Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1979 Page: 3 of 8
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JANUARY 25, 1979
SOUTH JETTY
PAGE 3
There are times when I really
don’t like me. Or at least when I
can’t stand something 1 do, or
don’t do. Like anything else, I
guess, there are high and low
degrees in my feelings about
myself. 1 must have reached a
new high, or was it a new low,
not long ago.
Let me tell you about it.
It was a Saturday morning and I
could hardly believe it. I was
home all by myself. Had two
hours before I had to go anywhere
or do anything. It was the kind of
lagniappe I need in my life from
time to time. And you.
I was just there. With a
passably interesting book. And ol’
Willie on the record player talking
about a rcd-headcd stranger. Just
remembering gets me all relaxed.
You know what 1 mean?
Had just poured my second, or
maybe it was the third, cup of
coffee and was spooning honey in
for sweetening when I thought I
heard a knock at the door.
Decided to ignore it. But it came
again, not so persistent, and my
curiosity got the best of me.
Looking down at him, irritated
by the interruption, / grumped
Well? Can I help you?
I remember it vividly now,
Lord help me. He hit his lip,
swallowed a frog and croaked.
Would you like to buy a box of
candy?
No thank you. I grumbled,
closing the sliding door and
walking into the back room.
Tourism Seminar
This Friday
A Tourism Development Semi-
nar will be held Friday, Jan. 26,
from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the
Texas A&M Agricultural Research
and Extention Center on Highway
44. The Seminar is sponsored by
the Research and Extention Ser-
vice and the Coastal Bend Council
of Governments.
The seminar is open to the
public, especially designed to
provide information and assis-
tance to county and city officials
and administrators, chambers of
commerce, hotels and other lodg-
ing places, private recreational
facilities, real estate developers,
civic organizations, and business
and economic students.
Discussions will be led by three
speakers: Phil Davis, chief of
community relations for the Texas
Tourist Development Agency; Dr.
Clare A. Gunn of A&M University
and a member of the board ot U.
S. Travel Data Center and the
Travel Research Association; and
G. K. (Ken) Pagans, parks and
recreation specialist with the
Texas Agricultural Extension Ser-
vice.
The role of the Texas Tourist
Development Agency in promot-
ing the Coastal Bend region will
be considered, with emphasis on
how to develop and promote
special events for a community. A
\im]I holrt on capital-
izing on new tourism opportuni-
ties, which will include examining
the tourist potential; businessmen
getting the most out ot the tourist
industry; and coordination ot
public and private efforts to take
maximum advantage ot tourism
opportunities.
Another subject discussed will
be the part both public and
About 5 minutes later it hit me.
How could 1 be such an
insensitive clod? How could 1 have
forgotten? So, I didn’t want any
candy. Maybe I didn’t even have
a buck to buy it. That’s not the
point.
It hasn’t been that long since
my own tribe was out door-to-door
peddling for the Scouts, the Camp
Fire Girls, the football team,
whatever. And I remember their
real heart break when they
couldn’t make a sale.
And I remember, oh God, how I
remember. A lonely, frightened
little boy standing on a wind-
swept street corner late at night
trying to peddle the early edition
of the next morning’s newspaper.
Fighting back tears when people
walked by, unseeing and uncar-
ing. Scared to call it quits until
the papers were sold. Scared to
stay out too late.
And 1 remember, oh God, how I
remember. A scared young man
trying to be a salesman, trying to
find the courage even to ask the
question. Driving aimlessly and
purposelessly in order to avoid
having someone else say no, and
close the door.
Little boy, come back! Maybe 1
won’t buy your candy. But I’ll
take some time to talk with you.
I’ll ask how you’re doing and I’ll
try to raise your spirits a little.
I’ll let you know that I do care
and. oh God, I have to know how
important that is. To me and you!
private recreational facilities and
parks play in developing tourism
and how communities can in-
crease or improve such attrac-
tions.
CBCSA Board
Meets Here
Sees JELM Work
Members of the Coastal Bend
Christian Service Association
board of directors, headed by
Father James Tamayo of Corpus
Christi, are meeting here this
week.
Jack L. Moore, director of
J.E.L.M. and a member of the
CBCSA board, will host the
luncheon confab at Summer Place.
Presbyterian conference center.
In addition to regular agenda
items, the CBCSA representatives
will be given a close-up of some
of the program carried on at the
JELM Activity Center.
Geared to Winter Texans but
also open to year-round residents,
JELM (Joint Effort Leisure Minis-
try) offers a myriad of activities
for interested persons. Monthly
schedules are available at the
Center, 105 S. Alister.
CBCSA. sponsor of JELM, is
made up of representatives from
five denominations: Episcopal.
Methodist, Presbyterian, Disciples
of Christ (Christian), and Roman
Catholic.
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Youth Valentine
Dance Feb. 16
Community Bldg.
U. T. Marine Lab News
by John Thompson
Marine Institute
Names Moore
New Director
Prof. J. Robert Moore, an
authority in underwater mineral
resources, has been named direct-
or of the Marine Science Institute
at The University of Texas at
Austin.
He will assume his duties the
latter part of March.
Dr. Moore has been a professor
and director of the Institute of !
Marine Science at the University
of Alaska in Fairbanks since 1977.
The previous 11 years, he was at
the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, where he was professor
of geological oceanography, di-
rector of the marine research
laboratory and coordinator of the
underwater minerals program.
The 53-year-old oceanographer
was born in Temple, Texas, and
grew up in Waco, Texas. He
graduated with honors from the
University of Houston in 1951
with a bachelor’s degree in geol-
ogy. In 1954, he received the
master’s degree in marine geol-
ogy from Harvard University, and
in 1964 he received the Ph. D. in
geology/oceanography at the Uni-
versity of Wales.
Since 1961 Dr. Moore’s re-
search in underwater mineral re-
sources and exploration has taken
him to the waters of the Bering
Sea, Great Lakes, Irish Sea, Gulf
of Mexico, Southeast Atlantic and
the Central pacific.
Currently, Dr. Moore is chair-
man of the Underwater Mining
Institute, member of the Marine
Board of the National Academy of
Engineering, Fellow of the Geolo-
gical Society of London, adviser to
the Bureau of Land Management
on outer continental shelf petro-
leum exploration, and adviser and
reviewer of marine research for
.he National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Administration.
He has been assigned recently
by the United Nations to review
the oceanographic and marine
mineral potential of the Philip-
pines. He serves as an active
member of several distinquished
panels and committees on ocean-
ography, including the Federal
Power Commission’s national gas
survey and the polar engineering
panel of the National Research
Council. His professional affilia-
tions include the American As-
sociation of Petroleum Geologists,
the Society of Economic Paleon-
tologists and Mineralogists, the
Geochemical Society and the
International Association of Sedi-
mentologists.
He is an active consultant to the
government and to major Ameri-
can and international corporations
in the field of marine resources.
Dr. Moore is currently editor-in-
chief of the Journal of Marine
Mining and of the CRC Press
Series in Oceanography.
The Marine Science Institute of
The University of Texas at Austin
includes administrative offices and
facilities in Austin; the Port
Aransas Marine Laboratory near
Corpus Christi. which specializes
in chemical and biological marine
sciences, and the Geophysical
Laboratory in Galveston which
specializes in marine geology and
geophysics and selected terrestrial
and planetary physics.
The new direcloi succeeds Dr.
Creighton Burk, who resigned
because of illness; Dr. Burk
followed Dr. Maurice Ewing,
eminent geophysicist who was
first director of the institute. Dr.
Peter T. Fiawn, the Leonidas ».
Barrow Professor of Mineral
Resources at UT Austin, has been
acting director since May.
A new interim administrative
system for the Port Aransas
Marine Laboratory has been
announced following the retire-
ment of Acting Director Keith
Arnold on January 15. John
Thompson has been appointed as
Acting Director of Facilities, and a
Program Management Committee
has been established with Patrick
Parker as Chairman and Connie
Arnold and Daniel Kamykowski as
Members. PAML’s parent organi-
zation, The Marine Science Insti-
tute with Administrative Offices in
Austin, will have a new leader in
the latter part of March. Dr J.
Robert Moore will take office as
he new Director at that time. See
the article on Dr. Moore in this
issue of South Jetty.
Nature has accepted for pub-
lication a paper by Tony Amos
(with S. Jacobs and A. Gordon of
Lamont-Doherty Geological Ob-
servatory) entitled “Glacier Ice
Melting: Impact on the Antarctic
Surfaced Water’’. Oswald Koels
will present a paper at a meeting
of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers in March,
“The Production of Food, Energy
and Fresh Water from the Sea
through Artificial Upwelling".
Nancy N. Rabalais describes and
illustrates a new species of
Ctenocheles Kishinouye, 1926, in
the Proceedings of the Biological
Society of Washington. “Iron
Transport in Microalgae: the
isolation and Biological Activity of
a Hydroxamate Siderophore from
the Blue-Green Alga Agmenellum
Quadruplicatum" has been ac-
cepted for publication in Journal
General Microbiology. The publi-
cation is by James E. Armstrong
and Chase Van Baalen. James
received his Ph. D. at the
University of Texas and is now
with the Department of Ocean-
ography at Florida State Univer-
sity.
Several personnel changes have
taken place in January. Ed
O'Donnell has resigned as super-
ior of the Fiscal Office. Lynn
Amos has moved from the Admin-
strative Office to the Fiscal Office
to take over as the new super-
Baptist Church
Dedication Sun.
Sunday, January 28th, the First
Baptist Church of Port Aransas
will become a church of its own.
Through the last several years the
church has been a Mission Church
of the First Baptist Church of
Aransas Pass. The mission church
has grown to the extent that it is
self-sustaining and has been
organized into a church with a full
compliment of teachers, officers
and pastors. The church is free of
debt and is dedicated to the cause
of Christ and the people of this
community. We arc grateful to
the mother church. 1st church,
Aransas Pass, for her support
through the years as well as the
people of Port Aransas.
The church is pa stored by Dr.
Eldon E. Johnson, who moved to
Port Aransas after retiring front
Corpus Christi University.
Sunday School begins at 9:45
a.m.. with classes for every age
group, nursery through adult.
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studying a Bible Book series which
will take them through the Bible.
Sunday morning worship service
is at 11:00 a.m.; evening service
at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday prayer
meeting “Hour of Power is at
p.m. Youth choir for youngsters 6
through 12 practices Wednesday
at 6:00 p.m. and adult choir
visor. Helen Brown and Hazel
Kersh are retiring. Evan Royal-
Parker has resigned to complete
work on her degree. Ken Haines,
Bob Widdowson and Paul Marko-
witz have resigned at the St.
Croix Marine Station.
Dr. John Halver began his
duties as Visiting Professor this
month. Dr. Halver is from the
University of Washington; he was
recently elected to the National
Academy of Sciences. His primary
professional interest is in the field
of pioneering nutrition, compara-
tive biochemistry, physiology, and
metabolism, with fish as the
experimental animal, in order to
advance understanding of basic
general principles and processes
in life. Fie has been active inter-
nationally, having designed, built,
staffed and organized the National
Fishery Research Institute for
Hungary; designed and equipped
fish nutrition and reproductive
physiology research center and
international training school for
the Southeast Fishery Develop-
ment Center for the Philippines,
Malaysia, Thailand, Viet Nam,
Singapore, and Japan. From 1971
through 1977 he was Chairman,
Committee on Nutrition and Pro-
duction of Fish of the Inter-
national Union of nutritional
Sciences with 58 member coun-
tries. Mrs. Marion Lundberg, Dr.
Halver’s Administrative Secretary,
also made the trip from Seattle to
Port Aransas.
Dr. Edward LaRow, on Sabba-
tical Leave from Siena College in
New York, has arrived to spend
that time at the Port Aransas
Marine Laboratory. Dr. LaRow is
currently studying the role of
endogenous locomotor activity in
the vertical migration of zooplank-
ton. Dr. LaRow was accompanied
to Port Aransas by his wife and
four children.
Dr. Roels is in Honolulu.
Hawaii, this week to present a
paper entitled “Intensive Culture
of the Clam Tapes japonica in the
St. Croix Artificial Upwelling
System" at the annual meeting of
he World Mariculture Society.
rehearses at 8:00 p.m. that same
evening.
A warm welcome is extended to
all who would like to worship at
the First Baptist Church of Port
Aransas.
Coast Guard
Aux. Offers
Boating Class
Flotilla 71 of the U. S. Coast
Guard Auxiliary will sponsor a
twelve lesson course in Boating
Skills and Seamanship. Classes
will be held in Room 101, Center
for the Sciences at Corpus Christi
State University, with registration
and first lesson in “Safeway to
Boat Handling" Janaury 29 at
7:00 p.m.
Courses are free to the public,
so bring members of your family
each Monday and Wednesday
from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Certificates
will be awarded to those passing
the courses in - Safeway to Boat
Handling. Sailors’ Language. Boat
Handling. Legal Requirements.
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k S. Ut iMW IV VMU| * * t M J IV
Navigation, Charts and Compass,
Marine Engines, Marlinspike Sea-
manship. Sailing, Weather and
Radiotelephone.
This course is offered and
designed to awaken new safety
awareness and provide for greater
proficiency that will make boating
more safe and trouble free.
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