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This explosion was one of hundreds set off Thursday night at Lady Bird Municipal Park. Organizers ended a day of two parades and a patriotic program with a fireworks display that drew thousands to the park, while hundreds more watched from around the city. — Standard-Radio Post/Matt Ward

PATRIOTS YOUNG AND OLD — August Janc and his great grandpa, Boyd Moore, of Fredericksburg, celebrate July Fourth in style. — Standard-Radio Post/Lisa Treiber-Walter

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

SEATS OF HONOR — Among the 51 women veterans who served as grand marshals for the Fourth of July Parade on Thursday were, from left, Barbara Long, United States Air Force, Vietnam and Gulf eras; Marilyn Tatsch, U.S. Army, Vietnam era, and Angela Varga, U.S. Navy, peace time. More photos from the parade on C/D8. — StandardRadio Post/Yvonne Hartmann

DROWNING in “sax appeal,” the Sentimental Journey Orchestra led listeners down memory lane at Thursday’s patriotic program at Marktplatz. From left are saxophonists Ken Drefke, Bill King, Alex Ybarra and George Briscoe, all of San Antonio. Band leader Ted Conerly is visible in back. — Standard-Radio Post/Ken Esten Cooke

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Trustees study tougher penalties for drug use

FISD okays Program set for Wounded purchase of Warriors, therapy dogs 275 tablets

Supt. recommends more consequences, education, as well as study on closed-campus

Fredericksburg Independent School District trustees on Monday agreed to enter the tablet era of computing in hopes of eventually leveling the playing field between haves and have nots. Trustees okayed the purchase of 275 tablet computers to begin teacher training, and for use with some staff members, Supt. Marc Williamson said. Cost for the initial purchase was $161,000. “The infrastructure needs to be in place before we offer this to students and every staff member,” Williamson said. “We are negotiating with Time Warner for additional bandwidth (to accommodate increased needs).” Williamson said iPads or Dell tablets would be given

By Ken Esten Cooke In light of the spring overdose tragedy of a Fredericksburg High School student, school trustees are mulling changes to the student code of conduct. On Monday, Fredericksburg Independent School District Supt. Marc Williamson made suggestions to the board of trustees to strengthen what he said is a proactive policy. Trustees will study the suggestions and potentially offer others to

would let students offer anonyadopt at their next meeting. Continuing and expanding mous tips to increase policing the district’s use of drug dogs of drug use. The district also plans to proand drug testing of students is an option. New tests could be vide additional information to parents of expanded to include We have a large cadre of good Fredericksburg High m o r e kids, and they’re going to be d r u g s , upset because they will be affected by School stuWilliam- consequences of kids who are using.” dents about son said, — Supt. Marc Williamson, about s t u d e n t though drug use at possibility of a closed FHS campus c o s t s its studentmust be parent orientation and informational weighed against the benefits. The district also will consider meeting. This meeting will upgrading its Crime Stoppers be held at 6 p.m., Aug. 19, in program, a partnership with the FHS Auditorium, and will the local community crime include information from local Cont. on A/B3 prevention organization. That

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FHS ORIENTATION, PARENT INFO SESSION This year’s fall orientation and informational session for parents and students of Fredericksburg High School on Monday, Aug. 19, at 6 p.m., in the FHS Auditorium, will include more information on drug prevention programs. Topics include discus-

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sions from the Fredericksburg Police Department Chief of Police, a Crime Stoppers representative, and an official from the Texas Attorney General’s office. FHS Principal Ralf Halderman said he hoped more parents would attend.

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The healing bond between Wounded Warriors and therapy dogs will be on display free for visitors to see this Saturday, July 13, starting at 10 a.m. in the Admiral Nimitz Ballroom of the National Museum of the Pacific War. On hand will be representatives from Train A Dog Save A Warrior (TADSAW), along

Libation makers liberated New laws remove restrictions on breweries, brewpubs By Austin Eck The Texas Legislature passed a series of beer-related bills into law during their latest session. Both bills expanded how breweries and brewpubs could sell their products. Senate Bill 515 allows Brew-

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EXPLODING out of the gate, quarter horses surge ahead in the sixth race — a 110-yard dash — during Saturday’s July Fourth Weekend Race Meet at the Gillespie County Fair Grounds. Winning the jaunt was the Number 5 horse “Jeez,” while taking second and third were horses Number 8 “Ottyes Shiney Cuervo” and Number 10 “KoKo Cartel.” Over two days of racing, nearly 4,400 fans wagered $307,474 at the local track. The five-eighths mile oval will gear up for pari-mutuel action again on July 20-21 for the Fredericksburg Texas Fest Race Meet. Other summer race dates are Aug. 10-11 and Aug. 24-25. See complete results and a follow-up report in today’s edition, pages A/B1213. — Standard-Radio Post/Lisa Treiber-Walter

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pubs, like the Fredericksburg Brewing Company (FBC), to sell their beers to retailers and distributors. Before the law was passed, brewpubs could only sell their beers onsite in glasses, to-go cups or 64 ounce growlers. FBC will continue to sell their beer in the traditional ways while they consider future expansion. The FBC makes about 1,000

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with their four-legged friends and the military members they assist. The TADSAW program unites wounded servicemen, suffering with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,) with homeless, rescue shelter dogs, who are evaluated and deemed viable, to nurture a healing and reju-

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Gear head’s paradise Now in 37th year, Hill Country Auto Swap Meet draws thousands of grease monkeys, car collectors By Ken Esten Cooke When asked if he had any interest in his 1929 Chevrolet truck for sale, Bob Gilmore of College Station said he’d had a lot of “Be Backs.” “That’s what we call them,” he said. “They look at it and ask about purchasing, then say, ‘I’ll be back’.” Gilmore was among more than 700 vendors at the 36th Annual Hill Country Auto Swap Meet, held Friday through Sunday at Lady Bird Johnson Municipal Park and sponsored by the Fredericksburg Vintage Car Club. The event has grown so much that the entire nongolf course area of the park is taken up by vendor booths. Car lovers, mechanics, collectors and treasure hunters packed the parking areas and circled around checking out vendors that sold everything from transmissions, to license plates, to fully restored autos. “We’re don’t really cater to one specific era of car,” said Craig Lindig, chairman of the event. “The custom car work attracts a lot of people, but the club is more about vintage, original autos.” The “car corral,” seated in the middle of the vendor area, featured many makes and models of cars and nearly every stage of renovation. Members of the Fredericksburg Vintage Car Club spend more than a year putting together the event, sending out newsletters, traveling to other car shows and advertising in trade publications. Many vendors specialize in a particular sought-after item, such as door handles, wheels, vintage auto-related signage or license plates. Jessie Perez of San Antonio has been collecting license plates for more than 30 years. He is known as the go-to person for plates of every vintage. “I’m what they call a junk collector,” Perez said, joking. “’ve been collecting for 30 years. I started with license plates, magazines, signs and even old newspapers. I go to a different show around the nation almost every weekend, and people bring me plates nearly every day. They also come to me for information.” “People trust him and he can help them find what they’re looking for and give them a good price,” Lindig said. “He’s also referred a ton of people to the auto swap.” Jerry Whitsett of Canyon Lake has been coming to the auto show for years. People

CAN YOU HANDLE IT? Thousands of auto handles are spread out on a table at the auto swap.

EYEING ‘OLD BLUE’ – Billy Heimann of Kerrville checks out this 1929 Chevrolet Huckster, owned by Bob Gilmore of College Station. – Standard-Radio Post/Ken Esten Cooke

AUTO SWAP MEET Chairman Craig Lindig THIS GMC truck front might end up on a restoration job or lines up help to move a large part with John Greco of Helotes. as a wall decoration.

LICENSE PLATE man Jessie Perez of San Antonio poses by his Suburban, which is deco- WHILE SELLING parts from their 40-year collection, rated with thousands of license plate registra- Jerry and Merle Whitsett of Canyon Lake wave to friends they know from past auto swap meets. tion stickers.

ONLY $25,900 for this restored 1956 Studebaker pickup. know him as the man for an obscure part. “Now I’m just trying to sell for a guy who’s been collecting for 40 years,” he said with selfeffacing humor. Whitsett and Lindig have crossed paths as well. “I found he had a cruise control for a 1963 Chevy Impala I had needed for seven years,” Lindig said. “I kept seeing him at shows and he finally lowered the price and I bought it.”

Fredericksburg teen attends Camp Discovery Madison Torres, 14, of It’s a week of not focusing on Fredericksburg, was one of anything except hanging with the 155 campers who recently your best friends for a week.” attended Camp Discovery, a As a camper, each child had summer camp sponthe opportunity to sored by the American experience swimming, Cancer Society, canoeing, archery, tendesigned exclusively for nis, softball, dance, children with cancer. arts and crafts, nature Held July 21-27, and appreciation, storytelllocated in Kerrville, the ing around the campcamp allowed children fire — all the activities with cancer to adapt that make up a normal to a new environment summer camping expewhile meeting others in rience. Torres very similar situations. Volunteer counselors While having fun and helped these children learning new things, the chil- appreciate their capabilities dren also gained self-esteem while developing awareness and valuable life skills. and acceptance of their illness, Torres will be a freshman at while encouraging independent Fredericksburg High School. expression and interest. She has attended the camp for The American Cancer Society the past three summers. is a global grassroots force of “Camp is a great place to three million volunteers. ACS be ourselves,” Torres said. contributes more than $3.8 bil“Everyone has been through lion. cancer and knows what it’s like. To learn more, visit cancer.org.

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COMMENTARY COMMENTARY Health insurance ﬁasco driven by partisanship

50 YEARS

Congress out of touch with struggles of American families

In a period of rising prices and falling incomes, the only real option is to cut back. No wonder, too, you hear steadily rising complaints about low wages for workers at such places as Walmart and McDonald’s, f you are suffering sticker shock from especially when those companies are rackyour health insurance renewals, you are ing up healthy profits.” not alone. December 1 marked a popular renewal date for companies and indiHealth insurance costs are a huge part of viduals, and the botched rollout of the a family’s budget, and to that of employers Affordable Care Act, the “can-keep-it, who choose to provide it. A family’s contrican’t-keep-it” insurance dictums and the bution to health care insurance, coupled overall continuing rise of healthcare and with what an employer pitches in, can insurance costs is putting a strain on bud- easily equal more than a family’s home gets from Gillespie County to Timbuktu. mortgage, for years thought to be the most The ACA, or “Obamacare,” sought to expensive item in a family budget. address the continually upward spiral of Does Congress feel our pain at these conhealth insurance costs, currently account- stantly rising costs? We don’t believe so. ing for one-sixth of our nation’s total gross Most Congressmen are wealthy individuals domestic product (GDP). Our healthcare who have a taxpayer-funded, gold-plated is good in this country, but is also is far insurance plan, a large financial cushion if more expensive than any other industrial- their health does give them problems, and ized nation in the world. most have lost touch with the challenges That, along with other rising costs — most Americans feel in living paycheck to such as housing, food and transportation paycheck. That may be the main reason — and stagnant wages over the past two little is being done outside the normal decades present a huge challenge to fami- party bickering to address problems. If the lies, so many of whom are still struggling ACA isn’t going to cut it, where is the GOP to put money away for themselves even as plan — one that provides actual relief to both husband and wife work. working families? USA Today on Monday reported this: These days, one serious illness or acci“Adjusted for inflation, the median house- dent can wipe out a family’s life savings. hold income — half higher, half lower — is Through no fault of their own, families at the same level it was in 1996, and is “owe their soul” to their health care instiabout 6 percent below 2007 levels. At the tution, even as insurers look for ways to same time, consumer prices have risen, cut back on benefits. and the effects of inflation are cumulative. In the meantime, families will continue To buy something that cost $100 in 2007, to adjust, cut back and tough it out. With a consumer today would need $113, a 13 a tone-deaf Congress more interested in percent increase. party success than that of American fami“No wonder consumers feel squeezed. lies, that’s about all we can do.

Third-dimension technology FISD science, tech programs advance with new 3D printer

ast week’s story on the use of a 3D printer by students in the Fredericksburg High School science program is further evidence that the school district continues to look ahead and prepare students for the world after graduation. Using a 3D Machining Printer, students have crafted simple objects in red plastic, from a key ring to a trumpet mouthpiece. Exposure to this potentially worldchanging technology will let students in the Fredericksburg Independent School District have the opportunity to be on the cutting edge of industry as they enter college and the workforce beyond. Once a design is entered into a computeraided design software program, the printer processes the information and “prints” a 3D object, layer upon layer, similar to normal printers laying down one layer of ink on

printed documents. The result is a solid object made of plastic. Some of the publicity surrounding 3D printing has been negative, focusing only on what “could be made,” by those with ill intentions, such as guns that can’t be detected by normal metal-detecting methods. But technology has unlimited potential. Students at FHS already are working on “printing” rocket parts for its aero-science program. Other manufacturing uses already in use include making final moulds for automobiles, jewelry, toys, packaging and plastic items. Similar manufacturing techniques are using metals for custom digital manufacturing projects. There is even biological experimentation using this type of technology to create organs from healthy tissues. It blows the mind to think of all the potential possibilities where this technology could apply. Kudos to the FISD for continuing to look ahead and serve our students’ best interests.

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Thousands of books, one valid explanation F

orty-thousand books. That’s one guess at the number of titles dedicated to our 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, as well as reporting and conspiracy theories surrounding his assassination. Friday, of course, marks the 50th anniversary of that dark day in Dallas, one that threw a wet blanket over the country’s psyche and made North Texans the ire of many around the nation. Our copy of “Dallas 1963,” by Steven Davis and Bill Minutaglio, rises above these also-rans as a legitimate piece of historical narrative, describing the atmosphere in what was Texas’ leading city for months heading into that fateful day. At the office, we have received unsolicited copies of one piece of self-published dreck that claims, as have others, Lyndon Baines Johnson was behind it all. I suppose they figure as the paper nearest the home of LBJ, we anticipate these conspiratorial tomes. But no. My family’s only gripe with LBJ was that he courted my grandmother at Texas State Teachers College (now Texas State University). For that reason my grandfather rarely spoke well of him. Others around these parts surely have their differences with him as well, whether rooted in policy disagreements or personality conflicts of the strong-willed politician. Attorney Paul Plunket spoke to Fredericksburg Rotary Club on Monday, and when details

Texas Type

By Ken Esten Cooke

about the shooting were being described, the room was as quiet as a library. Plunket is a retired senior vice president for Oncor Electric, and is now vice chair of the Finance Commission of Texas. He is a longtime photography enthusiast and he showed pictures on a projection screen of people he had captured — the solemn, the angry and the just plain weird (a man carrying a sign comparing the grassy knoll and 9/11 as government-led conspiracies). JFK and LBJ both draw extreme reactions in many quarters. “Dallas 1963” states that the city harbored more than its share of those who accused JFK of treason because they disagreed with him politically. The conservative Dallas Morning News ran its share of anti-Kennedy stories and advertising. These examples only scratch the surface, yet provided a setting that concerned Texas Gov. John Connally for even being seen with Kennedy. Yet applause along the motorcade route assuaged those fears. Plunket said that Nellie Connally, wife of the governor, told the president, “The people of Dallas sure do love you.” The president’s final words were, “They sure do.” A musician friend I per-

formed with in the late ’80s — name was John Fitzgerald Kennedy Sherrick — grew up in Washington, D.C., in a very Catholic household. I remember him saying his family had three pictures on the wall: Jesus, the Pope and J.F.K. While a Catholic president would not be such a big deal by today’s standards, back then it was. It was another milestone, like the one this country reached in 2008 when it elected its first chief executive of color. Still, here in the American south, the Massachusetts liberal president was not held in high esteem. My father remembers small-town smatterings of applause when they announced at the evening’s football game that the president had been assassinated. Similar occurrences likely were repeated around the southern U.S. Of course, some accuse LBJ of being behind the events of that day, given his storied political drive. That he could pull that off while keeping it a secret for decades seems ridiculous to me. Another theory says Oswald was aiming at John Connally, who had refused to change Oswald’s dishonorable discharge from the Marines when he was Secretary of the Navy. Jack Ruby took care of ever knowing that possibility. As noted in this week’s issue of “50 Years Ago in the Standard,” the president was to have visited the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall after his Texas tour. In retroCont. on D3

A modern-day parable A

nd it came to pass that one day a group of followers asked their Master: “Is not ours, among all the nations of the world, the one most ‘chosen by God’ as His own?” To that, the Master answered them with this tale: “There once was a land flowing with milk and honey, full of all the wonderful riches that nature can bestow, including plentiful mineral resources of oil, coal and natural gas. This land was also rich on its surface with many pristine flowing streams and rivers along with thousands upon thousands of bountiful lakes. In addition, this land’s animal life was abundant above all others while its trees and low-lying plant life were most lush, thanks to a rich and diverse soil which grew all things. “To this veritable Garden of Eden,” the Master said, “there came one day a people who immediately recognized their new home’s immense wealth and potential. In time, they populated its shores, fields, plains and mountains, in the process growing wealthy and strong thanks to the land’s great natural riches. As their numbers multiplied, they consumed more and more of their new home’s wealth to the extent that too often forests were erased from the hills and mountains, the waters were fouled by their cast-off waste and the air was clouded by their fires. “Still, through it all, many of

Final Proof By Terry Collier

the nation’s peoples increased in wealth, thanks in part to their wise use of their land’s resources but, sadly, also due to their misuse of them. Too often, their dwellings grew overlarge and too many in number; their influence among the rulers became considerable, and their monetary stores were such that they had much more wealth than was required of them to live securely. “Meanwhile,” the Master continued, “there were other inhabitants of that land who struggled greatly because they had so little. Although these brothers and sisters worked hard, they earned little and their children frequently went to bed each night hungry. Too often ignored or even shunned by their wealthy kinsmen, they were told that their plight was of their own doing, that they profited little because of their unforgivable mistakes, lack of education and insufficient will to succeed. “In many cases, these kinsmen of want were cast aside because of their parentage, the color of their skin, religious beliefs and stastion in life. They, in essence, were told to accept their lot and not to hinder the progress of

those among them who were in pursuit of even more than what they already had or needed. “This land, which actually still flowed with enough milk and honey for all, looked from a distance like a universal Garden of Eden. But up close, the view was much less-inspiring because of the pollution, poverty, want and ignorance that pockmarked a once-unblemished haven for all. “So then,” the Master responded to his questioners, “Having heard all this, what do you say? Should a nation be considered ‘chosen by God’ when its members value its natural riches so little that they abuse a bounty that they neither created nor adequately nurtured? Should a nation be considered ‘chosen by God’ if too many of its inhabitants pack their storehouses with much more than what they require — too often at the expense of those in great want or at least with a disregard for those struggling souls who, in many cases, even toil in the service of their wealthy brothers?” To this, the Master’s followers answered him not but instead departed in shame, acknowledging that they too were to be counted among the abusers living in a nation which too often most benefitted a select few and who, as a result of their self-serving wealth, mistakenly believed that theirs was a land “chosen by God.” Collier is former publisher of the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post.

• Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post • Commemorative Section • November 13, 2013 •

After a six-year struggle to turn the program around, Fredericksburg High School’s varsity football team is finally....

PLAYOFF BOUND F

By Matt Ward

ive years, 11 months and 24 days. Around 3,146,400 minutes will have elapsed between kickoff of the Fredericksburg High School varsity football team’s bi-district showdown against Somerset Friday night and kickoff of the Billies’ last playoff appearance against Cibolo Steele in 2007. With six years of waiting soon behind them, Fredericksburg players have little time to celebrate their 9-1 regular season and undefeated District 27-3A championship before wiping the slate clean for post-season play. Yet for those Billies who struggled through a 2-8 campaign in 2011 and battled their way to a 5-5 mark in 2012, making the playoffs validates three years’ worth of effort. “It justifies that all the blood, sweat and tears that we as coaches and players have put into this program has finally paid off,” senior defensive back and wide receiver Matthew McManigle said. Cont. on page 2

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