The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 46, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 13, 1974 Page: 1 of 10
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Crowd’ Of 20 Shows Up For Mertmu
To Discuss School Building Program
A slim turnout of 20 people,
plus about a dozen school
. administrators, met for about
- * three hours last night in the
school auditorium in an at
tempt to provide the school
board some guidance on a
probable impending bond
election, but nothing definite
was decided
The major stumbling block
appeared to be a knowledge of
the actual coat of any building
project the school board and
the school district will attempt
to undertake.
Superintendent Carl Waddle,
who presided at the public
meeting, was unable to give
any valid coat figures because
any estimates or projections
given about 18 months ago,
prim to the last bond election,
have been diitorted by in-
flation.
For instance, the proposal in
May of last year was for gift
million. Using the inflation rate
given Waddle by various
contractors and builders -
about 15 per cent per year - the
coat of a similar project would
be almost $3.8 million.
What has been troubling the
school board and ad-
ministrators has been the tack
of input and opinions from
voters on a potential school
bond issue.
Tl«at was the reason for the
well-publicized meeting hat
night.
Those that dkl come centered
their questions and comments
on two
to give the eimmyte given last
year:
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local group that will
■tie Thanksgiving Day
t bit like the original one
than 350 years ago is the
Young Farmers
in this nation’s infancy
the farm families got
t to give thanks, to
socially, and to keep
with the Indians. With
major exception, that is
the Sinum Young Farmers
celebrate together in 1974
air no Indians to
about these days but
lapect of modem society -
, or boredom -■ will
taken care of by the
ints
ig the same lines, they
provided such activities
iily ice cream socials and
and a trip to the Welder
life Refuge jus! like in
<k) days
is more to the Sinton
;er Farmers, which
several members from
Taft area than the social
They work with other
and organizations to
r agriculture and
unity improvement --
bread and butter, you
say
die pas! they nave worked
the Future Farmers of
tea on such things as
lor mechanics by fur-
ing equipment and
e
have also sponsored, in
lion with (he Texas
Agricultural Extension
ice, courses on beef
iction, farm electric
^ and farm arc welding,
;h high school vocational
(cultural departments
(other agriculturally-
function is a series of
ly meetings that feature
speakers who talk on
things as shrimp farming,
iltural economics, weed
ol new equipment
iques and record
«
® Sinton Young Farmers
Ycipate as a service
Eization in community
tts that draw attention to,
*!p better, the community
^hich they live and work,
y generally participate in
and area parades and
such as theii float and
in the recent Sinton Old
P*rs Day Parade, and
j® preparation of a grain
im portion of the up-
coming agribusiness Food and
Fiber Abundance Week
Carrying out the rural United
Fund (Community Fund, in
TafD drive and working with
the Outreach School, which is
a special school for (tie men-
tally retarded, are a couple
more of their projects.
Providing leadership ac-
tivities in the area to help other
organizations promote
agriculture is another.
Recently the Sin ten-Taft group
hosted the Area X Leadership
Conference, and annually they
recognize outstanding FFA
members and help organize
FFA field trips.
The Sinton Young Farmers
chapter was organized in I960
and was assigned the chapter
designation No. 327. There
were 15 charter members, with
about 45 now
Bobby Nedbalek, formerly of
Taft, was the first chapter
president, Norman Teltschik
was the vice president. Jerry
Vanecek was the first,
secretary, and Kenneth
Guelder and Donald Houser
were the treasurer and
representative, respectively.
Soon after their 1989 in-
ception, they won an important
honor. They were given the
Outstanding Area X New
Chapter of 1970 Award, and
have gotten even better and
busier since then, never
looking back
Devoted To The Best Interests Of Taft And San Patricio County
One Ordinance Passed
At Short City Meeting
Taft's City Council moved
through a relatively light
agenda last night in a regular
meeting, but did give the
second and final reading to an
ordinance concerning the
construction of greenhouses.
The councilmen authorized
City Manager Gilbert Baird So
begin spraying weeds along
and in streets, and to trim trees
and bushes " that Mock in-
tersections.
One item on the agenda was
tabled. Three member* were to
be appointed to the city
Housing Commission,
following the expiration at the
terms of members Keith
Guthrie, Miss Edams Marie
Roots, and Rev. John Thyior.
Council mesMlww deesdad to
check with the three c-arreat
members, before re appointing
them, to see If they am
to serve
of
months ago to be unduly bank
eratobe
Concerning Alcohol Sales
the old
FOUR MORE GIRLS have been nominated for the Boll Weevil Festival queen tit!#, with the
deadlines ter nomination* Friday. Senior Susan Cabins, left, was nominated by McNamee's
Flowers; Melanie Taylor, a senior, is sponsored by the Future Teachers of America
chapter; senior Karen Rosson was named by Vogue Beauty Shop; and junior Sylvia Jatomo
was nominated by the Future Homemakers ot America. Their parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Cabins, Rev. and Mrs. John Taylor, Mr. and Mrs, James Rosson, and Mr. ami Mrs.
Julio Jaiorws, respectively.
Those Circulating Petitions
Might Need Fewer Names
surge
by olf
Following Parade, Contest
Western Polka Band, Barber
It is easy to get confused by SllOO OlllUTlCt I O P0F£OFI11
elementary school report cards JT
,75^3BS’» Teltschik
To Attend
these days.
Our Number Two son, who is
in the sixth grade in a school
system other than Taft,
brought home a report card
with all C's for a six-week
reporting period.
We were properly indignant
because, after all, how can
OUB son being home such
lackluster grades after all we
have done for him, etc.
He assured us that a C was
(he highest grade possible, and
that C doesn’t mean average.
Apparently it was something
some sociologist created to
disguise the achievement, or
Sack thereof, of a student.
We only half believed him,
because wasn’t he the same
one who once said that the
standard A-B-C-D-F system
stood for Awful, Bad, Char-
ming, Delightful, and Fine?
A western polka band and a
barbershop quartet will be
highlights of the entertainment
offered visitors to the Third
Annual Boil Weevil Festival
December 6 and 7. Also per
forming will be the Joyce
Mitchell Group.
Taft’s Rotary Club has
agreed to pay the expenses of
the band which is tentatively
scheduled to piay for about two
hours December 7, a Saturday.
The Sandcrabs, a Corpus
Christi-based affiliate of the
Society for the Preservation
and Encouragement of Barter
Shop Quartet Singing in
America, will 'entertain, also
on Saturday, with a program
lasting about 30 minutes.
A local band trio might play
on the program, but a decision
on that group's participation is
not final. Mark Giasson, Rudy
Havran, and Scott Carey are
the members.
The weekend will be kicked
off by the coronation of the 1974
Boll Weevil Festival Queen
Friday evening December 6, in
the school auditorium. At least
14 high school girls have been
nominated by local businesses
and organizations, with the
deadline for submitting
nominations Friday. The girls
will be judged on appearance,
poise, and personality.
school, and the kids’ bicycle
parade.
At noon area mayor* will
have their tamnie eating
contest, followed by the stage
show of about three howl's.
Throughout the day, radio
station KEYS will operate a
mobile van and broadcast from
Taft.
A group of Taft-area citizens
who are circulating petitions
that would lead to the
legalization of off premises
alcohol in this Justice of the
Peace precinct might have an
easier time of it than they
thought.
Since the law says that any
similar petitions need to get 35
per cent of the total vote cast in
the last race for governor, they
might not have to sign «p but
219 registered voters in order
to have the matter brought to a
referendum.
Late last month, when the
petitioning was initiated, the
local people found that, they
must get 541 signatures, based
on the J972 election for
ficktl totals.
Mrs. Gerry Bartlett, am of
the prime movers in the
petitioning movement, was
unable to get an opinion
yesterday, from eittar County
Clerk Velma Sherman or
County Attorney Richard
Hatch, on which gubernatorial
election-year totals to use.
In the meantime, lira.
Stas PETITIONS, Page ID
‘Other’ Dr. Tunnell Will
Deliver Honors Lecture
Taft FFA Group
To Be Competing
At Bee College
governor.
The light turnout in last
week’s gubernatorial election -
- a iota! of 624 votes were cast
in the three Taft-area voting
precincts - might bring the
number of required signatures
down to 35.8.4, based m vnai
*’The Meiuscs of Coral Reafis
in the Gulf of Mexico” will be
described at a BMkigy Haaattt
Lecture at Texas Ail
University ia Kingsville
Thursday.
Dr. Wesley Tunnel*, «
member of thus AM-Capua
Christ? faculty, will apeak at
7:39 p m in Room 165 of the
Biology Earth Science
BnihSng. The public is invited,
according to Dr. Gangs- G..
Wiiigaa, coowStaattr for the
tenure lectures.
TimneB, sen of Dm Mr. aad
Ruse TtsmaB and s Tsfv Hjgjfc
School graduate, neoetsud «wa
dagrt/ffi turn
a B. S. to btofegy wiife at
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funnels pufelto&s#
several scientific pi&'ptm
AwJJrg to fsse&a, fesoftfe
and M&mmta «f in <@f
There will be a parade at !0
a rn on December 7. Parade
entries include the official Boll
Weevil Festival float, a fire
truck, » band from the high
,8- Teltschik of Taft was
iited to membership on
ttMT.***™ Farm Bureau’s 41-
T»!£2j*r Resolutions Com-
WF**' which will meet in
Ujtnex! Wednesday
in Waco the Com
* will compile a set of
Sve resolutions on scores
issues from recom-
sent in from
Farm Bureau annual
is.
tentative resolutions will
..^[teWMertd by voting
®w^P*i,tesat the upcoming TFB
i convention where they
“* adopted, rejected, or
®ded The state convention
^te held in early December
•dutions approved tn
pertaining to state
will become TFB’s
w Policy for 1975.
Shortly before the end of the
most recent schcd year our
daughter announced that she
had to take 20 cents or a
stamped envelope to school so
she could get ter final grades
Sure enough, we got her
grades - in mid-June They
were compiled on a computer,
which is supposed to speed up
the job. yo« «* , ,
At the risk of boring people t
will once again retreat into the
past. When I was in school, we
got our grades on the
of school. It was generally »
day of great anticipation ~ or
dread and .suspense, dRP*®*®ntl
on haw hard we applied our-
selves during the year.
With report cards to hand,
we had a distinct advantage
over the scholar of today who
gets his in the mail If we got
poor grades, we had time, on
the trip home, to think up son*
See SAUCE, P**t#
Doctor T o Tell Of His
Own Brush With Cancer
If you have a loved one or a
friend who has cancer or if you
have personally had a "brash"
with cancer, you are aware of
what a traumatic experience
this cau te to the patient, the
family and friends.
Dr. £ Jackson Giles, a
Corpus Christi surgeon, is a
person who has had a "brush"
with cancer. He has put on fihn
his true story about his fight
with cancer and how, tiirough
this experience, he begun to
have a greater awareness of
the ! rue values in iife. He has
titled this film ‘THE APPLE
TREE"
Dr. Giles relates in an honest
straight-forward way the
many, many concerns of those
who suffer trout cancer He
tell® bow having and living
with the disease affected him,
as a practicing physician ns
well as a patient: bow his faith
sustained him and life itself
begun to have a different
meaning to him.
Also included on the film arc
many moving moments when
he tells of the importance of
love, support and prayer of
family and friends
More than 200 high school
students and their teachers,
including a group from Taft,
will meet on the Bee County
College campus next week for
their annual Future Farmers
of America, four-county
leadership contest.
The earnest gives boys and
girls f rom to area high schools
a chance to compete in six
contest sections. Winners will
be eligible to cost.pete in area
competition held at Texas Ml
later.
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THE APPLE TREE” will
be shown in Taft on Nov. 26,
1974 a*. 7:36 pm in the
Fellowship Hail of the First
Presbyterian Church, as a
Community Service Project
under the auspices of District
6. American Cancer Society
This Him is both entertaining
and educational and the public
is invited to the showing.
The group will meet in the
Fine Arts Auditorium at 9 am,
before splitting; up for in-
dividual contests. Four-man
iearns from each school will
compete to due FFA quiz over
the FFA manual In another
contest, students will compete
in Grrenhand chapter con-
ducting The third of the
contests for first-year students
consists of farm skills.
Second-year students will
compete in chapter conducting
and in farm skill* as well *s so
a category of fares radio
broadcasts.
The top two teams in each
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Rhonda grinands, music htnehar at East. IHI«»»*rswp**(Mfc«aB® a*. M«»l
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David Bcdochamp. Troy Flaeriw and Randy <WdWMRR.
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Francis, Otis L. The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 46, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 13, 1974, newspaper, November 13, 1974; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth748788/m1/1/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Taft Public Library.