The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 15, 1966 Page: 4 of 8
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School Time Means Time For PTA
Newsletter...
When the children start off to
school, it's prime time to join the
PTA.
And in this school year, PTA’s
throughout the country are mov-
ing forward on programs that
seek to involve all parents—and
other adults interested in chil-
dren’s welfare — in ever better
education, health and opportu-
nity for all children.
“Never in its history has the
PTA been more necessary to the
well-being of children and our
nation,” says Mrs. Jennelle
Moorhead, of Eugene, Ore., Na-
tional PTA president. “Never
have we had so rich an opportu-
nity to move the nation to great
decisions, for ideas that the PTA
has promoted for years have
come into their own.”
Its goal of making preschool
education available to all chil-
dren, for example, is winning
broad acceptance. Increasingly,
too, educators realize the impor-
tance of involving parents in their
children’s education, something
long advocated by the PTA.
This year, the PTA plans to
experiment with new methods of
reaching the non-participating
parents—the working mother, the
parent-without-partner, the resi-
dents of urban slums or depressed
rural areas. New programs, too,
will deal with children’s health,
safety and education.
It’s off to school for Jeanette and Michael Ryan—they’re first
and second graders at Nettelhorst School in Chicago—and
back to the PTA for Mrs. Robert W. Ryan, like millions of
other Americans, a participant in PTA programs for chil-
dren. Their message: It’s Prime Time To Join!
One such project, undertaken
in cooperation with the U. S.
Public Health Service, will at-
tempt to discourage 7th and 8th
graders from starting to smoke
cigarettes.
On other subjects, as well, the
PTA has a full schedule of “crit-
ical issues” ripe for action.
Membership in the PTA, of
course, is open to any parent or
teacher or school administrator
—indeed, to all who are inter-
ested in children and willing to
uphold the Objects of the PTA.
Membership dues vary among lo-
cal units and state branches of
the National PTA, but only ten
cents of each membership fee
goes to the Notional Office, in
Chicago, for maintaining the or-
ganization and providing the
services that enable PTA’s to
function effectively and serve
children best.
The PTA Magazine, official
publication of the organization,
has scheduled three continuing j
series of articles dealing with
school education, family life, and
community services and intended
to foster “better lives for all chil-
dren.”
“Your Own Project Head
Start” is one subject in the pre-
school series, of interest primarily
to parents of young children. The
common blocks to learning in ele-
mentary school are scheduled for
discussion in another article; and
experts will also survey, for PTA
Magazine readers, the problem
areas of sex education and teen-
age drinking and use of drugs.
For every parent, Mrs. Moor-
head emphasized, “the PTA has
an ideal assignment—to work
with men and women who share
your concern for children and
youth, to plan and initiate new
projects, to enjoy a better under-
standing of yourself and your
family, to take pride in working
in an organization of national
renown and international reputa-
tion.”
Membership enrollment con-
tinues throughout the school
year. But for parents who want
to accomplish the most possible
for their children, starting-to-
school time is “prime time” to
join the PTA.
THE BIG LAKE (TEXAS) WILDCAT September 15, 1966
Farmer Field News
By Mrs. Jack Stewart
We have surely been bless-
ed with good rains here at
the camp. Our yards are just
beautiful and all the ranch
land around us is so pretty
and green. The weather is so
lege in Abilene. We hope he
does well in his college work.
Our other son, Jackie, was th^
first child to graduate from
the Benedum Field camp. He
was going to school in Rankin
and graduated in 1951. He
graduated from Lamar State
College of Technology in
Beaumont in 1959. He and his
nice and cool after the rain.
Jack. Jerry and I en)o,ed rf.XZ ,!".S
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jacK. jerry anu j. cnjuycu - __
the football game in Big Lake leani; La' Jacki® ‘® a g “'0gl
for Texaco and his office io
Friday night.
Well school has started. It
is different this year as there
are no children leaving from
out here going to school. We
have had quite a few children
living out here in the camp
but Jerry Lee was the only
child from here that went on
to graduate. He is now going
to Draughon’s Business Col-
li. B. LEWIS
Phone 884-2117
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We hope Jerry does as well
for himself as his brother. It
is rather lonely now as Jerry
Lee is gone. We wish him the
Best Luck and we hope to be
seeing him ever few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Goertz
of Artesia, N. M. spent Friday
through Monday in the home
of her sister, Mr. and Mrs. A.
L. Ringle. They were on a
weeks vacation, and spent
most of the time with their
daughter and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Pat Newbrough and baby
girl, Melia, in Midland.
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FIRST BAPTISTS CHURCH
HAS WEEK OF ACTIVITY
IIAKKISGN IIAMER
BRIEF VISITOR MONDAY
First Baptist, continuing an '
emphasis upon the youth, re-
cognized the students who |
were going away to college J
Harrison Hamer and son
F. A., long ago residents of
Big Lake, were brief visitors
in the Theron Weatherby
last Sunday. Rev. Clarence j home Monday afternoon. Mr.! tive—wage earners laid off.
Dycus, Assistant Registrar, I Hamer was Deputy Sheriff j The legislation will force
Howard Payne College, here under Sheriff A. W. Bil-1 a good many smaller
By Cong. O. Clark Fisher,
21st District
A WAGE-FIXING BILL
with inflationary overtones,
gained final approval last
week. Often mis-named a,
‘minimum wage’; this legis- j
lation actually becomes a go- j
ing wage for most of those it
directly affects.
AFL-CIO, a chief sponsor,
has always contended that by
pushing up the ‘minimum’,
the higher wage levels, not
directly affected, will auto-
matically advance. Another
unconcealed motive of the
unions is to make it less at-
tractive for industries to lo-
cate in the south—including
Texas—where the cost of
living and of production is
lower than in the union-dom-
inated high wage industriali-
zed east and north.
It goes without saying that
everyone likes to see good
wages paid. But under our
free enterprize system wage
levels are supposed to be re-
lated to productive capacity
of the worker. Yet certain
union leaders and politicians
maintain that by forcing
wages upward they can there-
by force more prosperity.
This theory is both unsound
and tragic. By forcing wage
levels up to $1.60 an hour
($1.40 Feb. 1, 1937; $1.60 Feb.
1, 1968), there will undoubt-
edly be tens of thousands of
! the fringe—or less produc-
I tive-
lingsley in the late 20’ and
early 30’s. The only old timers
he saw and visited with were
Mr. and Mrs. Billingsley.
Jake Carr visited with F.
A., an old time school mate,
and both among the first on
Brownwood, brought the
morning message on he “Cost
of Discipleship.”
This week, the Woman’s
Missionary Union is emphas-
izing the Week of Prayer for
the Mary Hill Davis offering
for State Missions. A program j the Owl football team,
is held each day and the | Mr. and Mrs. Hamer are
group has set a goal of $190.00 both in good health and have
for the church to reach as an retired on a small farm near
opportunity to help the blind Giddings, Texas. F. A. and
the deaf, the migrant workers, family live in Nashville, Tenn.,
and different language groups where he has a fence contrac-
within the state of Texas. j ting business, and has recent-
Also. on Tuesday evening, ly purchased some land,
several First Baptist members
attended the monthly Work-
er’s Conference at First Bap-
tist Church, Iraan, to be
taught a mission book, and
then will in turn, teach the
mission book to First Bap-
tist, Big Lake members during
the Schools of Missions from
i October 2-5.
BIG LAKE DUPLICATE
|PLAYERS WIN IN ODESSA
Mrs. Lee Andrews and Mrs.
J. O. Lusby took high overall
awards in the Women’s Pairs
of Odessa Regional Duplicate
Bridge Tournament Friday
afternoon and evening. There
were several sections of play-
ers with 12 to 14 tables in each
section.
They received 4.50 Master
Points and a necklace watch
as awards.
J. O. Lusby and Mrs. J. L.
Werst, Jr. teamed Saturday
evening to place third in a
section in the Mixed Pairs.
The tournament was at-
tended by many nationally
known bridge experts, both
men and women, from all over
the USA.
OTHER STUDENTS OFF
TO SCHOOL THIS WEEK
As is usual with compiling
a long list of names, several
students names and where
they will attend school was
not included last week.
Jerry Stewart will go to
Draughn’s Business College
in Abilene and two girls,
Nancy Winn and Elaine Cates
are attending Columbia Sec-
retarial College in Odessa.
busi-
nesses to close down. Many
others that stay open will re-
duce their work forces to off-
set the increase in cost of
production, as decreed by the
Congress.
Despite grins of triumph on
the faces of certain law-mak-
ers who were induced to vote
for this wage-fixing legisla-
tion, there is a guilt complex
mixed with it. After all—the
Member must answer: whom
am I to tell Mr. X, a shop-
keeper on Main Street, how
much he MUST pay his em-
ployees? Can it be that the
merchant who is beselged
with debts, high taxes, high
interest, upkeep mounting,
government controls, and a
hundred other things) is bet-
ter able to make that decision,
than is a politician 2000 miles
away?
Mrs. Joe Tom Davidson of
Ozona visited here Monday
wih her mother, Mrs. Freida
Hill.
***** V-BMT1
Big Lake Wildcat
Big Lake, Texas
JIM FREEMAN JOINS
AIR FORCE, LEAVES SOON
Jim Freeman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Freeman of
Todd Field, enlisted in the
Air Force and received orders
to leave for duty October 3.
He will serve four years.
Freeman received a degree
| in Business Administration
from North Texas State Uni-
versity this spring. He has
been living at home this sum-
I mer, employed as a relief
pumper with an oil company.
Big Lake Lodge No. 1203,
A. F. & A. M.
Stated Meeting
Second Tuesday
of each month
W. T. Mills, Sec
C. E. Beaird, W. M.
MAPLES
Funeral Home
Phone 884-2160
BOTH FUNERAL AND
AMBULANCE SERVICE
311 W. Plaza
Big Lake, Texas
Strange World . . .
Many talk do to others
what you won’t them to do
to you — but won’t only you
to live it.
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It tin canter it ttlnp
Gardener of the Week
Due to the wonderful bene-
fits from the recent rains
almost every yard in town is
showing it’s brightest, fullest
and most colorful face, mak-
ing a hard task of selecting
a place for the Gardener of
the Week honor. However the
yard of Mr. and Mrs. B. C.
Howard at 903 Texas was
chosen, and It holds the hon-
or beautifully.
The neatly tended lawn Is
surrounded by many species
of rose bushes in bloom. Also
in different stages of bloom
are dahlias, aromathus, mari-
golds, assylum, zlnnas, calan-
dlum, coleus, agaratum, rose
moss, Jew plants, pinks, Dew
plants and succulents.
Mr. and Mrs. Stacy Becknell
returned Sunday afternoon
from a weeks visit In the
home of their daughter and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Karmen
Weatherby, Tim, Jay Keith,
! and Amy Camille of Irving.
Karmen is interning at the
Methodist Hospital in Dallas
and was on surgical ward, so
their visit with him was lim-
ited. However Carolyn and
the children entertained them
! adequately with sight seeing
1 around Dallas and shopping
in some of the huge depart-
ment stores and shopping
centers.
They also visited with the
j daughters of the L. L. Tuck-
’ ers, former Big Lake residents,
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Young and
family, and Mr. and Mrs. Red
Chambliss.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Holland
left Saturday for Creede, Colo,
and plan to be gone a week or
Mrs. D. C. Goble of Ozona
is visiting this week in the
two resting and fishing. The | home of her daughter and
couple have owned a cabin I family, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
there for several years, and Lee Holland, while Mrs. Hol-
plan to close the place for the .land is undergoing dental
winter when they leave. [surgery.
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Werst, J. L., Jr. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 15, 1966, newspaper, September 15, 1966; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth660732/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reagan County Library.