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Issue 619

Island Moon

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February 25, 2016

Around The Island

By Dale Rankin editor@islandmoon.com The talk around our sandbar this week has been of the Spring Break alcohol ban on Port Aransas. When the Port Aransas City Council decided to take action to tamp down the beach crowds during Spring Break 2016 they focused on drinking. In recent years the crowds have become rowdier and have been known to throw bottles at police cars as they enforced a ban on alcohol on Port Aransas beaches after midnight which has been on the books since 2008.

For years the Spring Break crowds on our beaches have consisted of fewer and fewer actual college students; college-aged yes, college students not so much. The growth of the South by Southwest festival in Austin over Spring Break weekend has altered the demographics on our beaches during Spring Break some but the fact is that fully 75% of the SXSW attendees are in the 25-44 year-old demographic. Only 7% of those attending the festival are under 24 years old.

In January the Port Aransas City Council took the first steps toward what has become a sort-of-but not really 6 p.m. curfew on beach drinking from March 12 through March 20. In effect the council has pushed policy making authority to the police department by giving them the power to enforce the 6 p.m. ban at their sole discretion. As Port Aransas Police Chief Scott Burroughs told the city council last week it will be a “targeted enforcement in problem areas, not across the board.”

So, if you are standing on the public beach in Port Aransas at 6:01 p.m. during Spring Break with a beer can in your hand are you in violation of the ban? The answer is maybe, maybe not. If the police officers think you might be trouble you will be asked to pour out your drink and things will progress either peacefully or not from there.

The wording in the release put out by the city reads in part: “The Port Aransas City Council adopted Resolution No. 2016-__ which authorizes the Port Aransas Police Chief to enact a prohibition to consume alcoholic beverages on Port Aransas beaches if in his opinion (or his assigns) there exists a life/public safety issue.”

Whether that is good public policy will be answered in the next few weeks, but when it comes to good public relations policy it depends on the goal. If the goal is to keep Spring Breakers away from Port Aransas beaches then it is good policy because the word that has gone out through media outlets in the feeder markets of Austin and San Antonio, and we quote a headline from the San Antonio Express-News, “Alcohol Banned on Port Aransas Beaches During Spring Break.”

The stated goal has been to attract families and not wild spring breakers; again whether that works will be known in a few weeks. The question is whether in putting that message out they have thrown out the proverbial baby with the bathwater. Maybe it will be much ado about nothing and good weather will attract record crowds.

On the other hand, if it suppresses sales and hotel/motel tax revenues it could do damage to a brand that could take a decade to overcome.

It’s a bold move by the council and the question is whether it invokes the Law of Unintended Consequences.

Ask us in four weeks and in the meantime say hello if you see us Around The Island.

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Election Day is Tuesday

Early Voting turnout on Padre fourth highest in county Turnout in Early Voting in Nueces County is about 1000 votes higher than in the last Presidential Election in 2012.

South Packery Beach Turns into Moonscape But work to widen beach to be complete by Spring Break

As of close of business Tuesday evening a total of 646 voters had cast Early Voting Ballots at the sole North Padre Island polling site located at Schlitterbahn making it the fourth highest precinct in the county. Island voters in the Republican Primary outnumbered Democrats 538-108.

Countywide 12,896 voters had cast ballots in Early Voting with Democrats outnumbering Republicans by 7256 to 5640.

In Port Aransas 250 votes were cast while in Flour Bluff the turnout totaled 586.

During Early Voting, which ends on Friday, February 26, registered voters can cast ballots at any polling place in the county while on Election Day they must vote in their home precinct.

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Where to Vote on Election Day Tuesday March 1, 7 a.m.-7 p.m.

Democrats Precinct 40 Island Presbyterian Church 14030 Fortuna Bay Dr. Corpus Christi, TX 78418 Precinct 81 Island Presbyterian Church 14030 Fortuna Bay Dr. Corpus Christi, TX 78418 Precinct 19

South Packery Beach this week

By Dale Rankin For the past few weeks beachgoers south of Packery Channel have been asking what is going on with the mounds of sand that have been accumulated there by city crews. The area looks like a moonscape and the sand is piled up in a way it has never been done by Mother Nature.

The answer, according to Russell J. Armstrong, Gulf Beach & Natural Resources Superintendent with Corpus Christi Parks & Recreation, is that sand mounds are part of a work in progress for the beach adjacent to the Michael J. Ellis Seawall. City crews were in the process of moving windblown sand that had accumulated on the beach just south of the channel to the beach further south where it would be used to widen the beach, when they were called to the north side of the channel to prepare the beach for Spring Break.

“I've been on the beach and looked at the signs and spoken with our operators. We are not finished with the maintenance of the beach at this time. Spring Break is coming upon us very soon so the crews have shifted to the north side of Packery Channel to get the roadways adjusted for that.

We have been tasked with completing the roads for the State and County Beaches as well as our own. We will get them completed and be back on the south side of the jetty before the Spring Break period to complete the work there,” Armstrong said. “To give a little history, several years ago there was a plan to have a 30' walkway that runs along the length of the seawall for beach goers. My team's thoughts are to maintain that walkway, the trash corrals are set at the edge of the 30' mark. The north and south bound lanes of the road way would be next,

Spring Break preperations on the beach north of Packery Channel. then parking will be available for several rows of vehicles. We are not done with the pushing of the sand at this time, we are currently waiting on measurements to be taken by our representatives from Texas A&M and the Conrad Blucher Institute.

Once that is complete we plan on continuing to expand the beach sand seaward allowing for more parking and giving us a larger beach front to utilize. “

Ellis Memorial Library 700 W. Ave. A Port Aransas, TX 78373

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A little Island history

Box 13 and the Election That Will Live in Infamy

14353 Commodores Dr.

Editor’s note: With the approach of the March 1 primary elections we thought it would be a good time to re-visit what is arguably the most cussed and discussed election in our state’s history, the 1948 U.S. Senate race between then Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson and former Governor Coke Stevenson. The race was decided by 87 votes out of 988,295 cast with 200 of them coming in a full six days after the election from Jim Wells County earning Johnson the name of Landslide Lyndon (which he hated).

Precinct 19

By Dale Rankin

Ellis Memorial Library

To understand what happened in the 1948 race between Lyndon Johnson and Coke Stevenson you have to go back to 1941 when Johnson lost his race for the senate after leading by 5000 votes when “late” votes came in from East Texas which lost LBJ the race by 1311 votes. In his autobiography “In History’s Shadow” John Connelly, who was Johnson’s campaign manager in both the 1941 and 1948 races said he learned a valuable lesson from the 1941 loss.

When longtime Senator Morris Shepard died in office a cattle call of twenty-nine candidates signed up to run which included sitting Governor Pappy Lee O’Daniel, a reactionary congressman, Lyndon Johnson, twenty-five Democrats, two Republicans, and one communist.

Precinct 40 (Includes everything south of Whitecap and residences on the beach at Windward Drive.

Island Presbyterian Church 14030 Fortuna Bay Dr. Precinct 81 (Everything north of Whitecap and residences along Leeward Drive) Schlitterbahn

700 W. Ave. A Port Aransas

New Rules for Beach Fires The Corpus Christi City Council on Tuesday approved new rules for beach fires which forbid the burning of any material that leaves any residue other than ashes or coal residue.

The new rules require a second reading before taking effect but no change is expected in the second reading at the next council meeting.

The new rules were recommended by the Watershore and Beach Advisory Committee and are in addition to the current ordinance which forbids fires of more than three feet on each side, nine square feet in all, which prohibits the use of most wooden pallets which exceed that size. The new rules are:

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Johnson locked up the “controlled” votes that belonged to the Archer Parr machine in the South Texas counties from The Island to the Rio

George Parr during the Box 13 investigation

Lyndon Johnson and Connally with the Vice President of the Republic of China in 1961 Grande Valley and when the precinct chairmen there called Connelly with results he told them to call them in to the Texas Election Bureau which was owned by the Dallas Morning News and served as the unofficial reporting agency for election results, the agency had no legal status but

once the votes totals were called in they could not be changed when they were later called in to party officials. As Johnson’s team called in their numbers they were ahead by 5000 votes.

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Neighbors

Work continues on the new road to Snoopy's Pier and Doc's near the JFK Causeway

I've been encouraging members of the new island neighbors Next Door to join me for a walk on Saturdays at 10:00 am. This Saturday I was joined by Nita Smith and Annie Hoefel.

We walked about half of Whitecap, and picked up a lot of trash off the street, sidewalks, lawns, and empty lots. I ended up with 5 1/2 pounds of trash, and Nita and Annie probably had about the same amount. Not included in that weight was a 10 pound battery that was abandoned against someone's fence.

We would love to have our neighbors all over the island start walking their neighborhoods and picking up trash. It's great exercise and cleans the environment, making it safer for our critters and more pleasant to see. Less trash falls into the canals or down our storm drains. People may be less likely to throw their trash out the window of their cars if they see less trash on the road and their neighbors working to keep it clean. Grab a neighbor and get started. You can meet new people out on the road. Wear long pants, good gloves and good walking shoes.

Susan Comer

February 25, 2016

Island Moon

Adopt-A-Beach Clean Up Photo by Libby Edwards Middleton

It’s Open! Congratulations to Moon columnist Chef Vita and her partner Gail on the opening of A La Mode gelateria.

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February 25, 2016

Island Moon

Letters to the Editor

Moon Monkeys Mike Ellis, Founder

Did Ya Hear?

by Mary Craft mkay512@aol.com or @padreeyelander on twitter

The Death of Kacie Woody Dear Dotson: Your article about the death of Nicole Lovell was heartbreaking.

My Arkansas family experienced the death of a teen-aged girl at the hands of an internet predator several years ago.

She knew all about the dangers, but did not see the relevance to her own life.

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On December 4, 2002, I flew to Little Rock, Arkansas for a reunion with my Arkansas relatives. My cousin Patsy picked me up at the airport, and on the way to Hot Springs she told me about the abduction of Kacie Woody, the teenaged daughter of our cousin Rick. Kacie had disappeared in the middle of the night the night before. In a couple of days we would learn the tragic ending of the story.

Kacie was the 13 year old daughter of our cousin Rick. Rick was a policeman in Greenbriar, a small town not far from Little Rock. Kacie was an honors student in the 7th grade at Greenbriar Middle School. They lived in a rural area where all telephone calls were long distance, and Rick had laid down the law about phone use. Kacie learned that instant messaging on her computer was almost as good as phone conversations.

She became adept at using the teen Christian chat rooms available on Yahoo. She knew all about the dangers. She had been warned repeatedly by her father and her school guidance counselor about her tendency to trust everyone. But she had never had the occasion to distrust anyone. For several months she had been chatting with Scott, a 14-year old boy from Atlanta, and Dave, an 18-year old boy from San Diego. Her father had told her to break it off with Dave because he was too old, and she had cut off her chats with him. But she continued to talk with him on the telephone. Both Scott and Dave knew about each other, and had actually talked on the telephone. Kacie thought she knew them well, and had no qualms about sharing her personal information with both of them.

On the night of December 3, 2002, Kacie was home alone. Her father was working the night shift at the Greenbriar Police Department.

Her brother Tim had gone to his college

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If You Are Concerned About Our Beach and Gulf of Mexico Access Rights All Island residents, business owners and visitors alike are strongly encouraged to attend the meetings listed below with the objective of acquiring some answers about what Beach Operations is doing with the sand movement that is blocking access to Gulf of Mexico waterline to vehicles. City ordinance SEC.10-73 and 1075, in synopsis, states no person may operate a vehicle within fifty feet of the waters edge and that no person may park a vehicle within twenty five feet of the waters edge. This has never been enforced however it is on the books. Can someone in authority tell us if this is the reason for the sand movement?? Is it to block vehicular traffic from parking at the waters edge?? (if so then we need to repeal these ordinances) Is it sand movement to widen the beach in front of the seawall??(hooray) Is it something else entirely?? I can not get an answer on the phone.

You may try contacting Russell Armstrong, Superintendent Beach Operations at 361-8264168. The two people I have spoken with who actually talked to Russell Armstrong received two entirely different answers. The rumors and conspiracy plots are flying!!

There are two significant meetings in the first week of March you will want to attend to be able to VOICE an opinion on what exactly the City of Corpus Beach Operations is doing to our beach waterfront. Perhaps we may even get an answer to our questions...

Island Strategic Action Committee (ISAC) This is a 14 member advisory committee to the city of Corpus Christi on matters pertaining to the island. This committee can wield significant power in what Corpus city council decides regarding any and all island issues. They need island residents input. They meet the first Tuesday of each month at Comfort Suites on Windward Drive at 5:30. The meetings start promptly at 5:30. Please arrive a bit early as you will need to sign in to speak prior to meeting start. THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE HELD MARCH 1st, 2016.

Watershore and Beach Advisory Committee. I have never personally attended this meeting but from what I can gather on the city website, this committee makes decisions about the beaches within Corpus Christi city limits with Beach Operations. They meet the 1st Thursday of every month at City Hall at 5:30 in city council meeting room behind city council chambers.

THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE HELD MARCH 3rd, 2016 Texas Open Meeting Act simple guidelines.

Both of the above meetings are open to the public however the public may only speak at a designated time prior to or after the meeting for a short duration of time. The committee members are not required to discuss the topic you bring up unless it is on the agenda for that meeting. The public may request a topic be put on an upcoming meeting agenda.

YOUR BODY COUNT CAN SEND A MESSAGE AT THESE MEETINGS. Don't stand around complaining to each other. SHOW UP TO A MEETING Seriously Concerned Island Resident, Kelly Byrom kellybyrom@yahoo.com

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library. Tim’s friend Eric, who was staying with the family temporarily, was attending an electrician’s class. Kacie was chatting with Scott about her day, when Dave called. Dave had told her he was driving to Arkansas to be with his aunt, who was near death. Kacie was sympathetic and consoled him. At 9:41 pm, she broke off the chat with Scott abruptly without logging off. Scott was alarmed, and continued to attempt to contact her, begging her to answer. Finally, he called her home phone at 10:30, begging her to pick up. When Tim and Eric came home they realized Kacie was gone. They saw her interrupted chat with Scott on her computer, and contacted Scott. Scott was still awake, although it was late, and he told them what he knew. They knew that Kacie had not left the house willingly because they found her crumpled glasses and her shoes near her computer, and both of her coats were in the house. The search for Kacie started in the middle of the night on December 3rd.

Right away the State Police and the FBI identified Dave, Kacie’s internet friend, as the prime suspect, and it did not take them long to track him down. He had made several calls to Kacie, and was quickly identified. Dave, whom everyone thought was a 18 year old boy from San Diego, turned out to be a 47 year-old man from La Mesa. He had become obsessed with Kacie, gained her confidence, and had been in the area for several days. He had rented a minivan, and a storage facility, and on the night of December 3rd, went to Kacie’s home, silenced her with chloroform, carried her into the minivan, then to the storage facility.

When the police approached the facility, they heard a gunshot, and called in a swat team.

They waited several hours, and finally opened the door of the storage facility. They found Dave’s body in the storage unit behind the van, and they found Kacie, bound hand and foot in the van. She had been raped and shot.

Everyone in our large extended family was numb with grief at the terrible news. There was no consolation for the loss of one of our own in such a terrible way. It required two funeral services to accommodate family and friends of a beautiful, trusting young girl, whose life was ended way too soon by an internet predator.

Jean Garland

Thank you PIPOA I just want to say thank you to the PIPOA for their efforts to keep our neighborhood clean and in good repair with the recent letter they sent reminding us of the guidelines. This can only help to keep our property values up and make our island a great place to live. I along with many, who I believe are the silent majority, applaud their efforts to keep and enforce the rules and restrictions present in the covenants when we purchased our property. Thank you and keep up the good work!

Jacqueline Carlson, Island Resident

Great Beach Conditions After the Wind Wow! I just came back from my morning walk at the seawall and after 30 hours of 30 mph winds the beach looks great. The waters edge is clean, the sand berm is still in place, no standing water and the driving lane still looks good. If I just rolled into town with my family for a five day stay at the beach I would be a happy camper.

The only negatives I saw were some missing trash barrels and a little sand against the seawall face. Nothing a mid-rail on the trash corral or hanging spikes on the corral posts wouldn’t correct. A single pass along the lower step of the seawall with a motor grader and the beach is back to pre windstorm conditions. Pretty amazing given the brutal wind conditions for the last day and a half.

Congratulations to the city beach crew for their great work.

Terry Leber island resident and daily beach walker

Human Peace Sign Save the date! March 12th, Horace Caldwell Pier, between mile marks E & F. 5pm. Family Friendly Flash Mob Peace Sign. This event will send a message to our Spring Breakers & The World that Port A is a place of Peace! Please invite any and all photographers, musicians, your neighbors and your friends

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Between Waves: An Island Artist Collective featuring Padre Island artists Jennifer Seymour and Michelle Stevenson will be on display and for sale at the Island Time Sushi the month of March. There will be a Meet Your Island Artists Reception there on Saturday, March 3rd 7 – 9 pm.

Garage Sale at 15002 Dasmarinas Drive on Friday and Saturday this weekend starting at 9 am until supplies last. Highlights include a power wheel chair, a pottery barn kids table, two wingback chairs, a sofa and much more.

Business Briefs A La Mode Gelateria near Scuttlebutt’s in the former Island Yogurt Shop location is now open. Chef Vita who writes the food column in the Moon and Gail Huesmann are the owners. Along with the gelato items they are also serving waffles, crepes, paninis, bagels and croissants. Some of the toppings are prosciutto & pear, smoked salmon & onion, Sicilian slammer and Caprese. In addition they serve cookies, muffins, Danish, parfait, fruit cups and salad. Hours are 11 am – 8 pm Wednesday – Sunday. Chef Vita gave my column credit for her new enterprise.

She read about the yogurt shop closing and contacted the landlord and within 30 days had her lease. Great to hear she heard about it on Did Ya’ Hear?

Snoopy’s is having their last weekend of a dozen oysters for $7.50 so “scoop” them up while you can 5 pm until they run out on Friday and Saturday.

Physicians Premier ER has opened their newest location at SPID and Ennis Joslin.

They are open 24/7 and are the closest ER to the Island. You receive immediate care in a comfortable upscale environment with all the latest technology. A very different experience than one at a hospital Emergency Room. Call 980-0911 for more info.

Mikel May’s at Bob Hall Pier has Friday Night Jazz 6:30 – 10:30 pm with Victoria Majors, Eddie Olivarez on saxophone and Paul Taylor vocals and keys.

Eat’s Restaurant in Port A has a unbelievable variety of breakfast dishes such as pastrami hash, meatloaf and eggs, salmon and spinach crepes and avocado toast topped with tomatoes, bacon, feta cheese and two fried eggs. For lunch they have dishes like mom used to make like chicken pot pie, ranch casserole and Southern style meatloaf. They are located next to the Desserted Island Ice Cream shop in the pink building.

The Port Aransas Garden Club Fashions and Flip Flops Style Show will take place on Thursday 3 March at the Port Aransas Civic Center located at Avenue A and Cutoff Road. Doors will open at 1:00 PM and the runway show will start promptly at 2:30.

The $25 ticket is available at A Mano, Port A Outfitters, Salt Grass Boutique, Coastal Closet, Island Woman, Fish Tales, Cypress Tree Boutique, JoD’s ETC, C&G Sisters Island Boutique, Gratitude, Raggdoll and Raggdoll Too on Padre Island.

The Annual Billy Sandifer Big Shell Clean-up will start at 8 am Saturday, February 27th at the PINS Malaquite Visitor Center and run until 2 pm. If you have a 2 or 4-wheel drive bring it along to help shuttle others to Big Shell.

Bingo will be held at the Veranda Restaurant Thursdays 7 – 9 pm from March 10th until April 14th to benefit Beautify Corpus Christi and the American Diabetes Association. Cash donation/admission will be $5 plus cost of bingo cards. A special menu will be available for bingo players.

The Island Strategic Action Committee monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday, march 1st 5:30 pm at the Holiday Inn. On the agenda is a discussion about a traffic light at Verdemar and SPID, improvements for Billish Park and the water exchange bridge.

The Annual Padre Homeowners Association meeting will be held on Saturday, March 12th at 10 am at the Seashore Learning Center Gym on Encantada.

Litter Critter will be at the end of Whitecap Saturday, February 27th 7 am – 4 pm.

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History continued from A1

Traveling for Spring Break? Don’t get burned by travel deals

By Kelly Trevino, Regional Director, Coastal Bend Better Business Bureau With spring break only a few weeks away, now is the time to finalize your vacation plans.

Whether your destination promises a relaxing week on the beach or the ski slopes, Better Business Bureau serving Central, Coastal, Southwest Texas, and the Permian Basin advises you do your research before booking your next vacation.

A travel company can make the process of booking your spring vacation quick and easy.

But using the wrong one could turn your vacation into a nightmare.

Sheriff's deputies remove George Parr's body from his car after Parr's Suicide at Los Horcones Ranch, April 1, 1975 Meanwhile in a suite in the Driskill Hotel in downtown Austin Governor O’Daniel, Coke Stevenson former governor Pa Ferguson, the first Texas governor ever impeached for taking bribes, knew exactly how many votes they needed to “find” in order to overtake Johnson.

By July, two months after the election O’Daniel was declared the winner by 1311 votes out of more than 600,000 cast. By 1948 Connelly had learned his lesson and instructed his South Texas campaign operatives to understate their early returns in the vote canvassing and not call them in to the Texas Election Bureau because, he claimed, "we had been bitten once. It would not happen again."

Charm a handkerchief out of a silkworm The 1948 race had ten candidates including Stevenson who when asked to recall his greatest decision in office replied, “Never had any” and he was not shy about stating his racist views to anyone who asked. For his part Johnson buzzed his way around the district in a small helicopter

have to come from Alice, which was where Precinct 13 was located. According to Clark the more voting precincts Parr used to “find” votes the more people would have to know about the plan and in a county where his Parr’s power was not absolute the more the risk of exposure of the plan.

While the votes from Box 13 were not called in to state party authorities, they were reported to the Texas Election Bureau one hour after the polls closed on election night and printed by the Alice newspaper. The tally showed 765 for Johnson 60 for Stevenson. But six days later when the vote count was supplied to the Democratic Executive Committee Johnson’s tally showed 965 – the 7 had become a 9 and Johnson picked up 200 additional votes. When Stevenson drove to Alice he was refused copies of the voting records but was told he could look at them but not take notes. What he saw was that the names of the first 841 voters listed were written in black ink, with the remainder – the 200 Johnson needed to win, written in blue ink.

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George Parr's house, built in 1927 just outside San Diego, on the Benavides Highway which the press dubbed Johnson’s Windmill and could “charm a handkerchief out of a silkworm,” according to Connelly.

When it came time to count the votes Connelly instructed the precinct chairmen in South Texas to hold their vote totals back until they saw the totals from around the state; they, like O’Daniel’s men in 1941, wanted a stationary target as they went looking for the votes needed to win. At midnight on Saturday, August 28, the Texas Election Bureau’s unofficial returns gave Stevenson a lead of 1894 votes. As the story emerged it was learned that George Parr, the South Texas political boss known as the Duke of Duval, who had backed Johnson in the race, had in fact delivered all but four votes for Johnson in Duval but when it came to voters in Duval County, Parr was tapped out; he had voted every man, woman, and in some cases child in his county and produced 4662 votes for Johnson and, just to make it seem fair, four for Stevenson. There was no way to squeeze out 200 more votes in Duval County.

But Parr did not get to be Duke of Duval by not being resourceful. While his power base was in Duval County he was not without connections in Alice, the county seat of Jim Wells County, where he was the President and principle shareholder of the Texas State Bank.

But his influence did not extend much outside of the hamlet of Alice according to prosecutor John E. Clark who later prosecuted the Parrs, in his book The Fall of the Duke of Duval. So any votes Parr found in Jim Wells County would

Furthermore, the 7 in the vote total of 765 votes had been written over with in ink to form a 9.

And equally suspicious was the fact that the names of all the voters listed after number 841 were in alphabetical order.

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While Stevenson and his friends went about contacting voters whose names appeared in the list of the final 200 voters – all of whom said they did not vote – Johnson set about getting an injunction in Jim Wells County ordering Stevenson to stop “eliminating or attempting to eliminate any votes on the ground of illegality, irregularity, or fraud…”

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A theft outside a tavern When the dust finally settled Johnson won the election by 87 votes out of nearly one million cast. Lawsuits and accusations flew and an investigation was launched in Jim Wells County where the law required that three copies of the voting list were to be kept on file.

Subpoenas were issued and it was found that the former Secretary of the County Democratic Executive Committee had given his copy to the current party secretary who worked at the bank owned by George Parr, who according to his wife had disappeared that very morning for parts unknown and had later phoned from “somewhere in Mexico.”

The second copy of the list, as required by law, had been in the possession of one Luis Salas, the Election Judge of Precinct 13 who testified on the very day the lawsuit challenging the election was filed that he had left it in his car outside a tavern where he was drinking beer and when he came out it was gone.

So the final copy of the voters in Box 13 was the one inside the actual ballot box when it was opened by the judge in the case it was gone too! Three lists required but none that could be found.

Salas, who had been a pistolero for Pancho Villa and later was commissioned as a deputy in three counties by Parr, said years later he and Johnson had been present when the order was given by Parr to add the votes to the Jim Wells rolls. In 1973 when Parr was on trial for income tax evasion he told his San Antonio attorney Anthony Nicholas that he was in “direct phone contact” with Johnson in the days after the 1948 election and Johnson told him how many votes to add to his total to win the election.

But it was all too little too late and Johnson became the junior Senator from Texas, George Parr shot himself with a shotgun on George Parr in 1936, just before being sent to prison for his Los Horcones Ranch while facing prison time in 1975, and ten months for tax eveasion the rest, as they say is history.

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Sailing with Phil

America’s Rivers

Editor’s note: San Antonio attorney, former judge, and former San Antonio Mayor Phil Hardberger is an avid sailor who for many years kept his boat in Port Aransas. He chronicled his sailing adventures for the San Antonio ExpressNews and we reprint this article with their permission.

By Phil Hardberger We met three young men from the Minneapolis area who were floating down the river on a homemade raft to New Orleans, a distance of 1,700 miles that reminded us of Huckleberry Finn,. It was a true raft, the flotation device being plastic barrels, bound together by metal straps. Upon the top of the barrels was a plywood floor. Two by four planks supported a tarp covering to protect the crew against sun and rain. Somewhat, I might add. Their only nod to modern times was a 10-horse outboard motor to maneuver their way out of the path of oncoming barges, and a hand-held GPS. When we met them they were about half-way to New Orleans, and being propelled along at 5 MPH by the current. They were sunburned and flybitten, but they looked happy. I almost lost Eugene, who wanted to abandon Aimless and join the raft crew. If he ever disappears from San Antonio, I’m pretty sure I’ll know where to find him.

Tennessee River In addition to the Mississippi, I thoroughly enjoyed all of the eight America’s rivers we traversed. They each have their own personalities and all are beautiful. The Tennessee River was the most beautiful. The white limestone cliffs, the clear water, the 60 foot trees are beguiling.

I can see why many sailors who have roamed the world’s seas and our own rivers “swallow the anchor” and retire to the banks of the Tennessee River, spending the remainder of their days watching this gracious water make its way to the Mississippi. I was impressed enough with the Tennessee River to invite my sister, Jan Peranteau, of San Antonio, to join us for five days of lazy cruising up and down the river just for the sheer beauty and exuberance of the landscape. This was the only time of the trip that we didn’t try to go anywhere. We just

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enjoyed ourselves and justified the name of our boat, Aimless.

The Illinois The size of these rivers is surprising. They are all big, a half-mile width not unusual. They are also deep, up to 200 feet in places. Generally they are richly wooded. Industrial sites are few—mostly it is virgin country with nothing but an occasional passing boat. A chorus of birds was heard every time we stopped, fish would jump, frogs would give guttural love calls and all was still. We swam, we ate, we slept, and thus the days passed.

By Brent Rourk Our sandbar has several groups of extraordinary young people, and we have made efforts to write about their status, leadership, and activities.

One of those groups is the Boy Scout Troop 949 under the leadership of Garrett Dorsey.

Comprised of Islanders this group of fine boys has contributed to Island activities and is dedicated to promoting leadership in the future.

Our last river was the Illinois, which joins the Mississippi on one end and Lake Michigan on the other. We left the Mississippi there, and turned north toward Chicago, some 350 miles away. To our pleasant surprise, we found the Illinois River pastoral, with so many beautiful anchorages on the backsides of islands, and in oxbows that we were constantly tempted to call it a day well short of our planned anchorage. We greatly preferred anchorages to marinas for the entire trip because of the serenity and beauty.

Most nights were spent peacefully swinging on our anchor with no sign of civilization. Stars take on a new meaning so far away from light pollution, and only nature’s night sounds can be heard. Time and the river flowing away to some distant and unknowable place.

We sailed past Peoria, the home of Caterpillar and approximately half-way to Chicago on the Illinois River. For some obscure reason, Peoria has become the town where America’s values get hammered out. “What will the people in Peoria think about this?” commentators gravely ask. And politicians adjust their positions accordingly. We did not stop: partly because Peoria Lake is uncomfortably shallow, and, to be honest, I did not feel a compelling interest to know what “they thought in Peoria.” I’m more interested in knowing what they think in Floresville, or Hebbronville.

The city of Joliet has recently built free docks beside a city park for passing boats, such as ourselves.

Joliet, for whatever reason, has a bad reputation among boaters though, for theft and other unpleasantness. There is a state prison there and there have also been race riots. We were advised to notify the Police Department if were going to moor in the public docks overnight. We did so, and the police did not sound surprised. In fact, they said they would keep an eye on us, and did so. We experienced nothing unpleasant. In fact, the deep, damp smell of the river and the lovely park alongside was most agreeable.

Local Kiwanis Club of Padre Island Makes Donation to Troop 949 At a recent monthly meeting Troop 949 was presented with a check for $500 from the Kiwanis Club of Padre Island. Leader Dorsey commented, “The donation will help fil gaps for events and campouts. The Scouts work towards raising their own money and donations will supplement those fund raisers.”

Kiwanis member Nancy Ludlow was in attendance during the presentation of the $500 donation to Troop 949 and stated, “The Kiwanis Club would just like the community to know how much we appreciate their support. Whether you are purchasing nuts or attending bingo, you are giving us the resources we need to make a difference. Tonight we presented Boy Scout Troop 949 a check to help them attain their goals. Thank you for helping us to help others.”

Troop 949 Dorsey continued, “The goal of Scouting is to build leadership and fiscal responsibility.

The Scouts are in charge of funding their own troop. Donations like this will help fund trips and events.”

Through leadership, Scouting promotes service to the community and the Scouts of Troop 949 have historically been heavily involved in helping our community.

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Troop 949 (Big Brother to PAC 949 Cub Scouts) is a vital part of the community, participating in Island events such as the beach clean-ups and recently Mardi Gras 2016. In addition to those activities, several Boy Scouts have accomplished significant Eagle Scout Projects here on the Island and in Corpus Christi. Seeing the role the Boy Scouts play in the community and understanding their financial needs, it made sense for the Kiwanis to help support the local Boy Scouts.

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Troop 949 is planning a fundraiser car wash for Islanders at Seashore Middle Academy on Saturday March 12th. These boys give their all in whatever endeavor they choose, so look forward to a satisfactory car wash.

Scouting In days when some people think it fair game to criticize Scouting or consider it old fashioned or for ‘nerd’ kids, Scouting across America (including our Island) keeps producing young men who have not only learned to survive outdoors, but who have learned how to become community leaders, how to live and model values like kindness, sincerity, and helping others, and who have made their communities better places to live.

Currently 2.4 million Scouts and 1 million volunteers continue to make the Boy Scouts of America an organization that builds, not destroys, that promotes good, not attacks it, and that makes communities safer, not bastions of violence and danger.

The following men were Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, or both: Neil Armstrong, Michael Jorden, Steven Spielberg, Jimmy Buffet, Martin Luther King Jr., George Strait, John F. Kennedy, Hank Aaron, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, George Takei, George W. Bush, John Wayne, Harrison Ford, James Stewart, Barack Obama, Buzz Aldrin, Ozzie Nelson, Gerald Ford, Walter Kronkite, Richard Gere, Nolan Ryan, Sam Walton, and Andy Griffith.

That is only a beginning list of people who have positively impacted virtually every aspect of our world. There are so many others who enjoyed Scouting and who learned and who grew from their Scouting experiences. They became leaders.

A few years ago I was asked by a young Islander if he could use me as a reference. This young man was applying to one of our branches of military service. One morning about two months later I heard a knock on my door and a man identified himself as one who needed to obtain more information from me about the young man applying for military service. I sincerely had only positive things to say about the young man and when I mentioned that he was a successful Eagle Scout, the person questioning me stopped, looked up at me, and shook his head yes. I had just given him one of the highest recommendations possible, that the candidate was an Eagle Scout. The interview was over and the young Islander was accepted into the military.

How can one not support Scouting? Hats off to all of those Scouts (Boy Scout, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts) who make our world a better place and who strive to become tomorrow’s leaders. We need them, especially our Island Scouts! Hats off also to the Kiwanis Club of Padre Island for recognizing our Island Scouts and supporting them.

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By Dale Rankin There are a lot of thing going on our Island, here are some of them.

Spring Break at Schlitterbahn If you are planning on taking the kids to the Schlitterbahn waterpark for Spring Break you might want to first check the Facebook page for “Bahn Bash 2016.”

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The event runs from March 11-19 and among the other things listed on the events schedule is: “Saturday, March 12, 2016 is the Welcome to the Bahn Bash Party with the "Vegas" Pool Parties, DJs, Bikini Contests, Hard Body Contests and much more.”

Some of the events listed should be fine for kids but others not so much. If you plan on going to the park with kids some research might be in order.

Water Exchange Bridge The push for final approval of the proposed SPID/Park Road 22 Water Exchange Bridge has apparently stalled out.

For the last several months city staff has come to the Island Strategic Action Committee meetings on The Island and told the committee that the final major permitting hurdle, a hearing on the Environmental Assessment, is “weeks away” but as of this writing no hearing has been scheduled and no timetable has been suggested for when it might happen.

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Also hanging fire is a letter of understanding between the city and developer Paul

Schexnailder to make sure that the bridge is built in conjunction with the canals leading up to either side of it from Schexnailder’s land.

As of this writing Schexnailder is within a week of beginning work on dredging around Lake Padre on the east side of SPID and estimates are that the earth work there will take about one hundred days. At the rate of pace that the bridge permitting has been going it seems doubtful that it will be done by the time the digging of the canals is complete.

The city had a built in excuse for doing nothing as long as Schexnailder lacked his Corps of Engineers permit, but he received it last October and since then there has been no movement on the city’s side nor does there seem to be any observable plan for movement.

Mayor Nelda Martinez stressed the importance of the Water Exchange Bridge in her State of the City Address last week and she is right; the bridge is the link between developments on both sides of the road. The funding mechanism is (roughly) in place, the work adjacent to the bridge is imminent, but planning for the bridge seems to be stuck.

Maybe there will be some movement when city staffers brief ISAC members at their next meeting on Tuesday, March 1, 5:30 p.m. at Holiday Inn. Also on the agenda, discussion about a new traffic light at SPID and Verdemar, the Area Development Plan for Padre Island, and an update on planned improvements at Billish Park.

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Fires continued from A1 • The campfire is at least fifty (50) two hundred and fifty (250) feet from any permanent structure, at least seventy-five (75) feet from any vegetation line or dune, and at least twenty-five (25) feet from any vehicle with combustible fuel; and.; and However, a campfire constructed adjacent to the Packery Channel rock jetties is not prohibited by this subsection.

campfire may not be constructed with pallets, plastics, furniture, or any objects that leave metal or other hazardous residue.

• The prevailing wind will not blow embers into or beyond the dunes. Any wind coming from between the easterly and southerly direction that exceeds twenty (20) miles per hour as reported by the National Weather Service at the Corpus Christi Airport is considered capable of blowing embers into and beyond the dunes.

• A person convicted of an offense for a violation of any provision of this chapter shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00). Each day any violation of this chapter shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.

• Embers from the campfire do not reach dune vegetation. The prevailing wind will not blow embers into or beyond the dunes. Any wind coming from between the easterly and southerly direction that exceeds twenty (20) miles per hour as reported by the National Weather Service at the Corpus Christi Airport is considered capable of blowing embers into and beyond the dunes.

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• All campfires must be extinguished when no longer in use. No hot embers may be left on or buried in the sand. Embers must be thoroughly doused with water and cool to the touch before the person who built the campfire leaves the site. “

• Any person who violates either the Dune Protection Act, the Open Beaches Act, the regulations issued by the general land office under either act, or a permit or certificate condition is liable for a civil penalty of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per violation per day. Each day the violation occurs or continues constitutes a separate violation. Violations of the Dune Protection Act, the Open Beaches Act, and the rules adopted pursuant to those statutes are separate violations.

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Backwater Adventures

On the Rocks

Spring is in the Air

By Jay Gardner

By Joey Farah Farah’s Fishing Adventures The winter hump is definitely behind us and spring is in the air.

I've been surfing with no wet suit the last few times I have been in the water. The last of the sweeping north winds are going to chill us a bit but spring has defiantly bounded out of the gate this year. During the last new moon large numbers of shrimp moved into the bay systems, as well as masses of mud worms, crabs, and eels. These creatures move under the protection of the darkest of nights. This week was the full moon and with it came the second wave of life, the baitfish that follow and depend on those Island resident Ed worked overtime to land this giant under mud creatures. Gamefish 40lb Baffin Bay drum this week. We were fishing in five came with them and trout and feet of water close to a rock pile on the north shoreline. redfish are abundant through out the bays now. Any stop along the ICW with live shrimp is going to bring action.

At times the amount of bait stealers can be too much. Use cut bait small minnows or cut crab and sea live to target larger fish. Working the flats close to the channel is key in following the schools of fish that are along these bait balls of life flowing into the back reaches of the bays.

I've been drifting areas with live shrimp and popping corks that are showing sea gulls sitting on the water and catching trout with ease. The deeper grass beds along the king ranch are still Ed and Lou are holding two of plenty of producing 50-100 trout a day on soft plastics. good keepers sized drum that are easy Our big trophy trout fishing days have consisted

pickings right now during the DRUM RUN! Farah

in hunting those big girls in shallow water with top waters and soft plastics. If you are interested in doing some meat haul fishing we can catch combinations of drum trout sheep head and drum all in one day. If technique is what you want to work on lets go play with artificial and you can fine tune your game. For those of you wanting to hunt that trout of a lifetime we can walk together like stalking cats picking through the secret pockets of Baffin, dancing top waters.

If wading isn't your game I have an ultra shallow boat that we will be drifting silently across the bottom waiting to see the exciting explosion of frothy water and the silver face of a giant trout.

What ever your heart is begging you to do, don't wait the calendar is filling up every day and I love taking my ISLAND FAMILY out and helping them fall back in love with our home.

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This is a giant sand trout we caught on soft plastics. They are thick in the deep channels of the Boat Hole. Live shrimp or small pieces of cut bait can get them schooling up around your boat.

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Wow, that last front really whipped through the coastal bend the other day! The west and northwest wind piled water up against shorelines and ultimately pushed it out of the bays into the Gulf. This caused a second flushing of the passes, and hopefully it scoured Cedar Bayou out pretty good. Back in November, there were actually two passes at Cedar Bayou, with it being split around the mouth of Vinson Slough. John Blaha sent us a shot out of the plane a few months back, and we’re wondering how it looks these days. Kind of exciting watching her live and breathe like that from the air. I got a really good report from our buddy from the north (Rockport), Jay Tarkington, that he witnessed a couple of whooping cranes using the Vincent Slough portion of the Cedar Bayou area. That’s really the paramount goal of the USFWS in regards to the reopening of the pass, that it would be used by the whooping cranes.

Well, the canary in the coal mine is singing loud and clear, and the pass is working out great. I would consider the project a success without a doubt.

weather looks great this weekend. I will be leading one of the last sections, so come on out and let’s do this.

I would like to remind everyone of the new regulations for campfires on City beaches.

Through the sub-committee work and recommendations at the Watershore and Beach Advisory Committee, the City Council recently changed the ordinances regarding beach fires.

People will no longer be allowed to burn pallets, couches, refrigerators, vehicles, or anything else that will leave metal or anything besides ashes in the fire. People are tired of rusty nails all over the place, and kids shouldn’t have to worry about that. There are also new restrictions regarding the distance from the fire to structures, such as hotels (250 feet) and life guard stands and vehicles (25 feet). In addition, campfires will be required to be extinguished and covered before you leave. These changes represent common sense at the end of the day, and what the new ordinance does is provide to law enforcement the means to control how folks build, maintain, and eventually leave their fires. At the end of the day, there is nothing exceedingly restrictive about the new rules, and we’ve had way too many grass fires on the Island lately, and it’s even been a really wet year. Please take heed of the new regulations, although I’m sure you loyal readers already comply with the new regulations anyway.

Another change that’s come about for the better is the amount of trash on the beaches. Believe it or not, there is less trash on some of the beaches than there used to be. While many of you will be quick to shout out that I’m wrong and that there’s trash all over the place everywhere, all the time, I believe your memory is a little rose-colored about the condition of the beaches, or you’re relatively new to the area and don’t know what the Padre Island National Seashore looked like in the 80’s.

The beach used to be piled high with multiple colors of plastic from all over the world, plus the usual litter that was dumped. Social media and new international laws on dumping are having an effect; you’ll have to believe me. The beaches are in better shape, but they still Cedar Bayou February 2016 courtesty of John Blaha need some help. So, if it’s not too late, Well, Spring break is around the corner and load up the kids in the 4X4 and head out to the the beach crews are all busy getting the beaches 21st annual Billy Sandifer Big Shell Cleanup ready for the onslaught. For those of you that this weekend (Saturday, February 27th) starting continue to find controversy with the content at 8am (please arrive by 7:45am) and help go in my article, continue to send me emails at down the beach, pick up and haul off the trash tarponchaser@mail.com there’s been some that’s there. Again, gloves and sunscreen will really solid, constructive discussions. Good be provided, please wear sturdy shoes, and then stuff. Congrats to Pam and Keith on their recent afterwards t-shirts, pizza, and hotdogs will be trip, and I will see you all crazies ON the rocks. provided to the volunteers. I look forward to But not PAST the rocks, like they did in the pick seeing all of you loyal readers out there as the up last week. LOL

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By Dotson Lewis Special to the Island Moon Dotson’s Note: For years I have believed that Bob Cousy was the best basketball player I had ever seen play. Over the past couple of seasons, I have watched and heard of the unbelievable basketball skills of one Seth Curry who plays for the Golden State Warriors and is the reigning NBA VIP. I am now in the process of comparing Cousy & Curry. If I change my choice of who is the best basketball player that ever played the game, I will let all of your Moon Monkeys know.

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primarily off the bench, and his ability to come into the game as an instant scoring threat made him a major component of the brand-new team’s game plan. In his time in Charlotte, Dell established himself as one of the franchise’s leaders in points, games played, three-point field goals made and attempted, and three-point field goal percentage. He was named the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year for the 1993-94 season. Dell wrapped up his NBA career with stints in Milwaukee and Toronto before retiring in 2002.

Sonya and Dell Curry and Family

Steph Curry is the hottest player in the NBA right now, draining three-pointers with the same ease as taking his next breath and now he has the Golden State Warriors on the way to another NBA championship.

There’s a reason Steph is so dominant on the court and it begins with his parents. Here’s what you may not know about the long-time pair:

They Have 3 Kids Together & Athletic Talent Runs Deep in the Family They Met at Virginia Tech & Have Been Married Since 1988 The pair both grew up in Virginia and met at Virginia Tech in the 1980’s when Dell was a standout for the Hokies’ basketball team and Sonya was a volleyball player.

Sonya was a freshman and Dell was a junior when, as the story goes, he first asked her out after one of his games. Sonya, who stands at 5-foot-3, an almost unheard of height for a volleyball player, had attracted Dell’s attentions for the majority of her freshman year and once he asked her out on that first date, the path to romance was all but built.

They were married in 1988 and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina after Dell was selected by the Charlotte Hornets in the NBA expansion draft that year.

After moving to Charlotte in 1998, Sonya and Dell started a family. They have three children together; sons Seth and Steph and daughter Sydel.

Stephen, the oldest, attracts the most attention with his current record-breaking NBA career.

After a standout, if not unexpected, college career at Davidson, Seth was selected seventh overall by the Golden State Warriors in the 2009 NBA Draft. Currently he is averaging 29.7 points per game, and shooting 50.5% from the field.

Middle child Seth has also found success on the hardwood. The former Duke guard is also playing NBA basketball, with the Sacramento Kings. Sydel, who joins Sonya in the stands for several Warriors games, was the captain of her high school volleyball team and now plays at Elon University. All three children attended the Charlotte Christian School.

As Steph Curry tries to keep bringing the Warriors to NBA glory, his beautiful wife, Ayesha, also comes under the media's spotlight, as well as their two young daughters, Riley (2 &1/2 years old) and Ryan (7 months)

Dell Curry Played in the NBA for More Than 15 Years Following a four-year career at Virginia Tech, the 6-foot-4 Dell was selected 15th overall by the Utah Jazz in the 1986 NBA Draft. He played

The early days of the NBA were not quite as stringent as they are today. If you could scrape up $3,000, you could pay a team to come play you at a different location. There was no shot clock or three-point shot. Hershey was the training camp site for Wilt Chamberlain and the Philadelphia Warriors. Their opponents this night would travel from New York City and call themselves the Knickerbockers. It was March 2, 1962, and a ticket for the game could be had for $2.00.

Wilt was 25 years old and lived in New York City, even though he played in Philadelphia. So, he drove to Philly and then rode the team bus to Hershey. “I was tired when we got there,” said Wilt. No one was prepared to experience what would happen that night, especially the Knicks.

Since the game was played in Hershey, only one reporter showed up, Harvey Pollack. He was also the scorekeeper. Wilt made virtually every shot he took that night. He had 23 points at the end of the first quarter. Knicks’ center, Darrall Imhoff, was no match for Wilt, so the Knicks fouled him. Wilt made 13 of 14 free throws and had 41 points by halftime. Warriors’ coach, Frank McGuire, spurred his big center to continue dominating.

Sonya & Dell Curry

Curry didn’t get to this point by accident though. The league MVP comes from a long line of athletic talent. His father, Dell Curry, 51, was a standout with the Charlotte Hornets and his mother, Sonya, 49, whose courtside presence has often been the talk of Twitter, was a volleyball star in her own right.

By Andy Purvis Special to the Island Moon Nearly all of the 4,000 in attendance stormed the court. Grown men were crying and others acting like children. The impossible had happened in the city known for chocolate, Hershey, Pennsylvania. The problem was there were still 46 seconds to go in the game.

Pop steps in During the NBA All Star game in Toronto, Paul George of the Indiana Pacers had scored 41 points for the East AllStar squad, in what was seen as a “playground game” void of any defense, whatsoever. Gregg Popovich, Head Coach of the San Antonio Spurs and coach of the West All-Stars was aware that Wilt Chamberlain owned the AllStar Game scoring record by an individual at 42 points. To protect Chamberlain and NBA history, Popovich placed two guys on George to make sure he did not get the record “on the cheap.” “Pop’s” move worked.

“The Dipper,” the nickname his dad gave him, played at Overbrook High School, located in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and once scored 90 points in 28 minutes. During Wilt’s senior year, he was recruited by more than 200 colleges and universities. He would attend the University of Kansas and score 52 points in his first game, still a record. Kansas played the University of North Carolina for the 1957 NCAA title. After losing the final, 54-53 in triple overtime, Wilt left Kansas before his senior year and joined the Harlem Globetrotters, in 1958. A year later, he joined the Warriors of the NBA. Chamberlain versus Russell would become one of the most anticipated match-ups in history.

Sonya Is a Sideline Fixture for the Golden State Warriors Sonya Was a High School State Champion in Volleyball & Basketball Athletic talent runs deep in the Curry family and mom Sonya is not to be left out of that group.

Prior to playing volleyball at Virginia Tech, Sonya was a standout in multiple sports at Radford High School in Virginia. She won state titles in both volleyball and basketball during her high school athletic career before becoming a Hokie in the 1980’s. Sonya was named an AllMetro Conference honoree as a setter during her time at VT, where she also majored in elementary education.

She has consistently helped her children in their respective athletic careers, including helping Steph with his agility and quickness with a makeshift backyard boot camp in middle school. It was something the then-teenager didn’t appreciate but now credits with helping him achieve his current NBA all-star status.

Steph said in 2013, “A lot of people say whatever defensive abilities I have, I get from her, my toughness and grittiness. I hated it, but it taught me work ethic.”

Never one to shy away from athletics, or being there for her family, Sonya was also a volunteer assistant coach for the Charlotte Christian School volleyball team when daughter Sydel played there.

Steph Curry's mom nearly breaks Twitter when she shown on TV multiple times during the Golden State Warriors games.

Sonya & Dell Founded a Montessori School in North Carolina They founded the Christian Montessori School at Lake Norman in 1995. It is one of the few Christian Montessori schools in the southeastern United States.

The school was a family affair for the Currys, with all three children attending the school.

Sonya ran the school while, according to Seth, their aunt was a teacher and their grandmother was the cook. Montessori schools, including the one run by the Currys, focus on independence in education with mixed age classrooms and

Dell and Seth share a laugh during the Degree Shooting Stars Competition as part of the 2015 All-Star weekend in Brooklyn.

Approaching 100 By the end of the third quarter, Wilt had 69 points and the fans became restless. It made no difference who guarded Chamberlain. Wilt set the new NBA scoring record when he reached 79 points in the fourth quarter. Everyone realized what could happen, and the Knicks became upset and were trying to save face. So, New York slowed the ball down and tried to stall. McGuire realized what was happening and instructed his team to foul so they could get the ball back, back to Wilt. With 46 seconds left on the clock, teammate Joe Ruklick passed Wilt the ball. Wilton Norman Chamberlain turned and scored his 100th point of the night, the first and only time it has been done.

The game was eventually finished and Wilt retired with his team to the dressing room.

Harvey Pollack borrowed a piece of copy paper and wrote 100 in big numbers. He gave the paper to Wilt and asked him to hold it up for a picture. History had been made.

What happened to the ball has been debated all these years. One fan claims to have stolen the ball from Wilt during the celebration and said he took it home. Pollack, the reporter, claims he got it. The myth continues. Interestingly, Wilt hitched a ride with a couple of the Knicks’ players back to New York. It’s a wonder they would even speak to him.

Averaged 50 points How quickly we forget the past. Just a week removed for the NBA All-Star Game, you would think that the game had been invented by today’s players. How ridiculous. Wilt should be easy to remember. Here are a few facts to help you remember. During the 1961-62 NBA season, Wilt played every minute of 79 of the 80 games scheduled. He missed only eight minutes in one game, after being ejected. Wilt averaged over 50 points per game. A bad night for Chamberlain was 44 points. Michael Jordan scored 50 or more points 31 times in his career.

Wilt did it 45 times that season. Anything was possible for Wilt. Chamberlain once blocked 26 shots in one game against the Detroit Pistons. On one rainy night, Wilt hauled down 55 rebounds against Russell and the Boston Celtics. He won seven scoring titles, eleven rebounding titles, and even led the league in assists, one season. Wilt left the NBA in 1973 and he still holds 90 NBA records today, even though he hasn’t played in 43 years. How’s that?

Wilt and Russell Wilt Chamberlain played against Bill Russell 142 times during their career and changed the way basketball would be played forever.

Other players found themselves watching them, instead of paying attention to their own assignments. “Oh, we were competitive and everybody thought we hated each other. That was far from the truth,” said Bill Russell.

I met “Wilt the Stilt,” a name he hated, in Houston at a memorabilia show at the AstrosHall, next to the Astrodome. Bob Feller was also on hand. Wilt signed the photograph attached to this story for me. Standing 7’ 1” tall, his voice was incredibly deep, and his legs were too long for his body. He walked gently, from many knee surgeries. His #13 has been retired by five different teams.

Only one guy in the history of the game has scored 100 points in a single game, and don’t you forget it. His name is Wilt Chamberlain; he should have lived to be a hundred. Wilt left us on October 12, 1999, while sleeping. He had suffered from several heart problems, and his death was officially ruled a heart attack. Bill Russell cried.

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Sonya was the focus of a 2013 article on Montessori life and the entire family has been very outspoken about their devotion to faith throughout their respective careers.

Guard Dell Curry-1996 one season out west before playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers for another season in 1987.

When the NBA announced the addition of two new teams for the 1988-89 season, Dell was made available by the Cavs in the expansion draft and he was selected by the Charlotte Hornets. Suddenly, Dell found his basketballstride.

He played ten seasons for the Hornets, used

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