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In Portland
This Week
THURSDAY. SEPT. 17
TOPS 631 -7:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church
FRIDAY, SEPT. U
Portland AJ-Non • 10 a m., Our Izwly of Mount Carmel
Catholic Church
MONDAY, SEPT. 21
Rotary Club -12 noon. Community Center
l-ions Cub -7pm. Shep's Chicken Shack
G-P Booster Club - 7 p.m., high school cafeteria
Art Guild - 7 30 p.m., St. Christopher By The Sea
Episcopal Church
Overeaters Anonymous - I p.m., First Presbyterian
Church
TUESDAY, SEPT.«
Chapter 2901, AARP • 6:30 p.m.. First Presbyterian
Church
Masonic Ixidge stated meeting >7:30 p.m.. Masonic
Lodge building
Volunteer fire department -7:30p.m., fire station
WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 23
Ki warns Club • 12 noon. Shep 's Chicken Shack
Portland Al-Non -1 pm, First United Methodist Church
Portland Sea Gulls Square Dance Club - I p.m., Com-
munity Center
THURSDAY, SEPT. 24
Story’ Time - 10a.m., Bell Public Library
TOPS 630 - 7:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church
Jaycees • 7:30 p.m.. Community Center
BELL PUBLIC LIBRARY HOURS
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday -0 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Wednes-
day-0 am to 7 p.m.; Friday-9a m. to5 p.m.; Saturday -10
a m to 2 p.m
Portland’s
Past
14 YEARS AGO
-1167-
Richard Perez of Portland,
assistant superintendent of
mail of Corpus Christ!, receiv-
ed an invitation from the
postmaster general to attend
the national conference on
equal employment opportunity
in the Postal Service and to at-
tend the reception and dinner in
Washington, D C., on Sept. 21
and 22 He will leave by plane
Monday
...a...
An unusual story unfolds in
the enlistment of Ben C.
Ramirez Jr., Rudy M
Ramirez. Alfred Ochoa and
Ernest Ochoa These men are
Portland's first set of cousins to
enter the Army Ben and Rudy
are sons of Mr arid Mrs Ben C.
Ramirez of 1123 Ochoa St. and
Alfred and Ernest are sons ai
Mr and Mrs Salvador Ochoa
of 11S1 Ochoa St
...a...
No one Is really sure just
what happened last Friday
night except that the (idem
Owls were up and ready and
evidently the Wildcats weren’t
up high enough “We haven’t
got any exeuaes for this game.''
Saturday Is D-(Dredge) Day
— by pdl —
SATURDAY WILL be
perhaps one of the most impor-
tant single days in the history
of this city
Saturday is when the U S.
Army Corps of Engineers will
hold a public hearing on the
dumping of the dredge sludge
coming out of the Corpus
Christ ship channel for the
next 50 years.
The Corps has recommended
putting this in Nueces Bay at
the south shore, Tulr Lake
disposal area and the Suntide
ponding area
The meeting at 9 a m. Satur-
day in the Bayfront Plaza Con-
vention Center was called by
the Corps to receive input from
both those who approve of the
plan and from those who are
against it.
TV final decision on disposal
of the dredge material has not
been made
The Corps plan is just one
step - it is an environmental
study with their recommenda-
tion.
If the Nueces Bay plan is not
adopted, one of the primary
alternatives that (ffill remains
is to place the sludge on prime
farmland 1.9 miles west of
Portland
This not only would take this
land out of production forever,
but it would have a horrendous
affect on the city.
To have this 30-foot high
mound stretching over up to
2,000 acres on the city's
doorstep would have dire con-
sequences as far as the lifestyle
of the community is concerned
THIS MUST not V allowed to
happen
Written statements will be
accepted at the meeting Satur-
day by the Corps. They will
become a part of a most impor-
tant report covering the public
hearing Portlanders should
give thoughtful concern to this
impending catastrophe. They
must make their thoughts
known to the Corps.
Those who wish also will be
given an opportunity to make
an oral presentation. Such
presentation too should be
backed with a written state-
ment
After a year of tedious study,
the Corps says the Nueces Bay
plan is the most acceptable It
is environmently sound, accor-
ding to the multitude of govern-
ment agencies that had input
into the study.
Wasted farmland can not be
replaced
Your assistance is crucial
...o...
THERE MAY be one good
reason for the water that
stands continuously in the dit-
ches along Wildcat Drive.
There are many bad reasons -
mosquitoes and an unhealthy
condition to name two.
But. a water spaniel Wednes-
day was enjoying a swim in the
fresh rain water that had
deepened a pool at the comer of
Barracuda The animal was out
for a stroll with its owner and
evidently just decided it was a
right type of day for a dip.
Anyone for skin diving'
—o---
SOME TIME back, highway
department officials said that
three lanes of traffic were go-
ing to be established along the
frontage road going north into
the Wildcat Drive signal light.
This would alleviate the mess
still being caused by only hav-
ing one left turn lane onto
Wildcat at the signal.
Residents are getting anx-
ious.
Some also are asking why a
turn-around lane can't be chop-
ped out along the far left side so
drivers can get back down the
frontage road on the opposite
side of the highway
The wheels of ' government''
turn slowly, but the wheels of
those waiting In the rush hour
mess don't turn at all.
...o...
THE MEDIA wraps tVir
arms of sympathy and love
around every group of
“demonstrators" who waste
the tas dollar with unfounded
protests against this country's
only hope for whipping the
energy shortage for electricity
generation - nuclear power.
At the same tune they barely
give mention I buried on an In-
side page) to a nauseating
caper that almost killed the
commander of American
forces in Europe.
How refreshing it would be if
the few who are so eager to put
on their publicity seeking show
would do It for a cause to, for
once, assist their country
Why not a demonstration
against what Is happening to
this country's troops on another
continent-’
They could make it loud and
clear that these acts of ter-
rorism, orchestrated one more
time by the world communism
operation, will not be tolerated
to continue Positive action by
the host country, in the last five
instances - West Germany
should be demanded.
America is not In Europe for ’
the good time of protecting the
nations there from the Soviet
bear without at lefcst a
semblance of protection from
the government involved
If those governments are so
intimidated by the Soviet
Union, so frightful of their ex-
istence, too timid to voice their
convictions, then it is time to
reappraise this nation's
presence in that area
NATO is no more than a
paper-thin shield. The United
States could far better concern
itself with the true defense of
this country from within its
own boundaries
Europe has become too ac-
customed to looking to Uncle
Sam for its military strength
while basking in the luxury of a
thriving economy.
Perhaps it is time that they
be given an opportunity to miss
the man in the tall hat.
TROUBLEMAKER
i Highlights a Sidelights
by LYNDFlL WILLIAMS
AUSTIN — The redis-
Iriclmg process is in chaos
irgain. apparently picking up
speed as il heads for the
courtroom in a handcart
Efforts lo draw the Texas
House and Senate seats are
running inlo political diffi-
culties on the five-member
Redislricting Board
And the hard-won com-
promise plan approved by
Ihc l egislature in July's spe-
cial session has finally ar-
rived jusl where Icgislalors
hoped and feared il would:
in Ihe federal courtroom of
controversial Judge William
Wayne Justice of Tyler.
Last week a black pastor
Bookshelf
Eden Novel Is Great Escape Hatch
BY LYRA SPARKS
Dorothy Eden's books are
alwayi a sure-fire escape hatch
- a release from everyday
pressure Her latest, "The
American Heiress," will not
disappoint you if that is the
kind of fiction you need.
The setting is World War I in
New York and England Hetty
Brown is inaid to Clemency M
Jervis. Mrs Jervis, mother of
Clemency, ia most excited over
her daughters' engagement to
Major Hugo, laird Hazard, of
Loburn, England He needs Die
money to be provided, and she
enjoys the prestige of a title for
her child. laird Hazard is heir
to one of England's most
venerable titles
Against the admonishments
of Uncle Jonas, Mrs. Jervis,
Clemency and Hetty take the
Uner Lusitania to England in
order that Clemency may have
a high society wedding in lam-
don As part of the arrange-
ment. a million dollars is
deposited in a London hank, the
money to be turned over to the
young man after the marriage
Early in the book there is the
intimation that Hetty has been
an illegitimate child, actually a
half sister to Clemency, and
with looks that could easily
make her pass for the spoiled
and willful heiress’s twin.
When the Lusitania sinks.
Hetty survives the wild
nightmare-like night As she
returns to consciousness after
her rescue, she sees the golden
bracelet on her wrist -
something that she had seized
in her panic as she rushed to
abandon ship On this bracelet
Coach Ray Akins told the boys
Monday afternoon after view-
ing a film of the game "Wejuat
didn't play as good a game as
Odem"
16 YEARS AGO
-1*71-
The hurricane season is still
not over. Hurricane Edith is
moving across the Gulf of Mex-
ico in our direction All
residents are urged to tie down
and secure all trailers, boats,
loose debris and construction
materials, as soon as s hur-
ricane watch goes into effect
...a...
The XI Mu Gamma Ex-
emplar chapter of Beta Sigma
Phi met Sept. 13 in the home of
Mrs Ernie Hagness, 1732
Austin Mrs Paul WoU. presi-
dent, presided over the
business meeting Secret
sisters were revealed with the
opening of gifts
...a...
Mias Kimberly Schroiier was
honored by her parents with a
party on her 11th birthday at
2:30 p.m. Saturday. Sept 11, at
her home of 216 Frio
See PAST. Page 7
Durante Would Have
Had A Good Excuse
by MICHAEL MANNING
On September 3 the City of Portland had a public hearing
for the 1982 fiscal year Over $19 million was gomg to be
budgeted to various city accounts.
The public, however, consisted of one person
Since excuses are like noses, in that everyone lias one, I
have compiled and categorized a list of big ones So,
everyone with a nose may mark tl*e excuse which most near-
ly resembles their own.
CIVIC MINDEDNESS: I was too involved already in
civic affairs I was afraid I would be asked to pay my
water bill 1 was afraid my presence would affect the
budget I sincerely trust the officials 43 per cent of the
voters elected.
HOUSEHOLD CHORES: I had to wash the supper
dishes My lawn needed mowing, which I do every
Thursday evening through force of habit I have trouble
with my own deficit spending
SOCIAL EVENTS I was reading a magazine about
the Royal Wedding 1 attended an anti-Khomeim mas-
querade party sponsored by the CIA. I had a date with Bo
Derek/Miles O'Keefe.
INTELLECTUAL PURSUITS I was translating l-atin
jokes into Sanskrit I was enjoying a fifth of
Beethoven 1 was seeking the K section of the dictionary
PYHS1CAL ENDEAVORS I was aerobic dancing
I was chasing rainbows Tiundayi I teach ping-
pong I was wagging my tongue
SPIRITUAL MATTERS; I was having a religious ex-
perience. I found instant Karma. Budget hearing are
agamst my religion
ABSURD REASONS I'm apathetic I forgot. I
< please fill in)............ —- -
Oh, me? Why wasn't I there’
Alas. I have a nose too
are engraved the initials
C.M.J. She remembers her
mother's words, “Survival is
your will," and she wills herself
to become Clemency Jervis, to
pick up the pieces of her life,
take up her mistress's identity,
and transform herself from
lady's maid to tha! lady After
all she has had some education,
has an inborn love for finer
things
Hetty has to survive the not-
so-veiled scrutiny of her new
family, her guilt-ridden
dreams, her haunting vision of
the drowned Clemency, the
portrait of a former Ijidy
Hazard who took her own life,
the malevolent jealousy of
Julia, lady Flora's companion,
who has had her heart set on
Hugo She must also endure
Hugo's absence at the front, the
temptations in her relationship
with her brother-in-law Uonel.
and Hugo's return from the
front as a badly wounded and
irascible Invalid.
She needs all the courage she
can muster - to survive all this
and to fight for the life she had
risked all to wui - to become in
reality the beloved and
acknowledged lady Hazard,
the true heiress from across the
water.
WHAT S NEW
from East Texas filed suit
to declare Ihe congressional
plan unconstitutional be-
cause it allegedly dilutes Ihc
voting strength of minorities.
Several minority groups
across Ihe stale arc expected
lo support the lawsuit
Rcdistrkflng Board
The all Democrat Rcdis-
Hiding Board should be a
dream opportunity for that
party's leaders, hut as wilh
any political committee, dis-
agreements have cropped
up
Silling on that board, as
provided hy the Texas Con
stilution are five slate offi-
cials. who all happen to b<
Democrats l.t Gov. Bill
Hohbv. Speaker Bill Clay-
ton. Attorney General Mark
While. Comptroller Bob
Bullock and Land Commis-
sioner Bob Armstrong.
Board members are ex-
pected lo finish drawing
suggested plans and submil
them for public hearing by
Sepl 2 V Hobby has a Sen-
ate plan. Claylon has a
House plan and Bullock will
have opposing plans for
both of them
Bullock is using the com-
puter al Ihc Comptroller's
Office to aid his efforts, a
task he has awaited since
Ihc Legislature wen! inlo
session
Boh Bullock
The Comptroller may
find that the power to re-
distnet Ihc state and decide
Ihc fate of one's political
friends and foes is not a bed
of roses
Now Bullock's efforts to
disadvantage certain conser-
vative legislators, and also
appropriations committee
members who trimmed his
budget requests, may he
'tinning out-of-bounds of
Democrat Parly unity.
Republican Gov. Bill
Clements. who surprised
friends when he vetoed Ihe
Senate plan early Ihis sum-
mer and handed il over to
the five Democrats, may
well have known what he
was doing
Now he can sit back and
wai h a knock-down Demo-
cratic feud . and should
the new plans be palently
unfair, the Republicans can
always lake if to court Some
observers have said all along
lhal all three redislricting
plans will end up in Ihe
courtroom
Bill Clayton
Talk around the Capitol
has been that lame duck
Speaker Claylon with his
conservative plan would be
the odd-man out when the
committee voles for final
approval.
But Clayton, who has al-
ready been through the re-
districting process twice this
year, knows full well Ihe
dangers of being loo greedy
in this game Reportedly.
Claylon has been silling
back wailing for the liberal
Bullock lo overplay his
hand
To compound Bullock's
troubles, he was slopped
and searched by Austin po-
lice Iasi week following a
lip he was armed and hold-
ing a hostage in a taxicab
No gun was found on Bul-
lock. who lold police and
ihc press he had gone lo
visit a just fired employee
for personal reasons
Texas, Jastice Department
The US Justice Depart-
ment is hacking off pressure
on Texas in two issues:
prison reform and illegal
alien education.
Last week the feds lold
Ihe Supreme Court il would
let Texas resolve for itself
whether lo provide a free
public education to children
of illegal aliens In 1975 the
l egislature passed a law al-
lowing school districts to
charge tuition for alien chil-
dren, During the Carter Ad-
ministration. Ihc department
considered the law uncon-
stitutional.
The department is also
reconsidering its role in Ihe
prison reform lawsuit and
may choose not lo partici-
pate Thai decision would
leave Ihe plaintiff attorney
alone fo figh! the stale's ap-
peal of a multi-million dol-
lar prison reform construc-
tion program ordered by
fudge William Wayne Jus-
tice
Clements, MrKaight
Governor Bill Clements j
lold reporters last week he
has every intention of seek-
ing re-election and promised
a formal statement in mid-
November
Meanwhile, Tyler Slate
Sen Peyton McKnight
slopped |ust short of an-
nouncing his challenge lo
Clements' office, saying he
wanted ihc job McKnight
is vying for Ihc Democratic
nomination with former
Gov Dolph Briscoe and
former Ally Gen. John
Hill
Country Crossroads
Life Would Be Difficult Indeed
Without Trusty Farmers’ Almanac
SUN COOKING
Sunpower for cooking
equal lo 800-watt holplale
is claimed for ihis fold-up
Sungril from Harthun Co.,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
by KEITH GUTHRIE
1 probably couldn't get my
garden planted without the use
of an almanac But. with all of
the keen information stored in
the Farmer's Almanac, 1 don't
see how anyone can get along
without one.
Along with information on
when and where to plant, you
find: "Here lies the body of
Emphraun Gray, Buned here
in the Cloisters, who in the for-
bidden month of May, consum-
ed two dozen oysters."
Evidently Mr. Gray had never
read in an almanac that you
don't eat oysters in a month
without the letter "r”.
An old farmer once told me
he planted crops in the ground
and not in the moon, but Just in
case you like moon plants try
these dates In September
Above ground: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 18,
28. 29.30 Root crops: 13,14,17,
18,21,22 Seed beds: 3,4,21,22,
30 Flowers; 1, 2, 21, 22, 28 , 29
Kill plant pests: 10, 11, 12. 23,
24 Set eggs 6-20 Seems like I
always end up with the wrong
date.
And if you tire of charts and
predictions the almanac
always has a laugh, even if
some are a bit old: "The moon
affects the tide - also the
united." Or, "You know you're
geting old when you can make
the wrinkles that you see in the
mirror disappear just by taking
off your glasses ”
looking ahead Things are
going to be wet in Texas during
October "Cold rain in Gulf
Coast (12th to 15th) Rain
stormi in Texas 120th to 23rd).
light rain in Texas <24th to
Readers’ Viewpoint
totters lu Uir editor are published In the Portland NEWS with or without Uu- writer x
signature However. In submitting material, the signature of the writer, addrrss and
telephone number must be Ineludrd. along with a statement not to publish the name. If that
Is desired, loiters will be verified with the sender prior to publication, loiters arr limited to
36* words. The editor reserves the right ta reject any letter.
lot us squelch all this talk of
the use of tranquilizer guns on
our Portland animals. It Is an
illegal act: lAnti Cruelty Act
•42-11A in the Texas Penal
Code) and it's use was discon-
tinued here in 1*77 for that
reason
Name Withheld
27).*' I'm not sure about the
veracity of these predictions
but I hope to go to a football
game on the 24th and It always
rains on me when I don't take a
raincoat - and I never take one.
lzicky days in September’
Try Wednesdays, but steer
clear of Saturday. That’s fun-
ny, Saturday has always been
my favorite, dating back to the -* 1
days when Pa used to give me a
whole nickel to blow on candy
and then let me hang around
the market and listen to the old
timers spin yams
And then to keep things light
turn the page and enjoy: "Mid-
dle age in a woman is when her
girdle pinches and men don't.”
I like this one: "Joggers are not
to be sniffed at.”
Progress is in the light of the
times. 1 quote from the 1852
Burnley Cotton Mills' office _
regulations. "This firms has '
reduced the hours of work, and
the clerical staff will now only
have to be present between the
hours of 7 a m and 6 p.m. on
weekdays Now that the hours
of business have been
drastically reduced, the par-
taking of food Is allowed
between 11:30 a m and noon,
but work will not, on any ac-^
See CROSSROADS, Pa**1
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