Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 1989 Page: 2 of 12
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Page 2 Thursday, November 30, 1989
Port Aransas South Jetty
I'M SICK OF
THIS REPORT ON
HOW OUT OF SHAPE
AMERICA'S YOUTH ARE
GIMME THE REMOTE
CONTROL.
Christmas: giving joy
They say that some of the best
things in life are free
If you don’t believe it, go with a
child (of any age) to our Boat Light-
ing Contest, or Like one (who cares
how old?) around town to look at the
Christinas lights.
That s joy! And all it costs is the
gas to make a trip around town or to
the harbor — pocket change.
vVe are pressed for time in a big
way art Mind our little office, but some
ho a, some way, I’m going to find
lime to throw a string of lights along
our front porch railing.
It won't require a ladder, and if I’m
real ciovcr, I won’t even need a ham-
mer or nails. I know I can get a string
of iigliLs in town for under five bucks.
And it w ill be one more “bright” for
a kid passing by, out for a night of
checking out the Christmas lights.
TTral 's not a lot of trouble to bring a
whole lot of joy to a little girl or boy.
And think what you can do with
your boat!
This year, even if you don’t have
the time, you can let someone else do
the work by sponsoring them in the
boat lighting contest.
That’s really something special. The
Spinoff
Mary
Henkel
J nelson
boat lights arc brilliant, and reflected
off the surface of the watci, it ’s breath
taking.
It’s some effort. It may be some
bucks. But the joy is worth it all.
And isn’t dial w hat Christmas is all
about? Giving.
Come on, give a little joy.
Light up for Christmas. Light your
house, your boat, your business.
Make a kid really happy!
*******
And speaking of giving....
A real thrill this Thanksgiving was
the fact that more than one person
asked me when the Lions Club was
going to start what has become its
annual Care and Share/Toys for Tots
campaign for needy families of Port
Aransas.
That tells me it’s caught on.
It makes me feel good to know that
someone is really getting the benefit
of a charitable effort.
In this case every single item col-
lected, from food to toys to cash, goes
to families in Port Aransas and is
hand-delivered.
We don’t have much to give, so it’s
good to know that what we do give
isn’t used to buy post-it notes for
some secretary in New York.
We give to the Port Aransas Lions
Club’s Care and Share/Toys for Tots
and we encourage you to do the same.
A raise is a raise
Overheard in Eastern Europe: “Veil, Amarillo. Or to put it another way,
vvalcric.now vecangetaWisaCard!” about as far as die Dallas Cowboys
‘ Mr. Kissinger, how do you feel
about what’s going on in Eastern
Europe?'
4 I'm so excited I can hardly contain
my dullness.”
***
El Salvador...Lebanon South.
*** Cactus
“Astronomers say diey have dis-
coverd the oldest, most faraway ob- rfYOr
ject yet found in the universe.”
“How far away is it?”
“About as far as from Brownsville arc from the Super Bowl.”
to El Paso if you went by die way of ***
Despite the sweeping ethics pack-
age attached to the House pay raise
proposal a raise is a raise is a raise.
***
That pay and ethics package would
raise compcnsauon for congressmen
to almost $125,(XX) a year. Thai’s
$ 124,(XX) of salary and $ 1 ,(XX) worth
of ethics.
***
Famous last words: Nathan Hale,
“I regret that I have but one life to give
to my country.”
Julius Caesar. “F.l tu. Brute?”
Bill Hobby, “Texas needs a state
income tax.”
We want fish!
I hav c been receiving your newspa-
per for two years.
In the past there was always a fish-
ing report from the different (fishing
docks), the piers and jetdes. This is
me major reason I subscribe so I can
Keep up with what’s happening around
the area regarding fishing.
Please advise if the fishing news
has been discontinued where I will
know what to do w hen time comes to
renew.
Wayne Hawkins
Moore, OK
Say what?
What is happening? Has the gulf
dried up or something? 1 know you
have some important things going on
down there but it has been at least
three weeks widi no fishing report.
It’s bad enough with Tony Amos
being gone and not having his column
in die South Jetty. Enough griping, I
really think you and your newspaper
are the greatest.
As a hopefully future resident may
Letters
to the
editor
I say a few words to your city manager
and council? Please listen to your
citizens and your newspaper. To by-
Publitation Number 946:020
Southern
Publishing, Inc.
(512) 749-5131 p.o. Box 1116, Port Aransas, TX 78373
512/749 5131
Co-Publishers
Murray Judson and Mary H. Judson
Advertising Manager Managing Editor
Murray Judson Mary H. Judson
Composing Office Manager
Pat Holt Mary Ann Rossi
Postmaster: Send address changes to P.O. Box 1116, Port Aransas, TX, 78373
SI4.S0 in Nuttci County, Aransuv l*a»s and InjjIcviUr
SI 7 iTv wh. rt in ihr continrntal United States
pass Cotter and Alister Streets would
be a great mistake. The cruise ship
will be a great addiuon to Port Aran-
sas, but not if you ruin the charm of
this beautiful town. Support the people
who have supported and elected you.
Don’t let the cruise ship be the only
asset Port Aransas has left, because it
alone cannot support your town. Even
if I am not yet a resident, my heart is
in Port Aransas.
Kenneth Moore
Brady
[Editor’s note: You noticed!
From time to time we conduct highly
specialized scientific studies to de-
term ine whether or not our readers
are really paying attention. This
was the case regarding the fishing
report. Our research scientists, with
your feedback, have determined
that, in fact, you are paying atten-
tion. The fishing report resumes
this week based on highly technical
data that indicates it is in acute
demand by a very sharp bunch of
readers.
We miss Tony Amos, too, and
await his return from the Antarc-
tic.
And finally, by now you’ve got-
ten last week’s newspaper and
learned that our council was indeed
responsive to the people of Port
Aransas.]
TEXAS PRESS,
ASSOCIATION
Some Thanksgiving thoughts
There’s a lot of stuff that folks have
to be thankful about as we wind down
the decade of the 80s and start reach-
ing for the magic number, 2000 AD.
Of course, not everybody is thankful
for the same stuff. But at least we can
all agree to be thankful that that!
Dallas Cowboy fans, for instance,
are getting downright schizoid. Are
they supposed to be thankful that the
Pokes arc getting ground up like
hamburger. Why not? That may be
the only way to keep the Arkansas
Anteater, Jerry Jones, from mouthing
off on national TV about what a great
coach he brought in when he kicked
out Tom Landry!
On the other hand, Houston Oiler
fans are almost as confused. With
Warren Moon and cast - picked by
some unknown experts as a Super
Bowl contender - more resembling a
yo-yo than a sky rocket, there are
mixed emotions about the water
moccasin that allegedly bit Oiler
Coach Jerry Glanville. There are fans
who are thankful he escaped. On the
other hand, they’re grudgingly thank-
ful that Glanville came out okay, too.
And what about Astro followers?
Should they be thankful the club was
able to sign Rafael Ramirez, who led
the major league shortstops in errors
and hit a resounding .205 foramcasiy
$1.3 mil per year? Or give thanks
because the Stros managed to letKevirt
Bass, their leading hitter, sign a multi-
year deal with the Giants?
The Dallas Maverick rooters will
have a lot to be thankful for if sus-
pended Roy Tarplev: their 7-1 center
tests positive for cocaine. That’ll
mean a “lifetime” suspension by the
NBA, renewable every two years. And
the fans will be grateful because it
will take all the suspense out of the
Mavericks’ season. When Tarpley
Scattershootins
Jack L.
Moore
plays, they win 2 out of 3 games.
When he’s.suspended, which is often,
their winning ratio drops to 1 out of 3.
SMU coach Forrest Gregg is sure
to be thankful that he and Houston
mentor are such good friends. Once
when Pardee was out of work, Gregg
gave him a job. So Gregg has to be
thankful that Pardee’s Cougars only
waxed the Mustangs 95-21 when they
appeared on a football field at the
same time. Think what it would have
been if they hadn’t been such bosom
buddies!
Texas Longhorn fans are thankful
that basketball is getting
underway...The Aggies arc thankful
that the Homs will help them get to
the Colton Bowl again...Arkansas
folks are thankful Jerry Jones didn’t
buy the University of
Ra/orharks Baylor is thankful for
TCU...TCU is thankful forRice... And
Texas Tech is thankful for cable TV
so they can watch teams with inferior
records playing in lucrative bowl
games while they fiddle and fume.
But don’t get the idea it’s only
sports fan who are thankful these days.
A lot of us are eternally grateful that
the East German government ignored
the California entrepreneur who of-
fered to “buy the Berlin Wall” for $50
million. He wanted to break it up and
sell souvenir pieces.
And I suspect the Bush advisors are
thankful for Gorby, although they
haven’t mentioned it in pointing to
the sudden collapse of the Iron Cur-
tain as one of the high points of Mr.
Bush’s first year in office.
And you can bet that the Nicaragua
ideologues - Sandinista and Contra -
are thankful for what’s happening in
El Salvador. It gives them a brief
respite from the spotlight.
Ah, well, I am truly thankful that
my cynicism is not the reality of my
thankfulness.
For family, for country, for love,
for freedom, for laughter, for oppor-
tunities, for gifting, for beauty, for
health, for courage, for determina-
tion, for openness, for friends, for
excitement, for enthusiasm, for new
beginnings, for forgiveness, for grace
- those are a few of the things, the stuff
that is scattered around in my life, for
which I am thankful.
And then I am thankful for you.
And thankful to God.
Sign of the Times
“You’d be surprised if you knew
how many people never read any
newspaper at all.”
The words came from my favorite
librarian. I did not reply because 1
saw no point in saying I have lived too
long to be surprised by anything. On
the other hand the observation gives
me excuse to talk about newspapers,
although I should of course liked to
reply that if her contention is correct
it is readily understandable that the
economy is a mess, wars go on, et-
cetera, etcetera, that most politicians
are rogues because too many people
depend upon the electronic media for
information. Would that the last were
true. We have had social and eco-
nomic disasters, wars and renegade
politicians since long before the telly
raised its ugly head. In truth it might
be argued that because of the tube
more people today have ai leasi an
inkling of what goes on at home and
abroad than ever before. But is that
good? For one I am inclined to think
not, in which case the proprietors of
the electronic media are to be blamed
for overly dramatized, slanted, biased
news presented by pretty boy, over-
paid asses who are performers, sel-
dom reporters. Here I would ask,
should the person presenting the vis-
ual news be anymore than of present-
able visage, possessed of a decent
speaking voice and a competent
command of the American language?
If so, and I believe it to be true, there
arc then literally millions of people
capable of earning the millions paid
per annum to the Dan Rathers, Tom
Brokows and Peter Jennings.
Now, and needless to say, there are
newspapers and newspapers. Aver-
aged out, be they daily or weekly
publications, they do a reasonably
good job. However, as in any other
craft or profession,comparatively few
are truly outstanding.,Certainly one
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from what it should be, but rare is the
newspaper which editorializes, ex-
presses the viewpoint of the reporter
or publisher in its news columns.
Points of view are confined to edito-
rial pages and arc therefore recogniz-
able as such. Also, and this mostly
applies to daily newspapers; there is a
diversity of opinion presented on any
given day.
Now I must tell you of the most
unforgettable, the most horrible
months of my life, January, February
and March of 1940, spent at the U.S.
Coast Guard Academy in New Lon-
don, CN. during which time I sub-
scribed to and read daily The New
York Times. Mistake me not. The
academy is an admirable institution
and the Times a great newspaper, if
not all it would have its readers be-
lieve. The trouble, ihcdrcadfuinessof
those days was the miserable cold.
There was snow and ice on the ground
when I arrived and it was still there
when I departed. Never once did I see
a tuft of grass, bare earth. My forti-
tude was tested, barely survived. That
institution must, I decided, turn out if
they endure, America’s finest young
men, and those who fail depart for-
ever mentally handicapped. And the
Times, it seldom brightened my
mornings. Its august pages, particu-
larly the editorial pages, were vulner-
able, misguided, misinformed. Young
though I was, I had seen the world,
understood something of its people,
even though I now know that my
judgements were not so infallible as I
thought. Still, however I was confi-
dent that we’d soon be at war with
Germany and equally certain of war
with Japan. On the other hand, the
Times made excuses for Hitler and
Mussolinc, emphasized what it re-
aarripH ac tHo ininctiAAc r\f iKo \/«r
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sailles Treaty. “Stupid, crass, in my
view. The Times was bad for my
disposition.
For al 1 of this, I still read the Times,
or at least the Sunday edition at the
public library. More truthfully I should
say I scan it. Usually there has been
some inconsiderate reader before me.
Sections and pages of the newspaper
have been jumbled, mutilated. Dis-
couraging.
Now some two weeks ago my No.
1 son brought me an intact copy of the
Sunday Times. I’m still reading —
and wondering how New Yorkers fare
with that formidable production. How
much do they read and absorb before
the Monday edition? At best count
there are 262 pages in the Sabbath
effort at hand. And that does not count
the 68 page tabloid Book Review nor
the 114 page magazine section, also
tabloid. Off hand, I’d say doing any
sort of justice to that edition must be
akin to reading say “The Education ol
Henry Adams” between dinner and
bedtime.
As along dedicated newspaper
reader I note with some disdain, but
not surprise, the Times has not suc-
cumbed to present day makeup which
is inviting and attracts the reader
because it is eye pleasing. With one
exception. The Times has adopted
the six column format in place of the
eight columns. There is good reason
for that, but it would not interest the
lay reader. Remaining are column
rules and cutoff rules, and the proud
Times has not succumbed to the more
readable down-style headlines, capi-
talization of only the first word and
proper names.
Below the Times nameplate is the
traditional volume and edition num-
ber, the former in Roman numerals.
The edition number is 48,052 . Most
other newspapers begin with No.l as
each volume number changes.
As I recall, all newspapers I have
been associated used Roman numer-
als fui volume. Examination of half a
dozen other current papers surprised
me. The Roman numbers are gone,
and I am made a bit sad although for
no good reason. To end this, I’d like
to write the Times a letter about its
present mistaken understanding of
Cambodia, except 1 have noted that
all letter writers to the newspaper are
identified as military officers of flag
rank, post doctoral fellows, authors of
intellectual tomes and the like.
Yrs. with ink-stained hands from
Frandolig Island.
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Judson, Mary Henkel. Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 1989, newspaper, November 30, 1989; Port Aransas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth662774/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ellis Memorial Library.