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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1971
Page
7
VA announces a new guide on mobile home loans for veterans and service members. The pamphlet explains eligibility, how to obtain a Certificate of Eligibility, and steps to secure a loan through a lender with VA standards.
Administrator Donald E. Johnson reports 1,064,000 veterans are in GI Bill training or schooling, a 36 percent rise from last year and 240 percent since 1966, with over 60 percent in college programs and 2.4 million total trained to date. Separations run about 90,000 monthly as 75,000 new applications arrive monthly. Johnson calls eligible veterans to contact VA offices or veterans service reps.
A study shows adults aged 21 to 35 litter three times as often as those over 50 and nearly twice the rate of the 35 to 49 group. Men litter almost twice as much as women.
The Herald invites birthday and anniversary notices for May. Send names such as Griffin Barrett Prokisch McLerran Gandy Hardwick Williams Perkins Miller and others at least two weeks before the date to ensure inclusion.
Nutrias or coypus have become pests in West Texas along the Colorado and San Saba rivers. Introduced for vegetation control and fur, they weigh 15 to 25 pounds and reproduce twice yearly. Predators are few and damaging effects include holes in banks, destroyed fish habitat, crops, boat bottoms, and foam floats on barges.
The Texas State Board of Education named 15 teachers and administrators May 3 to form the State Textbook Committee. The panel will pick new textbooks and teachers' guides for public schools starting September 1, 1972, with emphasis on flexible basal readers and diverse ethnic representations.
A Southern Forest Institute report warns the South must double woodland productivity and plant 30 million new forest acres by 1985 to meet protected wood needs by 2000. The acreage equals all forests now in Florida and South Carolina combined.
A birthday notice lists numerous individuals including John Pope Calvin Allison Pat Barrett and Mary Irene Burtis with multiple others. The commemorative list marks May birth dates for community members and families across diverse surnames and titles.
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