The West News (West, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 19, 1986 Page: 2 of 16
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The West New* • June 19,1986
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Larry Knapek, Editor
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17th Airborne Seeks Members
The 17th Airborne Division Association, composed
of men who served as paratroopers and glidermen in
the Division during World War II, is conducting a
membership drive to locate all former members,
according to Edward Siergiej, executive secretary for
the group
If anyone served with this Division, please contact
Siergiej, Secretary-Treasurer, 62 Forty Acre Mountain
Road, Danbury, Connecticut 06811, for details of the
Division Association He will also give information
about the 33rd Annual Reunion which this year will be
at the Hyatt-San Jose, San Jose, California on August
7-10.
Early Registration at MCC
WACO - McLennan
Community College in Waco
will offer students enrolling in
MCC for the first time a
chance to beat the fall
semester registration rush.
Six special sessions have
been established to allow
students to be tested,
oriented, advised and
registered in one day with
special attention from the
counseling staff and program
directors.
Four day and two evening
sessions have been
scheduled. The day sessions
will be July 28, 29, 30 and
31. The schedule will be:
testing (ACT or English
placement test and Nelson-
Denny reading test), 7:45
a.m.; orientation, 1 p.m.;
advisement and early
registration, 2:45p.m.
The evening sessions are
Aug. 5 and 6. The schedule
for those days will be: testing,
11:45 a.m.; orientation, 5
p.m.; advisement and early
registration, 6:45p.m.
Students whose test scores
are already on file at MCC
may attend only orientation,
advisement and registration
(1 p.m. July 28-31 or 5 p.m.
Aug. 5-6).
Reservations are being
taken in the Office of
Counseling Services (756-
6551 ext. 382) for the
sessions.
MCC will also offer
testing/orientation/advising
sessions Aug. 12, Wand 15,
but no early registration will
be allowed on those dates.
The fall semester at MCC
begins Aug. 25, Regular
registration will be Aug. 19
and 20.
Business/ Tex
Letter to the Editor
I have been a member of
the West Community Hos-
pital Board for 42 months.
Other board members and
myself have taken a lot of
heat, especially in the last
year, we sat by quietly while
our values, and in some
instances, our characters
were attacked
As for myself. I have
taken enough. I can see no
reason for myself and
sometimes my family being
ridiculed
Please publish my letter
of resignation, that is
enclosed. It states my
feelings, and in my opinion
the only way that our
hospital can run effectively.
near drowning, was also an
eye opener to the need for
peer review. In my opinion,
had Dr Smith not been
called in that evening as a
second attending physician,
I would not be enjoying
James' company today.
The Hermann group came
along and we thought they
would be the answer to our
prayers; they were going to
provide peer review through
their management group.
This has been a farce in my
opinion.
We still have the same old
problems and the same old
lawsuits, and more, and the
Texans Warned
Of Skin Cancer Risk
AUSTIN - A “golden tan” Apply a sunscreen at least an
may be fashionable, but if the hour before going into the
price of having one is sun and reapply after
premature aging and swimming or heavy
wrinkling, and possibly perspiration,
cancer, perhaps it is time for * Avoid sun exposure
styles to change, according to between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.,
the Texas Department of when the sun’s ultraviolet
Health rays are most intense.
Some 400,000 new cases * Do not use sun lamps,
of skin cancer, the most tanning parlors, or tanning
common form of human pills,
cancer, will be diagnosed this ★ Be especially cautious of
year in the United States, sunlight when using
And most of them, recent prescribed drugs, since some
studies conclude, will be the tend to increase the skin's
result of repeated light sensitivity,
overexposure to the sun.
To reduce the risk of
Only 1,000 copies printed.
Hill County Book Published
same
old out of court overexposure to the sun, Dr.
Price advised Texans to:
★ Wear protective clothing,
Dear Mrs. Morrison:
Effective as of now, June
16. 1986. I submit this my
letter of resignation as a
director on the
Community Hospital Board.
I do this with mixed
emotions. When I first
started this position, I was
excited about the opportu-
nity to share my input for
the betterment of the
facility. As I grew closer and
got more involved into
problems I began to realize
we had a major problem of
lawsuits against some of our
physicians, thus involving
the hospital in same said
suits. In the beginning,
since I was a newcomer to
the board, I was skeptical as
to whether this was fact,
since my family and I used
local physicians, from time
to time.
As time went on my eyes
were opened to the fact, that
this was not “blowing
smoke’’, but was very
accurate My first hand
experience was with my
mother-in-law’s case where
a diagnosis of liver cancer
was made by one of the local
physicians. After a second
opinion and tests at a Waco
hospital, the diagnosis was
shot down thus saving her,
in my opinion, from a very
radical procedure proposed
by a local physician on the
staff at WCH
Another incident at the
emergency room, involving
my grandson James, after a
settlements for malpractice.
Had a few of us been able
to read the two editions of includin9 hats, long sleeves,
TEXAS MONTHLY, earlier even gloves,
this year, before picking * Choose, and use
ua u Hermann as management sunscreens which are best
West for our hospital, we would sui,e(f to skin sensitivity.
have sent them flying back
to Houston because of their
reported scandalous activi-
ties.
I was also disappointed in
the city council appointing
two board members who in
my opinion, have a conflict
of interest by the prescri-
bing and dispensing of
medicine in the West area.
These above mentioned
things plus the fact that
serving on this board can
put you in very precarious
positions from time to time,
are my reasons for resign-
ing.
I have enjoyed some of
the times of fellowship with
some of the board members,
and I can truthfully say to
the existing board members,
and to anyone that might
become a board member in
the future, that if you are
worth your salt, you will
strive to implement an
effective physician peer
review program If this is
not done, West Community
Hospital’s troubles and
problems have just begun.
I request this letter of
resignation, a part of the
June 16, 1986 board meet-
ing, be a part of the minutes
of this meeting, verbatim.
Sincerely,
Truett W. Bates
West, Texas
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ans can now save as much Texas Veterans can now get
as $1,000 - $1,400 in up * $20,000 loan to buy a
front closing costs by using house AND get a $20,000
the Texas Veterans Housing loan to buy land AND get a
Assistance Program,” Texas *15,000 home improvement
HILLSBORO - “Hill Coun- Graham post surgeon, Dr. the “1860 Census for Hill
ty (Texas) Trilogy” has been Josephus Steiner, shot and County, Texas.” This por-
published by the Hill killed the post commander, tion will be of great interest
Major Ripley Arnold, in a to genealogists and histo-
gunfight in front of the rians. This has the alphabe-
major’s quarters. tized listing of about 3,000
This portion of the book free residents of Hill
outlines the events leading County, along with a listing
up to the shooting and then of the slave holders and the
follows the bizarre actions number of slaves held in
which followed. “The Affair 1860. This report lists the
at cort Graham’’ is a names, ages, occupation,
ng story which holds place of birth and the dollar
the reader’s attention. value of both real and
Part two in the trilogy is personal property owned by
all families residing in the
county in 1860. This was the
first census taken in the
county.
Part three contains “A
History of the Old Settlers
and Confederate Veterans
Reunion grounds (1901-
on whether or not to make 1985,\” The reunion
College Press. The non-fic-
tion work was written by
Col. Harold B. Simpson,
director of the Confederate
Research Center on the Hill
College campus in Hillsboro.
Leading the trilogy is
“The Affair at Fort Gra-
ham”, a bizarre story whrK
reads like fiction but
documented history. On
Sept. 6, 1853, the Fort
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. „k „ grounds were established in
Sw •hglbility change perm- “,01 an<J 5erBed as (he
social and recreational hub
of Hill County until 1924.
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Loans for the Texas
Veterans Housing Assis-
tance Program are made This nostalgic history of the
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purposes and to again make
this a mecca for Hill County
residents.
“Hill County (Texas)
Trilogy” is must reading for
people interested in Texas
history and will prove to be
a fascinating book for those
with roots in the Hill County
area. Its large size and
outstanding historical photos
will make it an attractive
addition’ to a person’s
coffee table and the large
print makes it easy to read.
Cost of the book is $15 per
copy and may be obtained
by writing the Hill College
Press, Box 619, Hillsboro,
TX 76645. This book was
designated the official Ses-
quicentennial book for Hill
County and only 1,000
copies were printed. There
are also a few copies of an
all-leather limited (25)
collector’s edition of the
book which sells for $75
each.
This is the 27th book Col.
Land Commissioner Garry loan to make repairs to their through more than 200 numerous illustrationS and a Simpson has compiled, ed-
Mauro announced today. residence, Mauro ex- approved lenders across the . , Confederate vetpran* ited or written. Three of his
reunion grounds includes
numerous illustrations and a
auro announced today. ««».—..*». list of Confederate veterans ited or writ
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home. When combined with 17 and at the end of that 252 VETS for assis- ugc tbe area ^or brigade history written on
a federal VA loan, no down Period the board wil1 decide tance educational and recreational anV American military unit,
payment is required.
“The Texas Veterans
Housing Assistance Pro-
gram is still the best deal
around,” said Mauro, who
also serves as Chairman of
the Texas Veterans Land
Board. “No other loan, not
even a federal VA loan, can
match its low rate and easy
terms.”
Mauro reminded Texas
REALTORS that, since the
federal VA loan rate is
currently charging 9.5 per-
cent with 5-7 points, and
since the Texas VHAP
$20,000 loan charges NO
POINTS, a Texas Veteran
can save as much as $1,000 -
$1,400 in up front closing
costs by using a VHAP loan.
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a Texas VHAP loan are a 1
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a Veteran can get together
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Mauro also noted that a
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three of the Veterans
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Knapek, Larry. The West News (West, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 19, 1986, newspaper, June 19, 1986; West, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth716757/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting West Public Library.