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The Mathis News
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THURSDAY, JULY 25,1985
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MEMBER 1985
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TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
National News Association
STPA
South Texas Press Association
Viewpoint....
It's Still The Same Old Story
HELENS. TRACY............................................................Publisher
JAMES F. TRACY, JR.....................................Sec.-Treas. & Business Manager
JOHN HENRY TRACY........................................Vice-Pres. & Sales Manager
THOMAS M.MATHLEY..........................................................Editor
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EFFECTIVE EFFORTS to do
something about the deficit and
budget dilemmas that face the coun-
try have sunken into the political
quagmire of nonaction.
Great hullabaloo went forth dur-
ing the national conventions, and
■even before, for answers to abolish
these cancerous threats.
Now, with no film actions taken,
the 535 “illustrious lawmakers” are
thinking primarily of their vacations
on whicEf-they will embark next
week, not to reappear again until
after Labor Day.
Bah!
budget each year is in balance.
There is no other answer. (Just
think how the liberal spenders in
Austin would gouge themselves if
they did not have to kow-tow to a
budget imposed by laws of the
state.)
Until such federal limits are im-
posed, the spendthrift lightweights
who do not stand up to reality will be
returned to the Congress again and
again. They will continue their
charades of pork barrel politics and
catering to the special interest and
money sources that keep them in
their lucrative, over-staffed and, to
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With questionable leadership in
the Senate, and with only the
politically motivated, obstructionist
leadership in the House, any hopes
by the American taxpaying public
for any type of reform seems to be
once again only a dream - a
nightmare.
IT WILL be business as usual with
the spending of hundreds of billions,
so much of it needlessly.
If ever there is going to be any pro-
gress in the balanced-budget arena,
it is only going to come after
necessary measures have been pass-
ed to require that the national
Whereas the Administration has
recommended a number of program
terminations, Gray’s committee has
gone along with only one - the
abolishment of revenue sharing, a
boondoggle which has been in effect
too many years.
OTHER HOUSE “cuts” as Presi-
dent Reagan has noted are “only
phantom savings,” based on what
may happen.
As a result, birth-to-grave
socialism continues at its costly
rate.
Sure, there can be reductions in
defense spending - by many billions
of dollars.
But, the pathetic little pork barrel
influences must be curtailed and
new visions must be paramount
when appropriations are made for
defense systems.
There can be no continuous tossing
of money to the four winds for
3 degree effecUveless positions. -ysiems'which long have been ob
TOO, OF primary importance is to * , . .. imo
give the President line-veto power. solete t0 the needs f0r trUC
Many of these ridiculous, costly,
politically motivated line items are
more than worthy of being chopped
from the important bills to which
they are attached.
But, as long as there are
“leaders” in the driver’s seat such
as Tip O’Neill and Jim Wright, and
obstructionist extraordinary
William Gray, chairman of the
House ways and means committee,
the country will continue to tumble
to the rim of financial catastrophe.
Court
Records
MARRIAGE LICENSE
Richard William Harper and
Jeanne P. Cole.
David Landin and Maria Cristela
Garcia.
James Douglas Wheatley and
Darlene Kaye Donoho.
Brad Christopher Wakely and
Mary Kay Palasek.
Valentine Ansualda and Adelina
Longoria.
Crescendo Perez and Isabel
Ovalle.
Franklin Leroy Havelka, Jr. and
Melissa Ann Mclnturf.
Glenn Stewart Maus and Tracy
Ann Duncan.
Robert Gonzales, Jr. and Leonar
G. Delfierro.
DISTRICT COURT
The State of Texas vs. Paul
Wieting Reiss - DWI - $500 - 90 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Esther M.
Garza - Theft by check - $25 -1 day
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Jerry Burl-
ington - Theft by check - $25 -1 day
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Aurora
Alaniz Avalos - DWI - $500 - 30 days
imprisonment
The State of Texas vs. Jose Angel
defense of the country.
AN AGGRESSIVE and intelligent
overhaul of the defense establish-
ment is direly needed to insure that
funds are appropriated only for
those weapon systems that would be
effective in any scenario of global or
limited armed action.
Primarily, these include the
strategic air umbrella of aircraft
and missiles, tactical air, and rapid-
strike forces with their required air
mobility.
Nevertheless, with all of the
political rhetoric, Reagan’s request
for defense was $14 billion under
what Carter had recommended for
fiscal 1985.
Reagan also was $14 billion under
Carter’s estimated spending for
fiscal 1986, and this was even before
the cuts which have been made in
that funding by the President.
THE CURRENT administration
was under Carter’s estimate for
fiscal 1984 by $11 billion, and the two
administrations were even money
for 1983.
So, what are all the againsters
screaming about?
And, if you want to compare us to
the Ruskies, the United States is
behind the Red war machine by $934
billion for the years 1982 through
fiscal 1986. Think about it - that will
buy a lot of extra “defensive”
weapons for the Motherland and for*
the Cubans and Nicaraguans.
And, some figures on socialistic
welfare spending shenanigans.
USING CONSTANT 1980 dollars as
a basis, the poverty rate in the
United States in 1970 was 12.6 per-
cent with per capita federal public
aid at $100. In 1980 it was 13 percent
with per capita aid standing at $217,
and in 1983 the rate was 15.2 with the
per capita figure of $198.
Pumping more tax dollars into the
welfare system does not seem to be
the problem solver. But, it is
bankrupting the county and few
seem to care.
And, the situation is not going to
change until the American voter has
the intestinal fortitude to stand up
and say “that is enough.”
When will that be?
State of the Region
JULIET K. WENGER
Coastal Bend Council
of Governments
Highlights And Sidelights
The first act of a drama that cities
and counties play out each year has
been presented. Mayors, city ad-
ministrators or consultants have
presented the applicatons of their
governmental units for Community
Development Block Grants to pay
for major improvements. Twelve
members of a Regional Review
Committee, appointed by the gover-
nor, heard the presentations, over a
two-day period, all 12 attending both
days. They ranked the projects on a
preannounced point system.
This year, wastewater treatment
programs received top ranking, in
contrast to water system im-
provements, which got the highest
marks last year. The Regional
Review Committee, which receives
staff support from the Council of
Governments, can award a max-
imum of 600 points. This year,
Orange Grove received the highest
rank, Number 1, with 530 points for
wastewater collection im-
issue, carrying a maximum of 250
points. A new project earned more
points than replacement or repair.
Each committee member used his
own discretion in determining the
category in which the project falls.
For instance, if a new concrete line
is laid in an existing earthen
drainage ditch, is that a new project
or replacement?
Applicants have five days to ap^^^
peal any decision to the Regiona^^
Review Committee. If they are not
satisfied, they may then appeal to
the state. Ground for appeal must be
an error made by the Committee.
The state has said that for applica-
tions on which there is no appeal,
numbers will be run through their
computer within two or three weeks.
In cases where there is an appeal,
numbers will not be run until after
August 20. Staff at the state level will
determine which appeals reach the
State Review Committee.
Following is the Regional Review
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By Lyndell Williams, Texas Press Association
Nazi Comparison
Rather than ignoring the
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Some 12,000 wells in the
AUSTIN — Texas House
5Steass rESSS s-EsHS&S
his own style: “The people say will spark bankruptcies
ment.
The State of Texas vs. Ramon
Palacios Flores - DWI - $300 - 21 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Daniel
Joseph Burda - DWI - $500 - 21 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. David
Newton Belt, Jr. - DWI - $500 - 30
days imprisonment
remains opposed to ending
state investments there to
combat racial separatism.
He immediately caught re-
newed fire from some lawmak-
ers critical of state law allow-
ing investment of tax dollars
in that troubled nation’s econ-
omy.
pushing for divestment are and other economic hardships
hurting the people they are there.
trying to help. When you start The feds used new Texas
shutting down factories, the Railroad Commission regula-
people in those factories are tions to rule that some 35 pro-
a similar project, was Number 2
with 514 points. Number 3 was
Nueces County with 507 points for
drainage and flood control in an
unincorporated area outside
Robstown.
Last year, the state awarded 700
points. This year it awards only 650,
so the region has only 50 fewer points
to award.
Presentations varied from a sim-
points scored, amount of the re-
quested grant, and project:
Orange Grove, 1, 530, $151,971,
wastewater collection im-
provements; Jim Wells County, 2,
514, $299,570, wastewater collection;
Nueces County, 3, 507, $400,000,^^
drainage and flood control; Duval^B
County, 4, 503, $400,000, streets and^^
drainage improvements; George
West, 5, 485, $239,970, street im-
provements; Bishop, 6, 474, $384,820,
sMIfe msm mm mm
ment.
The State of Texas vs. Gary
Hughes Hay - DWI - $500 - 30 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Ernesto
Villegas - DWI - $300 - 30 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Norma
Jean Childress - DWI - $500 - 90 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Glenn
Stewart Maus - DWI - $500 - 30 days
imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Thomas
Frederick Johnson - DWI - $500 - 30
days imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Daniel Lee
Lawhon - Driving while license
suspended - $135 - 1 day imprison-
ment.
The State of Texas vs. Erasmo
Lopez - Driving while license
suspended - $300 - 10 days imprison-
ment.
The State of Texas vs. Mario
Lopez Veliz - DWI - $215 - 30 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Isidora C.
Barrios - DWI - $500 - 30 days im-
prisonment.
The State of Texas vs. Richard
Allen Smith - Theft by check - $25 -1
day imprisonment.
The State of Texas vs. David Allen
Wineland - DWI - $500 - 11 days im-
.prisonment.
See RECORDS, Page 12
________ of combating apart-
heid, defeated in part by Lewis’
disagreement.
Lewis said he and sidekick
state Rep. Charles Evans
talked to blacks and whites on
the “far left, far right and
everybody in between” and he
believes that divestment of
U.S. investments would hurt
struggling South African
blacks more than it would help
them.
“They (South African gov-
ernment) have got a lot of fool-
ish laws I don’t agree with, and
they need to change.”
Legislative Outcome?
How Lewis’ trip will affect
the outcome of divestiture leg-
islation next session remains to
be seen, but the fact that he
took the trip at all signifies the
Legislature’s interest in the
His sharpest criticism by a
black leader came from state
Sen. Craig Washington, who
compared Lewis’ trip to a 1930s
House speaker who traveled to
Germany as a guest of the
Nazis.
Moral Obligation?
But Washington and Lewis
have one thing in common:
they both see South African
blacks in the same situation as
American blacks before the
great strides in civil rights.
Lewis says it compares with
the American ’50s.
Washington speaks for
American blacks who hate
racism so much they want to
wipe it out in every corner of
the globe, at least in an official
form.
To them, we have a moral
issue, perhaps brought on by obligation as a freedom-living
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its growing minority member-
ship.
Lewis seems more convinced
than ever that his stance is
correct. He is himself a wealthy
businessman, and very pro-
establishment, but his political
style has an unspoken pacifist
streak to it.
He avoids blood-lettings
where possible, and does not
relish putting one lawmaker
acainst another, as some do.
nation to combat it however
we can, and so they intro-
duced the divestiture legisla-
tion. They want something
done now.
Lewis obviously feels some
moral obligation, too, or else
he wouldn’t have gone. Maybe
he went in hopes of finding a
better line of attack, and is still
formulating it. Maybe we’ll
find out next session if an al-
ternate plan emerges.
Some 1,000 wells are now ex-
pected to be retested soon.
Political Manuverings
Former Democratic House
See HIGHLIGHTS, Page 12
mittee members indicated they gave
weight to the severity of the need
and the adequacy of the project,
rather than to the creativity of the
presentation.
Severity of need was an important
$400,000, drainage improvements; a
tie, Aransas Pass, 9, 459, $400,000,
flood control and drainage im-
provements and Sinton, 9, 459,
$395,000, drainage and flood control;
Gregory, 10, 456, $400,000, street im-
provements; Kleberg County, 11,
455, $105,000 senior center rehabilita-
tion; and Kingsville, 12, 453,
$290,680, water line replacement.
Also a tie, Ingleside, 13, 450^^
$400,000, drainage and street im^p
provements and Odem, 13, 450,
$385,285, drainage and street im-
provements; Refugio, 14, 447,
$141,666, drainage and flood control;
Brooks County, 15, 446, $300,000,
community center; Beeville, 16, 434,
$185,600, housing rehabilitation; a
tie, Three Rivers, 17, 427, $400,000,
drainage improvements and
Benavides, 17, 427, $289,124,
wastewater system improvements;
Port Aransas, 18,420, $400,000, street
and drainage; a tie, Premont, 19,
413, $400,000, drainage and flood con-
trol and Driscoll, 19, 413, $392,241,
drainage improvements; a tie, Agua
Dulce, 20, 394, $260,500, water
system improvements and San
Patricio County, 20, 394, $400,000,
water system improvements;
Mathis, 21, 356, $400,000, water
system improvements; and San
Diego, 22, 353, $300,000, housing
assistance.
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