The Marshall News Messenger from Marshall, Texas • 15

FOR 1967 3 Marshall News 'Messenger Wednesday, January 3 1, 1968 Spend Kay $1600 Sum NOTES AND QUOTES By The Harrison County Historical Society The library of the Museump Watch, your mailbox In proud to announce the ac-niary for after a year of non-nulsition of the MinwW new Plication the Herald will be- gin appearance. We heartily Welcome the 25 new members into the HUGHES SPRINGS COf-C Charlie Flowers Banquet Speaker HUGHES SPRINGS Thel Feature shaker will be Char till' i. Hughes Springs Chamber of.lie II. Flowers of Marshall, Tex- bobks, all1 donated: James Harper Starr Financier of the Republic of Texas by John Nathan Cravens, gift by Starr's granddaughfvr, Mrs. Ruth Starr Blake; Texas Alma-' nae.lMS-lO.

nuhlishori hv thp Dallas Morning News, compu ments of The First National Bank; History of the First Methodist Church of Marshall, Texas, by Ernest Bergland a gift of the writer. The HCHS has renewed its subscription of STIRPS-The Texas State Genealogical Society Quarterly and to. the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. These are good ref erence materials for those in terested in tracing their fam fly. v' on sale in me Museum lor five cents are beautiful natural color cards of Noonday Tabernacle, the most recent card commissioned.

There are sev eral other natural colored cards of views of Marshall that are on sale also! Banker Named Leader BEAUMONT (AP)- John E. Gray, Beaumont banker and chairman of the Texas College nd University System Coordinating Board, is state chairman of IITaoU in Tovoc A nril 91. 7T. 1 i I II II I 9 NEWS MESJENGER AUSTIN BUREAU AUSTIN Rep. C.

L. Ray Jr. Marshall spent $1,637.68 in state money for office expenses during fiscal 1967 according to a re-. tent report from the State Auditor's office. Sen.

A. M. Akin Jr. of Paris spent only J643.85. Other East Texas legislators' expenses were recorded as; Rep.

Steve Burgess of as. graduated from Marshall High School where he participated in all sports and went to Kilgore College and Baylor University on football scholarships. He received a Na vy Commission from the Uni versity of Notre Dame, and then wen; inuj-Navy Service from 194T through 1946. life received hjs Master's Degree in Education from East Texas Baptist College In Marshall, "Flowers is also a graduate of the Institute jrf Marketing at SMU. After Navy duty, he served as Assistant Manager of the Chamber of Commerce in Marshall- and then was football coach alt MarshalMligh School for eight years.

He is still ac tive in sports, he holds the course record at Marshall Country Club (a 65) and formerly own. That would save the state nearly $300,000. Twenty young women from Mexia State School are in residence at Edwina Manor, Nineteen have jobs ranging from ba sitting to sales by telephone. Should all ofMhem graduate, the savings to the state in the firsts' year of operation would amount to two million dollars, Biit before the halfway house of Edwina Manor comes a "quarter-wiay" house, the Cen- TexEehabililaUonXenter, Each-morning, 20 girls from the Mexia school board a bus and ride to the Center's two- story residence near downtown, After they curl up in easy chairs or on divans in a large living room 7or an" in-1 formal discussion class with Mr. and Mrs.

B. Herrington. Her- rington is difgetor of the rehabilitation drive and directs the center. Discussions' are designed to teach -thosewhoJiaverjeyer lived outside an institution some of life's simple facts and rules that most DeoDle take for granted. On which side of a road is a car driven? On which side of the sidewalk dQ-youwalk? When you want telephone, how do you know what number to dial? How can you get along with your employer? ijtfter this, each gin is assign ed duties for the day-cleaning floors, dusting furniture, learning to set a table, simple cook ing, ironing ana sewing.

How about measurable re- cnltc Since Jan. 1 a year ago whenfttie MEXIA STATE SCHOOL FOR RETARDED Finest Thing Ever Happened To Him This schedule will be repeated three times during the next 15 weeks Nacogdoches, Rep-rFred Head of Tyler, Rep. George Ilin-son of Mineola, Rep. James L. Slider of Naples, $1,367.62.

It cast the Texas Legisla- ture $3,859,725 24 to operate, in fiscal 1967, a period which Included a regular session The senate ran up a bill for more than $1.39 million the house spent $2.47 million. Senate employes were paid $942,000 and house employes received slightly more than $1 million. It took' $2,223 to operate Speaker Ben Barnes' apartment in the Capitol, while Lt. Gov. Treston Smith got by with a state expenditure of.

$321.27 on his apartment. During the interim period from May 30 to. Aug. 31, 1967, only two senators apparently failed to, take advantage of an authorization for payment of $s00 per month for expenses -i including the hiring of secretaries. All senators but Sen.

Dor-sey Hardeman and Sen. M. Aikin Jr. hired secretarial help. Senators proved, to be a more talkative bunch than legislators at least if state-paid phone bills are any indication.

The senate phone bill was $59,807.45 while the house bill was $116,357.09. But remember, there are five times as many house members as News, John Moss, Who also is president of the Chamber of Commerce, says, "I believe it will grow into a substantial asset for 'pur community." The workshop is housed in a one-time wholesale grocery store house. "It 'was a dark place until the boys pitched in and cleaned it up," said. Mexia School Sup't. Malcolm vLauder-daler The -workers, some of whom are learning to make furniture, repair furniture, up- holster and weld.

Some, are specializing in restoring They also are copying leftovers from past years, such as a big wagon seat, for new furnishings, for today's home decoration Also they are repairing wood en crates for a bottling company and have completed a contract to take the burrs from castings for a defense factory. The operation is directed by Mrs. Arland AJl.bright, who formerly directed arts and crafts at the schooL She now is begging for a traveling salesman type to sell the skills and products of her charges. The three, facilities are oper ated by the Cen-Tex Association for Ketarded Children which has legal authority to make contracts by which the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation under writes most of the training costs. The students are selected by Hubert Austin, vicational rehab-ilation counselor at the school.

The sponsors of the whole plan see it now only as a stepping stone between, students at but a place where others can be rehabilitated for useful, independent and self-respecting End Adv Thurs PMS Feb. 1, Moved 15 Ben-Gurion Wife Dies BEERSHEBA, Israel (AP)-J- Pola Ben-Gurion, wife of Is rael's fotmder and first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, died Monday. Mrs J3en-Gurion, TSmarried theiojnstjeaderln XewTork in 1917 while sne was working as a student nurse. 5-6633 WTiat.a great idea! Ambcrstone by oes from freezer -to the table! It's casual, yef impressive, with bold, distinctive lines. Each week one piece of Amberstone in the five-pjece place setting pictured above will be featured at this special 291.

(see schedule). For each $3.00 in purchases, you may buy one piece of the featured item at the low price of -29 v. and there's no limit: for a $6 purchase, you can etc. You'll love this Amberstone designed for versatility perfect for entertaining and yet so practical, you'll use it for all your at-home dining. Scratch-proof and dishwasher safe, Amberstone is so distinctive so vibrantly colored.

youH rwant the complete-set Start r-your- place-setting today at these DINNER PLATE 29c DESSERT DISH 29c COFFEE CUP 3 FOURTH CAIirCD 10 -Wthtaeh' WEEK pAUUtK 3purchs tirTH Bread Butter aa, wimch WEEK PLATE 599 A7C 3purche Commerce will hold their aiv nual banquet, March tst at 7:30 p.m. in High School Gym. Donald Windham, owner of Guardian's Product will be installed as president. New di rectors to be installed are, Her-J bert Harmon, Ford dealer; Ver non manager Dun- away Lumber Preston Cur rey, principal the High School; Dewey Moore (re-elect part owner Moore-Harmon Ford agency, and Donald Windham (re-elect). Herbert Harmon will be installed as vice-president and Mrs.

Ola Hall as sec-retary-tresurer. An award will be presented to the outstanding person in this community. The person receiving this award is selected by an anonymous committee named by the president of Chamber of Commerce. things," she says, then goes out with 'a child swinging on- each hand to a waiting car. Mr.

and Mrs. Hugh Adamson, supervisors at the Manor, ex plain: "She TvasTacimTrvisit on her day off. These children are wards of their grandparents work They were at their rope's end when they agreed to try Mary, Now, Mary has found a. whole family for her very own. She goes everywhere with them and lives with A handsome, dark-haired girl swings in andiays a bank book down in of Adamson, who is called "Papa, She has made a savings deposit -and the total now is nearly $400.

"She has another $300 or so in a checking account," Adamson says. "When we get a new girl, she listens to the others "brag and the first thing she wants to know is, "Papa, how much must save to open a bank To guide them in spending, Mrs. Adamson. countersigns all checks. Edwina Manor Js still in Jhe experimental stage.

K. Kerr, district director for vocational rehabilitation in the "Waco area, put it this "It's a very good start We're going to learn more about it as we go along. This intermediate stage is one of the best ways to handle any person who has been institu tionalized. You jusjt can't take them out of an institution suddenly and them on their own. The real test, though, is whether you will be able to wean them at the end of the ttinonth training The state's chief mental retar dation officer, Dr.

Charles Ber- that thecost of canng lor retarded persons through their lifetime is $100,000 per person. -T7 7 -j now at Fdwin Manor "are al- most ready for graduation into apartments or rooms of their Feel Better? and pains you would like to be living working playing? preseni treatment neiping your you are foolish to continue. Why a treatment that will help individuilly inly In th taturttf. money-savmg prices. EDITOR'S NOTE Once It was an accepted fact that retarded persons would remain Institutionalized all their years.

That just isn't true, said persons in the 'Mexia State School, and their experimental efforts in-dlcate" theyare- on the right road. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXIA, Tex. (AP) Lifetime custody of the retarded was considered inevitable until recently; But look what the Mexia State School is doing now A businessman whipped out a bank book and slapped it against a hand. Inside, it showed i deposit of $50. "My boy is retarded," he said "We sent him -to public school as long as we could.

But Tie was twice the size of all his class mates." The man went on about the Mexia program: "I was skeptical at first. But iha nr wasn't "He rides his bicydle down there every morning, and home -J ai nigm, ana ik eameu cvciy penny of that money, the first he's ever earned in h's ufe- "It's the finest thing that ever happened to him." IZln 'this instance, the talk was ebout the Cen-Tex Sheltered Workshop. But it is only one of three such projects of the Mexia school fn cooperation with several groups and private citizens. Another is the Cen-Tex Rehabilitation Center for girls and the third is Edwina Manor, a so-called "halfway" house in Waco for the last step for women into useful lives. The front doorbell rings at liawina Manor, a oeauuuui-uiu southern mansion with front and side columns, three marble fire-placescut glass chandeliers.and -leaded glass door winaows.

Idrenpa-boy about 4 and 1 a sister a-year older, swarm over her. "Let me get my Do You Wanf Do you have disagreeable aches rid of? Do you want to feel like -jj is your Ifvnot, not' find minutes I you. If you want to might be have been Tilt ibovt Ittmj will told wt ik thty ar Our Prie $1.49 .99 $3.99 $3.99 Price $1.99 and the world outside -Add theseHiandwfflrrcmpleteriecBstryiiiireir Anytime during this special 15 week offer! the center opened, 36 girls and women have been at the center for varying periods. Ten are now fulltime workers in Mexia homes, seven living with their employer eJthougl stiH-carried on.thp school's rolls. Ten others have part-time jobs.

Nine have graduated to Edwina Manor. Three have responsible, jobs at the school. The workshop for boys has about 50 workers. Chamber of Commerce Manager J. E.

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