Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1977 Page: 1 of 15
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*750,000 Bond Issue Vote Dec.3
Sewer Minimum Hiked 60 Cents; Tap Charge Goes To 9100
The minimum sewer rale
was hiketl 6l> rents the water
and sewer tap < new con
ncct inn' charge was upped to
$100. and a dale of Dec it was
set lor a $750,000 city bond
election by the city council
meetinR Tuesdav niRht in
rrRular and special session
A request also was heard by
the Rroup askinR for the
providing of city water to a
(imposed 85-acre sutidivision of
some 101 lots west of Hunt's
Airport
The new residential
minimum sewer charRe will he
$2 85 a month, up from $2.25
with a charRe of 20 rents per
I non gallons of water flow over
a minimum of 3.(88) The
charRe to date had been to
cents per I.IMMI gallons
A minimum charge of $3 25 a
month will lie charged after a
minimum of 5.ixxi gallons
Whenever two or more
houses. apartments,
businesses or buildings are
served by one water meter,
there shall be an additional
monthly charge of $150 for
each additional house, apart
mrnt. business ur building
served by the meter
All sewer service customers
outside the city limits will be
charged 150 per rent of the city
sewer rates
The charge for all sewer
connections will tie $100 For
water taps within the city
limits, the charge will lie $100
for a ’cinch pipe connection
$135 one-inch connection $228.
11 .--inch connection; $318. two-
inch connection Fees outside
the city limits will be
somewhat higher
First reading of the or
dmance on the rates was read
and approved at the regular
session of the Tuesday night
council meeting A special
session then was held im
mediately thereafter and the
second reading (final up
proval) was heard and up
proved
The new rales go into effect
with the next hilling period
It is anticipated that revenue
in the amount of $172,000 w ill he
brought in with which to
operate Hu- sewer department
Cntilthis fiscal year, the sewer
and w ater depart menu were in
one division for funding pur
poses, with the water depart
menl subsidizing the sewer
operation The new rates and
See HON US. Page 16
FOR TLAND «e
Dedicated To The Be»t Interests
Of Portland * The Fastest
Growing City In Texas
Portland. Texas 78374. Thursday. October G. 1977
Volume XII - Sixteen Pates - No 40
County Budget In Red
The San Patricio County
Commissioners Court last
week granted all county em
ployees and officials an across
the board 5 percent pay in-
crease. but turned down a
proposed longevity plan
The 5 percent pay boost was
proposed by Commissioner
Glenn Dorris, who also
stipulated in his motion that no
additional pay increase
requests would be considered
before July I, 1978 Dorris also
recommended foregoing the
proposed longevity plan which
would have granted each
employee or official three
dollars per month for each
year's service, up to twenty -
years The longevity plan had
been included in the proposed
budget, as had been a wage
increase of six percent
Dorris motion w as seconded
by Commissioner Kindel. and
Commissioners Zapata and
Spiekerman joined in votinR
approval County Judge Percy
Hartman ask d that the record
show that he opposed the raise
In making his opposition
known. Hartman said. "We're
spending money we don't have,
and I just can't go along with
that"
Hartman's statement
referred to the fact that the
proposed 1978 budget will be in
the red. the lirsl time the
county lias operated under a
deficit budget since the
depression
Several citizens attended the
Wednesday session, and while
voicing opposition to the pay
raises, they asked that the
commissioners take a close
look at the overall proposed
budget, including the pay
raises, in view of the economic
outlook, particularly the
agricultural picture
Milton Jackson. Dave odem.
and Calvin Karr all asked the
court to conxide any possible
"tightening" of the budget
While each addressed the court
individually, all seemed in
agreement on the overall
Give Get. 23 - 24
Immediate Need For Blood
Is Possible At Any Time
Do you believe that im
mediate need for blood is
remote'*
Kach day. more than 24.(881
units of blixid are transfused in
the United Stales, more Ilian
eight million units per year
Over the next year there will
be persons here who will need
some of the precious fluid
Perhaps you
Chances are it will come
Irom a friend, a neighbor, a
relative someone from
Portland.
See BLOOD, Page 16
FOR
INSTANCE
hy pdl.
COt Mil.MEN RON Peters
and Joe Hurke made a good
contribution to making the new
sewer rates more palatable to
the bill payers
They applied good basic
business sense to a government
operation and came up with the
determination that you don't
have to soak everybody for
what should lie paid bv a few
Up to now. the city's charRe
lor a sewer or water tap 1 new
connection' has been $40 This
theoretically paid for the
material used Hut. it didn't
lake into account the labor lab
They figured that maybe this
wasn't such a good business
tactic in fact, it is one that
would drive a free enterprise
concern into bankruptcy
A little more figuring and
they determined that if another
60 bucks was added to both the
water and sewer tap charge,
things would begin to look a
little more even up Therefore.
__See PPL, Page 16
Columbus Day
Is Monday
Few business houses with the
exception of the- two banks, two
savings institutions and the
post office will be closed
Mondav in observance of
Columbus Day
The city offices will lie open
and garbage pickup will be on
schedule
Both utility offices CPI,
and F.ntex will he open
Post office officials said mail
will he put up in the boxes but
that there will lie no delivery
Pickup at the post office will be
al 4 pm. regular holiday
schedule
School Board
Meeting Later
I'he regular meeting of the
Gregory-Portland School
Hoard, scheduled for Tuesday,
Oct II, has been postponed
until a later date to he art
nounced
Several of the board mem
tiers were scheduled to be out
of town
situation, that spending had to
be curtailed Pointing out that
farmers and ranchers were
faced with a depressed
economy; that, in fact, the
overall economic picture did
not look good, and that the
county, as well as state and
federal governing bodies and
uRencies should try to “live
within their means " They
pointed out that some of the
state and federal programs in
operation on the county level
are being assumed by the
county as they reach the end of
the grant periods Also brought
into the discussion was a
request for more efficiency in
many of the county's offices
and departments. "It seems
that it's taking three or four
times the personnel to do the
___See BUDGET, Page 16
Choir Students
In Auditions
Forty-five Gregory Portland
High Schixil Choir students w ill
participate in District
Auditions Saturday at Del Mar
College
The students will perform in
individual auditions against
students from Ray, Miller,
Carroll. King and Moody, all
from Corpus Christi; and
Rockport-Fulton, Flour Bluff.
Aransas Pass. West Oso and
Refugio
They will be tudRed on
technical knowledge, voice
See STUDENTS, Page 16
First Baptist
Alvin Choir
Sets Concert
The 48 voice youth choir of
the Heights Baptist Church.
Alvin w ill present a concert at
First Baptist Church at 7:30
p m Saturday. Oct 8
The visiting group will also
sing in the 10 55 a m Sunday
worship service
The Alvin choir is led by
Kandy Edward*. They have
presented concerts in churches
throughout South Texas and
visited Arkansas. Indiana,
North Carolina and other
states w ith mission choir tours
They will arrive Saturday
allrmoon and enjoy a meal
, with the Portland youth at 6
p m
Following the concert, the
visiting choir will combine with
First Baptist's own youth choir
in preparation for the Sunday
m iming service r-
Visitors from Alvin will stay
in homes of various First
Baptist church families
Although the Saturday
evening service will be youth
oriented the entire general
inihlie is invited to attend,
states First Baptist's minister
of music youth. Bob Harlow
Presbyterians Have
Guest Minister
Something New
For the first time in several years the G P Bend has a feature
twirler with the addition ol Miss Janice Walker She plays
clarinet in the concert band when she is not twirling She Is a
senior, having moved to G P Irom Forest Park High in
Beaumont where she was also a twirler Her twirling
costume is black with a silver burst
For the next two Sundays.
First I’rpshyterian Church will
have as its guest minister, the
Rev Dave Coterill
The Rev Mr Coterill was
raised in Corpus Christi and
was graduated from Ray High
School He then attended Rice
University and Dallas
Theological Seminary
The Rev Mr Coterill and his
family will make their home
here until arrangements are
finalized for them to move to
Liberia, Africa, where he plans
to teach in a missionary Bible
college
l.arry Nafimger (seated), supervisor of the Federal Grain Inspection Service office here,
"signs on" three additional employees - (from left) Homorio Garza Hubert Savelsbergh
and Susan Yancy. Fourteen people, former employees of the Corpus Christi Grain Ex
change, were employed Monday to fill out the stall of the (unction (News Photo)
Federal Grain
Inspection Begins
Responsibility for the
weighing and inspection of
grain being exported (from the
Fort of Corpus Christi and
A tax roll that was down
approximately $7 million from
last year was approved by the
Gregory-Portlnnd School
Board at a special meeting
Monday night
laist year, the tax roll was in
excess of $162 million and this
year, due to losses in oil and
Reynolds values, it was pegged
at $155 million
The tax rate of $1.53. a
reduction from last year, was
set by the hoard several weeks
ago This is divided with 29
cents going for bonds and $1 24
lor local maintenace The
regular two percent discount
lor payment during October
was allowed again this year
Approval for a special
education but route for han
dicapped children was ap-
proved by the board There are
13 children in the district that
are eligible to receive this
service A mini school bus,
owned by the district, was
diverted to this job as of
other South Texas points was
assumed Sunday, Oct 2. by the
Corpus Chrigji office of the
Federal Grain Inspection
Monday and it will continue to
run the route until such time as
a specially equipped bus is
received that fully meets all of
the new federal guidelines
The possibility of the G-P
School District joining San
See SCHOOL, Page 16
Service which is located on
Railroad Avenue here
The office originally was
opened in November and has
been in an organization stage
since time
The facility staff totaled 31
until Monday when an ad-
ditional 14 persons were cm
ployed to bring the total
number of people in the
operation to 45
Ijirry Nafzingcr. chief the
office, said that no further
hiring would tie done im-
mediately until workloads
could be determined
Originally, it was thought that
the operation would take about
52 people, he said
See GRAIN, P;i«e 16
Lions Candy Sale
To Start Oct. 10
Portland Lions Club will begin their annual door to door
sales of Halloween candy Monday evening Oct 10, and
continue through Saturday evening. Oct. 29
This fund-raising project by the Lions is undertaken each
year to raise monies for charity and community pro|ecls
which includes local charities, glasses for students in need,
sight conservation, crippled childrens camp and diabetes
camp, among others
Candy will be sold by the bag of individual wrapped
candies and will sell for $1,50 each
Each street in Portland will be canvassed door-to-door If
your door is missed, call 643-3213.
School District
Tax Roll Down
Fast Cliff Carnival Posters
East Clitt Elementary School fifth and sixth grade students this week have been busy
creating posters to announce the Halloween Carnival scheduled Irom 3 to 4 p m Saturday,
Oct. 7», at the school Posters will be placed in business establishments this week to coincide
with ticket pre sales which begin Thursday, Oct 13, offering tickets at baigain prices
Shown with their posters are from left Robbie Eikel, David Reynolds, Donnie Cox and Julie
Davidson (News photo)
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Leveen, Paul D. Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1977, newspaper, October 6, 1977; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth871248/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bell/Whittington Public Library.