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Page 4. The Hondo Anvil Herald, Thursday September 29.1983
Policy maintains
overwide limitations
Commissioner* for the
Texas Department of High-
ways and Public Transporta-
tion approved a policy main-
taining the traditional
exemption from width Unit-
options that allows overwkJe
agricultural implements to
move short distances on
public roads.
The commissioners acted
to clarify the meaning of HB
1602, passed in the recent
legislative session to comply
with federal highway assist-
ance regulations. Some staff
members at the Highway
Department believed that a
technical reading of the
legislation could mean the
end of the agricultural
exemption.
Concerned about the
effect of such an interpreta-
tion on farming operations,
Texas Agriculture Commis-
sioner Jim Hightower con-
tacted Governor Mark
White and Highway Com-
mission Chairman Robert C.
Lainer of Houston, who
pledged their assistance in
solving the problem.
“We agreed to correct it
about 15 minutes after we
learned about it,” Lanier
said after Wednesday’s
action. “We felt the intent of
the legislature was to regul-
ate the loads on the highway
and not to restrict farmers.”
Without the clarifying
action by the commission,
farmers could have been
required to purchase per-
mits at a cost of $40 per
month in order to move
vehicles wider than eight
and a half feet on any pubhc
road.
“The effect of the commis-
sion’s action is to keep the
exemption just like it was,”
Lanier said.
Hightower praised the
action of the commission,
saying. This is a good
example of government
making rules work for the
good of the people. Fanners
singly had to have this
exemption to get their
fanning done, and the High-
way Commission acted
quickly to make sure that
the law was interpreted
fairly.”
HONDO'S CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE...float with
lovely Junior IVfiss Cindy
Batot aboard won the third
place trophy in the Comal
County Fair Parade last
Friday in New Braunfels.
Mammography used to detect breast cancer
By Dr. Miles Hutson
Medina Memorial Hospital
Medical Staff
Women have a seven
percent natural lifetime risk
of developing breast cancer,
the leading cause of death in
women aged 40-50 years.
Most research and studies at
this time show that the
earlier this disease is found
and diagnosed, the better
the chance for cure. In fact,
women who are found very
early with what is called
“minimal breast cancer”
have a nine-out-of-ten (90
TSTA advocates
stricter requirements
The Texas State Teachers
Association wants to make it
tougher to become a teacher
by beefing up course re-
quirements in Texas colleges
of education and extending
preparation for teaching to a
five-year degree program.
TSTA President Dale
Young told members of the
Select Committee on Public
Education,* meeting in
Austin, that many Texas
universities offer instruction
to prospective teachers
which is not necessarily
relevant to daily classroom
teaching experiences.
The 95,000 member
teachers’ organization pro-
poses that colleges of educa-
tion revamp teacher educa-
tion programs to improve
academic training and pro-
vide more time for profes-
sional teaching preparation
through a five-year study
program with longer experi-
ences in student teadiing
and internship.
The TSTA plan would
place student teachers in
school districts under the
supervision of a master
teacher for one year prior to
certification. Student
Brown attends
teachers would be salaried
during the internship.
Other suggested course
requirements would indude
more academic dasses in the
major and minor fields plus
instrudion in critical think-
ing, problem solving and
creativity, human growth
and development, learning
theories, decision-making
and oonxninication skills.
Speaking to the merit pay
issue, James Butler, execu-
tive secretary-treasurer of
TSTA, cautioned against
hasty implementation of this
type of compensation plan.
TSTA will support a plan
that is directed toward the
goal of attracting and retain-
ing excellent teachers,”
Butler said, "but we see no
reason for optimism in any of
the merit pay schemes
currently being tried or
proposed in Texas.”
TSTA is supporting an
across-the-board raise of 24
percent for all Texas
teachers.
Butler said his organiza-
tion was willing to discuss
the possibility of using some
kind of merit pay plan which
would eliminate opportuni-
ties for abuse, favoritism,
dissentkm and which would
not be offered in lieu of
competitive entry level
salaries.
He said a good merit pay
system must provide the
_ r . opportunity for career deve-
INABW meeting topment for all teachers
• The Hill Country Group of
NABW held an “Executive
Night” meeting in Thursday,
September 22 at Riverhill
- Country Club in Kerrville.
The guest speaker for the
evening was Glen Lemon,
TBA president. Lemon gave
an informative presentation
* on the variety of community
services a bank of any size
can offer.
Incoming officers for the
Hill Country Group were
also installed at this meeting
■ by Mrs. Shirley Guiling,
Asst. Vice President, Alamo
National Bank. The officers
for the 1983-84 year are:
Carol Ann Boyle, pnM-
dent, asst, vice pres., First
State Bank - Bandera. Q
f Beverly Brown, vice presi-
: dent, and cashier, Coin-
: munity National Bank,
I",Hondo,. . .
| Betsy Henrich, treaauf#,
,. assistant cashier, Mason
National Bank. Mason.
*
Jin L. Teemey
pH
r*fm Mutual
AMMuMu
percent) chance of complete
cure of the disease. Most
cancers that are found at
this very early stage are
being found with mammo-
graphy.
Mammography involves
taking pictures of the breast
with x-rays. Back in the
1%0’s, t|ie amount of radia-
tion that was needed to do a
proper examination was re-
latively large. This problem
led to a lot of news articles
and reports which said that
mammography may increase
the chance of breast cancer
more than it helps detect
breast cancers at an early,
curable stage. However, in
1972, a new type of film was
developed for taking pic-
tures with much lower
amounts of x-ray exposure
At this time, it is estimated
that a woman could have one
mammongram a year for
thirteen years and would, at
the most, increase her
chance of developing breast
cancer in her entire lifetime
from seven percent, the
national average, to eight
percent.
In the 1970’s the American
Cancer Society and the
National Cancer Institute
made a study on screening
women both with mammo-
graphy and physical examin-
ation to diagnose breast
cancer. They found 1600
breast cancers and of these
700 would have been found
only by using mammo-
graphy. Forty percent of the
cancers were the very early
ones and, of these, more
than half of them would have
not been found by physical
examination alone. In other
words, more than half of the
very early, curable, cancers
were found using mammo-
graphy.
There is still considerable
controversy about whether
or not all women should have
yearly mammography to
screen and detect these
early cancers and, therefore,
catch them at a more
curable stage. However, it is
dear, from the studies that
have been done, that
mammography can and
should be used in many
instances where the risked
T-,
cancer is greater. Today the
American Cancer Society
recommends that every
women between the age of
35 and 40 have what is called
a “baseline” mammogram
even if she does not have
increased risk of breast
cancer in comparison to
other women. The reason for
this recommendation is that
if at some point later in her
life the woman needs to have
a mammogram because of
some symptom or finding,
the comparison of the new
mammogram to the old is
very valuable in deciding
what is normal for that
woman and what is not.
(This is similar to the need to
have an old cardiogram to
compare with the new one in
certain situations such as
early heart attacks.)
Other times when
mammography is indicated
is when a woman is having
breast pain with normal
examination or an abnormal
discharge from her breast.
Mammography is also useful
in \yomen who have very
large, or nodular, or dense
breasts which make examin-
ation very difficult. Women
who have breast cancer in
the family, especially in a
mother or sister, also are at
an increased risk of develop-
ing breast cancer in their
lifetime. Some doctors feel
that women who have an
increased risk of breast
cancer due to one of these or
other reasons should have an
annual mammogram start-
ing somewhere near the age
of 50 years.
No article on the subject
of breast cancer would be
complete without stresssing
the importance of self
examination. This examina-
tion should be done on a
monthly basis. When a
woman has done this enough
times to become familiar
with what is normal for her,
then she is able to do as
good, an examination if not
better, than her personal
physician.
If you have questions
concerning mammography,
consult your local physician.
Centennial exhibit depicts UT student life
through a progressive
“career ladder" concept
"AO teachers should be
able to volunteer the evi-
dence of advanced level
teadiing skills that would
enable them to move up in
the teaching profession
hierarchy ” he said. This is
opposed to a pyramid ap-
proach whereby only an
arbitrary and predeter-
mined small percentage of
teachers can ever be de-
signated “master teachers’.”
Other TSTA proposals
called for improvements in
teacher and administrator
evaluations and in-service
training, restoration of
grade integrity and teacher
authority, and stricter dis-
cipline policies statewide.
Rebecca
Ward Pope
Life, Health
and Accident
Insurance
A light-hearted look at 100
years of student life at The
University of Texas at
Austin is presented in a
Centennial exhibit on view
through December 1983.
The display takes a look at
the various components of
life as a UT student from
1883, when the University
held its first dasses, to 1983,
as current students join the
University in celebrating its
100th anniversary.
Sponsored by the UT
General Libraries and the
Texas Memorial Museum,
with assistance from the
Home Economics Depart-
ment, the exhibit indudes
five different aspects of
student life, each shown in a
separate location on campus.
Included in the exhibit are
displays tracing dothing and
fashion, social life and re-
creation, scholarship and
learning, contemporary
events and issues, and living
away from home. Photo-
graphs from the various
time periods, personal notes,
articles from the student
newspaper, and a wide
Texas Memorial Museum
has the dothing ar.d fashion
portion of the exhibit. In-
dueled is a reconstruction of
a B Hall dormitory room, a
football uniform from the
1890’s and everyday student
dress representing flappers,
bobby sockers, beatniks,
hippies and preppies.
Social life and recreation
are traced at the Barker
Texas History Center. The
exhibit, which captures the
after-hours spark of student
life, indudes dance pro-
grams from 1890 to 1910, a
football megaphone from the
early portion of the century,
photos depiding develop-
ment of the Greek systeirt
and a turban hat with tassel
which was the only dothing
symbol of the University’s
band until 1914.
“Regulations for Ap-
proved Boarding Houses for
Girls,” dated 1908, is in-
cluded in the living-away
from-home portion of the
exhibit, located at the Perry-
Castaneda Library. Also
inducted is a 1950’s pre-
variety of memorabilia carry steam iron, TV dinners, a 45
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the viewer on a walk
through history as seen from
the UT student perspective.
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rpm record player and
letters complaining about
student morality.
The exhibit segment on
the ground floor of the Main
Building features a look at
scholarship and learning.
The exhibit traces mile-
stones in the academic
history of the University
including a mention of the
1905-06 academic year,
which was the first to
surpass 1,000 students.
Exam schedules from dif-
ferent periods, a $10 fee
check dated 1883 and a
chapter scrapbook from Phi
Beta Kappa are displayed.
Contemporary events and
issues have played a major
role in the life of university
students sine 1883, and the
final portion of the exhibit
traces that influence.
Women’s voting rights, pro-
hibition, the war efforts of
World Wars I and II, student
unrest in the 1960’s and the
Washington political scene
are all depicted in the
exhibit, located in the foyer
of the Academic Center and
Undergraduate Library.
Also included are cam-
paign buttons, ribbons and
posters from various U.S.
Presidential races, a bale of
Johnson grass, a Nixon seat
cushion and a deck of cards
with ore-Watergrate
EPA says ‘yes’
to Pydrin use
In response to a formal
request from the Texas
Department of Agriculture
(TDA), the U.S. Environ-
mental Protection Agency
(EPA) agreed to allow the
use of a pesticide called
Pydrin to fight grain sor-
ghum midge, a pest that can
severely damage a sorghum
crop.
I^drin, a compound al-
ready approved for use on a
number of other crops, is not
yet registered for use on
sorghum. TDA Assistant
Deputy Commissioner Ron
White, however, urged in a
letter to EPA that the
agency authorize emergency
use of Pydrin because it can
reduce the unnecessary use
of pesticides when used as
one component of an inte-
grated pest management
(IMP) strategy. Under exist-
ing EPA rules, White
pointed out, an emergency
use designation is not al-
lowed if there are other
products on the market
designated for use against
the sorghum midge. The
products already approved
for midge control, however,
also kill beneficial insects
which help fight headworm
in sorghum and bolhvorms
and tobacco budworms in
cotton, White said. Thus, if
farmers have to fight midge
with insecticides that also
kill the beneficial insects,
they then must also treat
their cotton for bollwormB
and tobacco budworms.
This, White said in his letter,
“will cause unnecessary en-
vironmental exposure to
such products as Parathion
and other organo-
phosphorous compounds.”
“This really is a first,” said
Agriculture Commissioner
Jim Hightower of the EPA
decision. “For the first time,
E$>A has recognized the
need to take IPM principles
into account when they
consider insecticides for
emergency use. Ron White’s
letter stated the case very
clearly, and we’re very
pleased that EPA is now
going to indude IPM bene-
fits in their criteria for those
designations. Because of the
late spring, the sorghum
midge problem is very
severe this year, and this
emergency approval of
Pydrin for midge control,
while a little late for some
sorghum producers, will
help a lot of farmers salvage
more of their sorghum crop
without having to use addi-
tional pesticides on their
cotton crops. And we con-
gratulate EPA for its posi-
tive response to our request
for this change.”
Il’l’EKS
Washington personalities
printed on the faces of the
cards The exhibit indudes a
photograph of President
William McKinley who was
the first U.S. President to
visit UT in 1901. Another
picture records the UT visit
of social reformer Carry
Nation in October 1902.
Viewing hours for the
exhibits vary from one
location to another. For
information concerning oper-
ation hours of the five sites,
call any unit of the General
Libraries.
“We hope visitors will
enjoy the exhibit as much as
we enjoyed sorting through
the memorabilia of 100
years,” said Ron Seeliger,
General Libraries coordin-
ator of the exhibit.
The Barker Texas History
Center was the major source
of photographs and artifacts
displayed in the exhibit, he
said.
The child trusts him. He
buys the child candy,
takes the child to movies,
gives the child his time
when no one else will. He
is the child’s special
friend.
The child does not want
to lose his friend. The child
will do anything to keep
him. Besides, he is a
grown-up; he knows what
is right and what is wrong.
Child pornographers
can destroy precious
moments of childhood.
When a camera is held by
a pornographer, the child
will be haunted by the
experience for the remain-
der of his life.
According to the Texas
Department of Human
Resources, studies show
that a majority of those
who are sexually abused
as children will become
child molesters as adults.
The wreckage of the life of
a sexually abused child is
devastating and society
pays the price.
Anyone from a stranger
to a close friend or family
member can be a sexual
abuser of children. The
Crime Stoppers Advisory
Council for the month of
November is concentrat-
ing its efforts on the pre-
vention and apprehension
of child pornographers in
Texas.
Parents, family mem-
bers and friends are
encouraged to become
informed on ways to pre-
vent children from becom-
ing involved with child
pornographers and sexual
abusers, and learn to rec-
ognize the symtoms of a
child under a porno-
grapher’s influence.
Persons with informa-
tion on child porno-
graphers are asked to call
their local Crime Stoppers
program or the toll-free
Texas Cri ne Stopper’s
hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS
anytime, day or night.
Cash rewards are avail-
able for information lead-
ing to the arrest and
felony indictment of crimi-
nals in Texas. Citizens are
not asked their names and
will be given a unique code
number for reward
purposes.
Child pornographers
and other sexual abusers
of children can be stopped,
but only with the help of
informed citizens.
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