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SERVING STARR COUNTY FOR SO YEARS
TPA AWARD WINNING NEWSPAPER
TEN CENTS
Vol. XXI
No 24
Thursday
June 15, 1972
liio (>ran<le City, Texas
Lights, camera, action...
The Garmon opens Friday
It's lights, camera, action as
the Garmon Theatre under the
new ownership of Ricardo Gu-
tierrez and I.G. Zarate, reopens
it's doors to the public.
The theatre located at 210
East Main Street will open on
a four day schedule to begin
with and shift into a full week
scheduling as bookings become
available to the management.
The Garmon Theatre was in
business early in the decade but
the owner then retired from the
business and closed the theatre.
"We're very glad to be able to
open the theatre as it will mean
a place where everyone can go
and enjoy a good movie", Gu-
tierrez said.
Among those movies scheduled
for the new theatre are 'Klute',
•Kotch', Tora, Tora, Tora'and
many other award winning mov-
ies.
Thrillers like Hot Rock' and
•Diamonds are Forever' and
children movies like "Bedknobs
and Broomsticks' are also
scheduled to show under the
new ownership.
The theatre opens it's doors
Friday at 5:45 p.m. with a full
concession, including movie
favorites, pop-corn, hot-dogs
and candy.
See GARMON Page 5
Solis has one more
week in Cameron jail
Former Starr County Sheriff
Rene A. Solis, with rain spat-
tering off his gray stetson hat,
entered the Cameron County
jail in Brownsville last Thurs-
day.
Solis had been Sheriff in Starr
County since right after World
War II until he was convicted
by a federal jury on charges of
vote fraud.
Solis is to serve 15 days for
his conviction besides the
$2,500 fine and five years of
supervised probation.
After jail officials processed
the elderly, balding physician,
he was taken to cell number 11
District
receives
funds...
WASHINGTON — Four school
districts in Texas have been
awarded grants by the Depart-
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare (HEW) for bilingual ed-
ucation. They are among 34
projects for approximately
17,000 of the country's non-
English speaking children re-
ceiving funds from the federal
government, for bilingual edu-
cation.
Children participating in the
programs are expected to de-
velop competence in English,
become more proficient in their
dominant language and profit
from increased educational op-
portunity, according to HEW
sources. The progra ms e mpha-
slzes the main importance of
English but also recognizes that
the use of the child's mother
tongue and an appreciation of
his culture can be beneficial to
his education.
The projects, scheduled to be-
gin this fall, are aimed at chil-
dren who speak Spanish, French
and Indian dialects. They bring
to 213 the total number of bilin-
gual projects financed this year.
They reach 100,000 children at
a cost of $35 million.
The following Texas school
systems are receiving federal
money: Eagel Pass Indepen-
dent School District ($80,000),
Rio Grande City Consolidated
Independent School District
($90,000), Robstown Independ-
ent School District ($80,000) and
San Diego Independent School
District ($80,000).
in the 60-year-old Cameron
County jail to await his release
on June 22.
A spokesman at the Sheriff's
office said Solis would be treat-
ed no differently than any other
prisoner. L„D. Ochoa, chief
jailer, was instructed that Soils
receive no preferential treat-
ment.
However, there was a possi-
bility that Solis would be allowed
to work in the jail's medical
clinic, according to the spokes-
man, and this would necessitate
making him a trustee.
U.S. District Judge Reynaldo
Garza ordered Solis one week
ago to surrender and begin
serving the term. Garza at
the same time reduced the sen-
tence from the original 30 days
to 15 days.
Solis showed up at the mar-
shall's office at the federal
building about 10 a.m. and sat
patiently until he was escorted,
to the jail.
Jimm Clarke, chief investi-
gator for the District Attor-
ney's office here in Starr County
is to report July 3 to begin
serving 15 days for vote fraud.
The sentence for Clarke was
also reduced after he pleaded
that his elderly mother would
suffer by his absence.
Dress
revue
Saturday
The Starr County 4-H Dress
Revue will be held at the
Multlpurpose Center on the Fort
Ringgold Campus on Saturday,
June 17 according to Mrs. Ida
A. Perez, County Home Demon-
stration Agent.
Participating in this event will
be more than twenty-five 4-
Her's from Starr County. These
4-Her's will be modeling gar-
ments they have made for their
4-H clothing projects. Judging
of the garments will be in the
afternoon and the public is in-
vited to attend the style show
at 7:30 P.M. at the Multipur-
pose Center. This program is
free to the public.
The theme for this years
Dress Revue is "Salute to
Fashion." There will be en-
tertainment between the model-
ing of the junior and senior di-
vision; followed by the present-
ation of ribbon awards.
Alvarez gains 8 votes,
suit filed for contest
J.M. (Chema) Alvarez defeat-
ed in the Democratic runoff for
Starr County sheriff gained
eight votes in a recount Friday
- but apparently still lost the
nomination to Reymundo Alva-
rez of Roma by 10 votes.
The recount was conducted by
the Democratic Executive Com-
mittee, headed by Ismael Pena,
under the supervision of Ellseo
Mireles, who was appointed re-
count chairman.
Reymundo Alvarez Is now
serving as sheriff by appoint-
ment of the Commissioners
County oil industry
hires 147 locals...
Sale of Starr County oil and
gas production accounted for
$44,057,508 of the county's eco-
nomic output for 1971, accord-
ing to a study by Texas Mid-
Continent Oil & Gas Assn.
In producing 7,502,212 barrels
of crude oil and 116 billion cu.
ft. of natural gas, the county
ranked 35 in Texas. Value of
its crude oil as $26,407,786;
natural gas value was
$17,649,722.
The county is among 190 Tex-
as counties with oil and gas pro-
duction value topping $100,000,
although 211 counties produce
oil and gas.
"Starr County oil and gas
wells made a significant contri-
bution to Texas'share of the na-
tion's energy needs last year,
but growing demand is sapping
reserves in Texas faster than
they can be replaced," Robert
A. Buschman, Association pre-
sident, said. "As fewer new
fields are discovered, due to
less drilling, the continuing
strong economy and tax base of
many Texas counties may now
depend on updating Texas oil
conservation laws to encourage
wider use of new recovery tech-
nology," he said.
The Association study showed
that Starr County farmers,
ranchers, and other royalty
owners received $5,507,188 as
their share of the production.
The county's wells generated
$1,214,758 in crude oil produc-
tion taxes for state government
and $1,323,729 in state taxes on
naturaJ gas. Oil and gas pro-
ducers spent $12,405,534 in
drilling 106 wells in the- county
last year, $3,983,922 of which
was lost in drilling 46 dry holes.
Texas Employment Commis-
sion figures showed 147 oil and
gas industry employees in the
county last year, with an annual
payroll of $1,435,816.
Processing plants also added
to the county's economy. The
Oil and Gas Journal lists five
natural gasoline plants, with a
daily combined capacity of 161
million cu. ft.
P
Court. He was named to suc-
ceed Dr. Rene A. Solis as sher-
iff after Solis resigned.
Soils at present is serving
a 15-day jail term on a federal
vote fraud conviction at
Brownsville.
Solis and the Alvarezes, who
are not related, were in a field
of eight candidates for sheriff
in the May 6 Democratic pri-
mary. Soils was the top vote
getter and was certified as a
runoff candidate with the run-
nerup J.M. Alvarez.
But before the runoff election,
Dr. Solis' conviction on the vote
fraud charges became final and
he was ruled ineligible to have
his name on the ballot.
Reymundo Alvarez, who ran
thired in the primary, was
placed on the runoff ballot with
J.M. Alvarez last Saturday and
was certified as the winner by
18 votes at the canvass of re-
turns Monday.
J.M. Alvarez had his first
request for a recount turned
down, but Friday it was con-
ducted, beginning at 10 a.m.
and continuing past 6 p.m.
The two candidates and their
representatives checked each
ballot as the recount was made.
The new results credited Rey-
mundo Alvarez with 2,928 votes
and J.M. Alvarez with 2,918.
In addition to requesting a
recount, J.M. Alvarez also had
challenged the legality of plac-
ing Reymundo Alvarez on the
runoff ballot, alleging he should
have been certified as the De-
mocratic nominee when Solis'
name was dropped from the
contest,
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DAR HONOREES — Miss Debbie La Grange daughter of Mrs. Edwin La Grange and Lu-
clla Salinas of Roma High School were honored by the Colonel Henry Hill Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution. The two girls were honored as 'Good Citizens'
and received the DAR Girl's Good Citizens Awards. The chapter was celebrating the na-
tional flag day observance when the presentations were made. Pictured above are Miss
La Grange and Miss Salinas with Mrs. A.J. Whittlesey, chairman of the good citizenship
nominating committee. (Herald photo)
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