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Newspaper
Andrews County News
Location
Andrews, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1968
Page
2
A Danville Illinois native Chic Sale launched a famed vaudeville and Chautauqua career reading The Specialist. His enduring satire on specialization endures as a best selling book form and reflects how specialists dominate entertainment and discourse.
The American Academy of General Practice argues for family medicine as the core of care. It urges internship and residency programs linking doctors with families, emphasizes continuous house calls, and trains physicians to serve as liaisons within a complex medical system.
C F Horne, president of the Pomona Division, General Dynamics, asserts that the long range future of the free enterprise system relies on the education received by today’s students.
The Mustangs cruised to a 76 to 40 victory in their opening local tournament game. The Goodfellows organized a canned goods drive and offered a free Christmas movie. Three churches joined to present a Christmas performance.
A compact page recalls five years ago with shoplifting arrests of five women and a Gene Irwin home open house marked by a historical landmark. Ten years ago Andrews prepared for an invitational cage tournament with regional teams and a heated high school funding debate.
The Coordinating Board will present a multi-pronged plan to grow medical education in Texas. Proposals include doubling first year enrollments at Galveston Dallas and San Antonio medical schools to at least 565 freshmen by 1980, tax subsidies for Baylor College of Medicine, and a possible new medical school in Houston. Additional steps cover West Texas planning with Amarillo and Lubbock areas, UT Austin consideration for future expansion, and dental school expansion in San Antonio or Houston. Also proposed are a Dallas junior senior and graduate college and a federation of North Texas universities to boost upper-level programs. Governor elect Preston Smith and Lt. Gov elect Ben Barnes are expected to back the plan.
Texas health officials urge winter rabies shots for pets amid record low animal cases. Dr. Lawrence Pessarra notes July to October counts, with October at 11, 1968 far below five year medians. Awareness cites human risk and wildlife transmission as rationale for immunization.
The FBI sent a letter of commendation to the Brownfield city council praising the Brownfield police department for helping locate a federal fugitive recently. In Seminole a doctors fund is being set up to improve bargaining power to attract physicians. In Littlefield a seal coating program for city streets costing many thousands was approved by the council. In Fort Stockton a 45 year old cook Lew is Smith died of pneumonia in jail while awaiting transport to a state hospital. In Denver City groundwork began for a $125000 Shell Oil Co office building housing local Shell divisions. In Monahans Col Cliff Chamberlain warned West Texas will face water shortages by 1980 if imports do not occur. In Winkler County Deputy Sheriff W H Sage was named chief deputy replacing a resigned Haggard.
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