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CITY HFWS★ ★ ★TheOdessamericarea hews* ★ ★SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 1959Lirgut Afternoon Circulation B«Iwma Fort Worth oiilt;f El PPAGE THUtTY-NIN*Responsibility Accompanies Marriage, Students Find•Mil' .By TRACY BYERS Aaffrfcaa Staff WriterUR'gOod way to grow old before one's time is to get married while school, sty married students in Odessa’5 high schools.** “You have to settle down, quit Sunning around and. really study harder after you are married,” sari DarneH McCniry, Ector High School senior and football star. . He and his wife, also an Ector were married last summer, filera are at least 13 married students in Ector.went out on dates practically every night before we were married. We ran to the drive - ins far a Coke, went to movies, and rode around. Now we stay home Rod study. Our grades have beenbetter since we got married, Mc-WUiy said.:yrm many of the other marriedstudents, he plans to go to college, with his wife probably helping him by working.Tiajuana Davidson, another Ector senior, says her grades improved after marriage. “There i* so much more time to study now, she said. Her husband plans to become a minister and will go to college to study for the ministry. She will quit school and work.Judith Boyd LaGrone, 18, a midyear graduating senior at Odessa High School, was due to leave for Austin, where her husband already is in the University of Texas on a scholarship. She wiH be secretary to Odessa’s state representative, George Cook.Mrs. LaGrone has been married for two years and has a baby boy nine months old. ,Asked what advice *she woulimarried while in school, she **id*» I take a rather dim view of students “Each student is different. Some marrying, mature earlier than others. Some “We discourage students marry-accept responsibilities. Some stu-ljog because generally they dropout dents certainly should not get mar- of. school afterwards. said Emmittried. It changes life in many | Calvin, principal of Bowie Junior»» CaWm.i TiTs *w____By Ector CommissionerswaysShe is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Miltoa C. Boyd, 1807 East 13th, and Mrs. Boyd is the OHS registrar.There are no statistics anywhereHigh School. “At th* present moment we apparently have no married students, but we have had in the past.”Virginia Troupe, girls' counselor at Crockett Junior High School,in the school system on the number | said, “I can only remember oneof married students, although there obviously are more than a hundred married boys and girls.‘‘Sometimes we see the name ofgirl who got married while in school here who stayed on to complete the ninth grade. Most of them quit school when they marry.”a boy or girl in the divorce notices She explained, “We try to tell that no one knew was married,” them that they need an educationWiwgive other students about gettingsaid Bob Marshall, dean of .students at Odessa High School.The administrative staff of the schools from Supt. Dwight Kirk toprincipals, teachers and counselors .............. DISTRICT COURTDivorces granted: Geneva Williams vs. Fr*d Williams; Wanda Sue Baker vs. Harold F. Baker; James W. Stafford vs. Ernestine Stafford; Willie Fay May vs. Richard H. May; Maelvadean Yvone Couch vs. Henry Couch Jr.; R. L. Bush-nell vs. Maxine Bushneii; Ruth Jenkins Harrell vs. Billy Bob Harrell; Jorge Vas-fluez Garza vs. Olivia Garza; Ada Ruth Kirby vs. Leon Kirby; Annie Marie Hard-ig vs. Marshall Hardiny Jr.; Willie Davidson vs. Rosie Lee Davidson; Carmen L. Way vs. Victor May.Divorce cases filed: Loma E. McGough Cotten vs. James Arthur Cotten; Pearline Davit vs. Furmon Davis; Grace Chancellor-vs. William C. Chancellor; Glene L. McDonald vs. James E. McDonald; Bishop Fitzpatrick vs. Ada C. Fitzpatrick; Ophelia Banks vs. Ulysess Banks..Civil cases Hied: Jack B. Slagle vs. Tnd C. Homeyer and Betty Homeyer,damage*COUNTY COURT ^.Marriage licenses issued: William Wallace Good speed and Janice Joanne Dorris.Civil cases filed: James C. Weedon vs. James Albert Fowler and Peggy Crow, damages.MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL Patient* Admitted Jan. IS.Robert Engle Sekol. Preston Edmond Drinkard, Lonnie Dement. Mrs. J. W. Henry. Hany N. Stroup, David M. Muir, Coodelario, Rev. Perry M. Cowin Jr.. Mrs. A. C. Wilson. Kay Linn Akers. John Stephen Edwards. Donald Roy Cooper. Daiwayne Borrous. Fred H. Fredell, Edward N. Wampler; William Mark Pitner. Deborah Joan Decker. Gwendolyn Loper, Paul Ruiz. Mrs. Thomas E. McCasiand, Mr* C. M. Lyles, Lillie Dale Mathews, Sandra Dian Mathews, James Justice List, Mr* M. A. Welty, Mrs. Arthur J. Dyson, Mrs. Robert E. Lee Keele, Mrs. David Harry Rathjen. Mrs. Ted J. Lorenz. Mrs. James E. Walker and Mrs. Forrest L. Kidd.Patients Discharged Jan. IfJink William B. Dozier, Mrs. John H. Raid, Mr* James T. Cox, Michael E. Williams, Robert James Fleetwood, Mrs. Rito Chaparro. Mr* Jimmy T. Smith. Mr* Otis O. Geers, Wayne Moore. Clara Green. Floyd Allen Kirk Jr.. Mrs. Alvin V. Tanner. Lee R. Jordan, Mrs. T. G. Coffman. .Mrs, Jesse L Insel, Mrs. Ted Q. Weaver, J. W. Holland, James Walter Sam-#ocd Jr., Mrs. Floyd A. Brown,' Mrs. Lonnie R. Forman. Paul Ruiz, Flovd Roberts. Jvjy Otto Walker. Vickie Wise. Ben-TO STATE CAPITOL — Judith Boyd LaGrone, 18, who graduated this weekend from Odessa High School with the midyear senior group, left tor Austin to join her husband who is a student rn the University of Texas. She will start work in the state capitol as secretary to George Cook of Odessa, state representative from the 103rd District.(American Staff Photo)For Criminal Week ■■■Docket Callto make a living and to have more \knowledge in later life. Often four or five years later they come back and say they wish so much they had listened. They have found fewer jobs and lower pay because of! lack of education.”James McMath, principal of Odessa High School, reported 32 girls dropped out of high school last yearget married, or because they were already married.There were no boys giving marriage as a reason for dropping out of school, although it may have been. However, many boys stop school in the summer to go to work to support wives, and then never come back.”Gail Smith, principal of Ector High School, said, “In the brief time Ector has been open we have had very few students drop out because of marriage. Most of them continue in school. There seems to be little comment or concern among other students, although one coukl say that marriage is contagious. Usually when one couple marries, several of their friends follow suit”Smith stated, “I definitely feel though that young marriage is not good, and I am opposed to students marrying. We counsel students to wait until school, even college is over before marrying.”Supt Kirk said, “X advise strongly that students postpone marriage until alter graduation from high school. But again there always are exceptional cases.”There actually is nothing the schools can do to prevent married students entering or continuing school. A Texas judge in a test case ruled that marriage was nota cause to drop a student, when one school system became alarmed it the number of married students.Odessa high schools, however, have put a few blocks in the path of married bliss. A husband orwife who does not attend school,cannot attend a school dance witha student.The school ruJ» for social eventsFor Galveston Post—Scout OfficialTo Leave HereSTUART G. PAINTERStuart G. Painter, Boy Scout district executive in Odessa tor the last U years, will leave this city on Feb. 1 to assume a similar post in Galveston.His successor in the Odessa post has not been named.P. V. Thor son, Scout executive for the area-wide Buffalo Trail Council, said, “We are sorry to be losing Stuart, but it is a promotion for him and a fine opportunity. He did a fine job for us here.”Painter assumed the Scouting post in Odessa in 1947 when BoyScout membership was less than 600 in Ector County, and has helped build the membership to2,241. He is a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church here, a member of the Odessa Rotary Gub, and belongs to the American Legion and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. A lieutenant commander in t h e Naval Reserve, he has been active in the local reserve unit since I960.He entered professional Scouting at Okmulgee, Okla., serving as a field executive there andlater in Fort Worth. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942, served in the South Pacific, and re-entered Scout work after his discharge. Painter was with the Sam Houston Area Council in Bryan, Tex., before coming here.A graduate of Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Painter is an Eagle Scout and has served as a Scoutmaster and assistant Scoutmaster.He and his wife, Ellen, have two children, Kathy, 5, and Flossie, 3.Contract MayFace OfficialsAgain Monday;:8?CALL ISSUED FOR PETITIOHS OH HOSPITAL AUDIT:Vlt;$Bill Huffman, 3202 Eastover, Saturday urged all persons holding petitions calling for an audit on the Medical Center Hospital addition to turn them in to him.He said all of the petitions, after tabulation, would be turned over to the commissioners court.the material that the audit will contain.”The petition was circulated here . . ,, , J after commissioners attempted toWe were very h.ghly pleased jspeM S299,000-over the S2.6 mil-Huffman said 102 petitions—out that the commissioners court was;ijon bond issue—on the hospital, of 275 put into circulation—are! put in the position of calling for ; It calls for a complete report to now in. The petitions already ;an a-u(jjt on t^e hospital addition.” ;tfie Pc°ple. turned » carry about 2,500 sIgna-; .Commissioners Tuesday hired thefirm of Fans, Harris, Chapmantures,Huffman said interest seemed to be lagging 6ince the commissioners last week “asked for the audit that we wanted, but we still want all the petitions back in,” he added.ther interested to see the thor- J ancj Marsh to do the audit job, oughness of the audit and the con-1 although Commissioner Norman . .... , Maney attempted to delay thetracts to verify the audit, and we feel that all citizens who have worked so hard in obtaining signatures are greatly interested inmovfc so petitioners could have some voice in selecting the firm to do the audit.Charges Filed Park BoardEctor County's Commissioners Court Monday may take up the awarding of a contract oil Ector County AirportAwarding of the contract —on which bids were opened here Dec. 29—was delayed twice here the past week by commissioners court.The first delay came Monday when about 50 persons showed up for the meeting. Center of the conflict was the fact that plane owners had recommended giving the contract back to Glen Flournoy, although he was the lowest of four bidders.Second delay of the week came Tuesday when Commissioner Norman Maney’s attempt to award the contract to Harry Bennett died when no one would second Maney’s motion.At that time, the commissioners asked for a written opinion on the four bids from County Attorney C. V. Milbum, although Milbum told them that all the bids were legal and the court could accept any one or throw out all four and negotiate a contract on their own.Milburn Wednesday returned a written opinion—containing, in essence, the same thing he had told the court orally. The court did not meet again during the remainder of the week.Commissioner Ted Roby indicated Friday that he “hoped” the court would take up the airport contract at its Monday meeting— wbich may be held at 10 a.m. or in the afternoon.Roby said the time of the meeting depended on whether Com-
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