The Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 186, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 18, 1991 Page: 3 of 18
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asked to contribute to the cost of the show.
Every one contacted has agreed to contribute
financially to this effort.
They also need the support of individuals.
The next time you visit Port O’Connor drop
some change into the collection cans which can
be found at every place of business.
The goal can be met and we can produce a tri-
bute to the troops we can all be proud of.
ers, it’s a deal they could well have done
without.**
your beat market manager for
cuts from the rib and the loin.
All the most tender selections,
except top blade, come from
those parts of the beef carcass.
Another concern is price.
Although tenderloin is always a
good choice because it is the
essence offender beef, you will
find that other cuts offer a high
degree of tenderness at a lower
cost For instance, top blade,
which comes from the chuck,
often sells for less per pound
than a comparably sized ten-
derloin.
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the delinquent students moved
to the CHS campus with the reg-
ular student body. To quote, he
said:
“It is my strong recommenda-
tion that the program be con-
tinued in its present form, and
that it definitely not be moved
to the high school. I believe that
moving the program would
make it completely ineffective.
The best deterrent we have for
misbehavior is forbidding Flex
Ed students from being on regu-
lar school campuses. If Flex Ed
is in the high school building.
Flex Ed delinquent students
will roam the halls of the school
whenever they want to. There is
no way to prevent it short of
locking them up.
“I have devoted five years of
my life to Flex Ed. I believe in
the program. I firmly believe
that the stress of the program
contributed greatly to my
health problems, and that is
gains of a private enterprise,
when I as a taxpayer helped
to pay for a parking lot that
my school taxes helped ftind,
so my competitor in this busif
ness can accommodate a nic
er parking facility to com-
pete with me, whose taxes
j The Texas economy is just begining to recov-
1 er from the sharp decline caused by the bust in
1 oil prices and its effects on the real estate,
j] finance and related industries. Communities
! throughout the state have developed plans to
diversify their economic base and worked to
attract other sources of jobs and income.
Now the panel appointed by Gov. Ann
Richards to find new sources of revenue for the
state is proposing to negate those gains.
The basic thrust behind the plans seems to be
“leave less disposable income in the hands of
Texans.” Has the Washington Beltway
extended its boundaries to Austin?
Adopting a state income tax, no matter how
small, would reduce the dollars available for
wage earners to spend at the grocery store, for
trucks, clothes, travel, and all of those other
things that put money into circulation and help
keep the economy moving. .
One of the benefits Texas has used to attract
.new business and new residents is the lack of a
estate income tax. Many of these people have
come here to escape those taxes and now the
panel wants the state to renege.
WHWB
budget for fireworks, a live radio broadcast has
been secured and the pyrotechnicians, lead by
Johnny Hawes, are planning the biggest and
most spectacular fireworks display in the Gol-
den Crescent
And they everyone’s help. The industrial
la can tenderize almost all cuts
of beef.
Another trick my eon taught
me, is to take a beef skirt, for
fajitas, and sprinkle it through-
ly with tenderizer, squeeze
lime juice all over it and beat in
well with a meat hammer. Wrap
it in aluminium foil and let set;
in the refrigerator over-night.
You will have fajitas that melt
in your mouth and taste like:
heaven. -— *
Then there are good old ham-
burgers. I look for ground
round that is lean but has some
fat for flavor, and keep a spray
bottle of water handy to sprits
those flames down. My sister
taught me to mix in a little steak
sauce when forming my patties,'
it adds a little zip to the flavor;
Along with the meat you need
a vegetable or two. If you liktf
onions, clean a 1015 onion, dab
on a pat of butter and wrap in
aluminium foil, then set it on
the side of the grill while your
doing your other cooking, take
it off last. Of course you can do
corn and zuchinni the same way
but those onions ard
A six-percent reduction in spendable'income
may not seem like much of a sacrifice to former
Lt Gov. Bill Hobby but to an ordinary wage ear-
ner already struggling to make ends meet, it
looms large.
And former Gov. John Connally’s proposal to
raise the price of gasoline is, if anything, more
preposterous.
The majority of working Texans depend on
their vehicles to get to and from work as well as
for personal trips. Most Texans cannot avail
themselves of mass transit.
What Connally is proposing is to increase the
cost of getting to work for every Texan outside of
the centers of our large cities.
The increase would give Texas some of the
highest gasoline prices in the United States at a
time when the state and many communities try-
ing to increase our tourist business. This
increase would destroy our ability to comptete
with other coastal states.
The legislature should firmly reject both
proposals and any legislator who supports the
state income tax should be removed by the vot-
ers at the next opportunity.
July 4th IE MJULOJAM1X A a AAA A MU A A S.l
To the editor
I am requesting to be put
on the agenda for the next
school board meeting. I
would like to discuss the Cal-
houn County Independent
School District property
located at 426 W. Main St.,
where the Consolidated Tax
Office is located.
Is there an agreement
between CCISD and
Richardson Funeral Home
concerning the use of the
parking lot?
If there is an agreement, is
it verbal or written?
If its a written agreement, I
would like a copy of that
agreement
I do not believe it fair that
a parking lot owned by thu
School District should be
used to ftirther the economic
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With Saddam Hussein and -Iraq vanquished obviously bui|ds in aarntplosion in spending. In
addition, the budget deal contains all manner
of loopholes |nd escape clauses as to what lim-
its there are to spending. For example, the
President is required to submit adjustments to
the deficit target each year along with his
budget. These adjustments are supposed to
reflect updated economic and technical esti-
mates. But critics complain that these adjust-
ments will only accomodate new and higher
spending. Also, the President must make yearly
adjustments to the caps on “discretionary
spending.” These adjustments must reflect
changes in so-called “concepts and defini-
tions,” among other things. This is a loophole
you could drive a truck through.
Incidentally, a word about these so-called
spending caps. They were imposed after Con-
gress already had jacked up spending. For
example, in the two years of the Bush admi-
nistration, spending grew an average of 10 per-
------------ . cent a year. Under the old Gramm-Rudman
lion this year? Whatever happened to all that bu<iget law, from 1986 to 1988, federal spending
‘ ~ “ ’ ' _ grew about four percent a year. And last year,
Budget deal supporters now insist that defi after President bush and his budget director,
Richard Darman, caved in and allowed new tax-
es, the House of Representatives increased
spending in eight domestic appropriations bills
by an average of 12 percent. Only then were the
caps put on.
The budget deal does cut spending in one
area—defense. In fact, of all federal spending,
__________ ________ defense is the only area which undergoes actu-
Chris Warden, a close reading of the budget al inflation-adjusted reductions. Every other
For several years now the only Fourth of July
fireworks show in Calhoun County has been at
‘the front beach in Port O’Connor.
The show, which draws hundreds of specta-
tors from surrounding counties, has been
financed by the Port O’Connor Chamber and
donations collected at Port O’Connor mer- _ .. . - . ~ ----------
chants with some support from the Port Lavaca plan^s ,and b“si"e“e® ”the county bein8
Chamber of Commerce and individuals. The
POC Chamber has never before gone outside of
the community to solicit help with the show.
This year is different.
f The overwhelming triumph by the allied for-
’ ces in the Persian Gulf War has prompted the
' show organizers to exceed the fantastic shows
,of years past.
1 The Chamber board approved doubling the
izing marinade. Any marinade
that includes acid from vinegar,
lemon or lime juice, wine or sal-
Those tasty aromas of summer
One of the greatest aromas of
summer Is tho smell of someone
barbecuing outside. The only
thing th t beats that smell is
tasting the barbecue.
We have one of those fancy
gas grills, with lava rocks and
all, and it’s a wonderful time
saver and meat does taste good,
but nothing makes meat taste as
good as using an old fashioned
cooker using wood like mes-
quite, oak or hickory. A trick my
son taught me is to quarter a
yellow onion and a lime and
add them to the fire. The smell
will send you oht of your mind
and the enhancement to the fla-
vor is indescribable.
I’m never sure which cut of
beef is the best for barbecue
and was very happy to receive
an item from the “Texas Beef
Industry Council” about grill-
ing beef. They say, “There are
beef cuts that go straight on the
grill and some cuts that benefit
from a marinade to enhance fla-
vor or tenderness or both
before grilling. Tenderloin, top
blade, porterhouse, T-bone, top
loin or strip, round tip and top
sirloin are ideal for outdoor
grilling.” A tip if you can’t
remember those names is to ask
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/.on the battlefield, President Bush and Congress
are turning their attention back to the home
«, front. And first on the domestic agenda is next
jyear’s federal budget.
While the President was masterful in his
handling of the Persian Gulf conflict, the “jury”
is still out on his record of controlling govern-
ment spending and the sise of the bureaucracy.
Consider this projection: The 1991 federal
,budget deficit is estimated to reach more than
.$300 billion, the highest in history. That despite
a so-called “deficit reduction” package passed
in the waning days of last year’s Congress. You
v remember that budget deal—the deal to end all
' budget deals. The one that raised taxes, to the
‘ tune of $146 billion over five years. The one that
, supposedly cut spending by $281 billion over
. five years. But if that budget deal was intended
to reduce the federal deficit, why then the fore-
•(catt that the deficit will rise by more than $100
a billion to a not-so-grand total of nearly $327 bil-
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DiscipJirieproBTenT'sertoTis
For sometime I have heard
teachers and administrators at
school board meetings talk
about the serious student dis-
cipline problems that exjst on
the various CCISD campuses.
I guess I thought that these
educators were pretty much
talking about class attendance
and tardy problems and per-
haps some sassy students that
might benefit from some cor-
poral punishment.
However, after reading a let-
ter from retiring Flex Ed Prin-
cipal Fred Stokes to Assistant
Superintendent T.R. Turk,
Ed.D., I see that the discipline
problem is much worse than I
realized. I project that the dis-
cipline problem is much worse
than what a lot of people
realized.
Stokes, in his letter to Turk,
pleads to not have the Flex Ed
School re-located to the high
school campus. The re location
of the Flex Ed school is one of
the cost saving factors being
considered since the school
district will be losing $3 million
in state funds and property tax
dollars.
Stokes’ was not too worried
about having at risk students
moved to the CHS campus, but
he was worried about having
Letters to the Editor
Business upset
Marinading and/or tenderiz-
ing are options for saving some
money. Cuts from the chuck and
the round can be upgraded for
easy grilling by using a tender- outstanding.
My mouth is watering, thinlj
I’ll run by the grocery and pick
up a steak for supper! *
talk of reducing the deficit?
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cit reduction will occur in the so-called “out
years.” After initially rising, they say, the defi-
cit will fall to a level of about $65 to $70 billion
by 1995. But critics of the budget deal, such as
the Washington-based Cato Institute, say they
have heard this “spend now, save later” argu-
<ment before. And they point out that none of
i; those savings ever have materialized.
1 According to Washington correspondent
^ deal’s provisions suggests that the critics have a category of spending will enjoy substantial
- good argument. For example, the deal increases. As Warden concludes: “The latest
b revamped the Gramm-Rudman act, jacking up federal budget deal may have satisfied
the deficit targets so that they are virtually Washington’s insatiable appetite for spending,
>r meaningless. For example, this year the deficit at least for now. But for overburdened taxpay-
i target is $327 billion. Last year, the old Gramm- *- J—
FRudman deficit target was $64 billion. This
why I am retiring.”
Stokes fears to let the Flex Ed
delinquent students “roam the
halls" of the CHS campus with
the regular student body.
Good heavens, we adults
must have really failed our
youngsters. Some of us appa-
rently wanted our children to
have more freedom than we
knew when we were growing up
and just let discipline become
an extinct word in the English
vocabulary.
I think a lot of other discip-
line problems came into exis-
tence because many parents
simply became so wrapped up
In their own lives that they had
nothing left to spare for their
children.
I guess we really need to take
a moment to sit back and look at
what we have allowed to hap-
pen and see if it is still possible
to pick up the pieces and put
things back together again.
Atany rate, when it gets to the
point that there are kids that
are so undesirable that we have
to remove them because they
are detrimental to the well
being of the rest of the students,
it is time to sit down and do
some serious thinking about
what to do to change this
appalling situation.
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helped make this possible;
I asked the school district
to please respond to my
request and inquiries by
June 15, 1991 and to please
respond in writing.
Cordially,
J.R. Artere
The Port Lavaca Wave
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Lifestyle Editor
CAROLINE GRANATO
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Bales, Steve & Fortney, Paul, Jr. The Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 186, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 18, 1991, newspaper, June 18, 1991; Port Lavaca, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1280683/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Calhoun County Public Library.