Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 13, 1984 Page: 1 of 32
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Serving Medina County for 98 years
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HONDO ANVIL 1
Volume 98 - Issue No. 3 7 September 13,1984 Hondo, Texas 78861 VSPS 249-280
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CONGRATULATIONS... to the win-
ners at Sunday night’s Medina
County Fair Queen Contest held here
in Hondo. Whitney Risinger (center)
of Castroville was chosen from 16
contestants to be 1984 Fair Queen.
Susan Boehme (right) of Castroville
was named Princess, and Joanna
Ulbrich (left) of Hondo was selected
Duchess. The three smiling beauties
will be featured in Saturday's
morning Parade, and will reign over
Fair activities this weekend.
Contest draws crowd
Risinger crowned Queen
More than 200 people filled the
Hondo High School Activities Center
Sunday night to see this year’s
Medina County Fair Queen Contest,
which featured 16 young women from
around the county.
Whitney Risinger, a Medina Valley
High School students from Castro-
ville, was named 1984 Fair Queen
Outgoing Queen Jodye Sowa of
DRanis crowned the new winner,
who received a $200 scholarship
sponsored by Gill Savings Association
and presented by Carol Long.
By Barbara Berger Wilson
THE FIFTH ANNUAL MEDINA COUNTY FAIR
. . . gets underway Saturday morning here in Hondo.
Kicking-off the festivities will be the parade winding through
downtown.
Fair President Kenneth Bendele and lots of volunteers have been
extremely busy during recent weeks finalizing plans for the fair.
And each one of them wants you to come out and have a weekend
of fun at Hondo City Park.
The Anvil Herald staff put together a six-page section on fair
activities which is included in this issue. We hope it encourages you
to take part in all the fun and entertainment they have planned.
See you there!
WHILE I’M ON THE SUBJECT
... of special sections, our sports editor Jeff Berger went above
and beyond the call of duty last week previewing all the area
football teams. We hope you enjoyed it and it got you into the
proper spirit for the fall season.
NEXT TUESDAY COULD BE
... the beginning of big things for Hondo, when property
owners gather to view a program on Main Street revitalization.
Watching the program doesn’t mean making an obligation - it is
only to show the people of Hondo what car, and has been done, in
numerous cities throughout the state. Examples of revitalization
and how it has improved the economies of those communities will
be discussed. Improvements can cost a lot, or it might only require
some paint, or perhaps an effort at picking up our neighborhoods.
But the program is there to watch and it is free.
The program will be carred by Southwest Cablevision on Channel
8 beginning at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, while Chick and Aurline
Tschirhart have graciously offered the use of a satellite dish and
monitor to the Chamber of Commerce who is sponsoring a special
program for downtown property owners.
It takes time to watch, but we fed it will be time well spent.
OJ the weather...!
The Hondo Radar Station has
supplied the following weather in-
formation for this past week:
Wed., Sept. 5
Thu., Sept. 6
Fri.,Sept.7
Sat., Sept. 8
Sun., Sept. 9
Mon., Sept. 10
Tue.Sept. 11
Mean high temp, for the week:
Mean low for the week:
High temp, for 1984: 105 on April 20
Low temp, for 1984: 18 on Jan. 19
Total rain for Sept.: 2.42 inches
Total rain for 1984: 9.99 inches
Fair begins Saturday
Whitney is the daughter of Mr and
Mrs Tom Risinger. and was spon-
sored in the pageant by the
Castroville Hermann Sons Dance
Class.
Susan Boehme of Castroville was
selected Fair Princess She received
her crown from 1983 Princess Karie
Weber of Castroville Susan, a
Medina Valley High School student
sponsored by the Castroville 4-H
Club, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Virgil Boehme. She received a $100
scholarship from Gill Savings.
Crowned Duchess was Hondo High
School student Joanna Ulbrich, who
was crowned by last year’s Duchess
DeAnn Brieden of Castroville. Spon-
sored by Sigma Tau Sorority, Joanna
received a $50 Gill Savings scholar-
ship. She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ronald Ulbrich of Hondo.
Tina Graff of Hondo was chosen
Miss Congeniality. A student at
Hondo High School, Tina was
presented with a $50 scholarship by
Pam Lutz, representing Epsilon
Sigma Alpha Sorority, Sigma Tau
Chapter. She is the daughter of Mr
and Mrs. Fred Graff, and was
sponsored in the contest by the
Hondo Chamber of Commerce
Pageant emcee Jim Harris of San
Antonio radio station WOAI intro-
duced the 16 contestants, who each
separately gave a short statement to
the judges as to why they each
wanted to represent Medina County
as its Fair Queen. The three judges -
Linda Wassermann of KMOL-TV
Channel 4, Robert Lopez of radio
station KJ-97 and Charlotte
Schumann of the San Antonio Light -
rated the candidates on mental
alertness, personality, sense of
values, clarity of expression, know
ledge, perception, appearance, human
relations, and pageant comminica
tions.
A Judges’ Tea reception was held
earlier Sunday in D Ranis at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sowa.
Queen’s Contest Committee Chair-
man Kathy Britsch said that she
thought the pageant went very well,
adding that admission receipts
totaled about $350.
Fun for everyone will be found at
the fifth Annual Medina County Fair,
September 15 and 16 on the Fair
Grounds in Hondo.
The traditional parade will start
the festivities on Saturday at 10 am
with Patty Doyle, San Antonio Rodeo
Queen, and a San Antonio Gunslinger
serving as Grand Marshals Bonnard
and Stella Rothe of DRanis will
preside as honorary parade marshals
The Texas Women for Agriculture
are supervising the parade which will
feature over 50 entries.
A gate fee of $2 for adults and $1
for children 12 and under buys all day
entertainment at the Fair Grounds
Carry-in children and fair members
with their card get in free!
A carnival will be held on the Fair
Grounds for five days, beginning
Wednesday evening and ending
Sunday night
The Cactus Country Band will
provide dancing music from,9 p.m to
1 a.m. on Saturday, September 15
Admission to the dance will be $3 per
person.
Barbecue plates, costing $3 50
each, will be sold from 11 a.m to 2
p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Musical entertainment for the two
days includes Country Sunrise Band,
Rocky Thompson and the Lost Hat
Band, Tony Koch and the Cedar
Creek Band, the Band of the West
Rock and Roll, and the Medina
County Reveliers.
Professional magician Bob Ford
will present his wizardry, while
comedian Lonesome Ixiuie humors
crowds The South Texas Gunslingers
will hold old-time shoot-outs both
Saturday and Sunday.
Dancing entertainers include the
Texas Tappers, the Fire-On-The-
Mountain Cloggers and the Hondo
Square DHfhcers. Trick ropers will
perform Saturday and the Devine
Gymnastics group will show off their
lateiUfjon Saturday.
Other entertainment includes an
Old Time Fiddler’s Contest, a
corn-shucking contest and a champion
horseshoe-pitching contest
Market steers, heifers and lambs
will be judged in the show bam
during the livestock show
Other judged events include Crops,
Arts and Crafts, Canned and Pre-
served Foods, Clothing, Needlework.
Quilts, Quilt Blocks, Baked Foods,
Horticulture, Youth, Photograhy, and
Homemade Wines and Beverages
In addition to the wine-judging, the
Texas Grape Growers Association
will hold their regional taste-off at
2:30 p.m Sunday Winners will
compete at the State Fair in Dallas
The Hondo Art League will sponsor
an Arts and Crafts show sale and
judged show during the Fair
A Fashion Show will be presented
at 2 p m. Sunday in the Exhibit Hall
The Medina County Extension Home-
makers will present a ‘Romemakers
Kaleidoscope” featuring various
demonstrations during the Fair.
Three prizes will be given away on
Sunday They include: a queen-size
“Dme Star” quilt, hand-quilted and
donated by the Castroville Quilters
and Stitchers; a W inchester “Ranger’’
12-gauge semi-automatic shotgun
with case, donated by the Valley-Hi
National Bank of San Antonio: and a
Western wood-burned clock, donated
by Betty Haile Donations for tickets
are $1 each or 6 for $5 Proceeds will
benefit the Medina County Fair
Association.
Don’t miss the Medina County Fair
on September 15 and 16 There’s good
times for the whole family
Diez y Seis celebration
set for this weekend
Diez y Seis Festivities get under-
way in Hondo Friday with the Tiny
Tot contest leading off the week-end
of fun
Participants in the contest include
Moralba Avitia, Kathy Tapia, Monica
Tapia, and Angela Marie Vallez The
presentations will be followed with a
dance featuring El Con junto La Feria
Saturday's festivities include the
coronation of the Tiny Tot Queen,
which will be followed by the
presentation of the candidates for
Rema del Diez y Seis Participating in
this contest are Rachel Gonzales.
Maria Elena I./>pez. Betty Perez and
Christina Saldana of Hondo and Hope
Coronado of Poteet
Entertaining at a dance Saturday
night will be El Conjunto Los
Triunfos, with »he queen's coronation
during the intermission.
All events will be held at the
Pruneda American legion. Post 524.
which is sponsoring the celebration
Booths featuring food, games and
refreshments will be available during
the two-day celebration
Council discusses
revenue sharing
By Doug Johnson
At a public hearing held in
conjunction with its regular meeting
Tuesday. Hondo City Council dis-
cussed how it will spend the nearly
$84,000 in general revenue sharing
funds the-City can expect to have on
hand during budget year 1984-85
City Manager Mike Rhea said that
Main Street program
to be televised Tuesday
A very special television broadcast
will be brought to Hondo next
Tuesday to show property owners
how to revitalize downtown.
Through the efforts of the Chamber
of Commerce, the Ranch Store and
Southwest Cablevision and other
interested citizens, the broadcast will
be shown on cable channel 8 for the
general public, while the Ranch Store
is providing a satellite dish and
monitor so that the broadcast can be
viewed by downtown property
owners at the Hondo City Hall.
The television broadcast is to begin
at 9:30 a.m and will feature a
welcome by President Ronald
Reagan. The broadcast is being
sponsored by the National Main
Street Center
This is an opportunity to learn
firsthand about the Main Street
technique that 28-cities in Texas are
currently participating in Many-
other cities have decided to become
involved on their own. including
Uvalde.
The Main Street concept is to
combine economic development and
historic preservation to redevelop
downtown areas.
Topics to be covered in the
program are promoting downtown,
economic restructing of downtown
and a history of Main Street
Program.
Local Southwest Cablevision
spokesman Mona Velasquez said that
they will block out cable channel 8
Monday afternoon to prepare for the
broadcast, so that cable subscribers
can watch the program in their
homes She apologized for any
inconvenience that the block may
create but the cable company's
owner, Jim Priour III of Ingram felt
the broadcast would be of great
importance to the community
The cable company will return to
channel 8 at the end of the broadcast
Tuesday afternoon
Hondo Chamber of Commerce
President Clyde Parsons expressed
thanks to Chick and Aurline Tschir-
hart of The Ranch Store and
Southwest Cablevision owner Priour
for helping to bring the broadcast to
Hondo
We’ve had quite a lot of interest in
the downtown area in recent months,
and we hope this broadcast will
denonstrate to Hondo citizens how
other communities have used Main
Street revitalization to benefit their
economies, ” Parsons said.
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THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
... Fredericksburg had spent moat of
the Tuu.'th quarter driving the length
of the Held against Hondo’s defer**
only to lose the ball on a fumble nt the
S-yard Hne with 3:08 ram* ring
held an to win the
, 11-2. The players'reactions to
for the period October 1. 1984 to
September 30. 1985, Hondo will
receive an estimated $78,977 in
revenue sharing funds from the
federal government, paid quarterly
beginning with approximately
$19,800 in January
Representatives from the Hondo
Volunteer Fire Department ad-
dressed the Council, asking for
$20,000 to replace antiquated equip-
ment - $15,000 for 50 new flame-
resistant firefighting suits, and $5,000
for airpacks That sounds like a lot of
money.' said Fire Chief {sylvan Lutz,
but he pointed out that with present
outdated equipment, “we only have
four people who can enter a burning
building, and that's totally inade-
quate '
“We don’t have to buy the entire
bunch right now. but soon." he added,
pointing out that the HVFD needs the
suits and airpacks to comply with
state standards
Members of the Hondo Golf
Association requested an estimated
total of $15,000 - $4,000 for repairs to
the roof of them main building. $4,200
to repair leaks in the Golf Course
sprinkler system and money for
retiring debt on the sprinkler system
Steven Hannemann of Community
EMS requested a total of $9,000 for
advanced training course and pro-
grams. travel expenses, and for
equipment to comply with state
requirements
The Council also heard from
Medina Memorial Hospital Admini-
strator John Rabidou. who requested
that the City raise its yearly finanaa]
support to the Hospital from $16,667
to $25,000 What were requesting
this year is a combined total of
$100,000 from the City and the
County." said Rabidou. at the
proportion already being paid by the
two governmental entities
Currently, the County's yearly
share of $50,000 represents 75
percent compared to Hondo’s 25
percent Under Rabidou s proposal,
the County would pay $75,000
The money would go toward capital
improvements. Rabidou said, and to
fund the Hospital's increasing cost of
physical plant depreciation. Rabidou
also proposed forming some kind of
planning committee, made up of
Hondo and Medina County officials,
doctors and citizens, “to start
thinking about how that hospital is
going to meet the needs of Medina
County.”
Rabidou also spoke to County
Commissioners last week about the
requested increase in funding
Hondo Mayor A.D. Patterson said
that all requests for funding will be
taken into consideration before the
City adopts its
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