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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1971
Page
7
Today is May 17 1971 the 137th day of the year with 228 days left. Highlights include the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that school segregation is unconstitutional and the 1875 inaugural Kentucky Derby in Louisville.
In Austin AP report the University of Texas School of Communication honors associate professor Beverly Whitaker with its first teaching excellence award. Nominations came from students and registered organizations. Whitaker joined the speech department in 1967, praised as an outstanding teacher demanding high quality work.
The report recalls a five year old claim that Romania pressed the Soviets for veto power over Russian nuclear weapons on Romanian soil. It also notes a year ago the U S commander in Cambodia said part of the Communist command’s field headquarters had been captured.
Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes told a Texas Mobile Home convention that welfare mothers should work. He cited rapid AFDC growth, birth rates among welfare families, and rising medical costs, urging day care and vocational training while criticizing a federal court ruling on welfare eligibility.
The Hoblitzelle Foundation approved a 65000 gift to buy Jesuit College at St Bonifacius holdings. The collection will form a nucleus for a future undergraduate library and support graduate programs in physics mathematics geology and biology. It includes 9700 language and literature volumes 2800 history and geography 1000 social sciences and 1000 basic references.
Edinburg Texas AP reports Pan American University biology program grows from a trailer to a 12 by 24 foot building at Padre Island. Dean Lazern Sorensen envisions complete labs and a marine science museum on the island. Enrollment in marine botany reaches 39 as students attend classes on the island.
Fort Worth National Bank officials unveil a $20 million project featuring the citys tallest building a 37 story tower occupying a full block and a five story parking garage for 814 cars. A 16 foot pedestrian bridge and a tunnel will link the garage to the bank. Completion is slated for late 1973 to mark the banks centennial. Ruth Southwick notes enrollment at 28 and Edinburg campus study with Padre Island laboratory work.
COLLEGE STATION Texas AP Patrick A Ebarb district forester of the Texas Forest Service at Kerbyville has been promoted to head of the Forest Fire Control Department Director Paul R Kramer reports
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