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Sixty-Fourth Year
The Bqgata News
Bogota, Red River County, Texos, Thursday, December 26, 1974 / 10* Per Copy Number 48
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Kail programs which ait
railed the largest numbers
were the Holiday Kair. Sixty
Plus Education Day. \mcri-
camsm. Exfiericncmg Jack
Crocker. the HSVI* I'rop.im.
the Merten Star; I p Program
and the liatmck and Wilcox
Expan Mon Program i uin-cs
which were popular were the
tsewing classes, exercise for
women, real estate, and
bicycle safety
Rebels Split Games
The Kebel Varsity won one
of two regularly scheduled
games last week, defeating
Pittsburg 64 to t>0and losing to
Grant, Okla . 77 to fifi, Jerry
t Curties was high point man in
the Dec 10 game against
Pittsburg with seven field
goals and eight free throws
for 22 points Larry Taylor
made four field goals and six
free throws for 14 points Hill
Montgomery and Owen Davis
made eight points each High
for Pittsburg was Jeff
Strickland with 17 points It
was a game ol louls with
Pittsburg receiving 23, includ
three technical louls, and
Kivercrest with nine louls
The Rebels hit 61 percent of
their shots and Pittsburg hit
• 57 percent of their shots
Jerry Curties was high
again against Grant on the
following night hitting six
field goals for 12 points. Four
other Rebels. Jimmy Curties,
Owen Davis. Bill Mont-
gomery and Ronnie Rape,
each made l» points. The even
scoring spread was not
enough to defeat Grant,
however. High for Grant was
Willie McGrow with 25 points.
Kebelettes
The Kebelettes made sauce
ol W'innshoro Tuesday, Dec.
17. 57 to 25 Emma Hines had
a good night, hitting 19 field
goals for :<8 points Juanita
Fulbright made five field
goals and one free throw for
II |Miints. Donna Tippit made
six points, and Kevonia
Savage made two points High
for Wmnsboro was Gearner
w ith 12 points.
The Keholette junior varsi-
ty deleated Winnsboro 82 to 14
on Dec 17 High was Krcndia
Continuing Education
Enrollment Grows
Approximately 2.9*11 per
sons attended Continuing
Education programs ai Paris
Junior College during the fall
semester. Mrs Hill Jones,
program coordinate!. an
nounced today This number
includes I 481 who attended
short courses and seminars
and 1.512 who were present at
tspecial programs. Mrs Jones
explained Already tfn- year,
the numtier in short courses
is near the total number ol
1.487 enrolled in short courses
during the entire school \oar
of 1972 74
The PJC Continuing Edu-
cation Division, headed by
Felix Gibson, dean ol Adult
and continuing education,
plans to provide more
continuing education plans
to, provide more continuing
^education up grading courses
lor business industry and the
proiessional person This is
the new emphasis ol Contmu
ing Education
courses, and many others to
be announced later Persons
needing inlormation on
courses may call the PJC
Continuing Kducation Office.
784-660.1. extension 58. after
Jan. 1
Baird with 11 field goals for 22
points. Velma Savage made
eight field goals and four free
throw for 20 points, and Terri
Savage made six field goals
and one free throw for 12
points. Kathy Pirtle made six
field goals for 12 points.
Making eight points each
were Brenda Norman and
Karen Pirtle. High for
Winnsboro was D. Renton
with nine points
Junior Varsity
The Kebel junior varsity
lost both regular games last
week to Grant. Okla., 105 to 53
and to Pittsburg. 79 to 42.
Mike Medlin was high point
man against Grant with seven
field goals and four free
throws for 18 points. Terry
Deaton made seven points.
Also scoring were Terry
McGonagill. Chris Potter and
Craig Trimm. High for
Grant was Dwight Mitchell
with 21 points
Medlin was high again for
the Rebels against Pittsburg,
making five field goals and
two free throws for 12 points
Also scoring were Terry
McGonagill. Jace Jeffery.
Terry Deaton. Mike Mankins
and Milton Scales High for
Pittsburg was Jordan with IK
points
Adult Class To
Begin At
Talco-Bogata
Enrollment has begun on an
Adult Education Class which
will be taught in the
Talco-Bogata Schools, begin-
ning early in January.
The class is open to anyone
who did not complete his high
school education and who
wishes to prepare himself for
the General Educational
Development (GED) Test.
There are no charges for the
course; however, each person
must pay the GED test fee
before taking the test.
If you would like to become
a member of this class, please
write Mrs. Elizabeth Bell,
Counselor. Rivercrest High
School or Don Easterling.
Talco before January I.
Twelve to fifteen members
are required before the class
can be offered
Editor's Quote Book
Midi not your tahnts, they
for ui< tierr made IV hat'\ a
tundial in the \hade?
/ten/arum Franklin
Among programs planned
for spring are the fin id ser\ ice
supervisors course to begin
Jan 29. Nursing Home
Administration set lor Jan
16. Medication Aid. Heal
Estate Brokers, business
TIIK M WOK— Charles
Foster sat upon Santa's
knee at the Volunteer Fire
Department's Christmas
Party Dec. 16, and
although no one heard
exactly what he asked for
as Christmas gifts, it is
expected that he appealed
to Saint Nick for a new
sewer plant and a dam to
stop the Hooding of Deport.
(Staff Photo).
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A Christmas Story
Why Shepherds Went
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By Nanalee Nichols
Tobias and David, the older
shepherds. were asleep,
wrapped in their heaviest
cloaks and lying out of the
wind under an outcropping of
rock Only Jacob, the young-
est of the three, was awake,
sitting on a knoll, munching
on a piece of dry bread He ate
the bread more to occupy
himself than from hunger, for
he was lonely, and the wind
was cold
There were times when
Jacob wondered why he had
remained as a shepherd,
instead of becoming a potter,
or miller, or going to
Bethlehem to learn a trade
Then he would be asleep
somewhere warm on a real
lied, instead of watching a
bunch of stupid sheep in the
middle of the night. As usual
be was elected to take the last
and longest watch. He gazed
out over the flock, and ^gs
forced to admit that the sight
of the new lamb, still
trembling on new-found legs,
warmed his heart no matter
how often he saw it. And too,
who wanted to stay inside a
building all the time.
Sighing softly, he lay back
on his cloak, twisted away
from a stone, and tried not to
go to sleep Something
uncomfortable under his arm
made him roll over on his
back and immediately he sat
up. There was a creeping
brightness in the sky as
though dawn were coming,
yet he knew he had not been
asleep The sheep were
perfectly still, not agitated as
to danger, but as if in
expectation
Jacob started to run wake
Tobias and David, but saw
that they too were already up.
aware of something strange
taking place
The rest is a well-known
story, how the angels appear-
ed before them, and told them
of glory and good news, and
how the shepherds made the
journey to Bethlehem to see
the new bom Christ child But
it was on the way back, tired
and weary, but full of the
wonder of what they had seen,
that Jacob began to wonder
why they had been told of this
marvelous happening
“Why poor shepherds.” he
wondered, and after a long
while he knew. Shepherds
know the earth, the value of
wind and rain, and the cycles
ers. representative of the
simple people that still make
up the large part of the world
even today, and to whom
could the new king have been
more important ? The angels
came directly to them when
even the wise men did not
have such a heavenly visita
Hon. because at least there
was a king the honest,
every-day people of the world
could follow
No Shepherd had trouble
believing in a babe lying in a
manger, indeed, what more
natural place for the man who
had come to lead the people
instead of oppress them, and
who would remain all his life
without the riches kings were
expected to have.
So Jacob and the others
found the child, and fell to put
before him the purest love
and worship that could ever
be. worship not from trade
lion, or from fear of
retribution, but straight from
the heart The shepherds went
to Bethlehem that night to
represent all the world, of
farmers, housewives, and
hard-working people, from
then till now. who followed
after the new king who had no
of life and death, and life "ow"' bu* knew ,he ear,h as
again Shepherds are farm ,he> d,d
LETTERS—This special
Christmas edilioii is filled
with letters to Santa Claus
from area children. Mak-
ing sure that Santa Claus
visits them are Denise and
l.vnne and Juliana Mood,
daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
James Mood of Ruga la.
(Staff i'holoi.
Contracts Let
For Highway
Construction
Highway construction con-
tracts let in December by the
Texas Highway Commission
include Clarksville area
work
The work, supervised by
District Engineer J W
Cravens, will he in Red River
County.
A contract was awarded to
Lufkin Bridge. Inc of Lufkin.
Low bid was $661,915.78
The project, which will
require an estimated 210
working days, will t>e under
Highway Department Engi-
neer J B Hutchison of
Clarksville
The contract is for grading
and w idening bridges on State
Highway 37 between 1.5 miles
north of Farm to Market
Road 411 and n 4 mile south of
Highway 82 in Clarksville and
at Gouchy Creek bridge and
approaches. <0 2 mile south of
FM 4111. a distance of 0.9
mile
USDA Recommends Merging Six Texas Federal Milk Orders
The U S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) has
recommended amending and
merging six federal milk
marketing orders in Texas
into a single order, combining
and expanding the marketing
areas they now cover. .
Affected orders are: the
North Texas. Austin - Waco.
Central West Texas. Corpus
Christi, San Antonio, and
South Texas.
USDA's Agricultural Mar-
keting Service < AMS) said the
recommendations are based
on a public hearing held in
Dallas, last December and
January It was requested by
Associated Milk Producers,
Inc. (AMPI), which repre-
sents over two-thirds of the
some 4,000 producers now
supplying milk to the six
markets.
AMS said the merger was
proposed by AMPI. and
practically no opposition to
SOMETHING FOR EV-
ERYONE—A crush uf
children gathered a rewad
Santa (Tans when he made
an appearance in Regain
at the Trade Day spans ar-
ed Community Christmas
prugram Friday night.
(Staff Phetu).
the merger was voiced at the
hearing.
The new single marketing
area comprising territory
now under the six individual
orders would be enlarged to
reflect most of the sales areas
where presently regulated
handlers are now operating
This would bring no new
plants under regulation, but
would result in a contiguous
rather than a broken area of
regulation.
Provisions of the proposed
merged order would be
patterned after those in the
present North Texas order,
but with several modifica-
tions.
Present structures for pric-
ing milk under the separate
orders would be retained,
however, with virtually no
change in the level of prices to
be paid by handlers at
individual plants.
Pool plant standards would
apply uniformly throughout
the single marketing area To
have its milk pooled and
priced under the order, a
distributing plant would have
to sell 50 percent or more of
its Grade A milk on routes for
fluid use. and distribute at
least ten percent of it on
routes within the marketing
area.
A supply plant would have
to deliver at least 50 percent
of its Grade A milk to fluid
milk distributing plants serv-
ing the market A plant not
meeting the pooling stan-
dards of any order would lie
pooled if it delivered at least
50 percent of its Grade A milk
to federal order markets and
its deliveries to this market
exceeded its deliveries to any
other market
The delivery requirement
would be 15 percent in August
and December if the plant
was pooled in the preceding
month and would apply only
to deliveries to this market
Also, automatic pool status
would be accorded a plant in
February July if the plant
was pooled in the previous
months of September-Jan
uary.
Milk handled by a balanc-
ing plant (a plant from which
no fluid milk shipments are
required) operated by a
cooperative could be included
in the pool if the plant is
located inside the Texas
marketing area and if 60
percent or more of the milk
from the cooperative's mem
bers goes to pool distributing
plants.
Procedures for paying milk
producers would be changed
under the merger All
payments due producers
would be made through the
market administrator, rather
than directly by the handlers
who purchased their milk
Today's recommendations
appeared in the Dec. 9
Federal Register. Comments
may be sent, m four copies,
until Jan 8. to the Hearing
Clerk. 112-A. U. S Depart
ment of Agriculture. Mash
ington. D C 2025(1. where
anyone may see them
Copies ot the recommended
decision may In- obtained
from the market administra-
tor of the orders, or from the
Dairy Division. Agricultural
Marketing Service. U. S.
Department of Agriculture.
Washington. D. C 20250
FESTIVAL FOR GROWNUPS
Christmas in Italy is more a
festival for grownups than for
children Families gather to-
gether on Christmas Eve and
Ulk around the fireplace while
they watch the "appo," the
Christmas log throwing sparks up
the chimney Then they sit down
to supper, the “cenone”, there is
no meat, for Christmas Eve is a
fast day but there are dishes pre-
pared in every way imaginable.
The meal ends Just before twelve
whan all go to midnight Nut
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Wright, Pat. The Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 26, 1974, newspaper, December 26, 1974; Bogata, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth893745/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Red River County Public Library.