The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 1, 1995 Page: 1 of 83
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Naval Station Ingleside escapes hit list
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Good news! BRAC. the base
closure list, was announced
Wednesday morning. Naval
Station Ingleside in not on
the list.
Tfiis can't be called a defin-
itive action, but it bodes well
for the North Bay Area.
The secretary of defense
made his recommendations
to the Defense Base
Realignment and Closure
Commission for closing
bases, realigning and receiv-
ing. Seventeen Texas bases
were on the fist released.
Naval Station Ingleside was
missing,
That is, the news people
Have been waiting to hear.
Builders and business men
and women have been stand-
ing on the sidelines saying
that if the base survives this
round of closures, building of
homes will start In Ingleside
and Aransas Pass and busi-
nesses will seriously consider
moving In.
The fact that the local
Installation is not on the list
cannot be said to mean the
base is completely home free.
The commission must take
action and could agree or dis-
agree with the recommenda-
tion.
Then it has to go to
Congress. Congress cannot
eliminate or add Individual
bases. The commission list
must be approved as is or
rejected. The president is last
in line and his approval
would be final.
Politics will continue until
the president acts with sup-
porters of bases that are on
the'hit list arguing that they
should be spared and sug-
gesting installations that are
not on the list be substituted
for their bases.
Optimism prevails that the
Ingleside base ts cleared to
grow and put down deep
roots.
Rep. Klka de la Garza said
"This means Ingleside's
future is not only secure, but
very bright."
He said the Navy will be
moving all mine warfare from
San Diego and two squadrons
of mine warfare helicopters
from San Diego and Norfolk
to Corpus Christi adding 97-1
Jobs, jr
He said the Navy will be
doing more training too.
adding 193 Jobs.
Naval All Station Kingsville
will grow by ti)K people as a
result ol lei'ftvlng. Naval Ail
Station Coipus Christi will
*galn 252 milttuv and lose
394 civilians.
Bases in Texas that are rec
ommended for closure are
Bergstrom Air Reserve Base,
Brooks Air Force Base, .an
installation in Laredo, the
Red Rlvei Anm Depot aiul
Reese Air Force Base. In all.
Texas will v . an increase of
1,642 Job
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GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH JR. ANSWERED a barrage of questions from the news media
when he bid farewell to the crews of four mine countermeasure ships Friday. The ships
departed Naval Station Ingleside for a six-month deployment to Europe.
Bush bids farewell to MCMs
Shovels turned dirt ceremo-
niously, a mock oversized
scissor snipped ribbon and
one lieutenant commander
replaced another.
Minutes later sweethearts,
wives and children were kiss-
ing their boyfriends, hus-
bands and fathers good-bye.
Across the station a sea-
soned petty officer was bid-
ding the Navy farewell in a
retirement ceremony.
It all seemed enough for one
day's activity at Ingleside
Station Ingleside.
But arriving shortly after
lunch was Gov. George W.
Bush Jr.
Bush arrived to bid farewell
to the crews of four mine
countermeasure ships that
were leaving for a six-month
deployment.
Bush, accompanied by a
delegation of state officials,
spoke only briefly to the
departing crews, their fami-
lies. and a public gathering of
about 200.
"I want to thank the sailors
who are departing today for
making a sacrifice for their
country." Bush said. “I wish
you God's speed. The United
States is only as strong as its
military might."
Speaking to the families he
said, "You are a pari of this
mission as much as the
sailors are.”
After the speech, the TV
and newspaper media
descended on the governor
with a barrage of questions
regarding status of area
bases. Decisions on what
bases would be closed or
scaled back by the Base
Realignment and Base
Closure Commission were
due out Tuesday.
"Ingleside Naval Station
must stand on its own," Bush
said. "This is a strategic loca-
tion. There is a lot of talk of
See BU8H, Page 11
Tetra re-locates facility
to Conn Brown Harbor
Tetra Technologies moved
its Aransas Pass facility from
Red Fish Bay Terminal Into
Conn Brown Harbor last
week, onto land leased by
Coastline Resources from the
City of Aransas Pass.
The facility blends, stores
and filters calcium chloride
used In completing wells.
Geoffrey Hertel. Tetra
Technologies vice president,
said both offshore and land
wells are served out of
Aransas Pass.
He said there Is always a
presence at the facility with
someone monitoring It.
Personnel go offshore with
the equipment.
When the company
receives contracts and carries
out Jobs, personnel are
brought In from various
points along the coast to do
the work Involved.
Aransas Pass is one of 16
blending plants along the
Gulf Coast from Texas to
Florida.
Tetra also has seven major
Installations. Including two in
Louisiana, one In Kansas and
one in West Virginia.
Headquarters are in The
Woodlands north of Houston.
The Aransas Pass facility Is
part of Tetra's domestic oil
field services. There is also a
foreign operation. The com-
pany has a number of other
groups Including one produc-
ing fertilizer.
A chemical plant In West
Texas which is part of thelr
operation takes waste stream
See TETRA. Back Page
What’s in store for shrimpers?
Tomorrow, Gulf shrimpers will find out impact of si tidy
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By Juliet K. Wenger
While bay ‘ shrimpers are
studying proposed legislation
- that could,-control their
means of livelihood, gulf
shrimpers are about to learn
the outcome of a biological
impact study.
Gulf shrimpers/will be told
tomorrow how a study made
by the National Marine
Fisheries is going to impact
them.
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A meeting will be held at 5
o’clock tomorrow afternoon at
the GI Forum Building in
Rockport for a report to be
given by Marine Fisheries,
with the Coast Guard also
present.
Terry Ricks, president of
the Texas Seafood producers,
said he understands there
are goingAo be new regula-
tions on turtle excluders, and
fishermen may be required to
use top shooters instead of
bottom shooters.
Ricks also expects a limit-
ed entry requirement to be a
part of the report.
Ricks has been told that
the study shows 1994 was
the worst year for turtle
strandlngs recorded in the
gulf since the study began.
It is his understanding
that if a large number of tur-
tle strandings occur again,
areas of the Gulf will be
closed to shrimping and
enforcement of regulations
will double.
Ricks pointed out that
Texas is the only state which
applies a closed season to an
area 200 miles offshore.
Other states stay with the
nine-mile limit that Texas
had previously. He said the
brown shrimp multiply in
this area when waters are
closed to shrimping. When
the waters are opened, boats
come from all other states
and harvest the shrimp in
tremendous numbers.
He believes going back to
the nine-mile limit could cor-
rect this situation.
Rieka received this week
from State Senator Jerry
Patterson a copy of the limit-
ed entry bill which has been
introduced into the legisla-
ture concerning bay shrimp
mg.
It is "Senate Bill 750. a Itni
ited entry license manage-
ment plan for the Texas bay
and bait shrimp Industry."
Ricks went to Austin
Monday to discuss changes of
certain wording in the bill.
Senator Patterson in a
cover letter said, in part.
"This legislation.. .will create
a set of guidelines lor Parks
and Wildlife to follow in their
managi ment of the fishery ,
putting in place a balanced
and foil system'to ease the
strain on the fishery by
reducing the nyunbei of
shrimp licenses through vol
untarValtritlon and buy hack
programs. The platr will per-
mit all bona fide shrimpers to
continue shrimping, and
provides for the creation of a
See SHRIMPERS, Hack Page
Bill Wilson takes reins
of San Patricio EDC
Architect Bill Wilson of
Ingleside aitd Portland took
the gavel from Flclchcr Kelly
of Sinton as new president ot
the San Patricio County
Economic Development
Corporation.
The corporation's annual
meeting was held Monday
night at NorthShore Country
Club.
The keynote speaker was
Michael J. Blum whose
speech was entitled "San
Patricio County’s Posh Ion in
the NAFTA game."
Projecting the image of a'
flattened out globe he showed
San Patricio County to he the
center of the world.
Then he drew across the
American continent the high
ways to carry halite from I lie
east coast oj Canada through
San Palrlclo f'oimiv to
Mexico.
See WILSON. Hack Page
Business with government
topic of seminar March 2
The Small Business Development Center In conjunction
with Naval Station Ingleside (NAVSTA) and the Fleet
Industrial Supply Center (FISC) San Diego will hold a one-
day seminar “Doing Business with the Federal
Government" Thursday. March 2.
The seminar will be at Naval Station Ingleside galley from
1 to 3 p.m. Area merchants who are interested In learning
more about doing business with the government are invit-
ed to attend.
The seminar is Intended to educate and lamlllarlze local
business people on government procedures for purchasing
a broad range of goods and services from civilian sources.
The Small Business Development Center and federal pro-
curement agents will be available to answer questions per-
taining to all aspects of small purchase opportunities with
the government. Some topics to be addressed include, how
to qualify to do business with (he government, how small
business can compete In the bidding process, .utd how to
qualify for Blanket Purchase Agreements
Additional information about doing business with the gov-
ernment ts available from NAVSTA Contracting Officer. Ms.
Chert Burnett. 77604501. or FISC Purchasing Suprt visor.
Earl Bush. 776-4514
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