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PAGE 2 - THURSDAY, JULY 6,1995
Chasing Rabbits
by Jim McElhaney
Upon opening the mail Monday
morning, the graphic, (seen
above) caught my eye and started
me chasing the rabbit that I have
run across on several occasions.
Does anyone but me remember
back in the early 80's when the
National Football League Players
Association decided the Franchise
Owners were a bunch of tight-
wads? The poor underpaid players
complained of being treated like
indentured servants, forced to
play a game for little more that
subsistence wages. I remember
thinking, when the issue arose,
"How childish!" Then they went
out on strike! As far as I was
concerned, that egotistical self-
serving move "ripped it."
For years I was avid football
fan-spent more hours watching
pro-football than anyone should.
But, I enjoyed it, found it
entertaining and looked forward to
the Sunday double-headers,
Millions of others apparently felt
the same way. Many of them also
felt the same way I felt about the
strike. After the strike ended, the
fans stayed away for quite a while.
I'm not sure they ever made up
for the lost gate receipts. Maybe
they did but who cares?
The curious thing to me is that
professional baseball interests
chose to ignore the consequences
_ suffered by the NFL. It certainly
lends credence to the observation
that "history is bound to repeat
itself."
players, bemoaning the absence of
fans in the nations ball-parks, my
only comment is "you asked for it
and you got it."
And now, if you can believe it?
Players in the National Basketball
Association are "rattling the same
sabers" with owners joining in the
"lock-out" chorus. C'mon you
JERKS!! Wake up and smell the
coffee!!! If you continue to indulge
yourselves and ignore the
audience that "pays the freight",
your goose may no longer be able
(or willing) to produce the golden
egg-
A? Keeping an eye on Texas
Texas baseball fans on strike
So far this season, both the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros have
suffered a severe drop in attendance for home games. Attendance, so far
this season, has averaged 23,990 at the Ballpark in Arlington, despite a
seating capacity of 49,178; the Astrodome can seat 54,350, but
attendance has hovered
Average attendance per game around 17,070.
(in thousands)
Rangers
V
’90 ’91 ’92 ’93 ’94 ’95
SOURCES: John Sharp, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Texas Rangers and Houston Astros.
Sharp Warns of Medicare Slash
Capitol Highlights
By Lyndell Williams & Ed
Sterling
State Comptroller John Sharp
warns that Texas stands to lose
up to $12 billion over the next
seven years if the budget-slashing
Congress adopts a block-grant
method in its effort to revamp the
30-year-old Medicaid program
which provides health care for
indigents.
Last week, as adoption of
grants looked increasingly likely,
Sharp predicted the need for a
special session of the Texas
Legislature to pay for a projected
shortfall of $750 million over the
next two years in state Medicaid
and other social programs. The
tab for Medicaid alone over the
next two years is $18.7 billion.
Under the proposed Medicaid
block grants, Sharp said, states
with shrinking populations would
get more money, while states with
increasing populations, like Texas,
would get less, and suffer
disproportionately.
Sharp estimated, for example,
property taxes for the Harris
County Hospital District would
have to increase by 17 to 27
percent to make up for proposed
federal cuts, the Houston Chronicle
Public Safety Report
SAN PATRICIO COUNTY
SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT
Odem Area Incident Reports
6/28/95, 5:09 p.m., EMS Call,
1200 blk. S. Hammon, Mathis, Tri-
County EMS summoned for possible
stroke victim. Mathis EMS
Unavailable on another call.
6/28/95, 6:51 p.m., Fire, Co. Rd.
29, off 234, OVFD dispatched, base
of power pole on fire.
6/28/95, 6:56 p.m., EMS Call,
100 blk. 1st St., Diabetic distress,
Tri-County EMS transported victim
to Doctors Regional Hospital.
6/29/95, 4:02 a.m., EMS Call,
400 blk Front, Victim took overdose
of undetermined medication. Tri-
County EMS transport to Riverside
Hospital.
6/30/95, 1:51 a.m., Prowler, 800
blk. Cook St., Caller reported
prowler rapping on windows.
6/30/95, 3:09 p.m., Fire, Co. Rd.
49A, OVFD dispatched to extinguish
brush fire.
6/30/95, 5:24 p.m., Burglary,
Co. Rd. 51, Caller reported home
burglarized.
7/1/95, 1:04 a.m., Fire, 500 blk.
E. Baylor, OVFD dispatched to trash
fire in alley.
7/1/95, 6:16 p.m., Burglary,
Vista Dr., Caller reported having
just returned from vacation and
discovered home had been
burglarized.
7/1/95, 9:10 p.m., EMS Call, IH-
ttoe CCoMtitecfo!
37 Rest Area, So. Bound, Caller
reported several burn victims in
connection with vehicle fire. Mathis
EMS requested Tri-County EMS
assistance.
7/2/95, 7:28 a.m., EMS Call, 500
blk. Rachal, Victim experiencing
chest pains.
7/2/95, 4:26 p.m. Possible
Homicide, IH-37 Rest Area So.
Bound, Caller told dispatcher he had
just killed his wife and daughter at a
Corpus Christi address. Deputies
dispatched, CCPD notified.
Deputies arrested suspect, held in
San Patricio Co. Jail pending release
to other law enforcement
representatives.
7/3/95, 10:06 p.m., Disturbance,
500 blk. E. Baylor, Neighborhood
dispute.
7/4/95, 12:31 a.m., Harassment,
600 blk. E. Willis; Caller reported
threatening telephone calls from
boy friend.
7/4/95, 8:37 a.m. EMS Call, 400
blk. E. Willis, Caller reported female
fall victim. Tri-County EMS
dispatched, victim transported to
Riverside Hospital.
Looking Backward
reported.
"Washington should abandon
these failed formulas of the past
and turn to a simple solution
instead: Send the money where
the people are," Sharp said at a
Capitol news conference in
Austin, before leaving for
Washington, D.C., to lobby the
Texas congressional delegation to
support his funding formulas,
which is based on the number of
qualified Medicaid recipients.
Texas would receive a lump
sum under the proposed block-
granting formula; under the
present formula, the federal
government pays about two-thirds
of Texas' Medicaid costs.
School Districts Sue State
Nearly 200 Texas school
districts are suing the state to
recover hundreds of millions of
dollars they say they've lost in the
last 10 years due to an error in
the funding formula for state
education aid.
The dispute, is scheduled to be
tried July 3 before Austin state
District Judge Scott McCown, who
has presided through the state's
seemingly endless school finance
case.
State Comptroller John Sharp,
whose agency each year
determines property values used
in the formula for calculating
state aid to schools, is the
defendant.
Representing the plaintiffs is
Austin lawyer Buck Wood, who
said though he believes the
funding error v/as unintentional,
the school districts have been
unfairly penalized and will seek
compensation.
Past losses of funding are
being attributed to a
miscalculation of the home values
of citizens over age 65, whose
taxes are frozen under the state
constitution. For the past decade,
The Dallas Morning News reported,
the state has given only partial
credit on the values lost through
the property tax break for senior
citizens.
Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock, Sharp's
predecessor, indicated that the
state will come up with the money
if the courts rule for the school
districts.
Laughlin Switches to GOP
U.S. Rep. Greg Laughlin of
West Columbia quit the
Democratic Party last week,
saying that he was switching to
the Republican Party because his
district's "conservative
principles" are not acceptable to
the leadership of the Democratic
Party.
Texas Democratic Party
See HIGHLIGHTS, Page 3
From The Files Of The
Odem-Edroy Times
TEN YEARS AGO - 1985
The City of Odem has begun
enforcement of an ordinance
dealing with mowing privately
owned lots throughout the city.
The Odem Housing Board of
Directors and Housing Authority
members David Flores, Regina
Gomez Eugenia Ortiz and Nancy
Thorhton met last week and Joe
Dominguez was reelected as
chairman and Paula O'Canas as
vice- chairman.
Dr. and Mrs. Don Dawes
recently returned from a vacation
to England, Wales and Scotland.
John David Hoch, Melissa Jean
Koonce and Ben Higginbotham
recently attended the Texas Farm
Citizenship Seminar at Angelo
State University.
David and Becky Flores, D. J.
and Desiree were joined by their
nephews Adrian and Rodney Orta
of Sinton for a visit to Landa
Resort in New Braunfels.
An increase in meal prices
for the next school year was
approved during the regular
meeting with lunch prices at all
campuses up five cents and
reduced breakfast prices up ten
cents.
Tod Eason of Blackfoot, Idaho
is a guest in the home of Max and
Phyllis Rhyne this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Morrison
and daughter, Holly and Christy
left Odem for Concan where they
camped on the Frio River, rode the
rapids and hiked nature trails.
They also toured the Sonora
Caverns.
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO -
1960
Rain in amounts up to nine
inches, and heavy winds hit the
county doing considerable damage
to the grain crop and at the same
time bringing needed moisture to
the cotton crops.
Lt. and Mrs.William Haese
visited briefly with their
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Rentz enroute to Delaware where
he will do a tour of duty before his
assignment to Arizona.
Harriet Montgomery was
honored on her birthday Thursday
with her mother, Mrs. Charles
Montgomery as hostess. The
honoree and Samelia Faye Boyd,
Colleen Whetstone and Sharon
Greco enjoyed a movie in Sinton
followed by refreshments.
CAPITOL
COMMENT
U.S. SENATOR
KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
Let States Set Their
Own Speed Limits
It is a maddening, time-wasting exercise to have to drive 55 mph
down a four-lane, state-of-the-art interstate highway with no other
vehicle in sight.
In rural Texas, hundreds of miles separate communities and
cities. Many Texans have to travel vast distances just to buy
groceries, or to attend church or to take an ailing child to see the
doctor.
Though it is not as obvious to those who live in cities, the need
for a higher legal speed limit in parts of Texas is self-evident to those
who routinely drive long distances as part of their daily lives.
But it is not evident to the federal government, which since the
1970s has set a standard, mandatory speed limit for the entire
country, regardless of local driving conditions-and punishes states
which don't comply with federal enforcement requirements.
Requiring the enforcement of a speed limit which may or may
not be appropriate to local circumstances is, in essence, yet another
unfunded mandate leaving tire-tracks across the backs of financially
strapped states.
The states should not have to devote scarce resources to
enforcing an arbitrary speed limit set in Washington, D.C. Those
resources could be better directed toward infrastructure projects or
fighting serious crime.
I think this law is in urgent need of an overhaul. Speed limits are
a case study of the need for the federal government to provide states
with a reasonable amount of flexibility and self-determination.
States have the most timely, accurate information about their
local road conditions. They, not the federal government, already
enact vehicle and traffic laws, enforce them and pay the bills. States
can best decide how to balance safety requirements with the sensible
use of their highways.
So I am supporting legislation now making its way through
Congress which would put the brakes on federal interference in what
is rightly a matter for the states to determine. This bill was
approved by the Senate in June and awaits action on a companion bill
in the House later this year. It would allow states to set their own
speed limits without reference to federal requirements.
Few bills could better demonstrate Congress' commitment to
reducing federal intrusion into the states' business-and the lives of
citizens.
I don't want to tell New Yorkers what their traffic laws should
be-and I don't think they care how we drive in Texas.
San Patricio County
Court Records
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Eligion Gutierrez and Martha
JoAnn DelBosque.
Augustine Arredondo Garza
and Sylvia M. Soliz.
Paul Anthony Bustos and
Yvette Marie Hernandez.
John David Sanchez and
Veronica Moemi Garza.
Jose H. Ramos Jr. and Cristina
Gomez.
Andrew Gonzales and Mary
Alice Perez Hernandez.
Bradley Charles Wages and
Martina Q. DeLeon.
COUNTY COURT-AT-LAW
POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA-
Roland Narvaez, Taft, 1 day jail,
$300 fine plus court costs.
FLEEING-Roberto Marez Rivas,
Sinton, 90 days jail, $192 court
costs.
DRIVING WHILE
INTOXICATED- Roberto Marez
Rivas, Sinton, 90 days jail, $100
fine plus court costs, DL
suspended 180 days.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF- Ricardo
Sanchez, Gregory, 180 days jail
suspended, $50 fine plus court
costs, 6 months community
supervision, submit to alcohol
and/or drug evaluation.
RESISTING- Ricardo Sanchez,
Gregory, 180 days jail suspended,
$50 fine plus court costs, $50
attorney fees, 6 months
community supervision, submit to
alcohol and/or drug evaluation.
ASSAULT- George McKinney,
Taft, 50 days jail, $267 court
costs, $380 attorney fees.
ASSAULT (2 Counts)- Douglas
W. Roush, Taft, 90 days jail
suspended, $150 fines plus court
costs, 12 months community
supervision, submit to alcohol
and/or drug evaluation.
ASSAULT- Paula Roush, Taft,
90 days jail suspended, $50 fine
plus court costs, 12 months
community supervision, submit to
alcohol and/or drug evaluation.
DRIVING WHILE
INTOXICATED- Rene Diaz, Corpus
Christi, 180 days jail suspended,
$500 fine plus court costs, 24
months community supervision,
submit to 48 hours detention in
San Patricio County Jail.
DRIVING WHILE LICENSE
SUSPENDED- Senida D. Gonzales,
Sinton, 180 days jail suspended,
$500 fine plus court costs, 12
months community supervision.
DRIVING WHILE
INTOXICATED- David L.
Hilderbrand, Ingleside, 180 days
jail suspended, $500 fine plus
court costs, DL suspended 90
days, 24 months community
supervision.
DRIVING WHILE
INTOXICATED- Craig A. Stull,
Houston Tx., 180 days jail
suspended, $500 fine plus court
costs, 12 months community
supervision, complete DWI
Education Program.
See RECORDS, Page 3
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