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Pharr, San luan projects
should standon own merits
The physical thread that unites San Juan and Pharr is “I” Road. It is the
common border on Pharr’s eastern and San Juan’s western border. And
initially, “I” Road was the object of most of the discussion when officials and
staff from the two sister cities met at Don Poncho’s last Tuesday night. Street
widening, ongoing drainage, right-of-way and future plans were discussed.
Both city managers had already been working together in many areas, but
communication was expanded in most areas.
Then the two cities begin to discussion projects and problems that truly
showed their desire to cooperate to the mutual benefit of both. Although “I”
Road is the common ground, there are other reasons why mutual cooperation
between the two cities make sense. Families are intertwined, with
grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters living on one side of “I” Road or
the other, but without existing in two separate worlds. When living-condition
improvements such as better garbage services and better water supplies are
considered, Pharr or San Juan is not just considering a city government, but
family and friends.
From the two cities’ standpoint, the economic feasability of cooperation on
various municipal Droiects is Dotentially great enough to offset extra
work that might be involved. Pharr is going to have to expand its water plant
plant next year, and is planning a minor expansion of its sanitation service. The
cost {or p new water plant will be in large part the land cost and costs of
buildings and storage. To expand the plant from a three or four million gallon
capaciaty plant, to a six or seven million gallon capacity plant, could lower the
construction cost per gallon capacity. And the cost would be passed to San
Juan in water cost. And for San Juan, it might be cheaper to buy water from
another municipality, that to absorb the land acquisition costs and initial
consturction costs.
The same holds true for sanitation services. San Juan and Pharr discussed the
possibility of utilizing Pharr’s compacting station and large trucks for San
Juan’s garbage which is presently being hauled all the way to La Joya in the
same garbage trucks. San Juan could steer away from the heavy initial
investment of a compacting station and semi-trailers for a smaller quantity of
garbage, and it would be a better utilization of Pharr’s facilities which go
almost unused one day out rff the week.
The bottom line economically is that it is often very costly for duplication of
services on a small scale, when the combination of two smaller units can make
the running of one larger service much more efficient. Both city engineers and
city staff are closely studying the possibilities, and the benefits to both cities. If
any projects evolve, the cost planning will be intensive and and complete to
guarentee that both cities are carrying their fair share. If the cities decide
there are advantages to coordinating on projects, it is then up to the residents
of the two cities to study the proposals and support the projects with the
maturity and foresight necessary for continued progress. With the common
bonds between the peoples of San Juan and Pharr, the projects should be able
to stand on their own merits.
Pharr-Mexico bridge
increasingly necessary
Congressman Kika de la Garza reported many complaints about the long waits
being experienced by people from both sides at the Hidalgo border crossing.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service agreed that while traffic is
frequently heavy at Hidalgo, it has been worse lately due to the fact that
dove-hunting seasons have been underway.
De la Garza reported that on August 28, during a 24-hour period, the INS in
Hidalgo inspected 12,394 vehicles. Also 63 local border crossing cards, nine
immigrant visas, seven applications for green cards and 368 other entry
documents.
It is very evident to people both in Reynosa, Rio Bravo and other Mexican
cities, and to Pharr and other idley cities, that several more bridges and border
crossing stations are urgently needed. There has always been a lot of movement
from Mexico to the Sdley and from the Sflley to Mexico. Now the numbers are
increasing rapidly. The U.S. has more winter tourists who like to cross the
river for vacations and entertainment and for shopping. There is also a need for
the movement of industrial equipment from the U.S. to a rapidly
industrializing Mexico. Mexico is also sending more and more vegatables and
fruit across, and other goods, which need a smooth, uninterrupted entry into
the U .5?
From all sides it appears the a new bridge in Pharr would be very benefical to
Mexico and to the U.S. It is one of several solutions to a nagging problem that
now faces the two countries.
U.S. consumers trendy
Eating trends of U. S. citizens have changed through the years, but recent
statistics by the USD A contains some eyeopeners.
The survey shows that 90 percent of Americans say they don’t eat processed
eggs, meat substitutes, veal, lamb, frozen fruits or baby foods. Eighty-six
percent said they don’t drink any form of cocoa. Nearly half of Americans do
not drink tea. Half of them don’t eat fish or consume soups.
In the beverage line, coffee is the most popular. Only 22 percent of Americans
compared to 20 percent who don’t eat pork. Nearly a third of our population
doesn’t eat poultry or lunch meats.
Dairy products have the highest incidence of consumption. Only six percent
said they don t consume fresh milk in some form.
OoverOver 50 percent of us don’t eat ice cream and 13 percent never eat fresh
vegetables.
And one result which is hard to believe:55 percent of U.S. households don’t use
flour anymore. Which means people are buying their bread made and eating
cakes and pastries in eating establishments.
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CHARLES L. NELSON The PRESS accepts letters to the editor as long as name and address is
Editor given. Pictures and stories from the community are accepted for
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JUAN CARLOS
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The PRESS is dedicated to being a community newspaper that provides
local, indepth coverage cf news pertaining to the Pharr, San Juan and
Alamo communities.
Published each Thursday morning in the dty of Pharr, Hidalgo County,
in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Subscription rates: $7.50 per
year in Hidalgo County $11.00 per year outside the county.
Uoyd Glover seen round
editor emeritus t he t own
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You read and hear talk of an impending
shortage of water, both domestic and
industrial use, and for agriculture, but
there is
no shortage at this point in time along the
Rio Grande River. Both Amistad and
Falcon Reservoirs are over normal
conservation levels, due to continuing
rains on the watersheds of the Devil’s and
Pecos Rivers. Amistad has a total of 3.75
million acre feet, which is about 250,000
acre feet ABOVE the conservation level
for this time of year. A release is being
made at the reservoir to reduce the
storage total. Falcon has 2.7 million acre
feet, only 25,000 acre feet above the
conservation level. There is a release of
7,000 cubic feet per second. Notice that the
amount of water in the lakes is given in
ACRE FEET* while the releases are in
CUBIC FEET.
The large pipe being laid around the town
is for drainage of surface water. With the
pipe being laid on West Caffery, the long
standing problem of high water around the
post office after a heavy rain will be
solved.
Bank deposits are a prime indicator of the
prosperity of an area. At the last call, the
banks in the four Valley counties had
deposits in excess of $1.2 billion.
Brownsville is the leading banking center
with $590 million in deposits, followed by
McAllen with $540 million. Pharr had $42
million, while Weslaco, a city about the
same size population wise as Pharr, had
$104 million, and Mission, a city smaller
than either Weslaco or Pharr, had $140
million. Population is not always a true
indicator of the bank deposits, as a
comparison of Pharr, Weslaco and Mission
shows. Alamo, a city one-fifth the size of
Pharr, has bank deposits of $44 million.
George W. McCullough of Pharr has
ended a long tenure as a member of the
board of Rio Farms of Monte Alto. George
has served two consecutive terms of seven,
years each, for a total of 14 years. There
have been many changes in the operation
of the farms in all of those years. It was
originally a “job training” set up for future
farmers, with each farming a certain
acreage. Small houses were constructed
on each of the tracts, and the
farmer-trainee lived on his tract. This
plan was given up a good many years ago.
The present manager is Norman Sluis. He
is known by many in the PSJA area as he
has been active in the All Valley Winter
Vegetable Show for a number of years.
Carl and Dorothy Evans were in San
Antonio for a Methodist church meeting
which Dorothy was attending and after a
visit with their daughter and family, they
went on to Brownwood to visit with the
Lynn McAden’s. He will be remembered
as the pastor of the Pharr United
Mehodisit Church for seven years. They
moved to Brownwood from Rocksprings
this June, and now for the first time in his
ministerial career of more than 40 years,
they have a house of their own. He is
pastor of two rural churches near
Brownwood. They are excited about
owning their home for the first time. The
Evans’ then went on to Coleman to visit
two more forme Pharr-ites, Mr. and Mrs.
J.L. Farmer. He was principal at PSJA
High School for many years, and he was
active in the Pharr Rotary Club and a past
president. She was a teacher in PSJA.
Both were active in the Pharr Methodist
Church. They are enjoying retirement and
send greetings to their many friends.
Mrs. Kent (Fay) Finger has been
technician, office manager, for Dr. Tully
Mayer and for son Tim since he has joined
the profession, for a total of 29 years. It is
a rarity to work that long for one
professional firm, but the most
remarkable thing about it is that she has
been coming to work every morning, five
days a week, at 6:30 a.m. She should
receive a gold medal from the Mayers’, or
more appropriately, a gold tooth!
The Catholic Church has many Saints of
the Church. Each has a cause for which
they are patrons. An up-to-date dictionary
Charles Nelson
as I see it
Nortes stir blood
listing all of the Saints has just been’
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The Virgin Mary is the patron of many
nations in North and South America but '
the partron of the Americas as a whole is ’ '
St. Rose of Lima.
The Archangel Gabriel is the patron for '
telecommunications and television work:
ers, postal workers, radio workers, clerics
and messengers. f
St. Matthew is the patron for tax
collectors, bankers, bookkeepers and
accountants. St Joseph is the patron jbf
carpenters. St Joseph of Aramathea is fojr't
the funeral directors, Mrs. Shirley Skinner-’
may be interested in knowing. . .’r
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St. John Bosco is patron for editors and’ '.
St. Frances de Sales is for journalists (notp_
editors and journalists are segregated). Of
interest to this writer is that St. Hubert*
and Eustace are for hunters. - xte?
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And for lovers, there are two. St;-
Valentine the most well known and*’
Archangel RaphaeL ^
If you want to know the Saint for your-
profession see a Priest. If you are not a °
Catholic, you could probably find it in the
Pharr Memorial Library.
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We’ve had a few nortes now and before
the heat moves back and the asphalt
steams again I thought I it would be
roper that I might write my annual
E
inting piece.
The Cha
lambers of Commerce have thier
annual banquets; there are annual
banquets, annual leaves, annuals and
annual hunts.
There are the Field & Streams, the
Outdoor Lifes and Sports Afields for those
planning annual hunts, or for those jusfc
dreaming of such hunts.
I can’t say where this column might fit
in. The only annual hunt I’ve ever taken
has been from about September until
February, which is longer than the
common annual hunt and which has always
been composed differently than any I read
about in slick sports magazines.
There is probably a bit of the dreaming
involved in writing this and there is a lot of
remembering also.
The annual hunts I talk about begin in
September with dove season and end after
quail and pheasant season the last of
January. There may be an occassional
coyote hunt thrown in in February, if one
gets stir crazy and wants to brave the
snow, ice and whipping north wind.
The lodge is the house on the family
farm where my parents live. The hunting
lease extends for miles in all directions and
ends when relation, friends, friends of
relation, relation of friends and other
aquaintances end. Depending on the
politics of a hunter, the lease can be quite
large.
The cost may be a box of chocolates for
the woman of the farm, or a few dressed
quail, but usually it is nothing more than a
few introductory words, or a phone call, or
an inquiry at church, at the local gas
station or at numerous other happenings.
There can be various lease restrictions.
Sometimes the grandson is kicking
around, he may have to be taken out
hunting, or left to kick around the
weekend without disturbance. Sometimes
their may be livestock in the area which
will be taken out in a few weeks and the
hunter has to wait several weeks for that
area to open up.
Sometimes the landowner (leaser)
knows so many birds have been shot from
one covey, or so many cock pheasants
taken from one draw and he will request
that you steer clear of those areas.
Other times he will tell you where the
deer have been clipping the wheat, or
where he’s seen a number of cock
pheasant, where he has seen the geese
land or where he knows there are several
good coveys.
The number in hunting parties depends
upon how easy the hunting, whether the
owner and his sons or brothers hunt, and
most importantly, how good you dog or
dogs are.
The distance travelled may be out the
back door, down the draw and through the
field; or it may be several miles of gravel
roads.
I haven’t had the time to find the
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conditions for that type of annual h.unf£
here. Conditions are different here which.-
are the limiting factors. The only hunting’
I’ve been exposed to here is very different^
The cost is greater: It includes a lease
for anywhere from $400 to $1000 per
person, plus maintainence costs necessary.
The distance is ofter 40 or 50 miles
one-way. The size may be limited to drib"
square mile and woe be to the hunter who
steps outside “his” square mile.
The hunter may never know the lease*,
and may barely know others in on the
lease. -.v-M
Thrown in a processing fee for
packaging the deer meat, a few other*:
added extras, and I could spend more' in -
one year’s hunting here than in all the*:'
previous twenty some years previous, kk-ts
Those are some of the changes one .
experiences as one leaves familiar hunting
grounds. Which to some of us means 'qur
hunting urge becomes dormant.
Which is probably why I wrote this *
piece.
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San luan y
Pharr
El hilo que conecta la ciudad de Pharr y
San Juan es la calle I. Es la linea divisoria
del este de Pharr y La linea oeste de San
Juan. Esta calle fue objeto de la discusion
cuando oficiales de ambas ciudades se
reunieron en Don Panchos el martes
pasado. Se hablo de ampliar la calle, el
drenaje y otros planes para el futuro.
Ambos gerentes de las ciudades antes
mencionadas han estado trabajando juntos
en muchas areas, pero la expansion en la
comunicacion se hizo mas amplia. Cuando
ambas ciudades empezaron ha discutir sus
proyectos y problemas esto demostro su
deseo sincero de cooperacion para
beneficio de ambas. Aunque la calle I es el
principal punto de discusion, hay otras
razones por la cual estas ciudades deben
trabajar juntas. Las familias se
encuentran en ambos lados de la calle, hay
abuelos, padres, hermanos y hermanas.
Cuando se hable del mejoramiento de las
utilidades, no solo se piensa del gobierno
de las ciudades, sino de familias y amigos.
Desde el punto de vista de ambas ciudades
la posibilidad de cooperacion aminora el
trabajo que se necesita extender las
mejoras que se requieren. La ciudad de
Pharr necesita extender su planta de agua
y su servicio de sanidad. El costo inicial de
esta planta sera muy extenso porque se
necesita terreno, edificios y almacenami-
ento. Para expander la planta de agua que
tiene una capacidad actual de tres o
cuatro millones de galones a seis or siete
millones, podria disminuir el costo por
galon. Parte de este costo puede ser
absorvido por San Juan, de esta manera
seria mas barato para que San Juan
compre agua de otra municipalidad, que
comprar tierra y hacer otros gastos de
construccion.
Lo mismo se puede decir de los servicios
de sanidad. Pharr y San Juan discustieroi
la posibilidad de utilizar la estacion de
Pharr, en vez de transportarlo hasta la
Joya en trocas u otros medios.
Economicamente esto benefidaria a ambas
dudades y el servicio seria mas eficiente.
Los ingenieros de ambas ciudades estan
estudiando todas las posibilidades para
beneficio de las dos comunidades, si los
proyectos se desarrollan, el costo de
responsabilidades. Si ambas ciudades
deciden que hay ventajas en la
coordiancion de sus proyectos, los
dudadanos de las dos ciudades son los que
deben apoyar su progreso. Debido a los
intereses mutuos la gente de Pharr y San
Juan deben sostenerse en sus propios
meritos.
Puente
Habitos del
Estados
Los habitos de alimentacion en este pais
han cambiado en los ultimos anos, pero las
redentes estadisticas dadas por la agencia
USDA contiene algunas sorpresas. Una
encusta demuestra que el 90 por dento no
consume blanquillos procesados, substit-
utes de carne, borrego, frutas congeladas o
alimentos de ninos. El 86 por ciento dice
que no consume ninguna forma de cocoa,
casi la mitad no consumen te, la mitad n
conume pescado o sopa consume. Entre las
bebidad el cafe es el mas popuabr, solo el 22
por ciento no lo toma. El 63 por ciento, no -
consume jugos de fruta. El 38 por ciento no /
tiene sodas en su hogar. La carne de res eG
la mas popular.
Solo el 9 por ciento no lo consume, el 20 ‘
por ciento no come pueroo. Una teredra ’
parte de la poblacion no come came de
aves o carnes frias. Los productos qufe '
provienen de la leche son los que mas se
consumen, .solo un seis por ciento no lo.
consume. Un 50 por ciento no consume
nieve y un 13 por ciento no consumed
vegetales. Algo que es muy dificil de creer
es que el 55 por dento de los hogares ya no
consume harina. Esto indica que la gente
compra mas pan hecho fuera y esta
consumiendo mas cakes y pasteles dn
establecimientos comerciales.
epresent
Diputados, Sr. Kika de La flrza ha recibido
muchas quejas sobre las largas lineas de
espera en ambos lados de la frontera, en
particular Hidalgo. Los oficiales de la
inmigracion estan de acuerdo a que el
trafico es numeroso, ultimamente, debido
a que estamos en la epoca de caceria. El
senor de la frza reporto que el dia 28 de
agosto,durante el periodo de 24 horas la
inmigracion de Hidalgo inspecdono 12,394
vehiculos, 63 tarjetas de cruce, 9 visas de
inmigrante, siete aplicaciones para
tarjetas verdes y 368 documentos varios.
Es evidente que las personas que residen
en Reynosa, Rio Bravo, otras ciudades de
Mexico y todas las ciudades del valle de
Texas, necesitan con urgencia mas
puentes y estaciones de cruce.
Siempre ha habido mucho movimiento
entre Mexico y el valle, pero en los ultimos
anos los numeros han aumentado de una
manera vertiginosa. Los Estados Unidos
cuenta con muchos turistas que gustan de
visitar Mexico para hacer compras y para
distraerse. Tambien hay mucha necesidad
de maquinaria pesada en Mexico, ahora
que esta empezando ha industrializarse.
Mexico envia cada vez mas vegetales y
frutas a nuestro pais y estos tienen que
pasar de una manera continua. Todo
parece indicar que un puente en Pharr
seria muy beneficioso para solucionar este
problema que afecta a ambos paises.
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