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Serving Ingleside, growing industrial complex of the Coastal Bend
Vol. XXIV—No. 19
Inglewide. San Patricio County, Texas 78362 — THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1974
15c Per Copy (Plus Tax)
Trustees Approve
Dress CodeChanges
THE FIRST ANNUAL Ingleside Round-Up was cli-
maxed Saturday evening with the crowning of the 1974
Round-Up Queen Tammy Cochran (C) of Portland who
was sponsored by the Portland Chamber of Commerce.
Second place trophy was presented to Gina Quiel (L)
sponsored by Vance’s Dry Goods and third place was
awarded to Gwendolyn Kay Fahrenthold (R) sponsor-
ed by the Ingleside Dairy Queen.
A dress code which the high
school principal said makes
some concessions to the
students was approved Tuesday
night by the Ingleside Indepen-
dent School District Board of
Trustees.
The dress code was revised
last month with suggestions by
a 19-member committee com-
posed of three school board
members, four students, four
parents, four teachers, and the
four school principals.
The concessions as explain-
ed by Leon Taylor, high school
principal, include the much
debated issue of pants and
Two Hour Talk Session
Follows Board Meeting
A two hour question and
answer session that followed the
regular meeting of the Ingleside
School District Board of
Trustees Tuesday night dwind
led down to two spectators and
two board members but the four
felt they succeeded in commu-
nicating
The two hour session began
after members of the board
Marijuana Plant
Receives Tender
Loving Care
A marijuana plant is growing
in the Ingleside police station
and tender loving care is given
it
The plant is part of a project
of Chief of Police Rudy Villa
which will be displayed later in
the year at an open house and
will be used in the drug abuse
prevention program
Currently the little plant is
nearly a foot tall and sits under
a strong warm light in the
Chief's office.
were stopped outside the
meeting room by members of
the group Concern Citizens for
Better Government who wanted
to know why the public was not
allowed to speak at the board
meetings.
One spectator and several
members of the group had
attempted to voice questions or
opinions on at least one item on
the agenda and were not
allowed to do so.
After the meeting, Mrs.
Karen West, Mrs. Carol
Herrington, Mrs. Barbara Mir-
covich, Mrs. Joy Winkle, and
another woman stayed to ask
the members of the board why if
the public is invited to attend
the meetings it is not allowed to
speak
Mrs. West questioned Mau
rice Friday, president of the
board, for sometime about the
school board policy which does
not allow open discussion by
spectators. Priday said the
policy had been established so
that the meetings could be kept
in order and businesslike. He
said anyone who wants to
address the school board may
do so by asking to be placed
on the agenda for a given
subject.
Mrs West said she had been
attending city council meetings
in Ingleside for some time and
that the council allowed
discussion from the public. She
also said she had attended a
school board meeting in Corpus
Christi five or six years ago and
that public discussion had been
allowed.
Priday said he did not know
how Corpus Christi or the city
council operated but that the
means of addressing the school
board are available to the
citizens.
Priday told one woman who
was angered about the people
not being allowed to speak that
the policy book is followed and
that “there would be utter
bedlam’’ if everyone present
were allowed to discuss
anything they wanted
Mrs Mircovich asked Priday
See "SESSION” Pg. 2
1st Annual Round-Up
blouses. In the dress code
which was used this past year,
pants suits or co-ordinated
pants outfits had to be worn, if
pants were worn.
The new dress code, which
will be used in the coming
school year, said Taylor, makes
it possible for female students
to wear any type of pants,
including hip huggers, with any
type of blouse as long as the
midriff does not show, or as long
“as no skin shows” said Taylor.
Mary Beth Rhule, a student
member of the committee, was
present for discussion on the
dress code and stated that the
dress code is something which
will make most people happy,
although she said not everyone
can be made happy.
She said she and the other
three student members of the
committee had had the oppor-
tunity before the end of the
school year to talk to many
students and had had their ideas
in mind when the committee
See “DRESS CODE” Pg. 2
Massaro Named
$1,250 Scholarship
Recipient
Kevin Massaro, a graduate of
Ingleside High School, has been
selected to receive a $1,250
Houston Endowment Scholar-
ship by the Texas Interscholas-
tic League Foundation, it was
announced Friday.
The scholarship is given
annually to 20 outstanding
participants in University In-
terscholastic League academic
and literary contests. Massaro
was very successful in number
sense in UIL competition.
Massaro won third place in
state in the number sense this
past year and was a member of
the cast of the one-act play
entry in regional UIL competi-
tion. He was a member of the
all-star casts of both district
and regional meets.
Massaro has elected to attend
the University of Texas at
Austin where he will major in
math.
Computers To Prepare
School Tax Statements
The Ingleside School District
will join many other school
districts throughout the state
who have computerized their
tax rolls
The board of trustees agreed
Tuesday night to pay the Region
II Service Center of the Texas
Education Agency located in
Corpus Christi to computerize
the tax roll
In a report to the trustees,
E B. Lee, tax assessor-collector
for the school district, said this
would be a much more
economical and labor saving
system.
Lee said that the cost to the
school district would be 15 cents
per statement in the first year
and 13 cents per statement in
following years Lee estimated
that the total cost for the first
year, including the set up fee,
would be about $1,000
The time now consumed in
making up and sending out
statements said Lee is any-
where from one month to six
weeks. He said with the new
computerized process time
would be saved and efficiency
increased
Lee said that after the first
year, the new system would
allow Ingleside to have its tax
statements printed by the
service center at a less cost
than buying its own paper to
print the statements.
In answer to a question, Lee
said there is no guarantee that
the service center may not have
to raise its charge in the next
three or four years but noted
that prices are going up
everywhere.
The school board Tuesday
night also voted to buy liability
insurance for board members
and key personnel of the school
district. The liability insurance
would cover any suit against the
board, any member or person-
nel designated for up to
$1,000,000 a year, with a $1,000
deduction per suit.
Superintendent of schools
Gilbert Mircovich told the
board the insurance will cost
Council To Consider
Surge Tank Bids
Bids on the surge tank for the
sewer plant will be considered
by Ingleside city council when it
meets in regular session
Thursday night
Six bids were received by the
city on the project Bids from
Cactus Utility, H&S Green
Construction Co., Maverick
Construction Co., Perry Con
struction Co., R S Black
Contractors, and Slovak Bro-
thers, Inc were received and
opened Monday morning.
The bids were slightly higher
than had been anticipated
according to Mrs. Dorothy
Taylor, city secretary. The
$ 1,535,000 United Way
Goal Set For 1975
One million five hundred
thirty five thousand dollars is
the goal for this fall's Coastal
Bend United Fund campaign
This figure represents the
minimum needs of the 62 United
Way Agencies for 1975 as
determined by the approxi-
mately 125 volunteers on the
Budget and Allocations Council
and the Executive Committee
Bill Harrington, campaign
chairman, said that this goal Is
less than a five percent increase
over the amount raised last
Zirkel, Green
Appointed By
Methodist Bishop
United Methodist O. Eugene
Slater, resident bishop of the
San Antonio area, announced
Southwest Texas Annual Con
ference pastoral appointments
Monday for 381 churches, six
district superintendents, four
conference staff, and 68 special
appointments
Appointed from Aransas Pass
was Milford R Zirkel, Jr and
from Ingleside Rev Dana
Green has been appointed
Meeting at Travis Park
United Methodist Church, the
bishop led pastors and laity in a
special Service of Covenant and
read the new appointments of
pastors, associate pastors, and
connectional clergy
The annual conference conti-
nues through Thursday, June
13, moving Tuesday to the~
Villita Assembly Building for
business sessions
We Invite ...
We invite to be our guests at
the picture, “The Conversa-
tion’’, showing Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday, June 16, 17 and 18
at the Rialto Theatre, Frank L
Jones and guest
This notice, clipped from The
Index, vyjll serve as your
admission^
year and that he is confident the
$1,535,000 will be exceeded this
fall
The campaign will officially
begin September 3 Corpus
Christi, Portland, Kingsville',
Alice, Robstown, Beeville, and
Ingleside have joined in one'
fund drive to meet the social
needs of these seven communi-
ties.
Member agencies from this
area which receive allocations
are the American Red Cross of
San Patricio County, $2,600,
Girl Scouts, Paisono Council,
$56,000; Ingleside Education
and Health Services, $3,950;
Ingleside Salvation Army, $700
approximately $1750 for a three
year policy.
The question of which
personnel to include in the
coverage was raised by board
member Mark Cox. Cox said the
band director, athletic director,
and cafeteria supervisor should
be included and asked Mirco-
vich how many people the
insurance company would allow
the school district to cover at
the $1750 premium. He said he
would not like to have the
insurance company dictate
which of the personnel can be
covered
Mircovich is to check with the
insurance company to deter-
mine exactly how many and
who can be covered at the
premium. Mircovich said he
feels that anyone in a
supervisory position should be
covered.
The board also approved
contracts for Mrs. Linda
Benavides, early childhood
special education, Mrs. Pamela
See “COMPUTERS” Pg. £
exact amounts of the bids will
be released and considered at
the meeting Thursday
Also on the agenda for this
week’s meeting is consideration
of amending the personnel
policy concerning sick leave,
consideration of adopting Ordi
nance No. 268, describing the
functions, duties, and powers of
shelter managers during na
tional emergencies.
Also a request for street
repair on South Avenue A and
consideration of approval of
bills not previously presented.
The city council meets at 8
p m at the Library Building
TO BE SOLD by the Ingleside Lions Club is this paint -
mg donated by Mae Gilpin, pictured. The sale of the
painting “Is part of a huge Lions Club rummage sale
which will be held June 20 and 21 at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. Rueff, 211 First Street. The painting is on
display at the First National Bank of Ingleside. Per-
sons who wish to donate articles for the rummage
sale may do so by call the Rueffs at 776-7711.
Two Shootings Send Three
Local Men To Hospital
Two men were in fair
condition in Memorial Medical
Center Wednesday yarning
after a shooting wliiclvfollowed
a fight in an InglesidVllfltf'
Juan Rodriguez, 25, was shot
once in each knee and Paul
Perez, 21, was shot in one knee
Chief of Police Rudy Villa said
the two men had been in an
argument with a third man,
David Clinton Hatton, in the
bar
Villa said Hatton later
stopped the car Perez and
Rodriguez were in and the two
were shot as they got out of the
car Hatton has been charged
by police with assault with a
deadly weapon
Hatton was arrested by Mike
Kinstley, police officer, who
Villa said attempted to stop
Hatton in Ingleside and chased
him at high speeds to the
intersections of Highways 35
and 361 where Hatton’s car was
stopped with the assistance of
Gregory Chief of Police
Leonard Schmidt.
Charges of carrying a pistol in
a place where alcoholic beve-
rages are sold, a felony, were
made against Joe Manual
Gonzales following an incident
in a bar Friday night
Gonzales was arrested by
police after an argument in the
bar led to his discharging the
pistol and hitting Jessie
Gonzales, a by slander, in the
left hand Jessie Gonzales was
taken to Memorial Medical
Center
Other criminal cases on the
police docket last week included
three cases of simple assault
and one of drunkenness.
On the traffic docket were 11
cases of speeding, one each of
no drivers license, running stop
sign, and illegal use of
emergency red lights.
CHEHI LEIGH JEHNIGAN (C) was named Ingleside Round-Up Princess at the Ingle-
side Round-Up beauty contest Saturday afternoon following a day of activities which
made up the first annual event sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. Receiving
the second place trophy was Cheryle Lynn Lowery (R) sponsored by V.F.W. Post
6386 and Ladies Auxiliary. Third place was awarded to Pam Adams (L) sponsored
by Bill’s Auto Parts. Miss Jemigan was sponsored by the Jemigan Family.
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