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TV Listings Page 5A
Thursday, December 7, 2000
PAYC REGISTERING
Deck those hulls!
The Chamber of Commerce-Tourist Bureau is calling
FOR ALL BOATERS TO DECK THEIR HULLS AND ENTER THE
Boat Lighting Contest on Dec. 16.
FOR YOUTH BASKETBALL
The Port Aransas Youth Council is 4
FORMING BASKETBALL TEAMS IN
December in preparation for the
SEASON IN JAUARY.
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Vol. 30 No. 49
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On Mustang Island, Texas
Public tours set Wednesday morning
Coast Guard to commission 87-foot patrol boat
By Carolyn Richards
South Jetty reporter
The Steelhead, an 87-foot coastal pa-
trol boat (CPB), will he commissioned
here by the U.S. Coast Guard Wednes-
day, Dec. 13.
Commissioning ceremonies will be at
10 p.m. at Fred Rhodes Memorial Pavil-
ion in Roberts Point Park.
After the ceremonies, the boat will be
open for the public’s inspection.
There's a lot that’s different about the
Steelhead. There’s no wheel as seen in
earlier vessels. It’s operated with a “joy
stick”. So instead of having a traditional
wheel house, there is a pilot house.
The glass enclosed pilot house has a
360 degree view of what’s going on. From
the pilot house, every part of the Steel-
head can be monitored. It’s full of bells
and whistles.
Commanding officer is Lt. (j.g.) Simon
Maple.
The CPB is an extremely seaworthy ves-
sel, valued by the Coast Guard for its ver-
satility and as a stable work platform.
lt can operate in Sea State 5 (waves of
10 feet) and launch and retrieve a rigid
hull inflatable boat (RHIB) in Sea State
4 (waves up to seven feet).
It has a sate of the art navigation sys-
tem, lightweight diesel engines and a hull
designed to provide maximum seakeep-
ing capability.
This cutter is the smallest multi-mis-
sion patrol vessel employed by the Coast
Guard and is capable of staying at sea for
up to five days with a crew of 10 men
and women.
It was designed to perform missions out
to 200 nautical miles in the coastal wa-
ters of the United States.
The ship is set up to do search and res-
cue, marine environmental response, as-
sist in recreational boating safety, drug
interdiction, contribute to port safety and
security and enforcement of interna-
tional/ domestic living marine resources.
Search and rescue is one of the vessel’s
most important functions. This mission
requires the cutter to monitor, transmit
and receive distress communications and
provide alerting/positing capability;
search for and identify vessels and people
in distress day or night; render assistance
by recovering people in the water, fight
ing fires, dewatering and towing vessels;
and act as on-scene commander and com
municate and operate with other Coast
Guard and Department of Defense ves-
sels, aircraft and shore units involved in
the mission.
In its work with marine environmen-
tal response, the cutter responds to pol-
lution incidents of illegal discharges of
oil, noxious liquid substances, plastics and
trash. The Steelhcad’s crew may conduct
law enforcement boardings to check for
compliance with pollution prevention laws
and treaties.
The crew must assess the magnitude
of the incident and judge whether envi-
ronmental factors such as wind and sea
Please see ‘STEELHEAD,’ Page 12A
Securing the Steelhead
Staff photo by Muhfiay JuOoOn
Seaman Apprentices Frederick Wham, on board, and Miguel Portocarrero secure the lines on the USCG Steelhead.
The 87-foot coastal patrol boat will be commissioned in a ceremony at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 13, at the Fred
Rhodes Memorial Pavilion at Roberts Point Park. Public tours will be held following the ceremony.
Pearl Harbor attack 59 years ago recalled
By Carolyn Richards
South Jetty reporter
Today, Dec. 7, is the 59th anniversary of
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Few of the town’s older residents, be they
veterans or too young to serve, don’t remem-
ber what they were doing when the word
of the attack was broadcast over the radio.
Many of them also speak of the feeling of
patriotism that swept the country in the dark
days after the attack in 1941.
Roy Dunn, who served in the Army dur-
ing World War 11, remembers well the events
of Pearl Harbor Day.
He says he was just about to get out of
high school and was working on the family
dairy. He, along w'ith his brothers and step-
father, milked between 60 and 90 cows twice
a day on a farm near Mansfield.
On that early December Sunday morn
ing, when the milking was finished, Dunn
says he was given permission by his step-
father to go to a stock car race in Arlington.
On the way to Arlington, he and his
friends decided to take a new road, because
it was shorter. They got stuck and spent
five hours trying to get out.
Once the car was unstuck, it was time to
More food, toys needed for Christmas drive
More food, toys, cash contributions and
volunteer helpers are needed to take the
annual Christmas Drive for needy families
of Port Aransas over the top.
Several island organizations have joined
forces to collect a “Merry Christmas” for
needy Port Aransas families.
A Toy Roundup is being conducted by
the Port Aransas police, emergency medi-
cal service and volunteer fire departments.
The VFW Post 8967, the Port Aransas
Boatmen, Inc. and the Kiwanis Club are
collecting hx>d for the Care and Share Drive.
The two groups will combine their resources
and deliver the food and toys on Dec. 21
and 22 with help from city crews.
Mary Tune of the Care and Share por-
5TAI f PHOTO BY VII IMP AY JUOSON
Making Christmas bright
Unwrapped toys are being collected by Port Aransas emergency services for children ot less fortunate families in Pori
Aransas The Toy Roundup is port of a two-pronged Christmns drive that also includes a Cara arid Shaie Dove that is
collecting nonperishable foods. Pictured with some of the toys are, from left, coordinator Sue Williams, Fire Chief Tom
Smith and dispatcher Brandy McKibben. See story for details.
tion of the drive said “We’re in desperate-
need of volunteers to man the booth at Fam-
ily Center IGA on Fridays and Saturdays.”
Individual volunteers or volunteers in
pairs, may the VFW at 749-6534, or go by
the booth at the Family Center on Friday or
Saturday to volunteer for two-hour shifts.
Volunteers will also he needed to take the
groceries to the Civic Center and box them
on Wednesday, Dec. 20.
The Toy Roundup “is going well and we’d
like to do better,” according to coordinator
Sue Williams.
Williams said they have been pleased w ith
cash contributions coming from Houston,
Austin, San Antonio, Dallas and Arizona,
as well as local businesses.
Donations of non-perishable food may he
made at the Family Center IGA on Fridays
and Saturdays, Dec. 8 and 9, and 15 and 16.
Honrs will be 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Parents of children who may not have a
Christmas dinner without help from the
Care and Share Program are asked to com
plete the form elsewhere in this issue of the
South Jetty and drop it off at the Family
Center IGA or the VFW Post Home on
A lister at Beach Street.
Applications for the toys may he picked
up at any EMS office, hut must he returned
to the police department. Applicants must
have a Port Aransas address and zip code
as well as a complete physical address, ac-
cording to Williams. All the applications,
which must he submitted no later than !\\.
15, will be subject to approval.
Williams said unwrapped toys are Seine
accepted at the police station, I MS office,
the fire department, city hall or Family
Center IGA
Monetary donations also are being ac
ceptcd to purchase additional toys for the
less fortunate, Williams said. C hecks should
he made payable to the Emergency Services
T»»y Round-up, ami mailed to isA >, Box
Sn ’CHRISTMAS,’ Pm.i 12A
go back home ami start the milking.
When Dunn arrived home, he says he
learned about the attack from his mother,
who had heard it on the radio.
The next day, Dunn said he heard Presi
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt’s address on the
school public address system. About a year
later, when he w as old enough, he went into
the Army. He really would have preferred
the Navy, hut the draft board wouldn’t re-
lease him, so he had to go into the Army.
He was sent to Europe.
All during World War II. he says he re-
ally wanted to find Hitler and shoot him,
“so I could go home.”
He left for the Army as a boy, hut came
home as a husband and father.
While serving in the Army of Occup
tion, he was sent to Austria, where he met
his wife. He ways she didn’t speak any En
glish and he didn’t speak German, hut there
is “an international language."
Dunn had to cut through a lot of red tape
for them to get married, but today “53 or
54 years later, I wouldn’t take a million dol
lars for her.”
The Dunns have lived here just 11 years
full time hut claim “visitation rights” since
the 1960s. He worked for Ma Bell for more
than 40 years in the Dallas Fort Worth area
and they started coming down here to get
away from it all.
He serves as service officer for the Veter
ans of Foreign Wars Post here and spends
See PEARL H ARBOR, Page 12A
Basketball....................
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Church..........................
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Classified ads................
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Editorial........................
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Education notes.............
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Fishing report..................
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Island Agenda................
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Island observer .............
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On the town...................
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Outdoors........................
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Pastor’s pen...................
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Public safety reports.....
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School menus..................
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TV LISTINGS...........................5A
Youth.................................
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Judson, Mary. Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 7, 2000, newspaper, December 7, 2000; Port Aransas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth635858/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ellis Memorial Library.