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All rights reserved. http://files.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Copyright 2006 Victoria Advocate Online (http://victoriaadvocate.com) unless otherwise notated. ************************************************ From mysa.com January 1, 2006 Basketball: Weekend's high school results LAREDO TOURNAMENT Consolation finals Crystal City 28, Houston Chavez 26 Today's games Boys Dist. 25-5A: Austin SFA @Seguin, 7:30 p.m.; San Marcos @Austin Akins, Bastrop @Austin Anderson, Westlake @Austin Bowie, all 8:15 p.m. Dist. 26-5A: Lee vs. Reagan (Littleton), 5 p.m.; Roosevelt vs. MacArthur (Littleton), 6:30 p.m.; Wagner @Judson, 7:30 p.m.; Madison vs. Churchill (Littleton), 8 p.m. Dist. 27-5A: East Central @Southwest, 7:30 p.m. Dist. 28-5A: Holmes @Del Rio, 7:30 p.m. Dist. 26-4A: Del Valle @New Braunfels, NB Canyon @Lockhart, Clemens @Steele, all 7:30 p.m.; Hays @Lehman, 8 p.m. Dist. 28-4A: Edison vs. Lanier (Alamo), 4:30 p.m.; Sam Houston vs. Brackenridge (Alamo), 8:30 p.m. Dist. 29-2A: Navarro @Karnes City, Yorktown @Kenedy, both 5 p.m.; Stockdale @Nixon-Smiley, Randolph @Poth, both 8 p.m. Dist. 30-A, Div. I: Nueces Canyon @Charlotte, TBA; Sabinal @Stacey, 6 p.m.; La Pyror @Brackett, 7:30 p.m. City: Seguin Lifegate @CASA, 1:30 p.m.; Edison vs. Lanier (Alamo), 4:30 p.m.; Hawkins @Pearsall, 5 p.m.; Holy Cross @West Campus, 6 p.m.; Pleasanton vs. Southside, 6;15 p.m.; Jay @Kerrville Tivy, 6:30 p.m.; Trinity Christian @St. Gerard, 7 p.m.; Alamo Heights @McCollum, Sam Houston vs. Brackenridge (Alamo), Hondo @Jefferson, Central Catholic @SA Christian, all 7:30 p.m.; Harlandale @Kennedy, Memorial @Gonzales, South San @Beeville, Saint Mary's Hall @Johnson City, Lutheran @St. Anthony, all 8 p.m.; FEAST @D'Hanis, 8:30 p.m. Area: Brady @Ingram, 11 a.m.; West Oso @Yoakum, 1:30 p.m.; Medina Valley @Boerne, 2 p.m.; La Vernia @Somerset, Junction @Irion County, both 3:30 p.m.; Harper @Leakey, Grandfalls-Royalty @Comstock, both 4 p.m.; Dilley @Carrizo Springs, Jourdanton @Falls City, both 4:30 p.m.; Lamar Consolidated @Luling, Lytle @Liberty Hill, Smithville @Cuero, Rocksprings @Eldorado, all 5 p.m.; Heritage Academy @Center Point, 5:15 p.m.; Pettus @Moulton, 5:30 p.m.; Flatonia @Victoria St. Joseph, 6:15 p.m.; Garden City @Mason, 6:30 p.m.; Goliad @Ingleside, 7 p.m.; Blanco @Llano, Three Rivers @McMullen County, both 7:30 p.m.; Devine @Fredericksburg, Marion @Wimberley, Sonora @Ozona, Medina @Utopia, all 8 p.m. Girls Dist. 25-5A: Seguin @Austin SFA, 7 p.m.; Austin Bowie @Westlake, 7:30 p.m.; Austin Anderson @Bastrop, Austin Akins @San Marcos, both 8 p.m. Dist. 26-5A: Wagner @Judson, 6 p.m. Dist. 27-5A: CC Carroll @CC Ray, Victoria Memorial @CC King, Southwest @East Central, all 7:30 p.m. Dist. 28-5A: Clark vs. Taft (Taylor), 5 p.m.; Holmes @Del Rio, 6 p.m.; Marshall vs. O'Connor (Taylor), 6 p.m.; Warren vs. Stevens (Taylor), 8 p.m. Dist. 26-5A: Lehman @Hays, New Braunfels @Del Valle, Lockhart @NB Canyon, Steele @Clemens, all 7:30 p.m. Dist. 28-4A: Edison vs. Lanier (Alamo), 3 p.m.; Sam Houston vs. Brackenridge (Alamo), 6 p.m. Dist. 29-2A: Yorktown @Kenedy, 5 p.m.; Navarro @Karnes City, Stockdale @Nixon-Smiley, Randolph @Poth, all 6:30 p.m. Dist. 30-A, Div. I: Nueces Canyon @Charlotte, Brackett @La Pryor, Sabinal @Stacey, all 6 p.m. City: Jefferson vs. Jay (O'Connor), 2:30 p.m.; West Campus @Holy Cross, 3 p.m.; Trinity Christian @St. Gerard, 6 p.m.; Boerne @Cornerstone, Alamo Heights @Medina Valley, FEAST @D'Hanis, all 7 p.m.; St. Anthony @Highlands, 8 p.m. Area: Brady @Comanche, TBA; La Vernia @Somerset, Junction @Irion County, both 2 p.m.; Harper @Leakey, Grandfalls-Royalty @Comstock, both 4 p.m.; Rocksprings @Eldorado, 5 p.m.; Cuero @Louise, Jourdanton @McMullen County, Heritage Academy @Center Point, all 6 p.m.; Devine @Fredericksburg, Laredo Alexander @Uvalde, Johnson City @Ingram, Hyde Park @Llano, Gonzales @Luling, Beeville @Pleasanton, Palacios @Victoria St. Joseph, Marble Falls Faith Academy @Comfort, Garden City @Mason, Medina @Utopia, Runge @Shiner, all 6:30 p.m.; Marion @Poteet, Ingleside @Goliad, both 7:30 p.m.; Wimberley @Liberty Hill, 7:45 p.m.; Carrizo Springs @Lytle, 8 p.m. ********************************** From wilsoncountynews.com January 3, 2007 In search of a Wal-Mart FLORESVILLE — It is a fact that Wal-Mart is going to build a Supercenter in Kenedy. Groundbreaking for the new store will take place January 4. It will be built on land sold to Wal-Mart at below market prices by the Karnes County Economic Development Corp. It is not known whether Wal-Mart will build a Supercenter in Wilson County, although many local shoppers hope for it to happen. One rumored site for a Wal-Mart Supercenter is the intersec tion of U.S. 181 and F.M. 775. A large tract of land on the northwest corner of that busy intersection is undeveloped, but a large hurdle awaits any developer who would build a major retail project on that site — the lack of sewage treatment. Roger Sekula, manager of the Falls City National Bank branch at the intersection, said that development options are limited because of the lack of sewage. A move by parents in that neighborhood to build an elementary school was stymied by the lack of sewage. The E-Z Stop gas and convenience store at the intersection was not able to install a car wash for the same reason, according to Sekula. All businesses and homes in the vicinity have septic systems. Faifer & Co. and Plant Fabricators Inc., two manufacturing companies at the intersection, are not heavy users of water. Maverick Grill, a busy restaurant, has a special septic system that can handle a larger volume of wastewater. Housing construction continues at a substantial pace along F.M. 775, going east from U.S. 181, all on larger lots with septic systems. Traffic is heavy at the intersection. Sekula, who can observe the intersection from the bank, has seen more than one accident, and he said “Everybody needs to be careful.” Growth in housing and traffic in the area will create a demand for retail services. But, if retailers, large or small, are negotiating deals to buy property here, they are not talking for the record, and the rumors will remain rumors. ********************************** From seguingazette.com January 3, 2007 Navarro defense dominates Karnes City By Jason Orts The Gazette-Enterprise KARNES CITY — Navarro picked up in 2007 where it left off in 2006. Mallory Moeller scored 25 points to lead the Lady Panthers to an easy 63-13 win over Karnes City on Tuesday. Jade Randle added 20 points for the Lady Panthers, who limited the Lady Badgers to three second-half points and moved to 17-2 for the season and 3-1 in district play. Nobody from Karnes City scored more than six points. Navarro, which led 40-10 at halftime, will return home Friday, when it will face Nixon-Smiley. **************************** From seguingazette.com January 4, 2007 Navarro boys steal a win from Karnes City From staff reports The Gazette-Enterprise KARNES CITY — Josiah Moneyhon scored 20 points Tuesday night, including the game-winner at the buzzer to give the Navarro Panthers a 46-44 victory over Karnes City on Tuesday. With about 17 seconds left, the Badgers tied the game by making 1-of- 2 from the free throw line, and the Panthers missed a shot on their next possession. But Navarro freshman Jacob Garcia stole the ball from Karnes City and found Moneyhon open in the lane. Moneyhon got his shot up just before the buzzer and it found the bottom of the net for the win. Moneyhon was the only Panther in double figures scoring and also had a big night on the boards with 13 rebounds. Wesley Ply and Kaeleb Schriewer scored nine and eight points, respectively. Trey Stolte recorded four steals. The Panthers led 11-9 after the first quarter but trailed for the entire second and third quarters and much of the fourth before coming away with the win, which evened their district record at 1-1. Navarro will return home Friday to face Nixon-Smiley in district play. That game tips at 8 p.m. **************************** From mysa.com January 5, 2006 Basketball: Thursday's results, Friday's schedule Boys TAPPS 3-5A ST. ANTHONY 65, GIDDINGS STATE SCHOOL 42 St. Anthony: Bryce Jones 24, Thomas Wright 23, Martinez 5, Reinhardt 4, Camacho 3, Espinoza 2, Ad. Fernandez 2, K. Jones 2, Collins, C. Jones, An. Fernandez, Mendoza, Quintero, Riley, D. Romero, J. Romero. Giddings: Black 22, Worthy 14, Salinas 3, Valdez 3, Vasquez, Wang. Halftime: St. Anthony 31-18. Record: St. Anthony 10-12, 2-1. TAPPS 6-A GATEWAY 81, HARVEST 21 Gateway: Reginald Cox 20, Thomas Brohord 19, Raymond Martinez 16, Frank Echevarria 13, Esparza 9, N. Brohord 4, Acevedo. Harvest: Karnes 9, Perdue 5, Kepczyk 4, McCullough 3, Emmert. Halftime: Gateway 31-4. Records: Gateway 8-4, 4-0. Center Point Tournament First round MEDINA 56, BLANCO 55 Medina: David Clark 25, Cole Carpenter 22, Green 4, Waliky 2, Baker 2, Zambrano 1, Little, Foster. Blanco: John Pepper 21, Austin Thompson 18, Vela 8, Cole 4, Tesch 2, Crosby 2. Halftime: Blanco 33-24. Records: Medina 10-4. Second round MEDINA 57, CENTER POINT 38 Medina: Peter Green 19, Cole Carpenter 13, David Clark 11, Baker 6, Foster 4, Waliky 2, Zambrano 2, Little, LeStourgeon. Center Point: Ben Hicks 17, Behrens 7, Jac. Fetterolf 5, Thompson 3, Leslie 2, Credit 2, Ramirez 2, Middleton, Jar. Fetterolf, Lacey. Halftime: Medina 24-16. Records: Medina 11-4. Medina advances to final Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Non-district TMI 56, KEYSTONE 42 TMI: Melcher 22, Reed 14, Jones 7, Stewart 6, Reinhardt 4, Dieterle 3, Khailil, Creamer, Barbario, Vondehaar, Farney, McDougna, Biedenhart. Keystone: Yegparian 15, Nancherla 10, Jean-Pierre 7, Lopez 5, Trackhenbroit 4, Thompson 1, Echavarria, Tramblay, Stahl. Halftime: Keystone 24-20. BANDERA 58, COMFORT 46 Bandera: Reyes 18, Jennings 12, Garza 11, Karlson 6, Stoops 3, Hicks 3, Esparza 3, Barton 2, Bass, Sarabia, McHorse, Howard. Comfort: Rodriguez 17, Roberts 8, Simmons 8, Werner 4, Guzman 3, Connelly 2, Smith 2, Chrisman 2, Blanco, Downey. Halftime: Bandera 20-16. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Wednesday's late result Girls TAPPS 2-6A ANTONIAN 45, BROWNSVILLE ST. JOSEPH 40 Antonian: Lana Mallet 15, Elizabeth Briones 10, Boyd 8, Figuerra 6, Galindo 2, Flores 2, Sandoval 2. Brownsville St. Joseph: Phillip 10, Parker 7, Gonzales 7, Pullen 5, Hernandez 5, Buenrostro 4, Martinez 2, Gamez, Fuacci, Larrazolo. Halftime: Antonian 24-12 Records: Antonian 7-11, 1-0; St. Joseph 16-4, 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Today's games Boys Dist. 25-5A: Westlake @Seguin, 7:30 p.m.; San Marcos @Bastrop, 8 p.m.; Austin SFA @Austin Akins, Austin Anderson @Austin Bowie, both 8:15 p.m. Dist. 26-5A: MacArthur vs.Madison (Littleton), Churchill @Wagner, Judson @Lee, Reagan @Smithson Valley, all 7:30 p.m. Dist. 27-5A: CC Carroll @East Central, Highlands @CC King, CC Ray @Victoria Memorial, all 7:30 p.m. Dist. 26-4A: Clemens @Del Valle, 7:30 p.m.; Lehman @NB Canyon, Lockhart @Steele, both 7:45 p.m.; New Braunfels @Hays, 8 p.m. Dist. 28-4A: Fox Tech vs. Edison (Alamo), 5:30 p.m.; Brackenridge vs. Jefferson (Alamo), 7 p.m. Dist. 29-2A: Karnes City @Randolph, Yorktown @Stockdale, both 5 p.m.; Poth @Kenedy, 7:30 p.m.; Nixon-Smiley @Navarro, 8 p.m. Dist. 30-2A: Hawkins @Dilley, Natalia @Jourdanton, Cole @Gervin Academy, all 8 p.m. Dist. 30-A, Div. I: Stacey @Nueces Canyon, Charlotte @Brackett, both 7:30 p.m. Dist. 30-A, Div. II: Uvalde Tafolla @Comstock, 6 p.m.; Knippa @Leakey, 7:30 p.m.; D'Hanis @Utopia, 8 p.m. TAPPS A- Dist. 6: Town East @CASA, 7:30 p.m. City: Rainbow Hills @Trinity Christian, 11 a.m.; Sunnybrook @Winston, 7 p.m.; Burbank vs. Marshall (O'Connor), Harlandale @Antonian, St. Anthony @Southside, all 7:30 p.m.; FEAST @Kerrville Tivy, Lytle @Alamo Heights, Kennedy @Central Catholic, Lutheran @Medina Valley, all 8 p.m. Area: Mason @Irion County, TBA; Uvalde @Hondo, 3 p.m.; Pearsall @Bandera, Comfort @Llano, Brady @Comanche, Moulton @Fayetteville, all 5 p.m.; Palacios @Louise, 5:30 p.m.; Mathis @Goliad, Woodsboro @McMullen County, both 7 p.m.; Floresville @Pleasanton, Luling @Yoakum, Reagan County @Sonora, Hallettsville Sacred Heart @Flatonia, all 7:30 p.m.; Wimberley @Fredericksburg, Devine @Ingram, Marion @Smithville, Somerset @Cotulla, Crystal City @Poteet, Miles @Junction, Austin St. Michael's @Johnson City, CC Incarnate Word @Aransas Pass, Wheaton Academy @Austin Regents, all 8 p.m. Tournaments: Pettus (Cuero, Victoria St. Joseph); Center Point (Blanco, Center Point, Rocksprings). Girls Dist. 25-5A: Austin Akins @Austin SFA, 7 p.m.; Seguin @Westlake, 7:30 p.m.; Austin Bowie @Austin Anderson, Bastrop @San Marcos, both 8 p.m. Dist. 26-5A: Judson @Lee, Reagan @Smithson Valley, Churchill @Wagner, Madison vs. MacArthur (Littleton), all 6 p.m. Dist. 27-5A: Victoria Memorial @CC Ray, East Central @CC Carroll, CC King @Highlands, all 7:30 p.m. Dist. 28-5A: O'Connor vs. Warren (Taylor), 5 p.m.; Marshall vs. Burbank (O'Connor), 6 p.m.; Holmes vs. Taft (Taylor), 6:30 p.m.; Clark @Jay (Taylor), 8 p.m. Dist. 26-4A: Hays @New Braunfels, Del Valle @Clemens, NB Canyon @Lehman, Steele @Lockhart, all 7:30 p.m. Dist. 27-4A: Memorial @Fredericksburg, 6:30 p.m.; Boerne @Fredericksburg, Alamo Heights @Kennedy, both 8 p.m. Dist. 28-4A: Fox Tech vs. Edison (Alamo), 4 p.m.; Brackenridge vs. Jefferson (Alamo), 7 p.m. Dist. 29-4A: Floresville @Southside, South San @Harlandale, McCollum @Uvalde, all 7:30 p.m. Dist. 30-4A: CC Miller @Beeville, 8 p.m. Dist. 27-3A: Poteet @Pleasanton, 6:30 p.m.; Somerset @Lytle, 8 p.m. Dist. 28-3A: Carrizo Springs @Crystal City, 6:30 p.m.; Devine @Pearsall, Cotulla @Hondo, both 8 p.m. Dist. 29-3A: Palacios @Cuero, 5 p.m.; Goliad @Gonzales, 8 p.m. Dist. 8-2A: Sonora @Blanco, Junction @Mason, both 6:30 p.m.; Brady @Comfort, 8 p.m. Dist. 29-2A: Nixon-Smiley @Navarro, Karnes City @Randolph, Poth @Kenedy, Yorktown @Stockdale, all 6:30 p.m. Dist. 30-2A: Hawkins @Dilley, Natalia @Jourdanton, Cole @Gervin Academy, all 6:30 p.m. Dist. 28-A: Harper @Center Point, 5:30 p.m.; Johnson City @Rocksprings, 6:30 p.m. Dist. 30-A, Div. I: Nueces Canyon @Stacey, 5 p.m.; Brackett vs. Charlotte, 6 p.m. Dist. 30-A, Div. II: Uvalde Tafolla @Comstock, Knippa @Leakey, both 6 p.m.; D'Hanis @Utopia, 6:30 p.m. TAPPS 6A-Dist. 2: Antonian vs. Incarnate Word (UIW), Providence @Holy Cross, both 7:30 p.m. City: Brooks Academy @St. Gerard, 5:30 p.m.; FEAST @Llano, 6:30 p.m.; St. Anthony @West Campus, 8 p.m. Area: Port Aransas @McMullen County, 4 p.m.; Waelder @Louise, Moulton @Fayetteville, Shiner @Faith Academy, all 5 p.m.; Medina Valley @Bandera, 7:30 p.m.; Wimberley @Marion, 7:45 p.m.; Yoakum @La Vernia, 8 p.m. Tournament: Seguin Life. (Sendero). ******************************** From marketwire.com January 8, 2007 Tradestar Resources Corporation Announces Participation in Deep Gas Well in Karnes County, Texas HOT SPRINGS, AR -- (MARKET WIRE) -- January 08, 2007 -- Tradestar Resources Corporation (PINKSHEETS: TSRR) announced today that the company will participate in the Janssen Gas Well in Karnes County, Texas. This well is located approximately 25 miles from Tradestar's Hysaw-Hobson Oil Field in Karnes County and will be a deep gas producer from the Roeder Sand (a Wilcox Series formation at approximately 10,300 ft.) The well is located in an area that is very active in gas and oil production, and has nearby wells that produce over 1 million cubic feet per day from similar zones. Activity for this well is scheduled to begin January 9, 2007. Tradestar will be a participating partner with Penasco Petroleum (Austin, Texas) and Bedford Energy (Oklahoma City, OK) Proex Energy Management of Houston, Texas will be the operator/manager of the well. This Janssen project is a continuation of Tradestar's alliance with Proex and Penasco to participate together in multiple joint venture projects for oil & gas development in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. About Tradestar Tradestar Resources Corporation is an independent energy company that is engaged in the exploration, development, exploitation and acquisition of on-shore and natural gas properties in conventional producing areas if the United States. Tradestar strives to enhance asset value by expanding oil and natural gas reserves raising production levels and increasing cash flow. Tradestar intends to foster its growth as an independent oil and gas company by investing in only proven producing wells. The company's web site is http://tradestar-corp.com. Forward-Looking Statements This release contains forward-looking statements with respect to the results of operations and business of Tradestar Resources Corporation which involves risks and uncertainties. The Company's actual future results could materially differ from those discussed. Risks and uncertainties of the Company will be detailed from time to time in the Company's periodic reports. The Company intends that such statements about the Company's future expectations, including future revenues and all other forward looking statements be subject to the "safe harbor" provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Contact: Tradestar Resources Corp. 501-423-3005 SOURCE: Tradestar Resources Corporation ******************************* From caller.com January 9, 2007 There were no new drilling permit applications for Aransas, Brooks, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces, Refugio or San Patricio counties. ******************************* From polskieradio.pl January 1, 2007 The largest Polish cemeteries in Ukraine are in Lviv, which had been part of Poland’s eastern territory before World War Two. The Lyczakowski cemetery is 220 years old. The defenders of the city against the Bolshevik onslaught in 1918 are buried at the Young Eagles cemetery. For over half a century, during Communist rule in then Soviet Ukraine, the Polish graves had been devastated. Thanks to an agreement with the democratic authorities of Ukraine, the cemetery has been restored to its pre-war state. In Russia, Poles travel to Katyn and Mednoye, sites were thousands of Polish army and police officers as well as intellectuals had been murdered on Stalin’s orders by the Soviet NKVD in 1940. For decades, the Soviet authorities refused to claim responsibility for the war crime, initially trying to put the blame on the Germans during the Nazi occupation of that territory. The present Russian prosecutors had been investigating the case for 14 years, till 2004, but no individual charges have been presented. Also Polish graves are visited by representatives of Polish diplomatic circles and Poles resident abroad in France, the US , Belgium or Italy. In Paris candles are lit at the tomb of Frederic Chopin in the Pere Lachaise cemetery. Many Polish graves are found in Montmorency near Paris . In the 19th century the local graveyard became unofficially the place of burial of the Polish emigration. Polish poets Adam Mickiewicz, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz and Kamil Norwid were buried there. In the US the largest Polish cemetery is in Doylestown in Pennsylvania. The hear of Ignacy Paderweski is buried at the entrance of the local church. Also many Polish graves are found near Chicago and in Panna Maria in Texas , the oldest Polish settlement in the US where Poles who fought in the American Civil War. ******************************* From ecanned.com January 11, 2007 Income and Poverty in Karnes County, Texas When compared to other counties (and parishes) throughout the United States, Karnes County accounted a relatively low median household income of $31,035 (2005 Dollars). This median is 50.5 percent lower than the median in Texas of $46,715 and the median is 58.3 percent lower than the median in the US, which is $49,133. The American Indian and Alaska Native headed households in Karnes County had a median income of $17,843, this median was 42.5 percent less than the median for all households. In Karnes County, Texas White headed households reported a median household income (2005 Dollars) of $32,105 according to the 2000 Dencennial Census, which was 3.4 percent greater than the median household income in 2000. Black or African American householders reported a median household income that was 15 percent less than the all population median published in the 2000 Census, with a median of $26,384. Hispanic households in Karnes County, Texas reported a median household income of $24,418, which is 21.3 percent less than reported value of the areas total household median income for all households. When compared to other counties (or parishes) across the United States, Karnes County, Texas can be recognized as having a relatively high rate of poverty among the people, accounting a rate of 21.9 percent with a family income under the 1999 poverty level. The American Indian and Alaska Native race/ethnicity demographic group, represents the largest rate of poverty with 36.3 percent of the 2000 residents living in poverty. People aged 5 years are experiencing most percent people in poverty in Karnes County, with 43 percent of this age cohort living in poverty. Datasource: U.S. Bureau of the Census. 2000 Decennial Census. ******************************* From seguingazette.com January 17, 2007 High school basketball schedule put on ice By Jason Orts The Gazette-Enterprise GUADALUPE COUNTY — With Tuesday’s high school basketball schedule put on ice, it gives the Gazette-Enterprise a chance to take stock of where the teams are and focus on some key upcoming games. None of Tuesday’s games had been rescheduled as of Tuesday afternoon. Seguin An 0-2 start to the District 25-5A season is nothing but a memory for the Seguin boys, who have played their best basketball of the season in a three-game winning streak that has them at 12-10 overall and 3-2 in district. The Matadors have improved because of increased contributions from everyone. While Michael Martin and Dexter Ransom have been the headliners, T.J. Hartwick’s shooting touch has returned and has given Seguin the outside threat it lacked early in the year. Bradley Greeno, Kevin Smith, Blake Rabe and Tim Dailey have also made big plays in recent games, while Jordan Sheffield has cut down on turnovers and been a consistent presence at the point. The Matadors pulled a big upset over district favorite Bowie on Friday, which figures to give them even more confidence moving forward. They will host Akins on Friday before beginning the second half of district at home against San Marcos. The girls have struggled through the first round of district play with a 1-5 record and 8-15 overall. Turnovers have been the main problem for the young Lady Matadors, and they will look to guards such as Kindle Busch, Meghan Escalante and Keshia Hollaway to rectify that situation in the second half of district, which begins at 7:30 p.m., Friday, on the road against Akins. Marion After a long non-district schedule, the Marion boys were finally set to tip off district play Tuesday on the road against West Campus. Marion is a team that likes to run and has used a deep bench to keep players fresh. That depth has been the deciding factor in several games as the Bulldogs have worn down their opponents in the fourth quarter to claim wins. The front line of D.J. Goudge and Beau Sauls has given Marion consistent play all season, while a bundle of guards, led by Kyle Brown and Austin Gomez, gives Marion plenty of ball-handlers and the ability to pressure the ball full court on defense. The Bulldogs will play their first home game in more than a month when they host La Vernia at 8 p.m., Friday. The Marion girls got a major lift a week and a half ago, when Erica Sosa came back from a knee injury. Sosa, the Bulldogs’ senior point guard, has re-energized the team, and it has yet to drop a game with her in the lineup, posting a 3-0 record with a non-district win over Wimberley followed by district victories over La Vernia and Luling. Megan Delgado’s outside shooting, and Brittany Burton’s scoring and rebounding have also been major factor’s in the Bulldogs’ success. MacKenzie Langemeier has also been an key contributor. Marion will begin the second round of district play when they travel to face La Vernia at 7:30 p.m., Friday. Navarro It’s been an up-and-down run through the first half of district play for the Navarro boys. The Panthers pulled out a win over Karnes City and blasted Yorktown, but they were bounced by Nixon-Smiley, Stockdale and Poth in convincing fashion. They haven’t had a consistent lineup as players have missed games for various reasons, but Josiah Moneyhon and Zach Hernandez have been the team’s leaders for most of the season. Trey Stolte has been a consistent player, especially on the defensive end. The Panthers will travel to face Kenedy at 8 p.m., Friday. The Lady Panthers are on a roll, having recorded easy district wins over Kenedy, Nixon-Smiley, Randolph, Yorktown and Karnes City. But Poth, which took a 67-55 win over Navarro in the first meeting, still looms as the district favorite. Mallory Moeller and Jade Randle are the team’s leaders, and Brittany Parker has been a much-needed outside threat this season. Rachele Herzog has come on lately and added another 3-point shooter to the mix. The Lady Panthers will open the second round of district on the road against Kenedy at 6:30 p.m., Friday, before another showdown with Poth on the road Tuesday. ******************************* January 17, 2007 Karnes County Youth Show begins Thursday ADVOCATE STAFF REPORT KARNES CITY - The 21st annual Karnes County Youth Show begins Thursday at the show barn off U.S. Highway 181 between Kenedy and Karnes City. This year's auction will be at 3 p.m. on Saturday, a change from the 5 p.m. start in years past to allow more time for family activities following the sale, said county extension agent Dennis Hale. The "Friends of the Karnes County Youth Show" presentation and showmanship awards will be handed out prior to the auction. Halter steers being exhibited are up this year with 74 entered compared to 52 last year. There are also 204 hogs entered in the show that features students from all Karnes County school districts, FFAs and 4-H clubs. For the first time, turkeys will be shown but will not be part of the auction. There are 12 turkeys entered. Other entries include 12 commercial steers, 17 lambs, 128 goats, 18 pens of broilers, 17 breeding goats, 23 breeding swine, 23 heifers and three bulls. There are also 420 food entries, 70 clothing entries and 225 handicraft entries. Livestock weigh-in and clothing and handicraft entries check-in begin at noon Thursday. Broiler weigh-in is set for 1 p.m., and at 3 p.m. is commercial steer weigh-in. The broiler is scheduled for 4 p.m. followed by the turkey and goat shows. Friday begins with the food entries check-in from 7-8:30 a.m. Commercial steer judging is at 8 a.m. followed by commercial steer interviews from 9-11 a.m. The homemaking judging begins at 9:30 a.m. and the lamb show at 10 a.m. At noon the breeding cattle show begins followed by the halter steer show. For more information, call 830-780-3906. ******************************* From mysa.com January 19, 2007 South Texas teacher admits child porn A schoolteacher and coach who worked in communities between San Antonio and Corpus Christi pleaded guilty this week to one count of possessing child pornography. Gerald Mark Thomas, 46, of Poth, entered the plea Wednesday in federal court in San Antonio. Court records allege that, between 1999 and 2004, Thomas regularly accessed Web sites whose primary focus was the distribution of child pornography. After an inspection of files in a computer that was at Thomas' home, agents found the images, his indictment said. Thomas worked for various schools, including Karnes City Junior High School and Orange Grove High School and in Floresville and Beeville, officials said. His lawyer, Bernie Campion, has said Thomas had accepted a position at Poth High School before the charges came to light and Thomas was arrested in August. Sentencing was scheduled for April 18 before U.S. District Judge W. Royal Furgeson. Thomas faces up to 10 years in prison. ****************************************** From seguingazette.com January 21, 2007 Navarro boys drop two tough losses By Jason Orts The Gazette-Enterprise KENEDY — The Navarro Panthers had the odds stacked against them Friday night. After facing Randolph on Thursday, the Panthers took on another district leader a day later on the road against Kenedy. Navarro fought the Lions tooth-and-nail through regulation and two overtimes but ran out of gas in the second extra session and dropped a 66-59 decision. Josiah Moneyhon sent the game into overtime with a late 3-pointer, and he nailed another one in the first overtime to help keep the Panthers alive. Trey Stolte also scored in the first overtime, while Will Valdez put in two baskets. But the Panthers, who only used seven players, managed only one point in the second overtime to fall short. Zach Hernandez led the Panthers with 17 points and three steals, while Moneyhone finished with 10 points and nine rebounds. Valdez and Ernesto Hernandez added nine points apiece, while Wesley Ply finished with eight rebounds. Stolte tied with Hernandez for the team lead with three steals. “We haven’t had a great season, with wins coming few and far between, but these kids played their butts off for two consecutive nights against two of the three district co-leaders,” said Navarro head coach Bob Ermel. “But we gave great effort — I was really pleased with how hard we played both nights.” On Thursday, the Panthers had Randolph on the ropes and led for most of the game but fell short, 56-49. It wasn’t until a little more than a minute remained in the game that Randolph finally took the lead for good. Turnovers were the Panthers’ downfall as they finished with about 30 of them. Moneyhon had a huge night with 27 points and 16 rebounds, while Ply and Hernandez added 10 and eight points, respectively. Valdez helped out on the boards with eight rebounds. The Panthers, who are 2-5 in district play, open the second round of 29-2A play on the road against Poth at 8 p.m., Tuesday. Navarro girls Mallory Moeller led three Lady Panthers in double figures with 30 points as Navarro routed Kenedy 80-29 on Friday. Haley Helweg scored 15 points, while Jade Randle added 14 for the Lady Panthers, who improved to 7-1 in district play. Nobody for Kenedy put in more than nine points. The Lady Panthers will face the only team to give them a blemish on the district record when they take on Poth on the road at 6:30 p.m, Tuesday. In the first meeting, the Pirettes pulled away for a 67-55 win after the Lady Panthers drew within two points with a little more than two minutes remaining. ******************************* From sportingnews.com January 22, 2007 Texas State promotes assistant to head coach SAN MARCOS, Texas -- Brad Wright, a former walk-on at Texas State, was promoted to head coach of his alma mater Monday after three years as an assistant. Wright replaced David Bailiff, another Texas State graduate who became the Rice head coach last week. Wright was Bailiff's assistant head coach and helped the Bobcats to a 21-15 record the past three seasons, which included a trip to the Division I-AA semifinals in 2005. Texas State had 15 losing seasons in 19 years before Wright and Bailiff returned. The 47-year-old Wright was a high school head coach at nearby New Braunfels Canyon, East Bernard and Karnes City. He started his coaching career as a student assistant for Jim Wacker at Texas State in 1981, when the Bobcats won the Division II championship. Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ******************************* January 23, 2007 Defense propels Kenedy to first place in 29-2A Kenedy coach Carlos Perez had four simple rules for his team this season. "I wanted them to play hard, play together, play smart and have fun," Perez said. "I told them if we can do that, we'd be all right." The Lions have been more than all right through the first half of District 29-2A play. They hold sole possession of the district lead with a 6-1 record. "Our expectations were high," Perez said of his team, which has an overall record of 16-9. "We had five starters back from a team that went to the playoffs last season and lost to Schulenburg (in bi- district) in overtime. Our players want to get back to the playoffs and do better this season." Perez came to Kenedy as the junior varsity coach in the 2004-05 season before taking over as the varsity coach last season and leading the Lions to a 22-12 record. Perez has coached senior starters Josh Bailey, Robert Rodriguez, Patrick Salas, Jeremy Villanueva and Anthony Alvarado since they were sophomores and they've adapted well to his system. "I've been their coach for three years so we've kind of come up together," Perez said. "They've started to buy into what we're doing and they have a real understanding of the system. They've done a good job." The 6-foot-2 Bailey plays the post for Kenedy and had a double- double that included 21 points, 17 rebounds and four blocked shots in Friday night's 66-59 double-overtime win over Navarro. "Most of our games are real close," Perez said. "That's why we have to really focus on playing our game and playing our style." Kenedy's style is playing tough defense and having the ability to make a stop at a critical time. "When we hold an opponent under 45 points, we usually win," Perez said. "Playing good defense for four quarters is the main thing. We can play defense. If you can play defense for four quarters, you usually win." Kenedy opened district play with a road win over Universal City Randolph and a home win over Yorktown before losing at home to Poth, a team it beat earlier this season at the Kenedy Tournament. "We had some discipline issues for that game," Perez said. "But after that game we beat Karnes City and Nixon-Smiley and we've been real focused since that time." Kenedy begins the second round of district play tonight at home against Randolph. With Randolph, Poth and Nixon-Smiley locked in a three-way tie for second, Perez knows his team can take nothing for granted. "We really haven't looked any further ahead than our next game," Perez said. "When we started the season, our goal was just to get back to the playoffs. I told them we're 0-0 starting the second round. But if we take care of business we have a great opportunity of winning district." Mike Forman is a sports writer for the Victoria Advocate. ******************************* January 23, 2007 Moczygemba makes big brother proud Eighth-grader has a double win at Karnes County Youth Show BY SONNY LONG - VICTORIA ADVOCATE KARNES COUNTY - Eighth-grader Cody Moczygemba went straight for his cell phone after his grand champion lamb and grand champion goat were auctioned back-to-back Saturday at the Karnes County Youth Show. The call went to big brother Billy Bob, now a freshman at Texas A&M University, who showed 15 grand and reserve champions in nine years at this same show. "He said he was proud of me," beamed Cody. "Even when I told him mine sold for more than his did last year." The smile got broader. Cody's animals sold for $3,500 each Saturday. In 2006, as a senior Billy Bob's grand champion goat brought in $2,500 during the premium sale and his lamb sold for $2,000. Cody attends Karnes City Junior High and is a member of the Lonesome Dove 4-H. The brothers are still close despite Billy Bob being away at school. "We talk all the time," said Cody. The Moczygembas' mother, Brenda, died in a car wreck the morning of Oct. 19, 2004. It was a one- vehicle crash that the two brothers survived. Brenda, a junior high counselor, was an active supporter of the youth show. Cody was not the only one keeping the sibling tradition going. Sisters Nicole, Karnes City FFA, and Brittany Biela, Karnes City 4- H, exhibited the grand champion hog and reserve champion goat, respectively. Nicole's hog brought in $3,600, and Brittany's goat sold for $3,499 during the auction. Nicole also won junior showmanship honors in both the goat and beef divisions, and Brittany took senior showmanship for hogs. It was another strong show for the sisters. In 2006, Nicole - now an eighth-grader - also had the grand champion hog, and Brittany - now a sophomore - had reserve champions for halter steer, hog and goat. Brother and sister Rhett and Hailey Johnson, of Karnes City FFA, also achieved honors in the same category. Rhett, an eighth-grader, showed the grand champion commercial steer, and Hailey, a sixth- grader, showed the reserve champion. Rhett had the reserve champion commercial steer in 2006. Rhett's grand champion sold for $2,100, and Hailey's reserve went for $2,099. Rhett also had the senior grand champion un-iced cake in the homemaking division. The grand champion halter steer was a 1,210-pound exotic shown by senior Tyler Sekula, Falls City FFA. It sold for $5,500. Sekula had the grand champion breeding heifer last year, and a grand champion halter steer as a sophomore. Buyers for this year's grand champion steer included Basic Energy Services; Karnes County National Bank, Kramer Body and Frame; H-E-B; Valero Three Rivers Refinery; Pico Petroleum; Randy Pieprzyca; Carol and Jan Lake; Pruski Seed and Fertilizer; Frank Nieschwietz Enterprises; and Alfie and Wendy Kowalik. Rhett Johnson's grand champion commercial steer sold for $2,100 to Krause Ag Services; Kenedy Farmers Co-op; Karnes County National Bank; and Karnes County Livestock. Buyers for Nicole Biela's grand champion hog included Ray Limited; Valero Three Rivers Refinery; Onyx Engineering; Karnes County National Bank; Bay Limited, Bobby and Kathy Turner; Ainsworth Trucking; and Scott Electric. The grand champion poultry was shown by Ryan Wiatrek, Falls City FFA. The pen sold for $975 to H-E-B. Moczygemba's top goat sold to Bay Limited: Valero Three Rivers Refinery: Ainsworth Trucking: Bee Agriculture: Alfred Pawelek: Mrs. Alice Johnson; South Texas Implements: Carol and Jan Lake: Shorty's Café 1, 2 & 3; Krause Ag Services; and Geo Group. His lamb went to Valero Three Rivers Refinery; Onyx Engineering; Bee Agriculture; Ainsworth Trucking; Berry Contracting; and Repcon. Colin Dziuk, Falls City 4-H, showed the reserve champion halter steer. It sold for $4,100 to Basic Energy Services; Carol and Jan Lake; H-E-B; Lyssy & Eckel; Alfred Pawelek; Par 4 Mini Storage; Pico Petroleum; Dynasty Enterprises; and Randy Pieprzyca. Buyers for Hailey Johnson's reserve champion commercial steer included South Texas Implements; Karnes City Auction; Kenedy Farmers Co-op; and Basic Energy Services. Kristen Jendrusch, Falls City FFA, showed the reserve champion lamb. It went for $3,000 and buyers included Shorty's Café 1,2&3; Karnes County Livestock; Falls City Milling Co.; Steve Dziuk Ameriprise Financial; Lyssy & Eckel; Alfie & Wendy Kowalik; and H-E-B. Jendrusch also had the senior grand champion decorated cake in the homemaking show. Brittany Biela's reserve champion goat sold to Valero Three Rivers Refinery; Scott Electric; Bay Limited; Ainsworth Trucking; and Witte, Inc. Ashleigh Blocker, Falls City FFA, had the reserve champion hog, which brought $2,000. Buyers included Steve Dziuk Ameriprise Financial; Lyssy & Eckel; and Krisco Goats and Ranch. Garrett Denson, Lonesome Dove 4-H, had the reserve champion poultry. His pen sold for $949 to Berry Contracting and Repcon. Turkeys were exhibited for the first time, not part of the auction. Cameron Wright, Falls City FFA, had the grand champion, and Emil C. Kroll III, Falls City FFA, showed the reserve champion turkey. Breeding show winners included: Breeding goats - champion, Kristen Jendrusch, Falls City FFA; reserve, Cheyenne Janssen, Runge FFA; breeding heifer - champion, Matthew Kotara, Panna Maria 4-H; reserve, Hatti Foster, Falls City FFA; Breeding bull - champion, Mysti Nicholson, Lonesome Dove 4-4; reserve, Andrew Witte, Karnes City FFA; and breeding hog - champion, Justin Saenz, Kenedy FFA; reserve, Tiffany Dziuk, Falls City FFA. Showmanship awards went to: goats - senior, Cameron Wright, Falls City FFA; junior, Nicole Biela, Karnes City FFA; lambs - senior, Brandon Chesser, Karnes City 4-H; junior, Kristen Jendrusch, Falls City FFA; beef - senior, Casey Ebrom, Panna Maria 4-H; junior, Nichole Biela, Karnes City FFA; hogs - senior, Brittany Biela, Karnes City 4-H; junior, Ashleigh Blocker, Falls City FFA; commercial steer - senior, James Vaughan, Karnes City FFA; junior, Phillip Vaughan, Karnes City FFA. Earning the Travis Lynch Memorial showmanship award, which included a plaque and $100, were Casey Ebrom, Panna Maria 4-H, in the senior division, and Matthew Kotara, Panna Maria 4-H, in the junior. Grand champions were also awarded in the senior and junior divisions for homemaking and handicrafts. Those include: uniced cake - senior, Rhett Johnson, Karnes City FFA; junior, Kelsey Labus, Karnes City FFA; specialty cake - senior, Christopher Horton, Falls City FFA; junior, Claire Smart, Runge 4-H; fruit or nut pie - senior, Kaitlyn Braune, Falls City FFA; junior Matthew Stulting, Falls City FFA; non- sweet yeast bread - senior, Genna Kopecki, Karnes City FFA; junior, Jeremy Purser, Karnes City FFA; specialty cookies or bars - senior, Chasity Stone, Falls City FFA; Katie Pollok, Falls City FFA; ice Cake - senior, Lyndsey Rios, Runge FFA; junior, Amy Horton, Falls City FFA; cookies - senior, Jason Janysek, Karnes City FFA: junior, Jonathan Sekula, Falls City FFA; bar cookies - senior, Patrick Johnson, Falls City FFA; junior, Teree Jendrusch, Falls City FFA; decorated cake - senior, David Deleon, Kenedy FFA; junior, Kristen Jendrusch, Falls City FFA; candy - senior, Tara Moy, Falls City 4-H; junior, Sarah Barkley, Karnes City FFA; yeast sweet bread - senior, Colleen Machost, Falls City FFA; junior, Amanda Gorzell, Falls City 4- H; and quick bread or tortillas - senior, Abby Traxler, Karnes City FFA; junior, Katie Johnson, Falls City FFA. ******************************* From dailytimes.com January 23, 2007 Local jobless rate below 3 percent By Mark J. Armstrong The Daily Times Kerr County’s jobless rate dropped below 3 percent in December, according to labor market statistics released Monday by Alamo WorkSource. The county’s jobless rate for the month was 2.8 percent, down from 3.3 percent in November. The 12-county Alamo Area jobless rate dropped to a six-year low at 3.7 percent, while the state recorded a 4.1 percent jobless rate, which was reported last week. The area’s unemployment figures usually are released at the same time as the state’s but were delayed by last week’s inclement weather. Area statistics showed that the total nonagricultural employment for the San Antonio Metropolitan statistical area grew by 2,000 jobs in the final month of 2006. Alamo WorkSource’s labor market analyst Aaron Smith attributed the growth in employment to aggressive hiring by area retailers during the holiday season and a surge in manufacturing employment. “Job growth continued to gain momentum through December, rounding out a very solid fourth quarter for San Antonio,” Smith said. “Our area’s low unemployment rate in December is a reflection of that growth in career opportunities.” Kerr County is part of the Alamo Area with Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Frio, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Karnes, Kendall, Medina and Wilson counties. In the area, Gillespie County registered the lowest jobless rate in December at 2.1 percent. ******************************* From ecanned.com January 22, 2007 1-Year Industry Employment Change in Karnes County, Texas The total number of jobs has increased by 2 percent since the 2nd Quarter figures of 2005. This change is equal to percent in Texas, which saw a gain of 4 percent from the 2nd Quarter of 2005. The gains were equal to than the gain reported at the US level of 2 percent. Karnes County 1-year Percentage Growth in Employment The Legal services industry has seen the largest percentage job growth, expanding by 17.9 percent from 2005 (2nd quarter) to 2006 (2nd quarter). This industry sector in Karnes County has increased employment slower than the industry has grown in the State of Texas, where the industry took a loss of -1.3 percent. The Legal services industry in Karnes County lagged behind the national average, which felt a gain 0.6 percent of the industry employment. Top 4 Industries 1. Legal services (17.9 percent gain) 2. Building foundation and exterior contractors (10.5 percent gain) 3. Farm product raw material merch. whls. (8.6 percent gain) 4. Offices of physicians (6.7 percent gain) Karnes County 1-year Percentage Decline in Employment The Building finishing contractors industry has lost the biggest percent of jobs, losing 39.1 percent of the jobs from 2005 to 2006. These have declined faster than the industry sector has felt in the State of Texas, where the it saw a gain of 2.8 percent. The losses in the Building finishing contractors industry in Karnes County outpaced the United States in terms of percentage decline of industry employment. In this period, the United States gained 5.4 percent in terms of employment in the Building finishing contractors industry. Top 5 Industries 1. Building finishing contractors (39.1 percent decline) 2. Cattle ranching and farming (26.2 percent decline) 3. Health and personal care stores (17.8 percent decline) 4. Gasoline stations (6.8 percent decline) 5. Full-service restaurants (6.4 percent decline) Total 1-Year Employment Growth in Karnes County Out of the 4-digit NAICS industries, the Farm product raw material merch. whls. industry has brought the most jobs with a total of 5 employees finding new jobs in the industry. The employment growth in the Farm product raw material merch. whls. industry makes up 51.9 percent of the total growth in Karnes County. Top 5 Industries 1. Farm product raw material merch. whls. (5 new jobs) 2. Legal services (2 new jobs) 3. Building foundation and exterior contractors (1 new jobs) 4. Accounting and bookkeeping services (77 new jobs) 5. Specialized freight trucking (69 new jobs) In Karnes County, Texas, the aggregate employment for all industry sectors has increased by 45 total jobs from 2005 to 2006. Of the 13 industry sectors (4-digit NAICS) with employment figures reported by the BLS in each quarter, 9 accounted an increase in employment during the period and 4 industries reported employment losses declines in the period. Total 1-Year Employment Decline in Karnes County From of the area's 4-digit NAICS industries, the Building finishing contractors industry witnessed the largest drop in employment, losing a total of 8 jobs. The declines in the Building finishing contractors industry make up 18.9 percent of the total job loss in Karnes County, Texas. Top 4 Industries 1. Building finishing contractors (8 jobs lost) 2. Nursing care facilities (7 jobs lost) 3. Gasoline stations (6 jobs lost) 4. Full-service restaurants (6 jobs lost) About: This report is part 1 of 6 in the eCanned.com Industry Analysis Series. Datasource: U.S. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW). ****************************************** From mysa.com January 23, 2007 Immigrant reunites with loved ones Guillermo Contreras Express-News DEL VALLE — The cold air here was enough to keep most in this hamlet south of Austin's international airport indoors. But at the Rodriguez abode, the chill was not enough to spoil the barbecue celebration of grilled steak and chipotle-marinated shrimp kebobs. "Quedó bueno (It came out good)," 35-year-old Jose Rodriguez Lira told his younger brother, Agustín, as he hungrily bit into a shrimp. Only hours before, the Texas roofer and Mexican immigrant thought he would begin another day incarcerated miles away from his family. But on Tuesday, Jose Rodriguez could hug his children, kiss his wife, Felicia Mays, and enjoy life's pleasures without the careful watch of jail guards. For Rodriguez, freedom was a stark contrast to the nearly three years he spent jailed on immigration charges for a drug case he already was serving probation for. "You felt like you were dying inside," Rodriguez said. "I was paying for a crime twice." Last week, the Board of Immigration Appeals in Virginia, the immigration system's highest court, terminated the deportation case the government had against Rodriguez. Upon learning the board ruled that the basis for holding and trying to deport Rodriguez was flawed, officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Antonio released him late Monday. He reunited Tuesday for the first time in two years and nine months with Mays and their children, Maricela, 13; Isidro, 12; James, 8; and Vanessa, 7; at Agustín's house. "I was in tears when I learned he was out," Mays said, fighting back more tears. "All I can say is his kids needed him. I needed him." "I'm very happy," Vanessa said as she hugged her father's midsection. "He's (the) best daddy in the whole wide world." Rodriguez, who lived in Austin before his arrest, is not a U.S. citizen. The native of Zacatecas, Mexico, has been a legal permanent U.S. resident since 1990. In May 2003, he got caught with a small amount of cocaine in Hays County. He pleaded no contest in January 2004 to possession of less than 1 gram of cocaine and received deferred adjudication, a type of probation. Although he served one night in jail and was abiding by terms of his probation, he landed in April 2004 in the custody of immigration authorities who claimed the charge was an "aggravated felony" that allowed them to deport him. The U.S. Supreme Court, however, held last month in a separate case whose circumstances were similar to Rodriguez's that the charge is a misdemeanor. In the past, ICE officials refused to release him even after three immigration judges had sided in Rodriguez's favor based on other points. Two federal judges in San Antonio he appealed to chose to stay out of the ordeal and let the immigration system deal with Rodriguez, the court file shows. "In many ways, the larger story is when you're caught in the web of the government, even if you win, you really lose," said Rodriguez's San Antonio lawyer, Simon Azar-Farr. "The system, to a great extent, failed him, particularly the federal court that had the power to stop this a long time ago." Immigration officials maintained they acted "judiciously and equitably" in Rodriguez's case. During his jail stay, mostly recently in Karnes City, Rodriguez said he saw many others with cases like his own give up and get deported. "In my case, it was worth the wait," he said. "It was worth the sacrifice." ****************************************** From marketwire.com January 25, 2007 Tradestar Resources Announces Operations Have Begun to Recomplete Karnes County Prospect With Potential Reserves of 3-4 BCF Gas and 75- 100 Thousand Barrels of Condensate HOT SPRINGS, AR -- (MARKET WIRE) -- January 25, 2007 -- Tradestar Resources Corporation (PINKSHEETS: TSRR) announced today that operations have begun to recomplete the Janssen Prospect located in Karnes County, Texas. The Janssen Prospect will be recompleted in the existing vertical wellbore by a sidetrack drilling procedure at a depth of approximately 10,500 feet to test the Wilcox sand. Total reserves are estimated to be 75 to 100 thousand barrels of condensate and 3 to 4 BCF of Gas. Tradestar is joint venturing this project with Bedford Energy from Oklahoma City and Penasco Petroleum from Austin, Texas. Tradestar's alliance with Proex and Penasco is to participate together in multiple joint venture projects for oil & gas development in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. "We are on track to finish this procedure and put the well into production the first week of February," stated Tom Feimster, President of Tradestar. "We continue to focus on low risk prospects that can add long term cash flow to our company." About Tradestar Tradestar Resources Corporation is an independent energy company that is engaged in the exploration, development, exploitation and acquisition of on-shore and natural gas properties in conventional producing areas if the United States. Tradestar strives to enhance asset value by expanding oil and natural gas reserves raising production levels and increasing cash flow. Tradestar intends to foster its growth as an independent oil and gas company by investing in only proven producing wells. The company's web site is http://tradestar-corp.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Contact: Tradestar Resources Corp. 501-423-3005 SOURCE: Tradestar Resources Corporation ****************************************** From monk2monk.blogspot.com January 25, 2007 where your voters are illiterate or they cannot speak, read, and write the English or Spanish languages you have to haul them like cattle to the polls GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON LIBRARY Legal Agreement pertaining to the Oral History Interview of Dudley T . Dougherty In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, James R: Dougherty III of Beeville, Texas, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews conducted with Dudley T . Dougherty on December 27, 1971 in Beeville, Texas, and on September 17, 1975 in San Antonio, Texas, and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library . - . This assignment is subject to the following terms and conditions : (1) The transcripts shall be available for use by researchers-as soon as they have been deposited in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library . (2) The tape recordings shall be available to those researchers who have access to the transcripts . (3) I hereby assign to the United States Government all _copyright I may have in the interview transcripts and tapes . . (4) Copies of the transcripts and the tape recordings may be provided by the Library to researchers upon request . (5) Copies of the transcripts and tape recordings may be deposited in or loaned to institutions other than the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library_ U /11 i Ist of the United tapes .3 /, / 979 Date INTERVIEW I DATE : December 27, 1971 INTERVIEWEE : DUDLEY T . DOUGHERTY INTERVIEWER : JOE B . FRANTZ PLACE : Mr . Dougherty's office in Beeville, Texas Tape l of 1, Side 1_ F :Mr . Dougherty, I suppose what we will do is start back at the time when you came in from the war with the idea of either winning the peace, or losing the peace, whatever one does when he comes home . D :I had helped people close to me that I had met in Paris after the war was over, and they were devoting their lives to things such as the practice of international law or consular services--not just Paris but other places--to work to win the peace . I came home and I had immediate responsibilities, although I entered the University of Texas for a little while . I had had a couple of years there before . F :You had lost a brother in the war? D :I lost a brother in the war . And the letter came to me--I had written him a long letter . F :You were the sole son then? D :It left me the sole son, two sisters, an aging father and mother . And very large responsibilities that I would take over shortly, I knew . So I entered again the University of Texas . It has been said that I wouldn't have lasted there anyway, and maybe that's so, maybe DOUGHERTY -- I -- 2 it isn't so. We'll never know . F :No one can prove anything on that, can they? D :We'll never know. But when my brother-in-law was killed in a hunting accident, that made two deaths in my family--male members-- within a couple of years of one another . I came back to Beeville, Texas, to learn everything that my father could teach me about the business . So I went over every bit of ground of lands that we had bought . I went all over our oil leases, watched the drilling of various wells in Refugio County and elsewhere, went torLouisiana, went to West Texas . I devoted myself to learning at firsthand what I would have to learn . I had my twenty-second birthday shortly after my Army discharge, and naturally I'm a young bachelor . And when you have all the trials and tribulations that young bachelors can, I am sure you can, if you have to, dig up various scrapes I've been in-- all of that--if you care to do it . F :That's not my concern . That's consigned to the past . D :But I followed county politics at an intensive level . I wanted the replacement of the sheriff of Bee County . I thought he had a taste for blood, and quietly I ran candidates against him and encouraged opposition to ,.him . That was about my only interest in politics except to wish that I did not have the immediate responsibility that I did, [so] that I could run in an election . There was Lloyd Bentsen who had returned from the war, got himself elected county judge at , twenty-six, and then congressman . And I remember when that happened, DOUGHERTY -- I -- 3 I thought then that I just wished to God that I were free to do that . F :Did you begin to build up a fair acquaintance across the state with politicians? D :Not too many, just those that I'd gone to school with . I knew Frank Oltorf, who was in the legislature at the state level . I went to the Democratic convention in 1948 in Philadelphia, drove there with a couple of cousins and watched the nomination of Harry Truman . F :Were you still waiting up at three in the morning when he came in from that train on the siding to get the nomination? D :I thought he was in an alley waiting to be notified . F :He was right outside . D :Then he came in and made the speech and said, "Now, Senator Barkley and I are going to win this election and make the Republicans like it ." And I have been a Democrat, though fairly independent--a maverick Democrat--ever since, because I watched the Texas caucus, and I watched the bankruptcy of the Dixiecrat movement with old Senator Ed Joe Hill--was that his name? F : Yes . D :And this poor, tiring Governor [Beauford] Jester . And I had a proxy that I could use if I wanted to use it, and I did not use it because Ididn't want to be in a caucus squabble that was already a foregone conclusion and endless . But I came out of the caucus and I met some lady I was introduced to in a hotel, a prominent club woman, and I said, "As far as I'm concerned, I'm for Truman ." And she later told my cousin how much she admired someone who could come out and say that, as unpopular as Truman was supposed to be . I cast my first vote in 1946, and it was for Homer Rainey because I wanted a change, and then I decided that Rainey would probably have been bad for Texas- -that Jester, who was a Harvard man but he never put it in the papers, was probably the better choice . But I wanted change . I wanted change then . Those were my opinions then . F :I voted for Rainey myself in 1946 as much out of the conviction that you needed a protest vote as I did for any kind of affirmative belief . D :I did it as a protest . I did it as a protest, but T was not a Raineyite . But I knew old Professor Frank Dobie very well . He had come up to our offices . My father did his legal work . F :He came from down in here, didn't he? D :His mother lived here, and he'd come to see his mother . My father handled his legal work for his ranch in Live Oak County . And it's interesting to know, maybe perhaps, that at a local level he was an extremely conservative man . He fought every road, every increase in taxes by the school district, what have you . F :Did your father take more than just a citizen's interest in politics? D :My father, who was fifty-three when I was born, told me that in 1896 when he cast his first vote that he saw no reason to vote for W . J . [William Jennings] Bryan because W . J . Bryan came to a convention, stormed it with an emotional speech, -and he didn't think all of his magic formula of 16 to 1 silver to gold, so he cast his first DOUGHERTY -- I -- 4 DOUGHERTY -- I -- 5 vote for the splinter Democrat, whose name I believe was Potter Palmer, or something like that . And then greatly because he lost and he saw he had been on a losing side and that he was a young, struggling attorney, he didn't take immediate interest in politics, whether Teddy Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson, and all of that . He remained a Democrat from then on though . But in the 1920s when the Democratic Party in Bee County was taken over by the three Ks,--the Ku Klux Klan--they had the sheriffs, the judges ; Catholic people weren't called up for jury service--he organized a local party called the Citizens Party . That was a little before my time . The Citizens Party took over control of Bee County, and they held control until about 1932. Then were elected in the November elections, the various judges, sheriffs, what have you . Then in 1932 or so, he let the Citizens Party drop, .but that's how he fought the three Ks . F :Your Uncle Dudley was fairly active in politics, wasn't he? D :He ran for the legislature in 1916 and lost. Dudley Tarlton . He lived here for a while and then he moved to Corpus Christi . He was district attorney here, too ; that's another thing . F :Did you get active in the primary in 1943 between Stevenson and Johnson, or did you sit that out? D :I did not . I asked my father how he was voting, and he said, "I'm voting for Coke Stevenson ." I didn't ask him why . F :Did you know either candidate personally at that time? D :I met Lyndon Johnson in 1948, because Frank Oltorf called me and asked me to come and meet him . His helicopter was landing in Beeville at the fairgrounds . F :Did he lose his hat? D :That I don't recall . But I came down . I asked my father, "You're for the other man . Do you want me to go down there and meet him or not?" He said, "Yes, of course, I know him . He used to come in my office many years ago with Dick Kleberg ." So I went down and I introduced myself and told him I was Judge Dougherty's son . He said in a very loud voice, "Thank your father for his support ." F :Did he know he didn't have it? D :He knew he didn't have it . I came back and I told my father the story, and he said, "Well, I wonder why he said that . He knows good and well that I'm for Stevenson ." I remember his speech then : he talked about the Depression--ten .cent oil, crops that couldn't be picked, that theme . I had also met George Peddy, who had been, I believe, military governor of Rome, and he had some understanding and whose integrity was unquestionable . I heard my father talk about George . My mother voted for George Peddy the first time, and Uncle Dudley voted for George Peddy the first time . I heard my father talking about George Peddy's speeches and all of that, and he said, "He's the best man running, but he makes the worst speeches that I've ever heard ." Maybe I made worse speeches, I don't know . F :We won't run any analyses on that . DOUGHERTY -- I -- 6 DOUGHERTY -- I -- 7 D :(Laughter) I was given the text of these speeches, and they read well, but it was, I suppose, the manner of delivery . F :I know when Alf Landon used to get up, you must remember the newsreels, when Landon ran against Roosevelt . D :I took an avid interest in that . I was only eleven or twelve, but I followed . I had two very new anti-New Deal aunts, and I had my father who was already beginning to get unhappy about the New Deal, but he was a friend of Garner's and Tom Connally--very close to Tom Connally . I remember he played solitaire during most of the election day . But Roosevelt, as he told me then, was already saying, "economic royalists," what have you, and he said, "That's because he's scared of Huey Long, Huey Long is 'Share the Wealth .' Roosevelt, they tell me, is a good poker player, knows politics . It's excellent politics, but it's damaging the country, and in the development of this Tom O'Connor field for a little while, not very long ." Harold Ickes had control of the oil industry, and we had our plans to develop a field . We sent them to Washington . They were for a period of over seven, eight, ten years, and he had his hundred wells or so that he could drill . That creates new jobs, a good field with a depression going on, and then they send back from Washington permission to drill four wells and the Charles Evans Hughes Supreme Court throws that out . So we have state allowables and state prorations . I talked to one German once, a German capitalist, and he sai D :"State prorations are socialism" and all that . And he said, "Yes, DOUGHERTY -- I -- 8 but we're happy with it ." That was years later ., In early 1937, and I realize that the Hughes court threw out things they never should have thrown out, like AAA and anything coming up, but in 1937 when I was thirteen, my father broke then with Roosevelt and the New Deal, not over high taxes, but over increasing the court to fifteen from nine to pack it and get his own men on there, And I think [Hugo] Black, who possibly made a good justice-- his ;record will have to be studied--he had his three K background, and my father had fought the three Ks . That was that, as far as he was concerned . There was no third term for him or anything else . But I followed politics very avidly as a child . And I remember when I first heard of Lyndon Johnson in 1937, when the Democratic Party had split. It had split over Barkley Harrison 39 to 38, over who was for the court packing and who was against . Lyndon ran on Roosevelt 100 per cent, right or wrong, "Whatever he's for, I'm for . What he's against, I'm against ." Roosevelt was highly popular . But I felt that was wrong then F :How did your Uncle Dudley - become Johnson's lawyer in that 1948 contest? Had he done work for him previously? D :All he knew of Lyndon Johnson was that he'd go to state conventions where one was in Corpus Christi, and Lyndon would put his arm around Clara Driscoll and put his arm around Dudley Tarlton and flatter them . But he became the attorney because he got called at four o'clock in the morning by Lyndon Johnson himself . He said, "There's a contest in DOUGHERTY -- I -- 9 Alice that is developing . Will you go over there and take the case?" He had voted for George Peddy first and then for Johnson over Stevenson . When I asked him why he voted for Johnson over Stevenson, he said, "I like a fellow that speaks to you every day and just not some of the time . When Stevenson sees me and he approves of what I'm doing, he says,'Good morning,' and when he doesn't, he doesn't ." And that was the only reason he gave . F :Do you think Johnson would have chosen him because he knew this area? D :He chose him because he was the finest attorney in South Texas for that kind of work . He had a long record of won-lost cases [causes] . And because he was not entirely happy with my running against Johnson, he came in and told me, "Look, they called me at four in the morning," when I went in . He took his son and his daughter with him . The son drove him over to Alice . He had a heart condition . F :He lived in Corpus then . D :He lived in Corpus . He got there at nine . When he got there at nine, as he told me, "I saw a situation that was obviously fraudulent, just prima-facie"--I don't know Latin, whatever it's called--"and I didn't know what to say or what to do, so I talked for an hour or so, just filibustering . But then finally the idea came to me . And the idea was not to pinpoint this one box, but to break the entire election down and just see who won it and who lost it . And they were unwilling to do that ." And he said, "At four in the afternoon, Abe F :Yes, Whitfield Davidson . I announced-- DOUGHERTY -- I -- 1 0 Fortas flew in and a whole bunch of other people, and they didn't know what in the devil to do about it because Coke Stevenson and Kellis Dibrell had already taken it to the federal court on the First Amendment ." The right to vote, what have you . And he said, "I told them what to do . I told Abe Fortas to go to the friendliest Supreme Court justice you can find, and stop it right now. Then we will eventually know who won as the election is broken down,-when we find out, whether the Senate determines it, or what have you ." I think the thing got to Davidson's court in Fort Worth . D :And my father, who was an excellent attorney, agreed with Whitfield Davidson . Whitfield Davidson said the election ought to be run over again, the primary . And while Uncle Dudley was talking- .to me, after F :There seemed to be just evidence of bad or fraudulent voting on both sides, didn't it? D :Well, the only evidence that did come out, out on the surface, was Box 13, though Coke Stevenson's second cousin did make a readjustment of thirty-seven votes--that was never gone into . F :Where was Coke Stevenson's cousin? D :I don't know where he was . But my father agreed with Davidson . Davidson said that the primary ought to be rerun . Well, when Uncle Dudley was talking to me in the terminology like Brezhnev, Kosygin, Dubcek--frank--and I told him that, he said, "Where is the precedent for rerunning a primary? There is none ." When I DOUGHERTY -- I -- 1 1 told him, I said, "Well, for the moment, let's talk about things that we can agree on," because I wasn't going to tell him that I would not use Box 13 as an issue . He came up--he was trying a case up here--and then walked into my office and said, "I think you're doing well, but your issues should be so-on, so-on, so-on . I heard your talkathon at Houston, and you only made one mistake, as far as I'm concerned . You said you were running for the vacancy, that the last senator was W . Lee O'Daniel and Johnson is truly senator ." And I think I said only because of a Democratic instead of a Republican Congres's . They confused it with the Chavez-Hurley, and that would have made two-Democrats thrown out and that would have been too thin . So it never came up, and Johnson took his place . F :Did you happen to go to the state convention that year, and you went to the national? D :I went to the national . That was enough of conventions for me . But he got his certified, wasn't it, by one vote? F :By one vote there, it was a D :One changing vote . The man F :Did your uncle ever comment D : No . F :Or on the strangulation down in the state prison? D : Smithwick? F : Yes . D : No . squeaker all the way . later committed suicide, I heard . on the Mason case over at Alice? F :So you know just about as much about that as I do, that is, just what you read in the papers . D :I knew people that knew Mason . And I knew people who knew Smithwick . F :What did they think of them? D :My uncle, Francis Dougherty, said that he knew Smithwick well . And it's only the name Smithwick that is English ; he was Latin American or Chicano or whatever it's called now . F :Some Anglo got in there somewhere, long enough to give a name . D :Yes . And that :it was not within the philosophy of Smithwick to commit suicide . But he knew Smithwick well . Now he wrote Coke Stevenson and said he wanted .to talk to him, and Coke Stevenson delayed going over . Then he was strangled in his cell . I thought I would do something about it, so I made one statement printed in the San Antonio Light , "$5,000 Reward for Information about the Death of Sam Smithwick ." And one of the attorneys working for me, or election people, Kellis Dibrell, called me on the phone and said, "My God, you don't know what that's done! We've found Smithwick . He's in a South Presa Street asylum, has been shanghaied there ." So Colonel Sterling, who knew Smithwick too, and my wife went up there, and they saw the man and his name was Smithwick, but he was not Sam Smithwick . F :Just curious all the way . What kind of fellow was Mason? D :The story I got was that he was brought down there by Parr himself, then there was a quarrel and he turned against Parr . F :Did you ever know Parr? DOUGHERTY -- I -- 1 2 DOUGHERTY -- I -- 1 3 D :Oh, sure . I'd seen him at parties in Corpus Christi when I was a young bachelor, so-called, I'd go down with my sister. He was married to Ducky--Thelma Duckworth Parr . I'd seen him at the Dragon Grill . F :Did he have as complete control of Duval County as he reputedly had? D :Let's say that,his organization controlled him as much as he controlled them . Their livings were dependent on Parr . Parr, if he'd wanted to, couldn't have cut his losses, taken his seven million dollars and moved to the Riviera and got out of it . He just could not do it . If you have your , own district attorney, your own county judge, your own constables, school boards-- F :He was a prisoner of the place, in a sense . D :As much as he was dictator and tyrant. He could be a tyrant . F :Do you get the feeling from your long association with Texas politics in that period that Parr really didn't belong to any statewide candidate, but just sort of picked and chose according to what he thought he could get? In other words, he'd have gone for Coke Stevenson if he'd thought Coke was-- D :I think he did when he ran for lieutenant governor . I think Coke took the votes . F :So the question of whom he delivered for this time, "What have you done for me lately?" in a sense . D :You've got to understand where you have a highly illiterate or ignorant--and I'm not trying to hurt people's feelings--but where your voters are illiterate or they cannot speak, read, and write the English or Spanish languages, which is true to this day, you have to haul them like cattle to the polls, or it was done the last time I ran for office . You go back to the beginning . That started with old Senator Archer Parr, who ran Duval County . Then he had a brother here, Dr . Parr, an old doctor with a beard . F :Archer did . D :Senator Archer Parr, not to be confused with the county judge who has the same name or is. he still sheriff in Duval? A fraternity brother of mine . Old Senator Archer Parr ran things, and then he was a friend of the King-Klebergs . Feudalism persisted,: .an D :it= persists to this day, not only feudalism but peonage . And it's nobody's fault, but it has got to be stopped . Old Senator Parr stood up for his friends, the Klebergs, over a road through to the King Ranch . And Bob Kleberg was called and said, "You'll beat your friend Senator Parr if you tell him that he has to fight the road ." But out of loyalty and the likes, Senator Parr was defeated . And George Parr,for one reason or another, went to prison on an income tax rap . He spent about a year, and then he got out . And somebody, according to Sam Houston Johnson, who has had his ups and downs--and I'll quote him because I don't think he'd mind being quoted on this-- when he talked to me confidentially, he:'d=say, "Don't say so . Somebody told George Parr that Dick Kleberg would DOUGHERTY -- I -- 1 4 DOUGHERTY -- I -- 1 5 not help him win a pardon, but that wasn't so . Because I went, either with my brother or alone, with Dick Kleberg to Homer Cummings, the attorney general, and asked for it ." But based on that information, George Parr took all of his votes, but his own personal vote, to [John] Lyle . Now, I'm not arguing that the change didn't have to be made there . Because young Kleberg had a draft deferment, and Lyle was on the Anzio Beachhead . That was the issue . But he lost Duval and the Parrs because of info given to George Parr that was inaccurate, according to Sam Houston, who I see from time to time . F :While we're on Sam Houston, do you feel that Sam Houston played much of a role in his brother's success, or has he kind of been- D :Yarborough, on the floor of the Senate, said that he was mainly responsible for his early success, and I'm inclined to agree with him . F :My feelings in my meetings with Sam Houston, and there are not too many, have been that he's a pretty shrewd boy . D :Got a good mind . F :And I've wondered just how much he has been in there figuring, and how much Lyndon Johnson has listened to him . D :Lyndon Johnson listened to him when I ran for the Senate, because all of Lyndon's advice was to come down here to Texas, or a great deal of Lyndon's advice was to come down here to Texas immediately and start campaigning . I'd been on television twenty-six hours in Houston . And Sam Houston told me--and again I don't think I'm violating a confidence--"Lyndon said, 'Should I go down there, should I denounce him? He has called me every name under the sun, and they tell me I've got to do something!"' And he said, "I told him, 'no, Lyndon . If you go down there and start campaigning, you'll lose two hundred thousand votes . You're the majority leader'"-- or was it minority? F :He became majority leader after that election . He was minority leader . D :"Then you're subject to the criticism of ignoring your work . You can say this is just a young man, a scion with illusions--that kind of thing ." Now I had my tapes of my Houston talkathon . It was all in my office . I never played . :them . But I had them, and they burned . F :What a loss !D :With every question asked . F :That would have been invaluable . D :Now I'm misquoted, and they took their own tapes and changed it around--put a psychiatrist on to listen to it ; they did all kinds of things . F :Did they take it down themselves? D :But they changed it around . Mr . Salayo [?], who is now my ranch foreman, but who was sixteen years in the legislature, helped me . Just told me the other day, "Listen, Dudley, I was . against exposing yourself on TV, but I heard every word of it, and I must say you did a beautiful job ." I don-'.t think I contradicted myself too many DOUGHERTY -- I -- 1 6 DOUGHERTY -- I -- 1 7 times . I made some mistakes . I got too far out in favor of McCarthy, and I did do what every major candidate did that year, including Yarborough . Yarborough said, "I'm against the forcible co-mingling of races, et cetera ." And they asked me :if'I'm for or against segregation, and I didn't say, "As a student of history, I know it will change ." I said, "Yes, I'm for segregation . Segregation is in the nature of your--" F :There wasn't a man running for office in 1954 who spoke-out-- D :Except Doug Crouch . But I belabored the point . They started arguing with me, and maybe I got impatient . And then I finally said-- Vin [?], who was in charge of it, this was experimental, took me aside for just a second-- F :Was that Bob Vin? D :Bob Vin . And he had run Francis Cherry, who was elected governor of Arkansas, and he had elected Smathers senator . Then he failed to elect Lan [?] Smith over McCarthy . He said, "Listen, Dudley, you've gone too far out with your Negroes . You're doing a fine job, but with the Negroes, you're ruining all the hope ." And so I modified it as tactfully as I could without contradicting myself . And then with McCarthy, I didn't say that we should start lining people up against a wall and shooting them, something like that . But I did say that, "We have to be on our guard so Houston isn't hydrogen-bombed through security loyalty errors . We've been neglectful and he's alerting the country . And in alerting the country, he's doing a good job ." F :You didn't see Johnson from the time he came down here in 1943 and said that he appreciated your father's support until-- D :Saw him in 1953 . F :In 1953 when he came back . D : Yes . F :By that time then, you had run for the legislature . D :And was a member of the legislature . F :In 1952 . DOUGHERTY -- I -- 1 8 D :In 1952 I ran . A legislator was getting out, and a lot of people asked me . In fact, I've never run for an office that I wasn't asked to run for . Even against Johnson in 1953, I .was in Cuero, Texas . There was an old man in a car that was a respected member of the community, Thornton Hamilton was his name--he's dead--and he said, "Dudley, why don't you consider running against Lyndon Johnson? The country needs leadership desperately ." He didn't say I could win . But I had a letter or so, and I got a telephone call from my cousin Pat Tenant [?], and he said, "If you're running for Congress, Dudley-- " Did you know Pat Tenant? F :Yes, I knew Pat . D :He's a second cousin of mine . He got on the telephone and said, "Dudley, if you'll run for Congress, and I think you should, I'll come over there and drink beer with different people and talk to them and work for you ." I said, "I have a curious letter on my desk, asking me to run against Lyndon Johnson ." He said, "Don't do that, for God's sake! You'll find out that some of the people that may ask you to run against Lyndon Johnson are evenly secretly for Johnson themselves, and trying to find out how people stand ." I'm losing my trend of thought a little bit . Do you want to ask me another question? F :Had you had any contact with Johnson by mail or phone prior to this September 1953 meeting? D :One letter, asking for drought relief . F :That was from you to him? D :From me to him . And then the form letter back . F :Putting it off on Eisenhower and not-- D :Yes . That was some clerk's brilliant idea . F :You did this not as a private citizen, but as a state legislator from this district? D :As a legislator . F :What did your district involve at that time--just Bee County? D :No . Bee, Karnes, Wilson . I got elected . I carried Bee and Karnes . "° F :Did you think you were going to make a career out of politics at the time? Or did you realize that you were taking a long shot when you gave up running for re-election for the state Senate to try for the U .S . Senate? D :My advice was state senator or Congress, then wait eight years until 1960 when Johnson would then either be presidential or vice presidential candidate, then run for the Senate . And that was my thinking for a long time . Now just why I got into it, back in the legislature there was a DOUGHERTY -- I -- 1 9 DOUGHERTY -- I -- 20 lobbyist and he'd come around every day, and I'd ask who he represented . I asked Spacek who I sat next to who did he represent . And he says, "Oh, the big boys ." He was a little deaf and had a hearing aid . And his secretary said, "You know, he's my godfather ." I said, "Isn't that curious!" And then he came right at the end of the session, and he said, "I've been asked to go to work for Hubert Hudson--you've heard of Hubert Hudson ." Hubert Hudson was running for Congress, and I moved to the Rio Grande Valley and worked for him . "But watching the legislature, I think you're the most promising member, and I would like to go to work for you . Can you do it?" And I said, "Do you have references?" And he said, "Yes, Bob Harris," whom I knew--he was a cotton man--"and Judge Townes of Houston," whom I knew. I said, "Well, I don't know, Joe, whether I can or can=t or shouldn't ." He says, "Where do you want to go?" I said, "Probably the Congress . The action is in Washington, it's not here ." And he said, "Well, Johnny Lyle is a good friend of mine," and so on . I said, :"I didn't say I was running for it or not running for it . . . just eventually. I'll try you experimentally ." And I never did deduct him . I could have got a tax deduction and put him in as picking up oil and gas leases, and he could have picked up some oil and gas leases and been good at it . His name was Joe Garcia, finally committed suicide . But he'd come around and around . The man's dead now, but sometimes he'd be annoying, be a nuisance, interrupt you when you were DOUGHERTY -- I -- 2 1 doing things . Other times I was glad to talk to him . He'd tell me about each little vote, it was a Swedish vote, or a Mason, or anti-Mason vote, this, that, the other . F : Is there a Catholic vote in this area? D : Oh, sure . South Texas . Insofar as you can call a vote a vote . When I ran for the legislature, there was a Baptist minister . I'm still a Catholic, and I've been from the day I was born, and I will be to the day I die . Very few people know it, but I've been knighted- - Knight of Malta--and that kind of thing, , Knight of the Holy Sepulchre . But I don't go around wearing it-- F : In your lapel . D : But there was a Baptist minister when I ran for the legislature, and he went around to other Baptist ministers ; he'd tell them, "I want you to vote for Dougherty ." They'd say, "He's a Catholic ." "But he's the better man for the job than Holstein [?] . I know him well ." Then they'd say, "Well, he's promising . How far do'you want a Catholic to attain office? He'll go further ." This minister, who's still around, he runs an office, his answer was : "One,of the finest young men I've ever known in my life, and I'm not a bit worried ." And he took me a little later to a Baptist picnic, and they made the talk--some of the hardest shells you ever heard of . But I grasped their mentality, I understand them now . F : Another slice of Americana . D : And I picked up--there's a Lutheran vote . This old man that I beat DOUGHERTY -- I -- 2 2 for the legislature, Holstein, who was an old Ferguson precinct, worker--thought he knew everything--wouldn't speak to-m6 - for two years after I beat him . But finally he came in my office and he said, "Listen, Dougherty, I know you know government because I read your reports back in Austin . And you not only get your Catholic vote in Karnes County, you get the Lutheran vote . I don't know how in the devil you get the Lutheran vote, but you do ." F :Did Senator Johnson as a rising young senator pay much attention to the Texas Legislature during that period you were there? Did he call people and suggest what they might do for him? D :I went to Stockdale in 1953-to make a speech for their watermelon festival . It was a hot July day . So I decided the best thing I could do was not make a speech, and just say, "Stockdale's a wonderful town," and so-on and so-on . I spoke for about three minutes and sat down, and then I asked Garcia what was the effect of it . He said, "They were damned glad you did that because they didn't want to stand in the hot sun and hear a long speech ." But Johnson sent a telegram to me . He was very careful to send telegrams . But I think he had Jake Pickle or somebody like that tend to matters in the legislature . F :Come around and make his wants known . Did he ever call you personally while you were in the legislature . D : 140 . F :Did you ever indicate to him that you might support him in 1954? D :Only in that letter asking for drought relief . DOUGHERTY -- I -- 23 prestige abroad?" And his answer, "I have not been abroad, but I'll tell you, I have no use for Fifth Amendment communists," whatever amendment--loyalty questions . "And I think McCarthy is doing -ore good than harm ." F : Tell me about the September 1953 appearance he made-here . D : Excellent tightrope walking . F : Was this something he set up, was he invited to come, or what? D : He went all over the state . He went a terrific pace . F : Just kind of keeping his fences mended . D : Yes, because he knew there was the 1954 election, :and he had the . job in Washington, and clean packed Beeville, too [?] . F : Where did you meet? Was the meeting here in the courthouse? D : In the courthouse . F : Outside? D : No . Inside the county judge's offices . F : What was it--an invited group? D : Just the word passed around town, "Lyndon Johnson is here and he will be glad to tai k ." F : Did you have a full house? D : Pretty full . F : Were people pretty free with their questions? D : Yes . F : What-kind of questions were they asking him? D : Well, I told you about the question he was asked by the idealist or student [about] Senator McCarthy, "Don't you think he's harming our F :Was there any reaction to this, or did people feel very strongly about McCarthy in 1954 here in Beeville? D :Here in town? F : Yes . D :He was of great news value . He was perfect copy, and there was always a story that McCarthy had done this, said that, so they read about him as they would a celebrity . F :Did you ask any questions? D :I asked about the Bricker Amendment . F :What did Johnson say to that? D :That he was for something that later became the George Amendment . He went on a little bit, and then I asked again, "Are you sure they can't slip something through the Senate that's against the Constitution?" And he said, "Oh, no, careful screening ." F :So that the Bricker Amendment wasn't anything to fear as far as he was concerned . D :The Bricker Amendment failed by one vote short of two-thirds . And like a friend of Joe Kennedy's asked Joe Kennedy why did Jack Kennedy vote his way . And he said, ."Public opinion wouldn't stand for it ." By that he meant public opinion and the Democratic Party, not Massachusetts . In Massachusetts they were probably two-to-one for it . But I think the vote was 60 to 31 in its favor, missing by one vote . F :Sometime between September 1953 and February 1954 when you announced, you changed your mind about running . What induced you to change DOUGHERTY -- I -- 24 your mind? Was it a combination of things? DOUGHERTY -- I -- 2 5 D :You mean about not running for what office? F :As late as September 1953, I presume you might have supported Johnson.. D :After the conversation, I felt that I could either stay very quiet or oppose him . F :Did you try to get anyone else to run? D : No . F :Did you talk to people very widely about running, or did you keep it more or less within your immediate circle? D :I didn't even talk . F :Did you try to set up any kind of statewide organization for either financing or publicity? D :No . With a million dollars and a year's preparation, I :could have run extremely well, as proved by Tower six years later . F :Did you have real hope of winning, or were you mainly trying to highlight the issues? D :I thought he should be opposed . I went up to dew York City and I went to the Harvard Club . There was a meeting--and I don't like labels--but a meeting of highly intelligent reactionaries, if you want to call them that, although one of them was R . R . Young, there's a book about him, R . R . Young, Wall Street Popul ist, but he would have been termed reactionary . And .i t was Mr . Bouvier, the fatherin- law of Senator Kennedy, and it was Frank Knopt, who had a string of newspapers, and it was Burton K. Wheeler, whose name still meant something to me . And then some younger men, whose names I've forgotten . And then two or three of them talked, and I didn't agree entirely with them . Then one of them asked me to talk, "You're a member of the legislature of Texas--what do you think?" Some of them didn't like Jews and all that thing that I didn't agree with them about . So I confined what I had to say to the folly of the Yalta- Potsdam agreements, where the Manchurian railroad, the Kurile Islands, the mass deportation of populations, the Baltic States, and so on . Then I sat down, and they all cheered, and Railroad Young came up to me and said, "Congratulations, young man, you make me proud to be a Texan ." And then he later sent me a book with his name in it, "Don't bother to acknowledge . R . R . Young ." When he took his life, I was very sad, because I thought there was much greatness in him . F :He was an unusual man, particularly in railroading . D :But in any field he chose . F :Did the success of your meeting up there-- D :Made me feel that I could get financing from another group that was not too closely associated with Texan politics . F :Was it much trouble setting up this talkathon? D :No, they came to me . You see, it was big news . There was supposed to be no opponent to Johnson, and then they threw in a wealthy millionaire rancher running against Johnson and the battle of giants . It got to the Miami papers, it got to the Minnesota papers, it went world-wide over AP, INS, everywhere. So when Vin [?] came with his idea, I thought I'd try it . My first impulse was to be very, DOUGHERTY -- I -- 2 6 DOUGHERTY -- I -- 27 very silent, and just wait, but George Morri11,-one of my attorneys, said, "Dudley, you just can't sit here . You shouldn't have got in it, but since you're in it, let me set up a meeting ." So I went to Austin, and I met the usual Johnson enemies, and some of them were invited and didn't come, some of them were there . Hardy Hollers said he might come ; Senator Clint Small was there . I had some relatives present . F :Dan Moody? D :Dan Moody, I talked to I knew him anyway, and I flew from San Antonio to Dallas with him--he and I flew from San Antonio to Dallas . I talked to him for an hour, and he supported me . But I met that group . F :Do you have any insight as to why Mildred bloody is so bitterly anti-Johnson? D :Is Mildred the widow? F :Yes . She went beyond Dan in her distaste for Johnson, still does . D :I would have to know Mildred Moody . I knew Dan, and I know Dan, Jr ., let me put it that way . F :Did you know Nancy, incidentally? D :I knew Hubert, and I think I've met Nancy . F :Did you get any reaction at all out of the Johnson's camp when you announced? Were they caught by surprise? D :Completely, and scared out of their wits, as Stuart Symington told me--I met him at Los Angeles, I went over there and had breakfast with him in 1960, .not at the convention but at a pre- convention big dinner where they had Symington and Jack Kennedy, Johnson, Pat Brown . And Symington told me, "I don't know you Dudley, but I know one thing . You had Lyndon worried sick ." And as Sam Houston told me later, "We knew you had the money . We knew you had the ability . We were scared to death ." F :You knew the people around Johnson then pretty well . D :Well, like Corridors to Power , C . P . Snow, and all that, I would be able to reach him . Now, there was a modus vivendi and axis DOUGHERTY -- I -- 28 between Allan Shivers and Lyndon Johnson, and when I got into it, I wasn't too aware of it . So there was a man who flew--and since he's a friend I won't name him--he flew down to Beeville in his plane, and he was closer to Shivers than he was to Johnson, but he knew both . He said, "Listen, Dudley, you'll spend three hundred thousand of your own money . You'll lose . I know my politics . I learned it from Ferguson . And in those days we took the Katy railroad and divided it . On the east side of the Katy railroad we actively campaigned ; on the west we depended on a friend . That's not entirely true now, but you know little of East Texas where the big vote is . And you just can't do it ." He said, "I'm a family friend . I have oil and gas interests in Refugio County ; partly my living is where your living is . And if you don't want to stay behind the scenes, which I really think you ought to do--that's the way your father did things--if you want to get out actively in politics as an immediate state senatorship and in five years"--he said five years-- "Allan and so on DOUGHERTY -- I -- 29 are looking for young men . They think you have promise . Allan likes you and adores your wife ." My wife had been his receptionist . She was a college girl with an English degree, and she got a job with Allan . F :She went to the University? D :Went to the University . F :Who was she? D :Her name was Calhoun . But she was a Bluebonnet Belle there and had her picture on the Cactus in 1948 or 1949, missed Phi Beta Kappa by a couple of points--bright,' girl . To finish this, I still haven't finished the question, but I don't want to filibuster . To go on with this, he said, "Lyndon will come to my ranch and he will meet you . He regrets the brevity of his conversation with you at the courthouse . Now, you've organized this committee"--whatever it was, Americanism, I had taken the MacArthur side and said the truce, which didn't prove to be true, with North Korea wouldn't last and would spread to Indo-China, which was true . But he said, "With this committee you can gracefully yet out, say you have to work .for the committee . But Lyndon will come to my ranch ; he'll fly in, and you talk to him ." And he said, "I know my politics . You can get money, and I know you're not interested in money, and I wouldn't think much of you if you were . But you can get everything for this area that your area needs, and it needs a lot, I know . Take the state senatorship, and then the governorship is a very definite possibility ." I told that to somebody years later out of the Kennedy organization, and he said, "I call that a good offer ." But I didn't do it because way down, way down, way down deep in my, I guess you'd call my--everybody's Anglo-Saxon WASP-Chicano, what have you, I guess you'd call me Anglo-Irish by descent, and anybody who is descended, no matter how corrupt they may seem to be or how wrong, right at the bottom there is a little bit of an idealist, and I could not do it . In addition to that, suppose I had been state senator and then gone on to the governorship, if you could get a Catholic governor elected and possibly you could . But suppose I had just told them [when] they wanted one thing, and I'd tell them, "No, you're wrong . We're going to do it my way ." Then I'd be through . F :Did you get the feeling that either Johnson or Shivers sent this man to you, or was he acting on his own? D :Oh he had been sent . He had left Allan Shivers, and he had talked on the telephone to Lyndon . F :Were there any other attempts to get you out of the race? I'm sure you, among other things, you upset the whole rhythm of the-- D :The whole plan, yes . There was more to the conversation than that . He started out, "You're hurting the oil industry . That's your living, the depletion allowance . And you're hurting Allan Shivers . Then you'll have no chance . You'll spend three hundred thousand dollars ." I don't think I spent quite that much, but I spent a lot of money that I'll never see again . But I was thirty and I'm glad I did it . DOUGHERTY -- I -- 3 0 F :Was much made of your youth by the opposition? DOUGHERTY -- I -- 3 1 D :The answer was obvious . There was LaFollette . Who were the others? LaFollette was a success . Rush D .-Holt of West Virginia, who was a failure, but he was thirty as a senator . F :There were the founding fathers . D :The founding fathers, Jefferson--who else . F :Did they run a fairly clean campaign, or did they try to work you over pretty hard? D :By rumor, and particularly in Dallas I'd pick up little anonymous typewritten [notes], always left in my box--that kind of thing . But all one can do is ignore that and go on . F :It wasn't more than just kind of the ordinary-- D :It got a little out of the ordinary, there's no question, and it's done to everybody; There's no question that from time to time they either had an operator on the payroll or the telephones tapped and that sort of thing . But that's all right . I've long ago forgotten that . F :Did you try very assiduously to raise money on the outside? D :I went to Houston, and the first man I saw was Jesse Jones . Jesse Jones came down from the Lamar . He was very friendly, sat at his old desk, said, "I'm glad to see a young man try, we need it . But Lyndon has a good record, and I'm with Lyndon this year . But someday, son, you'll run for another office and you'll win ." He was very courteous . I expected a hard, tight-fisted banker, but he was not . He was a gentleman . And I later sent my wife over there DOUGHERTY -- I -- 3 2 to talk to him because she can be very charming, and I thought she might get him, but we couldn't . And then I went to see Bob Smith . And Bob Smith changed the subject . He said, "We've got to do something about the problem of Duval County, and it has got to be done now . I know a great deal about Duval County . I lived there," or, "I worked there," or something . And then no reply . Then I left Roy Cullen a note ; he wasn't in . He wrote me back . "Senator Johnson has promised me that he will vote right, and I can't help you ." I didn't make copies of the letter and send it all around the state, as Coke told me to do, because the ol,d man was a generous old man, for all his faults . But I did show it to Roy Harrington, who was the head of AFL-CIO at the time .. I said, "See, he tells you one thing and he And let's see who else I saw . i n Houston, and then I even went to no respect for him since that day, because I thought maybe the old man's trying to do something . But he said, "I'm sorry . I'm leaving for Europe . I take no interest in politics ." That was his answer to me . F :That doesn't quite square with his record, does it? D : No . F :Did you contact Stevenson, or did he volunteer his-- D :Coke Stevenson? F : Yes . tells Cullen another ." I interviewed a lot of people see H . L . Hunt . And I've had D :No, I went over to see him . I went over to see him, told him about my experiences with Johnson . I told him that one uncle, Dudley Tarlton, had been with Johnson against him, but that I thought Johnson should be opposed, and why I was doing so . And he said, "Yes, young man, you can make an intelligent race, but let me tell you something . Get on something people can understand . They don't understand what you're talking about . Talk about Box 13 . They understand Box 13 . It's not vengenace on my part, but they will understand it ." F :Things like Bricker and McCarthy and so forth are too far off to the average voter . D :Correct . Besides, Joe McCarthy and Lyndon had their own understanding . Joe McCarthy left to make his speech in San Jacinto, and he , said, "Lyndon, tell me . Do you want me for or against you? Which will help you?" And they laughed . And when some of my enthusiastic following approached McCarthy, I wasn't there, but asked him to help me, and he said, "Johnson's done nothing to me . Why should I interfere?" But it was only after my conversation with Dan Moody, and by this time I was running out of money . Now my mother kept large sums of money in the bank, but I was not going to her . F :But you surely can eat it up in a hurry . You can eat up that kind of money in a hurry . D :Well, I'd eaten up seventy-five to one hundred thousand dollars, fiftyseven thousand dollars on the talkathon . And then my family helped . My sister sent me five thousand dollars--both sisters . My mother DOUGHERTY -- I -- 33 DOUGHERTY -- I -- 34 maybe another five thousand dollars . I told them this, because somebody had come to them and told them, "You can't contribute by the Hatch Act ." I said that if it does apply to primaries, which has never been, you organize your committees and all that, but they didn't quite understand, and I wasn't going to argue with them too much . I told them the only federal intervention in primaries was this Nixon case, so Negroes could vote in Democratic primaries in 1944 . F :You've got the problem in this state of being a large one and a very populous one . It's not quite true, but there's a belief that you almost have to run for state office twice before you can get it the first time . Did you get the feeling at the conclusion of this senatorial campaign that you had had enough statewide advertising that if you wanted to come back in a future race you would stand up pretty well, that this in a sense was a form of paid advertising for [that]? D :It was . But what it does to the candidate! I don't see how Yarborough stood it to go up and around the state time after time . F :I don't see how he looks so young at his age on that sort of business . Did this pretty much work into a contest between you and Johnson, or did the other state contests you feel have any effect? D :Everything got absorbed in Yarborough-Shivers . I had no East Texas poll watchers, but thanks to some friends, I was able to go through East Texas and even get a fairly good vote . But basically my candidacy, as I said earlier, was regional . But I carried Jim Wells County, including Box 13, which shows what people thought of what went on there . But public memory is very short . I tried to get it in positive terms . I had it up in Dallas by the underpass in the interest of honest elections . But after my talk with Moody on the plane between San Antonio and Dallas, I decided that corruption was a better issue than Box 13, and I tried to make my issue corruption . F :You're talking about national corruption now . D :No . Johnson . KTBC advertising . Moody's speech that was printed in Look . F :I don't remember that . D :It was printed in Look . He said it quite openly . I don't-know whether it belongs to the ages for me to quote or not ; I sent out a press dispatch . F :We can find it . Did Johnson ever answer any of these charges, or did he pretty well ignore you? D :His next advice, as Sam told me, was ignore . But he came down, I think, for a couple of graduations and things like that . F :But basically he would not take you on in a sort of confrontation? D :He had contradictory advice, and finally he decided not to come down . I wanted him to come down . I wanted him to come down very much, and he very nearly came down . F :Did the polls show--I don't recall--a sliding voting trend in your favor, or against you, or did they show anything, any change at all from the time you first became an opponent? D :I was so active that I didn't look at polls . And when you get a poll, DOUGHERTY -- I -- 35 DOUGHERTY -- I -- 36 you want to know where the poll was taken . F :That was the next thing I wondered . Did you get the feeling that something like a Belden Poll--? D :I think he had a Belden in Nacogdoches, and I had been to Nacogdoches, and I continued the talkathon in Nacogdoches on radio, not on television--they had no television . And I'd get these questions, "Why don't you fight?" In East Texas they like you to call the opponent every name under the sun . F :They like Ralph Yarborough's style of waving your arms . ;(Laughter) D :But I could only be myself . F :Did you get the feeling that Johnson was getting national help, or was he pretty well running a quiet enough campaign that it didn't show? D :Oh, he had the use of the frank . There were constant letters . They were like a C .O .D . telegram . You'd get ' a franked letter from .a congressman or a senator . F :That gives the incumbent an advantage, doesn't it? D :There were constant letters . I cut him off the reports on the radio . F : How? D :I got called, and they said, "Johnson is saying this and that and the other ." And I said, "When a man will tell, by Texas law,"--and I read the Texas Election Code, or.some of it--"one other person that hers a candidate for re=election, he becomes .a candidate . According to Drew Pearson, he told Fulbright in 1952 that he couldn't actively fully support or go all out for Adlai Stevenson in Texas radios . DOUGHERTY -- I -- 37 because he was afraid it would hurt his re- election chances in 1954 . It was printed in the paper and he didn't deny it, so he is a candidate ." So he quickly had to announce, and he got off the F : Did the Republicans, who didn't amount to much in those days in Texas except -in presidential elections, show any great interest or try to assist you in this? D : I had a letter from Orville Bullington of Wichita Falls that would have taken about an hour for me to reply to, promising--there was a large Republican vote in Democratic primaries . But I did not reply to it because I did not have the time to reply to it . I had to be here, there, and the other place . Incidentally, the most prescient thing that I did was on Houston TV . I was asked a question, "What about American intervention to save the brave boys of Dien Bien Phu?" And I said, "Under no circumstances should we send an army into Indochina . The terrain is similar to Guadalcanal, which took six months to conquer, and was a thousand miles square . No land war in Asia ." And they tried to argue, "This is isolationism . Aren't you interested?" And I said, "No ." And then I finally took the offensive on it . I had it, I think, in the Houston Post . If you're further interested, I have a scrapbook in Austin that you can look at . F : Where is it? D : Tommy Gee . Do you know Tommy Gee? F : I know the name . DOUGHERTY -- I -- 38 D : He has it in his office . I'll call you later . But I took .the offensive . I said, "Is Senator Johnson in favor of colonial wars," which in my opinion is partly the Vietnam war . F : You could virtually dig that out and run with it now, couldn't you? D : Yes, it's there, it's in a scrapbook . F : Right . Do I understand that the Houston Post pretty well cut you cold on this? D : According to Vin . ` They had the big story . And then Oveta Culp Hobby, according to the story, and I respect her--I do respect her-- she cut the story cold .' It was done in all the Houston papers . F : Any insight why, because after all, she was a Republican cabinet officer . D : Oh, she has been for Roosevelt ; she's on the winning side . Her idea, and I think she thinks it's good, was, "They're the outs . They're the ins ." The only time she was out was under Kennedy . Henry Catto, who is a friend of mine, and Jessica, I think had free access - to the Johnson White House . I saw them in Washington shortly before Nixon took over and Johnson was there, and they'd been to the White House . Now he's ambassador to El Salvador . I haven't read the book, but it's Corridors of Power, C. P . Snow--Ed Harte gave it to me . She was director of the WACS, she went to England with Mrs . Roosevelt . F : Did you and Johnson cross paths at all during the campaign? D : No . F : After the campaign was over, did you hear anything out of him? D : I sent him a telegram . And then I got an inquiry, "Where is the DOUGHERTY -- I -- 3 9 telegram," because I released it to the press . So I wrote him a letter and said, "That's part of the frustrations of my recent campaign against you . The telegram didn't get to the proper place, but here it the telegram." And I said, "I don't carry grudges to the next day," or something like that . Then he asked me to come up to the Johnson City place . F :Was this pretty shortly afterwards? D :Yes, almost immediately afterwards . I started to do it, and then I decided I couldn't do it . F :I've had people who were very close, particularly in local and regional areas, tell me that they seem to think Johnson pays more attention to his opponents than he does to his friends sometimes . Did that become your experience? Did Johnson try to get you back on his side? D :In 1959 he came to my ranch at my invitation and brought Lady Bird, brought Congressman [John] Young . F :Why was he invited? D :Because he was in town, and what are you supposed to do! You're wrong either way ; you're criticized . F :He's still a U .S . senator . You were talking about going out to the ranch . D :Yes, he came . And we drank Scotch and sodas . Lady Bird first tried to mix the Scotch and sodas, and he says, "That's not strong enough ." And,,-he sent Easterling Davis, who is my driver, back and he made it DOUGHERTY -- I -- 40 like Johnson wanted it . But he had a bunch of people with him, and I only got to talk to him alone just a minute, and he did the talking when I was alone . He just put his arm around me and said, "You and I are going to be friends from now on, boy," or something like that . F :Did he give you any insight as to his 1960 plans? D :Oh, he was running for president then! That was obvious . F :You mentioned earlier that you went to Los Angeles . D : Yes . F :Did you go in an official capacity, or did you just go to be there? D :I went at the invitation of Jimmy !Meredith, who was a Symington manager . He told me, "This-is all going to be decided by Pennsylvania . If you want to help Stuart, fine ." F :Had you known Symington previously? D :No . I knew Jimmy Meredith . But he said, "We'll see how Pennsylvania goes, and if it goes Kennedy, school's out ." F :Was there hope in the Symington camp, I -know there was in the Johnson camp, that if they could stop Kennedy on the first ballot, then maybe they could build from there? D :Deadlock Kennedy-Johnson, and then either Stevenson or Symington would move in . In my opinion, I don't know Stevenson, but I know a lady who went with Borden Stevenson and knew Adlai, and she really dated Borden to talk to Adlai ; She said-- F :I guess Borden would have been some kin to Pat Tenant [?], wouldn't he, in a distant way? D :They said so . And Pat Tenant was all [for] Senator Taft and what have DOUGHERTY -- I -- 41 you . And in spite of the divorce, Adlai came over to the house, according to Pat Tenant, and visited them, and the relationship was very distant . But Pat Tenant was so fascinated with Adlai Stevenson that he became a liberal . F :I haven't seen that side of Pat . D :No, when I first knew Pat, I went to the University of Texas with him. F :I knew him in those days . D :Well, the first time was 1942, and then he .went back in 1946 or 1947 . And he was all "What a brilliant man Byrd is, how fortunate we are to have Taft ." Those were his original opinions . We learn as we go on . And I won't say that's the sole reason, but he was fascinated with Adlai Stevenson, so he must have had a very brilliant mind . Whether he would have made a good president or not, we'll never know . Now I was this much of a Democrat that in 1952 I got a call from a man named Roger Stevens, who's in charge of the Kennedy Memorial . I had already contributed to the Democratic campaign, though I wasn't sure I could vote for Adlai Stevenson, through Steven Mitchell [?] . And he said, "We', re trying to get Stevenson on the television and radio to answer McCarthy's speech that he made about him in Chicago, and we don't know what he's going to say ." And of course, as Alben Barkley said, "The thunder came and the lightning," but it never had the damaging information. I think he said that he helped fly [Palmiro] Togliatti to Italy, but that was under DOUGHERTY -- I -- 42 instructions, and maybe Togliatti, an Italian citizen, belonged in Italy--I don't know . But I remember McCarthy's speech, "If I had a club, I'd make a good American out of him ." So I sent some money, and I'm not made out of money . In fact, if you want to know the truth, I'm always scrimping and short for cash . So I sent some money, I think a couple of thousand dollars, up to Cleveland so Stevenson could answer McCarthy, to help . I did do that much for the Democrats that year . F :Did the Johnson people solicit you for campaign funds in 1960? D :They sent Warren Woodward to see me . So without saying whether I was for or against Stevenson, I paid Warren Woodward some money, and it was by check, and it went through . I don't know exactly the laws on contributions for potential nominees for president, but it went through . And I told Lyndon on the telephone when he first called me, "I'm going to run for Congress this year ." Now why I didn't win Congress, I think in retrospect is that I just didn't work . It's my fault, not his fault, even though Cliff Carter came down there and interfered . F :You had the feeling though that if there was any help in that, though, it went to John Young rather than to you? D :It did go to John Young . And Lyndon told me over the phone that he'd be absolutely neutral . F :Do you think he was? D :Let him answer that . F :We'll do that . Incidentally, did he have any prior connection with DOUGHERTY -- I -- 43 John Young? D : Lyndon? F : Yes . D :He came to my house with him. But anyway, I was not an effective campaigner . And Yarborough told me over the telephone, he said, "John Young frustrates and fights my Padre Island National Sea shore . Just take that and you can win ." But I had so much contradictory advice that I didn't do it . Now, open beaches made Bob Eckhardt . I think I could have won if I had had the intelligence to take the national seashore of Padre Island and make it my issue . But they branded me "right wing extremist," and all that, and I could show people that I could pick up labor unions and that I'm no right wing extremist, though one goes through phases . I've been a liberal, I've been a middle-of'the-roader, I've been a conservative at various times in my life . The time, the place, the people concerned . F :With your South Texas and Catholic background, did you get caught up at all in these "Viva Kennedy" clubs, or were you too busy running your own race? D :Oh, in 1960 I voted for Kennedy . F :After the primary did you actively campaign? After your congressional primary? D :Oh, I went in Bee County at the local level to one Democratic rally . F :Did you ever have any personal contact with Kennedy? D : Sure . DOUGHERTY -- I -- 44 F : What was it? D : I had lunch with him at the White House . F : Why? D : Pierre Salinger called me on the telephone and said, "Do you want to come? Be there tomorrow at noon, and it's four p .m . now here ." F : It's kind of hard to get from here to there . D : So I took the "Red-Eye Special," got to Washington with my wife . And in spite of the fact that I had sold La Prensa and I was out of it, I found myself with a group of Texas newspaper men . They said, "You're representing La Prensa ." So I said, "Fine ." So I called the owner, and I said, "Is it all right for me to represent La Prensa ?" I wanted everything done right . And he said, "Yes ." F : Do you think that Kennedy thought you had real influence with the whole, what we now call, Chicano element in Texas? D : No, I don't think that was the reason . I had met Joe Kennedy, the father . F : Was that that time that Ted Dealey got up and made his statement? D : Yes . F : How did that go over? D : Not very well . F : How-did it go over with the Texas group? D : It did not go over . F : Just a breach of manners, wasn't it? D : More than that . Ted Dealey sent me a telegram and said, "Reply what you think of it collect ." So I sent him an eight-page telegram back collect . I remember one of the things that I said is that "There are very few opportunities that the President gets to hear a conservative point of view from your point of view . You ruined it all ." F :Did you get any reply from Dealey? D :No . But I said, "A man that has to worry about what General De Gaulle is doing and what [Canadian Prime Minister John] Diefenbaker is doing, the unemployment situation, that sort of thing--he doesn't want to hear your riding Caroline's tricycle while we're looking for a man on horseback ." Incidentally, Dealey read it from a typewritten [copy] . F :He came prepared . D :He came prepared . He had a couple of Bloody Marys, but'.- it wasn't that . F :Was the rest of the Texas delegation there rather embarrassed? D :Colonel Horner from the Light , as right-wing and as conservative a . man as ever walked the face of the earth, I saw his reply, which was, "You don't do that with a president ." I remember, after I left there, and I asked Kennedy a couple of questions--in fact, three . One was economic for Texas . I said, "President Kennedy, the liquids, solids, and gases, you've got the Federal Power Commission to regulate pipelines . Very soon, natural gas will be liquefied and shipped in from other countries" --as it is now . "What do you think of the regulation and all of that?" DOUGHERTY -- I -- 4 5 DOUGHERTY -- I -- 46 He said, "Well, FPC has a backlog of cases . We will correct __ that ." And then he looked at Lyndon, who was surprised to see me there, very definitely, and he says, "Natural gas is well represented here by my father and by Lyndon," evading the whole point of that question . And then I didn't know whether to ask him about Alianza para Progressa [Alliance for Progress] which was not off the ground, never did get off the ground, or his Cuban problem . So I asked him [about] the Cuban problem . He said, "I have called in every bit of advice I could get, including General Douglas MacArthur . Cuba is a major military operation ." F :Was this after the Bay of Pigs or before it? D : Before . F :Before the Bay of Pigs . D :No, wait a minute, it was after . It was 1962 . Shortly before the missile crisis . And just before I was about to ask him about Alianza para Progressa, here comes Dealey with his eight-page prepared--I don't know what you want to call it, ultra-fascistic or stupid, highly ignorant, discourteous, whatever you want to call it . And Kennedy's reply is, "Mr. Dealey, I am the president, and as the president, I'm perfectly safe . I'm safe, but I'd like to see you three days after the third world war started . I've seen Marine divisions ready for battle, eager to go, and five days later torn to shreds ." Then he looks at Salinger and says, "Discontinue the Dallas News ." He said, "We can't discontinue another paper," and then laughed . He was not provoked . And Lyndon, by the way, DOUGHERTY -- I -- 47 had left by that time . He was not there . F : Had he taken much part, or had it been almost entirely Kennedy's show at this luncheon? Had Johnson, while he was there, done more than just--? D : No, he talked to me, just whispered to me, "Glad to see you," or something like that . He didn't take any part . F : Did you see Johnson much during the sixties? D : I went in his office when he was vice president, both my wife and I did, shortly after he took office . And Mary Margaret mixed us all a Scotch and soda--Mary Margaret Wiley [Valenti] . And we talked a little while, and he said, "Where are you?" And I said, "We're at the Hilton Hotel ." He said, "I'll do better for you than that," and he got us a nice suite at the Shoreham . My last words to him because I could tell, as I told Nixon too later--I ran into the Nixons after his California defeat--in Rome, I said "Lyndon, I think you'll be president yet ." And his answer was, "When I am, I want you right there with me ." F : I see . Did you ever see him again? D : I walked in in July of that year, and gave him-- F : That same year, you mean? D : That same year . He had the Pakistani ambassador, and I just put a resume of a man that wanted a job, and saw that he was busy . The man had been waiting around for Walter Jenkins so he could see Lyndon, and I said, "That's not the way to go . The way to see DOUGHERTY -- I -- 48 Lyndon is through Mary Margaret ." I said, "Hello, Mary Margaret ." (Interruption) Where were we? F :We were talking about that July meeting when you put the curriculum vita on Johnson's desk . D :I put it in his pocket . I just said, "Hello, Lyndon ." He said, "Do you know the Pakistani ambassador?" and I could tell he was busy . I knew he could be seen through Mary Margaret at any time, if he had the time. F :Did you ever yourself try to get any kind of federal appointment? D :After the Kennedy election, we talked about it, my wife and I, and she said, "Let's go to Washington . Maybe there's an ambassadorship or something, an appointive position that you can get since you're a Democrat and you've worked with the Democrats and you've contributed sometimes when I thought you shouldn't have ." I went up there, and that's when I saw Lyndon as vice president . . Lyndon said, "Patronage doesn't come through me . I only have a veto . If it comes to me, I'll say there's no one better ." So I went to Yarborough, and Yarborough said, "I can't get you an appointment as ambassador, Dudley . I'll turn your name in for Alianza para Progressa [Alliance for Progress] ." And my name was turned in . But I could tell that was in the middle of a big patronage squabble, Johnson, Yarborough, God knows what else! I interviewed the Kennedy bright young men, and they liked me . F :John Macy, maybe? D :Oh hell no! One of the real Mafia--I mean, one that had been with Kennedy forever . I picked up an advance man for Kennedy in San Antonio, and that's another longer story I'll tell you sometime . Anyway, I had the "Corridor to Power" to the Kennedy Administration . F :Were you involved at all in that visit of Kennedy's in which he got shot? D :No . I was asked, but I did not come . I was in New York . I was at "21" in New York . Another meal shot, huh? Yes, it was . It was one o'clock . And somebody told me, "The President has just been assassinated ." I said, "Don't give me that stuff just because I'm from Texas . He may be unpopular there ." He said, "No, he's dead ." My first reaction was it was some fanatic, General Walker or something like that . I liked General Walker ; he should never have been taken to Springfield . He came to my office . I could tell he was not the man he once was, that was true . I'm diverting . F :While you're diverting, had you known General Walker earlier? D :No, he just walked in . I just said, "I'm sorry, General, I'm committed to some other candidate ." F :This was when he was running for governor? D :Yes . "I will say this . I don't think the Overseas Weekly did you right ." DOUGHERTY -- I -- 4 9 DOUGHERTY -- I -- 50, F :I don't think Bobby Kennedy did him right either . D :I don't know what Bobby Kennedy did . F :He was the one who sent him up to Kirksville . D :Was it Kirksville? F :I believe it was . Missouri . D :Kirkwood, maybe . Did Bobby Kennedy do that? That's something I consider--and I still consider myself a conservative--but I actually joined the American Civil Liberties Union . I don't know if I have renewed the membership or paid the dues . Not only because of that, but what was it, Mary K . Jones and the Department of Agriculture that was shanghaied to a mental institution because she would not let her boss's papers be turned over during the Estes scandal . F : Right . D :Did you read Clark Mollenhoff? The Spoilers of Democracy? F :Yes . Did you have any connection at all with Johnson after he became president? D :I saw Johnson only once . That was at a dinner called "The Al Smith-Dinner," and he hurriedly read through a speech . F :In New York? D :Yes . That was the night when he had to be told about Walter Jenkins . F :Oh, yes . D :And he wouldn't come until eight and I just saw him in a hurry . Tape 1 of 1, Side 2 F :Okay, we're in New York now . DOUGHERTY -- I -- 51 D :I just saw him at a distance . He said "Once Communism"--it was prepared--"was monolithic.Now it is polycentric" and so on ." And then he said, "Though I didn't know Al Smith and I wasn't old enough to vote for him, I campaigned for him . You'll have to excuse me because I can't read all the speech because of other pressing matters ." F :Could you tell he was obviously agitated? D :Extremely so . That was the general message . I'm not quoting him there . F :The crowd must have had kind of one of those-- D :I don't know what Cardinal Spellman, who was an intimate acquaintance of mine, thought . Nelson Rockefeller took him aside and put his arm around him . They tell me Walter was the nicest of all the group around him . I think it's in one book, The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson . F :Did you know Walter? D :I met him once or twice . F :But you didn't know him well? D :No . But then it was in the book, The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson , one of the others--the general reaction of the office . "The pressure of working under Johnson was each of us has his own way of committing suicide ." I would have only the kindest things to say about Walter . F :It has always been my feeling that Mrs . Johnson took the exactly correct attitude on that, which was to admit the whole thing and or DOUGHERTY -- I -- 52 just treat it as a collapse . D :Who knows, and who in the devil are we to judge !F : Right . D :I think Sam Houston Johnson in his book, My Brother Lyndon , said "Personally, I've always believed people are free to lead their own lives ." The pursuit of happiness, if that's his life, though I don't think he was a true deviate . F :Oh, no . I think this was just a case of a breakdown . Did Alfred Steinberg see you, or did he just talk about you when he was doing his book? [Sam Johnson's Boy] D :He confused--No, he never saw me . Never saw me in his life . F :He just picked up that-- D :Picked up some talk in Washington . So did Evans and Novak . I wrote Evans and Novak. And the reason the scrapbook is gone, I've got this attorney writing MacMillan for future editions . I'm no longer a public figure . I was at that time . But W . Lee O'Daniel went around the state in fire engines .i n 1956, trying to make a comback . I didn't . F :And they've got you doing it in 1954? D : Yes . F :Did Evans and Novak make that same error? D :They made the same error . F :That's just slipshod research, isn't it? D :Well, they tell me--one friend of mine, Bob Wheeler, knows either Evans or Novak fairly well, says, "He's a pretty good fellow, and DOUGHERTY -- I -- 53 I'll go over and talk to him and correct it ." F :Novak married one of Johnson's secretaries . I forget her name right now . Did Johnson try to enlist you in the 1964 campaign? D :No, nobody asked me anything, and that was good because I agreed with Francis B . Sayre : it was a choice between ignorance and corruption . I'll tell you how little Goldwater realized what he'd be up against . ;The day after the primary in which Johnson beat me-- I've got the figures somewhere, but anyway he said, "We hear Senator Johnson is leading two-to-one . Let's hope it's three-to-one . This is a victory for sound Americanism ." Barry Goldwater said that on the floor of the Senate . F :Did the Republicans ever make any strong attempt to bring you into their orbit? D :I very nearly joined the Eisenhower [campaign in] 1952 . When I was asked to run for the legislature, I told one of the people asking me, "Well, I may want to join the Republicans . Something has to be done for the country, and done now . And is not Eisenhower the man to do it?" But I had talked also to some of the Taft people, and I saw they were getting into it, and they'd be suing one another, and precinct arguments . Went to Chicago . And the answer this man gave me was, "anything anywhere where you can do the most good ." So I then determined that I belonged in the Democratic Party . I was naturally there anyway . F :Yes, historically there . D :Historically there . It goes all the way back to Cleveland . F :Before we quit, I want to get that record turned on and get it on this tape . D :The only reason I'm playing it is, one, that it is very clever, and they want to tell the story that they bluffed me out of making Box 13 the issue and I did not . I used it . F :Before we go on that, did you commission the record, or did someone just bring it to you? How did it come into being? D :It was brought to me . (record plays) "Last time Lyndon ran for the Senate, He was trailing behind for awhile, But the votes of Duval's dear departed Helped push Lyndon ahead that last mile . He's the darling of Duval County, He's Duval County's bright shining star . FDR couldn't put Lyndon over, The man who did that was George Parr . From the Senate they say Lyndon's leaving, Old Boss Parr will be shedding many a tear, But they cleaned up the polls in his county And he can't help out Lyndon this year . DOUGHERTY -- I -- 54 Lyndon's still the darling of Duval County, DOUGHERTY -- I -- 55 put an advertisement in 1965 in the San Antonio'Light . But this time the voting will be strict, When they can't count the votes in the graveyard, Old Lyndon is sure to be licked ." F : Tell me one other thing about the record . Was it played all over the state? D : No, just in South Texas . F : Did you have quite a number of copies of it made? D : Jon Ford called it the funniest gimmick of the campaign . F : I think it's a good record, great record . D : I don't know that it's clear, that people can hear it . F : Oh, I think they can make out the lyrics all right . I don't think that's any problem . D : I was asked to go to Alice and make my last talk there . And I just said, "I can't do it . I'm going to make my TV appearance in Dallas ." They said, "What should we tell them?" I just said, "Tell them under no circumstances would I accept an office under the methods that Senator Johnson did . I'd want it definite that I was elected ." F : You were, as we've established, an early opponent of the U .S . intervention in Indochina . Did you make your views known as you came down toward 1968? D : I did . I did before that . I wrote letters to the editor, I even F :Did you get much reaction from it, one way or another? D :About eighty letters . F :Pro or con? Who wrote you? D :Largely pro . I don't have them anymore . F :I wondered if there were any kind of classification of person who answered that . D :I just wasn't able to check . F :Did anyone ever urge you to run again? D :I ran for Congress in 1960 and lost . I've had many, many, many problems . Perhaps someday I'll run for another office . F :Did you have any inkling with the group you know that Johnson wasn't going to run again in 1968? D :I felt that he not only had to get out, but that he had to get out that night--that Wisconsin was coming up . He would lose that . Counting the Republican vote in New Hampshire that McCarthy got, McCarthy actually got more votes than Johnson . Daley could not control his delegates, and it would have been lost to Bobby Kennedy, and he knew it . And I think possibly considerations of health . F :Did you go to the Chicago convention in 1968? D :Oh, no . F :Did you get the feeling, to kind of sum up, that your campaign in 1954 modified any of Johnson's opinions or activities, made him change his attitudes or his procedures any? Could you see an impact that you had, other than to make him work harder than he intended to? DOUGHERTY -- I -- 56 DOUGHERTY -- I -- 57 who were against the Bricker Amendment at the time, saying that in the test of time we should have had it to avoid the Gulf of Tonkin type of thing . D : I think that it changed him on Indochina for a little while . He made one speech, I think, "We can't be like Mr . Chamberlain ; we can't ignore Dien Bien Phu," and then he shut up . But he and Nixon agreed on the subject . F : Anything else you think we ought to add to this story? D : There could be, but now I've gone through a couple of hours, and I've reached the point of exhaustion upon interrogation . F : All right . D : I might say that when Kennedy was killed, I sent a telegram to Johnson and I got an engraved reply--"Thank you for your consideration ." It was only after he got into Vietnam that I began to oppose him again very actively . And Evans and Novak said that I emerged from relative obscurity to advocate his impeachment . I did not . There was one telegram and one letter to the editor . And the letter to the editor said, "President Johnson risks impeachment if he continues to pursue this course with Fulbright and so on so antagonistic ." There's a lot of difference between that and advocacy . F : Did you get the feeling that the Bricker Amendment might have headed off something like the Tonkin Resolution, or do you think that was--? D : I've heard that said . I've heard that said quite often by people F :Well, thank you . D :Thank you, and Happy New Year . [End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview I] ********************************************************** From marketwire.com January 29, 2007 Re-Completion Begins on Janssen Prospect Well OKLAHOMA CITY, OK -- (MARKET WIRE) -- January 29, 2007 -- Bedford Energy, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: BFDE) (Cusip 076110 105) -- Bedford Energy, Inc. announced today that operations have begun to re-complete the Janssen Prospect located in Karnes County, Texas with Industry Partners. 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In a game that was tied at 35 at halftime, the Panthers quickened the pace and converted steals into easy layups in transition in the third quarter, when they outscored the Badgers, 27-12. “I think the difference in the second half was that they just decided to play,” said Navarro head coach Bob Ermel. “It certainly wasn’t my coaching because I just sat down and quit coaching. There was nothing more for me to tell them. They were either going to do it or they weren’t.” Zach Hernandez exploded in the third-quarter run, pouring in 16 of his game-best 31 points in the period. In the fourth, Karnes City made an effort to get back into the game by scoring six of the first seven points. That cut the Navarro lead to 10, 63-53, but the Panthers squashed hopes of a comeback with layups by Wesley Ply, Will Valdez and Hernandez on consecutive possessions to push the margin right back to 16. Ply finished with 15 points, while Josiah Moneyhon added 14 for the Panthers, who won for the second time against Karnes City this season and moved their district record to 3-6. “Wesley Ply is the best competitor on the team,” Ermel said. “He’s not very athletic, but he’s consistent and he makes very few mistakes. He’s also developed a nice little jump shot. Because of all that, he’s been able to score in double figures several times this season.” The Badgers, who fell to 1-8 in 29-2A play, were led by Nathan Smith’s 25 points. Jayson Hierholzer put in 16, while Derek Torres finished with 10. On Tuesday, the Panthers will travel to take on Nixon-Smiley, which is 6-3 in district play after Friday’s 59-42 loss to Stockdale. Tuesday’s game will tip off at 8 p.m. Navarro girls Another district game against a team not called Poth, another easy win. The Navarro Lady Panthers got a near quadruple-double from Jade Randle to lead them to a 74-16 win over Karnes City on Friday. “I’m real happy with how we played,” said Navarro head coach Darrell Harborth. “It seems as if we’re getting better and better at the right time. We only had nine turnovers and rebounded really well. Even in the last game [46-40 loss to Poth], we rebounded the ball well, and I hope that continues.” Randle, whose goal entering the game was a triple-double, finished with 21 points, nine rebounds, nine steals and eight assists. Mallory Moeller scored 24 points and grabbed nine rebounds, while Brittany Parker and Haley Helweg added 10 points apiece. Rachele Herzog picked up eight steals to help a defensive effort that allowed the Lady Badgers to attempt only 25 shots. Five of them fell for a 20 percent shooting night. “I can’t say enough about our defense tonight,” Harborth said. “Our press in the firsts half really took a toll on them, and we made good decisions with the ball once we got it away from them and got plenty of easy layups and good shots.” One area the Lady Panthers struggled was free throw shooting. They got to the line for 48 attempts but made only half of them. “I don’t know what to say about that,” Harborth said. “We’re good shooters, so hopefully, it’ll come around.” The Lady Panthers will travel to face Nixon-Smiley at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday. ********************* January 30, 2007 GOING OUT IN STYLE Nordheim senior enjoys a big day at livestock show BY SONNY LONG - VICTORIA ADVOCATE NORDHEIM - Youth was served Saturday at the annual Nordheim FFA Stock Show and Sale, but the only senior in the show - Franklyn Warwas - also enjoyed a big day, showing the grand champion steer. Two sophomores, two fifth-graders and a fourth-grader took the other grand and reserve honors in the livestock show. There were 32 animals entered in the show. Warwas, the lone 12th-grader, exhibited the 1,125-pound grand champion steer that sold for $4.40 per pound during the sale with the total ending up at $5,679.90. "Now I can pay the feed bill," said Warwas, who has two other steers and will also show in San Antonio, Houston and Austin. Warwas, who plans to attend Texas State Technical College in Waco following graduation to pursue mechanics, has had success at the Nordheim show throughout his high school career. As a freshman, he showed both the grand and reserve steers and won the showmanship award, the first of three consecutive. His steers took reserve champion honors in his sophomore and junior years before returning to the top of the award stand this year. Warwas was almost as proud of his blue ribbon in the candy-making division of the food competition. His candy sold for $1,000 at auction. "It surprised me. It was real good," Warwas said of his chocolate- toffee candy. Warwas said he didn't feel, as the only senior, any additional obligation to take on a specific role as mentor. "It was a little strange sometimes, but there was no extra pressure to be a role model or anything like that. Everybody works real well together. They listen and do what they are told," said Warwas, who is a three-term FFA chapter president and the district reporter this year. Warwas is also a recipient of the Lone Star Farmer Degree and was honored at the 78th annual FFA Convention in June in Forrt Worth. The show, dedicated to auctioneer Gary Jarzombek of Falls City, brought in a total of $42,243.81. Warwas' steer sold to Bob and Amanda Korcinak; Cleveland and Pam Stehle; Citizens Bank; Dr. Dan Dugi; Metting Dozer Service; Connie Schlinke Smart, CPA; South Texas Implement; Nordheim FFA Fundraiser; and Nixon-Beeville Livestock Commission. Fifth-grader Jonathan Pena showed the grand champion hog, a 253- pounder. The hog sold for $3,900 to Beef It Up. It was the second consecutive grand champion hog for Jonathan. Matt Kiser showed the grand champion lamb and it sold for $2,675.14 to Cleveland and Pam Stehle; and Mueller Ag. Ashley Waskow, a sophomore who is no stranger to the winner's circle, had the reserve champion steer after showing the grand champion steer as an eighth-grader and as a freshman. She also had a reserve champion steer as a sixth-grader. This year's reserve champion steer sold for $3,370 to Karnes City Livestock; Edgar & Gladys' Café; and Nordheim FFA Fundraiser. Wryston Fischer, a fourth-grader, showed the reserve champion hog. The 245-pound swine sold for $3,732.62 to Beef It Up; Nixon Beeville Livestock Commission; Seifert Fencing; Karnes County Livestock; and Karnei Ranch. Alyssa Leister, another fifth-grader, showed the reserve champion lamb. It sold for $2,587.74 to Roger Hackman; Lamprecht-Janssen Funeral Home; Oscar and Rosie Karnei; Ful-O-Pep,; and Wells Fargo Bank. Showmanship honors went to sophomore Destini Voelkel in the senior steer division. Capital Farm Credit donated the buckle. In senior hog showmanship, Marissa Hernandez, also a sophomore, was awarded a buckle from Cleveland and Pam Stehle and Jim and Rose Schuenemann. Rania Garza earned showmanship honors in the senior lamb division and the buckle from Capital Farm Credit. In the junior divisions, two more fifth-graders brought home the buckles as Justin Cox won showmanship in hogs and Doss Torres won for Lamb. Moonlight Appliance donated the junior hog showmanship buckle and Gordon Reynolds, the junior lamb. In the food and crafts divisions, eighth-grader Emalee Green took grand champion honors with cookies, with Amanda Tackett, a junior, winning reserve champion with her cake. Derrick DeLosSantos won grand champion crafts, and Heather Martinez earned reserve champion crafts.