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Thursday, August 26, 2004
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Like many of you. I’m still an Elvis Presley fan.
I’ve been to Gracefondj toured his airliner, Lisa
Marie, and even have his customized TCB togo
framed in one of my guest bedrooms.
For those of you who don’t know, he personally
designed his own logo with the letters TCB in all
caps and a big lighting bolt cutting through the cen-
ter at a severe angle. TCB stands for "Taking Care
of Business.”
I have written about him several
times in my previous columns and
today I would like to share with you a
collection of comments I have collect-
ed over the years about what his
friends, business associates, peers and others had
to say abput him.
Here are some of my favorites:
“Elvis is mostly nightmare. Qn stage his gyrations,
his nose-wiping, his leer are vulgar.” - Look maga-
“I didn't think he was as good as the (Everly
Brothers the first time I laid eyes on him.” - Chuck
Berry
“If you see that guy Elvis Presley tell him we’re
going to lock him up, too, cause his hair is too long."
- The sheriff of El Paso, Texas after arresting Little
Richard for indecent exposure.
“He can’t last. I tell you flatly, he can’t last." -
Jackie Gleason
“He never contributed a damn thing to music." -
Bing Crosby
“Extraordinarily untalented.” - The San Francisco
Chronicle
“Mr. Presley has no discernable singing ability.” -
Jack Gould, New York Times critic '
. “He’s gonna be history, man!” - Carl Perkins ,
“Wouldn’t let my daughter walk across the street
to see Elvis Presley." - Rev. Billy Graham
“His kind of music is. deplorable, a rancid smelling
aphrodisiac." - Frank Sinatra
“We guarantee to break 50 Elvis Presley records
See Elvish Page 12
Re-deployment of 70,000 troops to
Texas looms large in eye of closures
AUSTIN - Beyond the
upcoming presidential election
and the ongoing school finance
problem, one of the biggest
(issues in Texas right now
involves the military.
With the announcement last
week of long-term plans to bring
^me 70,000 U S. troops back
to the U.S. from overseas instal-
lations, the economic stakes for
Texas loom large, especially
with the coming 2005 round of
base closure fights.
Texas officials are busy mak-
ing the case to the military that
the Lone Star State would be a
good home for thousands of
those returning troops and their
dependents.
Gov. Rick Perry said last
week that he wants the
Legislature to pass a bill giving
local governments the power to
allocate sales tax revenue for
infrastructure upgrades around
military bases. That, of course,
would provide added incentive
to the Department of Defense to
not only keep bases open, but
expand those facilities.
The estimated economic
impact to Texas from its 18 mili-
tary installations is $77 billion.
In another military-related
matter, the five-member Texas
Transportation Commission is
scheduled to act Thursday on a
more than $35 million funding
package to improve roadways
around Forts Bliss and Hood in
anticipation of troops already
scheduled for deployment at the
two posts.
That other Texas,
President ,
remembered...
Some Texans will honor that
other president from Texas this
Friday, which would have been
the 96th birthday of Lyndon B.
Johnson.
Johnson’s birthday is a holi-
day for most state employees
(agencies must maintain a \
skeleton crew however), a fact
which gains Texas a bit of
national recognition on a Web
site devoted to oddball holidays.
The site,
www.infoplease.com/spot/state-
holidaysl includes Texas’ LBJ
birthday holiday among five
other unusual state holidays,
including Illinois’ Casimir Pulaski
Day. Pulaski never set foot in
Illinois, but the Polish cavalry-
man helped America win its
revoit against Great Britain.
Meanwhile, back on the
range, LBJ will be honored with
a wreath-laying ceremony at 10
a m. Friday at LBJ State Park
and Historic Site in Johnson
City. In Austin, students and visi-
tors can enjoy free birthday
cake and cold drinks outside the
LBJ Library on the University of
Texas campus from 10 a.m. to 1
p.m. also Friday.
The 36th president was born
in 1908 and died in 1973.
Texas Veterans
Commission seeks input..
In 1985, the Texas Veterans
Commission published a direc-
tory of all memorials, monu-
ments and statues in the state
dedicated to the men and
women who have served in the
military.
The commission is looking for
the public’s help in updating the
directory with information on
new memorials, and any memo-
rials missed in the first compila-
tion effort.
Letters to the editor
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Washington
Insights—-
by Congressman
Ruben Hinojosa
Hinojosa Cautions
Residents About
Potential Stock Maria Scam -
Securities and Exchange
Commission Issues “Investor
Akrf on Fast-Spreading Sdieme
Washington, DC - Congressman
Rub6n Hinojosa (TX-15), a member
of the House Financial Services
Committee, today cautioned resi-
dents of the 15th Congressional
District about a potential stock mar-
ket scam criss-crossing the country.
The Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) issued an
investor alert designed to warn t
Americans about an answering
machine “wrong number’’ stock tips
scam.
Voice mail messages are
appearing on home answering
machines saying that the stock price
of certain companies will soon rise.
In these messages, it seems as if a
female caller mistakenly believes
she has dialed a girttoerid and is
confiding inside information she has
learned. Regulators believe that
Dear Editor; ~ ~
Sir, this letter is to correct
some misinformation that was
printed in a letter by W. Broyles,
about EMS or ambulance serv-
ice and its history. (
As for the history I cannot
comment on what it was in the
50’s and early 60 s, but as of
the late 60 s, 70 s and 1980’s
before the city took over, I can
because I was associated with
the ambulance service. It was i
operated by the local funeral
home which Mr. Broyles labeled
las a “scoop and delivery serv- .
ice” with patients not receiving
any medical attention. Well, he
is wrdncj.
When I started working for
the local funeral home in 1970,1
our training consisted of us
being Red Cross First Aid
Instructors and in late 1970 and
1971 * the state of Texas started
requiring that we take training
courses to become certified
emergency care attendants to
work on the ambulance and
later we became E.M.T.’s. That
was before paramedics, which
started in 1979 and 1980, when
the City of Sinton took over.--
The training and certification
was on a yearly basis.
Our ambulances were also
inspected by the state and certi-
fied as being equipped to oper-
ate as ambulances on a yearly
basis. We operated an emer-
gency service and a transfer
service and not iust to the first
hospital we came to.
So, in the future) if you are
going to quote history, please
get your facts correct before
writing about them and as far as
the rest of the letter, the infor-
mation in it is about ds correct
as the history of ambulance
service. ( > I
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If you want to know what the
City forefathers are doing and to
get it correct, please do not go
on hearsay. They meet every
first and third Tuesday of every
month and the agenda is posted
in-front of City Hall every Friday
before the meeting.
Pete Gonzales
Mayor, City of Sinton
the voice mails are part of “pump
and dump” stock manipulation
schemes, whereby people behind
the messages intend to profit by
driving up foe prioe of their targeted
stocks, the selling, and leaving the
victims with losses.
“I urge aK residents of our
Congressional districts to remain
alert and never buy stocks on the
basis of tips from strangers," said
Hinojosa “Certain individuals are
look* ig iu prey or, pccpic and their ■
savings. Investors should rely on
legitimate financial institutions to help
them invest in the stock market, knd
they should stay away from
straigers attempting to take advan-
tage of them.”
The SEC is asking investors who
receive these kinds of calls to let
them know the company being tout-
ed, the exact date and time the call
was received, the number called
and the number from which the call
was made, if avaiable. Send the
informationtD
enforoemerit@sec.gov or cal (800)
732-0330.
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Rep. Hinojosa Attends Special .
Financial Services Committee
Haring on Terrorist Financing
Washington, DC - Congressman
Rub6n Hinojosa (TX-15), a member
So Insight >> Page 12
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State of the region
County Judge Simpson irked
at unfunded federal mandate
by Juliet K Wenger
“A representative of the
Federal government lied to me.”
San Patricio County Judge Terry
Simpson repeated that state-
ment, “They Lied to Me!” at the
opening of a meeting of the San
Patricio County City
Administrators in Aransas Pass.
The Judge was referring to an
unfunded mandate from the
Federal Government to use a
specific type of voting machine
which can be bought only
through four certified vendors.
Judge Simpson said it will
cost the state $5 Billion. He
added that he told them he did
not have the money and they
responded that he would-be
sued if he did not have enough
to comply with the mandate.
Judge Simpson said the Federal
Government should not man-
date state or local government
unless they supplied the money
to carry out flip mandate. 1
He also pointed out that there
would be no paper trail if the
system is installed. He said
large cities can raise money ot
this amount but it is irripossible
for smaller cities to do so.
He counted many other cost.
Two people would have to be
paid to work in the room while
the voting is going on. Having
tight security and storage will
also be expensive.
Those conducting the elec-
tion can download the data on
disks but Judge Simpson said
the disks are easily scratched or
broken and if they are damaged
in any way there is no paper
trail to restore the vd>te count.
The disks can hold up to 300 1
votes at one time.
Maintenance and up keep plus
extended warranty will cost
$10,900 per year plus an addi-
tional $22,900 for software per
year.
In San Patricio County alone
the cost for 180 machines need-
ed to adequately cover the
precincts and do away with the
Optical System will be $612,600
to install everything needed by
January 1, 2006. They are still
tallying up everything to see if
they can interface the Optical
and new system. The Judge
does not think that the costly
change is necessary. He says
he has never received one com-
plaint about the existing system.
After purchasing the new sys-
tem, San Patricio can then lease
it to cities and schools at a 10
percent cost for each election as
all entities will have to use this
new system.
Judge Simpson is urging the
Secretary of State to extend the
deadline so that local govern-
ments can come up with the
money needed and urges the
public to contact their local offi-
cials and ask for changes to be
See Regions Page 12
SanPatrfcfo Count}' News
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