Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 1987 Page: 3 of 10
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‘Trek Around Texas’visits here
Palacios Be»con, Jan. 1. 1987-Pa«e3
There once was a post card
showing a haggard, wide-eyed
driver behind a steering wheel on
a long desert road with this
remark: Twice, the sun has riz
and set and here I is in Texas yet.
Then there’s the joke about the
boss who calls his salesman from
Chicago and tells him tc run over
to Texarkana while he’s in Texas.
The salesman, of course, quipt:
‘‘Do it yourself, you're closer
than I am."
Everyone, it seems, who has
ever driven from Texarkana to El
Paso or Texline to Beaumont has
a joke or comment to make about
the distances in Texas and rightly
so. Amarillo in the Panhandle is
actually closer to Kansas City,
Kansas; Des Moines, Iowa;
Memphis, Tennessee and Oma-
ha, Nebraska than Brownsville,
Texas in the Rio Grande Valley.
El Paso in the far west is closer to
Los Angeles, Denver and Salt
Lake City than Houston, and
Houston is closer to Atlanta and
Wichita, Kansas than El Paso.
It only takes a drive across
Texas to be reminded just how
big Texas is, but John Paul
Pitts, a Midland newspaper
editor, is going one further and
demonstrating the bigness of
Texas by driving completely
around the borders of the state.
A sesquicentennial project,
officially sanctioned by the City
of Midland, the 3,000 mile
journey, which has been officialy
dubbed "Trek Around Texas”.
The "trek” began at Midland
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and uses county roads to trace
the Panhandle. It then picked up
rural roads along the Red River
to Texarkana and followed state
roads along the Louisiana border
to Beaumont. The trek is now
travelling along the coast to the
Rio Grande Valley, "TMm the
Valley to the Big Bend, the Big
Bend to El Paso and El Paso back
to Midland.
“There are only a few spots, in
the Big Bend and Trans Pecos
area where we can’t get right
next to the border,” says Pitts,
49, business and oil editor of the
Midland Reporter-Telegram,
“but we will miss it only by a few
miles.
Pitts’ travels around the Lone
Star State brought him through
Palacios on Monday.
He estimates the trip will take
about 12 days, and will conclude
at exactly midnight on New Years
eve night to be the last official
sesquicentennial project for Mid-
land and perhaps the state.
“This is Midland’s salute to
the grand and great state of
Texas,” said Pitts. "We want to
call attention to the immense size
and diversity of Texas. Another
purpose of the trip is to let the
rest of Texas know that the
“lights are still on in Midland.”
The Trek Around Texas will be
farther than a trip from Boston to
Los Angeles and will cover as
much diverse geography. It will
take him from the flat plains of
West Texas, across the wooded
hills of North Texas, into the
piney woods of East Texas, along
scenic beaches of the Gulf, to the
tropical climes of South Texas
and finally through the rugged
regions of the Big Bend and the
Trans Pecos area.”
Pitts is taking hundreds of
photographs along the way which
will be used in a series of articles
for the Hearst newspapers in
Texas and the Associated Press.
The Great Trek Around Texas
is being made in a Chevrolet
Suburban provided by the Chev-
rolet Division of General Motors
and a Midland Chevrolet dealer.
"What better vehicle to make
the trek than the ‘national car of
Texas', which is what Texas
Monthly designated the Subur-
ban," said Pitts.
Border to border
JOHN PITTS posed on the
hood of his suburban In Mid-
land last week before setting
oat on his “Trek Around
Texas”. The 12-day trek in-
cluded a stop In Palacios
Monday before concluding
back In Midland New Year’s
Eve.
First Lady tells educators
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Long way to go against drugs
First Lady Nancy Reagan is
"encouraged” by the decline in
substance abuse, but still believ-
es the nation faces a problem.
She offered her views in an
article appearing in a recent
issue of the “Bulletin”, the
monthly journal of the National
Association of Secondary School
Principals (NASSP), which is
sent to 37,000 prinicpals and
assistant pricipals throughout the
country.
Mrs. Reagan points out that
five percent of high school
seniors indicated they use mari-
juana daily, and the same
number use alcohol each day,
according to a 1985 survey by
the National Institute on Drug
Abuse.
“While these numbers are still
unacceptably high, they show a
decline in the overall use since
the peak years of the late ’70’s,”
she wrote. “The daily use of
marijuana by high school seniors
is now less than half of what it
was then, and the daily use of
alcohol has steadily declined.”
“While these numbers are
encouraging, there is still no
doubt we still have a long way to
go,’’ Mrs. Reagan indicated.
“We cannot afford to let down
our guard.”
She urged that prevention (of
substance abuse)-through edu-
cation-must be a top priority and
commended the increase of par-
ent support groups and the work
of students.
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“lam very encouraged also by
a growing movement led by
young people themselves," she
wrote. "Kids are standing up
against peer pressure, a major
cause that lures youngsters to try
drugs. I am talking about positive
peer groups made up of students
who make a point of not using
drugs. These groups are very
supportive and really have an
impact.”
She also believes that sports
celebrities and entertainers are
making a difference in the fight
against drugs. She commended
them for making apperances at
schools and forming groups to
deglamorize drug usage.
“I think we have made a
difference in the five years since
we started (the campaign against
drugs),” the First Lady reported.
“Individuals have begun to
take responsibility for educating
themselves about drug abuse and
finding ways to counter it. The
growth of the parent group
movement, student peer group
movement, and the willingness
of educators, sports figuies,
entertainers, and entire comm-
unities to get involved reflect a
positive shift in attitude.”
PISD Menu
BREAKFAST
MONDAY: orange juice, cer-
TUESDAY: apple juice, pan-
cakes w/syrup, milk
WEDNESDAY: orange juice,
honey buns, milk
THURSDAY: apple juice, pea-
nut butter sandwich, milk
FRIDAY: orange juice, scram-
bled eggs, toast, milk
LUNCH
ELEMENTARY
MONDAY: corn dog w/mus-
tard, potato salad, baked beans,
fruit half, milk
TUESDAY: frito pie. pinto
beans, cole slaw, cornbread,
fruited gelatin, milk
WEDNESDAY: cheeseburger,
french fries, lettuce, tomatoes A
onions, fruit cobbler, milk
THURSDAY: barbecue chick-
en, rice salad, baked beans, hot
yeast cornbread, fruit cup, milk
FRIDAY: fishburger, carrot
sticks, lettuce wedge, banana
pudding, milk
SECONDARY
MONDAY: Salisbury steaks,
buttered rice, green beans, hot
rolls, fruit half, milk
TUESDAY: frito pie, pinto
beans, cole slaw, cornbread,
fruited gelatin, milk
WEDNESDAY: cheeseburger,
french fries, lettuce, tomatoes A
onions, fruit cobbler, milk
THURSDAY: fried chicken,
whipped potatoes, green peas,
hot rolls, fruit cup, milk.
FRIDAY: fishburger, macaroni
w/cheese, tossed green salad,
banana pudding, milk
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