The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 25, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 12, 1992 Page: 1 of 24
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Downtown Ingleside groundbreaking Friday
By Juliet K. Wenger
Feature Editor
Ground will be broken Friday
morning on two of the three
phases of Downtown Ingleside,
the long awaited N. O. Simmons
development.
Simmons said construction
will get underway immediately
on Bay Vista Center and Lake
Vista subdivision of single family
homes. The third phase, ex-
pected to follow within a short
period of time, is apartment un-
its.
International Bank of Ingleside
is financing Bay Vista Center.
Simmons is financing the subdi-
vision himself. Housing will be
financed under VA, FHA and con-
ventional loans. A proposal went
into HUD, U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Develop-
ment, last week for financing of
the apartment units.
Bay Vista Center will be a com-
mercial complex of professional
and service offices and retail out-
lets in the center and free stand-
ing. At this time, Simmons and
Mike Catero, project sales direc-
tor, have received signed letters
of intent from prospective
tenants.
Two restaurants are included,
one a Mexican food restaurant
and another which Simmons de-
scribes as a major seafood res-
taurant.
Dr. Tim Kay, a family practice
specialist associated with Coastal
Bend Hospital, will open a clinic
in the center. The clinic will be in
a temporary building until the
center is complete. A local dentist
has also signed a letter of intent.
An insurance agency, drug store
and title company will be tenants.
Negotiations are underway at
this time with several other
businesses. These include a
national shoe company, a video
store, and a beauty and hair
salon. Conversations are being
held with several major national
retailers, a national oil company,
a subcontractor for Naval Station
Ingleside and other propects in
more preliminary stages.
along the newly reconstructed
Highway 361 leading to Aransas
Pass. Lake Vista subdivision will
be built along Atlantic Street
which runs to the west of First
City Bank from Highway 361 to
Tiner Lane.
The houses in Lake Vista were
designed by Clothier and Sullivan
of Houston. There are five basic
Bay Vista Center will be built See DOWNTOWN, Back Plage
Leads fall through
on Roberson case
Following last week’s story
in The Progress on the third
anniversary of the disappear-
ance of Elisa Roberson, Aran-
sas Pass police received one
item of information that was
followed up with no results.
Police Chief Melvin Shedd
said information was received
that Elisa was seen on a tele-
vised broadcast of a basketball
game. Shedd said he checked
with the television stations
and there were no basketball
broadcasts at the time re-
ported.
Police also followed up, in
July, on what appeared to be a
substantia] lead in the case.
Shedd said the lead was thor-
oughly investigated and
proven to be false. “The in-
formation we reoeived was a
complete hoax.”
Shedd said he and the entire
police department would like
to come to a conclusion in the
See LEADS, Back Page
USS Joseph Hewes arrives tomorrow
The third of Naval Station Ing-
leside’s 25 ships will arrive tomor-
row morning.
The US8 Joseph Hewes (FFT-
1078), whose mission is to train
reserve personnel in anti-
submarine warfare, will arrive
pierside at 9 a.m. The USS Soout
and USS Truett have already
made Ingleside their homeport in
the past few months.
Upon the ship’s arrival, there
will be a brief welcoming oere-
mony to include music by the
Aransas Pass High School band
and remarks by city and oounty
officials.
The public is invited to come
aboard NAVSTA for the ship’s
arrival. Although USS Hewes will
not be open for tours on arrival
day, the USS Truett will offer free
tours from 9:45 to 11:30 a.m.
The Hewes is the first of 19
1052-Knox class escort ships and
the oldest of eight warships to
remain in active service; hence,
the ship’s motto is “Leader of the
Class”.
The ship is 441 feet long, has an
extreme beam of 46 feet, nine
inches; a full load displacement of
4100 tons; maximum navigation
draft of 26 feet; a top speed of 30
knots and a full complement of 25
officers, 20 of which are chief pet-
Landfill reaches capacity, closing
Because of higher than ex-
peoted garbage collection, the
San Patricio County landfill at
Gregory is set to close later this
week.
Precinct 4 County Commis-
sioner Gordon Porter said recent
oleanup campaigns in Aransas
County have squeexed the land-
fill for the little space it had.
“Aransas County averages ab-
out three trucks a week to the
landfill,” Pdrter said Tuesday.
“This past week, they brought in
53 trucks because of a cleanup
campaign they have going on.”
Porter said because of this
additional load, the spaoe pre-
viously figured would last a cou-
ple of months is now expected to
be filled by the end of the week.
Porter said he is in the prooess
of getting a temporary rollup box
where citisens can put their trash
until a citizen collection station is
ready for use in “60 to 90 days”.
“We still want citizens to have a
place (to dump trash),” Porter
said. “We don’t want to have to
turn anyone away.”
Last week, commissioner^
okayed construction of a wooden
ramp at the proposed station.
Bids for Phase III closure of the
current landfill are expected to be
in later this week.
“If the weather stays like it is,
we should be able to have it oap-
l'he commissioner warns those
persons with compacted trash to
begin looking for another landfill.
“We’ve already begun warning
trucks with compacted trash to go
somewhere else,” Porter ex-
plained.
Ingleside City Manager Steve
Fitzgibbons said that half of the
city’s trash pickup, which is done
by BFI, is taken to BFl’s own land-
fill with the other half going to
Gregory.
“What they’ll probably end up
doing is taking all of the trash to
their own landfill,”
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chips, which are then used in city
parks and for citizen pickup at the
Public Works Station.
“We don’t charge for them, be-
cause of product liability, but
citizens are welcome to come and
get some if we have it available,”
Fitzgibbons said.
For items such as building
materials that the city picks up
upon request, Fitzgibbons said in
talks with Porter the city expects
to take them to a transfer station
on the Oregory site.
Aransas Pass Public Works
Director Allen Bema said the city
hasn’t made a decision on what to
do yet.
ty officers along with 275 person-
nel on board.
The ship has had a oolorful his-
tory since its commissioning. It
became the second Knox class
ship to circumnavigate the world
in 1972 as well as being the first
American warship to transit the
Suez Canal in 1975.
The Hewes was also the first
warship to have women deployed
on board.
The ship was originally home-
ported in Newport, R.I. before
moving to Charleston, S.C. in
1974.
The ship’s commander is Kris-
topher M. Kennedy, who earned
his Navy commission through the
NROTC program at the Universi-
ty of Washington in 1972.
He has served as First Division
Officer and later as Missile Officer
in USS Joseph Strauss, a guided
missile destroyer, which con-
ducted operations in the Western
Pacific during the end of the Viet-
nam War.
Following duty as Officer Prog-
rams Officer for Navy Recruiting
District in Detroit, he attended
Department Head School, gra-
duating to beoome Engineering
Officer of USS Paul, a fast frigate,
See HtWtS, Back Page
Navy guests of honor at
business social Friday
Aransas Pass Chamber of
Commerce members will have
an opportunity Friday to meet
the Navy.
Capt. James F. Giblin, Jr.<
commanding officer of Naval
Station Ingleoide, Comman-
der Kristopher Kennedy, com-
manding officer of the USS
Joseph Hewes, and the officers
and crew of the Hewes will be
special guests at a chamber
bership social from 5:30 to
8:30 p.m. Friday.
The social will be held at the
Sea Patricio County Naviga-
tion District Harbor/Oftoe on
Ransom Road.
Sponsors for the social are
Aransas Autopiex, Inc., Coas-
tal Bend Hospital, Commercial
Motor Co., First City Texas,
Aransas Pass, Henderson
Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge,
Inc., International Bank,
Aransas Pass, Larry’s IGA, and
Pacific Southwest Bank F.8.B.
The USS Joseph Hewes will
be newly arrived at Naval Sta-
tion Ingleside. The ship’s arriv-
al and welcoming ceremony
are scheduled for 9 a.m.
tomorrow. The frigate will be
the third ship to arrive at Naval
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