,200,000,000 for payments in ne-
gotiable government stock to cover
possible compensation of land-
owners who claim they have lost
‘development value.”
branch organization.
"Achievements of our work are. puverty-euunen-----------— ,-------,----------------
intangible.” Mrs. Schmidt said tor. and minister of the Church the family returned to Nebraska
We are striving to help people - - 4 " in 104* they entered hich sehnal
to help themselves."
of Christ ' in 1945. they entered high school
Childhood companions of the in "whatever grade we fitted.”
Bare children were Tibetan na- Marguerite also attended” Hastings
The four principal causes of tives. Very few white - people of college in Hastings, Nebraska, for
financial need, encountered dvr- any nationality ever visited the one semester,
ing 1946 she said, were—in the
order of their frequency: 1. Ill-
ness 2. desertion and non support,
3. irregular employment of work-
ing mothers with small children.
and.4. Income insufficient to meet
the present high cost of living
The City-County Welfare depart-
ment has spent much of its time
during 1946—as in all years—co-
operating with such other organi-
zations as the Goodfellows. Travel-
ers Aid and the Free Milk Fund
council, none of which activity is
included in the above report.
Heavy Sugar Haul
INDIANAPOLIS — (UP) —
There’ll be burglars at least as
long as sugar rationing is in ef-
' fect. The manager of a Standard
Texas Cash Balance
To Be$44,731,442
AUSTIN. Jan 8(P A cash
region, and Americans were an Then Dr. Bruce Allison of the balance of $44,731,442 in the gen-
Abilene State hospital wrote the eral revenue fund at the end of
D---4-11 - At >w. “anAd eduica. the current fiscal year Aug 31 is
extreme rarity - L----------—-
According to the Bares, the Tibe- Bares telling of the -good educa-
tans do not resemble the Chinese, tionai possibilities " of Abilene, and
but look and act very much like informing Dr. Bare that he might
the original American Indians work in the hospital. So, late in
Even their religion is comparable
to the poly-deity worship of the
Indians However, the soft, mur-
muring Tibetan language differs
from Indian dialects. In fact, it is
different from almost all the oth-
er languages in the world.
Because of their close contact
with the Chinese as well as the
Tibetans, members of the Bare
family also speak the Northeast
China dialect. They have learned
the Tibetan tongue from the Tibe-
tans. and the children were taught
English by their parents.
forecast by State Comptroller
George H. Sheppard.
1945, they moved to Abilene, where
all of the children except 21-year-
old Edgar enrolled in school. Gar-,
land entered Abilene high school.
Marguerite ACC. and Maribel, en-
rolled in the ACC demonstration
The comptroller’s biennial rev-
enue estimate for the legislature
is expected to be the same amount.
The information is to be ready
for members of the legislature
when the 50th general session be-
gins next week
The comptroller’s report noted
that the anticipated balance was
school.
The young Bares plan to return
to Tibet, after completing their _____
education Marguerite gives this than the unencumbered
as their reason The people there [ anticipated Aug. 31.
have no Christian teaching at all. --------------------------
and since we have lived there .
most of our lives, we are as fitted BolIvid Is Lense
as anyone to teach them.” Over Vote Returns
approximately $8,500,000 more
‘ ‘ surplus
Contact with America was by
grocery store here reports thieves mail which was delivered every
broke in and got 760 pounds of five days (if the weather was good)
sugar. from the nearest post office The
five days (if the weather was good)
. , declares Victor
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State governments spent about
half a billion dollars on highway
construction in 1946 as compared
with a billion and a half spent in
1930.
F Brings MIGHTY FAST
Long-lasting Relief In
COUGHS
1 family was usually around 200
miles’ from this post office. Mail
was extremely slow. In one in-
stance, a letter mailed from the
United States in October was not
delivered until July of the next
year. Postage was between 500
and 700 Chinese dollars per let-
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Mr. Wright Goes Wrong
ter. . .
| All travel in Tibet has to be on
! foot or by mule-train because of
the primitive state of the country
i and the fact that Tibet is located
in the world s most mountainous
region. The highest mountain in
the world is near Tibet
Abilene does not compare with
Tibet in at least one respect. Mar-
I guerite thinks. "The rolling plains
of West Texas do not roll high
enough." she says. She counts her
I 13 years in Tibet as the good old
days But she states emphatical-
ly that “I’d rather be an Ameri-
can than a citizen of any other
country.”
All natives except the priests
and rich merchants were in pov-
etry and usually suffered from
hunger and disease They prac-
tically lived on barley and rice.
Larmor I LA PAZ. Bolivia. Jan 8—(— .
TOI A1 1100E ‘ Bolivian voters tensely awaited the
1 1final count of votes in Sundays
presidential election to ascertain
Ci. T.tx whether Enrique Hertzog or Luis
1 fIdl Fernando Guachalla had won the
I U PIul IM 1 1 IMI close, see-saw race
With only a few thousand votes
SCRANTON, Pa. Jan. 8- left to be counted. Hertzog, a for-
Former Federal Judge Albert W. mer cabinet minister and candi-
Johnson and six other defendants date o fthe socialist Republican
charged with conspiracy against union, had— slim 736-vote lead
the government go on trial tomor-
row in the U S. district court
where the ex-jurist allegedly "sold
| justice for all the traffic would
bepresiding Judge Alger Fee of junta which hasu ruled since the
the district of Oregon will hear revolt of last Julyawhen
at the same time motions by the dent Gualberto Villarroel was
defense to quash the charges hanged from a lamp post in front
Johnson. 73 year old veteran of of his palace.
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signed July 3, 1945, following a
U. S. justice department investi-
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ganization proceedings under
Johnson’s jurisdiction.
over his leftist revolutionary op-
ponent That count gave Hertzog
39.633 and Guachalla 38,897.
The winner takes over from a
Ignored by Pilot
SHANGHAI, Jan 8 —The
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for the crash of a CNAC air liner
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PONTIAC. III.. Jan 8.—-
Pontiac plumbers are so busy
I plumbing these days that none of
them wants to work for the eity.
But unless one of them plumbs
the other plumbers’ plumbing,
they're all going to run plumb out
of work
The city code says no new plumb-
ing work may start without an in-
spection permit from the city
plumbing inspector, a job none of
the Pontiac plumbers seems to
want. r
After L. M Shugart quit the job
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Harris but he wouldn't accept The
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plumber who will.
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