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Opinion Page
Telling It
Like It Is
by Alfredo E. Cardenas
Schools should pay for remedial education
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so many students in need of remedial learning? Why are taxpayers
subsidizing colleges to complete the work left started by our high
schools? It seems to us that we are paying twice for the same training.
More importantly, we are shortchanging our students.
Perhaps the legislature should consider funding remedial education
by shirting state revenues from high schools to colleges. If the univer-
sities are being required to finish the high schools’ job than they should
get their allotment of the high schools’ funding from the state.
The state should calculate the cost of remedial education per student
and then assess each high school that amount for the number of students
they have failed.
We can already hear our teacher friends tearing this newspaper up.
They wifi fume at such a suggestion. But as the old saying goes "no
siendo verdad, ni coraje da.”
The good teachers know that they have done their job. They have no
reason to be angered by such a proposal.
But the fact is undeniable, many of our high school graduates are
being sent into the world unprepared for what awaits them. That is unfair
to them and it costs all of us.
Jim Wells residents
already vote in city
n our last issue we covered many of the reasons why we believe
it is in the city of San Diego’s best interest to run its own water
and sewer service. The debate, we said, should continue. So here
is part two of our views on the issue.
( One issue on which everyone agrees is the matter of pro vidi ng a say
>. to the residents of San Diego who live in Jim Wells County. The Duval
County Conservation & Reclamation District board of directors has
asked State Representative Richard Raymond to amend their charter so
that these citizens can have a say in water district electioas.
Guess what? They already have a say in City of San Diego elections.
The quickest way to give those citizens a voice in water and sewer issues
is to have the city take over those services.
The water board, in our opinion, has not thought out this issue
thoroughly enough. Moreover, they are unprepared to make the deci-
sions that will be required to assure full and fair representation to all
voters, including those who already vote in water district elections.
San Diego has shown that it has the votes to win all the seats on the
water board. They have the votes, plain and simple. The addition of
another200votes in San Diego will almost certainly guarantee that San
Diego will dominate the water board if they so desire.
That is not good for residents of Benavides and the rural areas. One
way to protect their voting rights is through the implementation of single
member districts for water board members
Districts could be drawn to assure that Benavides and or the rural
areas would be guaranteed their fair representation on the board. But the
water board has balked at this idea because three of their members live
in the same area of San Diego.
That is shortsighted on their part. There are ways to carve districts
that will give them all an opportunity to serve. If not, they should be
willing to sacrifice for the greater good of their constituents.
Plus there is always the opportunity to run for another public office.
, There are plenty of opportunities to serve, both in public office and In
civic organizations.
To recap, the quickest way to empower the Jim Wells residents of
San Diego is to have the city run the water and sewer systems. Bringingi
those voters into the water district will dilute Benavides and rural voters’
unless single member districts are also included in the package.
Children Who Wait
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late represent!al i ve Steve Ogden (R -Col lege Station) has intro-
a duced a bill in the Texas House that would eliminate funding
to four yeas universities for remedial education courses.
Ogden believes these courses are better off in junior colleges.
The proposal has created a brouhaha among university officials
throughout South Tex as. Texas A&M-Kingsville, for example, enrolls
over 40 percent of their students in remedial courses. The loss of this
source of funding would hurt the university, says its president Dr.
Manuel Ibanez.
We believe the real issue has been missed by all concerned. We do
not have enough information to ofler an opinion on Rep. Ogden’s
proposal.
On its face it has some merit. First, the role of institutions of “higher
learning’’ are to teach and prepare our professionals and not to be
concerned with “remedial education." Any time spent on remedial
courses is time lost to those students who arc ready for the real
challenges of college life. Moreover, it may be more economically
feasible to offer these courses in a junior college where costs are less.
But the real issue, in our view, is why arc our high schools producing
Visit home brings out
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memories of past Christmas
by Ricardo Garda
Carlos is a happy 13-year-old
with a good sense of humor. Heis
cooperative and Is willing to ac-
cept responsibilities.
Carlos enjoys fishing, basket-
ball, playing inthe school band and
pattidpating in activities at the lo-
cal Boys Club. He is currently in
the seventh grade and does fine
with his school work. Carlos would
like a nurturing, supportive family
to call his own.
Children come into the care of
the Texas Department of Protec-
tive and Regulatory Services due
to abuse and neglect. For more
There are wooden fence boards lining a lot adjacent to a corner
building once known as El Nuevo Mundo. In years past it served as a
movie house, and later on a clothing store. I turned the corner, parked
and ambled over to the wooden fence. Time stood still and for some
quiet moments scenes from my youth danced through my mind. The
memories took me to a Christmas Day in 1948. I was ten years old.
1 was shining shoes at a barber shop located at the place where stood.
It was Fequeno’s Barber Shop and it opened for business at 8 a.m. The
shop was in the center of the business section of San Diego. The
business people were already busy sweeping the sidewalks, arranging
window displays, and young boys with their shoe shine boxes were
getting ready for the Christmas celebrants.
I was a lucky young man. All I had to do was wait for the men who
would come to have their haircut by Fequeno and Manuel Martinez, two
of San Diego’s most popular barbers during that time and two of a long
line of well known San Diego peluqueros. My grandfather. Manuel
Romano was a member of this group of barbers. Other names come to
mind; Jose Garcia, Canuto Soliz. Marcial Saenz, Ramon Jaime, and
Lupe Garza There were many interesting stories about these skilled
professionals. They were meticulous and proud of their work and had
countless of stories, jokes and anecdotes to share with their customers.
My eyescovered the area with nostalgia. There was Donato Serna’s
comer drugstore. Bruno Rios before him, more popular for their wide
selection of comic books than their line of cosmetics and medicines.
Christmas shoppers looking for the latest fashions in clothes and shoes
would stop at Juan Rivera’s. R. G. Gonzalez and Fuentcs’ Nuevo
Mundo.
For grocery shopping, there was Carlos ‘Huero’ Montemayor’s
store and a block away, Servando Gonzalez’ Piggly Wiggly. For the
best of ice cream cones, sodas and malts, we would stop at Tacho
Cantu’s and Chris Hinojosa’s famous fountain bar. For those wanting
to eat the best fried chicken, hamburgers and combination plates, they
would go to Jimmy Castanon’s Cafe, El Rio Restaurant, Jack’s Cafe
and, at the comer of Highway 44 and 59, the White Garden.
The coldest beers, (Grand Prize, Pearl, Southern Select, JAX), were
selling fast at Leocadio’s C.O.D. cantina or at the San Diego Pool Hall,
accompanied always by the latest conjunto music.
Two other landmarks where the local folks congregated, exchanged
greetings and money, are unforgettable. The post office, where Fred
Balli, Antonio Perez and Trino Soliz, sorted out the General Delivery
mail, and the San Diego State Bank, where Pepe Lopez and Abelino
Garcia greeted customers who needed cash right away.
This day before Christmas 1948 fell on a Friday and San Diego’s
families and children were lining up in the early afternoon to catch the
day’s matinee movies at Jimmy Reyna’s Regis Theater, very likely a
cowboy movie, starring Roy Rogers or Gene Autry, or maybe Lash
LaRue, Whip Wilson, Hopalong Cassidy or the Durango Kid. A few
days before, the ever generous fire department volunteers had provided
their annual gifts of oranges, rock candies, pecans and peanuts to these
same families and children. San Diego was alive on this special day with
music (C.O.D.’s jukebox), laughter of men at the barber shop, and
mothers buying Christmas gifts and toys at the Kress 5 and 10 cents
store.
See CHRISTMAS Page 4
Courthouse Records
Information on howto adopt a child,
contact your local Texas Depart-
ment of Protective and Regulatory
Services office, or call toll-free 1-
800-233-3405.
5ZL Pirturr
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