The Pharr Press (Pharr, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 7, 1982 Page: 1 of 14
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No. 35 Vol 50
This Week
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October 7,1982
787-2291
Inside
Offbeat
Viewpoints, page 2
Horoscope, page 4
Cooking with Michelle, page 4
Police reports, page 6
Sports, 7-9
Minta's column, page 11
News of Hidalgo, Las Milpas and
Valley View, pages 12 8-14
At Tuesday night’s city commission meeting, director of city
planning, Oscar Cuellar stood next to Commissioner Jim
Brewster to give a report. Brewster asked a question in a
scratchy whisper because of a cold he had.
When Cuellar was called upon to give his next report he
ceremoniously walked to the other end of the commissioner’s
table next to Commissioner Hector Villarreal.
When asked why he perfered that end of the table when he
had customarily stood at the other end, Cuellar said he “per-
fered not to get Brewster’s sore throat”.
This week’s events
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The CVAE Coop Club of PSJA
High School is sponsoring an
Enchilda Supper thid Friday,
Oct. 8 at the High School
Cafeteria from 3:30 to 6 p.m.
Donation is $3.00 per plate, and
no tickets will be sold at the
door. Pictured are Robert Mar-
tinez, reporter and Joe Enriquez,
parliamentarian. Call 787-4280
for your tickets and have an en-
childa on the way to the football
game.
Winter Softball
The Pharr Parks and Recreation Winter Softball League for
men and women will begin Oct. 19. Entry is $135. Men’s
League is open only to PSJA residents or workers, while
women’s league is open. Call 787-5981 for details.
The VFW 2369 of McAllen in conjunction with the American
Legion Posts, The Catholic War Veterans and the Disabled
Veteran will sponsor a Veterans Day Parade, BBQ and Dance
November 11. There will be a Queen Contest. Contact Sherry
Vander Linder at 581-1971 or 686-9183 for contest details.
Miss Pharr deadline Oct. 19
Deadline for applications the Miss Pharr pageant is October
19. Contact the Pharr Chamber at 787-1481 for details.
The Hidalgo County Chapter of The Scottish Society of South
Texas will meet 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21 at the McAllen State Bank in
Mcallen.
Thursday, Oct. 7 is the Hidalgo County Historical Museum’s
6th Annual Heritage Round up fund-raiser party. It will be at Ti-
O’ Tex RV Park in Pharr. Auctions, door prizes, barbecue din-
ner and more take place.
The Confederate Air Force Annual Homecoming Airshow at
Rebel Field in Harlingen will be Thursday through Oct. 10.
The Gulf Coast Antique Show is organizing. Call Larry Lyles at
787-9322 for information.
A Flower Show School sponsored by Weslaco Garden Club
will be held Oct. 12-14 at A&l Citrus Center from 9-12 a.m. and
1-3 p.m.
Due to a training seminar in Austin, the regular meeting of the
Pharr Housing Authority board of commissioners has been
changed from Oct. 14 to Oct. 12 at 5:30 p.m. at the Parkview
Terrace Community Room.
The 11th annual baseball reunion will be held at the Am.
Legion Post of Edinburg on Saturday, Oct. 9 starting at 11 a.m.
The New Braunfels Antique Show and Sale will be Oct. 15-17
at the Civic Center.
The Bears
Harlingen.
play the Harlingen Cardinals this Friday in
The PSJA girls volleyball team plays Porter in Brownsville
Thursday. Next Tuesday they play Mission here and then travel
to McAllen Memorial there Thursday.
The next Rio Grande Valley Quilt Guild meeting will be Oct. 23
from 10- 4p.m. at the Valley Garden Center. Bring a brown bag
lunch.
The PSJA Community Education is offering a General
Psychology Course for secretaries and decks who wish to ob-
tain a Professional certification. The class will meet from 6:30
to 9:30 on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at Room 36 at
Doedyns School in San Juan. Call 781-3041 for information.
Handicapped Week
Pharr Mayor Fidencio Barrera and the Pharr commission ap-
proved a proclamation setting the week of October 3-9 as
“National Employ the Handicapped Week”. The proclamation
recognized the contributions of disabled veterans and han-
dicapped employees to the the nation and to Pharr.
Denise Holland joins KAT
Denise Hofland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hofland of
Pharr, recently pledged Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at Texas
Christian University.
Disease Report
Communicable disease as reported to Hidalgo County Health
Department Week ending: October 1,1982.
Hepatitis - 2; Mumps -1; Salmonella - 5; Shigella -1; Influenza
& Flu-Like illness -17; Streptococcal sore throat - 62.
Winter residents to come in record numbers
The Recreational Vehicle
trailers and the cars with nor-
thern state tags are not yet ap-
parent in the Valley, but the
plans are made and it is only a
matter of weeks before the Win-
ter Tourist season is underway
here.
A survey of some of the RV and
mobile home parks in Pharr
revealed the parks are still
vacant, but most of the spaces
are already rented out or sold.
Pharr South which sells all its
lots, has only six left for sale out
of 383 totaltrailersand RV lots.
Tip-O-Tex Park with a total of
617 RV spaces, has but six left to
rent.
Others still have some space
left. Morningside Mobile Home
Park of San Juan, has 541 RV
spaces and with 165 confirmed
reservations has ample space
available still.
Tropic Star, which recently
added 278 move RV spaces to
give it a total of 944 RV spaces
has plenty of spaces available
still.
A survey by the Pan American
School of Business last year said
the overall median of money
spent per week by Winter
tourists was $148. The average
length of(stay was 16 weeks.
In the parks the PRESS called,
there were 3,381 spaces
available, including Mor-
ningside in San Juan and Alamo
Country club in Alamo. It is
estimated by the Pharr Chamber
of Commerce that there are ap-
proximately 4,500 RV and
mobile home spaces in Pharr
used by Winter tourists.
The $148 per week in spending
times the 4,500 resident couples,
$666,000 per week will be spent
by Pharr winter tourists per
week during the height of the
season.
This figure times the average
length of stay (16 weeks) showed
Pharr winter residents will
spend $10.65 million during
their stay this year.
Most of the parks contacted
said the winter residents
haven’t yet started to arrive in
great numbers, although a few
are trickling in.
This corresponds to the PAU
survey which showed that in
Pharr by the end of October,
13.4 percent of the total winter
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The recreational vehicle and
mobile home parks and resorts in
Pharr are still mostly vacant, but a
PRESS survey showed they will
soon be filling up with over 8,000
winter residents expected by the
end of January in Pharr.
Southgate is Pharr's newest winter park
Southgate, Pharr’s newest
trailor park resort aimed at
Winter residents, is to be the
latest step in the evolution of the
trailor-park resorts in the Valley
and in Pharr.
Ray Bublitz, a member of the
developing team of Southgate,
said he had been associated
with the winter resident park
resorts since .the beginning of
the Paradise Parks, and he said
in Pharr he had watched the
development of the fine parks-
Tropic Star, Tip-O-Tex and
Pharr South.
Bublitz said Southgate is being
developed to fill a need other
narks in Pharr may not have
filled.
Southgate will not be large,
Bublitz said, as it will have 90
lots. He said the main idea is to
offer a resort park similar to
ones in Florida, , Arizona and
California, in which lots are sold
individually, but the develop-
ment is set up so that the proper-
ty taken together appreciates
much as standard homes do.
Mobile homes are being
treated as a home now, Bublitz
said, by banks, insurance com-
panies and buyers, as long as
they are in quality developmen-
ts.
Southgate will be for mobile
homes ana modular homes tor
adults.
Lot sizes are about 5,000
square feet. The total cost of the
development will be about $1.25
million, Bublitz said.
The Park will have a clubhouse
and swimming pool, plus it will
have a landscaped jogging and
walking path that will follow the
wall which will surround the
park.
Bublitz said by the middle of
December, he expected to see
people living in the park.
“By January 1 we’ll look as if
we’d been here several years,”
he said.
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Miss Sylvia Garza, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ruben Garza of Pharr
(seated) was elected 1982-83
PSJA High School Homecoming
Queen. First Runner-up was Lisa
Garcia (right) daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Lorenzo Garcia of Pharr.
Veronica "Ronnie" Martinez of
San Juan, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Mario Martinez of San Juan.
The queen was crowned at the
halftime of the Bear-Porter foot-
ball game. (PSJA photo by Bea
Solis)
Commercial zoning approved by commission
A change of zone on two tracts
of land to Heavy Commercial
was approved by the Pharr city
commission Tuesday night. This
approval will open up the area
for development as a small in-
dustrial-type park.
Max Burkhart requested the
change for the purpose of selling
lots for office-warehouse
buildings.
The property is located at the
southeast corner of Polk Avenue
and Jackson Road. The new
Metropolitan Bank drive-in is on
the extreme southeast corner.
Burkhart also requested a
change of zone to heavy com-
mercial on property north of
Polk next to Dailey Oil Tool. The
commission approved the
change of zone.
In other P&Z action, the com-
mission approved the final plat
of Leo Rodriguez and Assoc, for
a five acre-four lot subdivision
adjacent to the property
Burkhart had previously gotten
approval on. *
The commission approved a
change of zone on property
south of Sam Houston and east
of Jackson Road. The front part
was approved for office and
professional while the back part
was approved R-4 for apartment
housing units.
In other action:
The commission argeed to
postpone the auditor’s report on
the city’s utility system until
next meeting. Pharr is preparing
to undertake a $3.2 million
water plant expansion. The city
engineer, the city financial ad-
visors, and the audit report will
be presented at the next
meeting.
A request for a carnival permit
by El Centro Mall for the dates
November 4-14 was approved.
Pharr Chamber
annual program
to be Oct. 23
A semi-formal dinner and dan-
ce will highlight the Pharr
Chamber of Commerce’s 37th
Annual Meeting,,Saturday, Oc-
tober 23 at the Tropic Star Park
Ballroom, 1401 S. Cage, U.S.
Hwy. 281.
Featuring Marty Stubel’s
Tropic Stars Band, the dinner
and dance will begin with a get
acquainted reception at 6:30
p.m. Dinner will be served at
7:00, with the dance following.
Rose Studdard, Chamber
President, will present the
special recognition awards, in-
cluding the prestigious Citizen of
the Year.
Members of the Executive
Club, the Chamber membership
organization, will be in charge
of the pool side reception.
Welcoming Chamber members
and guests will be the Cham-
ber’s Greeters Committee.
Tickets for the event, which in-
clude the reception, dinner and
dance, will sell for $10.00 mem-
bers and guests will be able to
reserve tables of eight under
their company of personal name.
For reservations and tickets,
contact the Chamber office at
787-1481, or stop by the C-C of-
fice at Park and Bluebonnet.
Alamo to install new water lines
BY CHRIS E. FLORES
During the summer months
residents of Alamo complained
about the low water pressure in
the city. Alamo City Manager
Minnie Gutierrez sent a crew
from the water and sewer
department to investigate the
low water pressure.
Gutierrez said she thought the
trouble was that the system was
already working at capacity
limits.
The final study showed the
problem was the old pipe lines in
the city.
Originally when these lines
were laid in the city they were
adequate in size to handle any
amount of water flow that would
come throughthem. after several
years of use which includes the
chemicals that flow through the
system, corrosion set in.
These rusted pipes began to
clog which stopped the flow of
water.
Some pipelines that were
originally 4” in diameter had lit-
tle or no space within the pipe to
allow adequate water flow to
areas.
In an effort to alleviate the
problem, the city has decided to
lay new pipes in various areas of
the city concentrating in the
area of the old townsite.
This new pipeline project will
cost the city approximately
$25,000.
Most of these lines have
already been purchased and
only need to be laid into the
foundations of the old lines.
Alamo will use the new fibre-
plastic pipelines instead of the
steel pipe formerly used, to
evade the problem of corrosion.
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Robert J.' Miller, San Juan, is the
new district manager for Economy
Oil Company. Miller resides in San
Juan, and is originally from
Dothan, Alabama. Miller and his
wife, Janice, have three
daughters- Sherry 12, Robin 7,
and Branoy 2. Miller can be seen
at PSJA football games where he
is a season ticket holder.
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