Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 1984 Page: 1 of 16
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Licha Ann sweeps tourney
Water allocation due
Condition III goes into effect Saturday
If you haven't told the Water District
how many people your water meter
serves as of Monday, Aug. 27, the min-
imum will be assumed. In other words,
if you don't own up two or 20 of you will
be sharing 6,000 gallons of water a
month.
Residential water customers were
asked on t he last billing to indicate how-
many people are served by their w ater
meters. The number of people per
meter w’ill determine the monthly water
allocation for that household. Water
will be portioned according to the fol-
lowing schedule:
Water Allocations
Number persons
I or 2
3 or 4
5 or tt
7 or 8
9 or 10
II or more
Gallons
6,000
7.000
8.000
9.000
10.000
12,000
Condition III of a four-phase man
datory water rationing plan goes into
enect Saturday, Aug. 27, although per
household allocations will not be sent
from t he Water District until the August
billing Is mailed on or about Sept. 1.
Water District Engineer Jim Urban
said water meters will be read between
Aug. 27 and Aug. 29. Homeowners are
advised to read their meters one of
those three days so they are better
prepared to stay within the aforemen-
tioned allocations. A surcharge will be
added for every 1,000 gallons used over
the established limit. A customer using
more than 4,(X)0 gallons over the limit
for two billing periods will be subject to
having his water turned off. Reconnec-
tion fee for the first time is $50 and
$500 for the second reconnect. If a
meter Is turned off a third time it will
stay off for the duration of the drought.
Customers who feel the allocation
causes them a hardship may submit
requests for reconsideration. The re-
quests must be made to the Water
Allocation Review Board in writing and
presented to the Water District office
on Ninth Street or mailed to P.O. Box
Caught in the middle
CSOs call il quits
Community Service Officers (CSOs)
who have served Port Aransas since
the first of June resigned Tuesday, Aug.
21, a week earlier than planned.
Jeff Matthews and Steve Schreck-
enbach said they were “tired of being
political kickbalLs". Representing them
selves and the five other CSOs, Mat-
thews and Schreekenbaeh explained
that while Polk e Chief Dav e Hudiburgh
(who initiated the program in lieu of
employing another full time officer),
the police department and the general
public welcomed them, some City
Council members were continually
“pickingat meprogram’ he JN-i'.ied
to name the individuals to whom they
referred. City Manager Joyce Pulich
was out of town and was not due to
return until today (Thursday, Aug. 23).
Efforts to reach Mayor Dale Bietendorf
for comment before press time were
unsuccessful.
Schreekenbaeh said he was told
directly by members of t he City Council
that Boy Scouts could do the job they
were doing and that the City “could
have had sidewalks from the ferry,
down Cotter and Alister to Avenue G" if
they hadn’t had the CSO program.
"If they didn’t want us they should
have shut the program down" or kept
their remarks to themselves until the
program came up again for next
summer rather than make degrading
remarks “to our faces", Schreekenbaeh
said.
The CSOs said most people in town
welcomed t hem. In fact, they said, sev-
eral beachfront property owners invited
them to a weiner roast on the beach to
welcome them and express their ap
preciat ion.
The scope of the CSO program, as
presented by Hudiburgh and under-
stood by the CSOs was four-fold: 1J to
demonstrate a City presence on the
beach; 2] provide public relations for
the City in the form of information or
assistaiico, 8j assist beachgoers with
minor first aid which is a help to the
Emergency Medicial Service; and 4]
assist t he police depart merit on request
for example every’ day one of the
CSOs serves jail inmates a meal once a
day.
Apparently, according to the CSOs,
some City Council members did not
understand this and found fault with
the program because the CSOs could
not Issue citations. Matthews said he
was told by one council member that
“we don't really have a job to do be-
cause we aren’t police officers."
The C SOs are going into their senior
year of college and m^jor in either law
enforcement and police science or
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Urban emphasized that residential
customers who have not informed the
District of the number of persons using
the meter will be allotted the minimum
allocation of 6,(XX) gallons.
Urban defined Condition IV primar-
ily as further reductions in residential,
commerical and industrial uses. He
said that since Corpus Christi controls
the water supply (Lake Corpus Christi)
the Corpus Christi city manager has
the option to enforce further controls.
Those restrictions could include shut-
ting down less and or non-critical uses
such as car washes and swimming
pools and putting a moratorium on
applications for expansion of water
service or new water service. Virtually
anything is game, Urban said, and the
increased restrictions of Condition III
would probably be done in phases
rather than all at once
The hope now is for the "usual" Sep-
tember rains - it will take some gulley
washers or a tropical storm to bring
the lake level up to a point where
rationing measures could be lifted.
Port A ransas students
hit the books T uesday
School teachers are already at.
their desks in Port Aransas class-
rooms. Their students join them Tues-
day, Aug. 28, when the first bells ring
for the 1984-85 term.
Schedules for everything -from
registration to lunches to bus routes
- have been published in previous
issues of t he South Jetty, as has a list
of school supplies students in early
childhood through fifth grade will
need. Here is a recap of that informa-
tion, less the school supply list which
is available in the Aug. 9 issue of the
South Jetty.
Registration
All students register Monday, Aug.
27.
Early childhood through middle
school students register from 8:30
a m. to noon and from 1 to 3:30 p.m
All students should be accompanied
by a parent or guardian and first
time students should bring records
of immunization First time students
:r oarh ch'ldhuid through first
giaut should also bring (their birth
pgrtyicates
High school students register ac-
cording to the following schedule:
Freshmen -- 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.; sopho-
mores-9a.m. to 10 a.m.; juniors - 10
a.m. to 11 a.m.; and seniors - 11 a.m.
to noon.
Bus schedule
The bus leaves the school at 7 or
7:15 a.m. each day and takes on stu-
dents from a point two miles from
the school on Park Road 53. The
return trip begins at the school at
3:30 p.m.
Classes
Early childhood through fifth grade
begin at 8:25 a.m. Early childhood
through third grade dismiss at 2:45
p.m Fourth and fifth grades dismiss
at 3:30 p.m.
Middle school and high school stu-
dents attend classes from 8:25 a.m.
to 3 30 p.m
Lunch
Lunches are served from 10:50
a.m. through 12:15 p.m Lunch prices
nre S' . cr u ♦ ... elementary - iudents
and secondary students. Re
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Dean Haivn champs
VI hat a weekend for tin- team of the Licha Ann. The Licha Ann
won six awards at the toiirnam ‘ill. The group poses with the
record-breaking 576-pound blue marlin which meant the over-
all championship. Port Aransas captain Totsy Belcher w on both
captain's awards. Angler and boat owner Sidney Lindsay from
San Antonio won the trophy for the largest fish ami most marlin
points. See slorv for details. (Staff photo by James Simmons)
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On the beach...
Driving conditions are starting to deteriorate again, hut the folks at
the Nueces C ounty Park said driving conditions are not as Ivad as
they are on Padre Island. The sand starts getting loose, with soft
spots south of the park. There is very little tar and seaweed. Beach
combing is marginal. The water is staying warm at B5 degrees.
Weather watch....
f ill up the ice trays, it's going to he unother Port \ransas summer
weekend. Temperatures w ill get up into the 60s. laiw s w ill dip to the
70s. 1 here is still a chance of rain as partly eloudv skies will cover
the Island through Sundav.
Sidney Lindsay of San Antonio
caught a 576 pound blue marlin Sat
urday, Aug. 18, to shatter the tourna
ment record and capture the overall
title of the 1984 Dean Hawn Memorial
Billfish Tournament.
The tournament ran from Wednos
day, Aug 15, through Saturday, Aug.
19, with fishing Friday and Saturday.
Lindsay caught the record setting fish
during the second day of competition.
Lindsay was fishing aboard Licha
Ann with Port Aransas captain Totsy
Belcher. Belcher, also nicknamed Mr
Marlin, won the captain’s trophy and
the repeating captains trophy for his
Leader of the park
Former Mayor ( harlie Brown smiles as the Coastal Bend I ask
I’ orec has a hang up first meeting. ( hair man of the Task Lorre.
Brow n del i v ered the opening speech at I lie meeting. Brow n -aid
the meeting was more successful than lie had hoped. See siorv
lor detail-. (Staff photo I * \ Maureen Shecran)
efforts aboard the Licha Ann
Jeff Pearce was part of the Licha
Ann team, winning himself the mates
trophy. The Licha Ann walked away
with both captain’s trophies, blue mar-
lin aggregate weight, largest blue mar
tin and the mates trophy.
Trophies were awarded for largest
blue marlin, largest white marlin, larg
See "HAWN." juiur 2 4
Beach meet a success
By Maureen Sheeran
The first meeting of the Coastal
Bend Task Force was a “huge suc-
cess,” said Task Force chairman
Charlie Brown.
The Task Force got together for the
first time Friday, Aug. 17. Approxi-
mately 25 of t he 38 people invited to
participate in t he Task Force attend
ed Friday’s kick off meeting.
“I was very pleased wit h t he way it
went,” Brown said. “It went better
and further than I had expected, or
fantasized.”
The Task Force encompasses Aran
sas, Kleberg and Nueces counties
and is made up of city officials,
county commissioners, law enforce
ment officials and land owners from
the three counties. The Task Force
will formulate a management plan
for the beach from the south jetties
to Malaquite Beach.
Port Aransas Mayor Dale Bieten
dorf told Coastal Bend Task Force
members that there will he three
beach task forces formed along the
Texas Gulf Coast The ot her two task
forces will work in conjunction with
the ('oastal Bend Task Force toest ah
lish statewide management plan
“The whole ball of wax is we hope
to have a Task Force like this on the
lower coast and the upper coast and
this one,” Bietendorf said ”( Former
state Sen Babe) Schwartz will take
three or four off each and make a
group to come up with a statewide
comprehensive plan for beach man
agemnnt
The Coastal Bend Task Force will
t ry to come up w it h its plan by Dec 1
Brow n said t he I >ec l date is a neces
sary deadline in ordei to get mloi
mation to lawmakers for possible
legislative changes The 69th Texas
Legislative session is scheduled to
begin in January
St a i e Sen ( arlos I Tuan, ( D ( or pus
Christi) and Rep. Bill Harrison (D
Corpus Christi) are ex officio chair
men of the Task Force. Neit her were
able to attend tin1 meeting.
“I feel he (Harrison) will carry on
at the state level what ever we do to a
final reward,” Bietendorf said. “It
seems Truan is more interested in
what Babe Schwartz thinks about
the situation."
During the two and a half hour
Task Force meeting, the group was
broken into six groups, according to
each member’s area of expert ise. The
groups include government, public
safety, public recreation, tourist in-
dustry, property owners and en
vironment.
Raymond Gray, Harrison's office,
Nueces County Precinct 4 Commission
or J.P. Luby, Port Aransas City Man
ager Joyce Pulich and Justice of the
Peace Jim Atwill were among the
government representatives at the
meet ing.
Public safety persons at the meet
ing include Precinct 7 Constable
DeeWayne Mathews, Port Aransas
Police Chief Dave Hudiburgh and
Ronnie I'olston.
Bill Morgan. JC. Barr, John Roberts
and Corpus Christi Building Inspec-
tor David Grisanti participated in
the meeting under the title public
recreat ion.
* The tourist industry was re pres
on ted at the meet ing by motel owner
Ben Cash, engineer Joe Moseley. Jim
Sam hoi, i >av id ('oggms, attending for
Bob Conwell, and Margie Morrill
I’he property owners group mem
bers attending the meeting were
Mark Gros.se, Charles Bennett. Mar
garet Hutchison and Jim Lynn
Those attending the meet mg deal
ing with environmental concerns
were I ony Amos, Paul Carangelo and
Joan Holt
l*olishing the school bell
4- -etiool days approach, school facullv and administrators
nui-t prepare lor the harrage ol student- to hit the hallwav
I uesday. Vug. 211. ‘school librarian >andv Garrison. left, and
llollv Werehan unpack new hook- at the Port Vran-a- High
sclmol I uesdav. Vug. 2 I Nee slorv for details. ("Muff photo hv
Mnrrav Juilsou)
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Judson, Mary. Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 1984, newspaper, August 23, 1984; Port Aransas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth840258/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ellis Memorial Library.