The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 23, 1975 Page: 1 of 4
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Mrs. Lucy Miller
R. 1, Box 17D
Wortham, TX 766*3
SERVING WORTHAM
And l*s Tri-County
frade Area
The Wortham Journal
VOLUME 7f
WORTHAM. TEXAS-THURSDAY. JANUARY 23. I97S
NUMBER 41
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Representative Etter Cites Medicare
Prescription Drug Payment Limits
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Receives B. A. Degree—
CYNTHIA M. SIMMON8
Cynthia M. Simmons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P.P. Simmons of
Wortham, received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English,
December 20 at Baylor University in Waco. Cynthia was among 400
granted degrees at the close of the 1974 semester.
With the fall graduation figure included, Baylor to date has
graduated about 51,300 students since the conferring of its first
degrees in 1854.
While at Baylor, Cynthia was an active member of Delta Alpha
Pi, women's social club. She served as pledge class treasurer,
reporter-historian, rush chairman, All University Sing chairman,
and pledge captain. She was a candidate for Student Congress
presentstive and a member of Baylor Sideline, freshmen
i’s spirit orgainzation.
ublic graduation exercises were held for the fall graduates.
The university’s next official commencement exercises will come
at the end of the 1975 spring semester. All December graduates are
eligible to participate in those exercises. Cynthia plans to par-
ticipate in commencement at that time.
Richard Etter, representative
of the Corsicana Social Security
office, said many people are
asking about getting help from
Medicare in paying for their
prescription drug bills. The
Medicare Program does not pay
for any drugs unless a person is a
hospital patient. Prescription
and non-prescription drugs
purchased by or dispensed to a
patient outside a hospital are not
paid for by Medicare.
Bills have been proposed by
Congrss to pay for drugs through
the Medicare Program.
However, none have yet been
passed. Sometimes bills are
passed by the appropriate
committee of the house or senate
and people get the idea it has
become law. However, it takes
passage by a majority of the
House and Senate and the
President’s signature before the
law is changed.
The major reason people are
confused about drug payment is
that they confuse Medicare and
Medicaid.
Medicare is for social security
beneficiaries who are at least 65
and people who have received
social security disability
payments for two years or
longer. Medicare is primarily to
help pay for hospital and doctor
bills. It also helps pay for some
durable medical equipment,
outpatient hospital treatment,
care in a skilled nursing facility,
and some services from home
health agencies. The Medicare
Program is administered by the
Social Security Administration
and the payment of benefits are
handled by private contractors
such as Blue Cross - Blue Shield.
Medicaid is for people who
receive Supplemental Security
Income Payments and recipients
of other benefit programs ad-
ministered by the individual
State Welfare Departments.
Mediciad is for people who are
considered medically indigent.
Mediciad does help pay drug
bills.
Many people are covered by
both Medicare and Medicaid and
sometimes they are confused
about which program has paid
for their drugs.
Etter emphasized that people
who have questions about
Medicare should contact their
local Social Security Office and
those who have questions
regarding Medicaid should
contact their State Welfare Of-
fice. The Corsicana Social
Security office is located at 415
N. 12th Street and the phone
number 874-8206. Out of town
residents and those living in
Freestone County may call
station to station collect
Navarro To Provide College
Credits With Home TV Viewing
Our apologies to Jacquelyn
Davis, a recent graduate of Sam
Houston State University in
Huntsville. We acidentally
omitted her name from our
recent list of college graduates.
Jacquelyn is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Uel Davis of Wortham.
Basketball Tournament starts
Thursday, January 23 at 1 p.m.
Games start Friday at 1 also.
Saturday's games start at 8 a.m.
and the finals will begin at 7 p.m.
All in the gym.
The newly organized Willing
Workers Auxiliary has received a
donation of $50.00 from Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Drumwright of
Dallas. This will certainly help
the Auxiliary in their work. The
Auxiliary is looking for a good
electric sewing machine to use at
the Wortham Heritage Home, if
anyone has one they would like to
loan or donate to them.
Vandals broke in and set fire to
the Big Thicket camp house of
Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Reese
recently.
The Wortham Junior High
Happy Birthday to Lillie Grace
Robinson on January 24; Patty
Waller on Januaary 25; Nancy
Gwin on January 26; Verna Jean
Cherry on January 28; Pug
Horton and Nell Jolly on January
29.
Happy Anniversary to Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Craig on January
27.
Navarro Junior College Offers
Medical Electronics Course
A two day medical electronics
short course entitled Clinical
Applications of Medical Elec-
tronics will be offered Friday and
Saturday at Navarro College in
cooperation with Texas
Technological University.
Medical and electonics
specialists from Texas Tech and
Navarro College will be course
Had a real good week,
everybody tried to be good. Got a
few for speeding, one for sticker
an windshield. Had a talk with
man that took $20.00 that didn't
belong to him.
Rooster told me he had some
sad news for me, seems like
Tarpin done gone and broke his
fishing rorf. Told one man about a
phone call and then he told me a
thing or two and I’ll tell you now I
won’t tell him about anything
else. Had one man from Dallas
tell me that he takes the paper to
his office and they sure get a kick
out of this mess.
Well, I see Betty has old
Tommy whipped back in line. I
checked with Sam and you sure
would be surprised at the things
she hers on that cheap radio.
I have been keeping an eye on
this gal with the wild car and it
looks like she has that thing about
broke now. At least it will stand
now when she leaves it.
instructors. It is essentially the
same course offered for doctors
at Texas Tech last summer.
Coordinated by Dr. C. David
Cambell, local physician, it is
only the second time that the
course has been held in Texas.
Dr. Cambell is also course
consultant.
The course is structured for
nurses and other health care
personnel who have no expertise
in the area of electronics. At the
conclusion of the course par-
ticipants will be able to un-
derstand and apply basic prin-
ciples to the areas of medical
electrical safety, monitoring,
defibrillation, potentiometry,
electrodes, and transducers.
Classes will be held at 9 a.m. to
12 noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. both
days. Classes will be conducted
in the Technical Arts Center.
Tuition for the 14 hours of in-
struction is $50 per student, with
Continuing Education Unites and
a Certificate of Completion to be
awarded upon successful com-
pletion.
The course will cover basic
principles and applications of
medical electonics and electrical
hazards in medicine. Special
topics will include elec-
trosurgical devices and
defibrillation.
Dr. Larry Reed, dean of in-
struction at Navarro College, can
be contacted for additional in-
formation
CORSICANA (Spl) -- This
spring, residents in the Navarro
College service area will have an
opportunity to receive college
credit instruction, using their
home television sets as the
classrooms.
Navarro College will offer
Biology 1213 - Ecology: Man and
Environment; English 1013 -
Composition and Expository
Reading; Psychology 1213 - In-
troduction to Psychology; and
Political Science 2033 • American
Government as “telecourses”.
Registration for the
telecourses will begin January 15
and continue through January 24.
A student enrolled in a
telecourse views a series of
televised lessons in his own home
rather than attending classes on
campus. The programs are
brodcast on KERA-TV, Channel
13. Each lesson is shown at
several different times during
the week, for the convenience of
students with different
schedules. Students view two
lessons each week.
There are also textbook and
study materials to read.
Examinations are taken at the
Navarro campus. If a student
needs help with the course, he
calls a special telephone number
and talks with the instructor. On-
campus orientation and
discussion meetings are also
provided two or three times
during the semester as an
assistance to students.
Telecourse students receive
the same credit as those enrolled
for similar courses on campus,
and the tuition is the same. They
can also be counted toward i
veteran’s benefits, if taken in(
combination Wft’h a greater
number of traditional on-campus
courses. Veterans can receive as
much as $100 to $300 a month,
depending onf family status and
how many hours enrolled in for
credit.
Dr. Larry Reed, dean of in-
struction at NC, points out that
telecourses are especially
designed for the person who,
because of his job or lifestyle,
cannot attend regular class
meetings on campus. Examples
of such persons are housewives
with children, persons who work
rotating shifts, and handicapped
persons who find it difficult to get
out.
Additionally, many students
who are taking on-campus
courses find telecourses a con-
venient way to increase the
number of courses they are
taking without class conflicts.
Additional registration in-
formation can be obtained from
Dr. Reed at 214-874-6501..
Navarro College
RN Program
CORSICANA (Spl) - Navarro
College expects to begin offering
the Registered Nursing Associate
Degree Program effective the
fall semester of this year ac-
cording to an announcement
made by Dr. Kenneth P. Walker,
president of the College.
All persons who are interested
in applying for admission to the
Registered Nursing Program
should contact Wanda Gillen in
the Office of Student Services at
the College. Mrs. Gillen is
com pilling a preliminary list of
applicants in order to expedite
processing of admission forms
and selection of the students to be
admitted when the final details
for starting the program have
been completed.
Dr. Walker stated that he had
received a telephone call from
Dr. Don Rippey, president of El
Centro College of the Dallas
County Community College
District, stating that all
preliminary arrangements for
establishing the cooperative
program with Navarro College
have received approval and that
the Chairman of his Nursing
Department, the Dean of In-
struction and other staff per-
' soimel from El’Centroi will visit
Navarro College on January 28 to
work out details for im-
plementation of the program.
When these details have been
finalized, a contractual
agreement will be prepared and
submitted to the Boards of
Trustees of the two institutions
for final approval. Dr. Walker
indicated that he hoped this could
Land Users - “Beware
“Land Users don’t let the
erosion take place in your
waterway as shown in theabove
picture”, states Max Baker of the
Soil Conservation Service at
Wortham, Texas.
Grassed waterways, the
foundation of the terrace system
need regular yearly maintenance
measures to keep the foundation
system sound and in proper
working order
Heavy rains, with a lot of run-
off can often cause considerable
washing in the waterways. This
is especially true before the grass
has made enough cover to protect
it from erosion. Re-shape, re-
sodding and fertilizing these
eroded areas, as they occur can
mean the difference between
success or failure is the
establishment of a new waterway
or prevention of damaging
gullies in an existing waterway.
“Waterways cost too much
money to shape and sod to let a
lack of maintenance at the
proper time ruin them”, further
states Baker.
Technicians of the Soil Con-
servation Service office at
Wortham, are available to assist
cooperators of the Freestone,
Limestone and Navarro Soil and
Water Conservation District with
any problem they may have on
safe disposal of run-off water.
be done in time for the February
Board meeting.
Dr. Walker said that when the
cooperative proogram is
finalized it will be the second of
its type in the state of Texas, and
Freestone TSTA Meeting Slated
For Monday, January 27, 1975
The Freestone County Texas
he expressed appreciation to the state Teachers Association will
officials at El Centro College for
their willingness to join with
Navarro College in making this
greatly needed program
available to the people of the
Navarro College service area
"GOOD WORD
from the Bible dp
Than Jotoph boing mind
from doop did os tho angol
of tho Lard hod biddan him,
and took unto him hit wilt
And ho know hot not till
tho had brought forth hor
firstborn tan, and ho co Hod
hit doom Lotus
Motthow 1. 74,25
meet Monday, January 27 at
Sallie Mounger Elementary
School in Teague, Texas at 7:30
p.m.
Mrs Virginia Kotts. President,
Wortham, will preside over the
meeting. New and Old business
will be conducted.
Mr. Neal Bass, program
chairman, Fairfield, will present
the program. Mrs. Bill Thompson
of Texas Power and Light
Company, Dallas, will be guest
speaker.
Mr. Thompson spent 25 years
in the daily newspaper business
before joining Texas Power and
a published article which
resulted from another public
address he made.
Since joining Texas Power and
Light Company, Mr. Thompson
had done extensive research in
nuclear power and other energy
sources. He recently spent a
week at the Atomic Energy
Commission’s National
Laboratories at Oak Ridge.
Tennessee.
All members of the local
organization are asked to attend
this meeting.
Ex-Worthamite
U.M.C. Circle I Meets With Mrs. i$ Named Mexia
_ _ . .. .. . r . 1^::'::”"“’:! Chamber President
F. B. Covert On Monday Evening
Uel Davis Elected Freestone
County Historical Chairman
County Judge Sam Carroll has
announced the official ap-
pointment of members to the
Freestone County Historical
Survey Committee. The county
survey committee, which im-
plements the state marking and
preservation program in this
area, will cooperate directly with
the state office of the Texas
Historical Commission in Austin.
Uel Davis of Wortham will be
chairman of the group. Other
members are Mrs. Uel Davis, J.
W Bates, Mrs. W. R. Beaver,
Mrs. E. A. Strange, Mrs. Mildred
Simmons, Dr. and Mrs. N. D.
Buchmeyer and Joh LeFevre all
of Wortham; Mrs. A. D. English.
Mrs. Daisy Gehrels, Mrs. Delma
Nevills and Mrs. Ellie Hagen all
of Route 2, Buffalo
Also, Lovic Emmons, Mrs I.
W. Thornton, Miss Sue Thornton,
Mrs. Sarah Thornton, Mr. and
Mrs. Clifton Childs, Jr., Mr. and
Mrs. Neil Bass, Mrs. H. B.
Steard, H. D Whitaker and Mr
and Mrs. T. A. Mcllveen all of
Fairfield; Mrs. L. R. Whatley,
Miss Dorothy McVey, Mrs. Ruth
Lee, Mrs. O. C. Magness, Jr.,
Mrs. Lavilla Owens, Mrs. Pearl
Perry, Mrs. Vivian Beaver, Mr.
and Mrs. H. A. Ellisor, Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Long, Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Swinburn, Mrs. Joe
Vickers, Mrs. Sarah Chancellor
and Mrs. Stanley (Sally Owens)
Gregory all of Teague.
“Goals for the Seventies”, a
comprehensive historical
preservation plan drawn up by
the Texas Historical Com-
mission, will provide the focus
for county committee activities.
It encompasses a wide range of
objectives and programs.
County Judge Carroll pointed
out that the overall purpose of the
committee’s work is the
development of local history as a
scholarly resource and a tourist
attraction. “County survey
committees work with local
historians, county Com-
missioner’s Courts, and tourist-
related organizations to insure
the preservation of history for
future generations of Texans.
With the advent of this nation's
Bicentennial celebration, it is
particularly timely and
significant that Freestone
County be a part of this
celebration”, he said
Circle I of the United Methodist
Church met Monday evening in
the home of Mrs. F. B. Covert.
This was the first meeting of the
new year and the new slate of
officers, Chairman Mrs. H. C.
Boyd, co-chairman Mrs. O. D.
Williams, Secretary-Treasurer
Mrs. W. G. McKeever, Reporter,
Mrs. B. J. Reese. Committees
appointed are in the year books.
Mrs. Boyd presided at the
business session. She opened
with a few words of welcome to
each and everyone and a
challenge to all for a better year
than the one just closed, in the
Lord’s work. The group sang
“Jesus Calls Us” and Mrs.
Williams led the opening prayer.
Mrs. McKeever called the roll
and 15 members and one guest
were present. The minutes were
read and approved. The
treasury report was given.
Thank you notes were read from
those who have been ill or had
bereavements since we last met.
Cards and memorials were sent
from the Circle.
The lovely year books were
passed out and the circle owes a
vote of thanks to Mrs. Alice
Chandler for the beautiful job she
did making them.
Mrs. Glenda McCommon, who
is the president of the U. M. W.,
was introduced by the chairman,
Mrs Boyd and she hought a most
interesting and informative
study from the Book of Jonah.
Although she covered the
chapters she gave very well, she
urged the members to read the
entire book in order to un-
derstand and get more from the
remaining studies.
,.i The love offering was taken
and the circle voted to give it to
the Week of Prayer offering.
At the close of the meeting
delicious refreshments of
chocolate sheath cake, tea or
coffee was served to the group
and a social hour was enjoyed by
all. Mrs. J. P. Black was co-
hostess with Mrs. Covert, but was
ill and unable to be present for
the meeting. The Circle wishes
you, Mrs. Black and also Mrs. T.
G. Keeling a speedy recovery.
14 of those years, was Managing
Editor and Editor of the Paris
(Texas) News. He was honored in
1969 by the Southwest Journalism
Forum for his feature stories and
pictures.
He is the past president of the
Lamar County Chamber of
Commerce - and holds an
honorary life membership in that
organization.
The Freedoms Foundation has
twice awarded him the George
Washington Honor Medal - in 1970
for public address and in 1973 for
Freestone County Offers Course
R.Q. Sims, formerly of Wor-
tham, was presented at the Olin
Teague banquet at Mexia
Saturday evening, as the in-
coming president of the Mexia
Chamber of Commerce.
In his speech of acceptance,
Mr. Sims outlined plans for the
city’s part in the nation’s Bi-
Centennial observance. He also
announced a number of civic
plans, emphasizing a committee
for securing the services of
another resident doctor.
A Defensive Driving Course
will be offered in Freestone Co. If
you are over 50 years of age,
want to improve your driving
Blacklands Credit
Assn. Announces
Year End Totals
Blacklands Production Credit
Association announces its year
end loan totals now exceed
$40,000,000 Blacklands is an
agriculture loan corporative
operating in eleven counties in
Central Texas.
President Bobby D. Wilson
stated that the Association's loan
volume of over $40,000,000 is the
highest it has ever been and that
the Association's capital
structure has now gone past
$5,418,000.
President Wilson stated that
even though the agriculture
industry is in a bad state of
condition at the present time, the
borrowers doing business with
Blacklands for the most part are
holding their operations together
and the Association will be able
to continue financing its
borrowers
habits, and receive a discount on
your car insurance, it win ue iu
your advantage to enroll. Contact
Mrs. Sarah Chancellor, 739-3485
or Mr. A M. Johnson, 739-2744 in
Teague, or Mrs. Isiah Carden,
389-3513 in Fairfield
Freestone ICA
Receives Data
Glen Wren, Chairman of In-
dependent Cattlemen's
Association of Freestone County,
has received the following in-
formation on beef and veal im-
ports from John C. White,
Commissioner of Agriculture in
Texas. The report is given in
pounds for the 1974 year and in
ranking order of the first ten
counties.
Australia -684,733,000
New Zealand -276.526,000
Mexico —54.867,000
Ireland —52.310,000
Canada -50,975,000
Nicaragua -43,802,000
Costa Rica -40,431.000
Hondorus -37,396,000
Gautemala —35.524,000
Salvador 14,262,000
Oters -21,235.000
Wortham Cemetery Assn.
Sets Meeting Jan. 26
Notice is given of the annual
meeting of the Wortham
Cemetery Association to be held
on Sunday afternoon, January
26th at 2:30 p.m. in the Walker
Funeral Home.
Mrs. Harry P. Bounds,
president, extends a cordial
invitation to everyone to attend.
Election of officers and a
financial report will be given at
this time.
Rev. Sandlin Will Be Guest
Speaker For Presbyterians
The Rev. T.I. Sandlin of
Dakota, Illinois will bring the
morning message at Central
Presbyterian Church on January
26th at 9 a.m. Members and
friends are urged to attend.
Rev Sandlin is a former pastor
of the church.
Jr. High Basketball
Tourney Finals Set
The finals in Junior High
Basketball Tourney start Sat.
Jan. 25 at 7. Trophies will be
handed out after the tournament
around 9 p.m. or later.
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