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The Mathis News
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THURSDAY, MAY 8,1986
MEMBER 1986 "J
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Accelerating To Keep Up With Foods
HELENS. TRACY............................................................Publisher
JAMES F. TRACY, JR.....................................Sec.-Treas. & Business Manager
JOHN HENRY TRACY........................................Vice-Pres. & Sales Manager
JIM MATHIS....................................................................E«Jitor
DORA B. MATHIS...........................................................Advertising
MARGIE RODRIGUEZ.....................................................News-Society
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I have heard of the fast lane, the
fast buck, the fast fix, fast people of
both genders, fast cars and fast
foods, to name a few. Of all the
above, I am more acquainted with
fast food, and I have to accelerate
every once in awhile to even stay in
sight on that subject.
Frankly, I was saddened when my
beloved hamburger became the first
item to be exploited as a fast food.
The burgers that I grew up on were
greasy meat patties, fried on a
greasy grill, and encased in an
equally greasy bun that had been
warmed, soaked and otherwise
mistreated.
The garnish was chopped onion
mixed with chopped pickle, and that
was that. Taken with a strawberry
soda, few things could excite the
average palate more, as a ham-
burger made thusly.
Tomatoes and lettuce found their
way into the accepted recipe, but not
onto any hamburger that I ate, or
eat. I’m still an onion and pickle
man.
There must be others like me, as
the fellow who compounds my order
at the KING or QUEEN place, don’t
faint, or even give me a quizzical
look. Up with the old order, I say, but
do let the new order live. They seem
to be happy in their ignorance of
what consitutes a real, fit to eat
hamburger.
Time was, a bowl of chili was the
quickest thing available to the fellow
who was starving to death and didn’t
have time to wait for a steak to be
fried. During the depression, even
the chili was corrupted by cafe
operaters who used beef heart,
kidney, tongue and other lesser
desirable cow parts with which to
For instance
Purr Needs To Be A Roar
- by pdl -
OH COME on Senator, let’s get off
the President’s back.
It is one thing to make a responsi-
ble statement, one that has some
meaning, when offering adverse
criticism of the President’s actions.
, But, it surely is another thing to
make an utterance for the sheer ex-
cuse for getting into print.
The horrible action that the Presi-
dent took which brought out a
headline for Lloyd Bentsen, D-Tex.,
was that Reagan did not take along
his U.S. Trade Representative on the
trip to the economic summit at
Tokyo.
HORRORS, THIS is some quibble
for a U.S. Senator to busy himself
with while there is a myriad of other
“important” crisis pressing the
United States.
If the President can not determine
who is to accompany him on a
foreign trip without headline-
seeking opposition from a lone
Senator, things are in pretty poor
fettle in the U.S. Congress.
Reagan had the top members of
his cabinet on hand to provide expert
advise on the trade imbalance pro-
blem.
After all, someone has to be left in
Washington to run the company
business while the honchos are off on
their fling.
SURELY AFTER aU his years in
Washington, Bentsen would realize
that the real work to any
agreements comes after the big fish
fly back home and the workers at the
lower levels get down to trying to put
into a semblance of action the
theories that were enunciated.
This is where the Trade Represen-
tative and his staff will earn their
pay.
Ever since Bentsen was chairman
some six to seven years ago of the
Joint Economic Committee, he has
fancied himself as being a voice in
the field of trade.
HE CLAIMS to be a free trader,
but when it gets down to the nitty-
gritty of getting on with the solution,
he is quick on the draw to sing out for
more and higher tarrifs, for more
and higher taxes — almost a sure
way to. throw the country into
economic panic as happened in the
twenties when America tried to
become an island onto itself.
Speaking in Corpus Christi last
week, Bentsen has another
brainstorm.
He, of course, advocates an import
tax on petrol, but he also said that
Texas should look to increasing the
flow of Japanese tourists to the Lone
Star State to offset the slump in in-
come from the State’s oil industry.
REALLY!
Now, tourism is fine, but half the
Japanese population would have to
be lured to Texas to overcome the
mess the State finds itself in at the
present time from the loss of oil in-
come.
In Corpus Christi he also touched
on the illegal alien dilemma.
Bentsen said that he supports an
immigration bill for the country that
would “address the problem of il-
legal aliens.”
HE SAID, “Absolutely essential is
the integrity of borders, and we have
lost control of ours.
“There is an incredible number of
illegal aliens in our country.”
As they say, “That’s for sure.”
Some estimates put the illegal mass
at more than 10 million.
The Texas Senator warns though
that “the chance for such a bill
becoming reality is poor.”
WHY?
Why doesn’t he lend his voice loud
and clear to enactment of such a
measure — to stop immediately the
flow inland of these people who are
breaking the American law by enter-
ing “illegally?”
Why not make the laws that now
are on the books work?
Why don’t all the other national
lawmakers raise their voices in con-
cern and get on with making the cor-
rections that are necessary?
THE ILLEGAL alien catastrophe
is possibly America’s number one
problem, one which will plague the
country for years, years after the
trade wars are fought and won,
years after the oil industry again is
in full swing.
And yet, the mighty roar of the
U.S. Congress in this matter is
muted.
It only purrs like a kitten at times
on the subject.
Why?
Sketching
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make his product.
At that point, I took the vow
against eating chili. Then the ham-
burger fell prey to the dilution game.
A carnival operator told me one day
that he bought a few pounds of
ground beef and mixed in several
pounds of Mother’s Rolled Oats. His
customers never knew the dif-
ference he said.
Right away, I adopted the policy of
knowing what I was eating, or I
didn’t eat. I found that fish was
about the only thing that could not be
“faked”. For instance, a person
might order steak, and have horse
meat served, so I stayed with the
fish, though sometimes not so fresh,
I was sure that it wasn’t horse, or
waste parts of a cow.
During the past few years, most
anything edible that can be at least
partially prepared in advance, has
come forth in the guise of a fran-
chise, and to all appearances is do-
ing well. One has to admit that these
so called fast foods are good.
Nothing has been left to chance. Ex-
perts test, retest the product, try the
market, and saturate radio and T.V.
airways with advertising. Usually, a
well known Hollywood star gives the
pitch.
One enterprising star, Jimmy
Dean branched out from fast foods
and packages sausage. In defense of
his move he said that Bing Crosby
talked about his horses, Ernie Ford
talked about his cows, and now he
could talk about his “hawgs,” as he
called them. He has done very well
in his sausage venture, but sort of
lost interest in it and spends most of
his time in Florida on his several
foot yacht. I too, would prefer the
boat to the slaughter of “hawgs.”
Time was, I wouldn’t take a se-
cond glance at fried chicken. I ate
too many of them when I was
holding meetings in the rural areas
of the country. Many times the meal
was prepared after we got to our
host’s home after services, so the
bird before us on the table, was as
little as an hour ago, scratching his
living out of the barn yard, or some
worse place.
Now the “Colonel” has introduced
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3CU
Dear Editor,
Leland Dupont, of the Lake Corpus
Christi area, was elected State
President at the 1986 National
Association of Retired Federal
Employees (NARFE) State conven-
tion held in Fort Worth April 27-30.
Mr. Dupont is a retired planner
and scheduler from the Corpus
Christi Naval Air Station public
works division. Dupont was born
Jan. 4, 1926 and was reared in Cor-
pus Christi. He graduated from Cor-
pus Christi High School and was in-
ducted into the Army in 1944.
He served with the 97th Infantry
Division in Europe and in the
Pacific.
He retired from civil service in
1981.
He has been active in NARFE for
several years, serving as both vice
president and president of Lakeside
Chapter 1460 and as Area 16 district
representative.
Mr. Dupont will make an excellent
State Federation president. He is
very dedicated and conscientious.
One of his main goals is recruiting
into NARFE retired Federal
Employees and Federal Employees
that are still working with 5 years of
service and 50 years of age.
Since Mr. Dupont was elected to
this position, the federal workers
and retirees should be very proud of
him for accepting this prestigious
job.
We hope that all civil service
workers and retirees in this area and
in the State of Texas will get behind
him and work with him in recruiting
new NARFE members. In this way,
his goal of improving the status of all
Civil Service employees and retirees
can be realized.
Dan Coker
San Pat County Marks First
Traffic Fatality For 1986
San Patricio County marked its
first traffic-related fatality for 1986
this past weekend just outside of Sin-
ton in a one-vehicle accident.
Rene Gonzales Cancino, 35, of Sin-
ton was pronounced dead at the
scene of the accident by San Patricio
Justice of the Peace Pat Patrova.
The one-vehicle wreck occurred at
3:35 a.m. Sunday one mile east of
Sinton on Old King’s Highway
(County Road 88). According to DPS'
Trooper Alvaro Ortiz’ report, Can-
cino; driving a 1984 Mazda pickup
was travelling at a high rate of speed
eastbound on Old King’s Highway
when the vehicle plunged through a
wooden road block and dirt barrier
barracading the closed road. Upon
impact, the pickup became air-
borne.
Twenty-year-old Roman Cancino
of Sinton, a passenger in the vehicle,
sustained various cuts, bruises and
lacerations and was transported by
SAVES Ambulance to Memorial
Medical Center in Corpus Christi
where he was released the following
day.
Water Softner
if you live in an area with hard wa-
ter, you may want to consider a water
softening system to reduce launder-
ing problems.
When doing the laundry, dissolve
detergent in wash water before adding
clothes.
Wash heavily soiled clothing sepa-
rately to keep dirt from settling back
on less-soiled items.
fried chicken that is disguised in
herbs and spices. When his venture
proved to be a success, many other
people aspired to take a piece of the
market, and fried chicken is
everywhere.
One thing that makes this mass
produced, fast fried fowl so
desirable is that it was raised on a
conveyor belt, and didn’t know what
a bam yard, or open pit out-house
was like. I can live with chickf
like that, so now we do have chicli
or occasion.
Other foods like pizza is there for
the taking (and paying); barbecue
can be eaten on the spot or taken
home; poor boy sandwiches “ain’t
bad” and all sorts of drinks abound.
If you are hungry, food to suit any
nationality is probable withing three
blocks. Tacos are very in.
My bid to fame and fortune would
be to get roomie to brew up a batch
of her Bum’s family chili, pass out a
few samples, and for any who tasted
it, the word would be, “so long ham-
burgers, chicken and tacos. Hello
ROOMIE’S CHILI.” If interested in
a sure fire product see me.
What a way to go!
Court Records
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Anthony Berton Zipprian and
Kathleen Ann Riley.
Juan Cardosa and Ilda Huerta.
Daniel Vera and Rosa Linda
Moreno.
Luis E. Parra and Jesusa Her-
nandez.
Pedro Paulo Gonzales and Her-
minia Trevino.
William Lee Workman and Bet-
tinae Ann Pressley.
Leo Charles Hennig, Jr. and
JoAnn Hensley Hennig.
Manuel Torres, Jr. and Maria
Teresa Martinez.
Robert C. Escobedo, Jr. and Edith
Sally Davis.
COUNTY COURT
The State of Texas vs. Raul Her-
nandez Naranjo - Theft - $190 - 180
days imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. James
Richard Lacy - DWI - $500 - 30 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. John Dennis
Downen - Resisting Arrest - $25 - 30
days imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Louis
Stephen Allen - DWI - $500 - 30 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Ramon Ser-
vin, Jr. - DWI - $600 - 60 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Robert B.
Grunkemeyer - Driving while
license suspended - $50 -• 7 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Otilio
Reyna - Possession of marijuana -
$100 - 7 days imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Hieme
James Perez, Jr. - DWI - $500 - 30
days imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. John Calvin
Clark - DWI - $100 - 21 days imprison-
ment.
The State of Texas vs. Esperanza
A. Olivares - DWI - $500 - 30 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Mary Ann
Rodriguez - DWI - $500 - 30 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Baldemar
J. Campos - DWI - $500 - 30 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Tommy
Ray Wilson - DWI - $500 - 30 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. William
Earl Fennel - Unlawfully carrying a
weapon - $250.
The State of Texas vs. Donald
Joubert - DWI - $500 - 30 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Silviano
Cortez Curiel - DWI - $500 - 90 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Francisco
Ramirez Garcia - DWI - $100 - 30
days imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Eric Ray-
mond Fox - DWI - $100 - 21 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Daniel B.
Preciado - DWI - $500 - 30 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Urban
Canales, Jr. -PI -$200.
The State of Texas vs. James
Lewis Kirkpatrick - DWI - $500 - 30
days imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Lucio
Cisneros - DWI - $500 - 45 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Mark Alton
Hanson - DWI - $500 - 30 days im:
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Jesse G.
Villarreal-PI-$75. A
The State of Texas vs. ElibolV
Valles Diaz - DWI - $140 - 30 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Liborio
Ortega Olmos - DWI - $200 - 40 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Roque Gar-
cia - DWI - $200 - 5 days imprison-
ment.
The State of Texas vs. Michael
Timothy Delgado - Speeding - $200.
The State of Texas vs. John
Patrick Beecher - DWI - $500 - 30
days imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Juan
Biscarro Gomez - DWI - $500 - 60
days imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Mike Kugel
- DWI - $100 - 21 days imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Theodore,
Novak - DWI - $750 - 180 days i.’|P
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Augustine
Aguilar - DWI - $200 - 21 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Apolinar
Trevino Munoz - DWI - $500 - 30 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Robeldo R.
Riojas - DWI - $500 - 90 days im-
prisonment.
DISTRICT COURT
Laverne Atkins vs. Wal-Mart
Stores, Inc. - Suit for damages and
personal injuries (Other).
Susan Fjeld Jones vs. Michael P.
Jones - Divorce.
Robert L. Duncan vs. Rick Hadley
and Beverly Hadley - Suit on pro-
missory note.
Gordon D. Elliott vs. Gloria
Elliott-Divorce.
Jamie L. Wilder vs. Philipp M.
Wilder - Divorce.
Patricia Rachal Chafin vs. Steven
D. Chafin - Divorce.
Commercial State Bank vs. Juan
Alvarez, d/b/a Alvarez Trucking
Company - Suit on note.
Commercial State Bank vs. Ibanez
Constructions, Inc., Leonel R.
Ibanez indiv. and George A. Her-
nandez - Suit on note.
Pete Rodriguez vs. Coastal Freez-
ing, Inc. - Suit for damages and per-
sonal injuries (Other).
Obituaries
MAYNARD
Myrtle Maynard, 85, of Mathis,
passed away April 27, in Humana
Hospital after a lengthy illness.
She was born in Mason County,
May 21, 1900. She married D.O.
Haley, who along with their
daughter, Mozelle Haley, preceded
her in death.
Myrtle later married Aubrey
Maynard in Big Spring in 1947.
She was a faithful member of the
Church of Christ.
Survivors include: her husband,
Aubrey Maynard; 4 sons, L.D. and
O.B. Haley, both of Abilene; Thur-
mal Haley, of Winslow, Ark.; and
Douglas Haley, of Swinney Swit-
ch; and one daughter, Gerri Parker,
of Mathis.
Other survivors include 19 grand-
children, 38 great-granchildren and
two great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held in
Mason, Tx. Burial followed at
Wagram Cemetery in Mason.
Officiating was Bill Sugarek, of
Argenta Church of Christ.
Pall bearers were her 6 grant
sons: Roger C. Parker, of Tulsa,
Ok.; Tommy W. Parker, of
Galveston; Barry O. Parker, of Fort
Worth; Billy Dale Haley and Jim
Bob Haley, both of Abilene; and
John Gibson, of Mason.
Paleontologists in Queensland,
Australia, have discovered the fos-
sils of 100 previously unknown mam-
mals, says National Geographic.
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