Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 23, 1972 Page: 1 of 28
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Rio Grande City, Texas
WE CELEBRATE
Hospital committee
meets with officials...
The hospital committee
working towards ironing out
problems to pave the way for
a new county hospital took a
giant step towards that end last
Thursday night as they met
with members of the water dis-
trict board and members of the
Rio Grande City school board.
The committee headed by Dr.
Mario Ramirez opened the
meeting with Raymond Roches-
ter presiding. Rochester wel-
comed the group and expressed
the purpose of the meeting.
The first official report was
heard from the Starr County
Water District with Frank Ran-
dal Nye speaking for the board.
Nye told those present that
the water district was now com-
pleting plans to call a bond issue
election for the local share to-
wards building a new sewage
system. The system it was ex-
plained is essential towards the
building of the new hospital. The
new plans for the sewage system
call for 75 per cent funding
by the federal government with
25 per cent being paid for by the
local water district through the
bond. The election on the bond
Issue will be called for some-
time in December.
The many different aspects
of the hospital plans were dis-
cussed by Dr. Ramirez who told
the group that the first review
of the plans were to be held in
Austin last Saturday.
After the review the plans
are revised to the different
changes and construction on the
hospital should shart by mid
January or early February.
The hospital district bill
which has to become law for
the hospital to have operational
funds was discussed and Dr.
Ramirez told the group that such
a bill has already been written
up and should be ready for pre-
sentation to the two loca.' legis-
lators when they meet early
next year.
Asked why the hospital dis-
trict bill had not been intro-
duced last time, Dr. Ramirez
said that he did not know, that
a committee had turned in the
bill to then Representative Os-
car Carrillo but the bill was
never introduced by him.
After answering many ques-
tions from the group present
Dr. Ramirez called a meeting
for the public for December 7.
The meeting will be held at the
Multi-Purpose Center on the
evening of the seventh.
Sanchez-Bazan head
all-district selections
Rattlers -16-3A District Co-Champs—
RATTLERS ARE CO-CHAMPS -- The Rio Grande City Rattlers put a stop to a Mercedes
Tiger offensive back in the final minutes of district 16-3A for both teams. The Rattlers
took the game 27-12 and ended the season with a co-championship to be shared with Fal-
furrlas who earlier this season defeated the Rattlers. Pictured in the play action play
are Roel Reyna, 50; Roy Labar, 70; and Ricky Hinojosa, 76. The Rattlers finished the
season with a 7-3-0 record. (Herald photo by Raul Trejo)
Juan (Teto) Sanchez and
Praxidies Bazan of Rio Grande
City led the all-district selec-
tion in 16-3A football.
Sanchez was chosen to the
first team offensive guard while
Bazan was selected to the first
team defensive secretary.
On the second team Jose
Leon Garcia was selected as
that team's quarterback while
Roy Larralde and Humberto
Gonzalez were selected as se-
cond team running backs. De-
fensively Ramiro Alcazar was
chosen to second team defen-
sive linebacker with Roy Labar
was chosen as second team de-
fensive linebacker.
Also chosen for their de-
fensive playing were Jose Leon
Garcia, second team defensive
secondary; Juan(Teto)Sanchez,
defensive downman with Ray
Munsell selected to honorable
mention defensive man.
Ricky Hinojosa was chosen as
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about the man...
EDITOR'S NOTE 'To write
about the 'boy', you must first
write about the 'man' is a story
of warmth and a story of suc-
cess by one of the men that
helped shape Starr County. Pe-
dro Diaz Sr. is a man of many
insights and a man that has
been gifted with the talent to
survive in a world that tried to
pass him by. Pedro Diaz Sr.
was the founder of the Rio
Grande Herald and even before
its present nameDiazpublished
forerunners of the county's old-
est newspaper. Diaz has agreed
to talk about his experiences in
and out of theprintingbusiness.
The first of a series is mostly
about the man and where he
came from and some of the
things he did. We are proud to
be able to write about Mr. Diaz
not because of our personal ties
but because he is in our eyes
the Father of Journalism in
Starr County . . . Raul Trejo.
class mailing permit Diaz had
to go generally English and had
PEDROi
by Raul Trejo
Herald Managing Editor
It's not easy to write about
Pedro Diaz Sr. but then writing
about one that has done so much
for so many never comes easy.
Don Pedro at 83 years old
comes on like the old printer
that he is, relating stories a-
bout his past, adventures and
ventures that he undertook just
for the hell-of-it.
Don Pedro was born in Ca-
margo just across the border
from this community, he was
ten years old when he took the
trip across the river after try-
ing to scratch out a life along
with his father in the construc-
tion business in Mexico. Young
Diaz had just turned ten when
he began to study the printing
trade, and it didn't take long
before he started to get the
"old printer's ink in his blood".
Between 1915 and 1919 he had
published several papers, 'El
Amigo Del Hogar' (The Friend
of the Home), 'El Social' 'El
Picudo' and 'El Diablo'. Most
of the papers died or were put
to death by Diaz in his effort to
give the county a top notch
newspaper.
Diaz started publication on a
paper which he refers to as
"my dream of a paper". It was
called 'El Fronterizo' and car-
ried news from all over the
county and northern Mexico.
"We started printing with a
paper that was only three col-
umns wide and no bigger than
a man's handkerchief", relates
Diaz.
Because of the war Diazsays
that the paper had to suspend
its publication because of the
lack of paper, permission from
the postal department for a se-
cond class mailing permit, and
simply because of the war.
When the paper came back
into publication in 1919 Diazhad
the needed permits and the pa-
per was enlarged to four col-
umns and four pages long. In
1924 it was again enlarged to
five columns and six pages. But
it was in 1925 that Diaz really
put out the county's largest pa-
per, with a twelve page paper
that carried the largest amount
of advertising in South Texas.
He received a citation for his
publication of this "large pa-
per" which proclaimed him to
be a "natural-born newspaper
man".
Early in the 1920's Diaz had
to conform to legal publication
laws and re-named his news-
paper "The Rio Grande Her-
ald". To receive his second
Pedro Diaz Sr.
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Trejo, Raul. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 23, 1972, newspaper, November 23, 1972; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194383/m1/1/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.