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It’s been a big week for shark fisherpersons, motorcycle riders, and wade fisherpersons who have been working the channels and flats. The passes are full of fish and so are the people trying to catch them. The crowd at the awards ceremony for Sharkathon Sunday may have been the biggest crowd ever assembled there. The parking lot was full to SPID of trucks sporting kayaks and shark rigs. According to some of the fisherpersons this did not go unnoticed by sneak thieves to who took the opportunity to make off with Yeti coolers and expensive rods and reels. This is deplorable and we Islanders apologize for having that happen. The people who come down for Sharkathon, a catch and release tournament, are always respectful of the flora and fauna on our island and they don’t deserve that. All we can say is we would hate to be the person caught stealing from shark fishermen - that could get dangerous. Hopefully next year we can get police or constables to patrol the parking lot and head off trouble.

First place Sharkathon winner in the kids division, Guillermo Guillen III, measures a whopper of a Kingfish.

ISLAND PROJECTS

Cone of Uncertainty As we sit here today we Hurricane Mathew is dropping a foot of rain on Haiti but the Cone of Uncertainty has it raking the East Coast from Florida north with nary a raindrop for the Wild Horse Desert. Strange name that, the Cone of Uncertainty. It seems an industry which spends as much time and treasure on predicting the path of hurricanes could come up with something a little more well, certain, than the Cone of Uncertainty. Ah well, they are government jobs.

See the Sea Foam

Three separate floating masses of matter made their way around the canal on the east side of Cane Harbor last week. The Texas General Land Office took a look and determined it was sea foam. It looked thick enough to walk across but no one but the dog tried.

Requiem for a Plan

Lake Padre Four Years After Funding Billish Park Work Continues Improvement Plan on Life Support

By Dale Rankin In 2012 voters approved $500,000 in bonds to improve Billish Park on The Island. Now, four years later, according to information presented to the Island Strategic Action Committee Tuesday, $140,000 of that has been spent on planning and design and the lowest bids on the project, which has been bid twice, came in at $735,000 which is at least $135,000 more than is available. Meanwhile the ten acre park at the corner of Gypsy and Fortuna bay is still largely the sticker patch it has always been; bereft of people and their pets. Island dogs learn at an early age that walking through the park is a losing proposition. According to officials from the city and POA Tuesday discussions between the two aimed at bringing the project to fruition are stalled, possibly for good, over the difference in $125,000 that POA officials say the city promised but city officials say they currently don’t have, and ongoing maintenance costs. After the 2012 vote the POA Board of Directors voted to dedicate an additional $200,000 of members’ money to the project and a public hearing was held in which city planners told the crowd that the cost of the irrigation system for the park would eat up $300,000 of

In order to simplify the construction process, the city was required to seek competitive bids, the execution of the plan was turned over to the POA more than two years ago. By the time the bids came back the cost of the project had escalated beyond the approximately $550,000 still available for the project and in their August meeting the POA board President told the POA attorney that the organization wanted $525,000 from the city for the project in

Billish Park cont. on A4

People Without Health Insurance

The website WalletHub this week released the figures on the number of people in Corpus Christi without medical insurance. They compared 548 U.S. cities. The number of American without health insurance is at an all-time low at 8.6%. These numbers show where Corpus Christi ranks with 1 being the least amount of uninsured citizens, and 274 being the average.

the $700,000 then available for the project. Eventually, a design was settled on which included sodded playing fields, a pond to hold naturally occurring ground water suitable for irrigation (at a cost much less than $300,000), enough topsoil to allow the newly planted grass to crowd out the stickers, and berms along the southeastern corner to prevent the migration of off-site stickers once the current sticker crop was eradicated. Eventually the city agreed to supply free city water for irrigation. But as the plan was being finalized the original designer passed away, after being paid about $80,000 for the first set of plans, and when the second set of plans was complete, according to information presented Tuesday, the total cost of design was at $140,000.

Corpus Christi by the Numbers

Uninsured Rates in Corpus Christi (1=Lowest; 274=Avg.) 483rd – Overall Uninsured Rate (16.49%)

Crews have now installed more than 2000 feet of new bulkheads around Lake Padre. The work is part of the development around the lake in anticipation of the building of the proposed Park Road 22/SPID Water Exchange Bridge which would connect Lake Padre to the existing Island canal system. City staffers told the Island Strategic Action Committee Tuesday they expect the final plans and funding for the bridge to be in place by the end of the year with construction to follow

428th – Change in Uninsured Rate Between 2015 & 2010 (-4.18%) 468th – Children’s Uninsured Rate (7.63%) 486th – Adults’ Uninsured Rate (19.44%) 486th – Whites’ Uninsured Rate (11.66%) 319th – Blacks’ Uninsured Rate (17.94%) 221st – Hispanics’ Uninsured Rate (18.73%) 477th –Lower-Income Households’ Uninsured Rate (21.91%) 413th–Higher-Income Households’ Uninsured Rate (6.58%)

A little Island history

What Happened to Texas’ Commercial Fishing Industry?

Moon online As we are now only sixteen years into the new century the Moon IT Department has joined the century just passed and the latest edition of the Island Moon is now available each Friday on our website islandmoon.com. You can also access it through our Facebook page at theislandmoonnewspaper. Like the printed version they are all free. Remember everybody, the good die young and we’re still here – so we got that going for us. In the meantime say hello if you see us Around The Island.

got rowdy every now and then. Their children were a part of the trade, Writer’s note: This is the emotional bailing out water from the boats tale of Texas’ commercial fishermen. after a storm, cleaning the nets and A hard-pressed group fighting for gathering shrimp for bait. survival. We understand there are two sides to this story and this is one Then came change of them. There are sure to be many In 1979 came word that there was who disagree with them but their going to be a change in Texas fishing voice is one who has not been heard. regulation that was going to affect So we listened. commercial fishing. These families A lifestyle that has been passed were being blamed for a supposed on for generations is soon to be no depletion of redfish under the guise more. There were 400-500 families of conservation. But according to engaged in this trade all along 500 the fishermen conservation was miles of the Texas coastline. They only a ruse, the action was actually were good families who contributed put forward not by conservationists to their local schools, went to church but sport fishermen who, according and served their country. They held to then 25 year old commercial social events at the Fish houses and fishermen spokesman Ernie Buttler, By Mary Craft

“wanted their Gulf waters playground to themselves”. Buttler’s premise has been bolstered over time since there are thousands of sport fishermen fishing the bay, rows of fish cabins (some of the sizable ones can hardly be called cabins), a helicopter pad and runway strips on the once pristine bay.

A Houston based sportfishing group, provided lobby funds to convince the politicians to make red drum a game fish. This would give them exclusive access to this species thereby denying it to commercial fishermen and consumers.

Things got political Dallas

Senator

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sponsored the Texas House bill 1000 which was presented in 1981 to convince the legislature to designate red drum and spotted seatrout as game fish and prohibit their sale for two years. After two years it would be determined if the period should be extended. At that time, any changes in fishing regulations had to be passed by the House and Senate. In 1982 the Wildlife Conservation Act gave Texas Park & Wildlife (whose members, by the way, are not elected) authority to manage fish regulations. The sport fishing group had the money to influence the politicians

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Island Moon

Saturday, October 8

Port Aransas Old Town Festival has Something for Everyone

Port Aransas will roll out the memories and celebrate its past this weekend when the Port Aransas Old Town Festival “celebrates our Island community.”

which is now in its third year.

The event which happens on Saturday, October 8, includes a parade, gumbo, a dog surfing contest, and the new favorite the plyWooden Boat Festival

Here are the details:

3rd Annual Port Aransas plyWooden Boat Festival October 8-10 If you’ve ever dreamed about building a boat you owe it to yourself to attend. See a lot of hand-

Activities in the Community Center Musical Showcase by Port A’s talented troubadours starting at 10 a.m. on the porch Membership Drive – Join PAPHA and get a free T-shirt Bricks & Pavers for sale Information booths for all the great non-profit groups in Port A 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Story Telling at 2:30

Golf Cart Guided Tour of Farley Boat Planters Join Port Aransas Garden Club members for a tour of some of the imaginative Farley Boat Planters that dot our town and learn about the native and hardy vegetation planted in them. Bring your own golf cart or hitch a ride in one of ours. Meet at the Community Center at 9:30 a.m. Contact Virginia Moser for more info: 361834-4130

Old Town Parade Put on a costume and decorate your bike, golf cart, car, skate board or just hoof-it in our annual Old Town Parade. Line up at 10:30 at the Community Presbyterian Church parking lot. Kick-off is at 11. Contact Kim Powers for more info: kemberli09@gmail. com

Community Center beginning at 11:30 a.m. until it’s gone (and it sells out fast!)

Story Telling

6th Annual Expression Session Surfing Contest

Hear stories about life in Port Aransas from days gone by from folks who have lived here for many years. Beginning at 2:30 p.m. in the Community Center.

This very popular classic longboard event brings local surfers together to celebrate the history of the sport in our island community. Horace Caldwell Pier beginning at 8 a.m.

Sur-Furs! K9 Sur-fur & Costume Contest BOWABUNGA!!! Watch canine contestants hang 20 at Horace Caldwell Pier from noon-4. K9 Sur-fur & Costume Contest BOW-ABUNGA!!! Watch canine contestants hang 20 at Horace Caldwell Pier from noon-4.

8 Wonders of Port Aransas Guided Tours Take a guided tour the 8 Wonders of Port Aransas in an 1940s Army truck and Model-T farm wagon. Space is limited 12 people/tour (children must be accompanied by adults). Tickets available at the Community Center on festival day; times TBA

Tour the Chapel On The Dunes The little chapel on the dunes sits on the highest spot in old town at a dizzying 26’ above the sea, built in the 1930s. 207 11th Street between Ave B & C. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. On Monday, Oct 10 artist John Cobb will discuss his paintings that adorn the interiorof the chapel. Community Center. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Lecture at 7. Facebook Event Page

Pat Farley’s World Famous Gumbo Don’t miss the chance to get some of the best gumbo ever made! If gumbo’s not your thing then maybe you’d like some really good Frito Pie. In the

built boats and talk to the builders and designers; try your hand at rowing a variety of skiffs; see boats under construction; activities for the kids! All day at Roberts Point Park.

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New Advertisers A Two Family Garage Sale will be held on Saturday, October 8th 8 am – noon on Key Largo Court. Cinnamon Shore Fall Festival will be held on Saturday, October 15th and will feature legendary singer/songwriter Bruce Robison and other musical acts 5 pm – 10 pm. The festival will have BBQ, vendors, face painting, pumpkin patch, mechanical bull and more. The tour of homes will run from 10 am – 5 pm. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at the door or online.

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Flour Bluff has been my home for over 40 years. I’m very proud of the school for having the best people to take care of the students and staff. I highly recommend Flo East for the position on the Flour Bluff School Board. Her record speaks for her. She has served on the board in the past for 10 years. During that time, the $48 million dollar bond was passed. She has revived the community Christmas and was the founder of the Flour Bluff / Padre Island 4H club. She has been a leader in the Business Association. Flo East has started and is still doing the Coastal Cotillion for 25 years. I can’t count how many of our youth she has helped grow into well rounded adults. We need her to keep speaking for our students, staff, and community. She looks forward to the future of our home town.

Jeff Dolan

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I know Bobbie Kimbrell real well. I fished with him. As a kid he used to go to my grandma's house. And he has turned out to be a great Friend and writer. What he writes is just how it was years ago. And that picture of Bucky us how Bucky lived every day. Allen Smith Yep them were the days. I culled shrimp too for Bucky for $5 a bucket. My favorite part of it was during the summer getting the opportunity of cooling off by shoveling the ice. Rebecca Richardson A lot of history in that little. Building. Raymond Gann

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Wind & Wave Water Sports is having Kayak/Stand Up Paddleboard Demo Day at the Boathouse Bar & Grill on Sunday, October 9th 10 am – 4 pm. Be sure to check out the highly anticipated and award winning Predator “PDL” the pedal-driven system from Old Town. Call 937-9283 for more info.

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We sure do miss Bucky and we called him 5 to others known as Jackie and man that dude sure could shoot some pool used to hang out a lot at the fish market I've been thrown in a cold bath and when I say that ice water where they would throw the fish after they would cut their heads off my husband used to ride his bicycle off of the dock miss this place its not the same without the vannoy family. Star Brown Miss the good ole days at the market ..Bucky would pay is kids to wash it down after all the fish where filleted .. ..Bucky and Lil Jackie where the nicest guys around. Michelle Haskin-Brooks

Straightening the Facts Why? Someone asked why I think it is so important to "set the record straight" on politics and other foibles. Was told that I seemed like a "know-ofall" for so often calling out false/fake stories and comments on the Internet, especially in email chains and on Facebook. Why do I often seek to correct the record? I spent years in various newsroom capacities responding to e-mails and calls from newspaper readers who accused the media of "not printing the truth," "hiding stories," which usually supported their personal views, etc.. In my experience, nearly all of these e-mail chains was based on false/fake info. The more names in the e-mail chain or the more times it had been forwarded, the more probable it was to be far from the truth. Whether it was "The media doesn't want you to know that Denzel Washington gave $1 million to vets" or "Obama was born a Kenyan citizen," the rumors caused a lot of wasted time as I had to respond to the conspiracy theories. When I see something that I know is patently false, I am trying to stop the dissemination of misinformation, not to point out that someone is wrong. Thanks for your patience. Dan Balcar

the office!” OK, but that obligation cannot be shifted; it always rests with the property owner. It seems quite plausible that some rules are antiquated, like the unpopular matter of hiding garbage cans. No one wanted a stinky, bangedup metal trash can or plastic bag to be in view more than a day. Today, we have modern containers that perhaps don’t need to be hidden. Then, consider the odd demand for beardless palm trees, which is environmentally dubious and seemingly a matter of personal taste. Maybe we could take a democratic votes on these? Bigger objections are disallowed boat/trailer storage and unkempt property. Given that enforcement has been lax, it may be practical (therefore effective) to identify the most serious problems and call for compliance within a carefully chosen interval. Maybe that’s 24 hours for trash dumping, 10 days for mowing, 30 days for boat storage, and longer for any fix that involves non-hazardous structural expenditures. Send a sharply written letter or threaten a fine — expect a negative reaction. Offer a reasonable solution — keep tempers in check. The association deserves to be treated as neighbors; so do property owners. The PIPOA must be led by self-sacrificing people who care deeply about our community, even when disrespectful owners and renters do not. Job 1 for the board (and especially staff) is serving people who will always need friendly guidance despite their anti-social, unneighborly behavior. The recent acrimony on both sides diminishes us as neighbors and friends. Maybe it is time to apply the Golden Rule (treat others as you wish to be treated). Friends don’t let friends act like jerks. Tom Cullinan

Words FDR: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." REAGAN: "Tear down this wall" JFK: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." PENCE: "Senator, you've whipped out that Mexican thing again." Antonio Cantú

Still...maybe don't drink the water? Filter for irrigation system here on the island. This runs off the line that goes directly to the house water line. This was white and used sparingly for the summer. A bunch of yellow slime covered the filter. The home water distiller also has the same brown sludge you have been picturing. What is going on? We do not drink water from the taps

Pulling for the POA Being a member for three years, I’m pulling for the Padre Island Property Owners Association. We are all blessed to be here, whether as residents or visitors. The PIPOA exists to improve residential life on the island. It must manage let’s-all-get-along-together rules and prevent bad actors from forcing property values down. Board members deserve to be treated with the same kindness we afford other neighbors (and strangers, too). As far as I know, they are not paid for their service. Their time and talent is donated to serve those of us who cannot serve. Criticism of volunteers, especially neighbors, is usually misguided. That said, in accepting board service they also accept fiduciary responsibility. There is no higher legal standard imposed under American law. If they foul up, they can be held personally liable, which is why the PIPOA purchases insurance protecting directors and officers against that liability. We all hope there they fulfill their responsibilities well. I commend them for stepping up enforcement of land use restrictions. However, the board’s legacy (and maybe culpability) is that enforcement had been inconsistent. Exhibit 1 is PIPOA coordinator Maybeth Christensen’s admission in the Sep. 29 Island Moon that “We own about 50 canal ends” that were not adequately mowed. The owner’s duty to inspect and maintain the canal ends was neglected, as she recalled, “Neighbors decided not to do the maintenance, but neglected to advise

This is the water filter for the irrigation system. Runs directly off the main water line to the house. The distiller in the house also has the brown slime you pictured. What is going on?

HEB Shipt Grocery Delivery app will bring your groceries to your home. I enjoyed shopping online and found items I would not have known about because I try to get in and out of the store as quickly as I can. You choose what hour you would like your items delivered, and the service drops them off at your selected time in cooler-type shopping bags. Your shopper texts you, and (like Uber) it shows their name and picture. While my shopper was at HEB she would text if item was not available and ask what to substitute. There is a minimum order of $35 and the cost is $14/month or around $100/year. The Blue Crab Gift Shop will have Wine Wednesdays starting on October 12th so you can enjoy a glass of wine and appetizers while you shop later hours until 6:30 pm. Snoopy’s hours are now Sundays through Thursdays 11 am – 9 pm and 11 am – 10 pm on Fridays and Saturdays. The Taste of the Island will be held at Schlitterbahn on Wednesday, October 19th 6:30 – 9:30 pm. The Back Porch will feature Larry Joe Taylor on Saturday, October 8th

INFORMATIONAL POSTING October 11, 2016 Town Hall Meeting CITY OF PORT ARANSAS 710 W. Avenue A Port Aransas, TX 78373-4128 NOTICE: The City of Port Aransas will conduct a Town Hall Meeting on: Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2016, 6-8 pm Place: Port Aransas Community Center, 408 N. Alister Street Purpose: Information on the 2016 Bond Election This is not a City Council meeting; however a quorum of the City Council members may be in attendance. This is not a regularly scheduled meeting of the City Council and is posted in compliance with the Texas Open Meetings Act. No action can be taken by the City Council during this meeting. CERTIFICATE This notice was posted on Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at 5:00 pm as soon as it was realized there was a possibility there may be a quorum present. This notice will remain posted until after completion of the meeting. Irma G. Parker, City Secretary

ANNUAL PADRE ISLAND ART WALK SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2016 NOON TO 5:00 PM BILLISH PARK ON GYPSY STREET The Padre Island Property Association is hosting the Annual Padre Island Art Walk. This is a FREE event open to all of Corpus Christi. This event is designed to improve all aspects of the Art Community. All works are created by these arts. No commercial items or resale items permitted. The event will foster community unity and provide an opportunity for the public to meet our local Artists and Craftsmen. Come out and be a part of the biggest Art Walk on the Island. Any Artist or Craftsmen who would like to participate at no charge please call JoAnn Smith for more information. Directions: SPID to Padre Island, go over JFK Causeway, to Park Road 22 go to second traffic light and turn right (Whitecap), go to Gypsy Street turn left continue for less than half a mile and Don & Sandy Billish Park will be on your right.

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History cont. from A1

and they were convincing at portraying the commercial fishermen as ne'er do wells who were raping the waters. The commercial fishermen lacked the organization and funds to engage in a political fight. The industry was in fact self-regulated. The fish houses along the coast regulated the fishing because they wanted to protect their future supply of goods. The fish house owners would not buy fish under

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Commercial fishing was often a family endeavor 14 inches or over 30 because these fish were breeders. Rules later translated into law for the same purpose. The campaign used against the commercial fishermen was a convincing one. Their newspaper ads were put out there to paint a bleak picture. There were ads showing pictures of piles of rotting fish in nets with headline “They are stealing your fish.” That statement is ironic since we now can purchase and eat at restaurants only farm raised fish. The free reds and trout from our waters have been taken away but it was the passage of that bill that did it - not over harvesting. Another ad showed a museum ;piece with a red drum skeleton and a boy asking “daddy, what’s a red fish?” Threats were made against congressmen who were against the bill. Senator James Brown rerouted receiving letters from groups of sports fishermen threatening to coat campaign funds to whoever ran against him in his reelection campaign.

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1st Place Shark DUKE WASHMON, Greater Hammerhead, 98.25” $20,000, Custom Rod built by Roy’s Bait and Tackle, Avet 80W 3 speed, Kayak from Roy’s Bait and Tackle, Custom hydro dipped RTIC Sharkathon tumbler. 2nd Place Shark ERIC OZOLINS, Bull shark, 86.25” $10,000, Custom Rod built by Roy’s Bait and Tackle, Avet 50W, Custom hydro dipped RTIC Sharkathon tumbler. 3rd Place Shark BLAYNE MOZISEK, Bull shark, 79”

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$5,000, Custom Rod built by Roy’s Bait and Tackle, Avet 30W, Custom hydro dipped RTIC Sharkathon tumbler.

The fishermen fight back In May 1981 there was a blockade of the intracoastal near the causeway bridge by about 30 fishing boats. It wad set up by the commercial fishermen to get their voice heard and hopefully prevent the law that would deny the sale of redfish and trout from happening. It had passed there Senate and was about to go the House. Port Mansfield fisherman Roy Evans explained the blockade “We are desperate, we need some attention to let the general public know what’s going on.” Aransas Pass fisherman Charlie Ives was quoted “If it’s banned for us it should be banned for them (sports fishermen) if it’s that much of a problem.” Port Araansas fisherman Teresa Thomas in addition stated, “The commercial fishermen and shrimpers want representation on the six member Texas Parks & Wildlife Board.”

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Before the bill passed many regular folk from San Antonio and its surrounding area would bring their kicker trolling motor and come here to fish. They would stay in one of the cottage that dotted Laguna Shore and rent an aluminum boat from one of the many bait shops. Their trip expense was covered by the fish they sold to one of the fish markets in the Bluff and they would still have fish left to take home. So the bottom line is unless you fish, or know someone who does, you will not be eating fresh red, trout or flounder although in our waters they are plentiful. It may take another freeze to find out exactly how plentiful. Even then the battle for Texas’ commercial fishermen is long over and non-winnable. So this is for the old timers left who after over 30 years get their story told. Some were reluctant to speak out because of interviews they had with media during the fight which were given a negative slant once their story was printed. So now you know their side of the story.

1st Place Trout ROBERT ARNOLD 24.75” $4,000, Custom Rod built by Roy’s Bait and Tackle, Quantum Cabo, Custom hydro dipped RTIC Sharkathon tumbler. 1st Place Trout BENNIE GLENN 23” $4,000, Custom Rod built by Roy’s Bait and Tackle, Quantum Cabo, Kayak from Roy’s Bait and Tackle, Custom hydro dipped RTIC Sharkathon tumbler. 1st Place Women TAMMY ELLIS Blacktip shark 69”

Most Inches of Shark BOB UNDERBRINK 403.50” total inches caught 1st Place Redfish JASON DRAGOO 39” (Won by tiebreak)

2nd Place Women JENNIFER BAKER Blacktip shark 64”

$8,000, Custom Rod built by Roy’s Bait and Tackle, Avet LX, Kayak from Roy’s Bait and Tackle, Custom hydro dipped RTIC Sharkathon tumbler.

$1250, Custom Rod built by Roy’s Bait and Tackle, Custom hydro dipped RTIC Sharkathon tumbler. 3rd Place Women KARI REYES Blacktip shark 63.25” $625, Custom Rod built by Roy’s Bait and Tackle, Custom hydro dipped RTIC Sharkathon tumbler. 1st Place Kids GUILLERMO GUILLEN III King Fish 48" $1000, Custom Rod built by Roy’s Bait and Tackle, Avet 30W, Kayak from Roy’s Bait and Tackle, Custom hydro dipped RTIC Sharkathon tumbler. 2nd Place Kids EMILIO PEREZ JR. Stingray 43" $500, Custom Rod built by Roy’s Bait and Tackle, Custom hydro dipped RTIC Sharkathon tumbler.

Renown marine biologist Dr. Henry Hildebrand had studied the Laguna Madre and its habitat for many years. He had graphs that showed that the population of redfish was directly related to the graphs of the amount of rain each year. In fact, 1980 saw a drop in fish prices because of the abundance. He worked for Texas Parks and Wildlife but became ostracized after his reports.

The regulation changed the industry

$4,000, Custom Rod built by Roy’s Bait and Tackle, Custom hydro dipped RTIC Sharkathon tumbler.

$2500, Custom Rod built by Roy’s Bait and Tackle, Avet 50W, Kayak from Roy’s Bait and Tackle, Custom hydro dipped RTIC Sharkathon tumbler.

The blockade was a peaceful one as was the even larger one in Port O’Connor on the same day. The barge runners that could not get through were sympathetic to the fishermen’s cause. The Coast Guard arrived with M-16s and the group broke up with no arrests or citations issued.

In 1983, Mother Nature vindicated these fishermen. There was a freeze that killed millions of redfish and trout. So much for the depletion theory. However, it did give an excuse to still not allow commercial fishing of these fish because of the now actual depletion Since then there have been different regulations on the means of catching fish further curtailing the livelihood of commercial fishermen. The fish that were legal to catch could no longer be caught because the means were made illegal. Buck Vannoy (now deceased) ran the Fishermen’s Fish Market on the Bluff side of the Laguna for about 40 years. The next closest market on the water is in Lockport. He said he used to buy fish from about 50 fishermen but when I interviewed him in 2009 he said there were only eight and the only fish he buys is Black Drum that happens to have no limit. Black drum are not popular with the sports fishermen because they are bottom feeders and don’t go after lures. Flounder became a game fish September 1990.

2nd Place Redfish RUSSELL BOOK 39”

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Billish cont. from A1 order to meet the $735,000 bid. According to information presented to the ISAC Tuesday that $125,000 difference as well as ongoing demands for maintenance of the park, which the POA would be responsible for, have brought the project to an impasse. ISAC members were told that while the city has a current budget for maintenance at the park, the city is responsible for mowing it, it is unclear whether that budgeted amount would cover the ongoing maintenance costs of the improved park, or whether the annual budgeted amount is sufficient to cover the $125,000 difference between the POA demands and the city’s current offer of $400,000 in funds. The POA board in its monthly meeting last week voted to turn to the ISAC to try to breach the impasse and breathe live back into the project. ISAC members voted to create a subcommittee which will now try to unsnarl the knotted plans and bring the park to completion in what may be the last gasp of a project currently on life support. No timetable was given for a resolution. Meanwhile, the stickers are doing fine.

October 6, 2016

Island Moon

October Moon Phases

Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin

It took less than twentyfour hours for the new line of Selina makeup products to sell out last week. If I had known there was going to be a floor show at the unveiling at American Bank Center I might have gone down to take a look. Fans who had been waiting in line all night to buy the “makeup line inspired by Selena” were none too happy when the doors opened and the wrong end of the line was let in first. For those of you new to this area you may be confused about all the fuss over a singer whose recordings during her lifetime were all in Spanish. Upon her death she was dubbed, among other things, the Tupac Shakur of Latin Music – whatever that may mean, and the Hispanic Marilyn Monroe, if Monroe had sung I guess.

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Only after her death did an English-language album appear and when a film about her life was cast more than 21,000 people were said to have auditioned before Jennifer Lopez was cast in the lead. In March, 1995 I was working the Assignments Desk at KSAT Television, ABC, in San Antonio when someone called in to ask if Selena had been shot. We got a lot of calls about Selena after she opened a clothing boutique on Broadway just north of downtown San Antonio and this one sounded like a bad rumor but I called SAPD anyway and they knew nothing about it. As I was about to give up a person from KIII, ABC Corpus Christi, called and asked if we were sending our satellite truck to Corpus for the Selena story since there was no uplink in Corpus at the time and they were getting requests for live shots. All we knew at that point was that she had been shot, we didn’t know how badly but the only way to move video out of Corpus at that time was to literally drive it to the bus station and put it on a bus. Normally before we went into All Dogs Go To Heaven Mode as we called it, I would cover by backside by going up the chain of command. Rolling the satellite truck meant an engineer, who always found a way to log in massive overtime under the First Rule of Television (Engineers %$&*#* You Last!), a two-person crew and quite possibly the helicopter. But I knew immediately this was big.

Like the Beatles The first time I encountered Selena was less than a month before her death when a photographer friend who had a production company on the side was shooting her videos. “Her concerts are like the Beatles,” he said. “Girls scream at the top of their lungs.” A few months later we went down to HemisFair Arena where Selena was performing at the Tejano Music Awards and sure enough, it was chock full of woman in full Selena mode screaming their heads off. My friend was shooting video so we were up on stage and I can still remember the power of looking into all those raptured upturned faces screaming and singing along with her lyrics at the same time. Tejano music was in its salad days then and the record companies couldn’t sign the acts fast enough. They even signed one of our reporters because she had a Spanish surname and could sing. The biggest dance halls in San Antonio at the time were all Tejano music. Tejano was big and Selena was named Female Vocalist of

the Year. We talked to her after that gig and she was headed for a tour of Northern Mexico and was talking to an L.A. agent, she was about to release an English-language album and she headed for the big time.

DEFCON Six And then phone rang in the newsroom. A while later the News Director came in and I told him I had scrambled the truck to Corpus and was trying to get the helicopter up. “We’re going to DEFCON Six baby!” “Who’s Selena?” he asked. “It’s going to cost us two working days of overtime to send two crews down there.” “There’s no other way to get a signal out,” I said, “Trust me on this one.” And he did. What I didn’t know until later that day was that the shooter was Selena’s fan club president who we had interviewed at the boutique a few weeks prior and that as the truck roared south she was now essentially holding herself hostage with a gun to her own head outside the motel where the shooting took place. By midafternoon we had the only live shot of the standoff on the air and when we put it up the phones lit up. Everybody wanted details that we didn’t have. What happened, was the singer alive or dead? Was she cancelling concerts? As it turned out it was live television at its most dramatic with an end yet to be determined. We even got close enough we had good audio as the woman who was eventually convicted of the shooting called out repeatedly for a policeman by the name of “Larry” and pretty much confessed to the shooting on air although she claimed it was an “accident” when the gun went off as she pointed it at her victim then chased her down the hall calling her names. Since we had the only live shot outside of Corpus people who knew her or had information from the scene called us. We owned this story. We were in a ratings fight with KENS television where I had worked until just a few months before, and they had made the fateful decision to save the overtime and didn’t recognize the error of their ways until they saw us break into afternoon programming and by then it was too late. When we got the overnights the next morning we were astounded. We were looking at a Ratings number of almost 70. To understand the impact of that consider that while a Share number in Nielsen Ratings is a measure of the percentage of sets actually on at a given time, a Ratings number is the percentage of total sets in the market whether they are on or not. That meant that almost three of every four sets in the city was watching us as we blew out our early shows, we crawled weather, with nothing but live coverage. When the dust settled KSAT, which had been the number two station broke on top following the boost from the story and is still there today, and the News Director got what was in effect a lifetime contract . The longtime KENS News Director who had hired me from the ExpressNews was fired and the new guy offered me a management job back at KENS. So it could be said that the Selena story changed the face of local television in San Antonio and here we are twenty one years later and people are still lining up for Selena events. And so it goes.

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October 6, 2016

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Senior Moments

BBB offers advice during National Cyber Security Awareness Month

The Truman-Dewey Election 68 Years Ago

By Kelly Trevino

By Dotson Lewis Special to the Island Moon Dotson’s Note: During the past few weeks, I Roosevelt’s sudden death on April 12, 1945, have been talking to many candidates for office just three months after he’d been sworn in for in the upcoming elections. Some believe they an unprecedented fourth term. The plain-spoken are “shoo-ins” to be elected or re-elected. To Truman, a U.S. senator from Missouri before a women/man none of them have ever heard, his brief vice-presidency, went on to lead the so they said, of the November 3, 1948, Chicago United States through the end of World War Tribune’s incorrect headline: “Dewey Defeats II and the transition to a peacetime economy. Truman.” This being the case, I felt that if they However, in 1946, Truman’s political reputation are over confident, they are entitled to a history was damaged when issues such as rising lesson, so here goes. Elizabeth Nix contributed inflation and labor unrest contributed to the Democrats losing control of both chambers of to this article. Congress for the first time in 14 years. Further Dewey Defeats Truman diminishing Truman’s prospects as the 1948 On November 3, 1948, the day after the U.S. election approached were divisions within his presidential election, the front-page headline own political party. His civil rights initiatives of the Chicago Tribune proclaimed: “Dewey had alienated the conservative, Southern Defeats Truman.” In fact, the newspaper got wing of the organization, whose members the story all wrong, because President Harry left to form the States’ Rights Democratic

Regional Director, Corpus Christi Better Business Bureau October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, which recognizes the importance of cybersecurity. Because of recent cybercrime activity—including massive data breaches that have compromised millions of consumers’ personal information—it’s important to know how to protect yourself against identity theft and other cybercrimes. Cybercrime is just like it sounds: crime that targets people online. Criminals take advantage of the speed, convenience and anonymity that the Internet provides for them. Cybercrime comes in many forms—online identity theft, financial fraud, hacking, email spoofing, information forgery and intellectual property crime. It can wreak havoc on victims’ lives, and at its worst, cybercrime can lead to financial ruin. In 2015, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received nearly 500,000 consumer complaints about identity theft. In recognition of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Better Business Bureau serving Central, Coastal, Southwest Texas and the Permian Basin recommends taking these extra security measures to protect yourself against identity theft and other cybercrimes: Keep a clean machine. Whether it’s a mobile device, tablet or laptop, make sure security software is current and up-to-date. Having the latest software on all devices can be one of the best defenses against viruses, malware and other online threats.

Harry Truman Truman ended up scoring a surprise victory over his opponent, Governor Thomas Dewey of New York. It is now the 68th anniversary of one of the greatest upsets in American political history. No one except Truman thought he could win. On Election Day, the newspaper had been required to go to press earlier than usual due to a printers’ strike, and even though not all the votes had been tallied at the time of the Tribune’s deadline, its editors were confident in the multiple polls widely favoring Dewey to win, and therefore reported he had done just that. (The Tribune wasn’t the only one to mistakenly call the election for the New York governor; in covering the returns, a leading radio announcer, H.V. Kaltenborn*, informed his listeners that even though Truman was ahead, Dewey ultimately would wind up on top.) Republican prospects for the 1948 presidential race appeared to be excellent. The Democrats

Thomas Dewey had been in power for almost 16 years and the public seemed to be tiring of the “New Deal” and its abundant inefficiencies. Large Republican majorities had been sent to both houses of Congress in the off-year elections in 1946, ending their opponents’ long reign. The campaign of 1948 was a study in contrasts. Dewey, as befitted a clear frontrunner, staged a very subdued campaign, hoping to assure victory by avoiding discussion of troublesome issues. Truman did the opposite, figuring that he had little to lose. He embarked on a 31,000mile train trip across the nation and delivered hundreds of off-the-cuff speeches to crowds that often greeted the president with cries of "Give 'em Hell, Harry!" And Truman did. He lambasted the "do-nothing, good-for-nothing" Eightieth Congress for its inaction and hoped that his opponent would be tarnished in the process. Truman raised the stakes by summoning a special session of Congress in July, 1948, proclaiming that he was offering the legislators an opportunity to enact some of the liberal planks they had proposed in the Republican platform. The results were meager, reinforcing the allegation that Congress did nothing. At his whistle-stop rallies, Truman spoke out on behalf of civil rights legislation, for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and in support of farm aid programs. By trumpeting these issues, the president helped to revive the old New Deal coalition of Southern blacks**, labor unionists and farmers. Heading into Election Day on November 2, 1948, numerous polls and pundits predicted Thomas Dewey was a shoo-in for the presidency. A Michigan native and attorney who gained prominence in the 1930s by prosecuting such mobsters as Lucky Luciano, Dewey had served as the 47th governor of New York since 1943. In 1944, he won the Republican nomination for the White House but lost the general election to President Franklin Roosevelt. In 1948, the Republicans again chose Dewey as their presidential nominee, with Governor Earl Warren of California as his vice-presidential running mate. The Democratic nominee, Harry Truman, had ascended to the presidency following Franklin

Party (or Dixiecrats) and select Governor Strom Thurmond of South Carolina as their presidential nominee. Additionally, Truman’s onetime secretary of commerce (as well as Roosevelt’s vice president from 1941-45), Henry Wallace, who had a following among liberals, decided to run against his former boss as the Progressive Party’s candidate for the Oval Office. With victory looking like a foregone conclusion for Dewey, the New York governor ran an uninspiring, risk-averse campaign. One newspaper contended his four major speeches could be reduced to four sentences: “Agriculture is important. Our rivers are full of fish. You cannot have freedom without liberty. The future lies ahead.” Many of America’s major newspapers had predicted a Dewey victory early on in the campaign. A New York Times article editorialized that “if Truman is nominated, he will be forced to wage the loneliest campaign in recent history.” Perhaps not surprisingly then, Truman chose not to use the press as a vehicle for getting his message across. Instead, in July 1948, he embarked on an ambitious 22,000mile “whistle stop” railroad and automobile campaign tour. At every destination, Truman asked crowds to help him keep his job as president. His eventual success in the election of 1948 has been largely attributed to this direct interaction with the public and his appeal to the common voters as the political “underdog.” At the end of one of his campaign speeches, voices in the crowd could be heard yelling “Give ‘em Hell, Harry!” It didn’t take long for the phrase to catch on and become Truman’s unofficial campaign slogan. On Election Day, thanks to a coalition of voters that included organized labor, farmers, African Americans and Jews, Truman and his running mate, Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky, pulled off what became known as one of the biggest upsets in U.S. political history, racking up 303 electoral votes and 49.6 percent of the popular vote to Dewey’s 189 electoral votes and 45.1 percent of the popular vote. Thurmond, the “Dixiecrat,” earned 39 electoral votes and 2.4 percent of the popular vote. The then-famous photograph taken two days after the president’s come-from-behind triumph shows him smiling and holding a copy of the November 3, 1948, edition of the Chicago Tribune featuring the erroneous banner headline “Dewey Defeats Truman.” On January 29, 1949, in America’s first nationally televised inauguration, Truman was sworn in to his first full term as America’s 33rd president. Four years later, he left the White House (he had been eligible to seek another term but announced in 1952 he would not do so) and retired to his hometown of Independence, Missouri. Meanwhile, Dewey served as governor of New York through 1954 then he returned to practicing law. He died in 1971 at age 68. Truman died the following year at age 88. *The most well-known and popular radio voice of the era. **Today this term is not politically correct. Dotson’s Other Note: This was the first election in which I voted. I was 20, in the Army, and cast an absentee ballot. I caused quite a hassle in 1948 trying to obtain an absentee ballot. I wonder if it was counted. I am sure that all of you Monkeys noted that Truman’s margin of victory was only 2,188,055 of the 46,170,639 votes that were counted. In 1948 there were about 98, 000,000 eligible voters in the US of A. Did you vote in the 1948 election? If you don’t vote in the 2016 election, shame on you! Your thoughts regarding this or any articles appearing in The Island Moon are greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading and commenting on Senior Moments. I can be reached at dlewis1@stx.rr.com and/or Land Line: 361-949-7681 Cell: 530-748-8475. Please Note: The next Veterans Roundtable Meeting will be Tuesday, October 11th, 9-11 AM, 3209 S. Staples. All Veterans, their families and anyone interested in Veterans affairs, are invited. Coffee & doughnuts are provided. Hope to see you there. Hang in there/Have fun!

Protect personal information. Shred all statements and applications you get in the mail that you don’t want to keep, including credit card applications, insurance forms, financial statements, and billing statements for utilities. Change passwords for all online accounts regularly. When changing your password, make it long, strong and unique, with a mix

of upper and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. By keeping various passwords on your accounts you lessen the risk of multiple accounts being compromised. Check your bank statements and credit report. Read your bank statements monthly, and check your balance weekly to make sure no unauthorized transactions have been made to your account. At least once a year, get your credit report for free from each of the three credit bureaus at AnnualCreditReport.com. Connect with care. Use caution when logging on to public Wi-Fi networks and send personal information only to websites that are fully encrypted. Stay informed. Keep up with new ways to stay safe online. Check trusted websites for the latest information, and share it with family, friends and colleagues and encourage them to be web-wise. Steer clear of suspicious texts, emails and links. Unsolicited emails and pop-up ads can be full of computer viruses designed to steal usernames and passwords from your computer. Don’t give in to curiosity; close or delete the message. Report it. If your identity has been stolen or compromised, contact one of the three credit bureaus (Equifax, Experian or TransUnion) to report the crime. Request that the credit bureau place a fraud alert on your credit report to prevent any further fraudulent activity from occurring. As soon as one of the bureaus issues a fraud alert, the other two bureaus are automatically notified. Kelly Trevino is the regional director for the Corpus Christi/Victoria area of Better Business Bureau serving Central, Coastal, Southwest Texas and the Permian Basin. Kelly is available for media interviews and speaking engagements. You can reach her by phone: (361) 945-7352 or email: ktrevino@corpuschristi.bbb.org.

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Waterfront Lots 15334 Cane Harbor 45 Waterfront Lots Listed From$110,000-$6,000,000 Interior Lots Sold 14834 Aquarius 13850 Whitecap 13830 Whitecap 13818 Longboat 13950 Binnacle 14201 Sea Pines 13954 Blackbeard 13914 Suntan 13834 Longboat

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Commercial Lots 17 Commercial Lots Listed From $49,900-$4,557,465

October 6, 2016

Island Moon

Island Moon on a Spoon

Fresh Pasta Super Easy By Chef Vita Jarrin

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Making fresh pasta sounds overwhelming, and for the novice it could be. But once you make it the first time, you realize it wasn’t that difficult at all. Lately the food magazines I’ve been getting, all feature fresh pasta. So to stop my mouth from watering, Sunday I opted to make the dough at work, so that I can have fresh pasta for my Sunday dinner. It was so easy and super delicious. I wanted to share it with you and although the directions sound tedious, it really isn’t once you go through the steps. I would love to see any pictures of your dishes if you choose to make this. Who doesn’t love fresh pasta??? I look forward to hearing from you… Chef Vita Yield: makes 8 Servings Pasta Dough Ingredients:

5 Whole Eggs 1 Tsp salt 2 Tsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil Cooking Spray for a bowl that will hold the pasta for 30 minutes before making the noodles Keep a little water on hand if you need to soften the dough Extra Flour for dusting pasta while letting it rest Super Useful would be a pasta drying rack but if you don’t have one, use a couple of large cookie sheets to lay out your pasta once you’ve passed it through the machine

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After 30 minutes of resting, cut the pasta in 4 quartered pieces. While working with the first piece, keep the rest covered under the wrap, so a skin doesn’t form, making the pasta hard. Set up your machine by according to manufactures directions.

Set your gauge on pasta machine at the lowest setting. On some it’s a zero and others it’s a one. Sprinkle a little flour on the machine and dough before using it. Run your dough through this setting twice. Increase your setting by two numbers, therefore your next number will be 3, then 5 and so on. Do this until your pasta sheet is practically see through. Then run this sheet through the die cut on machine for either a spaghetti noodle shape or fettucine. As your pasta comes out, place on a floured surface and before layering other pasta on top, sprinkle flour on top and continue to make the pasta. Let pasta rest for about 10 minutes and then boil a pot of salted water. Add a drizzle of olive oil and when water reaches a rolling boil, drop pasta. I normally drop half a batch, remove that batch when it floats and then cook the other half. This eliminates clumping. Pasta will float when it’s ready. It will be al dente, but remember this is fresh pasta so there will be less of a bite. You can add any favorite sauce to this dish, or drizzle with extra virgin olive oil, crushed red pepper flakes, fresh grated parmesan cheese and voila! You have a delicious low fat meal that tastes like you’re in Italy. This sounds complex, but I am detailed in order for you to learn the process, but it’s truly super-fast and easy recipe and the rewards are grand!!!

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After kneading the dough for 10 minutes and you form it into a ball, spray a little cooking spray in a bowl, place pasta dough ball inside and spray the top with a little more cooking spray and cover with a sheet of plastic wrap. Let rest for 30 minutes.

Before you start to use the machine, with a floured surface, place the dough down and roll it with a rolling pin in order to get thickness reduced enough for the machine. Also keep the shape of the dough the same width of the machine so that you can run it through smoothly.

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are no longer runny, and you start to see dough forming. Start kneading the dough with your hands. This process needs ten minutes. If for some reason the dough is slightly dry you may sprinkle a little water, not too much, in order to continue kneading the dough.

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This process is much more difficult for a pasta making novice but don’t get discouraged, it’s just pasta. On a table or counter place the flour down and with your hands form a well in the center. Add your eggs, oil and salt. With a fork, start beating the egg mixture and start to incorporate the flour and keep mixing flour into eggs. When the eggs

This dish can be made ahead and frozen in Ziploc bags for future use. The sheets can also be used for making ravioli. Cut the sheet in half, add a filling of choice and place the other sheet on top and press with a ravioli cutter. Cooking ravioli gets the best result if frozen first. This recipe is super versatile. Enjoy yourself, get creative, try new things have fun!!! Happy Eats!

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October 6, 2016

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SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon

Teddy Ballgame

Ted Williams Hits .400 for 1941 Season

By Andy Purvis Special to the Island Moon

By Dotson Lewis

Special to the Island Moon Dotson’s Note: I believe that Ted Williams was the best hitter that ever lived. I couldn’t let the 75th Anniversary of his batting record pass without my reminding you of the life of this true American hero. He was best of the best, not only as a baseball player but as an American. Bill Dwyre and Lt. Col. Ronald J. Brown, USMCR Retired, a retired teacher and currently a freelance journalist contributed to this article.

into small segments, then devising strategies whereby he would swing only at certain types of pitches in certain areas under very specific circumstances. This maximized his chances to

Remembering Ted Williams: A Marine Fighter Pilot United States Marine ground crewmen at Suwon's K-13 Airbase in Korea were alerted that trouble was afoot when they noticed the crash, fire and rescue crews hurriedly manning their emergency vehicles on 16 Feb. 1953. The source of that trouble quickly became apparent when a Marine fighter plane appeared on the horizon. The midnight-blue F9F "Panther" jet was coming in "heavy" and very fast. Its sluggish movements, trailing smoke and streaming 30foot ribbon of fire all indicated serious danger. The pilot obviously was having difficulty controlling his aircraft, but he was too low to eject. His only course, therefore, was to try to bring his crippled aircraft in. An already tense situation became worse when an explosion rocked the undercarriage as the plane approached the airstrip. The stubby fighter plane made a wheels-up "belly" landing, skidding along the tarmac with sparks flying for almost a mile before coming to a stop. The nose promptly burst into flames that threatened the cockpit. The trapped aviator blew off the canopy, struggled out of the plane and limped away, hitting the ground in a less-than-perfect baseball slide. The plane was a total wreck, but the fortunate pilot suffered only minor scrapes. Later, the airmen at Suwon learned they had witnessed the dramatic escape of the most famous flying leatherneck in Korea; that lucky pilot was none other than Ted Williams, a star professional baseball player who was serving as a Marine reservist.

Ted Williams-Marine Pilot Theodore Samuel Williams was born in San Diego on 30 Aug. 1918. The child of absentee parents, he endured a tough home life that made sports his salvation. The wiry teenager played sandlot baseball and starred at Herbert Hoover High School. During those formative years, Williams decided his life's ambition was to become the greatest hitter in the history of baseball. Whether he actually accomplished that may or may not be arguable, but there is no doubt that he put every ounce of his energy into achieving that goal. Williams never attended college. Instead, right out of high school at age 17, he signed a professional baseball contract with the San Diego Padres, then a minor league team in the Pacific Coast League. (There were no major league teams west of St. Louis at the time.) Williams played for his hometown team for three years until he migrated to Minnesota for one year and then signed with a major league team, the Boston Red Sox. Williams produced what many called "the finest rookie year in the history of baseball" in 1939. He hit .327 with 31 home runs and 145 runs batted in. This initial season also marked the onset of his tempestuous relationship with the press and fans. Critics that year dismissed him as a gifted athlete with a brash manner who would not last long. They were wrong. His unbearably cocky attitude masked several laudable traits that would stand him in good stead as time passed: a singleness of purpose, an analytical mind, keen observation skills and an unsurpassed work ethic. Williams turned the "art" of hitting a baseball into a "science" by dividing the strike zone

In March of 1992, I went to my first Spring Training. I stayed with Dave and Karen Sullivan, friends who lived in Tampa, Florida. Dave and I attended five different games in six days. But it was that sixth day that I will remember most. Dave and I drove north to visit the newly-opened Ted Williams Museum. It was there that I began to really learn about Teddy Ballgame. You know, baseball is about history and records. This year is the 75th Anniversary of Ted Williams hitting .406. When you think of hitting, you think of Ted Williams. Fearless, confident and simply remarkable, Ted was a student of the game. He didn’t have access to video; he just figured it out all by himself. He could be seen practicing his swing while in the shower, and he talked about smelling the wood of the bat burning when he fouled off a pitch. Ted could hit a baseball. “It’s the hardest thing to do in baseball,” said Ted. “But it was the one thing I could do best in my life.”

notice. “Every ball I hit was on the big part of the bat,” said Ted. “They didn’t know how to pitch to me.”

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get a solid hit. By not attempting to hit "iffy" pitches, he often walked, and he habitually led the league in getting on base-- something he did more than half the time, an astonishing statistic. Ted Williams arguably would become baseball's best pure hitter. (Legendary Babe Ruth hit more home runs, but Williams eclipsed the Babe in most other hitting categories.) During those days a benchmark season was one in which a player hit more than 30 home runs, had at least a .300 average and got on base at least 100 times; amazingly, Williams accomplished this feat routinely until near the end of his career. He was the last man to hit more than .400 in a season, led the American League in home runs four different years (1941, 1942, 1947 and 1949), was the runs-batted-in leader in four different years (1939, 1942, 1947 and 1949) and was the batting champ six different times (1941, .406; 1942, .356; 1947, .343; 1948, .369; 1957, .388; 1958, .328). Additionally, he was kept from that coveted title twice due to red tape and lost once by a single hit.

The 1941 season oddly began without Williams. He showed up a few days late. The 23-year-old claimed he had lost track of time, while hunting Moose in Minnesota. A few days after he got started, he turned his ankle and since he could not run or field fly balls, he hit, and hit, and hit some more. His first hit of the season was a pinch hit and he did not start his first game until April 29, 1941. He went two for three. Ted’s quest for .400 had started. This was also the year Joe DiMaggio hit in 56 straight games, a feat that has also never been beaten. Ted put together his own hit streak of 23 games. Ted had always said that Joe DiMaggio was the greatest player he ever saw. It has been written that the fellow working inside the scoreboard at Fenway Park would let Ted know every time Joe D. got a hit. Ted would then relay the message to Joe’s brother, Dom DiMaggio, the centerfielder for the Red Sox. On July 8, 1941, the All-Star Game was played in Detroit. Ted batted fourth behind DiMaggio. The American League was behind 5-3. There

Ted Williams played for 19 years, missing five years while serving in our military. Ted won six American League batting titles, two Triple Crown Awards, and hit 521 home runs. His career batting average stands at .344. When Ted was asked how he wanted to be remembered, he said, “When I walk down the street I want people to say, ‘There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived.’” I can safely say that no one will ever hit .400 or more, again. The game has changed.

Williams also holds records for the most consecutive playing years leading in runs scored (1940-42, 1946 and 1947), most consecutive playing years for bases on balls (1941-42 and 1946-49) and the most seasons with more than 100 walks. His final statistics included 521 home runs, a lifetime batting average of .344 and a slugging average (total number of bases achieved divided by number of official at bats) of .645.

Dotson’s Other Note: And don’t forget that Ted Williams was a Marine fighter pilot in WWII! Your comments, suggestions, questions and concerns regarding Sports Talk articles are greatly appreciated, please call the Benchwarmers at 361-560-5397 weekdays, Mondays thru Fridays, 5-7 PM, or contact me. Phone: 361-949-7681 Cell: 530-748-8475 Email: dlewis1@stx.rr.com

Most of you baseball fans have seen the movie “The Natural.” It stars Robert Redford, who loved Ted Williams. Redford batted left-handed and insisted on wearing Ted’s # 9 and batting third in the order. In 1957, at the age of 39, Ted approached the magic .400 again, but finished at .388. Other great players have taken a shot at the .400. Rod Carew got to .403 by July but finished at .388. George Brett was hitting .405 in late September but finished at .390. And the great Tony Gwynn was batting .394 in August of 1994, when the strike ended the baseball season. Carew, Brett and Gwynn all ended up in the Hall of Fame with Williams.

He won the "triple crown" for leading the league in home runs, batting average and runs batted in twice (1942 and 1947). He hit a record-tying three consecutive home runs in a game on three different occasions, hit 15 basesloaded "grand slam" home runs (second only to Lou Gehrig), tied a record with four consecutive home runs on two different occasions and got on base a record 16 times in a row.

Ted Williams was selected professional baseball's Most Valuable Player in 1946 and 1949. He played on American League All-Star Teams 16 times (1939-42, 194649, 1951, 1953 and 1955-58). He still holds the sixth-best alltime batting average and is second only to Babe Ruth in slugging percentage. He is the oldest man to win a batting title (in 1958 at age 40). The Sporting News named him the Player of the Decade, no small achievement when one looks at his competition: Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle.

Shift Chicago White Sox manager, Jimmy Dykes, decided to create what he called a shift, to combat Williams’ hitting ability. The shift is a command site in today’s game, but back then it looked like something was wrong. Ted just laughed and promptly hit the ball down the leftfield line. In the last home game of that season, Ted hit a homerun. The Red Sox would finish their season with six road games. September 28, 1941, the Red Sox had a doubleheader against the Philadelphia A’s at Shibe Park. Ted was batting .3996. “I never thought of sitting out” said Ted. He singled in his first at-bat, hit home run #37 in his second at-bat, and then got two more singles after that. Ted recorded two more hits in the second game and finished the season at .406. All he had done was get six hits in his last eight at-bats. Ted Williams only struck out 27 times in 1941; my, how the times have changed.

was one out, in the bottom of the ninth inning, with the bases loaded. DiMaggio hit a fielder’s choice and beat the throw to first. The score now stood 5-4 and Williams approached the plate. Ted hit a home run to send the American League home as winners, 7-5. He leaped and clapped his hands as he rounded the bases. This night belonged to “Teddy Ballgame,” not Joe D. DiMaggio’s streak would end on July 17, but Ted would continue to hit over .400. Lots of guys had hit .400 for a month or two…but 4, 5, 6 months? The world of baseball began to take

I find it ironic that in his last at-bat for the Red Sox, on September 28, 1960, 19 years from the day he hit .406, Ted Williams hit a home run at Fenway Park. Ted Williams died on July 5, 2002. The .406 left when he did. Andy Purvis is a local author and radio personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. com for all the latest info on his books or to listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books are available online and can be found in the local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be contacted at purvis.andy@mygrande.net. Also listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc.com 1230 AM, 96.1 FM and 103.3 FM. The home of the Houston Astros.

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