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Page 2,The Pharr Press,February 2,1984
EDITORIALS
New DWI Enforcement
Law Becomes Effective
Begin ing Feb. 11984
Ed Meese W i I I B e_____Missed
Beginning February 1, 1984.
anyone thinking of driving a
motor vehicle after drinking
alcoholic beverages, in
Cameron and Hidalgo coun-
ties had better look over their
shoulder to see if a DPS
patrol car is following them.
Lt. B.J. Butler, commander
of DPS Highway Patrol Ser-
vice in the valley, advises that
on that date, a new Sup-
plemental Traffic Enfor-
cement Program with DWI en-
forcement emphasized, will
be implemented.
This program is funded
through the Traffic Safety Of-
fice under Governor Mark
White, and the monies will be
used to supplement extra
men and patrol units in ad-
dition to the regular force, at
times and locations when
DWI violators are most
prevalent. Sufficient units will
be working during these
hours that a person's chan-
ces of being arrested are
« greatly increased.
Statistics reveal that at least
60% of all fatal accidents oc-
curing in the Valley involve a
drinking driver.
f The new DWI law went into
effect as of January 1, 1984
with greatly increased
penalties. Everyone should
contemplate whether a few
hours fun is worth the con-
sequences of being arrested,
or even worse, injury or the
death of an innocent person.
Under the new law of
reading of 0.10% blood
alcohol is considered to be
intoxicated to the point to the
point that one can safetly
operate a motor vehicle.
Butler states that “if you are
caught by a trooper when you
are drinking and driving, do
not expect any sympathy or
leniency from the trooper. We
have seen enough injury and
death caused by this crime
that we plan to use this op-
portunity to take as many of
these potential killers off the
highway as possible."
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OF TWO
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TE2ZAS LOESS ^
BORN IN SABINE COUNTY ON FEBRUARY <?, I837,
Christopher Columbus Slaughter
LEARNED THE CATTLE BUSINESS AT THE AGE OF I2 FROM HIS FATHER,
GEORGE, ON THE PATROON 8AYOU-SABINE RIVER DIVIDE. HIS FA/WILY
MOVED TO FREESTONE COUNTY IN I0S1. AT AGE 17, CC. BECAME AN
EXPERT AT TAKING CATTLE ACROSS THE TRINITY RIVER.
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AT THIS TIME CC. STARTED TO BECOME ONE OF AMERICA'S SHREWDEST
BUSINESSMEN. BUYING LUMBER IN ANDERSON COUNTY HE SOLD IT TO
SETTLERS IN DALLAS,THEN BOUGHTWHEAT IN COLLIN COUNTY,
GROUND IT INTO FLOUR AND SOLD IT IN MAGNOLIA.THIS ALL TOOK
THREE MONTHS AND HE RETURNED HOME WITH A PROFIT OF $520.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - With
the departure of William Clark
(to become interior secretary)
and Ed Meese (to become at-
torney general), there will be no
strong conservative among the
President’s top advisers.
For the first time, Chief of
Staff James Baker will be in
complete command of the
White House. Baker, you will
remember, rose to prominence
as director of the
moderate/liberal forces mar-
shalled to deny Ronald Reagan
the GOP nomination for
president:' He was Gerald
Ford’s chief strategist in 1976
and George Bush’s campaign
manager in 1980.
The lack of a single conser-
vative in the White House inner
circle is distressing to those of
us who remember the high
hopes of election night, 1980.
At that time, as columnist
David Broder wrote, “M,any of
(Reagan’s) enthusiasts
believed he would transform
the Republican Party on his
way to transforming the coun-
try, by installing men and
women who, like himself, were
unencumbered by links
to...clubby Republican ad-
ministrations of the past.”
The result, some commen-
tators went so far as to predict,
would be a fundamental
realignment of American
politics. Southerners, blue-
collar workers, Catholics, and
other groups would break away
from their traditional relation-
ship with the Democratic party;
they would join with small
business people and other
Main Street Republicans to
replace the New Deal coalition
as the principal force in
American politics. The Reagan
Revolution, it was called.
But then Reagan chose to
staff his administration with
the sort of country-club
Republicans who considered
him a right-wing nut. Most of
the conservatives named to
important positions (people
like Richard Allen, Lyn Nof-
ziger, Paul Craig Roberts,
James Watt, and Morton
Blackwell) eventually left, and
almost every new appointee
was more liberal that the per-
son he or she replaced.
James Baker and the anti-
Reaganites he brought with
him into the Administration
rejected the very premises on
which the Reagan coalition of
1980 was built. Look at how
they robbed the Republican
Party of the tax issue in the
I982 campaign.
Candidate Reagan's position
on taxes was clear: Ultra-high
tax rates were strangling the
economy, dragging th
U.S.slowly but surely toward a
depression. On no issue was
Ronald Reagan more clearly
identified with the popular
position than on tax reduction.
But by I982, Baker was trying to
convince the President to sup-
port the largest taxincrease in
history.According to the _.Wall
Street Journal, Baker in the
Spring of 1982 “set about
fashioning a consensus for the
need for higher taxes.”
It was apparent to anyone
who cared to notice that Baker
was following his own agenda.
Said The Washingtonian (Oc-
tober 1982), “(T)here is
evidence that within the White
House-and on occasion on
Capitol Hill Baker is a strong
advocate for positions that are
not yet the Presidaent’s.” Not
yet?
Time magazine reported later
(December 13, 1982): “At one
point (Baker) so nettled
Reagan by pressing for excise
taxes and defense cuts that
the President took off his
glasses, glared at his aid' and
asked,‘If that’s what you
believe, then what in the hell
are you doing here?”’
What, indeed? But it was
Baker who eventually
prevailed. In the closing days
of the ’82 campaign, the
President appeared on
national television, smiling and
shaking hands with ’Tip’
O’Neill in the Rose Garden as
the two old pols celebrated
their victory on the tax in-
crease.Republican candidates,
robbed of the one issue th.ey
thought they could count on,
paid the price on election day.
Now, with Baker given a free
hand, it will become even more
difficult to get the President to
address the concerns of the
average voter.
To be reelected, the
President mus earn the sup-
port of Americans who really
care about forced busing,
tuition tax credits, drugs, por-
nography, school prayer,
declining academic standards,
affirmative action, and the
epidemic of crime that results
from unelected judges
rewriting the nation’s criminal
law.
Those are not the usual
topics of conversation on
country club terraces or in cor-
porate executive suites, but Ed
Neese worked to keep the
President ou front on those
issues. I am confident that he
will make a fine attorney
general, but his voice of con-
science at the White House
will be sorely missed.
Laughter
sitting on a park bench
somewhat absorbed in self pity
i count the ways *
that life has let me down
my concentration is soon broken
by the sound of laughter
the infectious laughter of a child
and i turn to find its source
a little girl
she is skipping
skipping to the beat of my heart
faster and faster
laughter seizes
w i t h a s i g h
she finds herself on the ground
hut only for a moment
then laughter once again
Glori.i Montalvo
i watch her tiny figure disappear
but her laughter lingers in my mind
somehow my burdons become a little
as she picks herself up
and continues chasing her rainbows
as i too proceed on my way
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Soiling the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo area since 1934
Juin Carlos Morales
F ublisher/Editor
Ara Morales
Business Manager
Carlos Gon2alez
Patty Sandoval
Freelance Writer
Adolfo Pesquera
Sales Consultants
Juan Garcia
Production Manager
Layout/Design Editor
David Greding
Sports Writer/Photographer
Abraham B. Choy
Circulation Manager
The Pharr Press
Dedicates itself to report the items of interest to the Pharr-San
Juan-Alamo areas as well as the surrounding communities of
Las Milpas Hidalgo and portions of McAllen and Edinburg. Our
main goal is to make our reporting accurate in the. spirit.of
fairness and truth. We are dedicated to a well rounded
newspaper including Editorial comments, news of interest to
men and women, the old and the young, Sports, History,
entertainment Community and School events.
The Pharr Press is published each Thursday morning in Pharr,
Hidalgo Co. Texas in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
All items must be turned in by Tuesday noon.
Single copy rate: *.25
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$11.00 Annually out-of-County
Pharr Boys Club Help Distribute Food
The Boys Club of Pharr
helped the City of Pharr and
Las Milpas to help distribute
food to over 4,500 families this
past weekend to the people of
Pharr and Las Milpas. Boys
Club members helping out at
the Vailey Community Center
this past Saturday were Mark
Zapata. Jesse and Javier
Munoz, Manuel and Leonardo
Vega. Aurelio Martinez. Rene
and Noe Mendoza, George
Salinas, Trini Hernandez.
Manuel Linarez. Freddy Garza.
Adolfo Vela. Joe Flores and
Omar Martinez.
All the kids helping out wore a
Boys Club cap so that they
could stand out and be notice
-ed that they were there to
help whoeyer.ne_e.dad_and wan-
Tecf help. The Boys Club of
Pharr is proud to say on behalf
of these kids and several
others that whenever any
organization needs in such a
way that they can use kids and
kid power these members and
several others are ready and
willing to help. The kids said it
gave them a good feeling to be
able to help as many people as
they did. We also had some
Boys Club members from Las
Milpas helping out in Las
Milpas.
The Boys Club of Pharr is
presently located at 114 West
Cherokee in what used to be
the old fire station. Anybody
between the ages of 6 and 18 is
welcome to become a Boys
Club member. The Club has
many things to offer to
whoever signs up. The Club is
also presently trying through
the City of Pharr to get housed
at the Valley Community Cen-
ter which is up for sale to the
City.
The Club ended 1983 with
an enrollment of over 900
members and already has 100
1984 registered members. With
a bigger facility and open area
like the Valley Community"
Center the enrollment would
be much bigger and the ac-
tivities to the youth of Pharr
would be greater. If any
business or individual would
like, to donate money to the
Club whether for present
operational expenses or for the
purchase of the Valley Com-
munity Center please send
your check to the Boys Club of
Pharr P. O. Box 858 Pharr. Tx
78577. Remember we can be
written off as a tax deduction.
If you are with a business or
organization and would like to
know more about the Boys
Club of Pharr feel free to call
Eloy Rodriguez. Director of the
Boys Club for a presentation
on the Boys Club and for
brochures explaining the
nature of the Boys Club. The
phone number is 781-5120 or
781-5160. Thank you. The Boys
Club of Pharr is a member of
the United Way.
Shown in the picture is Javier
Munoz about to help out one of
the over 4.500 families that
were helped out this weekend
by the City of Pharr and the
Boys Club of Pharr. And the
kids alsowould TiKe' to ttrank ■
the City of Pharr for treating
them out to lunch.
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position Place 3 is Gregorio
Garza with the following
qualifications:
1. Serving on the San Juan
Planning and Zoning Com-
mission since 1979.
2. Served in U.S. Air Force
from 1967-1971.
3. Served as election judge on
three different elections.
4. Graduated from Rio Grande
City High School.
5. Graduated with B.S. Degree
from P.A.U.
6. Member St. John’s Catholic
Church.
7. Worked with different
troups Boy Scouts of America.
8. Employed as a teacher by
La Joya I.S.D.
9. Married to Maria Aguirre
Garza. They have 2 children.
Mayor Guajardo stated that 2
of his 3 major goals have been
accomplished. By obtaining a
grant of $500,000 from H.U.D.
and a 1.4 million dollar low in-
terest loan from the Texas
Department of Water Resour-
ces, the City of San Juan is
presently undergoing a major
water and sewer improvement
program. Recently, his second
goal was fulfilled when
Governor Mark White notified
him that the application for
$250,000 grant for drainage
improvement had been one of
the very few approved. His
third goal: which is paving,
curb and guttering all of the
streets, can only be accom-
plished if the people of
San Juan acknowledge Mayor
Guajardo another term.
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