Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 19, 1986 Page: 2 of 16
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PACE 2A
THURSDAY, )UNE 19, 1966
Editorial
PORI ARANSAS SOUTH JETTY
NEWS ITEM; COMMISSION REFfcRT ON SHUHLE CHALLENGER RELEASED.
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Living up to a name
-By Mary Henkel judson
THE COMMUNITY CENTER HAS
new paint, shutters, repaired patio
cover and a ramp for the handi-
capped.
Public telephones are in place all
over town —there used to be about
two available
Spectators’ and judges' tents are
in place at Point Park ready to
shade their first fishing tourna-
ment this weekend.
Del Mar College in Corpus Christ i
will be coming to Port Aransas next
fall offering courses we indicated
we want in a survey inserted in last
week’s paper.
Tours of the University of Texas
Marine Science Institute will be
expanded next fall with the help of
volunteer senior citizens.
The Coast Guard will also be
expanding its tours and offering
periodic demonstrations of search
and rescue techniques.
These are some of the tangible
results of work by the Port Aransas
Action Force since it began meeting
weekly last January. On the aver-
age, that’s about a project a month.
That’s what I call action.
All the while those “short term”
projects were being accomplished,
work continued on the one long
term project of the Action Force:
parks development.
Tonight the City Council will hear
all the details and learn that the
committee of 20 isn’t ready to play
dead. They want to keep going, pur-
suing the parks project and realiz-
ing still more of the 70 plus goals
set out during an initial brainstorm-
ing session.
They’ve tasted success and their
appetites have grown.
With permission from the City
Council to continue, the Action
Force will continue to live up to its
name.
Cactus Pryor
Carmel, California - Take away
the mountains, the eucaluyptu^
trees, the goif courses, the seals, the
country clubs, the designer shops, a
movie star mayor, crab quiche and
you’d think you were in Port
Aransas.
• ♦ •
The Monterey Peninsula is one
solid golf course interrupted only
by a few shopping center and free-
way hazards. If golf is a passion
Monterey Peninsula is an orgy. Clint
Eastwood is not a mayor, he’s a
greenskeeper.
No wonder Clint Eastwood wan-
ted a different planning commis-
sion in Carmel. It is against their
ordinances to throw a frisby in the
park or eat an ice cream cone on
the city streets. Only Perrier water
is allowed in the fire hydrants.
Women over 50 aren’t allowed on
the streets unless they look like
Nancy Reagan. All I saw qualified.
Don’t get the idea that Carmel is
stuffy. Every year they have a rous-
ing quiche cookoff.
• ♦ •
The highlight of Carmel is the 17-
mile drive. For $5 you get to drive
past the mansions overlooking the
Pacific and the unwashed masses
-who drive by to look at the man
sions and the Pacific. It includes .‘he
world’s most famous golf course,
Pebble Beach Surprisingly, it is a
public golf course - that segment of
the public that can afford over $100
for a round of golf that includes
paving for a caddy to go along with
your golf cart.
• • ♦
Former Texan General Brick Hol-
strom and his wife Hattie now live
in Carmel. He flew with General
Jimmy Doolittle when B-25 bom-
bers took off from aircraft carriers
for those historic 30 seconds over
Tokyo. He stands longer than that
over a putt nowadays.
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Today’s Susquicentennial Note-
book: “The Hunchback" was the
first roadshow to come to Texas. It
played in a theater in Houston on
June 11, 1838. It is no longer run-
ning, however, as it received poor
reviews.
From the mailbox-
Letters
What’s the deal?
h Praise to the Pott Aransas Police
Dept. They have effectively curbed,
(n<Jt eliminated), all of th^u rinat-
ing, defecating, anti "fornicating on
the beach. Campfires, loud music,
and illegal parking are almost non
existant. They couldn’t have dtAie a
better job! Congratulations!
iLfnfortunately, the Island's ecop#
omy has taken another plunge; for
the year,to date irt May, a 12.8 p$r
cent drop in'sales tax returns. Year
to dite returns in April took an
11 1. 11 percent* drop and sales to
date in March, Spring Break Mohfh,
were down a devastating 21.35 per-
cent.
*on first reading, an ordinance
amendment that would Ipwer slip
rates in Dennis Dreyer Munfrlpal
Harbor.
fon first reading, an ordinance
that would allow merchants oper-
ating out of permanent structures
to sefi certain other goods outsidb
of the permanent structures.
*on second reading an ordinance
to allow the city flood plain admin-
istrator to approve residential con-
struction In certain areas of the city
without requiring elevation certifi-
cates.
•an emergency’ordinance pro-
hibiting the issuance of building
permits for construction pn con-
dominiums and hotel/motel develop-
ments unless there will be, after the
construction, at least 40 percent
open space as provided in the city’s
South ratire, a three-hour dqive
from 'Port A^artsas was up 28.59
percent, JG.75 percent, and 46.06
percent,fof these months.
“Can anyone tell us why?"
Harry Huggins
Carlos W Moore
Michael A. Thurman
Jim Beckner
Wayne Kirby
R. Thomson
Two Bums Seafood (Yankee)
Marilyn Willis
Cheryl C. Hall
Eloy Soza
zoning ordinance.
In other action, the council will:
Jrecognize the city's employee of
the month and present longevity
awards.
•allow the Port Aransas Garden
Club to present an honorary
member award.
•consider appointments to the
Planning and Zoning Commission.
Want Results?
Call us!
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Happy pilots
On behalf of the 95 memoers and
guests of the South Central Tribe of
the International Comanche So-
ciety, 1 would like to express our
sincere thanks and appreciation to
all of the Island people, business
establishments, and educational
institutes that madeour May Fly-In
such a complete success. Very few
of our members had ever been to
Port Aransas before this meeting.
Most plan to return. In fact, we all
hope to return next spring for our
Second Annual Mustang Beach Fly-
In. A great time was had by all.
Dale Vandever
Mustang Beach Fly In Host
A Penny Saved
is
A Penny Earned
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for all your office needs!
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Council-
continued from page one
Scattershooting--
How do you spell relief?
--Hy jacfc L. Moore
Do jou Kc-i liie feeiing that I m
spending more time getting ready
to take off on my “adventure” than
I’ll have for “adventing?"
First, 1 had to take that trip over
to Mississippi to see all those old
people who were in my high school
graduating class. That was an ex-
perience not soon to be forgotten.
I’m already looking forward to the
reunion in the year 2036. That'll be
about enough time between get-
togethers.
Then there has been the matter
of making sure everything is travel-
ready. The friend who has worked
so hard wiring my van to accomo-
date my computer and making.sure
that my working conditions were
exemplary suggested that it would
be prudent to get new timing gears
and chain installed.
Told him I was willing but didn't
know any surgeons who do that
kind of patching job on 1920 mod-
els. Besides, I wasn’t sure that instal-
ling new gears would help that
much. That I had a lot of other
things that needed replacing. Tur-
ned out he was talking about the
van. Said after 100,000 miles vehi
cles need new timing gears and it’s
better to have it done before there’s
a breakdown.
Getting that squared away made
such good sense that I checked
with my eye doctor and he pres
cribed new glasses. That took a
couple of weeks and I'm not sure
they work as well as the old ones.
But at least I did the “prudent”
thing.
Now for the last year or so I’ve
been whining about my left shoul-
der and arm. Remember my visits
to the acupuncturist, Master Choi?
Well, I had also suffered through a
number of “adjustments" and had
been treated by therapists who
were expert at finding the sorest
point and applying diabolical pres-
sure at same.
Tidemarks—
In all honesty, I was not able to
lift my left arm above my shoulder.
That’s no big deal when it comes to
using my word processor or making
talks, etc. All my animation was
from the right, which is natural
when you consider how conserva-
tive 1 am.
However, white-water rafting
and other aspects of my adventur-
ing require that both arms and
shoulders carry a share of the load.
So finally, I went legitimate, had the
thing X-rayed, and was forthrightly
informed that I needed a form of
surgery.
What does that mean, 1 asked. A
form of surgery? Either, I need to be
cut on or I don’t. Go ahead, doc, give
it to me straight, I can take it.
Well, came the deep answer, we
need to give you a general anes-
thetic - put me to sleep? - and then
"manipulate" your arm. He ex-
plained, as to a small child, that 1
had acquired a substantial amount
of scar tissue beneath the large mus-
cle that runs along the top of the
shoulder. The manipulation will
break the joint loose from the scar
tissue, permitting the arm to func-
tion normally Then we'll inject cor
tisone. As soon as he mentioned
injecting cortisone, I was agreeable
to being drugged. I remember the
tennis elbow - but you don't want to
hear about that.
This “day surgery” was scheduled
for 7:30 a m. last Friday. We had to
be there at six o’clock to get check-
ed in. You figure out what time we
had to get up in order to meet that
schedule. 1 was complaining in the
waiting room to a young couple
with a 6 month old baby that was
having ear surgery at the same
time. They smiled pleasantly, the
baby cooed graciously, and I found
out they lived in Port Lavaca and
had gotten up before 3 a.m. to make
the trip!
If you think I was nervous about
being “put to sleep," you are percep-
tive indeed. The one and only ot her
experience, outside the boxing ring
and some street fights, was 40 years
ago when I had an emergency ap
pendectomy. There’s something
about giving up control that doesn’t
sit well with me.
So, I sorta made up my mind to
resist right up to the bitter end. And
I was doing okay, too, and then
woke up in the recovery room. Once
the effects of pentathol and laugh
ing gas had start ed wearing off and
my arm started hurting, you can be
sure I was grateful for being per-
mitted to sleep through whatever it
was they did to me.
The point of all this is that I am
now able one more to raise my left
arm over my head. It’s a real relief.
It means I can apply my roll-on
deodorant in the normal up arid-
down motion instead of cross wise.
That was so awkward.
It also means I am getting closer
and closer to shaking the sand from
my sneakers and heading north
and west.
It's gonna be a lot of fun. Hope
you come along with me.
Censorship and politics
By C. M. Henkel Jr.
WRITING A WEEKLY COLUMN
can be frustrating. I was about to
begin this one with “Cheers for the
voters of the rockbound coast of
Maine." Then opening my morning
paper I found the lead editorial
rather thoroughly expressing my
views. Should I turn to another sub-
ject, or attempt to pursue it from
another angle?
Recently I learned that the aver-
age regularly employed columnist
expresses him/herself two or three
times a week. Twice, 1 fancy, would
be great. Thrice, I hesitate. Yet
there are some who turn out as
many as five columns. Far, far too
much to ask of anyone, unless
Superman.
LAST WEEK THE DOWN EAST
voters of Maine decisively rejected,
two to one, what was touted to be
an anti-pornography bill. What is
pornography'? Whatever it may be
certainly exists on the magazine
stands and in the book stalls, but
who is to judge what is and what is
not?
Interestingly, Douglass Blood-
worth in "Eye for the Dragon"
writes: “The Christian lingers agh-
ast before the sacred pornography
in stone which Hinduism seems to
inspire and listens with pursed lips
to accounts of sexual orgies in Bud-
dhist temples. But sex with a ’spir-
itual wife’ was once a part of the
strenuous ritual of certain forms of
yoga, one of the many religious
exercises designed to bring the de-
votee to Nirvana.
“The Asian, on the other hand, is
often puzzled by what appear to be
subtle distinctions in the Mys-
terious West which make Botticel-
ia’s Birth of Venus’ are, but girlie
cheesecake magazines filth. On one
occasion the postmaster general of
Manila raised a storm in the press
when he warned off a newspaper
for reproducing Venus, and banned
as obscene an issue of Time maga-
zine that carried a color print of
Goya’s ’Naked Maja.’Those who de-
fended these works he described as
’public enemies of civilized society
who simply want to cater to the
animal instincts of the lacivious.”’
Here well remembered are the
bare-breasted, golden-skinned mai-
dens of Bali, and there is nothing
sensuous in the recollection. They
are still there today, but alas, I am
told that they are “covered up",
because of tourists with dirty
minds. Even so, again I am told, in
exchange for filthy lucre a Bali
maid may be persuaded to find a bit
of seclusion and uncover to pose for
the drooling tourist photographer.
Yet let him beware if he attempts to
lay a hand on her.
FOR AS MANY YEARS AS I CAN
remember the respected National
Geographic magazine has depicted
in full color nude women, but they
are always dark-skinned, black,
brown or yellow -- never white,
causing me to wonder again about
the presumed Christian sense of
decency.
Twenty-four long years ago J
Frank Dobie castigated the evil and
ignorant who spoke for censorship.
Addressing the 57th Texas Legisia
ture he said in part of a dramatic
address: “Censorship is to never let
people know but always to keep
them in ignorance. Never to enligh-
ten but always to darken. It is, and
for thousands of years, has been a
force used by dictators and all man-
ner of tyran n ical govern ments from
Nero to Kruschev.”
POLITICS IS FOREVER THE
most exciting game on earth. One
can learn the game but only fools
are so vain as to think they can
master it. More, the game is always
full of fun, mystery, and of course
fools. Consider the panjandrums of
the LaRouche and Grassroots
cliques who have in 1986 come to
measured degrees of ascendency
iieie and there. Now, only a few
days ago 1 learned of the revival of
another political phenomenon,
right at our doorstep in Duval
County, perhaps the best known of
all Texas counties to people from
without the state. In Duval there is
a return to an interesting voting
pattern which has yet to be totally
defined. City dailies, for whatever
reason, are viewing it with caution,
ignoring to report it. The game is
absentee voting in big numbers. In
this year’s primary of 6,300 votes
cast, 2,013 or 30 percent were ab
sentee. Why? In some precincts the
absentee vote was forty percent.
Duval County Judge Gilberto
Uresti says people who left the
county 30 years ago are still voting
there. This year state inspectors at
voting places were requested for
the primary. One came, to one pre-
cinct, and lingered for four hours,
in 1976 there were 222 absentee
ballots cast in the county, in 1978
there were 740 and in 1982. 1,310.
According to one county commis-
sioner the trend is also evident in
Brooks County and the judge says
also in parts of Nueces and predicts
a nationwide trend. Shades of box
13? Again, what goes on? All that is
presently evident, according to
Judge Uresti is that it is important
to vote and vote "right” in Duval
County. Failure to do so can mean
loss of jobs, especially in the school
district which is the biggest em-
ployer in the County.
The Corpus Christi Caller has
two veteran reporters who are per-
haps the best authorities extant on
things Duval. No use is made of
their expertise. Why*?
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