Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1983 Page: 1 of 36
thirty six pages : ill. ; page 22 x 15 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
. / j /.* y
rj -* / .
Serving Medina County for 97 years
Volume 97 -- Issue 39 September, 29, 1983
Hondo, Texas 78861 USPS 249-280
25 Cents
24 Pages
Game violators
arrested
in county
After a 45-day investigation and
two weeks of surveillance, 14 arrests
have been made in connection with
game violations at a north Medina
County ranch.
Medina County Game Warden
Shorty Anderson, aided by Carlton
Becker of Bandera County and Jim
Mangun of Uvalde, County, made 13
arrests Saturday night and Sunday
morning. Fines totaling $2800 had
been collected as of Wednesday
morning. Some 38 cases have been
filed.
Violations included class C mis-
demeanor charges of hunting den
during closed season, hunting at night,
possession of turkey during closed
season and charges of night hunting
and possession of untagged deer.
Some of the animals had been shot
for personal use while others had been
used to feed a lion, according to
Andersen.
Violators included a renter on the
ranch property, as well as residents
from Bandera County. Anderson said
the landowner cooperated in the
investigation.
He asked that names not be
released until the case was completed
since several warrants were still
outstanding.
In 3-2 vote
' -
‘ mm
m
I
IS HONDO ON THE MOVE?... The
mileage sign at the bridge in
Castroville shows Hondo is 14 miles
away, while traveling west at the top
By Barbara Berger Wilson
THE QUIHI LUTHERAN CHURCH
. . . annual sausage supper is set for 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday,
October 1, on the church grounds. For only $3.50 per plate, you pan
hardly go wrong.
San Antonio Express News columnist Maury Maverick wrote a
lovely article about the church in last Sunday’s papa:. He referred
to it as the “the little brown church in the vail” and went on to
describe the lovely farmland community and the church itself. W e’ll
keep a copy of the article for a time, so if you want to read all the
nice things he wrote, drop by. We’d be glad to share it with you.
JOURNALISM’S FUTURE IS IN GOOD HANDS
... at least according to these reports written by Dillon,
Montana fifth graders. Dillon Tribune Examiner reporter Julie
Simon ran a few of the articles recently and we thought we’d share
a few with you.
For example, take this account by Nicole Oliver of a crime
committed by a wolf against an elderly woman:
Girl Attacked by Wolf
Saturday, May 14, 1983, Red Riding Hood, a former Dillon
resident, was attacked by a wolf on her way back from her
grandmothers.
Her grandmother, Mrs. Riding Hood, has been sick for many
months, and Red was just bringing her some goodies. Red said that
when she got there she saw the wolf and took off, leaving the
goodies in hope that the wolf would eat them and leave her alone.
But he didn’t. He came after her and attacked her. Lucky for Red, a
wood cutter came by and shot the wolf. Red and her family are very
grateful to him.
Or what about this story by Brenda Paddock:
Egg Cracks Up
Tuesday night at 7 p.m., Humpty Dumpty, the most famous egg
in the word, fell off of the wall of China that is located in China.
The reason he was there is because he was assigned to inspect the
great wall and he fell off while walking on it.
Mr. Dumpty was admitted to the hospital immediately after the
accident. When he arrived he was pronounced dead.
Funeral services will be held Friday, May 20, 1983 at the
Brundage Funeral Home with Father Vernon Strickland officiating.
Here’s another side of the same story by Amy Botsford:
The Egg Cracks
Mr. Humpty Dumpty fell off his fence on Monday, June 20, and
hit his head on a rock because a little boy accidentally bumped into
him when he was watering his flowers in his back yard.
This was terrible news for Mrs. Humpty Dumpty as they were
planning to go to Hawaii next month.
Mr. Humpty Dumpty was rushed to Eggetal Hospital and has a
fractured skull and sprained wrist. Doctors say he should be o.k. in
about 3 months.
Paul Rebich didn’t let tradition bind his imagination in telling
this one:
Giant Falk
At 3:00 a.m. Jack L. Brown cut down a beanstalk with a 3,000
pound giant holding onto it.
The body of Billy M. Giant was found by a 10 year old
Chinaman. The boy sent the giant to the Kennedy Air Force Base
on Eastern Airlines to be put on the Space Shuttle to be flown to
his home in the clouds.
And Tobie Graham seems to have a good grasp of the function of
an article’s lead - its first paragraph - in his story:
Boy Falls Down Hill
Yesterday Jack Bunnof fell down Lunkers Hill. He and his sister
were getting water and Jack slipped and broke his crown.
Jill, his sister, was running after him and when she got to the
bottom she went to get help.
When she got back with her mother Jack was sitting up. His
mother asked him if he was all right. Then she picked him up and
took him back to their house.
When tbev got there Jacks mother wrapped his head with
vinegar and crown paper. After about a week Jack was able to play
again.
County approves budget
m
of the hill another sign shows it’s 15
miles away. The Highway Depart-
ment might want to check its
odometer - or its arithmetic.
After a public hearing Monday,
Medina County’s $2.9 million 1983-84
budget was approved by , County
Commissioners. The vote was 3-2.
The vote had been tied, 2-2, until
County Judge Jerome Decker - who
only votes in such situations - cast the
deciding vote.
“I don’t mind being the swing vote,”
Decker said, “I kind of enjoy it.”
Voting for passage of the budget,
submitted by County Auditor Bill
Strait, were Commissioners David
Montgomery and Henry Santos.
Voting against were Commissioners
Henry Briscoe and Leon Tschirhart.
The new budget, which will take
effect October 1, and will run until
September 30, 1984, anticipates re-
ceipts of $2,863,201 and expenditures
of $2,969,135. Fifty percent of the
receipts will be financed through the
County’s ad valorem tax, which will
remain unchanged at 50 cents per $100
valuation.
The apparent deficit, Judge Decker
said, will be made up from some
$430,000 left over from the 198283
budget. That money will come mainly
from the Road and Bridge funds, and
from other unanticipated revenues.
Council considers
police phone system
Hondo’s new police station, sche-
duled for occupancy in early Novem-
ber, will be getting a telephone
system to match, and the City tax rate
will be set October 11.
City Council voted unanimously
Tuesday night to go out for bids for
purchase of a four-line, expandable
phone system, with a maintenance
contract also to be worked out.
City Manager Mike Rhea said he
had received three informal system
proposals from Southwestern Bell,
Medina County Telephone Sides and
Service, and from Executone for
systems that would cost the City
between $13,000 and $17,000 over the
first five years.
Rhea recommended that the City
purchase its system outright, rather
than lease, because he said that would
tend to cost less in the long run, plus
the City would own the equipment.
The Council will be looking to set
the City property tax rate at 62 cents
per $100 valuation, at their next
regular meeting October 11.
The rate would be an 8-cent
increase over last year’s 54-cent rate,
said Mayor A.D. Patterson, but the
increase stems from the forthcoming
bond issue for the new public library.
Rhea said that the City lost a
projected $3.2 million in revenues
recently, when taxes on bank stock
were ended. Councilman Kenneth
Bendele said that since the County
and the Hondo school district did not
raise their taxes, the City should
follow along, with the exception of the
bond issue, which was voted on by the
taxpayers.
“We’re going to have to really
tighten our belts,” said Councilman
Tony Hardt.
In other business, Council members
tabled a resolution establishing hours
for the 15th Street baseball field,
preferring instead to draft an ordin-
ance, which would be more easily
enforced.
The County’s outstanding debt
stands currently at $1,117,400 No
addition to the debt is anticipated,
Strait said, and the debt is expected to
decrease to $937,080 by the end of the
198384 budget year.
Judge Decker said that he voted in
favor of the budget because of the
many hours of budget work sessions
Commissioners held during the last
four months.
“We were all in this together,” he
said, and “I think we’ve got as lean a
budget as we could come up with.”
Commissioners Tschirhart and Bris-
coe objected to the budget for
different reasons. Tschirhart said he
thought there were additional areas in
the budget that could have been cut.
and that beginning the year with a
a carried-over surplus means that
Commissioners missed a chance to
lower the tax rate.
‘This budget hearing should have
been held two weeks earlier,” said
Tschirhart.
Briscoe said that he objected to
paying the District Judge to serve on
the Juvenile Board, and to allocating
$50,000 under capital outlay for
Medina Memorial Hospital.
"I do not see the justification for it.”
Briscoe said. “My people (Precinct 4)
don’t use the hospital in any great
degree.”
Judge Decker said that “if we were
going to change something, we should
have changed it three months ago.”
Commissioners also voted to ap^
point a San Antonio accounting firm,
Alexander Grant, to do an extensive
audit of the County’s financial
procedures.
Strait said that the purpose of the
audit is not to find fraud, but for an
outside firm to give an opinion on the
County’s financial statements. Strait
added that Alexander Grant is the
premiere auditor for governments in
South Texas.
Commissioners opened bids for
purchase of a new panel truck for the
County. Lower bidder was Bill Hellen
Ford of Hondo, with a figure of
$9,127.07 and 90 days for delivery.
Also bidding was Brown Chevrolet Co.
Inc. of Devine.
At the same time that they accepted
the new van bid, Commissioners
decided to advertise for bids to sell the
County’s old van, a 1975 Chevrolet.
A t the same time that they accepted
the new van bid, Commissioners
decided to advertise for bids to sell the
County’s old van, a 1975 Chevrolet.
Commissioners also accepted a bid
from Plains Machinery Co of San
Antonio for purchase of a flat wheel
roller for Precinct 1 Plains
Machinery, the only bidder, submitted
a figure of $45,000, less $25,000 for a
trade-in
In other business, Commissioners:
-Voted, at the suggestion of
Commissioner Henry Santos, to
change payday for County employees
from Mondays to Fridays.
-Agreed to advertise for bids to sell
old equipment from Precinct 3. Judge
Decker said that the equipment
“probably doesn’t involve more than
$100 or so, but we still have to
advertise for bids.”
-Opened bids for a maintenance
contract for the County Courthouse,
the tax office, and the county building
in Devine. A low bidder was not
determined, and Commissioners
tabled the bids for further considera-
tion.
D’Hanis water committee
sets area signups
Signup meetings are scheduled next
week in DHanis and Hondo for
persons who desire water service in
western Medina County.
Information packets and all neces-
sary legal documents will be on hand
Monday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m at
at Medina County Abstract Company
offices for Hondo area residents,
said Mary Laughinghouse, who chairs
a steering committee for the West
Medina Water Trust.
Tuesday from 6 p.m to 8 p.m,
steering committee members will be
at the DHanis Fire House to answer
questions and sign up potential water
users.
The Water Trust steering com
mittee is the product of a Sept. 21
public meeting in DHanis which drew
more than 100 interested persons as
well as representatives of the Yancey
Water System and the DHanis
municipal water utility.
Residents of rural West Medina
County as well as Old DHanis heard
D’Hanis water system manager
Raymond Nester say his utility finds it
unfeasible to expand its boundaries to
take in new territory. Yancey system
representatives agreed to stand by
until results of an application to the
Farmers Home Administration to
form a new utility are known.
Consulting engineer James Duff
advised those at the meeting to form a
steering committee, plan a tentative
service area and try to obtain deposits
from 250 potential customers by Nov.
7.
Monday night the committee agreed
to hold the two signup meetings, then
contact area residents in follow-up
visits to determine the size of the area
needing water service.
Deposits of $100 will be accepted for
those desiring service. Residents who
have earlier paid a deposit to another
FHA-financed water system, such as
the Yancey system, but have not yet
been served with water do not have to
place another deposit, Laughinghouse
said. However, they must sign-up
again.
Anyone having questions about the
steering committee or about water
service may contact the following
committee members:
Hondo: Mary L. Laughinghouse
(days) 4268081 or (nights) 426-3191;
Linda Wolff, 426-2449; Martha Sue
Keilman, 426-2116; or Hunter
lil^l
m,
ipy
HP8
till-.....~7 1 1 1
i tht r
if
V.
TEXAS-SIZED 4-H CLOVER... It
took about 2,360 Texas 4-H Club
member* and sponaor* to form a giant
clover on Kyle Field at Texas A&M
University during the 1683 State 4-H
Roundup. The unique clever formation
waa one of the highlight* of the 7Sth
anniversary of 4-H Chib work hi
Tex a*, which waa noted during the
4-H Roundup, la the foreground of the
clover stem are Dr. Zerle L.
Carpenter, director «>f the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service, the
parent organization of 4-H, and H.T.
“Tom” Davison, state 4H program
leader with the Extension Service.
The 75th anniversary observance
continues through the remainder of
the year. Those 4-Hers and leaders
from Medina County who helped to
nuke thip giant clover were Deaa
Jaks. Sarah Zabel. Debbie Sittre.
Linda Thdihhart, Alison Schraeder,
Sarah Noah, Susan Zabel, Laurie
Noak, Mary Zabel, Scott McLeod,
Dwayne Bourquln, Dan Sittre,
Rodney Meyer, Arlene Schraeder,
Earl Mangold. Beth Ann Noak.
Martha Zabel; Dennis Haley. County
Extension Agent-Agriculture, and
Kathy Nowakowskl, County Exten-
sion Agent-Home Economics.
Schuehle, 426-2052.
DHanis: Oliver J. Reinhart Jr.,
363-7373; Henry Santos, 363-7477:
Steve Myers. 363-7382; Charles A
Koch, 363-7468; Felipe Bermea Sr.,
363-7362; John Fohn, 363-7214; or
Jerry Raney, 363-7208.
EUWD
sets tax rate
of 1.3 cents
Medina County residents will bene-
fit from a slight decrease in taxes as a
result of the tax rate set Tuesday by
the directors of the five-county
Edwards Underground Water Dis-
trict.
In a special meeting in the
auditorium of the Institute of Texan
Cultures in San Antonio, the 15-
member board set the 1983 tax levy at
1.3 cents per $100 property valuation.
They compromised between a pro-
posed 1.7-cent levy, which would havd
increased tax revenue by some 87
percent over 198283, and 91-100ths of
a cent, the levy which would have
generated the same revenue as last
year’s 1.7 cents.
Because of the increase in property
valuation in Bexar County, the levy
will represent an increase in that
county but a slight decrease in taxes
in Comal, Hays, Medina and Uvalde
Counties.
A two-thirds majority vote was
needed to set the levy. During nearly
an hour and 20 minutes the directors
discussed and voted on six motions,
the compromise rate finally receiving
the necessary 10 votes to adopt.
Tom Fox, EUWD general manager,
said the 1.3-cent levy will result in
about $800,000 in additional tax
revenue, or about 43 ** percent more
than the rate of 91-100ths of a cent. In
August the board voted that any
additional tax revenue this fiscal year
would be put in the Surface Water
Development Fund established in
1982.
During the fiscal year that ends
Sept. 30 the board transferred $2.1
million to the Surface Water Develop-
ment Fund. The district’s budget for
198384 contains a provision to put
another $1.1 million into the fund, and
the tax levy adopted Tuesday could
add another $800,000.
yoita put it al 4*
together 4Hers¥
■
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1983, newspaper, September 29, 1983; Hondo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth818106/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hondo Public Library.