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The Canyon News from Canyon, Texas • Page 8

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The Canyon Newsi
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Canyon, Texas
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Page 10 One Section Ibt Thursday, September 12, 1974 m.imi Mis mum A Registration For Community Education Set For Tonight mcmlMT of Amnrillo Loral I8M, a construction worker Iwbor union, Monday morning for the new Cunvon hull. Ihe ocher pickHing late Tuesday, hut workmen proceeded with preliminary dirt work tiled. Work Begins On New City Complex VV a ii il Mondav morn- mu at thr site for construction of new anvon hall inspiteof Iwo union ptekrts posted Ht the at ITte did nol the xlarl of construction and a union spokesman said their intent is not toxiop the joh. McVav, an official i Local I I. a construction vvorker union in said thr pitkrts nuld usr no force oi work stoppage.

were picketing, naid, onlv to makc a point. Ihr union a parently been picketing ail construction overseen thr Aniarillo rontracting for ahout a vear, ac- rordinK McV av. Pickets arr also up at Page in Aniarillo and anadian. l'hi is strict Iv a dispute vv i cont i actor trv ing reach an agreement," uv said, Ile noted thr pickets vv rrr not directed at othrr firm or business or at thr eity, A flyer handrd out hy McV a indicated thr intent: of thr public; Thr languagr of this pieket menus vvhat il Maya. "(lur local not havr a rollrrt ive hargaining autrement or rontract ith contractor (cm- ployer) whose namr appears in the legend of this sign "Our local feels it must Umbarger News havr a collective bargaining agreement to protect thr fine wages and work- I conditions now prevalent on manv great projects in our diction.

dispute is limited to the employer named on the sign. We do not have a labor dispute with any other employ ers and The pickets were the first in several years in Can von, Area residents may up tonight for in the Education under way in Canyon I mbarger may sign ap for beginning Spanish which wifi taught by Mario in the I'mbarger Community Center at 7 The course will run for 10 two hours each Thursday night Fee for thr course $10 The course in designed to give thr student a fundamental language and to assist in learning to and reproduce Spanish Emphasis on the oral of thr language will be madr during thr course The course is a pre-re to conversational Spanish The class is open to all above thr agr of 11 At Hex Elementary School, beginning needlepoint and gift wrapping will be offered at 7 lieginning needlepoint will be taught by Mrs David Wheeler and will run for four weeks, two hours each Thursday. Fee for the course is $5. The course will be taught in thr Uiunge at the school Basic needlepoint stitches and color effects will be taught are to bring thimble and small scissors. C.ift wrapping will hr taught by Ken Thompson Fee for the four week course will he $3.

Home Mrchanics and powder puff auto mrchanics will be taught at the high school beginning at 7 p.m, Homr Mechanics will be taught bv Richard Porter, The right week course will cost $10. Basic steps in home repair will be covered in the course. Micky Hathaway will teach a six weeks course in powder puff auto mechanics. Fee for the course is $8. The class is for thr iady of the house and will cover basic auto An right werk course in decnupage taught by Mrs Guy Mulhenn and an right wrrk course in wig styling and hair care will be taught by Thr classes held at Howe Elementary School will is gin at 7 rn Fee fordecoupage is and the fer for wig styling and hair care is Balo Wins Competition Halo, a West Texas Stall I nivrrsitv instructor, one of five winners in thr recent Striding Staff international omprtition A biennial event, thr tion is sponsored by Mu Phi Epsilon pmfrssional music sorority and is presided over by a panel of judges, ill of whom are experts in thr performing arts.

As a inner, Miss Baio will be presented bv Mu Kpsilon in a two-year series of recitals and roncrrts both hrrr and abroad, for which she will receive artist's frrs In addition, Several members of communities in the Texas Panhandle represented at the recent faith conference in St. Louis were: front Dan Becky Caldwell, Canyon; standing left to right Sam Parker, Lubbock; Mike Kelly, Buffalo Springs; Bill Bell, Cleta; Marie Fogarty. Amarillo; Teresa Baskin, Canyon; Bill Griffith, Linda Kiesling. Amarillo; Ann and Audra Bell, Cleta; Danny Haskin, Canyon; Pinky Long, Arlene Kitner, Amarillo; Paul Bohannon, Luhhock; and Denise Long of Amarillo. The four-day conference launched a five-year plan for the faith.

Phone Services Shortages Delay Telephone installations in Canyon will be temporarily limited because of a strike- related shortage of instruments, cords, bells and other equipment, Southwestern Bell said last week. The company said tentative agreement has been reached in a nationwide strike of the International Brotherhood of Electrical against Western Electric that has caused the shortage don't know exactly how long it will take to return equipment inventories to normal," a company spokesman explained. Western System's Buttalo Riders Club Camps Out Bv HE BA RAEF GREETINGS, FROM M- BAKGFR. Well, that tune of year again, List Tuesday afternoon, the women and men (those not busy in the gathered in the basement of St parish hall to make kraut for the 1971 Fall Festival. Will report next week on the gallons that they PH SI FIX HAMMER AND DEPTH SPIKE are all a part of checking thr depth of the highway base being laid for the new highvv ay cross-ov er interchange being constructed here at the junction ot the Hereford Highway (I HOI and Fifteenth Avenue, Bill Nordyke of Amarillo with the levas Highway Department, District est Lab, checked the 10-inch base coat vv eek.

The construction vv as scheduled to he complete by early December hut due to heavy rains in late Vugust the scheduled completion has now been moved forward to the Spring of 1075. VARSITY TODAY THRU TUESDAY R066RT R6DFORD fTilfl RRROUU GROT PO WIMM BCWS Ut 1 SHOW ONLY 7:30 P.M. made. rhis was the second time in a good many years that we missed out on the kraut cutting And for those wanting the recipe, here lis For every 12 lbs. of cut cabbage you need cup of cooking and canning salt Mix well and pour into a stone crock and 'stomp it When crock is full, cover with several layers of the outside leaves of cabbage, then a cloth rnd weight it down so the cabbage stays under the brine.

In about six weeks, you will have some mighty good FINALLY SLOWED Father Schafle down long enough to find out about his vacation. He went first to San Jose. Calif, to visit relatives. Enroute, he visited the Petrified Forest, the Grand Canyon and Lake Havasu. which is now the new home of the London Bridge Returning from San Jose, he stopped in Lis Vegas, where he lost a "little money.

Hr had planned an excursion through Old Mexico and got as far as Chihuahua, but because of heavy rains he returned to Juarez. He attended the International Catholic Deal Association and then went to New for two weekends to the Deaf Center He took a boat trip on the Mississippi through the Bayous. Finally, he attended the Texas Catholic Deaf Week in Houston. He s.ud it was a most enjoyable vacation and he is already planning next year's jaunt. FRANCES GROTEGl I IS at long last home.

She has been either in a hospital or a convalescent home since last January. It's really nice to have her home again. Her house has been completely redecorated and we re sure she will enjoy just being home. NATHAN AND CLIFFORD Wieck. sons of Larry and Elizabeth Wieck of Dalhart, spent two weeks with their grandparents, -John and Edna Wieck just recently while Elizabeth recuperated from surgery.

SEVERAL I'M BARGER RES1 DENTS attended the sOth birthday party for their aunt, Mrs Mary Skypala held last Sunday afternoon in the Knights of Columbus hall in Hereford. Those who attended were Elroy and Roberta Art ho, John and Edna Wieck, Sylvester and Elsie Batenhorst. Vincent and Della Friemel. Alice Koch, Ted and Marie Irlbeck and Henry Skypala. There were about 125 relatives and close friends present.

THE BUFFALO RIDERS Club of spent the Labor 1 )av weekend camping out at Boys Ranch. The club participated in the grand entry of thr Bovs Ranch Rodeo on Sunday and Monday They ate the noon barbecue with the crowd both days, but cooked breakfast and supper over a campfire. WE ATTENDED THE Eagle Monterey ball game last Friday and the half time activities brought back fond memories. 1 was the first girl to play in thr band in the early '30s in Amarillo. At that time, our half time activities were pretty good, but they were a far cry from what the bands of today can do at half time.

We sure did enjoy it all very much. OUR NEW LITTLE granddaughter, Stefame Ann Raefwas baptized last Sunday during the Mass. Her Godparents are Donna Hartman and Kevin Raef. She belongs to Andy and Edith Raef, and has one sister, Nancy. Thr silence at our house today is deafening.

Tom went back to Clovis Sunday and Andy and Edith and girls left this morning for Phoenix, Ariz. Andy will be stationed at Luke Air Force Base there. FORGET THE garage sale this coming Saturday in the Umbarger Community building You may consign items for the sale or just donate them for the sale The items should be there on Friday, Sept, 13 and if you need help getting them there, call Shirley Payne or Shirley Skarke. HENRY AND AMALIA Bracht have returned from a visit with relatives in Germany. We will have more on their trip next week.

THE FOURTH DEGREE Knights of Columbus and their ladies enjoyed their quarterly supper last Sunday evening in the Columbus Club Hall. Preparing and serving the suppt ere the Conrad Westhoffs, the Ben Koch's. the Leonard and the Jack Brandt's. The evening was spent playing and "double cup There were about 35 in atten dance. It THE PISTOLS AND Petticoats Square Dance Club will dance this coming Sunday evening, Sept.

15. This is their regular dance night, and they would like to see a good turnout. JACK AND SADIE Brandt have moved into their new home. On Aug. 30, they were honored with a surprise house warming.

Guests were Don and Susie Dolle, R. 1). and Mary Friemel, Paul and Betty Ferguson, Tom and Shirley Payne, Jim and Shirley Skarke, Tom and Dianne Brock, and Vincent and Gladys Meyer. The were presented with an electric icecream freezer. The evening was spent playing cards.

Judith Balo received a contract guarantee as an apprenticr-artist with the Chautauqua, New York Opera Association for the summer of 1075. Following undergraduate studv at WTSr, where she was a student of Miss Elsa Porter, Miss Balo did graduate work at the University of Southern Mississippi, receiving her M. degree in After two years of teaching at Northwest I received a special grant which provided for a year of intensive study in Italy under the guidance of baritone Tito Gobbi and voice coach Luigi Rici i Balo returned to WTSU in 107 where she teaches in the Music Department and is continuum her studies with Miss Porter. City Commissioners Concur On 1-27 Design IF YOU HAVE news for me, call me at News Brief Mr and Mrs. Foster Amburn of Canyon were in Lubbock during the weekend where Mrs.

Amburn joined her sister, Mrs. Bob Rogers, and husband, Bob, for a reunion trip to Hunt County. Mr. Amburn returned to Canyon while his wife and the Rogers went to the reunion of cousins in the Wolf City area north of Dallas. Census Survey On Immunization The Bureau of the Census wt II survey a sample of households in this area next week to determine the extent people have been immunized against selected diseases.

The immunization survey conducted nationally every year, provides information on immunization against measles, influenza, smallpox, polio, dip- theria, whooping cough, tetanus, rubella, and mumps. This information is needed for administration of health programs geared to disease prevention. These health questions are in addition to the usual ones asked in the monthly survey on employment and unemployment conducted nationwide by the Bureau for the U.S. Department of Labor. Results of the monthly employment survey provide data on conditions in the labor force, prime indicators of the economic health of the country.

For example, the unemployment rate was 5.3 percent in July; it was 5.2 percent in the previous two months and had held in the to 5,2 percent range since the beginning of the year. Total employment was million in essentially unchanged from .1 une but up by 500,000 since April. Information supplied by individuals participating in the survey is held confidential by law and is used only to compile statistical totals. Census Bureau interviewers who will visit households in this area are Mrs. Frances M.

Cheek, 300 West Hastings, Amarillo, Texas 791 OS and Verm a Dean Clancy, 3410 Kingston Road, Amarillo, Texas 79109, Scouts Feast On Hamburgers A hamburger feast for Boy Scout Troop 31 as served Monday evening at the First United Methodist Church with hamburgers being served scouts and visitors. Along with the 33 regular scouts attending, the group also included 12 visiting prospective scouts of which ten took scout application. Twelve parents joined the group for the films on scouting, according to Shug Bonds, scoutmaster. Final plans were discussed for an overnight cam pout to be held for the troop this weekend. The scouts will leave from the First I'nited Methodist Church at 4:45 p.m.

Friday afternoon and return to the city about 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. They will camp out in Sunday Canyon. Canyon city commissioners reviewed a schematic drawing of the proposed design of Interstate Highway 27, which wall by-pass Canyon to the east, and said Monday night they concur with the design. Texas Highway Drpartmrnt officials had asked for the comment from commissioners for inclusion in a package of comments they must submit to state and federal highway administrators for final approval of the route and design.

In other business, commissioners approved an ordinance drawn up to allow issuance of $15,000 in certificates of obligation payable to the contractor. Page Wirtz of Amarillo, for construction costs already incurred in building a new city hall. They also tabled an item concerning appointment of three men to the city housing authority, which oversees operation of low-incoine subsidized housing in Canyon. City Manager George Loudder said by-laws of the authority call fora board of five men to serve as the housing authority, but only three have served in the past. Commissioners tabled tbe item to enable them to contact possible appointees.

Sept 23 will be the date for a public hearing on a change in zoning and special usr prrmit request for property near the Chap paral Mobile Home Park in west Canyon Frank Morgan requested the changes to allow him to place a mobile home on his property The planning and zoning commission has already recommended approval of thr requests. Electric is the Bell manufacturing and supply unit. "Under the procedures we've established, installations will be limited to one line and one telephone per customer." the spokesman said. "When inventories return to normal, and equipment becomes available, we will complete the installations that customers re quested without additional charge." The company said customers will be billed only for one line and one telephone until any additional equipment they have ordered has been installed. regret not being able to furnish all the equipment our customers request at the time they want it," the company official said.

the policy is temporary. Meanwhile, 1 able to provide good, basic service until the equipment situation CENTRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST 4th Ave. at 21st WELCOMES YOU SUNDAY BIBLE SCHOOL 9:30 a.m. MORNING WORSHIP 10:30 a.m. EVENING WORSHIP 6:00 p.m.

WEDNESDAY BIBLE CLASS 10:00 a.m. WEDNESDAY MIDWEEK SERVICE 7:30 p.m..

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