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Pharr Memorial Library
130 £. Caffery
Pharr* Texas
PHARR MEMORIAL LiERAK i
SHARK, (TEXAS mU
FRIDAY JULY 10, 1981
SATURDAY JULY 11,1981
SUNDAY. JULY 12. 1981
MONDAY, JULY 13,1981
TUESDAY, JULY 14. 1981
WEATHER
jCALANDER
The Pharr Police Department plans
to recruit an Explorer’s group in
cooperaiion with the Boy Scout of
America group. The program is geared
towara young adults in the city. The
membership drive begins at 7:30 p.m.
today at the Pharr Police station 202 E.
Clark Street, in Pharr. ,
Colt League action tonight begins at
6:30 p.m. at the Pharr City Fields.
Officers of the Hidalgo Council No. 353 R.
Sm. and the Hidalgo Chapter No. 4^4 R. A.
M. of the York Rite Masons will host a public
installation of officers beginning at 8 p.m. at |
the Mason’s Hall on 118 N. 11th Street in
McAllen. All Master Masons and Eastern Star
members are invited to attend.
Square Dancing^ for all levels at the Pharr
South Park on 1402 South Cage will begin at
8 p~m. Noble Snaples, Caller; Clebourne
| (Virginia) Humphrey^uej^^
The San Juan Fire Department will host a
conference _g! Fire Departments frm throughout
the Valley at the PSJA Hioh School Grounds
on South I Road. The Public is irtviied to
attenu the all day event.
Attend the Church of your choice today.
Pharr Duplicate Club meets at 10 a.m. at
the Pharr Civic Center on 1011 W. Kelly
Street. All couples are invited to attend the
gathering.
Pharr City Charter Revision Committee will
meet at 7:30 p.m. today at the Pharr City
meeting room on W. Park Street to discuss
the changes of the city.
Pharr City Commissioners meet this evening
to discuss the city’s growth and changes.
American Baseball League action at the
Charles V. Cain Basebal Diamond will begin
tonight at 5:30 p.m.
DATE HIGH LOW
July 2 85 72
July 3 90 77
July 4 94 82
July 5 95 82
July 6 95 84
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Gordon Jenkins, Robert Contreras, Gracie Lewis,
Commissioner Lillie Briones, Sarah Onderdonk.
Judy Brady, Glynda Mathews, Severa Garcia,
Pharr Mayor Quentin Newcombe Jr., M. Day
Young, Allen Johnson, Domingo Gonzalez, Alida
Aguilar. Gene Wendorf, Mavis Sedlak, Bernice
Ipffprpvs; Don Westlake and Linda Walters.
Kenneth Beamsley, of
San Juan will receive his
awarded scholarhip for
the Houston Livestock
Show and Rodeo, at the
53rd Annual State FFA
Convention to be held in
Dallas on July 15-17.
Beamsley will be one of
the 51 $ 6000 scholarship
receipients.
Phar r 4- H gets
top honors
Pharr 4-H members
headed by Joe Vera III of
Pharr, who hosted Rowan
County North Carolina 4-H
members last week;
received top honors in the
float competition in the
Annual 4th of July Parade
in McAllen.
The floats theme “This
land is your land, Texas”
received it’s first place
award from Dempsy
Harris, of McAllen Parks
SCORCHING H EAT: H it the Pharr city despite much rain. Here
this basketball hoop was heated enough to bend forward The
hoop is at C ar nahan School in Phar r. (Photo by )uhe Doherty)
San Juan commission
hears plea for water
recieves award
Pharr Police chief
announces reserve force
Otto Hofland of San
Juan went before the San
Juan City commissioners
with a request for water to
be extended to a sub-
division on North Raul
Longoria Road.
The request came
before the commission at
their regular meeting.
Mayor Arturo Guajardo
stated the City of San
Juan is at present
restructuring their
waterline, and sewage
systems in that city and at
the present he could not
give a definate yes or no
answer.
Guajardo also stated
that the city of San Juan
is having sme troubles
with their service to the
city.
After a brief discussion
by the commission the
item was thus tabled
awaiting further
information by the
research group that is
conducting the city’s re-
structuring system.
Other action taken by
the commissioners was to
seek bids for a new city
manager.
Former city manager
Martin Garcia releaved
himself of his duties due
to ill health.
Roque Vaquera, former
Alamo City Manager, is
presently acting city
manager of San Juan.
Other action by the
commission was to ask
the acting city manager to
seek bids for the new
garbage truck for that city.
The new truck would
assist the present trash
pick-up trucks, to help
allieviate the trash
problems of that city.
Pharr citizen appointed
to highway committee
Ken Callway, of Pharr is
an additional member to
the newly established
Highway Committee.
The Valley Highway
Committee will sponsor a
delegation to Austin to
meet with the Commission
of the State Department of
Highways and Public
Transportation to be held
in August.
Joe Stephens, chairman
of the committee said that
the focus of the meeting
between the two
organizations will be to
aquaint the Commission
with some of the problems
facing the Valley in
highway needs.
The basis of these
needs is due to the rapid
growth of the area in the
last 10 years' alone, and
the anticipated growth of
the Valley in the next 10
years.
When Police Chief
Patrick Dalager explain-
ed his ideas for a Police
Reserve, one was
reminded of the Minute
men of historical days.
The Pharr Police
Reserve formed by
Police Chief Patrick
Dalager will not be com-
posed of more than 40
members. It will consist
of citizens of the city
who are willing to
volunteer 12 hours a
month to the depart-
ment.
Before any volunteer
is taken, he must first
pass certain screening
tests, and background
checks before he is even
considered for the job.
He must also be over 21
years old.
Although the Reserve
will operate within the
police department, they
will in no way have any
official connection with
the department. The
organization will operate
separately and apart
from the department.
The purpose of the
group is to help the
police department when
the help is requested. In
some instances the
group may be called
upon to assist in traffic
directing and controlling
in the city.
Although the Reserve
volunteers will be train-
ed in the use of a
firearm, they themselves
wil not carry any unless
they are duly authorized.
Each Reserve officer
will have to pay for his
own uniform, but will be
issued an identification
card by the department.
Once the individual
wishes to leave the
Reserve force, he must
turn his I.D. card back to
the Chief of Police.
“This one concept will
double our police force
overnight,’’ said Dalager.
“Now with the Police Ex-
plorers group combined
with the Reserve and
with the officers of the
city, we will have obtain-
ed a police force of peo-
ple between the ages of
17 to 70 years old.” says
Dalager.
“We wish to activate
those individuals who
used to work with the
department and with the
city into the Reserve
Force. That way these
people who are already
familiar with the city can
use this knowledge for
the benefit of the depart-
ment.” said Dalager.
NEW TRAFFIC LIGHT: At the inter sect ion of West Hwy.83
and Sugar Road in Phar r. This is the intersect ion at which children
cross the highway while walking home from school during the
winter months. ’ , A ^
Photo by Laura Garcia
San Juan store
becomes computerized
Mujeres Unidas close shelter due to shortages
The MU/WT office and
shelter will be closed July
1-20.
The volunteer crisis the
will remain open. (With agreed it would improve
the 100 degree heat in the morale to close for a short
office and staff shortages break),
due to vacation, the board Items badly needed by-
MU/WT are children’s
clothing, household
articles to be sold in our
thrift shop, fans for shelter
and office, maintenance
tools, canned goods, white
paint, playground
equipment, carpeting,
fence ad last but not least,
money!
Kenneth Beamsley
The Valu-Fair store in
San Juan has now turned
over their check-out
couners to the computers.
The devised which is
controlld by the computer
is called “Scanning”.
With this method the
checker passes the item
over a light which reads a
UPC code. The code is a
series of numbers stored
in a bar code. When the
bar code is passed over a
light reader, the
computers memory reads
the code, and produces a
print out of the item, and
it’s salft nrice.
Scales, which are also a
part of the scanning
devise to weigh fruits and
vegetables, weigh to the
narest 1/100 of a pound
and automatically
multiplies the weight by
the price stored in the
registers memory.
this system is also said
to improve accuracy in
three areas, 1) the item is
rung up automatically
which prevens misrings
and underrings caused by
misinterpeting the price. 2)
this system would delete
any mistakes in pricing
caused by a Stocker 3)
this system also taks care
of poor label quality, as
well as, torn and missing
labels.
One great asset that
this machine provides is
speed. The checkout
speed is increased to
allow quicker service.
At the end of the check-
out, a customer receipt
with a description of what
was bought, and what
price was paid is given to
the buyer.
This new checkout
system is to provide a fast
and accurate service to
the* customer.
TROPICAL SAVINGS OPENING: Tropical Saving’s
and Loan of South'Texas has recently opened a
branch office in Pharr. Acting manager of the
branch office is Ed Tamez. A total staff of three
will be on hand to assist any citizen of the city. At
the ribbon cutting event pictured left to right are:
Left to right, Gene Strait, Ed Davis, C.E. Flores,
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