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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1963
Page
4
In 1962 63 a mechanical engineering program uses pigeons as a novel teaching tool. Under Dr TH Amstead sophomores train birds to sort mass produced parts via a penny wheel, rewarding correct rejects with grain and punishing misreads with 20 seconds in darkness.
A Texas A&M College nutrition workshop heard that food needs vary with age and activity. Dr Ereel Teppricht, who taught at three Texas universities, noted people resist dietary change. Educators outlined teaching techniques to tailor habits throughout life, stressing motivation for deficient or ill individuals and addressing rising heart disease and dental decay concerns.
About 200 city attorneys engineers and councilmen met in Austin to hear the Municipal Annexation Act now in effect since Aug 25. The act creates extraterritorial jurisdictions allowing expansion around a city in specified increments, enabling growth without annexing undesirable land.
Corby educational authority in England rejected a proposal to make ballroom etiquette a compulsory subject at Corby Technical College. The decision paused plans for a formal etiquette curriculum amid debate on practical schooling priorities.
The University of Texas development board manual Basic Information on The University of Texas won an American College Public Relations Association award in 1963 for best management of programs. James S. Tricle, executive director, serves on the ACPRA board and was elected to its executive committee.
The Texas Safety Association urges motorists to observe speed zoning especially in unfamiliar areas. Roads zoned down for maximum limits are not safe at higher speeds. Zoning aims to protect, not annoy drivers. Don Roark, Lynn Metlain, Graig Bergvall and Bryan Hatch spent the weekend at Six Flags Over Texas near Arlington, and in Denton. Mr and Mrs Dick Pendleton and children and Mr and Mrs Sam McGill and children returned Saturday from a quotation in southwestern Cutarada.
AUSTIN Texas Youth Council parole division will triple in about six months yet the task of guiding reform school graduates remains hard. Currently five parole officers handle roughly 1800 juvenile parolees across 169 counties, a ratio near 1 to 367. By Sept 1 staff rises to ten, improving to about 1 to 178, and by March 1 1964 five more will be added bringing the ratio to 1 to 119. The bulk of parolees are in Dallas Harris and Bexar counties where crime rates are higher.
The report shows 164 paroled children in Nueces, McLennan, Bell and Lubbock, with large populations in Jefferson, Tarrant, Travis and other counties. Smaller counties like Cameron, Grayson, Brazoria, Hidalgo, Galveston, Gregg, Hale, and Midland host sizeable juvenile parole caseloads, while some counties have only one paroled child. The state remains responsible for every paroled youth it has trained.
In a National Crow Shooting Singles event the defeated participant received a baked crow dinner as a humorous reward. The result highlighted the rivalry and the traditional rustic tone of the competition.
Rev. Davis Edens and Miss Vickie Glenn depart Monday for the Methodist Retreat at Mount Sequoia in Fayetteville Arkansas. Edens attends the Pastors Conference while Vickie represents the Childress district at the Youth Retreat. Sandra McGill spends week in Amarillo with Kathy Wolf, daughter of Mr and Mrs Eli Wolf. Mr and Mrs Bob Black and three sons from Las Vegas visited last week with sister Mrs Glenn MeLiLnin.
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