Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 24, 1992 Page: 2 of 60
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The Lena Guerrero story is having
a ripple effect throughout the state.
First, the disappointing truth about
Guerrero came out—the fact that she
abused the public trust, not that she
doesn’t have a degree or that she was
a C student and not a Phi Beta Kappa.
Then came Gov. Aigi Richards’
assessment that the job Guerrero’s
done out-weighs the fact that she
abused the public trust (Part of what
Guerrero’s done while in office is lie
about her credentials.)
And finally, there was columnist
Molly Ivins’ conclusion last Sunday
that it doesn’t matter whether Guer-
rero has a degree or not; what matters
is the job she’s done as railroad
commissioner. Ivins would be right
on target, except for the fact that she
missed the point
What matters is that Guerrero used
blatantly false information in an at-
tempt to gain election to the legisla-
ture—a position of public trust And
now, in the powerful position to which
she was originally appointed by
Richards, she has continued to abuse
that trust
Wrong is wrong
The whole situation is really hard
to swallow. I’ve been an admirer of
Guerrero’s. Not because she is twice
a minority — Hispanic and a woman
— in a powerful position — but be-
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Mary
. Henkel
Judson
cause she has been a progressive and
innovative member of the RRC. It’s
disappointing to see that her judg-
ment is so severely flawed, or ha
of graduating from the University of
Texas. There is no question as to
whether or not I have a degree! I don’t
know what my GPA was, but before
you jump to conclusions, let me as-
sure you that I was not a Phi Beta
Kappa.
It is inconceivable that anyone in
my position, or Guerrero’s, could
“accidentally’’ claim a degree Or
membership in Phi Beta Kappa.
It is inconceivable that that kind of
conduct is acceptable or could be over-
looked by others who also hold the
public trust
i Ivins was right about one thing —
1 it is a shame. It’s a shame that Guer-
rero lied (more than once), that the
governor sees fit to overlook it, and
that Ivins manages to accept
Guerrero’s conduct by burying the
real issue and attempting to re-direct
character so weak, as to lead her to
promote or condone false infaggng the focus of public attention on a point
tion about her academic record. that is not the issue.
It gets real close to home because
she is close to my age, a little younger
and, don’t hold me to the exact num-
ber, but I am — or was when I
dropped out — about IS hours short
Guerrero’s conduct is wrong by
any code. What’s right and what’s
wrong doesn’t change based cm race,
gtinder or political party affiliation.
Grateful for Greene
While it becomes progressively
better known that Port Aransas is a
city of volunteers, I would also point
out that we seem to have some terrific
organizers as well. We saw John
Colder put on a magnificent Port
Aransas Days with its large variety of
attractions and a big paraade, only to
be followed the next weekend with a
tremendous turn out for the fall beach
clean-up.
Bus loads of children from as far
away as Laredo and Austin took part
Hundreds of volunteers participated,
and miles of our beaches were cleaned.
This all happened through the organ-
izing skills of Pam Greene who was
chairman of this event The great job
she did showed the hours of planning
and work which she put into it and it
went off like clockwork.
Keep Port Aransas Beautiful is
proud of Pam Greene. She, like John
Corder, and all the others who plan
and execute these events deserve a
big hand of thanks from all of us, for
they strive to make our little speck of
the world a better place to live.
Respectfully,
George Crawford, Chairman,
KPAB
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We goofed
I am writing this as a somewhat
educated person; I drove through
Austin three or four times ,ao I guess
like Lena Guerrero that makes me a
University graduate.
I must First castigate myself for not
attending the Port Aransas city budget
workshop and not only did I not ex-
press my views but also no other
taxpayer attended, so we all deserve a
swift kick in the rump.
My concern is the two new jobs we
are adding to our city management
staff, an assistant city manager and a
parks director. I feel that this money
would have been better spent to up-
early checking on what needs to be
done on our streets and beach and
then very many times we have all seen
Carl actually on the front-end loaders
and on other heavy equipment actu-
ally doing the work. Here is aperson
in managementthat gets involved both
from planning and in hands-on to get
the job done. I am sure that Cad’s job
description does not call for him to
drive a loader but he does what it
takes to get the job done.
As a taxpayer and as a business-
man, I think that lam joined by many
local business people in saying that
we are all having to tighten upabunch
on overhead. It wouldbe nice to have
all of these people out riding around
in city vehicles at taxpayer expense
finding things for someone else to do.
Maybe we just need another Carl If
we have any extra tax money why
don’t We spend it on supporting our
police department.
Our tax base is terrible and will get
higher and higher as we add these
extra jobs. Every bi^ompany in the
United States is cutting employees.
every city is cutting staff, and here we
are adding an assistant city manager
and a parks director. Is this Fiscal
responsibility by our city council? At
the extreme fnd, could not one person
do both jobs?
As a taxpayer I am against these
jobs and I ask each citizen and tax-
payer to look at your own Financial
position. Are you willing to add to
oil this burden,,
plus benefits, add it all up it would
come to over $100,000per year. How
this amount? How much more could
bei
Kurt Requenth, harbormaster. I see
him and his crew taking care of
Roberts Point Park. Maybe we could
pay Kurt and Carl a little more and let
them assume this important parks
director job. We must stand up now.
It’s not too late to express our thoughts
to our city council. The taxpayers are
the employers in this situation. If you
pay taxes, please take sjiew look at
this planned expense.
In the last 12 months, I have had my
home burglarized twice, had a car
stolen, witnessed an abduction in my
front yard, and last week we had an
officer nearly murdered on the beach
and we are going to hire an assistant
city manager and a parks director.
Somewhere I am missing something..
We all goofed by not going to the
budget meeting but it is not to
late...Speak up....
Even Corpus Christi is cutting back
on city staff and we are spending
money for new people that we are
doing without and doing okay in the
management end of Our city govern-
ment We need more Carls, more
Kurts, more Don Perkins, we don’t
need two more chiefs riding around in
city cars making work for the caring
underpaid city employees that we have
now.
Doug Daniell V
Port Aransas
Small but good
I am enclosing my subscription
renewal with this letter.
I wanted you to know how much I
enjoy receiving it each week, and I
really look forward to it
I have been coming to Port Aransas
for 24 years now. I come to Fish and
vacation approximately 10 to IS
weekends every year. I am a school
teacher with 16 years of experience,
and I look forward to the day I retire
and move to the island permanently!
I Find your paper informative and
interesting. I especially enjoy your
follow your reports on education.
■ For such a small town, you put out
i excellent paper!! Congregations.
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I HAVE WEARIED OVERLONG
with the sleeze and nonsense my
brethren of the press have been pump-
ing into the ongoing presidential
campaign. Who can really give a
damn whether Slide Willie’s hair is
dryblown, if that’s what they call it.
Sure President Bush began it—the
Truman thing, at least with a grain of
legitimacy. At this now growing late
hour, he is reasonably, like Truman in
1948, the underdog in the polls. So
what? There’s the end of it. Any
Slick claim to inheriting the Truman
mantle is pure hogwash. Harry Tru-
man was a man of honor, imbued with
traditional American values of patri-
otism. Slick Willie? Only concern
for himself, his future “political via-
bility.”
AT HAND THE publishers’ ad-
vance galleys of abook which will not
be in book stores before early No-
vember, a circumstance which in my
humble view may someday be viewed
as an American tragedy, “We Were
Soldiers Once...And Young.” The
authors are Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore
and Joseph L. Galloway, the latter, a
younger friend of many years’ stand-
ing with whom I have often been in
vigorous debate. I am entrusted with
reviewing the book, something al-
ready done by others more capable
than I. Yet the obligation shall be
fulfilled in this space, in due course.
For the moment I shall offer only a
few comments, results of my reac-
tions so far as they apply to the pres-
ent, nearly 30 years after that bloody
battle in the la Drang Valley in the
Vietnam highlands, arguably the most
significant single battle of the war.
I have yet to meet Gen. Moore, but
a few words about tJalloway, a Refu-
gio County native whom I first met
about a year after he joined UPI,
probably then one of the youngest, if
not the youngest, man to ever be
employed as a reporter by one of the
major news services. He couldn’t
have been more than 21 but had served
UPI in Kansas City, MO. for about a
year and became a friend, even an
intimate of former Pres. Truman, and
former Kansas Gov. AlfLandon.GOP
presidential candidate in 1936. Of
Galloway I might write much more.
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tColonel,i
par-
and the
iwith an M-l
and a camera in the
board a chopper bound
staging area for la Drang. Later,
Moore said “During my time in Viet-
nam I met only two other reporters
who displayed the same grit (as Gal-
loway): Bob Poos of Associated Press,
and Charlie Black of the Columbus,
GA Ledger-Enquirer.”
Gen. Moore was a professional
soldier, West Point Class of 1945,70
years of age today, so nearly 10 years
younger than I. Following la Drang
he served another six months in Viet-
nam.
Galloway’s first tour there lasted
16 months, 1965-66. Vowing never
to return, he was sent back by UPI in
1971, ’73 and ’75. This I mention for
two reasons. First because he and I had
come to a parting of ways regarding
the war, second because I now sus-
pect Gen. Moore, the professional
soldier, might then have likely sym-
pathized with my view, ever that of
the civilian — that Americans en-
gaged in conflict should never lose.
Dumb. Dumb, rather naive, the
young president who sent the first
troops to Vietnam, totally innocent of
the people of the East, their history.
Dumb again, the accomplished pro-
fessional politician who succeeded
Kennedy and escalated the conflict.
Would Kennedy have acted differ-
ently from Johnson? No one will ever
know.
Ignore, deny it as you will, William
Tecumseh Sherman may have been
First to say “All war is hell,” but never
the First to realize it To that I would
add no war has ever been necessary,
except for the ignorance, greed and
ambition ofpolitictans. No matter the
circumstance, the time in nistory. On
that I believe Galloway, Moore and I
would all agree. The perceptive reader
will perhaps sense that he is listening
in on a conversation, my side of one,
with Galloway. We are at peace to-
day. As he wrote in a recent letter
“We have all mellowed,” and quoting
(in effect), “It was a long time ago,
and in another province, and besides,
the bitch is dead.”
NOW WITH OR WITHOUT po-
litical intent, the while acknowledg-
ing that the vigor of this nation en-
I would wish that “We
Once...And Young”
read by George Bush and
Bill Clinton before November. And
no matter how this be taken I must
doubt the latter would have the belly
for it
“One cannot answer for his cour-
age when he has never been in dan-
ger,."—Francois de la Rouchefou-
cauld. Maximes.
TODAY WITH THE Soviet Union
no longer a world power and threat to
world peace, all too many of us have
come to think the planet safe at last.
Not so, and perhaps never. Never
certainly should the biblical admoni-
tion about war ever be forgotten.
Disturbing then the prospect of a Bill
Clinton becoming Commander in
Chief of the men and women who
wear the uniforms of our military
forces. AH to easy for me to visualize
a reincarnation of Neville Chamber-
Mi,,
Painfully it must be confessed the
name may well be unknown to many
who will vote for the First time in the
coming November. Will parents and
grandparents who read this remind
them? Nice, lucky for Slick, that
there is no need for him to fear the
threat of a new Stalin or Hitler, but
even so there remain those who do not
love us and are not to be ignored. So
then what knowledge, whim concep-
tion does he have of those who would
challenge Uncle Sam in the Middle
East, Far East, Central Europe, South
and Central America? Should the
various regions of Africa be men-
tioned? What concept has the fellow
of our military needs, both at home
and abroad? Who is there to guide
and advise him in those regards? Of
those he might choose to lean upon,
are they to be misted and depended
upofir IrTTacFis he himself to be
trusted?™'^*
To offer the fellow a helping hand.
This nation’s greatest offshore prob-
lem for the moment and the extended
future must remain in the Middle East
On that I could write at length. Two
preat peoples, racial brethren, Sem-
ites, are basically separated by relig-
ions, Judism and Islam, as they have
been for nearly 2,000 years. We
should keep our distance, unlikely.
Yr’s from Frandolig Island...
Setting the record straight
Due to the recent interest in
biographies...i.e. Lena Guerrero..J
feel compelled to make a few correc-
tions in my personal resume via this
column.
My listed birthday of Jan. 7,1943 is
a typographical error. My actual birth-
date was Jan. 7,1923. I am 59 years
old.
' My biography stated that I com-
pleted my education at the University
of Texas in May of 1946. That is
incorrect It was in April of 1946 that
I completed my education by drop-
ping out
As to that honorary
Hi
Cactus
PryorL
■L spelled with a C.
As to the part of my resume that
refers to me being an All-American
polo player, there should be a slight
mt, correction. It was water polo. And it
® ’ was my brother Wally, not me who
was the AU-American. However, it
was in the right family.
As to the commendation from the
Air Force listed in my bio.. J should
.— i explain that it was a letter of gratitude
““Hi for taking early retirement as per their
fraternity.. J>BK...listcd in my biog- request
raphy I should add that that stood for I think that covers some hazy areas
Passionate Beer Konsumers. We later in my biography. Never know when
learned that consumer should be they might come back to haunt you.
Whoopers
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and how many cranes nest when they ber through February to see the whoop- now know that no harm comes to them
start arriving. Their large size and ing cranes,” Villarreal said. The birds when these boats approach. However,
white color with black-tipped wings can be seen from the refuge’s observa- small boats and approaching cars
make them easily visible. tion tower, but boats arc not allowed in startle the birds. Tour boats may be
the refuge. chartered in Port Aransas and Rock-
A day in the life of a whooper con- The best way to see the birds is by
sists of eating. eating, and more eat- tour boat. The birds have become
day in the life of a whooper con- The best way to see the birds is by prat from early December through late
> of eating, eating, and more eat- tour boat. The birds have become March or mid-April depending upon
ing. They are extremely agile hunters accustomed to the large tour boats and the birds migratory habits,
consuming vast quantities of food in a
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sume 32 clams in 30 minutes and nine found, along with a lamp shade, a sas provided chairs and tables. Keep
blue crabs in 10 minutes. If whoopers bottle cap with Arabic writing, a Nor- Poft Aransas Beautiful supplied work-
even a era and supplies, and Nueces County
Be#ch s<
On St. Jose Island, nothing as racy
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Judson, Mary. Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 24, 1992, newspaper, September 24, 1992; Port Aransas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth568804/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ellis Memorial Library.