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Mrs Pranca Cilley
20 Valentine Ed
Holiday Village
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The Weather
Fair weather predicted over the
week end. Partly cloudy, moderate
winds. Highs in 80s, lows in 60s.
THE
PHARR
PRESS
44th Year, No. 11 PHARR, jHIDALGO COUNTY), TEXAS 78577 THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1977 lie Per Copy, $4.00 Per Year
He
PER COPY
(Including Tax)
$4.00 Per Year in Hidalgo Co.
Split Sessions At PSJA
H.S. One More Year
The PSJA school board named McKeever cited several advantages
the San Juan Insurance Agency as to this arrangement, one of which
the school district insurance servic- is having the 9th grade only on
ing agent in a split 4-3 vote at the the school grounds. “We can do a
regular board meeting Monday better job with them if they are
night. the only students,” he said. Also,
The issue had been on the agenda with the older students in the
for the last three months. At the morning, we can arrange for those
last meeting, two motions to award students so desiring to take a 6th
the job to the San Juan agency and period.
the Pharr Insurance Agency end- Classrooms would be available in
ed in a tie, 3-3, with one trustee the afternoon for extra curricular
absent. The absent trustee, Jose activities, which is not true now,
Gutierrez of Pharr, was the de- he said.
ciding vote as all the others voted ' „ t
the same, and the contract went .
to the San Juan agency. Enrique '^le i°int summer school will be
Moya made the motion, Marcos ^une 2nd to dldy 22nd- Tuition
Gomez seconded, and in the vote, ^ ^be same as last year.
Gutierrez, Hector Palacios, Moya •Driver education will be offered
and Gomez voted for and Tony a^®°» but ^ *s separate from the
Gonzalez, Miss -Zonia Willingham summer school, and must be ap-
and Dalmon Moseley voted no. plied for separately.
The contract was for three years. Santiago Alanis, coordinator of
Previous contracts have been for adu^ community education pro-
onG year. Strain, said thG interest had ox-
In other business, in a very long ceeded expectations, with more
agenda, the board approved a re- *"ban ^ enrolled and two more
organization plan for the High c*asses may sdd be organized. A
School for 1977-78 as presented by total of n different courses are
H. S. Principal Jack: McKeever, beuig offered with a possibility of
approved the joint summer school tw0 more- Enrollment is from a
low of 12 to a high of 33 in two
classes. .<
Rodolfo
with Edinburg to be held at PSJA
this year and set the tuition fees,
heard reports on the adult com- Rodolfo Lopez reported on the
munity education classes, and the various summer programs in, the
elementary summer programs, to c^ementary schools. A total of 52
programs,
mention the more important items.
Split Sessions
. To Continue
para-professionals
ployed, he said.
will be em-
4-H-FFA Members Will
Enter 14 Calves, 30
Hogs at Livestock Show
4-H and FFA students in PSJA Farris, Jose Angel Castilleja.
High School will enter 14 fat Hogs—Shelly Jemigan, Oscar
calves, 30 hogs, many pens of Castilleja.
fryers, and dairy heifers in the Rio
Bids on New Junior High School On
Sioux Road To Be Opened March 23
Bids will be opened next Wednes- tion on the northwest comer of the for faculty and north for visitors,
day,. March 23rd, 4 p.m., in the tract.) Architect Tom Ashley told the
board meeting room of the PSJA This is the largest single con- school trustees Monday night at the
business office on the construction struction project in the $5,000,000 regular meeting that the outside of
of a new Junior High School for the bond issue voted in January of 1976. the gym was plain vanilla, but the
District. The new Jr. High will have 32 inside would be very nice, with ex~
Location will be on the northeast main classrooms, will be two story cellent insulation and acoustics. The
comer of a 35-acre site on Sioux construction for the main building, band room will be air conditioned.
Rd., northeast Pharr, between High- containing some 50,000 sq. feet of This facility is designed for a
way 281 and “I” Rd. (An elemen- floor space. . maximum of 1,200 students, Ashley
tary school is now* under construe- The second floor of the main said. It is the plan of the District
building will be the learning center, to have 7th and 8th graders at this
with audio visual facilities, and the school, with the 9th grade to go to
libraryi Jefferson.
A cafeteria will be a part of the Some of the special features of
main building. A snack bar will also the building will be a foundation of
be included, similar to the one at post tension concrete, walls will be
the H. S. cafeteria. concrete,, interior, glazed structural1
The Jr. High will have a gym in tile, floors carpeted in classrooms,1
a separate structure to the south Spanish tile on roof of the main
building.
Legal Aliens In
PSJA District Total
1,144 on Feb. 1
Supt. Augusto Guerra presented
a chart to the PSJA school board joined by a canopy and will
and visitors at the regular Monday con^a^n about 14,000 sq. feet,
night meeting showing the growing ST111 building will also in-
proportion of aliens attending the <dude a practice room for the band.
Other facilities will include a
PSJA schools.
In Feb., 1973, there were 446
alien students identified in the dis-
practice football field, three base-
ball diamonds, and four
trict enrollment of 10,925. This was *ennis courtS-
Architect Mafres Report
Architect Tom Ashley asked per-
oIIiLc1'’*2* mission to change the sub bids on what they will be exhibiting
Parking area will be on the east
Fowler Low Bidder
On Sewer Project
- H. P. Fowler Construction Co. of
Grande Valiev Livestock Show S^nZ’. ,R“!y 12'393' a ol 9 2 Per cent- McAllen was the low bidder on the
Mercedes "which ^ooeneef Uberal tamigratio!‘ laws sewer re-reute improvement pro-
16ft 'mntintote ftrT^JZ, f T ' , £ . McCuthen, Dana feteal government is causing ject on a low bid ol $699,177 and
16th, continuing thru March 20th. L^dgu^t Hector Zamora. this grewing problem with all he awarded the contract by the
Pens of fryers—Lynn McCuthen, schools along the border, he said
4.1 per cent of the total.
In Feb., 1974, this had increased
to 575, to 5.0 per cent.
In 1975, it was 764 and 6.5 per
cent.
In 1976, it was 956 and 8.0 per
cent.
On Feb. 1, 1977, it was 1,144 out of
The gym floor will be of a new
synthetic cushion, instead of wood.
Another feature will be earth
(dirt) up against the building to a
heighth of 10 feet, Ashley said. This
lighted will cut down on air conditioning
costs.
All of the main building will be
air conditioned.
Architect Ashley said that a total
of five contractors are expected to
bid on the project.
There will be a number of alter-
nate bids.
The students by organizations and
are
SEEN ’ROUND
THE TOWN
hut the classes will be changed. Tto^h w"091 r °
10th, 11th and 12th grades MarCh 22nd *° 29th' Hc said work
as follows:
The
will attend in the morning, totaling
San Juan 4-H
Steers—Debbie Beamsley,
was progressing well on both the
“h^rwir«olwS TiygJEth%eS:
only will attend in the afternoon,
totaling 1.050 to 1,100 students.
Joe McCutchen Tammie Ingram, These are "legal residents aliens,” S^Iarmating” He *UI b^towort
Gene Ingram, Jon Thompson, Mike he pomted out. Illegal resident all- next week. There were two other
Thompson, Chris Thompson, Raul ens are not eligible to attend school bidders on the project
~ ssss
woioer, Leroy Campbell, hut every school along the border, cently approved for the city in the *ree- Some people mistake
Four members will be in the calf Brownsville has the worst prob- amount of $750,000. flowering trees with huisache
A native tree now in full bloom in
all of its beauty right now is the
RETAMA. There are many around
town. To the Winter Texans, it is
the yellow flower with 100s on every
this
the
fllrpnrfv rp. c__ , xvcimcui oecUIlSiey. ---- ------------ amount Ol q»<DU,UUU. WTO wiui uiumuic — me
f A ki*|| x.HifvL 4 , ,, /uan Pens of fryers—Debbie Beams- scrand:)le> They are Mike Thomp- lem, he said. They have to con- A drainage project on East Polk latter has a yellow flower too but
Suqar Cane Mil! he said unless ^here"are Lr T ley’ Russel Beamsiey> Dana Grif- f,°n’ J°e McCutchen< My Saenz, struct one new elementary school was awarded to Hidalgo Paving on it is smaller. . . . SAYLES BROWN-
3 ' VM SV B 1118 he said’ unless there are more de- fin Tammie Ingram. everv vear to th* in. „ *g nwi
Sets Record For
Grinding in Wk.
fin.
Pharr 4- H
Steers—Robert Farris,
he said, unless there are more de-
lays due to rain
Ihe architect brought a model Dina Reichert, Karen Stiers.
of the new Jr. High lay out.
Appointment of a board of eq-
ualization was tabled. Miss Will->
, „ . ingham was the only trustee ready
In the past week all previous with a name others
grinding records were broken Jack „ was very difl!cul, to get quali.
Nelson, general manager ol the Rio serve on board.
Grande Valley Sugar Growers Inc. ^ year wi„ fce harder than ^
told the growers in his^weekly re- ^ iecause o( re.evaluation.
The school calendar as proposed
Tammie Ingram.
Matthew
P-R-O-G-R-A-H
RIO GRANDE VALLEY
LIVESTOCK SHOW
ALAMO 4-H
Steers—Robert Callaway, Tim-
my Obst, Tamela Rabe, Susan Gal-
loway.
Hogs—Monica Koliba.
Dairy heifers—B e 1 i n d a Obst,
Dickie Obst, Buhba Angel, Lisa
Obst, Cathy Sims, Kindi Moncus,
Friends ol Library
Approve Projects
port to the members. It was a re-
cord week for both tons of cane
ground and tons of sugar produced.
In his report covering the period
2/27/77 to 3/6/77, Nelson said that
68,406 tons of cane were ground
bringing the ' season total to 261,-
FRIDAY, MARCH 18
by the staff for 1977-78 year was 8 A.M. — Show opens.
adopted.
Band Trip Approved
Band Director Pete Cisneros re-
quested permission to take the
690 tons. 6,158 tons of sugar were senior band to Galveston and it
produced for a season total of 20,- was approved. A total of 145 will
808 tons. 2,333 tons of molasses for make the trip via charter bus, with
the week and 8,701 tons for the six staff, eight parents and one
season. nurse, he said.
The fields are continuing to dry The report of the textbook com-
and new harvesting schedules re- mittee was approved,
cently mailed to the growers would The delinquent tax roll was certi-
fied.
Specifications for the new sta-
dium lights for the football field
were approved. The lights must
have a minimum of 30 candle
power. The old lights will become
10 A.M. — Animal Acts, Franzen
Mini Circus.
1 P.M. — Animal Acts.
5 P.M. — FFA and 4-H Livestock
Judging Contest.
8 P.M. —■ Rodeo and Scraft
Scramble.
8 P.M. to Midnight — Western
Music and Dance.
SATURDAY, MARCH 19
9 A.M. — Market Hog Auction.
9:30 A.M. — Animal Acts.
Hidalgo Paving on
every year to accommodate the in- a low bid of $12,000. He is start next one of our regular “custom-
X r~ -r-art^tey was.' 5«orn m an *—” —-‘•‘-—p. ---i
another term as a member of the lax sacenarm, w c e co.-
Pharr Housing Authority and Raf- tends should be clasffied tbe s,ame
ael F. Rivera was sworn in as a 35 ^ood’ as,1 ose w ° usa 1 ’ ,ay
new member, replacing Manuel t0 bave tbe same ■ e
The Friends of the Pharr Me- Riyera who has moved to San Juan are many users- v ™ a ^
morial Library had their quarterly (or will move very soon). A resol- ^cnow °* are p ‘ " p11
meeting on March 3rd at the libra- ution of thanks was passed for ^ t w om ave a
ry Manuel Rivera for his three years lar2e su*>Ply °nn hanud‘ * • ; 711? Gty
. Presiding was President Victor on the hoard. decided to re-line the par mg anes
Staci Sir^ Carney Miller, Tamara Qarcjaj who introduced Mrs. Ar- Approval was given to St. Mar- on ^age anyway’
Sh8?1 ***"*’ mando Briones, president of the garet Church for a temporary bids have been opened on the
Pharr Memorial Library, who gave storage bldg, on the church Pavblg and e imma iag ie m iarL
a short and informative talk on the grounds. Work is not exPected to start for
the library
although
re-
Kathy Whitlock.
Fryers—Belinda Obst.
Monica Koliba is also exhibiting positive “decision of
a breeding gilt.
PSJA FFA
Breeding Swine-Loel Garza, Ered
Zuniga.
Hogs—R o b e r t Gremes, Mike
Ward, Richard Stiers, David Byrd,
Toby Decker, Troy Beam, Ray
Posz, Ray Nava, Debbie Obst, De-
bra Callaway, Janet Obst, Kris
Clark Chevrolet was awarded bid another 60 or 90 days. It certainly
board to expand the library. on a new V2 ton pick up and a irap^ves^ the ^p^km^an^w^ re-
Mrs. Richard Escobar, co-chair- new vehicle.
he implemented, Nelson said.
man of the projects committee,
gave a report on how she and Mrs.
Marsha Hofland investigated sev-
eral projects for the library. The
most appropriate was the Audio
Visual Center. This project was
closely discussed by the board and
was approved. Cost of the items accepting
duce a lot of dented fenders, dented
doors, caused by those who park
too close. . . . Tomorrow, the 17th,
is St. Patrick’s Day and the wear-
ing of the green is in order. One of
those who never fails to wear the
green very prominently and remind
The PSJA Beef Syndicate is still P^1® of il was the late Homer
for this Bentley. . . . ARMIN DONEIS sav-
Bids on library fixtures were re-
jected.
Still Time to Join
Beef Syndicate
iLZZ™'rZ , Lewellyn, Raymond Hortness, Beth W£tsJ memberships ^ - bike
11 A.M. — Parade of Champions. ^ v Q „ Q r<QT.tw ivnb-o needed will he $703.60. This expense year. Price is $10 per person, which 138 energy oy riamg n s
Trash Pick Up
Schedule Mar. 21-25
Pharr Public Works Director property of the successful low ble.
Rene Castellanos is giving notice bidder.
1 P.M. — Animal Acts.
2 P.M. — Fryer Auction.
2:30 P.M. — Rodeo and Scramble
7 P.M. - Milking Contest.
8 P.M. — Rodeo and Calf Scram-
Fuller, R o x a n n a Carter, Mike
Blagg, Ike Flores, Rebecca Nicko-
lett, Andre Hortness, Carlos Mar-
tinez, Corky Dreibelbis, Mike Obst,
Danny Gremes,
Brad Bowne.
downtown. He said the bad weather
so long prevented him from doing
sa — for one thing, it was danger-
ous, and second, he would get splat-
tered with water and slush on a
of the coming week (March 21-25, A request of the Pharr Fire Music arid Dance^1^ Western Beamsley, Sandra Rosser, Deborah RUA^
1977) city trash department crews Dept, for erection of a fire siren
working schedule. The crews will a^ ^he northeast comer of Napper SUNDAY, MARCH 20
start on the northwest section from School was tabled. There is only 10 A.M. — Commercial Exhibits
West Highway 83 to West FM 495, one house within 300 feet at that °Pen to the public,
and from North Highway 281 to location. One trustee suggested l2 Noon to 5 P.M. — Antique car
North Jackson Road and will work placing it in the city park which show.
up to the northeast section from is in a congested residential area. 1 P-M. — Parade of Stallions.
East Sioux Road to East Highway gypt. Guerra reported on the 2:30 — Rodeo and Calf
83 and from North Highway 281 to growing proportion of aliens in the Scramble.
North “I” Road. PSJA school. This has grown from 2:30 P.M. — Mexican Dances.
Grass clippings and leaves can he 445 jn 1973 to 1,144 in 1977, he said, 3:i5 to 5:15 P-M- — Western
placed in garbage cans, trash bags (g^g separate story on this sub- Music.
or boxes for pickup. Please do not j^) 4:15 to 4:45 P.M. — Exhibition
pile gras clippgsontoponi Heraldo Pena reported on the square dancing,
pile grass clippings on top of a wa- total enrollment, saying it had 5:30 PM- — Steer Auction,
ter meter, gas meter, or blocking reached the peak and was now de- —-—:
the alley. clining.f Total enrollment as o
Tree limbs or larger objects March u was ^225.
should be cut not greater than five other items included budget
feet in length. amendments, tax adjustments, re-
Have trash ready for pickup since ^ business office,
the trash department trucks will go election of personnel and resign-
only once through the alleys or ation of ^^1 and election
personnel for 1977-78 year.
will come from the Friends funds. entitles holder to two regular bar-
Others present at the meeting becues and one “bonus” barbecue,
were: Mrs. Inga A. Card, George Those who wish to join may con-
Eddie ~Trevino' McCullough, Gene Parks, Bernard tact the secretary of the Beef
’ B. Bessire, David Liu, Mrs. Anna Syndicate, Dan Griffin, Rt. 1, Box
p , Mae Kelly, and Mrs. Frances L. 58 A, Pharr, Texas. Phone number round trip from home to town. . . .
Fibers—Philip Oxford, Rodney is 781-1387: MAJOR DARWIN RAY of the A. F.
The first barbecue for 1977 is
April 9th. The second barbecue will
be in May.
Arrington,
Holton.
Severt Nielsen, Pete
After discussing the membership
drive and annual meeting the meet-
ing was adjourned.
Citrus Shipments
streets.
WEATHER REPORT
High
Low
Rain
March 10.........
56
• • •
March 11.........
68
• •
March 12.........
46
• •
March 13.........
t •
March 14 .........
65
• • -
March 15.........
71
• •
March 16 81
69
• •
March 16 .........
69
• •
Readings taken
from
the
Carl
Jose Alanis Found
Dead on N. Cage
Citrus shipments for the week
ending March 3 totaled 304,000 bu.
of grapefruit, 25,000 bu. of early
oranges, 157,000 bu. of late or-
anges, 83,000 bu. of grapefruit ex-
ported to Europe, 3,000 bu. ex-
ported to Japan and 9,000 bu. of
oranges exported to other locations.
The figures fumjshed by Texas
Valley Citrus Committee.
Jose Hector Alanis of San Juan BROTHER OF HOMER STOHLER
Schuster Weather Reporting Sta-
tion, South 281 Highway, at the Blue
Silo.
was found dead inside the Oaks Ir
ligation Equipment Co., 908 North
Cage, at about 2 a m. March 16th.
He had been shot twice with a
small calibre weapon. He was 49.
Justice of, Peace T. Palacios ruled
Alanis dead at the scene.
No weapon was found.
Police are investigating.
DIES AFTER SURGERY
Eddie Stohler of La Feria, bro-
ther of Homer Stohler, Pharr died
in a Houston Hospital following
heart surgery.
Funeral services were held
March 10th in La Feria at the First
Phair Baptist Church with burial there.
He was song leader at that church.
NttS IS A CLASS IN PSJA schools of more than 50 years ago. Year is not known. Front row
are Alice Cameron, Bernice Delp, Bernice Dreibelbis, Betty Gaines, Thelma Slocum, Imo-
gene Holdridge, Pearl Rippletoe, Lee Vernon, Marvin Clark, W. M. White. Others pictured
include Edna Howtpn, Melvin Derr, Madeline Gillespie, Ernest Cameron, Chester Bouse, Alma
Bouse, Elvira McCormick, Stella Warnock,Howard Newcomber, Murry Hensley, Walter
Kidd.
MAJOR DARWIN RAY of the A.
here for a visit was in Florida right
after the big freeze and he said the
citrus fruit was badly damaged and
the ground was literally covered
with the fruit in every orchard —
and it was still falling when he was
there. ... Senator JOHN TOWER
is starting his campaign for re-
'election, as he has had two speak-
ing engagements here in the Valley
this month — one at Brownsville
and one at Raymondville — and
we don’t know how many more over
Texas. . . . VALLEY MART and
WINN’S are getting very close to
their grand opening in their fine
new building on Sam Houston. . . .
Ex Pharr police chief R. G. REY-
NA is a Deputy Sheriff and his job
is the paper service.. .. There is a
difference between “legal residnt a-
hens” and “illegal resident aliens,’*
so says Supt. GUS GUERRA. PSJA
Dial has 1,144 legal resident aliens
enrolled as of Feb. 1. Wow! That
would fill one complete school, like
Jefferson, and some to spare
(See story. . . . Bluebonnets, the
Texas flower for those who do
not know it, are showing up every-
where. GUS DAVIS, E. Dreyer, has
* bed that is blooming right now
and it is the same root stock for
many years now. . . . The PHARR
WINTER VISITORS CLUB made
$540 from their Arts & Crafts Show.
. . . Keep those old time pictures
coming. We have a large number on
hand and we’ll be running one or
more per issue until we catch up.
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