The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 18, 1976 Page: 1 of 4
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WORTHAM,TEXAS
Tlll'RSDAY. MARCH IK, 1978
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.About Your
Election Order And Notice
Social Security
People should promptly report
changes in circumstances that
could affect their supplemental
security income payments and
should not wait to hear from
social security, according to
Richard Etter, social security
representative in Corsicana.
The supplemental security
income program makes monthly
payments to people with little or
no income and limited resources
who are 65 or over or blind or
disabled. Eligibility and monthly
payments amounts can be af-
fected by changes in income,
living arrangements, maritial
status, and other circumstances.
“To get the right supplemental
security income checks to the
right people on time,” Etter said,
“the Social Security Ad-
ministration periodically con-
tacts people getting payments to
review their eligibility and
monthly payment amounts.”
"But we may not be in touch.
with people as often as their
circumstances change,” he said.
“So they should report changes to
us as promptly as possible."
People have 30 days to report
changes that affect their sup-
plemental security income
payments. Failure to report
changes - or delay in reporting -
can mean penalty reductions in
payments.
“People can get information
about reporting changes by
calling or writing any social
security office," Etter said.
The supplemental security
income program is administered
by the Social Security Ad-
ministration, an agency of the
U.S. Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare.
The Corsicana social security
office is at 415 N. 12th Street. The
phone number is 874-8206.
School Agenda 76-77
The 1976-77 school calendar
was approved at last Monday
nights regular board meeting.
Teachers report to work on
August 11th and students begin
on August 18th. Holidays are
labor day, Thanksgiving,
November 25 and 26; Christmas,
December 18-Jan. 3; and Easter,
April 9-17. The last day of school
is scheduled on May 26th with the
high school commencement on
May 27th.
the tax collectors report
showed 93.89 percent of the 1975
current tax collection. This
compared with 94.39 percent in
1974.
The final application for
foundation funds was approved.
The school will receive ap-
proximately $5,000 more than
originally anticipated because of
the increased enrollment.
In other action, the March bills
were approved for payment and
April 5th was set as the date to
canvas the election returns.
Members present at the meeting
were Alton Frost, W.S. Bosley,
Dr. N.D. Buchmeyer, Jon R.
Jones, James Black, Dan Moore
and Rudy Miller.
FACTS
FICTION
Wortham has received a check
from the state comptrollers of-
fice for $976.35 for the city sales
tax period ending Feb. 27, 1976.
Thornton of Dallas, to help them
in their work at the Home.
Word has been received that
Mrs. T.I. Sandlin recently fell
and broke her hip. She is
recovering at home, 116 North
Street, Dakota, Illinois. 61018 and
weknowehe would enjoy hearing
from her friends in Wortham
The Willing Workers Auxiliary
of the Wortham Heritage Home
has received a donation of $25.00
from Mr. and Mrs. Wayne H.
Young
Homemakers
Meet
The Wortham Young
Homemakers met Tuesday night,
March 3rd. John Barham of
Mexia demonstrated how to
make and care far terriarriums.
Everyone enjoyed making her
own terriarrium, with his
assistance. Mr. Barham an-
swered various questions about
household plants and hanging
baskets. Refreshments were
served following the meeting.
Our next scheduled meeting is
April 6th when we will have a
Safeway representative discuss
preparation and cooking with
meat. Meats will be given as door
prises. The public is invited to
attend and a babysitter will be
available.
Happy Birthday to Ronnie
Bennett, Mrs. G.T Murphy and
Cheri Butler on March 19; Tracy
Poe on March 20; Sue Calame on
March 21; James Gregory, Kay
Lin Williams and Penny Williams
on March 22; Bess Collier, Mrs.
H.D. Wynn and Pat Massey on
March 25.
Happy Anniversary to Mr. and
Mrs. Gaskill Moody on March 25.
City Council
Election
The election for city council
members and mayor will be held
on Saturday, April 3 at the school
cafeteria from 7 a m. to 7 p.m.
Running for the three
vacancies on the council are
Charles Bounds, Bueford Owens,
JM West, WO. Richardson,
David Batts, Mike Goodwin, John
C. Jack Sandlin. W.F. McLeod,
Doyle Spakes and Andrew
Keathlev. Jr.
Harold Walker is running for
mayor.
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF Freestone.
On this the 19th day of January,
1976, the Board of Trustees of
Wortham Independent School
District convened in regular
session, open to the public, with
the following members present,
to-wit:
Alton Frost, President
James Black,
W.S. Bosley
Jon R. Jones
Rudy Miller
Dan Moore
and the following afbest: Dr.
N.D. Buchmeyer constituting a
quorum and among other
proceedings had by said Board of
Trustees was the fallowing;
WHEREAS, the term of office
of W.S. Bosley and Dan Moore
members of the Board of
Trustees of this School District
will expire on the first Saturday
in April, 1976, said first Saturday
being April 3, 1976, and on said
date a trustee election will be
held in said School District.
WHEREAS, it is necessary for
this Board to pass an order
establishing the procedure for
filing for and conducting said
trustee election;
THEREFORE, BE IT OR-
DERED BY THE BOARD OF
TRUSTEES OF Wortham IN-
DEPENDENT SCHOOL
DISTRICT:
1. That an election be held in
said School District on April 3,
1976, for the purpose of electing to
the Board of Trustees of said
School District two (2) trustees.
2. That all requests by can-
didates to have their names
placed upon the ballot for the
above mentioned election shall
be in writing and signed by the
candidate and filed with the
secretary of the Board of
Trustees at the superintendent’s
office not later than 30 days prior
to the date of said election
3. That said election shall be
held at the following places, and
the following named persons arc
hereby appointed officers for aid
election:
(a) In election precincts
numbered at Wortham School
Cafeteria Building, in Wortham,
TEXAS, IN SAID School District,
with W.W. Wilboum as Presiding
Judge.
(b) In election precincts
numbered at Kirvin Baptist
Church Building, in Kirvin,
Texas in said School District,
with Sarah Nettles as Presiding
Judge.
Donations to the Wortham
Volunteer Fire Dept, this week
are Kenneth Caudle,$3.; Rena A.
Isbell,$5 ; Mr. and Mrs. Loyle O.
Me Reynolds, $25.; Mrs. Dwain
York. $10.; and- Mrs. Mary
Norton, $5. Your donatipns are
always appreciated by the Fire
Department.
The polls at the above
designated polling places shall on
election day be open from 7:00
o'clock a.m. to 7:00 o'clock p.m.
4. Mattie Stubbs is hereby
appointed Clerk far absentee
voting, and Linda Carr is hereby
appointed Deputy Clerk for
absentee voting. The absentee
voting for the above designated
election shall be held at
Superintendents Otfice, Wor-
tham within the boundaries of the
above named School District and
said place of absentee voting
shall remain open far at least
eight hours on each day for ab-
sentee voting which is not a
Saturday, a Sunday, or an official
State holiday, beginning on the
20th day and continuing through
the 4th day preceding the date of
said election. Said place of
voting shall remain open between
the hours of 8:00 and 4:00 on each
day for said absentee voting.
5. The manner of holding said
election shall be governed, as
nearly as may be, by the Election
Code of this state, and this Board
of Trustees will furnish all
necessary ballots and other
election supplies requisite to said
election.
6. Immediately after the votes
have been counted, the officers
holding said election shall make
and deliver the returns of said
election and perform all other
duties as provided by the Elec-
tion Code.
7. The Board of Trustees shall
give notice of said election, and
this combined Election Order
and Notice shall serve as Notice
for said election. The President
of the Board of Trustees is hereby
authorized and instructed to post
or cause to have posted said
combined Election Order and
Notice at three public places
where notices are customarily
posted in this school district, and
said posting shall be made at
least 20 days before the date of
said election.
The above order being read, it
was moved and seconded that the
same do pass. Thereupon, the.
question being called for, the
following members of the Board
voted AYE: James Black, W.S.
Bosley, Jon R. Jones, Rudy
Miller, Dan Moore and the
following voted NO: None
C.A. Frost
President, Board of Trustees
ATTEST:
Jon R. Jones,
Secretary, Board of Trustees
Roy Acuff
Roy Acuff, King of country
music, will be featured in a
program sponsored by the
Wortham Volunteer Fire Dept,
on April 2nd, Friday, at 8 p.m.
The program will be at the
Wortham football field, but in
case of rain, shows will be given
at the school Auditorium at 7
p.m. and at 9 p.m. Tickets are
$3.50 per person, or $8.00 for a
family ticket and may be pur-
chased from any member of the
Wortham Volunteer Fire Dept, or
at Jenkins Grocery, Keelings
Grocery and Keathley's Cafe.
Individual tickets will be $4.00 at
the gate, with no increase in
family tickets.
Roy Acuff known everywhere
as the King of Country Music was
given that title by his long-time
friend, Dizzy Dean. Born in
Manardsville, Union County,
Tennessee. Roy grew up with
sports very much on his mind.
Roy, while on try-outs for a
professional hall club, fell victim
on three separate occasions to
sunstroke and had to pick a new
career. His father, a missionary
Baptist minister, and local
lawyer, also played fiddle and
collected records of the great
mountain fiddle songs. Roy
began learning the fiddle himself
hy trying to play the songs on the
records.
He first sang professionally
at the age of 30 years old. He
made his first record in 1934. Six
years later he joined the Grande
Ole Opry, where he's been
regular ever since, first as a
soloist, and then the leader of the
Smokey Mountain Boys, a down-
home country combo that has
always contained a sampling of
the finest country in-
strumentalists in the business
Also featured with the Smokey
Mountain Boys in the Wortham
show will be Bashfull Bro.
Oswald. Onie Wheeler and
Fiddling Max McGahee.
Get Ready For...
Frontier Day
ROBERT L. HUGHES
Selected For
Technical
Training
SAN ANTONIO -Airman
Robert L. Hughes, whose parents
are Mr. and Mrs. Jack T. Hughes
of Kirven, Tex., has been
selected for technical training in
the U.S Air Force wire main-
tenance field at Sheppard AFB
Tex.
The airman recently com-
pleted basic training at Lackland
AFB, Tex., where he studied the
Air Force mission, organization
and customs and received special
instruction in human relations.
Airman Hughes is a 1975
graduate of Teague(Tex ) High
School. (USAF HOME TOWN
NEWS CENTER)
The Wortham P.T.A. is
sponsoring a “FRONTIER
DAY,” in Wortham, Saturday
May 1st. The Parade will begin
at 11:00 a.m. in front of the
school gym. Contests will be held
from l p.m. to 3 p.m. and will
include a Beard Growing Con-
test, Greased Pole Climbing,
Ladies Log Sawing. And any
other ideas that someone may
come up with.
Mary Miller will be in charge of
Music. David Batts in charge of
Dunking Machine. Wortham J C.
will sponsor the Cake Walk, and
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Gragg will
have the Progressive Auction.
From 3 p.m. until 8 p.m., the
booths will be open.
The Kindergarten class will
have Helium Balloons; First
Grade, Pin & Balls; Second
Grade, Treasure Chest; Third
Grade, Duck Pond; Fourth
Grade, Pony Ride; Fifth Grade,
White Elephant Sale; Sixth
Grade, Dart Toss; Seventh
Grade, Jail, Eighth Grade,
Fortune Telling, and High School
may have a House of Horror from
5 p.m to 8 p.m.
Judy Lansford, is the Gram-
mer School Room Mother and
Emma Grace Moore, is the High
School Room Mother. Both
ladies will be in charge of
refreshments.
A&M University
Baylor College
Receive Grants
WASHINGTON. DC.
Congressman Olin E. Teague (D-
Tx) has announced that Texas
A&M University and Baylor
College of Medicine have
received a joint VA grant of
$387,405 as the first increment in
a seven-year grant program to
establish a new Texas state
medical school.
The assistance program,
administered through the
Veterans Administration Office
of Academic Affairs, is expected
to total $17.7 million over the
seven-year period, according to
Congressman Teague, who is
chairman of the VA Committee’s
Education and Training Sub-
committee.
The new medical school will be
affiliated with Texas VA
Hospitals and will utilize VA
space at the VA hospitals in .
Temple, Waco and Marlin for
classrooms and administration.
“Having a medical school
affiliated with our Texas VA
hospitals are only will provide
our veterans with the most ad-
vanced medical care,” Teague
said. “It will serve to broaden
our body of medical and scien-
tific knowledge to the ultimate
benefit of all Texas citizens."
Another $4,167,666 will be
available for modifying and
equipping the VA facilities in
Temple, and for minor
modifications at the VA Hospitals
in Waco and Marlin.
The initial $387,405 grant
covers faculty salaries for the
first six months. Subsequent
grants will cover ongoing faculty
salaries.
Ford’s Budget
Could Slow
Economy Bounce
By MIKE MOORE
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP)
President Frod's budget
proposals could slow down the
"quite strong" economic
recovery and boost the nation’s
employment, the C
ongressional Budget Office says.
At hearings Monday before
House and Senate budget panels,
Congress' budget office said the
outlook this year is for “fofrly
substantial” economic recovery
but that if Ford’s proposed
budget is adopted without
changes the economy will drag
somewhat in 1977.
The office gave the panels a
report on Ford’s proposals and
outlined alternatives on spending
and taxes for fiscal 1977, which
begins this Oct. 1. Under its new
budget law, Congress faces a
May 15 deadline to come up with
targets for spending, revenue
and deficits.
The report said the main issue
Congress must face “is striking a
balance between the stimulus the
economy must have if it is to
continue its receovery, and the
restraint needed to avoid
rekindling high rates of in-
flation."
Budget office director Alice
Rivlin said economic restraint
proposed by Ford could mean an
unemployment rate at the end of
1977 that is six-tenths of 1 per cent
higher - an increase of 500,000
unemployed -• than would exist
under a "current policy" budget.
The “current policy” budget,
used by the Congressional
Budget Office as a base from
which to judge alternative
budgets, continues current
federal programs with ad-
justments for projected inflation
and population growth.
Under that budget, the office
estimated, spending would be
between $419 billion to $425 billion
and the deficit would range
between $55 billion to $65 billion,
depending on the strength of
recovery. Ford’s budget
proposes $394 billion in spending
and a $43-billion deficit.
Under Ford's budget, the Gross
National Product by late 1977
would be 1.5 per cent lower than
it would be under the
“CURRENT POLICY" budget,
the report said. The GNP
roughly measures the value of all
goods and services produced in
the country.
The office said further that
Frod's budget “would probably
have little short-run effect on
inflation,” but after two or three
years might yeield an inflation
rate three-tenths of 1 per cent
lower than current policies woud
produce.
Dr. Rivlin, briefing reporters
on the study, said her stafl
economists are optimistic about
the courage of the economy.
“Clearly, a quite strong recovery
is in progress,” she said.
The report estimated unem-
ployment, which was 8.5 per cent
in the last quarter of 1975, would
range between 7 and 7.5 per cent
by the end of 1976 and between 6.4
to 6.9 per cent by the end of 1977 if
the “current policy'' budget were
law.
The consumer price index, a
measure of inflation, under the
CUI1 Mil policy
from 166 at the end of 1975 to from
174 to 177 a year later and to 183 to
188 by the end of 1977. On this
scale, the 1967 consumer price
level is 100.
Dr. Rivlin noted that the
projections generally are the
same as those Ford's advisers
contend would result from his
more restrictive budget, saying
administration economists
evidently are more optimistic
about recovery than her staff
experts.
Search is on for 2
Former Bank Officials
Senior Citizens Meet March 26th
Demonstration
To Be Held
A Gopher Control Method
Demonstration will be held on
March 23, 1:30 p.m. In the
Shiloh Community on Alford
Manning's Farm.
The demonstration will be
conducted in cooperation with the
Department of Enterior.
sponsored by Freestone County
Extension Service, the In-
tensified Farm Planning
Program (IFPP).
Everyone having gopher
problems are invited to attend
Senior Citizens meeting March
26th will be our day to honor those
who have had birthdays this
month.
Our attendance has been ex-
Summer Baseball
Plans Underway
Plans are under way to
organize the summer baseball
program this year. There are still
uniforms and equipment out
from the last program.
If von still have any part of the
baseball uniform or any type of
equipment or know of any, please
contact Mr. Poe at the school
office.
cellent considering the number of
people who have been out
because of the flu and colds.
Again I want to say "Thank
You" to those who give of their
time to provide, cook and bring
so many good foods to the center.
Also a special “Thanks” to those
who help serve and clean after
the meal.
If you are 55 or over we
welcome you to come to the
center for a day of fellowship, fun
and enjoy a variety of good food.
We have had out town visitors.
HOUSTON (AP) - The FBI
says it seeking to locate two
former officials of the Franklin
Bank of Houston who have been
indicted by a federal grand
jury.
The indictment returned Mon-
day accused James Robert
Lyne Jr. and John B. Hooper,
35. of misapplying monies of
two Houston banks and con-
spiracy to misapply monies of
an Orange, Tex., bank.
Lyne is a former chairman of
the board of directors of Frank-
lin Bank and Hooper is a for-
mer director of that bank. Lyne
is believed living in Phoenix.
The FBI said Lyne also had
effective control of the North-
east Bank of Houston and was
chairman of the board of the
Orange Bank in Orange. At the
same time, the FBI said. Hoo-
per was a director of the Or-
ange Bank and president of the
Northeast Bank.
From 1970 to 1972, the in-
dictment alleged, the two mis-
applied money, funds and cred-
its of the three banks with in-
tent to injure and defraud
them.
The indictment also charged
they conspired through control
of the management and oper-
ations of these banks to cause
loans to be made in connection
with the sale of stock in the
Chireno, Tex., Bank. The in-
dictment said the two men con-
verted those proceeds to their
ing loans to be made based
upon collateral and financial in-
formation they knew to be in-
adequate.
They are charged in nine
counts of the indictment with
misapplying $22,353 of Franklin
Bank funds and in two counts
with misapplying $11,176 of
Northeast Bank funds.
who are most welcome.
Those who need the services of use
the van, please call 765-3306 any They also are accused in the
time through the week. indictment of fraudulently caus-
Cattlemen
Ask More
Exemptions
WASHINGTON-The
agricultural lands of the United
States may end up solely in the
hands of large corporate
producers unless federal estate
tax property exemptions are
increased.
T.A Cunningham of Goliad,
president of the Independent
Cattlemen's Association, urged
that the $60,000 exemption set in
1942 be raised to $200,000 and that
lands be appraised at productive
instead of market value.
“Many people work a lifetime
to pay for a farm or ranch but
their heirs have to sell the land to
pay the estate taxes,” Cun-
ningham said. “Without relief the
small producers will be driven off
the land and replaced by large
corporations.”
"No tax imposed by our
government should be so severe
as to prevent the reasonable
ownership of property,” he said.
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