The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 21, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 25, 1984 Page: 8 of 112

                                
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Big Bend magistrate
Man works at vacation home
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BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK pus Christi and San Antonio
(AP) — Jack Pope III has been
living among “a    lot    of fond    with his father gave him several    telephone call or letter from his
memories” since    he    recently    insights into the older man and    father,” said the 72-year-old
returned to his family’s    vacation    his family’s place in Texas    chief Justice, who will retire
public affairs. He was 22 years    Dec. 31 after 20 years on the high
old when he accompanied his    court,
pus Christi attorney, was sworn father on the trip, he said
in recently to the federal
magistrate’s Job for the Big every public official in each “He’s been really respectful of
Bend National Park district.
U.S. District Court Judge
Lucius Bunton administered the meet each one of them. He’s to help me pick up that slack.
“It was really important for
me to (get the magistrate’s ap- j
magistrate’s position) and did
He said a 1963 campaign trip what was necessary without one
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ranch to start a new Job.
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“My Job was to make lists of that,” said the younger Pope.
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area,” the younger Pope said. that. But when I’ve overreached
“And he would make a point to my independence, he is around
an
oath of office during a ceremony amazing when it comes to peo-
in Midland earlier this month
Pope’s court will be located in “We also found out we were pointment)onmyown,”hesaid.    |
the park’s headquarters in Pan- related to Just about everyone in “I didn’t know how fiercely I
ther Junction, about 230 miles the state,” said Jack Pope III, wanted it until I got more involv-    j
south of Odessa. “It’s a whose family has been in Texas ed in it.”
lonesome life,” he said.    public life "since the Indians The elder Pople spoke    j
Pope has moved to his fami-    have been here.”    philsophically about his son’s    j
^______ ly’s Big Bend    vacation home    “There are a    great    deal    of    new Job and compared the decl-
AMONG OFFICERS In the Sterling cnoir are,    ran, DeDe Kendrick, nooin wuiory and Tony "e®rf ^ P«*-    The home was    ....    .    ®!°n t0 enter public service with    j
fmm uft Phimir Wvfltt rflnnrtAr* Tina Pnhinsnn    VfitM librarians    built by his    fflther, Texes    While maintaining an    Attitude    his own decision to take the
'    (SunttaKphotobyCrriePryor) Supreme Court Chief Jusllce of reepect for hie (ether, the bench
nuiorian, Lraig uross, rooemasier, unarms con    y    Jack pope Jr    younger Pope also has kept his "I would say that all of us are
“I liked (the Big Bend area) own independence.    very often what we are by cir-
then and I still love it. I care "He went after (the cumstance,” Jack Pope Jr. said,
about what happens to it,” the
younger Pope said.
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youth we had no house at all on
the land,” he said. "When I was
younger, my father and I would
, , go hunting. We would take our
GOLIAD (AP) — The paper    side, and a five-point star on the    Escopeta,    Brown Bess and the    tarps and our cots an(j    We’d
bag was marked “button,” but    other.    Tennessee    and Kentucky    long    sleep under the stars.”
on close inspection Danny Agler The La Bahia half quartilla rifles. There also are knives, He sajd be remembered hear-
of Rockport knew it had been originally was discovered in swords, military buttons and lng <<the C0y0tes and all the
mislabeled. What he had what was the commanding of- medals.”    i regular animals” and gathering
discovered, or rather fleer’s quarters at the presidio, Collins said the amount of sotoj plants, which he said can
rediscovered, during a recent said John Collins, La Bahia material history stored at the be set on hre <>for light and
visit to the vault at Goliad’s    director. The    coin has been in    presidio is    large enough to    arm    warmth.”
Presidio La Bahia was one of the    the presidio    vault for two    any writer researching    the jack pope m wh0    js    a
world’s rarest coins, a de la Gar- decades, having been placed Spanish colonial period in graduate of Abilene Christian
za half quartilla, the first of its there with thousands of other ar- America. There are a dozen college and St. Mary’s Law
kind to be found outside of San % tifacts following a massive ar- boxes, for example, containing school, said he hopes to take
Antonio.    cheological project completed Majolican ware or Mexican gome of the cases that currently
The small silver coin is one of two decades ago during restora- ceramics. Equally interesting is g0 t0 federai court jn pec0Si
only eight de la Garza half quar- tion of the presidio.    a large collection of Chinese about 140 myes nortb 0f
tillas known to exist, and Agler, According to Collins and trade Pottery from the Spanish park Hlg dutles lnclude 8ettlng
an amateur archeologist, Agler, the coin stands among an period, and it is such fragments bond in felony cases and trying
pointed out that another coin abundance of evidence pointing of history which Collins wants so misdemeanors,
was found about a month ago at to the close relationship between much t0 have preserved for
San Jose Mission in San Antonio. San Antonio and Goliad during Mure generations.
He estimates the half quartilla, the Spanish colonial period. It “These items are in drastic
which is in good condition, has a also is an example of the need ot immediate conservation
monetary value of $500, although countless number of artifacts at and preservation techniques,”
such a coin in excellent shape the presidio that offer clues into he sald- “To do 80 we must have
could fetch as much as $1,500 to !'life during that era in Texas. r resident archeologist on staff.
$1,800.    ..We can.t walt another 20 We also need a laboratory for
Oddly enough when the coin years to record what we have    of
was minted in 1818 at the Jose here,“ 8aid Collins. “We have Vitt'SSS;
Antonio de la Garza mint in San boxes and boxes ot history col- Collins said through agencies
Antonio, the only Spanish royal Iecttng dust here and In two
mint in this part of the New decades some of it will disap- Commission and Nationall Trus
World, It was the lowest Dear>,    p for Historic Preservation he will
denomination in circulation. The    av„Q,,0 _ seek grants to make the ar-
haif.quartilla was of such a low H.„°.JSSttSl cheologist position a possibility,
monetary denomination’ that1 'ft'    He sald 8lnce Presidio La Bahia
became known among token col-    18 operated by the Victoria
lectors as the grandfather of    Diocese °f th® Cath0l,C Church
tokens in Texas.    '    he mfly also look to Cathollc
"A half quartilla was one    fi*®;    universities for help.
eighth of a Real,” said Agler. "It ^eoloaits Pwithd whif Slfns ““ would be ft mark agalnst
was circulated in order to allow    ggRjL"}£    our Present generation if we do
the collection,of taxes. At that    not do something. If we don't,
time, the period from 1810 to    ■al * who will? If we don’t discharge
1820, there was an economic    ^ museum in America    our responsibility part of our
m8tory, and < be said.
cultural pieces that date back to
the Indian period. We have, for
example, 14 Indian metal points
of different shapes and sizes,
some of them brass and iron.
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The younger Jurist said his
first visit to Big Bend National
Park was in 1944, when it
"became a national park.”
The family vacation ranch,
whicfr,he said ,ll larger than
10,000 acres, is located 35 miles
south of Marathon.
"My family is extremely im-
portant to me,” said the new
magistrate, who grew up in Cor-
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