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THESE ITEMS WERE ONLY SOME OF THE more than $40,000 in items recovered last Thursday by
Ingleside and Portland police. Police are talking to two men, but no arrests have been made yet.
Items were recovered at both men's homes and in a storage building.
Police recover stolen items
Valued at $40,000, from two cases
Ingleside and Portland
police recovered more than
#40,000 in stolen property last
Thursday allegedly taken from
the Exxon Pipeline Co.
Ingleside Detective Charles
Jenkins said the items were
‘I was talking with (Port-
land detective) John
Edsel and he informed
me he had an informant
who knew where some
ATVs were. I told him of
the Exxon case and we
began making the con-
nection.’
Detective Charles Jenkins
stolen during two burglaries
and a theft in 1992. The burg-
laries occurred in June and De-
cember and the theft of two
four wheel all-terrain vehicles
(ATV) and a trailer also took
place in December, Jenkins
said.
Items stolen in the burglar-
ies were portable generators,
office machines, computers
and other items.
“A vacuum cleaner was also
reported missing,” Jenkins ex-
plained. “A small TV as well.”
Jenkins said the investiga-
tion began again last week dur-
ing area investigator meetings.
“I was talking with (Portland
detective) John Edsel and he
informed me he had an infor-
mant who knew where some
ATVs were,” Jenkins recalled.
“I told him of the Exxon case
and we began making the con-
nection.”
On Thursday, Jenkins and
Edsel were joined by Detec-
tives Mike Peters and John
Estes of the Portland Police
Dept, and Sgt. Frankie Slaugh-
ter of Ingleside at a suspect’s
residence off County Road 96
near Taft, where some of the
items were hidden.
Other items were found at
another suspect’s home in
Portland and at a storage build-
ing, Jenkins said.
Names have not been re-
leased pending their arrest la-
ter this week. One of the two
men involved admitted taking
part in both burglaries and the
theft. He also admitted to
thefts in Refugio and Woods-
boro, Jenkins said.
The other man admitted
taking part in the theft and the
December burglary. Jenkins
said both men have been
cooperating fully with author-
ities.
‘We’re still looking
for a fax machine and
a copy machine,
along with other
items.’
Jenkins
Not all the items have been
recovered as of yet, Jenkins
said.
“We’re still looking for a fax
machine and a copy machine,
along with other items,” Jenk-
ins said. “There’s a couple
more suspects we believe may
have been involved.”
Jenkins said the operation
netted items that Exxon wasn’t
aware were stolen.
“There were so many things
taken the company wasn’t
aware of all that was missing,”
Jenkins said.
Jenkins said the exchange of
information between agencies
was instrumental in this case.
“If we hadn’t been at the
meeting and hadn’t talked,
Edsel and 1 may not have been
able to form a link between our
cases,” Jenkins said.
Naval station in clear
. Not on hit list, to gain personnel
The news was good Friday. Not
only is Naval Station Ingleside not
on the base closure list, but
stands to gain new military and
civilian personnel.
When the Department of De-
fense Base Closure and Realign-
ment Report for 1993 was made
public Friday, Naval Station Ing-
leside came out ahead.
Ingleside is one of the Texas
installations that will be assigned
new military and civilian person-
nel, 403 according to Sen. Phil
Gramm’s office.
Gramm said Texas’ Depart-
ment of Defense installations will
receive a combined total of 4,248
new military and civilian person-
nel, while seven other facilities
will lose a total of 2,543 person-
nel. A net gain of 1,705 personnel.
Broken down, the Red River
Depot in Bowie County will get
979; Kelly Air Force Base, 27;
Lackland Air Force Base, 151;
Carswell Air Force Base, 2,246;
Corpus Christi Naval Air Station,
195; and Kingsville Naval Air Sta-
tion, 247.
Gramm said the Dallas Naval
Air Station was the largest Texas
military facility recommended
for complete closure, but that
under the Department of Defense
proposal the work performed
there and the 1,642 related jobs
will be transferred to Carswell Air
Force Base in neighboring Fort
Worth.
Gramm said the list recom-
mends closing a total of 31 bases
throughout the United States and
downsizing 134 others.
The base closing recommenda-
tions will now go to the Base Clo-
sure Commission for its review.
The commission forwards its re-
commendations to the President
on July 1. If the President
approves the list, he must send it
to Congress by July 15.
Those 31 proposed closures in-
clude: Mare I. Naval Ship Yard in
Vallejo, Naval Hospital, Oakland,
Naval Station Treasure Island,
Oakland Naval Supply Center,
Naval Air Station, Alameda, and
Naval Aviation Depot, Alameda,
all in California.
Also, Naval Air Station, Bar-
bers Point, Hawaii: O’Hare Inter-
national Airport Air Force Re-
serve Station, Chicago, Naval Air
Station, Glenview, in Illinois; K.l.
Sawyer Air Force Base in
Michigan; Defense Electronics
Supply Center, Dayton, Newark
Depot, in Ohio; Vint Hills Farms,
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Land values remain at '92 level
In Ingleside, Aransas Pass appraisals
Values on most of the prop-
erties in the Aransas Pass-
Ingleside area will remain at the
1992 level in 1993. Kathy Vermil-
lion of the San Patricio County
Appraisal District, said there will
be no general increase in apprais-
als in this area.
There will be such an increase
in Portland. Vermillion said the
ratio there will be up 10 percent.
This is a result of the increase in
value of property determined by
sales. Vermillion said they were
four percent behind and are now
10 percent above a year ago.
She expained that in Portland
there are about 70 houses for sale
now, but they are not the same 70
houses that were for sale three
months ago. She said HUD houses
which were selling for #10,000
below the asking price are now
bringing the asking price.
Vermillion said the property
sales in Portland have been mod-
eled by neighborhood to provide
an accurate ratio for appraisal of
like properties.
Ingleside, she said, is still play-
ing catch up so values will remain
the same on the tax roles. For the
most part, Aransas Pass is in the
same position. However, she said
in some subdivisions, lots that
were selling for #2,500 are now
selling for #5,000, and values will
be increased in those subdivi-
sion.
In Pelican Cove in Aransas
Pass, she said there is actually a
reduction in value as lots have
been sold for #15,000 to #19,000.
She said the direction of valua-
tions will reverse when #100,000
homes are built on these lots. She
said some building permits have
already been taken out.
She said values will remain the
same in Bay Harbor this year.
After that, it is wait and see. She
said Travelers Insurance from
Hartford, Connecticut, has
bought this subdivision from
Coastal Properties and George
Strickhausen.
Vermillion expects develop-
ment at Bay Harbor. She said it
has never been publicized but
that families living in the subdivi-
sion are in Del Mar College Dis-
trict so they have low tuition for
their children, and they are in
Aransas Pass so the children are
eligible for the scholarship given
students by the Coastal Bend
Foundation. No other location,
she said, has this combination of
advantages.
Filing deadline passes for
city, USD May 1 elections
School district trustees were
unopposed yesterday morning,
hours away from the deadline for
filing for the May 1 election.
Incumbents Jacob Lopez and
Bennie Diegel had, as of 10 a.m.
yesterday, no opposition in the
school district election.
Yesterday was the last day to
file in the school district election,
and it was the last day to file in the
city council election.
The city election has drawn a
large field. Seeking re-election
are Judy Storms and Leon Neil.
The field of candidates also in-
cludes Joseph Jones, William
Ward, Mike Rasmussen, Joan
Isaacks, and Robert F. Clarke.
Seeking the one year of Steve
Roberson’s unexpired term are
Don Vance and Julia Van Camp.
These were the candidates at
3:30 p.m. yesterday.
Ingleside on Bay wrestles with drainage problems
Improving drainage problems
within the city was the main topic
of discussion at the Ingleside on
the Bay council meeting Tuesday
night.
The council had asked Steve
Elliott, Director of the San Patri-
cio County Drainage District and
John Michaels of Naismith En-
gineering to come up with plans
to alleviate drainage problems
along Bayshore Drive and
Bayshore Court.
“It’s not a moat, but it’s the
second worst thing, ” Michaels ex-
plained. “Part of the problem
comes from the fact that this area
was developed before the bulk-
heads were in. The fact that you
have them now only keeps the
problem from being any worse.”
After talking with several resi-
dents and landowners, Michaels
recommended the city put cul-
verts under Bayshore Drive and
Court and construct a 24-inch
culvert near the water with a
sluescape made of aluminum or
stainless steel placed in a box to
allow the water to flow out.
“It works by a manually con-
trolled wheel which lifts a gate to
let the water out,” Michaels ex-
plained. “The city would then be
responsible for getting someone
to operate the wheel."
The cost of such a project
would be in the neighborhood of
#15-20,000, Elliott said. Elliott
told the council the districfwould
be willing to help with construc-
tion of the project and possibly
aid in funding. The city would be
responsible for providing rights-
of-way and making utility adjust-
ments if needed.
In other business, Parks and
Recreation Committee Chair-
man Bill Rosenkranz made re-
commendations to the council
concerning the city's “green
area”.
The area, which is bordered by
Ebony, Woodhaven and Live Oak
streets, is being developed into a
place where persons can go and
relax and children can play.
Rosenkranz had a list of 12 re-
commendations the committee
made after meeting earlier this
month. They included getting a
set of basketball goals, which are
reportedly to be donated by pri-
vate citizens, as are the materials
for two tables and four benches to
be placed in the green area and
municipal building when con-
structed.
A shade cover, two community
bulletin boards and an outdoor
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