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if School needs, Page 2 Blood bank fire, Page 3 Security breaks, Page 4 Sunday, April 21 1985 THE ODESSA AMERICAN d) Jfifi)n Some teens blame problems on 'nothing to do' Bir 'From Staff Reports "Boredom is something everybody goes through," Calzada said. Teens often are bored because they are not free to choose how they will spend their time, he theorized. Al Oglesby, vice principal at Ector Junior High School, said last week that trouble stems not from boredom, but "idleness something similar to Please see BOREDOM, Page 3B sponsibilities include student discipline, said boredom does not necessarily lead to trouble. And the pupils he deals with generally are not troublemakers. "It's normal for kids growing up to make mistakes," Calzada said.

Part of becoming an adult is learning what is allowed, and young people learn by being disciplined for mistakes they make, he said. student: Kids "get into trouble because they want to, because they ain't got nothing else to do." The plight of what to do during vacations when the mind has time to wander and idle hands need activity is nothing new to Ector County Independent School District's students. But Hood Junior High School Vice Principal Richard Calzada, whose re 17-year-old OHS junior: "I guess you get more emotional and start fighting" when the mercury creeps up the thermometer. Mae Moses, 810 Snyder a 16-year-old Permian High School sophomore: "Give us some swimming pools," and maybe kids will behave themselves more often. Johnny Tarango, 11306 W.

63rd a 14-year-old Ector Junior High School Boredom. Some Ector County students say it's a springboard to trouble, and the problem intensifies during the heat of summer vacation. Michelle Kendrick, 3133 W. Third a 16-year-old Odessa High School sophomore: "Some people don't know what to do but pick a fight." Shawn Holmes, 1205 Oak a Three staff members receive promotions at Odessa American i 4 I 1 1 A jap- -I If 5 fy- y' iv- if American since November 1983, when she was hired as assistant city editor. The 1981 graduate of the University of Northern Colorado has worked as a reporter for both the Midland Reporter-Telegram and the Greeley, Daily Tribune.

Burke recently won a spot news writing award from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors association for her work during the 1983 Ector County tax rollback election. She will oversee all newsroom departments and supervise daily news production. Burke, 2715 Catalina Drive, has two sons, Eric, 14, and Daren' 10. Promoted from assistant city editor to city editor is Robert Halpern, an Alpine native who joinecKihe American in September 1980 after earning a de-Please see STAFF, Page 3B From Staff Reports The Odessa American has a new acting managing editor, city editor and copy desk chief, Editor Tom NickeU announced today. Gail Burke was promoted from city editor to acting managing editor, temporarily replacing M.

Olaf Frandsen, who after three years at The American has accepted the position of night metro editor with the Orange County, Register. The Register is based in Santa Ana, headquarters for Freedom Newspapers which owns and operates The Register, The American and 29 other daily newspapers. "We'll miss Frandsen's energy and expertise," said Nickell, "but it's characteristic of the kind of success we're having that he's going to a management job with a major metro." Burke, 34, has been at The TheOdnx Anwrlcan: ARTHUR SPRAGG Lindsay uses his new leisure time to catch up on fishing news Lindsay hangs up clippers again '1 -J i -i might as well drop it and learn something else anyway." The Weatherford native enrolled in a Fort Worth barber school when he was 16 years old. "I thought that I would be able to travel around and see the country, and it would be easy to get a job," said the slender, bespectacled Lindsay. He went to Ranger in 1926 and worked for seven years before moving on to Please see CLIPPERS, Page 3B But as he snipped away at a customer's thinning locks at Classic Barber Beauty Shop, 1423 N.

Grant Lindsay who has begun to get "a little bursitis in the shoulders" said he wouldn't be there for long. Friday would be his last day to work. This time he would retire permanently, said the 60-year barbering veteran more than 40 of which have been in Odessa. "I just figured 60 years ought to be enough," he observed. "If you can't learn a trade and do it well in 60 years, you By SUSAN HAMMONS Staff Writer About four years ago, Jarrett Lindsay decided to give up barbering after his father-in-law died.

"I took my tools out, and I was going to retire then," the 77-year-old barber said last week. "When I got back, they called me to work Friday and Saturday. They put up a howl for me to continue to work, so sure enough I'm still here." V(Sf Lightfoot Halpern Burke New Sul Ross president building traditions "(Viv' i 1 whose funding was omitted from the budget bill. Rep. Kelly Godwin, R-Odessa, has said he is certain the budget will be amended in the House to include UTPB funding.

Despite Sul Ross' reprieve, Humphries said that his inauguration's price tag has left some members of the university community wondering about the school's commitment to cutting costs. Norman Duble, the 22-year-old editor of the school's weekly Please see SUL ROSS, Page 3B John Cargile, regent for the Texas State University System that includes Sul Ross, said last week that he is "very optimistic" funding will achieve approval by the full House. "As far as I'm concerned, it's a dead issue and the less said about it the better," he said. Added Humphries: "I would rather have done some other things this spring than be on the defensive." Not so blessed by the committee was Odessa's University of Texas of the Permian Basin and Texas at Galveston, when the state is feeling some pain with its revenues talk will start," Humphries said. "The prospect of being hanged in a fortnight concentrates the mind wonderfully," he said, mentioning routine lobbying trips he has made to Austin since that time.

Humphries' efforts apparently have yielded success. The House Appropriations Committee voted April 15 to pass along a $36.4 billion state budget that included $7.3 million in Sul Ross funding, a committee spokesman said. ny which cost about $26,000 created several school traditions and brought together all participants in the university community. "It couldn't have been better planned because of all the talk of closing," he said. Rumblings of Sul Ross' possible closure surfaced in January when House Speaker Gib Lewis said certain House members had broached the subject in casual conversation.

"Because of its position in West Texas, about every 10 years or so always at a time By RICK BROWN Staff Writer ALPINE At a time when state budget constraints threaten funding of Sul Ross State University, president Jack Humphries said he is concerned with building school traditions. "In any activity, there are things that give it meaning, that give substance to it," the 48-year-old, newly installed Sul Ross president said last week in support of tradition. Humphries said that his March 29 inauguration ceremo Humphries Money management is trying to buck the odds Has By KEN BROPNAXl bigwigs keep buying missiles like they're going out of style? As if we're running low on the things. So what if the country owes more than it can pay in a few hundred years? The politicians just go out and figure out another tax. Naturally, inflation has thrown the actual value of money completely out of whack.

Most kids probably wonder why anybody bothers to carry pennies. And how do you explain that copper coins are still around so taxes and postage can be raised in smaller increments than five cents at a time? But everything probably will work out. Each generation seems to have a wayof coping. Instead of future citizens putting in their two cents worth, they'll probably have to chip in figurative couple of hundred bucks to express an opinion. But then the little bits begin to add up.

Some of the jet set debtors begin to juggle payments, skipping one or two for a month, then doing the same with another couple the next month. Try telling the kid a quarter shouldn't be wasted on a video game when you've just bought a super-duper, high-efficiency potato peeler that you'll use just once, maybe twice, and then sell four years later in a garage sale. That kind of logic doesn't fly with sharp, inquiring minds. Not that the government helps. Think all those young whippersnap-pers who have a couple of years of computer training don't question the system when we've got a federal deficit in the billions of dollars? Why should they cut back on the Tootsie Pop budget when the president, senators and other Washington is always a quest for more.

But we all have to wonder about future generations. What kind of example is being set for them? The older sector of the adult world was brought up in less prosperous times. A lot of people didn't have money, and didn't have any way to get ready cash. So they learned to subsist, to live off the land, to barter or trade for items they wanted and needed. And they learned to live within their means.

Today's children are being brought up by parents who spend everything they earn and more. Through the modern marvel of plastic credit, long-term mortgages and 48-month financing, all sorts of neat material objects can be obtained for a low down payment and a little bit a month. Remember those early years when important part of upbringing was learning the value of money? I The process started with budgeting small allowance afforded by parents. Later, youngsters learned to 'earn pocket change by babysitting, mowing lawns or doing household jchores. That prepares them for the day they go into the world to achieve a regular paycheck.

But surviving those early days of money management are tough. Who can forget blowing the whole wad on Ibubble gum cards or some other such foolishness the first day? That meant waiting a whole week for a carton of chocolate milk or an ice cream bar. 'That was a big price to pay and a big Reason to learn. But gradually, the Importance of cash flow began to sink in for some. Others never learned.

They'll be robbing from Peter to pay Paul until their dying day. Currency, for such wastrels, is merely another commodity to be used until it runs out. And at that point, you must find some manner in which to acquire more cash. No matter how money is spent, we have created a situation where there 1 1.