Page 8 1979 EL UVALDE TIMES CPL employees honored Sixty-three Central Power and Light Company employees and guests attended the Annual CPL Awards Dinner Wednesday evening, December 5, at the Uvalde Country Club. S.B.Denton, of Corpus Christi, Vice President of Central Power and Light Company, spoke on company operations, cost of new construction, and praised employees for their many years of service to the company. Chester Foster, District Manager Consumer Services, was Master of Ceremonies for the occasion. Mayor Charles M. Cain gave the welcome address to the group. Dentron presented the service awards, assisted by Allen Wallace, District Manager of the Winter Garden District. Twenty employees, whose years of service totaled 360 years, were honored during the awards presentation . 40 Year Veterans Chester Arthur, head serviceman, in Crystal City and a veteran employee with a 40-year record, was recipient of a 40-year gold emblem. Alvin Morris, Manager of CPL properties in Crystal City, another 40-year record employee was recipient of a 40-year gold emblem. 35 Years Rudy Martinez, line crew foreman on the Eagle Pass distribution crew with a 35-year record was commended for his thirty five years of service and received the 35-year gold emblem. 30 Years Dave Wharton, line crew foreman of the Del Rio distribution crew with 30-year record of employment was recognized and presented a 30-year gold emblem. 25Years Employees who completed 25 years of service to the company were pre- sented watches and gold emblems in recognition of their service. They are Rodolfo Castillo, customer accounts supervisor, Crystal City; Bill Nash, equipment operator on the Uvalde distribution crew; and Refugio Ramirez, Jr., working line foreman on the Eagle Pass distribution crew. 20 Years Next in years of service were Blas Heredia, Serviceman in Crystal City; and Humberto Martinez, Serviceman in Eagle Pass. Recipients of other awards were as follow: Ricardo Caballero, serviceman in Eagle Pass; Jo Ann Custer, senior secretary in the Uvalde District office, 15 years. Ten-years awards were presented to Mike Cox, lineman on the Uvalde distribution Raymond Elledge, Office Manager of the Uvalde local office; Gilbert Salazar, serviceman Uvalde office; Roberto Soto, serviceman in the Del Rio office; Osvaldo Rodriguez, lineman on the Eagle Pass distribution crew. Five-year awardees honored were Johnny Toone, industrial representative, Uvalde; Rose Ann Suarez, senior clerk, Engineering Department; Norma Casales, senior accounts clerk, Eagle Pass; and Joe Camposano, Jr. senior customer accounts clerk, Del Rio.e I CPL EMPLOYEES HONORED—S. B. Denton, left, CPL Vice President, and Allen Wallace, far right, District Manager for the Winter Garden District, honor Alvin Morris and Chester Arthur, both of Crystal City, with combined service time of 80 years. Each honoree has 40 years of service with Central Power and Company. Í ■ yv W 4 Light Uvaldeans attend Follow Through Conference held in The National Engelmann Becker Follow Through Conference was November 26-29 Denver, Colorado. Thirteen Follow Through sites were represented from across the United States. Those Uvalde Maria Victoria Flores, Mrs. Ann Ham, Ms. Mary Helen Diaz, Ms. Kathleen Knippa, and Joe attending from were Mrs. Rosa Ovalle, Mrs. Ammerman. Sponsored by University of Oregon Foliow Through Project, the conference focused on updating training procedures and project goals. Keynote speaker, Dr. John Rodriguez, Assistant Commissioner for Compensatory. Education, Office of Education, addressed new regulations and objectives of the Follow Through program. Also speaking to the the groupwere Zig Engle-mann and Dough Camine of the University of Of special interest were presentations by each site depicting community and school activities. Mrs. Victoria Flores narrated slides of Uvalde and distributed pamphlets and Uvalde Honey. The Uvalde Chamber of Commerce and the Uvalde Leader News donated the souveniers. December 13. E j 1 . - The Democrats and the Republicans are gearing up for the 1980 elections. It seems that both sides are either running for or from something. Of late, I have gone into brain exercises, some- times referred to as thinking. And as I thought, I pondered, “Wouldn't it be terrible if God had to run for the highest office in the Universe every four years." I can see it now. God is so busy trying to make sure that He gets back in office, that He neglects to put the sun out one day, or forgets to institute summer one year, and no crops are grown. I can see Him on television expounding all the good work that He has done during the last four years, running a Universe and answering prayers. He might even have a call-in program by international hookup, or speak at $100 a plate dinners. I’m not sure whether He’d be running on the Democrat or the Republican ticket, or some other, but He would have to set up His precinct workers and get all His printed material together. I can also see Him, trying to explain the poor snow removal campaign last year, the droughts, the earthquakes, and the gas shortages. “Why didn’t you make more gas?’’ I can hear them saying. I can see Him trying to pacify the factions between Jew and Gentile, between Protestants and Catholics, between Christian and non-Christian. 1 can just imagine His seeing Miss Ohara, trying to line up the atheist vote; “Miss Ohara, just what do you expect of me?" To tell the truth, I really can’t imagine any of this. I'm glad He is God and God forever; that He's the same yesterday, today and forever, and that he‘s not up for election, now or ever. Laugh sut A lawyer tormented a witness so much with questions that at last the witness cried for water. “There/' said the judge. “I thought you would pump him dry." Volunteers for Camino Real Citizens Board needed recent volun- and A new and expanded push for more volunteers to serve on citizen boards has been initiated by the Camino Real Health Systems Agency, Inc. of San Antonio. Because of a rearrangement of teer boards committees, the agency is looking for persons who are interested in specific health related matters. This has been prompted by a desire of agency officials to streamline and modernize the process by which the agency reviews applications under several programs. The first of the programs is the Certificate of Need (CON) program. Under it, the Camino Real Boards of Directors has the first look at proposed changes or revisions to existing health facilities. If the Board, after careful review sees no obstacle to the implementing of the proposed change or addition, a favorable decision will be forwarded to the Texas Health Facilities Commission, the state agency responsible for the distribution of the permission granting Certificates of Need. Before the board can intelligently reflect on the application, though, a preliminary review must be conducted by a committee of the Board. Hence, the creation of Review Work Groups. Since the Board will be asked to look at several types of applications, everything from ambulatory clinic start-ups to physical additions to hospitals, the Review Groups will necessarily have to become specialized in scope and only applications that fall under a certain purview will be forwarded to certain Work Groups, present, Work Groups are envisioned. These are Impatient Care Review, Outpatient Care Review, Mental Health Review and Rural Health Review. Volunteers with either an interest or expertise in these areas is invited to inquire about membership. Another reviewing function of the agency concerns itself with the proper use of federal funds for health projects. Projects or programs that expect to use federal monies in their operation or initiation must appear before the Board of Directors and justifiy their proposals. The Board will then issue an approval or disapproval decision. Again, because of the diversity of applications, preliminary work groups will be formed and asked to form the first line of review for THESE APPLICATIONS. In addition to the reviewing functions, Camino Real extends into the planning realms. Its creation based on the contention that only through proper planning can proper health care be administered, Camino Real is committed to making sure that the community at large is offered an opportunity for comment or contribution to the planning process and the plans themselves. In light of this, several community based work and and care groups that will concern themselves with planning are to be created activated. Both consumers providers of health are cordially invited to inquire about these position openings by calling Maria Galindo at (512) 225-4426 or writing to Camino Real at Heritage Plaza, Suite 212, 410 So. Main Ave. San Antonio, Texas 78204 Thank you for a nice 1979 from El Uvalde Times At four Review Christmas ÍLoans Available, IS* * New & Used Cars “Living” doesn’t leave much for “saving” so put your account where it earns the most * One-Hundred Dollar Personal Loans MEMBER FSI-IC WIN THIS DECORATOR TELEPHONE---LULAC members Concha Vasquez, and Janie Terrazas are offering this lovely antique decorator telephone in a Garcia Mary _ ___—-r________________fund raising raffle. The telephone may be seen at Hillcrest Ice House where the tickets are also being sold. Funds raised are used by the organization in their many civic activities and scholarship fund. offered at The University of Texas System Board of Regents at a meeting on Dec. 7 in Austin approved a doctor of philosophy in bicultural-bilingual studies for The Unviersity of Texas at San Antonio. The degree program now will be referred to the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System, for its review and approval. The Ph.D. in bicultural-bilingual studies, which will be offered through UTSA’s College of Multi disciplinary Studies, will include concentrations in bilingual teacher education and in second language teaching and learning. It is aimed at meeting the need for specialists who can educate teachers and other personnel involved in bilingual-bicultural education. “UTSA is particularly well-placed to be a national and international bicultural-st udies , ’ ’ Dr. James university Bicultural Doctorate Program UTSA center for bilingual commented Wagener, president. “The development and encouragement of programs in bicultural-bilingual studies by various local, state and national agencies, both public and private, have created a great need for leaders within the field. Our program is being offered in response to that need and demand.” If approved by the Coordinating Board, the UTSA program will be the only one of its kind in the state and the first Ph.D. program to be offered by UTSA. The university currently offers a master of arts degree in bicultural-bilingual studies. SUS de Seguro Social aumenta servicios aquí La Administración del Seguro Social anuncio varios cambios en servicios a esta area. 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