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THE LARGEST PAID CIRCULATION GOING IN STARR COUNTY
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RIO GRANDE
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Vol. XXXIII
No. 51
Thursday, October 2, 1975
Rio Grande City, Texas
Suit Against School Board May Be Filed By TSTA
The case of the 67 people "not
re-hired" by the school district
at one of their July meetings
may end up in federal court.
J. Shelby Peters, Texas State
Representative field
representative, told a group of
ex-school emplyees that he had
met with the school board,
school attorney, superintendent
and the board president and he
had outlined to them the actions
that TSTA would take if the
board did not reach a positive
decision soon.
Shelby, speaking to ap-
proximately 50 persons at the
Community Room of ihe First
State Bank, said the suit would
be filed at the Brownsville
federal court if he did not
receive a favorable report in
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The group contends that the
"firings" were "politically
motivated." The board said at
the meeting in which
replacements were hired that
the people hired were better
qualified. However, Minnie
Garza, spokesperson for the
rejected personnel, said that
could not be since at least one
Adult Night Classes Schedule Registration
A. E. Garcia, superintendent
of the Rio Grande City Con-
solidated Independent School
District, has announced the
begining of the Adult Basic and
Continuing Education Program
for the 1975-76 school year.
For the third consecutive
year adult night classes are
being offered in Rio Grande
City, Garciasville and Grulla.
Class offerings will be as
follows: GED Classes are being
offered in Rio Grande City,
Garciasville and Grulla. ESL
Classes are being offered in Rio
Grande City and Grulla. Level I
Classes are being offered in Rio
Grande City, Garciasville and
Grulla.
The GED class offers
materials for preparation to
take the GED tests. If all five
tests are passed a person
receives the General
Equivalent Diploma which is
accepted as a High School
Diploma.
The ESL class (English as a
second language) is for those
Adults that do not know any
English.
The Level I class is for those
Adults that have some basic
More Indictments
Returned By Jury
Thirteen more indictments by
the Starr County Grand Jury
presided over by District Judge
Joe B. Evins have been made
public.
Among these are three
murders, three unlawful
possessions of marijuana, three
aggravated assaults, and three
DWI cases.
Horacio, Samuel and Eulogio
Bazan of Rte. 1 Box 112, Rio
Grande City were indicted for
the murder of Eliseo Mireles on
Aug. 15, 1974. A bond of $15,000
was set on each brother for the
murder of Mireles, a probation
officer.
Eulogio Bazan was charged
with allegedly threatening
Mireles with a shotgun. Horacio
Young Farmers
To !Y1e«'t Tuesday
According to President,
Kenny Anderson, there will be a
meeting of the Starr County
Chapter of the Young Farmers
on Tuesday, October 7, at 7:30
p.m. The meeting will be held at
the Agriculture Building in Fort
Ringgold. All members and
prospective new members are
invited to attend.
Anyone interested in Girl
Scouts is invited to attend a
meeting today, Oct. 2, at
the U.S. Army Reserve
Armory. The meeting is
scheduled for 4 p.m.
Bazan was indicted for
allegedly striking him about the
head with his fists and Samuel
Bazan was indicted for striking
Mireles about the head with a
shotgun.
Manuel Ramos Jr., was in-
dicted on three separate counts.
He was charged with criminal
mischief for allegedly
damaging and destroying
tangible property. This one
misdeed occurred on Dec. 27,
1974. He is also charged with
aggravated assault by shooting
Robert Castillo with a gun on
the same date. Bond on this
charge was set at $5,000. Ramos
is also charged with one other
count of aggravated assault by
causing serious injury to
Amador Ramos by striking him
with fists and kicking him with
his feet on Dec. 15,1974. Bond on
this charge was set at $5000.
Irineo Chapa of Alice, Texas
is also being charged with
aggravated assault. He
allegedly cut David Lopez with
a knife on Jan. 4, 1975.
Manuel Garcia Jr., of Rio
Grande City, Oscar Cruz
Gonzalez of Binyon, Okla., and
Charles Darvin Smiddy of
Fairview, Okla., are each
charged with the unlawful
possession of over four ounces
of marijuana.
Smiddy's and Gonzalez'
tends were set at $3000 each.
Indicted for DWI were
I-aurencio Reyes, Grulla, and
Santos Bazan of Rio Grande
City. Ernesto Guerra Guerra
was also indicted for DWI.
knowledge of English.
Registration for these classes
are as follows: October 6, 1975,
Rio Grande City High School
Principal's Office October 7,
1975, I-a Union School, Gar-
ciasville, at the Principal's
office at 7 p.m. October 8,
1975, Grulla Junior High
Principals Office at 7 p.m.
For further information
contact P.A. Gonzalez,
Supervisor for the Adult Basic
Program at 487-5591, ext. 45
between 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.
person with 19 years experience
in the teacher aide field had
been booted out due to political
reasons.
"These firings cannot go on
after every election," said one
person in the group. The group
contends that contrary to wliat
school board members might
say, people left out of the hired
personnel roster in July have
not been rehired, "They have
merely been appointed as
alternates in case a position
might open, and as alternates
we do not get a regular
paycheck," said Ms. Garza.
Charges were aired that the
board uses irregular tactics to
try and please "replaced"
personnel. "They will come and
offer you a job just so that you
keep quiet, " said Ms. Garza.
Peters said the meeting with
board earlier in the day had
been "for documentation and
briefing" and to get the board
to hopefully assume that TSTA
was serious of going on with the
suit if the board chose to ignore
the group.
"At least we are giving them
the opportunity to settle before
we go to court," said Peters.
Peters also said that if he
were to be contacted about any
decision he would not accept or
reject it. "I will confer with you
first," Shelby told the group,
made up mostly of women but
which had a sprinkling of
males.
The TSTA representative said
that he felt that the National
Education Association would go
along with TSTA and file the
suit jointly with them.
Peters said most of the board
members were at the meeting,
which was a surprise for him.
He added that school attorney
Glenn Raimey had done most of
the talking at the meeting.
"TSTA had never heard of
political firing in this
magnitude, " said Peters,
"we've heard of one or two
persons being fired for political
reason but not in these great
(See SUIT, P. 12)
Dr. Ramirez New President
Of Texas Physician Academy
Dr. Mario E. Ramirez was
installed as president of the
Texas Academy of Family
Physicians at the Academy
annual business meeting
Tuesday, September 16, in the
Houston Oaks Hotel in Houston.
Dr. J. Forrest Fitch of
McAllen was installed as
treasurer.
The Texas Academy of
Family Physicians is an
association of Family Doctors
numbering over 1,700 members.
Dr. Ramirez previously
served as vice-president of the
association, and as a member of
the Board of Directors. He is
active in many facets of
medical activities and has
received many honors and
awards.
A Starr County native, Dr.
Ramirez attended the
University of Texas at Austin
and later the University of
Tennessee's College of
Medicine, receiving his M.D.
degree in June, 1948.
He is a charter member and
diplomat of the American
Board of Family lYactice and a
Charter Fellow of the American
Academy of Family
Physicians.
Dr. Ramirez practiced in
Roma from April 21, 1950 until
January 20, 1975 except for two
years when he served in the
military service. He moved to
Rio Grande City when the new
Starr County Memorial
Hospital opened its doors there
in January, 1975, and opened a
Family Practice clinic in
partnership with Dr. Roberto
Gonzalez. He has owned and
operated a private hospital in
Roma from August 1958 through
February 15, 1975. As Starr
County judge from 1969, Dr.
Ramirez was instrumental in
the planning and construction of
the new Starr County Memorial
Hospital where he is presently
chief of medical staff.
He is a member of the
Hidalgo-Starr Counties Medical
Association and a charter
member and director of the
Hidalgo Medical Foundation.
He has been a member of the
Texas Medical Association and
(See RAMIREZ, P. 12)
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Rodriguez, Rene. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 2, 1975, newspaper, October 2, 1975; Rio Grande City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194526/m1/1/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.