The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 62, Ed. 1 Monday, October 18, 1976 Page: 5 of 18
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Monday, October 18, 1976
The Winkler County News. Karmit, Texas
Page Five
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JACKET BOOSTERS
A large group of Jacket fans are shown as they prepared to made available through efforts of the Kermit Yellow Jacket
leave Kermit Friday to watch the Kermit-Fabens game. The Booster Club.
Yellow Jackets won the contest 21-12.. The charter bus was
Changes In Wool Industry
Due Airing At Tech Meet
The oil embargoes,
changes in garment designs
and increased knowledge
about disease control,
nutrition, management and
breeding have all resulted in
efficient lamb meat and wool
production over the years.
However, production
figures indicate that there has
been a constant decline of
over a million sheep every
year since World War II. In
1943 there were 56,000,000
sheep on farms in this
country as compared with
13,000,000 this year.
Commercial sheep
producers, packers and
will be discussed by leading
producers and researchers
during the High Plains Sheep
Symposium at Texas Tech
University, Oct. 16.
The chairman of the Texas
Tech animal science
department, Dr. Max Lennon,
expects 70 producers to
attend the symposium.
Joseph A. King, Texas
Tech Textile Research Center
wool technologist, will
outline how the wool
industry has changed because
of various external influences.
“Oil embargoes,” he said,
“have cut off a large quantity
of heating oil, and people
clothing -not in a big way, science at Texas Tech and
but still significant.” symposium coordinator, is
“Besides, wool designs, scheduled to talk on the use
which had been previously of low quality roughages
available only to the affluent, during the morning session
are becoming the styles of the and on lamb growth studies
middle class,” he added. during the post-lunch
The one-day symposium meeting,
opens at 8 a.m. with ~ ,
registration. Dr. Anson R. The meat packers
Bertrand, dean of the college . T16Wc °St preSented
of agricultural sciences at b5! E: H Mattingly, manager
Texas Tech, will welcome the
delegates. The animal science
department, the Textile
Research Center and the
American Sheep Industry are
sponsoring the symposium. T C1
Dwight Holaway, sheep D ,^ ie T®xas Sheep and Goat
ni'iiir'pr frnm Prnpctrwip Raisers Association will be
_ New Biology Probes
Many Life Secrets
Genetically engineered Keeper of the keys to life,
people, new types of plants the double helix, or twin
and animals, cures for some spiral of the DNA molecule
diseases, all may lie hidden in stores the code that every cell
the awesome world of the uses to sustain and duplicate
cell. itself. Man and bee, wild
In recent years an flower and microbe, all share
explosion of knowledge has a kinship of DNA. And along
completely transformed its elegant structure lie
the science of biology, genetic messages that make
Scientists can now take the eyes blue, feathers
very stuff of life out of the irridescent, and lilacs
cell, isolate it in a test tube, fragrant,
dissect it, and probe the deep “Since they realized that
mysteries borne in its DNA holds such a trove of
fragments. secrets, biologists have taken
Little more than a revolutionary strides,”
generation ago the cell-the reports Rick Gore in the
living capsule from which all September National
plants and animals are Geograhpic. “They have built
built--was largely uncharted genes artificially, and
territory. Nor was science transplanted genes from
sure what a gene, the basic frogs, mice, and fruit flies
unit of heredity, was made into bacteria,
of. Today the cell has been
75 Vegetable
Statistics
Published
AUSTIN-According to
the recently-published 1975
Texas Vegetable Statistics
book, Texas ranked fifth in
the nation in total vegetable
production.
The publication also
contains such information as
the leading Texas counties in
production of various
vegetables and peak harvest
times of vegetables.
A free copy of the
statistics book is available
free by writing
Commissioner John C.
White, Texas Department of
Agriculture, P.O. Box 12847,
Austin, Texas 78711.
Meet The Jackets
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mapped and biologists know
that genes are made up of
that marvelous yet
mysterious chemical, DNA.
We hear that tax
collectors and psychiatrists
are giving the same advice:
“It’s not good for a man to
keep too much for himself.”
We wonder how many
brides can bake their cake
and eat them, too.
MICKEY WILLIAMS
.. .tailback
What Are The Odds?
of Armour and Company,
San Angelo. The value of
pure bred rams is the topic to
be discussed by Clifford
Throckmorton, breeder from
Le veil and.
Things could be worse.
Suppose your errors were
tabulated and published
every day like those of a
ball player.
The odds of recovering from
cataract are great. Surgery
can restore vision in 95 per-
cent of cataract cases for
which it is recommended.
* * *
The odds are 1 in 20 that
your preschool child suffers
from a vision problem. But
it can be detected early and
corrected. One aid in detec-
tion is the Home Eye Test
available free by writing
to The National Society for
the Prevention of Blindness,
SN, 79 Madison Ave., N.Y.,
N.Y. 10016.
Of the 45,400 new cases
of blindness this year, 50
percent will be needless.
natural fiber producers are all i have had to cut back their producer from Pipestone, reDresented tthe -
affected by these trends. How thermostats and reduce heat Minn., will speak on partial uv gill Sims He Jm exnlain
they are affected and what in their homes and businesses, confinement as an alternative ' P
they should do in the future That marked a return to wool
West Texas Outdoors
Despite ever increasing
people populations and a
constant destruction of
wildlife habitat, many species
of wildlife are more
numerous in this country
than in the past.
The reason for this is
effective wildlife management
programs that have been
carried out by agencies such
as the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department and
similar game and fish agencies
in states all across this
country.
Sportsmen are
contributing to conservation
at the rate of $250,000,000
per year. In the past 50 years
hunters and fishermen have
contributed $5 billion for
conservation and fish and
wildlife management.
For this reason, in 1972,
for the first time a day was
set aside to recognize
sportsmen for their efforts
and to assist in creating a
greater awareness of the
sportsmen’s role in
conservation in the United
States.
Since that time, the last
Saturday of each September
has been recognized as
National Hunting and Fishing
Day.
This year’s National
Hunting and Fishing Day will
be observed Sept. 25, 1976.
Governor Dolph Briscoe
joined a total of 50 top state
confinement as an alternative
for sheep production. the association’s services for
Carl Menzies, director of, the producers,
the agricultural experiment Factors involving sheep
station at San Angelo, will marketing will be discussed
focus on what performance by Jack Drake, co-owner and
testing of rams has manager, Producers Livestock
accomplished. A discussion Auction, San Angelo,
on the economics of range The animal science
sheep by Mark Wise, a! department will publish a
graduate student in animal report on the conference
production at Texas Tech, proceedings, which will be
will follow. available to delegates during
Dr. Leif H. Thompson, registration. The symposium
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Monday Thru Wednesday
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STORE HOURS 'o
Monday thru Friday yt
8 A. M.-6 P.M.
For And About Teenagers
enforcement through the
purchase of hunting and
fishing licenses, “...game
animals such as deer, quail
and turkeys now exist in
greater numbers than ever -------r, , , .
during this century assistant professor of animal concludes at 4 p.m.
and...millions of acres of
freshwater lakes now contain
great populations of both
native as well as introduced _—
varieties of fishes,” stated the ^iv;^Y;;iV''Vi‘:
Governor’s proclamation.
Hunters and fishermen
contribute to conservation in
a number of ways including f —A
through purchase of state
hunting and fishing licenses, :.V- h
federal migratory waterfowl '’ MHHHk. / M
stamps and support of THIS WEEK’S LETTER: I’m get high. Get high on all the won-
organizations such as Ducks 14 years old and I have this derful. natural things that are
Unlimited but, among the problem. I go out with this 17 around you. The next thing is to
most significant year-old every Friday and Satur- tell your parents about your
contributions, is money bay night. We go to parties, predicament. Take responsibility
provided by self-imposed Before we g° we always get for your situation and corn-
excise taxes on sporting arms brunk. One night I was drunk. My municate clearly with them. Tell
and ammunition and fkhina boyfriend and I went out to the the truth. Be honest. Share
tackle g car. Now I am pregnant. I don’t what’s happened with the ones
Hunters and shooters have ‘kn0W h°W t0 teI1 him- Should 1 §et that love y°u- We doubt that the
•, , , ccco an Portion before he finds out? I guy loves you very much since he
provided more than $650 want my baby more than °eems t0 have taken advantage of
million for wildlife ^ythmg in the world, but I’m too you.
management in the last 35 young for it. What should I do?
mort ^han^T ^ T ^ “ 16 ^ ^ ^ 3 volume letters to this
IXlOrC lilan J J J million bsby. column, requests for personal replies can-
annually through those taxes. OUR REPLY: The first thing ^ whlch^i
Fishermen have provided you should do is Stop drinking, represents questions and/or comments
C-t-tri -11- c 1 • \T i J J , , , r from readers. FOR & ABOUT TEENAGERS,
$220 million for fisheries Nobody your age needs alcohol to box 639, frankfort, Kentucky 406of
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about $18 million annually. §j
This money is collected by =
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support of this national day, states on the basis of hunting §j
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wildlife restoration, $425,000 =
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law and $145,000 for hunters
safety education for a total of =
In 1900 there were only $2,235,800. That amount is s
500,000 deer in the LInited half of the total allocation jj|
States. Today the Tfexas deer expected for Texas during the s
fiscal year 1977. 5
Day.
In his proclamation,
Governor Briscoe cited Tfexas
hunters and fishermen for
their support of game
restoration and
population, white-tailed and
mule deer combined, is well
over three million, and the
U.S. population is estimated
at 15 million. That is 30
times the population of 76
years ago.
There are approximately
five times as many elk in the
nation today as there were 60
years ago and about seven
times as many antelope.
As early as 1952, turkeys
lumbered less than 100,000,
out now total well over
1,250,000.
Since the first National =
Hunting and Fishing Day in S
1972, more than 50 million =
Americans have attended =
special activities in |
observance of the day.
These special activities are =
held in many communities S
across the state and across the |j
country. Participation in local g
activities will help to inform =
the public of benefits g
sportsmen have contributed Ej
to our fish and wildlife =
resources in this country.
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Brewer, Bert. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 62, Ed. 1 Monday, October 18, 1976, newspaper, October 18, 1976; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1009424/m1/5/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Winkler County Library.