Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 1983 Page: 2 of 22
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CHESTER C. SURBER-Editor and Publisher
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picked up, No Lay-Aways
All Sales Final
Jackson Photography, Inc.
and said he shot Mrs Row
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TIM POTTER Managing Editor
GEORGIA HRDLICKA- Advertising Director
TERRY HAMMONDS- Agribusiness Editor
VIRGINIA OCHOA Composing Room Supervisor
CAROLINE GRANATO-Circulation Manager
EDWARD HAWTHRONE JR. Pressroom Foreman
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can be successful; women’s rights,
which will be conducted by a lawyer
with the Mexican-American Legal
Defense Fund; how to effectively
utilize stress, which will be conducted
by Rosemary Valladolid, a nursing
coordinator at the El Paso Community
College; and family attitudes, which
will be conducted by Josie Saldana
The keynote speaker at a luncheon
Saturday will be Patricia Barela
Rivera, who will be speaking on
women’s accountability. Miss Rivera
is a training instructor and personnel
management specialist from Denver
and was recently named one of 100 in-
fluential people by Hispanic Business
magazine.
Also addressing participants will be
Hernan E. Jaso, a former mayor of
Goliad
justments in spending
Cawood is also suggesting new
presidential budget veto authority
which would allow veto over
specific budget items
Currently, Cawood explained, the
president must veto the entire
budget to stop spending in any one
area he does not approve.
Texas realtors have the strongest
political action committees in
Austin and one of the strongest in
Washington, Cawood said.
Since Sept 1, prosecutors have
been notified 10 months in advance
of a proposed early parole.
Fritz Cranek. school board president; Peggy
Janecka; Crystal Janecka: Janecka; John
McCourt, chairman of the raffle; and Claude
Marty, high school principal.
ninth grade and up will
meet from 7:45 through
8:45 p.m. Registration will
be held at the first class in
room C-200 at Calhoun High
School. The minimum
number of students per
class is eight, and the max-
imum number of students
is 20.
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New project helps to bring
electricians’ tape wrapped
around the edge of the rear
view mirror held it in place
"1 think if we had a more
dependable ride, we d get
more people going up," said
Mrs Barden.
There was little conversa-
tion during the trip, anyone
wishing to speak had to com
pete with the drone of the
engine, which strained to
Heard pointed out that not all
prisoners are considered for early
parole, and he said that he feels the
parole board is trying to look more
closely into the history of any who
are eligible for early release
Calhoun County ISD
Community Education is
offering two beginning
guitar classes starting
Monday. The eight-week
courses will run through
Dec 12
William Day will be
teaching the courses. Day
has taught similar continu-
ing education courses and
is also a private guitar in-
structor
The Associated Prass i« entitled exclusively to the use tor
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By KEN O’QUINN
Aaaecialed Press Writer
He Antique Shoppe
108 N Virginia
Port Lavaca. Tests 77979
Bus - 552 6871
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“You’ve got to be strong
and stick with it," said Mrs
Lyons, whose husband has
been sentenced to 3'2 years
for breaking and entering
Along with the visits, “We’ve
got our letters and our phone
calls and our furloughs. That
keeps us going
"They count on us visiting.
It means an awful lot to
them,” said Mary Ann
Berube, who visits her
boyfriend.
The bail project, which of-
fers bail and pre-trial legal
Students in the second
through the eighth grades
will meet from 6:30 to 7:30
p.m., and people from the
Not until the van’s engine
died 30 miles from Portland,
and Mrs. Barden pulled over
to the side of the highway
was there a change.
"Ready to start thumb-
ing?” joked Ms. Berube, as
she and Debby Hansen hop-
ped out to hitchhike.
Yet the women said they
said would return next week
“If you care about your
man you'll go,” said Ms
Berube.
about their progress
Local man gets
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served only 11 months of a concur
rent 12-year sentence and a con-
victed child molester who had serv-
ed six months of a six-year
sentence.
Students will learn to
tune a guitar, the fun-
damentals of note reading,
how to read a chord
diagram, how to play basic
chords and the two-finger
picking method.
Background and basic
knowledge gained from
A vocational welding
course is being offered in the
Calhoun High School Voca-
tional Building by Communi-
ty Education beginning Mon
day.
The class is limited to
those upgrading their job
skills, and there is no
charge.
Classes will meet from
6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. each
Tuesday and Thursday for
nine weeks. However, no
classes will be conducted
during Thanksgiving week
of the escape.
Heard said that there were
others in addition to Garcia
that are charged in connec-
tion with the July 28
burglary of a storage
building in Port Lavaca
Garcia, who previously
served time in prison when
he was about 18 years old, is
also in violation of probation
in Victoria County on
charges of criminal
mischief, Heard said
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The conference will wind down
Saturday afternoon with a "unity ses-
sion” in which members will fill out
evaluation forms and discuss what
they feel the conference has ac-
complished.
The conference ends Saturday night
with a dance at 8 p.m. at the Continen-
tal Ballroom on Highway 35.
this course will enable the
student to continue the
learning process on his
own.
Students are asked to br-
ing a guitar, picks and pen-
cil. Tuition is $10. Books
will be available at the
class for $3.10 including
tax. Day will have guitar
strings at the class. Before
selecting a guitar, if a stu-
dent does not have one, he
may contact Day at
572-8716 for suggestions
about the best size and
style of guitar for the age of
the student
van never reached 50 mph
Although she drives each
week, Mrs Barden rarely
visits her husband because
he despises the strip sear
ches that inmates must sub-
mit to after visits, she said
He fears he will lose his
temper at a guard and then
lose his furloughs
"It hurts me because I
drive up here every Satur-
day and I sit out here" in the
van. she said "But what am
I going to do? I can't force
him.”
10-year sentence
A Port Lavaca man who
escaped from the Calhoun
County Jail last month has
been sentenced to 10 years in
prison for a burglary and the
escape.
Paul Garcia. 28, pleaded
guilty to the Oct. 1 escape
and burglary charges, and in
a plea bargain agreement,
received the maximum
sentence that the third-
degree felony charge car-
ries.
District Attorney Dan
Heard said this morning that
his office is satisfied with the
sentence, which was recom-
mended to the court by his
office, and that the reason
Garcia received the max-
imum sentence was because
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had not been acknowledged.
Other items on the agenda include
updating of service credits for city
employees and a proposed resolution
for street repairs including a waiving
of the bidding procedure.
The meeting will be held in City Hall
Annex, 306 E. Mahan St.
Also addressing the group,
Charles Cardenas, a McAllen
Realtor, discussed recent Texas
legislation which has an impact in
the real estate industry.
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PORTLAND, Maine (API
— Debbie Lyons. 22 years old
and expecting her third
child, sometimes borrows $5
for gas when her welfare
check doesn't arrive in time,
but she never misses the
Saturday morning trips to
the state prison
Clinging to her one hour
visit with her husband, Mrs
Lyons makes the tedious
80 mile journey from
Portland to the prison in
Thomaston every week with
her mother, Bev Barden,
whose husband is also an in-
mate
Mrs Lyons and her
mother are among a group of
women with no cars and lit-
tle money — they all receive
some form of welfare — who
depend on the Bus Project, a
6-year-old program spon-
sored by the Cumberland
County Bail Project to bring
inmates closer to their
families
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Officers elected to guide ac-
tivities of the Port Lavaca Realtors
were: president, Gail Parker; vice
president, Joann Maguire;
secretary, Louise
treasurer, Nina Riley.
Directors elected were Laura
Phillips, Sissy Sullivan, Marie
Stallcup, Betty Griffith and Russell
Cain
She and her four children
wait for his four-day
furloughs
While all Saturday visits
are an hour, weekday visits
can be two hours if an in-
mate’s good behavior has
earned him the privilege of
using the annex.
There, couples can em-
brace, hold hands, and sit
close together. In the regular
visiting room, they may em-
brace only when they arrive
and leave, and they are
separated by a table.
"You feel like they’re
reading your lips,"
Barden said of the guards.
Kopsinski of Spokane,
Wash , and David Brashears
of Boston, Mass., were at-
tempting to be the first
Americans to reach the top
via Tibet.
The Chinese Mountaineer-
ing Society in Peking could
provide no information
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inmates and families together
help to low-income people,
provides money to help
cover the $200 a month in
transportation costs, but it's
not enough
"I usually end up putting
in $200 or $300 out of my own
pocket" each year, said
Pierre Shevenell, who
oversees the program
Last year a regional
transportation service stop-
ped providing a comfortable, climb the slightest hill The
12-passenger van after Mrs
Barden, the bus project’s
driver, had an accident in a
parking lot and failed to
report it.
“We’re using cars until we
can get something we can
call our own," said state
legislator Laurence Connol-
ly, who helped start the pro
gram
“There are a number of
people who really have a
commitment to stay
together,” said Connolly.
“And being able to get up
and see him really gives her
(a wife) strength.”
It is a struggle to borrow a
vehicle each week, and
families sometimes are turn-
ed away because the
vehicles are filled.
Four women made one re-
cent trip on a foggy, raw day
under overcast skies. As the
maroon and white van crept
north along coastal Route 1,
a two-lane rural road, chilly
air blew in through windows
left open to vent exhaust
fumes that rose through
cracks in the floor.
The van had no heat, no
radio, torn upholstery, and a
missing door handle. Gray
Raffle winner
PORT LAVACA RESIDENT Gary Janecka
poses with his new 1983 Ford F150 Explorer
valued al *12.500 which he recently won in a
raffle sponsored by Bishop Forest Deanery
lliuh School in Schulenburg. From left are
Guitar lessons offered
"Their eves are on you con-
stantly."
When David Lyons. 27.
was sent to prison this time,
he wondered what was
ahead for his marriage. "We
weren't getting along that
great 1 was worried about
that,” but the visits have
helped, he said in a
telephone interview.
"I don't talk much about
this place. I just talk about
the mistakes we made and
the things we should do to
make it better."
Emerging from the prison
following the visits. Ms.
Berube carried a shiny
wooden jewelry box that her
boyfriend had made in the
prison wood shop.
Debby Hansen’s husband.
Dick, had built a large pine
frame and engraved both of
their names in the top, and
their daughter’s name.
Heather, on the bottom
But the presents failed to
alter the somber mood "We
hate to leave them after-
ward,” said Ms. Berube.
“It’s a depressing ride
home."
Heard said that in a case
such as this, Victoria County
will probably either revoke
Garcia's probation and run
that sentence concurrent to
the 10-year sentence or simp-
ly let the probation run out.
' Wave lengths
Civic Theatre opens tonight
1 The curtain will rise on the opening night performance of
"The Creature Creeps," a production of Calhoun Civic
Theatre, at 8 p.m today in the auditorium of Madison
Elementary School Tickets will be sold at the door
The horror spoof will be performed again at 8 p.m Satur-
day in the school auditorium Admission is $3 for adults, $2.50
for senior citizens and $1 50 for students.
Children's theater to perform
“The Witch in the Woods" will be presented by Children's
Classic Theatre at 9:30 am. Saturday at Calhoun County ,
Library The play will be presented again at 10:30 am at the
library branch in Seadrift
There is no admission charge.
Cancer research aid dance set
Tickets will be sold at the door when the Veterans of
Foreign Wars Post 4409 Auxiliary hosts its benefit Saturday
at the post home ballroom.
The Cancer Aid and Research dance will begin at 9 p.m.
Admission cost is $5 per person Music will be played by Bob-
by Lee and the Night Riders. The community is invited.
Car wash set Saturday
I<aw Enforcement Explorer Post 392 will sponsor a car
wash Saturday at the Texaco Station in Point Comfort Cars
'will be picked up and delivered by calling 987 2395 Cost is
$3.50.
because she hesitated in giv- /
ing over her daily cash <
receipts
A Dallas County jury
deliberated an hour Thurs-
day before finding Billy
Conn Gardner guilty of kill-
ing Thelma Katherine Row,
64, on May 16
The sentencing phase of
the capital murder trial was
scheduled to begin at 9 a m
today.
Gardner’s accomplice.
Melvin Sanders, testified
that he plotted the robbery
and selected the Lake
Highlands High School
cafeteria because his wife,
who worked there, said the
cash receipts were guarded
by middle-aged women
Mrs Row was shot once in
the torso during the robbery
and died 11 days later
Sanders testified that
Gardner emerged after the
robbery with a bag of money
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because she hesitated in giv-
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Man convicted
of cafeteria
theft, murder
DALLAS (AP) - A
40-year-old man was con-
victed of robbing and
murdering a high school
cafeteria manager who an ; ;
accomplice said was killed f I ;
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Maximum enrollment is
12, and all registration will
be taken by telephone on a
first come, first serve basis
by calling 552-9728
Basic safety procedures in
gas and electric arc welding,
use of acetylene cutting
torch and electric arc
welding of mild steel and
aluminum will be covered.
The teacher is master
welder George Laney, who
has over 30 years of ex-
perience in industrial
welding.
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Everest
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP)
— Three Americans have '
conquered Mount Everest
from the Tibetan side, the
first non Chinese to do so, a
Japanese mountaineer
reported today
Almost all Everest
climbers approach the
29,028-foot peak, the world's
highest, from the Nepalese ;
side Until now, Chinese
climbers have been the only ;
ones to have scaled Everest
from the Tibetan side, in I960 ;
and in 1975.
The names of the
Americans were not im-
mediately known.
However, a 16-member
American team led by Dr.
James Morrissey of
Stockton, Calif, left for the
Tibetan side of the mountain
in August and had hoped to
reach the summit around
Oct . 6
The team, including Chris
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Surber, Chester C. & Potter, Tim. Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 1983, newspaper, October 21, 1983; Port Lavaca, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1288452/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Calhoun County Public Library.