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PAGE 12A Thursday, December 7, 2000
Island Life
Port Aransas South Jetty
No wheel, no wheelhouse
Staff photo by Murray Judson
The 87-foot coastal patrol boat, Steelhead, runs without a wheel from what is known as a pilot
house. Instead of a wheel, captain of the boat, Lt. (j.g.) Simon Maple guides the boat with a ‘joy
stick’. Public tours of the boat will be conducted Wednesday, Dec. 13, after a 10 a.m. commissioning
ceremony at Roberts Point Park. See story for details.
Pearl Harbor attack recalled
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“^untold hours” doing things for folks.
He calls it his community work.
On any given day, Dunn may take
an ill veteran to the doctor or to the
dentist. On other days he may take
two men out to Heartland Christian
Fellowship’s food bank to get some
groceries.
He says he’s not sure how much
time he spends running errands for
others, and admits, reluctantly, that
he buys most of the gas for the trips.
Dunn says he’s just as patriotic
today as he was 59 years ago.
* Others in Port Aransas also have
memories of Pearl Harbor Day.
It took long time resident Henry
Studeman, who is 92, a few minutes
to remember what he was doing
when he learned of the attack.
He was captain of a yacht that
belonged to a Dallas man named
Ferris (as in BFI). On that Sunday
afternoon Studeman was putting the
last coat of varnish on the yacht’s
sideboards because they were plan-
ning to take the boat to Houston and
put it on a freighter bound for Chile
where they were going fishing.
But the attack canceled those
plans, Studeman said Ferris, a ma-
jor in the Army reserve, called him
that evening and said to take the
boat to Houston and put it in stor-
age.
Ferris said they would go fishing
“when the war is over.”
He says he went into the Army
right after Dec. 7 and served as a
commissioned officer. He was sent
to Europe and did all “that stuff the
other folks did there.”
"I spent a little time on Omaha
Beach,” he recalls.
Tom Lambertson, a retired Navy
officer, says he remembers he was
on his way home from white-wing
hunting in Mercedes when they
heard the news on the car radio. His
first reaction was,
“where’s Ha-
waii?”
Slow Grissom,
who had just cel-
ebrated his 14th
birthday, was
spending the af-
ternoon in town
in Littlefield at
the movies, when
the screen went
blank. One of the
Roy Dunn
theater workers went up on stage
and announced, “Pearl Harbor has
been attacked by the Japanese.”
Grissom said everyone was
shocked into silence then everyone
started talking at once, many won-
dering just where Pearl Harbor was
located. A few minutes later, the
movie started again.
Bruce McElheney, who was born
in 1934, was just a kid, but he re-
members. He was at home in Buf-
falo, NY, when the word came over
the radio about the attack on Pearl
Harbor. He says it made such an
impression on him because his fa-
ther went down the next day and
joined the Merchant Marine, where
he served throughout the war.
McElheney, a veteran of the Ko-
rean Conflict, is retired from the
military and is’ now commander of
the VFW post.
Donna Dey, a veteran herself, says
she was only a child but she vividly
remembers the event. She had just
walked home from church in Au-
burn, WA, where she grew up, and
her parents told her about the at-
tack.
She said she wasn’t even sure what
war was, but she knew the country
would be involved in some kind of
conflict because of the attack. And
she also “knew we would win be-
cause we were Americans.”
Johnie Martin Mathews, member
of an old Port Aransas family, says
he was at home when he learned of
the attack. He was just a kid, he says,
but he remembers his mother “go-
ing ballistic” because she was just
sure they’d take her husband and she
wondered what she would do with
all the kids. Sure enough, Mathews’
father had to leave her and the kids
because he served in the Coast
Guard during the war.
Barbara Rea says she was 12 years
old at the time and living in Mem-
phis, TN.
They had been to the movies and
when they got home, they heard the
paper boy calling, “Extra, Extra.”
They didn’t know what was going
on, but read about the attack in the
paper.
Rea says a*t that age she didn’t
know where Pearl Harbor was, but
she did know “the Japanese had
done something bad to us.”
Tom Scow of Port Aransas says
he thinks he was too young to re
member Pearl Harbor Day, but he
sure remembers the elation people
felt on V-J Day. He was hoeing pota-
toes in Ashton, ID, when the boss
came out in the field and told them
that the war was over.
The boss loaded the kids who
were hoeing into a pickup truck and
took them all into town, where Scow
says the streets were full of celebrat-
ing people.
Christmas drive needs help
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Port Aransas, TX 78373. Checks call Williams at 749-6241. potato bar and guests may bring
may be dropped off at the public Also, Ballyhoos’ Piano Bar will their own steak or fish to grill. Doors
safety building, 705 W. Ave. A. have a “Port A Christmas for the open at 4 p.m. and entertainment
Donations of the toys also will he Kids” party on Sunday, Dec. 10. starts at 6:02 p.m.
accepted through Dec. 15. The cut- Admission will be a new $5 toy or
off date will allow time for the toys cash. All donations will be donated Bruce McElheney and Tune of the
to be matched to the applications and to the Toy Roundup. Entertainment VFW are co-chairmen of the Care
distributed by Christmas. at the event will be by Patsy Jones and Share Drive. McElheney may be
For additional information on the and John Paul, Jeff Kruger and oth- reached at 749-6534 and Tune may
Toy Round-up or to apply for toys, ers. The event will feature a free be reached at 749-3849.
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Steelhead to be
commissioned
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conditions will further contaminate
the area or spread the pollution.
The cutter crew checks recre-
ational vessels, their operators and
equipment for compliance with ap-
plicable laws and regulations. They
also provide courtesy marine exams
for recreational boaters.
In suspected drug situations, the
Coast Guard has the ability to de-
tect, assess, intercept and board sur-
face vessels, both hostile and passive.
In contributing to port safety, the
CPB conducts inshore and coastal
patrols to detect, investigate and
maintain surveillance of suspicious
vessels. It also enforces limited ac-
cess areas that may require maneu-
vering in close proximity to other
vessels and operation in shallow ar-
eas and channel boundaries. The
crew may board vessels in order to
verify compliance with port safety-
security directives and publications.
It may monitor, assist and fight
marine fires with onboard fire fight-
ing equipment.
The Coast Guard’s duties in in-
ternational-domestic living marine
resources enforcement mainly con-
cern the verification that a vessel is
legally fishing in the right waters at
the right time.
All the technical gear that makes
the boat go means Coast Guardsmen
aboard it can “work smarter, not
harder,” said Gene Gibson, BMl, the
executive officer.
Sign up set for
bus tours of
Christmas lights
The city of Port Aransas will take
a bus tours of Christmas lights Cor-
pus Christi from Dec. 14 through
23.
Cost is $ l per person and tickets
must be purchased in advance at city
hall, 710W. Ave. A.
The Christmas lights tours will be
made daily except Sundays from Dec.
14 through Dec. 23. The bus will
leave city hall on these tours at 5:30
p.m. each day.
Call 749-4 111 for further infor-
mation.
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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/m1/12/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ellis Memorial Library.