Refugio County Press (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 26, 2012 Page: 4 of 16
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Thursday, July 26,2012
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Refugio Police chief clarifies policy
REFUGIO — The Refugio Police
Department has received numer-
ous phone calls complaining about a
couple of issues including garbage,
junk and weeds being left along our
city streets, curbs and ditches; and
congested parking through most of
our neighborhoods.
Police Chief Andy Lopez Jr. says
some confusion may exist on how
to dispose of refuse during spring
cleaning.
“Although, the Town of Refugio
is aiming to appease our commu-
nity in keeping a clean town, we
could use some assistance from our
citizens in making the deposit and
pickup,” Lopez said.
The city ordinance stipulates
that it is unlawful for any trash to
be dumped in the natural drainage
ditches, street, alley or other pub-
lic way within the municipality.
Disposal of heavy materials consist
of heavy accumulations such as
brush, broken concrete, ashes or
gravel, automobile frames, dead
trees and other bulky, heavy mate-
rial shall be disposed of at the
expense of the owner or person
controlling the refuse.
Most of the concerns regarding
congested parking in neighbor-
hoods pertain to automobiles which
are parked along the side of the
street facing the opposite direction
of traffic, according to Lopez.
“Although, the city ordinance
only addresses ‘continuous parking
limitation,’ which makes it unlaw-
ful for any vehicle to be parked
continuously on any street for more
than 24 hours, safety on our city
streets is of the utmost concern,”
Lopez said.
If anyone is unsure about how
to dispose of refuse, contact Chief
of Police Andy Lopez Jr. at the
Refugio Police Department, at 361
526-5363.
Polling locations
combined for
runoff voting
REFUGIO - The Primary Runoff Election is set
for July 31, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The polling locations include:
• Refugio Community Center, 305 Swift in
Refugio - Pets. 1, 3, 3A
• Refugio Masonic Lodge No. 190, AF&AM, 705
Locke Street in Woodsboro - Pets. 1A, 2, 2A, 2B
• Adkins Community Center, 215 Oleander
Street in Tivoli - Pets. 4A, 4B
Beer was hopping in early Texas, but underground
Coastal Bend
Chronicles
By C. Herndon Williams, Ph.D.
erman immi-
m * grants into
M "^TTexas missed
a number of
necessities and none
more so than lager beer.
Actually that would
apply to Czech, Polish
and some other middle-
European immigrant
groups as well.
While perhaps not the
staff of life, beer was an
important part of their
culture. And it was
much harder to come
by in early Texas than
wine or whiskey. But
with the large influx of
German immigrants
who started arriving at
Indianola in 1845, there
was an instant demand
at new settlements such
as New Braunfels and
Fredericksburg. However,
lager beer was harder to
make under frontier con-
ditions.
Beer is about as old as
bread. Almost any cere-
al in water will undergo
spontaneous fermenta-
tion due to ubiquitous
wild yeasts in the air.
So beer, made with wild
barley, was probably dis-
covered by many people
even before the practice of
agriculture.
beer making have been
found in ancient pottery
jars found in Iran and
dated to 7,000 years ago.
References to beer from
barley turn up in many
cultures in the Middle
East. Technically, these
early beers would be clas-
sified as ales and they
would have been thick,
more like a gruel than a
drink. Straws would have
been used to avoid imbib-
ing the bitter dregs at the
bottom of the jar.
Although wine has a
similar antiquity, beer
was the most common
drink during the Middle
Ages in Europe, in regions
where the cultivation of
grapes was hinder by
the colder climate. With
water quality uncertain,
beer was the beverage of
choice for all social class-
es for every meal, includ-
ing breakfast.
In England the per
capita consumption of
beer was about 70 gal-
lons a year in the 1400s.
Although the monks were
very active in beer brew-
ing, most of the produc-
tion was done at home
until the Industrial
Revolution.
The early beers were
all top-fermented brews
where the yeast was in
the top layer of the barley
mix and the fermentation
was carried out at room
or warmer temperatures.
This process produces the
more robust ales, porters
and stouts. In the 1500s,
a bottom fermented beer,
discovered accidentally,
yielded the lager beers
that are the most popular
brews today.
A lager beer is ferment-
ed at 50 degrees and then
stored for three to nine
months at 40 degrees
or cooler. This long, cool
storage requirement was
why it was difficult to
produce the more favored
lager beers in early Texas.
There was no ice or other
types of refrigeration, so
at first lager beers had
to be imported from St.
Louis.
The frontier Texas
solution for making lager
beer was to make it in a
deep cellar and only in
the winter, which is what
the German immigrants
did. The 1850 Texas cen-
sus listed 19 brewers and
distillers, but no manu-
facturers, so only home
brewers.
The first commercial
brewery is considered
to be William Menger’s
Western Brewery, started
in 1855 in San Antonio.
Menger also built his
hotel next to the brewery
which had a large cel-
lar with three-foot thick
stone walls, cooled by
the waters of the Alamo
Madre ditch that flowed
through the patio of the
still-operating hotel.
This brewery employed
10 skilled German brew-
ers and in 1878 was the
largest commercial opera-
tion in Texas. Texas list-
ed 27 breweries by 1870,
almost all in areas with
large middle-European
populations.
The Pearl Brewery was
started in San Antonio
in 1881 and was in busi-
ness until 2001. The
beer’s name came from
a German brew mas-
ter who remarked that
the bubbles in a freshly
poured glass of the beer
looked like pearls, perlen
in German.
The company purchased
the name and the lager
recipe from the Kaiser-
Beck Brewery in Bremen,
Germany. Over the years,
the Pearl Brewery also
produced the Jax brand
from New Orleans and
the Lone Star brand from
the Stroh Brewery.
The Pearl Brewery
was the largest in Texas
by 1916 on the eve of
Prohibition. They were
also the only San Antonio
brewery to survive
Prohibition. Pearl sur-
vived by producing near
beer (non-fermented, non-
alcoholic) and soft drinks
and getting into the com-
mercial ice and creamery
business.
Texans’ attitude toward
Prohibition could be seen
in the sign on the Gruene
Dance Hall in Gruene,
Texas: “Only Near Beer
is Sold Here, Real Beer is
Sold Near Here.”
Herndon Williams is
affiliated with the Bay side
Historical Society and the
Refugio County Historical
Commission. He is the
author of the hook, Texas
Gulf Coast Stories, pub-
lished in Dec 2010 by The
History Press. Email at
coastalbendchronicle@
yahoo.com
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Jeff Latcham &
Chip Latcham,
Co-Publishers
Kenda Nelson,
Editor
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Appealing to
Christians
Editor:
I’m writing this letter
as an appeal to the good
Christians of Refugio.
I’m sure you’ve seen
the articles in the news-
paper about the dialysis
patients losing the trans-
portation provided by
the county at the end of
September. The county
says the funding is not
available and that other
means of transportation
needs to be found, espe-
cially utilizing family and
friends.
This is an opportunity
to “love your neighbor
as yourself,” as our Lord
and Savior, Jesus Christi
commanded.
Amelia Lara and Rita
Ramirez go to dialysis
in Beeville three times
per week on the same
Monday, Wednesday and
Friday schedule. Frances
Herring goes to Victoria
three times per week on
Monday, Wednesday and
Friday.
That’s 12 trips to
Beeville and 12 trips to
Victoria per month, or 48
Country Slaughter House
1 Smoked Hams
1 Smoked Sausage
Pork & Beef, Pori
Venison, Beef
1 Bacon
Reg., Peppered
1 Gift Boxes
Beef Sides
& Quarters
1 Custom
Meat Processing
• Smoked Turkeys
Dried Sausage
Pork & Beef, Venison
Smoked Sausage
Beef, Venison, Pork
• Jerky
Beef, Turkey,
Elk & Buffalo
1 Cajun Boudin
• Hamburger Meat
• Buffalo
Hamburger, Strip,
Snack Sticks, Ribeyes
once every other month.
That would meet the
needs of these ladies.
I know in my heart
that in all the church-
es of Refugio, there are
more than enough loving
Christians who would
be willing and able to do
this.
INFO LINE:
361-358-9373
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I would be willing to set
up the schedule. Please
give me a call if you are
able to help these ladies.
They are in a life or
death situation. Please
call the County Press at
526-2397 and they will
give you my cell number.
Christi Kelley
Refugio
Thanks everyone
I want to thank every-
one who helped with my
bake sale. Everyone who
baked did very well.
It was a great turn-out.
My family and friends did
a lot of work to help me.
I’m ready for Georgia and
I will keep everyone post-
ed on the tournament.
Thanks again.
Jordan Martinez
Refugio
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