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Page 4,The Hondo Anvfl Herald. Thursday. August 18,1983
Textbook committee
to hear opinions
Texas’ State Textbook
Selection Committee met in
Austin August 2 to hear
public opinions on textbooks
which have been submitted
by publishers for the com-
ipittee's review.
- Mrs. Marcy Rothe of
Hondo represented the 23rd
Congressional District on
The 27-member committee.
2 Avowed atheist Madalyn
Murray O’Hair was among
the citizens who gave their
Opinions. She found fault
with the 11 world history
textbooks and voWed to file
suit to keep them out of
Texas classrooms. She
Charged that the books gave
religion a false heroic role
atid said that they were
offensive to atheists,
agnostics and humanists
which she claimed make up
dhe-third of the nation. She
said the books should be
changed to include a study of
atheism as well as that of
Christianity, Judaism and
Islam.
Among others who gave
opinions were Michael Hud-
son, Texas Coordinator of
People for the American
Way, and Mel and Norma
Gabler of Longview, whose
comments were based on
Christian viewpoint.
Hudson's organization had
sought bias-free books and
he said publishers had done
a good job. He said the books
should not avoid negative
aspects of United States
history, ignore the changing
roles of women or exclude
accepted scientific theory.
The Gablers and their
researchers had found
numerous errors in the
books which publishers had
acknowledged. They also
protested the fact that the
history books gave more
coverage to such topics as
French Revolution than they
did to the American Revolu-
tion, among other things.
The textbook committee
will again meet on August 29
before their recommenda-
tions are forwarded to the
state education board for
adoption.
City Council to discuss Library
The Hondo Library Board
is scheduled on the agenda of
the City Council Meeting
Tuesday, August 23,1983, at
7 i30 p.m Discussion shall
indude a possible change of
site for the new library.
All interested persons are
invited and urged to attend.
TEXAS LOBE * Bsas
From Privateto President in two years
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar
A PAINTER, POET AND PUBLISHES
11/
WAS BORN AUGUST 16,1790 1%
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA.
AFTER AN UNSUCCESSFUL RUN
FOR CONGRESS IN IBS* HE SOLD
HIS COLUMBUS f&A) FNQWXeK.
AND, IN 1935, FOLLOWED JAMES
FANNIN TO TEXAS TO COLLECT
HISTORICAL DATA.
THE FALL OF THE ALAMO AND
FANNIN’S DEATH AT GOLIAD
PROMPTED HIM TO JOIN THE
TEXAS ARMV AS A PRIVATE.
HIS COURAGE 6 LEADERSHIP .
IN COMBAT EARNED HIM /
THE COMMAND OF THE
CAVALRY AT SAN JACINTO.
\
TEN DAYS LATER HE WAS
SECRETARY OF WAR IN DAVID
BURNET'S CABINET AND WITHIN
A MONTH WAS A MAJOR GENERAL
AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE
TEXAS ARMY.
Tractor bid accepted
Commissioners’ Court
ir
A FIERY POLITICIAN
LAMAR SUCCEEDED SAM HOUSTON AS PRESIDENT Of TEXAS IN 1838.
Texas Lore is now available as a book for $3.25 postpaid.
Make check or money order payable lo The Red Rose Studio 4 mail to
The Red Rose Studio. 88 Flintlock Drive, Willow Street, PA 17584.
City of Hondo to enter computer age
By Doug Johnson
A new employee will soon
be coming to work at City
Han. This employee will
singlehandedly keep track of
much of the City’s bookkeep-
ing. This impressive worker
can remember a list 27
million items, and can type
300 lines (not words, lines)
per minute. And this tireless
toiler win never ask for a
rise or paid vacation.
.Inhuman credentials? Cer-
t4Wr
ilfeai
general ledger, accounts
Davable, accounts receiv-
able, utility billing and
posting, payroU, and fixed
assets. AU of those func-
tions. Rhea said, take up a
tremendous amount of
memory storage, which is a
major reason he opted for
the 27-mega-byte system.
Rhea added that it is
cheaper to get a larger
system now and grow into it,
rather than buying one that
, because HondoVJiir- \ will have to $e expanded
J a computer.
jCIty Manager Mike Rhea
received permission from
City Council last week to
eater into a lease-purchase
with National Cash
ster (NCR) for its state-
model, the NCR
90-20. The system will cost
the City $15,959.43 per year,
during the next four years -
$<3,837.72 total.
Tor its money, the City
receives the computer's
hardware, three cathode-ray
tube (CRT) keyboard con-
sfies with which to enter
the system, a
r-minute printer,
byte’s (27 million
> of information) worth
of: storage, and a set of
instructions
;The 90-20 will handle such
dompbeated and dull tasks as
soon. • > \
The new system will
replace outdated equipment
and computer services that
Hondo now pays for, Rhea
said. Currently, the City
rents an old keypunch
machine from Sperry for
$219 per month plus main-
tenance. Medina Electric
Cooperative charges a fee
for doing the City’s billing.
“We can live with our
present arrangements, but
anything to do with finances
is done by hand,” Rhea said.
“I’m usually a month
behind, from an accounting
point of view,’’ he said. But
with the new system, any
record, any piece of informa-
tion, any total “can be
instantly accessible.”
And as Hondo’s computing
needs grow, so can the
conputer Rhea said that
the 90-20’s memory is ex-
pandable up to 384 mega
bytes-more than 1,000 per-
cent. The drive system
could also be boosted to take
as many as 24 CRT consoles,
he said.
Rhea said he pushed to get
the machine now in order to
save money. Interest rates
went up August 15, he said,
from 8.25 to 10 percent.
According to Rhea, getting
45 under the wire will aatfe
the City about $8,000.
That tidy little savings
sum will pay for just under
two-thirds of the cost of
buying what gives the com-
puter its soul-its software.
The computer itself is the
hardware. It is the physical
equipment that provides the
muscle to get a job done.
But muscles need brains
to direct them, and com-
puters need programs in
order to work. Without
software, even the most
advanced, most expensive
computer in the world is just
so many hundred pounds of
junk.
“If you don't have good
software, you don't have a
good system,” said Rhea.
“It'S that simple.” |
Rhea said the pr«crams he
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i invited to participate in
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be hosted by the New
i Chapter,
may enter paint-
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AD entries must be
Blginal 'work done without
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• Entrants must be TFAA
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Future
is ordering for Hondo's
computer are tailored to fit
the needs of a small to
medium-sized city. They
will enable the machine to
speed up and take the
drudgery out of record-keep-
ing. Most importantly, they
will send that keypunch
machine packing.
The cost of all the pro-
grams will be $12,320, Rhea
said, and they will break
down like this:
-General Ledger and Bud-
getary - $2,500
-Accounts payable -
$2,000
-Accounts receivable -
$1,500
-Fixed Assets - $500
-PayroU - $1,700
-Utility Billing - $3,000
-10 percent installation
fee of the system • $1,120
More functions could be
added later, Rhea said, and
all the software is guar-
anteed to be free from bugs,
with maintenance included
free for the first two years.
But the best part about
the programs is that one
need not be a computer whiz
in order to operate the
system.
“It’s the simplest thing
you've ever seen,” said
Rhea. “If you can read, you
can operate this system.”
The instructions operate
on steps on yes-no questions,
he said, and the computer
does not go on to the next
step until the person tells it
to. There is no risk of
erasing everything acciden-
tally, Rhea said.
Rhea emphasized that be-
cause Hondo is getting the
system under a lease-pur-
chase deal, the City can send
the machine back if it does
not work properly.
And if the machine does
work out, he said, the City
will own it after four years.
Rhea expects delivery of
the system in 45-60 days.
Likely by late November, he
said, all the City’s records
will have been entered into
the system, and Hondo will
have stepped into the com-
puter age.
Rhea said (hat about 15
cities within 100 miles of
Hondo are already using
the same type of system to
run school records, colleges
and other functions.
“Every city I’ve worked in
has had some kind of
(computer) system," he said.
“I’m not one to want to
spend a lot of money to keep
up with the Joneses, but in
this case, I think it is
needed.”
“We need to have one, if
nothing else for the control
it gives us,” he said.
Coming this fall, Rhea and
those at the City Hall will be
waiting to see how the new
employee works out.
County Commissioners
opened four bids Monday for
purchase of a new tractor-
mower and loaded for Pre-
cinct 1, and selected R&R
Implement Inc. of Dilley,
which submitted a total bid
of $17,175.
Farmers Tractor and
Equipment Co. of Lytle
($17,409), Medina Imple-
ment Co. of Castroville
($21,965) and Community
Tractor and Equipment Co.
of Natalia ($16,987) were the
other bidders. R&R Imple-
ment Inc. was considered to
be the low bidder after it
was determined that Com-
munity Tractor and Equip-
ment Company’s tractor did
not meet with Commission-
er’s specifications.
Commissioners expect de-
livery of the new vehicle in
less than 45 days.
A resolution was passed
asking the Criminal Justice
Planning Committee to ap-
prove the County’s $17,808
grant application for train-
ing of a “Court Coordinator.”
The County wants to train
a current employee to pro-
vide administrative assist-
ance to the County’s courts.
Duties of the coordinator
would include establishing
accurate records on pending
and future cases, reflecting
date of arrest, charge,
amount of bond, arraign-
ment date, plea, sentence,
fine status of payments, date
of capias profine or revoca-
tion.
Commissioners passed an-
other resolution, this time
asking Governor Mark
White and the Legislature to
approve more funding for
state highways, in the form
of an increased gasoline tax.
Texas’ 5-cent-per-gallon rate
is the lowest in the nation.
The resolution, which will
be sent to the governor and
to state representatives
from this area, asks for them
to address the issue in any
possible special session.
Texas Highway Depart-
ment district manager
Raymond Stotzer told Com-
missioners last week that
the Good Roads Association
is advocating an increase of
the gasoline tax to either 10
cents per gallon, or to 10
percent of the per-gallon
price.
Commissioners are not
supporting any specific in-
crease, said Judge Decker.
Commissioner David
Montgomery told the Court
that the wooden flooring of
the Yancey-Biry bridge,
which was damaged last
week by a farm tractor, had
been repaired and is open as
usual.
Commissioners discussed
replacing the 1921-vintage
structure in the future, but
agreed that project would
have to wait until the State
comes through with some
financial assistance (see
Bridge story, page 1).
In other business, Com-
missioners:
--Approved hiring of
Blanton Taylor for the
Probation Office, at an
annual salary of $15,000. He
replaces Frank Perkins who
is returning to the teaching
profession.
-Voted to allow County
Clerk Anna Van De Walle
and one other county em-
ployee to attend a one-day
seminar in Fredericksburg.
They also allowed her to look
into spending $157 interest
on a certificate of deposit for
purchase of a ceiling fan for
the records vault in her
office.
-Agreed to pay the
November and December
1983 salary of Jakelyn
Meyer, an employee of the
Medina County History Of-
fice.
-Passed a resolution to
dispose of surplus property
along Highway 16, in the
northeast comer of Medina
County. The resolution asks
the state highway depart-
ment to declare “unneces-
ary” a 3.88-acre tract of land,
originally belonging to
rancher Howard Schott. The
land became available when
Highway 16 was rerouted,
and after the State conveys
the land to the County, it
will give it back to Schott.
-Voted to allow Commis-
sioner Henry Briscoe’s pre-
cinct to loan $2,000 to the
Medina County Sheltered
Workshop.
-Gave tentative approval
to surveyor Charles Rothe,
subject to the absent
Briscoe’s okay, for a subdivi-
sion near Natalia, called Oak
Forest South Unit 2. The
subdivision consists of 16
tracts, almost all of which
are 10 acres or larger.
Commissioners adjourned
to the county jail next-door
to the Courthouse, where
they made their yearly
inspection. Chief Dispatcher
William “Gizmo” Freeman
reported to Judge Decker
that the jail has several
leaks in the ceiling.
Decker said the problems
will be referred to the
general contractor that
worked on the jail’s roof.
Sunny Days at
Four Seasons
By Evelyn Grell
“Give unto the Lord the
glory due unto his name;
worship the Lord in the
beauty of holiness.” (Psalm
29:2)
Residents began their
week with a party tat one of
their'- favorite visitors.
Roooie -Watkins celebrates
his first birthday on Aug. 6
and residents wanted to
have a party for him. Robbie
has been coming to visit his
great grandparents, Mrs.
Alice Wemette and Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Rihn, since he
was born. He has won the
hearts of all our residents
and staff. Everyone had a
good time watching him
open his presents and eat his
cake. Robbie also had a
present for each resident - a
package of cookies. We all
had a good time and look
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forward to Robbie’s visits.
The past week was Na-
tional Clown Week. On
Tuesday a couple of downs,
Sunshine and Dolly, paid a
visit to our home. They
spread a lot of sunshine
throughout the halls finding
a lot smiles on residents
faces and sharing a hug or
two.
That afternoon Pastor
Bert Clayton came to share
his trip to the Holy Land
with us. The slides were
beautiful and his narration
was excellent. Everyone felt
as if they had been there.
We weren’t too sure, how-
ever, about his being able to
walk on the water. Our
special thanks to Pastor
Clayton for coming to show
us the slides. If you have an
opportunity to see it, don’t
miss it.
We worked on crafts,
played games and had a
rummage sale the rest of the
week. Volunteers, Mary
Jane Saathoff and Florence
Marquis, kept the games
going while we were busy
with the sale.
Friday afternoon Mr.
Frank Fournier, Sr. was
honored with a party on his
94th birthday. We all had a
good time watching him
open his gifts and enjoying
cake and ice cream. The
party was given by his son
and daughter-in-law. There
were also a couple of great
grandchildren present along
with special friends and
relatives. Our thanks to the
family for a lovely party.
The craft department is
busy working on Christmas
projects. If you would like to
help with cermanics or
cutting out feet, we would be
glad to have you. Just come
by or call and we will let you
know what days we work.
BILL H ELLEN FORD
CHRYSLER
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ANNOUNCING
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Pre-register by calling 426-3285.
Hondo
Landmark Shopping Mall
Mon./Wed. 5:15 - 6:15 p.m.
Tues./Thurs. 9:00 • 10:00 a.m.
p 4:00 • 5:00 p.m.
Burt Benavides
Because of his background
[ as a mechanic and in counter
| sales, Burt Benavides is able
to relate to the parts needs
at his customers. Benavides
came to Hondo in April as
| Bill Hellen Ford’s parts
“I like the people and the
| area,” he said. “In a small
town you get to know the
people you serve, and to
| know their needs.”
Benavides is a graduate of
| Mary Carroll High School in
j Carpus Christi and took pilot
training at SWTJC In
Uvalde. He has flown planes
commercially and enjoys
racing street bikes.
The computer training
seminar he will soon be
attending will enable him to
be better able to keep track
of inventory and to more
easily locate parts elsewhere
when they are not in stock
locally.
“Bill Hellen FortlChrysler
is on the way up,” Benavides
said. “We an getting more
cars and more parts in stock.
We intend to serve the
people at Hondo and the
surrounding area better
than they have been served
before.”
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