Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 20, 1975 Page: 9 of 24
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THE KIO GRANDE HERA1 D PAGE 9 THURSDAY. MARCH 20.1975
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Rio Students Place In
Literary Festival
By Diana J. Villarreal
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SPANISH WrNNER-Sandra Gonzalez, a Junior at Rio High placed Second in the Ijevel I
Competition of the National Spanish Examination which is sponsored by the Alamo Valley
Chapter of the American Association Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Thirty three
students from Rio High competed on March 8. 1975 at Texas A&I University. Sandra is
shown receiving her Second place trophy from her Spanish teacher, Ms. Diane Shaffer who
is a member of the AATSP.
Diana Judith Villarreal
placed Second in Prose Reading
and Veronica Smith placed
Third in Spelling and Plain
Writing at the Fourth Annual
Gateway Literary Festival
which was held at Edinburg
High School last Friday and
Saturday. Ana Arredondo tied
for Fourth place in Spelling and
Plain Writing. All of the girls
are Seniors at Rio High.
Twenty one schools competed
in the two day tournament.
Other students from Rio High
competing in the festival were:
Esmeralda Garza, Persuasive
Speaking; Nina Trejo and
Edelberto Bravo Cantu, Poetry
Interpretation; Nidia Ann
Garcia and Armandina
THE CHINESE
TEACH ENGLISH
URBANA, 111. (AP) - Eng-
lish is by far the most widely
taught foreign language in the
People's Republic of China, an
authority on Chinese languages
says.
Chin-chuan Cheng, professor
of linguistics and Chinese at the
University of Illinois, was a
member of the American ling-
uistics delegation which toured
China for a month in 1974. It
was the first group of U.S. lan-
guage scholars to, visit main-
land China since the revolution
there in 1949.
Cheng learned that English is
taught in nearly all schools, ex-
"ept for a few in rural areas,
Barrera, Girls Debate; David
Trevino and Tony Garcia, Boys
Debate; David Gonzalez, and
Carlos Perez, Science; David
Gonzalez, Carlos Perez, Gilbert
Guerra, Cindy Hinojosa, and
Marta Guerra, Number Sense;
Marta Guerra and Ruby
Garcia, Typing; Chris Mar-
tinez, Lucy Longoria, Irma
Molina, Ready Writing and
Mary Escobar, Linda L. Pena,
Spelling and Plain Writing.
The student will compete at
one more U.I.L. Invitational in
Zapata this Saturday before
wrapping up their practice
season. The students will be
competing at the 16-AAA
District Meet on April 5, 1975 at
Mercedes.
Class Olympics
Next Week
The Class Olympic will bt
held March 26, 1975 at the
football field from 1:25 to 3:40
P.M. Admission will be 25 cents
per |)erson. Intermediate and
Jr. High Schools are also in-
vited. The event is being
sponsored by the Sophomore
Class.
from the sixth grade through a
three-year college program. In
Shanghai, classes begin in the
third grade.
SUN KEEPS SCHOOL
BOTH HOT AND COOL
TIMONIUM Md.
This town boasts the first
school in the nation that uses
solar energy both for heating
and cooling.
The Timonium Elementary
School, through sponsorship of
the National Science Founda-
tion, installed equipment for
heat by solar energy in one
wing of the school about a year
ago. When the experimental
system provided surplus ener-
gy, a 50-ton, air-conditioning
unit powered by water heated
by the sun was added. The unit,
manufactured by Borg Warn-
er's York Division, is one of the
few capable of operating with
water at a temperature of only
180 degrees.
Solar collectors atop the
building absorb the sun's rays
and heat the water which then
is circulated through con-
vectors for space heating. For
air conditioning, the hot water
is directed to the cooling unit to
serve as its power supply. By
this method the school esti-
mates it saved 1,200 gallons of
fuel oil last March, when the
system was installed, through
May.
SHAMROCK SENDERS
KANSAS CITY - The
number of St. Patrick's Day
cards sent this year by Ameri-
cans will outnumber the people
in Ireland by more than three-
to-one, according to industry
sources.
Dennis Burns of Hallmark es-
timates the green paper bliz-
zard at some 11 million cards,
propelled through the mails by
the 30 million Irish-Americans
in the U.S
Ireland itself has only three
million inhabitants.
Written by Platina, librarian
to the Vatican in Rome, the
first cookbook was published in
1474.
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Starr County's Progress . . .
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Van Nest, Lloyd A. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 20, 1975, newspaper, March 20, 1975; Rio Grande City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194503/m1/9/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.