Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 13, 1973 Page: 1 of 24
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Vol. XXXI
No. 33 Thursday 13,1973
Rio Grande City, Texas
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Second in a series...
IT'S AI ,L SILENT--It's all silenMn Starr County after hunters from
all over the Southwest came to Starr County where the hunted bin!
was plentiful. In top picture Armando Garza, is shown as he downed
an unlucky white-wing. Garza is the executive director of the South
Texas Development Council in Laredo. He was a puest of Stan
County Commissioner Hector Lozano. In second picture is the
"bird-boy" Muffin Garza son of Mr. and Mr-;. Amando Garza of
I aredo. Muffin kept his father informed when he was getting near
his limit as game wardens from six different counties pat-
roled the area. In bottom picture young J. Solis shows little Marc
Edward IYejo how white-wins are to be cleaned. (Herald photos
by Trejo)
How Dr. Narro feels
about our schools
EDITOR'S NOTE — Following
Is an interview with Dr. Rami-
ro Narro, M.D. part two of a
series of interviews that the
Rio Grande Herald is presently
conducting with members of
the Rio Grande City School
Board of Trustees in hopes of
getting local residents to bet-
ter understand the problems
that face the trustees in the
operation of the school district
and also to help the board
member communicate with the
general public and express his
views and ideas on different
subjects of great importance
to our young students. Too of-
ten a board member loses con-
tact with those that elected him
to office and even those that
know the board member, know
little about the way he or she
feels about the operation of the
school district. This series is
intended to end that communi-
cation vacuum. We must point
out that the views expressed in
this interview by Dr. Rarriiro
Narro are the views of Dr.
Narro and are not intended to
be interpreted as the views of
the entire board of trustees. ..
raul trejo.
by RAUL TREJO
Herald Managing Editor
"What we're trying to pro-
vide is the best education pos-
sible for our children. . . for
the leaders of this community
in the future. . .We're trying to
provide educational leaders."
These are some of the
thoughts of School Board Trus-
tee Dr. Ramiro Narro.
Narro is a native of McAllen
but has lived in Starr County
for over nine years. He is
married to the former Celeste
Gutierrez and the couple have
four children; Lamar, Dario,
Yvonne and Ratruro Jr.
He operates Narro Medical
Center here in Rio Grande
City.
Redistrkting plan
for Starr approved
The federal suit filed by Rafael
Carrera against the Starr Coun-
ty Commissioners Court ended
earlv Wednesday mornim' as the
attorney for Carrera accepted a
compromised redisricting pro-
posal.
U. S. Federal District Jul: e
Reynaldo Garza over-ruled ob-
jections filed by ari intervenor
the Texas Rural Legal Aid.
Judge Garza over-ruled their
objections on the basis of lack of
evidence in their contention that
there are more people living in
some areas than was reported to
the court.
The plan according to U. S.
District Judge Garza goes into
effect immediately.
The Herald will publish the new
map with the lines designating
ttie new precincts next week.
"I'm very pleased with the
work done by the Commis-
sioners Court and by the plain-
tiff in theis case." Garza said
"The new redistrictinp con-
forms with the one-man one-
vote rule that the U.S. Supreme
Court has asked of the nation,"
Garza added.
Attending the hearing were the
Starr County Commissioners
Amando Pena, Hector Lozano,
Roque Guerra and Reynaldo A-
laniz. Alsoatten ling was Coun-
ty Attorney Alex Gabert and at-
torneys for both sides.
"The plan goes into effect im-
mediately according to the judge
so any one wantingtorunforthe
board of directors of the new
hospital board has to file with-
in the new precinct structure,"
Gabert said.
The plans also affect the new
hospital district election that is
presently in the making.
A full report on Wednesday's
hearing will be presented at the
Commissioners Court meeting
Friday morning.
De la Cruz-Torres
arrested with Heroin
Two Rio Grande City men re-
mained in Carmeron County Jail
late Tuesday evening on charges
of possession of heroin after
they were arrested late last
week along with a McAllen man.
Arrested at McAllen by agents
of the Drug Enforcement Ad-
ministration were Juan (Johnny)
T. de la Cruz, 25,and Luis Tor-
res 23, both of Rio Grande City
and Efrain Leal Cavazos, 31, of
McAllen.
The Chief Officer in charge of
the DEA told the Herald Tues-
day afternoon that I)e La Cruz,
Torres and Cavazos were ar-
rested on South Tenth Street in
McAllen at 8 p.m. and charged
with possession of heroin with
intent to distribute.
Officers arrested the trio with
a kilo of heroin. Approximate-
ly 2.2 pounds of heroin in their
possession. The heroin had a
street value of a half-million dol-
lars.
Arraignment wras held in Fed-
eral Court by U. S. Magistrate
William Mallett of Brownsville
who set a $100,000 bond on de la
Cruz, $50,000 bond on Torres
and a $35,000.00 bond on Cava-
zos. Hie trio was put in the i .'a-
mcron County Jail after failing
to post bond.
Narro graduated from the
University of Texas and re-
ceived his medical degree from
Southwestern Medical School, a
branch of the University of
Texas at Dallas.
He also does some ranching,
where he breeds Beefmaster
cattle.
Dr. Narro feels very strong-
ly about the local educational
system. He says throughout the
years he has seen many chang-
es made in the system which he
did not approve of. . .but at the
time he did not want to get
involved.
When he was approached to
run for the board he found him-
self not trying to decide wheth-
er to run but whether he could
provide the best possible dedi-
cation that the job requires. . .
he concluded that tie could. . .
and has made the board a good,
solid independent board mem-
ber.
ADMINISTRATION
"One of the weak links in
our system is administration,"
Narro says. "Not administra-
tors as a whole but administra-
tion," he adds.
"For years the schools have
been run by school boards and
our administrators have not
been able to extend their full
potential, and I sincerely hope
that now that this board has
extended them the opportunity
to administer to our school,
that they will take advantage
and really come through for
us. I am very confident that
they will," he closes.
TRANSPORTATION
"1 agree with Mr. Pope (re-
ference to interview with John
Pope III in first of series) on
the transportation in-as-much
as the mechanics are con-
cerned. I believe that they have
done a tremendous job and they
deserve to be commended for
their outstanding work. I, how-
ever, believe that our trans-
portation problems are not
solved with the purchase of new
buses. I believe that we should
never lack buses or other forms
of transportation," he adds.
Narro adds tiiat too often he
has heard teachers and student
groups complain that buses are
not available for trips that the
groups wish to take. He says
that the district should main-
tain vehicles that are readily
available for' groups that have
or wish to travel on educational
trips.
"I can't seem to justify tell-
ing the band or the pep squad
or other school groups, 'no,
you can't go on this trip be-
cause we're short of buses', and
we've told them that before. . .
1 didn't like It one bit," Narro
says.
"Bere is where we are lack-
ing in administration. . . . We
have student groups come be-
fore the board asking to go on
a trip and the first question
from the hoard is addressed
to the transportation manager
or the business manager ask-
ing if we can afford this trip
and If there are buses availa-
ble," he says, "But, just last
year a track team took a plea-
sure trip and no one came be-
fore the board to ask us for
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Trejo, Raul. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 13, 1973, newspaper, September 13, 1973; Rio Grande City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194424/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.