The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 20, 1974 Page: 1 of 8
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TIME FOR LIVING’
Devoted To The Best Interests Of Taft And San Patricio County
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TAFT, TEXAS, 78390, WEONESBAY, MARCH 21, 1974
[ve From Taft
Honors List
Texas A&M
five students from Taft have
-rn«d “Distinguished
dt” ranking at Texas
University, announced
' trar Robert A Lacey.
Tfce undergraduate honor is
students who have
-ceiled academically.
;ipients must earn a! least a
Sgrade point ratio (out of a
ible 4.0) during the most
-,( grading period
“Distinguished Student
'mg is limited lo toper cent
TAMU's undergraduate
ment.
Taft students are Dana A
vo. freshman biomedical
* major; John T Elmer,
omore forestry major,
-nda G Ewald. Junior
-medical science major.
»yne M Hunt, junior
(cultural education major,
John D Foenisch,
ahomore agricultural
wmics major
Gasoline Shortage Tank Installed
Board Approves Senior Trip,
Extends Principals * Contracts
ISw.
life*
The Taft Independent School
District approved the in-
stallation of an underground
fuel tank for buses and die
purchase of electric
typewriters, okayed the senior
trip, and extended contracts of
professional personnel
A 5000-gallon gasoline tank
has been installed at the school
bus barn because of the dif-
ficulties the schools have ex-
perienced in fueling school
buses. Total costs to the Taft
fSD is $903, and the pump was
furnished by Texaco, the ap
proved supplier for the current
school year
According to Superintendent
Carl Waddle, every precaution
is being made to insure that
only buses will refuel from the
tank. The school rates a
priority for bulk storage, but
none at a commercial pump.
High School Principal Arthur
light Shopping
lys Before
ipril Deadline
SURE. WE WANTED RAIN. BI T. .GEE WHIZ. THIS MUCH? Yes. about this much, said
most of the local farmers after last week's rains, which brought a relief to the drought
stretching 16 days. According to G Krieg at the Taft Waterworks plant, it rained 1.4 inches
Thursday and 2.3 Friday for a total of .1.7. The Texas Almanac says that the average for
Alarch for San Patricio County is 1.60 inches. Ixiw spots in the freshly planted fields were
collection spots, as this picture indicates, but (he consensus of opinion is that little or no
harm was done to the crops
City officials report that less
46 percent of the 1974
i plates have been sold,
I there are only eight more
ling days left before the
Dine
April I is the last day the
can tie sold before the
ele owner is penalized
have been on sale since
ary 1 or for 14 selling
lys and only ilOO of the ex
2800 total have been
rchas*d
T» relieve boredom while
king around in San Patricio
dy, motorists might be
etc tell where the car ahead
them comes from by
ring to a chart showing
I origin of license plates
Aransas Pass is selling the
from KBY 200 to KCC
I. Maihh plates go from KCD
to KCF <m Portland has
10 to KCK SW. Ingleslde
ages from KCK ww to KCM
T*tt is KCM 250 to KCN
See SHOPPING, Page 8
Voters Get Set
Members Of T
McMillin told the board of the
deteriorating condition of some
of the typewriter# currently
used in typing clauses, Mxr.t of
which were put chased in IMt
Ten IBM Selectomatic
typewriters will be pwchssed,
with the delivery of seven
expected before the end of the
school year They will coat $$te
each
Initially, the budget called
for five electric typewriter#
and five manual ones, bad the
school board granted Me*
Millin’# request that they *11 he
electric.
The asnisr trip plauuM it*
May 14 to San Antonio was
approved by the board. Board
approval was necessary
because the trip would be more
than SO miles.
A tentative schedule was
released for the trip Two
busloads of seniors wiB leave
prior to 8 a m. on May 14 and
arrive in San Antonio’s
Breckenridge Perk around
twton. The schoo'a will promo*
the busts, hut the students *rS
pay the drivers.
The buses will leave
Brcdceori(lgeanmt«d«.»Iora
cafeteria, then go te ftayted
Perk The trip borne would
begin about midnight and ihe
students would arrive about
2:30 or 3 a.m. on May 13.
Contracts for all five actual
principals - Humberto
Chavana, Hank Lavender,
IfcMiWjt, W—toe Petty, sad
Stewart - were est-
er renewed for oar
year, along with those of dean(
niliai, As»b»M*ac rriwr*|S*i »
the high scfcroi, Gwrteton
Director Fred Haider,
cafeteria mmwicr Jean SteoU,
and Truman Hefea.
’n other action, the eosttraei
with Frank McNamee for
insect control was renewed for
awetbef year. The cost wffi foe
tm, the same as this year.
This would include all aclwoi
See aOABD, F*P *
This spring voters in Taft
will he asked to vote for of-
ficials of five different tavng
bodies • the school hoard and
city in April and the others in
the May primaries.
The school board and the city
turn- elections April 6, arid the
primaries come May 4
Six of those seven taxing
units assessed Taft-area
property-owners $265 30 on a
hypothetical $10,000 home
Only the Federal Government
didn’t get a cut of this, but they
get theirs elsewhere.
Die others are San Patricio
County . Taft Hospital District.
San Patricio Drainage District,
and the State of Texas
Three people from Taft are
running for two school board
positions and five are can-
didates for two spots on the
City Council
Mrs Georgia Krurnnow. Leo
Davis and Mrs. Linda Perez --
that is the order iri which they
will appear on the ballot -- are
the school board candidates
The two top vote getters in
that race will be part of a
seven-member Board of
Trustees for the Taft In
dependent Sch<x»l District
their official title - that for-
mulates policies and oversees
fund raising for the school
system.
The school board sets the tax
rate She basis from which Tax
Assessor-Collector Gene Pullin
raises most of the money used
in personnel, maintenance and
operation of the schools
Currently, the school tax rate
is $1 50, which means that the
taxpayer pays that much for
each $100 of valuation, based
on fiO percent of the market
value of the property
In other words, a #10,000
house would be taxed f90 each
year Sixty percent of the
market value of the house is
*6.000, or 60 increments of ICO
Sixty multiplied by the tax rate
- $1 40 - is $90.
Taxes for the City of Taft are
slightly lower. They are based
on the same 60 percent of the
market value, but are only
$! 40 per $100 These rates, are
set by the five-member City
Council
See VOTERS, Page 8
AS BIG AS A CHICKEN I* the way Wayne Paterson an#
Chuck McKinny described this bullfrog. They weal frog-
hunting Saturday on a farm, armed with bows and arrows,
and came back with a whopper. The picture on the left shows
the monster stretched out next to a 12-inch ruler, and the
other shows its site in comparison to a foot. According to the
two lads, the frog weighed three and one-half peands and
measured 17 inches from tip to tip, with a 22-inch spread of
legs. This frog and another one they got provided a fairly
substantial snack of frog legs.
For Saturday In THS
Science Fair Scheduled
Vaccinations
Dr. E R Baylor of Sinton
will be in Taft Saturday to
vaccinate dogs and cats. The
clinic will be at the fire station
from 9 a m. to I p m
This is an annual
requirement in Taft. The cost
of the vaccinations will be $3,
but tags will be furnished by
the City of Taft.
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Six judges, indwftag one
from Taft, have been efemm
for the auauai Scseac* Fair to
be held Saturday to. the high
school.
Competition is open for
students of ail grate in Taft
schools, and award# will be
given in various class
if tendons.
Doug Mikus of Taft's first
National Bank will be one of
the judges, akw* with Eddie
Bradley of the Texas Parks
and Wildlife Department office
in ftockport, Larry Dte, s
computer programmer at Del
Mar College in Carpus CSsrisKi,
Henry Santana. Director of tit®
Living Material Center in
Corpus Christi, Mr*. Mafgarot
Simpson, biology,
oceanography, and science
teacher at Grog®*y-Pw&sad
High School, and Dr. Brian
Chapman, a fetology professor
at Texas AM - Carpw Cfcriati.
AM participant# will tee gives
participation ribbon* in ad-
dition to first-, second-, and
thixri-ptee* awards lor atotote
in tern grace, daetefttOllMW Hr
wtatorts. Entrants wsM h*
dJvistei M® Mw ekmmtmy
(M trough tod gnxtoU,
upper elementary (fourth
thms^h sixth), .pester
(seventh through aifitfe), awl
high sehooi.
An award wit! also fee gtrm
to the best dasaroom projset
ter the «ts tower §rs4m, «bA
the Grand Award wfil few given
the hast alinround project.
repanSsM of grade tewi.
Pmi Graham, faser of the
Scwasoe Oah. unphsitaed $s*i
everyow .Is tevited te vww to
exMSits, which wiS teems* spin
the hallways to Taft 3£gte
School. The Sctosee Chafe
spotuKRx tine feiffliw Fair.
The hateis far Hi*- Mt tm
from * ».». mtil * pm.
Saturday, wWi judging feakfeg
place from atoe o'cktefe mM
noow. The pwjsrii% will Imp «*
.Friday aftwt?®* firawt te®
until five.
"W?,
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Electricity For Purifteatwa
Taft’s Dillon Developer
Of Rural Water Plan
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«s«, left. Accepting for the date are Mr*. Mary Garrett, center, and Mrs. I.
A St HE SIGN OF SPRING, which arrives at 1:07 tonight, to growth. If these picture* were
in color, the green sheets of aewty-ptaated crops and the blue of bteetemets wonM be * tot
mere noticeable. The reader can get to hi# car and drive less than a »Be to almost any
direction to see the real thing, thoagh-
tirty Taft Businesses Are
urnishing Prizes For Show
tv *
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, * i 4e&>
-cl
k former Taft rtetest wtte a
member of a team that has
found a way to purify «w»i
water, according to the T«*«ss,
Agricultural Experiment
Station.
Bobfey Mfem, em of Mr. as»S
Mrs. R. C. DfStm of Taft, a*s«S
others working uste S.h*
auspice* of Texas A*M
Uteentity have sitoewewsi *
way to purify using
chtorine imd etecsiaty, amca
chlorine » to itort that
already prewat to Bloat waiter
would he ut3ix«d.
The new tysten » -teigfflvwS
t© use etectridty }® «*«*»•
fwritokm m& imptjritiaa^
water te “chater**
and settle, ami tree* the
chlorine tram teste to He
water.
It to tipeMI that s
luaaaAietareirte pmHytef mt
wiB esut te l*ka*duwiur atewt
$t.3d par ttummi pttaMh si
water,
tMKtoai, «,
tem&et water m havtog *te
Mfoaficauid rodnewM to htuss*
nssa, tevMdtte, cater, isw, wl
•sites- mlnetvdh,”
He ternmi. wtSs Dr. Wd A.
Hiter Sa to
purtetewtion wtod.
m
##*■ *f-
y test so local busmessefi
indicated they wilt fur-
d'»r prices at the Taft
daman’s Club's annual
w show March 30.
*** also announced that
Houston Allred,
'scastec for Corpus
J*'* tetevisioe Channel 10,
* entertain at the show,
r<,lir«d buff, is the
p » former Texas
James V. .Allred He
«>at h« g0t name
he was t«m in the
,#!wr’s Mansion in the Sam
“te tied.
Cameo Casuals a Taft
business, will furnish the
clothes for the style show, and
Cors’s Flower Shop will handle
all the decorations.
Businesses donating door
prises are Dairy King, Miller
and Wither Associates, Merle
Norman Cosmetics Liefeer-
mans of Taft. Capsule
Pharmacy. Beauty Center, and
Ewald Pharmacy.
Also. First State »*»*-
Floyd's TV. First National
Bank, HEB Food Stores. Mm
representative Mrs R- R
Hester, Julianne s Beauty
Salon, Little Giant, and Mc-
Namee's Florists.
Others are Cameo Casuals,
Daisy Patch, Perry s, Taft
Foodcraft. the Taft Tribune,
Taft Implement Co.. Vogue
•Beauty Salon. Western Auto
Associates, and Sanders and
West Texaco.
Also, Taco Loco. We 3, cake
decorator Mrs Jerry Lynn
Wostsl, TAM Building Supply,
she Taft Junior Woman’s Club,
and Tapper ware represea
tative Mrs. Earlene McElwee.
4$ Saturday Last
Chance To Sign Up
Any boy desiring to pteF
the Little League newt te
regswred fey torch * is tutor
to alay title year.
Rej^atridme «i te at &>»:
'B*ty Seek to tm .1Km* M
from 3 pm. to** pja. aat
March $$ .fetsss ife ajst. to BUM.
A1 hop tot ptoguri te
jsrsremm ywtv feghite?
again in erdar te platy Ball
«aai
Dryouts ter teas aged » te »
wfS fee tedd s® U. *.
«Mdt sggjlr,.
m Aprs Sft to "Tai’ IM'M
Lwgw art® gte* <nm® * S®
gongr tetetomr fog, » W
tpm Stay Bteter feto met *
tm’®' drpr.
There te *tii» • m*s& *
wmm§im m& matdsla to
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Francis, Otis L. The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 20, 1974, newspaper, March 20, 1974; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth749233/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Taft Public Library.