Duval County Picture (San Diego, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 28, 1998 Page: 1 of 17
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Wednesday, January 28. 1998
Cloudy chance of
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SD men charged with
retaliation against
witness given probation
Two San Diego men who were
charged with retaliating against a
witness in the Mauro Garza Jr.
murder trial pled guilty last week
and were given probated sentences
by visiting judge Homero Salinas.
Armando Salaiz and Jesse
Salaiz were charged with retaliat-
ing against Rene Guerrero Jr. who
was a prosecution witness in
Garza’s murder trial. Garza was
acquitted by a Hebbronville jury
last year in the shooting death
Daniel Trevifio.
Armando Salaiz, 27, was given
a two-year probated sentence and
fined $500. He will also be re-
quired to perform 320 hours of
community service.
Assistant District Attorney Joe
Mike Perta asked the court to re-
duce Jesse Salaiz’s charge to a
Class A assault misdemeanor. The
court approved Pert a’s motion and
then sentenced the defendant to a
one-year probated sentence and
50 hours of community service.
In another retaliation case —
this time against a police officer
— the judge gave Gerson Navarro
two years deferred adjudication
and fined him $1,000. Navarro,
29, was found guilty, after a one
day jury trial, of making death
threats against Freer policeman
Julian Pena.
Judge Salinas also will require
that Navarro pay $1,750 in
attorney’s fees and pay a $1,000
fine. Navarro will also be required
to undergo treatment for substance
abuse and he must complete a GED
program.
In other district court action
last week:
•Leticia Briones, 38, was given
four years deferred adjudication
and 200 hours of community ser-
District (Ourt
\ction
vice for taking a prohibited sub-
stance into the Duval County jail;
• Angie Ramos Torres was as-
sessed a two-year probated sen-
tenced, 150 hours of community
service and fined $1,000 for a
guilty plea of delivery of cocaine;
• Hector Perta, 34, had his pro-
bation revoked on a 1993 convic-
tion of burglary of a habitation,
repeat offender (he had six prior
felony convictions) and was given
a 10-year probated sentence and
fined $1,000; and
• Georgia Garza, 29, had her
prior 1996 sentence for theft modi-
fied to eight years probation and
attendance at a “R.I.T.E.” program.
The court also dismissed
charges against four individuals.
Hector Perta had a charge of
burglarizing the city youth recre-
ation center dismissed because of
the disposition of his other charge
of burglary.
Charges against Andres Perez
for burglary of a habitation were
dismissed because the complain-
ant, Guadalupe G. Hinojosa,
signed an affidavit of non-pros-
ecution.
The case against Jesus Hugo
Perez was also dismissed when a
non-prosecution affidavit was
filed. Jesus Hugo Perez had been
charged with unauthorized use of
a motor vehicle belonging to
Crescendo Acevedo.
Finally, the district attorney
asked for charges of unauthorized
use of a motor vehicle against
Bruce Luttrell be dismissed. The
district attorney said the state will
seek to indict Luttrell anew.
Grand jury returns
six indictments
The Duval County Grand Jury
handed down six indictments on
Jan. 15, ranging from cattle theft
to car theft.
Two Freer men, Richard
Gerstenberger, 47, and Glenn
Smith, 45, were indicted for cattle
theft after they allegedly took 14
head of crossbreed cattle from W.
L. Peltier on Sept. 19," 1994.
Gerstenberger faces a second in-
dictment for cattle theft, after the
grand jury accused him of taking
another eight of Peltier’s cattle on
Feb. 5, 1995.
Thomas Wade Farris, 35, of
Port Lavaca was charged with un-
authorized use of a motor vehicle.
Farris is reported to have taken a
1997 Ford F-250 pickup from Don
Phillips without his consent.
Gertrudis Martinez of La Rosita
and Jose D. Martinez of Corpus
Christi were both charged with
indecency with a child, on sepa-
rate incidents.
Gertrudis Martinez is charged
with having inappropriate contact
with a boy under 17 years of age.
Jose Martinez, 35, reportedly had
improper conduct with a girl un-
der 14 years of age.
Rene Heras, 20, of Concep-
cion and Chris Chavera, 19, of
Realitos were indicted on charges
of criminal mischief after they al-
legedly killed a black buck and
two axis deer on Dec. 11, 1997.
The deer belonged to Frank Yza-
guirre.
Students with the San Diego vocational construction classes have been working on a new junior high
band hall. The school may get some help with further construction from state facilities grant.
SDISD gets state approval for help
with bond debt, new schools on horizon
AUSTIN - The San Diego In-
dependent school district is among
a group of 149 Texas school dis-
tricts who will get state funds to
help pay for new classroom build-
ings and other instructional facili-
ties, Texas Education Agency of-
ficials announced last week.
"We are extremely pleased,"
San Diego ISD Superintendent
Neida Estringel said
"We had set somedream things
and now they can become a real-
ity. We now can see some of these
changes."
The schools are expected to
receive about $64 million in state
assistance in 1998-99. Known as
the instructional facilities allot-
ment, the program is providing
$200 million over a two-year pe-
riod to help school districts pay off
bonds issued for the construction
of new classrooms or improve-
ments to classrooms and other in-
structional facilities.
The facilities allotment may
also be used to help make pay-
ments under lease-purchase agree-
ments for those kinds of facilities.
San Diego ISD had applied for
help with a $5.17 million bond
issue to build one or two schools,
depending on ultimate cost pro-
jections. The bonds were previ-
ously approved by school district
voters.
School districts were required
to apply for the instructional fa-
cilities allotment. Agency officials
reviewed each application to de-
termine if the projects for which
the schools sought funds were eli-
gible.
Lawmakers limited use of the
facilities allotment to help pay off
bonds issued or lease-purchase
agreements entered into for the
purchase of real property, improve-
ments to real property, or neces-
sary fixtures. School districts re-
ceiving this second round of fa-
cilities funds have projects for
which bond or lease payments
generally begin during 1998-99.
Under the state program, the
state will pay 81.95 percent of the
local district's bonded debt. For
1998-99, the state estimates San
Diego's bond payments will be
$396,447 of which the state will
pay $.323,654.
Estringel said the district's
board of directors will take up the
matter at their February meeting.
The superintendent said the dis-
trict still needed to submit addi-
tional paperwork.
"We are going to take it slow,"
Estringel said. "We still need to
review some plans and options."
One of those options, said
school trustee Albert Martinez, is
to consider whether to build a new
high school or a high school and a
junior high school.
Estringel said construction may
start as early as this summer.
David Silva
named
Alice City
Manager
Alfredo E. Cardenas
Editor/Pi ibmsheh
A native Alician was selected
as the new Alice City Manager by
a unanimous vote of the city coun-
cil on Monday, Jan. 26.
David Silva assumed the du-
ties of City Manager immediately
and was meeting with department
heads Tuesday morning. Filling
vacancies in department heads will
be his top priority, Silva said.
The new city manager also sees
improving communication be-
tween departments and the city
council as a top priority. On a
public policy front, Silva said cre-
ating jobs for young people and
overall economic development
will top his list of priorities.
"The most important thing is
that the city manager must be able
to work with all kinds of people,"
Alice Mayor Octavio Figueroa
said. "David has worked well with
everyone before."
Silva who has been Internal
Auditor for the city for the last
seven years, is a 1976 graduate of
Alice High School. He later re-
ceived a business degree in ac-
counting from then Texas A&I
University and worked in the bank-
ing field for 10 years.
See SILVA Page 2
Mauro standing by
Clinton as President
faces sex scandal
DALLAS (AP) - Texas Demo-
cratic gubernatorial hopeful Garry
Mauro said recent allegations of
sexual improprieties won’t deter
him from asking President Bill
Clinton to visit the state on his
behalf.
“I will invite Bill Clinton to
Texas,” Mauro said last week.
Already, Mauro fund-raisers
headlined by first lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton are scheduled
Feb. 19 in Dallas and Austin, the
campaign announced Thursday.
“The president and first lady
are my friends. I believe and sup-
port them,” said Mauro, who ran
Clinton’s presidential campaigns
in Texas.
Mauro said he believes allega-
tions that Clinton had an affair
with a White House intern and
then urged her to lie about it were
manufactured by political enemies.
”1 don’t think it’s reputable. I
think when all the yellow journal-
ism comes to an end, you' re going
to find no substance.”
Clinton has denied the accusa-
tions, which independent counsel
Kenneth Starr is investigating.
Mauro has been a friend of the
Clintons since they worked to-
gether for Democrat George
McGovern’s 1972 presidential
campaign.
“The legal process is now en-
gaged, and we ought to let it take
its course,” Mauro said.
See MAURO Page 2
W. 1
Gordon Eric Greentree (at center) is honored with Humanitarian
Award. At left is Alice Regional Hospital Director of Nurses
Margot Rios. At right is hospital administrator Abraham Martinez.
Freer physician assistant
gets Humanitarian award
Our Lady of Guadalupe subject of library talk
SAN DIEGO — Dr. Miguel
Leatham, assistant professor of
anthropology at Texas A&M
University-Kingsville. will dis-
cuss the development of Our
Lady of Guadalupe as a symbol
of empowerment of M* poor,
resistance to oppress!' <n and cul-
tural identity reinforcement among
Mexican and Mexican-American
communities.
The program begins at 7 p.m„
Wednesday, Jan. 28, at the San
Diego Publ.ic Library, 404 S. Mier
St
Leatham will present slides and
video clips that illustrate a range
of historical uses of the Guada-
lupe image in civil rights activi-
ties, rebellions and home settings
of ethnic barrios of the American
Southwest.
The presentation is part of
A&M-Kingsville’s “Circuit Rid-
ers” tour, based on the circuit
movement that was papular in
the early 20th century, when min-
isters and speakers traveled from
town to town.
Audience participation is en-
couraged and handouts will be
provided.
ALICE — Gordon Eric
Greentree, Physician Assistant at
the Freer Medical Clinic, has been
named the employee recipient of
the Columbia Alice Regional Hos-
pital 1997 First Humanitarian
Award.
The distinction is given each
year to one employee and one vol-
unteer in recognition of exemplary
service to patients and the health
care community, and in recogni-
tion of a dedicated spirit and genu-
ine concern for the welfare of oth-
ers, a hospital spokesman said.
Greentree has been Physician
Assistant at the Freer Medical
Clinic since 1992.
Aurora Santos, the volunteer
winner, was a founding member
of the Hospital Auxiliary in 1979
and still volunteers today.
The recipients will now be
nominated for the nationwide First
Humanitarian Award, the highest
award given by the Columbia/
HCA Corporation.
“We could not have found two
more deserving recipients of this
award," said Abraham Martinez,
chief executive of Alice Regional
Hospital. “These individuals truly
exemplify the commitment to pa-
tient care that is a hallmark of the
Alice Regional Hospital.”
Abreakfast given in theirhonor
at the Alice Regional Hospital was
widely attended by local physi-
cians, hospital employees, and
Auxiliary members.
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