The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 23, 1976 Page: 3 of 16
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Editorial...
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PLANS AT A CITY COUNCIL
MEETING. This topic has been
put on the agenda of the July 6
city council meeting, to be held
at 7:30p.m. at the city hall. Also
on the agenda for that date is
planner Bill Telford, with
Groves and Associates of San
Antonio, who will present a plan
and approach and possible
funding for the project.
3. DISCUSS POSSIBLE
FUNDING RESOURCES Hoi
guin said that citizen contribu-
tions or pledges would carry the
most weight with council
members, in order to prove
community interest. Another
possibility is to obtain state or
federal assistance. According to
new Parks and Wildlife regula-
tions, matching State funds
cannot be used for Land
purchase, but they can possibly
be obtained for improvements
on the property. Tax sources,
such as bond funds, may also be
a source of revenue. Another
possibility is to charge usage
fees for the facility, but this
would defeat the purpose of a
free public beach.
4. CHOOSE AN AREA TO BE
DEVELOPED. Both presently
From The Progress Files
Ten Years Ago
BANK NAMES ADVISORY DIRECTORS
Two attorneys have been appointed advisory directors of The
First State Bank of Aransas Pass, according to announcement by
L.V. Elliott, executive vice-president. They are Tom Andrews of
Aransas Pass and John Peace of Port Aransas and San Antonio.
BLUNT INSTALLED PRESIDENT ARANSAS PASS ROTARY
CLUB
A.C. Blunt, high school principal, assumed the duties of
president of the Aransas Pass Rotary Club Monday following
installation ceremonies at the club’s regular luncheon - meeting
in the Rattan Room at Little Bob’s Restaurant. He succeeds
Robert Moore as head of the local civic club.
MISS WILLIAMS AND BOBBY JOHNSON ARE MARRIED IN
RUNGE JUNE 11
Miss Vivian Williams and Bobby Ray Johnson were married
June 11 in the First Baptist Church in Runge.
DEVELOPMENT TO START SOON ON WEST SIDE
SUBDIVISION
Development of a new subdivision in the western portion of
Aransas Pass is scheduled to get underway in July, according to
announcement by Bruce Albers and John A. Harding, developers.
The proposed subdivision, which has been named Whispering
Palms, is situated west of Thirteenth Street and along Wilson and
Goodnight avenues.
Fifteen Years Ago
PUBLISHER ATTENDS TPA CONVENTION
Progress Publisher J.G. Richards and Mrs. Richards
attended the 82nd annual convention of the Texas Press
Association held June 22-24 at the Baker Hotel in Dallas. More
than four hundred persons registered for the meeting of daily and
weekly newspaper publishers.
TWO LOCAL GIRLS TO STUDY, VACATION IN OLD MEXICO
Sherry Bailey and Gail Griffith will leave July 1 for four
weeks of study and vacation in Mexico.
MRS. NEWBURY TO CONVENTION
Mrs. Maye Newbury attended the seventh annual Convention
of the Texas School Food Service Association held in Corpus
Christi last week Mrs. Roberta Tiner of Ingleside accompanied
Mrs. Newbury.
TWO ’61 GRADS JOIN ARMY
Billy L Humphreys and Robert L. McCormick have joined
the U S. Army, according to Master Sgt. Charles R. Grona, local
Army area recruiter.
McDONELL HEADS MASONIC LODGE
B.A McDonell was installed as worshipful master of Aransas
Lodge No. 1018 A.F & A M Saturday night at the Masonic Hall in
an open ceremony. Clifford A Kinkade was installing officer and
W M Mitchell of San Antonio was installing marshal.
LAST WEEKEND BEST OF YEAR FOR TOURISTS
Tourist travel hit the peak of its young season last weekend in
the Aransas Pass - Port Aransas area
DIRECTORY
ARANSAS PASS CHAPTER NO. Ml
Stated Meeting. O. E. S.
First and Third Thursday, 8:00 P. M.
Masonic Temple, West Wheeler Ave.
Members are urged to attend. Visitors Cordially Invited
Mrs. Kay Tyler, Worthy Matron Mrs. Helen Moss, Sec.
THE ARANSAS PASS PROGRESS
Largest Wiekly Newspaper In San Patricio County
Serving The Aransas Pass. Ingleside and port aransas
Area Since ibo*.
Published Every Wednesday At Aransas Pass
San Patricio County. Texas 7asss
P. O. Drawer EEE
Entered As Second Class Mail At The Post Office In
Aransas Pass. Texas 7S33*. Under The Act Of Con-
gress Of March s. is7s.
J. G. RICHARDS
DICK RICHARDS
CLARA REID
MARY MOLINA COLE
MARK SCOTT
Publisher
Advertising Manager
Women s News Editor
News Reporter
Plant Foreman
MEMBER -
A S S □ C I AT I O INI
Member Texas Press Association. South Texas Press
Association. National Newspaper Association
NOTICE: Obituaries and poetry are published in this news-
paper at the rate of 5 cents per word. Stories of deaths and
funerals published in time to retain their news value are
not regarded as obituaries. A minimum charge of $3.00 is
made for Cards of Thanks.
Any erroneous statement regarding corporations, firms
or individuals will be gladly corrected when called to the
publisher’s attention.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
San Patricio County, also cities of Port
Aransas and Rockport ................................ $7.00 per year
6 months ................ $3.75
Outside of the above named area ... ... $9.00 per year
6 months______________________________________ $4.75
, , 15 cent? by the single copy
(All newspaper prices subject to 5% Sales Tax)
owned city property, and
private property which would
be available for city purchase,
could be considered. Some
areas which have been sug-
gested include Ransom Island,
spots to the right passed the
Dale Miller Bridge on the route
to Port Aransas, and the area
behind the Memorial Tower.
5 FOLLOW THROUGH TO
REALIZATION. If citizens are
interested, they should appear
at the city council meeting
Tuesday, July 6, to voice their
support Letters to the Editor
addressed to the Progress may
be published if signed.
Development of a beach for a
swimming and picnic area
would not only benefit hundreds
of Aransas Pass and area
citizens almost year-round, but
would also help in attracting
tourists to our town and
businesses Let your opinions be
known.
Land Sale...
Cont’d from P-1
corner of the main street, which
was 120 feet wide and valued at
$100,000. The second prizes
consisted of 10 “modern”
cottages, which had been built
by promoters especially for the
occasion. The third prizes were
1,000 farming tracts, ranging in
size from five to 40 acres each,
directly surrounding Aransas
Pass.
The sales started off slowly.
In the first three months of the
sale, only about 15 contracts
were put on the books Then it
began to take hold and people
were standing in line to buy, so
that in the coming three
months, a total of 9,000
applications were received at
the Aransas Pass office of
Burton and Danforth, and they
found it necessary to return
3,000. \
“The chances were selling
like hotcakes,” Vernor wrote,
“and that increased our
printing of newspapers, and at
certain times we ran out of
newsprint paper. It was seldom
that we printed less than 5,000
copies in any one week...”
J.G. Richards, present pub-
lisher of the Progress, made the
comment that this was larger
than the present circulation of
the newspaper.
“The sale of the land was
called an "auction” and
“distribution” when dealing
with the government, and
careful measures were taken to
give it the appearance of
legality.
Purchasers were told: “You
can bid more than $100 at the
distribution if you so desire, but
you will find that all other
buyers have agreed that they
will bid no more than $100, and
there will be in the place of the
distribution, nooses hanging
down from the ceiling in the
front and in the rear of the
building, and on the noose will
be a warning as follows: "This
is for the man who overbids'";
When time arrived for the
“distribution”, Powers went to
San Antonio and rented a
former circus tent (which
appears m a picture with this
article), and folding chairs that
would seat 3,000 people While in
San Antonio, Col Powers made
a visit to the heavy brass at Fort
Sam Houston, and managed to
borrow the services of the entire
Third Field Artillery Band
which contained more than 50
pieces During the entire ten
days of the auction, all of their
expenses were paid by the tax
payers.
Special trains brought buyers
from Kansas City, Wichita, Fort
Worth, Houston and other cities
Col. Powers took the speaker
stand on the day of the
“distribution". With his left
hand he drew out the name of
certificate holder Gandy of
Oklahoma, and with his right
hand, he drew a card containing
a certain parcel of property.
Gandy promptly bid the agreed
amount of $100, and no further
bids were made, so Gandy
received the deed. The sales
continued smoothly in this
manner all the first day.
The second day of sales. Col.
Powers was interruped by one
of the inspectors for the Post
Office Department who ordered
him to stop the sale and said,
"You are not making these
people bid over $100, and ii is:
I
therefore, not an auction sale,
but a lottery!"
Col. Powers, always ready to
cope with any emergency,
invited the inspector to come
to the platform and see if he
could gef the people to bid more
than $100. No one would do so.
Three inspectors then went
into a huddle and managed to
buy several certificates so they
Could participate in the distri-
bution The next day, when a
very choice piece of property
came up, the inspector de-
manded that Col. Powers again
stop the sale and let the
inspector see what he could do
One of the other inspectors, who
was now also a cerfificate
holder and entitled to make a
bid, raised the bid to $250 or
$300.
In Vernor’s words. "Pande
monium broke loose!" Certifi-
cate holders refused to sit idly
by and see these Post Office
inspectors clip off the valuable
properties at lower prices than
they were really worth, and
they also began to make higher
bids The result was that the
bidding went w ild and exceeded
the original figure of $600,000 by
$203,600. After the distribution
was over, a committee was
appointed to receive this money
and send bagk to each
certificate holder his part of the
surplus, which amounted to
more than $30 each
The government had won its
point, and so Aransas Pass was
the last town in the United
S\
The PROGRESS—Aransas Pass, Texas
PAGE THREE — WEDNESDAY. JUNE tt. 1*7*
States to hold a "certificate
plan" sale, or according to the
US. Post Office Department,
an illegal land lottery.
(Next week the Progress will
print the details of Vernor’s
election as the city’s first
mayor, tell how the city
government first became or-
ganized, and give Vernor’s
ideas about why Aransas Pass
was passed over as the major
port on the coast.)
Council...
Cont’d from P-1
that the ordinance stated that
no alcoholic beverages could be
sold in Roosevelt Stadium
except when special permission
was granted by the council, and
Yeager confirmed this. Council-
man Buckmaster objected to
the granting of special per-
mission because baseball
games would be involved.
Naranjo replied that anyone
showing disruptive behavior
would be immediately ejected
from the stadium, and that no
beer would be allowed on the
field or in the dugouts.
Turnbough noted that special
permission was granted during
Shrimporee celebrations and
suggested that LULAC hire an
off-duty policeman in uniform
to help with crowd control.
Naranjo agreed, and the council
approved the motion.
City manager Al Holguin then
read a notice that there would
be no significant environmental
effects caused by sewer
improvements on Maddox
Street between the harbor
seawall and Houston Street.
This project is designed to
correct a flooding problem, and
the city intends to request HUD
to release funds for this project.
The Environmental Review
Record may be examined and
comments submitted on this
project until July 16. 1976
During reports of officers.
Mayor Attaway told that while
at the National Association of
Regional Councils in Florida, he
learned of funds which will
possibly be available for dredge
work in Conn Brown Harbor.
Councilmen discussed areas
needing dredging, and the
necessity of building up the land
on urban renewal property
which Attaway described as
now being a breeding grounds
for mosquitos Holguin added
that the point near the
Memorial Tower was wearing
away and needed to be rebuilt
and bulkheaded.
In final business, members
were reminded of the Chamber
of Commerce celebration in
Kingsville this weekend. Atta-
way said he and his wife would
attend.
STORE MANAGER’S
DEPARTMENT STORE AND CHILDREN S SHOP
IN THE HEART OF ARANSAS PASS
3ale
SPECIAL GROUP!
LADIES
HANDBAGS
ASSORTED STYLES
MANY COLORS
VALUES FROM
$2.00 TO $4.00
REDUCED-SPECIAL RACK
LADIES WRANGLER
AND JANE COLBY
SPORTSWEAR
JACKETS, PANTS, BLOUSES,
KNIT TOPS, ETC.
MANY TO CHOOSE FROM.
SORRY NOT ALL SIZES AVAILABLE
IN EVERY STYLE.
LADIES
KNIT TOPS
SIZES S-M-L
MANY COLORS
AND STYLES
SLEEVELESS AND
SHORT SLEEVE
QUILTED
BEDSPREADS
TWIN AND FULL SIZE
ASSORTED PRINTS
LIMITED SUPPLY
SPECIAL
CLEARANCE
MEN'S PANTS
ASSORTED STYLES
AND COLORS
SORRY NOT ALL
SIZES AVAILABLE
IN EVERY STYLE
VALUES TO $8.99
BOYS
KNIT
SHIRTS
SIZES 8 TO 18
ASSORTED COLORS
VALUES TO $2.97
BATH TOWELS
SOLIDS - STRIPES - PRMTS
RE6. $1.49
5 PC
BATHROOM SET
• 18" x 30" RUG
100% POLYESTER
• 18" x 22" CONTOUR
RUG LID COVER
• TANK TOP
• TANK COVER
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LADIES
THONG
SANDALS
ASSORTED COLORS
SIZES 5 TO 10
RECULAR $3.98
CLEARANCE
MENS
LEISURE
SUITS
SIZES S-M-L
ASSORTED STYLES
AND COLORS
LIMITED SUPPLY
$25.00
PREFOLDED
SOFT CARE
DIAPERS
BY CUR ITT j
PREFERRED BIRDEYE 1
SUGGESTED RETAIL $4.99
BOYS'
INFANT
SHORTALLS
BOYS SHORTALLS WITH £
MATCHING SHIRTS. 9
SIZE 12 MO. TO 24 MO.
IF PERFECT, SELL FOR $5.99
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The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 23, 1976, newspaper, June 23, 1976; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth996921/m1/3/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.