The Pharr Press (Pharr, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 27, 1969 Page: 4 of 8
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THE PHARR PRESS, PHARR (HIDALGO COUNTY), TEXAS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1969
lids Opened On
flaggar Slack Co.
Want, Edinburg
TFour firms submitted bids to
eonstruct the new Haggar Slack
Q». plant in Edinburg.
Lowest bidder was Noser Con-
struction Company with a bid of
$€38,900. Noser gave a tentative
day period for completion of
file building.
Other bidders included Fitz-
gerald & Co. of Donna with a
$182,649 bid (270 days); Nai-
smith & Trevino of Corpus Christi,
$580,507 (210 days); and W. E.
Crawford Co. of McAllen $486,-
000 <375 days).
All bidders will be considered
before the bid is awarded,
Marion Shirah, Edinburg Cham-
ber of Commerce manager, said.
Achitect Ted Horton of Law-
ten, Oklahoma was present at
the meeting.
The plant is expected to hire
400 employees on each of two
shifts.
WHAT DOES
BIBLE SAY?
ABOUT EFFICIENCY
L Can efficiency be learned?
2. Must efficiency be cultivated?
3L Does efficiency aid in self-
adjustment?
4. .Does efficiency enhance fidel-
ity?
•5. Does efficiency bolster Chris-
tian workmanship?
43. How is Christian .efficiency
tested?
7. How did the apostle Paul sum
up his efficiency?
* * *
ANSWERS
1. Yes. Isaiah 1:17.
2. Yes. I Timothy 4:14.
3. Yes. I Co.r. 9:20-22.
§. Yes. Matthew 25:20,21.
Yes. II Timothy 2:15.
6. By fruitbrearing. John 15:8.
7, Philippians 4.13.
* * *
FRANK TRAYLER, Director
Bible Chair, Pan American College
Dental Ass'n. To
Elect New Officers
Members of the Rio Grande
Valley District Dental Society
will meet at 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
March 1st in the Fairway Motor
Hotel Tee Room at McAllen.
Chief business of the dinner
meeting will be the election of
new officers to be installed in
May and serve one year.
Program arrangements have
been made by Dr. E. S. Davila,
Brownsville, out-going vice presi-
dent. Other officers completing
■their terms are Dr. Jack Demp-
sey, Brownsville, president, and
Dr. Von H. Raimond, Jr., Edin-
burg, secretary-treasurer.
LIBRARY NOTES
FROM
PHARR MEMORIAL
LIBRARY
By
Mrs. Ruby Fleming
House Bill 260, presented ,by
Rep. Joe Shannon of Ft. Worth
passed the Texas House by a I
vote of 134 to 11, without debate. I
The Senate Committee on State
Affairs had a hearing on Senate |
Bill 122 Feb. 26th in the Senate I
Chamber. This bill, if it passes |
the Senate, will correlate all the
Library Services of Texas by a
vast system to serve every read-
er, old or young, in the State.
Contact your senator and help
your library grow.
* * «
BIDE ME FAIR by Harvey
Howells is a family saga, set in
Scotland, that takes the reader
from the Boer War to the Battle
of Britain. The novel is built a-
round the marriage of Harriet,
strong, willful, and Robert, hon-
est, kind and weak, a Victorian
who has trouble accepting mod-
ern advances. Rich in incident
and characters, BIDE ME FAIR
is the portrait of an age, moving,
totally believable, and sweeping
in its scope.
* » m
For the music lover, William
Lovelock has written the book,
A CONCISE HISTORY OF MU-
SIC, which is both factual and
informative, giving the origins
and growth of the various musica'^
styles. The author is the musical
Director of the Queensland Con-
servatorim in Brisbane, Austra-
lia, and his book should' be of
especial interest to students of
musical appreciation.
» * *
THE GITAWAY BOX by Hil-
ary Miltonis is a tale of a boy
and his grandfather, their cour-
age and directiveness pitted a-
gainst callousness and selfishness.
The two, the old man and the
boy, overcome the world and the
pattern of civilization and at last
the boy, at ten, proves to be the
man his grandfather deserves.
* * *
The Pharr Memorial Library is
open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through Saturday.
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If
WASHINGTON ANO Small
Business
BY C. WILSON HARDER
►—-
Cut-Rate Surgery?
New Grand Jury
Is Convened
The Grand Jury of the 92nd
District Court convened Wednes-
day. The following were mem-
bers of the panel:
Mrs. R. B. Carter, Elsa; M. R.
Jennings, Pharr; Tom Grant, Mc-
Allen; Jack Wallace, Edinburg;
John Burris, McAllen; Mrs. Doro-
thy Armstrong, Weslaco; Tom Se-
kula, McCook.
Mrs. Jim Griffin, Mission; Leo
Longoria, Edinburg; Elano Gar-
za, Weslaco; Mrs. Dick Eubanks,
Pharr; Ed Burkhart, Alamo; W.
P. Patton, Pharr; Leo Sanchez,
Pharr; W. C. Richards, Hargill;
Ed Vela, Jr., Hidalgo; Frank Pe-
rez, Mission, Jim McAllen, Linn;
Lalo Ramirez, McAllen; and Clau-
dio Hinojosa, Mercedes.
Naturally, there is always high
hopes that an incoming new
administration, with a fresh ap-
proach, and a fresh viewpoint,
can find new solutions to exist-
ing problems, develop worth-
while new programs.
* * *
But at this particular era in
the American Republic the ma-
jor problem often appears
changing the minds of people.
* * ❖
A recently expressed line of
reasoning concerning the medi-
cal profession is a curious man-
ifestation of specious thinking.
* * *
The practice of medicine in
these United States has long
been of the highest order, and
it has perhaps led the world
in the development, and accep-
tance of, improved techniques.
* * *
This has largely been due to
maintaining the highest stan-
dards of medical education
which has largely weeded out
those showing less than a high
degree of aptitude.
* * *
In short, the philosophy has
been that nobody has a right
to practice medicine. Rather,
sick people have the rights . . .
the right to know that what-
ever doctor they choose has
been subjected to a most rigor-
ous training in competition
with other aspirants for a de-
gree, with only the best quali-
fied succeeding.
* * *
Therefore, it was somewhat
of a shock to learn from Lisa
Hobbs in the San Francisco Ex-
aminer that there is now a de-
mand from the Black Students
Union to scrap this system.
* * *
As reported, the BSU has
made a demand on the Univer-
sity of California Medical
School, one of the nation’s
greatest, to lower the admis-
sion standards. The rationale
here is there might be some
members of the minority
groups who due to other caus-
es, did not make an outstanding
showing in high school, but
could become good doctors.
* * *
But in addition, the group
also demanded that the require-
ments for graduating with a
medical degree also be lowered
for minority students.
* * *
Carried to its logical conclu-
sion, this could lead to a less-
ening of the quality of all med-
ical practice.
* * *
Or to be fair to the public,
it could perhaps lead to medi-
cal degrees being classified as
A and B degrees.
* * *
Of course then, it would only
be fair to start a system where-
by treatment by a doctor with
a B degree would charge less.
In fact, this would develop into
a whole new field of surgeons
who could advertise “Let Us
Cut You at Cut-Rates.” In fact,
if the suggested course is fol-
lowed, there is no limit to how
silly things could get.
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Support
Better Scouting
J Kenneth Wilde,
Winter Visitor,
Passes Away
Kenneth Ronald Wilde, a win-
ter visitor here for 10 years,
passed away unexpectedly Feb.
20, 11:15 a.m., at the McAllen
General Hospital. He was 64.
A native of South Dakota, he
came here from Bancroft, and
lived a’t Sam Houston and “I”
Road.
No local services were held.
Funeral services were held at
Lake Preston, South Dakota, Feb.
25th1 with burial there.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Myra Louise Wilde of Ban-
croft; two sons; one daughter,
three brothers, two sisters and
13 grandchildren.
Skinner Funeral home was in
charge of local arrangements.
- "FLOWERS TODAY"
The eminent Marshall Keeble used to say,
“I want to give a man flowers while he is
still alive.” The Apostle Paul said the same
thing in another way, “Give honor to whom
honor is due.” (Rom. 13:7).
HONOR GOD BY WORSHIPING HIM AT THE
CHURCH OF CHRIST
12th. & Nebraska
San Juan, Texas
Editors Chair ...
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they would not ordinarily do
without leadership.
The meeting was discrimina-
tory, in that it was directed at
Mexican-American students in A
& I College and in Kingsville High
School. Others were asked to
leave.
The A & I College paper car-
ried a front page story about the
meeting before it was held and
devoted some three columns to
it after it was over.
Now our question is, why was
a meeting of this kind held in a
tax supported institution of the
state?
Aleman, by the way, is known
in the Valley and was the speak-
er to the Edcouch-Elsa students
before their walk out last 'fall.
# * «
THE PERMANENT SCHOOL
FUND of Texas has a cash bal-
ance of about $750 million. It is
growing at the rate of about $50
million a year. All income from
school oil and gas leases goes in
this fund and is invested. Income
from the investments is spent
for school use and that is all.
In his recent message to the
Texas Legislature, Gov. Smith re-
commended that 72.5% of the an-
nual income to this fund be spent
for day by day state aid to
schools.
What good is this great big
nest egg? The only value it is
right now is that some 4 or 5%
made on investments is spent.
That is kind of like a corporation
that needs money for operation
but taxes its stockholders for the
additional money, even though
it has a tremendous reserve al-
ready taken from the stockhold-
ers.
We endorse the Governor’s
plan to use a portion of the per-
manent fund income for current
school expenses. It is not like
robbing Peter to pay Paul. You
are robbing Peter to pay Peter!
Annual Service . . .
(Continued from Page 1)
ZINE in an article entitled “The
Migrant Teacher’’ by Catharine
V. Richards,
uu ,
Sixty-four PSJA employees will
receive annual services p i n
awards. Mr. Skiles will present
27 five year pins, 23 ten year
pins, 9 fifteen year pins, 4 twenty
year pins, and one twenty-five
year pin.
Mrs. Florine Neff, High School
English teacher who will be re-
tiring this year, will be honored
with presentation of the Twenty-
Five Year Pin. Another retiring
teacher who will be especially
honored is Mrs. Johnnie S. Todd,
math teacher at Edison Elemen-
tary School, wh„. [will receive her
ten year pin'.
Mrs. Frances Jensen will pre-
sent a special T.S.T.A. Award to
C. P. McGaughey, Edison School
principal, for completing eight
years of faithful service as a
hard-working member of the
T.S.T.A. Executive Board. During
his entire eight years of service,
Mr. McGaughey never missed a
meeting of the Board.
Special entertainment will be
presented by Greta Sullivan’s
Dance Studio, McAllen.
The Local Unit T. S. T. A. will
be hosts to a reception following i
the program in the High School
Cafeteria.
FINE ARTS SILHOUETTE—
Workmen are silhouetted a-
gainst the sky and in front of
the adjoining steel work on
the Pan American College
Fine Arts Center. This com-
plex is currently under con-
struction at a cost of $1,250,000
and is due for completion in
June of this year. The building
will provide a home for the
various musical classes and
groups plus room for studies in
drama, speech and in painting,
sculpture and other forms of
art taught at the Rio Gran'de
Valley college. — (Pan Ameri-
can Photo by Gerald Whitaker)
Citrus Committee
To Meet March 4
The Texas Valley Citrus Com-
mittee will meet March 4, 1969,
at the Texas A&I Citrus Center,
Weslaco, Texas, 8 p.m.
The meeting has been called to
consider making some adjust-
ments in the depth of the six/
eight-pound and eight/five-pound
bag masters.
Consideration, also, will be
given to making some adjust-
ments in the orange regulations
by adjusting the minimum diame-
ter on the 252 size or lowering
the pack size.
Leonides Barron Dies
At Age 86
Leonides Medina Barron of
McAllen, a former .resident of
Pharr, passed away in the Mc-
Allen Hospital February 19th. He
was 86.
A native of Mexico, he came
to the United States in 1915 and
became a citizen. They 1 ved in
Pharr for many years and later
moved to San Juan. After retiring
as a businessman, he and family
moved to McAllen.
One of his sons is Leon V.
Barron, a graduate of PSJA High
School, who now lives in Aust n
and has his own public relations
business.
Funeral services were held
Feb. 20th in McAllen.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Andrea Barron, McAllen; two
sons, Frank Barron of Monterrey,
Mexico, and Leon V. Barron,
Austin; a daughter, Mrs. Ruth
Abitua, McAllen, and 11 grand-
children.
BEVERLY BECK INITIATED
INTO HONOR SOCIETY
Beverly K. Beck of Pharr, a
student at Southwest Texas State
College, San Marcos, has been
initiated into Alpha Chi National
Scholastic Honor Society.
To be eligible for membership
in Alpha Chi, a student must have
an overall 2.0 grade point aver-
i age and minimum of 60 hours
[ of college credit, at least 30 of
which must be completed at
Southwest Texas.
Miss Beck is the daughter of
Mrs. Percy G. Beck. She is a jun-
ior business education major.
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boxes of early oranges and 72,000
boxes of late oranges. The grape-
fruit shipments are 1,320,000
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