The Sun-News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 15, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 28, 1949 Page: 2 of 14
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THE SUN-.NIWS, Uvelfgnd, Two. Sunday, August It, 1949
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Traveling Tourists Like To
To Top Of Capitol Dome
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by Dave Cheavens
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legislature.
Addition of an official recep- I
there in black and white ready to
be pasted in a scrapbook: 311 feet
Aiatln, Te*.^ (AP^—Those glas- lionist t0 the staff 0f capital at-| high 52a feet long including the
eftoitoT^evetors these days
havenH been on A hinge—tlugy ve
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climbed to the top of the donrve
About » third of the record-
breaking 1.000 visitors a day want
to nhfce the steep, winding 407-
step climb to the dome. After
they've gone up and crept down,
many of them wish they hadn t be-
cause on summer days the big met-
‘‘(S'L'vISmo “dome vMt-
ors and other tourists at the capi-
tal is Mrs. J. W. E. H. Beck, .state
receptionist who has to knov/ all
the answers about Texas, including
“where is the ice water?'
Tourist traffic through the capi-
tal has been on a steady rise since
the tfyt of the war, and it b it its
peak in mkJ-August, averaging
around a thousand a day and more
on Sunday. It’s an easy record.
Mrs Reck, former senate em-
ploye and widow of the lata Dr.
Beck who was senator from Bowie
county for four sessions, is the
pretty and affable hostess who
presides over the information desk
in the rotunda.
.After the first of September, she
will have e uniformed guide as
wail as an assistant, to show the
folks around the building. The ser-
vices of the guide are provided for
in the general appropriation "
adopted by the last session of
bill
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tendants was pushed by the la'.e portlf.0s, 290 feet wide ditto. 924
Gov. Beauford H. .Tester, He felt I windows and 409 rooms
that visitors shouldn't have to I
wander aimlessly orsund ‘ihe 1j
building guessin > ' ?>•• n -
to their questions abo.U T-. k ■ -
Jester was also be.iind the idea o.
augmenting the reception and
guide staff.
Mrs. Beck not only tells the
tourists they can ride four floors
up and Wien climb if they want to
visit the dome, but she is a walk-
ing alma nae of information on the
capitol and on Texas.
"Had to be,” she said, “people
ask so mtany questions I’ve been
forced to learn what I didn't al-
ready know.”
In her spare time wheti tourist
travel slacks off she collects in-
formation on points most often
asked about, cuts the Pencils and
runs off mimeographed sheets.
These are handed out in standav
packet to most tourists.
Eight on top they get a laugh.
It’s a gag map showing Texas oc-
cupying two-thirds of the nation.
Then they get the state highway
department’s latest official road
map and guide, which has things
on p ippre realistic scale.
One of^tbe sheets is very useful
to statistically-minded tourists who
want to know how many feet high
the building is, how long, how
wide, hoy/ many windows. It’s all
S', i
1 ks want to know about
lions'on, Stephen T. Austin
..st governor.
Anothe sheet gives it all in a
condensed Texas history, and an-
other tells where Texas lakes are,
how to get to them,and what to
fish for in them.
Many an addict of the short
stories of O’Henry comes here
wanting to trace his footsteps in
Austin of t£ie late 1880s. Mrs. Beck
has a separate release on him,
listing the street addresses of thfe
eight places O’Henry called home
here and otherwise following his
tracks as they show up in mark-
ers, land office maps and museums.
From Camp
Linda Richey, daughter of Mr.
! and Mrs. Bob Richey, is home
from a six weeks’ camp stay.
Pam Nesbit, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Bruce Nesbit, has also
returned from camp.
Singing at Acuff
Carl E. Nance, minister of edu-
cation and music at the First Bap-
tist church, has been in charge of
music at a meeting at Acuff this
week
Garden Clinic
Scheduled By
Morton Group
Mrs. . Lester Bacons, president
of the Cochran County Garden
club, said Friday she was speak-
ing for every member of her or-
ganization in inviting women of
Anton, Sundown, and Levelland
to attend a garden clinic, schedul-
ed for Friday, September 2 at the
Veteran’s hall in Morton. Both
Women who belong to garden
clubs and flower lovers not affil-
iated with such organizations are
extended an invitation to attend.
A registration fee of $1 will be
charged for a day’s attendance,
with the morning session to be-
gin at 10 o’clock. Morning dem-
onstrations and lectures will per-
tain to horticultural pursuits, such
aspreparing soil, planting, feed-
ing, spraying, disbudding, and
curing diseased plants; and flower
show practice with instructions
on how to exhibit in and how,to
stage a flower show.
The afternoon session Which will
begin vt two o’clock, will be de-
voted to corsage making and
flower arrangements with special
attention to table settings and
color harmony.
Conducting the clinic will be
Mesdames R. C. Badgett, John
Powers, J. A. Fortenberry, Claud
Keeton, and John Fry, all of Lub-
bock.
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J. T. Youngblood
To Enter Umeu Rodeo
Miss Betty Rush plans to enter
the sponsors contest in the annual
La mesa Rodeo which is scheduled
for September 1, 2, and 3.
Visit in Lamesa
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Gillespie vis-
ited in Lamesa Sunday and Mon-
day.
It is estimated that the billion
bluefishes in the north Atlantic
destroy 10 billion other fishes
every day.
FOREIGNERS LEARN-
ENGLI8H IN EIGHT WEEK8
Ann Arbor, Mich.—(AP)—A
sort of linguistic miracle is being
accomplished here. Young for-
eign students, with little or no
background in English, are achiev-
ing a fluency in eight weeks that
might take as long as two years
plsewhcrc. ytiis is being accom-
plished by the University of Mich-
igan's English Language Institute.
“There’s been as much advance
in linguistic science in the last
15-20 years,” Dr. Charles C. Fries,
director, $uys, “as there has been
in the Ig-ld of physics and ntomic
research.”
Dr. Fries says the whole pro-
gram rests on determination of the
differences between the foreign
language and English, ' Different
sentence sturuclurc, different pro-
nunciation of the same letter and
different meanings of the same
word provide the working area.
Intense effort is then applied to
eliminate “trouble spots.”
Proof of the system is that about
two-thirds of the students are
ready to hold their own in the
English-speaking world after eight
weeks. Each has a working vo-
cabulary of about 1,800 words of
usable English. >
Dr. Fries looks forward now to
the 39th institute session this fall.
With it is almost sure to come
again the student who learns
"room and board", then trif to
justify “eat our education” for
“board of education”.
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