The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 16, 1987 Page: 4 of 36
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CONTEST: Lovely WuDling 9 Ouet . .
Lasses to Compete
Should Holidays Come in Threes?
By Truman McMahan
25,339
25,247
2,565
638
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This Period
...$ 8,811
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... 59,704....
... 163,355...
... 69,442...
... 7,358....
... 9,289....
... 125,686...
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Authorities.
July checks represent taxes
collected on sales made in May
and reported to the Comptroller
by June 20.
4 TNE SEALY NEWS Thursday, July 16, 1987
EDITORIAL...
Net Payment
Same Period
Prior Year
...$11,493....
... 68,274....
... 8,397....
... 20,219....
... 6,909....
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... 12,564....
... 18,267....
... 28,585....
... 2,604....
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... 6,005....
anyone there to extend to you the
help and care you need in that
moment of crisis. Sometimes
minutes make the difference
between a bad experience and a
disaster.
I hope you understand why I
have written this letter. As most
awS^ (taw ar M*mta
Support the Frolic
Sealy Volunteer Fire Department needs your help. It
needs your support to keep it an effective fire-fighting service
for the community. One way to help is to attend the firemen's
frolic tomorrow night. Purchase tickets, buy some barbecue,
visit the concessions.
Granted, the economy of this day and time is not con-
ducive to reckless spending, but every dollar invested in the
fire department is an investment in fire protection. Without
these volunteers and without the equipment, there would be
no service. Their help is free but the equipment they use is
not, and it costs many, many dollars. Since there is no city tax
for such purpose, the department must be sustained by
another source, and that source is the citizens of Sealy and
area.
Go to the frolic, have fun, and support a mighty worthy
cause.
Neil Badders presented Rotary banners obtained on his recent ?
trip to Norway to Sealy Rotary vice-president Richard Frick at last FrI- *
day's club meeting. The banners were from Rotary Clubs in Aale-
sund, Bratvaag, Levanger and Oppdal, Norway, and from Chicago, •
Illinois. Badders presented the Sealy banner to the Norwegian clubs
Monday Sales
Cattie Report: Estimated receipts 400 compared to 250 last weak and 425
last year. Represented feeder classes fully steady. Limited supply slaughter,
classes. Receipts included around 10% slaughter cows and bulls, 8-10% yearl-
ings with balance mostly feeder calves.
Wednesday’s estimates were 1400 cattle and calves, and 3M hops.
Established 1887
THE SEALY NEWS
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rate than urban hospitals for the
same diagnosis and service, 3)
rural hospitals have to contract
for services such as nuclear
medicine, physical therapy,
pharmacy, laundry, etc. at a
much higher rate than if all these
services were performed on
premises, 4) if a patient in a rural
hospital has to have a diagnostic
procedure performed at another
hospital, the rural hospital has to
pay for the service at a higher rate
than the cost of performing it, 5)
on top of all this, rural hospitals
are traditionally filled with older
patients or less fortunate patients
whom urban hospitals refuse to
admit because they don’t have
insurance. This means lots of
cost with little reimbursement
from the Government or from
folks who just don’t have the
money. The young families with
the good insurance who can offset
the losses migrate to the urban
hospitals. The net effect is lots of
cash outflow and less income.
So you see Brazos Valley
Hospital is not alone. This is a
nationwide problem. The rural
hospitals that are surviving have
endowments, supplemental pro-
grams such as Intercept, or can
a panicked state of mind and
perceptions can be somewhat -.........
distorted in that state. In and patients whom I have grown Jennie Mont
addition, embellishment of the to love, and Sealy will always be Grube, Michael
sfayounanwrelwii be leavine
Dear Citizens of Sealy:
There is a crisis developing and
it’s a life-threatening one. As of
July 1,1987 Westworld Corpora-
tion, the owners of Brazos Valley
Hospital, filed Chapter 11 in the
U.S. Court System. I can’t tell
you about all the legal implica-
tions of this, but the bottom line
is that as of July 30, if Westworld
has not either sold Brazos Valley
Hospital or secured alternative
financing for its financial obliga-
tions, the doors of Brazos Valley
Hospital will close. It is not
Brazos Valley Hospital specifi-
cally that is going bankrupt; it is
the parent company West world.
The local hospital has been sur-
viving, but only because of the
Intercept Substance Abuse Pro-
gram. Even if the hospital is sold
it has a rough road ahead,
especially if it does not house a
specialty program like Intercept.
The hospital’s physical plant and
equipment are impressive for a
hospital this size. With the
support of this community there
is no reason it can’t beat the odds
and become one of the few sur-
vivors of the economic crisis in
American rural hospitals.
The plight of rural hospitals in
America is a complicated one.
Their financial survival is tenuous
in the best of situations because
Kristie Ludwig, 18, of Rosen-
berg is the District 11 Texas Farm
Bureau queen. Daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey Ludwig, she is a
1987 graduate of Lamar High
School
Kristie is Fort Bend County
Farm Bureau queen and 1987
1986
Payment
To Date
$109,932
. 595,582
68,411
. 166,959
. 69,722
8,761
. 11,972
. 111,325
. 222,991
. 206,783
. 24,165
3,219
. 89,123
. 776,978
. 26,993
. 85,332:
. 177,166
7,756:
. 26,526
. 526,344.
. 85,961
. 15,812
. 58,973:
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Among life’s exasperations that seem to grow
bigger and worse year after year is the way we
“celebrate” our holidays and the time it takes.
We don’t celebrate the July 4 by quietly paying
homage to our forefathers who declared our inde-
pendence and then fought to preserve it. No. We get
into our automobiles and travel to places where we
overeat and overdrink — for we have three days to
do it in — and we may see paid fireworks’ experts
set off a few explosions or we may set off a few our-
selves, for it looks like we want to make every holi-
day a little more dangerous than the last.
What fireworks has to do with celebrating our
independence or the birth of Christ, I’m not sure.
Certainly our ancestors didn’t fire gun powder for
“fun!’ Gun powder was considered too expensive to
turn over to juveniles or fireworks experts to de-
stroy, and, sometimes in the destruction, damage
themselves and homes.
And we are not sure, but we don’t believe that
our ancestors took a three-day weekend for any hol-
iday. When they decided to observe a day of thanks,
they invited a few Indians and got together to say
thanks that they had saved good crops.
Our early ancestors did most of their celebrating
on Sundays, a day for church and for resting and
for thanking the Lord for their abilities to produce
for six days of the week.
We common people are guilty of inventing the
two-day weekend holidays, and our modern state
and federal legislators invented the practice of mov-
ing our “holidays” to Fridays or Mondays so that
we, the people, can have three days to “holiday!’
but not to produce.
Too, three-day weekend holidays result in more
traffic deaths than do two-day or one-day holidays;
and, although it is not our national policy to en-
courage people to self-destruct, we do believe in in-
creasing opportunities for people to self-destruct.
And our legislators in Austin and Washington
Afer AI omiy M hene ehree Our Subscribers:
years. But I have many friends NEW:
ients whom * have grown Brnnir Montemayor, Rut
ought to be wrestling with the problem of prevent-
ing any holiday from falling on a Saturday — as In-
dependence Day did this year — or a Sunday. Make
them all fall on Fridays or Mondays. A number of
unenterprising businesses solved the problem of the
holidays that fall on Saturdays or Sundays — when
no one works anyway — but some people thought
July 3 was just another work day and worked any-
way.
We’ve got to have a national policy. Our con-
gressmen ought to make it mandatory for all holi-
days to fall either on Friday or Monday. President
Reagan would sign such a law, no doubt.
You might have seen on TV or in the newspaper
something about the Japanese outproducing us. I
don't know whether or not that is true, but I cer-
tainly would like to know how many three-day holi-
day weekends the Japanese take each year.
I don’t know how to go about it, but we might
be able to increase production in this country by ex-
porting a few of our holidays to other countries. Let
them "furriners" shoot off more fireworks and in-
crease their traffic deaths for a few years.
Do you know that during those Democratic de-
bates in Houston the other night not one of those
candidates even mentioned how many three-day
weekend holidays we ought to have!
(You may notice that this column is a little
shorter than usual. That’s because I’m getting ready
for a holiday.)
CONTINUED from page l
tomorrow night. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve
Balas of Eagle Lake.
Renee was Fairest of the
Garwood Fair, Miss Eagle Lake
Aprilfest, Junior Miss WOFF,
head twirler of the Rice High
School band, on the student
council and on the honor roll.
Miss Dewitt County Farm
Bureau, Linda Maggard, 18, will
represent that organization in the
Miss Frolic competition. Her
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Delbert
Maggard of Yoakum.
Linda was Miss Yoakum 1986,
and placed sixth in the Miss South
Texas Teen pageant. She was
captain of the Yoakum High
School Blue Blazers dance team,
captain of the Yoakum High
School varsity girls basketball
team, member of Yoakum’s Bear
Creek 4-H club, and past member
of Texas Youth Rodeo Associa-
tion. She plans to attend Blinn
College in the fall.
Christy Young is 18 and the
daughter of Connie and Will
Young, Jr. of Yoakum. She will
represent the Stratton community
as Miss Stratton.
Christy was second runner-up
in the 1986 Miss Yoakum contest,
editor of her school newspaper,
class representative, DECA trea-
surer, has American Red Cross
certification in life-saving and
water safety instructor. She was
coach of the Yoakum aquanets
synchronized swimming team.
Christy is a 1987 Yoakum High
School graduate.
Katy Business Association will
be represented by Carol Lane
Wynn, 18, who is Miss Katy. She
is the daughter of Herbert and
Betty Blake of Katy.
Carol was chosen most beauti-
ful in her senior year, and is a
member of the “Something spe-
cial” singing group which has
recently visited the Temple and
Waco VA hospitals.
Lynette Novosad, 18, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph
Mully says he is going to have to give up watch-
ing those movie and TV stars being interviewed on
the morning “news” programs. He says that the 2
star and the interviewer start laughing the second
they start talking causing him to start laughing,
thinking that he soon will find out what is funny. So
.$ 78400-84.00.
4000-7000
Brench
885-2612-
provide all the services that a
larger hospital can. This is not
easy. Specialists need special
of 1) the high cost of transporting equipment and services that are
goods and services to an out of expensive. They also require large
the way location, 2) the fact that numbers of patients to make
Medicare/Medicaid reimburse travel to or living in a small town
rural hospitals at a much lower worthwhile. Sometimes these
numbers just aren’t there. It’s
sort of a “Catch 22”: to provide
more services you need more
patients; to attract more patients
you need more services.
This hospital employs 60
Novosad, Sr., of Shiner, will Comptroller Bob Bullock sent
represent the chamber of checks totaling $53.6 million in
commerce of that city as Miss sales tax rebates to 1,039 cities
Shiner. She was chosen Miss that levy the one-percent city tax.
Shiner Sesquicentennial, was Bullock said 1987 payments were
------------------------------ down 6.5 percent compared to
survive. Quite frankly, that is payments made in the same
lacking here in Sealy, sre,. period last year.
everyone understands that we al Sealy sales tax rebate checks
want the best care possible, but continue to show a decrease in
what too many people don’t business, the recent payment re-
realize is that a lot of that care can cording a 12.38 percent drop. Al-
be provided in your local though the current payment of
hospital. I hear of people driving $23,659.83 is up since the
to Houston for minor emergen- comparable 1986 payment of
cies, broken bones, etc., things $21,145.31, the 1986 payments to
that could have been taken care of date were over $21,000 over 1987
very well right here. For the past payments to date which amount
year the emergency room has to $155,235.89.
been staffed on weekends by Bellville shows a 9.22 percent
physicians from Houston who are decrease; San Felipe, 12.75
experienced in Emergency Medi- percent drop; and Wallis, 20.39
cine. These physicians work at percent minus. Austin County as
some of the hospitals you have a whole showed a 11.74 percent
been driving 50 miles to. Don’t decline.
misunderstand me, small hospi- Houston’s check was the
tals have limitations and we are largest — $8.5 million — bringing
all too aware of them. These total payments in 1987 to $75.2
should not be exceeded, but by million, down 8.5 percent over
and large, from what I have seen, I986- Dallas received $6.1 million
they are not. What you must for a total of $56.3 million in total
realize is that there are definite -----------------------------------
advantages of care in a local student council president her
hospital: Expediency, the person- senior year. She graduated class
al attention of friends and neigh- historian from St. Paul High
bors, follow-up that is close at School with a 97.7 grade point
hand and, in those cases that fall average.
within those limitations, care that Lynette was football sweetheart
is equal to the larger hospitals, in 1985 and homecoming queen in
You may be saying “That’s fine, 1986. She was chosen the senior
but I don’t mind driving to class favorite and most likely to
Houston and I feel better in a succeed. She plans to enter the
large hospital!’ But you must also University of Texas in the fall and
ask yourself, “If I don’t support major in pharmacy.
and utilize this hospital when Jana Schneider, Miss Yoakum,
possible, what is going to happen will represent the chamber of
to it?” The answer is simple. The commerce in the frolic pageant,
doors will be locked and no She is the daughter of Charles and
matter how loud you yell or how Gay Schneider of Yoakum.
hard you knock, when your child Sharon Hewig, 20, holds the
or loved one is having a seizure, title of 1986 Summer Queen of
heart attack, or life-threatening Shiner. She is attending summer
injury that can’t wait for the drive school at Sam Houston State
to Houston, there won’t be University in Huntsville.
payments for this year, a decrease
of 5.8 percent.
Bullock also sent checks
totaling $24.6 million to the
state’s six Metropolitan Transit
dress should be mailed to The Seely happened so that we might make
News, Ine, P.O. Drawer 480, Sealy, changes, I discovered that the
Te»S 774744MS0.--person telling me had heard it
from a friend of a friend who
heard it from a cousin who
overheard it in the grocery store
from someone who heard it from
a friend of a friend. Well, you get
the idea. The fact is, most of the
people who resisted care at Brazos
Valley Hospital had never been in
the hospital or had personal
contact with anyone who had.
Recoption end Booldkneping Geraldine Abel, Hearsay is not allowed in the
Betty Rn^an. Nettie:Swegringen, courts of this country, but it has
waAu judged and sentenced many a
pwpaMt peBGIde small hospital and the sentence is
TiL Movron clacaortsmehok ‘‘Death!’ Again I am not so naive
Herbert Kollatschny. Cecilia Luedecke, to think that everything that
_________________and Luke Mkhoeiii happens there is perfect, and yes.
111 Main Street P. 0. Drawer 480 people and that means 60 friends,
409/885-3562 neighbors and family members
WALK TEXAS 774740480 XJ" anaposuibiymwanout
Entered as second class mail matter in the their economic input into your
post office at Sealy, Texas under the Act of businesses. Many of these people
Congress of March 3, 1897. Second-class have spent their entire profession-
postage paid at Sealy, Texas._____________ al lives at this hospital trying to
PUBUSMEO EVERY THURSDAY MORNING Pomidfrohatsomheonextnat ihou
By THE SEALY NEWS, Inc. have grown up with or go to
Wima Petrusek, Mescal Soloman, Earl Luedecke church with and that’s hard to
---------------------------------- find in the “big city!’
subscription price.- In Austin Since moving to Sealy three
County, $13.00 per year (includes tax); ...___I . .• •I. .
outside Austin County, in Texas $16.00 years ago 1 have had stories
per year (includes tax); outside Texas, related to me about the hospital
$18.00 per year.____________________ that were alarming, and in my
notices of chance OF ad- attempt to find out what really
Richmond..... 6,794...
Rosenberg..... 88,555....
San Felipe..... 2,859....
Schulenburg ... 9,389....
Sealy ......... 23,659 ...
Simonton ..... 859....
Somerville..... 3,054....
Sugar Land .... 88,514....
Brookshire .... 7,173....
Columbus..... 17,967....
Eagle Lake .... 8,741....
Fayetteville .... 558....
Fulshear....... 1,184...
Hempstead .... 16,260....
mistakes are made, just as they
are made in Methodist, Texas
Childrens, Hermann, etc. We in
medicine are human; but
remember when your hear a
hair-raising story about the local
hospital, that the person origi-
nating the story may have been in
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The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 16, 1987, newspaper, July 16, 1987; Sealy, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1559060/m1/4/?q=%22Texas+Press+Association%22: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Virgil and Josephine Gordon Memorial Library.