The Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 247, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 11, 1991 Page: 1 of 25
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September 11,1991
The family newspaper of dynamic Calhoun County'
Vol 100, No. 247
Port Lovoco, TX
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Tonight skies will be part-
ly cloudy with a low in the
mid 70s. Thursday it will be
partly cloudy with a 20 per-
cent chance of afternoon or
evening showers or thunder-
storms. Highs will be in the
upper 90s. Wind tonight will
be from the southeastnear 10
to 15 knots with seas 2 to 4
feet.
The Calhoun County
Association for Retarded
Citizens will have a special
meeting for fair planning at
7:30 p.m. tomorrow at 2068
Bauer Street.
Farmers market
Fresh produce is avail-
able every Thursday in the
Wai Mart parking lot.
The Calhoun County Babe
Ruth Baseball League will
meet at 7:30 p.m. today in
the town hall at First State
Bank and Trust.
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A group of Calhoun County
ranchers and businessmen
heard Dr. Joe Paschal,
Extension Service Livestock
specialist, talk about issues
facing cattlemen in the
1990s, during a special prog-
ram held at the Bauer Exhi-
bit Building Tuesday
evening.
Paschal was the featured
speaker for the Port Lavaca/
Calhoun County Chamber of
Commerce and Agriculture’s
first Agriculture Day
program.
Paschal said people
involved in the cattie and
agriculture industries are
facing issues that were not
issues in the past. They
There are no records of
gravesites in the Port O’Connor
Cemetery, which was donated
Beatrice Ricks, a sevent-
ish county resident, recently
experienced a feeling of deja
vu when she found a glass jar
containing a lock of her only
daughter’s blonde hair
tangled in the roots of a tree
near her home.
The jar ended up amidst
the tree roots as the result of
a gale that flattened her
home around the beginning
of June 1979. It was an uncan-
ny feeling to fl nd the momen
to years after the storm
occurred.
Ricks remembers as if it
were yesterday how she was
closing a window and it
popped back open. She
walked to the next windoW
and suddenly the whole wall
popped off.
Thought for the day: “A peo-
ple that values its privileges
above its principles soon
loses both." — Dwight D.
Eisenhower
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By CHARLYN FINN
Wave Staff Writer
By LESLIE CROSSLAND
Wave Staff Writer
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State Comptroller John
Sharp sent checks to three
county municipalities totaling
$93,631.55 and a check to Cal-
houn Couhty for $182,543.57.
The combined sales tax
rebates to the cities are up 31.43
percent over September 1990
and Calhoun County’s up 86.31
percent
Point Comfort's individual
check was for $4,695.19, a 215.05
percent increase; Port Lavaca's
for $83,263.38, a 25.14 percent
increase; and Seadrift's for
$5,672.98, a 76.52 percent
increase.
For the current fiscal year
Point Comfort has received
(See TAX Page 2)
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BEIT AVAILAIkl COPY
Port Lavaca
1 HE WAVE
The tide forecast for Port
O’Connor shows a high at 8:53
p.m., a low Thursday at 12:33
a.m., a high at 6:30 a.m., and a
low at 12:51 p.m. For Powder-
horn, n high at 8:39p.m.,a low
Thursday at 1:39 a.m., a high
at 6:44 a.m. a low at 1:57 p.m.
And for Sand Point, a high at
9:09 p.m., a low Thursday at
2:09 a.m., a high at 6:46 a.m., a
low at 2:27 p.m.
Every member of the Port
Lavaca City Council approved
Monday night a resolution
opposing legislative action
removing bank franchise fees
and boat sales tax from local
authorities jurisdiction and
transferring them to the state.
The council approved the
resolution after being told by
City Manager C.J. Webster the
legislation will cost the city
$37,000. He said the state is now
taxing country club dues and
gift wrapping, with the idea this
additional taxation will reim-
burse the cities who lose bank
franchise fees and boat sales
tax.
In Port Lavaca's case the
country club tax is meaningless
since the country club is
located outside city limits and
the gift wrapping tax won’t
bring in much revenue.
In addition, legislation
passed regarding river authori-
ties will force cities to raise an
additional $15,157,500 in sew-
age treatment fees.
Webster said the bills were
approved and signed by the gov-
ernor before the people
affected could see the impact of
the legislation.
The Port Lavaca City Council
passed the resolution because
Give the gift of life from 3
to 7 p.m. today in the
cafeteria at Memorial Medi
cal Center. Free tee shirts.
Sponsored by the Hospital
Auxiliary.
Congressional aid
Congressman Greg Laugh
lin will have a congression
al representative in Port
Lavaca at the Calhoun
County Courthouse, Com-
missioners Courtroom from
1 to 3 p.m. today. The rep-
resentative will be able to
handle problems with
social security, veterans
benefits, and other topices
involving the federal gov-
ernment. No appointment is
needed and residents are
urged to drop by with prob-
lems or questions that they
may have with the federal
government. For more
information please call
512 576 1231 in Victoria.
Washington has been pres-
suring Moscow to reduce its
economic and military aid to
the government of Fidel Castro,
who has vowed to stick to his
hard line communist policies
at any cost.
Gorbachev said he told Baker
that the Soviet Union intended
to convert its relations with
Cuba to solely political and eco-
nomic ties. “We will remove
other elements from that rela-
tionship,” Gorbachev said.
Baker responded that the
Soviet decision to remove
troops from the island 90 miles
off the U.S. coast “will be very
City fights
tax losses
Philatelic Society
The Philatelic Society
will meet at 7 p.m. tomor-
row in the town hall at First
State Bank and Trust.
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Business Women’s Associa-
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tomorrow at the Golden
Corral Restaurant.
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included food safety, envir-
onmental and humane treat-
ment of farm animal issues.
In many instances, Pasc-
hal pointed out, ranching
and agriculture industries
have received bad press due
to a lack of accurate
information.
According to Paschal,
United States consumers are
receiving the best prices in
the world. The U.S. consum-
er is spending 9 percent of
his or her income on groce-
ries vs. the Russian consum-
er spending 37 percent, even
though one out of three Rus-
sians are involved in
agriculture.
Fungicides, Paschal said,
are greatly responsible for
the lower U.S. food prices.
Helpful fungicides are pre-
Ricks said she would have
taken off in the wind with her
furniture if her now
deceased husband, standing
behind a wall, had not been
holding on to her “trying to
pull me in.”
“I felt I had been hit by a
steamroller,” Ricks said. “I
could not speak for a couple
of weeks. I was in a state of
shock. I never heard of such a
thing.”
Ricks still remembers her
daughter, who now Ilves
upstate, crying out "are we
going to starve to death? We
do not have a kitchen
anymore.”
Ricks said she remembers
the American Red Cross with
gratitude. The Red Cross
provided her family with a
dining room suite, a refriger-
ator and a contractor to
(See TORNADO Page 2)
Beatrice Ricks, of Swan Point, experienced deja vu when she
found a glass jar containing a lock of her only daughter's blonde
hair. A gale destroyed her home in 1979. (Staff photo)
Storm victim finds
souvenir from past
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it wants its citizens to know the
governor, lieutenant governor,
speaker of the House and mem-
bers of the Legislature are
responsible for 2 cents of the
tax increase the city council
will soon be approving.
The resolution also notes
that officials in Austin are
(See LOSSES Page 2)
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The Port Lavaca Amateur
Radio Club will meet at 7
p.m. tomorrow in the com-
munity room at First
National Bank.
said troopers on the scene
reported 12 fatalities. But Dar
ius Brisco, a part-time reporter
for KULM Radio and an ambu-
lance driver, said he counted 13
bodies.
The ground around the
wreckage was not burned but
the plane itself was reduced to
a charred hull. The plane was
an Embrarer Jetlink E 120, a
twin-engine turboprop, accord-
ing to the Federal Aviation
Administration.
“I was in the field about two
(See PLANE Page 2)
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MOSCOW (AP) — President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev said
today that he is ready to pull out
11,000 Soviet soldiers from
Cuba, the hard line Communist
holdout in the Western
Hemisphere.
It was not clear if the number
of soldiers represents all of
Moscow’s remaining forces in
Cuba, but the 11,000 figure
given by Gorbachev was higher
than Soviet troop estimates by
Western military analysts.
His announcement was the
most emphatic sign that more
than three decades of close
Soviet-Cuban ties were coming
to an end. It came in a joint
news conference with Secret-
ary of State James A. Baker HI,
who cautiously welcomed the
news.
Gorbachev said: "We will
soon begin discussions with the
Cuban leadership about the
withdrawal of a Soviet training
brigade.”
He said about 11,000 soldiers
were involved in the
withdrawal.
The figure was higher than
Soviet troop levels given by the
International Institute of
Strategic Stules in London. The
institute estimates there are
7,700 Soviet troops on the island
— 2,100 troops involved in sig-
nal Intelligence, 2,800 military
advisers and 2,800 members of a
motorized rifle brigade.
by the original townsite plan-
ners in 1910, and there is a need
for a record-keeping
organization.
The board began making
plans for the annual member-
ship meeting and election of
, officers in December.
The terms of directors Ruth
Crandall, Paul Fortney, Laurie
Junek, Marie Richter, Bill
Tigrett and Agnes Valigura will
expire this year.
Soviets consider leaving Cuba
important in terms of public
opinion in the United States.”
Baker said that he and Gorba
chev also "spent quite a bit of
time talking about the impor-
tance of quickly developing a
credible economic reform
program for presentation to
international financial
agencies.”
The United States and other
countries have withheld aid to
Moscow pending more reform.
President Bush and other
U.S. officials have said on sev-
eral occasions that reducing
assistance to Cuba and cutting
(See SOVIET Page 2)
Twelve reportedly die
in plane explosion
EAGLE LAKE, Texas (AP) —
A twin engine commuter airp-
lane flying from Laredo to
Houston exploded today over
southeast Texas, killing at least
12 people, the Texas Depart-
ment of Public Safety said.
Authorities said the Conti-
nental Express commuter
exploded shortly after 10 a.m.
Debris fell on Chumney Ferry
road and in fields near the Col-
orado River southeast of the
town of Eagle Lake, about 60
miles west of Houston.
DPS spokesman Mike Cox
Agriculture Day
Calhoun County Extension Agent Darryl Dromgoole talks to persons participating in the first Port
Lavaca/Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture “Agriculture Day.” People from all
areas of the community participated. (Staff photo by Leslie Crossland)
Chamber hosts Ag-Day
By CHARLYN FINN
Wave Staff Wriler
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serving fruits, vegetables
and meats. “All crops are
treated with ftingicides to
keep a stable food supply,”
he said. “Without them we
would lose a quarter of a mil-
lion jobs and consumer
prices would go up. Without
fungicides, our crops would
rot before they got to our
tables.”
“Most of the time when
people get sick from meat it
is due to the way it was
treated in the kitchen,” Pasc-
hal said.
Cattlemen are fighting the
“war against fat,” Paschal
said through the technology
of genetics that is producing
leaner cattle.
Paschal admitted the ani-
mal rights activists are
__________(See AG Page 2)
Port O'Connor cites Quinns
PORT O'CONNOR — The
board of directors of the Port
O’Connor Chamber of Commer-
ce Tuesday night passed a
resolution thanking Allen and
Lottie Quinn for five years of
service to the chamber’s
activities.
The Quinns have been the
operators of the POC Exxon
since 1986. The lease has
expired and was not renewed
by the landlord. They will vac-
ate the station on Sept. 30.
The resolution expressed the
chamber’s thanks to the Quinns
for providing supplies and
materials for chamber ftind
raising activities while they
were operators of the store.
Agnes Valigura said another
effort will be made in October
to organize a cemetery
association.
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