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Hargrove Wins
First Fight
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Talk Turkey
With Mary
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Dolphins Go
To State
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Thursday
Nov. 24, 1988
Volume 39
Number 42
USPS 264-260
Ingleside, Texas 78362
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COASTAL BEND CABLEVISION donated over 350 cam of food to the
Christian Service Center. The company offered its customer free
installation for a donation of four cans of food. Jamie Mosmeyer, office
manager, turned over the canned goods Monday morning to Juan and
Paula Ortiz, food coordinators, and Elmer Burson (R), president.
Center to begin taking
basket applications
Applications will be taken be-
ginning December 1 by the
Christian Service Center for
Christmas food baskets.
The center will take applica-
tions through December 9.
Those who are approved to re-
ceive a basket will be notiifed
when to pick them up.
Donations of canned goods are
also being accepted for the bas-
kets. Anyone wishing to donate
may take items to the center,
320 W. Cleveland
The center will also accept
toys to be given to needy chil-
dren. Toys should be scaled in
their original package.
Rifle tickets still available
The Ingleside Chamber of Com-
merce still has a few tickets for the
drawing on December 1 for the Marlin
44 calibcy lever action rifle. There
were only a limited number of tickets
printed. The donation is 05 for a
chance to win the rifle. The winner
will not need to be presept. The draw-
ing will be held on December 1 at the
Chamber of Commerce luncheon
meeting._____
Select Committee will consider
joint services recommendations
The Select Committee on Ktiicien-
in Government will meet on Tues-
day, Nov. 29 at 7 p in in the Ingleside
City Mali to make a tinnl c\ aluation of
the Peat Marwick Main and Company
Municipal Services Evaluation Re-
port The initial evaluation from that
company was presented to the com-
mittee several months ago and the
committee made some recommenda-
tions.
The recommendations and revi-
sions have t>ccn incorporated into the
final report and will Ik* scrutinized
carefully at the coming meeting Also
to be discussed at that meetingarethe
several sample contracts now being
used by other Texas cities where joint
services plans have been put into
effect
The Select Committee on Kfficien-
cy in Government was formed out of a
joint decision of the city councils of
Aransas Pass and Ingleside and its
Death claims Alice J. Richards
Mrs. Alice Richards, wife of long-
time Index and Progress publisher,
J.G. “Scoop” Richards, died Monday
folkiwing a short illness
Mrs. Richards was born in Milam
County, Texas on March 17, 1916.
She and Richards, were married in
Aransas Pass in 1936.
From 1936 until 1962 the Richards
lived in Ingleside and in 1962 they
moved to Aransas Pass. Mrs. Richards
was a member of The First Baptist
Church of Aransas Pass.
She was preceded in death by a
daughter, Rebecca Jo.
She is survived by her husband, J. G.
“Scoop” Richards; a son, Richard P
“Dick” Richards of Aransas Pass; a
daughter, Merri R. Easterly of
Houston; four granddaughters, Lyn
Flynn of Dallas, Susan Hoffman of
Houston and Erin Richards and Leslie
Richards, both of Aransas Pass; a
daughter-in-law, Sally Richards of
Aransas Pass; a son-in-law, Dan
Easterly of Houston; two grandsons-
in-law, Scott Flynn of Dallas and Ran-
dy Hoffman of Houston; a sister, Dena
Hewlett of Ingleside; and a brother,
Todd Jordan of Ingleside.
Funeral services will be held at 2
p.m. today at the First Baptist Church
with Rev. Lewis Cowan officiating,
assisted by Rev. Bob Watson. Inter-
ment will follow at
Cemetery.
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Prairie View
In lieu of flowers memorial con-
tributions may be made to the Build-
ing Fund of the First Baptist Church of
Aransas Pass.
Marshall-Kamey Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
members have been appointed by the
respective councils. The purpose of
the committee is to look at the feasibil-
ity ol Ingleside and Aransas Pass shar-
ing some common services or con-
tracting with the county to provide
some of the services that are now
being provided by all three entities
and being duplicated
The committee, at its last meeting,
generally felt that many services
could Ire combined and offer each city
a high rate of savings on the cost of
materials and equipment.
The final study received from Peat
Marwick and Main Company makes
recommendations for integration of
many municipal servics for the Cities
of Ingleside and Aransas Pass. The
services, in the order of magnitude of
their annual operating expenses were
water and sewer, streets, police, fire
and tax departments
Chairman of the Committee San
Patrieo County Commissioner Gor-
don Porter has stressed repeatedly
that it is not the purpose of the com-
mittee to consolidate the cities of Ing-
laside and Aransas Pass but rather to
examine the feasibility of the two
cities cooperatively sharing some of
the expenses of operation that are
common to both cities
Services held for Dr. Kumm
MRS. ALICE RICHARDS SBA OUCtiOII is
set for Dec. 6
Memorial services were held Satur-
day afternoon for Dr. M. Glen Kumm,
61, long-time resident and member of
the Aransas Pass medical community
who died Wednesday, Nov. 16, at his
The chamber is also in the midst of
planning the annual banquet with
Mary Edwards as chairman. The date
has been set for January 14, 1989 at
the Fellowship Hall of Our Lady of
Assumption Catholic Church.
For ticket information and reserva-
tions interested person are invited to
call the Chamber of Commerce office
at 776-2906.
DR. M. GLEN KUMM
residence.
Dr. Kumm was a well-known figure
in Aransas Pass, involved in a number
of community services and in his
practice. He delivered approximately
4500 babies during his 35 year medic-
al career in Aransas Pass.
He began his practice at Aransas
Hospital in 1959 and owned and oper-
ated Gulf Coast Clinic. He was a
founding member of the board of trus-
tees of Coastal Bend Hospital and a
member of the Coastal Bend Hospital
Foundation board.
He was a founding board member of
the local emergency medical services.
He also served on the Urban Renewal
Board.
He was active in district, state, and
national AOA organization, also serv-
ing as a delegate for many years. He
was a member of the founding board of
trustees of the Texas College of
Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Worth.
For 15 years he served as aviation
medical examiner with the FAA.
Dr. Kumm was a native of Missouri,
born on March 8, 1927 in Millard. He
graduated from high school while
serving in the United States Merchant
Marines in San Mateo, California. He
served with the United States Army in
China, the Phillipines, and in the
headquarters of General Douglas
McArthur in Tokyo, Japan from 1945
to 1946.
lie graduated from Kirksville State
University, Missouri in 1950 and did
his graduate work at the University of
Iowa. He received his medical degree
from the Kirksville College of
Osteopathic Medicine and served his
internship in Kirksville from 1958 to
1959
His honorary societies included
Blue Key, Sigma Theta, and Psi Sigma
Alpha. He was awarded the National
Institute of Health research fellow and
medical student research fellow He
belonged to Sigma Tau Gamma and
Theta Psi social fraternities.
Dr. Kumm is survived by his wife,
Marian; two daughters, Patricia
Branch of Aransas Pass and Cheri
Lynn Kumm of Albuquerque, New
Mexico; a son, Denny L. Kumm of
Austin; and a brother, Wayne C.
Kumm of Marchfield, Missouri.
The Small Business Association will
hold a public auction on December 6
on the steps of the Nueves County
Courthouse in Corpus Christi with
several pieces of property in Nueces
County, San Patricio County, Duval
County and Kleberg County.
In San Patricio County the property
is located at 1002 Wheeler and is
formerly known as Carpets Plus and
Interior and legally described as lots
9,10,1 l.and 12 of block 249 in the city
of Aransas Pass
Anyong interested in bidding on
this property or any other properties
in the sale is invited to he present at 10
am on December 6 at the Nueces
County Courthouse.
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We invite
We invite to be our guest at the pic-
ture, “U 2 RATTLE HUM” showing
Nov. 25-Dee. 2 at the Rialto Theatre,
C.L. Garrett and guest.
This notice clipped from The Ing-
leside Index will serve as vour admis-
sion
Douglas Machine Works will be missed
By Wanda Casall
Robert B. Douglas, long time owner and operator of
Douglas Machine Works has retired, dosing the business
he had operated in Aransas Pass since 1947.
Douglas opened his business, which repaired and
manufactured fishing boat equipment on the Aransas
Pass bayfront and in 1951 moved the businessto 1561W.
Wheeler in Aransas Pass where it operated until 1980. In
that year he moved it to its present location at 2307 West
Wheeler and has operated there until his recent retire-
ment and olosing of the busines.
At one time, he had as many as 20 employees, and at the
time of his dosing there were nine employees In the
business. Douglas went into business alone and the busi-
ness expanded, with manufacturing of equipment that
sold locally as well as all over the United States. Just
recently, a shaft bearing was airfreighted to Dutch Har-
bor. Alaska
Douglas grew up on a mid-western farm where he had to
be a mechanic to maintain the farm equipment. In the
1930’s driving a team of mules while working on a high-
way he looked around and said to himself, “This is not for
me, there’s got to be something better.”
He attended the University of Nebraska and graduated
in 1940 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
When Douglas met his wife, Vera, he wanted to make an
impression and he asked her out to dinner. He took her to
a nice restaurant where they enjoyed a fine steak dinner
with the table laid with linen table cloth, fine china and
real silver, all for a price of 01.10 each. He said Vera was
impressed. They were married 49 years ago.
Very and Robert have four children. Roger, Clyde,
Sharon and Glenn all of whom attended Ingleside schools
and graduated from Ingleside High Sohool. They have
seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. All four
children live in the Ingleside area.
Douglas Machine Works has constructed 400 big win-
ches and many small ones that have been shippped
throughout the Gulf Coast as well as to the Atlantic and
Pacific Coasts. Douglas developed the Douglas Winch
that has been marketed nationwide, also well known is
the unique flagpole he developed. It contains a flag which
is raised inside the pole and then unfurled to be retracted
within the pole and the end of the day
Douglas said that there have been big changes in busi-
ness. When asked how he would react if his sons said they
wanted to go into the business, he would say, “You’re
crazy”.
He says the tort system that allows anybody to sue
anyone else at any time, is a blackmail system and has to
change. He added that the legal fees and insurance rates,
along with the current legal system, discourage free en-
terprise.
The business community in the area will certainly miss
Douglas Machine Works.
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