The Pharr Press (Pharr, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 1974 Page: 4 of 6
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THESE TEACHERS ARE PARTICIPATING In the Professional Development Center this summer, q
joint project of PSJA Independent School District and Pan American University, Left to right are
Frank Mendez, PSJA; Sam Gonzalez, Weslaco; Brigido Lopez, San Isidro,- Leone! Barrera, PSJA,
and Rod Stockstill, PSJA,
60 Teachers Participating in Trainee
Program at PSJA This Summer
Change in education? You bet! versity trainees will benefit from
Pan American University and PSJA this cooperative experience, as will
Independent School District have the students from the various ele-
anited to develop the Professional ments.
Development Center this summer. This semester at P.A.U., 60 Val-
The center is designed so college iey teachers are in the program.
freshmen are given the opportunity Heading up the program from i 0’ft complain it seema so high,
to be exposed to the public school p.A.U. are Mary Ann Lipford and
classroom as teacher trainees. Each pr Dennis McCabe and Ron Es-
" LOOK MA,N0 LICENSE!
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Poets Comer
SO HIGH MY FENCE
By STEELIE E. SMITH
Farming Costs
Cause Deline In
Vegetable Crops
MEN IN SERVICE
So high my fence, which seems to
me, .
So high, the top I cannot see!
teacher trainee will have one or man> director co-ordinator for
more cooperating teachers and will psJA-P.A.U.
continue through a four year pro-
fessional internship. The univer-
Education is changing through
the sky.
Though I look out, and lean against
And
fence,
»ty, the public schools and the uni- £ A" 0‘° Znt to
midst of this change.
see?'*
Stotzer Honoree
At CC Luncheon
August 8th
The Chambers of Commerce in
the Valley are co-sponsoring an ap-
preciation luncheon for Raymond
E. Stotzer Jr. of Pharr, State High-
way District Engineer, who is be- . , , ,
ins transferred to the San Antonio made ln advance, and that tickets
out that the August 8th luncheon Then Satan said, “Let’s cut this
will provide an opportunity to ex- fence
press appreciation to Stotzer for
the many contributions that he has
made to the area while serving as
district engineer.
G. G. Garcia, resident highway
engineer in San Benito, who will re-
place Stotzer, will be among those
present at the event.
Willis said reservations should be
with me,
Bright shining lights you've
longed to see.
are on sale at the Valley Chamber Come sip some wine — yes, come
office in Weslaco, as well as at with me,
other chamber offices over the Val-
ley. to see.
Attendance will not be limited to
members of chambers of corn-
district of the Texas Highway De-
partment.
The luncheon will be held at 12
noon, August 8, at the Tourist Cen-
ter! in Harlingen. David Alex, presi-
dent of the Harlingen Chamber, is . .
in charge pf luncheon arrangements merce» but determined by
and all chamber -ioffices have tick- the seating capacity available.
ets", said,Bussell Wiliis of the'Val----
ley Chamber of Commerce, which “The next time you see a head-
is coordinating the event. line saying that the Congress has
jlmong those slated to attend are voted a $1 billion project,’’ com-
R. L. DeBerry of Austin, JState cents Secretary of Agriculture Earl
Highway Engineer, who has visited L. Butz, “just figure that, on the
the Valley several times in recent average this is about $5 out of your
years to dedicate new highway pocket and out of the pocket of
projects. every other member of your fam-
The chamber managers pointed ily.”
With the cost of raising vege-
tables on the increase, many farm-
ers in the Valley are turning to
other crops in search of a more
The top strand's far beyond the profitable return for their labor and
investment, Agriculture Commis-
sioner John C. White said.
. , , . .... Built-in problems of economics
And wonder whats beyond th« acount for ^ to vegetable
production in Texas’ Valley region,
the state’s largest producer of
vegetables.
Many vegetable farmers have di-
versified into sugar cane produc-
tion, leaving some acreage in vege-
tables, while others have turned
their entire production over to the
cane crop.
The two-year-old sugar cane in- .
“Oh, no," said I, “that's not for dustry in the Valley has diverted ^a|T,. J’f* ^. ™C°T
some 29,200 acres so far from other re training at Lackland AFB, Tex.
crops, including vegetable .acreage.' Du™? his sot weeks of teaming,
One of the major advantages in he studled the A,r r°rce m‘f "
sugar cane production is its almost organization and customs and re-
totally mechanized nature, White ce‘ved sI*c,al “structlon in human
stated. Many farmers, faced with re“*tl0ns; . . -
increased labor difficulties, have ,Tha a'™™ * remaining at the
turned to sugar cane and other A>r Training Command base for spe-
Outside this fence there's much more mechanized crops such as cot- clahzed ,ralnu« m 1116 security
You’ve long looked out and lean-
ed against,
Beyond this fence, bright lights to
see.”
SAN ANTONIO —Airman Ricardo
Pruneda, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elio-
doro G. Pruneda of 103 E. Emil St.,
me.
“Why not?
he asked. “Come, go
NEW PRESIDENT of the Valley
Chamber of Commerce is Rob-
ert McAllen, above, Weslaco,
banker, who will succeed Al
Cisneros of Brownsville on
October 1st. McAllen has
served several terms as direc-
tor, has been board secretary,
treasurer and vice president.
He has also been president of
the Weslaco and Donna
Chambers of Commerce. He
is a past president of the Tip
of Texas Girl Scout Council, a
director of the Boy Scout
Council, a member of the
Weslaco school board for
four years and is vice presi-
dent of the Knapp Memorial
Methodist Hospital board.
Hidalgo Is First
In Sugar Cane
Hidalgo County led the state in
1973 in its first commercial produc-
tion of sugar cane in nearly half a
century, Agriculture Commissioner
John C. White has announced.
Production for the county totaled
658,000 tons, while the state’s total
reached 929,000 tons.
“The efforts of the Hidalgo Coun-
ty farmer helped Texas in fourth
place nationally in its first year of
production,” White said.
Other counties participating in
the state’s first sugar cane crop
since 1923 include Cameron, with
205 Wevf Park
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ton and sorghum as a way to alle- P°lice
“Come, go with me, I’ll go before,
And pass you through just any
door.
Come drink champagne — dine with crease<^ in
yiate production problems which
often cut into profits.
Citrus acreage has also been in-
the Valley region,
di-
the Kine,
verting' more vegetable acreage in-
And dance all night and sip the production.
I
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wine.’
“We’ll cut this fence — long you
looked out
and leaned against
The thoughts now make my body '
quake, -
To leave -my King made my
knees shake.
“Come ye, with me — be brave and
bold.
Within this ience we’ll make a
hole.
We’ll cut this fence and out you’ll
Just this one night, no one will
know.”
The weakest strand, I took a hold,
With Satan’s help, I cut a hole.
Right through the fence hole, I then
went,
Down Evil Street, in sin, I’m
. bent.
White explained that there is no
noticeable difference from year to
year in easily grown crops such as
onions, cabbage, and carrots.
The.big decline in vegetable pro-
duction, according to White, is Ic-
ing seen in the harder-to-grow
crops, such as tomatoes, which are
susceptible to weather conditions.
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; We have Plastic and Aluminum Roof and
Wall Panels, Aluminum Angles, Chan-
nels, Tubes, etc.
LIFETIME PLASTIC &
ALUMINUM SUPPLY CO.
410 Ask — McALLEN — 686-6038
ESTABLISHED 1946
More and more people are catch-
ing onto fact that uncontrolled
federal spending is the big fire un-
der inflation. Heads may roll at the
polls if Congress continues to lie
down on the job of reforming its
own spending habits and way of do-
ing business. '
YOU would forget the
RAZOR,NOW THEY'LL THINK
WECAIAE FROM CUBA!
LET US TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN
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THE PHARR PRESS
Tht Newspaper of Pharr
With.All the Local News
Name
Address
RATES
State
1 YEAR IN COUNTY — $4.00
1 YEAR OUTSIDE COUNTY — $4.50
Enclosed Find $.-_ In check — Cash
Airman Pruneda graduated from
high school in 1973 in Pharr.
Lodges —
Club Directory
(Other Lodges or Clubs who wish to
be listed in this directory, call The
Pharr Press, 787-2291.)
KIWANIS CLUB
Meets every Thursday 12:09 P.M.
at Kiwanis Hall
ARTHUR HALE
President
A. B. FIELDS
Secretary
AMERICAN LEGION
Post No. 101
Meets 1st, 3rd Mon.
Leg. Bldg., 417 S. Cage
JAMES SULLIVAN
Commander
ROGER PALMQUIST
Adjutant
PHARR JAYCEES
Meet Every Wednesday at
Pharr Civic Center \pp?/
at 8 P.M. W
Romeo Sifuentes, President
Tom Salinas, Secretary
All Young Men Welcome
VETERANS OF
WORLD WAR I
McAllen Barracks
No. 1258
Meets Monthly, 2nd Sunday
2 P.M., VFW Post
127 E. Hiway, McAllen, Texas
All WWI Veterans Welcome
PHARR ROTARY CLUB
Meets every Tuesday, ia05
P. M,, Texan Hotel
ARCHIE PURDUE
President
J. LEE FARMER
Secretary
NO. 3109
FRATERNAL
CITRUS AERIE
ORDER
OF
EAGLES
Meets every Thursday
8:00 P. M. — 208 S. Cage
Harley Whitten, President
Hershel H. Hanshaw, Secretary
MASONIC LODGE
No. 1227 A.F.&A.M.
Meets Every First and Third
Tuesday. 8:00 P.M., at Lodge Hall
C. Womack, W. M.
Van Wheat, S.W.
Wm. Roberts, J.W.
A. B. Fields, Sec.
Visiting brethren are cordially
Invited.
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PULVERIZES PICK UPS
This electric cut-up makes
hash out of hacks. It swal-
lows junk cars and trucks
whole and shreds the metal
for recycling. More than one-
half of the newly patented
machines to clean up the
environment are electric. By
1977 it is estimated that 10%
of our electricity will be used
for this purpose.
Electricity from the
member-owned rural electric
cooperative provides power
to improve the ecology while
Helping Texas Grow.!
MAGIC VALLEY
ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
SERVING THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY
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Glover, Lloyd H. The Pharr Press (Pharr, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 1974, newspaper, August 1, 1974; Pharr, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth848527/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Pharr Memorial Library.