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Current Weekly News for Leakey, Camp Wood, Sabinal, Utopia and Surrounding Areas Vol. 6 No. 45
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Leakey’s Last Picture Show ............................ Page 7
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Keep Utopia Beautiful Participates in America Recycles Day
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THE MISSION IS POSSIBLE ............................ Page 5
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ELECTION RESULTS After the most contentious race for President in the 240-year history of our Country, it is down to the wire. The 2016 race that began 595 days ago and involved 22 major candidates will end today as millions of voter’s head to the polls across the U.S. to cast their ballots for president, vice president, their representatives in Congress and other elected officials. On Monday, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of state and former first lady, held a small 4-percentage-point lead over GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, per a CBS News poll measuring the state of the race before the polls
by Elaine Padgett Carnegie and Julie Becker
opened. Sen. Tim Kaine, (D-Virginia), is Clinton’s vice presidential nominee and Republican Gov. Mike Pence is Trump’s running mate. Trump has projected wins in Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Mississippi, West Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Clinton has Vermont, DC, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Delaware, Illinois, and Rhode Island. The numbers are flying in and Hillary has fallen in the electoral college with 97 to 129 for Trump. Trump is ahead in the actual vote count by a small margin. With 70% of the closed polls counted. The Senate is going to Democrats by a small margin
Local Soldier Killed in Jordan The late Staff Sgt. James F. Moriarty, 27, of Kerrville , a green beret from Kerrville was killed during a military conflict in Jordan, according to a U.S. Defense Department statement released Sunday from the Pentagon. Staff Sgt. James F. Moriarty, 27,of Kerrville, reportedly died Friday, Nov. 4, after the convoy he and others were in came under fire as it entered a Jordanian military base. Moriarty, who served five years in the Army, was on his second overseas tour. His awards include the Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, NCO Professional Development Ribbon (II) and Army Service Ribbon, according to the Defense Department.
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It was not immediately clear what prompted the shooting. The shots were fired as a car carrying the Americans as they tried to enter the al-Jafr base near the southern Jordanian town of Mann, according to the Jordanian military. A Jordanian officer was also wounded. The Americans were in Jordan on a training mission, officials said. The U.S. military typically maintains about 2,000 U.S. forces on the ground in Jordan
and the House is Republican by a very small margin. For the first time in many years, the vote is too close to predict and no news agency is even trying. So as we go to press the State of Florida has turned red and Donald Trump is leading Hilary by a mere 140,000 votes. In the rural areas Trump is taking the vote by a very large margin. In the suburbs, they are about in a dead heat, while Hilary leads the City vote by a small margin. So at 9:00 pm the election vote of 2016 is still a neck and neck race, with not one battleground state decided yet! See page 4 for Local Election results
by Julie Becker and Elaine Padgett Carnegie
to support training with the Jordanian military and operations against the Islamic State in neighboring Iraq and Syria. According to the Congressional Research Service, U.S. assets there include a contingent of U.S. Air Force F-16s and a Patriot missile battery near Jordan’s northern border with Syria. Pro-Western Jordan is a key member
of a U.S-led military coalition against the Islamic State group, which controls parts of neighboring Iraq and Syria. Jordan also faces homegrown extremism, with hundreds of Jordanians fighting alongside ISIS militants in Iraq and Syria and several thousand more supporting the militant group in the kingdom There are several celebrations scheduled for Friday, Veteran’s Day, to celebrate the soldiers and veterans of our nation, take this time to say “Thank You.” The ability to vote this week that we sometimes take for granted is given to us by those that lay down their lives for our freedoms. Those freedoms are not free, a soldier gave his/her life for it.
The Defenders of the Nueces and Real County Judge Act on Behalf of the Nueces River by Elaine Padgett Carnegie
As most everyone is aware by now, a proposal from Camp Eagle, located at the very top of the Nueces River where flows can become intermittent has been presented to the TCEQ. The headwater streams of the Nueces are “nutrient limited” and hypersensitive to inputs. This is one reason they are so clear and beautiful. The Upper Nueces is classified as Segment 2112 and it is the longest pristine stream segment in the Nueces basin. There are few segments (only 4) within the basin that have never had a water quality concern or impairment identified. There are no direct discharge permits authorized into segment 2112. There are no direct discharges permitted in any Nueces streams above the Edwards recharge zone. The Camp Wood treatment plant uses evaporation as a means of disposal of treated wastewater. The new Leakey treatment plant will use irrigation as a means of disposal. They both have “Zero Discharge” permits. No discharge is the generally the best design for river protection, providing the system is operated properly. A meeting of concerned citizens was held last Friday in Camp Wood at the home of Pamela Rosar concerning the proposal by Camp Eagle where the citizens decided to ramp up the public comments
on the TCEQ website, write letters to the Board of Camp Eagle and generally try to get the word out. They may also generate a Petition against the proposal. We will let you know when that happens. Also, the “Defenders of the Nueces” have a Facebook Page where they will keep you updated. It is a closed page and you just hit “Join” to keep up with the progress of this proposal. Find the “Defenders of the Nueces” on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ 1635079803457834/ Our County Judge Gary Merritt has taken the situation in hand along with the Edwards County Judge, Souli A. Shanklin, who have both written to TCEQ requesting a Public Meeting on the proposed wastewater discharge. You can view these letters on the TCEQ website along with public comments regarding the Nueces River. The Nueces River Authority wrote a letter to our Texas State Representative Andrew Murr asking for
his assistance in getting a Public Meeting scheduled by TCEQ. He declined to assist with a request to TCEQ feeling that the issue should be handled locally, even though TCEQ clearly states that if a representative requests the Public Meeting they will most likely allow it. continued page 3
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INDEX Legals/Jail Register ... . Page 3Community News ......... Page 4-7 Feature Story ............... Page 8-9 Obituaries ...................... Page 10 Classifieds ..................... Page 14
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The Bide A Wee Hotel, later known as the Shackelford Hotel, was the first and for quite a time, the only hotel in Leakey. It was built in 1929 by Evan “Gap” Brooks and Roy Brooks for Mary Porche (pronounced Pour shay) according to “Wagons Ho”, which contains the only history of Real County that I have been able to locate. According to Kenneth Rochet, they were relatives. The article also states that she sold the hotel October 6, 1945 and left Leakey. Researching for this article led me to Marjorie Kellner, a fine historian in her own right. She suggested that we look through some old and fragile newspapers that were in the Real County Museum, and so we did. First mention in the Friday, December 13, 1935, issue of the Leakey Leader was an article on the front page about Gene and Constance Burris of Sabinal, parents of Ross Burris, visiting Ross’s grandmother, Mary Porche, the Saturday before (Dec 7). Next mention of interest is in the Friday, November 19, 1937 issue on the back page, about Mr. and Mrs. Ed Shackelford and daughter Fay, who had returned from Bay City where they had spent the weekend with their son Jack and his wife before they left on Monday for Henderson, Kentucky, where he was transferred with his job with Gulf Oil Company. According to Betty
Felts, this was her late husband Hubert’s grandparents. Next mention in the Leakey Leader, was again on Friday, April Fool’s Day, 1938, which mentions Mrs. Ed Shackelford and Misses Faye and Margurrite who had visited Mr. and Mrs. Pat Cummings on Sunday, which would have been on March 27 of that year at Concan. In the Friday, August 12, 1938 issue of the Leakey Leader is the visit of Ellen and Harvey “Pat” Felts of Sabinal who visited her mother Mrs. Mary Porche and other relatives on Wednesday, August 10. They were uncle and aunt to Hubert Felts according to his widow, Betty Felts. Next mention is in the January 12, 1949 issue, about grandparents to Kenneth Rochet, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rochet, who along with Miss Mary Truan from Knoxville, Tennessee, who were in Leakey Christmas week with the F. N. “Rusty” and Alice Rochet, parents of Kenneth Rochet. It was noted that this was the first time for Mary Truan to be in Texas. The last time any reference to the Bide A Wee Hotel aka Shackelford Hotel was in the Frio Canyon Echo, Valentine’s Day, 1947, issue, again on a Friday, which carried an advertisement for the Shackelford Hotel on the back page of the paper, mentioning their phone number, just number 77. How many of our readers can remember phone numbers like that? That was
by Billie Franklin
back when ring downs and switchboard operators were our connection, home to home. In that paper was a 2 by 3 inch ad emphasized good, clean beds; nice rooms; on the highway; Leakey, Texas. Researching my story led me to Barbie Elmore, whose husband’s parents, Pansy and Kenneth Rochet pictured on the front Clarence Elmore, stoop of the Bide A Wee in Leakey Texas bought the old hotel in 1976 from the Shackelford family. In 2013, Conrad and Barbara Elmore then sold the land and old hotel was no longer wanted on the land. Enter investor, Tim Leach, who bought the building and had it moved to the corner of North Market and Third Streets. Thus begins a new phase for the hotel which holds many fond memories for Mary Porche’s grandson, Kenneth Rochet, who grew up in Leakey.