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Remember those who fought for you today
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November 12, 1990
The family newspaper of dynamic Calhoun County1
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Tonight it will be cold with
fair skies and lows near the
50s. Tuesday it will be partly
cloudy with highs in the 70s.
Wind tonight will be from the
northeast at 5 to 10 knots with
seas 2 to 4 feet.
The tide forecast for Port
O’Connor shows a high at 8:59
p.m. and a low at 6:52 a.m.
Tuesday. For Powderhorn, a
high at 8:45 p.m. and a low at
6:38 a.m. And at Sand Point, a
high at 9:15 p.m. and a low
Tuesday at 7:08 a.m.
All sports boosters
The Calhoun High All
Sports Booster Club will
meet at 7 p.m. today at the
Calhoun High PE complex
building.
you will remember with him.
Joe was part of the Air Cal-
vary, trained to get the foot sol-
dier into country where previ-
ously they had been unable to
go. They were trained in heli-
copter warfare. He and other
young men from Refugio, San
Antonio, San Benito, San Anto-
nio, Alice, Houston, Laredo,
Brownsville and many other
Texas towns were all trained
together at Fort Polk,
Louisiana.
In March 1964, the entire divi-
sion was transferred to Fort
Benning. They went together to
the same battalion, same divi-
sion. The entire group was
tranferred to the 11th Air
Assault and trained to fight
from helicopters.
In 1965, the young men in
Joe’s group were told that those
with less then six months left to
serve, would not have to go to
Vietnam — that’s not what hap-
pened. They were all sent to
Vietnam together, not all
returned.
On Nov. 14, 1965, Joe’s group
was dropped off on a mountain,
rising 2,401 feet over the la
Drang valley.
Their helicopters bore the
colors of the 1st Calvary Divi-
sion and carried 28 officers and
429 men into battle. Their
enemy turned out to be two
regiments, 3,000 in number, of
well-trained North Vietnamese
regulars — not the VC as had
been expected.
They fought and died
Sunday, the traditional Veter-
ans’ Day, although today is the
official national holiday.
Meanwhile, the jury select-
ing a design for a memorial to
women who served in Vietnam,
to be built adjacent to the
Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial,
announced that it has selected
two finalists instead of one
winner.
One of the winning designs,
by sculptor Eileen Rose Barry
of East Islip, Long Island, is a
statue of a woman standing
alone with a helmet in her
hand.
“She looks like she has been
to war and she is going some-
where else,” said juror Raquel
Ramati, a New York urban
designer. “She is dignified and
courageous, but she looks like
she is part of the human race.
She is not superwoman.”
The other finalist, by land-
scape architect Robert Dia-
mond of Arlington, Mass., con-
sists of 240 jets of water with a
large white marble block at the
center. The white will contrast
with the black marble wall,
with the names of more than
58,000 Vietnam war dead on it,
that is the central feature of the
Vietnam memorial.
Making yardage
Vinson Phillips makes a dash for yardage during the Calhoun—Bay City game Friday night. Phillips,
who suffered a two game slump, came back and rushed for over 100 yards. Despite the better statistics of
Calhoun, the Sandcrabs lost by two touchdowns to Bay City, 21-7. The Wave expresses their congratula-
tions to every member of the Sandcrab football team and coaching staff for their great winning
year.(Wave Photo by Ellen Allen)
Iraq offers to attend peace
By ELLEN L. ALLEN
Lifestyle Editor
together and thereby prevent
tensions among nations in the
anti-Iraq alliance.
Meanwhile, an Arab summit
attended by Iraq appeared
possible.
On Sunday, Iraq’s ruling
Revolutionary Command Coun-
cil said Iraq would attend the
summit under three conditions.
Those were that Baghdad be
consulted in advance on the
agenda, that the timing and
location be chosen so Saddam
could attend, and that the agen-
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By CHARLYN FINN
Wave Staff Writer
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known as Port Lavaca Police
Chief Joe Pena, took his
17-year-old son, Joe Jr. with him
to Fort Benning, Georgia for a
reunion of the 1st Division/7th
Calvary. Joe Jr. met the men his
Dad had fought with and saw
uncut film of that terrible
battle.
Joe met with the men he had
fought with, some for the first
time in 25 years. While they
talked about what had hap-
pened to them, “little pictures”
started to open up in Joe’s
mind. The memories he had
kept buried for so long started
to return.
Today, as we observe Veter-
an’s Day, Joe Pena remembers
what he was doing and where
he was 25 years ago — he hopes
The Port Lavaca City Council
will consider the first reading
of an ordinance providing for
the extension of boundary lim-
its of the city and the annexa-
tion of 1963.77 acres of land
adjacent to the north and west
boundaries of Port Lavaca,
when the council holds a spe-
cial meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday.
Normally the council meets
on Monday nights, but due to
the Veterans Day holiday, the
meeting is being held on Tues-
day. City hall announced the
special meeting Friday.
City Manager C. J. Webster
said he will be recommending
that the council table this anne-
xation in order to take a long
look at all of the areas and the
issues involved.
“We have done well in the
adoption of the drainage plan
talks
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Stor-
mie Jones’ painful journey,
which ended with her sudden
death at age 13 six years after
her pioneering heart-liver
transplant, blazed the way for
other multiple transplants,
doctors say.
“We’ve been able to provide
better quality of life and longer
life for many people” because
of Stormie’s ordeal, Dr. Jorge
Reyes, staff physician at Child-
ren’s Hospital of Pittsburgh,
said after Stormie died there
«uda —
Sunday.
But Stormie didn’t like being
under a media spotlight,
acquaintances recalled.
“She wished everybody
would treat her normal instead
of like she had an operation,
because she didn’t like every-
body asking her how she felt or
if she was feeling OK,” said
Crystal Millikan, Stormie’s best
friend in her hometown of
White Settlement, Texas, a Fort
Worth suburb.
(See STORMIE, Page 2)
together for three days and two
nights on that mountain. Now
history says it was the deciding
battle of the Vietnam action.
Joe Pena was in the service of
his country for three years and
15 days.
Today he remembers what he
fought for. He fought for the
United States.
In his words, “freedom for
everybody, no strings attached.
Freedom that was gained by
hundreds upon hundreds upon
hundreds of lives, given up,
without question or bad feel-
ings. Given as a duty and a pri-
vilege to protect their country."
Joe wants everyone to
remember all the Veterans
through the years, all the way
(See IA DRANG, Page 2)
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da include not just the gulf cri-
sis but all Middle East issues —
including the Palestinian
question.
The council, led by Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein,
also suggested it would not
allow certain topics to be dis-
cussed. It did not specify which
ones.
“The proposed summit
should not be part of efforts to
prepare the political theater as
a cover for American aggres-
(See IRAQ, Page 2)
and thoroughfare plan," he
said. “These need to be supple-
mented by a master water and
sewer plan and an analysis of
where we believe our future
growth will be. The develop-
ment of a policy regarding
these areas close to town and
our future boundaries could be
undertaken as part of a master
water and sewer plan. Follow-
ing the development of such a
plan might be a more appropri-
ate time to consider the anne-
xation of development just out-
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Twenty-five years ago this
month, Joe was on a mountain
in Vietnam at a landing site
called X Ray. He, along with
other young Texans, was fight-
ing in the first major battle of
that war.
On Dec. 3, 1965, Joe was back
in Port Lavaca trying to blank
out horrible memories, know-
ing that only 20 days before 79 of
his fellow countrymen had died
and 121 were wounded, on a
mountain overlooking the la
Drang Valley .
Joe closed the curtain in his
mind on that scene of war and
went on with his life.
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in Vietnam, told a reporter at
the Vietnam memorial Sunday.
Horsch said he believes the
military buildup in the Persian
Gulf is the right thing to do
because “it is in the interest of
the United States and other
countries.”
Stephen Reuben of Lapwai,
Idaho, a member of the Nez
Perce tribe who also served in
Vietnam, declined to say
whether he believed the buil-
dup was a good idea, but said he
fears the country will go to war.
“I am afraid so, but I pray and
hope we don’t,” Reuben said.
Teresa Swain of Hagerstown,
Md., when asked if she sup-
ported the buildup, said, “We
have to protect our interests.”
As to whether it would mean
war, she said, "I certainly hope
not.” Mrs. Swain said she has a
son-in-law in the Air Force.
At Arlington National Cemet-
ery, Secretary of Defense Dick
Cheney placed a floral wreath
at the Tomb of the Unknowns
and told a crowd of about 5,500,
“Those who have been deploy-
ed to the Persian Gulf and
Saudi Arabia are probably the
best-trained soldiers we have
ever had."
The ceremonies were held on
23, of Largo, Fla., said at the
Mideast post on Sunday.
The human cost of any offen-
sive against Iraq to liberate
Kuwait is “a question that’s on
everybody’s mind,” Lacy said.
It was on people’s minds
here, too.
It’s “just a matter of time”
until the United States is at war
again, Bob Horsch of Rahway,
N.J., a veteran of Army service
Rabe Ruth league
I lie board of directors of
the Calhoun County Babe
Ruth League will meet at 7
p.m. on Tuesday in the Cal-
houn County Appraisal Dis-
trict office, 426 W. Main
next to Richardson Funeral
Home. The purpose of the
meeting is to elect officers
for 1990 91 and discuss
plans for baseball season.
All persons interested in
teenage baseball are urged
to attend.
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Webster said he has
reviewed the background and
major issues associated with
the annexation at the recom-
mendation of the city council.
He said the city’s most impor-
tant issue is its ability to control
development within its
watershed to protect the homes
subject to flooding. He said he
believes that wording in the
city’s contract with GBRA and a
review of some other city ordi-
nances could give the city the
necessary controls it needs.
“I believe these ordinances
and active inspection practices
can also insure that no develop-
ment occurs within our Extra
Territorial Jurisdiction that
does not meet our standards,”
he said.
Webster said the concern
about the subsidy paid by citi-
zens to provide services to peo-
ple outside of the city is not so
easily addressed. He said the
fire hydrants the city installed
and maintained in the Peikert
Addition, the fire protection,
the emergency police and ani-
mal control assistance the city
provides and the provision of
city streets and services are
enjoyed by these people on the
fringe of the city at no cost.
“This same situation applies to
(See CITY, Page 2)
Court slates
final payment
for library
Calhoun County Commission-
ers Court will discuss making
the final payment to the con-
tractor for the new county
library building at the Novem-
ber meeting Tuesday.
The court is scheduled to act
on accepting the project from
the contractor and architect at
10 a.m.
Furnishings for the library
have been ordered and the new
building should be in use next
month.
The existing library building
may be used by the county
museum or for additional coun-
ty office space.
The court will also discuss
hiring a new manager for the
county landfill. The landfill
manager position is currently
vacant.
Bids for a new ambulance for
Port O’Connor will be opened
Tuesday.
The court meets on the sec-
ond floor of the courthouse.
The Golden Crescent Region
al Planning Commission Area
Agency on Aging will conduct
an Alzheimer’s Disease and
Related Disorder meeting at
2:30 p.m. on Thursday in the
Town Plaza Mall in Victoria.
The first part of this meeting
will include a fifteen minute
video tape, “Caring: Families
Coping With Alzheimer’s Dis-
ease.” This video is a visit with
three different families and
shows how they are coping with
Alzheimer’s Disease with their
loved one. The second half of
the meeting will conclude with
individual group discussions,
caregiver’s experiences, and
refreshments.
Caregiving is not just some-
body else’s problem anymore.
This is a national concern that
will likely hit most of us. This
meeting is open to family and
friends of Alzheimer’s victims
and anyone interested in
understanding Alzheimer’s
disease.
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today as saying that Egyptian
soldiers will not enter Iraq
even if U.S. and other troops
attack.
He said his troops could,
however, enter Kuwait as a
peacekeeping force.
At the same time, the Euro
pean Community said it would
urge Baghdad to accept a
U.N.-brokered solution con-
cerning the hundreds of Wes-
terners held by Iraq. The EC
wants countries negotiating
hostage deals with Iraq to work
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
threat of war in the Persian
Gulf shadowed Veterans’ Day
observances from the Vietnam
Veterans’ Memorial in
Washington to an Army post in
Eastern Saudi Arabia.
“It looks like many people
will be marching in next year’s
Veterans’ Day parades with a
banner saying Desert Shield
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I raq has said it might attend a
proposed Arab summit aimed
at avoiding war in the Persian
Gulf, but only if the meeting
also deals with the Arab-Israeli
dispute.
King Hassan of Morocco
proposed the emergency sum-
mit on Sunday as a “last
chance” for peace.
There were new signs, mean-
while, of cracks in the alliance
against Iraq. Egypt’s President
Hosni Mubarak was quoted
Thought for the day: “If there
is anything we wish to
change in the child, we
should first examine it and
see whether it is not some-
thing that could better be
changed in ourselves.”
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