Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 8, 1973 Page: 2 of 12
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PORTLAND NCWS, Thursday, Nov •, 1*73
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Utters To The Editor
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NEWS with or without the writer's signature However in
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Dear Editor and fellow Portlanders
Word has floated up this way that you will be having an
election for mayor, very soon
We only know one of the men who is running for that
position About this man. 1 would like to say a few thousand
words of recommendation, compliments, praise, and all the
other good stuff any of us can think about
That man is Charles Tothill He is very capable He does
have experience on the city council He has exercized control
and wisdom in previous service to the city of Portland as
councilman He lives and honest upright life He appears to
be an excellent husband and father and is esteemed highly by
hi* family, neighbors, friends and respected by those who he
hasn't yet met 1 believe this man literally puts others before
self and sets an example worthy for us to imitate as citizens
It will be the most difficult for anyone to fill the shoes of
the past mayor of Portland as this man had all the qualities
mentioned about Charles Tothill The city as a whole was
blessed by the service of your previous mayor and, we feel,
can have the continued blessing by selecting Charles Tothill
to take the reins of leadership
We have lived up here in the "far north" for almost a
year and we have yet to find the quality in public office, or. on
the street, of the two fine men mentioned in this letter
Robert and Opal Reed
3240 Briarcliff Rd
Anchorage, Alaska 99504
P.S Oscar Wilde once said that an "unbiased opinion was
essentially worthless" so that's why we decided to write and
exhort the citizenery to vote for Mr Tothill
See ya’ll during Xmas holidays'!
A Letter to the People of Portland
Dear friend.
She might be yours — she might be mine one of the
250,000 infants bom each year with birth defects One out of
every 14 children is bom with a serious birth defect These
are statistics we'd like to change
The primary goal of the March of Dimes is research and
education Until this goal is reached, we must continue
helping those already born less than perfect The fate of
thousands of children and their families rest on this research
made possible by people like you who volunteer
With the ever-rising cost of medical care, few families
can face the burden of *100 to *200 a day care for their
defective infants
Your help could mean so much to so many If you can
contribute some of your time to help with the Mothers March
of Dimes please come to the meeting at the Mary and Jeff
Community Center
Communique
By l.inda Harrington
Western dance This will be
the first western dance for
adults only
No one under t* years old
will be admitted unless ac-
compamed by parent or
guardian I D ■ will be
(-heckl'd at the door The dance
will be Saturday from * p m -1
a m Tickets are *2 per person
Ice and nachos will be sold by
the Jaycee Ettes Music will be
provided by Merle and Eem
and the Country Playboys
Howard Plant and the
Stringduslers will be playing at
the Center Friday, Nov 30
from R 30 p m 12 30 a m This
groups plays for supper clubs,
hotels and private parties
They also play pop variety
music and some western
Howard plant ia known for his
ability to play five in
struments So you won'! want
to miss this' Tickets will also
be *2 and will be for adult*
only
Teen dances are as follows
Friday, Nov 16 Victory-
Dance Merle and Fern and the
Country Playboys Time 10
a m • 12:30 a m Tickets *1
per person
Saturday, Nov 24, the DEEP
SOUTH a well-known band
which just finished tour and
which plays rock and western
music will be at the Com-
munity Center, from 8-12 p m
Tickets will be *2 per person
Some of the teens may
Band Box
by Polly Kolich
The marching 100 has had a
very busy week practicing for
their inarching contest show
which they will present this
Friday night
Last week, the Marching 100
saluted the four best college
hands of Texas in their half
time show The performance
started with the band coming
on the field then forming four
company fronts The band next
moved into penwheel for
mations and presented the
penwheel drill with Mr Bill
Moffit's arrangement of the
University of Houston's fight
song
The Marching 100 next
saluted one of the largest and
mast colorful college bands -
The Red Raider Band of Texas
Tech The Marching 100 then
performed a drill based on a
circle The circle drill which
has emerged as the newest
design used today by the
marching band was developed
by the Tech Director. Dean
Killean
Next, the March 100 moved
into concert formation while
they saluted The Show-band of
the Southwest Conference This
band, of course, is the famous
Longhorn Band of Austin which
is under the direction of Dr
Vincent Dencno This 300
member band was one of the
first college bands to use flags
as a part of their marching
unit Therefore, the Gregory
Bell Library next Thursday (Nov. 15) to find out just how you
personally can help The March will be held January 21. 1974
and we need people to march as well as section leaders who
can be in charge of getting "marchers We also need
workers for the Publicity Committee
What child is this’’
Tenant of out- house.
Whose start was cruel.
Whose struggle never stills
She might be you or me
Whose child is this
With eagerness for life,
And longings such as yours or mine;
Awaiting hope down some untravelled street.
There dreaming of your sweet concern
from a poem by Edward Gilmore
Sincerely hoping to see you at the meeting.
Mrs Gloria L. Lousteau
Chairman for Portland
remember this band from the
rock festival at the Padre
Staples Mall Ticket sales
showed that 152 teens par
ticipated in last weekend's
Victory Dance
Ballel Class will begin again
Nov 17 Thiss class will con
tinue until Jan 12 (skipping
Christmas weekend) Classes
are held on> Saturdays and are
*8 for eight lessons Jeanette
Justice is the instructor
The Center is in the process
of forming classes that will be
held one morning a week on
how to': make a terrarium.
Christmas wreaths. Christmas
decorations and gift wrapping
Also plans are being made to
have a class for pre-schoolers
on making Christmas gifts
Borcherding
Attends
Convention
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Junior High Cheerleaders
These are the junior high school cheerleaders who have appeared all season ai (he junior
high games In front is Head Cheerleader Mary Jane Trevino and from left are Michele
Grover. Itonda LIUle (topi. Debbie Laurel i center) and Cara Morrison. (News photo i
Portland flag girls did their
salute to the University of
Texas as the Wildcat Band
played the march so often
associated with the UT
Longhorn band the march
Grandioso
The flag girls performed
various drills which formed a
diamond, then changed to a
circle and finally to a square
The last college band that the
Marching 100 saluted was the
great Texas A&M Aggie Band
The Marching 100 moved down
the field playing the famous
Aggie War Hymn as they had
formed the traditional moving
Aggie T
To top the performance off
the Wildcat Band spelled out
CATS while playing the fight
song in honor of their winning
Wildcats
Last Thursday night, the
Wildcat band played at the
town pep rally to add to the
spirit The band is now in the
process of arranging a pep
band This band, which will
consist of a small group of
volunteer band members, will
play at town pep rallies and
basketball games and various
other events
This Friday night the winner
of the free weekend in Austin
will be drawn The ticket will
be drawn right before the band
buses leave the high school for
the Tuloso Midway game
Dr H J Borcherding at-
tended the American
Osteopathic Association's 77th
Annual Convention Oct 28
through Nov 1 at the Marriott,
Fairmont Roosevelt and
Rivergate Convention center at
New Orleans
The four day postgraduate
seminar, sponsored by the
AOA and nine affiliated
specialty practice colleges,
attracted some 4,000
osteopathic physicians ^nd
their guests
Among the topics covered
were modern approaches to
marriage counseling, changing
concepts of death, advances in
sports medicine and new-
psychiatric screening
programs for policemen
Keynote speaker was U. S.
Senator Harold Hughes (D-
lowa), a member of the federal
drug abuse task force and
longtime advocate of greater
involvement by organized
medicine in dealing with
contemporary social problems
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president-elect. Aransas. San I'atrieio C ounty Board of Realtors, presenting "The Realtor
In Texas", the story off The Texas Association of Realtors, to Marietta Koester for the Mary
and Jeff Bell Public Library
Realtors
Bookshelf
by Mrs. W. C. Sparks
Presentation was courtesy off the Texas Association of
Guerrero Gets Army Hike
A slight volume, beautifully
written, is “A Day No Pigs
Would Die" by Robert Newton
The setting is Vermont in a
community of Shaker 'not to be
confused with Quaker)
background.
It is a haunting story of a boy-
growing up in this farm neigh
txirhood In the daily round of
his 13th year as the seasons
turn and the farm is tended,
whose time is the "only
yesterday" of Calvin Coohdgc
whose people are the plain
people without "frills” in the
Shaker way the boy becomes
a man
During this time, he is
mauled by Apron, the neigh
lair's ailing cow. whom he
helps alone to give birth
The grateful farmer brings
him a gift a newborn pig
Over his father's )at first)
demurring. Robert keeps the
pig, names her. gives her his
devotion
A great deal of farm lore is
woven into the hook: a horse
won't drink after a cow so the
cow must drink from the
bucket last From his father
Hob learns much thal he will
need when the time comes all
too Siam that he must take over
the tasks as head of the family
The earthy reason of the
Shaker way in embodied in
Haven Peck (the father) who
believed that a faith is more
blessed when put to use than
when put to word. "A man's
worship counts for naught
unless his dog and cat are
better for it."
And if you are looking for a
new mystery, there's "Not I
Said the Sparrow” by Richard
Ijochridge The morning after
he has given a big party to
announce his engagement to a
David F Guerrero, son of
Mr and Mrs Margarito
Guerrero of Gregory, recently
was promoted to chief warrant
officer <W-2i in the U. S. Army
He is stationed at Fort Hood
with the 162nd Aviation
Company
A pilot, Guerrero entered the
Army in 1964 and was last
stationed overseas in Korea
He holds the Bronze Star Medal
and the Purple Heart
Guerrero and his wife. Ella,
girl young enough (o be his
granddaughter, the lord of the
manor (on the Hudson) is
found killed with an arrow
Who did it’ Of course there are
all kinds of suspects
live at Killeen He attended
Gregory-Portland High School
Geese
Sighted
Some of the fall's first geese
have been sighted wining their
way over Texas coastdl
marshlands
Parks and Wildlife Depart
menl information officer Leroy
Williamson of Beaumont
reports that flights of speckled
bellied geese mixed with some
snows were sighted flying high
above the department’s.
Murphree Wildlife Mangement
Area and Sea Kim State Park
outside of Port Arthur
Dearonx Meeting
There will be a Deacon's
meeting Sunday, Nov. 11, at
8 p.m. at First Baptist Church.
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Leveen, Paul D. Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 8, 1973, newspaper, November 8, 1973; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth864272/m1/2/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bell/Whittington Public Library.