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The Mathis News
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(USPS 334-040)
THURSDAY, MARCH 20,1986
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Ladies and Gentlemen of Lake
(Mathis) Corpus Christi area; you
got another dirty deal on 11
February 1986, and your TAX
MONEY paid for it.
This time from the Environmental
Quality Committee of the Coastal
Bend Council of Governments.
(CBCOG). Remember this: CBCOG
can only operate with tax money,
and they DO NOT have to hold
Public Meetings or let you make a
presentation. This is what happened
to you when this Environmental
Quality Committee had a meeting on
2/11/86.
This committee recommended
that CBCOG pass a resolution ap-
proving the Head report to the City
Council of Corpus Christi on 17
December 1985. The spiel to this
committee by Head says he wants to
pump 100,000,000 gallons of water a
day into Choke Canyon Reservoir,
starting as soon as he can get the
pumps in place, drain Lake (Mathis)
Corpus Christi and he is still telling
people not to purchase property.
Remember when the Mayor of
Corpus Christi said “We will not
pump water from Lake (Mathis)
Corpus Christi. They are not talking
about a drought, if they are, it is
man made drought.
CBCOG is an organization made
up of 12 Counties and the cities in the
Counties. Their main purpose is to
regulate and disburse certain TAX
money obtained from Government
programs to fund community pro-
jects. Not to tell the elected officials
of Counties and cities how to run
their business. This is meddling.
This resolution should not be on the
agenda.
The City Council of Corpus Christi
has not acted on the Head recom-
mendation, so how can the En-
vironmental Quality Committee ap-
prove something when, they do not
have all of the facts. Remember,
there are no elected Officials on this
committee.
Here is what happened: Head is on
the Environmental Quality Commit-
tee, he got the Executive Officer of
CBCOG to put his project before the
Environmental Quality Committee.
I -want to assure everyone out
there, especially Mr. Leveen, that I
meant absolutely no malice what-
soever in last week’s letter regar-
ding his “For Instance” column. I
only meant, in a humorous way, to
evoke an interesting response, by
kidding Mr. Leveen into retaliating
in like manner. I could then respond
to that, in the resulting “War Of
Words,” I had hoped, would make
for good interesting copy for San
Patricio Publishing Company and
its readers. Debate is good for a
paper, good for the readers and good
for the country.
I write lively dramas mainly and
have five historical works scheduled
for production this Sesquicentennial
Year. All of which should constitute
a valuable and lasting contribution
to the community, judging from
very favorable feedback so far. I say
this not to brag, but because I have
found that nothing intrigues, excites
and holds an audience better than a
good rip-snorting argument and that
is what I hoped to accomplish in my
last letter. That and nothing more.
And now that, that is said I issue a
challenge to Mr. Leveen. I invite
him to roll up his sleeves, sharpen
his pens and settle this in the
Papers, pen-to-pen and man-to-man.
Above all, please don’t let him quit. I
really enjoy a good literary joust
now and then, and it would indeed be
a shame to lose such a formidable
foe.
Let him write his darndest and I’ll
do the same. And let the chips fall
hot and heavy where they may and
may the best geezer win.
Ken Kruse
(PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Ken
Kruse’s letter of last week chastiz-
ing Paul Leveen’s column ‘For In-
stance’ contained some comments
whereby Kruse referred to Leveen
in a derogatory manner. In the in-
terest of fairness to Kruse the
publishers allowed the letter to be
run in its entirety. His viewpoints
contradicted the way Leveen views
certain controversial issues. Differ-
ing opinion is good, and the
newspaper tries to encourage this
aspect of freedom of the press
through its ‘Letters to the Editor’
column. However, the publishers
were remiss in allowing Kruse’s let-
ter to run ‘unedited’ with respect to
adjectives used when referring to
Leveen.
Mr. Leveen worked for this com-
pany for over 15 years, and we know
him to be an honest man with a lot of
integrity. His service to our com-
pany was un-paralleled, and did not
deserve that sort of treatment.
Although we have not always agreed
or disagreed with his standpoints,
we can say we have not always
agreed or disagreed with his
counterparts. Leveen has strived,
through his column, to offer the
readership a conservative’s way of
thinking, not so predominant in to-
day’s press.
We hope Mr. Leveen, a long time
friend, will accept this apology from
his former employers, and continue
to offer our readership his views on
issues that concern us on a daily
basis.)
Dear Editor
At one time, when Karankawas
ruled over javelinas, jack rabbits
and jaguars, there was no need for
judges, versed in law, in this area.
That condition no longer exists
T
and the travesty of having a county
judge unversed in law on the bench,
is unwarranted and intolerable.
Let’s correct this flaw by voting
for Martin Haskett.
Dale Day
Viewpoint...
We Don't Want To Use Tools For Mules
He did not get the City Council of
Corpus Christi to accept his pro-
posal, so now he is trying to go
through the back door, and get
anyone, he doesn’t care who, to say
his proposal is OK. So the En-
vironmental Quality Committee,
hearing only the Head side, not your
side or other Expert views, said it
looks OK.
The Environmental Quality Com-
mittee has 33 members. 21 from
Nueces County and Corpus Christi.
Only 12 from the other 11 Counties
and Cities. You can see how the deck
is stacked against you.
There were only 16 members pre-
sent at this meeting, less than half.
The vote was 9 yes; 5 non voting; 2
No’s. You had only 9 votes out of a 33
member committee. It stinks.
From this, the Environmental
Quality Committee have asked the
CBCOG to pass this resolution. Now
if the resolution is passed, that
means Head has gone behind the Ci-
ty Council and said, whats wrong
with you people, the CBCOG which
represents 12 counties says this pro-
posal is OK. Now look at this, Corpus
Christi has 8 voting members, 7
council persons and the mayor. How
can they vote for the recommenda-
tion in a non-public meeting, when
they have not voted in a public open
meeting. Kinda sneaky.
I believe if the County Judge of
San Patricio, Judge Edmondson and
the Mayor of Mathis, Mayor Knight
had taken more interest in this mat-
ter, the resolution would not have
been before CBCOG.
I want Judge Edmondson and
Mayor Knight to stand up for this
section of the County and defend our
interests. We will take no less than a
complete rejection and defeat of this
resolution. We will not take a “table
motion” which is a lame excuse to
duck the issue. Ladies and
Gentlemen, put your support behind
the Judge and Mayor, because it is
their ball now. Everything depends
on what they do.
Sincerely:
Elmer Singleton
President of Save
Lake Corpus Christi Inc.
When I go out to our garden to pid-
dle, I usually crank up the Cub Cadet
12 hp tractor or the 5 hp tiller. I also
have, but seldom use, a push type
garden tractor.
Like the old fellow said over in
East Texas, that push type thing was
made for a mule, and this mule has
about reached the point where such
implements no longer fit my ambi-
tions, nor my original horsepower.
As yet, nobody has motorized the
gooseneck hoe, and I do have to use
it for more exacting jobs.
Whereas our garden used to
measure slightly more than an acre,
it has been reduced to about 100 x 50
square feet. I have found that, pro-
perly planted and tilled, that will
produce a lot more than roomie and
I can eat while the produce is fresh
and a lot more than we feel like
freezing.
Even giving fresh produce away is
something of a chore, so I try, most
unsuccessfully to guage my produc-
tion to projected needs.
Of course, I like for rain to come in
amounts that keeps me from having
to drag a three quarter inch hose
around for several hours a week, but
in recent years, the hose sees a lot of
action.
I try not to think of my neighbors,
For Instance
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many of whom depend upon the soil
and their agricultural efforts to pro-
duce enough for them to live on, and
in the bargain, feed several families
world wide, who for many reasons
cannot raise their own food.
Since I was raised on a farm that
produced only cotton and maize, we
didn’t think so much in terms of
what we might be contributing to the
well being of people in other lands or
in our own for that matter. We were
simply trying to survive the
droughts, low prices, army worms
or careless weeds.
Our tools were what most anyone
would now call primitive. They were
indeed clumsy, but durable. When a
fellow bought a wiggle-tail
cultivator, he planned to keep it the
rest of his life. With an annnual
greasing with heavy weight lubrica-
tion oil, and packing of the wheel
hubs with axle grease, the faithful
tool would go on operating, just like
it was made to operate for 14 hours a
No Beauty, But Its Deadly
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LOTS OF words are written about
waste in defense spending.
Fun is made at some of the
astronomic costs for various items
of equipment.
Lawmakers on the opposition side
flex their voices in demanding that
the defense budget be slashed.
Perhaps at times those who are
against everything when it comes to
providing a strong defensive posture
for this country forget what it takes
Court
Records
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Thomas Martin Durfee and Adela
Flores Gonzalez.
Juan Garcia and Antonia Jimenez.
Daniel V. Espinoza and Lydia
Farias Moreno.
Richard A. Wood, III and Kimber-
ly Gayle Marris.
John Manuel Pizana and Norma
Lopez Cruz.
Henry DeAses and Blanca Car-
coma Morales.
George Luis C. Hernandez and
Martha Benito Castillo.
Ismael V. Rodriguez and Teresa
Martinez.
Alfredo H. Rendon, Jr. and
Leolanda Castillo.
Joe Rufus Stewart, Jr. and
Theresa Herrera.
DISTRICT COURT
Bonifacio F. Aleman, Jr. vs. San-
tos L. Aleman - Divorce.
Terri Louise Dean Guidry vs.
Charles Aubrey Guidry - Divorce.
Oscar Rivera vs. Belinda C.
Rivera - Divorce.
First National Bank of Ingleside
vs. Jerrid E. Haskin - Suit on note.
First National Bank of Ingleside
vs. Karen Roberts - Suit on note.
First National Bank of Ingleside
vs. Peter Roy Adams - Suit on note.
First National Bank of Ingleside
vs. Leon Haskin - Suit on note.
First National Bank of Ingleside
vs. Weslie H. Craighead - Suit on
note.
First National Bank of Ingleside
vs. Luverna Creager - Suit on note.
Elia Lopez, et al vs. 3 Beall
Brothers 3, Inc. - Suit for damages.
Maria Elena Garza vs. Juan Gar-
za, Jr. - Divorce.
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Perhaps they forget that
American men could be in the heat
of those battles.
Perhaps they should think a little
more to insure that this country’s
fighting men have what they need
with which to do the job they would
be asked to perform.
IN ANY future conflict there won’t
be the luxury of training beforehand
with obsolete, weary equipment and
then hoping for the buildup, for
modernization when the starting gun
is sounded.
This has been tried before, it
didn’t work. It took years to grind
out the arms when it comes to hav-
ing a creditable defense in being.
Weapon systems are expensive.
They are varied and numerous.
It takes time to take a need
through the various stages of
development and proving before it
becomes a fighting concept.
For instance.
FOR MANY years various types
of fighter aircraft, and light and
medium bombers were used for
close air support to ground forces -
to inflict all possible damage against
the opposing ground forces.
In 1970, Department of Defense
gave approval for development of a
prototype aircraft to be specifically
produced for ground support opera-
tions.
The prototypes of the aircraft
were first flown in 1972.
In 1973, the A-10 was selected and
full-scale development was begun.
Ten aircraft were to be built. But,
the U.S. Congress then cut that
number to six.
IT WAS not until April 1976 that
the first A-10 aircraft were delivered
to the using command - the U.S. Air
Force’s Tactical Air Command.
It was almost three years later
before the first A-lOs were made
available to U.S. Air Forces in
Europe.
Today, the aircraft is in service
not only with Tactical Air Command
and in Europe, but also operates in
Alaskan Air Command and with
Pacific Air Force.
Usually when a person visualizes
an Air Force fighter aircraft, a sleek
beauty comes to mind slicing
through the air with graceful ease.
The A-10 Thunderbolt II is a little
different.
IN FACT, almost any observer at
the first sight of this aircraft in flight
with its engines stuck on the
fuselage aft and above the level of
the wing, has an automatic double-
take.
Nevertheless, the A-10 considered
the most lethal, reliable and sur-
vivable aircraft ever to come from
the drawing board.
Two of the fundamental
characteristics are that the aircraft
is responsive and is simple to main-
tain. But, most important is that it is
a superbly safe aircraft for the pilots
who fly them.
A lethal weapon?
A 30-millimeter, seven-barrel
Gatling gun, located internally along
the aircraft’s centerline, can pro-
duce up to 4,200 rounds per minute.
THE A-10 carries up to 16,000
pounds of mixed ordinance on 11
pylon stations. Ordinance includes
conventional and laser-guided
weapons, rockets, cluster bombs
and Maverick missiles.
It can be loaded with twenty-eight
500-pound bombs, six 2,000 pounders
or six missiles.
The A-10 has the ability to loiter
for hours within a battle area, and
has short takeoff and landing
characteristics which allow it to
operate from unimproved forward
locations. Yet it has a top speed of
over 500m.p.h.
Designed to survive heavy anti-
aircraft fire,the A-10 can lose one
third of the wing, a horizontal
stabilizer and everything forward of
the cockpit; and with every fuel cell
punctured and all hydraulics lost the
aircraft can still be flown 200 miles
and landed.
THE PILOT literally sits in a
“bathtub” made of titanium armor
plate. It can take a direct hit from a
37-millimeter anti-aircraft gun and
survive.
Two turbofan engines power the
aircraft. They are smokeless and
quieter than other engines of com-
parable size to allow the achieving of
tactical surprise. The engines are
located with the elevator and two
verticle fins masking them to make
it most difficult for ground-
launched, heat-seeking missiles to
be effective.
A turning capability of less than
1,500 feet make it possible for two A-
10s to attack the same target every
four seconds.
In a ferry configuration, the
Thunderbolt II can fly 2,100 miles on
its own fuel. With in-flight refueling,
it can be deployed - to Europe
nonstop.
It is an ugly bird - some of the
pilots who fly it affectionately call it
the Warthog.
day, six days a week for months on
end.
Dad did not take his farm im-
plements for granted. He kept his
mules “rolling fat,” regardless of
how lean I got. He kept the tools in
the shed throughout the seasons
when they were not in use.
I used to go out to the big old
sometimes on rare occasions whCTTC
was not actively engaged in using
some of Dad’s prize tools to rid this
part of the world of noxious weeds,
grasses and surplus plants where he
had overestimated the amount of
seed to sow.
The tool shed was more or less a
solemn place. Chickens sometimes
wandered under the barn and stole a
nest in some likely place, but other
than that, there were few things to
attract anything or anybody, for that
matter.
There was the single row planter,
with its seed box in place. Dad had
only two plates for the planter. One
was for maize, the other for cotton.
By plates, is meant the device, cir-
cular in shape, that moved over
spout that led down into the groi
The circular disk had holes that
mitted the right amount of seeds to
be dropped, as it moved over the
opening into the spout.
Holes could be plugged in the plate
to make the dropping farther apart,
or drilled out to increase the number
of seeds sown. Neat, huh?
The seed box could be removed,
four foot blades bolted to the “foot”
of the opening plow and used a a
wholesale slayer of weeds, goat head
vines and unsuspecting bare feet.
There was the go-devil. It was
equipped with side blades, but
boasted a set of revolving disks that
could and would pull the soil to the
plants in any given amount. All that
was need was the “know-how” to
angle the rollers. Dad had the knodfe
how.
There was the wiggle-tail
cultivator. Revolutionary in
cultivator history, since it permitted
the operator to guide the plows
without having to cuss the mules into
position.
Of course, these days, we didn’t
personally know anybody who paid
income tax. The only out of pocket
expense we knew was to pay the
landlord his rent, and pay the
banker the amount of the note we
signed to get him to loan us enough
money to make the crop with in the
the first place.
Hence, there was no depreciation
claimed for tools, mules or boys. Of
course, if we had been using hundred
grand tractors, farming thousan^fe|
of acres of land, driving CadilllUr
cars and spending summers in our
own cool mountain retreat, our dear
Uncle Sam would no doubt have
shown greater interest in our
welfare and our whereabouts.
Too, now, Uncle has a “deficit”
and other concerns. It figures. We
understand.
But, the saying is, “looks is only
skin deep.”
The A-10 is deceiving, but she is
deadly.
What a way to go!
Uae C(mUiedi!
MEMBER 1986
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