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MATHIS NEWS
(USPS 334-040)
Thursday, January 29,1987
Viewpoint
-KIKA DE LA GARZA, 15TH DISTRICT, TEXAS-
NEWSLETTER
lawmakers study bridge
CONGESTION AT DE LA GARZA’S
REQUEST- More often than not it is
chaotic delays and confusion which
characterize high frequency usage
of the five major international
bridges at Roma, Rio Grande City,
McAllen, Hidalgo, Progreso and
Brownsville. The bridge owners
have done a fantastic job in main-
taining as much order as possible in
a situation that becomes more
troublesome each year.
Why? Because the volume and
level of commercial and tourist traf-
fic continue to balloon without end.
It’s a hard situation if we don’t act to
relieve the stress.
With that in mind, your Con-
gressman last month asked the
Chairmen of two U.S. House Ap-
propriations Subcommittees to ar-
range for a staff visit to the Valley,
with the purpose being to examine
for themselves the level of conges-
tion at the major bridges.
Ijt was my belief that the House
Appropriations Subcommittees
should be involved because they vote
the funds to assist in providing ser-
vices at the bridges.
Staff from the Subcommittee on
Commerce, Justice, State and
Judiciary, and staff from the Sub-
committee on Treasury, Postal Ser-
vice and General Government came
to the Valley recently and met with
the bridge owners and I, as well as
other affected area officials.
The talks and the on-site visit were
extremely productive. They made
visits to several border checkpoints
to see first-hand how we manage im-
migration concerns at the crossings,
and they visited the detention center
at Los Fresnos.
The gentlemen from these two ap-
propriations subcommittees left the
Valley with a new sense of education
about our area and I do believe that
, after seeing a day in the life of our
bridges, they have a better ap-
preciation of the burgeoning interna-
tionalism of our area.
It is my desire to keep this effort
open and running. We need to find a
permanent solution to the way our
bridges work. Last year, way over $1
billion in commercial goods came
across the three principal bridges,
and that figure will continue to in-
crease. Commerce and the ever in-
creasing passenger traffic demand a
new regimen at the bridges and with
cooperation from Washington we
can achieve it.
USDA PROPOSES, “PEST-
FREE4’ EXPORT CRITERIA- A
very significant proposal has come
out of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture and it very quietly hit
the streets on Jan. 8. The USDA is
asking for public commentary on a
proposal which would , establish
some specific criteria to be used in
determining whether certain areas
of foreign countries are pest-free
and thereby allow fruits and
vegetables grown in such areas to be
exported to the United States.
Under the proposal, an area could
be considered pest-free only if there
existed no valid reports in scientific
literature that pests of concern are
present. Also, the country would be
required to conduct adequate
surveys for pests, and to establish
quarantine safeguards to prevent
the spread of infestations from other
areas.
Currently, our Texas importers in
the Valley can bring in fruit from
Mexico if it comes from a pest-free
area. The proposal now under con-
sideration would set criteria to be
used in preventing that pest-free
area from being contaminated by
areas in the foreign country that
might be infested.
Comments are due by Feb. 9, and
can be sent to me, Kika de la Garza,
U.S. House of Representatives,
Washington, D.C. 20515. I will be
pleased to forward your comments
to the Administrator of USDA’s
Animal and plant Health Inspection
Service.
SUCCESSFUL FARMING--
The title of this short piece is also the
title of a magazine published in
Iowa, “Successful Farming.” It is
widely read among agriculture pro-
ducers and those involved in pro-
cessing and marketing. The
magazine wrote to tell me about its
Jan., 1987, issue where an article is
being featured on the top 400 farms
in the U.S. The magazine staff rated
farms by amount of gross sales,
minus processing and other value-
added amounts.
This is mentioned because several
farming and sales outfits in South
Texas made the list. And they are:
Griffin and Brand of McAllen, Bann-
worth, Inc. of La Joya, Teddy Ber-
tuca Company and Valley Onions of
McAllen, and Starr Produce Com-
pany of Rio Grande City.
To make the list of the top 400, a
farm was required to show at least
$8 million in gross sales. It is truly
significant that 5 of the 400 are
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located in the Valley within shouting
distance of each other! Congratula-
tions on your efforts and recognition.
TEXAS STATE SOCIETY
HONORS JIM WRIGHT- Our new
Speaker of the House, Rep. Jim
Wright, has been pretty busy the last
few weeks, attending many recep-
tions and events to honor his rise to
the Speaker’s chair.
And it was time for the home
group from Texas to do the honors.
Last week, the Texas State Society,
a membership organization con-
sisting of Texans who work for the
government and live in Washington,
put on an evening reception in the
Cannon Caucus Room of the Cannon
House Office Building. The society
did this to give all Texans in
Washington the chance to meet and
congratulate our new Speaker. It’s
always best when the honors come
from home.
VISITORS FROM HOME-- Mr.
Wayne Showers, Mr. Jack Radde
and Mr. Jose Saenz of McAllen; Mr.
Jack Nelson and Mr. Bill Weeks of
Harlingen; Mr. Bobby Lackey of
Weslaco.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
Edward DeLeon, Jr. and
Esmeralda Moreno.
Jose Sabino Pruneda and
Josephine Yvette Brown.
Victor Hernandez Gutierrez and
Maria Garcia Herrera.
Sailo Martinez and Maria Rosario
Lopez.
David Herrera, Jr. and Cindy
Solis.
Ramiro Perales and Maria An-
tonia Meza.
COUNTY COURT
The State of Texas vs. Juan Rios
Alaniz - DWI - $200 fine - 72 hrs. im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Curtis Leon
Manning - DWI - $100 fine - 2 years
probation.
The State of Texas vs. Luis J.
Castillo - - DWLS - $100 fine.
The State of Texas vs. Humberto
Castillo - Assualt - $100 fine - 60 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. James Roy
Pickering - DWI - $100 fine - 60 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Antonio B.
Lopez - Evading Arrest - 21 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Jesus P.
Molina - Possession of inhalant - $100
- 60 days imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Santiago S.
Trevino - DWI - $300 fine - 2 years
probation.
The State of Texas vs. Adrienne
Crihfield - DWI - $100 fine -18 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Willie
Alvarado Gonzales - DWI - $300 fine -'
2 years probation.
The State of Texas vs. Antonio C.
Guajardo, Jr. - PI - $150 fine.
The State of Texas vs. Alvin
Joseph Davis - DWI - $200 fine - 2
years probation.
The State of Texas vs. Joseph
Michael Deases - DWI - $500 fine - 2
years probation.
The State of Texas vs. Debra
Hedge Payne - DWI - $100 fine - 30
days imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Severo
Olivarez - DWI - $100 fine - 21 days
imprisonment.
DISTRICT COURT
Kenneth L. Atkinson vs. Leanna
Atkinson - Divorce.
Taft Housing Authority vs.
Evangeline Lopez - suit on lease
agreement.
The State of Texas vs. 1974 Ford
Pick-up Automobile, Texas
Registration: DR 161 Vehicle Iden-
tification Number: F25YRU89578 -
notice of seizure and intended
forfeiture.
Sylvia Martinez vs. Joe A. Mar-
tinez-Divorce. *
Edward Frank Anthony vs. San-
dra Kay Anthony - Divorce.
Clyde James Romero and Gail
Briggs Romero vs. John Blair
Reber- suit for damages and per-
sonal injuries (auto).
Lana Jo Taylor vs. Kenneth Scott
Taylor-Divorce.
Reyes Nino, Jr. vs. Blanca Nino -
Divorce.
Marcela G. Flores vs. Leonardo L.
Flores-Divorce.
Aurora Garza vs. Joe B. Garza -
Divorce.
Margaret Rogers vs. Danny
Rogers-Divorce.
Joe Gonzales vs. Ruby C. Gonzales
-Divorce.
San Pat Community Credit Union
vs. Gilbert Ray - suit on credit
agreement.
San Pat Community Credit Union
vs. Bernardo Guajardo - suit on
credit agreement.
Carla M. Haskett vs. LeLand
Craig Pope- suit for damages and
personal injuries (auto).
Waste Disposal Center, Inc. vs.
C.C.P.C.S. Leasing, Inc. - suit on ac-
count.
Ricardo Hinojosa vs. Rosaura R.
Hinojosa - suit affecting parent-child
^il^y&'Gayle Odem vs. James H.
Odem - Divorce. .
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I grew up thinking that people who
said that they had worked, meant
that they had done something con-
nected with farming. That was all
that I knew how to do, and the way
we did it in those days could be aplty
described as work, if not labor, or
something more severe.
When I left the farm, I found out
that people could actually work at a
number of things. I don’t know how
Brer Webster defines the word, and
since I don’t want to know anymore
about the term than I already do, I
won’t look it up. To me, work is
something that consumes your
thought, and every effort,
sometimes even to the point of ex-
haustion. That is the way that I have
always done things.
At one time, I aspired to be a
school teacher. I did spend about
thirty years in the profession, in one
way or another. I will add, that I
never found one thing about school
teaching that was easy, except the
few legal holidays that we got, along
with the lunch break, and the trip
back home.
The last year that I taught school,
or at least baby-sat a room of low
achievers who were possessed with
equally low I.Q.s, I learned what it
was to be bone tired when the day
was over, and I hadn’t cut a weed, or
headed a single wagon load of crook-
ed neck maize. Just keeping them
off the chandelier, out of the window,
and in the room was a man size job.
Trying to teach them fractions, just
simple arithmetic for that matter,
only added to the problem. My last
day in the school room was just that.
I almost, literally, threw the keys
over my shoulder as I headed
toward “the ranch.” To celebrate,
and to regain my cool in restful
endeavor, I got my grubbing hoe,
and dug up second growth mesquite
on a plot of ground that I soon sold as
a townsite, consisting of streets, and
60’ X150’ lots.
After a year or so of college, and a
small-salaried preaching job, I
gathered some tools that I had in-
herited, and let it be known that I
was ready to follow the carpenters
trade. I soon had some takers. The
first was a job that required me to
saw a twelve foot section from a six-
ty foot long lumber warehouse, and
with the small section removed a
few feet, fashion dwellings from the
newly-created two-from-one
buildings. The warehouse had a dou-
ble floor made of seven inch ship-
lap. The only tools that I had for this
sawing job was two handsaws. An
older man was employed to help me.
He stayed on the job one day, and an-
nounced without explanation, his
resignation. I stayed on and sawed
that building into two parts as I had
agreed to do. That was the thirty-
foot wide floor, and roof, as well as
the ten-foot walls. Ho boy! To com-
plicate matters, the sub-flooring,
laid at an angle, had nails directly in
the path of the chalk line that my
saw was following. That
Courthouse Squares
s
MY UNCLE WAS NEVER
ON TIME FOR A ALTHING.
THEY USED TO CALL
# HIM "THE LATE CLEM
SNODGRASS,f EVEN BEFORE
HE PASSED AWAY I „__,
Navistar Financial Corporation
vs. Stanley R. Brown, Sr., In-
dividually and D/B/A Brown Ranch
and Edroy Implement Company, A.
Texas Corporation - suit on notes.
S.S. vs. K.S. - Divorce.
N.G. McDonald and Donald L.
Walton, D/B/A Wal-Mac Con-
struction vs. Albert W. Abel, Jr., and
wife, Jerrie Ann Abel - suit on con-
tract.
necessitated a lot of saw sharpening.
When I got to the roof, fortunately
it was not ceilinged, I got very adept
at hanging by a leg or so from the
trusses, and swinging with all my
might. That should have cured me
from carpentry, but evidently
didn’t. I have built two houses since,
that time. Roomie has been helper.
She couldn’t use a saw if she had to,
and I never asked her to do that kind
of work. She is a good holder-upper;
has a true “eye”, and is a whiz with
a paint brush. Even so, I found it
necessary to fire her a time or so.
She was mighty good company to
have around the job, provided ex-
cellent picnic lunches, but on one oc-
casion proved to be too wasteful with
the paint. She stepped off a box into
the gallon bucket filled with expen-
sive varnish, thus ruining a pair of
good shoes and spilling the varnish.
Beleagured with fatigue, I felt that I
had a bound obligation to fire her.
Somehow, we managed a reconcilia-
tion, and she was back on the job in a
few days.
I’ve done other things that re-
quired a lot of effort, like framing
pictures for two or three days on
end; building fences, laying
linoleum floor covering, and paper
hanging five-room houses. It’s clim-
bing the ladder that gets you.
All of this is really work, f but I
maintain that nobody can claim a
first-hand acquaintance with work
unil they have climbed out of bed at
four in the a.m. milked four or five
cows, gone to the cotton patch in
time to be just able to see the first
boll of cotton, and stay with the ar-
duous task until dark, go back to the
house and those same cows; get in
several turns of wood that one chop-
ped with a double-bit axe, and after
a supper of cornbread and pinto
beans fall exhausted into bed. No
room there for dope addiction, or
any such.
There is also no trouble with in-
somnia, nor a jaded appetite. It
seems strange, but it is true, one can
learn to like that kind of life-style.
What a way to go!
MEMBER 1987
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