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Current Weekly News for Leakey, Camp Wood, Sabinal, Utopia and Surrounding Areas Vol. 5 No. 29
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July 15, 2015
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54th Annual Old Settlers Reunion Royalty Named ~ Josh & Debbie Cox The Nueces Canyon Chamber of Commerce in Camp Wood is honored to announce the Royalty for the 54th Annual Old Settlers Reunion to be held on August 1. This year’s King and Queen are Josh and Debbie Cox of Camp Wood, Texas. As lifelong residents of the Nueces Canyon, they have been very active in the community through various activities and organizations. Josh was born in Camp Wood to William Josh and Cora “Paige” Chapman Cox in October of 1945. Josh is the youngest child of four. He went to school in Camp Wood, and afterward served in the United States Navy, stationed in San Diego, from 1965 to 1967. Josh has served in the Nueces Canyon Volunteer Fire Department for more than 30 years, serving as the Fire Chief for much of that time. Josh was recognized as the third runner up of the State Fireman of the Year and has been the Wintergarden District and Nueces Canyon Volunteer Department Fireman of the Year. As a fireman, Josh has received several other awards and been recognized for his contribution to his
fireman’s career. He has lead the fire department efforts in acquiring many needed volunteers, and enhanced the fire department through the acquisition of new fire equipment, new vehicles, grants, and accreditation. He also serves his community as an incumbent city council member, and the voters of Camp Wood have elected him for multiple terms. While currently on the city council, he serves as Mayor Pro-Temp for the City of Camp Wood. Josh retired from the Nueces Canyon CISD in 2013, and currently enjoys a new career as a real estate agent at Solid Rock Real Estate in Camp Wood. Debbie was born in Marfa, Texas to Raymond Newton and Alice O. O’Bryant Welch in June of 1951. Debbie was the fifth youngest of seven children, and lived much of her childhood in El Paso, Texas. Her parents moved to Camp Wood in the mid ‘60’s, and she graduated Salutatorian from Nueces Canyon High School. She continued her education at Sul Ross University, graduating Bachelor of Arts Magna Cum Laude in Teaching with a specialization in Math, continued page 2
Army Special Operations Training Exercise To Begin Press Release submitted by LTC Mark Lastoria Director of Public Affairs US Army Special Operations Command
Somewhere in the West ............................ Page 7
Nueces Canyon Chamber of Commerce News and Updates ........................... Page 5
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. (USASOC News Service, July 13, 2015) - Members of U.S. Army Special Operations Command will train with other U.S Armed Forces units July 15 through Sept. 15 in a multi-state exercise. The exercise will take place across seven states and primarily occur on pre-coordinated private property and military installations. Applicable local and state officials were notified as to the extent of training that will occur off military installations. These officials will receive regular updates as the exercise progresses. USASOC Public Affairs will release additional
information to local government officials and their respective media outlets to keep the public informed as to when training will take place in their area. The training will take place in the following locations: • Arizona: National Guard Training Centers and at an Army Reserve Center • Florida: Eglin Air Force Base
Water News and River Flows River flows were taken on the Frio and Nueces Rivers July 10th with all flows still above last summers’ levels; the rainfall total at the RECRD Office in Camp Wood for July is 0.7”. Overall, the flows have decreased since two weeks ago but are still at levels that are very good for a floating trip I put this in the last few articles but it doesn’t hurt to publish it one more time: as you go out swimming and floating while levels are still higher than normal: “STAY AWAY FROM THE INFLOW END OF THE CULVERTS, THEY ARE DANGEROUS AND SMALL PETS AND CHILDREN COULD GET SUCKED INTO THE PIPE. SOME OF THE CULVERTS ARE LARGE OPENINGS AND AN ADULT CAN GET SUCKED INTO THE
INDEX State News .................... Page 2 Legals/Jail Register ...... Page 3 Community News ......... Page 4-6 Feature Story ................. Page 7 Obituaries ...................... Page 8 Classifieds ..................... Page 12
Today’s Weather
High: 92° Low: 68°
Marion, Real, Schleicher and Tom Green Counties • Utah: Carbon and Emery Counties The public can expect little disruption in their day-to-day activities since much of the exercise will be conducted in remote areas. The most noticeable effect the exercise may have on the local communities is a slight increase in vehicle traffic and the limited use of military aircraft and its associated noise. USASOC intends to conduct the exercise safely and courteously while providing the best possible training available for the nation’s Army Special Operations Forces.
By: Joel Pigg, General Manager
HOLE.” Do not let kids go through the culverts, it looks like great fun but you never know what may be stuck in the pipe or if there is a hole in the pipe with a jagged edge that may cause severe cuts or scrapes. Culverts are very dangerous and not a place to play. I will also ask that you not place rocks in front of culverts to try and raise the swimming hole level, when a flood of water comes along and stuffs the culvert full of these rocks they do not get themselves out of the pipe it is additional work for the County or State Road crews and it makes the water crossing more susceptible to damage because of added pressure when the culverts do not allow water to freely flow through the pipes, as designed. continued page 2
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• Louisiana: Camp Beauregard • Mississippi: Camp Shelby, Naval Research Laboratory ˗ Stennis Space Center, and U.S. Navy Seabee Base at Gulfport/Biloxi • New Mexico: Cannon Air Force Base, and tentatively in Otero County • Texas: Camps Bullis and Swift, and in Bastrop, Burleson, Brazos, Edwards, Howard, Hudspeth, Kimble, Martin,
Jay Myers of Carrizo Springs was born in Houston in 1921 to William Scott Myers and Helen Cullie Myers. His father was in partnership with H. F. Spalti in the Myers Spalti Manufacturing Company of Dallas and Houston, which built and sold furniture. His father died when he was still in school. Jay graduated from San Jacinto High School in Houston, class of 1938, at the age of 17. He wanted to go to Harvard and was accepted. Jay’s ship left from Galveston to New York in September of ‘48. Coming into New York City, they were met with a strong wind, with winds clocked at 111 miles per hour, it was the Great Hurricane of ‘38. It had rained for four days, then on September 21, there was a deluge. On that day alone, over 600 people lost their lives as a result of the hurricane. The entire New England coast suffered great losses from the storm. He met his roommate, George Dexter “Deck” Sohier of Concord, Massachusetts, in Memorial Hall. At the time, Harvard was an all male college. He spent four years at Harvard and earned his degree economics. Jay was in the Naval ROTC at Harvard. He graduated in June, 1942, and received his commission in the Navy the same day. He was given two weeks to go to his battleship, the USS Mississippi. He had a quick trip back home and then boarded his ship for one year. He arrived at Pearl Harbor, which
by Billie Franklin
was still a mess from the devastation by the December 7,1941, attack by the Japanese. From June 1942 to June 1943, he was in the South Pacific, the Aleutian Islands, and then got orders to go to Camden, New Jersey to be assigned to the brand new USS Cabot, an aircraft carrier. After about two weeks under sail, he arrived at San Francisco. He was on a shakedown cruise. His orders next were to Bremerton, Washington, and now a lieutenant, he was assigned to the Kitkun Bay Aircraft Carrier. This small ship was built by Kaizer, there was no armor, it travelled slowly, but it took airplanes to wherever they were needed. It played a major role in the war effort. They were engaged at the battle of Saipan and Guam. While in the South Pacific, his orders next were to go to San Diego to an Army outfit, the Joint Assault Signal Company or JASCO, with three or four weeks of training to ready them to enter Japan. There was to be one Naval officer, Jay, and one Army officer, with the Army in charge of operations. The enlisted men had various duties, one of them being to run the generator as it had to be run by hand. Back to the Philippines, they were in North Luzon until the end of the war.
They were in the camp, with most of the men at the movies. Jay was listening to his short wave radio instead of at the movie. The news was “Flash, the Emperor has accepted terms of surrender.” Jay quickly located the skipper and told him the news that the war was over. continued page 2