The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 32, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 27, 1971 Page: 1 of 14
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THE ARANSAS PASS PROGRESS
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, . Boosting Aransas Pass, Ingleside and Port Aransas Yesterday, Today and Tdtnorrow
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VOLUME 63—NUMBER 32 1 pmSTat*!!*ansa? pmYYuas ARANSAS PASS. TEXAS 7133$. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1971
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NEW INGLES IDE BANK officials assumed their new roles Monday in a reorgan
izauon of Urst National Bank. Elected chairman-of-the-board was Cecil E. Bur-
ney, center, Corpus Christi attorney and banker; Minor Culli, Tngleside, operator
of a chain of Camera stores, left, and Nathan Friedman, president of Lichtenstein’s,
Corpus Christi, both new members of the board of directors. A group of several
area men bought controlling interest in the bank which was formerly owned by
residents of Oklahoma, Dallas and Irving.
Ingleside Bank Reorganized;
Interest Bought By Area Men
Car Theft Ends
In High Speed
Chase by Police
A high-speed chase by an all-
eged car thief Monday ended in
apprehension of the driver at
the intersections of Highways
35 and 181 at Gregory by Aran-
sas pass Patrolman MelvinShedd
and aided by at least seven units
of law officers from neighboring
cities and the San Patricio County
Sheriff’s Department,
Charged Tuesday and trans-
ferred to San Patricio County
jail was John Randolph Bingham,
18, Aransas pass.
Police Chief Felix Turnbough
said the stolen car saga began
when Bingham allegedly jumped
into a 1964 model automobile
belonging to Arthur Collins which
was parked at the side of Collin’s
dnve-in grocery.
The police chief said the keys
were left in the car.
Collins immediately reported
the theft and local police began
their search.
About an hour after the theft,
Patrolman Shedd spotted the car
parked in front of a Rife Street
residence. When the police off-
icer appeared, he said Bingham
jumped into the auto and sped
away.
The police chief said Bingham
ran through three stop signs and
was traveling at a “very high
Controlling interest in the ison, account executive at Merr- “We feel that Ingleside is on the AMtetan^P ol i c*e^hie/Virrii
First National Bank of Ingleside ill Lynch; Jack C. McKenzie, threshold of extensive industrial Pattprson ioin ohpdd in theehaL
has been purchased by a group president of McKenzie Volks- and business development and ... : . . p .
of area men, it was announced wagon; and Mike Murray, part- that the First National Bank of . T IT rnirie<;ideanHthe sher-
by Edward J. Wrobliske, bank ner in the Sid Murray Insurance Ingleside has a special role to ^tment
president. Agency. play in this development.” ..wh£, reached tj,e
Cecil E. Burney CorpusChn- “Since all members of the WrobUske became president 35 £ 181 intersectl0n
sti attorney andbanker, heads the purchasing group have long been of the bank on Aug. 3, 1970- hiscar SDun around several times
purchasing group and was named interested in the development of the day Hurricane Celia struck , camg to a halt the Aransas
chgfcrman-of-the-board. Burney, South Texas, we believe the bank the area. nolice chief einlained “Pa
who owns a second home at In- will now become an important “After that experience,” Wro-
gleside-on -the- Bay, has been a factor in financing worthwhile bliske said, “We have only one ^
directs* of the bank since its additions to the business comm- way to go-up! The bank and the ^ p w
lueifti r\t fkn area *1 Diirnnu cmH opoq haun a fitkiipa • '
organization.
Minor Culli of Ingleside, op-
erator of a chain of camera
stores, and Nathan Friedman,
president of Lichetenstein’s,
Corpus Chrisit department store,
have been elected to the board
of directors.
W. A. Edwards, Ingleside
native and president of the San
Patricio Municipal Water Dis-
trict, was elected an advisory
director.
Since its organization in 1964,
controlling interest in the bank
has been held by residents of
Oklahoma, Dallas, and Irving.
Other directors are Walter
A. Brauer of Ingleside, presi-
dent of Brauer Aluminum; T. M.
Vlasak of Ingleside, retired gro-
cer; George R. Clark, Aransas
Pass Chevrolet dealer; and Wro-
bliske.
C.O.McKenzie, vice-president
of the bank is an advisory direc-
tor while Burl R. Bowden,
cashier, is secretary to the
board.
At the last bank call, First
National Bank of Ingleside showed
total deposits of $4,084,000 and
loans of $2,043,000. The bank
has total capital accounts of $352,
000, the bank president explained.
Others in the purchasing group
are Lew Borden, Corpus Christi
insuranceman; Grady C. Clark,
owner of Eastern Seed Co.; Ben
D. Marks, real estate developer;
G. Russell K i rk lan d, former
manager of Merrill Lynch Pierce
Fenner & Smith; B. Frank Harr-
HEARD...
. . . DENISE HALEY is dri-
uaity of the area,” Burney said, area have a bright future.’
FIRST PLACE WINNERS IN PTA MEMBERSHIP DRIVE — In the recent mem-
bership drive of the Aransas Pass Parent Teachers Association the 4th grade of
W. A. Kieberger School was named winner for receiving the largest number of
members in the drive. Twenty-one parents from the room joined the associa-
tion. Pictured above are the winning students (seated 1 to r) are Jimmy Muse,
Billy Don Walzel, Jackie Lyn Kirkham, Cammie Smith, Kent Maguglin, Andrea
Stennett, Belinda Martinez, Lori Mack. (Standing, 1 to r) Joe Guitierrez, David
Moreno, Phillip Murray, Michael Arnold, Eileen Yeamans, Nancy Kain, Rebecca
Ellis, Ramon Alvarado, Mrs. Ann Gibbs (teacher), David Trevino, Darrell Mc-
Cullough, Juanita Mendez, Herbert Chism, principal, Joey Flores, Denise Jones,
Lisa Neuman, Charlotte Sheppard, Ronald Birkelbach, Delores Davila, Rhae Nell
Roberts. Students absent when the picture was made were Lynn Harris and
Patricia Flores. The room received a prize of $5. The PTA new has a membership
of 237.
In Port Aransas
UT Regents Approve $3 Million
Expansion At Marine Institute
SP County Demo
Women To Hear
Judge Bissett
Associate Justice Gerald T.
Bissett, 13th Court of Civil
Appeals, Corpus Christi, will
be the principal speaker forth©
annual banquet of the Democra-
tic Women of San Patricio Coun-
ty slated for 7:30 p.m., Thurs-
day, Oct. 28 at Little Bob’s
Restaurant in Aransas Pass.
Judge Bissett is a native of
Tivoli, Texas was county attor-
ney of Refugio County for many
years.
David Irving, Ingleside High
School band director, will pre-
sent musical entertainment for
the evening.
Tickets for the dinner may
be purchased from Mrs. R.D.
Hatch, Aransas Pass; Mrs.
Wanda Casall, Ingleside; Mrs.
Clara Medina, Gregory, Mrs.
Leroy Weiting, Portland; Mrs.
Geraldine Wood, Taft; Mrs.
Velma Shuman,Sinton; and Mrs.
O.A. Talley, Odem. Tickets are
$2.25 each.
A spokesman said dinner
would be served promptly at
7:30 p.m. followed by Judge Bis-
sett’s talk.
The meeting is open to the
public.
Time Change Is
Coming Sunday
Aransas Pass, Port Aransas
and Ingleside folks are reminded
that at 2 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 31,
the state will return to Central
Standard Time and should turn
their clocks back one hour.
Daylight Saving Time, which
went into effect the last Sunday
of April and clocks were moved
forward one hour, will officially
be over at 2 a.m. this coming
JfUDday.
W However, most people have
developed the practice of moving
their clocks back one hour when
they go to bed on Saturday night.
That mean’s you can grab an
extra hour of sleep if you de-
sire.
nso don’t forget! Turn those
clocks and watches back one
hour.
Credit Union Now
Available for AP
Hospital Employees
Employees of Lyman-Roberts
Hospital, Aransas Pass, are now
eligible to borrow and save mon-
ey through a new stat^-wide cre-
dit union set in operation by the
Texas Hospital Association.
Lyman-Roberts Hospital has
no credit union of its own and
until the new THA service was
implemented, hospital workers
had no opportunity for partici-
pation in a credit union.
Initiated in Sept. 1970, the THA
credit union is a non-profit or-
ganization and was set up just
for workers in hospitals in Texas
where credit unions do not exist.
The local hospital workers are
among the newest members of
the organization, which already
hast 2,500 individual members
from 66 hospitals.
Gene Scott, administrator
of Lyman-Roberts, this week said
he was happy that the local
employees can now participate
and that many have indicated
interest in joining the group.
ving a new purple Geremlin,
she received for a graduation
present . , . BERTHA and
CURTIS BARBER called their
son, David, in Holland Sunday
to wish him a happy birthday .
. . a GIRL SCOUT meeting
will be held Thursday after-
noon at 3:30 p.m. at the Kie-
berger Cafeteria for mothers
of daughters ages 7 thru 11 . ..
INGLESIDE HIGH SCHOOL is
planning a big bonfire and pep
rally Thursday at 6:30 p.m. on
the high school grounds behind
the gymnasium in preparation
for the Homecoming Game Fri-
day night ... the changing
of the clocks will be at 2 a.m.
Sunday so be sure and set your
alarm to wake up and change
yours ... a big dance will
be held at the COUNTRY CLUB
Saturday night for Halloween...
POLICE CHIEF FELIX TURN-
BOUGH has been re-appointed
to the Executive Board of the
Texas Police Chiefs Associa-
tion for the 12th year . . .
The plans received the final
okay from the University of Texas
System Board of Regents last
Friday afternoon.
The regents also authorized
4 San Pat Officials
Attend Special Meet
Four San Patricio County off-
icials attended the Texas Correc-
tions Association Southwest Re-
gional meeting held Oct. 21-22
in Corpus Christi.
Participating In the two-day
session‘were Mrs. Jeanne Wad-
dell, Juvenile officer; Raul Gon-
zales, Justice of the peace,Pre-
cenct No. 1; Richard D. Hatch,
county attorney, and Alonzo Rod-
requez, who will assume his new
duties as the county’s first adult
probation officer on Nov. 1.
A portion of the program was
on the use of Psychocybernetics
as a re-habilitive tool of pro-
bation, parole and in correction
centers.
the Office of Facilities Planning
for permanent members of the
Institute staff. The apartment
ject.
John Thompson, Jr., manager
of the marine laboratory depart-
ment, told The Progress that
"everybody out here is delighted
and we’re looking forward to
getting the expansion underway.’
Thompson said included in the
expansion is a three-level la-
boratory building with 61,00.
gross square feet of floor space;
a physical plant service building
with 6,900 square feet of floor
space; a one-level, elevated dor-
mitory housing 30 persons and
having 4,600 gross square feet
of floor space; an apartment
building containing eight units,
mostly two-bedrooms In size,
for permanent member of the
Institute staff. The apartment
complex will hare 6,600 gross
square feet of floor space.
Thompson explained that the
new buildings will be on brick
and concrete structures, and de-
signed to withstand winds of more
than 100-miles-per-hour.
As a “port” for students and
faculty, the Marine Science In-
stitute has had a long-standing
commitment to training students
and developing new knowledge
that can help solve environmen-
tal problems of the coastal zone.
The new facilities will alow the
Institute to develop to a greater
extent its educational and re-
search programs, Thompson
said.
He estimated actual construc-
tion should begin soon after the
beginning of 1972.
We Invite ...
We Invite to be our guest at
"Evil Knievel” showing Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 31,and
Nov. 1 and 2 at the Rialto Thea-
tre, James Revells and guest.
This notice, clipped from The
Progress, will serve as your
admission.
AP Rotarians Set
Fish Fry! Proceeds
To Aid City Beauty
Aransas Pass Rotarian are now
selling tickets for a fish fry to
be held on Wednesday, Nov. 10
at May Allen School cafeteria to
raise funds for a downtown bea-
utification project.
H. D. Bonorden, president of
the local Rotary Club, said today
that the money made from the
fish fry will be used to plant
shrubs around bare spots in the
concrete areas of downtown
Aransas Pass.
“It’s strictly a beautification
project and one that will benefit
aU citizens of Aransas Pass
and add to the attraction of the
downtown area for us as well
as tourists,’ Bonorden said.
The tickets are $1.50 for adults
and 75? for children.
Serving will be from 5 p.m.
to 8 p.m.
San Pat $7.4 Million Drainage
Bond Election Is Set For Nov. 6
ches and spoil disposal areas,
relocation of utlittes and roads
The newly appointed directors
of the newly created San Patri-
cio County Drainage District lost
no time in putting the gears in
motion of their board, by calling
a $7.4 million bond election for
The R. L. Herndon family of
Aransas pass is a rare family
indeed!
They like to do things toge-
ther and do, but the one big
thing of togetherness with the
Herndons is their love of
snakes.
They even managed to hatch
snake eggs together and their
combined effort of tender loving
care after 80 days-last Thurs-
day produced an even dozen
“Hognose’ snakes.
To say the least, this family’s
group hobby is unusual. And, to
say the least, this Progress
reporter’s assignment to get a
story and pictures is probably
the least desired story assign-
ment we’ve ever had in a long
career in the Fourth Estate.
The Herndons are a lovely
family. Real nice, interesting
people, but a visit at their home
was one this reporter could have
done without.
Now to the details in this
business of man hatching re-
ptile eggs.
Mr. Herndon, who also hap-
pens to be the official U.S.
Weather Service weatherman
for Aransas Pass, found the
mother snake when she was
pregnant.
By the time she had laid her
eggs, the family had thoroughly
investigated the procedures for
hatching snake eggs.
Taking the eggs from the
Saturday, Nov. 6.
Meeting for thg second time
last Thursday, the directors
pointed out that the money for
the bond issue would be used to
purchase rights-of-way for dit-
mother’s cage,they placed the
See ‘Snakes.’’ Page 12
Early Start Seen
On Local Plant
Of LeTourneau
IHC Holland-LeTourneau
Marine Corporation, a Joint eff-
ort of Dutch and American in-
terests, announced today that
arrangements had been com-
pleted for the establishment of
a facility at Port Ingleside on
Corpus Christi Bay. The Com-
pany plans to fabricate steel
structures at the site for the
oil and gas industry.
One type of unit that the
company recently has contrac-
ted to construct is a Self Mo-
bilizing Offshore Platform, a
new generation of bottom su-
pported mobile platform for
drilling oil and gas wells in
the ocean. The first unit to
be built at Port Ingleside is
destined for overseas work for
operation in water depths to
330 feet.
During 1972, the company
plans employment from San
Patricio and Nueces County ar-
eas of approximately 220. Com-
pany representatives will be In
the area this week to commence
preparations.
and the widening of bridges.
Woodrow Hart, president of the
district, said federal funds th-
rough the Soil Conservation Ser-
vice will be used for construct-
ion of the county-wide projects.
The Corpus Christi firm of
Lockwood, Andrews and Newman,
have already prepared prelim-
inary plans for the project under
the criteria set up for projects
to be eligible to receive federal
funds under Public Law 566.
Voters approved the creation of
the district and also the levying
of a maintenance tax in an elect-
ion on Oct. 16.
The maintenance tax for the
project is expected to amount
to $100,000 annually. The tax—
which has not been set—could go
as high as 35 cents per $100
valuation but Commissioners
Court have previously indicated
that the maximum would not be
required. At one time, commiss-
ioners estimated the tax would
probably be about 10 cents per
$100 valuation.
The election to create the dis-
trict and levy the tax was turned
down in both Aransas Pass and
Ingleside, but carried the county
overall with 1,319 persons voting
for it, and 883 against the pro-
posals.
The district directors last
week made a county inspection
of drainage facilities existing and
spent considerable time in In-
gleside where water is still st-
anding because of Hurricane Fern
last Sept. 10 and the flooding rain-
fall which has been almost con-
sistant in the area since the
storm.
Other members of the drainage
district board besides Hart, who
, is from Sinton, are: Hatre 11 Cur-
ler. alio of Sinton; Hilmer Per-
son, Mathis; Wayne Hwktnson
Portland, and W.F.(Dub) Bart-
lett, Aransas Pass.
The turnout for the Oct. 16
election was very light with only
2,235 voters casting ballots. A
larger turnout is anticipated for
the bond election.
Halloween Dance
Set At Live Oak
Country Club
Members and guests of Live
Oak Golf Country Club will cele-
brate Saturday, Oct. 30 with a
Halloween dance.
Booked for music to dance by,
is the Bosa Tres group and a
club spokesman said “thert will
be prizes and surprises, spills
and chills and lots of fun for
all. It’s the night of the “Great
Pumpkin’.’’
The spokesman said the Hall-
oween celebration is for mem-
bers and out-of-town guests
only.
Top Tax Discount
Deadline on School
Taxes Is Monday
Aransas Pass Independent Sc-
hool District taxpayers have un-
til Monday, Nov. 1, to pay their
currently due taxes yid still re-
ceive a three percent discount,
Tax Assessor-Collector L. R.
Nedbalek said today.
The discount decreases after
Nov. 1 and ends completely Dec.
31. Taxes are declared delinquent
after Feb. 1, 1972.
The school tax man said a
total of the amount collected in
October would be announced next
week.
SEEN ...
. . . MARVIN SMITH JR., a
student at the University of
Houston, home for the week-
end and visiting The Progress
office Saturday morning . . .
a beautiful cake baked by L’
ELLA ANDREWS commeratlng
the anniversaries of four local
couples . . . high school friends
and seminary brothers, TOM
CONNOLLY and ED CORBIN,
enjoying a reunion Sunday . ..
LEE ERWIN and his bride, who
are living in College Station
where he is attending Texas
A & M University, visiting In
Ingleside Sunday afternoon ...
the A. A. ERICSON’S and the
JIMMY LUIGI’S enjoying a visit
here with old friends during
the weekend ,..
one-gallon glass Jar. Conn Herndon, 2, son of Mr. and
Mn. R. L. Herndon, 226 S Seventh Street, Aransas
Pass, displays them for the photographer. The Hern-
don family, mother, dad and five youngsters, all love
snakes and now they've taken to raising their own.
HOMECOMING) QUEEN for 1971 at Aransas Pass High
School was Miss Kim Parks, a junior student at APHS
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hal Parks, Jr. This year’s
homecoming queen was crowned during halftime cere-
monies last Friday night in the game between Aransas
Pass and Flour Bluff.
They Incubate Their Own t
R. L. Hermlon Family Finds
Togetherness In Reptiles
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