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Newspaper
Deer Park Progress
Location
Deer Park, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1976
Page
7
Judge Criss Cole will speak at the Baytown La Porte Association for Retarded Citizens annual awards reception at De Walt School at 7 30 p m Thursday March 11. Sylvan Beach Pavilion hosts a moonlit military ball for ROTC at 7 30 p m Friday March 12. A Behavior Management item follows.
Area swimmers Wanda Holleman of Deer Park and Sue Henry formerly of Sam Rayburn helped Midland College's Super Seven women to fourth place at the Texas Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women meet in Lubbock. The seven-team field included UT, SMU, and Texas A&M ahead of Midland, with Texas Tech, UH, Rice, TCU, North Texas, Southwest Texas, and Lamar trailing.
A symposium will be featured at the University of Houston Cullen Auditorium at 8 a.m. on March 12 and 13. The event showcases scholarly talks and panel discussions with invited experts.
Deer Park's varsity track team finished fifth at the 1976 Sorsby Relays in Galena Park on February 27, scoring 45 points. Junior varsity also placed fourth with 22 points. Ralph Cain, Travis O Banion, Donald Lapaugh and Norman Walker won the 680 relay in 1 32.5, while Nicky Snell won the varsity high jump at six feet.
Deer Park beat Scarborough 11-7 after a strong showing from Steve Blakely who kept the team in the game with four no run innings. David Biehl tripled driving in a run as Robert Riley added two more on a double to seal the win and push the season mark to 2-1. The La Porte meet featured standout sprints and field events with multiple top placings for Deer Park, including a first in the 440 relay by Cain, O Banion, Sipe, and Walker and strong performances across track and field events.
Texas biologist Paul Seidensticker explains electro fishing, a modern method using a 120 volt shock to stun fish and lift them from waters near Rayburn and Toledo Bend. It gathers broad bass for hatcheries, surveys, and studies with minimal harm, though its use on public waters is illegal.
Dr Diets of Washington State University reports the North American continent drifts westward by an inch each year while the Pacific plate shifts northwest at about three times that rate.
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