Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 1986 Page: 4 of 16
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THURSDAY, JUNE 12,1986
Island Life
PORT ARANSAS SOU ! H JETTY
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Miss Port .4, Junior Miss„ Little Miss
Queens to be crowned July 9
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The 19H6 Miss Port Aransas, Jun-
ior Miss Port Aransas and Little
Miss Port Aransas will be crowned
Wednesday, July 9, following page-
ant ceremonies and judging at the
Civic Center.
The pageant, this year celebrat-
ing the Texas Sesquicentennial, will
begin at 7 p.m.
The pageant is sponsored by the
Port Aransas Chamber of Com-
merce.
The decorations for the event will
be in Sesquicentennial red, white
and blue, so it is suggested — but
not mandatory — that contestants
choofce some combination of those
colors for their bathing suits.
Contestants for the Miss Port
Aransas title must be in grades nine
through 12<tnd be enrolled in the
Port Aransas Independent School
District as of May 1, 19H<> Non-
student contestants up to the age
of 20 must show proof of Port
Aransas residency.
One piece bathing suits h<><>ls
skin tone hose are acceptable for
Miss Port Aransas contestants, but
wigs are not.
Miss Port Aransas contestants
should be at the Civic Center
promptly at .‘I p.m. Wednesday, July
9, for interviews with the judges.
The Junior Miss Port Aransas
competition will be open to stu
dents in grades five through eight.
Contestants must be enrolled in t he
PAISI) as of May 1, 19K<>.
One-piece bathingsmts, heels not
over 1 V> inches and skin tone hose,
and light make-up are acceptable
for Junior Miss Port Aransas con-
testants, but wigs are not.
Little Miss Port Aransas contest-
ants must be in grades one through
four and must be enrolled in the
PA LSI i as of May 1, IMHti.
One piece b;;thi..g suits and san-
dals or fiats are acceptable for Lit-
tle Miss Port Aransas contestants,
but wigs and make-up are not.
Previous winners in each age
category w ill not be eligible to com-
pete for the same title.
Applications for pageant contest-
ants will be accepted now through
Saturday, July fi.
The entry for contestants in all
three categories is $5, and sponsor-
ships will not be allowed
For more informat ion, or to obtain
an entry form, contact the Port
Aransas ('handier of ( ommerce at
749-5919, or go by the office at 421
W. Cotter Ave.
During thunderstorms
Yard of the Month
Lightning is summer threat
Debbie Villarreal poses outside the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Villarreal
of San Antonio, at 528 12th St. recently. The esidence received the Port Aransas Garden
Club’s award as Yard of the Month for June because of its neatly trimmed appearance and
smartly arranged flora. (Staff photo by Murray judson)
Island observer
Tide data A WOL way out West
By Tony Amos
Last week I was unable to do a
column because of the dolphin that
stranded here and a trip I took to
the Valley and West Texas. (I went
west with the tide and weather
data sitting in my car instead of at
t he Sou th Jetty office!) This was our
first live stranding of a Bottle-nosed
Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), our
common dolphin and the one you
see all the time from the ferry, in the
ship channel and just offshore. The
young female dolphin was severely
shark-bitten. She died last Tuesday
and a necropsy performed at
UTMS1 showed a heavy infestation
of parasites in the stomach and
kidneys and evidence of pneumo-
nia in the lungs. Bottle-nosed Dol-
phins can usually defend them-
selves against sharks; because this
individual was sick, and presuma-
bly separated from its pod (social
group), it was vulnerable to attack.
Thanks to veterinarians Dr. Quade
of Port Aransas, Dr. Rogers of Cor-
pus Christi, local pharmacist John
('order, Donna Shaver, Pamela Plot-
kin and the bilogists from the Padre
Island National Seashore, the UT
grad students, veterianary student
Greg Schwab of Texas A&M Univer-
stiy and the trainers from SeaA-
rama in Galveston for their gener-
ous help.
Two turtles that are being held in
t he tank where the dolphin was put
must have wondered what was
going on with this large animal
swimming and several people walk-
ing around their domain. They soon
adapted, however. When we were
tempting the dophin to feed by
dangling fish at the surface, the tur-
tles tried to get the fish (and almost
got the fingers). Our temporary
turtle collection at the lab has in-
creased recently. Now recovering
there are five Ridleys from Rock-
port, a Green Turtle caught on a
trotline for four days and an amaz-
ingly emaciated juvenile Logger-
head tiiai, despite its condition, is
now diving to the tank bottom to
gCt 3CrapS of am imp aim I1S1I and IS
rapidly fattening up. Tough custo-
mers, these turtles.
Sargassum weed is still a feature
of our Gulf beach, but not so much
new weed is coming ashore these
days. I have noted a variety of off-
shore litter from foreign lands re-
cently (see Field Guide below). The
photograph, which is “slightly ar-
ranged,” shows some recent favor-
ties, including Cuban “Chlorox,”
French sulphuric acid, Italian toilet
bowl cleaner, Japanese barley
sugar and Belgian sparkling water.
All of these have their place in life.-
...but it should not be on our beach.
fSlightly arranged’ foreign litter
FIELD GUIDE TO MODERN
BEACHCOMBING (#5)
VARIEGATED FOREIGN BOTTLE
(Ampulla nonpatria variabllls)
Size: 6' to 16' long; 300 milliliters,
1 to 3 liters (0.6 to 6 pints) capacity.
Colon All colors in which plastic
can be fabricated.
Abundance: Several dozen on
any day when offshore debris litters
the beach. Year-round.
Identification: Not “American-
shaped." Often long and narrow
with strange bulges, ribs, caps and
lids. Disproportionate-looking com
pared to our own, familiar super-
market products. When labels are
still readable, look for Spanish, Por-
tugese, French, Dutch and other
languages describing product in-
side. Look twice at strange bottles
with English labels. Keywords like
“colour,"“litres,"“caustic,"“Ltd."ect.
are clues that they came from Eng-
land, the West Indies or South
Africa. Some masquerade as more
familiar items (Gillette shaving
cream from Italy, L’Oreal hair pro-
ducts from Greece, Johnson Wax
from Hong Kong, Coke from Hol-
land). Don’t be fooled by bar-codes
on the labels. We are not the only
ones with automatic checkout-
equipped cash registers in our
supermarkets.
Range: Despite their exotic orig-
ins, most do not float on the ocean's
currents from Brazil, Holland cr
Africa, but are jettisoned into the
sea from merchant-marine vessels
plying the Gulf shipping-lanes.
Some are covered in marine growth
and have been out there for a long
time. Others, suspiciously grouped
close-together on the beach, may
have beend umped overboard only
hours before they came to rest
ashore. Watch for those strange-
looking ves-
sels registered in Rotterdam (with
heavy-duty cranes and a blue ele-
phant logo on the side) going
through the pass, and t hen scan the
beaches for Borkum Riff and Pette-
roes tobacoo tins anti bottles of
Likkojuice orange juice. More often,
pinpointing the ship from where
the stuff originates is difficult now
that the European Common Mat
ket exports products throughout
that community.
COLLEGE STATION — Lightning
is deadly and annually kills more
Americans than tornadoes and
more than hurricanes and
floods combined.
However, since lightning usually
kills only one person at a time,
lightning deaths do not attract as
much attention as other weather
reiateu tatalities.
"Lightning is particularly com-
mon with spring and summer thun-
derstorms in Texas, so individuals
should take certain precautions
during stormy weather,” advised
Dr. Gary Nelson, a safety engineer
with the Texas Agricultural Exten-
sion Service, The Texas A&M Uni-
versity System.
“Quick thinking combined with
common sense can go a long way in
preventing lightning fatalities when
thunderstorms are on the prowl,”
Nelson emphasizes.
He lists some "dos” and “don’ts"
regarding lightning safety:
OUTDOORS
* Do seek protection immediately.
Safe places include a building t hat’s
protected from lightning; a large,
steel-framed building; an enclosed
automobile; and a large, unpro-'
tected building.
’Don’t touch any metal fences,
wires, clotheslines or pipes. I n a car,
keep your hands off any metal or
the radio.
’Do get off your bicycle, golf cart,
horse, tractor or motorcycle.
* Do head for a cave or under a
cliff if you're hiking in mountains or
other hilly areas.
’Don’t huddle in groups; spread
out a few feet from one another.
"Do head for a low spot- lower
than ground level-such as a ravine,
gully or ditch, but not one that’s
filling with water.
’Don’t remain near railroad
tracks.
’Do get off beaches, piers or
docks and get away from pools,
oceans and lakes.
"Don’t swim, wade or go boating;
head for land at the first signs of a
thunderstorm.
"Do seek shelter in a clump of
head-high trees or a thicket of small
ones if you're stuck in a forested
area.
"Don’t stand in open spaces,
since most lightning fatalities are
people who are taller than their
surroundings a golfer in the mid
die of a fairway, a farmer in a field, a
rider in open country.
’Do immediately set down golf
clubs, tennis rackets, fishing poles
and other metal objects that can
act as lightning rods.
INDOORS
’Do get away from appliances
and met al fixtures such as refriger-
ators, ranges, sinks, bathtubs, air
conditioners, washing machines,
clothes dryers and television sets.
’Don't use the telephone except
in an emergency.
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Judson, Mary. Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 1986, newspaper, June 12, 1986; Port Aransas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth662855/m1/4/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ellis Memorial Library.