The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 22, 1967 Page: 8 of 8
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The successful farmer has a right to swell his chest when he
M a tine crop being harvested or a healthy betf or dairy
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fids Place ills in
eet Sot. in Refugio
The Tuft Track Tram will! Ft- >nk I>-.v '• uni SI-vs- Pullln;
enter the Calnllen meet this | X» yd dish, Ricky West md
Thuistiay. Tluv preliminaries v\ill. Mile run, Joe l .irbajal and haii-
begin .it 2 |>. rn. with finals -u-t .k'ld'i Martinez.
Coach Herb Siglr* indicated | Biiiy wesmiuz
that he planned to shift t h o j Allen Yeats
tjoys around t till this week to l Mile e! -y Bpf\ t.c.in.ijg, Ro-
see hew they jierfonn in it!! bc-il Sle: :■ a, Julio Garcia and
events in older ih.it he could I-.tne-'lt ndon
determine the strongest team fori Broad Ricky West, high
entry into the district. .neet. I JMmp. J<»‘ 1 ’ ! • 'dot put, J«t-
hntvies in CaiulJen will be us | <> Webber and Steve Pullin:
follows I Discuo, Jerry Wehhei
j Sktl-vf! dash, Robert Sturgeon; J
120-y,‘, lugh hurdle.-, Frank Pay |
is; 100yd flash. Julio Garcia
Ricky West and Ernest Rendon;
140-yd dash, Allen V
Resinaiz and Earnest
530 -yd intermediate
,,N. Bill
Rendon
hurdles
S.S. Representative
To fte in Sinton
On March 30th
Tift Second
In Mothis
Relorys Thursday
Kicky
Garcia, Billy Besinaiz,
West and Allen Yeats
High jump, Joe Davis, tie for
2nd and 3rd 6' 1”.
Broad jump, Ricky West, tie
for 5th nd fith, 19' 10”.
Shot put Jerry Webber, 5th,
447”.
Jam Htr®0tffil
Places Second
At Horse Show
The Taft Greyhounds captured
die blue ribbon in Refugio last
Saturday to place sixth in the
meet with a total of 38 and 1-2
points, Robsiivwn won the meet
and Hitchcock was runner up.
Alien Yeats brought home the
only blue ribbon wdieti he turned
in a time of 52.1 in the 440-
yd dat'h
Cbach Herb Sigle was encour-
aged over the performance of
tiie team despite the fact that
they didst! place high in the
meet “Our boys are im-
proving, ” Coach Sigle said, “and
we should begin to pick up more j
point* in meets each week.” Jan Threadgill, daughter of
Coach Sigle pointed out that Mr. and Mrs. 1- D. Threadgill,
Julio Garcia ran a 10.5 100-yd I Jr., wun first in showmanship,
dash but due to the fact that j first in barrel racing and first
the competition was tough he | in pole bending at the 4-H rodeo
failed to qualify for the finals.1 and horse show held at Sinton
Ernest Rendon, a soph ran' iasl week-end.
a 10.7 on the 100-yd dash and j Br< nda Heimtann of Robs-
a 54 7 on the 440 in the mile ,<wn won fir-d in overt!! points
relay. Robert Steurgeon ran a anfi J;,n u"iS second iri the
2:08.4 in the 80 yd dash and! overall points. Jan was riding
Joe Carbajal ran the mile in 5: j 00 K°bin.
U j Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Threadgill
Those who placet! in the Re-j unri Mr. and Mr - 1. D. Thread-
fugto Re-lays were as follows: . Kill. Jr. and children attend ’d
440-yd dash, Allen Yeats. 1st, | tor rodeo.
52.1; Billy Besinaiz, 5th, 55.1. I
^m-yd dash, Ricky West, 5th, fc|0ya Bigg* Gets
440-yd relay, rd, 44,8, Julio HOhOrsbltf Mention
For All-District
A representative of the Social
St, urMy Administration will he
it the County courtroom in Sin-
ton on March 30, tit 9:00 a m
You may obtain information
about your rights and duties
I under the Social Security Act
Eligible persons run secure as-
The seventh grade truck team I si-wtnn«'<» in applying ^ lor old-age
placed second last Thursdav In 1 survivors, or disability iasnr.m-
the Buccaneer Relays at Mathis.' l»''.vntents. and for Medicare
They had a total of III points, benefits, Irom the representative
Gregory - Portland was top vvitli a* that time.
19 points. Tile events are listed. ,
Pole vault M. West, fourth.
Broad jump, Albert Flores
second, 157'’.
Discus, Mike Wolf, fourth with
719'.
High jump, Robert Booher
tied for first with 4’8' .
440 yard relay, second vvitli
15 6. Team members were
West, enroll, Booher and
Fiores.
660 yard run. Jimite r second, j
I 330 vard run. Booher sec.mil'
Dr. Tunneil Speaks
To Rotary Club
Dr. John Turin- I) [, v .rnfrri a
pro^i iin on Coin col lor! in^ h>
1 Ihf Toft Kotnry Club Tuesday
Dr. illustrated his talk
j with a rkimbor ot .;>«cirn«*ns
, I mm I;is famous t .»in •aiiJootion.
! H< w intiiMiueed hy Walle r
Tift SfdilfS
lib Purl' k
&Sf Events
A group of boys from Taft
Nelda Biggs of Taft High
School received honorable men-
tion on the all-district basket-
ball team. Nelda is a senior.
Those making the first team
were Karen DuBose, Larain--
Dietz, Mina Akins and Wanda
Carroll of Gregory - Portland
High School and "Junior High ! und Sue Farley and Letlia Po-
took paid in two golf events last! we 1 of ,ulos" Midway.
m<ej, j Others getting honorable men-
On' Thursday J. W. Booher. | ,lfn "'ere Betty Potto and Laura
high school principal, and H. D. I of Cj|u,Jw’; Vatsy Johns
Lavender, junior high principal, | " Gregory - Portland and Vicki
accompanied a group of boys to I liew °* togloside.
Sinton for a practice meet with !
Rttikport and Caiaiien. caiaBen | Mike Montgomery
was the winner with 160, Taft' ,, „ ,,
had 173 and Rockport 188 tor a i On College Football
time hole match.
Boys going were David Vesel-
kat, Curt Davis, Larry Ewald,
Johnny Mayo, Robert Booher,
Mitchell West, Rusty Rayborn,
KM Hamilton, Miles Reynolds,
Buddy Howard, Aden Miller,
James Rosaon and Randy Hues,
tis.
On Friday Veselka, Duvis,
EwakJ and B. West played in
Corpus Christi.
Spring Team
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Montgo-
mery were in San Marcos Satur-
day to see the Southwest Texas
State College spring football
game. Their son, Mike, is a
member of the team and was
a starter on offense and de-
fense and ha-, been ...mured of a
place on the team next year
Mike is expected home for the
Easter holidays Tuesday.
RHEUMATIC FEVER
IS ALWAYS DANGEROUS
if is now believed that rheumatic fever
is caused by the same streptococcus germ
which causes a strep throat. If can make a
child or adult tired and have painful joints or
abdominal tenderness.
More serious results occur. The illness in-
flame* the heart's mitral valve. Scar tissue
cm farm and permanent damage may result.
Worse yet, a child does not grow out of this
and can get rheumatic fever over and over
again. Physicians know these dangers, but
can protect you most if they are consulted
•bout any sore throat as scon as possible.
EWAID PHARMACY
330 yard run, Booher. second
with 41 1 and Jimintz third with
42.8.
100 yard dash, Flores firs!
with 11-4 and Wolf fourth with
11:7.
50 yard dash. Wolf second with
6:1.
880 yard relay, second with
156.2. Team members were .lim-
ine/, Carroll, Booher and
Fiores.
Bill Flinn was the only eighth
grader to place. He vv fourth
in th>- 60 yard high hurdles.
This Thursday the Junior High
School will host a track meet
hero. The preliminaries and
field events will begin at 4 p.m.
and the trophies will be given
a-t 8:45 p.m.
Ron Parks, coach, stated this
week that the teams enbred
will he Gregory-Portland, Antn-
•a - Pass, Odom. Aguti Dulee,
Pellus Kamos City. C.ai.allen.
Inglesidc. Mathis and Bishop.
April Ffoerke Goes
With Houston
Team To Kentucky
Miss April Floerke of Taft,'
who is a pom pom girl at the
t'niversily of Houston, will f!v
to Louisville. Ky., with .he bas-
ketball team and the band on
Thursday and return Sund iv
Houston will play UCLA in the j
NCAA basketball tournament, j
April's mother, Mr- Fred j
Floerkr, drove to Houston Wed- '
nesday und brought April home I
for an overnight visit, she will
he here again Sunday fur over- !
night.
Alex Gray !n
Vietnam With
Military Operation
V. S. Army, Vietnam- Annv
-Sepcialist Five Alexander Gray,
Jr., 23, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Alexander Gray, 330 Industrial.
Taft, Tex., is participating in
''Operation Junction City.” the
largest military operation to
•late in Vu-mam.
The operation was launched'
on the theory that* national Viet j
Cong political and military bead-1
quarters might be located in the :
area along the Cambodian bor-1
der.
The finding ol the largest i
enemy encampments in the win
•end to support the theory.
Meeting bttic VC resistance,
the operation has b en success- j
to! in the conh-en'ion of 1 in.; -;
quantities uf totxi .out arms.
Spec. Gray is a radar repair-
man with th* 188th Maintenance
Battalion s Headquarters and :
Main support Gimpany.
His wife, Kalharyn, lives at
4218 Balk in St., Houston
Rhodes Pigeon
Wins Race Sunday
A pigeon belonging to A W.
Rhodes came in first in a rata
on Sunday and one belonging to
I.ot> Gitting.w came in second.
The pigeons were released from
Yoakum. Tit- men are members
of the Corpus Christ) Racing
Pigeon Club.
Film Shown at
Kiwanis Meeting
A film on the British Isles
was shown at the meeting of
Kiwanis Club last Wednesday.
M. Abrahams was program
el,-airman.
Student guests u -r Sam Cor-
tez, Arniandina C.trtiu :ui:l
Richard Galindo.
Pvt. Juan Gomez
Completes Course
At For! Hood
Ft. Hood Army Pirate Juan
I,. Gome/, 20. son of Mr and
Mi's. Candid V. Gomez. Frank-
lin Street, Gregory. Tex com-
pleted eight weeks -if advanced
infantry training at Ft Hood.
Tex., March 10.
lie received specialized in-
struction in small unit tactic*
and in tiring -u<-h wi uspns as
ihe M-14 rifle, the M-60 ma-
••hine gun and the 3.5 inch rocket
launcher.
Police Report
The policemen of Taft issued
•‘ight tick -t ■ in the past week.
1 here were six foT speeding, >ne
for disturbing the peace and one
for -ample assault.
- 4t>ran (lareia s -u 1 >1 M- - "id
Mrs Allon/o Garcia ot 616 Da -:
Taft, Tex., took part in the lar-.
gist M nine ass util operation in
Vietnam to date, o|« i ati >o
"Prairie,” while servin' db
the Third Battalion, Third M -
i fine Regiment
Operation "Prairie” -'retell d
front the sixties <tf the south
China Sea In the northern most .
'part of South Vietnam, to 'I"
western Ixtundry It include I
sault forces, reconn.e ■■ "ic- f*a-
liit!'i anti I'cncti .oirg; -orv >1-
lance The forces of "Pr-:>
■ killeit neatly 1.t<rft , nem\’ - d
; jers, and slowed enem> infill: a-
i 'for, Into South Vide mi irom die
i north b> a trickle
Some 11 ,l.t(H) Marini - w, re es-
j iimaled to have partit i|t.i!ed in
tilt’ njH'nitton and w irn -l thoi,
, battles on terrain likened to that
of the Pacific Islands during
■ World War II.
Patman Day
To End With
Big Banquet
Austin Texas’ heroes in
its war for independence will
tn extolled on Tue-d iy. March
29. as thousands of persons from
tlirouuhoul tin- 1811) Sen ilorial
District will come to Austin to
take part In aetwites -urr-.-und
ng the inauguration ol Sen dor
Wiliam ,M. Patman a- "A( ting
- Governor of Texas."
Thirteen of lb'- sing -rs of tile
Texas Decl.ua.1ion of Indepen-
dence resided with in the boun-
daries of the IKlh District is
presently represented by Sena-
i lor Patman.
j The declaration was signed at
j Washington-on-the-Brazos. which!
! also served at one time as 1h> ■;
| Texas Capitol. For this one day
| the government of Texas will
J place great emphasis on Ihe t
bravery down by tin early;
Texan- who lived Washington
: Gonzales, Austin and surround- ;
: ing counties.
A special souvenir program will
| outline the historical heritage
of tin1 IKih District counties.
"Tiger" McNamee Runs -440-yds
' ■ ” To Topple Critics
Off With A
Finish Line J«jst in Time
Tour, bolli foi • * * r* i
children will inclurlt* virA:rr;:
t1tK umfvnt< ftr<i hi'torn' ; obi* > -
whicl'i won* mowil }'t Anstln
from VV ishing-on-on-Mv-lii ■»/ >•
Inc!tiding the* T^yas D< e iar i?i >n !
in Indepomienri'.
f'uJniina*:'-n <>! the »lay'--. •1\vn?
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Guthrie, Keith. The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 22, 1967, newspaper, March 22, 1967; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth749320/m1/8/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Taft Public Library.