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Pier work
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Shipboard service
Navy servicemen on board the aircraft carrier Yorktown take part in a
memorial service after jet fighter pilot Macky Moore of Port Aransas died in
Courtesy photo
a crash on July 7,1956. The VFW post in Port Aransas later was named in
honor of Moore and another local veteran, Jerry McDonald.
Moore died in service to country
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Problems have delayed
efforts to fix and re-open
Ancel Brundrett Pier.
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Red ribbons
Editor’s note: The South
Jetty put together the follow-
ing profile on Port Aransas
veteran Malcolm “Macky”
Moore in observance of Vet-
erans Day. The story was pro-
duced through interviews with
Macky’s relatives, who also
granted access to a family
scrapbook full of photos, letters
d other documents accumu-
lated during his lifetime.
Dan Parker
Reporter
Moore-McDonald VFW
Post 8967 is named after two
Port Aransas men who died
in service to their country:
. erry McDonald and Malcolm
“Macky” Moore.
Those who never knew
Jerry likely have heard of him.
Macky Moore in October 1953
Port Aransas schools
celebrated Red Ribbon
Week Oct. 28 to Nov. 1.
Page 1B
New book
He was the only Port Aransas
resident killed in the Viet-
nam War, and he is known
to many Port Aransans today
because a city street, a softball
field and sev-
eral citizen-
ship awards
given out
annually by
Port Aransas
schools have
McDonald’s
name on
them.
Macky
Moore’s
name prob-
ably isn’t so
familiar to
Port Aran-
san residents
today, espe-
cially to the many who are
relatively new to town. But
Macky’s memory still holds
a special place in the hearts
of his family and other locals
who knew him.
Macky was a tall, hand-
some, fun-loving kind of guy
who was just a little on the
wild side. Always craving
action, he grew up to become
a respected Navy pilot.
Perhaps fittingly, Macky
was born while a hurricane
struck Mustang Island on
Aug. 30,1933.
Growing up in the 1930s
and ‘40s, he spent his child-
hood in a Port Aransas that
was smaller, quieter and far
less developed than the one
that exists today. Many streets
in town were paved with
oyster shells. One of today’s
busiest thoroughfares, Cut-off
Road, didn’t even exist when
Moore was growing up. Few,
if any, homes had been built
south of Avenue G, an area
where hundreds of houses and
condominiums exist in 2013.
Macky’s parents were Dora
Daisy “Dodie” Mathews
Moore and Bill Moore. Bill
was founder of the Bilm-
ore and Son hardware store
that remains in operation at
the intersection of Alister
Street and Avenue A. He also
founded Bilmore Cottages
across the street from the
hardware store. Today, it’s the
Sportsman’s Lodge, which
recently was purchased by
the Port Aransas Art Center
for construction of a new
See ‘MOORE,’ 6A
Ceremony to honor veterans
Native Port Aransan Ethan
Thompson has a new
book out.
Page10A
The community is invited
to salute members of the
armed forces who have served
their country at a Veterans
Day ceremony on Monday,
Nov. 11.
The 19th annual event will
be at 10 a.m. in the Doyle
Marek Gym at Port Aransas
High School.
Keynote speaker will be
2004 PAHS graduate James
Cantu, who served in the
Marines and now is an officer
with the San Marcos Police
Department.
Spearheaded by Bill Leh-
mann, the program will start
with a reception for dignitar-
ies in the Una Farley Library
at PAHS at 9:30 a.m. Dignitar-
ies will be escorted to the gym
and seated in a place of honor.
Cantu, whose mother,
Andrea Skloss, is a science
teacher at Brundrett Middle
School, graduated from Tex-
as A&M University in 2008
with a Bachelor’s degree in
chemistry and a minor in
business. A member of the
Aggie Corps of Cadets in the
Navy/Marine-oriented unit,
he was commissioned into the
United States Marine Corps as
a second Lieutenant. He took
basic training at Quantico,
Va., graduating in 2010. In
basic school, he was assigned
artillery as his military oc-
cupational specialty. After
five months at Fort Sill, Okla.
where he took an artillery of-
ficer’s course, he was assigned
to 3d Battalion, 11th Marines
in Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Cantu was promoted to
first lieutenant in Decem-
ber 2010 and temporarily
assigned to 3d Battalion, 7“
Marines for a deployment
to Afghanistan as a forward
observer for Company K.
Returning to California, he
was assigned to Battery L as
the Howitzer Platoon Com-
mander in 3d Battalion, 11th
Marine Regiment.
Cantu was honorably dis-
charged from the Marine
Corps in 2012 and was pro-
moted to captain.
He is married, and he and
his wife, Heather, have two
dogs.
The first two Veterans Day
ceremonies, spearheaded by
community volunteer and
veteran Bill Lehmann, were
held at the Jerry McDonald
baseball field in 1995 and
1996. The ceremony was
moved to the high school gym
in 1997, and in 1999, accord-
ing to Lehmann, the tradition
of second graders from H.G.
Olsen Elementary School
performing was initiated.
“I bought little flags for the
celebration the night before,
and they had them as they
marched in. I thought we’d
have them for the next year,
but they wouldn’t give them
back,” Lehmann said with
a grin.
Keynote speakers have in-
cluded veterans, community
leaders and last year, for the
first time, a female Navy pilot
addressed the audience.
This year is another first
with Cantu, a veteran and
a graduate of Port Aransas
High School, as the featured
speaker.
Lehmann gathered a group
of three other Port Aransas
residents to help him with
the Veteran’s Day programs.
Chuck Border, U.S. Air Force
(ret.), who flew more than 150
missions over North Vietnam,
was one. Another was Francis
Stokes, who as U.S. Marine
captain saw combat and left a
leg in Vietnam. The late Bar-
bara Sheppard, a fierce patriot
and staunch Port Aransas
supporter, was another. Leh-
mann served in the U.S. Army
infantry during World War II
and was an Air Force civilian
after the war.
Lehmann added Mayor
Keith McMullin and South
Jetty editor and co-publisher
Mary Henkel Judson to the
committee this year.
The committee works
closely with Sharon Dough-
ty, superintendent of PAISD,
and Sharon McKinney, Port
See ‘VETERANS,’ 10A
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Dave McNeely...............3A
Cal Thomas...................3A
Mary Henkel Judson......3A
Dan Parker
Reporter
As some Port Aransans
worry that an unsightly, pollu-
tion-spewing industrial plant
might someday locate on
Harbor Island, the city coun-
cil has decided to schedule a
discussion about the future of
land use there.
Meanwhile, a group of Port
Aransas residents and part-
time residents are circulating
a petition to encourage the
council to stop future petro-
chemical industrial develop-
ment within the city limits
through zoning changes on
Harbor Island.
The council meeting, which
also will include discussions
of other issues facing the city,
begins at 5 p.m. Thursday,
Nov. 21, at council chambers,
710 W. Ave. A.
Citizens will be allowed to
speak to the council.
Mayor Keith McMullin said
he feels certain that, at the
conclusion of the meeting, the
council will end up asking city
staff to do some research on
what the city’s options are with
regard to controlling develop-
ment and related activities on
Harbor Island.
The matter was put on the
agenda at the request of Coun-
cilman Skipper Lister.
Lister said he wanted it as
a discussion item because he
is “against anything having to
do with a refinery or anything
See ‘FOLKS,’ 5A
Petitioning
Staff photo by Dan Parker
Melvin Littleton signs a petition urging the Port Aransas City
Council to prevent unwanted industrial plants from building
on Harbor Island. Looking on is Doug Daniell, one of several
folks involved in the petition drive.
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