The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 1979 Page: 1 of 8
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Coming next week
Next week the Wildcat will feature season's
greeting* from your friends and business
associates and will have a special interview
with county judge Frank Sandel.
Christmas Issue
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$360,000 expansion planned
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4 A Strong Voice for Reagan County”
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VOLUME NO. 54 NUMBER 50 BIG LAKE, REAGAN COUNTY. TEXAS
DECEMBER 13, 1979
25c per copy
VICK ATWOOD: “I’m ready for a few days fishing.”
Vick Atwood, local trooper with DDS and the scourge of any
highway traffic violators, spent his last day on the job Tuesday,
December 11. Atwood will be retiring from active duty with the
®?exas DPS with 32 years service to the people of Texas. Vick
Atwood entered DPS Patrol School on December 1, 1947. Prior
to that he had been a student at the University of Texas and
spent four years in the Air Force prior to his studies. His first
duty assignment was Brownfield, Texas in March of 1948 and
he stayed there for four years. He spent short periods of duty in
Sanson City and Sonora before coming to Big Lake April 1,
Vick Atwood married a Big Lake and Texon girl, Helen Nor-
wood, and they plan to stay in Big Lake after his retirement. At-
wood has been in Big Lake and has taken cases before five coun-
ty judges-Taylor, Hudson, Stout, Mills, and Sandel. The first
car he had as a trooper was a '46 Ford. He said the fastest
speed were driven in the sixties when auto dealers came out
with super cars that a lot of people modified for speed. "A few
of them outran me, said Atwood, but not that many." The fast-
est speed he remembers clocking anyone was 123 miles per
hour.
When pressed more about his future plans, he said the only
plans he had made were to fish a little and then after some re-
laxing he would decide what he wanted to do.
At 7:00 p.m. this Sunday night there
will be an interesting program at First
Baptist Church which should concern
everyone who is concerned about health
Rire in Texas and the U.S.a. Dr. J. L.
Wright, Jr. will give a talk and moderate
an open discussion on health planning
and comment on the direction the federal
government is heading in health care
planning.
**Dr. Wright will direct some of his com-
ments on the fact that a federal regula-
tory agency-not congress, not the voting
public-is mandating policy which will
ultimately make it impossible for hospit-
als in local communities to choose their
w/n goals for health care and meet their
own needs.
It seems a new law, according to an
article in the San Angelo Standard
Times, "has sneaked into being weeks
ago without any public review or com-
itjpnt". According to the article, "nation-
al health planning goals were made part
of the Public Health Service act with the
wave of a government wand and with
nary a voice to be heard in opposition*.
Government officials decided not to re-
lease the goals until they were finalized
as laws.
This is a sneaky, underhanded way of
doing things that will vitally affect small
communities such as Big Lake, Ozona,
Rankin, Eldorado, Ballinger, and all oth-
er smaller cities with their own hospitals
and medical doctors. It is almost unbe-
lievable yet it is happening and unless
there is an immediate public out cry from
concerned citizens - the federal govern-
ment will tell you where to go for a par-
ticular treatment, surgery or specialized
care.
According to the new laws, there is a
duplication of facilities and they are try-
ing very hard to eliminate duplications
at our expense. I totally agree with the
writer of the Standard Times article that
maintaining local facilities is not a luxury
-it is a necessity - especially in West Tex-
as. The article states "according to the
new health care laws, it will be against
regulations to have certain types of oper-
ations in certain community or rural
hospitals. Your insurance won't cover
it and your doctor will not be authorized
to do it. With the new laws, the govern-
ment is in effect, rationing health care.
If you want or need an operation or a cer-
tain type of treatment, you must have an
appointment in a city with the right type
of classification."
Folks, you have heard about regula-
tory agencies who are passing laws that
you must live by with no authorization
from you - the people - or from your con-
gressman who is your elected represen-
tative. This is a prime example and we
are in extreme danger if we do not real-
ize what a threat this "law* is.
West Texas physicians and physicians
around the country are very much op-
posed to these new goals proposed by
the regulators in Washington. If ever
there was a cause to support and become
agitated and active about - this is the
one. Dr. Wright will speak at 7:00 p.m.
about this matter at First Baptist Church
this Sunday night.
Snack bar will be built
for high school students
School students at Reagan County
High School will have a snack bar built
for their use at the high school gymnasi-
um following action at last Monday night
school board meeting. The snack bar
will probably be built in the foyer of
RCHS gymnasium and will serve ham-
Christmas lighting
contest scheduled
With Christmas rapidly approach-
ing, the Reagan Garden Club has an-
nounced it will sponsor its annual
Christmas Lighting Contest. Judging
will take place Monday, Dec. 17.
Prizes will be awarded for Best
Over All, Best Window, Best Door,
Best Religious Theme, Best Christmas
Scene, Best Mobile Home Over All,
and Best Use of Lights. Everyone is
eligible to participate.
A scale of points used in judging
will be: Unity of Theme, 30 points: Or-
iginality and Ingenuity, 25 points; Use
of Color and Lights, 35 points; and
Condition and Suitability of Materials.
10 points.
Garden Club members will enter-
tain the judges and their husbands
with a ^covered dish buffet supper at
6:30 p.m. Dec. 17 at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Tim Warner at 1030 Seventh
Street. Following the supper, the jud-
ges will make a tour of the homes
with decorations. Signs will be placed
in the yards of the winners following
the judges' decisions.
Co-hostess with Mrs. Warner will
be Mrs. W. E. Evans. Creative design
by the hostess will feature the theme,
"Winter Wonderland*.
Santa will be here
tonight at Glasscock’s
It's only nineteen days until Christ-
mas and Santa Claus is making the
final part of his early rounds to check
on local boys and girls. Santa will be
in Big Lake to visit local young-
sters at Glasscock Chevrolet Decem-
ber 13, at 6:30 p.m. in the Glasscock
showroom. Santa has been making a
regular stop in Big Lake about this
time each year and will be looking for-
ward to meeting Big Lake boys and
girls.
It’s Christmas
Greeting Time
Orders are being taken now at the
Wildcat from individuals and busines-
ses for Christmas greeting ads in the
Big Lake Wildcat. The Christmas
greeting special edition has become a
tradition here and the special greeting
issue will be published December 20.
We here at the Wildcat will make
every effort to make sure
all who wish to have a Christmas
greeting ad published are contacted
by our staff. Anyone who is inadvert-
antly not contacted who would like
to send greetings to their friends and
customers in this manner may call
884-2215. We will be glad to help
you.
burgers, hot dogs, cold drinks and like
items for local high school students at
noon and will also be available for use at
ball games. The snack bar will be built
as soon as possible.
School trustees also gave the green
light for the school architect to proceed
with plans to build four new classrooms
at Reagan Elementary school and do ex-
tensive remodeling at the elementary
gymnasium. The board also gave the ok
to place partitions in the present first
grade "open classroom' area along with
the new classrooms and gymnasium ren-
ovation. Things to be done at the gym-
nasium include new restroom facilities,
dressing rooms, rollaway bleachers,
and roofing repairs. The preliminary
cost estimates of the projects were esti-
mated by the architect to be around
$360,000.
The board authorized Superintendent
Teel to purchase bus type reclining seats
to be placed in present school buses for
long trips by various school activities.
It was noted that around thirty six of
the bus type seats will fit in a seventy
two passenger bus. The seats will cost
$175.00 each. Also, air conditioning will
be installed in two new buses the school
has purchased.
Reagan School Board members auth-
orized Christmas bonuses for teachers
and auxiliary personnel. Teachers will
receive $500 bonuses and auxiliary per-
sonnel will receive $300.00.
City Council
takes action
on resolutions
The Big Lake City Council took offici-
al action on two Concho Valley Council
of Government (CVCOG) resolutions last
Tuesday night and expressed displea-
sure at both resolutions. One resolution
was a regional housing plan (low rent
housing) and the other had to do with
federal land use planning.
The council adopted a resolution re-
garding support of the first resolution-
the regional housing plan. In the last
paragraph, the council stated that they
'approve in principle only, the CVCOG
regional housing plan and will give con-
sideration toward its implementation as
mechanisms and methods of implemen-
tation are more clearly defined and con-
sidered by the local public and private
agencies responsible."
The city council was not as kind in its
wording concerning federal land use
planning. In the last paragraph of that
adopted resolution the council stated:
"...the City Council of Big Lake, believ-
ing in the inherent right of private own-
ership and in the fundamental right of
that owner to have full control over his
property; we whole heartedly reject this
natural resources management (land use
planning) plan in its entirety.
The two resolutions were acted upon
by request of the executive director of
CVCOG, James Ridge of San Angelo.
The CVCOG receives its funding from
HUD and that funding is determined in
part by a rating system requirement that
they secure endorsement of local agen-
cies in their region for this plan.
In other business, the City Council
agreed to purchase a radio to be used by
an area Juvenile Officer who serves Big
Lake. The council also agreed to
pay one half the cost of insurance for
members of the Big Lake Volunteer Fire
Department.
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Werst, David. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 1979, newspaper, December 13, 1979; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth659273/m1/1/?q=green+energy: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reagan County Library.