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Polls Open Saturday For Area Elections
Saturday is the day of reckoning for those can-
didates seeking a position on either the El Campo Ci-
ty Council or the El Campo or Louise public school
boards.
The polls will be open from 7 a m until 7 p m.
Voting will take place in the Community Center for
the council election, all precincts, and the ECISD
board of trustees election, Precincts 5, 6, 8, 12, 16,17
and 20.
Residents of Precincts 2,4,9 and ll wishing to vote
in the ECISD trustee election may do so at the Youth
Fair Building in Crescent.
Superintendent John Strnadel, Louise Indepen-
dent School District, advises those wishing to vote in
that election should cast ballots at the Louise Fire
Station and the new Hillje Parish Hall.
City secretary Robert Lundy predicts that voter
turnout in the city election will be in the 1,100 to 1,300
range.
Superintendent Jack Birtchet, ECISD, predicts a
similar voter turnout in the school trustee election.
The similarity in number of votes cast will be par-
tially due to the fact that the council and trustee
races share, substantially, a common voting area.
“Hopefully, everybody that is eligible will vote,”
Birtchet added.
Strnadel hopes for a “historically liberal voter
turnout of 250“ in the Louise races
Lundy advises voters to bring their voter registra-
tion certificate to the polls to speed the process. He
also says that in order to vote in this election, one
must have registered to vote prior to March 4.
The city and school trustee elections differ in the
manner in which a winner is derived. The winner in
a council race must receive a majority (50 plus per-
cent) to be declared a victor. In the trustee races a
winner is declared on a plurality (whoever recieves
the most amount of votes).
“Since we have three candidates vying for one
position in two council races, then the likelihood of a
runoff is increased,” Lundy said.
Britchet and Strnadel agree that a runoff in the
school races is unlikely because the chances that two
candidates will receive the same number of votes is
unlikely.
The number of absentee ballots cast in the council
elections stands at 242.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Lanier Hester reports
118 absentee votes in the ECISD races, Strnadel
reports three absentee ballots in the LISD board
trustee races and Lundy reports 121 absentee votes
in the city election.
VOTE
In Elections
Saturday,
April 4
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VOTE
In Elections
Saturday,
April 4
VOLUME 97 NUMBER 3
77437
El Campo, Texas, Wednesday, April 1,1981
25 CENTS
6 SECTIONS 50 PAGES
Legislators Salute Roy Benavidez
By FRED BARBEE
It was Roy Benavidez Day at the state
capitol in Austin Tuesday as the El Campo
Medal of Honor winner was honored by Gov.
Bill Clements and both houses of the Texas
legislature.
Benavidez received lengthy standing
ovations in both the House and Senate
chambers, where resolutions commending
his actions were read and passed
unanimously.
Benavidez was escorted to the rostrum in
the House by Rep. Tom Uher and in-
troduced to Speaker Billy Clayton and other
representatives, who passed the first
resolution.
The retired Army master sergeant told
the assemblage, which included nine El
Campoans, that he is “proud to be an
American and a Texan.” He concluded
saying he “thanks God that he was per-
mitted to perform his sworn duty and return
safely to his homeland.”
Following a luncheon, the group attended
a reception in the governor’s office.
Clements’ memorandum also announced
creation of a suitable Medal of Honor
memorial in the state capitol building
“honoring the Texans who have won the
nation’s highest decoration for bravery in
the defense of our country.”
Accolades In Austin
U(4cr Ntwi PM*
Roy Benavidez, left, faces Texas House of Representatives
during a Tuesday morning visit. Also pictured are (l-r) Fred
Barbee, Ruth Frnka, Billy Hale, Representative Tom Uher of
Bay City, House Speaker Billy Clayton, Cecil Davis and
Special Assistant to the Governor Allen Clark.
short stories
The attempted assassination of
Ronald Reagan was the ninth
time a president has been a
target in an assassination plot.
There have been four presidents
assassinated in office. They are
Abraham Lincoln, James A. Gar-
field, William McKinley and John
F. Kennedy. Attempts were made
on the lives of Andrew Jackson,
Harry 8. Truman and Gerald R.
Ford, who was twice the target of
attempts on his life.
while watching a play at Ford’s
Theater in Washington, D.C. on
April 15. 1865. John Wilkes Booth,
his assassin, was tracked down
and shot.
James Garfield was shot and
killed by a disgruntled job-seeker,
Charles Guiteau, who fired at him
from close range In a railroad sta-
tion on July 2, 1881. Garfield died
Sept. 19, 1881. at Elberton, N.J.
The assassin was hanged.
Gerald Ford was shot at by Sara
Jane Moore in San Francisco on
Sept. 22, 1975. Seventeen days
earlier. Sept. 5, Secret Service
agents wrestled a revolver from
another woman, Lynette Alice
“Squeaky” Fromme, who tried to
shoot Ford In Sacramento. Both
women are now serving life prison
terms at the Federal Correctional
institution in Alderson, W.Va.
William McKinley was shot
twice while shaking hands in a
reception line at an international
exposition In Buffalo, N.Y., on
Sept. 6, 1961. He died eight days
later and his killer was elec-
trocuted.
John Kennedy was killed by a
sniper's bullet In a Dallas motor-
cade on Nov. 22, 1963. The Warren
Commission said the killer was
lee Harvey Oswald, who was
murdered himself while in police
custody on Nov. 24, 1963.
The first attempt on an
American president's life was in
1835, when a painter named
Richard Lawrence fired two
pistols from six feet away at An-
drew Jackson in the Capitol
Rotunda in Washington. D.C.
Jackson was not injured.
Abraham Lincoln was killed
After the Kennedy assassina-
tion, Congress passed a law on
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International Fair Next
For ECHS9 Victoria High Seniors
Darrell Fox, El Campo High
School senior, and Doug Posey,
Victoria High School senior, were
named the “Grand Award”
winners at the 20th annual El
Campo Regional Science and
Engineering Fair Friday night.
Fox’s study of thin-layer
chromatography and Posey's
research on the effects of drug
chlorpromazine on rats will be
entered in the 32nd annual
International Science and
Engineering Fair May 11-16 in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Fox, a straight A student who
hopes to continue his studies next
fall at either Rice University,
Texas A&M University or Texas
Lutheran College, also received
special awards from the U. S.
Army, the Four County Medical
Society and the Marine
(See related story. Page 1-D)
Technological Society.
He is the son of Mr and Mrs
Harry G. Fox, 311 E Watt St.
Science Fair Director Ken
Walla called the event a
“tremendous success,” par-
ticularly in terms of the number
of competitors in the junior high
division
“The quality of the material
exhibited was much better than
1960, and there was more en-
thusiasm among the com-
petitors,” Walla said Tuesday.
Topics relating to energy and
the medical fields were among the
most popular subjects of study, he
added.
Four new schools participated
in the 1981 Fair, including Sweet
Home School, East Bernard
Junior High School and Wood-
sboro and Bloomington high
schools.
Thompson Industries Aiming
For April 6 Production Start
Thom peon Industries, a subsidiary of the
Kraft-Dart Corporation, announced plans to
begin production of foam cups at its El Campo
facility on Monday. April 6. according to John
Cameron, maintenance supervisor
Thompson employees are presently testing
equipment and making final installations The
boiler has been fired and the compressors and
rotation on the pumps have checked out satisfac-
torily. Cameron said
“Everything is going well so far We have a
real good chance of meeting that April 6 goal,”
Cameron said
At one point the new industry had difficulty in
finding qualified employees, but the
maintenance supervisor said all positions Hhve
now bean filled
The plant, which is 9i percent complete, will
employ 6045 people including upper level
management, when it opens
Production will be at approximately 50 percent
of capacity during the first week Cameron an
ticipates that production levels will increase as
employees become better acquainted with their
jobs Management hopes the plant will be pro-
ducing at too percent capacity within six weeks
after opening, or sometime in mid-May, he said
Dart and Thompson officials are planning a
public grand opening in the near future A date
has not been set. but Cameron speculated that
the grand opening will be held after full produc
Hon capacity is reached.
The cups will have a texture ahich Thompson
calls "Styroweave ” Cups which do not require
printing will be shipped directly to distributors
hut cups which require printing will be shipped
to Phoenix, Arts or to Shreveport La
The El Campo plant has plans of handling its
own printing in the future
L-N Photo by Mrvf Kurhrr
Fish frying kettle* chum away at Rotary benefit fundraiser.
EC Receives Fish Fry Well
A new civic center for El Campo
is one step closer to reality this
week following a successful
shrimp boil and benefit auction
heid Saturday by the Rotary Club
All net proceeds from the affair,
first of its kind by the civic club,
will go into a fund to build a new
community-civic center
Rotary Club President Irvin
Foytik announc'd Tuesday that
although final tabulations will not
he complete until later in the
week, it appears that more than
92o(RHi will go into (he special
community center fund
Biggest money raiser was the
benefit auction that saw nearly
200 donated Items bring more
than 520,000 Bidders stayed with
auctioneers Odis Newton and J P
Pustejovsky for nearly five hours,
buy ing every item
"It was a great community
effort and the Rotary Club owes a
debt of gratitude to all those who
participated In any way,’ Foytik
said
"9> served food to nearly 2.000
(tfHipIr and would have probably
exceeded that figure If the
weather hadn t aried up a little "
he add«<rJ
Foytik a|w> announced that the
Hotary Club is actually still in the
bubines* ot raising money, with
several hundred |monds gf frozen
shrimp tiemg sold for 14 per pound
in five pound boxes
Persons who want to buy some
of the large shrimp at bargain
prices can place their orders with
either Hot) Melanson at the
Commercial State Hank or Dick
Waddell at First National Bank
Itotarian .Jim Canned general
chairman of the event, expressed
satisfaction and had praise for
everyone involved
‘ We Ieel fort unate for the great
turnout ami the auction proceeds
since this was our first cfforl ”
( armed said
“I'm sure this wtl*. become an
annual event and get bigger each
year " he added
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