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PAGE 4-PALAC10S BEACON, WED., OCT. 31,1984
Service Pins
F. M. JACKSON recently was
presented with a service pin for
his II years of dedicated
service to Wagner General
Hospital. Sometime after Jack-
son's retirement, the Matagor-
da County Hospital District
started awarding service pins
to its employees, and the
opportunity arose whereby Ja-
ckson received his long over-
due recognition. Making the
presentation is Don Hyett,
Chief Operating Officer of
Wagner, and looking on are
Mrs. Hilda Maynard, RN,
Director of Nurses and Dr. E.B.
Sanford.
BY DONNIE HORTON
’ PISD information Coordinator
Making the grades.
Grades are out for the first six
weeks grading period and sch-
ools are reporting an increase in
the number of students who
received failing grades as a result
of House Bill 72 which mandates
that a grade below 70 is failing.
I.ast year students failed a course
only when the grade average in
that course fell below 60. It is a
matter of concern to parents
because a student who has not
maintained a grade average for a
school year equivalent to at least
70 on a scale of 100 may not be
advanced from one grade level to
the next nor be given credit for a
course.
A failing grade in a course also
affects a student's participation
in extracurricular activities. As
stated in HB 72, beginning with
the 1985 spring semester, a
student receiving a failing grade
in any academic class must be
suspended from participation in
any extracurricular activity in the
following grading period. This
rule does not apply to mentally
retarded students and the prin-
cipal may remove the suspension
from a student whose failing
grade is in an identified honors or
advanced class.
Before HB 72, the State Board
New brucellosis regulations
become effective Nov. 5
A new brucellosis vaccination
regulation for heifers changing
ownership within the Class C
Area of Texas goes in effect Nov.
5. it applies to heifers born after
Jan. 1, 1984. It means:
Heifers born after Jan. 1, 1984
between 4 and 12 months of age
NOTICE
On page 3 of this week's TG&Y
Family Center circular, the
Mattel Hot Wheels Sto&Go"
Construction Site is unavail-
able, due to manufacturer's
inability to ship However, the
Sto & Go- City will be substi-
tuted at the same ad sell price
ol 19 99 We regret any Incon-
venience caused.
TGCjy
family centers
which are acquired and used for
breeding, grazing, dairying or
confinement in a nonquaraiitined
feedlot must be vaccinated or be
subject to these restrictions:
When a heifer is over 12
months of age and is unvacc-
inated, she can only legally
change ownership after being
spayed; or moved to a livestock
market and S branded priur tu
sale; or consigned direct to
slaughter, quarantined feedlot or
quarantined pasture.
Livestock producers should be
making plans now to have their
1984 heifer crop vaccinated.
State funds are available for free
vaccinations. Producers should
contact their own veterinarian,-
Take ‘time out’to
evaluate job of
being a parent
ITS
By Lynd.ll William.
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
of Education allowed students to
participate in extracurricular ac-
tivities if they were passing three
courses, at the same time, it was
PISD policy to require a student
to pass four courses in order to
participate.
Although some school districts
have implemented the new ruling
on participation in extracurricu-
lar activities with the current fall
semester, PISD has elected to
wait until the law becomes
effective in January 1985.
PISD administrators have cho-
sen to wait until the end of the
second six weeks grading period
to study the effects of HB 72.
They hope to be able to present
significant statistics in a way that
will have meaning and can be
used as a basis for comparisoq.
If the figures indicate a nigh
percentage of courses are being
failed in the 60-69 range, what
can be done? Students who are
performing in this range and
lower can be helped by concern-
ed parents who take an interest
in assisting the student at home.
Tutoring classes are available on
each school campus on Tuesdays
and Thursdays from 7-8 a.m. for
all student who are failing or
having difficulty in a class.
Most of us are so busy being
parents that we rarely have the
time to reflect on this important
task, says a Texas A&M Uni-
versity Agricultural Extension
Service home economist.
"Taking 'time out' for some
observation and self-examination
can shed new light on the job of
parenting and give parents an-
other perspective on their rela-'
tionships with their children,"
says Diane T. Wdlch, a specialist
in family life education.
One type of parenting self-
exam takes about a week. The
first three days are spent observ-
ing your friends who have
children near the ages of your
children, she explains. As you
observe, check the following
points:
•How do these parents act
toward their children? Is their
attitude friendly, courteous and
pleasant? Do they appear to
enjoy the children and approve
what they are doing, or do they
appear critical, impatient and
nagging?
•How many embarrass their
children in front of others?
•How many expect conduct
beyond their child’s years, such
as making a two-year old share
his toys in order to teach him to
be generous?
•How often do you see parents
who show approval more often
than they correct, and who seem
to like and enjoy their children?
•How' many give orders so
endlessly that a child has to
develop deafness in self-defen-
se? How many punish children
for disobedience when the child
fails to know which order was
important enough to follow?
Pheasants are
released in
Bay City area
Wildlife officials of the Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department
visited their counterparts in
California last week, yreturr’
with 305 wild ring-necked pi
sants.
The birds were released near
Bay City on the fringe of a region
where previous stocking pro-
grams had established a breed-
ing population of pheasants, j
Don Wilson, upland game
program leader, said they ob-
served capture techniques of
California biologists who round
up the birds at night with
powerful spotlights and speci-
ally-equipped trucks.
Spotlight operators shine li-
ghts on birds flushed by a truck
driven across fields on a wild life
management area near Yuba
City, Wilson said. The driver
attempts to follow the flying bird,
and when it alights other workers
try to pin it down with long-
handled nets.
“It’s not unusual for them to
catch over 100 pheasants in one
night," Wilson said. The pro-
blem with applying that techni-
que in Texas is one of terrain,
however.
"Much of Texas’ pheasant
habitat is agricultural, and veh-
icles are restricted to roads or
edges of fields," he said. “We
have had limited success catch-
ing pheasants with helicopters
and ground traps, but maybe in
the future we can modify our
techniques to get a higher catch
rate.”
For the next three days
week, observe how you .
your spouse parent you
children, says Welch. W
changing anything about I
you normally manage you
ren. ask the same qi
about your parenting beh
The final day is for ‘
earnestly about what f
served in others, in e *n,s
ready have enough to do anc) the
division of duties is best.
ent
for
hich
Fund
f the
PROPOSITION 5: Changes the
manner in which a vacancy in the
lieutenant governor’s office is filled
to allow the Texas Senate to select
a senator to perform the duties. Un-
rev- der present law, the vacancy goes to
a new the president pro tern of the Senate.
Proponents say that the post
shouldn’t be filled simply because of
Senate tradition, or because senators
you are bringing up yoiIe!’s *c'1**d opponents argue that sint
or whether you feel cbf°nly l,e'.'tenant governor is elected
needed in this impor* chlldren Wld<6 it is too narrow to let
impor
ness, she says. . Iderly de-
Not all parents wi shou,d be
devote an entire werwastheir
self-examination, obst;
ch. But most can afgujdeljnes
time to reflect on theiij not clear
skills, she adds. how much
-ye.
Mlows the
pasurers in
ounties, if
|nty clerks
of the
holders.
Proponents say that since mutual
insurance companies have practical-
ly abandoned the use of assessments
to raise capital, these companies
should be allowed to compete for
local governments’ insurance poli-
cies. This amendment carries no ap-
parent opposition.
PROPOSITION 7: Amends guide-
lines for the State Commission on
Judicial Conduct which currently
has II members: two court of ap-
peals justices, two district judges,
two lawyers, four nonlawyers and
one justire of the peace. This pro-
posal substitutes one appeals justice
_______ and one district judge with one mu-
senators choose the successor. If we nicipal judge and one county court
are going to change the law, we ®l law judge,
should provide for a better means of In cases of judicial misconduct,
selection. a judge could be disciplined instead
_ °I removed, and the record would
rROPOSmON 6: Would allow not automatically be open to the
public funds to be used to pay mu- public, but subject to authorization
tual insurance companies premiums °f the Legislature,
on “nonassessable" life, health, and
accident policies and annuity con- PROPOSITION 8: Increases the
tr®5*- amount of per diem that legislators
Since mutual insurance compa- can legally receive to an amount
nies are owned by their poiicyhold- equal to the maximum that can be
ers and have no capital stock, a deducted from federal taxes.
1942 Texas Supreme Court ruling Lawmakers currenl
held that public entities could not dicmtrf g30 but
ve such an insurance policy be- *
" y would become
and in yourself. Discus- provide wanted to honor the person who
you are satisfied with police, became president pro tern.
Opponents argue that since the
state-
to let the 34
lor the dassnxmis, libraries
and laboratories vital to Texas
' students and (>ur future.
• ENDORSED by the boards and
presidents of all public universities.
• ENDORSED by the Independent Colleges
and Universities of Texas. -
• ENDORSED by the Texas Student
Association.
• ENDORSED by both the Democratic and
Republican State Conventions.
x ; (ieneral election Halk )t
\ November 6, 1984
Pol. Adv. Paid for by the Education Assistance Committee, 409 W. 14th St.
Austin, Texas 78701
F.P. “Sonny”
Brhlik
Democratic Nominee fer County
Commissioner, Pet. 3
VOTE NOVEMBER 6
Pol Adv. Pd. for by FP Bibik, 410 Green Ave
MackWallace
to the Texas Railroad Commission,
Let's keep his knowledge working for us.
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