The Pharr Press (Pharr, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 24, 1982 Page: 7 of 14
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The Pharr Press, June 24, 1982 Page 7
Legals,
from page 13
Three firms have made
contributions to a
special summer class in
pre-engineerig for
recent high school
graduates at Pan
American University.
The contributions, given
through the Texas
Alliance for Minorities
in Engineering (TAME),
were scholarships given
by Parker Seal’s Israel
Valenzuela, left, per-
sonnel director: C.A.
(Chuck) Reinke of Mobil
Oil Corp., third from
right, also giving
scholarships, and Nor-
man A. Burandt,
assistant professor in
physical science who
teaches the class and
who presented
calculators from
Dresser Industries. The
scholarships from
Parker Seal and Mobil
Foundation and
calculators from
Dresser Industries were
accepted for the 29
students by three class
members, left to right,
Jonathan Robles,
graduate of Pharr San
-Juan-Alamo High
School; Eduardo Casino,
PSJA graduate, and Cin-
dy Olivarez, McAllen
High School graduate.
Valenzuela is local
alliance chairman and
Reinke is state treasurer
for TAME. (PAU Photo).
1. All required plum-
bing fixtures shall be
located within the
dwelling unit and be ac-
cessible to the occupan-
ts of same. The water
closet, tub or shower
and lavatory shall be
located in a room affor-
ding privacy to the user
and such room shall
have a minimum floor
space of thirty (30)
square feet, with no
dimensions less than
four (4) feet.
2. Bathrooms shall be
accessible from
habitable rooms,
hallways, corridors, or
other protected or en-
closed areas, no in-
cluding kitchens or
other food preparation
areas.
C. SECTION 302.1 is
hereby amended to read
as follows:
Every habitable room
shall have at least one
window or skylight
facing directly to the
outdoors. The minimum
total window area,
measured between
stops, for every
habitable room shall be
E. Hinojosa,awarded Probation Officer certificate
Enrique N. Hinojosa,
Juvenile Probation Of-
ficer of Hidalgo County,
was awarded a cer-
tificate from the Texas
Probation Training*
Academy for completing
the Juvenile Probation
Experienced Officer’s
Workshop at the
Criminal Justice Center
on the Campus of Sam
Houston State Univer-
sity last week. Ap-
proximately 72 officers
from throughout the
state attended the four-
day conference »of
probation officials.
Tony Brigman’s
“Motivational Feel
Good’ Program’’ open-
ed the extensive training
academy followed by 11
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Adademy were David
Massey, Dr. Rion Hart,
Professor Robert
Dawson, George Nekar
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Harlene Anderson, Jack
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ton, A1 Havenstrite, and
Steve Bonnell.
Bonnell addressed the
group in a concluding
session on “Recent
Issues of the Texas
Juvenile Probation
Commission.” Following
Bonnell’s concluding
address, certificates of
attendance were awar-
ded.
URETHANE ROOF
BLOCK BUILDiNGS
eight (8) percent of the
floor area of such room.
Whenever walls or
other portions of struc-
tures face a window of
any such room and such
light-obstruction struc-
tures are located less
than five (5) feet from
the window and extend
to a level above that of
the ceiling of the room,
such a window shall not
be deemed to face direc-
tly to the outdoors and
shall not be included as
contributing to the
requiring minimum total
windown area.
Whenever the only win-
dow in a room is a
skylight-type window in
the top of such room, the
total window area of
such skylight shall equal
at least fifteen (15) per
cent of the total floor
area of such room.
D. SECTION 302.4 -
“Electric Lights and
Outlets Required” is
hereby amended to read
as follows:
Every dwelling shall be
wired for electric lights
and convenience recep-
tacles. Every habitable
room of such dwelling
shall contain at least
two (2) separate floor or
wall-type electric con-
venience outlets; and
every kitchen,
bathroom, laundry
room, furnace room,
corridors or hallways,
and porches shall con-
tain at least one sup-
plied ceiling or wall-type
electric light fixture, or
wall switch controlled
convenience outlet.
Every such outlet and
fixture shall be properly
installed, shall be main-
tained in good and safe
working condition, and
shall be connected to the
source of electric power
in a safe manner.
E. SECTION 303.1 -
“General” is hereby
amended as follows:
Amend Section (2) be
deleting / the words
“Electrical Outlets
Only” in the table and
substitute the words
“Fixture and Con-
venience Outlets”.
SECTION 3. REPEAL
OF CONFLICTING OR-
DINANCES
All Ordinances or par-
ts of ordinances in con-
flict herewith are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 4. VALIDITY
The invalidity of any
section, clause, sentence
or provision of said Code
of this Ordinance shall
not affect the validity of
any part of thereof.
SECTION 5.
PUBLICATION AND
EMERGENCY
The need of bringing
the Housing Code of the
City of Pharr up to date
creates an emergency
and the requirement of
reading on three (3)
separate meetings is
hereby dispensed with,
and this Ordinance shall
be in full force and ef-
fect after passage and
publication as required
by the City Charter.
APPROVED AND
PASSED this 15th day of
June, 1982 A.D.
City of Pharr, Fidencio
R. Barrera, Mayor
Attest: Dora H. Garza,
City Clerk.
(To be published in the
Pharr Press IT June 24,
1982)
Traffic deaths up 6%
Texas traffic deaths
increased by six percent
last year compared to
1980, according to
statistics compiled by
the Department of
Public Safety. The
mileage death rate,
however, decreased by
two per cent. The rate
was 4.2 deaths per hun-
dred million miles
traveled in 1981 as
compared to 4.3 in 1980.
“A total of 4,701
fatalities were recorded
on our state streets and
highways for 1981,”
said Colonel Jim Adams,
DPS director. “This was
the fifth consecutive
record year for motor
vehicle deaths in
Texas.”
DPS reports 2,071 city
traffic deaths in 1981
which is 44.1 per cent of
the total fatalities, while
rural highway accidents
claimed 2,630 lives or
55.9 per cent of the
deaths.
Adams noted that DWI-
related deaths last year
totaled 1,082 an in-
crease of eight per cent
above 1980.
“Fatalities attributed
to drunk driving made
up 23 percent of the
total killed, according to
investigating officers.
However, we believe
this figure would be as
high as 50 percent if
Texas law required
blook alcohol
measurements from all
drivers involved in fatal
accidents,” he said.
Motorcycle deaths
reached 442 in 1981,
rising 17 per cent com-
pared to the previous
year. Seventy-five per
cent of the cyclists killed
were not wearing
helmets.
“Total accidents
reported by state and
local officers last year
numbered 458,017, six
per cent higher than
1980,”
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I
WAS IT ALWAYS THE
PRACTICE OF THE
EASTERN ORTHODOX
AND ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCHES
TO CONFESS SINS
PRIVATELY TO A
PRIEST?
The action whereby
Orthodox and Catholic
Christians receive
divine forgiveness of
their sins from a priest
is called the Sacrament
of Penance, or
sometimes, of Recon-
ciliation. From the
beginning there was
always a way for having
one’s sins forgiven
through Christ’s Church,
but it took centuries
before Penance got its
present form.
BAPTISM FORGIVES
ALL SIN
The early Christians
knew that baptism given
through the Church got
rid of all their sins. The
problem obviously arose
as to how to be cleansed.,
baptism could not be re-
administered. By the
third century *there
appeared a developed
system of public Penan-
ce which was con-
sidered a “second bap-
tism.” The sinner had to
ask the bishop (Greek:
“episkopos”) for penan-
ce. He did this volun-
tarily, or because of the
threat of being cut off
from the worshipping
community. (This ex-
clusion is called “ex-
communication.”} Havi-
ng asked the bishop for
penance, the sinner was
enrolled in the “order of
penitents.”
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PENITENTS
Penitients were
separated from the rest
of the congregation by
wearing a special robe,
having close-cropped
hair, and worshipping
apart in the church.
Each Sunday the bishop
would go to them and
give them a special
laying-on of hands. The
penitent, moreover,
could not receive com-
munion and was obliged
to fullfill a severe course
of prayer, fasting and
olmsgiving. At the end
of a period (whose
length was determined
by the seriousness of the
sin) the sinner was
reconciled with the
church and allowed to
return to full par-
ticipation with the
congreation.
PUBLIC CONFESSION,
NOT REQUIRED
More recent church
historians tell us that
public confession was
never obligatory in the
early church; however,
at times penitents (that
is, persons publicly
showing sorrow for sin)
may well have confessed
publicly their main sins
for which they were
doing penance. The
Greek historian
Sozomen, writing in the
fifth century, gives us
the reason for private
rather than public con-
fession: Now in asking
for pardon, one must
confess the sin. But from
the beginning the
bishops decided, as is
only right, that to
declare one’s sins as in
a theater with the
congregation of the
church listening, was
too heavy a burden to
bear. They, therefore,
appointed a presbyter fo
r this purpose. He was a
man of the best
refinement; a silent and
prudent man. Sinners
came to him and con-
fessed their deeds...”
(Patrologia Graeca, ed.,
J.P. Migne, 67:1457).
PRIVATE CONFESSION
Because of the heavy
burden this “order of
penitents” lay on the
early Christians, the
system eventually broke
down. A new private
system then developed
through the influence of
Celtic or Anglo-Saxon
monk missionaries in
Ireland. This new
system was less severe.
NOw confession of the
details of the sin was in
private. It is probable
that the details were not
required to be ex-
pressed in public under
the old system. At first,
the monk, or priest,
withheld the Church’s
official forgiveness
(called “absolution”) un-
SATISF ACTION
SIN
FOR
Penance means
“punishment.” It was
apparently the belief of
the early Church that a
sinner could not be
reconciled with his
fellow Christians unless
he accepted certain
punishments than in th
e next. For this reason
Penance was often
referred to as “satisfac-
tion” for sin. The essen-
tial part played in the
redemption of sin by
Christ’s Atonement on-
the cross was never
overlooked. However,
great weight was
always attached to the
amends offered by the
Penitent. The penance,
itself as well as its
relative severity reflec-
ted the need to demon-
strate to the believing
Church one’s true
sorrow and sincere
desire to one’s ways.
SOFT-DENIAL
From the very begin-
his penance (e*
believed that the prac-
tice of self-denial
til the sinner comDleted rrom Tne vei7 oegm-
his penance (e g °f «ha development
prayers, fasting, alm-
sgiving, etc.) Later,
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waTgwen ZS (fasting, abstaining from
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Penance" of today with moreover believed that
its (1) confession of sin to moreov.er;. believed that
o • • a semiretirement from
a priest, (2) rece.vmg ,he wor,d shie]ded the
absolution, and (3)
light formal penance.
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sinner from further
tempation. For this
reason, the requiremen-
ts to perform such acts
was the logical way to
stay free of sin. Penance
was, therefore, called
“heavenly medicine”
which heals the wound
inflicted by sin.
“Bible and Practice” is
in no way an exhaustive
treatment of the subjec-
ts presented. Its ap-
proach attempts to be
historically accurate,
ecumenical, infor-
mative, simple and con-
cise. Its purpose is to
educate and foster,
spiritual growth. Send
Questions to “Bible and
Practice”, Drawer ii,
Pharr, Texas 78577.
By Rev. Leo Francis
Daniels, C.O.
St. Jude Thaddeus Chur-
ch
Pharr, Texas
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Nelson, Charles. The Pharr Press (Pharr, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 24, 1982, newspaper, June 24, 1982; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth866918/m1/7/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Pharr Memorial Library.