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USPS 264-260- Ingleside, Texas 78362 - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1983
Corps to make visit
Mobile home
We Invite
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Volleyball scores
for Lady Mustangs
Sft page 7
Regulations
for city dump
Pink elephants
at Baker's Port?
Su page t
Who's the cook
for the week?
See insUt
Holiday closing
for Labor Day
Golfers, check the
‘Linda Lee Classic'
“We’re in the meat of the evaluation
See “PORT" Back Page
And a decision on the service will be
subject to approval of the state’s public
utility commission.
In GTE’s initial survey, calling habits
were noted for one month, Vick said.
JTPA to coordinate business and local
government could also serve "to create
jobs,’’ and proivde for “business expan-
Editor’s note: The Index thanks Ingleside
historian Norman Godbey for this colorful arti-
cle tracing the history of the train depot. Mr.
Godbey, already a contributor of several articles
to the Index, again shows his flair for narrative.
This is the first of a series on the depot.
Create jobs
While the two JTPA groups are pri-
marily focused oo preparing economical-
ly deprived citizens for jobs through BCC
occupational education, Reynolds point-
on display
This month the museum will be featur-
ing art work by Bernice Lahr Clayworth
She has been an Ingleside area resi-
dent since 1972 and has studied in Kansas
City and New York.
Her works have been shown in New
Mexico, Arizona and Texas. She also has
received awards from the Art Center in
Corpus Christi, and she has paintings in
the Art Museum of South Texas.
The artist designed Ingleside's historic
mural for the downtown beautification
project in 1962-83
Her works and all displays in the
museum are open to the public. The
museum is open Tuesday and Thursday,
10 a m. to 2 pm., and weekends 1 to 5
p.m. weekly.
Action taken
The JTPA meeting of the CEO and the
PIC resulted for each group in:
•Approved budgets with fixed adminis-
trative costs this year of 15 percent of the
total monies received, 70 percent for job
training and 15 percent for other ser-
vices;
We invite to be our guests at the pic-
ture, "Superman in” showing Friday
thru Thursday, September I thru
September • at the Rialto Theatre, Ron
Welborn and guest.
This notice, clipped from The Ingleeiue
Index, will serve as your admission
The “Brush Country Consortium," a
group of more than 30 elected officials
and business leaders from 11 rural South
Texas counties blended their forces Aug.
18 to attack unemployment throughout
the Coastal Bend.
Two different boards, Private Industry
Council and Chief Elected Officials, for-
med under the Job Training Partnership
Act (JTPA), met at their joint session in
Duval County for a “great day in the
history of our region when people dedi-
cated to our region get together to create
a better life for us all,” said San Patricio
County Judge J.M. Edmondson, chair-
man of the CEO of JTPA.
Edmondson, who acted as chairman of
the two boards to steamline action by the
troup, announced that the JTPA proposal
naming Bee County College as the ad-
ministrative and training arm of the con-
sortium had been approved by Texas
Gov Mark White July 18.
JTPA, which replaces CETA, allocates
70 percent of the some 1730,000 through
June 30 to job training in the rural areas.
“It (JTPA) is much more cost effec-
tive (than CETA) — there's no question
about that,” said former CETA Youth
Services counselor Doris Choate, now a
JTPA employee.
The former CETA Worker also said,
“The governor’s office, through ex-
perience with CETA and other pro-
grams, has found that the most cost-ef-
fective training is (provided) through ed-
ucational institutions.”
Charles Reynolds, Beeville business-
man who is chairman of the PIC, pointed
out that unlike CETA, “Politicians (in
cities and to Washington) had it (control)
completely before now,” and he later
emphasized that the move to coordinate
forces of the business and rural elected
officials “is a wonderful opportunity for
this area” to further examine ideas for
general economic growth and develop-
ment
sions and new business” to the rural
counties of Bee, Jim Wells, Kleberg, San
Patricio, Duval, Kenedy, Live Oak,
Brooks, Aransas, McMullen and Refugio.
Echoing his proposal, Coastal Bend
Council of Governments official Jay Nel-
son of Aransas Pass, said Reynolds’
ideas are “fundamentals to a committ-
ment 245,ooo (people) strong to not be
treated like a Third World country any-
more.”
Nelson stressed that the joint power
created through the JTPA consortium
The Index newspaper, Pro-
gress office supply and com-
mercial printing department
will be closed Monday, Sept. 5 to
observance of Labor Day.
Deadline for display and clas-
sified advertising is 8 p.m. Fri-
day, Sept. 2.
For news stories and photos,
the deadline is noon Friday,
Sept. 2.
City manager, Jim Elium has an-
nounced that the city council has deter-
mined that the new hours of the Ingleside
dump ground located on Fourth Street
will be 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. effective Thurs-
day, Sept. 1.
He stressed that the dump ground will
be for the convenience of Ingleside
residents only and dumping should be
confined to trash and brush only.
Elium went on to explain that there
would be no fee for the use of the dump to
residents and added, “The dump may not
be used for dumping anything but trash
and brush. That means no household gar-
bage, no chemicals, no dead animals and
no tires."
4 By Tim W. Fischer
Associate Editor
Last Friday the written text of the
Baker’s Port public hearing was de-
livered to the U.S. Army Corps of En-
gineers by the court reporter who record-
law passed
The Texas Legislature passed a law
known as House Bill 1308 which becomes
effective September 1. It requires the
owner of a mobile home to notify the ap-
praisal district that you intend to relo-
cate your property and requires payment
of 810 fee.
The foe will be paid to the appraisal
district, delivered to the County Trea-
surer and deposited to the general fund.
Failure to comply with this law can re-
sult to a civil penalty if charges are filed
by the District Attorney or County At-
torney.
Property owners are encouraged to
visit the appraisal district a few days
prior to the scheduled date of moving.
Mailing address for the appraisal dis-
trict is P.O. Box 988, Sinton, TX 78387.
•Adoption of “needs-based” payment
ranges for training participanto of from
80 to 1100 weekly, to addition to tuition ex-
penses and tools or books, with the stipu-
lation that only those participants as
stogie heads of households with large
families and need of child care facilities
would qualify for the 8100 maximum and
that welfare recipients would receive a
top figure of not more than 850 to needs
based payments under those same cir-
cumstances;
See “JOBS” Back Page
provides avenues for “inter-county eco-
nomic development” and “returns con-
trol to the private sector” for business
needs.
The idea of coordinating business and
government to rural areas. Nelson said,
could lead to a "Certified Development
Corporation with local control” to ap-
prove government guaranteed loans on a
local basis.
The idea of a federally-funded, certi-
fied development organization was sub-
mitted to the consortium as an item for
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to Baker's Port site
ed all testimony at the Aug. 4 hearing in
Corpus Christi.
The permit application for Baker’s
Port is to the review process, according
to a Corps spokesman in Galveston Aug.
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Part I
The changing landscape
rphe Ingleside area is unique to that it appears to
X have an ever-changing landscape. Some of the early
pioneers (1830-1875) found a land of extensive grasses;
those arriving later found mesquites taking root on the
former grassy areas.
With the arrival of the Spanish invaders to the 1500’s,
bringing with them mesquite beans (feed for their horses)
it is likely that the beans were strewn to such a manner
that the hardy, drought-resistant mesquite trees gradually
took over the grassy areas.
Since the Ingleside depot was built to a primitive,
wilderness land, I felt that a small amount of pre-history
concerning the Ingleside terrain would be appropriate. ..
In the cool gray of early dawn a high south-east wind was
already whipping through the tall, spindly grass which
stretched toward the horizon. Like waves upon a primeval
ocean the grass moved to perfect unison with the gale-force
winds.
Probably by early afternoon a massive cloud bank
would be lying low to the northwest heralding the approach
of a late evening storm.
Other than a few buffalo wallows and a lonely forested
enclave there was very little to break the monotony of a x
flat, featureless, dreary landscape
A few buffalo grazed contentedly near one of the
wallows, raising their heads now and then, apparently
apprehensive of the unusually early morning gale.
Off in the distance a large group of antelopes plowed
through the tall grass heading toward a nearby waterhoie
Qtrangely, in the midst of the sea of grass the
0 forested enclave seemed to be growing to the air,
towering above the adjoining landscape to reality, the
trees were rooted to black sand on a knoll which appeared
to be higher than it really was. Tbs soil on which the
grasses thrived was heavy, river delta gumbo
One day, a long time off, a primitive road would be
constructed at the very edge of the forested area
Then, much later, steel rails, would be laid on a
slightly elevated roadbed running parallel to the ancient
wagon road, both road and railroad apparently leading to
nowhere.,,
Early depot
INGLESIDE STATION (depot) os it appeared In the early part of the century. Quite a few of the settlement's
residents gathered on this day as the Women s Methodist Missionary Society was preparing for an ice cream and
cake supper, and occasion which helped the group raise money for various projects. A few workers stand In door-
way of loading shed. Gustav W. Blaschke (far right) in white shirt. In center of picture ore Blaschke children.
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Transportation
This photograph depicts mode of transportation during the early part of
the century. Note landscape middle right. The barren landscape which
appears at rear of last wagon has been replaced today by modern com-
mercial and residential structures. Pictures left to right: Mr. Muckleroy,
Gustav Blaschke In door, Ray Ives, and John Massl.
Train depot steeped in history
Today, the oaks are almost gone — victims of old age
and progress. The railroad leads to major cities of
commerce, a super-highway straddles the trees and leads
to prosperous trade centers The sandy knoll on which the
trees originally stood is gone, but portions of the black sand
still remain. The sand on which the remaining oaks grow,
as mentioned in a previous article to The Index, is the
remnant of a distributary of the ancient Nueces River
System. ’■
Because of the untiring efforts of the Ingleside
Historical Society and other interested individuals it is
quite possible that the ancient forested enclave site may be
designated as an historical landmark by the Texas
Historical Commission to Austin.
The site mentioned is northwest of Ingleside on
Highway 361 near the entrance of the modern Du Pont
Plant. , J
In all probability the area was used for centuries as a
shelter for animals, as an Indian resting place, and by
proven historical records, a campsite for early travelers,
and was used as late as the middle 1990’s.
Part II
The Railroad comes to Ingleside
Tn approximately 1887 the Riley Railroad Construction
JL Co. arrived to the Ingleside area and began the tedious
job of building the railroad.
Mr. Riley, a full blooded Irishman, weighing about 250
pounds and sandy haired (according to my informant who
knew him personally) brought 100 men, 250 mules, 100
fresnoes (slips), a fulltime harness repair man, chuck
wagons, and complete cooking facilities Mr Riley brought
his timekeeper with him also. His name was Jack Keeley.
Half of the laborers were white; half were black.
In due time the workers formed the roadbed, laid the
rails, set the telegraph poles upright, strung the wire, and
the job was finished.
The arrival of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass
Railroad to the area was the beginning of a new era in an
undeveloped land. Markets to the north were opened;
travel became a pleasure instead of a drudge; speculators
and land developers had much more to offer prospective
customers. .
Previous to the advent of the railroad it is supposed
that shipping of produce and seafood was accomplished by
slow, uncertain shallow-water schooners upon an
unpredictable current
As time progressed a more modern ship, the
steam-powered Katy M was utilized. A side paddle type
boat, the Katy M. contained two, 38 horsepower Wolverine
engines which furnished the power to turn the paddles.
TeBe Continued
Officials, business leaders team up to create jobs
future consideration by the members op-
erating apart from their charter to pro-
vide job training and was not proposed as
a direct function of JTPA.
Toll-free calling eyed
He expects the cost study to take 30 to
45 days.
After that, area GTE customers will
receive a survey form in their bills to de-
termine local interest in the toll-free ser-
vice.
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" No more long distance telephone calls
to Aransas Pass could be a real possibili-
ty, according to news from General
Telephone Company of the Southwest
earlier this week
Bill Vick, GTE, general manager, said
Tuesday that GTE’s initial study shows
that the possibility of toll-free service be-
tween Aransas Pass and Ingleside should
be pursued.
“We are now doing the cost study to de-
termine what the equipment costs and
rates would be,” Vick said.
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