The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 3, 1973 Page: 1 of 16
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ARANSAS PASS PROGRESS
Boosting Aransas Pass, Ingleside and Port Aransas Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
VOLUME IS NUMBER St
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PAID AT ARANDAS PADS, TEXAS
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Local United Fnnd Pledges,
Cash Reported at *2,351.50
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"WE CANT DO IT ALONE" — Loren Lee, a kidney
patient, and Tassie Brown, daughter of Mrs. Thelma
Brown, are part of a campaign in Aransas Pass and
throughout the Coastal Bend to start a Texas Coastal
Bend Kidney Foundation to bring help closer to home
for kidney patients in the area. They are selling trick
or treat candy to help finance the foundation. Young-
sters in Ingleside and Corpus Christi as well as the
surrounding area are also doing the same. At this time
the Kidney Foundation in Galveston is the only cen-
ter available to help kidney patients when something
goes wrong. Lee has been using the blood cleansing
machine made available to him through a Kidney Foun-
dation grant 24 hours each week since January. Candy
is being sold through October 15 and anyone wish-
ing to help the drive by purchasing the candy may
call Tassie at 758-2740 or Lee at 758-3383. Candy can
be delivered.
The special gifts division of
the Aransas Pass United Fund
has progressed from a "shotgun
approach via letter three years
ago" to a program of mailing
out two letters to donors of $100
or more during the 1973 drive
under way. As of Monday a
total of $2,351.50 in pledges and
cash toward this year’s goal of
$10,625 had been recorded,
according to Dr. James
Jennings, general fund-raising
chairman.
John Ross, chairman of the
special gifts division for the
third year, said today his group
is sending out two letters. One
letter is for those who gave $100
last year and the second letter is
for those who made "good
contributions and who may
accept an increase this year
when provided with a good
reason."
"By next year,” Ross added,
“we hope to reach the final
stage of three categories-major
donors, special gifts and
general solicitations."
Meanwhile, Edward Moeller,
’73 UF president, urged
business and industrial firms
who have their packets contain-
ing pledge cards for their
employees, to get the cards
distributed "as soon as possible
and have them ready to return
to the volunteer who delivered
the packet."
The UF president reminded
heads of business and industries
that the firms whose employees
contribute 100 percent-regard-
less of the total amount-will be
presented a special certificate
of recognition and a picture of
the presentation will be made
for The Aransas Pass Progress.
“This year’s goal is only two
percent higher than that of 1972
and we feel this is very good
considering the tremendous
increase in practically every-
thing else," Moeller declared.
“We are hoping that Aransas
Pass citizens will contribute
soon and generously so that we
may complete our campaign as
soon as possible."
City Receives
$30,058 Sales Tax
The most recent city sales tax
allocation check from the State
of Texas to the City of Aransas
Pass totaled $30,058.71.
City Manager Gay Walker
said the last sales tax revenue
check was for the quarter
ending June 30, 1973.
Marshall Wins Council Post
J.T. Marshall, manager of
Marshall Funeral Homes in
Aransas Pass and Rockport was
elected to the vacant council
plac* in the city’s special
election last Saturday beating
out three other candidates.
Only 326 citizens went to the poll
to cast their ballot.
Marshall, a native of Aransas
Pass who is probably the
youngest man ever elected to a
place on this city’s council,
received 125 votes to his nearest
opponent, A.J. (Pat) Cren-
shaw’s 97.
R. Joe Yoder, who received 62
votes, and Robert F. Sullivan
with 42, the other two
candidates, ran unsuccessfully
for a council position in the
regular council election last
April.
The winner of last “Saturday's
election took his oath of office at
the regular council session
Monday night after the votes of
the balloting had been officially
canvassed.
Marshall will serve out the
unexpired term of John Tije-
rina, who resigned after moving
from the city. The term-along
with those of all council
members and the mayor-will
expire next April when a city
charter revision passed earlier
this year will require members
of the city governing body to be
elected on staggered terms
rather than all at one time
every two years.
A graduate of Aransas Pass
High School, Marshal) also
graduated from Texas A AI
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THE OATH Or OFFICE as the newly-elected Aransas Pass city councilman, was
administered Monday night to J. T. Marshall center, by City Judge Allen Law-
rence Jr., with City Secretary Ruth Rolls holding the Bible for the swearing-m
ceremony at the regular council meeting. Marshall won the vacant place over
three other contenders last Saturday.
SEEN...
:hildren from 3 to 8 years of
attending the reading hour
i 11 am. to 12 noon
rday at ARANSAS PASS
ILIC LIBRARY .. NAOMI
BO moving to their new
•ess on 11th Street ... a
sin woman honored at a
ting Monday night with a
iday cake that was in-
»ed ”39 and holding’’.. the
POWELLs, J.G. RIC-
IDS', and TOM ANDREWS’
iransas Pass and the JIM
kCEY's of Sinton enjoying a
weekend in Brownsville ...
IT and ROLAND MAN-
G in town Monday making
-hases before opening their
store Saturday in Mathis .
'RD MINTER back from a
to San Saba ..." NANCY
CLARA shopping in
kport Saturday afternoon .
ANNY DALE and RILEY
4GE visiting The Progress
iday afternoon before re-
ling to Ft. Hood . . .
Experimental Shrimp Production
More Than Doubled Harvest Shows
Experimental shrimp pro-
duction in shrimp demonstra-
tion ponds at the Central Power
and Light Company Barney
Davis Power Station in Corpus
Christi has more than doubled
the state's experimental har-
vest record, it has been
revealed by Dr. Jack Parker,
Texas Agricultural Extension
Service mariculture program
coordinator
Dr. Parker said during a
recent preliminary harvest it
was determined that shrimp
could be gathered using the
experimental harvest system in
operation at the project and
added that the first full-scale
harvest of shrimp in the ponds
is planned for October.
Dr. Fred Conte, Corpus
Christi. who is project supervi-
sor and also a mariculture
specialist for the extension
service said: "We took 2.020
pounds of shrimp from the
half-acre pond, which computes
to 4,040 pounds on a per acre
basis This more than doubled
the Texas record of 1,836 pounds
per acre set in a cooperative
project at Angleton last
October "
Based on what the specialists
learned at Angleton, Dr Conte
said they doubled the stocking
ration from 50.000 to 100,000
quarter-inch-long shrimp.
"Our survival at Corpus
Christi was 83 percent com-
pared to 67 percent at
Angleton," he continued "But
our shrimp were slightly
smaller, measuring 63 tails to
the pound as compared to 58
tails to the pound at Angleton."
He said the shrimp, which had
been in a succession of three
ponds for 140 days, were
drained into catch nets through
See ‘’Shrimp” P-6
Council Sets October 27
For $650,000 Bond Election
University and the Dallas
Institute of Mortuary Science.
He is the immediate past-
president of the Aransas Pass
Chamber of Commerce serving
in that office in 1972 when he
was only 24 years of age. He is
currently an ex-officio member
of the Chamber board of
directors.
Marshall also was named
“King Shrimporee” of the 1972
Aransas Pass Shrimporee-an
annual three-day celebration
dedicated to the city’s fishing
industry.
Immediately after taking his
oath of office Monday night,
Marshall took his place as a new
city councilman.
The terms of Mayor J.M.
Attaway, Councilmen Joe
Buckmaster, Ted Brooks and
Bill Howe will also expire in
April at which time the mayor
and two councilmen will be
elected for a full two-year term
and the other two council
members will be chosen for a
one-year term to set the stage
for the future staggered election
situation.
Polling was at City Hall from
7 a m. to 7 p.m. with W.H.
Moore as presiding judge and
Gene Durbin as his assistant.
AP Post Office
Now Setting
Food Stamps
A new service for Aransas
Pass residents receiving state
welfare food stamps became
effective Monday, October 1 at
the U.S. Post Office here,
Myron Ramey, postmaster,
announced.
■ "Our post office has started
handling the sale of food stamps
as an added service and saving
those folks eligible to buy food
stamps from having to go to
Sinton." Ramey explained.
"The food stamps may be
purchased between 10 a.m and
3 p.m. Monday through Fri-
day."
The postmaster said he
anticipates a brisk business in
Aransas Pass “especially the
first few days of each month "
“However," Ramey conti-
nued, “we expect to be able to
handle this added work without
undue interference to our postal
customers and postal custo-
mers will come first."
Ramey said that all persons
planning to buy food stamps at
the local post office must be
sure to have with them their
"Authority to Purchase" card
as well as their welfare identifi-
cation card Otherwise, the
food stamps cannot be sold to
them
A bond election totaling
$650,000-but in three proposi-
tions-was called for Saturday,
October 27 by Aransas Pass city
councilmen in regular session
Monday night.
J.T. Marshall, who won the
vacant council place created by
the resignation of John Tijerina
over three other candidates in a
special election last Saturday,
was administered the oath of
office by City Judge Allen
Lawrence and took ms seat on
the municipal governing board.
The bond election ordinance-
which will be the city's fifth
election this year -calls for the
ballot to be made up for voting
on three separate proposals.
The largest amount involved
in one proposition seeks
approval for the issuance of
$500,000 in general obligation
bonds for street improvements
as previously proposed by a
25-member citizen steering
committee. The streets
, involved would be improved
1 along with extension paving in
some instances and all would
provide new and added access
to the new high school under
construction in the west part of
the city.
A $100,000 revenue bond
proposition would be used for
improvements to the municipal
water system and $50,000 in
revenue bonds would go toward
improvements of the city’s
sewer system.
At the beginning of the
meeting, councilmen canvassed
the results of last Saturday’s
election and officially declared
Marshall as the winner. He was
then immediately given the
Two Local DE
Officers Attend
Padre Session
Two members of the Aransas
Pass High School Distributive
Education program represent-
ed their group at a two-day area
DE leadership conference held
at Braniff Place on Padre
Island, September 29-30,
Attending from Aransas Pass
were Helen Olivarez, president
of the local DE club, and Diane
Smith, secretary.
The purpose of the conference
was said to be to teach officers
“to be leaders with emphasis
placed on the ‘whole’ person
rather than the group or
individual.”
We Invite . . .
We invite to be our guests at
the picture, “Deliverance"
showing Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday, Oct. 7, 8 and 9 at the
Rialto Theatre, Mrs A.B.
Schonhoeft and guest.
This notice, clipped from The
Progress, will serve as your
admission.
oath of office and assumed his
duties to fill out the term which
will expire next April.
After passing the ordinance
which set the bond election, city
fathers passed a resolution
approving the employment of
Wallace Payne of San Antonio
as the city’s fiscal agent for
another year.
Councilmen, after having
tabled for the past four
meetings an ordinandF which
would allow a 10-cent increase
on the basic first one-half mile
for taxi service, passed a
resolution granting the hike. It
was the first increase in taxi
service rates here in 10 years.
A mention by City Manager
Gay Walker at the close of the
regular agenda which lasted
only 45-minutes, that Ralph
Durden, Corpus Christi deve-
loper and builder, had made
application for approval by the
city to cut a hole in the seawall
in the south part of the city
where he tentatively has plans
for development of the 127-acre
Golden Palms tract, turned
briefly into a shouting contest.
While Walker only mentioned
the application had been
received and that the applica-
Cub Scout
Parent Rally
Slated Tonight
A special program on Cub
Scouting in Aransas Pass is
slated in the form of a “Parent
Rally” to be held at 7:305 clock
tonight in the Kieberger
Elementary School cafeteria.
Norman Arnold, neighbor-
hood commissioner for the Cub
Scout program here, said the
program tonight is “very
important."
“Cub Scouting requires the
participation and cooperation of
parents and it is necessary for
parents to help their sons in the
program," Arnold declared.
“Many boys will want to join
and if a parent wishes his son to
become a Cub Scout, he or she
must be in attendance at the
meeting at which time parents
will be given a bird’s eye view of
Cub Scouting.”
The Scout official said the Cub
Scout program of the Boy
Scouts of America is for boys in
the third grade or those eight,
nine or 10 years of age. He said
the activities are slanted
toward the home and are built
around the need and interest of
the boy.
He said trained members of
the Gulf Coast Council, Boy
Scouts of America, will be on
hand to present the program.
Registration fee for Cub Scout
membership is $1 per year.
Arnold urged the parents or
guardians of youths in the Cub
Scout age group to attend the
meeting tonight.
tion would be studied by the
U.S. Corps of Army Engineers,
A.J. (Pat) Crenshaw asked for
recognition.
“I don't want to start any
thing but I just want to ask that
each of you gentlemen (speak-
ing to the council members)
give the proposal for cutting a
hole in the seawall a real good
look,” Crenshaw said. “1 know
that you will because this could
affect a lot of our citizens and I
have every confidence you will
not take any action which would
be bad for the city or our
citizens I know you'll consider
it carefully. Thank you.”
Walker commented that the
city would take no action until a
full study and recommendation
was made by the Corps of
Engineers and added that
“even then, the city will
probably not allow it." His
See "Council" P-3
THIRTEEN YEAN OLD WINNER — Jerry Tyson, Jr.
of Aransas Pass was not hampered by an injured arm
as he won first place in the division for 13 year olds
in the Pass, Punt, and Kick competition Saturday at
Roosevelt Field. Competition was sponsored locally by
Commercial Motors^pmd drew over 100 contestants in
the six age divisions, ages eight through 13. Tyson
along with all other division first place winners will
be competing in Victoria Saturday.
Pass, Punt, Kick Competition
Draws 106 Area Youngsters
Over 100 youngsters partici-
pated in the Pass. Punt, and
Kick competition at Roosevelt
Field Saturday and six of them
will go on to zone competition in
Victoria Saturday.
Boys from Portland, Ingle-
side, Taft, and Rockport. as
well as Aransas Pass registered
for the competition sponsored
locally by Commercial Motors.
All first place winners will go
to Victoria for the zone
competition which will begin at
9 a m. “rain or shine" at Patti
Welder Park
Winners in the division for
eight year olds were: Timothy
Redden of Rockport. first
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RECENT INCLEMENT WEATHER has delayed the schedule of construction on
the new Aransas Pas* High School but work on the initial steel structure this
week was reported going “full speed.’’ Located off Avenue A in the west part of
the city, the new higher education facility is slated for completion by September
1974.
place; Chris Bullard of Aransas
Pass, second place; and Scott
Marek of Aransas Pass, third
place.
Winners in the division for
nine year olds were: Terry
Smith of Ingleside. first place;
Joseph Moreno of Aransas
Pass, second place, and Tracy
Simmons of Aransas Pass, third
place
Winners in the division for 10
year olds were: Leon Gilbert III
of Aransas Pass, first place;
See “Pass, Punt” P-8
HEARD...
. . . REV and MRS WALTER
EASTON JR are moving to
Homer, La. instead of Houma,
La. as quoted in last week’s
paper ... the ARANSAS PASS
STUDENT COUNCIL is now
involved in selling magazine
subscriptions and would appre-
ciate anyone wishing to renew
their subscription to remember
them . . . lots of APHS
PANTHER FANS bemoaning
the forthcoming meeting Fri-
day night with Gregory-
Portland because reports are
out that the top state Class AAA
team is going to be out for blood
remembering the upset by the
Panthers last year . . . SUE
STINSON flew to Dallas last
weekend to visit her parents,
sister and family after receiv-
ing a plane ticket for her
birthday RONALD
YEAGER will speak on
Americanism to Aransas Pass
Woman's Club at the noon
luncheon next Tuesday at Little
Rob’s .. ballots are in the mail
for new directors for LIVE OAK
COUNTRY CLUB ... A Safety
Award Dinner will be held at
Little Bob's Friday night for the
employees of ASHLAND
CHEMICAL COMPANY. . . .
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The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 3, 1973, newspaper, October 3, 1973; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth996798/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.