Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 10, 1974 Page: 1 of 10
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Telephone Rate Hike
Public Hearing Called
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Residents of Portland will he
able to voire their views on a
proposed telephone rate In
crease and on telephone ser
vice at a public hearing called
by the city council for 8 p m
Tuesday. Keb 5
Decision on the hearing was
made last Thursday night
following a lengthy discussion
on the subject at the council's
first meeting this year
E 0. Cambern, district
manager for General
Telephone Co , had requested
to tie placed on the meeting's
agenda to ask the council to
take actual or a request his
company made in November
for the rate hike
Under the new rate proposal,
General Telephone would hike
cost of business one party
service from $lfi to $16.SO,
residence one party service
would go from $7 to $7 05, two
parly from $5.25 to $5 40. rural
business four party from $15 to
$16 50 and rural residence four
parly fyoin $6 75 to $7
Hates for the so-called
sophisticated equipment such
as multiple trunk, pushbutton
instruments with intercom
capability, and signal lighting
would receive the largest In-
creases, some estimated to
jump more than 33 per cent
Cambern said the
sophisticated systems are used
substantially more than
residential lines, are more
critical and require more
maintenance
Therefore, this is where the
iargest increases should come,
he pointed out
Council members questioned
Cambern extensively on the
possibility of Portland
residents being able to in-
lerdial Flour Bluff Kobstown.
Clarkwoud and Calallen with
the foreseeable future These
are now toll calls from the
Portland exchange
The council suggested that
General Telephone make a
survey of the number of calls
now being made to the ex
changes in question to deter
mine feasibility of establishing
interdialling
Cambern said a study now
was under way between
Portland and Robstown and
that further studies would be
made in reference to the other
locations He indicated that
some of the studies could be
completed in time to have
information available at the
public hearing
He said the preliminary
studies will indicate if it will be
feasible to proceed then into a
cost analysis for the con-
struction work which would be
necessary
Mayor Charles E B Tothill
usked Cambern if it would be
possible to get a reduction in
commercial telephone rates in
Portland rather than an in-
(See HEARING, Page 10)
instance
by pdl-
There isn't an energy crisis
• It's all a gimmick to get the
price of fuel up and out of sight
It’ll all be over in a few
.months and gasoline and fuel
oil once again will flow like
wine
Then- are those who really
believe this
They 'll most likely still
believe it as they walk along
the deserted ribbons of con-
crete and asphalt
Europeans have been (laying
well over a dollar a gallon for
petrol for these many years
Ask them if this is making a
difference in the availability of
fuel
When you pump out millions
of barrels of crude and millions
of cubic feet of gas year, after
year, after year something
has got to give It did Now the
crunch
The world is being scalped by
.the Arabs, and some of the
other oil-producing countries
Foreign crude has quadrupled
in price Crude pumped
through the equipment and the
enterprise of good old
American know how. God bless
our little pointed hearts
Here at home, the cost of oil
exploration, refining, tran-
sportation and merchandising
also has had its inflationary
, spiral After all. money has to
; "lie made for the purpose of
1 ^spending it for more ex-
Charles E H Tothill is ad
ministered the oath of office as
mayor of Portland by District
Judge John It Miller. i:(6th
District Court. Sintoti. at the
city council s first meeting in
1971 Thursday. Jan 3. Tothill
was elected in the Dec. IK
special city election to fill the
unrspired term of mayor
which runs until April (News
photo)
Also receiving the oath of office
last Thursday night was
Portland's first rounrilwnmon,
Charlotte Griffin Elected to
office in the l>ec IK election,
her term of office runs until
April 1*75. (News photo'
POR TLAND
Dedicated To The Heat Interests
Of Portland- The Fastest
Growing C.ity In Texas
TAFT, TEXAS, 78390, THURSDAY, IANUARY 10. 1974
VOLUME IX—TEH PAGES—NO 2
NEWS
PAC To Offer
Midweek Service t Energy Saving Effort
ploration
(See PDL, Pag* 10)
In (hi* community of sportsman, shift workers and ^
weekend travelers, the clergy of tV Portland Association of J
Congregations are offering a six week experiment to see if a 5
midweek service maybe helful tc Ihose who cannot attend J
worship on Sunday morning J
The services will begin at 7 :30 p m Wednesday. Jan 16 J
and will continue through Feb 20 J
All services will be conducted at St Stephen Lutheran J
Church at 619 Lang Road J
The six ministers, and the schedule of service each will 5
conduct are Jan 16. Rev George Munroe. Lutheran: Jan 23. J
Hev David Stewart. Methodist; Jan 30. Rev John Williams. S
Presbyterian, Feb 6. Rev Charles Aubry. Catholic; Feb 13. a
Rev William Campbell. Episcopal, and Feb 20. Rev Wilson 5
Rack ley. Disciples ^
District Adopts Guidelines
Little League
The Greogry-Portland
School District adopted a list of
measures this week designed
to meet the guidelines set by
the state to save at least 15 per
cent on the consumption of
energy
The energy saving measures
range from adjusting tem-
peratures to restrictions
placed on travel by athletic
teams
Chief of the energy saving
measures will be setting all
thermostats to 65 degrees
during cold weather and 78
during warm weather with the
thermostats reduced to 65
degrees one-half hour prior to
departure of students from a
building and reseting the
thermostats to «8 degrees one
hour prior to arrival in the
morning
All unnecessary lighting is to
be turned off and heat is to be
closed to portions of buildings
‘ not necessary to the instruction
program.
The board has adopted a
policy that will not interrupt
regular UIL activities directed
toward district, regional and
slate championships, however,
all outside activities are to be
kept to a minimum
In the case of some activities
(swimming, track, speech),
one meel outside of the district
area will be allowed This will
mean that the regularly
scheduled basketball, baseball.
tennis, etc , will be carried out
as scheduled, but that long,
out-of-district trips will be
curtailed
Guidelines on the use of the
gym. hand hall, choir room
have been worked out to limit
practice times and reduce the
amount of light used
(See GU1I)LINES, Page 10)
31 Candidates
For Graduation
Plans Are Set
The Gregory Portland Little
league board of directors met
Sunday evening to discuss
plans for the 1974 season
Treasurer Joe Burke
presented the annual income
expense report reflecting the
gross income from 1973 as
$16,724 and expenses totaled
$16,648
He commented that "even
‘though the income was down
some *i,500 from 1972, the
expenses were $7,300 less than
•previous year and $1,400 less
than 197l's expenses, thanks to
Driving Course
Is Scheduled
A defensive driving course
will lie held Monday through
Thursday. Jan 14 to 17.
Ilnurs will be from 6 to It)
pm.
F'ee for the course is $9
’ Preregisler by railing Carl
Itey noMs. 643-MM.
some of the local businesses
donating items needed during
the year to operate the Little
League program efficiently ”
Expenses for 1974 are
estimated to be about $18,000
President A C. Wylie ap-
pointed six members to in-
ventory all Little League
assets this Saturday He in-
formed each of the league
representatives, to turn in a list
of names of prospective
managers and assistants to
Player Agent Joe Nance prior
to the Feb. 3 board meeting for
presentation to the board of
director* for approval
Wylie commented, "even
though a man was a manager
last season, does not guarantee
him team management again
this season " He further stated
that "an extensive effort will
be put forth this season to
improve the players, and
managers as well, in sport-
smanship. patriotism, courtesy
and conduct."
The board of directors gave
Hearing Set
On Busing
The Gregory-Portland School District's hearing on an
injunction seeking to stop the Texas Education Agency from
cutting off state funds to the district as a result of a pupil
assignment disagreement has been set for a hearing Jan. 18
at Corpus Christi in Judge Cox's court
The school district is seeking to prevent the state from
cutting off state funds to the district as a result of a complaint
filed by the state agency citing the district for discrimination
in pupil assignment
The complaint grows out of the fart that Austin
Elementary School has a large Mexican-American
population, which has been held to be illegal according to a
recent federal court ruling
The state has submitted two plans for pupil assignment
to the district to correct the ethenic ratio, both requiring
massive basing The district has submitted a plan of their
own, under protest
full approval to Nance to revise
the registration and tryout
procedures
Registration will be con-
ducted on Monday and
Tuesday evening, March 4 and
5. and on Saturday morning,
March 9 Tryouts will be
conducted March 9 and March
16 The Major League and
Senior League drafts will be
held on Sunday. March 17,
while the Minor l-eague draft
will be on Tuesday. March 19.
with the Prep rosters to be
issued March 21.
Team practices will begin
March 25 The season will
commence on Saturday. April
20
Any man who desires to be a
manager or assistant manager
for the 1974 season is urged to
contact the representative of
the league in which they wish
to participate The 1974 league
representatives are: Joe
Strain, Prep; W C (Bill)
Miller, Minor; Carl l-ehman,
Major, and W E (Ed)
Dickson, senior
The board of directors also
made a plea to all past
directors who may still have in
their possessions any old Little
la-ague records, regardless of
how unimportant they may
seem, to turn them in to one of
the current directors so that a
historical reference file can be
compiled and made available
to the public.
The next regular Little
l-eague meeting will be at 7 30
pm. Feb. 3
No Changes Seen For
School Time Schedules
The Gregory-Portland school
hoard gave approval at their
regular meeting Tuesday night
to maintaining school time
schedules without changes
Superintendent W C. An
drews reported to the board
that a number of people had
contacted his office concerning
Ihe opening times of school
since (he installation of
daylight saving time with real
problems on each sidv of the
question
In order to help the situation
to some extent, Andrews told
the hoard that schools had been
instructed not to start any
serious classwork until 8 30
a m each day, thus affording
students who are a few minutes
late the ability not to miss any
classwork
Previously, th.- ad-
ministration had readjusted
bus schedules on individual
runs in order to be able to pick
up children as late as possible
Principals have also been
(See SCHEDULES, Page 10)
Thirty one Gregory Portland
High Schon' students are
candidates for midterm
graduation Jan. 11. according
to Principal T M McDonald
The program will be held at 8
pm in the high school
auditorium with the Rev
William P, Campbell, vicar of
Ihe St. Christopher by the Sea
Episcopal Church as the
speaker
Scheduled to receive
diplomas are Ihe following
Carlos Bazan, Manuel Costillo.
Lynn DePuma. Alfredo Flores.
Cindy Hahn. Cathy Hamilton,
William Huggins. p;iva
Hinojosa, Chris Hurst, Walter
Kuzinar, Ricardo Lopez. Mike
McBride. Jo Lynn Medlin,
Angelo Melendez, Cornelio
Ochoa, Klix Ortiz and Joe Luiz
Ortiz.
Also. Raymond Pena,
Graciela Perez, Felix Rios.
Armando Saenz. Willie Santos,
Jana Speer, Brad Stephenson,
Mike Stevens. Anne Tothill,
Joe Trevino, Manuel Trevino,
Oscar Trevino, Thomas
Trevino and Jo Ann Tunnell
Dean Dreiling. president of
the school board, will hand out
Ihe diplomas to the graduates
Superintendent W C. Andrews
will act as master of
cert-monies
Center Sought
PAC Launches Program For Drug Abuse Facility Here
Center Dance
Set Friday
A dance with music by
Howard Plant and the
Stringdusters will be held from
X p m to 12:30 a m. Friday,
Jan It, at the Community
Center.
Country and dance music
will be played
Tickets are $2 each Irr and
narhos will he sold by the
Jayree-Fttes
Establishment of an in-
formation and referral center
primarily lo assist persons
with a drug problem was one
step closer after an
organizational meeting
Monday night at First
Presbyterian Church.
Some 25 persons attended the
meeting called by Ihe Portland
Association of Congregations
which has taken the initiative
to bring such a facility to
Portland
The next meeting, first
training session for volunteers
who will man the center, was
set by Rev John Williams,
pastor. First Presbyterian
Church, for 7:30 p m. Monday,
Jan 14, at the First
Presbyterian Church 1701
Crosby
"Tentative plans call for Ihe
renter to operate three days a
week from midafternoon until
midevening," Williams ex-
plained ‘Two volunteers will
man the center during that
time A location for the center
has not yet been selected
"We urge any persons in-
terested in giving some of their
time to this program lo attend
the Monday night meeting The
success of the center will
depend on having a sufficient
number of dedicated volunteer
workers available," Williams
said
PAC will function initially as
• he administrative body for the
center Rev George Munroe,
St Stephen Lutheran Church;
Rev Wilson Rackley, Christian
Church: and Williams attended
the initial meeting
On hand to assist the group in
preliminary discussions and to
act as advisors were Jim
Jackson, executive director of
Ihe Corpus Christi Drug Abuse
Council, and Matt Miser,
regional drug abuse coor-
dinator for the Coastal Bend
Council of Governments
Jackson, who moderated the
meeting, said training would
take about four to five weeks A
two hour period is planned
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Discussing s point at the Monday night drug abuse meeting are from left Hn George
Munroe. St Stephen Lutheran Church. Rev John Williams, First Presbyterian Church
Jim Jackson, executive director. I orput Christi Drug Abuse Council; and Malt Miser,
regional drug abuse coordinator. Coastal Bend Council of Goveraments. (News photo'
each Monday night Training
will he broken down into four
phases - pharmacology, role
playing, listening and referral.
Williams stressed I ha I
primarily PAC is seeking to
establish a helping center.
Essentially, people with a
problem could visit or call Ihe
center for facts relating to
drugs and drug addiction They
would hr in contact with
persons devoted to giving
assistance If the caller or
visilor desired, competent,
professional assistance would
be available lo them through
the center on a referral basis
There was considerable
discussion at the meeting
concerning how severe the
drug use problem was in the
community
Reliable statistics are not
available, according to Miser
Hr said that surveys are
planned w hich he hopes may be
conducted in the Gregory
Portland school system in the
near future In his estimation
these would give an analysis of
the problem mong the young
people
Primarily, those attending
the meeting voiced their
concern over Ihe problem
among the younger population
level. Most were parents and
some were teachers as well
They indicated they wanted
to know more about the drug
(See PAC, Page 10)
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