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Thursday, February 6,1986
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pie to her mother (the fantasy
daughter she wanted and then the
daughter who could build a good
marriage because she was her hus-
band’s pawn — a docile slave).
B.D. could never get through to
her mother — Bette had a habit of
hanging up the phone and refusing to
call back or else she would give her
daughter unreasonable and far-
fetched arguments.
All B.D. could do, she decided, was
to write this book, hope her mother
would read it and that it would
somehow reach through to her.
Stories of Hollywood queens are
actually seldom my favorites, but
this one is special. It is well written,
and though it seems that Bette Davis
is a caricature of possessive and
unreasonable faults mothers may
acquire, yet it is a fascinating study
in psychology.
students to participate in the programs. One example is
the threat to the state’s vocational agriculture program,
whose budget may be cut by two-thirds this year.
During Vocational Education Week, local school ad-
ministrators are inviting parents, businessmen and other
members of the community to visit the area vocational
education classes and see for themselves the education our
students of today are receiving to prepare them to join the
job market tomorrow.
The weeklong observance would be a good time for
business leaders who have not already joined the voca-
tional program — either by hiring students or by
volunteering their knowledge to help educate those
students — to investigate the possibilities in the Gregory-
Portland school district. If the spirit of budget cuts con-
tinue, the local community may be forced to contribute
much more to these fine programs.
This newspaper is published Thursday after-
noon.
SUNDAY, FEB. 9
Alcoholics Anonymous - 9:30 a.m., 426 Moore Ave.
Narcotics Anonymous - 7 p.m., Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic
Church
SATURDAY, FEB. 8
Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship International - 7 a.m.,
fellowship breakfast, Charlie’s Country Kitchen, Motel 11
Alcoholics Anonymous - 8 p.m., 426 Moore Ave.
THURSDAY, FEB. 13
Portland Extension Homemakers - 9 a.m.
Story Time -10 a.m., Bell-Whittington Public Library
TOPS 638 - 6:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church
Jaycees - 7:30 p.m., Community Center
Alcoholics Anonymous - 8 p.m., 426 Moore Ave.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12
Kiwanis Club - noon, Chamber of Commerce building, 902 Elm
Portland Sea Gulls Square Dance Club - 8 p.m., Community Center
20 YEARS AGO
-1966-
The Church of Christ of Portland
has recently completed an addition
to its facility which includes six
classrooms, a work room and a
library. This now makes a total of 18
classrooms.
TUESDAY, FEB. 11
Chapter 2901, AARP -10 a.m., First Presbyterian Church
Chamber of Commerce monthly meeting - noon, Chamber building
Masonic Lodge stated meeting - 7:30 p.m., Masonic Lodge building
Planning and Zoning Commission - 7:30 p.m., City Hall
Community Education Program - 7:30 p.m., “colon and rectal
cancer,” Women’s Health Care Center
Volunteer fire department -7:30 p.m., fire station
Alcoholics Anonymous - 8 p.m., 426 Moore Ave.
PRODUCTION STAFF
Epifanio Paz, Pete Villarreal
Dale Andrews Alonzo Murphy, Lynda Dunlap
Marty Garza, Pat Rodriguez, Carrie Murray
Paul Salone, Raul Gomez, Janey Armesto
James Pease, Nelda Bustamante
5YEARSAGO
-1981-
Prime Cable of Portland will begin
operating a cable television system
here. Basic monthly charge will be
$4.50 a month, with the optional HBO
an additional $7.50 a month.
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Brian Boney dropped in 13 points
In Portland
THURSDAY, FEB. 6
TOPS 638 - 6:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church
Gregory Lions Club - 7 p.m., fire station
Alcoholics Anonymous - 8 p.m., 426 Moore Ave.”
STPA
South Texas Press Association
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Joyce Shaw this week was named
news-society editor of the Portland
News as Juanita Hanke “retired” to
resume full-time care of her two
small children.
The Portland Jaycees will sponsor
the Fisher Brothers Circus on Feb.
16 at Municipal Park. Tickets are $1
for any seat.
The G-P girls continued their win-
ning ways Tuesday night by
defeating Mathis 78-14. Patsy Johns
had 17 points; Mina Akins and Janie
Hunt each had 14.
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Mrs. David M. Phillips, a member
of the Portland Garden Club, receiv-
ed six first-place blue ribbons and
two second-place red ribbons in the
Illness among the students of the adult division of the A&H Show held
Gregory-Portland school system has
been exceedingly high due to a flu-
like condition, with 459 students of
the 2,507 total enrollment absent and
11 teachers also succumbing to the
virus.
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MONDAY, FEB. 10
Rotary Club - noon, Community Center
Overeaters Anonymous - 6:15 p.m., Coastal Bend Hospital cafeteria
conference room
Traffic advisory board - 7 p.m., police department conference room
Parks and recreation advisory board - 7:30 p.m., Community Center
G-P Booster Club - 7:30 p.m., high school cafeteria
Al-Anon - 8 p.m., 426 Moore Ave.
daughter managed?
B.D. and her husband succeeded
in weathering Bette’s inconsisten-
cies, her alcoholic bouts, her unin-
vited sudden visits, her selfishness,
unreasonable tantrums. They even
managed to survive her inconsisten-
cies when, during the filming of a
movie with her first grandson, she
wouldn’t even let him call home
unless she could listen in. (She was
really paranoic about it.) But when
Bette started abusing the younger
son while he was too young to
understand it, Jeremy and B.D. took
a firm stand.
One day, B.D. finally thought she
had the answer to the puzzle of her
mother’s behavior. Bette was
always a fighter; in a way her life
had made her so, and deep down she r
rather enjoyed it. B.D. was two peo- as the G-P seventh-grade Kittens
closed out their basketball season
with a 36-18 win over Tuloso-
Midway.
FRIDAY, FEB. 7
Portland Al-Anon - 10 a.m., Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic
Church
Overeaters Anonymous - 7 p.m., Coastal Bend Hospital cafeteria con-
ference room
Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship International - 7 p.m., charter
workshop dinner, Charlie’s Country Kitchen, Motel 11
By Linda Castleberry
Vocational students throughout the Gregory-Portland
school district next week will participate in contests and
other special activities in celebration of Vocational Educa-
tion Week. The annual event attempts to recognize the ef-
forts of vocational students and their instructors.
In G-PISD, the vocational educational program in-
cludes approximately 35 percent of high school students as
well as some junior high students. The varied programs in-
clude students who have decided to pursue a vocation im-
mediately upon graduation as well as students who are
seeking to obtain additional training in a particular field
prior to pursuing their studies at a higher institution of
learning.
But the G-P program, like other educational programs
across the nation, is being threatened by funding cuts and
educational restrictions which make it more difficult for
McGruff Over The Top!
The Portland Lions Club this week went over the top in its goal to fund
the McGruff Puppet Program throughout G-PISD.
In addition to placing the puppets in grades kindergarten through six
in G-PISD, the Lions Club placed puppets at Portland Christian School
and the First Baptist Church day care school.
Contributors of at least $65 include Donn Moody, Madelyn Stone,
Gregory Feed and Elevator, the Rick Ott family, John Poynter, Harry
Pease, Joe and Mary Gonzalez, Tompkins Young Real Estate, Grady and
Sue O’Shields, the R.B. Reddick family, the Charles E. Hughes family,
Stanley N. Smith, John Lucey and Garland Dieringer.
Just as there will be aircraft
losses, as there will be deaths on the
roadway, at sea, in any realm. Just
as they will come with everyday life,
in combat, and they will come when
man takes further strides into the
unknown.
To stand down the Shuttle mis-
sions until such time as a cause for
the accident may be found to
preclude reoccurence in other laun-
chings, is the correct stance.
BUT, ALREADY there are the
voices in the self-styled halls of
wisdom whispering that there
should be an extended shutdown of
the program. There are those who
see a lapse of years before resump-
tion of the flights.
There are others who would take
this horrendous accident as an ex-
cuse to take America completely out
of the space program.
How tragic that would be for not
only the country, but for man. The
common good, the tremendous
wealth of knowledge coming from
the missions into the space frontier
are incalculable.
But, it is hoped that those
Americans who care will insist that
those few do not undo all the
greatness that has been accomplish-
ed and will be accomplished as the
United States makes further con-
quests into what has been described
as the Last Frontier.
PERHAPS THE most astounding
travesty of the first few hours after
the explosion, when the tears of a
country were flowing over the
magnitude of the loss, was the con-
duct of the hierarchy of the coun-
try’s news corps.
These media king pins gathered at
the White House for a briefing by
press secretary Larry Speakes, who
incidently conducted himself impec-
cably during his initial statement
and during the hideous questions
floored by many of those in atten-
dance.
The seven lives had been lost in
1 YEAR AGO
-1985-
Portland City Council Tuesday
voted 5-2 to allow Portland Police Lt.
Randy Wright to attend a three-
month FBI academy.
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Portland Newcomers Club will
host a “sweetheart” dinner at 7 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 14, at the Wayward
Lady Restaurant, Corpus Christi.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Farias of
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Ann Allen will teach a ceramics
class starting Tuesday, Feb. 10, at
the Community Center.
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Portland Kittens brought back 47
trophies and 13 medals from the
Cougar U.S.T.A. Invitation Twirling
Meet held Jan. 31 at Deer Park.
Also Mr. and Mrs. James Bell, W.C. Andrews School PTO, Xi Mu
Gamma chapter of Beta Sigma Phi, Javier and Stella Valencia, K-Mart’S
Good News Committee, Xi Xi Zeta of Beta Sigma Phi, Arturo Saucedo,
Ralph and Dorothy Steinke, Omega Epsilon of Beta Sigma Phi, Portland
Pest Control, Kay Kaigler, Saucedo Texaco, Austin Elementary PTO,
Emergency Services Inc., Charter Savings, Bobbie Knief, Glynn Kaigler,
Tom Bridges and K-Mart.
Also, San Pat Community Credit Union, Mrs. Madge Simon, CPL,
Wright Engineering, Feudo’s Foods, Kiwanis Club, Mr. and Mrs. W.C.
Andrews, Norman and Marleen Truesdell, the Judge Edmondson family,
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Dees, Margaret Barrett, Eta Xi Beta Sigma Phi,
Gregory Exxon Self-Service Station, Century 21-Myers Real Estate in
•Portland, Jordan Laboratories Inc., Portland Chamber of Commerce,
- Portland State Bank, the Portland NEWS, Bayview Federal Savings and
Mount Vernon Pharmacy.
such a hypothetical, technical ques-
tion.
Other questions were thrown out
in a manner which seemed that they
were dredged from the bottom of a
pit just so the news types could get
their faces, their voices on the tube
screens across the country.
It was a bad show.
It was a new low in journalistic
quality for the top echelon of the na-
tional press corps.
Those who died that day deserved
better.
The prayers of America and those
of many of this country’s friends,
and even adversaries, around the
globe stay with the Heroic Seven -
Francis Scobee, Michael Smith,
Gregory Jarvis, Ronald McNair,
Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik and
Christa McAuliffe.
SPACE EFFORTS by today’s
pioneers are but the first small steps
along a path that at some point in
time will stretch to the far galaxies.
The names of the seven who
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Davis7 Daughter Writes
Candid Account Of Life
By Lyra Sparks
From the first time I ever saw
Bette Davis star in a movie, I never
wanted to miss seeing her when she
was featured. I think she was even
my favorite actress. She often
played stubborn, aggressive women,
even those you wouldn’t care to have
for friends, but I was sure it was her
superb acting.
In a current new book by her
daughter, B.D. Hyman, “My
Mother’s Keeper,” I have learned
that she didn’t have to act to be ar-
rogant and selfish; in real life she
could even be worse! Best describ-
ing her in her private life is a word
that rhymes with witch. (She had a
bit of witchery in her too if her
daughter’s book is accurate — with a
broomstick, too.)
This is a spellbinding book,
however, by the only person who
could write it — the daughter — who
tells us what it is like to grow up the
child of the world-famous star.
(Typical of Bette was the naming of
her daughter after Bette’s sister;
she was christened Barbara to
oblige this sister who had wished for
her to be named after her. As soon as
she named her, Bette decreed she
should never, under any cir-
cumstances be called Barbara, a
name Bette detested. So she ordered
everyone to call her B.D. and so it
always was!)
Reading her book is a challenge to
one’s psychiatric thinking. Why did
Bette dislike Jeremy Hyman, and
try in every way she could think of to
break up the marriage? Was it
because she (Bette) had been mar-
ried four times unsuccessfully and
she resented the good marriage her
Opinion
Challenger: 72 Seconds To Eternity
-by pdl-
THE CATASTROPHIC explosion
of Challenger just one minute 12
seconds into flight was a national
disaster.
For 72 seconds it was America’s
pride on the way to yet one more
achievement in space.
Then the devastating calamity
that sent seven space voyagers into
eternity and the country into instant
shock.
Perhaps former astronaut John
Glenn said it best when he noted that
it was a mishap that we knew would
someday happen, but one that we
hoped never would.
America must grieve. That is our
way. We cherish life.
The heroic efforts of men and
women who volunteer their all to the
programs which will, through their
fearlessness, benefit all mankind in
the eons to come must be recogized.
THOSE WHO fall in these efforts
must be immortalized.
In their memory, the program for
which they gave everything must
continue. They would be the first to
insist. They, and the other warriors
who have ridden the ball of fire
through the earth’s atmosphere into
the reaches of space, are owed this.
Nothing less.
Ultimate safety in the space mis-
sions is, of course, of paramount im-
portance.
NASA has seen to it that safety is
the primary concern.
The U.S. space program has been
most fortunate in its exploration of
the new frontiers.
Look at the accomplishments - a
man on the moon, 56 manned space
flights without a fatality. (Three
astronauts were killed in a mishap
Jan. 27,1967 on a launch pad.)
THERE HAVE been 24 most suc-
cessful flights in the Shuttle pro-
gram carrying the Stars and Stripes
through space with unqualified
honor.
But, as in any exploration,
catastrophies will happen, and hap- the disastrous fireball just hours
pen again. before.
HELEN S. TRACY
Publisher
JAMES F. TRACY, JR
Sec.-Treas. & Business Manager
JOHN HENRYTRACY
Vice-Pres. & Sales Manager
CHARLES SULLIVAN Editor-Sports
LINDA CASTLEBERRY Editor-News
ARMOND ASHWORTH Advertising
JOYCE SHAW & JO CASHION.... News-Society
DIANA ROSALEZ Composition Supervisor
JEANIE COONROD Bookkeeper
VICTORIA A. NERIOS Bookkeeper
There had been no allowable time
in the interim for detailed planning
by the President and his advisors.
SHOCK WAS fresh in the minds of
all.
Yet, these supposedly seasoned
reporters for the top media of the
country brought forth asinine,
abrasive questions. They were total-
ly cognizant of the fact that they
could not be answered intelligently.
Were they, in this time of national
sadness, trying to embarrass the
country, the administration, NASA?
Did they not know any better?
Did they feel that they had to put
Speakes on the spot?
For instance.
Sam Donaldson in his best
buttoned-down, authoritative
shouting voice questioned that
NASA was pushing too hard, too fast
in the Shuttle program. He question-
ed the safety of such effort.
JUST HOW in the world could the
President’s spokesman be even ex-
pected, under normal cir-
cumstances, to be knowledgeable on
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Castleberry, Linda. Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 1986, newspaper, February 6, 1986; Portland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1304281/m1/2/: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bell/Whittington Public Library.