The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 11, 1973 Page: 1 of 20
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VOLUME 65—NUMBER 17
•BCOND CLASS POST AOS
PAID AT ARANSAS PASS. TEXAS
ARANSAS PASS. TEXAS 76336. WEDNESDAY. JULY 11. 1673
15c Pst Copy (Plus Tax)
AP Bank Deposits
Reflect Increase
In Local Economy
An increase in the economy
of Arapsas Pass over the same
perloci last year was reflected
last Pgiday following a state-
ment of condition as of June 29.
First State Bank of Aransas
Pass deposits were up more
than $3 million over the June
30 bank call of 1972.
As of June 29. 1973, the local
bank's deposit total was set at
$15,137,846 compared to
$12,004,076 as of June 30, 1972.
While First National Bank of
Ingleside showed a slight de-
cline aa of June 29 with deposits
totaling $4,398,096 compared to
$4,766,546 on June 30, 1972.
Other San Patricio County
banks which showed hikes in
deposits over the same period
a year ago were Commercial
State at Sinton reporting
$17,218,335 over $16,481,713 in
1972: First State Bank of Odem
had deposits amounting to
$3,660,833 on June 29 compared
In San Patricio County
to $3,454,851 in June 1972.
First State Bank of Mathis
also reported a decline in de-
posits as of June 29, 1973 com-
pared with those given on June
30, 1972. The current deposit
report showed $2,971,514 down
from $4,028,466 the previous
year.
In Taft, First National Bank’s
deposits were up to $6,963,332
over $6,189,117 reported June
30, 1972. First State Bank of
Taft was down reporting
$4,214,644 compared to
$4,399,664 on June 30 last year.
Port Aransas’ Island State
Bank was another with an in-
crease in deposits. Their June
29 call this year showed
$2,520,947 over $2,470,465.
“Healthy economic condit-
ions in general we feel is re-
sponsible for our increase/’
Jim Powell, First State Bank
president, declared.
Hatch Reports On Restitution,
Arrests on Worthless Checks
San Patricio County Attorney
Richard Hatch told county com-
missioners Monday his office
had collected fines and court
costs in worthless cheek cases
in 1972 totaling $4,940. "
In a detailed report to the
commissioners Hatch said
more impressive is that a total
of $10,796.24 was collected last
year for restitution of bad
checks in cooperation with his
office. County Clerk Velma
Sherman, Sheriff Wayne Hitt’s
PA DEEP SEA Round-Up
chairman, Helen Nelson,
said Tuesday afternoon that
this year's tournament and
social activities have been
the most successful we’ve
had in the event’s 38-year
history. Sponsored by Port
Aransas Boatman, Inc., the
three-day fishing tourney
got off to a fast start early
Tuesday and will officially
end at 3 pm. Thursday.
Trophies and prizes will be
awarded beginning at 9
p.m. Thursday at the Com-
munity House.
SEEN...
... lots of local folks en-
joying the social hour and buf-
fet dinner at the PORT ARAN-
SAS DEEP SEA ROUND-UP
Monday night . . . among the
crowd of those on hand was
DBTR1CT JUDGE GERALD
BISSETT of Corpus Chrlstlwho
is among the 525 contestants
in this year’s fishing tourney
. . . DENNIS DREYER one of
the tourney Judges in deep con-
centration checking out regis-
trants . . . TOMMY VLASAK
visiting about town ... OLLlE
STEWART opening up early
Tuesday morning . . . ANN
’ TYLER and children of San
Diego, California visiting here
with family and friends . . .
COY and PAT KIRKPATRICK
and family on their way to
Garner Park for a holiday ...
101#''
department and Constable R. C.
Eakin.
A total collection of fines for
various other type offenses in-
cluding criminal eases totaled
$35,-497.82 for the ft rat six
months of 1973.
Hatch said fines collected by
the county in 1972 amounted to
$59,758.88—the biggest year
on record.
The county attorney said
worthless cheeks of one form
or another continue to plague
the area.
“It takes substantially all
of the time of one person in
my office to process worthless
check complaints and it is only
through the full cooperation of
Mrs. Sherman’s staff, Sheriff
Hitt’s deputies and Constable
Eakin that restitution on so
many worthless checks has Been
made possible.’’
Hatch said the numberofcim-
inal cases filed in the County
Court so far this year indi-
cate that the total cases to be
filed in 1973 will probably be
more than the number of eases
filed in 1972 thus setting an-
other record. He said wife
and child support complaints
are ' increasing in vast num-
bers.”
The county attorney warned
merchants to “be sure and get
adequate identification on per-
sons unknown to them person-
ally before cashing any
checks.”
“Most business firms are
rather careful in taking checks
and do seek identification,” he
added. “Of course, there’s
always that chance the ident-
ification is also forged.”
LT. COL. M. J. TILTON
Former Resident
Attends Defense
Strategy Seminar
Washington, D. C. — Mi.ry
Josephine Farley Tilton, a Lt.
Col. in the U. S. Air Force
Reserves and resident of 118
Palmetto Ave., Mai’y Esther,
Fla. has completed the two-
week Defense Strategy Seminar
while on active duty for train-
ing at The National War College.
The Defense Strategy Sem-
inar, held annually at the Col-
lege since 1959, deals with the
major aspects of national sec-
urity. The curriculum is based
on the subjects presented in the
graduate level course conducted
each year at the National War
College for senior career off-
icers on active duty in the var-
ious services and civilian exe-
cutives from the various federal
government agencies.
Col. Tilton, daughter of Mrs.
C. E. Farley of this city, is
ope of some 250 senior off-
icers chdsen from the National
Guard and from the Army, Air
Force, Navy and Marine Corps
Reserves to attend the Semy
inar this year.
Vice Admiral M. G. Bayne,
U. S. Navy, Commandant ofThe
National War College, noted that
selection to attend DBS “rep-
resents a special distinction
given only to extremely well
qualified officers from through-
out the United States.”
In civilian life, Lt. Col. Til-
ton is a school teacher at Flor-
osa Elementary School, Mary
Esther, Florida.
Class of ’33
To Hold Reunion
Here This Week
A reunion of Aransas Pass
High School Senior Class from
1933 will be held here Satur-
day in the home of E. B. Yea-
ger, 1003 S. Rife.
Open house will be held Sat-
urday afternoon beginning at
2 p.m Friends of members
of the class and all ex-
Paathers are invited to call.
A large group of the exes
are expected to attend.
At Noon
‘Bedard Day’
Ducat Sales
End Friday
There are still tickets on sale
for the “Emory Bellard Day”
cocktail party-buffet dinner
celebration to be held In the
Rattan Room at Little Bob’s
Friday night, July 13, Allen
Lawrence Jr., committee
chairman, said today.
Sponsored by the Aransas
Pass Chamber of Commerce,
the day has been officially pro-
claimed “Emory Bellard Day”
by Mayor J. M. Attaway.
Bellard, who Is now athletic
director and head football coacb
at Texas A & M University, is
a former Aransas Pass High
School student and a former
winning gridiron coach at Ing-
leside High School.
Lawrence urged Ingleside and
Aransas Pass citizens In part-
icular to buy their tickets now.
He said the deadline for buying
tickets would be a 12 noon Fri-
day.
Tickets—at $3 each--are on
sale at First State Bank, Little
Bob’s, Aransas Pass Chamber
of .Commerce, Herndon’s Paint
Store and from Wayne Pruitt
at Morrison’s in Aransas Pass.
Ticket sale locations in Ingle-
side are First National Bank,
Bandy Drugs and Stewart’s
Pharmacy.
Bellard, after leaving Ingle-
side, took football teams from
Breckenridge and San Angelo to
state championship titles. In
1967 he was named offensive
linebacker coach under Darrell
Royal at the University of Tex-
as and he is credited with in-
stigating the very successful
Wishbone-T which was instru-
mental in making the Long-
horns national football champ-
ions. o
The former resident was ap-
pointed athletic director and
football coach at Aggieland
prior to the beginning of the
1972 season.
Strackbein
Honored By
Texas A&M
Howard E. Strackbein, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Strack-
bein, Rt. 1, Box 744, Aransas
Pass, has earned “Distinguish-
ed Student” ranking at Texas
A&M University, it was an-
nounced this week by Robert
A. Lacey, registrar.
The undergraduate honor is
awarded students who have ex-
cel led academically, Lacey
said. Recipients must earn at
least a 3.25 grade point ratio
(out of a possible 4.0) during
the previous semester.
“Distinguished Student”
ranking is limited to 10 per-
cent of A & M’s undergradiate
enrollment.
Strackbein is a junior build-
ing construction major.
New Record Expected
Aransas Pass Building Activity
Up Over Same Period 01 1972
New construction activity in
Aransas Pass for the first six
months of 1973 totaled
$3,602,732.00--an increase of
more than one-quarter of a
million dollars over the same
period last year.
City building inspector, Allen
Berna said building permit val-
uations for the first six months
of 1972 amounted to $3,323,318
or $279,414 less than the first
six-months of 1973.
The city official said the
month of March 1973 was a
busy month—building-wise—
with permit values set at
$1,360,100.
Primarily the big hike In
new construction values in
March was the issuance of the
$1 million plus permit for the
new Aransas Pass High School
plant.
The month of May has been
the big month so far this year
for commercial construction
with permit values placed at
$345,863. The busiest month
for the beginning of new resi-
dences was in April with per-
mits totaling $67,444. How-
ever, the total for new resi-
dential construction for the first
six months of 1973 amounted to
$153,750—considerably above
the $101,350 in new residences
Navigation Dist
Vote Saturday
*|Aransas ,jv>s residents who
reside iii the part of the city
which is in Aransas County
will go to the polls Saturday,
July 14 to vote In the elect-
ion of five Aransas County Nav-
igation District No. 1 commiss-
ioners.
Candidates for the commiss-
ion post from Precinct 1-LA
which includes a part of north
Aransas Pass, are the Incum-
bent, William Brown Jr. and
W. B. Allen, a former Aran-
sas County commissioner.
Allen served as Precinct 1-1A
county commissioner for 26
years.
Candidates for the at-large
position--which may also be
voted upon by citizens here
in Precinct 1-1A, are David
Maguglin, incumbent and Frank
Langham, a realtor.
Other navigation district
commissioner candidates are
as follows:
Precinct 2—Richard Fox, in-
cumbent; Carl Duckworth, mo-
tel owner and Toast of the Coast
publisher.
Precinct 3—R. W. Landrum,
incumbent who is unopposed.
Precinct 4—HalB. McKnight,
seeking to unseat F. M. Rou-
quette. '
for the same period of the pre-
vious year.
Berna said Monday from all
indications the year 1973 will
be the busiest in new construct-
ion In Aransas Pass’ history.
While they have not been
officially announced, there have
been authoratlve reports in re-
cent weeks of a new resident-
ial subdivision, a new million
dollar plus shopping center and
a $2.5 million apartment house
complex. Palm Center, a shop-
ping area being developed on
Highway 35 West by Dr. and
Mrs. T. J. Skinner, is sched-
uled for completion in Sept-
ember. This project report-
edly will house six retail firms
and offices for four profess-
ional men or women.
Also responsible for hiking
the new commercial construct-
ion figure was the permit is-
sued in May to Aransas Pass
Nursing and Convalescent Cen-
ter, Inc,—the city’s first such
project for extensive care oi
the elderly. The cost of this
structure—which will be a 100-
bed facility is in excess of
$345,000. It is located on
West Yoakum Avenue behind
Lyman-Roberts Hospital on
Highway 35 West and near Aran-
sas Hospital on 13th Street. It
is slated for completion in or
before December 1973.
CONSTRUCTION CREWS were busy Tuesday on the Initial foundation and
structural phases of the new Aransas Pass High School plant at Avenue A and
Damory Lane in the west part of the city. The new Aransas Pass Independant
School District facility is scheduled for completion by late summer or early Sap-
temper 1974. Cost of the project is being financed by a $3 million tax bond issue
approved by taxpayers in April 1972.
News Briefs . . •
Dr. C. L. Roth, Aransas Pass,
recently returned from Houston
where he attended a special
educational seminar conducted
by the Parker Chiropractic Re-
search Foundation. It was the
207th seminar of the Found-
ation.
Beba Kirkham Brubeck of
Aransas Pass, a featured twirl-
er for the University of Ark-
ansas band, will be one of the
instructors at the fourth an-
nual Summer Twirling Camp
at the University of Arkansas
July 15-20.
The daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
Neil Kirkham, she was formerly
a feature twirler at the Uni-
versity of Texas. She Is a
graduate of Aransas Pass High
School.
Ad-Stars For AP Little League,
Senior League Are Announced
PA Fishing Tourney
Number Of Anglers
Begins;
Sets Record
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DEFENDING PORT ARANSAS Deop Sax Round-Up
fishing champion, Ed Harper, right, a Rockport realtor,
receives congratulations from Lee Birdsong, president
at Pearl Browing Company, Sen Antonio when the two
met during registration Monday night at the Commu-
nity Center. Birdsong warned Harper however, that
“you are in for tough competition because I’m going
to get your title."
Fishing tales were in abun-
dance at the Community Center
in Port Aransas Monday night
as more than 500 persons reg-
istered to compete in the 1973
Port Aransas Deep Sea Round-
Up. Tie largest number of
contestants In this the tourna-
ment’s 38 years got down to
serious fishing early Tuesday
and will continue until 3 p.m.
Thursday.
Avid anglers from all over
the Southwest and a Mexico
business executive, who became
the first contestant from a for-
eign country In the tourney’s
history, Jammed the Community
Center for registration, meet
with their boat captains, swap
fishing tales and shout out
greetings to old friends made
from past Port Aransas fishing
tournaments.
More than 385 charter boats
and privately-owned yachts cir-
cled the city’s harbor at 6:45
a.m. Tuesday and the vessels
of all descriptions and sizes
smoothly moved out through
the jetties into the Gulf of
Mexico for the traditional
blessing of the fleet.
Fishing officially began at
7 a.m. for those entered in the
bay-surf fishing division and
those going offshore for the
big ones cast out their lines
at 9 a.m.—both times set by
the rules committee.
More than 750 persons were
on hand for the registration
Monday night and enjoyed a
cocktail hour followed by a
buffet dinner piled high with
just about every type of fish
and assorted delicacies galore.
Alenjandro Garza La guana,
president of Mexico’s largest
beer producing firm and brew-
er of Carta BJanca beer—
became the first contestant
from a foreign country to com-
pete in the big tourney. He
brought with him from his head-
(juarters in Monterrey, Mexico
several of his Cuauthemoc
Breweries, Inc., executives who
are also entered in the tourna-
ment. Garza was greeted by
Mrs. Helen Nelson, general
chairman of the three-day
event.
“There’s no doubt now but
what this is by far the biggest
See “ROUND-UP” page 2
The names of the Aransas
Pass Little League and Senior
Little League all-stars were
announced today by Cecil .Wil-
liams, League president.
Named to the Senior Little
League all-star team were:
Randy Smith, Paul H. Robles,
Clifford Douglas Bandy, Law-
rence Ray Hagy, Alan Wayne
Hagy, Randy Michael Riddle,
Richard Carl Williams, Gerry
Lee Moore, Jerry Michael An-
derson, John Gilbert Rodri-
guez, Todd Spears Parks, Al-
ton Wayne Puritt, Donnie Val-
dase and Howard Wayne Mack.
Alternates will be Rudy Vela
and Caleb Brown. The coach
is Joe Yoder and T. J. Sam-
son is manager.
Williams said the Senior
group will practice on their
field each evening at 7:30
o’clock this week and their first
playoff game will be at 7:30
WE INVITE ..
We invite to be our guests
at the picture, “Yog”, showing
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday,
July 15, 16 and 17 at the Rialto
Theatre, Mrs. Hollis Coleman
and guest.
This notice, clipped from The
Progress, will serve as your
admission.
p.m. Monday, July 16 against
Gregory-Portland on that
school system’s diamond.
Little League all-stars in-
clude: James Louis Sampsoa
Jr., Ted Clinton Peterson,
Guadalupe Rangel, Paul A. Ivl-
cic, Malcom Riley Bitter, Jer-
ry Ray Mack, Richard Allen
Smith, Donald Gene Cooper Jr.,
Robert Galvan, Curtis Young
Jr., Larry Lynn Adams, Rud-
olpho Hernandez Torres III,
Damon Eugene Hampton, Scott
Eugene Stansberry. Alternates
are: James Dupnick Jr. and
James Brooks. Nolan Stans-
berry is the coach and Gene
Brown is manager.
The Little League all-stars
will also practice on their field
each day this week at 7:30 p.m.
preparing for their first play-
off game on July 19 against the
winner of the Gregory-Portland
—Ingleside all-stars slated for
7:30 p.m., July 16 at Gregory-
Portland.
HEARD
REGISTRATION clerks for thn Stth Port Aransas Deep
Son Round-Up ware kept busy Monday night aa mora
than 500 fiaharman signed up for compatttlan in thn
fishing tournament The tourney has the largest num-
ber of contestants in its history this yaar.
. . . RHONDA finally got
her drivers license ... the
young people of the NAZAR-
ENE CHURCH are having a
rummage sale to pay their way
to Astro World ... the CHRE-
TIAN CHURCH FELLOWSHIP
DINNER has been cancelled for
the month of July ... a Bingo
party will be held tonight at
LIVE OAK COUNTRY CLUB
... a large gnxg> of Aransas
Pass CITY EMPLOYEES and
their families enjoyed theiran-
nual fish fry Friday night at
Newbury Park . . . members
of the Class of 1933 are plan-
ning a big time at their re-
union here this weekend . . .
and family era
this week-
end .. . JANE FRANKLIN fa
vacationing this week in Los
Vegas and San Francisco where
she Is visiting Comm, and Mrs.
George Franklin and family ...
WALTER EASTON JR. and
MRS. WALTER EASTON SR.
are vacationing in Louisiana
this week with relatives and
friends...
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