The Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 24, 1986 Page: 3 of 10
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Several girls from Rio Grande City were winners in the recent Fourth of July
Bathing Beauty contest held in Raymondville. The Rio winners pictured above were:
Roxanne Acevedo, Princess, fifth from left; and Juliette Bazan, fourth from right.
RGC Girls Place In July Pageant
The Fourth of July Bathing
Beauty Contest was held on Satur-
day, June 28, at 10:00 a.m. in the
Raymondville High School Audi-
torium. The winners are as
follows:
Infant Miss Winner: Bianca Mata
of McAllen; First Alternate, Ve-
nessa Garcia, Lyford; Second
Alternate, Erin Edwards, McAllen;
Third Alternate, Yvette Hernan-
dez, Donna; Fourth Alternate,
Venessa Trevino, Sebastian.
Baby Miss Winner: Ira Jean
Mendiola of Raymondville; First
Alternate, Jennifer Ruiz, Donna;
Second Alternate, Erika Tijerina,
Rio Grande City; Third Alternate,
Cour'ney Kelly, San Benito; Fourth
Alternate, Carmen Mendoza,
Mission
Tiny Miss Winner: Maria Rendon
of Edinburg; First Alternate,
Joanna Rechy of Corpus Christi;
Second Alternate, Melinda
Acevedo, Rio Grande City; Third
Alternate, Dedra Lopez,
Kaymondville; Fourth Alternate,
Natalie Mungia, Harlingen.
Petite Winner was Sarah Scott of
La Feria; First Alternate, Neva
Saenz, Rio Grande City; Second
Alternate, Katrina Perez
Benavidez; Third Alternate, Rox-
anne Lopez, Rio Grande City;
Fourth Alternate, Diana Gonzalez,
Raymondville.
Princess Winner was Roxanne
Acevedo, Rio Grande City; First
Alternate Natalie Hickey,
Raymondville; Second Alternate,
Shannon Colvin. Rio Grande City;
Third Alternate, Patricia Vera,
Garciasville; Fourth Alternate,
Monica Reyna, Raymondville.
Little Miss Winner: Ernestine
Jones, Weslaco; First Alternate,
Deborah Trevino. Rio Grande City;
Second Alternate, Clarissa Mon-
talvo, Raymondville; Third
Alternate, Lucinda Solis,
Raymondville; Fourth Alternate,
Erica Hernandez, Raymondville.
Teen Miss Winner was Juliette
Bazan of Rio Grande City; First
Alternate, Debra Lopez,
Raymondville; Second Alternate,
Vilma Rodriguez, Rio Grande City;
Third Alternate, Melanie Rob-
ertson, Raymondville; Fourth
European Delegation
Visits Cotton Farms
HARLINGEN-A European dele-
gation of cotton and textile execu-
tives will get a firsthand explana-
tion of the new U.S. farm law
during its visit to Harlingen, July
25.
The group, composed of repre-
sentatives from Italy, Spain,
Portugal and Greece, will spend
two weeks in the U.S. on a trade
mission sponsored by Cotton
Council International. Officials of
CCI, overseas arm of the National
Cotton Council, said the delagation
also will observe production and
marketing practices of the U.S.
cotton industry.
While in Harlingen, the group
will tour area cotton farms and
gins and attend a dinner reception
These Southern European markets
annually purchase around 450,000
bales of U.S. cotton
"The rest of the world has
received a very strong message
from the U.S. cotton industry and
we're already starting to see
results," said Adrian Runnings,
CCI executive director. "U.S. cot-
ton has become competitive on the
world market and this will be the
focal point of our discussions with
the Europeans on this trade
mission. We're very encouraged at
the prospects for selling more
cotton to these southern European
countries."
Other stops on the tour include
Washington, Stoneville and
Greenwood, Miss.; Lubbock,
Phoenix, Bakersfield, Fresno, and
San Francisco. This is the fourth
trade team CCI has hosted this
year. An Egyptian trade team and
two Korean buying missions visited
earlier in the spring.
ATPE Features Just
Say No Program
AUSTIN Of the many groups
organized to battle the drug abuse
crisis in the United States, "Just
Say No."is unique; it was created
by children for children and
adolescents who need positive peer
pressure to avoid the threat of
drugs. In the July/August issue of
ATPE News, Editor N'ea Sheppard
Bender examines the scope of
adolescent drug use and the
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nationwide effort to establish "Just
Say No" Clubs to get at the root
causes of the problem
Also in the issue of ATPE News,
official magazine of the Association
of Texas Professional Educators
(ATPEi, Associate Director of
Research Donna Blevins previews
the newly released report, "A
Nation Prepared: Teachers for the
21st Century," issued by the Task
Force on Teaching as a Profession
of the Carnegie Forum on Educa-
tion and the Economy The report
makes eight specific recommenda-
tions that could change the way the
nation's schools "do business,"
according to Blevins Her critique
of the Carnegie Report includes
ATPE's possible stand on these
recommendations that could pro-
foundly affect the teaching pro-
fession in this country.
Other articles of interest to
educators in the July/August
issued of ATPE News include
information about Austin ISD's
successful Living Material Center
and Science Materials Center The
magazine also updates the status of
the latest law suits regarding
Housing Bill 72's no-pass, no-play
rule
ATPE News is published bimon
thly by ATPE. Texas' second
largest and fastest growing teacher
association Approximately 94 pe-
cent of ATPE's members are
classroom teachers, but the mem-
bership also includes
paraprofessionals, principals, su-
perintendents and other school
personnel Subscriptions to ATPE
News are $10 per year and are
available by writing to the Editor.
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KIO (fKANDK HUMI D KIO GRANDE CITY. TEXAS THURSDAY. jl LV 24.1986 PAGE 3
Sugar Free Preserves
Not As Tasty
Alternate, Lizzie Leiva,
Raymondville.
Junior Miss Winner. Lillian
Montalvo, Raymondville; First
Alternate Anissa Mendiola,
Raymondville; Second Alternate,
Missy Amaya, Harlingen.
Senior Miss Winner Stephanie
Armisted of Hobbs, New Mexico;
First Alternate, Christy Escamilla,
Raymondville. Sophisticated Miss
Winner Ann Buice of South Padre
Island; First Alternate, Janie
(Randsom) Cantu of Pharr; Second
Alternate, Wendy Buice, South
Padre Island.
Photogenic Winners are as
follows: Valerie Maldonado of San
Benito; Amanda Rodriguez, Edin-
burg; Ronica Tamez,
Raymondville; Brenda Saenz, Rio
Grande City; Dixie Ann Buice,
South Padre Island; Ernestine
Jones, Weslaco; Juliette Bazan.
Rio Grande City; Stephanie
Armistead, Hobbs, New Mexico;
Wendy Buice. South Padre Island
First Five entrant trophies went
to Ernestina Guzman,
Raymondville; Missy Amaya,
Harlingen; Bianca M Mata,
McAllen; Sonia Jo Silva. Weslaco;
Carmen Mendoza, Mission.
Hospitality awards went to
Herbie Villarreal of Rio Grande
City; Melanie Robertson f"1 Ira
Jean Mendiola of Pavmondville
Youngest Infant Miss award went
to Valerie Maldonado of San
Benito. The furthest contestant
award went to Stephanie
Armistead of Hobbs. New Mexico.
Miss Congeniality went to Dixie
Ann Buice of South Padre Island.
Kathy Rebeles, Raymondville was
named Little Miss 4th of July
Charm
Decorations for the stage were
patriotic and included crowns,
banners, trophies and bouquets in
red, white and blue. Last year
winner present was Dixie Ann
Buice of South Padre Island. She
entertained the audience with a
gymnastics routine These beauties
will be in various parades
throughout the Valley.
Organizers of the Fourth of July
Bathing Beauty Contest were Sarah
Gomez and Mary Kay Tucker, of
Raymondville.
Program For
The Disabled
A person who applies for disabili-
ty benefits under either the Social
Security or supplemental security
income program may be consid-
ered for serves offered by the State
vocational rehablitation agency
These services include counce'ing
and guidance, medical and surgical
treatment, physical therapy,
training in the use of prostheses,
and job training and placement
Applications for disability pay-
ments are sent by Social Security
to the appropriate agency in the
State in which the applicant lives.
It is this agency that determines
whether the individual is disabled
or blind within the meaning of the
law
If it is determined that the
available vocational rehabilitation
services would assist the applicant
in obtaining employment, he or she
is interviewed by a counselor The
fact that a person accepts voca-
tional rehabilitation services does
not affect his or her eligibility for
disability payments; however, re-
fusing these services will rule out
benefit payments unless there is a
good reason for the refusal
Although disability checks
usually stop shortly after a
person's condition improves to the
point that he or she can once more
work an exception applies to
beneficiaries who were disabled at
the time they started an approved
vocational rehabilitation plan, but
who unexpectedly recover before
the program is completed In such
cases, payment may continue if it
is believed that the vocational
rehabilitation services will permit
a return to work
COLLEGE STATION - Foods
can be preserved at home with less
sugar, but the results may or may
not be to your tastes, says a Texas
A&M University Agricultural
Extension Service specialist
Before trying no-sugar recipes on
your produce, nutritionist Marilyn
Haggard advises experimenting
with small batches first to see if
you are pleased with the results.
Recipes for canning fruits call
for the addition of sugar or a sugar
syrup to maintain the texture,
shape and color of the fruit and to
improve the flavor, she explains.
Omitting the sugar will primarily
affect the fruit texture and flavor.
When canning without sugar, the
speicalist says to use only firm ripe
or slightly under-ripe fruit so it
won't become to soft from canning.
By adding ascorbic acid or a
commerical anti-darkening agent,
fruit will retain better color.
"If you plan on using artificial
sweetners, add it when the fruit is
served, " says Haggard "The heat
of the processing can cause some
artificial sweetners to become
bitter and others to lose their
sweetening power "
She points out that fruit can also
be frozen safely without added
sugar, but will not maintain its
quality during freezer storage as
well as fruit that has sugar added.
Berries and fruits which do riot
darken when exposed to air can be
frozen in single layers on trays
and then packed into freezing bags
or containers. The fruits that freeze
well in this manner are blueber-
ries, strawberries, dewberries,
blackberries, raspberries, cherries,
plums, dates, grapes, melon balls,
pineapple chunks and rhubarb
slices.
Haggard says it's also difficult to
get good sugarless jams and jellies,
since sugar is essential to gel
formation, serves as a preserving
age-.t and improves the flavor.
Jams and jellies made without
sugar are more like a gelatin
product than a true jam or jelly,
she notes The "mouth feel" will be
different and the flavor tart.
Even with these drawbacks, the
specialist syas jams and jellies
made with artificial sweeteners, a
small amount of sugar or a
combination of artificial sweetener
and sugar can be acceptable
In addition, some brands of low
methoxyl pectins give instructions
for making jellies without any
additional sugar. But if this method
is used, Haggard recommends
using very ripe fruit whicha has a
high concentration of natural sug
ars.
July 21 thru August
The sweetest deal in town is the Dairy Queen
Full Meal Deal. With a juicy quarter-pound
Homestyle Hungr buster Golden french fries
Your favorite ice-cold soft drink And a creamy
5-ounce Da;ry Queen sundae with your choice
of topping The $2 59 Full Meal Deal It's ^teal
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Roberts, Kenneth. The Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 24, 1986, newspaper, July 24, 1986; Edinburg, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth195038/m1/3/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.