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PORT ARANSAS SOUTH JETTY
Island Life
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1985
Children’s fingerprints
will be made tomorrow
The Nueces County Sheriffs
Office will sponsor a program to
fingerprint the children of Port
Aransas tomorrow (Friday, Aug. 2).
Deputy Irvin Brown, director of
the fingerprinting program in the
Missing Persons Dept, of the Sher-
iffs Dept., will conduct the program.
Brown said the fingerprinting is
available at no charge to any child
of any age. It will be done beginning
about 9 a m. at the Dewey Dreyer
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Memorial Day Care Center behind
the Community Presbyterian Church
on Alister Street.
Brown said children under age
six months will have prints of their
palms made since at that age a def-
inite fingerprint has yet to develop
After about nine months or a year,
the parents can have the child’s fin-
gerprints made.
The prints become the property
of the parents and with them goes a
brochure on safety tips to prevent
the loss or abduction of a child.
Parents unable to bring their
children to the fingerprinting here
Aug. 2 may take their children to
the Sheriffs Office in the county
courthouse on Leopard Street in
Corpus Christi Monday through
Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Early morning romp
A couple and their canines take an early morning stroll on the beach. While the dogs
snoop for shells and play tag with the surf, the walk is a time for enjoying the “quiet” roar
of the ocean, the warming rays of the sun, the gentle tugging of the day’s first breezes, the
smell of salt air and the calls of the laughing gulls begging for breakfast. (Staff photo by
Murray Judson)
Many changes since birth
Coast Guard to mark its 195th
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h’OH PEOPLE & PLACES
The Coast Guard's birthday cake
will be lit by 195 candles come Sun-
day, Aug. 4.
The Port Aransas station will
mark the occasion with a party for
members and their families at the
Civic Center Saturday, Aug. .‘3.
The l '.S. Coast Guard was founded
with 10 cutters and was called the
Revenue Cutter Service when it was
formed 195 years ago. It was origi-
nally formed for the “protection of
revenue" to guard against smug-
gling and piracy on the high seas.
Since that late summer day in 1790
the Revenue Cutter Service has
grown and been assigned more
duties that today come under the
name of the U.S. Coast Guard.
It was in 1797 that the Cutter
Service was given more duty when
the congress authorized more ships
to defend the coast and to repel any
hostility. The service was ordered
into action as an arm of the navy in
the War of 1812. After the war the
service resumed its normal duties
until 1845 when the Lighthouse
Establishment was transferred to
the Revenue Marine Bureau. In
1948 a bill was passed establishing
coastal rescue stations under the
control of the Lighthouse Estab-
lishment. For the next 23 years
these stations were manned by all
volunteers crews and only 50 to 00
percent of the people aboard
wrecked vessels were saved. In
1871 wit h t he addition of fully paid
crews, the survival rate jumped to
about 90 percent. One of those fully
manned rescue stations was estab-
lished in 1880 in Port Aransas.
The service was called upon
again in 1912, this time to perform
the duties of the International Ice
Patrol. The patrol was brought
about by the sinking of the Titanic
and the loss of more than 1,500
lives. The patrol was to check the
shipping lanes of the North Atlantic
and report the position of any ice-
berg hazardous to navigation.
The year 1915 had in store two
major changes for the service. The
first was the consolidation of the
Lifesaving Service and the Revenue
Cutter Service. As a result, the ser-
vice adjusted its name to the United
States Coast Guard. From 1917 to
1919 the Coast Guard was under
the navy’s control to fight in World
War I. In 1939 the Coast Guard
found itself expanding once again
with the addition of the Lighthouse
Adult kids of alcoholics
to start meeting tonight
Adult Children of Alcoholics will
meet today (Thursday, Aug. 1) at 8
p.m. in the parish hall of Trinity-by-
the-Sea Episcopal Church.
Adult Children of Alcoholics, a
part of A1 Anon, is designed to help
adults, who were raised in homes
affected bythe disease of alcholism,
deal with their problems. Their
problems are often not directly
related to alcohol, but may affect
personal relationships and self
image. The meeting format is sim-
ilar to Alcoholics Anonymous and
A1 Anon. A 12 step program
modeled on the Alcoholics Anony-
mous program is used as a guide for
emotional and spiritual growth.
Adult Children of Alcoholics was
begun like its predecessors, A1
Anon (spouses of alcoholics) and
Alateen (children of alcoholics),
because alcoholism affects all
members of the family whether
they drink or not. Meetings will be
open to the public and child care
will be provided. Like all AA pro-
grams, Adult Children of Alcoholics
is non-sectarian. It places emphasis
on reliance on a higher power as
the individual understands it, but
suggests no understanding of that
higher power.
For further information call the
Coastal Bend Council on Alcohol-
ism at 851-8761, or Ernest McAfee
at 749-6449. Trinity-by-t he-Sea is at
the corner of Avenue E and Trojan,
four blocks east of Alister Street.
Service. The total n umber of aids to
navigtaion then was about 29,000.
Today there are over 40,000 aids to
navigation maintained bythe Coast
Guard.
The Coast Guard went back to
war under the direction of the naw
from 1941 to 1946. The Coast
Guardsmen’s skill with small hoats
proved valuable in handling the
landing craft used extensively
throughout the war. During this
period the Coast Guard lost the
highest percentage of men of all the
U.S. Armed Forces. In 1965 the
navy requested cutters front the
Coast Guard for service in Viet
Nam. In addition to cutters the
Coast Guard provided aids to navi-
gation, port security and super-
vised the offloading of dangerous
cargoes in Viet Namese ports. The
navy also turned over all of its ice-
breakers to the Coast Guard during
this period.
In 1976 the Coast Guard’s role
was increased bythe duty of enforc-
ing foreign fishing treaties within
the 200 mile fishery conservation
zone.
The Coast Guard answered 63,980
calls in 1983, saved 5,946 lives, and
otherwise assisted 145,622 persons,
saving 615.3 million dollars worth
of property. From 1977 to 1984 the
Coast Guard was responsible for
the seizure of 17,997,217 pounds of
narcotics and arrested 4,994 peo-
ple in connection with illegal drug
operations.
From its original 10 cutters, the
Coast Guard has grown into a force
of approximately 1,200 shore sta-
tions, 2,000 boats, 275 ships and
275 aircraft. Personnel numbers
have grown from 5,200 in 1915 to
about 40,000 in 1985 which is, by
the way, still smaller than the New
York City Police Department.
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Saturday
9 a.m. - 12p.m.
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Seven boats call for
help from Coast Guard
Personriel from the Port Aransas
Coast Guard station responded to
seven calls from Thursday, July 25,
through Monday, July 29.
A 55' boat, the Interlude, was
disabled three miles southwest of
t he harbor bridge on Corpus Christ i
Bay «it about 3 p.m. Thursday, July
25. The vessel was towed to her slip
at a marina near the Kennedy
Causeway. Three persons were on
hoard.
Coast Guard personnel towed a
16' pleasure craft to the city docks
at Port Aransas Friday, July 26. The
vessel had been reported disabled
about three miles southeast of the
jetties at Port Aransas at about 1
p.m.
Another 16' pleasure craft with
four persons aboard was rescued
about 1 I p.m. the same day. The
boat was disabled by Baker Marine
in the Cor pus Christi Strip Channel
and towed to t he city docks in Port
Aransas.
Hie 24 loot Wild Turkey was
disabled about a mile south of the
sea buoy Saturday, July 27. It was
towed to a local boat basin wit h six
persons aboard
A lire wrts reported aboard a 19'
pleasure craft at about 5 p.m. Sat
unlay The boat sunk about six
miles south of the jetties after the
toast tumid louglit the fire. The
two persons on board were picked
up by another boat.
A 31’ sailing vessel, the Strie lost
power Sunday, July 28, at the inter-
section of the Corpus Christi Ship
Channel and the Aransas Ship
Channel. Coast Guard personnel
towed the boat to the city docks at
about 9 p.m. with four persons on
board.
The Coast Guard also answered a
call at about 2 p.m. Monday, July 29,
to aid a disabled 14' pleasure craft
about 11 miles northeast of t he jet-
ties. The vessel with three persons
on board were towed to a local boat
basin.
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Judson, Mary. Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 1985, newspaper, August 1, 1985; Port Aransas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth662892/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ellis Memorial Library.