Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1976 Page: 1 of 16
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THE LARGEST PAID CIRCULATION GOING IN STARR COUNTY"
RIO GRANDE
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Vol. XXXIV
No. 14
Thursday, January 22,1976
Rio Grande City, Texas
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Rattler Band To Represent
Valley At Austin Celebration
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The Rio Grande City fighting
Rattler band will journey to
Austin on June 5, 1976 to
represent the Lower Rio
Grande Valley Firemen's and
Fire Marshall's Association at
the Centennial celebration of
the Texas Fire Department,
according to Fire Chief 0. F.
Guffey.
The Rio band was selected at
the regular quarterly meeting
of the Association on Jan. 13 at
Mercedes. Chief Gerald Weaver
of McAllen moved and Lucio
Guerra, formerly of Rio Grande
City, seconded the motion that
the Rio band represent the 24
cities from Brownsville to
Zapata, making up the
association. The decision was a
unanimous decision by the 225
firemen present at the meeting.
The parade, which will be a
celebration of our nation's
bicentennial, will be at 6 p.m. in
Austin.
The firemen also agreed to
finance the trip and to gather
proceeds from several dances
to be held throughout the
Valley. One will be held in Rio
Grande City in the near future
and it will be coordinated by the
Rio Grande City Volunteer Fire
Department and the Band
Boosters Club.
Guffey, Starr County Fire
Marshall Joe D. Villarreal and
training chief Ray Carrera
expressed their thanks towards
Nicolas Gonzales, band
director, and to Bobby Cruz,
Band Booster president, for
attending the meeting in
Mercedes. Mrs. O.F. Guffey
also attended the lower Rio
Grande Valley meeting. She
represented the Firemen's
Auxiliary.
Humberto Munoz
Humberto Munoz Files
For Commissioner Spot
Community Action Council
Willing To Help People
Humberto Munoz, Starr
County businessman and
rancher, filed Tuesday af-
ternoon as a candidate for
Precinct 1 Starr County com-
missioner with G.L. Villarreal,
county democratic chairman.
Munoz said he will act as his
own campaign treasurer.
"Starr County is in a period of
transition-from a status-quo of
the past to a bustling, modern
future—and we need people on
the commissioners court to
work hard towards this end," he
stated. "The county must fight
the rapid spread of drug traffic
in our midst and attempt to
curb crimes of all sorts. We
must also try to find ways to
help our youth in creating more
opportunities for them and to
establish a healthy atmosphere
so as to make them want to
remain in the county instead of
migrating to other places.
"All of these things can be
accomplished with men of
foresight and experience in our
county government. We have a
great need for honest, hard-
working men at the helm.
"We must certainly have to
be more careful with the
spending of tax money by the
county. With the rise in in-
flation, we must work doubly-
hard to get the most for our tax
dollar-by so doing we may be
able to aleviate the present
heavy tax load of our taxpayers
who are now bearing the brunt
of today's inflation."
Munoz said he offers the
people of Precinct 1 and all of
Starr County his full time
participation and qualifications
to achieve the goals he has
proposed.
Munoz, a life-long resident of
the county, is married to the
former Dina Lund and has six
children-four boys and two
girls, his oldest girl already-
married. He graduated from
Rio Grande City High School in
1950 and has been active in
ranching for many years. He
owns Las Comas Beefmasters.
He also owns an insurance
business in Rio Grande City.
He has served as chairman of
the county Agricultural
(See MUNOZ, Page 16)
The Community Action
Council of South Texas, at 420
E. Main in Rio Grande City,
reminds all Starr, Jim Hogg
and Zapata county citizens that
it may be of some help with
special problems regarding
food stamps, welfare and, at
this time of the year, income
tax returns.
Mario Morado, tri-county
director, and Mrs. Jean Neal,
coordinator of the Community
and Senior Citizen's In-
formation and Referral Ser-
vices, are involved in an effort
to better acquaint the public
with the different services that
the Council provides.
Some of the services, such as
filling application forms for
various federal aid programs,
are provided without charge at
the main offices or several
satellite offices in the three
counties.
The nine offices are located at
Grulla, San Isidro, Rio Grande
City, Escobares, Roma, Falcon,
Zapata, San Ignacio and
Hebbronville.
Application forms are
completed at the Council offices
for such programs as Food
Stamps, Welfare, Social
Security, F.H.A., employment,
citizenship, income tax returns,
and driver's application plus
many others.
Referrals to various state.
Grulla Residents Now Eligible
To Purchase Flood Insurance
GRULLA - The U.S.
Department of Housing and
Urban Development announced
recently that effective Dec. 26,
1975, l<a Grulla has been ac-
cepted into the National Flood
Insurance Program.
This means, said Acting
Federal Insurance Ad-
ministrator, J. Robert Hunter,
that individual property owners
here are now eligible to buy
flood insurance protection at
affordable federally-subsidized
rates, offering more extensive
coverage under the expanded
program authorized by the 1973
Food Disaster Protection Act.
"We think the new, expanded
National Flood Insurance
Program offers the best way of
protecting property owners
from the ravages of floods,
while easing the burden on the
general public," he said.
"Since flood insurance is now
available," he added, "the law
requires that it must be pur-
chased by owners of property in
areas identified as flood-prone
by HUD, in order to be eligible
for virtually all forms of federal
or federally-related financial
assistance for building pur-
poses in those areas.
"This would include FHA or
VA mortgages, loans from the
Small Business Administration,
or loans from any federally-
regulated or supervised banks
and savings and loan in-
stitutions."
While flood insurance is
available to all residents of the
community, Hunter em-
phasized that the Federal
economic sanctions against
building assistance will not
apply to property outside the
danger zones.
Under the expanded
program, broader coverage can
be obtained for all buildings and
their contents. The limit of
insurance for single-family
homes is now $35,000 and $10,000
for other residential and
nonresidential buildings, at the
subsidized rate of 25 cents per
$100 of coverage. The rate goes
to 40 cents per $100 for non-
residential buildings.
The contents of all residential
buildings can be insured up to
$10,000 per unit at 35 cents per
$100 of coverage, and the rate
goes to 75 cents per $100 for the
contents of all nonresidential
structures up to a maximum of
$100,000 in coverage per unit.
Policies are effective im-
mediately during the first 30
days the insurance becomes
available. After the first 30
days, there is a 15-day waiting
period.
The policies can be purchased
from any licensed local
property insurance agent or
broker. The Home Insurance
Company, 2100 Travis Street,
Houston, Tx. 77002 has been
designated as the flood in-
surance servicing company for
this area. Agents and brokers
may obtain policy forms, rates,
flood insurance manuals, and
any other necessary in-
formation from this company.
(See GRULLA, Page 16)
federal and local agencies are
also made. Agencies and
programs to which referrals
are made include the Nutrition
Program, Social Security, Food
Stamp Program, Migrant
Health Clinic, Welfare
Department, Farmer's Home
Administration, Dental Clinic
and Project Andale.
Other projects which people
are referred to are the Texas
Commission for the Blind, the
Texas Rehabilitation Com-
mission (migrant and non-
migrant), Mental Health,
Public Health, C.E.T.A.,
Women, Infants and Children
Program, Legal Aid, Family
Planning, County Welfare,
education, housing, em-
ployment training, Red Cross,
Salvation Army, Cancer Society
and others.
Morado said that because
many federal and state agen-
cies still correspond in the
English language only, the
Council will interprete any
letter into Spanish for anyone
having the need.
Morado and Mrs. Neal em-
phasized that people of all ages
are eligible for help from the
Council. They did say that only
U.S. citizens need apply for
assistance
Bond Sales
Reported
Sales of Series E and H
United States Savings Bonds
amounting to $21,122 in Starr
county were reported today by
County Bond Chairman Rene G.
Smith. Sales for the eleven-
month period totaled $123,111
for 177 per cent of the 1975 sales
goal of $70,000,
Sales in Texas during the
month amounted to $18,748,419,
while year-to-date sales totaled
$220,550,066 for 94 per cent of the
yearly sales goal of $234.3
million.
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Rodriguez, Rene. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1976, newspaper, January 22, 1976; Rio Grande City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194543/m1/1/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.