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The Winkler County News
GOLDEN WEST FREE PRESS, INC. KERMIT, TEXAS
109 S. Poplar ZIP CODE 79745 TELEPHONE 586-2561
M M. Donosky. . . ... . . ... . . . ... . . . . .Publisher
Bill J. Beckham. < .General Manager
Maud Green. . . ... . . .... ....... . .Managing Editor
Elgin Maikell. , ..... . , . , Mechanical Superintendent
Betty Baird, .......... ... . . . Advertising Manager
Member of the Texas and West Texas Press Associations.
Dedicated to the spirit of civic progress; to the unification
of the townspeople in a common purpose for the betterment
of our community; to our churches, schools and homes, that
Kermit shall ever be a good place in which to live and rear
our children. And, above all, honesty, decency, justice, tol-
erance, faith in Almighty God—These shall be our citadel.
National Restaurant
Month
Throughout the month of October, the many fine
restaurants and food services numbering about 12 here in
Kermit, are observing National Restaurant Month.
The National Restaurant Association is repeating its
theme It’s IN to Eat OUT’ again this year, a tie-in with today’s
youthful activities. Special emphasis is being put on the slogan
originated by the Texas Restaurant association which now has
been adopted by many restaurant associations throughout the
United State, Canada arid Mexico. This is: “Eating Out is Fun.”
Eating out occasionally, being together at a family outing, is an
enjoyable experience for any and everyone.
What’s more, Kermit has many fine eating places, with a
large variety of food offerings to suit anyone’s taste, that can be
enjoyed at any time, but more especially during the special
month of the observance.
And local people should not overlook the value of the
restaurant business to our economy, which is all too often taken
for granted. The food service industry ranks fourth in size
among all industries of the nation, and ranks very high in the
local economy, providing food services that accommodates and
attracts transit business here as well.
Our local eating establishments mean a lot to our
community too, and they deserve your support. Several of the
local restaurants are observing this occasion, with invitations to
the general public, appearing on another page in this issue. So
remember, “It’s IN to Eat OUT ... and It’s Fun!”
The Winkler County News, Kermit, Texas
Sunday, Oct. 19,1969
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Nuts Everywhere
Right now it’s the in thing
to. cut up the crazies among
our younger generation—and
nobody can deny there are
enough specimens around to
shake up the sociologists.
But, while we’ve been
looking in that direction, has
anybody bothered to take a
close squint at what a few
members of the Establishment
have been up to, lately?
It’s enough to make a body
wonder. Keep score for a
month or two and you begin to
get the feeling that if the kids
are really bound for perdition,
they’ll have plenty of adult
company when they get there.
Grown-up goofiness doesn’t
always make the headlines, and
it’s not exactly the kind of
behavior they teach you about
in Anthropology 101. But it
sure would make the course
more interesting if they did.
For openers, there’s that
shining example of a public
servant from the Tennessee
legislature who refused to pay
a $5 speeding fine. He said he
would appeal, because his
office gives him “immunity”
for all offenses except treason,
felonies or breaking the peace.
How’s that for a model for
young people?
Then in Alabama the state
Senate kicked out a member
they said tried to shake down
the police for $3,500 to push
through a bill for bigger police
pensions.
And how about that
well-known California judge
who 'set up court from a bar
stool in the Pink Pussy Kat
Tavern to view exhibit A in an
indecerit exposure case: a
shapely go-go girl jiggling
through her act in nothing but
a red spotlight?
(A few days later he took
the same jury to see “I Am
C.urious (Yellow).” He calls
this “testimony presented
activity-wise.”)
While some teen-agers do
their thing by scrawling nasty
words on their foreheads, a
group of men in New York
have signed up for the latest art
kick: bodypainting.
The classes feature nude live
models and the “artists” can
express themselves in their
fa vo r i t e medium:
brush-painting or
finger-painting. It costs $25 an
hour.
Another kind of art got a
poster manufacturer in trouble
with the Girl Scouts when he
printed a gag picture of a
young Scout in a family way
under the motto: “Be
Prepared.” The girls are suing
for $1 million.
The youth of today, we like
to say, fails to assume
responsibility. Well, how about
the New Jersey official who let
the liability insurance on 11
public schools expire? All the
kids had a surprise vacation
while somebody scrambled to
pay the premium.
Another popular criticism
of teen-agers is that they keep
snapping at the hand that feeds
them, but they never fail to
cash Old Dad’s allowance
checks.
Sounds like Bashir Ahmed,
LBJ’s camel driver who
dropped in on the White House
for a surprise visit a few years
back. Now he’s mad at us
because we quit paying him
rent for the truck we gave
him (which he never learned to
drive) and stopped sending him
money.
Sort of makes you realize,
doesn’t it, that just getting past
“growing pains” doesn’t mean
you’ve learned everything.
Depletion Cut
May Result In
Price Hike
Eliminating the percentage
depletion provision for
petroleum form federal income
tax law could result in a
gasoline price increase of 2.5 to
3 cents a gallon.
This is the key finding of a
new study by the Petroleum
Industry Research Foundation,
Inc. (PIRINC), as reported in
the publication Oil Facts. The
price hike would be equal to a
7.5 per cent boost in the retail
price of gasoline, the study
reports.
The price increase, PIRINC
notes, would have its heaviest
impact on the nation’s lowest
income groups, which spend
proportionately more of their
income on gasoline than do
higher income groups.
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Harvey
News
Marijuana Is
A No-No
Some of my best editorials have ended up in the wastebasket
because, - when I got to the end of a tub-thumping,
breast-beating tirade, I could not come up with some
constructive suggestion for improving the situation.
The marijuana problem is a solution-defying subject, but on
this I have a suggestion.
As a boy in legally “dry” Oklahoma it always seemed to me
hypocritical to outlaw liquor when it was everywhere so readily
obtainable. . , . .
Also, it seemed foolish to deprive the state of a legitimate
liquor tax while paying that bounty instead to bootleggers.
Recently we have been hearing similar arguments in defense
of marijuana and in opposition to the laws against it.
I’ve never tried marijuana and do not intend to. I’m having so
much fun sober I’m afraid that any more “turned on” I’d blow
But I have listened with interest to the pretty well balanced
pro-and-con arguments on the subject.
Now the National Institute of Mental Health has undertaken
a study of marijuana and its effects and a House education
subcommittee is holding hearings on drug abuse. They’ll try to
ariswer the question of whether marijuana is, in fact, addictive,
and the more important question: whether its use leads to the
use of “harder” drugs.
They are going to hear our nation’s top scientific official
minimize. the dangers of using marijuana. Roger Egeberg,
assistant secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, says
present laws against marijuana are too strict. He does not believe
that using marijuana leads to inevitable use of heroin.
On the other hand, investigators will hear(as I have heard)
from some who consider marijuana a “devil weed” which alters
the brain, triggers psychoses, leads to automobile accidents and
to the use of more dangerous drugs.
Other doctors insist that the use of marijuana is a result of
psychological problems, not a cause of them.
And there is research already conducted for the California
State Legislature indicating that marijuana is, in all ways, a
lesser hazard than alchohol.
Therein is the crux of this controversy. Today’s enlightened
young people are unwilling to accept conspicuous inconsistency
in moral or legal ultimatums. Bud Wilkinson, President Nixon’s
special consultant on physical fitness, says “Young people have
found out that adult warnings about the dire physical and
mental consequences of using drugs are simply not true. Thus
the scare technique has backfired.”
Wilkinson says it’s important that we come up with some
strictly factual, truthful information about drugs--and separate
that analysis from the dangers of misusing drugs.
Alchohol and/or drug abuse is bad. I think we can get most
people of every age to agree to that.
Meanwhile, while competent men conscientiously seek the
whole truth with a likelihood of subsequently modifying laws,
marijuana is a no-no because possession or use remains, in most
states, a felony. So, if only from the standpoint of a jail record,
it can ruin your life.
When You Are Tired of Sitting
Just Fidget9 Say the Experts
The next time you are uncomfortable in a theater, stadium
or auditorium seat—fidget.
That’s the advipe of seating experts at American Seating
Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Researchers have found that holding the body virtually
motionless tenses and strains the body muscles, restricts cir-
culation, and promotes discomfort and fatigue.
Fidgeting and squirming relaxes those muscles and distrib-
utes the strain of supporting the body over a wider area, allow-
ing blood to circulate again through constricted vessels. Even
only slight shifts of arm, leg or torso can restore comfort
almost immediately..
School
Calendar
KERMIT
MONDAY, Oct. 20
Kermit Adult Volleyball,
Junior-High Gym, 7:00-10:00
p.m.
Varsity Moms,' High School
Lounge, 8:00 p.m.
Quarterback Club, High
School Cafeteria, 8:00 p.m.
TUESDAY, Oct. 21
Preliminary Scholastic
Aptitude Test (Kermit High
Juniors)
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22
High School Principals &
Volleyball Coaches, District
2AAA Meeting, Mac’s. Cafe,
7:00 p.m.: r
THURSDAY, Oct. 23
Texas State Teachers
Association State Convention,
San Antonio.
FRIDAY, Oct. 24
Football “A” Fort
Stockton, here, 8:00 p.m.
Texas State Teachers
Association State Convention.
San Antonio.
SATURDAY, Oct. 25
Football 7th Grade Maroon
&Gold, 9:00 a.m.
Football 8th Grade Maroon
& Gold, 11:00 a.m.
Texas State Teachers
Association State Convention,
San Antonio.
Thespian Play, High School
Auditorium, 8:00 p.iri.
JAL
MONDAY, Oct. 20
End second 20 days
attendance period.
6:30 p.m. - Volleyball for
Women, Old Gym-
7:30 p.m. — Booster Club
Meeting.
TUESDAY, Oct. 21
11th Grade Preliminary
Scholastic Aptitude Tests.
6:30 p.m. — Volleyball for
Men, Old Gym.
7:30 p.m. - Adult
Language Class, Burke Junior
High.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22
Senior Portraits.
THURSDAY, Oct. 23
Junior Portraits.
4:30 p.m. ft 9th Grade
Football, Hobbs Heizer, here.
6:30 p.m. — Volleyball for
Families, Old Gym.
FRIDAY, Oct. 24
Junior' High Pep Assembly .
7:30 p.m. - Varsity
Football, Ft. Sumner, there.
SATURDAY, Oct. 25
10 a.m. — 8th Grade
Football, Hobbs Houston,
there.
New Catalogue
For the Blind
A new 42-page mail order
catalogue of aids and appli-
ances has just been published
by the American Foundation
for the Blind. It contains
nearly 300 items^f rom brailled
watches to an audible Scout
compass, all designed to reduce
the inconveniences of .blind-
ness.
All items in the aids and
appliances program are sold at
cost. Free catalogues may be
ordered by writing the Amer-
ican Foundation for the Blind,
15 West 16th Street, New
Vr>vlr New York 10011.
I am a Vietnam veteran
trying 1 to make ends meet
under the GI Bill. Allowances
under the current law are
woefully inaclequate as both
the cost of living and education
have skyrocketed since the
rates were set several years ago.
Senator Ralph Yarborough,
who claims to be the veterans
friend, has been sitting on a
House passed bill since August
5 th to raise the rates b^ about
27%. He has publically
complained about the lack of
participation of Vietnam
veterans in the GI education
program — and yet when he
has a chance to do something
about the biggest stumbling
block standing in the way of
greater participation, he does
nothing.
Why doesn’t Senator
Yarborough get his Committee
together and act? He has
already killed chances for our
getting a raise during the first
semester and hasn’t shown
much interest in getting help
for us during the next.
I’m enclosing a recent
editorial from Army Times
which explains the problem in
detail. I hope all Texas GI’s
will write Senator Yarborough
and tell him to get with it! His
inaction is disgusting.
Sincerely,
Richard O. Villarreal
U. of Texas Vietnam Vets
c/o Student Union Building
Austin, Texas
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GI BILL DELAY
Sen. Ralph Yarborough (D.,
Tex.) chairman of the Senate
Labor and Public Welfare
Committee which has
jurisdiction over GI Bill
legislation, seems to be placing
the blame at the wrorig door
for delay in advancing that
program.
And while he’s doing so, the
more than 635,000 GI Bill
beneficiaries who had planned
on a raise in educational
allowances this fall aren’t likely
to get* one how until next
semester — thanks to
foot-dragging by the Senate
committee.
The fault can be found
closer to the old homestead.
Some of the blame for delay
in; raising GI Bill allowances
rests with Sen. Alan Cranston
(D„ Calif.), chairman of the
Labor Committee’s
subcommittee on veterans
affairs.
His group began hearings on
the legislation on June 24.
Here we are, going into
October and the subcommittee
still hasn’t come up with a rate
increase proposal to present to
the full committee.
The best guess is that if and.
when the smaller body does act
its recommendations won’t
receive full committee
consideration until some time
after mid-October.
In addition to its own
recommendations, the
subcommittee has before it
legislation already approved by
the House which would raise
GI Bill allowances by 27
percent. Under the
House-approved legislation,
allowances for singer veterans'
would go from $130 to $165
monthly; for married veterans
from $155 to $197 monthly,
and for men with two
dependents from $175 to
$222.
Now it’s up to the Senate
Labor Committee and to
Senators Cranston and
Yarborough to get something
started — and real soon — on
their side of the national
legislatiure.
Senator Yarborough also
ought to put aside some of his
politic ally-motived and
unsoundly-based charges
against the Veterans
Administration and the
Department of Defense. In
numerous speeches recently, he
has accused these two
government agencies of
“deliberately” holding down
GI Bill enrollment, charging
that they want to “spend
money on a war in Southeast
Asia worse than they want to
educate our young people.”
We feel that GI Bill
enrollments aren’t as woefully
low as Senator Yarborough
would like people to believe.
The VA expects a 22 percent
gain in GI Bill enrollment this
fall over last yera, a record for
the three - year - old program.
This would bring enrollment
up to 635,000 compared to
520,524 last fall and 380,037
in 1Q67
It is true that enrollment
figures among the
disadvantaged veteran aren’t
what they should be. Only one
out of 10 veterans without
high school diplomas have
taken advantage of GI Bill
educational opportunities. The
VA through its “outreach”
program is making a bigger
effort to get more of these
veterans into school.
But unless Congress
approves an increase in
allowances, and soon, all of
these efforts will be to small
avail. Now is the time for
action on a GI Bill rate
increase.
Dear Editor,
I believe we are very much
in need of publicity relating to
the water treatment proposal,
which was evidently brought
into the public consciousness
by a certain member of City
Council.
He relates that a ‘STATE
OFFICIAL’ has suggested to
him that the City go ahead
with, the effort to get the
chlorination machinery setup
and thereby give us chlorinated
water for city use, our general
use, and that it would establish
a form of health insurance, the
same meeting said
OFFICIAL’S approval and
would put us in line for
co-operating with STATE
HEALTH authorities. This
being done would enable us to
get the ‘BOARD’ set up at the
city limits stating that the
public water supply is
approved by the STATE.
It was proposed at the last
meeting of council to do the
setting up of necessary
machinery for the approximate
cost of somewhere above
$40,000.00 as initial cost,
maintenance cost would be,
met from time to time, until
we decided to do away with
the whole thing, or keep on
going with the practice even in
the face of adverse findings in
the health area.
Chlorine is known to be
inimical to many of the
vitamins, especially vitamin E.
Vitamin E is the one vitamin
which contributes more to the
cardiovascular health than any
other.
If we are forced to lose the
beneficial effects of the
vitamins by the use of
chlorinated water, we may
soon be counted among those
giving birth to the 25,000
babies annually which are
| victims of heart trouble, a
shameful reward for our
participation in water
chlorination.
If we are so concerned
about our health, let us study
the research findings in these
relations.
We might offer some
statistical records of use by one
of the largest cities. In
purifying the swimming pools
each year, according to
CHEMICAL WEEK—Chlorine,
59.000 lbs.; anhydrous
ammonia, 5,000 lbs.; Sodium
hypochlorite, 12,000 gal.;
Ammonium sulfate, 80,000
lbs.; Soda Ash powder,
140.000 lbs.; Soda Ash Cake,
20.000 lbs.; Copper Sulfate,
8,500 lbs.; Ammonium Alum,
20.000 lbs. How would you
like to swim in this mess of
chemicals?
You might come out
without a skin. Let’s forget this
water treatment proposal.
Other records show Ohio using
500 tons of aluminum ore;
8.000 tons of lime; 3,000 tons
of soda ash; 1,200 tons of
sulphuric acid; 500 tons of
coke; and eight tons of
chlorine.
Now is a good time to look
into this matter of 'water
treatment.
Respectfully submitted,
O. F. Carr
Through faith ... won
strength out of weakness.—
(Heb. 11:33, 34).
Some persons may equate
strength with the power to
move heavy objects; or the
power to move other persons
through the force of their will.
But the strength of God is the
strength that is equated with
ever-renewing vitality, with
an eagerness for life. It en-
ables us to help other persons
without attempting to domi-
nate them. It is a strength
that is equated with the God-
power within us.
Campus Rebels
Beni on Self-Destruction
T^HE activist wing of the cam-
pus rebel movement is preoc-
cupiedwith
political power.
Motivated by a
tremendous 1
sense of ur-
gency, these
rebels seek in-
tellectual clari-
fication and
preparation for
the inevitable
assumption of
power..
The campuses
of our colleges
Dr. Kershner and universities
are their primary battlegrounds.
Campus activists, led by Stu-
dents for a Democratic Society
(SDS) adhere to a battle plan,
that outlines their strategy for
victory.
The first encounter with au-
thority is to create a loyal stu-
dent class. By seizing upon a
local issue of student discontent,
whether it is the cafeteria serv-
ice or curriculum changes for A-
the accommodation of minorities,
the skirmish is to forge a stu-
dent alliance or revolutionaries.
In the second phase a national
issue becomes the battle cry of
student revolt. Riots erupt,
which can be expected to receive
nation-wide publicity by the
news media.
In the final phase of confron-
tation the youth in revolt are to
seize complete control over the
institutions of learning. The
curriculum of instruction can
then be readjusted to “life” and
“reality,” which means love,
sponteneity, and wisdom as
taught by representatives of the
dissident youth.
This battle plan of rebellious
activists is setting the tone of
hundreds of college campuses.
Violence erupts, administrators
are kidnapped, buildings taken
over, and a reign of terror is
imposed on old and young alike.
But such tactics can only de-
stroy formal education as we
know it today. Who but a young’
revolutionary would be so naive
as to assume that public educa-
tion, which is costing us more
than $35 billion annually, would
be supported with equal sacri-
fice by the working population
when hippies and revolutionaries ^
are in control? Who is to sus-
tain with hard labor this “cul- * *
ture” of drugs, unihibited sex,
and an obscene vocabluary all its ,
own?
The revolutionai'y movement
answers no questions; it merely •
raises them, Who is to blame for
this abberration of youth? Of-
course, the generation that
raised it: parents who them-;
selves forgot the difference be-
tween “right” and “wrong,”
educators and administrators
who themselves are nihilists and.
destructionists, judges, psychol-
ogists and psychiatrists who
mistake self-destruction for self-
expression, and finally , the news
disseminators who lend public
respectability to the abnormal. J
In fact, the movement is the bit-
ter fruit of decadent society that
practices “redistribution” by
force, supports shiftless idle-
ness, and lives by coercion.
It is a fact of life that man
must work and produce day
after day in order to live. Even
the lives of hippies are sustained
by the productive labors of
others.
Youth in revolt is bent on
self-destruction. Their avei’sion
to honest work and their craving
for stimuli that destroy mind,
body and soul will put an end to
the movement as soon as our
welfare society ceases to support
it.
Howard Kershner’s Commentaries. Dis-
tributed by the CHRISTIAN FREEDOM
FOUNDATION, 3030 West 6th Street„
Los Angeles, California 90005
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MOON TEST—Apollo 12 astro-
naut Alan A. Bean sets up a
solar wind experiment at
>Cape Kennedy during prep-
aration for the Nov. 14 blast-
off for the Moon. The de-
vice, a sheet of aluminum
foil, catches dust particles
WAtim QAfiAoo lunar ciinfapa
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