The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 20, 1974 Page: 1 of 10
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XT. . , Play School Threatened—
Victoria Is
Quarterfinal To Some, Mrs Johnson’s
Game Site Troubte Jg A Cflse Qf Meddling
It was learned this morning
that the quarterfinal basket
ball game between the Taft
Greyhounds and the Gonzales
Apaches will be played Friday
in the Victoria High School
gymnasium.
Gametime is 8 o'clock, with
the doors opening at 6:30.
Tickets will cost $1.50 for
adults and tl for students who
purchase tickets before the
game. All tickets at the door
will cost $1.50
The Victoria High gym is
located at Ilin Sam Houston in
Victoria. and has ap-
proximately !5U« seats.
Gonzales' season record la
>r,-n. while Taft s is 22-8.
QOOOQO&QOQOOOQO
Mrs. Joyce Johnson is find-
ing oul this week just how
many people in Taft arc behind
her mini-fight with the State of
Texas
The fight for her is over her
Happy Time Play School. For
some of her supporters, it is a
battle with government
bureaucracy meddling and its
alleged erosion of personal
rights
The State Department of
Public Welfare is threatening
to close down her little business
because her school does not
meet all of the State
determined criteria.
Not all of the alleged short-
comings of the Happy Time
Play School can be corrected
anytime soon To follow the
letter of the law, Mrs Johnson
would have to make her house
and yard larger She might
have to add another bathroom
to the house. She would be
forced to buy a piano and an
aquarium, among other things
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left. and lohnnv f abrerra v\a»t for the ball to come down. Driver got IM rebounds and
Montgomery M, as l«»ft won tiJ 43
Blood Bank Here Tomorrow
Tomorrow Taft area
residents have a chance to
make the first payment on the
pounds In Quarterfinals
West Oso, Donna Fall
To Taft; Gonzales Next
cheapest insurance plan
around - an insurance that
guarantees them an unlimited
supply of Wood when t hey need
it
The Mobil Blood Bank will be
parked at the First Pres-
byterian Church, and 40 donors
have already been scheduled to
donate blood.
Since that is about ail the
blood bank can handle in its
five hours here, others who
have signed up for the Donor
Club will be scheduled for
March 6, again in Taft
Coder the Donor Cub plan, a
person giving a pint of blood
"I'm doing it mostly because 1
like children ’’
Some of the guidelines are
are already being followed, or
can be with very little effort
and not much expense.
One of the requirements is
that. Mrs Johnson get a
tuberculin skin test or chest X-
ray yearly. No problem there -
she had hers two years ago,
and getting another one is not
much trouble.
An information sheet must
be kept for each child She does
that, but since the regulations
don't speO out just what in-
formation is to be kept on each
child. she could be at the mercy
of a bureaucrat's in-
terpretation.
Immunization records on
each child are really the
responsibilities of the parents,
but there does not appear to be
anything in the guidelines that
tell exactly what shots the child
must have
Required annual liealrh end
fire inspections of her house,
where she runs her school,
would likely be a breeze to
pass.
Hot lunches and nutritious
snacks she already serves.
Yesterday she served noodles
and meat sauce, topped off
with ice cream for lunch. Two
hours earlier the children got a
snack of orange juice and
cookies.
A list of play items a com-
mercial day care center must
have is lengthy, fairly ex-
pensive, and some of them are
possibly useless.
For art supplies, Mrs
Johnson must have tempura
paint crayons, blunt scissors,
paste and clay.
Transportation and con-
struction toys required are
boats, trucks, planes, trains,
blocks and figures of people
and animals
Educational development
items are books, flannel boards
and figures, pictures, and lotto.
A center must have
manipulative toys such as
puzzles, peg boards, beads, and
drop-in toys.
Homemaking and dramatic
play toys include dolls, chitel-
size stove, unbreakable doll
dishes a broom, a
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and tuba for water play.
Musically, a piano, ntcwia
and a record player, drums,
bells, and rhythm sticks must
be on hand
Science
an aquarium
magnets, a
iton-poisonous
pots, and growing plants.
What the State Departiaefflt
of Welfare calls large muscle
toys, that a center like Mrs.
Johnson's must have, are
boxes, boards, saw
tires, barrels, Sadder*,
See JOHNSON. Page
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basket a f *,j r ,rf ho!
gixid ilrfen.se and
strength, the
! Greyhounds moved into
quarter fir.aL with win
’ the Wes; i iso Hears ami
"i Hed.ski.ns
lldeiega'tofi of Taft officials
“lscheduled to meet with
representatives ol Gonzales
this morning in Goliad to
determine where and when
Friday game will be played
The winner of Friday’s
quarterfinal game will make a
trip to Austin for the State
i hampionship meet the
following weekend.
Thi West Oso game, the
second of a two of three series
to determine the District 15-
AAA championship, was won
when Mark Montgomery hit on
a three point play with five
seconds left in the game
Montgomery's shot came
w ith the score tied at 50-50. He
drew a foul on the piav and
sank the free-throw that went
ol Board Meeting
anged To Tomorrow
jft Independent School
-I Board of Trustees will
call lor an April school
election at its meeting
nigh!
' of the hi district
I game las! night, the
-• trie regular!> -scheduled
! meeting was postponed
tomorrow at 8 p m
oth*‘r action the* board
probably hear from two
> of petitioners and ask
for bids on cafeteria equip-
ment
A petition with it>4 names on
d w ill be presented bv a group
of citizens requesting $3000
homestead exemption for
taxing purposes According to
'late law the over-05 group
must formally request the
exemptions for taxing bodies
Kicky Lozano, an eighth-
grade student, is also
scheduled to present a petition
from fellow students,
requesting a change in the
school dress code
Other items to be discussed
by the board are a Special
Education cooperative pian
with Sinton and (Mem. the Bi-
f.ingua! Education Actand how
it affects Taft, an April
meeting of the National
Association of School Boards,
and policy revisions.
with it Taft had won the series
opener the week before, 64-83
Although the Greyhounds
trailed only once, 4-2 early in
the game, it still took a super-
heated fourth quarter to shake
the smaller but persistent
Redskins.
Taft scored with the bi-
district game only seconds old
on a Dennis Goins bucket, but it
took about two and one-half
minutes to get the second
basket, again by Goins The
score was 12-6 at the end of the
first period
Donna narrowed the Hound
lead to 27-23 at the half, but
superior height and good ball-
handling gave Taft some
breathing room after three
periods, at 40-30
In the decisive fourth period.
Goins fed Montgomery on a
basket, stole the ball from
Donna and gave off to Calvin
Reyes for a three-point play,
See HOUNDS. Page 8
every two years assures
himself, hit spouse, and im-
mediate family that any Wood
needs during that two-year
period will be met — at almost
any hospital anywhere in the
United Stew.
The alternative to becoming
a member of the Blood Donor
Club is (laying about $32 per
pint, or calling up friends and
relatives to replace blood used
in major illnesses.
Eligibility requirements for
becoming a donor are fairly
simple — the potential donor
must be between the ages of 18-
65 and weigh DO pounds or
more. Seventeen-year-olds
must have parental per-
mission.
Those who would like to join
the Donor Club, but are unable
to give Wood for some reason,
can still join. When his turn
comes to donate a pint, he
merely asks someone else to
give instead.
See BANK, Page It)
HAPPY-TIME PLAY at the Happy Ttsae Play Setawt tovolves Daws Satttk, Heft fesegrewnd,
Scott Weaver (partially M**w»*. Metaay Maya, Rachal Veratittaa. Ceaa llareUe, and Scott
Garrett (back to camera). These, sad stfeesr eMMrea, woaM he the first I® meura M Mm.
Joyce Johnson. operator of the school, had to char her invar*.
Car Need A Fix?Try Mechanics
There are about 30 Taft High
School students who are likely
to become much more than
shade-tree mechanics after
they finish the course they are
taking now.
For three hours each school
day these lads are getting some
practical experience in Ken-
neth West’s Automotive
Mechanics course in school.
They lave learned, or will
have learned by the time they
finish, how to completely
disassemble, dean or repair,
and reassemble entire
C. R. Marsh
Will Assume
Rotary Post
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> * j\ thapw-r officers are secretary Judy Twsllt. ire* - , ___ ,,
. Ra>. reporter Trey Threadgiit. and parliamentarian Moat* Ftoerfce. !•*«**
MHUitltorai teacher at Taft Sti. is the advisor
C. R. Marsh was elected to
the presidency of the Taft
Rotary Club in a regular
meeting yesterday He will
assume the duties thi* sum-
mer
Also elected were Otto
ftybum, president-elect; John
Taylor, secretary and Charles
Mayo, treasurer.
Directors will be Chuck Kolb,
Carry Smith, Maurice Cum-
mins. and Joe Mueller, ex-
officio member
The entire slate will serve far
one year beginning July i
automobile engines, all about
the electrical system, how to
diagnose problems, safety
rules, and some administrative
work connected with repairing
automobiles and trucks
Nearly all of this is hands-on
time - they work on their own
or teachers’ care and trucks.
They write up the work order,
check out the tools they need,
fix whatever is wrong with the
vehicle, and figure up tl*
charge®.
There are some filings they
don’t touch - simple things like
changing the oil or doing a
lubrication job, and much
more complex tasks such as
repairing automatic trans-
missions
West’s students don’t dig into
automatic transmissions
because of the complexity of
such jobs, and they don’t do the
other because it is not complex
enough Otherwise, there iwnot
much of a limit.
It is sot all greast lydn-tte-
fingernails, though. They have
a measure of classroom work
and an occasional test Some of
the teat questions appear to tot
a little stiff. For instance •
‘What is a bearing that is
designed so a* to rwiat side
pressure?”
“Name a difference in
electrical potential between
one end of a circuit and the
other ft is also called the EMF
(electromotive force).”
“What two angles are most
valves faced in?”
"What is a stroboscopic unit
that is connected to the
secondary circuit to produce
flashes' of light in vmlmm with
the firing of a speetik
See MECHANICS,
FOUSKING OFF' A MAJOR OVERHAUL Jo*
Automotive Mechanic shop are Andy Vaagaes (left
Andy. Hasty Rwrell. and. Severiano Mere Ire Hester 8
week. Andy i* a inpfenHwe. Rusty a Junto, nad Severiaws jrs-
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Francis, Otis L. The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 20, 1974, newspaper, February 20, 1974; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth750724/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Taft Public Library.