The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 4, Ed. 1 Monday, April 1, 1974 Page: 3 of 10
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Monday, April 1,1974
The Winkler County News, Kermit, Texas
Page Three -
EASTER PLAY IS PRESENTED IN EAST PRIMARY
The second grade class of Mrs. Thurman Cox presented a play Muniz, Lisa Anderson, Missy Hoskins, Russell Shahan, Ida
during assembly Friday morning entitled, “The choosing of the Aguirre and Andrea Bentley. In the back row are Mike Smith,
Easter Rabbit.” Class members performing in the play are (front Ricky Ruiz, Bryan Hill, Martin Alarcon, Damon Burkhalter,
* row left to right) Steve Lindsey, Hector Montoya, Bertha Sandra Rodriguez, Yolanda Larez, Brian Hall and Mimi Jaurez.
West Texas State To
Have 75th Anniversary
schools — the School of
Agriculture, the College of Arts
and Sciences, the School of
Business, the College of
Education, the School of Fine
Arts and the Graduate School
— offer a total of 16 different
bachelor s and master’s degrees
with over a hundred majors
and areas of emphasis.
Expansions of the
curriculum in recent years have
taken diverse forms. Five new
degree programs and courses in
social work and criminal justice
administration have appeared,
Latin has reappeared, and
horsemanship is now offered
for either physical education or
agriculture credit. WTSU
students within the past year
have found themselves engaged
in projects ranging from
digging for archeological
material threatened by a new
dam to mapping Mars from
photos gathered by the Mariner
spacecraft;
Just as WTSU recognizes
that all students cannot attend
classes at the same hours, the
university also knows that all
students have time when they
are not attending classes. There
are 61 organizations on the
WTSU campus, from
fraternities and sororities to
societies for special interests,
to provide for those hours not
spent in classes.
The hub of the cultural and
social scene at WTSU is the
Activities Center, a complex of
bowling alleys, pool tables,
handball and paddleball courts,
a weight training room, four
basketball courts, an
Olympic-size swimming pool,
and rooms for reading, music
and films.
Students arriving at WTSU
now can take advantage of a
remarkable growth program of
the past five years, which
added eight new buildings and
a 2,400-acre ranch to the
university’s facilities.
The unique spirit of WTSU
is also captured in its efforts to
help students with the financial
aspects of attending college. In
addition to the conventional
loan, scholarship and student
employment programs, WTSU
has the special Opportunity
Plan, Inc., a non-profit
organization which offers
individualized financial
assistance and counseling along
with part-time job
opportunities.
WTSU is in a land of
iSfacultystudent ratio of 1-20,' cAontras,ts' Because “ is in the
jjwhich means that no WtSU Amarillo metropolitan area,
^student ever becomes just a students have easy access t0
‘numbered seat in an
^auditorium.
< We'St Texas State’s six
For an institution
approaching its 7 5 th
anniversary, West Texas State
University looks mighty new
these days.
The new masonry and spirit
invigorating the campus at
Canyon belie the age of the
oldest state-assisted institution
of higher learning in the West
Texas region.
Just this spring, WTSU
opened a $3 million library,
capable of housing a million
volumes and a three-story
University ’Science Center,
constructed at the same cost.
The buildings, which
provide much needed
enlargements of the
university’s science and library
facilities, also symbolize the
progressive attitude that WTSU
supporters feel has emerged
more strongly than ever in the
past year.
Two important events in
1973 ushered in the new spirit
, iat WTSU. The school marked
its 10th year with university
status, and Dr. Lloyd Watkins
arrived to take over the reins as
university president.
Almost as soon as he arrived
on campus, the new president
began stirring up a new
excitement among all segments
of the University and its
supporters.
Watkins has been associated
with a number of fine
. Universities in the Midwest, so
'everyone respected him as
something of an authority in
"such matters. His enthusiasm
‘ for this part of the country, its
people and especially WTSU
•was contagious. Soon
'everybody concerned began
^thinking about the future and
• seeing WTSU, not as a good
.‘University for this area as it has
';been for many years, but as a
^significant university -
significant beyond this part of
. Texas or even beyond the
Southwest - a significant
.^University — one that will
attract outstanding faculty and
.students from all over the
I country, even the world.
> The new enthusiasm has
: already begun to show itself in
a number of areas such as the
^concept that the University is
‘^operating to serve students.
''That concept is manifested in a
Job road range of practical
''applications, from simplified
^•registration procedures that
; have shortened those
^traditional lines at the start of
f?e a c h
Gardening Season
Is Now Underway
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the cultural activities in Texas’
seventh largest city, yet it still
has a good bit of the romance
of the old West. Spectacular,
rugged Palo Duro Canyon state
park is West Texas State
University’s backyard.
COLLEGE STATION -
Almost everywhere you look,
homeowners are tilling in their
back yards or wherever they
can find space to put in a
spring garden.
“Home gardening is
definitely booming, and in
Texas gardeners can produce
tasty, nutritious vegetables the
year round,” says Sam Cotner,
vegetable specialist for the
Texas Agricultural Extension
Service.
To have a successful home
garden, a number of important
factors enter into the picture,
notes the Texas A&M
University System specialist.
First of all, a site that has
well-drained, fertile soil is best.
However, homeowners often
have little choice on the garden
location. The location should
alsoi receive plenty of sunlight,
but certain crops can be grown
in partially shaded areas.
Cotner lists the selection of
proper varieties of crops as a
key item in successful gardens.
Different varieties are suited to
different areas of the state, so
county Extension offices
should be contacted
concerning which crops are
best adapted to specific
locations.
‘‘Proper seedbed
preparation is another
important element for a good
garden,” points out Cotner. “If
the garden site has heavy, tight
clay soil, add one to two inches
of sand and two to three inches
of organic matter and then
work these materials into the
soil. Gypsum at the rate of six
to eight pounds per 100 square
feet also helps improve tight
clay soils.”
Before planting, apply a
complete fertilizer such as
12-12-12 at the rate of two to
three pounds per 100 square
feet. Work the fertilizer into
the soil and then form the beds
for planting.
“Use transplants whenever
possible to get a crop off to a
head start,” advises the
specialist.
Once crops are up, water
them sufficiently and regularly
so that the water penetrates
the soil to a depth of at least
six inches. Light sandy soils
may require more frequent
watering. Cotner suggests
watering in the morning or at
GOVERNOR ARRESTING
The limousine of Governor
Meldrim Thomson, of New
Hampshire, has been serving
double duty - as a state police
cruiser. Thomson and his
driver, State Police Sgt. Henry
Bird, stopped two persons for
speeding and arrested three for
illegal possession of narcotics.
For Sale
1965 DODGE DART
35,000 Actual Miles
Interior Rough, But Would Make A
Good Crew Car
CASH PRICE $395™
See at
THE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS
109 South Poplar_ Kermit
least not later than
mid-afternoon so that plants
will dry before night. This
helps prevent foliage diseases.
Use of a long-handled hoe is
still the best means for
controlling weeds. However,
adding a mulch of straw,
leaves, grass, bark, gin trash,
sawdust, peat moss or other
organic material around plants
helps control weeds and also
reduces soil temperatures and
moisture losses.
“Keep a close check on
your crops once they begin to
approach maturity,” advises
the specialist. “Be sure to
harvest them only at full
maturity because that’s when
vegetables have their maximum
flavor and nutritional content.
“Growing your own
vegetables can be fun and it
helps reduce the grocery bill,'
contends Cotner.
“So, Happy Gardening.”
Rotarians
Present
Program
Two members of the Kermit
Rotary Club will be among
about 500 West Texas and New
Mexico Rotarians to attend
the annual District 552
conference in Carlsbad this
week.
The conference is to begin
Thursday, April 4, and will
continue through Sunday,
April 7.
Local Rotarians Julian
Dawson and E. B. (Buck)
Haggard will not only be
attending the conference, but
will also be presenting a
program regarding the local
Rotary Club’s “Hands Across
The Border” program.
Haggard is president of the
Kermit Club and Dawson is the
club’s secretary.
The conference will be
headquartered in the Motel
Stevens and will feature two
talks by Ben F. Hormel of
McCook, Nebraska, a past
district governor and past
member of Rotary
international’s board of
directors. He will be
representing the organization’s
president William C. Carter.
In addition to work sessions
and golf tournament, the
convention will feature talks
by U.S. Rep. Harold Runnels,
D-NM, a tour of Carlsbad
Caverns National Park with
dinner and entertainment
underground and a tour of
Carlsbad Zoological-Botanical
State Park of the Southwest
for the ladies.
On Saturday, the governor’s
banquet will be held. It will be
followed by a 1 !4-hour
production of “Swanee,” a
musical variety and comedy
show with a cast of 30 Eastern
New Mexico University
students.
District Gov. Billie Holder
of Alamogordo said the golf
tournament will determine the
district conference champion,
determined by a four-way test
using the Calloway System of
scoring. Play will take place at
Riverside Country Club.
Other golfing events will
include longest and shortest
drive, low an cl high putts^ low
and high gross and closest to
hole.
PRESENT COOKIES TO OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL
Members of Girl Scout Troop 217 recently presented cookies to the students of Kermit
Opportunity School. Scouts presenting the cookies were (left to right) Diane Beol, Pam
Glander, Sue Shepard, Lela Tucker, Lisa Morrison and Judy Humphries. Students accepting the
cookies are (left to right) Emma Fierro, Joe Fierro and Bobby Kidd. Local merchants donating
for the cookies were, First National Bank, Kermit State Bank, Permian Savings and Loan Assn.,
Cates Carpet and Furniture, Burns Electric, Connally Ins. Agency, J & J Electronic and
Furniture, The Winkler County News, Finley and Scoggins Attorneys at Law, Kermit Saddle
Club, Kilgore Bar-B-Que, Oasis Builders and Lee Roy Bell Construction Co. (Staff Photo)
★ Books In Your Library ★
MEET ME IN THE GREEN
GLEN by Robert Penn Warren
Warren’s strength and skill
as a story teller have never
been more evident than in this
powerful new novel. The
setting is a rural area of West
Tennessee, and the action takes
place in roughly the middle of
this century. It is a strange and
complex story of love,
betrayal, revenge, murder. The
plot is tightly constructed and
full of suspense; it moves
toward events that end in
murder, and a dramatic trial
that is followed by the heroic
efforts of a determined lawyer
to reverse the judgment of the
court. It is a story of sharp
insights into the human
predicamenta, and of a deep
moral and philosophical
significance.
WILL ROGERS, HIS LIFE
AND TIMES by Richard M.
Ketchum
No one ever had quite the
same hold on the American
public that Will. Rogers, did.
Nearly four decades after his
death, people still recall the
shy grin, the easy manner, the
total absence of sham, and
above all, the way he had of
putting things that went to the
very heart of the matter. The
news of Will Rogers’ sudden
death in an airplane crash made
headlines and one of his friends
said that “a smile has
disappeared from the lips of
America.”
NEW HEAD NURSE by Janet
Lane Walters
Gail Trenton welcomed the
opportunity to work at
Oaklake City Hospital where, if
she successfully got through
the probation period, she could
be a permanent head nurse.
Unfortunately, a rival for the
position was ruthless in the
means she used to discredit the
newcomer - means which
included not only maligning
Gail, but also breaking up her
romance with a young doctor.
SCIENCE IN THE WORLD
AROUND US by William C.
Vergara
This book wilFbeof interest
to all those curious people who
wonder why things happen in
everyday life as they do. The
author has the great ability to
make difficult things seem
easy. There are all sorts of
questions: How does dew fall
in the desert? Why do things
smell the way they so? Why is
beach sand usually white? Can
fish hear? These and hundreds
of other questions are
answered in simple terms
which almost anyone can easily
understand - questions you
might have asked yourself for
years, without bothering to
look them up.
MANSION OF MENACE by
Minerva Rossetti
Until the death of her
mother, Melissa had led a
sheltered life with her female
parent who was, as far as she
knew, her only living relative.
Then she was suddenly
informed that she had a living
father and two step brothers
and that their home in Melton
Manor was partly hers. Timidly
Melissa met her new-found
family, only to find it
supplemented by ghosts and
poltergeists who soon made her
existence a waking nightmare.
V
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A Message to the High School and College Age
Students of Kermit. . . (and those who love them)
From the President of West Texas State University
You are standing on the threshold ... perhaps the threshold of greatness, but at least
on the threshold of what can be a rewarding career. West Texas State University
is also on the threshold ... we think it is the threshold of greatness.
There is a new excitement on our campus. Everyone associated with the University
tells me they feel it, students, faculty, alumni and our many boosters throughout
the Panhandle.
The excitement started ten years ago when we achieved University status. We
began getting many new facilities including a new library, science building, research
center, classroom and administration buildings and a new Student Activities Center
which is second to none in the United States. We have new programs of a dozen,
different kinds ... even one for horsemanship.
Much of the money for these programs and facilities has come from individual citizens,
companies and foundations. These benefactors say, in effect, that our area should be
the site of a significant university ... a university with facilities and programs which
attract outstanding faculty and students from all over the nation, even the world.
WTSU is growing but it is not so big but that our teachers can take a personal interest
in each student and relate to him as the individual he is. Though we have a higher
percentage of Ph.D.’s on our faculty than most universities, (over 50% ,) our classes
average fewer students than most, (under 20).
Our students are very much a part of making things happen at WTSU. They are
interested, involved and excited. Their learning experience is bigger than the
classroom ... it is as big as life itself.
Tell us which of these areas of study interests you and we will tell you more about
that program at WTSU. Clip this coupon and mail it to me personally. I’ll see that
you get the whole exciting story without obligating you in any way.
Dr. Lloyd Watkins, President
West Texas State University
P. S. Don 7 let financial considerations keep you from exploring the idea of
coming to WTSU this summer or fall. Scholarships and other financial assistance
are readily available.
(Paid For By Private Funds)
Here ere some of the areas
in which you 'll find the
excitement of learning at WTSU.
•Accounting
•Agriculture
Agricultural
Business
Et Economics
•Animal Science
•Art
•Biology
Biomedical
Sciences
•Business
•Chemistry
Commercial Art
Data Processing
& Computer
Science
•Economics
•Education
Elementary
•Education
Secondary
Education All
Levels
•English
Finance
French
Geography
•Geology
German
Education
•History
Industrial
Distribution —
Business
•Industrial
Education —
Industrial
Technology
International
Relations
Journalism
Liberal Arts Er
Dentistry
Liberal Arts
& Law
Liberal Arts Et
Medicine
Management
Marketing
‘Mathematics
Medical
Technology
•Music
Music Education
Music Therapy
Nursing
Physical
Education
•Physics
Plant Science
‘Political Science
Pre-Professional
Agriculture
Education
Clinical
Chemistry
Cytotechnology
Inhalation
Therapy
Occupational
Therapy
Physical
Therapy
Radiologic
Technology
Medical
Records
Administration
Engineering
Pharmacy
Veterinary
Medicine
Psychology
Public
Administration
— Law
Enforcement
Secretarial
Studies
•Social Sciences
— Criminal
Justice
Administration
Social Work
‘Sociology
•Spanish
Speech
Speech &
Hearing
Therapy
Studio Art
Graduate
Programs Only
Administration —
school
Education
Diagnostician
Counseling
Jr. College
Teaching
Circle the subject(s) of interest to you.
I'll see that you get complete information.
* Q Check here if you are interested
in the graduate level program.
State,
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Mail to: Dr. Lloyd Watkins
P. O. Box 997, Canyon, Texas 79016
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Parks, Phil. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 4, Ed. 1 Monday, April 1, 1974, newspaper, April 1, 1974; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1034907/m1/3/: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Winkler County Library.