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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1969
Page 4
THE PHARR PRESS, PHARR (HiDALOJ COUNTY). TEXAS
Shade :
your windows ; 1
awnings and shutters*,
particularly cri the West
and South sides . .. re -
duce the work load of
your air conditioner
and,save you -money. -
Jesus Hernandez Voted Teacher Of
fear % P-SJ-A Student Body
MEN IN SERVICE
U. S. Army, Vietnam—Army
Specialist Four Juan M. Vasquez,
19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Con-
cepcion Vasquez, Pharr, Tex.,
was assigned as a member of
the 173rd Airborne Brigade in
Vietnam, last month.
m m m
Personnelman Second Class
Juan Quiroz, USN, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Anselmo Quiroz of Route 1,
North Jackson Road, Pharr,
Tex., is serving aboard the air-
craft carrier USS Kitty Hawk
off the coast of Vietnam.
While off Vietnam, planes
from the Kitty Hawk help pro-
vide air support to U. S. and
Allied ground forces fighting
the enemy. In addition the
planes also destory enemy tar-
gets in South Vietnam. Upon
completion of flight operations
the Kitty Hawk will return to
1 Bremerton, Washington where
i she will undergo a yard period.
I The carrier became the first
! ship to receive the Presidenttial
i Unit Citation during the Vietnam
1 war.
Reprinted From The Bears Tale . student body because they usually
., , T tt stick together.” He urges stu-
Sky-pilot Jesus Hernandez
Approaching the Precipice
may soon fly missions over war-
torn Vietnam, but not without
capturing the hearts of many
a PSJA student. When votes
were tabulated for Teacher of
the Year, Mr. Hernandez came
out on top as the winner of the
coveted award.
Mr. Hernandez, who teaches
math and physics, will report
for active duty in September. The
CHICOPEE, Mass. — Thomas
Longoria, son of Mr. and Mrs.
„ , Eloi V. Longoria, 1117 N. 27th
ents to Keep on studying, eep j g^. MC/yieI1) has been promoted
off the grass and Don’t drop out
As a first year teacher, Mr.
Hernandez does not restrict him-
self to the classroom. He is a
sponsor of the Science Club, Jun-
ior Class and Beginning Slide
Rule.
When he was a student at Mc-
Allen Hi,gh School, Mr. Hernan-
dez was a member of National
Red BarOn has passed the Air | Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta,
Force’s pilot examination but is
still awaiting his acceptance for
training. Mr. Hernandez has re-
portedly already been practicing
—he constructed two paper air-
planes, one for extra credit, for
Mr. J. A. Badillo.
Feeling strongly about the
Asian war, Mr. Hernandez said
he was willing to fight for his
^country. However, he advises
high school boys to continue
their education on through col-
lege, then enlist.
Acclaimed as a “cool” teacher
by students, Mr. Hernandez said
he owed it all to ice blue Secret.
The young teacher when asked
for his age said, “I will not give
out personal information.” How-
ever, The Bear’s Tale believes
he is in his twenties. Asked if
he had any plans in getting
hitched, he defended the cause
of all men by answering with a
strong “NO!!!!”
Mr- Hernandez praises PSJA
students and says that “The stu-
Senior Council and Student
Council. He also presided over
the Spanish Honor Society as pre-
sident and was vice-president of
the Young Democrats.
Attending Pan American Col-
lege on a Pan American Round
Table scholarship, Mr. Hernan-
dez majored in math and minored
in physics. At PAC, he was
Boosters vice-president, Junior
Class vice-president, Young
Government senator and first and
second vice-president of Alpha
Phi Omega, national service
fraternity. Last, but not least, he
served as Justice of the Court
to the tune of “Here comes ’da
judge.”
to staff sergeant in the U. S.
Air Force.
Sergeant Longoria is a vehicle
dispatcher at Westover AFB,
Mass., in a unit of the Strategic
Air Command.
The sergeant is a graduate of
Deer Park High School, Pasa-
dena, Tex.
His wife, Marianella, is the
daughter of Mrs. Celia Gonzalez,
510 S. Birch, Pharr.
It used to be that a man
drawing welfare checks while
holding down a full-time job
at the same time was commit-
ting fraud. But now it appears
that this can be done quite le-
gally in at least two states.
* * *
Under the new law In New
Jersey, about a dozen GIs hare
been added to the welfare rolls.
They are drawing regular gov-
ernment pay. One, an airman
first class with a wife and child,
gets $272 a month in pay and
allowances, including $82 for an
apartment off the base. The
state has determined that he
needs $390 a month for an ade-
quate standard of living, and so
under the new law it is making
up the $118 difference.
* * *
Service families living off-
base are eligible for this wel-
fare supplement, regardless of
home state residency. Appli-
cations are piling up, and wel-
fare officials are wondering
how many servicemen will
qualify and what it will cost.
# * *
Reportedly, some Federal and
state officials are shocked over
the situation and believe that
New Jersey taxpayers should
not he nicked because Uncle
Sam’s pay is “inadequate.”
* * *
And in Ohio, where 777 state
employees reportedly earn less
than the Federal governments
defined poverty level, it’s been
disclosed that several unskilled
state employees earning $3,278
a year also receive state wel-
fare payments.
* * *
Cynics might say that, well,
©National Federation of Independent Bu»lne83_
Hey you television sitters, how
about passing - up one of your
favorite soap box operas? Grab a
grocery sack and take a good
healthy walk and pick up some
litter as you go. You know if
you want to get rid of some of
that middle, you will have to
dent body as a whole is a good bend down, sister!
SHERMAN, Tex. — Airman
First Class David P. Tanner, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Tanner,
717 E. Kansas, San Juan, has j graduation, Harold is going to
been recognized for helping his attend Texas A & I and major
unit earn the U.S. Air Force in general engineering.
Flying' Safety Plaque.
Airman Tanner is an aircraft
mechanic with the 4780th Air
Defense Wing (Training) at
Perrin AFB, Tex The unit was
cited for 80,000 hours of accident-
free flying over a 24-month
period.
The airman is a 1965 graduate
of Pharr San Juan Alamo High
School, Pharr, Tex.
at least now they are paying
welfare to people willing to
work.
# * #
Supplementing the incomes
of persons on the lower end,of
the economic ladder—whether
working or not — is the basic
idea of the “guaranteed annual
income” which is being strong-
ly pushed by some groups, in-
cluding organized labor and or-
ganized welfare recipients, but
hotly opposed by 90 per cent of
the nation’s independent busi-
ness proprietors, a poll shows.
* * *
Apparently, the principal is
getting a toehold at the state
level despite the fact that many
states are in dire financial
trouble. Ohio is considering im-
posing an income tax and other
taxes to meet a ballooning
budget. State welfare costs are
rising so fast that Governor
Nelson Rockefeller of New
York wants the Federal Gov-
ernment to assume them.
* * *
The question—if welfare sup-
plements to fully-employed
persons do catch on—is not so
much who should pay, state or
Federal, but can either one af-
ford it? which really boils down
to: Can the economy and pro-
ductive taxpaying citizens af-
ford it? Estimates run up to 50
billion a year. Businessmen do
not think the economy can car-
ry such a load without break-
ing down.
* * *
The big question is whether
the guaranteed annual income
Is going to he adopted in prin-
cipal. That is the crucial step,
like the next step after reach-
ing the edge of a precipice.
Jeske To Head
Sr. Science Club
Reprinted From The Bears Tale
Keith Jeske was elected pre-
sident; Elsa Saeta, treasurer; and
Linda Beakey, parliamentarian.
Among the other candidates
were Elsa Saeta for presidency;
Sergio Rodriguez for treasurer
and Jose M. Lomas for parliamen-
tarian.
The vice-president and secre-
tary will be chosen next year
from the club’s junior members.
Anyone wishing to join the
science club must be a junior or
senior student with a science
grade average of 85 or above.
Club sponsors for this year
were Mr. Badillo, Mr. Esmen,
Miss Ventura, Miss McLeod, Mr.
Pennington and Mr. Hernandez.
Javier Elected
NHS President
Reprinted From The Bears Tale
Newly elected officers for
N.H.S. are headed by Javier
Salazar, president; vice president,
Juan Manuel Cantu; secetary,
Linda Beakey; treasurer, Inalee
Garfield; and Joe Hernandez,
parliamentarian.
The qualifications for being in
N.H.S. are leadership, scholar-
ship, character and dependabili-
ty.
A senior cannot maintain a C
average for two consecutive
semesters. They have to main-
tain a B-average. If Juniors have
a C for their first semester they
must average a B-for the second
semester.
Sponsors for N.H.S. are Mrs,
Bowman, and Mr. E. J. Ballew.
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Harold Lee Plath
Student of Month
Reprinted From The Bears Tale
Climaxing the many honors
he has accumulated at PSJA,
Harold Plath was selected as
a Student of the Month.
Harold has been in football,
lettering his last two years. He
was in Slide rule Club his fresh-
man and sophomore years and
Number Sense his sophomore
year.
He has been in Key Club his
last two years his last year be-
ing elected to the office of trea-
surer. Harold has been on the
Junior and Senior Council, and
was also selected as Rotary Boy
for the month of February. After
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Glover, Lloyd H. The Pharr Press (Pharr, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 10, 1969, newspaper, July 10, 1969; Pharr, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth715043/m1/4/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Pharr Memorial Library.