The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 3, 1972 Page: 2 of 6
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irage 2, The Big Lake (Texas) tVudcat, li
Sul Ross Voiieybaii
Team Defends Title
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ALPINE—A third consecutive
national championship is on
the line when the Sul Floss
State University women's vol-
liybc.ll team travel* Miami.
Fla., to defend their title at
the Third Annual Division of
Uins' and yvomen's Sports Na-
tional Intercollegiate Volley-
ball Championship Feb. 3-5.
In the two previous years of
this tournament, Sul Ross has
won the top honors each time.
In 1970, the Lobo girls defeated
UCLA in the finals 15-9 and
15-4 and in 1971, Sul Ross over-
whelmed California State Col-
lege of Long Beach 15-8, 10-15
and 15-8.
Team sponsor Paul Pierce
will take an unexperienced
team to the national tourna-
ment this year, with only four
of the eight team members
having previously played in
national competition.
The 1972 squad is led by
senior co-captains Brenda
Rochen of Pecos and Kay Whit-
ley of Plains. Miss Rochen has
participated in both previous
tournaments while Miss Whit-
ley saw her first competition
a year ago in Lawrence, Kan.
Other returnees from the
1971 squad include junior
Altha Heckendorn of LaMarque
and sophomore Edie Eubanks
of Texas City.
The other team members in-
clude a 6-3 junior transfer
from Cisco Junior College,
Kathy McKnight of Odessa;
Sylvia Flores of Alpine, and
freshman Nita Curry of Big
Lake, and Linda Brown of Bal-
linger.
According to Pierce, 28 of
the nation's top teams have
been invited to the 1972 tour-
nament with tire teams divided
into four different pools of
seven teams each.
"Sul Ross has been placed
in the toughest pool, but we
kind of expected it due to
our past performances,"
Pierce commented.
The other teams in the first
pool include George Williams
Collge of Downers Grove, 111. r
University of New Hampshire
at Durham, N. H.; University
Of California at Santa Barbara;
Oklahoma State University at
Stillwater, Okla.; University
of South Florida at Tamna.
Fla.; and the University of
Tennessee at Knoxville, Tenn.
Regarding the 1972 team,
Pierce says: "We don’t have
experienced players.. .(as) we
have had in the past two years,
but our girls have been work-
ing exceptionally hard and
have a great attitude. They
seem to know that this will be
an extremely tough tourna-
ment. "
According to tournament
rules, all of the teams in a
pool must play matches against
each other, and according to
to their win-loss record in the
pool, the two top teams will
be selected for the elimination
finals.
Tournament play begins
Thursday (Feb. 3) with the
Lobos meeting the University
of California at 9:30 a.m.
Other games the opening day
for Sul Ross include a 5p.m.
meeting against George Wil-
Bullv In The Family
Sixteen-year-old Teddy had a
nasty habit. He would coax
younger children into secluded
places, then beat them up. Fi-
nally, the father of one of the
victims filed a damage suit
against Teddy’s parents.
t
ALPINE (SPL)-Nita Curry,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Hyde of Big Lake, is
a member of the Sul Ross State
University Women's Volley-
ball Team participating in
the third annual DGWS Na-
tional Intercollegiate Volley-
ball Championsliip in Miami,
Fla., Feb. 3-5.
Miss Curry is a freshman at
Sul Ross. The Lobo team has
won the national title for the
past two years.
liams College and an 8:45
p.m. contest against Oklaho-
ma State University.
Friday's action will have
the Lobos meeting three other
opponents--the University of
South Florida at 11 a.m.; Uni-
versity of New Hampshire at
2 p.m. and the University of
Tennessee at 5 p.m.
The tournament semifinals
are slated for 1:30 p.m. Sat-
urday with the championship
game scheduled at 9 p.in.
Screwworm Cases
Increase In 1971
COLLEGE STATION—Tex as
recorded 444 screwworm cases
in 1971, making the year the
worst since 1968, according to
officials of the Southwest
Screwworm Eradication Pro-
gram at Mission. truwMu, in
1969 and *70, the state had
recorded the fewest cases on
record.
Fifty-six counties had screw-
worm outbreaks in 1971, with
Val Verde County leading
with 67 cases. Other counties
with heavy incidences were
Kinney with 44; Bowie, 31;
Lampasas, 27; Brewster, 26;
Webb, 23; and Fort Bend, 21.
__.___ Outside of Texas, only Ari-
zona and Arkansas had con-
Mrs. Maud Gooch had a tele- firmed screwworm cases. Ari-
RCHS Pine Line ...
By Blain Holland
Mr. Lujan is the new asso-
caite band director with Mr.
Barry. He will be in charge of
the junior high band program.
WELCOME, MR. LUJAN.
Tonight die Reagan County
uwl Volleyoan team will
scrimmage Monahans and Im-
perial beginning at 6:00 in
Owl gym. Let's support the
Owls.
The Student Council elected
Gina Hickman and Barry Ben-
ton as Mr. and Miss Cupid for
tiie month of February.
Tomorrow night the Bold
Gold will play the Stanton
Buffaloes at 6:00 in Owl gym.
Other Texas collegiate teams sequences.
But in court, they denied lia-
bility.
“The mere fact that he is our
son,” they argued, “does not
make us automatically respon-
sible for everything he does. We
never encouraged him to beat
anyone up.”
But if they had never en-
couraged Teddy, they had never
discouraged him either. The
court decided they had shirked
their duty as parents, and would
therefore have to pay the claim.
Parents who are overly per-
missive may find themselves in
trouble in the courtroom. If they
tolerate a dangerous habit in
their child, they can usually be
held legally liable for the con-
phone call Monday morning
from her sister, Mrs. Vanola
Gross from Pascagoula, Ala.
where she said she was much
improved and would be return-
ing to Texas in about ten days.
Mrs. Gross spent the Christmas
holidays with her son and grand'
daughter Janie, then shortly
after Christmas became very
ill. She was hospitalized for
several weeks, released last
Friday.
zona had four infestations and
Arkansas recorded 25, of which
22 were in Little River County.
States in the screwworm era-
dication area that recorded no
cases were California, New
Mexico, Oklahoma and
Louisiana.
A total of 255 screwworm
cases were chalked up in Te-
xas in September and October
last year. This was in con-
trast to tire two previous years
when screwworms were most
active in May, June and July.
January was die only month
last year without a case al-
though February had but one.
The seven states in the pro-
gram submitted a total of
2, 584 non-screwworm samples
to the Mission Lab in 1971. Of
**»*»«*. 9.. 133 samples came
from Texans, the second low-
est total since the program got
uiidcr way in 1962.
More than seven billion
sterile flies were released last
year with some 5.2 billion
being dropped on northern
states in Mexico. More than
1.6 billion were dropped in
Texas.
Officials at the Mission Lab
continue to urge all livestock
producers to be on the alert
for worms, pointing out that
no months really are entirely
free of this livestock blight.
In fact, six cases have already
been reported in Webb County.
Producers noting worms in
open wounds on their livestock
are encouraged to submit a
sample to the Screwworm Era-
dication Program, Box 969,
Mission, Texas. Collection
kits are available at any coun-
ty Extension office.
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ON THE
MOVING UP
NOT TAXABLE
QUESTION: John and Marsha
bought a home five years ago for
$12,000. In June of 1971 they
sold it for $16,000 and immedi-
ately moved into a new home for
which they paid $20,000. John wants to know if he has to
pay income taxes on his $4,000 profit on the sale of the
firsts house on his 1971 tax return?
ANSWER: No, since John and Marsha bought th<*ir new
home for more mondy than the sales price of the old one,
the gain on the sale of the old home will be postponed.
When the new $20,000 home is sold, the $4,000 profit will
be deducted from its cost. If they sell the new home for
$22,000, they will have a $6,000 profit instead of a $2,000
profit. As long as they keep buying new homes which cost
more than the sale price of the old one, they keep post-
poning the gain indefinitely.
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Let’s
invited to play include Lamar
University of Beaumont; South-
west Texas State University at
San Marcos; and the University
of Houston.
The Lobo team was sche-
duled to leave Wednesday
(Feb. 2) and return home Sun-
day, Feb. G.
S. E. (Jack) Stewart's
Father Buried Jan. 26
B. M. Stewart 88, father of
S. E. (Jack) Stewart, died Jan.
24 in a Carlsbad, N. M. hos-
pital, and funeral services were
held Wednesday, Jan. 28 from
Denton Funeral Home Chapel,
Carlsbad, with burial in Sunset
Gardens Memorial Park, Carls-
bad.
Mr. Stewart will be remem-
bered by many oldtimers of
Texon where he worked for
Big Lake Oil Company in the
Tom Reed building crew from
1926-30. He was a retired
farmer, born July 31, 1883 in
Mason County, and returned
to Mason County to farm again
from West Texas. He had re-
tired to Carlsbad, living there
24 years, and served as night
watchman when he worked
occasionally.
Survivors include the wife,
Eva Stewart, two sons, S. E.
Stewart and James B. Stewart
P
of Prescott, Ark.; two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Etta Bailey of Wil-
cox, Airz. and Mrs. Mary
Brookshower of Austin; a sister,
Mrs. Ethel Mayfield of Brown-
wood, two stepsons, six step-
daughters, 14 grandchildren,
31 great-grandchildren and
one great-great-grandchild.
But it is a matter of degree.
While the law says parents must
try to curb the child, it does not
insist on success. Take this case:
Chuckie, age five, liked to
toss rocks at his playmates. To
deter him, his parents tried
everything from scoldings to
spankings—all to no avail.
But this time, when a damage
suit was brought against the
parents, the court held them
blameless. Saying they had done
their best, the court observed
that they could scarcely be ex-
pected to keep Chuckie under
lock and key.
Furthermore, standards of dis-
cipline may change with the
times. In another case, a boy
playing football in the street
overran the curb and knocked
down a passing pedestrian.
In short order, the pedestrian
sued the boy’s parents, claiming
they should not have allowed
him to play in the street. But
the court said such tight dis-
cipline by parents is just not
customary in this day and age.
“Strict control of children is
today so rare,” said the court,
“that its absence is no indication
of a lack of reasonable care."
A public service feature of llie
American Bar Association and
llie State Bar of Texas. Written
by Will Bernard.
© 1972 American Bar Association
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She went up and up. “Again, Daddy,
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looked down on a strangely distorted scene.
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I dropped back while the swing slowed
down. She tumbled out of the swing into
my arms and I realized that there was a
vaot and unfamiliar world ahead for my
child, with many distorted themes. I looked
across the house tops to a church spire and
thanked God for a foundation of faith . . .
to guide her through the uncertainties
ahead.
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