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NOVEMBER 22, 2001VOL. 28, No. 47

Christmas FairAmericas High School will host their SixthAnnual Christmas Fair on Friday, Dec. 7,from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Over 80 vendorswill be available and over 40 groups willbe performing. Some of the performerswill include various Folklorico groupsfrom several El Paso area schools and theUTEP Golddiggers dance team. Admis-sion is free to the public.

Ag fundingU.S. Representative Henry Bonilla an-nounced early this week that the Congresshas come to an agreement on the Agricul-ture Appropriations Bill. The legislation wasoverwhelming approved today by the Houseof Representatives, where the bill originatedin Mr. Bonilla’s subcommittee. The 2002Agriculture Appropriations Bill funded$75.902 billion, which will include fund-ing increases for the Food Safety and In-spection Service, Child Nutrition Programs,Food Stamp Program and Food for PeaceProgram. It also includes increases for theFarm Service Agency, Agricultural CreditPrograms; conservation operations; and theAgricultural Research Service. ImportantTexas projects will also receive fundingfrom the appropriations bill. The legislationwill increase funding for: bovine geneticsresearch; the Texas Wildlife Services Pro-gram; nutritional research at the ARS Hu-man Nutrition Center in Houston; and theGrazing Lands Conservation Initiative.

In other news■ Representatives from the El Paso Con-vention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will joinEl Paso historian Leon Metz and authorJackson Polk for their live broadcast at theEast Side Tourist Information Center at ElPaso Connection at14301 Gateway West atInterstate10, Exit 37, just west of the Hori-zon Exit on Saturday, Nov. 24, from 10 a.m.to 12 p.m. Staffers will be on-hand through-out the morning serving coffee and cookiesto Thanksgiving weekend holiday travelerswhile Polk and Metz entice more westboundvisitors during the El Paso show on 690 AMKROD. Metz and Polk broadcast in El Pasoeach week, focusing on area history, cur-rent events and featuring special guests. Allvisitors will receive a special El Paso sou-venir. Old West gunfight reenactors fromSan Elizario, The Desperadoes, will provideentertainment. The CVB staff volunteerswill work with regular info center employ-ees to answer visitors’ questions and givethem ideas and directions for keeping thementertained during their time in the Sun City.

■ Horizon City resident Amanda Pierce ofGirlscout Troop 100 is working on her GoldAward, the highest award which can beearned in Girlscouting. For this award sev-eral things must be accomplished, includ-ing a service project. She is having a hygeineproduct drive during the rest of November,in which she is collecting any and all prod-ucts such as soap, deoderant, toothbrushes,toothpaste, combs razors, etc. All items willbe donated to the Rescue Mission duringthe first part of December.To arrange adrop off or pick up please contact Amandaat 852-4815.

EL PASO - It ruffled a lot of turkey feathersand rocked Plymouth off its historical pedes-tal to hear a group of Texans claim the Thanks-giving throne 12 years ago.

Knowledge that Spanish colonists hit Ameri-can soil in 1598, 22 years prior to the Plymouthpilgrims, made for some cold mashed potatoesin New England. Yet the El Pasoans convincedthe Texas Legislature that the first Thanksgiv-ing was held in spring on the banks of the RioGrande more than two decades before theMayflower sailed.

Armor-clad El Paso “conquistadors” ven-tured to Massachusetts ten years ago to stage amock trial with the locals who were equallyadamant about who broke bread with the Na-tives first. It was done in fun and promptedgood nature jabs, especially when the visitorswere “arrested for blasphemy and spreadingmalicious lies and rumors.”

In response to the Texan encounter, ten pil-grims from Plymouth came to El Paso later thatyear. They were also “arrested” and locked upin the “Billy the Kid Jail,” the only jail the Kidever broke into.

All joking aside, revisionists take realityquite seriously.

Sheldon Hall, then-president of 1986’s spear-heading organization El Paso Mission TrailAssociation, has dedicated 15 years of time andresources working with media and educatorsto set the record straight. He was named Spain’shonorary consul for West Texas in 1984. Halldonned the iron chest plates and head gear tovisit Plymouth and also traveled to Spain toconfirm the contributions made by the Span-ish to the New World.

Though retired from a career as a construc-tion company owner, the World War II AirForce veteran has spent 39 years in this SunCity. A stroke and broken hip may have slowed

Historical revisionists work to set Thanksgiving record straightStudy shows Don Juan de Onate, Spanish colonists landed in 1598By Michelle J. Brown�Special to the Courier

him down some, but they haven’t changed hiscommitment to reaching people with the truth.

“My main aim is to get the people of theUnited States to realize the Spanish were inthis country long before anyone realizes andtheir contributions to this nation are quite sig-nificant,” said Hall, who volunteered six yearsto serving on the Texas Historical Commission.

Hall was appointed by then-Governor.George W. Bush as Chairman of the Commis-sion of the First ThanksgivingQuadricentennial, a 1998 celebration markingthe 400th anniversary of Don Juan de Onate’scrossing the Rio Grande into what is now Texasand New Mexico. With the vice president ofSpain in attendance, nearly 100 El Pasoansadorned in gallant Spanish finery participated,including Hall.

“We’re just trying to get attention for his-tory,” he said. “Sometimes you have to be out-landish to get it.”

His methods are effective and catching on.Attendance at nationwide social studies teacherconferences and power of word of mouth haveresulted in First Thanksgiving books and vid-eos being utilized in every U.S. state, exceptNorth Dakota. Major textbook publishers alsoinclude details on these early events.

Per historical record, in the winter of 1598,Onate and more than 400 men (130 who alsobrought families) and several Franciscans com-prised the expedition with 83 ox-drawn wag-ons and carts and about 8,000 horses, sheep,goats and cattle. The four-mile-long desert pro-cession journeyed 325 miles from south ofChihuahua, Mexico, for more than four monthsacross torturous desert conditions. Eating rootsand berries while seeking water from cactus,the ragged half-starved colonists arrived at thebanks of El Rio Del Norte (now the RioGrande) near present day San Elizario, just eastof El Paso in the Lower Valley. The site wasabundant with fish below and ducks above. Forten days they swam in the cool waters, restedunder giant cottonwoods, hunted and ate like

they hadn’t eaten in months.On April 30, Onate ordered all to put on their

best clothes and gather for the first Thanksgiv-ing by colonists in what is now the U.S. He me-morialized the occasion with a proclamationclaiming the land for the King of Spain. A play,the first in America, was performed and all ateand drank to give thanks for the welcome bounty.The next day, they embarked onward to what isnow downtown El Paso, reached in four days,and another four months to their final destina-tion north of present day Santa Fe.

That trail, called the Camino Real, was alsothe entrance for the vast majority of horses into the Americas. Some came up through Cali-fornia, and a few through Florida via St. Au-gustine, but hundreds of thousands enteredthrough El Paso.

This rugged city in the sparsely settled Trans-Pecos country was Texas’ last frontier. The siteof the first Thanksgiving in the middle of an in-ternational trade route became home to miners,ranchers and cavalrymen and some of the wild-est escapades in the Old West. It’s still the gate-way to Mexico as the largest border city in thenation. It has the oldest missions in the state andcan rightfully boast that it’s the only city withmountains as well as the only one with an In-dian reservation within its boundaries.

More than 100 million people have readabout El Paso’s First Thanksgiving with theSpanish colonists. Hall remains undaunted bya traditional Yankee decree that Thanksgivingis turkey and trimmings the fourth Thursdayof November. Historical evidence, including abook published in 1610, confirms that Onateand his colonists are the real McCoy. And, Hallreminds us, it was the Spanish explorers whomarked the first Christmas in America nearTallahassee Florida in 1529.

But that’s another story.For more information about the First

Thanksgiving on the Rio in 1592, call PeggyBoone at (915) 534-0692 or Sheldon Hall at(915) 833-0088.

WHERE EAST MEETS SOUTHWEST — Ten years ago the “Pilgrims” were paid a visit by the “Conqistadors” to hash out exactly whoheld claim to the first Thanksgiving celebration.

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Eye on D.C. By U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla

HORIZON— Have younoticed thatour wholelives consist

of simply moving things?Think about it for a minute. Ev-

erything we do, all day long, is noth-ing but a long, drawn-out process ofmoving items of various shapes andsizes, with various purposes, fromone place to another.

Many of these moves are so repeti-tive we don’t even think about it —our clothing goes from laundry tocloset to our bodies to the laundryagain. We open the refrigerator amillion times a day, taking things out,putting them back again.

When we move the furniture,someone will usually notice, espe-cially if they bruise their shin in themiddle of the night.

I heard a fellow recently commentthat the first half of our lives is spentaccumulating things, and the secondhalf is spent getting rid of them.

Hopefully, the American life cyclecomes out with some kind of balanceso that at the end of our lives we havequietly and responsibly accumulatedwhat we needed, then with equalgrace have given away, sold or oth-erwise dispensed of it all.

Or not.Americans are among a rare group

on earth which has so much stuff thatdisposing of it becomes a dauntingtask all on its own.

I first noticed this suffocating feel-ing when I brought home some goodnew stuff and had no place to put itbecause all the other stuff in my housealready was still too good to get rid of.

Never mind that I hadn’t usedmuch of it in a very long time —embarrassingly, some of it never.

I’ve begun to yearn for a good,hard move like that of early Ameri-cans migrating to California. Didn’tthey find the inner fortitude to leavea perfectly good cookstove in themiddle of the deserted plains simplybecause it was too heavy for the teamto haul anymore?

An honest examination of our daily

Too much stuffroutines would reveal that we useonly a fraction of our things, mean-ing that only a fraction of all this stuffis really necessary.

If we followed through on this con-cept, we’d no longer suffer the com-mon misconception that our housesare too small. Instead, we’d be look-ing for someone to rent that extraroom at the end of the hall.

What’s even worse is that some ofthat extra stuff we seldom or never usewould be an extraordinary prize if itwere located on another part of earth.

Take, for example, that parka in thecloset with a little rip on one pocket.In Afghanistan right now it would bea pretty valuable commodity.

Shoes currently in my closet, thenumber of which will remainunrevealed, are more than sufficient tokeep my feet warm and protected therest of my life, but it is highly unlikelythat I will never buy another pair. Inparts of the world, a whole neighbor-hood could be shod with the my trove.

Little wonder that some of themdon’t like us much.

The amount and variety of foodconsumed per person in this countryon a daily basis is almost obscene.The fact that a huge majority of ussuffer from weight-related maladiesshould tell us something.

It may be a little strange to spendthese few days before our nationalholiday of Thanksgiving lamentingthat we all have too much stuff.

Afterall, isn’t that the purpose oflife? To get more stuff? Isn’t it true thathe who dies with the most stuff wins?

On the other hand, since we liveour lives based on our ability to movethings around, could it be that toomuch stuff is actually a burden? Ifwe can’t move it, what good is it go-ing to do us anyway?

Ironically, as the World Trade Cen-ter Towers crashed to the ground, anabstract part of my horror was con-sidering the sheer volume of thingsthat were in those buildings, in thoseoffices, now in the street.

Perhaps we should begin toconsider our stuff, before we getburied by it.

Each year on the fourth Thurs-day of November, families andfriends across America gather to-gether to celebrate Thanksgiving.This holiday gives us the chance

to reflect on the many blessings we possess as citizensof this strong and wealthy nation.

As we celebrate Thanksgiving 2001, and face our newchallenges in America, it’s important to give thanks forthe many blessings we share as Americans.

We should give thanks for living in a free country ruledby the people.. It’s easy to forget how fortunate we areto be a democracy. But the recent crisis has brought usnew reason to reflect.

The people of Afghanistan did not have the opportu-nity to elect their leaders. The Taliban leadership tookover the government of Afghanistan and rules bu noth-ing short of a dictatorship. Let us be thankful we live ina democracy where we enjoy the freedoms of religion,speech, the press and the right to assemble.

Another simple blessing that is often overlooked isAmerica’s free, prosperous economy. Unlike any othernation, America’s spirit of individualism and indepen-dence has produced the world’s top economy. From thevery first families who struggled to farm this country’srich soil to today’s high-tech entrepreneurs, the pioneerspirit has propelled our nation to the forefront of discov-ery and exploration.

Finally, we should give thanks for the thousands of

Counting our blessings on Thanksgivingmen and women who protect us on a daily basis. Thefirefighters who protect our homes and places of busi-ness; the police officers who look over our family andfriends; and of course, the men and women of the armedservices, who dutifully watch over our nation. Each ofthese groups does their part to keep our nation safe fromharms way. We would not be the nation of the free, ifwe were not also the home of the brave.

As our nation faces the War on Terrorism, now morethan ever, we are thankful for the blessings our nationhas providedeach of us. Ihope that on thisThanksg iv ingday, as familyand friendsgather around thetable, each of youwill say a specialthanks to theamazing bless-ings our nation.

God bless eachof you and mayGod continue tobless America.Happy Thanks-giving to you andyours.

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View from the porch By Linda Mussehl

There was a brief moment ofrelief amidst the horrors imme-diately following September 11.In a news report about thegrounding of all civilian air-planes, it was noted that the total

flight prohibition was successful, with very few ex-ceptions.

In the remote ranch-country Southwest, however,two private planes were forced down by military jets.The TV reporter expressed disbelief that, more than36 hours after the attack, there were at least two peoplein this country that didn’t know about it or that ourairspace was temporarily closed.

“All right,” I thought at the time. “All will be well.Somebody out there has work to do, cows to find,calves to ship, coyotes to shoot.”

Whether the TV twinkies know it or not, there arestill people in the country whose lives don’t revolvearound daily television watching. And there are thoseof us who prefer to go days without talking to anyoneexcept the dog.

I’d like to meet those two ol’ boys. I bet they havequite a story to tell about flying along minding theirown business, only to be buzzed by the Air Force. Ipromise not to ask about any resultant laundry prob-lems.

Given the nasty games the fly boys have played withranchers over the years, how did the ranch pilots knowthat the mid-air harassment was just not business asusual, that it wasn’t just a bored U.S. or German pilotout cruising, looking for a herd to scatter?

Allan Sloan wrote in the 10/29/01 edition of

Business as usualNewsweek that “something largely unnoticed couldbe happening in much of the United States: life get-ting back to normal.” Sloan used the anthrax obses-sion as an example. “‘News’ is something that hap-pens to an editor,” Sloan said. “Large parts of the coun-try aren’t prone to panic over anthrax, because theyknow what cows are, and people who deal with cowsand soil are used to thinking about anthrax. But therearen’t many cows in newsrooms. Or in New York Cityor Washington.”

Anthrax is endemic in six Texas counties. It hasbeen, and it will be. It’s been in the soil for at least150 years, flares up every couple of years when theweather is right, and culls the white-tail deer herds. Afew unvaccinated cows and horses died this year, asdid a dog that ate from a deer carcass. One man con-tracted anthrax this summer from doctoring a sickanimal. He was treated with antibiotics and recovered.It got a little local news coverage, but was no big deal.For the region, it was just business as usual.

There are verities in life, fundamental truths. Oneis “life goes on. Shut up and get to work.”

The majority of our “talking class” experts in themedia and government were born after the Vietnamwar. The feeling of daily threat is new to them: “thesky is falling, the sky is falling.”

The holiday season is approaching, when familygatherings give a great opportunity to ask the seniormembers of your family about daily life during theGreat Depression, World War II and the Cold War.We need to learn from their resiliency, experience andcommon sense. It just could be that their advice boilsdown to “Life goes on. Shut up and get to work.”

Happy ThanksgivingIn this season of

thankfulness, wewant to rememberour men andwomen in uniform,who are serving inthe Near East.

Also, with redis-tricting now com-pleted I am now thenew Representativefor many parts of ElPaso east of

Zaragosa Road, Americas Ave. and in the Horizoncommunity.

After the holidays I plan to hold a NeighborhoodMeeting in order to get better acquainted.

Watch for an announcement in the Courier.— Congressman Silvestre Reyes

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City of SocorroPUBLIC NOTICEA PUBLIC HEARING will be held at 6:30 p.m. duringthe City Council Meeting of Thursday, December 6, 2001at City Hall, 124 S. Horizon Blvd., Socorro, Texas. Pur-pose of the public hearing is to allow any interested per-son to appear and testify at the hearing regarding the fol-lowing proposed ordinance(s):

1) An Ordinance No. 211, Amendment No. 2,an ordinance amending the Budeget for the Fis-cal Year of October 1, 2000 to September 30, 2001for the City of Socorro.

Those that are unable to attend the public hearing maysubmit their views to the City of Socorro. Accommoda-tions for handicapped persons will be available; handi-capped persons in need of special assistance for attendingthe hearings are encouraged to contact the City Secretary(915) 858-2915, forty-eight (48) hours prior to this meet-ing. Ordinances are too extensive to print. Copies of or-dinances are posted in City Hall and are available uponrequest.

TERE RODRIGUEZCity Secretary

WTCC: 11/22/01

EL PASO COUNTY—Sixty-fourUpper and Lower Valley high schoolstudents were among several hundredhonored by El Paso area Optimistclubs at a Nov. 7 Youth AppreciationWeek banquet at the Civic Center.

Selected by school administrators,the students were honored for theiraccomplishments in the home, schooland community.

The top boy and girl students arelisted by grade, beginning with seniors.

Anthony High: Pedro De La Rosaand Yarniko Gonzalez, MarcoGonzalez and Julie Garcia, Juan

By Don Woodyard�Courier Staff Writer

Area students honored by El Paso Optimist ClubsFavela and Michelle Herrera andHipolito Sarabia, Jr. and KayleighAlmaraz

Canutillo High: Ruben Vogt andDalila Salazar, Ruben Salinas andJacqueline Seqovia, Roberto Pinaand Cynthia Rede and Eduardo Ruizand Patricia Torres.

Clint High: Jacob Varela and MariaRivera, Ismael Aguayo and GracielaOlivas, Daniel Sosa and TracyEstrada and Geoffrey White andLaura Martinez.

Fabens High: Saul Magallanes andSusana Mendoza, Victor Dominguezand Nancy Cabral, Gilbert Rodriguezand Rebecca Alarcon, and SimonTrujillo and Sandra Terrazas.

Mountain View: Rudy Mejia, Jr.,

and Cynthia Falcon, Juan Rodriguezand Cindy Munoz, Bryant Pena andJessica Ortiz, and David Brown andAraceli Rodriguez.

San Elizario High: Manuel Duranand Christina Almeda, Obed Lira andKarla Santillan, Fabian Sanchez andItza Beltran, Fernando Rodriguez andAnalidia Moctezuma

Socorro High: Daniel Corral andKarina Contreras, Martin Burciaga andDesiree Foix, Emmanuel Villalobosand Toni Marie Ramirez, and NicklosMaureira and Diana Gardea.

Tornillo High: Abel Avila andWendy Duran, Luis Cardiel andAraceli Arragon, Juan Reyes andAnais Garay, and Edgar Amaya andAlma Duran.

SAN ELIZARIO—In his report tothe board of trustees at its Nov. 14meeting, Superintendent MikeQuatrini said “a lot of good educationis going on … a lot of positive things”in the San Elizario school district.

A reflection of this came with theintroduction and recognition of thetop five high school students aca-demically by grade. Selections weremade in the last school year of thenninth- through 11th-grade studentswho received the highest grade pointaverages.

The students are:11th graders (now seniors).

Carolyn Reyes, Eric Reyes,Catherine Reyes, Jonathan Rodarteand Elizabeth Calderon.

10th graders (now juniors). ValerieBarraza, Irving Alvidrez, EuniceRascon, Elvia Jasso and AngelicaPacheco.

9th graders (now sophomores).Itza Beltran, Angelica Dominguez,Cristina Madrid, Crystal Martinezand Manuel Aguilar.

In other news:Facilities director Arturo Morales

reported that work was moving for-ward on protecting children walking

San Elizario names top studentsto Borrego Elementary along ChickenRanch Road from traffic. An applica-tion is being submitted by SEISD tothe El Paso County Water Improve-ment District requesting the extensionof a culvert going under ChickenRanch where the road narrows.

The application includes fencing tokeep children from falling into theditch and barriers to protect themfrom traffic.

Board vice president Rick Rednourcharacterized the present situation as“dangerous” to students. A schoolmonitor was approved last month asa temporary means to aid and pro-tect students.

Cost of the project is estimated at$10,000-$12,000.

From safety safeguards for chil-dren to health safeguards for the com-munity.

The board approved the leasing ofa portable building at the middleschool to Promotores de Salud, acommunity-based organization thatacts a clearinghouse of basichealthcare information to residents ofthe San Elizario area. GuadalupeRamos, the group’s vice president,said it provides such health servicesas where-to-go and what to do infor-mation, nutritional, parenting andchild development classes.

Technology director Alice Ramos

had good news for the district. Shereported that the district receivedmore than $1.246 million in E-rate,electronic/telecommunications ser-vices, at a cost of $124,668. E-ratefunding provides a 90 percent dis-count to disadvantaged districts fortechnology-related purchases such asvideo equipment, internet access,servers and cellular phones.

Nancy Swanson, Sambrano El-ementary principal, reported that herschool had received top honors, anExceptional Campus Award for itsparticipation in the Texas migranteducation program. She saidSambrano was one of only 48 state-wide schools to receive the award andthe only one in Region 19.

The award is based on 10 or moremigrant students taking at least oneTAAS test, a passing rate of at least90 percent in each subject area and amigrant dropout rate of 1 percent orless.

In other action, the board also ap-proved:• $6,000 for the vaccination of em-ployees identified as being at-riskfrom Hepatitis B.• A service agreement with SandiaGroup in the processing of medicaidclaims.• The district’s participation in theTASB Purchasing Cooperative.

By Don Woodyard�Courier Staff Writer

SOCORRO - What has been a con-troversial topic for the last twomonths continues to make noiseamong the Socorro Town Council.

The council is ready to move for-ward by concentrating its efforts onthe success of the Socorro Police De-partment. The council named Ser-geant Manuel Ponce as theDepartment’s Interim Chief of Police

By Arleen Beard�Special to the Courier

Socorro names Interim Chief of Policeduring their meeting on Nov. 15.

“This is only temporary for me,”Ponce said, whose been with theSocorro Police Department for sixyears and has no intention of pursu-ing the position on a permanent ba-sis.

The council will continue to searchfor a candidate for Chief of Police,which was left vacant when BurylCanuteson resigned controversiallyfrom the post on Oct. 14.

In other business:The council approved the renew-

ing of the lease agreement with Texas

A&M University on the land sur-rounding the Rio Vista CommunityCenter. The lease agreement is setfor five years.

The council also approved a paradepermit request from the Mission TrailAssociation for a Luminaria Projectset for December 15.

The council also approved to hirefour police officers to fill vacanciescurrently existing at the Socorro Po-lice Department, subject to Civil Ser-vice approval.

The council also approved the in-stallation of the street lights.

WEST TEXAS COUNTY COURIERNovember 22, 2001 Page 5

EAST MONTANA — The Moun-tain View Lobos tasted both successand history when the team finishedthe 2001 football season with an 8-2record, the best in the school’s his-tory. But it also paid a heavy pricefor it.

The Ysleta Indians racked up 498yards of total offense, which included298 yards rushing by Indian runningback Jorge Rodriguez, en route to aconvincing 33-9 victory on Thursdayat Lobo Stadium.

The victory sends Ysleta (8-2) tothe Class 4A Division I area roundagainst the Dons of Amarillo PaloDuro. Mountain View finishes itsseason at 8-2.

“We had to play flawless foot-ball to beat them, but we just didn’tget it done tonight,” MountainView head coach Mike Jackson

Ysleta runs amok on Mountain View, 33-9said. “We looked at how peoplepicked us to finish, and compare itto where we are. It’s tough because,like I told my guys, the only guygoing out happy in the state is thestate champion.”

The Indians set the tone for thegame in the first drive as they ad-vanced 91 yards in 12 plays for thefirst score. Pin-point passing by In-dian quarterback Rick Najera, and therunning of Rodriguez led toRodriguez’s five-yard touchdown runwith 6:08 left in the first quarter anda 6-0 lead.

Mountain View’s troubles beganearly as lobo quarterback EddieGonzalez was intercepted by Ysleta’sDavid Alba. The turnover set upNajera’s 20-yard touchdown pass toAlba with 2:06 left in the quarter anda 12-0 lead.

Rodriguez helped the Indians takea 19-0 lead with nine minutes leftbefore halftime with a two-yardtouchdown run, but the Lobos struck

back with 5:51 left won a Gonzaleztouchdown pass to David Dillon,covering 26 yards. The score wasnow 19-6.

Long-yardage runs from Dillonand sophomore running back JoeyAmaya keyed the drive.

“I thought we had a chance be-cause we have played them before,”Gonzalez said. “We had to execute,and we didn’t. Tonight was not ournight.”

The Lobos added 25-yard fieldgoal by Ricardo Grajeda just beforehalftime, but Ysleta added two latetouchdowns by Rodriguez to advancein the state playoffs.

Gonzalez passed for 176 yards atouchdown. Gilbert Lopez wasGonzalez’s favorite target, catchingfour passes for 98 yards. Amayaadded 35 yards on the ground.

“Ysleta had a lot to do with us notbeing able to play flawless,” Jacksonsaid. “They drove it, pounded it, andwe just couldn’t tackle them.”

EL PASO — The injury to star run-ning back Tury Cleto may have af-fected the Fabens Wildcats’ gameplans against the Riverside Rangers.The real culprit, however, in Fabens’early-season exit were missed tack-les by the Wildcat defense.

Led by Carlos Carrillo and anunrelentless offensive attack, the Riv-erside Rangers ended the 2001 foot-ball season of Ronnie Hernandez andthe Wildcats, 55-7 on Friday atRiverfront Stadium in a Class 4A, Di-vision II bidistrict game.

Riverside scored in each of theirfirst half possessions, racking up 20points in the first quarter, 28 pointsin the second quarter and 392 yardsof total offense.

Carrillo (17 carries, 215 yards)scored four touchdowns in the con-test for the Rangers. QuarterbackMichael Stephenson ran for 22 yardsand a score. His only pass comple-tion of the game was a 90-yard touch-down strike to Sal Acevedo in thefirst quarter.

The Wildcat offense stared EricGarcia and Vicente Macias. Garciarumbled for 53 yards, and Maciasgained 119 yards for the Wildcats’only offensive production.

The duo’s running set up Fabens’only score of the game, a 15-yardpass from Rigo Estrada to DavidHuante with 5:04 left before halftime.

Fabens gets blistered by Riverside, 55-7

GETTING READY - Fabens running back Vicente Macias gets warmedup before then Wildcats’ bi-district football game against the RiversideRangers on Friday night at Riverfront Stadium. Macias ran for over 100yards in the contest, but Fabens lost to the Rangers, 55-7, thus endingtheir 2001 football season.

By Yuri SotoSpecial to the Courier

The Wildcats finished the seasonwith a 7-4 record. The Rangers will

face the Andrews Mustangs in thearea round on Saturday.

By Yuri SotoSpecial to the Courier

Q: I get Supplemental Security In-come (SSI) because I am elderly andhave no income. My brother recentlydied and left me the money he had ina savings account. Will this extramoney affect my SSI benefits? Willmy SSI payments stop?

A: The money inherited from yourbrother is considered income for themonth you receive it and could makeyou ineligible for that month, de-pending on the amount of the inher-itance. If you keep the money intothe next month, it then becomes a partof your resources. An individual can-not have more than $2,000 in re-sources to remain eligible. Call So-cial Security and report the inherit-ance. They will tell you how youreligibility will be affected and whatyou can do to remain eligible.

Q: I got a letter from the Internal Rev-

enue Service (IRS) saying they’regoing to take money out of my SocialSecurity check. Can they do this?

A: If you owe overdue tax to the IRS,they can. You should make arrange-ment with IRS to pay off your delin-quent taxes. If you don’t they canreduce your benefit payment by 15percent a month. Any beneficiarieswho owe a delinquent federal tax willreceive a notice before their SocialSecurity benefits are reduced.

Q: Social Security rules may be thesame for everyone, but situations aredifferent for women. Do you haveinformation especially for women?

A: Do we ever! We recently launcheda new website just for women. It’scalled “Social Security for Women,”and it recognizes situations that manyexperience. A woman may be a work-

ing woman, mother, divorcee,widow, beneficiary or housewife, andeach situation is addressed on ournew site.

Q. I usually get my benefit paymenton the third of the month, but thismonth it falls on a weekend. Do Ihave to wait until the fifth to get mybenefit?

A. Rest assured that your monthly ben-efit payment will always be scheduledfor your regular benefit payment dateor before. When your regular date fallson a weekend or holiday, you will re-ceive your benefit payment on the priorbusiness day.

For more information visit your lo-cal Social Security office, seewww.ssa.gov or call us at 1-800-772-1213. If you have any questions thatyou would like to have answered,please mail them to the Social Secu-rity Office, 11111 Gateway West, Attn:Ray Vigil, El Paso, Texas 79935.

Social Security: Q & A by Ray Vigil

MOVING UP THE LADDER - Horizon City resident Ron Swenson(middle) was promoted to Sergeant in the Horizon City police De-partment recently. Swenson, a resident of Horizon City since 1988,attended Horizon Heights School and Socorro High School beforegraduating from Montwood High School’s first class in 1993. Hejoined the Horizon Police Department on July of 1995 and becamea full-time police officer in 1996. Standing next to him are HorizonCity Police Chief Tony Aguilar (left) and alderman Keith McClellan.The Horizon Police Department will be participating in OperationABC Mobilization: America Buckles Up Children. Police officersaround the country will be watching, and cracking down, on mo-torists who do not buckle up themselves and their children.

HORIZON — There is excitementin the halls at Frank Macias Elemen-tary as a team of 12 students, wear-ing identification badges, make theirway to second and third grade classesto pick up students they will workwith for the next half hour.

The teachers, who dismiss the tu-tors for their work, are already see-ing positive results.

Working from the premise that aperson learns the most when teach-

TEACHERS IN TRAINING — Shown from left, back row: Krista Vasquez,Desteney Contreras, Amanda Correa, and Mrs. Pat Walshe. Middle row,Samantha Oliver, Brittnie Allen, Angel Tucker. Front row, Rose Cabal-lero and Teresa Valenzuela.

Tutoring has brought excitement to Frank Macias Elementarying their subject, these studentswere trained by Mrs. Pat Walshe(Reading Recovery/ELI Trainer) towork with lower grade studentsneeding assistance in reading andwriting.

Mrs. Walshe chose the 12 studentsfrom a suggested list of about 25. Thetutors not only teach but also learnstrategies to improve their own read-ing and writing.

— Contributed by Arleen Beard

Dear Editor:Since the terrorist attacks of Sept.

11, I have seen a tremendous surgein patriotism around the borderlandand across the country, but there issomething that I have found disturb-ing.

The U.S. has in its foundation thebelief that people may express theirideas freely in the form of speech andpeaceful assembly, and that they mayaddress the government about theirgrievances. However, when I seepeople that oppose our actions in Af-ghanistan, or oppose our foreign poli-cies in the Middle East, shortly there-after there will be someone who makes

Write stuff a statement like “Love it or leave it”or “You know where the border is, ifyou don’t like it here, leave.”

Now those statements are also pro-tected under the First Amendment ofour Constitution, and I would neverwant to see their right to expressthemselves taken away, but it is mybelief that a statement like “Love itor leave it” shows that the person re-ally doesn’t understand why the U.S.is such a great country in the firstplace. So few Americans have anunderstanding of our Constitution,wouldn’t it be nice if we, in an act ofpatriotism, study the ideas thatfounded this great nation?

Thomas P. GiacomelliCanutillo

WEST TEXAS COUNTY COURIER November 22, 2001Page 6

King Super Crossword

By Steve Escajeda�Special to the Courier

SOFT TOUCH

ACROSS

1 Picker-uppers

7 Mr. Ziegfeld

10 Bread spread

13 Actress Laurie

18 Conductor

Toscanini

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snake

20 Mr. Baba

21 Scavullo’s equip-

ment

22 Elizabeth Taylor

movie

25 Hudson River city

26 Day- _

27 Rock’s _ Floyd

28 “Holy cow!”

29 Use the microwave

31 “Topaz” author

32 Gab

33 Football’s Matson

35 Pupil’s place

36 Energetic

39 ’64 Hitchcock film

42 Way

45 Steber solo

46 English racer

49 Arkansas hrs.

52 West’s “Diamond _”

53 Presses

54 Help in a heist

55 Cry of discovery

56 Blend

58 _ -chef

59 “Die Fledermaus”

maid

62 Word form for

“bone”

64 Fancy

66 Sailing

67 “Wait _ Dark” (’67

film)

68 Comic Mandel

70 Bribe-to-be

74 Recesses

75 Pays to play

76 Manuscript impera-

tive

77 Peter’s partner

79 Smallest

80 Fiery felony

82 Atmosphere

83 Ridicule

86 Bisoglio or Kilmer

87 Perry’s creator

89 “_, you’ll like it!”

90 Laudatory verse

91 Wapiti

92 Jason’s quest

96 “Uptown Girl”

singer

97 Screenwriter

James

98 Big-billed bird

99 Power a trike

100 On the _ (fleeing)

102 Composer

Telemann

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one

106 Mrs. Zeus

107 Sniggler’s quarry

108 Humor

110 Actress Arlene

111 Salon request

114 Hammed up “Ham-

let”

116 Some boxers

120 Helen Hunt Jack-

son novel

121 Unwell

122 Hosp. area

123 Layers

124 Musty

125 Relative of -ist

126 _ de plume

127 Tailor’s apparatus

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2 Articulated

3 Director Preminger

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5 Award

6 Sanchez or Braga

7 _ dance

8 Actress Ullmann

9 First name in fash-

ion

10 Field event

11 Flagon filler

12 Actress Gaynor

13 Crony

14 Permeated

15 Pole star?

16 Banks of baseball

17 Sunshine, slangily

21 Mushroom part

23 Farm animal

24 Tea of “Deep Im-

pact”

30 Certain bacterium

32 Numbers man?

34 Part of a triangle

36 Reading matter?

37 Part of HOMES

38 Doris Day movie

39 Writer de

Cervantes

40 Olympic hawk

41 “Kidnapped” mono-

gram

43 Sugary suffix

44 Flabbergast

46 Iranian city

47 Moves like a Mor-

gan

48 “_ de mer”

49 Certain poplar

50 Arabian chieftain

51 Hoes and hammers

57 Produces prunes

59 Wan

60 Adroit

61 _ Claire, WI

63 A nose that shows

65 IRA, e.g.

66 Concerning

68 Bisect

69 Hoopster Shaquille

71 Nav. designation

72 Vietnam’s _ Van

Thieu

73 Column style

78 Figure of interest?

80 Accuse tentatively

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82 Length X width

84 Scheme

85 Relate

88 Salty spread

89 RN’s specialty

93 Ike’s domain

94 Connecticut city

95 “Tempus _”

96 Gush

97 Explosive mixture

99 Considerate

100 Paul of “American

Graffiti”

101 Luncheonette lure

103 Wee

104 Shorten a slat

105 Karpov’s game

106 Towel word

107 Author LeShan

109 Svelte

110 Grass’ “The Tin _”

111 Kind of carpet

112 Major conclusion

113 Obsolete title

115 Chemical ending

117 Ivy Leaguer

118 Author Umberto

119 Kennel threat

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Are you ready for the big football game thisweekend?

No, not the merciful season finale for theUTEP Miners against Nevada. The big rematchbetween the Franklin Cougars and the three-time defending state champ Midland LeeRebels.

Now before you all start saying this will bea typical El Paso playoff meltdown against anout-of-town team, don’t forget that these twoteams already met once this season. Franklinsmacked the Rebels 21-7 here in El Paso.

Well, the Cougars will face them again thisFriday here at the Sun Bowl in what should beone of the most anticipated local high schoolfootball games in recent history.

So what is going to happen? Only two thingscan happen and they’re both mental. Either theFranklin Cougars are going to go into the game,

Franklin-Midland Lee should be a hot ticketconfident, knowing they’ve already beaten thisteam and then go out and do it again.

Or the Midland Lee Rebels are so angryabout having lost that game to Franklin earlierin the season that they come and play their bestgame of the season and rout the Cougars.

All I know is that Franklin is a methodi-cal team with a solid defense that doesn’tlet anything phase them psychologically.And Midland Lee, though extremely tough,is just not the team they’ve been over thelast few years now that Cedric Benson hasgraduated and is now scoring touchdownsfor the Texas Longhorns.

Whoever wins, it sure is good to have a lo-cal team host a major Texas football power inthe state playoffs that has a legitimate chanceto win.

And if you don’t think the Cougars can beatthis team, don’t forget, they already have.

Lewis reigns againHeeee’s back.

Did you happen to see Lennox Lewis’ dev-astation of Hasim Rahman last weekend?Wow, one punch and Rahman fell to the can-vas like a sack of potatoes, or more likemashed potatoes, or more like... well, youget the picture.

Rahman, who has been doing a lot of talk-ing about Lewis being, well, let’s just say lessthan a man, found out the hard way that theone thing Lewis doesn’t do is hit like a girl.

But the rattling of Rahman and his remain-ing brain cells isn’t the real story here. It’s whatLewis’ victory means for the rest of us.

It means that Lewis is legally bound to fightone certain guy next.

And that guy is (you might want to rush thewife and kids to a safe location in your housebefore I mention his name)? I’ll wait…ready?...O.K., here it goes... Mike Tyson.

Can you imagine what kind of an audiencewill turn out to watch Mike Tyson fight for theheavyweight crown again? Let’s face it.Though Tyson fits the profile to be a week-

outrageous spectacle could possibly occur.And the true fight fan will watch to see if

Tyson still has what it takes to win another title.Does Tyson still intimidate? Is Lewis a true

champion?I don’t know, but I’ll sure tune in to find out.

On the Heelsof a shocking loss

Not very things have remained constant since1928. Since that time, almost everything in theUnited States has changed profoundly, but onething had not.

One thing had remained unchanged since1928.

The North Carolina Tar Heels basketballteam had won every home opener since the1928-29 season... until now.

The powerhouse Tar Heels were shockedover the weekend by Hampton. Hampton?Who the heck is Hampton? Is that a person ora whole team?

Well, I looked it up and it appears that Hamp-ton is, indeed, a university in Virginia and theydo have a basketball team and they did upsetNorth Carolina in Chapel Hill.

And I think that you, me, and especiallyNorth Carolina will never forget about themagain.

long guest on JerrySpringer, he does have atremendous following.The curiosity factoralone will bring out thenon-fight fan to see what

Fabens’ senior Jorge (J.R.) Ontiveros was honored atthe El Paso Baseball Hall of Fame Induction and AwardsBanquet on Nov. 15.

J.R. received the presidents award for the Dis-trict 2-4A’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) for theWildcats. The Banquet was held at the El PasoElks Lodge. Ex major League pitcher Bruce Ruffin

Ontiveros honored by El Paso Baseball Hall of Famewas the special guest speaker and honoree at thebanquet.

J.R. was named newcomer of the year in the 2000 sea-son before being named MVP for the 2001 season.

J.R. aspires to play professional baseball some day.For now he is looking forward to the upcoming seasonand hopefully play at the collegiate level.

Fabens Wildcat Jorge ‘J.R.’ Ontiveros is District 2-4A’s MVP.

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PUBLIC NOTICECITY OF SOCORRO, TEXAS

Texas Department of Housingand Community Affairs HOME First

Time Homebuyers Assistance Program

The City of Socorro will hold a public hearing onThursday, December 6, 2001, at 6:30 p.m. in relation tothe completion of the Texas Department of Housing andCommunity Affairs HOME First Time Homebuyers As-sistance Program Contract No. 530206. The meeting willbe held at Socorro City Hall, 124 S. Horizon Blvd.,Socorro, Texas 79927. This project, funded by the TexasDepartment or Housing and Community Affairs, pro-vided first time homebuyers with up to to $10,000 fordown payment and closing cost on the purchase of ahome. These actitivities benefited one hundred fifty-six(156) persons. The purpose of this public hearing is tosolicit input and participation of all citizens and in par-ticular those who benefited from this program. Discus-sion of the completed activities will include the locationof the projects, general cost and project benefits. Personsunable to attend this meeting may submit their views re-garding these project to the office of the Mayor, Socorro,City Hall, 124 S. Horizon., Socorro, Texas 79927.

Persons with disablilites that wish to attend this meetingshould contact City Hall, (915) 858-2915, to arrange forassistance. Individuals who require auxiliary aids orservices for this meeting should contact City Hall atleast two days before the meeting so the appropriatearrangements can be made.

The City of Socorro promotes Fair Housing/AffirmativeAction and Equal Employment Opportunity.WTCC: 11/22/01

By Don FloodIt was windy and cool, but I could already feel the

cold sweat of fear trickling down my back.There I was — many, many feet from civilization

— and I had forgotten one of the most basic rules ofsurvival: Don’t forget the Pringles potato chips!

I had, in fact, forgotten not just the Pringles, but allother food supplies as well.

Of course, the first rule in an emergency situationof this kind is to remain calm.

Anyone who has ever experienced a full-scale“Pringles Panic” knows it can quickly rage out of con-trol and endanger an entire expedition.

In 1803, for example, Lewis and Clark were almostforced to turn back when the men learned that Capt.Lewis had traded the last can of Pringles to the Indi-ans for a few bucks’ worth of chips at the Win BigWampum casino.

Fortunately, before panic became total, the men wereable to smell the welcoming aroma of a Starbucks cof-fee shop at the next intersection.

So I knew I had to hide my fear from my 11-year-old son.

Children can smell fear and so can bears. (Fortu-nately, the closest bears were incarcerated in area zoos,but you never know!)

Not that all was lost.Fortunately, I had remembered the beer, a signal that while

my survival skills had eroded they were still intact.After a refreshing beverage break, I realized things

were not as bad as they first appeared.For one thing, other campers had brought Pringles

— and pretzels, hot dogs, fried chicken, cereal, fruit,

Basic survivalcandy, hot cocoa, Pop Tarts, snack cakes, peanuts, rai-sins, sandwiches and marshmallows.

As long as we rationed carefully, we had enoughfood to last 45 minutes — maybe longer if we wentinto “survivor mode.”

Also, I had brought along my trusty Swiss Army knife.Not that I did anything with it, but when I pulled it out to

play with it, I realized I also had my cell phone with me.I called my Emergency Response Team — my wife

— and she agreed to bring the food I had neglected totake from the car.

Later, around the campfire, we did as fathers andsons have done for thousands of years: We cranked upthe CD player and listened to classic rock.

Which reminded me of a serious issue.Yes, I know it’s been for a good cause, but lately

there has been a rash of creaky rock ‘n’ rollers appear-ing in concert.

I saw a film clip, for instance, of Mick Jagger doing“Miss You,” a hit first made popular by the RollingStones during the Harding Administration

“Whoo-whoo, whoo-whoo, whoo-oo-whoo,” sangJagger, as he whirled around in an odd, frenzied dancethat nevertheless conveyed a powerful message: I amold, but I still retain some semblance of motor andbladder control!

It was not a pretty sight.People over the age of 35 should not be allowed to

sing “whoo-whoo, whoo-whoo, whoo-oo-whoo” anddance on stage.

In fact, they should not sing “whoo-whoo, whoo-whoo, whoo-oo-whoo” at all — unless, of course, theyare out camping in the woods.

It helps keep the bears away.__________________________________________________________

(c) 2001 King Features Synd., Inc.

SAN ELIZARIO—Honors havecome to San Elizario students on theathletic field.

At the district’s Nov. 14 schoolboard meeting, athletic directorBernie del Hierro reported on stu-dents recognized in football, volley-ball and cross country.

The boys cross country team quali-fied for regionals and placed 13th outof 24 teams in competition. Districtcross country champion was IrvingAlvidrez, and Ray Vasquez was fifth.Alvidrez went on to place ninth inthe regionals, which qualified him forthe state competition in which he fin-ished 26th.

Matt Sproul and Angel Muela

earned double football honors.Sproul, a guard, made all-district

first team on offense and second teamselection as defensive tackle. Muelamade second team, offense, as re-ceiver and second team as strongsafety.

Second team district honors, of-fense, also went to center MannyAguilar.

In volleyball, Reba Madrid wasnamed Defensive Player of the Yearin District 2-4A.

Named to the volleyball first teamwas junior Ana Morales. JuniorValerie Barraza was picked for thesecond team. Honorable mentiongoes to senior Arely Ames and jun-ior Vicky Trevizo.

San Elizario girls were fourth in dis-trict in cross country. Brenda Acevedoplaced ninth at the district level.

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HORIZON CITY — Horizon City Kiwanis PresidentMarie Cadena recently spearheaded a local event whichmay make all the difference in the life of a child — theFirst Annual Read Around the World at Frank MaciasElementary School.

The Horizon event was only one location of theKiwanis International effort to make this a world wideevent.

“Kiwanis International believes all children need tounderstand the joy of reading,” Cadena said. “The firststep is reading to them. The second is to give them booksthey can treasure and can read again and again.

“This could never have happened without the gener-osity of the administration at Frank Macias Elementary.

Principal Pam Howard was very receptive to the ideaand gladly offered the use of the school building.”

“This event provides the opportunity for our commu-nity to highlight literacy and provide children a fantasticreading for pleasure experience,” Howard said.

The event took place on Saturday, Oct. 27 from 8 p.m.to 7 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28. There were a variety ofevents throughout the evening. High School studentsfrom the Socorro High School Key Club and from thesoon-to-be-chartered Americas High School Key Clubprovided readers and books. Food and more books wereprovided by local suppliers.

“There were over 100 children who attended this event. Iwould like to see this event grow every year,” Cadena said.

Marathon reading session kicks off Kiwanis Read Around the World

The Kiwanis want all children to enjoy reading.