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LULING Three peo-ple have been charged with the kidnapping of a Luling

woman from her home last week.

The woman called Caldwell County officers to report suspicious activ-ity on April 23, but when deputies got there, no one was at the home. Police re-turned for a second time after getting a call from someone concerned about the womans welfare.

While at the location

investigators were advised by Caldwell County Sher-iff s Dispatch that they had received a call from a Bee County Deputy, who advised that they had a victim who was identified

as the complainant who had initially contacted the Caldwell County Sher-iff s Office earlier in the day. The Deputy was ad-vised by the victim she had been kidnapped by three

individuals at her home this date and while being held captive she had been choked by one of them.

Investigators located the three individuals who were

HOCHHEIM A Vic-toria couple was killed and several Gonzales residents injured Monday in a traffic accident on U.S. Highway 183 just south of state High-way 111.

Department of Public Safety investigators said Frank Hendrix, 69, and his

wife, Margaret, 66, were killed when the vehicle in which they were riding was struck by a northbound ve-hicle which suffered a tire blowout.

They were pronounced dead at the scene by DeWitt County Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1 Peggy Mayer.

Troopers from the Yoa-kum DPS office said the Hendrixes were traveling south on U.S. Highway 183 toward Cuero in a Toyota Sienna minivan.

A 2005 Ford F-250 driven by Chris Ideus, 24, of Gon-zales, was traveling north on U.S. Highway 183 to-ward Gonzales, pulling a recreational camper.

The Ford suffered a tire blowout and the vehicle veered across the center stripe into the southbound lane, Department of Pub-lic Safety Trooper Gerald Bryant told reporters. The

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3 charged with kidnapping

Strangers werent always real welcome in town in the Old West and wanted men were even less welcome. Actors portraying various roles treated visitors to Gonzales Pioneer Village to a Wild West gunfight during Saturdays Dutch Oven Cookoff. See story, Page A3. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

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Commissionersgrill IT provider

Gonzales County Com-missioners grilled the countys information-tech-nology services provider during a special called meeting on April 24.

County department heads told commission-ers at a recent meeting that many of their computer is-sues arent being addressed in a timely fashion, and representatives from TE-QSYS were on-hand for Thursdays meeting to an-swer questions.

TEQSYS Account Man-ager Keri Ramirez said, We are working very hard to address the email issues. We are in the process of de-veloping a formal presenta-tion with two options, and would like to present it in about two weeks.

Judge Deidra Voigt of-fered, Ive been very happy with TEQSYS. I think the problems come from poor communication, and peo-ple unaware of the process.

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JM Oilfield Services is back where it wants to be: in Gonzales, a town with spirit.

Owner Jerry Smith was on-hand during Mondays Gonzales Economic Devel-opment Corp. board of di-rectors meeting and said he is very pleased to be com-ing back to town.

When I originally came

out here we wanted to get a site in the industrial park, Smith said, but there was some opposition. The com-pany operated on a small half-acre lot for a time be-fore eventually moving to Luling. A new attitude both on the part of the GEDC and the community, he said, brought him back.

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Obituaries

Bertha Alma Baker,1920-2014BAKER

Bertha Alma Baker, 93, residing in Orange Park, FL, passed away peaceful-ly after a short debilitat-ing injury and illness. She was born April 24, 1920, in Cost, Texas, to Willie and Helen (Wefer) Ros-sow. She married James Woodrow Baker on March 15, 1947.

Bertha grew up in the Lutheran faith and was steadfast in her Christian walk until she drew her last breath. Church and family were most impor-tant to her in life and she continued to live for twen-ty years after the loss of

her husband. She moved to Orange Park, FL where she lived with her daugh-ter and son-in-law for the last four years of her life.

She loved to work in her flower gardens and loved the outdoors. She always had such a beautiful yard and continued to garden until her health would no longer allow. She was a wonderful wife, mother, mother-in-law, grand-mother, great-grand-mother, sister and aunt to everyone who knew her. She will be greatly missed by the lives she touched while here on earth but the Heavens are rejoicing for another child of God is now home.

She is survived by one daughter, Debra Jean (Ber-nard) Van Matre of Or-ange Park, FL; two sisters, Esther (Jack) Juenger-mann of Ft. Worth, TX; Nora Arhelger of DeSoto, TX; one granddaughter, Heather Dawn Micham; one great-grandson, Paul Baker Micham; numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.

She is preceded in death

by her husband, James Woodrow Baker; parents, Willie and Helen Rossow; brothers John Rossow and George Rossow; and sis-ters Alma Rossow and Lil-lie Dullnig.

Visitation was on Fri-day, April 25, 2014 at Memory Gardens Funeral Home Corpus Christi, Texas from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Funeral service was held at 10:30 a.m. on Sat-urday, April 26 at Memory Gardens Funeral Home Corpus Christi, Texas with Rev. Patsy Koeneke officiating. Interment fol-lowed at Memory Gardens Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Don Rossow, Mike Rossow, Greg Miller, Mike Mill-er, Rick Satsky and Kirk Tumlinson.

In lieu of flowers, con-tributions may be made to Custead Care Center/Haven Hospice, 745 Blan-ding Blvd., Orange Park, FL, 904-213-2506.

Condolences may be of-fered at www.memorygar-densfuneralhome.com.

Terry Dean Bowman,1935-2014

BOWMANTerry Dean Bowman,

78, of Gonzales, passed away Wednesday, April 23, 2014.

Terry was born May 7, 1935 in Tacoma, WA, to Forrest Milton Bowman and Antoinette Larsen Bowman. Terry was raised in Tacoma and after graduating high school he joined the U.S. Air Force beginning a 21 year career serving his country as a communi-cations specialist and re-tiring as a Tech Sergeant in 1974.

Terry married Kath-leen Frances Hart on December 10, 1977 in Uhland, TX, and they were members of the Gonzales First United Methodist Church. He was also a member and past Exalted Ruler of the Gonzales Elks B.P.O.E. Lodge # 2413 and was a member of the Bastrop American Legion Post 533 and the National Rifle Association.

There was not a mean bone in his body; he was a loving husband, great father and a won-derful grandfather. His greatest love was fam-ily and he was commit-ted to providing for his familys needs. While working full time in the USAF, Terry would take a second job to see that his children could at-tend parochial schools where religion and faith is very much part of the

curriculum. He was very attentive to the needs of his family; he encour-aged communication and always listened first before responding with sound counsel. Family was so very important to him and he lived an example that was en-grained in his children, that the love of family always comes first.

Terry was a proud of his service in the USAF. He loved his country and was loyal to the stars and stripes of the United States flag and all that it represents, the honor-able flag that so many before him had fought and died to protect. He knew well that his free-doms to hunt, fish, read his beloved westerns, to own guns and use them to hunt upland game came at a price paid by many that came before him and he sincerely re-spected and cherished those freedoms. He loved wood working and built beautiful rocking chairs which he donat-ed for use or as auction items to raise money for one of his dearest pas-sions, the Texas Elks Childrens Services, Inc.. His wife called him her special angel, Terry was quietly a special angel to his family, the children that need the Elks Foun-dation, and through his unselfish service to our country, he was a special angel to all of us.

Terry Dean Bowman is survived by his loving wife of 36 years, Kath-leen Bowman of Gonza-les, daughters: Rebecca L. Plunkett (Wilson) of San Antonio, Monica M. Graham of San Antonio, Janet L. Fleming (Jerry McFadin) of Belmont, Gail M. Zerr (Bernie) of Harrison, Ark., Do-reen L. Fink (Kenneth) of Cost, Lori A. Moffett (Gordon) of New Braun-fels, sons, Timothy D.

Bowman (Yong Hye) of Laguna Niguel, CA, William A. Bowman of San Antonio, Thomas D. Bowman of San An-tonio, Thomas A. Lam-bacher (Dona) of Elgin, sisters, Arla I. Schnider (Paul) of Lake Havasu, AZ, April M. Tinsley of Las Vegas, NV, brother, Daniel B. Bowman of Bastrop, grandchildren, Mandie Molnoskey (Wade), Julie McBride (Jeremy), Christina Schluterman (TJ) Jean-nie Rowbotham (Ther-on), Nancy Bowman, Laci Lambacher, Kath-leen Moffett, Dustin Gutkowski, Gordon Moffett, III, Travis Fink, Jhase Lambacher, Cody Moffett, great-grand-children, Jovie Moffett, Laken McBride, Libby Molnoskey, and Mav-erick Moffett. He was preceded in death by his parents, daughter, Lo-rey Carillo, sister, Linda Harrison, and his grand-son, Billy John Schulze.

A funeral service was held at 7 p.m. Wednesday evening, April 30 in Sey-dler-Hill Funeral Home with Pastor Andy Smith officiating. Interment with full U.S.A.F. Honors will be held at 10:15 a.m. Thursday, May 1, in Ft. Sam Houston, National Cemetery with Pastor Jay Brown officiating. Hon-orary pallbearers: Bubba Pirkle, Stan Bias, Rosalio Leon, Louis Wolting, Skip Casjens, John Du-Bose, Jr., and Barry Lee. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday evening pri-or to the funeral service.

Memorials may be made to the Texas Chil-drens Elks Services, Inc., 1963 FM 1586, Gonzales, TX 78629-5231. Services are under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home.

Ruth Emily Philippus Foerster,

1925-2014FOERSTER

Ruth Emily Philip-pus Foerster passed away April 25, 2014. Ruth was born September 28, 1925 in Monthalia, Texas, the daughter of Paul and Tillie Philippus.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her beloved husband, Alfred H. Boots Foerster, and brother Paul Philippus, Jr.

She is survived by daugh-ter, Susan OQuinn, son Tim Foerster, son-in-law, Jody OQuinn, daughter-in-law, Adrienne Foer-ster, grandchildren Joel OQuinn, and wife Mandy, Kelly Haydon and husband Jason, Sharon OQuinn and fianc Brett Freede, Stacy Vistine and husband Jon, Ian Foerster, Megan Brown, Garrett Brown, great grand-daughters, Holland OQuinn, Landry and Bri-elle Haydon, brother Gil-bert Philippus and wife

Mary Lou, sister, Blanche Harmon and husband James, sister-in-law, Pam Philippus, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Ruth began playing the organ and piano in church at Monthalia in her teens. She graduated from Gon-zales High School and briefly attended Texas Lu-theran College and then Nursing School at the Santa Rosa Hospital in San Anto-nio. Her education abruptly ended when Boots, an Air Force pilot, and the son of the Methodist preacher at Monthalia, came home from World War II and in-sisted that they get married. Ruth happily accepted and they were married on Sun-day, August 19, 1945, by her father-in-law, Rev. A. F. Foerster.

Boots and Ruth lived in Gonzales, Texas, where both their children were born. In 1956, they moved to San Antonio where Boots became employed with the Perry Shankle Co. Once in San Antonio, they joined St. Marks Methodist Church, which was newly established.

They became involved in many areas of church work, but Ruth, of course gravi-tated to the music depart-ment. She and Boots both sang in the Chancel choir. Within a few years Ruth be-came the church organist, a position she held for close to 50 years, retiring in 2010, at which time she was given

the title, Organist Emeritus. She played for hundreds of church services, weddings, funerals, Sunday school singing, Vacation Bible school, UMW meetings, nursing homes, and most anything she was called on to do. And she loved it all. Ruth spent many hours practicing each week, but this was her ministry and testimony. She used her talents to serve the Lord and thats what gave her the greatest pleasure in her life.

Ruth was also a longtime member of the Tuesday Musical Club where she used her lovely soprano voice to sing in the choir.

Ruth was a loving daugh-ter, wife, mother, sister, aunt, grandmother and great grandmother , known to her grandkids as, Gam-my. She had many friends through her years of church work. Her beautiful smile and sweet spirit will be for-ever remembered.

The services for Ruth Foerster were held Tues-day, April 29, at 10:30 at St. Marks United Method-ist Church in San Antonio with visitation before the service at 9:30. Graveside services followed at 2:30 Tuesday, April 29, at Mon-thalia United Methodist Cemetery in Cost.

Memorial donations may be made to St. Marks United Methodist Church, Monthalia United Meth-odist Church, or The Ahl-zheimers Association.

In celebration of Arsenio Deshas life his class-mates held a balloon release on Friday, April 25, at the Apache foot-ball field. Over 200 bal-loons were released in his memory.

Vincent Dale DeCola,1971-2014DECOLA

Vincent Dale DeCola, 43, of Gonzales passed away Sunday, April 27, 2014.

He was born February 15, 1971 in Austin, the son of Jim and Debbie DeCola. Dale was a member of the 1989 graduating class of Gonzales High School. He graduated from Univer-sal Technical Institute in 1992. He married the love of his life Annette Zummo on October 23, 2004 in the First Baptist Church in Gonzales.

He was an independent distributor and salesman along with his father for Matco Tools, Inc. He served with the Belmont Fire De-partment for over 10 years as a firefighter and later as

Assistant Chief. He also served as Vice-President of the Gonzales County Fire Association. He graduated from Texas A&M Univer-sity Emergency Services Training in 2004 and South Texas Coastal Fire Training Academy in 2004.

Dale was affectionately known as Mr. Wonder-ful by his family and close friends and could fix or build almost anything. One of his special sayings was In the woods or In the wa-ter which reflected his love of the outdoors, fishing, hunting, golf and barbe-quing. He especially loved spending time with his kids and all children, which was evident by his dedication to the Texas Special Olympics which he was involved with for several years. Starting at an early age, he was fond of collecting every rock he ever found, an interest he passed on to his children. He enjoyed playing domi-noes and Tiki. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Gonzales.

He is survived by his wife Annette DeCola of Gonza-les; daughter Erin Hayley DeCola of Gonzales; sons: Vincent Patrick DeCola and Anthony James DeCola

both of Gonzales; parents: Jim and Debbie DeCola of Gonzales; brothers: Bran-don Ray DeCola and wife Kimberly of Gonzales and Jarrett Matthew DeCola and wife Kristen and niece Lilly all of New Braunfels; grandmother Ida Fisher of Gonzales; brothers and sis-ters in law Nick and Renee Bednarczyk and children Cassandra and Rebecca all of Gonzales and Frank and Sandy Zummo and chil-dren Anthony and Jeremy all of Lithia, Florida. He is also survived by special friends Tom Click and Bri-an Zurik.

Visitation will be from 5 until 8 p.m. Thursday, May 1, 2014 at Seydler-Hill Fu-neral Home. Funeral ser-vices will be 10 a.m. Friday at the First Baptist Church with Dr. Chris Irving of-ficiating. Burial will follow at the Belmont Cemetery. Pallbearers will be mem-bers of the Belmont Fire Department. Honorary pallbearers will be member of the Gonzales EMS and the Gonzales County Sher-iffs Office. Arrangements under the care and direc-tion of Seydler-Hill Funer-al Home 906 St. Paul, Gon-zales, TX 830-672-3232.

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Saturdays Dutch Oven Cookoff spawned a plethora of tasty treats for judges and visitors, while volunteers demonstrated a wide variety of crafts and traditions. Vicki Frenzel (left) demonstated how to make corn-husk dolls, while Norma Fink and Betty Fink (above) showed visitors how to make traditional sauerkraut. Bob and Fawn Merrill (right) of Lockhart brought their buggy and team to provide free riding tours of Pioneer Village and nearby Fort Waul.

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CUERO A Yoakum High School graduate was laid to rest on Friday in Cu-ero as a hero of his country.

U.S. Army Spc. Kerry Michael George Danyluk, 27, was critically wounded in battle against Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan on April 12, and three days later succumbed to his in-

juries at an Army hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.

Danyluk was part of a unit attacked by enemy forces with small arms fire in Pul-e-Alam, Logar prov-ince, Afghanistan, as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 87th Infan-try Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Moun-tain Division, Fort Drum,

N.Y.Danyluk was born on

Nov. 1, 1986 in British Co-lumbia, Canada to Diane and Kenneth Danyluk. He moved to Texas at the age of 8. He graduated from Yoakum High School and attended Victoria College.

In October 2010, he joined the United States Army and underwent basic training at Fort Benning, Ga. He went through In-

fantry and Airborne and was selected for Ranger Assessment and Selec-tion program which he completed with Top Shot award.

Kerry was first deployed to Afghanistan with the 75th Ranger Regiment. Upon his return to the US, he was transferred to Ft. Drum, NY and assigned to 10th Mountain Divi-sion 2-87 Scout Unit and

became a Scout Sniper. He was deployed in November of 2013 for his second tour in Afghanistan.

Members of his family flew to Germany to be at his bedside at his passing.

Danyluk is survived by his mother, father, sister and brother.

Funeral services were held at Faith Family Church with Pastor Larry Helms officiating.

US Army Spec. Kerry Michael George Danyluk

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A group of actors and artists were on-hand to give visitors a demonstration of a Wild West gunfight as well as a comical shotgun wedding skit. The group included Dean Reading, Jay Davis, Joe Piccolella, James Rogers, Dale David, Tammy Rogers, Wyatt Strauss and Brenna Hobbs.

Major improvements have been made to many of the facilities at Pioneer Village, according to director Sarah Tenberg, with none more evident than the refurbishing of the old schoolhouse which now hosts a display of old post-office frontages from Cheapside, Wrightsboro, Nixon and Smiley.

There is an old saying that says you can lead a horse to water, but you cant make him drink. This truism, like all the old sayings, is based on common sense and lifes hard-knocks lessons. But it is very apparent (and unfortunate) that for Texas education indus-try, the only saying they believe in is give me more money.

Many professional educators and their lib-eral political allies continue to demand more money for public (never private) education as the answer to education issues. This is par-ticularly among minority and low income stu-dents. They compare the public school spend-ing of states such as California and New York as evidence of Texas failure.

They rail about low test scores, claiming that more and more investment (spending) is needed.

However, they ignore the fact that culture and home life play a large role in the low aca-demic attainment of some people.

Quite simply stated, if there is no value placed on academic attainment in the home or family, it becomes very difficult for the child to appreciate education. If the family does not encourage homework, reading, and other academic activities, then the best school buildings, most dedicated teachers, most cur-rent computer equipment, and all the bells and whistles in world will have little impact on a student.

Thus you can lead a student to the school but you cant make him learn.

For example, there are many Texas families

who suffer from home cultures that do not appreciate education attainment. Many are immigrant (particularly illegal alien) homes where higher education is not valued.

There are also single parent drop-outs who have a difficult time communicating the value of education because they dont understand it themselves. Then there are those homes where parents dont have the parenting skills to en-courage or discipline their children to study.

Home culturefamilyimpacts much more on children than modern equipment.

Unfortunately, to the education industry, the pin-heads who only care about more money for their jobs and not about actually teaching the child, money is always the an-swermore money.

When you hear a politician or an educator bemoan that we need to spend (excuse me invest) more money in education, ask them how much money does it take for the gov-ernment to create a scholar? Ask them when does the education industry have enough money create an A student?

Learning is a very personal action. Starting with potty training, humans beings learn ac-cording to their abilities and desires. In todays public education system, the desire seems to be missing in many students, and they seem to care more about being entertained rather than learning.

The appreciation for learning, for reading, for achieving and succeeding in a competitive classroom has been lost because of an educa-tion industry that only wants more money, because of politicians that promise everything including success, and by a culture that does not value actual education.

Education and learning are not just about attending a school building that has all the latest equipment. It is about an individual hav-ing the desire and discipline to achieve. That desire and discipline begin at home and in a family culture that values education, learning, and academic success.


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We didnt die before we got old, but at least we got thereDances withChihuahuas

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El Conservador

George Rodriguez is a San Antonio resident. He is the former President of the San Antonio Tea Party, and is now Executive Director of the South Texas Politi-cal Alliance.

GeorgeRodriguez

I always figured that Pete Townshend and I shared some empathic link. Like The Whos legendary songwriter, I figured Id be decorating some mausoleum long before I got old.

This is for you kids out there: laugh it up while you can. Youve got it easy but time will come for you. It gets all of us eventually.

Overheard someones grandkid grumbling the other day about having to do a research compo-sition and that she had to hurry home and get on Google to do it. Then came the obligatory sneer: Ill bet yall are glad you didnt have to as much work as we have to do in school when yall were young, huh?

You shouldnt have opened up that can of worms, hon. (And by the way, Can of worms is called a colloquialism. I learned that in the third grade.)

Us old fogeys used an early ver-sion of Google: it was called the card catalog back then. Searches didnt produce instantaneous results, either. You had to actu-ally go to shelves, pull out books, search through them to find the

information you were looking for, and write it down on index cards.

Our version of Google didnt go to sleep when we finished with it. We had to physically go put the book back on the shelf and organize our note cards. Then, and only then, could we write our outline followed by a first draft, second draft and final draft.

All hand-written, not printed out.

Heres another shocker for you kids. We got graded on spelling and grammar on our composi-tions in those days even when the assignment was biology or geology or art history. Our spell-check program was a dictionary, backed up by the kid who made

the A-plus in Spelling.Yes, Spelling was a separate

subject in our day. As a result, us older folks who are falling apart otherwise know when to properly use and spell words like to, too and two, and there, theyre and their.

So there.And that hard math home-

work youre griping about, hon: heres something to think about. You use calculators and computers to do your math homework these days, while us old grey-hairs had to actually memorize basic math facts and work problems out on paper, with pencils in hand. Guess what? We invented calculators and com-puters.

Ill grant that you kids today are a lot more involved in athletic ac-tivities than we were in my day. We only had five varsity sports when a lot of us geezers were in school, and we almost never had to worry about playing multiple sports in one week because of the playoffs because back then, you didnt make the playoffs unless you fin-ished first.

Nor did we have all the funky

scientific athletic enhancements you kids have these days. We didnt have to worry about pulled quad-riceps and flexor extensions and we didnt wear more armor than a medieval knight. When something hurt, we limped until the coach ordered us off the floor then we popped two aspirin and went back into the game.

We also had limited numbers of other extracurricular activities to distract us, particularly because so many of those of my generation had one activity that so few of you younguns engage in these days. It was called a job.

Some of us creaky, cranky, grum-bling old fogeys worked 40-hour-a-week jobs at the age of 14 and still played football, baseball, bas-ketball and made mostly straight As. We did it because our families needed the help, or simply because our families thought we needed to learn a little about responsibility.

Someone elses grandkid made the dry observation that todays kids are smarter than us fogeys were because theyre healthier. Fewer smokers in the new wave, and they have healthier eating hab-

its and engage in more exercise.Ill grant that part is mostly true;

a lot of us who survived childhood in the 1950s and 60s did so in spite of consuming copious amounts of the four primary food groups (hamburgers, pizza, barbecue and soda), and we engaged in a num-ber of unhealthy habits like smok-ing. But we never tended to gather in any numbers at the local weight room outside of football season because most of us never got fat until we got much older.

Think about it, hon: many of to-days younguns need to go to the gym because they are overweight, many of them seriously so. I could count the number of overweight kids I grew up with on one hand.

The difference? When we were kids and were told to go play, we didnt plop down on the couch and plug in the Playstation. We went to this wonderful place called out-side, where we engaged in our ver-sion of video games by acting them out.

I may not have died before I got old, but at least Im going to pro-vide some future archeologist with an interesting mummy to discover.

If Condoleezza Rice were as self-pitying and politically crass as Attorney General Eric Holder, she would be wondering aloud what it is about her race and gender that accounts for the hostility to her.

Rices speaking gigs on college campuses and her ascension to the board of the Internet company Dropbox have sparked protests calling for her to be disinvited, cashiered and generally isolated and shamed.

Condi Rice is not a natural lightning rod. Shes such a disreputable figure that shes on the board of the Kennedy Center and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Shes such a lightweight that shes a Stanford University professor. Shes such a yahoo that she once accompanied Yo-Yo Ma on the piano.

The mob nonetheless believes that her due punishment for serving the wrong administration in the wrong cause should be banishment.

When the University of Minnesota invited her to give a lecture as part of a series marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, the schools faculty roused itself. Roughly 200 of them demanded that the invitation be revoked, partly because she is unfit to be part of a civil-rights lecture series.

What would give anyone the idea that a woman who was the nations first female African-American secretary of state, who experienced Jim Crow firsthand during her childhood in Alabama, who was friends with one of the girls killed in the Birmingham church bombing would have anything relevant

to say about civil rights?The Minnesota professors say that it is in a

spirit of free expression that they ask for the reversal of Rices invitation. Because nothing says free expression like shutting down someones lecture.

They claim they would love to have Rice come to the school on some other occasion. Presumably to sit in the dock at a mock war-crimes trial.

The Rutgers faculty reacted in a similar vein to the selection of Rice as the schools commencement speaker. Does the Rutgers faculty really think Rice will urge graduating students to go out and start wars of choice and do extraordinary renditions? If the past is any guide, Rice will tell the Rutgers students about the importance of getting an education, of finding their passion, of being optimistic -- you know, all the truly dark stuff that animates quasi-war criminals.

The hounding of Rice, naturally, all goes back to Bush national-security policy. If support for the Iraq War is a mark of odiousness, though, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and John Kerry should never be allowed to set foot on a campus or sit on a corporate board, since they all voted to authorize it.

But Rices critics arent interested in argument. As usual, her harassment is about narrowing the range of respectability so as to limit the parameters of political debate. This time, it is failing. The leaders of the University of Minnesota, Rutgers and Dropbox have refused to dump Rice.

Of course, if the typical rules applied, the fierce opposition to her would be attributed to racism, sexism and any other handy -ism. Just imagine what Eric Holder would say if his opponents embarked on a concerted campaign to silence and shun him.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.(c) 2014 by King Features Synd., Inc.

This is an edited transcript of an interview with Maria Espinoza from the Remem-brance Project heard on The News from the Camphouse on KULM 98.3 FM.

Brune: Mrs. Espinoza please introduce yourself.

Espinoza: Im the co-founder and national direc-tor for the Remembrance Project. We honor and re-member Americans who have been killed by illegal aliens.

We feel that our fami-lies are not getting the basic promises of protection that should be provided by our public servants. The current White House administration has turned their backs on American families. We serve the public by connecting the dots and inform the public about the murders and kill-ings of Americans by people who have come to our coun-try illegally. We help unite the families of the victims and help them to know that their fellow Americans sup-port them.

Brune: Tell us a little of your history.

Espinoza: I was born in West Texas. Then I spent 13 years in Washington, the state. Thats where I finished high school. Then I came down to Abilene Christian University and ran track.

My father immigrated from Mexico. He came to Texas legally and instilled in us the principles of laws, to respect other people, and to respect America. He made me who I am.

We worked in the straw-berry fields. He had a distant cousin who was a foreman and we were picking straw-berries beside other Mexican immigrants. I understand people want a better life. However, if were not prin-cipled and stand up for our own families and children then were allowing other countries to be irresponsible with their citizens, their fam-ilies, and their children. I re-ally feel that America and all of our public servants must follow the U.S. Constitution and uphold every law. Then we wouldnt be in this pre-dicament.

Brune: Now you know the argument. The illegal aliens are here, what do you want to do with them?

Espinoza: Thats simple. We simply take care of our families. We uphold our laws. We uphold immigration and employment laws, because if you are illegal you cannot work in the U.S. If we upheld our laws we would not have this problem.

We need to work on put-ting the 20 to 25 million job-less Americans back to work. We need to work on the $17 trillion debt that is loom-ing over, our and our great grandchildrens heads.

We do not need to be ne-gotiating with non-citizens. We need to be taking care of Americans. We need to be taking care of our families. Our backs are against the wall. If America falls we have no place else to go. What

were getting from public servants, what were seeing with the current administra-tion and the U.S. Attorney General is simply chaos.

Brune: Many Americans are divided along lines of special interests. Whether youre talking about illegal immigration, minorities, womens rights, gay mar-riage, unions, etc. these special interests sway to the left because liberal politi-cians placate them with leg-islation. Our concern is that the GOP establishment is worried about watching the Hispanic vote go the same route as the Black vote. Were concerned that the leaders of the GOP may be entertain-ing thoughts of amnesty to placate the Hispanic vote.

Espinoza: Im a former Democrat. My family were Democrats. But over the years I have changed. Im still the same person but the parties have changed. If we hold true to our prin-ciples, upheld the Constitu-tion, and upheld our laws then all Americans would know that here in America there is peace and justice.

No other country pla-cates and negotiates with illegal non-citizens. It is in-furiating to think that our government is negotiat-ing with people who dont belong here, havent asked permission to be here, and dont respect our laws.

If you handled your household in this way If you had a teenager that broke curfew you wouldnt hand him the car keys and tell him to go have fun. If you had a teenager that didnt do their chores, or make their bed, or help their mom, you wouldnt reward them. But thats what were doing with il-legal aliens. This practice is outrageous. Were ignor-ing the first step that im-migrants should respect and love the country that is helping them.

Brune: Granted, illegals shouldnt be voting. So that means the GOP leadership is worried about the rest of the Hispanic commu-nity. What is the Hispanics community sentiment on this subject?

Espinoza: I dont think anyone actually knows. But I believe that if the leader-ship of the GOP were to play the special interest game, they would be turn-ing away from me and oth-er Hispanics like me.

Also we think this is only happening in Wash-ington, but no! This is also

happening in Texas. I had a call from a GOP platform committee member asking me to change my mind on this issue. I am not in fa-vor of the Texas Solution. I would be in favor of a Texas Family Solution.

Brune: What is the Texas Solution?

Espinoza: That is a solu-tion that asks for reform and to change laws in order to legalize people. Thats not where we need to go. We need to implement the laws on the books! If we have laws and they are not followed, then what makes everyone think that making new laws would make a difference, other than they would have le-galized millions of illegal aliens. We cant afford more people on welfare, looking for jobs, and keeping our job rate down.

American money sent home by illegal aliens is the second largest economic driver in Mexico behind oil and gas. Mexico has no incentive to care for their own citizens and instead promotes them to cross the border.

We focus on lives lost. And that will increase. In our research weve found many crimes committed by illegal aliens, but the most egregious are murders that shatters and splits Ameri-can families. All of those losses were preventable. Where is the compassion for Americans? Where is the compassion for Ameri-can families?


When ducks attack...

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Looking Downfrom the Saddle

Be kind to your web-footed friendsFor a duck may be somebodys mother.

Childrens song Mitch Miller closed his TV show with

Now heres an issue I dont dare bother to duck.

Its a story I perused at the end of last week bout a woman suing the owner of a pet duck up in Estacada, Ore. I kid you not.

The lady, I use the term loosely as a down pillow, contends Lolita Roses (now is that not an innocent moniker Rose) duck attacked her after it wandered down the street.

Cynthia Ruddell, the alleged victim, claims in her lawsuit that Rose knew the quacker had abnormally dangerous pro-pensities (Im gonna have to look that dire sounding word up) in attacking people.

I assume Rose shouldve had a Beware of Duck sign in her yard. Cause the suit accuses her of needlessly endangering the public since she didnt keep the duck contained and didnt warn neighbors about the danger.

Ruddells attorney, Gregory Price, al-lowed the incident occurred on May 7, 2012. He said, ...the duck flapped its wings at her and knocked her back and she fell down on an outstretched hand and fractured her wrist in two spots.

So the barrister, Price, said the price on the damages in the suit is $275,000 $25,000 for medical expenses and $250,000 for her pain, her suffering and the interference her injuries have had on her normal activities.

Price told a local television station he figures to settle the lawsuit out of court within the next 60 days.

So why did this ol curmudgeon take such an interest in this little news account. Well, here on our little spread we call Grin Acres we have somewhat of a menagerie roaming at will.

Therere dogs, cats, chickens, miniature donkeys, cattle. And can you keep a se-cret? Okay, I know you cant answer that. Especially a confidant whos actually ca-pable of keeping something under wraps.

But, and Im typing this really, really softly, we also have two mallard ducks. We refer to em as the CAF. The Cunningham Air Force. They are based at our frog pond (Lake Milwaukees Best). And they land at the back of the barn daily. Thats where I feed em cracked corn. By Jiminy.

To date, I have never seen the ducks dis-play any aggression. They merely waddle here and waddle there and make quacking sounds and get underfoot with their little flat feet.

Dangerous ducks. I think not. Theyre docile. Albeit not very Disney-like. Though they do get daft and daffy on oc-casion. Weve had em since they were ducklings eight years ago.

So here I sit in the early morning treat-ing myself to a Czech breakfast of cof-fee and a poppy-seed kolache and giving thought to the aforementioned (I believe in over 45 years of penning a column that is the first time Ive ever used that word) lawsuit.

Since I am a tad idle I decide to Google duck attacks.

Geez. Therere dozens of videos on You Tube documenting ducks terrorizing nearly-normal human beings. Youd think the late Alfred Hitchcocks spirit had di-rected the foul fowls in their dirty deeds. Because quite a number of the ducks de-picted definitely have an attitude.

As an afterthought (darn, I believe thats the first time I ever used that term, too) I flashback to my school days of long ago.

To recall a freshman football game when the Rosebud Black Panthers (which I was a member) had a road game with Taylor High School. Whoa, momma. The memory is really hitting me up beside the head like a Louisville Slugger now.

Because Taylor was the Home of the Fighting Ducks! Said so on the score-board at their stadium.

Back then, in our early teens we joked and poked fun at such a mascot. Fighting Ducks. Yeah. Sure.

We moped a bit on the trip home. Since the Black Panthers didnt exactly pounce on the feathered Ducks. Taylor won by four touchdowns as I recall.

Just the thought of it makes my chest tighten. And has me sipping at the air like an asthmatic at a cat show.

Maybe I need to liven things up out here at Grin Acres. Instead of basking in the pastoral setting while bringing the cows home in the evening, running the dogs in the morning and watching the wa-terfowl waddle, Ill make the atmosphere here more aggressive.

Get the ducks dander up. Teach em to strut. Turn their bills up in a sneer. Teach them to double-duck dare a UPS or Fe-dEx driver to exit their truck. Have those ducks acting as belligerent to a fault and with the disposition of champion pit bulls.

Then I can post a Beware of Ducks sign at the entrance here.

Hope to catch you down the road ... and not on the run from an attack duck.

Why spelling, cursive writing are important to student learning

Students struggling with writing skills should have support from dedicated school programs involving spelling, cursive writing, and intensive phonics.

School districts with low achievement in writing and lacking such programs should consider including them, for two reasons.

Heres why.The first reason involves

the learning principle of varied contexts. The ex-ample that follows here fea-tures arithmetic fractions, not writing.

When a student en-counters fractions in mu-sic, counting change, ruler measure, cooking, and sports statistics, the varied situations or contexts help develop and strengthen un-derstanding of, and com-fort with, the general idea of fractions.

Phonics and spelling (and, later, cursive writ-ing) provide alternative contexts for the study of words. Automaticity with word recognition and re-call is enhanced, along with confidence to tackle unfa-miliar, multisyllabic words.

Student comfort with words makes both reading

and writing easier. Stu-dents will shy away from using an efficient word when the spelling thereof is difficult and intimidating.

For example, a student who cant spell scissors may be inclined to substitute the phrase, that paper cutting tool.

Opponents of dedicated spelling programs may ar-gue that the advent of spell-checking and auto-correct-ing software, and electronic dictionaries for classroom use, diminish the need for student learning of spelling skills.

While such technology is indeed powerful (and as-sists in some cases for im-proving the writers spell-ing), situations arise where either such support is un-available, or is unfriendly because of spelling oddi-

ties. In this way, spelling skill is important in and of itself.

The spelling oddities mainly involve words with silent first letters. If a new oil lease named Psalm 23 is telephoned to a dispatch-er, entry or retrieval of the name in a computer file will be difficult if neither the caller nor the dispatch-er can spell psalm.

Other common words with similar issues are hour, honor, honesty, hom-age, and hors dvours. One dictionary lists three pages of words beginning with ps and another full page of words beginning with pt.

Spelling is also needed to practice distinctions be-tween homophones such as their and there, and too, two, and to.

Cursive writing is also important for its own sake. Reading other peoples cursive writing is needed, including historical docu-ments. Cursive writing makes note-taking easier as well.

Like spelling, cursive writing contributes anoth-er context for processing words. Beginning at least in third grade, students

should have a weekly list of spelling words to be written cursively each day.

Early each day, the list should be written cursively twice. Later that morn-ing, the list is written twice more, and again at three more intervals during the rest of the school day.

At the end of the week, the spelling has been learned not memo-rized. The learning may also be practiced orally, in class and at home with family members.

The human mind has limits on how much atten-tion may be given at one time to any task or group of tasks. If a student is at-tempting to write thoughts, but is distracted from ex-pressing thoughts by spell-ing or handwriting strug-gles, writing thoughts will be more difficult.

On the other hand, if spelling and handwriting are automated, ideas will flow into writing more eas-ily. Anyone experienced in coaching academic teams knows the value of fluent handwriting skills for free-ing attention, allowing fo-cus on ideas being written.

Stan Hartzler is a former col-lege professor of mathematics and is currently a member of the Luling ISD Board of Trustees.

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arrested and taken to the Caldwell County Jail where they were remanded to jail per-sonnel without incident.

Robert Daryl Huff, 52, Tracy Daren Pel-letier, 42, and Solange Alexis Martinez, 28, were later arrested and taken to the Caldwell County Jail. They were magis-

trated by Judge Edward Jarett, who set on each one a bond of $50,000 for Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity and a Bond of $50,000 for Aggravated Kidnapping both offenses being 1st degree felonies.

Additional charges may be pending. To report illegal activity in your neighbor-hood, contact the Caldwell County Sher-iff s Office at (512) 398-6777.

Many people didnt know the help number was voice-mail only.

It was a few years before I understood the repair process. They may be work-ing on my issue at the hub, rather than at my office, said Voigt.

Is there a way we can start a call issue?, Voigt asked.

Precinct Two Commis-sioner Brzozowski asked, What is the time frame to repair?

TEQSYS Representative Tim Cruise replied, That depends on a couple op-tions: One is more expen-sive and one is less expen-sive.

Possibly a couple weeks to implement, replied Ramirez.

County Attorney Paul Watkins asked, Is there a solution to the email sys-tem in the interim?

Cruise said, The only solution is to update the system. The two choices we will be presenting are a

Cadillac or a Ford Fo-cus. Right now youve got a run down Pinto.

Sheriff Glen Sachtleben said, I dont care about email. We have a massive data collection system. Its slowing down and not functioning properly. That is my concern.

The court decided to re-visit the issue after viewing the formal presentation TEQSYS will show within a couple weeks.

The Alcalde Hotels Re-volving Loan kitchen fund-ing application was ap-proved by the Court during the session.

Representatives for The Alcalde Hotel and Grill have said they will be open for business in July.

Regarding the janito-rial contract between the County of Gonzales, the Gonzales Learning Center, and the Career Center, and the Randle Rather build-ing, the court decided to continue with the current month-to-month agree-ment until the new fiscal year, when they will con-

sider adding a supervisory position.

No action was taken on the property insurance re-newal with Texas Associa-tion of Counties. The court opted to further investigate the options available at this time.

During public com-ments, Voigt asked, Can we look at flooring? Some-thing easier to clean.

Brzozowski said, I would like to form a build-ing committee for the Ran-dle Rather Building.

In other business, the court approved the follow-ing items:

- Authorization of Coun-ty Judge Bird as the signa-tory authority on the TX-DOT road grant program agreement. This allows the County Judge to enter into the agreement with TX-DOT for a matching grant of $4,124,708. The county will be reimbursed 80% on bills submitted to TXDOT.

- Two deputations for the Sheriff s Department.


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LNG plant headed for Lavaca County

FATALITY: Two perish

GEDC: Come and Take It spirit lures company back

COUNTY: IT provider facesqueries from commissioners

front left of the truck struck the front left quarter of the minivan, just in front of the drivers door.

A front seat passenger in the truck, Loni Brasher, 32 of Gonzales, was taken by a PHI helicopter to Brackenridge Hospital in Aus-tin, but her injuries were minor and she was released.

Derrick Davis, 17 of Gonzales, and Brash-ers two younger children, Cameron and Chelsea, were in the back seat of the Ford. They and Ideus were transported to DeTar Hospital in Victoria where they too were treated for minor injuries and released.

It was unknown where the Hendrix cou-ples destination was, but Ideus said he and

Brashers family were returning from the coast.

Loni has a lot of bruises and a lot of road rash that needs to be sewed up and her ear will need to be skin-graphed, Ideus told reporters. Derrick had a moderate concus-sion and a lot of facial cuts, bruises and is swollen all over. Cameron and Chelsea also have a lot of bruises and I have some bruises along with a fractured bone in my leg and a broken toe.

Fire department and EMS crews from Yoakum, Gonzales and Cuero responded to the accident along with DPS and Gonzales and DeWitt County Sheriff s Office person-nel.

The crash is still under investigation by DPS Trooper Luke Garza.

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We moved to Luling, but our hearts always been here, he said. Weve got a good site now (off State Highway 304), its like were starting our own industrial park. Weve already heard from seven other busi-nesses that would like to go in out there.

Its the Come and Take It spirit, how-ever, which ties Smith and his company to Gonzales emotionally. His son, Jeremy, was a U.S. Marine serving on his fourth over-seas tour when he was killed in Afghani-stan on April 6, 2011.

My son John called to tell me he was getting a Come and Take It tattoo in honor of Jeremy, and I told him how wed just made a deal to come back to Gonzales, he said. Jeremy would be stoked to be part of this.

Marine Staff Sgt. Jeremy Smith, 26, had actually left active duty after three tours overseas, but was part of a reserve unit called to action. He and Navy Hos-pitalman Benjamin D. Rast, 23, were killed when operators of an Ameri-

can Predator drone mistook them for the enemy. It was the first-ever case of friendly-fire deaths involving an un-manned aircraft.

I look at Come and Take It and I see my son, the spirit of my son, and I feel it in the town, Jerry Smith said. We want to be a bigger part of whats going on.

Smith said he and JM Oilfield Servic-es plan to get re-involved in community events and was enthusiastic about sup-porting events like the upcoming War-riors Weekend stop in Gonzales.

The company has purchased a building closer to downtown to house its prima-ry office staff, in addition to the 40-acre site with a six-bay maintenance shop off SH304.

These days you just have to have high-speed internet, Smith said, adding with a chuckle: Id rather have the whole thing right here downtown, but that might not work.

I really appreciate this GEDC board and the city for their support of our desire to be back in Gonzales, he said.


HALLETTSVILLE Lavaca County commissioners on Monday approved the creation of a reinvestment zone and tax abatement which will enable the location of a liquid natural gas production plant in Lavaca County.

The bid submitted by HEYCO LNG is build a liquid natural gas production plant that will work in partnership with the En-terprise Products Partners plant on alter-nate U.S. Highway 77.

HEYCO Energy Group, Inc. announced plans for the facility last October.

Chris Coleman, president of HEYCO LNG, said the company plans ground-breaking in May or June. Construction is expected to last between 8-11 months.

The plant will use gas from the Enter-prise plant to refine into liquid natural gas for distribution.

The estimated cost of the plant is $91 million and will provide eight full-time jobs starting off but could go up to 15 jobs,

depending on future growth. The facil-itys first stage production capacity will be 150,000 gallons per day, and expandable to 300,000 gallons per day within six to eight months as demand dictates.

The economic and environmental ben-efits of LNG will transform the drilling and completion business in the coming years as more and more companies con-vert from diesel, George M. Yates, CEO of HEYCO, said in an October 2013 news release. We are in a unique position to provide our customers with a lower-cost, lower-emission fuel in the middle of the largest drilling boom our country has seen in years.

The Highway 77 location, near the I-10 corridor, will make it easy to supply fuel for consumers of liquid natural gas as the transportation sector continues to grow.

While liquid oil production in the Eagle Ford Shale has proven to be an economic boom for many of the counties of South Texas, natural gas production has been slow because of low domestic prices.

Researchers and economists have pre-

dicted that the Eagle Ford boom could expand swignificantly if a cost-effective method of shipping processing and ship-ping liquefied natural gas overseas be-comes available. Many European coun-tries, in particular, has large LNG markets.

With a growing percentage of rigs con-verting from diesel to natural gas, and a small percentage of hydraulic fracturing units converting as well, it is apparent that many companies are eager to switch to LNG once they have a source, Coleman said. We are excited to have the capacity to serve that demand.

HEYCOs plant will target dual-fuel ap-plications in the energy sector, specifically drilling rigs and hydraulic fracturing units as well as marine applications in the South-ern Gulf Coast. The plant uses a Kryopak PreCooling Mixed Refrigerant (PCMR) process and was manufactured by Salof Refrigeration Co., Inc. in New Braunfels, Texas.

HEYCO is privately owned by members of the Yates family of Southeastern New Mexico, who have been active in the up-stream oil and gas business since the 1920s.

EDC Board OKs incentivefor confidential proposal

Gonzales Economic Development Corp. directors on Monday agreed to move for-ward with incentivizing a confidential project and agreed to ask Gonzales City Council to add an office position once the group opens its new headquarters.

Following a lengthy meeting in closed session, directors voted to incentivize confidentiual project AG47. No details about that project have been made avail-able to news media.

Directors also voted to ask Gonzales City Council to create the position of Adminis-trative Assistant to the Economic Develop-ment Director, to be hired when the GEDC Business Center opens.

The GEDC is purchasing a building on St. George St. to be used as a business in-cubator, available for start-up businesses to have inexpensive office space for several months, and the building will also serve as the primary office for GEDC.

Also approved was an incentive of an $87,000 loan for the La Bella Tavola restau-rant project. The loan will be payable upon presentation of receipts and proof of pay-

ment, at 2.25% for a term of 7 years, if per-formed as agreed, $15,000 will be forgiven off of the end of the note. This loan is con-tingent upon receipt of the requested letter from the SBDC and submission of finan-cials, asked for in the GEDC application.

Directors also received a presentation from the University of Houston-Victorias Small Business Development Center. UH-Vs Kacey Lindeman-Butler and Joe Hum-phreys told directors the center helped create and retain 62 full-time jobs and 11 projects in Gonzales County in 2013, and had impacted a total of 583 jobs and $18.1 million in capital in fiscal year 2013 in an 11-county region.

Gonzales Main Street Administrator Barbara Friedrich also presented figures on the success of the Small Business Incentive Grant program, and directors voted later to streamline its Utility Relocation Program to better define that those grants pay to re-move electric poles and connections from the front of buildings.

Directors also voted to clarify that the utility relocation grants are available to businesses which have already completed the work within the last three years but had not applied for it.

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May 1, 1718On this day in 1718, San Antonio de Valero Mis-

sion was founded by Franciscan father Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares at the site of present-day San Antonio. Four days later the nearby San Antonio de Bxar Presidio and the civil settle-ment, Villa de Bxar, were established. The mis-sion, originally located west of San Pedro Springs, survived three moves and numerous setbacks during its early years. After a hurricane destroyed most of the existing buildings in 1724, the mission reached its latest site on the east bank of the San Antonio River. After the mission was secularized in 1793 it became the Alamo. Due to its rudimentary fortifications, the abandoned mission became an objective of military importance in the conflicts of the nineteenth century, and it changed hands at least sixteen times. Portions of the missions struc-tures have survived as part of the Alamo Battle-field Shrine.

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Traffic stop yields coke bustFayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek reports on Fri-day, April 25 around 11:18 am Drug Interdiction Of-ficer Thuman,n observed a traffic violation on a 2006 Ford Pickup Truck traveling east bound on 110. Thu-mann conducted a traffic stop at the 658 MM. After several criminal indicators were observed, the ner-vous driver of the vehicle gave consent to search the vehicle. Thumann and his Canine partner Lobos conducted a search of the vehicle, when Lobos alert-ed on the battery in the engine compartment. The battery was found to be loaded with illegal narcot-ics. The vehicle was occupied by three subjects, one male driver and two female passengers who were arrested and transported to the Fayette County Jail. In the battery kilos of cocaine was located with an estimated street value of $200,000. Booked into the Fayette County Jail for Possession of controlled sub-stance more than 400 grams were Mario Andrade, 45, Kimberly Flores, 20, and Michelle Pottin, 26, all from Laredo. Assisting at the scene was DPS Trooper John Mieth, and Deputy David Smith.

Gonzales Police Depart-ment Activity Report April 18-27:

04/18/2014 Reported Bur-glary Motor Vehicle at the 1700 Blk Sycamore St where a purse and contents were taken.

04/21/2014 Reported Forgery at 700 Blk

St. Paul St.Reported Burglary Motor

Vehicle at 1300 Blk Seydler St where items were removed from the rear of the pickup truck.

04/22/2014 Reported Theft of a Lighter

at 100 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.Reported Theft of and un-

disclosed amount of cash at

700 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.04/25/2014 Coy Wayne Condel, 20, of

Gonzales arrested and charged with Driving While Intoxicat-ed at 1800 Blk Church St.

Reported Interference with Child Custody at 700 Blk St. Paul St.

Reported Burglary Motor Vehicle at 1100 Blk Hamilton St where a purse and contents were taken.

04/27/2014 Mitzi Rodriguez, 34, of

Seguin, was arrested on out-standing warrant of Guada-lupe County and also issued Citation For Open Container at 800 Blk 90-A.

Gonzales County Sheriffs Of-fice report for April 20-26:

04/20/14Gomez, Ann Martinez,

03/1963, Nixon. Local Warrant Theft of Service >$1,500


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Robert James Lord,1927-2014

LORDRobert James Lord, age

86, of Cheapside died April 27, 2014. He was the son of George Joseph Lord and Bessie Watson Lord. Bob-bie attended the Cheap-side School and graduated from Cuero High School before serving in the U. S. Army in Japan after World War II. Bobbie married the love of his life, Edna Ailene Purcell of Gonzales on July 18, 1952. Bobbie was a life-long fourth generation rancher and resident of Cheapside. He served the community as a long-time president and member of the Bellevue Cemetery As-sociation and was a mem-ber and elder of the Cheap-side Presbyterian Church. He was Gonzales County Outstanding Young Farm-er, Area 7 and the Gonzales County Outstanding Soil

Conservationist of 1959-1960. Bobbie served on the Board of Directors of the DeWitt County Elec-tric Cooperative, Inc. from 1970 to 1980. Bobbie was a long-time member and for-mer president of the Gon-zales County Farm Bureau. He also had served as vice president of the Gonzales Independent Cattlemens Association. He had also been active in the DeWitt-Gonzales River Associa-tion and served on the Beef Cattle Committee and the Range and Pasture Com-mittee for the Gonzales County Extension Service.

Bobbie loved his fam-ily and community, the out-doors, reading, and sweets. As a child, he often fished near Old Indianola. As he grew older, Bobbie often rode his horse through the pasture, checking the cattle and the land. At home, his wife learned to keep a close eye on him, as he had be-come an expert at sneaking cookie dough from her mix-ing bowl. When he was at home, he often had a book in hand, usually about his-tory. He enjoyed listening to, and telling, good stories. Often, these stories revolved around his ancestors and the surrounding commu-nity. Many considered him a walking history book of his family and of Cheapside.

He is survived by his wife of 62 years; his siblings, Carl Thomas Lord and wife, Elizabeth, of Dallas, Sarah Elizabeth Lord Heather of Austin, brother-in-law, James Cockrum of Austin, and sister-in-law, Jimmie Lord of Colleyville; daugh-ters, Donna Lord Sager and husband, John, of Waco,

Janice Lord Barnes and husband, Albert, of Cheap-side, and Connie Lord Barfield of Cheapside. He is also survived by grand-children, Rebecca Sager and husband, Chris Crews, of New Mexico, Nicholas Sager and wife, Ashley, of USAF, Amanda Barnes of Cheapside, Travis Barnes of Cheapside, Brent Barfield of Iowa, and Jessica Barfield of Cuero, as well as 3 great-granddaughters, Addelyn Sager, Elizabeth Barfield, and Ella Barfield.

He was preceded in death by a sister, Peggy Lord Cockrum of Austin, and a brother, George Eu-gene Lord of Colleyville.

Visitation will be held on Thursday, May 1, 2014, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Freund Funeral Home in Cuero. Services will be held on Fri-day, May 2, 2014, at 10 a.m. at Freund Funeral Home with Lay Pastor Lizabeth Martinez officiating. Inter-ment will follow at Bellevue Cemetery. Pallbearers will include Joe Charles Wat-son, Tommy Watson, Jim Watson, Robert Watson, Phil Breitschopf, and Steve Breitschopf; honorary pall-bearer will be Pito Gonza-les.

In lieu of flowers, me-morial contributions may be made to Bellevue Cem-etery Association or the Cheapside Community As-sociation, mail to 4114 CR 297, Cuero, TX; or to the Cheapside Church or the Lord Cemetery, mail to 602 W. Johnson St., Cuero, TX 77954.

You may sign the guest book or send condolences at www.freundfuneralhome.com

Obituaries

Class of 1950 ReunitesThe 1950 GHS Class met Saturday, April 27 at The Running M Restaurant in Gon-zales for lunch and their 64TH Reunion. Delicious desserts were provided by Gladys Lindemann and Bernice Heldarsen. On the first row is Gladys Lindemann and W. C. Newberry. On the back row, left to right: B. J. Smith, Bernice Knesek Johnny Kuntschik, Billie Dumas, Don Leifeste and Bernice Haldarsen. The lunch and service were a blessing as was the opportunity to renew acquaintances.

MAY 1Dinner & Doo Wop at Birch TheaterEnjoy an evening of Dining and Doo Wop on

Thursday, May 1 at 6:30 p.m. at the Stephen and Mary Birch Texas Theatre. Guests will enjoy a menu of Island Cuisine featuring beef and chicken kabob, sides, salad and dessert while listening to Soul Stick Q serenade you with doo wop tunes from the 50s and 60s. Your ticket price of $40 per person or $75 per couple includes complimentary wine. Reserva-tions/tickets are available at Gift & Gourmet or The Texas Theatre at (830) 372-6168.

MAY 3Harwood Community Center Garage and Bake SaleAs a benefit for the Harwood Community Cen-

ter, the Committee will sponsor multiple garage sales on May 3 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Center. Harwood invites everyone to come and support this project.

The Community Center will be the only one sell-ing food, but they will also have a bake sale and a garage sale. There will be coffee, drinks, breakfast items, sandwiches, hot dogs, Frito pies, and desserts all day.

The Harwood Library will have many free books for anyone that wants them. This will be a great time to choose the ones you would like to take home.

Several booths have already been reserved, but free booths are still availaable for vendors. There will be space outdoors for sales from trailers or pickups. For a free booth, call Peggy Duncan at 830-540-3923 or Marjorie Fairchild at 830-540-4212.

Helping HandsIf you are in need of a meal, Helping Hands, a

non-profit, multi-church ministry would like to bless

you with a free lunch. Meals will be distributed Sat-urday, May 3rd, beginning at 11 a.m. at Emmanuel Christian School located at 1214 St. Louis Street. Vol-unteers and donations are welcome. Contact Linda at 361-275-1216.

MAY 4Payne BenefitA benefit for Linda Gerloff Payne, daughter of

the Fred & Beverly Gerloff, is scheduled Sunday, May 4 at the Gonzales VFW Post 4817 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. or until sold out. Plates will include Spaghetti, Tossed Salad, Garlic Bread & Dessert at $8 Per Plate.

Music by CK Twisters from 2-7 p.m. and a Raffle, Silent Auction, 50/50 Drawing & Washer Tournament. All proceeds will go toward Lindas medical expenses For more information con-tact Michelle McKinney, 830-263-0973; Dorothy Gast, 254-931-5712; Brenda Caraway 830-263-4836.

Geronimo Country DancePaul Sanchez & Wrangler Country Band will

be playing Sunday, May 4, 3-6:30 p.m. at the Geronimo VFW, 6808 N Highway 123, Geroni-mo 78115.

Kitchen/door opens at 2 p.m. $8 donation. Hall is smoke free and open to everyone. Info 830-305-0506 or 830-379-9260

MAY 5Jury Duty CanceledThe Gonzales County District Clerk advises ju-

rors that the jury trial set for Monday, May 5 at 10 a.m. in District Court has been canceled. Jurors do not need to appear. If you have questions, contact the District Clerks Office at 830-672-9754.

MAY 6CASE: Caring and Sharing EverythingThis is your special invitation to join us on Tuesday,

May 6 from 12:05 - 12:55 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of First Baptist Church for a brief time of Caring and Sharing Everything. Cynthia Marshall, Inspirational Musician will present the program.

This is our last meeting of the school year and will be a salad luncheon. Chicken and ham salads, pi-mento cheese, crackers and drinks will be provided. Bring a salad and a friend or two and come for this inspirational time of music and fellowship.

Childcare is available on request; call the church at 672-9595.

Band Spring Trip Information MeetingBand parents and guardians are encouraged to

attend the Band Boosters final meeting of the school year is Tuesday, May 6 at 6 p.m. at the HS Band Hall. We will be discussing the details of the HS trip to Florida. For questions, please call 437.2036.

The Gathering Country Music ShowCountry Music Show and Dance will be at

Geronimo VFW, 6808 N Highway 123, Geronimo, on Tuesday, May 6, from 7-10 PM. Great VFW kitchen at 5:30 PM.

Adults $7, 12 and under $3. This month featuring Tony Booth, Sally Carlson, Bob Appel and Lea Phelps along with a professional house band.

Smoke free and opened to public. Reservations call Dorothy at 512-825-2180, www.thegateringmu-sicshow.com.

MAY 10Mothers Day Plant SaleThe Gonzales County 4-H clubs will again this year

hold their annual Mothers Day Plant Sale on Friday, May 10 at Ara Pecan House at the corner of St. James and St. Lawrence Streets. The sale starts at 10 a.m. and lasts until all the flowers are sold out. All proceeds

benefit children going to 4-H camps and activities.Some of the plants we will be selling are: Bougain-

villea, Esperanza, Color Bowl, Begonias and many other selections that are Texas Superstar designated plants. So come join us at the sale and surprise your Mother with one of our beautiful plants.

MAY 16Private Pesticide Applicator TrainingMay 16, 8:30 a.m. 3 p.m., Fair Street Building, 623

N. Fair Street, Gonzales.Anyone wishing to obtain a private pesticide ap-

plicator license to purchase restricted use pesticides on their property is invited to attend this training. People attending this class need to come to the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension-Gonzales County Of-fice to purchase a study manual and obtain sample test questions prior to May 16, 2014. Cost of study materials is $40.00 and the fee for the class is $10.00 For more information, contact the Extension Office at 830-672-8531.

MAY 17Xtreme Youth RallyWith Sammy Lopez, and Suite 180 on May 17, 3

p.m., Family Faith Church, 1812 Cartwheel Dr., Gon-zales.

Tools and Techniques for Gravestone Cleaning Project

King Cemetery, Oak Forest, Texas on Saturday, May 17, 2014 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. (cancel if bad weather)

Please Join the King Cemetery Association and the Gonzales County Historical Commission at 9:30 a.m. at Hwy 90A between CR 143 and CR 257, 8.5 miles west of Hwy 183 and Hwy 90A intersec-tion in Gonzales. Lunch at Belmont Social Club at 11:30 a.m.

MAY 1Gonzales American Legion Post #40 Monthly MeetingThursday, May 1 at 6:30 p.m. at the Legion Hall. All members and prospective

members are urged to attend.Gonzales Community African American Interface Church Scholarship Fund

DriveThe next monthly business meeting is scheduled for May 1 at 7 p.m. at the

Union Lea Baptist Church, Gonzales, Texas. The public is invited. Contact Rev. Eu-gene Wilson at 830-857-3764.

MAY 2Daughters of the American RevolutionThe Thomas Shelton Chapter of the DAR will meet Friday, May 2 at the Chapter

House at 2:30 for refreshments, 3:00 for meeting.Program: Preservation of Cemeteries; also a short memorial will be held in hon-

or of recently deceased members.Saturn Cemetery AssociationThe Saturn Cemetery Association will hold quarterly meeting at 6 p.m., Friday,

May 2, at the Saturn Community Building on Hwy. 97 North.All interested persons are encouraged to attend. If anyone has questions you

can call 830-540-3858.

Happy Birthday!May 1 - Desirel Houston

Class of 1957 ReunitesGonzales High School Class of 1957 met at Tonis for their 57th Reunion on April 25 with nineteen members, the wife of one member and two guests. Members in attendance included: Front Row (left to Right): A.C. Lacy, Virginia Clark Lacy, Curtis Parsley, Bettie Maye Menking Schoedel, Elizabeth (Betty) Siepmann Fink, Shirley Smith Shows, Evelyn States (widow of Gerry States), Virginia (Ginger) Pettus Tidell. Back Row (Left to Right): Walter Ray Marek, Wanda Barber Barta, Kenneth Malatek, T.J. Reid, Mary Ann Sofka Brzozowski, Bethel Busch Lester, Virgie Nance Kifer, Maple Friedrich Remschel, Mary Anne Sala Durbin, John Zavadil, Samuel (Buddy) Lester. The class meets for lunch at Tonis at 11:00 a.m. on the last Friday of April every year except for every fifth year.

Brandi Behlen of Cost has been selected as one of six finalists in regional vocal competi-tion Brauntex Has Tal-ent. Brandi will sing and compete for votes to be named years win-ner. The other finalists are: Payton Miner (New Braunfels, TX), Erika Nielson (San Marcos, TX), Porter Robinson (New Braunfels, TX), Steve Strahl (San Mar-

cos, TX), and Marc Perez (New Braunfels, TX).

Brauntex Has Talent is a regional vocal/musical talent competition that allows undiscovered art-ists to test their skills in a performing arts setting. Brauntex Has Talent 2014 will be showcasing the finest talent around. The show features area vocal performers who compete to win both the audience and judges votes. This exciting, in-teractive production al-lows you to vote for your favorite contestant. Who will be crowned the win-ner of Brauntex Has Tal-ent? You decide!

Come support your fa-vorite contestant on July 17, 2014 at the Braun-tex Theatre. Tickets are on-sale online at www.brauntex.org or by phone 830-627-0808. Patrons requesting ADA seating accommodations, please call the Box Office for assistance 830-627-0808.

In the early 1970s, noted Texas historian Joe Frantz offered Bill Wit-tliff a once-in-a-lifetime opportunityto visit a ranch in northern Mex-ico where the vaqueros still worked cattle in tra-ditional ways. Wittliff photographed the vaque-ros as they went about daily chores that had changed little since the first Mexican cowherd-ers learned to work cattle from a horses back. Wit-tliff captured a way of life that now exists only in memory and in the pho-tographs included in this exhibition.

Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy features photographs with bilin-gual narrative text that reveal the muscle, sweat, and drama that went into roping a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse in the saddle.

The exhibition runs May 1- 15 at Gonzales High School, and then May 16 - 30 at Victoria College-Gonzales Cam-pus.

Vaquero is brought to Gonzales by the Gonzales County Historical Com-mission in partnership with Thomas Shelton Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution through grants from Hu-manities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Hu-manities and the City of Gonzales, Tourism Advi-

sory Committee.Vaquero is an exhibi-

tion created by the Wit-tliff Collections at the Al-kek Library, Texas State University-San Marcos, presented in partnership with Humanities Texas, the state affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Vaquero is made possible in part by a We the People grant from the National Endowment for the Hu-manities. Contact: email [email protected] or call 512-924-5850.


Behlen namedBrauntex finalist

Perrin named to cast

Exhibit tributes Texas vaqueros

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DRT presentationGonzales Chapter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas gave the DeWitt County Historical Commision a reprint of a 1904 quarterly publication of the Texas State Historical Association on DeWitts Colony by Ethel Rivley Rather. In 1825 Green DeWitt received permission from the Mexican government to bring Anglos to settle land which stretched from south of Cuero to north of Gonzales. The pub-lication details the history of The Green DeWitt Colony and the people who set-tled there. Marge Kacir made the presentation to Peggy Ledbetter, chairman of the DeWitt County Historical Commission. Other commission members present included, left to right, Diana Bartosh, Suzanne Pleasant, Barbara Cavanaugh, Carol Ann Martin, Emily Davis, Margie Bell and Margaret Bluntzer. The book may be used at the DeWitt County Archives for research by the public.

Jessica Perrin

The first cast member for the 3-D horror movie Found Footage 3D to be filmed in the Gonzales area has been announced.

Austin native Jessica Perrin is the first actress named to the cast of FF3D. Jessica, a second-year theater-arts student at the University of Texas, will be playing the role of Lily, the awestruck production as-sistant who knows nothing about filmmaking but met the producer at a party and volunteered to help out.

Jessica was one of the first people we saw for the role two months ago, the

movies publicity depart-ment said in a news re-lease. Her audition tape absolutely blew us away. (Writer-director) Steven (DeGennaro) deliberately chose one of the hardest scenes in the script for this audition, and her video was so good that if shed shot it in 3D, we couldve literally dropped the scene into the finished movie as is. We went on to audition almost 200 actresses for this part, but none of them came close to pulling off what Jessica was able to do right out of the gate.

Jessica is going to be a huge star, and were all real-ly looking forward to work-ing with her.


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Men who want to re-live their boyhood adventures. Women who wonder what the boys were up to when they disappeared on those long-past afternoons. And children who want a glimpse into just what their parents were like when they were kids.

All will get a glimpse into life in small-town Texas in the early 1960s in The Life and Times of Gary L. Einkhauf.

Penned by a Gonza-les native who grew up to become one of Port Aransas best-known and most-beloved fishing guides, this entertaining vignette of boyhood life was published as a tribute to Einkhauf by his wife, Suzanna Reeder, following his death in 2012.

His work at the in-ception of his teenage years points to the man he would become: soft-ball player and baseball fan, journalist, graduate of UT-Austin with a de-gree in English, avid game hunter in Texas, renowned

duck hunting guide in Port Aransas and one of that is-lands most beloved fishing guides ever, Reeder writes in the preface.

The 21-chapter book is a result of weeks of confine-ment when the 13-year-old Einkhauf contracted rheumatic fever in 1962. He wrote and illustrated each story for his English 7-C class in Beeville, but it remained an undiscov-ered until he revealed it in 2005.

After his passing, Reeder received so many requests to read it she published a limited run.

Beginning with Einkhauf s birth in Gon-zales on Jan. 8, 1949, and ending with his descrip-tion of catching his first

hammerhead shark while in search of tarpon at Port OConnor, one gets a look at just what a lively imagi-nation and willing friends can produce in the way of adventure right at home.

Of course, there is the building of a rocket that doesnt quite make it three feet into the air. And the help lent to a farmer bur-ing the corn field which was too successful.

If there was not anoth-er group of boys to best in competitions or play tricks on in the cornfields, Einkhauf and his friends could always resort to dirt-clod fights. Boy Scout camp shenanigans, base-ball heroics, chasing mon-sters and, of course, fish-ing, are all illustrated with

charming sketches and, in some cases, detailed maps of just where it all took place.

The commitment of Einkhauf and his wife to their community of Port Aransas is evidenced on the final page, where it is explained that all proceeds of the project are donated to the Port Aransas Educa-tion Foundation.

For a copy of the 56-page sketch of small-town Texas life, contact Reeder at 361-749-4444 or 361-960-1617 or by e-mail at [email protected].


Gonzales natives 7th grade book gives glimpse into small-town Texas

Gonzales Healthcare Systems Foundation

Gala 2014Relfections

Saturday, the third of May, Two thousand fourteen from six oclock in the evening until midnight

Gonzales Memorial Museum and Amphitheater.414 Smith Street - Gonzales, Texas

Tickets$120.00 - Individual Ticket

$1,200.00 - Table of Ten

Sponsorships are availableDiamond - $20,000; Gold - $10,000; Silver - $5,000; Bronze - $2,500

please call Connie Kacir at 830-672-8758 For tickets or more information

Proceeds committed to providing a pool for fitness and aquatic therapy.

Music by The Brent Van Sickle Band

Cocktail HourEntertainment by JADE CIENEGA

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

dinner, auction and dancing until midnight

Valet Parking Provided For All GuestsSmith Street Entrance

Early Arrival Accepted Beginning at 5:30 p.m.

All Guests Must Enter At Main Entrance on Smith Street For Check In to Receive Event Wrist Band

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Invest with a knowledgeable financial consultantwhos on your side; someone who truly cares whether your investments are right for you.

Call today for more information or to schedule a consultation.

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Chef Nedra Harris, former con-testant of televisions Hells Kitchen, has joined the Werners team and will be the featured chef at the Hospital Spring Gala hosted by the Gonzales Healthcare Systems Foun-dation Saturday, May 3.

Known most for her comfort cui-sine style cooking, Chef Nedra will prepare an extravagant and healthy menu for the more than 500 expect-ed attendees.

An experienced executive chef, Nedra Harris has garnered attention to her cooking style and personality after her appearance on season 11 of Foxs Hells Kitchen. The young

chef is preparing to launch an e-cook book and has just released her own line of specialty smoked spices, Pootie Spice.

Founded in 1990 Werners Pizza Barn has evolved into Werners The Culinary Experts. Now, after 24 years we provide an extensive menu of fine cuisine for private, public, and promotional events. We have now opened our newest location in San Antonio that will be a test kitch-en and showroom.

Guests will convene on the his-toric grounds of the Gonzales Me-morial Museum for this esteemed Gala which has benefited sustain-ing quality healthcare for the entire community since its inception.

Made up of a number of entities

centering the Memorial Hospital built in 1978 and still follows the tradition of community service be-gun by the Holmes Hospital which opened in 1921. Dedicated to pro-viding high quality comprehensive healthcare in the community by building loyalty and education of health and wellness as a priority.

All proceeds from the 2014 Gala will be com

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