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It's Your Chance To Help
ECA Classes To Train Volunteer Ambulance Service
While committees have been formed to
discuss the ambulance service, the hospital,
along the Department of Public Safety are
doing something about it.
An Emergency Care Attendent class is
being conducted at the hospital, beginning
Nov. 9. The class will train students for a
volunteer ambulance service, which could
be in operation by the first of the year.
According to a DPS spokesman and
concerned citizen, there is a laree
possibility that an amubulance will be
donated to the group for use in the program.
Community
Roundup
This service could replace the current
private service, which will end operation,
Jan. 1.
According to Paul Tabor of the Texas
Department of Health, he and partner Jim
Arnold of Harlingen will be in Starr County
at the Starr County Hospital to teach the 40
hour class.
The classes are quite a priviledge for
Starr County. The Health Department
stopped teaching the classes a few years
back, but Tabor said that .he and Arnold
saw such a great need in Starr County that
they decided to teach classes on the ir own.
The class will train the student in basic
and advanced first aid. They will learn how
to manage clogged airways, how to place
splints and how to a remove a victim who .s
trapped in a vechicle, and other techniques.
Textbooks are being ordered for the class,
and Tabor said that they have about 25
people signed up for the course.
An All volunteer ambulance service is not
a new idea, and it currently works well in
many areas of the state.
Tabor, a paramedic, is a volunteer for the
I/js Fresnos volunteer ambulance service.
He said that the service works
"Beautifully" and generally after the call
comes in the ambulance is dispatched three
to five minutes a time that rivals many
private amubulance companies.
He said that the service is subsidized
slightly by Cameron County. Their service,
which transports patients from Los F resnos
to either Brownsville, San Benito or
Harlingen, charges a rate of about $65. per
call, with oxygen and excessive dressings,
costing extra.
He said that most of the volunteer ser-
vices his department licenses work very
well.
Anyone interested in helping with a
volunteer ambulance is urged to attend the
initial meeting, Nov. 9 at 6:30 p.m. in the
hospital cafeteria.
If you would like more information,
contact the DPS office between 8 a.m. and 5
p.m. at 487-5411. All interested citizens are
urged to take part in this life-saving matter
• This Week's
Winner A Lady
The ladies are once again proving the
power of women's intuition. This week's
football contest winner, Maria Yolanda
Garza of Rio Grande City is the only con-
testant to date who has guessed all the
games correctly.
g She is also the second female in a row to
* win the top prize.
Following Garza is second place winner
Vincente Rodriguez who correctly guessed
11 of the winning games. Ernesto Rocha is
the third place winner, choosing 10 of the
winning games, and coming nearest to
correctly guessing the tie breaker scores.
All winners may pick up their checks at
the Rio Grande Herald office.
If you would like to join these winners, it's
simple. Just find the contest on the Out-
.. doors page of the Herald, circle the winning
i games, guess the tie breaker points, and
drop the entry by the Herald office, 114
Britton Ave., before 4 p.m. Friday.
Next week, you might be reading you
name right here.
Desecration Com m it tee
To Meet
The Advisory Committee of the Bilingual
Education Desegregation Support Program
of the Rio Grande City Consolidated In-
' dependent School District will hold their
regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, Oct.
26, 2:30 p.m. at the Bilingual Office.
All committee members are asked to
attend and the public is invited.
Retama Manor
VOL XXXVI
No. 53 Thursday, October 21, 1982
FIFTEEN CENTS
Record Crowd Attends Gements' Openin
Thanks Helpers
Retama Manor Nursing Home would like
to thank the Herald for printing the an-
• N nouncement for the Diabetes Seminar. Dr.
Antonio Falcon, Edna Ramon and Dr.
William Schull were the main speakers.
The Seminar was a success and future
public seminars are being planned.
Taxman \ isils Again
If you have any questions about State
Taxes or need some assistance, circle this
date on your Calendar: Oct. 22.
Comptroller Bob Bullock will have a
^ representative in Rio Grande City on that
date to meet with local taxpayers from 9
a.m. to noon and from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Starr
County Courthouse.
A record crowd attended the opening of
the Bill Clements for Governor Campaign
Headquarters, Oct. 18.
According to Sam Vale, one of the
organizers of the rally, a crowd of over 150
people were in attendance, a number that
was over three times the expected number.
The headquarters, located in the old Casa
De Jeans store in Starr Plaza, was over-
flowing with Starr County officials, con-
cerned citizens and bystanders by 6:30 p.m.
and by the time speakers began the parking
lot surrounding the building was filled with
interested passerbys and invited guests.
After the ribbon was cut, a benediction
was given by Father Agipito Santos, OMI.
Sam Vale introduced the first speaker, Pete
Diaz, Jr., to the crowd. Diaz introduced
Tepita Hinojosa, chairman of Democrats
for Clements and the next speaker, Rick
Montoya the state chairman of the Clements
Hispanic campaign.
"This is a history making election, "said
Montoya. There is so much difference
between Mark White and Biil Clements."
Ruben Sandoval, former general counsel
for LUIAC was next to speak. "It's
beautiful to see so many people." he said.
"This will dispell the lies that the Mark
White campaign is promoting."
There is no such thing as having the
Mexican in the pocket, anymore," he said.
"Don't try to buy us, because we're not for
sale, now or ever."
Also speaking was A.J. Vale of Rio
Grande City, and Jim Richardson, of
Clements office.
Dr. Mario Ramirez, former county judge
of Starr County spoke for Clements. "He
has proven that he is a doer. No other
governor has made a trip to Mexico the first
week in office to improve relations with
Mexico."
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RECORD CROWD RJRNS OUT FOR CLEMENTS
OPENING: - Left. Ruben Sandoval, former general
council for LULAC, told the crowd during the opening
that the Hispanic people's vote could no longer be
bought for a beer and beef party. Center: Ruben
Sandoval, along with State Hispanic Campaign
Director Rick Montoya cut the ribbon while Marco
Garza, A.J. Vale, Sam Vale, Father Agipito Santos,
OMI: Rafael Carrera, Pete Diaz, Jr. and Jim
Richardson of Clements' office in Austin look on.
Right: Pete Diaz, Jr. addresses the crowd in Spanish,
with Sam Vale, Richard Gutierrez and Jim Richardson
in the background. (Herald photo)
County Hospital Subject Of Suit
Starr Students To Learn
First Hand
About Drug Abuse
Starr County students will learn first hand
this week the evils and dangers of drug use
and abuse. A group of inmates from the
Texas Department of corrections will bp in
Starr County the remainder of the week
speaking to students in San Isidro, Roma
and Rio Grande City about the dangers and
consequences of illicit drug use.
The program is being brought to the
county by Sheriff Gene Falcon and the Starr
County Sheriff's Department. Sheriff
Falcon heard of the program a few months
back and has been working out
arrangements to bring the program to the
community, with the help of the community
education program.
The inmates will tell the students their
life stories, from their beginnings of drug
abuse to their life in prison.
The public is invited to all the programs.
The program was presented in San Isidro at
the auditorium, Wednesday.
The inmates will speak to students in
Roma at 8:45 a.m. today in Roma. They will
speak at 1:30 this afternoon to the students
of Rio Grande City High School in their
auditorium and return to the Fort Ringgold
campus Friday morning at 9 to talk to
Ringgold Jr. High students.
Sheriff Falcon urges all interested
parents and citizens to attend any of these
sessions.
Now that the Starr County Memorial
Hospital appears to have temporarily
solved their problem with ambulance
service( they have been faced with another
problem involving their emergency medical
services.
Emergency Medicine Physicians
Associated, a professional association who
provides physicians to staff emergency
rooms in over 20 hospitals statewide is
bringing suit against the hospital.
The group alleges in their suit that a
contract, dated Feb. 11, 1980, in which the
group was hired to provide professional
serv ices for the hospital emergency room,
was violated.
According to the contract the hospital was
to employ the physicians from 5 a.m. each
Saturday to 5 a.m. Monday, at a fee of $25.
per hour. The contract also stated that the
hospital would not employ or contract with
any physicians, doctor or entity for
emergency room coverage for the life of the
contract. The physicians would also work
on special occasions.
According to Dr. C.E. Snyder of Wylie,
Dump Sparks Citizens'
Anger At Court
Tx., spokesman explained tliat the
hospital violated the contract Dec. 2,1981
when the hospital director called him and
said that they would not honor the contract.
Snyder explained that some new-
physicians had moved into the area and
wanted to work in the emergency room on
weekends. When the hospital contacted
him, he was told that the association could
work in the emergency room only on
Christmas and New Year's holidays.
"We were canceled," said Snyder. "Just
put out of the picture."
Snyder told the hospital if they (the
association's physicians) were to work only
on Christmas, then they would not work at
all.
"It was their man who broke the con-
tract," said Snyder," arid he did so with
great impunity."
The suit alleges that the hospital breached
its contract by "not allowing their em-
ployees full access to the emergency
department, allowing physicians other than
the association's employees access to the
emregency department and requiring single
physicians to cover entire weekend period
on an "on call" basis."
The association is asking for damages of
$10,000 in lost revenue, $25,000 in punitive
damages, and "$10,000 in damages to the
physicians." The suit also asked for at-
torney's fees and court casts.
The suit was discussed in executive
session at the last hospital, board meeting.
The board and their attorneys have refused
to comment on the suit, though they will be
filing an answer in the hear future.
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r GUARD DOC ?-The only guard seen at the dump Monday was a lone dog, whose
fierce barks and growls protected the broken loader. (Herald Photo)
A group of angry Rio Grande City
residents were at the Starr County Com-
missioners' Court meeting Oct. 15 to
complain about the conditions at the county
dump.
The residents, who live across the street
and in the vicinity of the dump were com-
plaining about the smell, the scattering of
trash and the vandalism and looting there.
The county has been discussing the
moving of the dump, but has not had the
money to purchase new land for the dump
site.
The dump, located in a residential area
northwest of town is in violation of state law.
Coronado Villarreal, spokesman for the
group, told the commissioners that they
wanted something done now to bring the
dump to state standards, "If I break the
law, I'm going to go to jail," he said. "Why
can the county break the law?"
The commissioners said that a guard did
work at the dump, but the grader, used to
cover the trash is broken and there is no
monev to fix it.
County Judge Blass Chapa said that
chicken wire had been purchased to build a
fence around the dump, and that they would
comply with the law.
Commissioner J.A "Chema" Alvarez
disagreed with the judge. "You're
promising something you caring do," he
said.
Villarreal told the court, "We nave wit-
nessed very little effort on your part," (to
rectify the situation.) "11 we iv< you
license plate numbers, will you do
something?"
The judge promised that they would do
something with the offenders, who dump
trash near the street and not in the holes, but
he did not promise to prosecute.
In other court action, the commissioners
voted to name Javier "Jake M" Margo/Alex
Gabert and Sheriff Gene Falcon to a special
committee to investigate the alternatives to
a private ambulance service.
Chapa said that $40,00u had been ap-
propriated for ambulance subsidies next
year. __
Truck looses
Control
Jose R. Ozuna was traveling east on U.S.
Highway 83 when he applied his brakes in
preparation for making a right turn Ozuna
lost control of the Chevy pick up and skidded
on the wet pavement He collided with the
parked truck of Rogelio Ramirez while the
Ramirez vehicle was parked on private
property.
The accident occured Oct. 10 and was
investigated by Department of Public
Safety officers Froylin Garcia and Mateo
Alvarez.
Officer Ray Munsell reported that during
the past week, DPS officers issued a total of
84 tickets. Driving while intoxicated
citations accounted for 12 of the tickets,
speeding for 15, no drivers license for 10 and
no insurance for 16 of the tickets.
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LIBRARY ORGANIZERS- These seventh grade students of Ringgold Junior High
School were instrumental in founding the Starr County Public Library. Officers of the
club are seated Julia K. Diaz, treasurer; Gina Rivas, assistant secretary; Martha
Perez, secretary; and Priscilla, Gonzalez, president. Standing. Anna Gloria,
reporter; Roni Trevino, assistant treasurer; and Martha Guerrero, vice president.
The girls are distributing jars around town for donations to th« library (Herald
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