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Pharr memorial Library
130 E. Caffery
Pharr, Texas
Pharr honored by American Legion fall convention
“The event honored Pharr with all special affair were: Nora Lee Guelker, 3rd Division
and distinguished people present. It told the President from Edcouch. Lou Sutton 15th
rest of the Valley that Pharr is Special”. District President of Unit 669 from Larado.
“The event proved to be the highlight of Nell Clark President of Post 101 Auxiliary
the veterens as they proudly displayed 0ut of Pharr.Rosa Deliganis, Post Unit 669
their caps adorned with medals and badges District Chaplain also out of Larado.
and numerous other honors they received
during their years of service.” Among the Guests that attended,
The 15th District Fall Convention kicked off Congressman E.Kika De La Garza was
as a “Big success” according to Mike &uest °f honor and speaker for the
Palmquist, Dept. Service Office of the convention. Attorney A.C. Tony Garcia was
American Legion. Everyone had a great a^s0 on band f°r the affair, as well as Pharr
time as could be seen in the faces of the City May°r Quentin Newcombe Jr.
approximate 300 that attended. There were ^he first guest speaker of the afternoon
those who came to see, and then there was May°r Newcombe. He spoke of the
were those who wanted to have a fun time. bonor the convention posed to the city. And
But as it ended up everyone had an that the “0ut of towners would find the
exceptional time one that they are sure Pe0Ple °f Pharr friendly, and helpful and
never to forget the closest and nicest people they would
“This if the first time in history that the "T find” ,"thfy’re Sood 4friendly folks
President and Commander from the same wilhng to help at every opportunity
town of the 3rd Division were present at a second Speake.,r °f *h,e
convention.” stated Jacque Hall, auxiliary Tony Esparza he proclaimed that it was
member of the Post 101 American Legion.
Among those who were present, William jn their games to come out with a first place
0. McGonagill, Post 101 Commander, state trophey that they recieved in
Johnny Johnson,McAllen 15th District California this past summer. He went on to
Commander. Jim Lemley, Assistant say that it was 12 years ago that the Post
Department Adjutant from Austin. Stanley first sponsored the hard ball game boys in
Odom, from Edcouch, 3rd Division Edinburg and now was the best time for
Commander. Roger Palmquist, Veteran them to pay it all back with this present win.
Affairs Committe of the state of Texas. Dr.
Tommy Esparza, American Legion hard ball “Pharr’s always been good at putting on a
coach of Edinburg. Don Hall, Convention successful convention”stated Johnny John-
Chairman, and 15th District Chaplain. son
Among the Auxiliary that attended the A bit of a serious note, “Mr. American L-
ren: ‘S: P“ ^L°n ^ X to make those changes.
Palmquist brought about a serious issue thier appropriate leaders. It delt with the
concerning Pension compensation increased ha™ »een the
that have recently gone into effect, there patient clinic to local posts so get your letters f 1!mna 10n 0 eds to veterans. Its like
was a 14.3 per cent increase. “I think that’s , , , ., being m a regular waiting room to most of
good” he quoted, and for those younger out to those boys in Was mg on an see 1 instead of getting the sDecial care
vets under the age of40vears the increase we can do something about it soon. The ™em aa 01 getting tne special care
!!s w *13 nercent ^ He noted conflict deals with the cutback in services * 67 whateVer Care they
some conflicting reasoning that he realized for the veterans medical benifits, they see it ca“ get
concernine- Hisahled veterans “T think the as not having enough of the coverage they Kika De La Garza speech was patriotic in
lossofaTeg^^ Us of a Lg whXr it is should have- The doctors* can only see context He spoke of the change of trends
below the knee or above it” The concern them on some cases for half a and of the American people concerning the
stood in the differences of compensation, sometimes the doctors are’t even doctors American Soldier. The change in attitude
stating that if the injury is the loss of a leg but interns\ There move would be to take toward war. And the real thing about the
below the knee the compensation is only 13
per cent, but if the injury is above the knee
better consideration of the needs of the Americas that all countries respect; and that
veterans by providing better medical is the AMERICAN SPIRIT of the people.
amputation than the total amount of examinations and benifits for all those "^0u?ing_h?s haPPeI^ed inLour country that
compensation is Muer cent
The next issue delt with his asking for
needing those facilities” he pointed out and
preserved was the quote by Lincoln, was
the main theme of his speech. That the
country no matter what ordeal it had won
overall with no extra waves. “The system
has prevailed,and will continue to do so.”
One soldier can be as important as the
wholg war effort” It is now the young that
are realizing that we must pay tribute to the
soldier and the idea of Preservation of the
American System.
All in all the convention wore on for two
days, and the people who attended, were as
spirted and as fresh as the day they came
into the city of Pharr. “The people here are.
the friendliest and the nicest in Texas
looking forward to another convention here
if possible says Lou Sutton. It was an event
that 11 live in the hearts of the veterans, the
guests, and the observers.
THE
Su periodico bilingue
MIAMI
47th Year No. 39 USPS 429-660
October 16,1980
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Bears end winless streak by crushing Brownsville
BY ELOY BRAVO
The PSJA Bears ended their winless
frustration last Friday night by trouncing
the Brownsville Porter Cowboys 35-7.
Martin McDonald was move back to his
familiar position at tailback and
responded to rushing for 205 yards on
only 16 carries.
The Bear offense completely dominat-
ed the game as they racked up 354 yards
total offense and only had to punt once.
Quarterback Robert Martinez comple-
ted only one pass in the night, an 11 yard
touchdown pass to Jow Garza, but with
McDonald breading runs for 86 and 49
yards, he didn’t have to throw anymore
than he did.
After an opening kickoff fumble by the
Cowboys, PSJA took only 5 plays to draw
first blood as McDonald scored his first of
three TD’s on a four yard run.
Brownsville Porter came right back to
tie the score on a six yard pass from
quarterback R. Salinas to flanker 0.
Salinas.
From the start it approved to be a
close game, but the Bear defense
ad jointed and limited the electrifying
Cowboys to 179 yards total offense. The
Bears then erupted for 14 points in the
second quarter on Martinez 11 yard TD
toss and McDonald’s electrifing 86 yard
run that ran he outrun the entire Porter
Defense and PSJA took a 21-7 halftime
lead.
The second half was more of the same
for PSJA Martin McDonald got his
TD of the night on a nifty 49 yard run and
a 28-7 Bear lead.
The victory evens the Bears record to
3-3 on the season and 1-3 in district.
Senior fullback Esmerijildo Cano scored
the final touchdown of the night on a 6
yard sweep that made the score 35-7.
The Bear offense finally came to life and
Marinez hardly had to pass while the
offensive time was opening gaping holes
for McDonald and all the Bears back.
Coach Julio Ayala felt that the Bears
had something to prove the everyone
and with the crushing victory PSJA got
their point across.
The Bears travel to Brownsville Hanna
Saturday night to take on the Eagles.
Game time is 8:00 p.m. See you all there.
“A total of 241 consumers including
residential, commercial and city offices
are using Magic Valle Electrical Utilities”
stated Tony Sanchez a representative
for that company.
“If you don’t approve the rate hike the
Public Utility Board will take a vote and
probably approve hike anyway.” he
finished.
Magic Valley Electric Utility proposes
a rate increase of approximately 7
percent in total.
The Pharr City Commission deliberat-
ed on issue keeping in mind that it is only
a handful of Pharr population “since the
whole city is not under rate increases, it
should be left up to those 241 individual
consumers to decide upon rate hike
Mayor Newcombe pointed out.
Sanchez stressed that the rate increase
would be 4.3 percent lower than C P & L
present rates, but over all would balance
out almost equally.
The City Commissioners of Edinburg,
Weslaco, San Benito and McAllen have
already approved rate hike increases;
although San Juan, and Mission both
denied the rate hike.
The Pharr City Commission decided
that they should ponder on the subject at1
legnth, and await reading of Ordinance at
Oct. 21st meeting.
“They have cut service trememdous-
ley over there” says Cris Vela. This
important statement deals with the issue
of o\.r older Pharr citizens. The Board
listened attentively as they heard Judy
Radesovich representative for Amigos
Del Valley speak to them concerning
major problems of the organizations or
solicit help from the Commission for their
efforts to receive much more allocated
funds than what was issued for the 1981
fiscal year.
“Due to cutbacks of funding, we have
eliminated all demand response trans-
portations, which included taking elderly
to pay bills or buy groceries. We have
eliminated shopping trips that they much
needed to buy necesities. Cut all
recreation trips, before they were
limited or those who wished to go would
pay gas expenses, now they must pay
4 H government
to take over city
On Friday, October 10, 1980, the Pharr
City Goverment and Management was
taken over. The new management wasn’t
radicals, but sixteen civic minded youth
led by Joe Vera Jr., otherwise known as
the Pharr 4-H Club.
The clubbers were experiencing first
hand how city goverment operates. Last
week was National 4-H week and
Friday’s takeover was only one event in
which the 4-Hers learned the duties and
responsibilities of leadership.
The 4-H week celebration began with a
group visit to the First United Methodist
Church. Monday the clubbers visited all
Pharr and San Juan schools passing out
4-H literature. Tuesday a regular
meeting of the members was held at the
Pharr Civic Center. A local television
station conducted an interview with
some club members on Wednesday and
Thursday night a workshop was held in
conjunction withe the Pharr City
Commission to plan Friday’s takeover.
Mayor Quentin Newcombe and
commissioner Lydia Briones met with
the 4-Hers to administer the Oath of
Office to the 4-H Mayor , the 4-H
Commissioners and the 4-H city staff.
The new goverment included Jon
Thompson, Mayor; Bobby Rodriguez,
Mayor Pro-Tern; Chris Thompson, Mike
Thompson and Anita Alvarez, City
Commissioners.
The city staff was composed of
Maricela Palacios, City Manager; Cindy
Escobar, Asst. City Manager; Linda
Diaz, City Secretary; Adelina Alvarez,
Finance Director; Mellissa Palacios, City
Judge; George Watts Jr., Chief of Police;
Chris Rodriguez, Fire Chief; Danny
Villarreal, Public Works Director;
Rosaura Saenz, Parks and Recreation
Director; Annie Guzman, Community
Development and Coordinator; Esmeral-
da Bocanegre, Librarian; and Richard De
La Garza, Fire Marshall.
The first order of business at Friday’s
meeting was the Invocation provided by
4-H Commissioner Anita Alvarez
followed by the proclamation of 4-H Day
and the Oath of offices were
administered.
The appointments of city staff were
then presented by 4-H Mayor Jon
Thompson. The 4-H commission conclu-
ded their meeting by unamiously passing
a resolution to install a decorative
‘Welcome to Pharr’ sign on highway 281,
north of Pharr.
The meeting was adjourned to a joint
luncheon to discuss problems of
goverment with the current Pharr City
Goverment and offer ideas on
improvements.
On Saturday, Pharr 4-H Club Week
concluded with a booth at El Centro Mall.
driver, bus rental and gas. Mileage on
buses has been reduced to 40 miles per
center, which limits participation of
services. We’Ve cut back time limits of
bus drivers to 3 hrs, which limits a great
amount of participation. We have taken 9
vans and two transportation buses out of
commission.”
The $ 116,000 that was allocated for the
1981 fiscal year funds will not begin to
provide equal services that the now $
200,000 functions at.
“Having so many dollar cuts have cut
down on personell, staff, participation.
We have some volunteer workers but not
enough!” she said.
The problem of transportation is
directly related to the nutrition program
for without the bus transporting the
elderly, the less amount of participants
will be able to benefit from program.
The main point of the issue is Amigos
Del Valley is asking the City
Commissioners to sign a letter of
recommendation to the Board of the
Developement Council telling them that
the City of Pharr sees the need for the
Council to allocate more fundings to the
organization. The City Commissioners
saw the need for more funds. They
agreed upon the action, but requested
Ms. Radesovich to write out the letter in
a formal standard to be presented to the
City Commission for signature approval
at the Oct. 21st meeting.
The city took action on probably the
last step toward the Mexico Bridge issue.
It is estimated that once the city submits
Elected Miss Bearette at the PSJA-Porter game last Friday
night was Rosario Compean daughter of Mrs. Paula Compean.
Oscar Rodriguez, student Council President was Miss Compean’s
escort. Elected Mr. Bearette was Roy Alaniz. PHOTO BY ELOY BRAVO
a permit to the responsible authorities
it’ll take 3 months to complete
operations. “Its time to forget
competition and go at our own pace, and
do it right” says Cris Vela.
Mexico has come up with a route for
bridge construction that’ll stretch
through Rio Grande, Canal Anzaldua on a
4 acre pond in Mexico. If accepted by the
U. S. Coast Guard, construction can begin
immediately.
“It is a necessary step to take” stated
Mayor Newcombe, and this the Pharr
City Commission approved to have the
Mayor sign the route plans and letter to
send to the U. SCoast Guard for their
approval.
mis Hm
The Pharr Rifle Club will
open its range again to the
public for the purpose of
“sighting in” big games rifles.
The days will be October 25
and 26. The hours will be 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. on each day.
Hunters are asked to bring
their big game rifles only and
ammunition. The rifle Club will
furnish the rest. No .22’s or
pistols will be fired on these
two days.
The range is located two
miles south on Highway 281
and Vi’s mile east. Turn east
on Rancho Blanco Road.
President William L. Erdes-
teen reminds that there will be
no charge, which has been the
policy all of these years.
The Ladies Aux.- F.O.E. will
be having a garage sale
October 16th from 7:30 to 3:00
at the Lodge located at 210 E.
Cage in Pharr. Proceeds will
be going to charity.
The annual Tri City Business
and Professional Women’s
Organization auction to benefit
Mujeras Unidas-Women To-
gether will be held in
November. Any donation
would be appreciated. (A
BPW member will pick up
items to be donated and store
them until the auction if
desiredFor more inforamtion
please call Jodi Brown at
787-6683 or Merri Graham at
781-1901.
Robert (Bob) Krueger to be
guest of honor and speaker for
the Pharr Chamber of
Commerce Annual Banquet,
Thurs. Oct, 16, at the Pharr
South Civic Center.
Air Americana enters the air
fare war against Texas and
Southwest with new $19 fares.
The Progress Club met Oct. 8,
in the home of Mrs. S.T.
Crosby.
The Rio Grande Valley
Audobon Society’s first meet-
ing of the year was held Oct. 7,
at the First National Bank of
Weslaco.
U.S. Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen
Jr. will be guest of honor and
speaker at the 36 Annual
Banquet of the Valley
Chamber of Commerce. Oct.
23, McAllen Holiday Inn Civic
Center.
The annual meeting of the
South Texas Health Systems
Agency Board of Directors will
be held on Oct. 18, at 1 p.m. at
the Hilton Inn, Larado.
October 12-18 designated
National Newspaper Week.
Theme of the State Depart-
ment of Highways and Public
Transportation is “Our Free-
st. John’s Parish of San
Juan, Annual Benefit Dance
will be on November 1, 1980
(Saturday) and will be held at
the McAllen Civic Center from
9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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