The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 34, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 22, 1990 Page: 5 of 20
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The Mercedes Enterprise -- Page 5
Mercedes, Texas 78570 Wednesday, August 22 , 1990
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Registration
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Rites said for
Truett Jordan
Cheerleaders
serve plates
of chicken
Mercedes,
Keeney.
nominate the following individual members for a Board position
of the Mercedes Little League:
IN THE VALLEY — One year, $10.50 □ Two years, $15.50 □
OUT OF VALLEY - One year, $13.50 □ Two years, $19.00 □
“It’s an adventure everyday, but it’s really fun.”
Debbie attended school in Mercedes before her family
moved to Sinton in 1975. Pictured here are Tab and
Debbie holding Kayla and Reagan. In back Connie and
Curtis Reagan, Debbie’s parents, hold Daniel and
Patrick. [Mercedes Enterprise Photo.]
614 N. Texas Boulevard
Weslaco, Texas 78596
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Adelmira Aguilar
Lydia Reyna
Francisca H. Garcia
Consuelo G. Huerta
Maria Luisa Ramos
Lupita Santoyo
Pablo Cardoza
Hortencia Cardoza
Sylvia Cardoza
Diana Cardoza
Bertha Cano
Hilario L. Cano
Alberto Garza
Luis Aguilar
Dora G. Garcia
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excited”
season.
“This
Coaching the last four years in
Weslaco, Coach Keeney received her
college education in Missouri.
Volleyball practice began August
13, and the coach says she’s “really
NEW VOLLEYBALL COACH ON THE JOB - Coach Karin Keeney
drills a student on returns during a recent practice session of the Lady
Tiger Volleyball Team. [Mercedes Enterprise Photo.]
Lady Tigers welcome
new volleyball coach
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Mr. and Mrs. Doug Veach of Port
9 Lavaca announce the birth of a
splitters will be swayed by national
politics; whether Democrats lower
or raise the deficit, and how well
the Bush Administration handles
the Iraq crisis.
Hightower Rips Clements
Any slate of nominations for
“most feisty state official” must
necessarily include Agriculture
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Chicago native Karin reports. “We have more freshmen
School registration is continuing
at Immanuel Lutheran School, Mer-
cedes, for those who missed regis-
tration last week. Leroy Hohle,
principal of Immanuel, says that
classes are not yet filled, and those
interested in the four-year-old pro-
gram, kindergarten to grade six may
register for school by visiting the
school office.
HIGHLIGHTS
about the approaching
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Classes will be limited in size and
waiting lists will begin to be taken for
all grades on a first-come basis.
Additional information is available
by calling 565-5043.
Immanuel Lutheran School’s
Child Development Center is also
taking applications. The Child De-
velopment Center is licensed by the
Texas Department of Human Ser-
vices to provide child care for
children ages two years through 12
years, Monday through Friday, from
7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Interested
parents may contact the Center for
further information at 565-9503 or
565-5043.
According to Mrs. Emma Nieto,
director of the Center, room is still
available for parents seeking child
care. Mrs. Nieto states that the
program planned is to aid each child
in his intellectual, emotional, social
and physical growth. Immanuel
Lutheran Child Development Center
is for the young child.
Further information may be re-
ceived by calling the school office or
the Child Development Center.
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[Editor’s Reply: City Man-
ager Alan Kamasaki reports
that the difficulty has been in
the electrical and pumping
systems at the sewage lift
station that drains the areas -
and that the problem was solved
Tuesday morning.
“When the pump goes
down,” he says, “there’s not
much storage capacity in the lift
station, so it was quick to
overflow. We consulted experts
on the system, and they found
the trouble and had it fixed
Tuesday morning, though there
was one final overflow while
they were making the repairs.”]
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Former Mercedes Police Chief
Truett Jordan was buried Monday
after his death last Friday in San
Antonio.
Graveside services took place at
Valley Memorial Gardens, with
services conducted by Mercedes
Masonic Lodge 1010 AF&AM.
Born in Lutherville, Arkansas, he
was graduated from the FBI Acade-
my in 1944, and served for 36 years
in the Valley as a law enforcement
officer. In addition to service as chief
in Mercedes, he was an officer with
the Texas Department of Public
Safety and Hidalgo County Highway
Patrol and was chief in Brownsville,
Mission and Pharr.
Upon retiring in 1969, he served
as assistant chief of security at Pan
American University, until 1973.
Survivors include his wife, Ilione
Jordan of San Antonio; two sons,
Charles Jordan of San Antonio and
Leon Jordan of Houston; one daugh-
ter, Evelyn Williams of San Antonio;
two sisters, Ellowee Crutchfield of La
Porte, Colorado, and Etta Cromer of
El Toro, California; a brother, Melvin
Jordan of La Porte; and eight
grandchildren.
Daughter born
August 12
AUSTIN - Caustic barbs and
advertisements remind us that
Labor Day, just around the comer,
marks the beginning of the end-
game for the Texas campaign
season.
The gloves arc coming off,
Texas politicians arc used to
(saying. Other states say we never
use gloves in the first place, just
shoulder pads and helmets.
In the gubernatorial race, Demo-
crat Ann Richards released a se-
ries of media ads painting Repub-
lican opponent Clayton Williams
as a shady character and slamming
the GOP as mud-slingers.
Williams camp said this is the
dirty, low-down kind of attack
Mthey’ve been expecting her to wage
because she’s so far behind in the
polls. She did it to Mark White,
L y reminded.
Richards is expected to charac-
terize Williams as a Texan grown
super wealthy from Big Oil and
shady dealings, who wants to con-
trol state agencies which regulate
his financial empire.
Campaign Themes
• If past campaigns are repeated,
Richards and other Democrats will
stress an income class welfare
theme designed to get low-income
voters to vote against the affluent.
Republicans will counter with
a theme of business leadership,
not state employee leadership,
and bring in the kinder, gentler
President Bush to help win
independents.
“ Quite likely, many Texas ticket-
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THOMPSON QUADRUPLETS VISIT MERCEDES -
Debbie and Tab Thompson of Stephenville recently
• visited Mercedes with their quadruplets. The quads,
who will be three in December, are described by their
parents as “each having their own personality.” Of
raising the four busy toddlers the Thompsons note,
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will ask the state to purchase spill
equipment and establish regional
centers on the coast.
“It’s time we decided that oil
spills are like fires. We need fire
stations, we need fire trucks, we
need a fire chief,” he said.
Medicaid to Resume
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daughter, Kayla Michelle, born
August 12.
The child weighed seven pounds,
10 ounces at birth and was 20.5
inches in length.
She was welcomed home by her
three sisters, Shari, Melissa and
Kasi.
Mother of the new child is the
former Miss Debi Jones of Merce-
des.
Maternal grandparents are Ho-
ward and Helen Jones, while great-
grandmother is Ethel Williams, all of
Mercedes.
Paternal grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Conrad Smith of Fate, and
great-grandmother is Lavonia
Richardson of Weslaco.
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Editor,
The Enterprise;
Open letter to the Mercedes City
Commission; we, the residents of
Missouri Avenue and Frontage Road
83 are sending this letter of
complaint. It is concerning the
overflow of sewage on Missouri and
Frontage Road. This situation had
occured before on occasions, but it
was taken care of immediately.
But as of a few months ago, this
situation became serious. Every
Friday evening the overflow starts
and continues until Saturday morn-
ing - for hours. Now, as of Thursday,
August 9, the problem became
worse. It has been overflowing every
single day without fail and some-
times continues to the next day.
This matter has all of us very
concerned, because it is a health
hazard and a nuisance. Please help
us and correct this major problem
immediately.
We have approached several
people from the city who have said
“we’re sorry. We are aware of this
problem.”
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Commissioner Jim Hightower, who administers Medicaid payments to
last week took his nemesis, Gov. doctors and hospitals will resume
Bill Clements, to task over the payments under an agreement
Galveston Bay oil spill. reached with state officials last
Hightower, who promotes Texas- week.
grown farm and ranch products, The company stopped the checks
ate a shrimp lunch with bay fish- when the state missed its $117
erman to convince the world that million premium payment in Au-
the oil spill did not contaminate gust.
the seafood. Other Highlights
He also hit into Clements for • Texas was ranked 27th of
failing to fund an oil spill response 29 industrial states in a study of
team with the feds $360 nullion business costs by a Chicago-based
oilovercharge fund. accounting firm.
Clements hasn’t tried to demon- • A recent Gallup poll indicates
strate sensitivity on the oil spill is- 77 percent of Texans favor drug
sue, and it has hurt Republicans testing at the workplace and
more than any thing this summer. 25 percent responded that they
When Clements left his po- have seen co-workers use illegal
litical jaw unprotected, claiming drugs on the job. The poll Was
t ic funds for research and devel- commissioned by the Institute for
opment while the coast mopped a Drug Free Workplace
two more minor spills, Hightower . Bill Kenyon, a campaign
couldn t resist throwing a jab. strategist for clayton Williams,
After al, here was a chance was hospitalized last week in
to tag Clements and Big Oil Austin after suffering a heart
at the same time, and there s attack °
nothing Hightower likes better , Chuck McDonald, former
than stirring up the little people editor of the Craham
against the big people, especially semi-weekly in West Texas, has
i it s Big Oil or Big Corporate joined the Richards campaign staff
ait •« as a press spokesman. He will
ever niind dial the uh bpm coordinate all press relations with
response issue was developed rural and suburban publications.
b, Land Commissioner Garry , James Crouch, retired
Mauro, 7 , been very careful Air Force brigadier general, was
not to play too much politics on appointed executive director of
—SSu i i >t the Public Utility Commission, a
Thats why some people call position which pays $61,500 to
Hightower die PT. Barnum of oversee 200 employees and a $9
Texas Politics.’ "Hightower is the million budget.
consummate political showman. , Former state Rep Ben Reyes,
Oil Spill Agency now a Houston city council-
Meanwhile, Mauro predicted man, owes more than $2.7 mil-
the Legislature will create an oil lion according to records in his
spill agency to contain and clean bankruptcy case.
spills like firemen answering an ■ The state hired Ben Nix and
alarm. Associates of Arlington to probe
Mauro wants an elected official allegations of racism and sexism
put in charge of the agency and against the Capitol police chief.
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than any other age group, so
basically we’ll be building a team.
My goal is to motivate the girls and
train them to be strong on the
attack.”
She also notes that this is the first
year Mercedes will field a freshman
team, and says it will “allow the kids
more playing time.”
When asked how she feels about
Mercedes, the coach is enthusiastic.
“Mercedes is great. The gym is
beautiful - they’re really nice
facilities - and the kids are so polite
and respectful. I can’t get over it.”
The team played a scrimmage
against Los Fresnos on Monday,
and next action comes September 1,
when the team hosts a tournament
for both JV and varsity teams.
cheerleaders will serve barbecued
I chicken plates at their Annual
Cheerleaders Barbecue, set this year
for September 1, report members of
j the squad.
Plates including half chicken,
। rice, beans and trimmings will be
served from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at
Mercedes Civic Center.
Tickets are available in advance
. j for $3.50 each from any member of
J the squad or at MHS.
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