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SCHOOLS
OPEN ® !li
DRIVE CAREFULLY (-
Police Department
Dogs are becoming a big
problem in Ingleside according
to the chief of police who says
reports of dogs attacking and
killing poultry and over turning
trash cans are coming in more
and more frequently.
Just this past week, said Chief
Rudy Villa, there were 15 dog
Summer Reading
Program Ends
Here Friday
Presentation o! certificates
and a special puppet show will
end the summer reading
program at the Ingleside Public
Library Friday, August 23, at
2:30 p m
Certificates will be presented
to all children who participated
in the program and a special
puppet performance of "Jack
and the Bean Stalk” will be
held All elementary school
children are especially invited
to attend.
The week following the
closing of the summer reading
program the fall program will
begin A story time for
pre school children will be held
each Friday at 2:30 p.m.
throughout the fall
Glendy Huene, San Patricio
County children’s librarian,
urges all parents to takfe their
children to the story hour
calls. Villa said 19 turkeys had
been killed at one house. He said
the problem is the worse in the
areas inside the city limits but
in the outer regions of the city,
such as Morgan Lane
Villa said dogs are running in
packs because they are hungry.
The main problem he said is
that people are not feeding their
dogs In addition he said dogs
are being dumped in the
outlaying areas of the city and
these dogs either kill poultry
and small animals for food or
knock over trash cansdn their
search for food
The Humane Society from
Corpus Christi will be in
Ingleside sometime this week to
check on the situation and to
advise Villa on what can be
done to control the situation
Villa said he had called the
Society and asked its help
News Brief . . .
A song, ‘‘Every Night ”,
written by Otis R White of
Ingleside is being considered
MUSTANG TWIRLERS for the 1974-75 school season are (Kneeling L-R) Melissa
Dobbs, Doris Wallace (Standing L-R) Cindy Doreck and Mary Beth Rhule. Miss
Rhule is head twirler and Miss Wallace is feature twirler.
Sewer Improvement Grant
On City Council Agenda
Ingleside city officials will be
meeting with engineers and
representatives of the Texas
Water Quality Board tonight to
go over the city 's application for
a federal grant for sewer im-
provements.
The application to the
Environmental Protection A-
gency (EPA) is for a grant of
$610,000 which may be used
either for improvements to the
city’s sewer system or can be
used as the city’s share of the
cost of participation in the
Eastern San Patricio County
Regional Sewer System
f , . Paul Kutchinski, regional
for commercial recording and djrector of |he Texas Wa(er
national release according to
Columbine Records of Holly-
wood, Calif.
The song if accepted will be that” the"ci'ty” exer't
released in an album entitled
"The Now Sounds of Today ”
Quality Board, has urged the
city to submit the application to
the EPA as soon as possible and
as much
pressure as possible on its
congressmen urging them to act
in favor of the grant
Mrs. Dorothy Taylor, city
secretary, in a report to the city
council at its meeting last week,
said that Ingleside is high on the
priority list of cities that need
funding for improvements to its
sewer system.
She said Kutchinski said the
city should go ahead and apply
for the grant so that in case the
regional sewer system is not
approved the city can go ahead
with improvements on its own
system.
If the EPA authorizes the
grant and the regional sewer
system becomes a reality then
the grant can be used to pay the
city’s share of the cost of the
system
Mrs. Taylor said the city is
high on the priority list because
it like other cities in the area
are operating their sewer plants
at almost full capacity.
Construction of the surge tank
addition to the Ingleside sewer
plant, said Mrs. Taylor,
alleviated the situation but has
not corrected it The grant will
make possible the improve-
ments needed.
The grant application will
first go to the Texas Water
Quality Board and the Board
will send it on to the EPA along
with its recommendations.
Also on the agenda for the
meeting tonight is consideration
of adoption of Resolution No.
155, a preliminary project
schedule for the construction of
a wastewater treatment plant
The public hearing on the
city’s proposed budget for the
fiscal year of 1974-75 will be held
part of the agenda.
Garden Club
Friendship Coffee
An executive board meeting
of the Ingleside Garden Club
was held August 16 in the home
of Mrs Earl Jennings
Plans were formulated for the
annual ‘‘Friendship Coffee”
which will be held August 22 in
the home of Mrs M.N. Curtin,
Bayshore Drive, Ingleside on
the Bay
Mrs Jennings served coffee
and cake to ten members who
were present Friday morning.
Other items on the agenda are
consideration of adopting the
annual budget, consideration of
adoption of Ordinance No. 270
setting the time and manner of
paying taxes, consideration of
adopting Ordinance No. 271
levying the taxes, and conside-
ration of approval of appoint-
r.ivi.ts to the Housing Authority.
The meeting begins at 8 p.m
at the Community Building.
Participation in the national
school lunch program and
breakfast program has been
approved by the Ingleside
Independent School District
The school district for the first
time will be offering reduced
price breakfasts and >unches
Previously the district had
been offering free breakfast and
free lunches. The new program
sets income guidelines for
parents who would like to have
their children receive their
meals free at the schools and
those who would like to pay
reduced prices on the lunches
On the breakfast program,
Mircovich, said that for a
regular priced meal the state
will reimburse the district 8.7
cents for each meal sold at the
regular price, 25.25 cents for a
meal sold at a reduced price,
and 30 cents for a meal given
free
On the lunch program the
school district already receives
an 11 cent reimbursement from
the state for each Class A meal
served Under the free and
reduced lunch program, the
district would be reimbursed
39 5 cents for each reduced
price meal sold, at a price of 20
cents to the student, and 49.5
cents would be received from
the state for each free meal
served. This would be in
addition to the 11 cents
reimbursement for serving the
Class A meal.
Mircovich said he had talked
For New County Annex
AP City Council Endorses
Bank Offer of Building
The Aransas Pass city council
Monday night voted to support a
proposal by the president of the
First State Bank of Aransas
Pass to the County Commis-
sioners Court offering the old
bank building for a county
annex
Jim Powell, president of the
bank, made the offer to San
Patricio County Commissioners
Court Thursday. Powell told the
commissioners the building
would be sold to them for
$50,(MX) although the appraised
value is $85,000 He pointed out
that the county could save a
large sum of money by locating
the annex, now slated to be built
in Ingleside, in the bank
building
Discussion over the annex has
been going on for some time and
last month commissioners had
decided to abandon the idea of
constructing an annex and
instead build a health clinic in
Ingleside
Protests from Ingleside city
officials led the county commis-
sioners to reconsider and two
weeks later the annex was
approve^.to be constructed at
WE INVITE . . .
We invite to be our guests at
the picture, "Summer of 42”,
showing Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday, August 25, 26, and 27
at the Rialto Theatre, Mrs.
Richard Smith and guest.
This notice, clipped from The
Index, will serve as your
admission.
Faith Park in Ingleside on land
purchased by the county for
that purpose.
It was estimated the annex in
Ingleside will cost about
$300,000.
Aransas Pass city council-
man J.T. Marshall Monday
night raised the proposal to
See “ANNEX” pg. 4
LEADING THE CHEERING SECTION for the High School Mustang football team
during the 1974-75 season will be (Kneeling L-R) Dee Dee Salinas, Peggy Smith,
Willa Mircovich, (Standing) Darcy Ehmann and Paula Andrews standing behind
Miss Ehmann. The Mustangs will play their first game of the season against Taft
The Mustangs opened the season last year by defeating Taft 34t-14
Schools To Participate
In New Lunch Program
over several plans with Mrs.
Roberta Tiner, cafeteria super-
visor, and they both recom-
mended using the combined
free and reduced price meal
plan because it will increase
participation of students there-
by allowing the cafeteria to
serve a better meal at a lower
price.
Increased number of students
participating in the cafeteria
program would mean that the
district could save money on
volume purchasing of food
items.
Mircovich said anticipated
prices for lunches will be 40
cents for children in kinder-
garten through fourth grade, 50
cents for children fifth grade
through 12, and 60 cents for
adults.
Mircovich also said the
district will open a breakfast
program at the high school
sometime this year.
All parents of Ingleside school
children will receive next week
a copy of the requirements for
participating in the free and
reduced lunch program
The school board Tuesday
night also approved an increase
in the pay of substitute teachers
from $15 a day to $18 a day
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INGLESIDE MOTORISTS will have to become accustomed to stopping and wait-
ing for a green light where they used to stop for a four-way stop at the inter-
section of FM 1069 and Highway 361. The Texas Highway Department began the
work to install the lights Monday and Tuesday morning began installing the lights
themselves. Two lights will control traffic from each direction at the intersection,
making a total of eight light faces which will be installed.
Vol XXIV No 29
Safe Driving Urged
As School Begins
Ingleside children will go
back to school Monday and the
Police Department is asking the
cooperation of motorists in
assuring the safety of youngs-
ters as they begin the school
year.
Chief of Police Rudy Villa
reminds motorists that the
speed limit in school zones is 15
miles an hour. He said a
patrolman will patrol the
schools at all times of the day
and traffic regulations will be
enforced.
The radar unit, he said, will
be used in the school zones to
assure that speed limits will be
observed.
Villa has also called for
volunteers to aid the children to
cross FM 1069 in that school
zone. Villa said the hours would
be from 7:30 to 8:30 a m and in
the afternoon from 2:30 to 4
p m Any adult who would like
to volunteer his services should
call the police department at
776-2531.
Last year three children were
hurt in the school areas said
Villa and he would like to keep
such accidents from happening
and asks that all motorists
cooperate to make it a safe
school year
Dog Packs Worry
INGLESIDE INDEX
Serving: Ingleside, growing industrial complex of the Coastal Bend
Ingleside, Sen Patricio County, Texas 78362 - THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1974
School Board Okays
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Tax Rate Decrease
Ingleside taxpayers will be
paying less in school taxes this
year as a result of a move
Tuesday night by the Ingleside
Independent School District
which decreased the tax rate by
ten cents.
The school board meeting in a
special session called for the
purpose of a public hearing on
the 1974-75 school budget set the
tax rate at $1 50 per $100
valuation down from the $1.60
tax rate used for the 1973-74
year.
Gilbert Mircovich, super-
intendent of schools, told the
board that the school district
will drop about $38,000 in
revenue with the decreased tax
rate this year but that next year
increased industrial growth in
the district will add between $8
million and $10 million dollars
to the existing $38 million tax
base for the district thus
increasing its revenue.
The school district, said
Mircovich, would not consider a
lower tax rate this year if it felt
that it would have to be
increased again next year
Maurice Priday, president of
the school board, said the
taxpayers need some relief but
that he feels they would
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understand if the school district
would have to go up on the tax
rate next year. "We’ve scrimp-
ed for a long time and I think
people will understand if we
were to go back up on taxes.
There is an urgent need in the
schools, even if it’s more
teachers,” said Priday.
Mircovich said Rockport
schools had reduced their tax
rate by eight cents per hundred
dollar valuation and that
Aransas Pass was going to try
and keep the same tax rate
despite the added cost this year
of a new high school plant. This
See “TAX RATE” pg. 4
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