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The Mathis News
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PAGE 2_THURSDAY. OCTOBER 31.1985
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YesterYear
FIVE YEARS AGO
Lupe Gonzales was crowned
Mathis 1980 Homecoming Queen
before the football game against the
Taft Greyhounds Friday night.
Four generations of the Herman
Jostes, Sr. family gathered at the
Tynan Recreation Club Saturday for
an informal family reunion.
Grace Lutheran Church women
met at the church. The Bible study,
“Forever Free” was led by Dorothy
Pietsch. The offering meditation
was given by Pauline Wendel.
The High School twirlers earned a
Division I rating at a contest Satur-
day at Calallen High School.
TEN YEARS AGO
Construction site work began for a
new H.E.B. grocery store in Mathis.
The location is in 600 block of E. San
Patricio Avenue.
Window decorations abound in
Mathis, as the students advertised
Homecoming at Mathis High School.
The VFW Ladies Auxiliary met at
the Post Home Thursday with 12
members present.
Parents of bilingual students at
Weber Elementary School may view
taped classroom activities involving
their children. The video tape will be
presented during a special bilingual
parent meeting in the Weber
Cafeteria.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Homecoming Queen candidates
chosen by the Pirate football team
Court
Records
were: Cynthis Guerra, Kathy
Stridde, Eva Coronado and Sylvia
Mercado.
The Mathis Rotary CLub announc-
ed that it planned to participate in
the annual homecoming day ac-
tivities on Friday, with its barbecue
chicken supper.
Since the tax statements went out
during the first week of October the
city of Mathis received payments of
$24,539 through the 26th of October.
The Mathis Pirate Boosters
elected Wilson Rackley, president of
the club, to act as “Sideline Coach of
the Week” for Firday’s night game
with Calallen.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Five girls were named as
nominees for Homecoming Queen
and Football Sweetheart for 1966 by
members of the Mathis Pirate foot-
ball team. They were: Ann Boat-
wright, Charleen Brown, Susan
Knille, Liada Stapp and Pam Webb.
The 4H Club met Tuesday night
and Allan Tieman, president, ap-
pointed Glen Jostes as recreation
chairman and Phylis Miller as vice
chairman.
The Progressive Women’s League
met Wednesday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Milton Turner with
members of the Mathis Literary
Club as special guests.
The women of St. Paul Lutheran
Church of Tynan met Wednesday
evening for a general meeting and
Bible study by Mrs. M.A. Buetow.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
Martin Dean Bostrom II and
Karen Denise Hanna.
Oscar Garcia and Victoria Rojas
Gonzales.
Saul Longoria and Raquel L.
Flores.
COUNTY COURT
The State of Texas vs. Robert
William McCauley - DWI - $500 - 30
days imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Juan Jose
Marroquin - Unlawfully carrying a
weapon - $215 - 10 days imprison-
ment.
The State of Texas vs. John Arthur
Moniz - DWI - $100 -1 year imprison-
ment.
The State of Texas vs. John Arthur
Moniz - Resisting arrest - $100 - 1
year imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Federicio
Pena, Jr. - DWI - $100 - 90 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Felicita L.
Agueros - DWI - $500 - 30 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Raul H.
Narranjo - Possession of an inhalant
- $500 -180 days imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Claude
Marlin Stiawalt - DWI - $500 - 30 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Jose Gon-
zalez - DWI $500 - 30 days imprison-
ment,
The State of Texas vs. Jesus
Flores - DWI - $500 - 90 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Martin
Alvardo - DWI - $100 - 14 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Felix
Salinas-PI-$200.
The State of Texas vs. Ruben
Segovia Herrera - Possession of
marijuana - $200 - 2 days imprison-
ment.
The State of Texas vs. Kenneth
Patrick Bowen - DWI - $500 - 30 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Gary Glynn
Miller - DWI - $100 - 2 days imprison-
ment.
The State of Texas vs. Rodney
Clifford Lynd - DWI - $300 - 4 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Hilda Vera
Rodriguez - DWI - $100 - 72 hours im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Jacinto
Jose DeLeon - DWI - $500 - 30 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Joan Luetta
Hollingshead - DWI - $500 - 30 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Thomas
Schubert-PI-$200.
The State of Texas vs. Mary L.
Hollerman - PI - $100.
The State of Texas vs. Scott W.
Lockwood - PI - $200.
The State of Texas vs. Franklin
Wayne James - DWI - $500 - 30 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Douglas T.
Riffe - DWI - $500 - 30 days imprison-
ment.
The State of Texas vs. Charles
Kullman - DWI - $500 - 30 days im-
See RECORDS, Page lu
V
For Instance
Why Unravel The Whole Ball?
-by pdl-
WORLD WAR II came to a close
with a total Allied victory over two
of the most vicious military tyran-
nies of modern times.
Hitler’s butchers and the fanatical
Japanese “imperial forces” were
disseminated.
America, with the assistance of its
fighting partners, after being stabb-
ed in the back in the Pacific, fighting
on two fronts, whipped the pants off
the best Germany and Japan could
muster.
The two supposedly master races
had built feverishly for years gear-
ing their military and industry with
only one aim in mind - destruction of
the United States. They both had
thoughts of world domination.
WHEN THE fighting was over,
when the treaties had been signed,
however, it was America and its
Allies who where the unconditional
victors.
The master races lay in ruin -
devastated by the industrial and
military might of the United .States
and her partners.
Out of the massive land, sea and
air battles fought to the far corners
of the earth came a sizable force of
seasoned generals, admirals and
other brilliant staff minds. They
knew first hand from painful ex-
periences what had, and what had
not, worked in the prolonged
military struggle - what brought
about the victories, and what added
to the setbacks.
THESE WERE the military minds
who put together vast combined
operations encompassing Army,
Navy, Air Force and Marine com-
ponents.
Inpregnable Fortress Europe was
attacked. The battles were won. The
victory came.
The United States and her allies
fought their way across thousands of
miles of the vast Pacific. The Rising
Sun of Japan set in a devastating
loss - a shameful loss for the ar-
rogant war lords with their hundreds
of years of violent background.
The almost unbelievable plans to
organize men, material, aims,
transportation, support and hun-
dreds of other necessities and to
engage those forces on a global
scope had worked.
THE JOB was done.
The victory was won.
Sure there were goofs, problems,
losses that could have been avoided,
unnecessary missions, errors in
judgment.
But, corrections were made.
Lessons were learned. Knowledge
was stored.
That combined knowledge, gained
in almost four years of global com-
bat, became an indispensable
wealth following the war.
It was put to immediate use.
A new, finely honed military
establishment was to be forged.
There was great hope that with a
strong defense another aggressive
attack on this country might in the
future be avoided.
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TRICK OR TREAT?
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'Another Holiday To Celebrate'
Pranks Add Apprehension
To Halloween Celebration
Americans really go for com-
memorative dates and institutions.
We do not absolutely require a
reason for celebrating anything.
Just hang out a flag, stop the mail,
close the banks, open the parks and
yell, “let’s celebrate,” and since we
are always ready, we celebrate.
This is purely an opinion, and if you
don’t agree with me, I’ll probably
forgive you for not doing so, but I
venture only a small percent of peo-
ple who go hog wild over July 4th, or
Thanksgiving can give the real
reason for their celebration. May be
like the fellow who said that his wife
was so taken with observing days,
that she sent him five pounds of gift
wrapped pork sausage to remind
him that it was ground hog day. That
figures.
Anyway, Halloween is upon us.
Like most everything else, it has
either come, or gone a long ways,
since I was first made aware of such
a day. In those days, people who
wanted to make an immpression for
the date would think up some real
projects. Of course, every outhouse
in town (and there were many of
them in town) was overturned. I
heard that the custom had spread as
far away as China, and one Chinese
father called his sons in and beat the
tar out of them for pushing the fami-
ly facility into the Yangtese River.
They tried to explain that it was only
a joke, and he replied that he would
have been willing to have accepted
that explanation, but he happened to
be in it at the time of the dunking.
Well, at least we understand.
One of our neighbors awoke one
morning after a Halloween evening,
to find his prize surry, with a fringe
on top, perched astride the top of his
40-foot barn. A group of
neighborhood boys (and a few men)
had worked almost all night, taking
the conveyance apart, hauling it up,‘
piece by piece and re-assembling it
on top of the barn. He had to laud the
ingenuity of the pranksters, but
couldn’t see one speck of humor in
the joke. I do understand.
About the most daring project I
ever saw during my freshman year
in college. Our president at the time
was a kindly gentleman, who kept a
milk cow in back of his multi-
thousand dollar home that the board
of trustees had provided. He tended
the cow twice daily, and I suspected
kept the cow to be distictly different.
He was the only known college presi-
dent who milked a family cow twice
daily. Of course, the college jour-
nalism students, and the college
paper found this a source for lead
stories quiet often. Anyway, on
Halloween that year, a couple of
freshman students, (I wasn’t one of
Pumpkins have got to be a symbol,
and roadside stands as well as
grocery stores go a land office
business in this vegetable. I dare say
that one out of a possible thousand
Sketching
(TT oyfSr-rtAy
them, I was too yellow), took
Prexy’s cow over to the college
auditorium, tied her to the lecturn,
provided her with ample hay for the
night and left her to the fates. Talk
about it! Had the auditorium been
leveled by a blast, it would have
hardly exiced more activity. Nobody
finked, and nobody got sent home. A
couple of the boys were suspect, but
smugly finished the school year, but
for some reason did not return the
following year. Think what you will.
Of course, now days toy makers
start a saturation campaign of
advertising well before the day ar-
rives, and with modern technology
being what it is, spooks in droves
roam the streets looking like
anything from walking cadavers to
star wars figures. Somehow black
cats, witches and the like got mixed
up in the legend, and now if you don’t
feel like the end is nigh you are not
really in the mood for Halloween.
„ The idea of trick or treat has been
turned into a quest for personal gain.
I often wonder what happen if a
householder refused to salute the
proffered bag, when told, “trick or
treat.” I’m sure if he refused there
would be no new trick, because now,
everybody’s garbage can gets turn-
ed over whether they treat or not.
ever serves more than a few hours
pleasure, and I’d venture that few
mothers know how to process a pum-
pkin for eating. The possible excep-
tion would be my roomie and Charlie
Brown’s friend Linus’s Mother.
One time when we were much
younger, Roomie and I borrowed a
partially furnished house that had
been vacant for a long time, carried
in a tub of shards of glass, got a few
lengths of trace chains, and invited a
few of our young friends over for a
marshmallow bust. While the mar-
shmallows were being scorched, I
told a story of a mystery house. Oc-
casionally, someone would poke his
glass with a mesquite pole and drag
the chains about, all this in another
room. A scream in a muffled bucket
helped. We had a time, even the
stout hearted would sneak a peek
toward the door.
What a way to go!
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Letter to the Editor
THE SMART military^yids
the day realized that th^pv£
Soviet Bear in hibernation.
The thousands of leaders, pi
ners, strategists, tacticians, th
minds fresh with the exploits w’
had made victory possible, went
work.
They designed and bu
America’s post-war Defense Dep
ment.
A civilian Secretary of Defe
would head the Department. Eac
the major services was to hav
civilian head - a Secretary.
A Joint Chiefs Staff to be hea
by a Chairman - a military offi
selected from one of the major s
vices - was to be the top milita
command.
THE U.S. Air Force was brou
into being on an equal levd^fth
Army and Navy.
American forces in Euro
became the backbone of NATO.
American forces in the Far E
looked after interests in that part
the world.
Development and research co
mands of the various services forg
ahead, shifting from the World W
II era to a look at what was need
for the future.
Command and staff schools trai
ed the leaders of tomorrow.
The Soviet threat grew.
THERE CAME Korea. Vietnam.
The military performed a
mirably.
Political indecision was anoth
matter.
The military forces of the eighti
can stand proud.
They had faced over the^B^s
awesome challenge. In the be
American tradition, they had m
the challenge and had the means
handle it skillfully.
Now, and with evidently no in
from the Defense Department, a 64
page study on defense reorganiz
tion has been put together by
novice, militarily inexperienc
political staff of the U.S. Senal
Armed Services Committee.
Committee is chaired by Senat
Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz.
THE STUDY is an open slap in t
face to almost five decades of a pri
fessional defense posture f
America.
Goldwater, who should know be
ter as a major general in the US
Reserve, says the armed fo^s a
“broke.” Not “broke” fii^Piall
but “broke” mechanically. Th
they do not work.
That is a verbal affront to t
American Armed Services.
Goldwater retires from the Sena
at the end of his present term. H
political epitaph should not read, ‘
helped destroy a fine milita
machine.”
The politicos want to abolish t
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
It is to be replaced by a Joi
Military Advisory Qouncil.
“To combat mismanagement a
intense rivalry between the se
vices” is the reason.
DO YOU replace one staff wi
another just for the sake of change.
Ridiculous.
Rivalry between the services wi
be there as long as there is pride
that service by its membj^ N
even placing everyone ^pvi
member in the same uniform,
was once recommended, would e
feet such change.
Goldwater and Senator Sam Nun
D-Ga., ranking Democrat on t
Armed Services Committee, cited
a main discrepancy in the servic
the fact that Army and Navy radi
in the Grenada operation were n
compatible.
Do you disrupt the entire Defen
establishment for such a minor !
fraction?
Waste in procurement was cited.
This is an administrative proble
and one which is being looked '
heavily by the Reagan administ
tion.
BUT, THESE isolated abuses
minimal when compared to^me
the wasteful programs rec^^en
ed by a politically active civili
secretary of a service or two. Th
ask for billions to bring ba
weapons systems obsolete a
mothballed decades ago.
And Congress goes merrily alo
in funding the concepts which ha
no place in the defense posture
this nation as it readies for the r
and beyond.
Sutj, there always is room
change. But, it must be for the
ter. Change goes on continuously.
But change should not be a sudd
chaos to unravel all that has been
complished through timely
folding of proven concepts.
Let there not be change just
satisfy the swansong of one or t
Senators.
Defense of the nation is far
vital to turn it over to the in
perienced politico staff members
a Congressional committee.
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