The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1976 Page: 1 of 16
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Thursday, August 26, 1976
Vol. 72, No. 14
As I See It
School enrollment
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and twelfth grade. 59.55.
class.
VFW Ladies Auxiliary formed here
A charter was formed for the
this
elected officers.
instructor, said the class will
Elected are Dorothy Atkins,
Band Boosters hold first meeting
The Nocona Band Booster
post do its job.
Administrator there for sever-
Split dove season set
Dove hunters in the North
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The Weather
My wife. The Feminist, was Jan. 1 to Jan. i6.
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During the first part of the
season, there will be afternoon
hunting only from 12 noon to
sunset.
Shooting will be allowed all
day during the second part,
extending from early morning
to 30 minutes before sunset.
Daily bag limit during the
season will be 10. with a limit
of 20 birds in possession.
and safety measures.
I have been shooting for so
long that I no longer take the
kind enough to remind me that
56 years ago today, on Aug.
26, 1920. Women's suffrage
went into effect.
1 suggest that it is we, the
men, who now suffer because
of suffrage.
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about our sport to police our Zone, which includes Monta-
own ranks. gue County, will have a split
The anti-hunting forces will season this year according to
never get off our backs until Game Warden James Me-
they disarm us. Hunter safety Cash.
PAUL LA MAR...
Board member who believes in “the board."
For these reasons, I heartily
suggest that all able bodied
men, women, boys and girls
who plan to spend a few days
in the field this year give
Chapman named member
of Angus association
consideration to the Hunter Club held its first meeting of
Safety Classes coming up in this school year on Tuesday
September. evening, Aug. 24. The result
it certainly can't hurt to of this meeting is the start of a
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membership drive which they
hope will be far beyond any of
other years. The incentive is
new uniforms for the band
students.
to ‘The Board’
care that I once did. Hunters president; Janice Stilwell, sr.
who have been shooting much vice president; Linda Eldred,
longer than I may very well be jr. vice president; Martha
guilty of the same developed Waters, treasurer; Pam At-
bad habits.
is one of the ways we can work
to disarm them. And I'm for
that.
By Del Hollingsworth
You can almost smell it in
the air...That hint of gunpow-
der that is sitting in the closet,
waiting for Sept. 1 to arrive.
Almost without warning-
Where did summer go?-hunt-
ing season has slipped up on
us.
The gun shops and sporting
goods stores are mgre active,
ammunition is on sale for
rock-bottom prices, and there
is quite a bit of street corner
conversation about the num-
ber of birds the hunters can
expect to find when dove
season gets here next week.
This is the time of year I love
the most. As we prepare to
march out of the Dog Days of
summer into the Bird Dog
Days of autumn, I give you fair
warning that I will be as scarce
as a pheasant in Spanish Fort
when the birds are flying.
But with the pleasures of
days in the field comes the
responsibility of the hunter to
protect himself, his relation-
ship with the landowner, and
most importantly, the safety of
others in the field.
Nocona is a place where
guns and hunting are a way of
life in the fall. It’s one reason I
The group wants
brush up on safety, and maybe
it will help convince the
anti-gun and anti-hunter
people that we care enough
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ful statistics are mirrored by be open to men and women
increases or decreases within and youths over the age of 12.
classes as they proceed Fenoglio has been certified by
through the school system. the state as a Hunter Safety
There were 70 members of instructor.
Wagner appointed to new post
15* Tax Included
privileges of the Association
until the age of 21. At that
time junior members are
eligible to convert to life-time
memberships in the Associa-
tion.
charter to do all the things the
auxiliary is intended to do. It
has projects for each month of
the year to aid the Cancer
Fund, senior citizens, orphans
and widows of the VFW,
hospital and rest home
patients.
Bumper Sticker for their car,
their window or wherever they
would like to display it to show
that they have an interest in
the band, the schools, and the
community.
It is not necessary to be a
parent of a band student to be
a member. But the Boosters
do need interest, a little time,
and a little money to help
make the uniform drive a
success.
Do not forget that school
bands are emissaries to other
cities and many events in
Nocona.
The club will also be having
an ice cream supper next
Tuesday evening, Aug. 31 at
the City Park starting at 7:30
p.m. Everyone is welcome.
On this Saturday evening
prior to the last of the series of
summer programs at the City
Park the Nocona High School
Band will be playing some of
the music that will be
prominent throughout this
year's activities.
Playing time will start at
about 7:15 p.m.
8558, J. D. Fox, was present
for the occassion. He was
introduced by the Dist. Chief
of Staff, Mrs. Anna Belle
Hendrix of Wichita Falls and
Mrs. Faye Birdett, Dist. Pres.,
also of the Wichita Falls
Charter.
The official installation of
There were 102 young
people in the United States to
receive junior memberships
last month.
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chose this town as a place to Ladies Auxiliary of the VFW,
live. Post 8558, Dist. 15, on
On the other hand, the Monday night at a meeting in
familiarity with guns and the home of Mrs. Dorothy
hunting brings with it the Atkins. The 27 Nocona ladies
potential of lax field practices present joined, paid dues and
al years.
Miss Wagner, formerly an
Administrator at a Big Springs
Nursing Inn in Big Springs,
Texas, was appointed to the
position by Bob Beare.
Regional Director for Mon-
terey Life Systems, Inc.
Stewart Chapman, 214
kins, chaplain; Janice Perry,
conductress; Ruby Eldred,
guard; Freida Bietendorf,
3-yr. trustee; Essie Tettleton,
2-yr. trustee; Linda Frost,
1-yr. trustee and Louise
Belcher, secretary.
Other members who joined
are Opal Bratcher, Alline
Hanson, Rosalee Hanson,
Linda Hutson, Shirley Keck,
Jacklyn Lee, Sue Manley,
Mary Lou Mitchell, Dorothy
Morton, Dorothy Ohman,
She sees no humor in my Carolyn Rd., Nocona, has been
opinion. granted a junior membership
in the American Angus
A 20-minute film on the Association at St. Joseph,
opening of South Ward School Missouri, announces Lloyd D.
will be shown on Cable TV Miller, executive secretary,
tonight at 7 p.m. on Channel 4. This new junior membership
There should be some good entitles the member to register
shots of third grade and purebred Angus at regular
kindergarten students. membership rates and to the
Tyrona Smith, Mary Walker, officers will be on Sunday,
Wanda Weaver, Willie Mae Sept. 26 at 2:30 p.m. There
Woolard and Ova Lee will be an open meeting
Whitehead. afterwards for all members
Post Commander, Post and anyone interested.
last year’s junior class. Total enrollment for 1976
compared with only 59 according to the principals of
members of this year’s senior Nocona's three schools, is 224
class. This represents a loss of students at South Ward, up
15 percent in that age group from 206 in 1975; 262 students
First day enrollment for
Nocona's three schools show-
ed a slight increase over
students in school this time
last year.
Total enrollment was 734
Monday, an increase of 3.8
percent over 1975. In both
years. News records show that
707 students were enrolled in
school here the first day.
The biggest jump in class
numbers was in the freshman
class at Nocona High School.
There were 71 students
reported in class the first day
this year, an increase of 65 per
cent over 1975. There were
only 43 freshmen last year.
The increase reflects last
year’s enrollment of 67
students in the eighth grade,
who are this year's freshmen.
Other significant increases
were registered by the fourth
grade, up 57 percent and first
grade, up 44 percent.
Decreases were noted in
fifth grade students, down 41
percent, and kindergarten,
down 22 percent. Last year's
unusually large kindergarten
class of 66 accounts for the
increase in first graders and
the decline in kindergarten
students this year.
Changes in enrollment for
the same classes on a
year-to-year basis do not
reflect true increases or
decreases in student registra-
tions. As far as trends are
concerned, the most meaning-
and to promote good sports-
manship and a better
relationship between hunters
and land owners.
The course will cover such
items as guns and ammuni-
tion, gun handling, safe
hunting methods, the rifle, the
shotgun, and hunter responsi-
bilities.
The section on the shotgun
covers parts and operation,
position and pointing and lead
and swing.
Hunter responsibilities will
touch on safety, game
identification and manage-
ment and field courtesies.
There will be a $1 fee for
taking the class. The fee pays
for teaching material, shoulder
patch and wallet certification
card.
Those interested in signing
up for the classes should call
Fenoglio at 825-3843 or
825-4577.
A Nocona School Board
Meeting, called Monday night
to consider final amendments
to the 1975-76 budget,
developed into a lengthy
discussion of discipline after a
high school teacher’s presen-
tation on that subject.
Toby Howard, a Nocona
High School teacher whom
Board President Jerry Kirby
called a "strict disciplinar-
ian." told the seven-member
board and four school
administrators, "I think we
have a problem in Nocona....
We’ve got problems with some
of the students and we've got
problems with parents.”
Howard was a participant in
an eight-day workshop in
Austin in June that dealt with
school discipline and the
alternatives available to school
administrators.
The June conference was
based on discipline and control
measures developed by Wil-
liam Glasser, a psychologist
and physician who pioneered
As for other students of high in 1975; and 248 at the high
school age, two classes picked school, up from 233 the
up pupils within their own age previous year.
group in the past year. Breakdowns by class for
In 1975 there were 67 eighth grades K through 12 for 1976
graders, 4 less than the 71 and 1975 are as follows (first
ninth graders enrolled this figure represents 1976):
year. The sophomore class Kindergarten. 51.66; first
grew from 43 freshmen last grade. 78.54; second grade,
year to 63 10th graders in 48.42; third grade. 47.44:
1976. fourth grade, 44.28; fifth
But the class of 1978 lost 10 grade. 44.28; sixth grade. 53.
students. There were 65 55; seventh grade. 60.70;
enrolled in the sophomore eighth grade. 77.67; ninth
class last year, but only 55 are grade 71.43; tenth grade,
members of this year's junior 63.65; eleventh grade 55.70;
Hunter Safety
program slated
Reservations are now being The eight-hour program is
accepted for the season's first designed primarily for the
series of Hunter Safety classes young and inexperienced
scheduled for Nocona. hunter, but Fenoglio encour-
The course, sponsored ages any interested hunter to
jointly by the Texas Parks and participate.
Wildlife Commission and the Classroom work is designed
National Rifle Association, will to encourage safe gun
be held Sept. 13, 14, 20 and 21 handling and reduce hunting
from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at North accidents, teach safety and
Ward School. responsibility, inform people
Robert Fenoglio, the course of basic game needs and laws
(he Nocona Neus
The ladies extend special Helen L. Wagner has been
thanks to J. D. Fox, who appointed Administrator of
presented the president a Horizon Manor Nursing Home
the concept of "Schools
without fail."
Howard's presentation was
centered around a short
video-tape lecture by Glasser
where the psychologist focus-
ship, Glasser said in his tape,
between school failure, delin-
quency and crime.
"When they fail in school,
particularly at an early age.
they tend to give up on
themselves." Children who
have no chance in school can
and do end up as disciplinary
problems and perhaps crimin-
als. Glasser said.
Glasser developed his
theory of a "school without
fail" while serving as a
consultant to a girls reform
school in California.
The cornerstone of the
Glasser method is individual-
ized education, taylored to
each student, stressing "disi-
pline" and not "punishment."
Howard provided the board
with an outline of the
differences between punish-
ment and discipline, noting
that punishment is "impos-
ed,” is “based on anger,
expresses power and revenge.
Continued on Page 8
Band Booster memberships check to pay all present here. Miss Wagner assumed
are available for $1.50. members' initiation fees as a the position on July 28.
Boosters will be given an "thank you" to the group for replacing Enoch "Pete"
attractive orange and black wanting to help the Nocona Honeycutt who had been the
ed on the problem facing many
schools today: increasing
disciplinary problems in the
schools, leading to an increase
in crime out of the schools.
There is a direct relation-
The first part of the season
starts Sept. 1 and runs
throught Oct. 14.
The second part runs from
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Write on, they said, as Nocona High School students took part annual signing party. The 1975-76 annuals arrived last week,
in this year’s first extra-curricular activity on Monday: The
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Both the Indian varsity and junior varsity got a workout against strong competition Friday Total year ago.........
night when the two teams met Muenster for a pre-season scrimmage at Indian field here.
The teams meet again on Friday at Muenster for another session. =========
Toby Howard, I standing!. a Nocona Nocona High School short re-cap of the workshop. Howard was the only person
teacher who attended an eight day conference on school from Nocona to attend the conference.
discipline this summer In Austin, gives the School Board a
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Hollingsworth, G. D. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1976, newspaper, August 26, 1976; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1493741/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.