El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 98, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 28, 1981 Page: 11 of 12
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El Campo Leader-News, El Campo, TX, Sat., Feb. 28,1981
Page 3 B
Fifty Years Ago
Joseph Baklek Sr., 62,
died at his home south of
town Sunday night.
He is survived by his
wife; three sons, Joseph
Jr., Frank and Pete; four
daughters, Mrs. Anton
Cemy, Mrs. Wm. Rod,
Mrs. Louis Rod and Miss
Hattie.
Editor Frank Shannon
tells The News that
Wharton has the promise
of a new $80,000 Post Of-
fice building, just given
this week.
Miss Ruby Geer, ac-
companied by serveral
mothers, brought the 6th
and 7th grades of the
Louise schools over
Wednesday afternoon to
visit the News office in
order that they might
learn how a newspaper is
printed. The pupils show-
ed a great interest,
especially in the linotype.
Everybody in El Cam-
po, except a large bunch
of frogs and mosquitoes,
ought to rejoice that
Evans Park is drained.
Those stagnant pools of
water on the one real
beauty spot of El Campo
are a thing of the past.
Mrs. J.E. Evans, who
has taken the respon-
sibility of looking after
the park, was smiling
Wednesday because she
had obtained the
necessary aid from the
Fire Department and the
City Council to enable her
to get a drainage pipe
laid which will take the
water to the pavement.
We feel sure that the
Railroad Company will
cooperate with Mrs.
Evans and that she will
be able to plant flowers
and shrubbery with the
assurance that it will not
be drowned out.
W.L. Frazier, a friend
of The News, who lives
south of town, sent two
big turnips to the office
this week. One weighed
exactly five pounds and
the otlter slightly over
four and one-half pounds.
We put them in the win-
dow for a while and then
put them—well, the wife
likes turnips.
Uncle BUI has been try-
ing to elect Jim Ferguson
to something or other, for
a good many
years—without much
success But one thing
sure—Uncle Bill can
raise some almighty big
turnips—anyhow.
The Voice and Dance
pupils of Mrs. B.Q. Green
will be seen in an
Aesthetic Review at the
High School Auditorium
on March 13 at 8 p.m.
Bill Correll, WendaU
Holcomb and Mobes
were Houston visitors
Saturday.
The pastor of the
Catholic church gives us
the information that after
a conference here Mon-
day with F.B. Gaenseln
of San Antonio, architect,
and T.B. Hubbard of
Houston, contractor, it
was decided that the new
Catholic church would be
ready for use about May
15. The plasterers are at
work now, and the pews
are being built in
Cleveland.
We are also informed
that the following special
donations were received:
The high altar of Texas
marble, in keeping with
the Mission style of the
church, by Mrs. W.J.
Hefner.
A side altar of the same
material and style by Mr.
and Mrs Andrew J.
Wendel.
A side altar by the
Society of the chUdren of
Mary of the parish. Same
material and style.
A stone statue of PhUip
the apostle, for the ex-
terior of the church, by
Mrs. Jake Reitz.
The cruifix (or cross)
for the High Altar by
Frank Cervenka Jr.
The parish also
acknowledges with
thanks a generous dona-
tion from the Texas Gull
Sulphur Co. which helped
to finish ornamental
plaster and interior
decoration work as
originally planned
Birch, the famous
magician, who was book-
ed to appear here last
month, will stage a per-
formance at the High
School Auditorium, Fri-
day night, March 6th,
8:00 o’clock.
At the regular meeting
of the City Council Mon-
day night, it was definite-
ly decided to purchase a
new 350 gallon pumper
for the City Fire Depart
ment.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Green-
baum, Mr and Mrs. Mor-
ris Seligman and Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Rutherford
went to Houston Sunday
to see the play at the
Palace.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A.
Gidden of Luling were
the week-end guests of
the former’s brother, I.D.
Gidden and family.
James Eller of Cov-
ington, Ind. has asked for
an annulment of his re-
cent marriage charging
that his wife has a habit
of knocking him out of
bed onto the floor and
that she misuses his pen-
sion money.
J.D. Ryon of Towanda,
Pa. shot and killed
himself when his wife
refused to leave her bed
at 3 a m. to listen to a
radio program.
Following is a recipe
from Cookery Chats:
Scalloped Cabbage
Take off outside leaves,
cut in quarters and
remove tough stalk Soak
in cold water 20 minutes,
cook in boiling salt water,
to which is added one-
fourth a teaspoonful of
soda; the soda prevents
any disagreeable odor
during cooking.
Cook until tender, but
not mushy, about 25
minutes. Cut in small
pieces, put in buttered
baking dish, sprinkle
with salt and pepper ; add
one cup of white sauce,
made as follows:
Melt two tablespoon-
fuls of butter in a
saucepan, add two
tablespoonfuls of flour,
salt and pepper, stir until
well blended, then pour
on gradually while stirr-
ing constantly, one cup of
milk, and let boil two
minutes.
Lift cabbage with fork,
that it may be well mixed
with the sauce, cover
with bread crumbs, dot
with butter and bake un-
til brown.
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By RICHARD LESHER
U.S. Chamber President
“It is time for us to
realize that we are too
great a nation to limit
ourselves to small
dreams. We’re not, as
some would have us
believe, doomed to an in-
evitable decline. I do not
believe in a fate that will
fall on us no matter what
we do. I do believe in a
fate that will fall on us if
we do nothing ... So with
all the creative energy at
our command, let us
begin an era of national
renewal.”
Recognize those
words? They were
spoken by President
Reagan during his in-
augural address and they
rebut the pessimistic no-
tion, prevalent
throughout our history,
that America’s best days
are over whether we like
it or not. Way back in
1899, for example, before
the advent of
automobiles, oceanlin-
ers, airplanes, moon-
shots, pacemakers or
ballpoint pens, the
director of the U.S.
Patent Office urged
President McKinley to
close that office, because
“everything that can be
invented has been in-
vented."
And on many occasions
during the 19th and 20th
centuries, economic “ex-
perts” warned we would
soon run out of food, oil,
natural gas, coal, tin,
nickel, zinc and other
vital commodities. None
of this ever happened of
course. On the contrary,
in the United States to-
day, a relative handful of
farmers produce enough
food to feed all
Americans and much of
the rest of the world as
well. What's more, re-
cent estimates suggest
America’s untapped
reserves of coal, natural
gas, oil and oil shale are
so huge that supplies
could last for hundreds of
years, even at increased
rates of production and
without harming our en-
vironment.
What we need is a
system that encourages,
to borrow the President’s
own words, the heroes of
our society,” ... en-
trepreneurs with faith in
themselves and an idea
who create new jobs, new
LIVESTOCK
MARKET NEWS
Tru<D«pl. OF Agriculture
El Campo Livestock
Auction
Estimated receipts 475
compared with 401 last
week and 402 a year ago
COMPARED WITH
LAST TUESDAY:
Slaughter cows 1 00 lower
Slaughter bulls 1 00-1 50
lower Feeder steers and
steer calves steady to firm
Feeder heifers and heifer
calvea 1 00-1 50 higher De-
mand for feeders improved
although trading on
■laughter cows ana bulls
■low Receipts included
around 15 percent
slaughter cows and bulls
with remainder largely
fewW cattle and calves
SLAUGHTER COW*:
Utility 2-3 45 00-4* SO, few
4* 50 SI 00 Cutter
44 50-47 00 Conner and low
Cutter 40 0044 00
SLAUGHTER BULLS:
Yield Grad. 1-1 13001700
lbs 54 00-00 0C
FEEDER STEERS:
Medium Frame No 1:
MS-M0 lbs MOO M00
300 350 lbs 17 00 94 00.
350-400 lbs S3 00 17 00
400-450 lbs 7S OOS3 00
Large Frame No I
S&S75 !b» 73 0074 00 few
475 lbs 03 00
Medium Frame No land
1 130 225 lbs 100 00 112 00
Medium Imw 2
250 100 lbs 13 OO M 00
100400 It. 7V OOM 00
large Frame No I
430000 lbs 03 OOM 00
FEEDER HEIFERS
Medium Frame No I and
I 250 40H lbs 01 #071 00
400 500 lbs M 0040 00
large Frame No |
MO 375 lha M 0041 •
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M*oN«a» 71 3 341 ITS!
wealth and new oppor-
tunity.” Consider the
case of Wells College, a
small women’s school on
the edge of Lake Cayuga,
in Aurora, New York
president of Wells, Dr.
Patti McGill Peterson,
assumed her position in
August, 1980, she had an
important decision to
make. The college was in
good shape financially,
but like so many other
northeastern schools, it
faced punitive increases
in its fuel oil bills as long
as OPEC controlled the
price of oil.
Wells, however, had a
way out. The college is
situated right in the Ap-
palachian basin which
geologists believe is one
of the largest unexplored
sources of oil and gas in
the lower 48 states. So
while people 10 years ago
might have laughed at
the idea of drilling for oil
or gas in New York,
Wells had already gone
ahead and conducted a
fesibility study. It in-
dicated there was at least
a 50-50 chance of not com-
ing up with a dry hole.
What to do?
Peterson, with the con-
currence of the board of
trustees, decided this
particular venture made
good business sense. She
raised almost $100,000
from alumnae and
others, and contracted
with the Aurelius Gas Co.
to drill a well on campus
In mid-September, the
company went to work
and the students could
hear the faint rhythmic-
noise of the drilling day
and night. Nearly nine
weeks, later, and 2,600
feet into the ground, the
began pealing, and the
students decided this
momentous occasion
deserved a truly proper
celebration—one that ob-
viously required calling
off all classes.
As a result of the
strike, Wells could
achieve a nearly 20 per-
cent reduction in its fuel
bill, and that savings
could increase If the col-
lege opts to expand pro-
duction. Also, both the
college and the townspeo-
ple have watched the
drilling take place
without any adverse im-
pact on the environment.
Now that it has been
completed and the
underground pipes have
been laid, the original
well site is almost invisi-
ble.
Most important,
perhaps, is the example
set by Dr Peterson.
Through her unique suc-
cess in maximizing
Wells’ revenues while
minimizing its costs, she
joins that new breed of
entrepreneurial college
presidents whose
abilities go well beyond
quiet scholarship.
In so doing, she also
demonstrates to the
women of Wells that if
prepared to take on all
kinds of challenges, they
can go forward and real-
ly make a diffemece. The
college offers a course in
petroleum engineering
and has even secured
funds from an energy-
company to sponsor stu-
dent scholarships.
So while I would not ad-
vise every college to in-
vest in the stock market,
or drill for oil and gas,
there is still something
terribly exciting and
wonderful about people
willing to take intelligent
risks when they know
they might lose
everything.
It reminds us that we
still live in a system that
can pay great gains to
those with courage. It
also reminds us, as
President Reagan
himself said, that “we
are too great a nation to
limit ourselves to small
dreams.”
Finally, it reminds us
that the pessimists are
usually wrong, for as
Shakespeare’s Hamlet
remarked to his cynical
friend Horatio: “There
are more things in
heaven and earth . . .
than are dreamt of in
your philosophy.”
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Barbee, Chris. El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 98, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 28, 1981, newspaper, February 28, 1981; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1000035/m1/11/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Wharton County Library.