The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 47, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 15, 1992 Page: 1 of 18
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BRIDGET RAMEY, Miss Corpus Christi Area USA
Ramey, Menard
pageant winners
Two young women from Aransas Pass have put the city on
the map. Bridget Ramey and Stephanie Menard won the title
and first runner up, respectively, in the Miss Corpus Christi
Area USA pageant Saturday night.
Aransas Pass has the rare honor of having the top two win-
ners in the pageant. Miss Ramey, named Miss Corpus Christi
Area USA, is the reigning Miss Shrimporee and Miss Menard,
first runner up, is the 1990-91 Miss Shrimporee.
The two were among the 32 young women from through-
out the Coastal Bend who competed in the pageant held at
Del Mar College’s Richardson Auditorium. It is an official
prteliminsry competition to Miss Texas USA and Miss Texas
Teen USA. .
'The next competition for the two will be the Miss Texas
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See WINNERS, Back Page
STEPHANIE MENARD, first runner up.
Group awaits Tech Prep grant
Word on funding expected today
An application for a grant to
launch the Tech Prep program in
local and area school districts has
been made to the state of Texas. A
response to the application is ex-
pected today.
The grant application was
drawn up by Dr. Lee Sloan, Del
Mar College project director for
the consortium which is initiat-
ing what would be a revolutionary
change in school systems, includ-
ing Aransas Pass, Ingleside, Port
Aransas and Aransas County.
The amount of the requested
grant is £1.5 million to cover a
five-year period. Of that,
. £600,000 would be spent in the
Heard
MARGARET BELKEN and
RITCHEY CLENDENING on the
sick list thisweek... KAYWOLF in
San Antonio this week promoting
Aransas Pass at SA Sport, Boat,
and RV Show and she will be
doing the same next week in the
Valley.
Seen
BILL AND LEE ELLIS very proud
of their daughter-in-law HOLLY
HUNTER ELLIS of Beaumont
who had a short poem “Jewels In
Jars” published in Country
Woman magazine Jan./Feb.
issue... the WOODEN NICKEL
with a whole new look, following a
paint job and new sign...
first 18 months, paying for sup-
plies, planning, training teachers
and counselors, then im-
plementing applied methodology
in selected schools.
Dr. Sloan explained that the
new approach to teaching would
be in math, science and English.
Content of math courses would
be such that students would learn
to apply the abstract science of
numbers in a way that could
translate into products with qual-
ity control.
In physics, students-would
learn hydraulics, motor control
and other concepts that would
give them an understanding of
work being done in local industry
and business.
In English, they would work
toward a level of excellence that
would allow them to interpret
technical reports and give them
ability in both oral and written
eompiunications.
The first occupational areas
that would be taught are those in
which there are job availabilities
in the region, drafting, electrical
and medical laboratory technolo-
gies.
The approach would be broad
at the secondary level, qinth to
twelfth grades, then specialize at
the junior college associate de-
gree level. This would break, say
drafting,- down into computer
aided drafting, electronics,
graphic arts, structural design,
pre-engineering, pre-
architecture.
A part of the methodology
would be to involve business and
industrial representatives in the
currioulum and instruction at the
schools and to take teachers and
counselors into business and in-
dustry to learn for themselves
what their students will have to
comprehend to accomplish that
which business requires.
Schools that have signed an
agreement to participate in the
consortium are Aransas Pass,
Ingleside, Aransas County, Port
Aransas, Banquette, Beeville,
Bishop, Calallen, Corpus Christi,
Flour Bluff, Freer, Gregory/Port-
land, Sin ton, Taft, Tuloso Mid-
way, West Oso, Woods boro, and
See GRANT, Back Page
lngleside-on- Bay
elects government
in voting Saturday
Ingleside-on-the Bay Will
elect its first government
Saturday as residents of that
newly incorporated city go to
the polls.
A large number of candi-
dates and write-in candidates
tossed their hats into the ring
as the city takes shape. A
mayor, five aldermen and a
marshall will be elected and
the field of candidates totals
18.
Running for mayor are A1
Robbins, Charles Langford
and write-in candidate Tom
Bambery.
There are 13 candidates for
the five alderman posts. The
candidates are Greg Alan, Guy
Hargrove, Robert Harbajugh,
Keith Regnier, Norman Flee-
man, Paul Smith, Edgar Jones,
Malcolm Vance, Ken Jones,
Claudie Langford, Cindy
Pearl, Lillie Dawson, and Dick
Ehmann.
On the ballot for the post of
marshall are Joe Miller and
write-in candidate Katie
Hatch.
According to the San Patri-
cio County Clerk’s office, vot-
ing will be at the Brass Turtle
Restaurant from 7 a.m to 7
p.m. with Pat Girard Newman
as election judge.
Family seeking information
On sailor's death in August 7 945
In the village of Greenock near
Glosgow, Scotland, UK, family
and friends of James Bonner
Robertson still ponder a mystery.
He was buried in Prairie View
Cemetery in Aransas Pass Sept 6,
1945. No one in his Scotch home
has ever been able to learn cir-
cumstances surrounding his
death.
Flora Brogan and her daughter
Jane Livingood went to the
r—*'*»ery this week apd took pie-
tu.«-withe grave site. It is marked
only with a stake.
Livingood lives in Corpus
Christi, part of a small commun-
ity of Scots who will be celebrat-
ing Bobby Bums Day Jan. 25. Bro-
gan came to Texas to spend
Christmas with her daughter for
the first time in 18 years.
Before Brogan left, her friend,
Hannah Robertson McKendrick,
asked her to learn what she could
about her brother’s death. He was
a ship’s oook on the 8. 8. El Cier-
vo. His family was notified he was
missing August 11, 1945.
The mother and daughter went
to Maxwell P. Dunne Funeral
Home in Corpus Christi which
prepared his body for burial.
They learned that he drowned in
the turning basin. No one knew
why he was buried in Aransas
Pass, or the circumstances of his
drowning.
Brogan and Livingood went
through copies of the Aransas
Pass Progress in the fall of 1945.
Stories in the newspaper told
them the Rev. W. C. Craig offici-
ated at the services in the First
Methodist Church in Aransas
Pass. Services were delayed until
the crew of the tanker El Ciervo
could be present. Apparently the
tanker had sailed before his bodv
was found, then returned.
The two women also learned
from the newspaper that there
had been a hurricane which did
heavy damage at the time of his
See DEATH, Back Page
Permit sought for
house on seawall
A building permit for a home on
the seawall is pending review by
the city oounoil at its Monday
night meeting. And, a permit has
been issued for renovations to a
Beasley Avenue pump station.
The building permit for the
home on the seawall, at 765 Bay
Avenue, is being sought for a
home estimated at over
£100,000. Anytime there are al-
terations to the seawall plans
must go to the oity council.
Ceoil Lowery, oity building in-
spector, said the home planned is
three bedroom with 2016 square
feet, plus an additional 672
square feet for garage space.
Permits have already been
issued to B.L. Moorehead for the
bulkhead and boat house on the
property.
In regards to the Beasley Ave-
nue pump station, £202,000 in
construction was permitted on
Jan. 7. Payton Construction of
Wimberley is the contractor on
the job for the Nueoes County
Water Control and Improvement
District 4, in what is known as the
See PERMIT, Page Seven
Chamber
banquet
Jan. 30
Chris Bonno, “The Funniest
Person in Austin”, will be fea-
tured at the Aransas Pass
Chamber of Commeroe ban-
quet Jan. 30.
Bonno besides being known
as “The Funniest Person in Au-
stin” is the 1990 winner of Au-
stin’s “6th Street Laugh Off”
and is a regular at the Laff Stop.
Bonno is originally from
Houston and moved to Austin
to study studio art et the Uni-
See BANQUET, Back Page
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Cole, Mary. The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 47, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 15, 1992, newspaper, January 15, 1992; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1135803/m1/1/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.