The Port Arthur News from Port Arthur, Texas • Page 20

20-THE NEWS, Port Arthur. Texw Thursday, August 26, Supper Table Talk By JOHN A Tail end of August: THIS IS QUITE a few monlhs before Christmas, but Mrs Larry Strolher, wile of Air Force Captain Strother, residing Panama City, Fla just mailed a Yuletide greeting card to her parents, Mr and Mrs Powers of Nederland It was entitled, A SAND DOLLAR "There's a pretty little legend That I would like to tell Of the birth and death of Jesus Found in this lowly shell Jf you examine closely You'll see that you i hen- Four nails, also a i one, Made by a Roman's spear On one side the Easter i Its center is the star That appeared unto the shepherds And led them from a a The Christmas pomsettia Etched on the other side Reminds us of His birthday, Our Happy Chnslniastide Now break the center open And here you will release The five white doves a a i i fo spread goodwill and peace This simple little symbol Christ left for you and me To help us spread the Gospel Through all eternity' FELLOW WE know as Stan (led apparently "gets" anything he goes after Republican George Bush of Houston, who never got elected politics, some time hack was elevated by President Ford to an international pane) Memo from a Houston school "An experienced teacher wil! bring your child up to grade Francis Wagner of Nederland gives us a further i A grandma was so delighted that her five grandchildren were coming for a visit she put an extra $5 in the collection plate The next Sunday with the kids vamoosed she stuck in an extra $10. HOW TO raise a garden 'First plant four rows of peas Peace Pleasantness Preparation Perseverance "Next to these plant three rows of squash Squash gossip Squash griping Squash criticism "Next plant five row.s of lettuce Let us obey rules I us he true to our obligations Let us be faithful to duty Let us be loyal and unselfish Let us love one another garden is complete without turnips- Turn up on time for meetings. Turn Jp always with a smile Turn up with new ideas "Trun up with determination to make evc-rythirig count for something good and worthwhile JUST A FEW odds and ends "You can't tell a book by its movie "Uncle Jeff was unlucky all his life. But one day things took a turn for the bettei While they were digging his grave they hit oil "Plastic surgeons can do almost anything i a nose except keep it out of other people's business "If you can I hear a pin drop, 10 to 1 something's gone wrong with your bowling Then there was the deceased Texan, and the lawyer was reading his will "To my good-for-nothing son, I leave $2,000,000 and he's lucky I didn't cut him off entirely there was the dentist who married a manicurist, and they've been fighting tooth and nail ever since." DUPLANTIS GONZALES At the plants DOMINGUE MID-JEFFERSON COUNTY HOSPITAL I COLICHER.

6 parents Mr and Mrs Curtis Craig Colicher, Port Arthur, GPS: Mr and Mrs Carl Colicher Port Neches and Mr and Mrs Joe a a a Port A and Mr and Mrs Ury Braquet, Groves. GGPS. Mr and Mrs Carl Colicher Sr, Port Arthur KARALIDDJESCHION. 7 Ibs 6 parents Mr and a i i Nederland, GPS: Mr and i Nederland and Mrs Bud Myers. Ft Stockton.

W. T. Page Ft. Stockton BRIAN JOSEPH LEE. 8 Ibs 13 oz parents Mr and Mrs Herbert Kent Lie.

Port Neches, GPS: Mr and Mrs Lee. Port Neches and Mr and Mrs R. G. Kageler, Nederland TERRI LYNN HUFF. 8 Ibs.

1 oz parents Mr and Mrs. Stephen Randoli Huff. Groves, GPS; Mr and Mrs. A Nederland and Mr and Mrs Don Groves I A LING. 6 Ibs 1 parents Mr and Mrs Timothy Hugh L'ng.

Port Arthur. Ferguson. Vidor. Louie Ling. Beaumont and Mr- Beuna Goodman.

Port Arthur. Dtmnie Stork call Tommy Sauiter, Port Arthur, GPS Mr and Mrs i Beaumont and Mr and Mrs a i Nederland. GGPS- Mrs i i a i a a a a a a i a Truman Keowen, Baton Rouge, La. D. Chase, manager, Texaco Inc Port Arthur Area, announces the retirement of seven local Texaco Inc employes.

Guy Duplanus has retired as filter plant operator, manufacturing division after more than 41 years with Texaco He was born at Franklin, La and joined Texaco at the local refinery in 1935. Duplantis is married, has four sons, tour daughters and twelve grandchildren. He resides at 3530 6th Port Arthur Kyle Heath, gang pusher, structural steel department, has retired after more than 39 years service. He was born at Cushing, Tex. and entered service at Texaco's Port Arthur plant in 1937 Heath is married, has two sons and two grandchildren Anacleto Gonzales, painter, CM division, has retired after more than 32 years at Texaco's local refinery He is a native of Saltillo, Coah, Mexico and began his tenure of service in 1944 Mr.

and Mrs. Gonzales has three sons, four daughters and 16 grandchildren and resides at 6361 Dave Groves Milton Domingue has retired as an electric welder, CM division after almost 30 years service He was born at Lafayette, La. and joined Texaco at the Port Arthur plant in 1946 Domingue is married and resides at 1940 Green Port Arthur. WoodrowW. Nobles, recovery operator, maintenance division, has retired after more than 29 years service.

He is a native of Paris. Tex. and began his tenure with Texaco in 1947 Nobles is married, has one son, one daughter and six grandchildren. Clarence L. Foster, layerout, boiler shop, has retired with over 29 years service.

He was born in Illinois and joined Texaco in 1947 at the local refinery. Mr. and Mrs Foster, who make their home near Woodville. have one daughter and two grandchildren. Milton F.

Hester, machinist, maintenance division, has retired after more than 25 years with Texaco. He lists DeRidder, La. as his birthplace and began his tenure of service with Texaco in 1951 at the Port Arthur plant. Hester is married, has two sons, one daughter and lives at 3145 Galewood Lane, Port Neches. THE GREAT APPLIANCE CO, PRICES SLASHED ON ROOM MR- Fried rich! FLOOR MODELS SCRATCHED DENTED CRATE CHARLES ANTHONY SAULTER.

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Why the situation be so different? Is it even a good thing, as the East Europeans themselves sometimes reflect 9 The East European view of employment is highly ideological Born, as communism was. in the 19th century era of working-class misery, it lays great store on man's right to work Significantly, this is the first human right listed in the Soviet constitution. The rights of freedom of speech and the press, so highly prized in the West, come eighth and ninth respectively And while the Russians observance of other human rights may be questionable, they do respect this one. Nobody can be without a job. Nor can anybody choose to lead the life of a tramp, if he wants to.

He risks being charged with the offense of parasitism. The achievement of full employment is undoubtedly one of the best advertisements for communism, and it is certain to have had a healthy effect on society by reducing the social ills that go with unemployment. But it has brought other problems. In order to create enough jobs, the Soviet Union and its allies have had to sacrifice efficiency. They employ three men to run a machine that needs only one operator in the West They also create quite unnecessary jobs, like the girls the Budapest metro who sit in glass booths by the escalators to make sure no one falls off.

The job is so dull that the girls often fall asleep. The West calls it "featherbedding." The Hungarians call it "unemployment within the factory gates." Full employment has also bred complacency in the work force. Since the threat of the sack has become virtually meaningless, workers have adopted couldn't- care-iess attitudes, and this has made it difficult for managers to improve the quality and quantity of their factories' output. This is not a problem that is widely aired in East Europe. But the recent move there to end the practice of paying automatic bonuses is clearly aimed at removing it.

Instead, workers will be paid according to how much work thev do and how well they do it. As wel'l as becoming complacent, the work force has become very fixed. Few people are willing to travel more than a few kilometers to work, and it is rare for a man to uproot himself to work in another town, unless it is the capital This makes it difficult for the Soviet Union to open up new industrial regions, in Siberia for Unemployment is not completely unknown. But overall the labor situation is tight, and getting worse. According to population predictions, the next 10 years or so will coincide with a sharp drop in the number of people at school-leaving age, due to a slump in the birth rate back in the eariy Poland, for instance, expects to have only 150,000 new workers a year compared with 400,000 a year over the past five years.

This pattern is repeated in the rest of East Europe. The shortage is particularly acute in East Germany, where the population is actually declining, partly because of the large numbers of refugees who still make their way to the West. East Germany now imports workers from neighboring and Mediterranean countries. Until 1990 or so, when the current sharp rise in birth, rates will increase new labor supplies, the answer to the shortage must lie in making far better use of manpower. To some extent, this means relying on western technology which is, on the whole, more efficient than East European.

In this sense, the labor shortage is. providing a noticeable impulse to the growth of East- West trade. Poison gas damages high Officer, gave the figure in a report to the regional council on the dimensions of the accident. The economic aspects included, lost crops and closed factories and shops. A i i a evacuated more than 800 persons from their homes near the plant.

More than 500 persons have been treated for a i illnesses a a caused by the fumes but there have been no human fatalities. Many small animals and birds in the contaminated area have died. MILAN, Italy (UPI) The cloud of poison gas over the Seveso region of Northern Italy has caused more than $24 million worth of damage in the most i contaminated area, a regional official said. The toxic cloud con- a i i a chemical dioxine, escaped from the Swiss-owned ICMESA chemical plant at Seveso, north of Milan, on July 10 when a safety valve burst. Vittorio Rivolta, the Lombardy Region's Health Stereo Recording and Playback Compact START YOUR SOUND LIBRARY THIS ELECTROFHOIIC STEIEO SYSTEI tllR MS YOU GII'T BOY YOUR VERY OKI! 12-Speaker Air-Suspension audio system.

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