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f*fe 2 The Hondo Anvil Herald, Thursday, February 23. 1984
STATE CAPITAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By Lyndell Williams
JEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
AUSTIN - Gov. Mark
White, who has been swim-
ming upstream in his bid to
cal( a special legislative
session to- raise taxes for
teacher salaries, may be
Tinding the current turning
tar way. *f' '
tbp assistant.
fanner Texas maker aspi
Ge^^ Hffl, sa
said last
W&'fcftmphftfe poU of
House Ifcntferk Hfflcates
the majority of his former
colleagues are of a mood to
consider a fax hie tar state
highways and - educational
reform.
House Speaker Gtb Lewis
said he believes Hill’s find-
ings could be accurate.
Lewis for months opposed
any tax increase, but not
long ago said he could
s&port & temporary tax tied
to education reform.
‘flill told reporters the
mbod now favors higher
taxes on gasoline and other
it$ms if White can guarantee
“b’ new and improved road
system” and improvements
t#n he quality of education.
White’s first efforts to
[ ass such a bill last session
v ere ineffective and as late
11 a couple of months ago
I gislators were nervous and
< mical of his plans to call
I tern into special session to
rase taxes in an election
y< ar.
The big luoublodc was
L wis, since Lt. Gov. Bill
H bby, who presides over
ti • Senate, was the first
ol idal to acknowledge the
n ed to raise taxes.
that he would call the special
session after the primary
elections, instead of before,
has also helped. Most House
members are Democrats and
wanted to avoid the intra-
party bloodbath that a
pre-primary session might
have precipitated between
liberals and conservatives.
Now. a recent report from
the Reagan administration
stressing the need for educa-
tional reform, plus the
coining Texas report from
staunch conservative H.
Ross Perot, which will
outline several "no frills’’
reforms, may defuse any
Democrat-Republican fight
over the tax hike.
As Gerald HID said, "We
want this to be a coordinated
effort that everyone can
support.”
Three Turn-A round*
rum-arounds on at least
tl ee major factors now
in teate White has a chance
tc get his tax hike in a
sj idal session.
The new stance by Lewis
critical. The Speaker is
losing a good many of his
staunch lieutenants to re-
ti ement and may be harder
p sssed for votes to stop a
tqk hike. Moreover, at least
^ o of his top floor leaders,
E 11 and Jim Turner; ctf;/
C ockett, have jojned
\ bite’s staff, and other
e iting legislators who will
1< >by various issues will also
n ed to rely on White’s
s {nature in the future.
, White’s hiring of the
v ell-respected Hill and
1 imer gives new credibility
t his legislative liaison
t am. Hill is well-liked by
I ouse members and is
s wied in the ways of
I ssing bills. Turner, who
r inounced just last week he
\ ill resign his House seat to
\ ork for the governor, held
[ sitions on the powerful tax
i id budget committees. Any
1 11 shaped by White will
t *ed expertise to navigate
t iose waters.
Highway Funding
State highway commis-
sioners' pointed out new
directions last week for
financing new roads, also a
big sore point in legislative
budget battles.
The commissioners urged
that state funds not be spent
buying land for proposed
highways. That land should
be bought by builders who
plan to develop land along
proposed highways and
stand to profit from the new
roads.
That means that areas
with enough local backing
to buy land for new high-
ways will probably get new
highways.
Such a change will also
relieve pressure on the
Legislature to raise taxes to
support highway construc-
tion.
Of course, if White is
successful in raising the
gasoline tax, new revenues
by law will be divided
between education and high-
ways.
^ TEX2S LORE *
SARAH BURfiCTT WAS AN CMTERPAISM4IW0WAM WHO RAN EATING
places and bordellos fro* Florida to Arizona m the mid iboo-s.
her papressive figure, well over 6 ft tall, prompted folxs TO CAU her
during the
MEXICAN WAR
SHE RAN A
COMBINATION
RESTAURANT-
BROTHEL FOR
AMERICAN GI's
AT SALTILLO.
/-Vi
WHEN FIGHTING
ERUPTED NEARBY
SHE TURNED HER
'HOUSE* INTO
A HOSPITAL
AND CARRIED
WOUNDED MEN
OFF THE
BATTLEFIELD
WHILE FIRING
their rifles
AT THE ENEMY.
AFTER THE WAR, IN :W1,SHE BECAME THE FIRST
NADAM-OF-RECORD IN EL PASO WHEN SHE
-HOTEL-BORPEI
ERECTED A RESTAURANT-HOTEL-E
ELLO THERE.
/
THE GREAT WESTERN PIED IN YUMA, AT. IN 1666
AND WAS BURIED WITH FULL MILITARY HONORS
Medina County
By J.A.Rios
T/tostfayc
In 1892, when construc-
tion of the first Medina
County Courthouse in Hondo
was being contemplated,
Fefis Golan had her first
child born on Texas soil and
named her Petra Petra was
bom on a ranch between La
Aguila (Eagle Pass) s and
Quemado on April 14, 1892.
Two yean later, her parents
moved to the Seco settle-
ment above DUanis where
Petra’s father found work on
various ranches in Medina
County.
and even Indians still
roamed portions of the
Southwest and Mexico.
Whatever the reasons,
Petra’s father never re-
turned and the Galan family
never learned what became
of him
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Petra’s father was a
ganadero (cattleman) and
had begun to trade cattle
and horses on both sides of
the Rio Grande since before
the Civil War. An indepen-
dent and aggressive man, he
instilled two qualities in all
of his children. He also saw
to it that Petra and the rest
of his children learned to
appreciate all of the aspects
of ranch life. Even as a
young girl, Petra always
loved to garden. To this very
day, Petra plants a garden in
the spring and the most
prominent plants are the
chiles, whose colorful pods
delight Petra.
When Petra was about
five years old, her father
undertook a job to deliver
some cattle into Tamaulipas.
These cattle drives were not
without danger since bandits
Tragedy struck the Galan
family again when Petra was
seven years old. By this time
Fefis and her children lived
in Tehuacana (as Yancey
was then called) in near-
isolation. Fefis, like most
-rural families, kept a gun
ready at all times. A young
visitor who did not realize
the "household pistol” was
loaded, mishandled the
weapon and shot Fefis in the
left leg. She hemnorraged
to death before a doctor
could arrive.
in Hondo where all of their
children were born and
raised. They had nine
children - Victor, Filomena,
Felis, Sabas, Ignacio,
Cirilda, Francis, Frank, and
Maria Josefina. A ranch
hand all of his fife, Ignacio
came to be known as Don
Nacho by his friends, while
Dona Petrita devoted her-
self to her duties as mother
and housewife.
Bureaucratic waste pervasive problem
Consequently, Fefis’ five
children, four girls and a
boy, were placed in the home
of Francisco Flores of
Hondo. Francisco was a field
worker and the fertile fields
in/Medina County insured
steady work for him. When
Petra was about 9, she
learned to pick cotton, hoe
weeds and even plant seeds.
Petra was almost 19 years
old when she met Ignacio M.
Rios, son of Norberto and
Teodora Rios. The Rios
family' had oome to Medina
County in 1891 and was also
involved in agricultural en-
deavors. Ignacio courted
Petra and they were united
in marriage in 1911 at St.
Dominic's Church in oid
DHanta.
Although neither Ignacio
or Petra had extensive
education, they were able to
educate their sons and
daughters, primarily in the
Catholic schools. Fervently
religious all of their lives,
Ignacio and Petra are re-
cognized as the parents of
the first person from the
Hondo Catholic parishes to
become a nun. In May, 1930,
Filomena, the eldest
daughter of Ignacio and
Petra, entered the Sacred
Heart convent in San An-
tonio where she was pro
fessed in 1958. Last year,
Sister Filomena Rios was
honored with a Golden
Jubilee, marking the fiftieth
anniversary of an active
religious life.
Election Year
With election filing dead-
nes behind them, law-
lakers without heavy op-
osition can breathe easier -
nd even vote for a tax hike
that is their conviction,
he eovernor’s indications
Mattox Re-indicted
Texas Attorney General
Jim Mattox was re-indicted
on a felony charge of
commercial bribery in
Travis County. last week.
The rifew lndictmeht dears
up a wording defect in the
original charge. Had the new
grand jury failed to re-indict
Mattox, the charges would
have been dropped. The
latest action puts Mattox
back to square one in his
efforts to untangle his legal
and political problems.
Mauro, Hightower
On a brighter note, Agri-
culture Commissioner Jim
Hightower and Land Com-
missioner Garry Mauro will
visit Israei next month to
study drip irrigation and
other techniques of arid land
management.
Both Hightower and
Mauro will inspect the
Israeli drip irrigation sys-
tem, recognized as the
world’s best, and Mauro will
visit mining operations in
the Dead Sea and energy- 1
gathering technology sites.
Both officials will have
drought-plagued West
Texas in mind on the tour.
By Richard A. Viguerie
Washington, D.C.
Screws, *37 each. Claw
hammers, only $435. And
hexagonal wrenches for the
bargain price of $9,609. It is
amazing how wasteful a
bureaucracy can be, whether
it is dispensing federal
grants to starving poets or
propping up the price of milk
- or buying tools and spare
parts for the armed forces.
Liberals tend to respond
to stories of waste in defense
spending by proposing that
whole weapons systems be
eliminated. The B-l bomber,
the MX, cruise missile,
battleships, and other mili-
tary hardware are targets of
this “meat-ax” approach to
controlling the defense bud-
get. Conservatives must re-
spond not by giving the
Pentagon a blank check, but
by developing a system of
defense that is efficient and
effective.
The defense budget is
bloated all right; the Grace
Commission has described in
great detail the ways in
which some $92 billion in
defense costs could be saved
over a three-year period.
But don’t blame our boys in
uniform The fault lies most-
ly with bureaucrats and with
politicians who are supposed
to make sure the bureau-
crats do their job.
When the House Armed
Services Committee cut the
defense budget for Fiscal
Year 1983, it added $296
million for military construc-
tion projects not requested
by the Pentagon. Districts
represented by Congress-
men on the Military Installa-
tions and Facilities Sub-
committee (3.2 percent of
the House) got 58 percent of
the add-ons, according to
Congressional Quarterly.
Likewise, in the 1982
budget the Senate Armed
Services Committee added
$152 million in funding for
non-requested projects; 88
percent of that money went
for projects in the home
states of members of the
committee.
Congress seems unable to
pass a military budget on
time. It continues to use
annual budgets and frequent
supplemental appropria-
tions, and the armed forces
never know very far in
advance how much they will
have to spend on a given
project. Therefore it is
difficult for the military to
buy goods in large quantities
or to buy at a time when the
price may be low.
Meanwhile, Congressional
committees and subcommit-
tees try to manage military
purchases down to the
smallest detail, making it
impossible for the agencies
to manage resources effec-
tively. The purchase of
weapons is so far out of
control that, in one study of
more than 150 recent pro-
curement programs for
weapons, only one - the
GAU-8 anti-tank gun - came
in under budget and on
schedule. According to
former Deputy Defense
Secretary Paul Thayer,
weapons costs could be
trimmed 10 to 30 percent if
mistakes were caught before
production began.
Congress refuses to let the
Pentagon kill wasteful pro-
jects or shut down needless
bases. And instead of
eliminating subsidized com-
missaries surrounded by
competing private super-
markets, members of Con-
gress work to extend com-
missary privileges to (for
example) former spouses of
servicemen.
It is time for the Reagan
Administration and mem-
bers of Congress to join
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As Richard Halloran
wrote in The New York
Times, “Congress retains
obsolete spending programs
and (military) bases or adds
items the Pentagon does not
want, all intended to protect
jobs back home in electoral
districts”. Thus, a substan-
tial portion of the defense
budget is not spent on
defense at all, but on
projects to help Congress-
men get re-elected.
Arrest Record
Medina County law en-
forcement officials made ar-
rests for the following
crimes between February 13
and February 20, which
resulted in booking into
county jail;
--Driving while intoxi-
cated -6
-DWI, and driving while
license suspended -1
DWI, driving without a
TODAY’S THOUGHTS
The bed lightening-rod for your protection It
your own tplne.
Emerson
A man canhot leave a belter legacy to lha world
than a well-educated family.
Thomas Scott
Trust in yourtdl and you are doomed to dis-
appointment; trust In your friends and they will die
and leave you; trust In money and you may have It
taken from you; trust In reputation and tome slan-
derous tongue may blast It; but trust In God, and you
are never to be confounded In time or eternity.
D.L. Moody
Take a chancel All tile la a chance. The man who
goes lurthaat la generally lha one who la willing to do
and dare. The “sure thing” boat never gets tar from
shore.
Dale Carnegie
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liability insurance -1
-Public intoxication - 6
-PI, and resistingarrest -
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-PI, and disorderly con-
duct - 2
-PI, and driving without a
license -1
-Weekender - 2
-Speeding -1
-Possession of marijuana
-2
-Three warrants from
Comal Co. -1
-Theft of $20 - $200 -1
-Inhalant abuse - i
together to reform military
spending. Detailed manage-
ment of projects can be left
to the appropriate govern-
ment agencies instead of
various Congressional com-
mittees. Congress can stop
funding projects the Penta-
gon does not want, and it can
pass a two-year defense
budget.
The armed forces should
stop paying contractors a
percentage of their casts as
profit. The services should
coordinate weapons pur-
chases, eliminating needless
duplication. And, whenever
feasible, purchases should be
conducted by competitive
bid, with specifications
drawn as broadly as passible
to encourage competition.
Many supporters of a
strong national defense have
been too eager to approve
military spending without
question and too willing to
give the Pentagon bureau-
<racy whatever it wants.
That must change. The
American people will sup-
port defense spending
adequate to meet the chal-
lenge we face, but only if
they are convinced that their
money is being spent wisely
and well. To many Ameri-
cans, it appears that only
liberals are interested in
cutting waste, mismanage-
ment, and inefficiencies from
the defense budget. Con-
servatives must be con-
cerned about waste in the
defense budget as well as in
welfare programs.
Ignacio and Petra settled greats.
The oldest person at the
celebration was Petra G.
Rios who wifi celebrate her
birthday next month. Dona
Petra, the matriarch of the
Rios Family, will no doubt
reflect on her varied life and
the memories of the past
with her family which in-
cludes her children, as well
as grands, greats, and great-
Chamber Corner
By Lillian F’orter
Manager
Our sign is still being put
into papers, the latest is
from Ennis, Texas’ local
paper.
We have received
brochures from the 10th
Annual Texas Renaissance
Festival Oct. 6-7, 13-14,
20-21, 27-28 and November
3-4, 10-11; advance tickets
can be bought. Also on hand
are brochures from Hodges
Gardens in Mary, Louisiana
and 1984 Six Flags over
Texas.
bersl% have just forgotten,
please call the office
426-3037 or mail your check
to P.O. Box 126. The dues
this year, are $72 for
business; $30 for individual
and dvic dubs; and $15 for
retired. We need your help.
We thank all who have
already joined.
In 1983 we had 226-dIus
requests for deer, turkey,
dove, quail and javaline
leases. Many have special
requests like housing, north
or south of Highway 90 and,
occasionally, east or west of
Hondo, company leases, year
around leases, season and
day leases, guests, eta Some
of these found what they
were looking for here in the
Hondo area. This office tries
very hard to accommodate
the leaser as well as the
leasee.
Reminder; The Hondo
Chamber of Commerce
annual Membership and
Awards Bandquet will be
Monday, March 12,7:30 p.m.
at McDowell Cafeteria. The
entertainment this year is
sure to please almost every-
one. ‘The Latest CoUedion”
will sing four-part harmony,
barbershop style.
To assist the Chamber in
ordering the correct amount
of food, we will appreciate
your buying your tickets in
advance from any director or
at the Chamber Office.
Our 1984 membership now
stands at 265. The 1983
membership was 326 which
shows many have not re-
joined. If any regular mem-
We’ve still got
Santa pictures
Some of the photos taken
of children with Santa in
December are still at the
Anvil Herald office. These
photos were paid for at the
time they were taken and
Where To Write
Your Representatives
U.S. Senator Lloyd M. Beotaen
240 Russell Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
U.S. Senator John Tower
142 Russell Office Building
Washington. D.C. 20510
Congressman Abraham "Chick”
Kazen
2408 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Senator BUI Sima
P.O. Box 12068
Capitol Station
Austin, Texas 78711
Representative Jim Crockett
P.O. Bn 2810
Capitol Station
Austin, Tens 78788
just need to be picked up by
the parents.
The names we have re-
corded on photos still re-
maining include Maria and
Anya Budd, Melinda Santil-
lano, Chrissy and Sandy
Jacobs, Alan Laughlin,
Michael and Kim Cuellar,
Wesley Huesser, Travis
Fohn, Daniel Campos, Chad
and Amy McGuffin, Tisa and
Amber Miller, Jennifer
Romero, Richelle and Todd
Winters, Daphne and Echele
Rodriguez, Tina and Billy
Gazaway.
Our interesting guests the
last couple of weeks indude:
Robert and Rita Winkel of
Spokane, Wash. The
Winkels were visiting
Richard and Jerry
Schneider. Jerry tells me
they met in Germany in 1951
and hadn’t seen them since,
so they had a wonderful
visit.
Other guests were Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Canfieid of
Cedorburg, Wis.; Randal
Etheredge of Lockhart, Tx.;
Simmie Vaughn of Mesquite,
Nevada; Art Lindmen of
Edena, Minn.; Mary Lena
Gabor of Hondo and a friend
of Art Lindman; Anne Mills,
R.S.M. of Gateway, Ireland;
Caroline Smith, S.P. of
Sprinfield, Mass.; Richard
Clark of Somers, Conn.;
Cynthia J. Gilbert of San
Antonio and originally from
Detroit, Michigan. These
people were all so interest-
ing to talk to that I know I
must have the most interest-
ing and fun job in Hondo.
Again, if you have not
'‘joined your Chamber of
Commerce this year, please
do so. With everyones help,
the job of promoting Hondo
is so much easier.
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