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V
RIO GRANDE
TPA Award Winning Newspaper
Ten Cents
Vol. XXXIII
No. 37
Thursday, June 26, 1975
Rio Grande City, Texas
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NEW HERALD EDITOR-Rene Rodriguez of Elsa has been named the new editor and
general manager of the Rio Grande Herald. Rodriguez, a staff member of the Edinburg
Daily Review takes over this Thursday from Lloyd Van Nest, who resigned Wednesday.
Rodriguez is well qualified to provide the Herald with impartial, full reporting. While at-
tending Pan American University, Rodriguez worked parttime in makeup or composition
for the Monitor before moving to the Daily Review to become a general staff reporter and
editor of the Hidalgo County News. He has covered all facets of community life in the Delta
arid Edinburg area. A four year Air Eorce Veteran with a torn- in Vietnam, Rodriguez is
presently commander of the Elsa-Edcouch Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 7473. He is 27
and unmarried. At the completion of his present enrollment at PAU in summer classes in
two we he will move to Rio Grande City. For the next two weeks, he will commute and be
available each afternoon at the Rio Grande Herald offices i Herald Photo)
Duval County
Tax Collector Moves To Collect Taxes
SAN DIEGO - Coastal States
Gas Producing Co. and Lo Vaca
Gathering Co. owe Duval
County more than $143,000 in
back taxes, county tax office
employes said Friday.
Coastal States owes $76,134.23
for the years 1965, 1968, 1970,
1972 and 1973. 'Hie amount does
not include penalty and in-
terest.
\j& Vaca, a subsidiary of
Coastal States, owes $67,647.17
for the years 1965, 1966, 1968,
and 1973. This figure also does
not include penalty and interest
for both the state and the
county.
Other delinquent tax notices
being compiled by the tax office
include Mrs. Lilian Parr Moffitt
who allegedly owes $30,152.08
dating from 1949 through 1974,
not including penalty and in-
terest; Dist. Judge O. P.
Carrillo, former County Judge
Archer Parr, Duval County Tax
Assessor-Collector Luz Oliveira
and "other county officials,"
according to Mrs. Rebecca
Garcia and Fernando A.
Caballero, both deputy tax
collectors.
The final delinquent tax bills
whicTi are expected to be
compiled "within the next few
days" will include the penalty
and interest charges.
Non-payment of delinquent
taxes by many county officials
and large ranches has become
the center of interest in the past
several weeks as a result of the
current controversy
surrounding back taxes of
$311,126.76 allegedly owed by
See Taxes, Page 16
Carrasco Widow
Believed Dead
Texas Rangers and San An-
tonio police have recovered two
cars which they say belonged to
Rosa Carrasco, widow of the
late San Antonio drug kingpin
Fred Gomel. Carrasco. And
Ranger C'apt. John Wood says
he has information indicating
Mrs. Carrasco may have been
killed in March while running a
roadblock in Mexico.
Mrs. Carrasco had been
sought since last August when
her husband died in a hail of
gunfire during an escape break
from state prison in Huntsville.
Wood said Rangers found a
car two weeks ago belonging to
Mrs. Carrasco on the South
Texas ranch of Duval County
Judge Archer Parr where it had
been placed in storage by
Robert L. Forche with Parr's
permission. The car was a Ford
Galaxie assembled in Mexico
and modified to make it look
like a Continental, investigators
said.
In San Antonio, police found a
1974 Thunderbird believed to be
Mrs. Carrasco's last week when
the lease expired on a storage
garage where the car had been
kept since last July, shortly
before Carrasco's holdout siege
in the Huntsville prison.
Police said the lease was
signed by Jose A. Carrasco,
Rosa's father-in-law; the car
was registered to James Gil-
lespie, a San Antonio lawyer
who, in the past, has represent-
ed Carrasco and Parr
Wood said while he did not
have documented evidence of
Mrs. Carrasco s death, he nad
received information as late as
Monday that she, another wom-
an and two men had been killed
when they tried to overrun a
checkpoint in Mexico.
Articles in the Galaxie — in-
cluding a booklet of "wanted
information" on Carrasco and
his associates — were taken to
the Texas Department of Public
Safety laboratory in Austin for
examination, authorities said.
Forehe, now chief in-
vestigative assistant to Dist.
Atty. Arnulfo Guerra in Duval
County, was an investigator last
year for Gillespie, to whom the
second car was registered.
Forche reportedly tried to
change the title of the car from
the name of Rosario Gomez de
Marquez, a name used by Mrs.
Carrasco, to that of the South-
ern Calvary Christian Church.
But he could not provide the
original Mexican title and a
street address for the new own-
er and the transfer was re-
jected.
Forche, who claimed to be an
ordained minister, is a former
police chief at Mission in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley and
at Baytown.
Accompanying the Mexican
registration in the title appli-
cation was a note which stated
that Mrs. Carrasco Marquez
was donating the car to the
Southern Calvary Christian
Church It was signed by Ro-
sario Gomez de Marquez and
witnessed by Robert Forche.
Shortly after the car was
bought in Mexico, Carrasco and
10 others were arrested with
what police said was $20 million
worth of cocaine and heroin.
Carrasco escaped from
prison in October 1972 and was
recaptured July 22, 1973, when
he was wounded in a shootout at
a motel in San Antonio. His wife
was arrested at the same time
Charges against Mrs. Car-
rasco were dropped later and
she apparently remained in
Corpus Christi until January
■ 974 hen her husband pleaded
guilty to assault with intent to
murder and was sentenced to
iife in prison.
Months later he and another
inm, e were shot as they tried
to > cape from prison sur-
roi • ed by a group of hostages.
Tv.o hostages also died.
jury Selection
In Parr Case
HEBBRONVILLE, Tex.
Lawyers in the ouster trial of
suspended Duval County Judge
Archer Parr were to begin jury
selection today, a process which
has been delayed by three
change of venue motions since
the trial began.
Former Governor Is Near Death
SAN ANGEI/). Tex.
Former Texas Gov. Coke Ste-
venson, who once fought his
way to within 87 votes of a U.S.
Senate seat, is fighting for his
life at Shannon West Texas Me-
morial Hospital.
Early today a hospital
spokesman said Stevenson, 88,
was listed in "very poor condi-
tion" in the intensive care unit.
Stevenson, who served as
governor in 1941-47, was
brought here June 14 from his
ranch near Junction after he
began hemorrhaging the day
before.
He underwent two operations
June 15 and has received trans-
fusions of U pints of blood since
then.
They say he's slipping," a
family member said late Tues-
day.
In 1948 Stevenson ran against
then U.S. Rep. Lyndon B. John-
son for senator. Johnson won
the election by 87 votes out of a
total of about one million, lead-
ing some critics to nickname
him "landslide Lyndon."
The 87-vote victory came
after officials at Precinct 13 in
Jim Wells County at Alice re-
ported they had made a 200-vote
mistake in their original totals
reported to the Texas Election
Bureau.
There were investigations
and court hearings before John-
son was declared the winner.
Only 15 years later, on Nov. 22,
1963, Johnson became president
after John F. Kennedy was as-
sassinated in Dallas.
Mrs. Stevenson, Coke Steven-
son Jr., son of the former gov-
ernor who ran the Texas Liquor
Control Board for many years,
and other relatives are keeping
vigil at the hospital here.
Mrs. Stevenson said her hus-
band wanted to be shaved and
inquired about when he could
leave the hospital less than 24
hours after the two operations.
T. Kellis Dibrell, a San An-
tonio lawyer and close friend of
the former governor, said Ste-
venson wanted to know about
the outcome of a lawsuit not
long after the surgery.
His mind was as sharp as
ever," Dibrell said.
"He's been asking about the
stock market, the price of the
British pound sterling and other
matters of interest to him,"
Mrs. Stevenson said.
Steventon apparently is in
considerable pain most of the
time, members of the family
said.
"The other night he cried out
in pain and said, Oh, I might as
well say the Star Spangled
Banner. O, say can you see,'
and he said it all," Mrs Ste-
venson related
"At times when he was
dreaming or something, he
even made some good jury
speeches," Mrs. Stevenson
added
Doctors have told members of
the family that Stevenson's
kidneys and liver have stopped
functioning
But he still has a firm hand
shake," said a friend.
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Van Nest, Lloyd A. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 26, 1975, newspaper, June 26, 1975; Rio Grande City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194514/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.