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A heated discussion betweencommissioners and Economic De-velopment Center President Peg-gy Umphres-Moffett at the lastcommissioners court meeting re-garding the name of the ZapataCounty higher education centersparked confusion and the needfor a special meeting Tuesday.

A meeting is scheduled for 10a.m. Tuesday at the EmergencyOperations Center office on thesecond floor of the Zapata CountyCourthouse.

Commissioners were upsetwith Umphres-Moffett, sayingthat she did not have permissionto change the name of the center

and that they were under the im-pression it was going to be calledthe “Zapata County Higher Edu-cation Center.”

Commissioner Norberto Garzaquickly called to approve thename as stated on the agenda butwas stopped for further explana-tion by Umphres-Moffett.

Umphres-Moffett recentlynamed the center “UniversityPartnership Center,” which raisedconcerns from Laredo Communi-ty College President Juan Maldo-nado. LCC is a partner in the cen-ter.

“He felt left out,” Commission-er Jose E. Vela said.

Maldonado was concernedwith the name including the word“university,” due to the fact that

LCC is a college and not a univer-sity, Vela said.

In Umphres-Moffett’s defense,she said the name was only to de-scribe the structure and it wasnot a permanent name.

In order to determine a perma-nent name for the building, theEducation Steering Committeewould have to agree on it,Umphres-Moffett said.

The building was supported bya state and a federal grant, Velaadded.

The county now runs the riskof the Economic Development As-sociation canceling the federalgrant.

“Peggy was responsible for the

COMMISSIONERS

Name gameMeeting may settle what to call ed center

By LORRAINE L. RODRIGUEZTHE ZAPATA TIMES

See NAME PAGE 10A

Tamaulipas state police toldZapata County Sheriff Sigifre-do Gonzalez Jr. the search forthe body of David Hartley wasfinished as of Thursday.

Hartley is presumed deadafter allegedly being shot bymembers of the Zetas organi-zation as he jet-ski’d on theMexican side of Falcon Lake.

No body has been reco-vered.

“There is nothing to lookfor in this side of the river,”the sheriff said when askedwhat U.S. authorities are do-ing about the search.

The search will remain sus-pended unless there are fur-ther developments in the case,Gonzalez said.

On Friday afternoon, WebbCounty officials said they un-derstand the search for Har-tley is still ongoing, thoughthere had been reports of Mex-

HARTLEY INCIDENT

Sheriff: Mexicohas given up

its searchNo body recovered

from lake yetBy CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZ

THE ZAPATA TIMES

See SEARCH PAGE 9A

Zapata County ISD students receivedhands-on learning about animals andtheir byproducts during an AgricultureDay presentation by Texas AgriLife Ex-tension Service to raise awarenessabout farming, ranching, and the 4-Hand the Future Farmers of Americaprograms.

“The whole goal for the program isto teach these kids about agricultureand how it affects their everyday lives,”said Caleb Eaton, Zapata County Agri-Life Extension Agent.

“In today’s society less than two per-cent of our population is involved inproduction of agriculture, so it’s impor-tant that we inform them of where 98percent of their food and fiber comesfrom,” Eaton said.

Many children are unaware of theexact process or source the food theyeat comes from, Eaton said.

“A lot of the kids think their foodjust comes from the back of the grocerystore or the refrigerator,” he said.

The children were broken into threegroups and rotated among the cattle,sheep and goats and grains stations.

“We started to inform the kids howmuch agriculture affects their lives,”Eaton said. “It’s not just plows andcows; there is science behind it. Ittouches everything in their lives.”

At the cattle station, children weretaught about beef and dairy cattle andpresented with byproducts, such ascrayons and shampoo, used in theirdaily lives.

TEXAS AGRILIFE EXTENSION SERVICE

HANDS-ON AGRICULTURE

Villarreal Elementary fourth grade student Leslie Alvarez looks on as her classmates Alejandro Guz-man and Heryberto Reyes pet a lamb Friday morning at the Zapata County Fair Grounds as part ofthe school’s Agriculture Day.

Photo by Cuate Santos | The Zapata Times

Importance ofanimals goal of

ag programBy LORRAINE L. RODRIGUEZ

THE ZAPATA TIMES

See ANIMALS PAGE 10A

The discovery of an Indian burial moundin San Ygnacio has threatened to suspendany progress on a street project now under-way.

Reim Construction Company found an In-dian burial mound under a street while re-placing drains and water lines, said HectorLopez, a member of the Zapata County His-torical Commission.

“It’s in the west of town on the last streetin front of a house on Washington Street andTreviño Street,” Lopez said.

The construction company was hired to

INFRASTRUCTURE

See MOUND PAGE 10A

A small area of cold patch can be seen at the cornerof Washington Avenue and Treviño Street in San Yg-nacio, in front of the historic Customs House. Zapa-ta County officials are trying to come to an agree-ment over what to do with the remains of a NativeAmerican male buried near the intersection.

Photo by Cuate Santos | The Zapata Times

Body stillcreating

mound ofconfusion

By LORRAINE L. RODRIGUEZTHE ZAPATA TIMES

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SATURDAY, OCT. 16The Texas A&M International

University Lamar Bruni Vergara Plane-tarium will show “The Zula Patrol: Un-der the Weather” at 5 p.m., “ViolentUniverse: Catastrophes of the Cos-mos” at 6 p.m. and Pink Floyd’s “DarkSide of the Moon” at 7 p.m. Generaladmission is $5, $4 for children andTAMIU students, faculty, staff andalumni. Premium shows are $1 more.For more show times, call 326-DOMEor visit tamiu.edu/planetarium.

The Laredo Theater Guild, incooperation with Texas A&M Interna-tional University, presents “The Lion inWinter” today at 8 p.m. and Sundayat 3 p.m. in the TAMIU Center for theFine and Performing Arts Theatre.General admission is $15, and admis-sion is discounted to $10 for studentswith ID and for seniors. Tickets areavailable for advance purchase at Fos-ter’s, 1605 E. Del Mar Blvd., Blue Topon Hillside and at the TAMIU Book-store. Tickets will be available on-siteat the box office before show times.For more information, call 956-319-8610 or visit www.laredotheaterguild-.com.

The Webb County Heritage Foun-dation presents a demonstration ofspecial effects creation by Mike Castroof “Morbid Mansion” at 1 p.m. as partof the “Haunted Heritage — Mythsand Legends of Laredo” exhibit on dis-play at the Villa Antigua Border Heri-tage Museum, 810 Zaragoza St. Ad-mission is $5.

SUNDAY, OCT. 17This is the first day of the

Pumpkin Patch, on the lawn of theFirst United Methodist Church, 1200McClelland Ave. The patch is openfrom 12:30 to 7 p.m. The public is in-vited, and pumpkins of all sizes arefor sale.

The Laredo Theater Guild, incooperation with Texas A&M Interna-tional University, presents “The Lion inWinter” today at 3 p.m. in the TAMIUCenter for the Fine and PerformingArts Theatre. General admission is$15, and admission is discounted to$10 for students with ID and for se-niors. Tickets are available for advancepurchase at Foster’s, 1605 E. Del MarBlvd., Blue Top on Hillside and at theTAMIU Bookstore. Tickets will be avail-able on-site at the box office beforeshow times. For more information, call956-319-8610 or visit www.laredothea-terguild.com.

MONDAY, OCT. 18The 2010-2011 Laredo Jr. Bucks’

season (session 1) begins today. Formore information, call 645-3899.

The Laredo Public Library sup-port group Friends of the Library willtry to raise $250,000 to help buildtwo branch libraries for the communi-ty. The first project is an all-day fund-raiser today at Chili’s Grill & Bar, lo-cated at 5702 San Bernardo Ave. Onevery order, dine in and carry out, 10percent of every ticket will be donatedto the Friends of the Library.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 20The South Texas Food Bank

board of directors meets at noon to-day at Commerce Bank, San DarioAvenue and Mann Road. For more in-formation, call 726-3120.

THURSDAY, OCT. 21First United Methodist Church,

1220 McClelland Ave., will have a rum-mage sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. inthe church’s Fellowship Hall. The pub-lic is invited; no admission fee.

The Laredo Theater Guild, incooperation with Texas A&M Interna-tional University, presents “The Lion inWinter” today through Saturday at 8p.m. in the TAMIU Center for the Fineand Performing Arts Theatre. Generaladmission is $15, with $10 discountedadmission for students with ID andseniors. Tickets are available for ad-vance purchase at Foster’s, 1605 E.Del Mar Blvd., Blue Top on Hillsideand at the TAMIU Bookstore. Ticketswill be available on-site at the box of-fice before show times. For more in-formation, call 956-319-8610 or visitwww.laredotheaterguild.com.

FRIDAY, OCT. 22First United Methodist Church,

1220 McClelland Ave., will have a rum-mage sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. inthe church’s Fellowship Hall. The pub-lic is invited, and there is no admis-sion fee.

To submit an item for thecalendar, send the name of theevent, the date, time, locationand contact phone number toeditorial@lmtonline.com

CALENDARASSOCIATED PRESS

Today is Saturday, Oct. 16th,the 289th day of 2010. Thereare 76 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in His-tory:

On Oct. 16, 1859, radicalabolitionist John Brown led agroup of 21 men in a raid onHarpers Ferry in western Vir-ginia. (Ten of Brown’s menwere killed and five escaped.Brown and six followers endedup being captured; all were ex-ecuted.)

On this date: In 1793, during the French

Revolution, Marie Antoinette,the queen of France, was be-headed.

In 1901, Booker T. Washing-ton dined at the White Houseas the guest of President Theo-dore Roosevelt, whose invita-tion to the black educatorsparked controversy.

In 1916, Margaret Sangeropened the first birth controlclinic, in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Theclinic ended up being raidedby police and Sanger was ar-rested.)

In 1939, the comedy “TheMan Who Came to Dinner,” byGeorge S. Kaufman and MossHart, opened on Broadway.

In 1962, the Cuban missilecrisis began as President JohnF. Kennedy was informed thatreconnaissance photographshad revealed the presence ofmissile bases in Cuba.

In 1968, American athletesTommie Smith and John Car-los sparked controversy at theMexico City Olympics by giv-ing “black power” salutes dur-ing a victory ceremony afterthey’d won gold and bronzemedals in the 200-meter race.

In 1969, the New York Metscapped their miracle seasonby winning the World Series,defeating the BaltimoreOrioles, 5-3, in Game 5 playedat Shea Stadium.

In 1978, the College of Cardi-nals of the Roman CatholicChurch chose Cardinal KarolWojtyla (voy-TEE’-wah) to bethe new pope; he took thename John Paul II.

In 1987, a 58-1/2-hour dramain Midland, Texas, ended hap-pily as rescuers freed JessicaMcClure, an 18-month-old girltrapped in an abandoned well.

In 1995, a vast throng ofblack men gathered in Wash-ington D.C. for the “MillionMan March” led by Nation ofIslam leader Louis Farrakhan.

Today’s Birthdays: Ac-tress Angela Lansbury is 85.Author Gunter Grass is 83.Former presidential adviserCharles W. Colson is 79. Actor-producer Tony Anthony is 73.Actor Barry Corbin is 70.Sportscaster Tim McCarver is69. Rock musician C.F. Turner(Bachman-Turner Overdrive)is 67. Actress Suzanne Somersis 64. Rock singer-musicianBob Weir is 63. Producer-direc-tor David Zucker is 63. Recordcompany executive Jim EdNorman is 62. Actor DanielGerroll is 59. Actor MorganStevens is 59. Comedian-actorAndy Kindler is 54. Actor-di-rector Tim Robbins is 52. Ac-tor-musician Gary Kemp is 51.Singer-musician Bob Mould is50. Actor Randy Vasquez is 49.Rock musician Flea (Red HotChili Peppers) is 48. ActorTodd Stashwick is 42. Jazz mu-sician Roy Hargrove is 41. Ac-treSinger Wendy Wilson (Wil-son Phillips) is 41.

Thought for Today: “Lifeis a solitary cell whose wallsare mirrors.” — EugeneO’Neill, American playwright(born this date in 1888, died1953).

TODAY IN HISTORY

AUSTIN — Democrat Bill White said Fri-day he doesn’t think Gov. Rick Perry showsenough respect to President Barack Obama.

White told the Texas Tribune he doesn’tthink Perry should be referring to Obama inads without using his title.

"As a citizen I call him president. Presi-dent Obama," White said. "Whoever is thecommander in chief, whether it be George W.Bush or President Obama, you need to referto our president as our president."

Later, speaking to reporters outside thestudio where the interview was being taped,White referred to the TV ad in which Perrysays he "confronted Barack Obama," duringthe president’s visit to Austin. Perry greetedObama at the Austin airport and gave him aletter asking the federal government to boost

security along the border.A reporter then reminded the former

Houston mayor that he sometimes calls thegovernor "Rick Perry" without using his ti-tle. "That’s true," White said. "The office ofthe presidency, we’ve always treated as a spe-cial office."

Perry’s campaign supplied media clips ofWhite calling the president "Barack Obama"without the title, and White saying, "I was inthe oil and gas business when he (Obama)was a community organizer."

During an interview with the Texas Tri-bune, Perry was asked why he keeps oneschedule for state functions and another forpolitical meetings and personal matters. Per-ry said he was following state guidelines.

"What I do with my private time, frankly,except for the voyeurs of the world out there,is my business," Perry said.

AROUND TEXAS

Texas Tribune editor-in-chief Evan Smith interviews Bill White at KLRU’s Austin City Limits studio on Friday.

Photo by Danielle Villasana, Austin American-Statesman | AP

White: Respect ObamaBy JAY ROOT

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Restaurant turns awayvets over dress code

DALLAS — The manager of aDallas restaurant is apologizingafter a hostess turned away sixWorld War II veterans becauseshe said their unit baseball caps,POW T-shirts and shorts didn’tmeet the restaurant’s dress code.

The veterans were in townthis week for a reunion of survi-vors of a World War II battle onOct. 14, 1943 known as “BlackThursday” when they were turn-ed away from Five Sixty restau-rant.

Two Houston cab driverskilled

HOUSTON — Houston policesay two cab drivers were robbedand shot to death this week bypassengers picked up from thesame gas station after it hadclosed for the night.

Investigators, who say there’sno doubt the crimes are related,are looking for a pair of gunmenin both slayings.

Forensics panel resumesprobe of arson case

AUSTIN — A state forensicscience panel will again take upits probe of the disputed arsonfinding that led to the executionof a Texas man.

The Texas Forensic ScienceCommission is scheduled to meetFriday in Austin and discuss theCameron Todd Willingham case.The meeting comes a day after astate appeals court in Austinhalted a hearing into whether hemight be innocent of the 1991 firethat killed his three daughters.

Possible explosive devicein boy’s backpack

HARLINGEN — A 46-year-oldman accused of placing a possi-ble explosive device in a boy’sbackpack has been arrested.

The man placed a suspiciousobject in an 11-year-old’s back-pack then called authorities. TheBrownsville police bomb squadresponded and the area was tem-porarily evacuated.

Prosecutor denies bias inarson case

AUSTIN — A prosecutor ac-cused of bias for describing anexecuted man as a "guilty mon-ster" defended his comments Fri-day, while colleagues on a com-mission investigating the casesaid he might have jeopardizedthe integrity of their inquiry.

Williamson County DistrictAttorney John Bradley said law-yers trying to clear CameronTodd Willingham’s name are us-ing the case to further their ef-fort to abolish the death penalty.

TI opens semiconductorplant in China

DALLAS — Texas Instru-ments Inc. said Friday it openedits first semiconductor-makingplant in China.

The company said the facilitycould turn out more than $1 bil-lion in annual production of ana-log chips and has room for ex-pansion.

— - Compiled from AP reports

Feds oppose Calif. Prop 19to legalize marijuana

SAN FRANCISCO — AttorneyGeneral Eric Holder is warningthat the federal government willnot look the other way, as it haswith medical marijuana, if vot-ers next month make Californiathe first state to legalize pot.

Marijuana is illegal under fed-eral law, which drug agents will“vigorously enforce” against any-one carrying, growing or sellingit, Holder said.

Countrywide CEO settleswith SEC for $67.5M

LOS ANGELES — Country-wide Financial Corp. co-founderAngelo Mozilo has agreed to a$67.5 million settlement to avoidtrial on civil fraud and insidertrading charges that alleged heprofited from doling out riskymortgages.

The settlement announced Fri-day spares the executives the

risk of a guilty verdict that couldhave been used against him.

Army won’t seek death inAfghan killings case

SEATTLE — A U.S. soldier

who told investigators in horrify-ing detail that he and othermembers of his unit executedthree civilians in Afghanistan forsport will not face the death pen-alty if convicted, the Army saidFriday.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE NATION

Bill Gates, left, and Melinda Gates, look at their 2010 J. William Fulbright Prize forInternational Understanding during a ceremony honoring the couple’s philan-thropic work at the Library of Congress in Washington on Friday.

Photo by Jacquelyn Martin | AP

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NEW TPWD OFFICE OPENS ON BOB BULLOCK

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Elected officials and representatives from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department cut the ribbonmarking the official opening of the new TPWD Law Enforcement District Office. The new facility, locat-ed at 5119 Bob Bullock Loop, will serve as a one-stop center where people can purchase their huntingand fishing licenses. Pictured, (l-r) are TPWD Major Alfonso Vielma, District Attorney Isidro Alaniz,Judge Danny Valdez, Sheriff Martin Cuellar, Representative Richard Raymond, TPWD Captain DavidMurray, TPWD Commissioner Margaret Martin and Webb County Commissioner Rosaura “Wawi” Tijeri-na. The new office serves Webb, Dimmit, LaSalle, Jim Hogg, Zapata and Duval County

move forward regardlessof the message conveyedin the media, Mendozasaid.

“Zapata County andFalcon Lake are both safeand are still great placesto visit,” Mendoza said.“We continue to encour-age both residents andvisitors to continue toenjoy the lake because ofthe fact that we have thebest bass fishing in theworld and the fact that itis still the record holdingbig mouth bass lake.”

Mendoza said he ini-tially doubted TiffanyHartley’s story of herhusband’s death becauseit differed from the previ-ous attacks or robberiesof lake patrons.

“The anglers supposed-ly getting attacked, theywere robbed, but robberyand murder, there’s a se-rious difference betweenthe two,” Mendoza said.“A lot of people doubt thevalidity of her story be-cause it only stands onan alleged crime, becausethere’s no evidence andwe’re basically going onher word.”

The Hartleys ignoredseveral warnings by au-thorities to stay on theUnited States side of thelake, Mendoza said.

“There is no reason forresidents or visitors to

The news of the al-leged murder of DavidHartley a few weeks agohas deterred regular vis-itors, such as world-classanglers, and that couldcost Zapata County mil-lions of dollars in tour-ism dollars.

However, the localchamber of commercepresident stays upbeat bytelling people that FlaconLake is safe and has thebest bass fishing in theworld.

“This is somethingthat won’t be easily for-gotten, but I think it’s toosoon to tell how muchthis situation is going toimpact our hotel occu-pancy rate,” Jose F. “Pa-co” Mendoza Jr. said.

Zapata County Cham-ber of Commerce, respon-sible for attracting tour-ism, is supported by a ho-tel/motel tax which hasgradually declined thepast few years as the oilindustry slowed down.

“[Oil field workers]used to occupy hotels ona daily basis,” Mendozasaid. “Anglers will typi-cally only stay on week-ends.”

The Chamber of Com-merce staff remains posi-tive and continues to

cross to the Mexicanside,” Mendoza said.“The fishing area on theAmerican side is bigenough to accommodateeveryone so there’s noreason to take a big riskand cross to the Mexicanside.”

The warnings came af-ter two incidents were re-ported by anglers whowere robbed at gunpointby men from a Mexicancartel in the same loca-tion David Hartley wasallegedly shot and killedin.

According to news re-ports, the Hartleys weretaking pictures of achurch in the old Guerre-ro area on the Mexicanside of the lake.

“I’ve told people nomatter how big of a histo-ry buff you are, no his-toric building site orbuilding is worth riskingyour life for,” Mendozasaid.

The Chamber of Com-merce will continue tobattle the decline of tour-ism and will be releasingits newest edition of itsvisitor’s guide thismonth.

The guide focuses onfishing, hunting, andbird watching.

(Lorraine L. Rodriguezmay be reached at (956)728-2557.)

Hartley incident couldscare off tourists

By LORRAINE L. RODRIGUEZ LAREDO MORNING TIMES

Zapata County ISDschool board is scheduledto appoint Norma Garciaofficially as superintend-ent in its next regularmeeting Tuesday.

In the last meeting Gar-cia was recognized as thefinal candidate after fillingin as interim superintend-ent since the resignation ofRomeo Rodriguez last sum-mer.

As a finalist, Garcia wasrequired to wait 21 daysbefore signing a contractwith the district, accordingto government regulations,attorney Juan Cruz said.

During that time Garciaand school board membershad to agree on a contractsuitable to both parties,Cruz said.

Garcia was also pullingduty as the district’s chiefinstructional officer.

Upon appointment assuperintendent, Garciawill continue to head theinstructional departmentwith the help of her staff,she said.

The meeting will takeplace at 6 p.m. Tuesday at600 W. 17th Ave., in theProfessional DevelopmentCenter.

(Lorraine L. Rodriguezmay be reached at (956)728-2557.)

Garcia set to takehelm at ZCISD

By LORRAINE L RODRIGUEZ THE ZAPATA TIMES

ASSAULTDeputies responded to a

fight in progress call at 5:11 p.m.Oct. 9 in the 2500 block of Hidal-go Boulevard. The complainant saidhe got into an altercation withsomeone he knows.

BURGLARYDeputies responded to a bur-

glary call around noon Oct. 9 atthe Zapata Regional Jail, 2300Kennedy Street. The complainantsaid someone stole her purse fromher truck as she was visiting aninmate.

Deputies responded to a bur-glary call at 12:17 p.m. Oct. 10 inthe 200 block of Mango Drive. Aman told them a tool box was sto-len from his vehicle.

A man reported at 8:12 a.m.Oct. 11 someone broke into hisresidence in the 1800 block of Bra-vo Street and stole a .45 Colt AutoDouble Eagle handgun valued at$500.

CRIMINAL MISCHIEFDeputies responded to a

criminal mischief call at 7:37 p.m.Oct. 9 in the 5200 block of PeñaLane in Siesta Shores. An electricalmeter box was damaged.

THE BLOTTER

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WASHINGTON —Last week’s ane-mic jobs report

came as a sobering re-minder that America’seconomic malaise showslittle sign of slowing.Overall non-farm pay-rolls shrunk by 95,000 inSeptember, while privatesector hiring deceleratedfor the third consecutivemonth.

High unemployment isnow an acute nationalheadache that won’t goaway.

More sufferingAs the economy suf-

fers this employment mi-graine, its causes comeinto sharper focus. In-stead of providing relief,President Obama and hisparty have aggravated analready grim employ-ment picture.

Job creators apparent-ly pushed the pause but-ton. Why?

Obviously a host offactors contribute to theequation. But two rea-sons — both produced inWashington — deservemention: uncertainty anddivisive rhetoric. Obamaand the Democrats inCongress peddle largedollops of both. Togetherthey produced the realparty of “no” — The Par-ty of No Jobs.

First, consider uncer-tainty. Businesses cannotplan effectively in thecurrent environment.

Doubt about future taxpolicy is a case in point.The Democratic majorityadjourned to campaignwithout providing anyclarity. No one knowswhat a post-election lameduck session might con-coct. As a result, incometaxes, capital gains, divi-dends and a host of otherexpiring business incen-tives are all hostage tocongressional fiat.

Wait till Jan. 1It’s possible nothing

happens this year —meaning, major tax in-creases on income, sav-ings and investments onJan.1. Uncertainty on thetax front is higher thanit’s been in at least thelast decade. Job creationsuffers in this environ-ment.

Health care and envi-ronmental regulation al-so contribute to the un-certainty. The Obama ad-ministration continues toimplement portions ofthe health care law. Wehear new stories everyday about premium in-creases and employerschanging coverage. Ma-jor upheaval in this sec-tor of the economy alsoclouds the jobs picture.

More restrictionsQuestions about the

Democrats’ plans on theenvironmental regulato-ry and legislative frontproduce even moredoubt. The administra-tion’s alacrity when itcomes to using the powerof Washington to step in-to the affairs of privatebusiness is well known.The White House mighteven redouble its effortsto impose new require-ments in the air, water,and energy-producingsectors, particularly ifDemocrats lose the ma-jority in Congress.

But uncertainty is on-ly one front in this war.

The president’s own rhet-oric also creates unneces-sary and harmful divi-sions — an “us” vs.“them” mentality thatpolarizes the country.Taking on the U.S. Cham-ber of Commerce over al-legedly using foreignmoney for campaign con-tributions is just themost recent example.

A real leaderSpeaking at the World

Business Forum in NewYork last week, formerGeneral Electric CEOJack Welch summed upthe view of many in cor-porate America when hesaid the Obama adminis-tration is “just plain anti-business.”

Americans want apresident that brings thecountry together, a lead-er who tries to unify, notdivide. But, instead, Oba-ma serves up fiery, cam-paign-like speeches fin-gering business leadersas boardroom bogeymen,not job creators.

Public policy is often azero sum game: It pro-duces winners and los-ers. But it’s not neces-sary for the presidentand Democrats in Con-gress to blame every-thing that ails us on “bigoil,” “Wall Street,”“greedy insurance com-panies” or “the rich.”

That kind of rhetoricmight have a place in anelection, but this presi-dent and his allies inCongress brought thepermanent campaign todaily governing. This isvery jarring to manyAmericans.

No confidenceThe tone and language

may be appropriate for aliberal community orga-nizer, but not the leaderof the free world — some-one who wants to spureconomic confidence andincrease business invest-ment that produces jobs.

The Democrats’ waron jobs is also producinga political backlash ofhistoric proportions. Lastweek Gallup noted that54 percent of likely votersnow identify as conserva-tive — up from 42 per-cent in the last midtermelection. And 57 percentof likely voters identifyas Republicans (includ-ing those who say theylean toward the GOP),compared to 45 percentin 2006.

But beyond politics,uncertainty and divisiverhetoric produce other,more pernicious, job-kill-ing results.

News reports over thelast month also showthat American compa-nies are sitting on recordamounts of cash. Insteadof investing in creatingnew employment, manykeep their money idle,waiting to see if the fogof political war will everlift.

Less excessesThe November election

should clear up some ofthis uncertainty. Votersmay collectively clip thewings of the Democrats,thus avoiding the mostextreme excesses of thecurrent one party rule inWashington. But the cur-rent occupant of theWhite House also needsto understand that aneconomy will not pro-duce jobs when the presi-dent wages war againstthose that create them.

COLUMN

Reasons whyjob creationhas stalled

By GARY ANDRESHEARST NEWSPAPERS

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DOONESBURY | GARRY TRUDEAU

Imagine for a momentthat the New YorkState Police is warning

American boaters to steerclear of the Canadian sideof Lake Ontario becausethey might fall victim topirates.

Imagine that violentgangs armed with mili-tary weaponry created ano man’s land along a por-tion of the border sharedby the United States andCanada that challengedthe sovereignty of both na-tions.

A New York problem?Would this for a mo-

ment be tolerable? Wouldthe president of the Unit-ed States or the leaders ofCongress simply treat itas a regrettable yet ac-ceptable border problem?Of course not.

Yet residents of SouthTexas are expected to en-dure precisely this situa-tion on the U.S.-Mexicanborder.

In May, the Texas De-partment of Public Safetywarned boaters on FalconLake, which straddles theborder, to stay on the U.S.side after a number ofarmed robberies.

The perpetrators, saidthe statement, were be-lieved to be “members of adrug trafficking organiza-tion or members of an en-forcer group ... who areheavily armed and usingAK-47s or AR-15 rifles.”

AmbushOn Sept. 30, these gangs

apparently claimed theirfirst American victim onFalcon Lake. According toTiffany Hartley, severalboats of gunman am-bushed her and her hus-band David as they rodetheir Jet Skis. David Har-tley was shot in the headand is presumed dead.

More than two weekslater and with threats ofviolence hamperingsearch efforts, his bodyhad not been recovered.The lead Mexican investi-gator in the case wasmurdered last week, hissevered head placed in asuitcase left outside a mil-itary base.

Close to the USThis isn’t Iraq at the

height of the al-Qaida in-surgency, Afghanistan un-der the Taliban or the un-governable tribal areas ofPakistan. It is Mexico, astone’s throw from theUnited States.

During the first half of2010, the Houston Chroni-cle reported, 48 U.S. citi-zens were killed in Mexi-co, including an employeeof the U.S. Consulate inCiudad Juarez and herhusband. That numberpales in comparison withthe more than 28,000 Mex-ican citizens who havelost their lives since Pres-ident Felipe Calderon be-gan to fight back againstthe cartels in 2006.

Taken together, howev-

er, the escalating violenceshould serve as an omi-nous indicator of just howlethally serious the bor-der security problem is.But how seriously is theU.S. government takingthat problem?

Two answers comefrom the Government Ac-countability Office, the in-vestigative arm of Con-gress.

EnvironmentalistsIn a draft report re-

leased last week, the GAOfound that environmentallaws are hampering theBorder Patrol’s ability tooperate on governmentland along the U.S.-Mexicoborder. Patrol agents-in-charge for 17 of the 26Border Patrol stations onthe southwest border saidthey had experienced “de-lays and restrictions inpatrolling and monitoringfederal lands because ofvarious land managementlaws.”

As an example, off-roadvehicles used to patroland pursue suspects onfederal lands may leavetire tracks that disruptthe natural flow of water.

“The volume of undocu-mented aliens crossingfederal lands can over-whelm the law enforce-ment and resource protec-tion efforts,” the reportobserves.

But illegal immigrantsand drug smugglers areable to flout the environ-mental laws that restrictthe Border Patrol.

Another GAO report re-leased in July found thattwo years into the three-year Merida Initiative toassist Mexico’s law en-forcement and judicialagencies, the U.S. govern-ment had disbursed lessthan 10 percent of the $1.3billion appropriated forthe program. Last month,the Obama administrationasked Congress to im-pound $26 million thatwas to be released be-cause the Mexican gov-ernment hasn’t madeenough progress in ad-dressing human rightsconcerns in its battle withthe drug cartels.

Rough bunchThe cartels are as vio-

lent and brutal as any ter-rorist organization. TheCalderon government isfighting against them touphold law and order.

The U.S. government, tothe extent that it is en-gaged in this conflict, isas concerned about theHuachuca water umbel —an endangered plant —and the transparency ofMexico’s military justicesystem as it is aboutmaintaining stability in anation of 110 million peo-ple that shares a 2,000-mile border with the Unit-ed States.

How many more U.S.and Mexican citizensmust die before the Unit-ed States gets its priori-ties straight?

(E-mail: jgurwitz@ex-press-news.net)

COLUMN

Borders should be the priorityBy JONATHAN GURWITZ

SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2010 THE ZAPATA TIMES 5A

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‘Elmo’s Green Thumb’tickets still on saleSesame Street Live is

coming to the Laredo Ener-gy Arena later this month.

“Elmo’s Green Thumb”is scheduled for Friday, Oct.29, through Sunday, Oct. 31.

Ticket prices will rangefrom $12 to $48.Tickets areavailable at Ticketmasterand at the LEA box office.

St. Patrick jamaicaon Saturday

The St. Patrick CatholicChurch annual jamaica isSaturday, from 2 to 10 p.m.at the parish grounds, 555Del Mar Blvd.

There will be plenty offun for the family with foodbooths and games. Raffletickets are $5 each forprizes of a 2010 Ford Es-cape, a Disney World fam-ily vacation for four and a42-inch flat screen TV.

Prizes will be given Oct.16 at 10 p.m. For informa-tion call 722-6215.

LCC looking for actorsLaredo Community Col-

lege’s One Act ChristmasPlays is looking for localthespians for various rolesin “A Miracle on Santa Cle-otilde St.” and “Center-stage for Christmas.”

Auditions will be heldfrom 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. todayin the Guadalupe and LiliaMartinez Fine Arts Center,room 121, located on theFort McIntosh Campus.

“A Miracle on Santa Cle-otilde St.” and “Center-stage for Christmas” arescheduled for performanceson Dec. 3 and 4 at 7 p.m. inthe fine arts center theater.

For more information,call 721-5330 or e-mail JoeCrabtree at jcrabtree@lare-do.edu.

‘Dining for Books’is Monday

The City of Laredo isadding two new branch li-braries, but needs help tofill those shelves withbooks.

To raise about $250,000needed to supply books,Chili’s Grill & Bar, 5702 SanBernardo Ave., is hostingthe first fundraiser onMonday.

The restaurant is donat-ing 10 percent of all orders,dine-in and carry-out, tothe Friends of the Library.So if you eat or take outfood at Chili’s on Monday,you’ll be helping out.

Make sure to presentyour flyer, available at Chi-li’s or at the Laredo PublicLibrary. For more informa-tion, call Nellie Trust at722-7477.

— The Zapata Times

COMING UP

Armed with a new hotsingle and a career thatspans back to the begin-nings of the reggeatongenre, Tito “El Bambino”will be performing at theLaredo Energy Arenastage during his first visitto the Gateway City.

Tito, formerly of the duoHector y Tito, will be atthe LEA on Saturday, Nov.13. Opening up for Titowill be another reggeaton/Latin music veteran, BigBoy.

Born Efraín Fines Neva-rez, Tito “El Bambino” re-cently released the track“Underground,” whichsamples beats from an old-school Daddy Yankee song.Tito has previouslyworked with Yankee onseveral tracks, and startedhis career around thesame time, in the early tomid-2000s. Along with Hec-tor “El Bambino,” Tito

could be considered one ofthe first in the genre. He’srecorded with the likes ofDon Omar and BeenieMan. As Hector y Tito,both got off to a successfulstart, earning a Latin Bill-board Award and a Tu Mu-sica Award.

“Underground” is off Ti-to’s upcoming album, titled“Invencible” — translatedas “unbreakable.”

Another recent track byTito, “Te Pido Perdon,” fea-tures la Banda El Recodo.

Tickets to Tito “El Bam-bino’s” show at the arena,which is set for 7:30 p.m.,are already on sale.

Prices range from $13 to$68, plus service fees, andare available via Ticket-master or at the LEA boxoffice.

For students, promotersare offering a $5 discountwith proper school ID, butonly at the arena.

(Emilio Rábago III maybe reached at 728-2564 orerabago@lmtonline.com)

Tito ‘El Bambino’coming to arena

By EMILIO RÁBAGO IIITHE ZAPATA TIMES

The Laredo TheatreGuild International (LTGI)will open its second seasonof plays, beginning Fridayat TAMIU.

James Goldman’s dra-matic comedy, “The Lion inWinter,” directed by Carl-lyn Walker and producedby Anastasia Rodriguez Pe-rez, kicks off the LTGI’ssecond season.

The play opens onChristmas Eve in 1183 atKing Henry II of England’scastle, upon the temporaryreturn of the calculatingand ambitious Queen Elea-nor of Aquitaine after a 10-year imprisonment, im-posed by her husband.

At issue is the succes-sion of the crown uponHenry’s death, and theirthree living sons’ intent tohasten both. Added to thedays’ events are the visit-ing King of France and hissister, who by royal ar-rangement, is betrothed toHenry’s son, but has sincebecome Henry’s lover.

Portraying King HenryII and Eleanor of Aquitainein the LTGI productionwill be Joe Arciniega andhis wife, Teena Arciniega.

Rounding out the castplaying Plantagenet andCapet princes and oneprincess are five excitingyoung performing talentsin Laredo: Richard Resen-dez, Rene Mendez, KevinJacaman, Santiago Morenoand Casandra Canales.

The play will be per-formed at TAMIU Centerfor the Fine and Perform-ing Arts Theatre. Ticketsare $15, and $10 for stu-dents with valid ID and se-nior citizens.

‘Lion in Winter’ at TAMIUSPECIAL TO THE TIMES

Joe Arciniega potrays Henry IIof England during a rehearsal of“The Lion in Winter” Wednesdayat TAMIU.

Photos by Ulysses S. Romero | The Zapata Times

SHOWTIMESFriday, 8 p.m.Saturday, 8 p.m. Sunday, 3 p.m.Thursday, Oct. 21, 8 p.m.Friday, Oct. 22, 8 p.m.Saturday, Oct, 23, 8 p.m.

SÁBADO 16 DE OCTUBREHoy es la presentación del

artista del maquilla FX Mike Castrode Morbid Mansion Studios de 1p.m. a 3 p.m. en la Border HeritageFoundation en el 810 Zaragoza. Laentrada es de 5 dólares.

El equipo de voliból de TA-MIU recibe hoy a University of Texas– Permian Basin a las 2 p.m. Entra-da general es de 5 dólares.

Hoy es la Jamaica anual enSt. Patrick Catholic Church (555 DelMar Blvd.) de 2 p.m. a 10 p.m. enlos terrenos de la iglesia. Habrá co-mida y juegos. Se rifará una FordEscape, unas vacaciones a DisneyWorld para cuatro personas y unatelevisión de pantalla plana de 42-pulgadas. Costo del boleto es de 5dólares.

Hoy se presenta un programacombina de canciones y arias poralumnos de TAMIU de 3 p.m. a 5p.m. en el Center for the Fine andPerforming Arts Recital Hall.

Pase la tarde en el PlanetarioLamar Bruni Vergara de TAMIU yexplore “The Zula Patrol: Under theWeather” a las 5 p.m., “Violent Uni-verse: Catastrophes of the Cosmos”a las 6 p.m., y Pink Floyd’s “DarkSide of the Moon” a las 7 p.m. En-trada general es de 5 dólares.

El Laredo Theater Guild encooperación con TAMIU presenta“The Lion in Winter” el día de hoya las 8 p.m. en el Center for the Fi-ne and Performind Arts Theatre. En-trada general es de 15 dólares. Ad-quiera su boleto en Foster’s (1605E. Del Mar Boulevard), Blue Top(Hillside) y en la Librería de TAMIU;ó en la taquilla.

NUEVO LAREDO — Maratónde Cine presenta “Cementerio Vi-viente” a las 10 a.m. y 12 p.m.;“Pesadilla en la Calle Elm” a las 5p.m. y Hellraiser” a las 7 p.m. enEstación Palabra. Entrada libre. Ado-lescentes y adultos.

DOMINGO 17 DE OCTUBREHoy es el primer día de la

Parcela de Calabazas, en terrenosde la First United Methodist Church,1200 McClelland Ave. El evento seráde 12:30 p.m. a 7 p.m. Todo el pú-blico es invitado, y las calabazas sevenden de todos los tamaños.

El Laredo Theater Guild encooperación con TAMIU presenta“The Lion in Winter” el día de hoya las 3 p.m. en el Center for the Fi-ne and Performind Arts Theatre. En-trada general es de 15 dólares. Ad-quiera su boleto en Foster’s (1605E. Del Mar Boulevard), Blue Top(Hillside) y en la Librería de TAMIU;ó en la taquilla.

NUEVO LAREDO — Hoy es la3ª Carrera 5/10 Km. ó caminata de3 Km. “Corriendo hacia la Gloria”organizada por el Gobierno Munici-pal y el DIF local. El evento inicia alas 8 a.m. en Paseo Colón y Reyno-sa. La cuota es de 100 pesos paracorredores y 50 pesos para cami-nantes. Las ganancias se destinaránal tratamiento de cinco niños concáncer.

MIÉRCOLES 20 DE OCTUBREHoy es el Desfile de Modas

“Mom & Me” organizado por ClubUna Mirada de Amor y Casa HogarMons. Enrique Tomás Lozano en elSalón Paseo Real (detrás de LEA)de 6:30 p.m. a 9:30 p.m. El donati-vo es de 30 dólares. Adquiera suboleto en Cakes By Design ó lla-mando al 791-5712.

NUEVO LAREDO — Hoy sepresenta la obra de teatro “Una Pa-reja de Tres” en el Teatro Principaldel Centro Cultural en dos funcio-nes, 6 p.m. y 8:30 p.m.

JUEVES 21 DE OCTUBREEl Laredo Theater Guild en

cooperación con TAMIU presenta“The Lion in Winter” a las 8 p.m.de hoy en el Center for the Fineand Performing Arts Theatre de laUniversidad. La entrada general esde 15 dólares.

NUEVO LAREDO — Hoy sepresenta “Cuervos, Bestias y Fan-tasmas”, con relatos de Edgar AllanPoe y H.P. Lovecraft a las 8 p.m. enel Teatro “Lucio Blanco” de la Casade la Cultura. Entrada libre.

VIERNES 22 DE OCTUBREPase la tarde en el Planetario

Lamar Bruni Vergara de TAMIU yexplore “The Secret of the Cardbo-ard Rocket” a las 6 p.m. y “Won-ders of the Universe” a las 7 p.m. .Entrada general es de 5 dólares.

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Zfrontera PÁGINA 7ASÁBADO 16 DE OCTUBRE DE 2010

MÉXICO — El turista estadou-nidense reportado como asesina-do por piratas mexicanos en unapresa fronteriza pudo haber sidovíctima de una confusión, dijo eljueves un funcionario del consu-lado de Estados Unidos.

“Creo que lo que hubo fuerondos turistas estadounidenses in-ocentes que por error entraronen una mala zona y fueron perse-guidos con el consiguiente tiro-teo”, dijo Brian Quigley, portavozdel consulado de Estados Unidosen Matamoros.

Las declaraciones de Quigleyse dieron en respuesta a un re-porte de Stratfor, un centro de es-tudios de políticas públicas consede en Austin, Texas, que anal-iza la guerra de México contralas drogas. Dicho reporte sugiereque David y Tiffany Hartley pu-

dieron haber sido confundidoscon traficantes de drogas y ataca-dos.

Entretanto, el vocero de laProcuraduría Estatal de Tamauli-pas, Rubén Darío Ríos López, in-formó al diario The Monitor deMcAllen que las autoridadesmexicanas suspendieron el juevestemporalmente la búsqueda deDavid Michael Hartley para quepuedan analizar nuevas estrate-gias para localizarlo.

Día del reporteTiffany Hartley dijo que, el 30

de septiembre, ella y su esposoDavid volvían a Estados Unidosluego de haber ido a México a to-mar fotografías de una históricaiglesia que quedó medio sumergi-da cuando se construyó la PresaFalcón sobre el río Bravo, inaugu-rada en 1946.

Cruzaban su superficie en mo-tos acuáticas cuando piratas quepatrullaban el lado mexicano dellago abrieron fuego y le dieron aDavid en la nuca. Tiffany Hartleyafirmó que a duras penas pudoescapar con vida luego de inten-tar en vano salvar a su marido.

El reporte de Stratfor señalaque la camioneta de los Hartleyen la que llevaban las motosacuáticas tenía placas del estadode Tamaulipas, México, lo quepudo hacer pensar a los piratasque eran miembros de una bandarival. Los Hartley vivían en Rey-nosa pero se mudaron a la deMcAllen, cuando la compañíapetrolera para la que trabajabaDavid decidió que era demasiadopeligroso que vivieran en México.

Otra muerteEsta semana, Rolando Flores,

comandante de la policía estatalde Tamaulipas que investigaba ladesaparición de Hartley, fue asesi-nado y su cabeza enviada en unmaletín al ejército mexicano.

La secretaria de Estado HillaryRodham Clinton condenó eljueves el asesinato del investiga-dor, y calificó el hecho como unejemplo de “la barbarie” con laque operan terroristas y crimi-nales en todo el mundo.

“El cuerpo decapitado del va-liente investigador mexicano (...)nos muestra con qué estamos li-diando”, dijo Clinton.

Las autoridades mexicanas di-jeron que no saben si la muertede Flores estaba relacionada conel caso Hartley, pues afirman quetrabajaba en varias investiga-ciones vinculadas con cárteles delnarco.

(La periodista de la AP JudithKohler contribuyó para este despa-cho)

DAVID HARTLEY PUDO HABER SIDO CONFUNDIDO

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VISITA INTERNACIONAL

La titular de la Administración de Servicios Generales de Gobierno de EU Martha N. Johnson y el Gobernador de Ta-maulipas Eugenio Hernández Flores se reunieron en Washington, D.C., el jueves. Hernández expuso la necesidad deampliar los servicios operativos en los cruces internacionales a fin de agilizar el traslado mercantil y de usuarios deambos países. Johnson dijo que Tamaulipas, por su ubicación geográfica y número de cruces internacionales con EU,es la principal plataforma logística para el comercio internacional.

Foto de cortesía | Gobierno de Tamaulipas

DIÁLOGO DE NECESIDADES

MÉXICO — El presidente Fe-lipe Calderón y gobernadoreselectos de algunos de los estadosmás afectados por la violenciadel narcotráfico firmaron eljueves un acuerdo con el quebuscan fortalecer la seguridad yla justicia.

Con el llamado Acuerdo deChihuahua, los gobernadores secomprometen entre otras cosasa aplicar controles de confianzaa la totalidad de los mandos su-periores en áreas de seguridad yen un plazo no mayor a seismeses poner en operación mó-dulos policiacos bajo un modelode mando único estatal.

También se comprometierona activar unidades de opera-ciones especiales para combatirlos secuestros y establecer cen-tros estatales de evaluación decontrol de confianza.

Firma TamaulipasEl acuerdo fue firmado por

nueve de los 12 gobernadoreselectos este año, entre ellos losde Tamaulipas, Sinaloa, y Chi-huahua, tres de los estados delnorte del país más afectados porla violencia atribuida a cartelesde las drogas que se disputannuevos territorios.

La violencia del crimen orga-nizado ha dejado más de 28.000muertos desde diciembre del2006, muchos de ellos en esostres estados.

Los otros gobernadores elec-tos que firmaron fueron de losestados de Aguascalientes, Vera-cruz, Oaxaca, Durango, Hidalgoy Zacatecas.

El país cuenta con 31 estadosy la capital del país. Los gober-nadores ya habían firmado unacuerdo por la seguridad desde2009.

Con el Acuerdo de Chihua-hua, denominado así porque sefirmó en la capital de ese estado,también se comprometen aavanzar en la depuración de laspolicías y establecer estrategiascoordinadas con el gobierno fed-eral para disminuir la inciden-cia de delitos como el robo, laextorsión, el homicidio y el se-cuestro.

“Independientemente de lavirulencia y de la gravedad delos delitos cometidos por el cri-men organizado, debemos re-cordar que el ciudadano comúnestá preocupado por los crí-menes que les afectan”, dijo elpresidente Calderón al términodel encuentro.

Refirió que más del 90% delos delitos que se cometen enMéxico son del orden común, co-mo el robo, el secuestro y la ex-torsión.

El gobierno federal lanzó endiciembre del 2006 una ofensivacontra el crimen organizado,apoyado con un despliegue in-édito de las fuerzas armadas, ba-jo el argumento de que las pol-icías locales no tenían la sufi-ciente capacidad ni preparaciónpara enfrentar a los carteles.

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MÉXICO, DF — El Gobierno de Tamaulipasacudió ante la Comisión de Presupuesto de laCámara de Diputados a fin de presentar su presu-puesto para el ejercicio 2011.

El gobernador Eugenio Hernández Flores,acompañado del gobernador electo Egidio TorreCantú, presentó ante el Diputado Luis Videgaray,presidente de la Comisión de Presupuesto y elDiputado Francisco Rojas, Coordinador de laFracción Parlamentaria del PRI, la Propuesta de

Programas y Proyectos de inver-sión para incorporarse en el Pro-grama de Presupuesto de Egresosde la Federación (PPEF) 2011.

La inversión global presupuesta-da para Tamaulipas en el 2011 com-prende una inversión global superi-or a los 17 mil millones de pesos pa-ra el impulso de 14 rubros.

El apoyo mayor sería para Agri-cultura y ganadería” con más de 4’300 millonesde pesos y el menor para “Juventud y Deporte”con 95 millones de pesos.

En temas sensibles como “Salud” el presupues-to sería de más de 1’500 millones de pesos, enEducación de más de 1’300 millones de pesos y en“Seguridad Pública” de 304 millones de pesos.

“Todas nuestras propuestas cuentan con elproyecto ejecutivo, todo es viable, todo se requi-ere para que Egidio Torre Cantú, ya en funcionesde gobernador las aplique para que Tamaulipassiga creciendo en infraestructura, desarrollo ycompetitividad”, dijo Hernández.

Agregó que la ubicación geográfica, la riquezanatural y su gente, hacen que Tamaulipas sea ter-ritorio estratégico para el desarrollo del país.

Hernández y Torre Cantú coincidieron en quela conclusión de dos nuevos puentes internacion-ales, los mil 431 kilómetros de carreteras modern-izadas, amplias y seguras, son algunos ejemplos ymejores cartas de recomendación que soportanesta solicitud presupuestal para el 2011, las cualesreflejan como se trabaja y utilizan los recursos enTamaulipas.

Torre Cantú dijo estar optimista y confiadocon la aprobación del Presupuesto de Egresos de

la Federación 2011.“La propuesta tamaulipeca está muy compac-

ta, muy viable y bien hecha”, dijo Torre Cantú.“Contamos con diputados comprometidos con Ta-maulipas, y porque la propuesta de programas yproyectos de inversión, están en buenas manos.

Torre Cantú asumirá el cargo de Gobernador apartir del 1 de enero y dijo que se requiere de re-cursos y apoyo de la federación “para continuarpor la senda del progreso”.

Presentan presupuesto 2011ESPECIAL PARA TIEMPO DE ZAPATA RUBROS

Programas y Proyectos de InversiónAgricultura y ganadería: 4’340.62 millones de pesosRecursos hidráulicos: 3’310.95 millones de pesosComunicaciones e Infraestructura Carretera:

2’764.04 millones de pesoSalud: 1’581.43 millones de pesosEducación: 1’330.50 millones de pesosComunicaciones e Infraestructura Portuaria: 934

millones de pesosMedio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales: 557.04 millones

de pesos.Desarrollo Social: 525 millones de pesosFondo Metropolitano: 583.08 millones de pesosPesca: 420.52 millones de pesosSeguridad Pública: 304 millones de pesosCultura: 187.94 millones de pesosTurismo: 115 millones de pesosJuventud y Deporte: 95 millones de pesos

FUENTE: Gobierno de Tamaulipas

TORRE CANTÚ

“Todas nuestras propuestascuentan con el proyectoejecutivo”.GOBERNADOR EUGENIO HERNÁNDEZ FLORES

8A THE ZAPATA TIMES Local SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2010

Parts of South Texas al-ready in the midst of a his-toric drilling boom soonwill get a boost from an un-likely source: China.

China’s national oil com-pany, CNOOC Ltd., willspend $2.2 billion to drill inpartnership with Chesa-peake Energy Corp. in theEagle Ford shale, a richlyproductive oil and gas for-mation that lies under 11counties.

Exploration in the EagleFord already has broughtnewfound prosperity toSouth Texas’ hardscrabblefarming and cattle country,and Chesapeake said theramped-up drilling couldbring 20,000 new jobs to theregion.

If the Eagle Ford shale’sproduction levels reach fore-casted levels, “it could defi-nitely be a fairly strong con-tributor to the economy andto the investor, particularlyin South Texas,” said BobFryklund, research directorat I.H.S. Herold, an energyresearch firm.

I.H.S. has forecast thatproduction from the EagleFord shale could reach 1 bil-lion cubic feet a day in 2011,which is pretty robust,Fryklund said.

That’s the same level aswhat’s currently the largestoffshore natural-gas gather-ing spot, Independence Hubin the Gulf of Mexico.

The city of Cotulla hasbeen in the midst of an Ea-gle Ford boom for morethan a year, and the prom-ise of even more activity ishard to imagine, said BillCotulla, whose great-grand-father founded the town.

Rumors had swirled formonths that Chesapeakewas in negotiations with aChinese company.

The deal is good news“for all of South Texas,”said Cotulla, president ofthe Cotulla-LaSalle CountyChamber of Commerce.

“Already we’re runningwith our tongues out,” Co-tulla said. “We’ve had asleepy little town, now ev-ery trailer spot in town, ev-ery apartment, is full.

“Every other truck yousee around here is a weld-ing truck.”

The new Eagle Ford wellswill be drilled quicker thanin the past, and oil fieldworkers can expect averagesalaries of $53,000 a yearwith benefits, Chesapeake

spokesman Jim Gipsonsaid, though the economicimpact will extend beyondthose jobs.

The rigs — 11 are operat-ing now of the 40 Chesa-peake hopes to add by late2012 — will need workers,diesel fuel, portable toilets,pipe, casing and tubing.

The workers also willneed food and housing, Gip-son said.

Lee Peters, owner of Co-tulla Fish Hatchery andwho brokers ranch sales onthe side and is trying tolease the minerals on a 160-acre tract he owns, said thetown benefits most from theoil workers, who spendmoney.

Most of the big tracts ofland, or the mineral rightson those properties, areowned by people who livefar from the town of about3,500 residents.

“Regretfully, a large per-centage of the mineralrights are owned by outside-rs,” Peters said.

“But there’s still a lot oflocal people that own miner-als that will be able todrill.”

Yet some in Cotulla wereuncomfortable with the ideaof a Chinese company doingbusiness there.

John Allen, an 80-year-oldKorean War veteran, saidhe wouldn’t lease his prop-erty to Chesapeake becausethe company is doing busi-ness with the Chinese.

His friend, William Gie-risch, 85, was ambivalent,saying he leases with Chesa-peake but his son handlesthe business.

Gordon Meyer, who hasleased mineral rights on his220-acre property and iswaiting for drilling to begin,took a more nuanced viewthan Allen.

“Look, this is a pretty bigboom for this country,”Meyer said.

“I hate to see the Chinesecoming in, but it takes a lotof dollars to drill thosewells, several million, sothey’ve got to go where theycan get the money.”

Meyer, who also managesa larger property for an ab-

sentee landlord, said thatdealings with large compa-nies can get complicated.

Some companies putstrict rules and securityguards on property whenthey lease the minerals.

Mike Whitwell, a 51-year-old rancher who also leasesdeer hunts on his 11,000acres, said that he’s waitingfor drilling to begin on hisproperty.

He thinks the longtimeCotulla residents who areleasing their mineral rightsare reaping an unexpectedwindfall.

Recreational landowners,however, are worried aboutthe workers on their landand the damage drillingmight do to their property,Whitwell said, not to men-tion making hunting harder.

“It changes a deer hun-ter’s perspective whenyou’re used to being outthere on like 1,000 acres andnot seeing anybody andnow you’re running into 100people,” he said.

In Laredo, officials don’texpect a big windfall, but ec-onomic development offi-cials said the city will profitindirectly.

“The preponderance ofthis oil and gas field drillingplay passes north of us,”said Roger Creery, executivedirector of the Laredo De-velopment Foundation.

“But we’re the largestmetropolitan area close byand we’ll get collateral bene-fits from it.”

Laredo hotels already arebenefiting because oil fieldworkers can’t find accom-modations near Cotulla, La-redo Chamber of CommercePresident Miguel Conchassaid.

Eagle Ford shale develop-ment has been a “shot inthe arm” for a local oil andnatural gas industry hurtby the recent recession,Conchas said.

“It’s become larger thanwe thought at this point.”

(San Antonio Express-News staff writer JasonBuch and Laredo MorningTimes staff writer SeanBowlin contributed to thisreport.)

China expected to helpSouth Texas’ oil patch

By VICKI VAUGHANSAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS Most of the big tracts of land, or

the mineral rights on thoseproperties, are owned by peoplewho live far from the town ofabout 3,500 residents.

Anyone over the age of6 months should have a flushot.

That’s the message be-ing put out by the TexasDepartment of StateHealth Services.

Symptoms of the flu in-clude fever, coughing, sorethroat, aches, chills and fa-tigue. Most healthy peoplerecover without problems,but people over 65, preg-nant women, young chil-dren and people withchronic health conditionsare at higher risk for seri-ous complications andeven death. It is especiallyimportant for people inthose high-risk groups toreceive vaccinations.

“There’s no reason to

wait. The supply is here,”said Dr. David Lakey,DSHS commissioner. “Weusually see an increase influ cases in late October orearly November. It takesthe vaccine about twoweeks to become effective,so get vaccinated now.”

Lakey said this year’sseasonal vaccine also pro-tects against H1N1 flu. Inaddition, a nasal sprayvaccine is an option forhealthy people ages 2 to 49who are not pregnant.

If you are enrolled inMedicare Part B and yourhealth care provider ac-cepts Medicare, your flushot is free. The Medicareprogram covers the flushot and the cost of ad-ministration for benefici-aries. Medicaid recipients

will also be covered if theyget their flu shots athealth care providers thataccept Medicaid.

The U.S. Centers forDisease Control and Pre-vention urged everyone atleast 6 months old to getvaccinated. The agency al-so says children ages 6months to 8 years whohave not previously beenvaccinated for both sea-sonal and H1N1 flu shouldget two doses of the vac-cine four weeks apart.

A different flu vaccineis produced each year be-cause different strains ofthe virus circulate. Peopleshould contact theirhealth care providers, lo-cal health departments ordial 2-1-1 to find out whereto get flu shots.

Flu shots can offer protectionSPECIAL TO THE TIMES

ZAPATA MIDDLE SCHOOL VISIT

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U.S. Rep. HenryCuellar spoke atZapata MiddleSchool on Fridayabout the im-portance of edu-cation and workin the govern-ment. The eventwas coordinatedby Communitiesin Schools.Shown withCuellar is stu-dent Mario Men-doza II.

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Alberto Canales, 77,passed away Monday, Oct.4, 2010, at Laredo Special-ty Hospital in Laredo.

Mr. Canales is precededin death by his wife, Lo-renza Canales; parents,Arnulfo (Ignacia) Canales;brother, Ismael Canales;sisters, Berta Canales Ra-mos, Thomasa Canales Es-quivel, and Francisca C.Esquivel.

Mr. Canales is survivedby his sons, Alberto Jr.(Norma) Canales, Arman-do (Griselda) Canales;daughter, Rosa Belia (Ar-mando) Ortiz; grandchil-dren, Armando Jr. (Clau-dia) Canales, Brianna Ca-nales, Alberto Y. Canales,Armando Ortiz Jr., SaraiOrtiz, Miriam E. Ortiz;great-granddaughter, Ai-mee C. Canales; brothers,Leopoldo (Alicia) Canales,Abelino Canales; sisters,Susana C. Jimenez, Juan-ita C. (Luis) Alvarado,Amalia (Jose) Ledezma,Alicia C. Eureste; and bynumerous nephews, niec-es and other relatives andfriends.

Visitation hours were

held Thursday, Oct. 7,2010, from 6 to 9 p.m. witha wake at 7 p.m. at RoseGarden Funeral Home.

A chapel service washeld Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, at10 a.m. at Rose Garden Fu-neral Home.

Committal services fol-lowed at Zapata CountyCemetery.

Condolences may besent to the family atwww.rosegardenfuneral-home.com.

Funeral arrangementswere under the directionof Rose Garden FuneralHome, Daniel A. Gonza-lez, funeral director, 2102Hwy. 83 Zapata.

ALBERTO CANALES

Ruben Luis Castañeda,58, passed away in El Pasoon Oct. 6, 2010.

Preceding him in deathwere his parents, Ernestoand Maria Castañeda; andone brother, Eleasar Casta-ñeda. Survivors include hiswife, Rosa Castaneda of ElPaso; one son, Ruben Er-nesto Castaneda of El Paso;and one daughter, Marissa(Jorge) Benavides; grand-

children, Adrianna Bena-vides and Jorge Luis Bena-vides; brothers, Angel Cas-tañeda, Domingo (Idelta)Castaneda, both of Zapata;two sisters, Maria E. More-no (Jose) and Elia E.Torres (Javier), both ofPortland, Texas; fours niec-es and six nephews.

Services were held in ElPaso, at Fort Bliss Veter-ans’ Cemetery.

RUBEN LUIS CASTANEDA

ican officials suspendingthe search temporarily.

The attack in the al-leged killing of Hartleyleft Zapata County’s Gon-zalez with a dramaticrealization.

“I learned that a lot ofpeople in the border areliving in fear,” he said.

Meanwhile, funeral ar-rangements are still pend-ing for Cmdr. Rolando Ar-mando Flores Villegas,the investigator whosehead was delivered to themilitary headquarters inMiguel Alemán. FloresVillegas led the investiga-tion into the Hartley inci-dent.

Arrangements might bemade in Flores Villegas’native town of Tampico,south of Tamaulipas, saidCmdr. Gilberto Lerma in aphone call from Reynosa.

Lerma recalled FloresVillegas as a good agentduring the time when heheaded the agency in Mi-guel Alemán.

“He was a good investi-gator, a good police offi-

cer,” Lerma said.Lerma and Flores Ville-

gas worked together foreight months. Lerma wasin shock when he learnedabout the Flores Villegas’death, he said.

“It’s something unbe-lievable that should nothappen,” Lerma said.

He said state police inMiguel Alemán now havetwo investigations: thedeaths of Hartley and ofFlores Villegas.

“The investigation can-not stop,” Lerma said.

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The searchwill remainsuspendedunless thereare furtherdevelopmentsin the case,Gonzalez said.

In “Waiting for Super-man,” the new educationdocumentary, union leaderRandi Weingarten is por-trayed, in the words of Va-riety, as “a foaming satanicbeast.”

At a two-day educationsummit hosted by NBCNews recently, the lopsidedpanels often featured Wein-garten on one side, facing amurderer’s row of charterschool founders and urbansuperintendents. Even TomBrokaw piled on.

It’s nothing personal,really. Weingarten happensto be the most visible, pow-erful leader of unionizedteachers, and in that roleshe personifies what manyreformers see as the chiefobstacle to lifting dismalschools: unions that protectincompetent teachers.

A combative labor leaderwho does not shrink fromthe spotlight, Weingartenhas been fighting back. Sheissued a written rebuttal to“Waiting for Superman,”and she has debated thefilm’s director, Davis Gug-genheim, arguing thatteachers have been madescapegoats. More to thepoint, the portrait of Wein-garten as a demonic oppo-nent of change is out ofdate.

In the past year, for ex-ample, she has led hermembers — sometimesagainst internal resistance— to embrace innovationsthat were once unthinkable.She has acted out of a fearthat teachers’ unions couldend up on the wrong side ofa historic and inevitablewave of change.

“She has shrewdly recog-nized that teachers’ unionsneed to be part of the re-form,” said Richard D. Kah-lenberg, a senior fellow atthe Century Foundation, aneducation research group.

Christopher Cerf, a for-mer deputy schools chan-cellor in New York Citywho has sparred withWeingarten, offered a moreskeptical interpretation.

“The earth moved in areally dramatic way,” hesaid, “to the point that a ve-ry successful strategist likeRandi has to know thatteacher unionism itself isin jeopardy, perhaps even inmortal jeopardy.”

Said Weingarten: “Wehave spent a lot of time inthe last two years lookingat ourselves in a mirror,trying to figure out whatwe’ve done right and whatwe’ve done wrong, andwe’re trying to reform.”

Unionleader

defendsimage

By TRIP GABRIELNEW YORK TIMES

ST. PETE BEACH, Fla.— Six months after therig explosion that led tothe largest offshore oilspill in U.S. history, dam-age to the Gulf of Mexicocan be measured more inincrements than extinc-tions, say scientistspolled by The AssociatedPress.

In an informal survey,35 researchers who studythe Gulf lowered theirrating of its ecologicalhealth by several points,compared to their assess-ment before the BP wellgushed millions of gal-lons of oil. But the dropin grade wasn’t dramat-ic. On a scale of 0 to 100,the overall average gradefor the oiled Gulf was 65— down from 71 beforethe spill.

This reflects scientists’views that the spilled 172million gallons of oil fur-ther eroded what was al-ready a beleaguered bodyof water — tainted foryears by farm runofffrom the Mississippi Riv-er, overfishing, and oil

from smaller spills andnatural seepage.

The spill wasn’t thenear-death blow initiallyfeared. Nor is it theglancing strike that somerelieved experts and offi-cials said it was in mid-summer.

“It is like a concus-sion,” said Larry McKin-ney, who heads the Gulfof Mexico research cen-ter at Texas A&M Uni-versity-Corpus Christi.“We got hit hard and wecertainly are seeingsome symptoms of it.”

Will the symptomsstick around or just be-come yesterday’s head-aches? That’s the ques-tion that couldn’t be an-swered at a conferenceearlier this month of 150scientists at a hotel on aFlorida beach untaintedby the spill. The St. PeteBeach gathering was or-ganized by the WhiteHouse science office tocoordinate research.

“There’s the sense thatit’s not as bad as we hadoriginally feared; it’s notthat worst case scena-rio,” said Steve Lohrenz,a biological oceanogra-pher at the University ofSouthern Mississippi.“There’s still a lot of wa-riness of what that long-term impact is going tobe.”

Steve Murawski, thechief fisheries scientistfor the National Oceanicand Atmospheric Admin-istration, compared sci-

entists’ research to a TVcrime drama: “It’s theend of the story thatcounts, not all the stepsalong the way.”

We’re only at the 30-minute break in an hour-long drama, Murawskisaid.

And there’s a plottwist. Research findingsalready released have ledscientists and the gov-ernment to shift their fo-cus from the sea’s sur-face to deeper watersand the ocean bottom.

A month-long cruiseby Georgia researcherson the ship Oceanus re-ported oil on the seafloor that they suspect isBP’s but haven’t provenyet. Government officialsstill question whetherthere is oil on the seafloor, but the Georgia sci-entists say the samplessmelled like an auto re-pair shop. They took 78cores of sediment andonly five had live wormsin them. Usually theywould all have life, saidUniversity of Georgiascientist Samantha Joye.“The fact that there isn’tliving fauna is a signalthat something happenedto these sites and thesesediments,” Joye said ina phone interview Fri-day. “The horrible thingis they’ve been inundat-ed with this oily materi-al... There’s dead animalson the bottom and itstinks to high heaven ofoil.”

On Thursday, an oil-covered crab crawls on a glove worn by Plaquemines Parish coastal zone di-rector P.J. Hahn in Bay Jimmy near the Louisiana coast. Six months after the rig explosion thatled to the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, damage to the Gulf of Mexico can be measuredmore in increments than extinctions, say scientists polled by The Associated Press. The scien-tists saw a hit for the region’s wetlands, an already weakened massive natural incubator forshrimp, crabs, oysters and fish.

Photo by Patrick Semansky | AP

Scientists lower Gulf health grade

EDITOR’S NOTE — Itwill take time to see the fulleffects of the largest offshoreoil spill in U.S. history. Inthe second of an AssociatedPress occasional series, sci-entists grade the ecologicalhealth of the Gulf of Mex-ico.

By SETH BORENSTEIN AND CAINBURDEAU

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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lidays.“It’s a nice program and

very beneficial to the elder-ly,” said Rosalinda Gonza-lez, the program’s recep-tionist. “The county alreadyhas a home delivery pro-gram, but this was just alittle extra.”

In other business, thecourt also approved a reso-lution for the Las PalmasProject for more than $1.5million.

The sewer improvementproject would provide sew-er to the Las Palmas com-munity, said Manuel Gonza-lez of Premier Engineering.

“Most homes along US 83between Las Palmas and27th Street will be hookedup,” Gonzalez said.

An additional resolutionwas approved for a waste-water treatment plant.

“The plant is approxi-mately 28 years old and inneed of major upgrades,”Gonzalez said.

(Lorraine L. Rodriguezmay be reached at (956)728-2557.)

federal grant,” Vela said.Umphres-Moffett was

responsible for providingprogress reports on thestructure, and when shefailed to comply, the EDAclaimed it would not re-imburse the county formoney already spent onthe project, Vela said.

Umphres-Moffett saidshe never received helpor information from pro-ject coordinator MarioGonzalez-Davis, the per-son in charge of the stategrant.

“She claims she wasnever given any help bythe county,” Vela said.

The county has al-ready spent the funds al-located by the federalgrant on the higher edu-cation center, and willnot get reimbursed bythe EDA due to the factthat Umphres-Moffett didnot meet protocol, Velasaid.

The EDA sent a letterto Umphres-Moffett togive her the news.

A meeting is necessarywith Davis, Umphres-Moffett, commissionersand the EDA to deter-mine a solution, Velasaid.

Also at the meeting,commissioners approveda resolution for the Tex-ans Feeding Texans:Home Delivered Mealgrant program.

The Zapata CountyNutrition Program re-ceived the grant from theTexas Department ofAgriculture to providefour meals a week to el-derly in the area, not in-cluding weekends or ho-

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The children were alsoasked general questionsabout cows and steers,with a steer for presenta-tion.

“I learned that the fe-male cows, once they havea baby, they can only pro-duce milk one time,” saidNancy Deleon, a fourthgrade student at VillarrealElementary.

The sheep and goats sta-tion showed another groupof meats and byproductswith two meat goats and awool sheep for presenta-tion that Eaton broughtout for the children totouch.

“These animals are alsoshown by Zapata Countyyouth at the Zapata Coun-ty fair,” Eaton said.

Also, the Farm Bureau,a national association pro-vided a grains demonstra-tion inside the pavilion.

Agriculture Day is notonly informational, but isa promotion for student in-volvement in 4-H and FFAin case students chooseagriculture as a career,Eaton said.

“We’re hoping to makethis an annual event,” Eat-on said.

Deleon especially en-joyed the presentation, asshe said she aspires towork with animals whenshe is older.

“I want to be a veterin-arian to help animals,” shesaid.

AgriLife not only workswith 4-H and school pro-grams, but also with farm-ers and ranchers, provid-ing advice on raising cattleand crops and gardening,Eaton said.

“We help with anythinghaving to do with agricul-ture,” Eaton said.

After the presentationstudents will be tested bytheir teachers in the class-room about what theylearned.

“I want the students tomake observations and lis-ten, because we’re going todo a compare and contrastwith humans to animals,”said Maria Luisa Collett,fourth grade teacher atVillarreal Elementary.

Students will also betested on byproducts, shesaid.

During the presentationCollett helped her studentswith some of the termsused, such as the word“breed.”

“I just help them withwords they don’t under-stand and we do a lot of ac-tivities to help them learnand understand,” Collettsaid.

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Samantha Heinlein, a fourth grade student at Villarreal Elementaryin Zapata, got to pet a goast as Zapata County Extension Agent Ca-leb Eaton holds it during the school’s visit to the Zapata County FairGrounds as part of Agriculture Day.

Photo by Cuate Santos | The Zapata Times

work on the streets of SanYgnacio and poured asphalton the Indian burial mound,and Archeology ConsultantsIncorporated has proposedthe body be exhumed.

“The (Zapata County) His-torical Commission is try-ing to determine whatshould be the proper direc-tion to take to satisfy every-one,” Lopez said.

The body was initiallydiscovered in 1992 during asanitary sewer line project,consulting archeologist JimWarren said.

“We moved their trenchover so they can miss it,”Warren said.

The construction compa-ny missed the burial moundthat time, but now themound is in the way of anew drainage project.

The plan is to lower thestreets, but the burialmound is located in the mid-dle of the street, Warrensaid.

The body within themound is also known to bein a shallow grave of “7-10centimeters,” the proposalstates.

“If they lower it he has tobe moved,” Warren said.“Otherwise we would beglad to just leave it there.”

After the exhumation, In-dian nations would be con-tacted and if they take thebody in the burial mound,they would give it a ceremo-ny and a proper burial, War-ren said.

“Sometimes they takehim, but if the Indians don’twant him, we turn him into the Texas Historical Com-

mission,” Warren said.The proposal sent by War-

ren to Zapata County JudgeRosalva Guerra states, “theZapata County Attorneywill apply and obtain per-mission from the State At-torney General to exhumethe burial…”

According to the proposal,“ACI [the archeological con-sultant] will hire a physicalanthropologist to supervisethe exhumation process.”

ACI will also be on thelookout for other burials or“intact cultural features”near the site in an area of 7by 9 meters, the proposalstates; however, if any arti-facts are discovered, theywill be hand excavated, allwork suspended, and sher-iff ’s officials and the TexasHistorical Commission will

be notified for consultation..ACI has worked on sever-

al projects in San Ygnacioand other buried bodieshave been discovered, War-ren said.

“We found other burialsunder a church,” he said.

During a demolition ofthe old church floor, fivebodies were discovered butwere left undisturbed, War-ren said.

“They were consecrated,”Warren said.

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Sports&OutdoorsSATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2010 ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM

The Zapata girls crosscountry team continues tohave a strong hold on to theNo. 4 state ranking in Class3A, but in recent weeksthey have been having prob-lems picking up a team title.

The Lady Hawks have on-ly recorded one win, comingearly in the season, and twosecond-place finishes but

have stopped finishing inthe top three.

Still, that does not detertheir motivation for a dis-trict and a regional titlewith state in their sights.

“The lack of hardwarehas not affected their atti-tude, training or desire towin one iota,” Zapata coachMike Villarreal said. “TheLady Hawks know that the

CROSS COUNTRY

Zapata Middle’s Wendy Medina competes at a meet last weekend.

Photo by Clara Sandoval | The Zapata Times

HawksslowedLack of hardware

doesn’t deter ZapataBy CLARA SANDOVAL

THE ZAPATA TIMES

See CROSS COUNTRY PAGE 2B

AUSTIN — The transi-tion was supposed to beseamless.

Garrett Gilbert took overat quarterback for ColtMcCoy at Texas and JohnBrantley replaced Tim Te-bow at Florida.

Those were big shoes tofill, but most assumed twoof the most touted recruitsin recent years would keepthe programs humming inthe chase for nationalchampionships.

Four losses later, Texas(3-2) is out of the Top 25 forthe first time in a decadeand the No. 22 Gators (4-2)are fading.

What went wrong? Both programs are

struggling to adjust theiroffenses to pro-style pass-ing quarterbacks afteryears of Tebow and McCoybeating opponents withtheir legs as much as theirarms. Both teams nowrank in the bottom half na-tionally in total offense.

Texas tried to rebuild itsoffense around Gilbertwith a power runninggame and play-action pass-ing. Florida has tried toput Brantley in the spread-

option that Tebow ran tonear perfection.

Both teams have lost twoin a row, scoring is downand fans are getting frus-trated.

The Longhorns won 19in a row from 2004-2005 anda national championshipwith the elusive VinceYoung running the zoneread. Then came McCoy,

who dipped and dashedaround the pocket and intodefensive backfields forfour years. The skinny,small-town McCoy, whomany considered an after-thought recruit in 2005,played with a “prove-you-wrong” chip on his shoul-der.

Texas recruited Gilbert,a high-school All-Americanand son of former NFLquarterback Gale Gilbert,knowing that changeswould have to be made.

You don’t pass on a tal-ent like Gilbert just be-cause he’s different thanthe previous guy, said GregDavis, the Texas offensivecoordinator.

“It wasn’t a big, longphilosophical conversation.It was, ’Hey, we think thisguy’s real good, let’s recruithim,”’ Davis said. “Wedon’t ever want to box our-selves into a philosophicalposition. We want to al-ways be able to do whatour players can do ... thechange is your quarterbackand what can he do.”

The new offense hasbeen a failure so far. Therunning game ranks No. 82in the country and Gilberthas yet to find a reliable go-to receiver. Texas hasscored three or fewertouchdowns in three gamesthis season and Gilbert has

NCAA FOOTBALL

Unsuccessful succession

In this Sept. 25, file photo, Texas’ Garrett Gilbert looks on after agame against UCLA in Austin. Gilbert and Florida’s John Brantleywere supposed to be just the right guys to replace Colt McCoy andTim Tebow and keep the Longhorns and Gators humming towardnational championships. Four losses later, Texas is out of the Top 25for the first time in a decade and No. 22 Florida is fading fast.

Photo by Eric Gay | AP

Heirs struggle atUT and Florida

By JIM VERTUNOASSOCIATED PRESS

See HEIRS PAGE 2B

WACO — These aresupposed to be good timesfor Baylor basketball.

Seven months aftertheir best season in 60years, the Bears beginpractice Friday with theirstar player suspended af-ter being accused of hit-ting his girlfriend and re-ports of an NCAA recruit-ing investigation.

LaceDarius Dunn, theleading scorer from lastseason’s team that fell onegame short of the FinalFour, can practice but re-mains suspended indefi-nitely from competition.He faces a felony chargeof punching his girlfriendand breaking her jaw,which she denies.

Foxsports.com has re-ported the NCAA is inves-tigating the Baylor pro-gram over the recruit-ment of a high schoolplayer.

Baylor athletic directorIan McCaw did not returna telephone message seek-ing comment Friday. A

school spokesman saidcoach Scott Drew and hisplayers would not com-ment on the allegations.

Student reaction hasbeen mixed.

Walking across campuson Friday, freshman Vic-tor Manon said he and hisfriends weren’t talkingabout the problems sur-rounding Dunn and thealleged recruiting viola-tions.

“It’s football season.That’s what people aretalking about,” Manonsaid. “Maybe if we startlosing or something.”

But K.C, Mangen, a ju-nior who toted a basket-ball under his arm out-side the student life cen-ter, said Dunn shouldn’tbe allowed to practice un-til formally cleared of anycharges.

Mangen said he and hisfriends find the allega-

COLLEGE

Bad newsBears stricken

by scandalBy JIM VERTUNO

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WILLIE JEFFERSON:Ousted fromfootball team formarijuana use

See BAYLOR PAGE 2B

as a harmless stunt ledto a loss for his strug-gling team and reo-pened the discussionabout whether the NFLgoes too far trying tostamp out showboating.

Officials flagged Col-ombo for unsportsman-like conduct. Rule 12,Section 3, Article 1(d)prohibits players "fromengaging in any celebra-tions while on theground," and Colombowas clearly on the turf.

However, it was alsoclearly an accidentwhich begs the ques-tion: Should officialshave just let it go?

"When a player goesto the ground as part ofa celebration, we can’tjudge intent," Carl John-

ARLINGTON — FromBilly "White Shoes"Johnson to TerrellOwens, from Mark Gas-tineau to Deion Sand-ers, NFL players havebuilt their legacies notjust as great players butas entertainers — oftenby punctuating big mo-ments on the field withtheatrics.

Then there’s MarcColombo. All he did wasslip.

Colombo is the Dallasoffensive lineman whoflubbed the landing on achest bump with a team-mate following a Cow-boys touchdown lastweekend. What started

son, the league’s vicepresident of officiating,said in a video inter-view about the play onNFL.com. "It’s black andwhite. It is a foul."

Not necessarily, saidJohnson’s predecessor,Mike Pereira.

"Suppose you’re inthe end zone after mak-ing that catch and go toshake his hand and youtrip over his foot andfall down — is that anexcessive demonstra-tion?" said Pereira, nowa rules analyst on Foxbroadcasts. "You have toallow spontaneity. If aspart of a player’s natu-ral, spontaneous cele-bration he loses his bal-ance, that wasn’t whatthe league was trying to

stop."Pereira also empha-

sized there are severalrules requiring officialsto judge intent, such asintentional grounding.

In general, Pereiralikes rules with black-and-white interpreta-tions and he’s a fan ofcurbing celebrations.Yet he believes commonsense trumps all, espe-cially in this case.

"Any human wouldprivately say, ’I don’tthink that’s one thatshould’ve been called,’"Pereira said.

Dallas tight end Ja-son Witten was the guywho scored this now-in-famous touchdown. As

NFL

CELEBRATION SLIP-UP

This Sept. 21, 1998, file photo shows Dallas Cowboys’ Deion Sanders celebrating after intercepting a pass from New York Giants quar-terback Danny Kanell and returning 71-yards for a touchdown during the fourth quarter, at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.

Photo by Bill Kostroun | AP

Cowboy’s costly mistake reopens debateBy JAIME ARON

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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tions disgusting andthere’s a sense of “Oh no,not again.”

Baylor, after all, is notthat far removed from ascandal.

In 2003, Baylor player Pa-trick Dennehy was killedby teammate Carlton Dot-son, and the aftermathcaught former coach DaveBliss in a tangle of lies andfinancial misdeeds. TheNCAA eventually ham-mered the program, takingaway Baylor’s non-confer-ence schedule in the 2005-2006 after first consideringa full-season ban.

“There’s a big sense ofthat and a lot of distastefor what people are hear-ing,” Mangen said, notingtwo football players alsowere recently arrested onminor drug charges.

The Big 12 coachespicked Baylor to finishfourth in the league andDunn’s absence would be amajor blow if it lasts long.He was a second-team All-Big 12 pick last seasonwhile averaging 19.6 pointsand 4.8 rebounds last sea-son for a team that set aschool record for wins with28. He decided to return for

his senior season insteadof entering the NBA draft.

Since taking over forBliss, Drew was been slow-ly rebuilding the programby attracting top recruitslike Dunn.

Those recruiting meth-ods are now reportedly un-der scrutiny.

Kevin Kunst, athletic di-rector at La Lumiere HighSchool in Indiana, told TheNew York Times that theNCAA has asked theschool about Baylor’smethods recruiting HannerPerea, a junior transferfrom Colombia, over the

summer. Foxsports.com reported

that Baylor assistant coachMark Morefield suggestedin text messages that Bay-lor could have Perea de-ported if he did not signwith Baylor. Kunst has notreturned messages left athis office Thursday andFriday.

The timing of the textingallegations is troublingconsidering they werefrom July, just weeks afterBaylor’s probation fromthe Bliss-era infractionshad ended.

Dunn’s problems began

Sept. 27, the day Waco po-lice said he broke the jawof Lacharlesla Edwards,and he was arrested Oct. 5on a charge of felony ag-gravated assault.

Edwards, however, hassaid through statements is-sued by her attorney thatDunn did not break herjaw and wants the chargesdropped. Police have sub-mitted the case to theMcLennan County districtattorney’s office to deter-mine whether to proceed.

Baylor officials had sus-pended Dunn from classbut agreed this week to

reinstate him. Dunn’s at-torney has said Dunn is ontrack to graduate next May.

Baylor’s first game isNov. 12 against GramblingState.

The Bears should get aboost from UCLA transferJ’mison Morgan, who wasgranted an NCAA waiverallowing him to play imme-diately without sitting outa season.

The 6-foot-10 junior cen-ter comes in after Baylorlost two starting post play-ers, including Ekpe Udoh,who was the sixth overallpick by Golden State.

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five interceptions to gowith his four touchdownpasses.

Davis admits he has lim-ited Gilbert’s options tothrow downfield, oftencalling shorter routesearly in games to help Gil-bert find his rhythm.

Gilbert went 39-4 as astarter in high school witha 30-game winning streakand two Texas state cham-pionships. If Texas loses atNo. 5 Nebraska on Satur-day, he’ll have Texas’ firstthree-game losing streaksince the end of the 1999season.

Texas had an off weekafter the loss to Oklaho-ma. Gilbert said he triedto get away from footballfor a few days. He played afew rounds of golf with hisdad to clear his head.

“I think Garrett is fine,”Texas coach Mack Brownsaid. “He’s smart. He’stough. He grew up in foot-ball and he understandsthat at Texas, you need towin games.

“He understands that heis going to be scrutinizedas the quarterback. Wetold him that before hecame here ... He does wantto continue to win like thegreat quarterbacks beforehim, and that is some-thing that’s on my plate.It’s on his plate. It’s onGreg Davis’ plate. All of usneed to pick it up,” Brownsaid.

At Florida, Brantley isstruggling while coach Ur-ban Meyer asks him to dowhat Tebow did.

Tebow, a larger-than-lifeleader in the huddle andthe locker room, was sav-vy in the spread-optionand could pummel defend-ers with his size when heran. When Brantley runsthe option, the result isawkward at best.

The running and poorpass protection have takena physical toll, leavingBrantley playing withsprained thumb and soreribs. The rib problemforced him to change his

throwing motion, result-ing in a sore shoulder.

“He’s a tough guy andplayed really tough” inlast week’s loss to LSU,Meyer said. “That reallyshowed us a lot about whoJohnny is.”

Meyer laments a “lackof explosive plays” in hisoffense. Brantley’s longestpass of the season covered51 yards, but that came ona short route against ablitz the receiver turnedinto a big gain.

“We’re not hitting thehome run shots,” Meyersaid.

Meyer has refused totweak the offense to fitBrantley’s passingstrengths, and said lastweek the option is “whowe are” and “that won’tchange.”

Brantley says he’s finewith that.

“That’s what our offenseis,” Brantley said. “It’sbeen successful for usthese last four years sowhy not keep doing it?”

HEIRS Continued from Page 1B

meets that count (district,regionals and state) areright around the corner.”

As the final tuneup meetsare coming to an end, theLady Hawks traveled to Har-lingen last weekend with a 4a.m. departure time to com-pete against every Valleyschool in the third annualMeet of Champions.

Over 1,500 runners werein attendance, with the fieldcomprising of mainly 4Aand 5A schools from the RioGrande Valley.

The hometown girls fin-ished a respectable seventhplace in the elite divisionand were once again led byfreshman Jazmine Garcia,who blazed the course in12:02 to pick up a fifth-placeplaque.

Senior Marlena Garcia re-mained close to her team-mate as she finished eighthin a time of 12:07.

Both girls earned an invi-tation to a banquet in De-cember hosted by theRCVCCCA to be presentedalong with the top 20 run-

ners in the RGV.The junior varsity team

earned a third-place teamfinish amongst all 3A JV-and-under schools. It wasled by some gutsy perform-ances by Alba Jasso andWendy Medina.

The freshmen girls con-tinued to dazzle with a sec-ond place finish.

The team had four medal-ists, led by Sara Peña, Da-niella Soto, Norma Cepedaand Alma Perez.

Daniela Vela fresh off arecent injury, rounded outthe freshmen top five. Thegirls will next be in Laredofor the UISD annual meet,their last tune-up before thedistrict meet.

Zapata Middle SchoolThe Lady Merlins compet-

ed at the Roma MiddleSchool Invitational. Bothseventh and eighth gradeteams finished in secondplace and were edged out bytheir rival, La Grulla Mid-

dle.The seventh grade medal

winners were Norma Rami-rez (second), Raquel Alma-guer (fourth), Alexa Alvarez(sixth), Andrea Garza(eighth) and Janie Guzman(10th ).

The top runner, Alexan-dra Garcia, who continuesher assault on winning thedistrict individual title, onceagain led the eighth gradeteam.

Teammates Evelin Huerta(sixth), Mary Rodriguez(seventh) and Nadya Merca-do (10th) were the othermedal winners from theeighth grade division.

Rounding out the teamwere Jazmine Velasquez,Daphne Gomez and CorinaMartinez. Both teams willbe in action this upcomingweek in Laredo for theirlast meet before district.

The district meets will beheld in Zapata at the highschool on Oct. 23 for middleschool and Oct. 25 for thehigh school, with all racesstarting at 9 a.m.

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he’s done before, Wittensought out Colombo forthe honor of spiking theball. Then they did a fly-ing chest bump, all ofwhich was within therules.

"If he stayed on feet, wewouldn’t have been talk-ing about it," Johnsonsaid.

But, since he did fall,what if there hadn’t been aflag?

"I don’t think anybodysays a word," Pereira said."Not even Jeff Fisher."

Fisher is the co-chair-man of the NFL’s competi-tion committee and an ad-vocate of strict enforce-ment of all rules. He’s alsocoach of the Tennessee Ti-tans, the team the Cow-boys were playing. The Ti-

tans gladly took a penalty-shortened kickoff, got along return on it andcashed it in for a winningtouchdown.

"There’s things you cando and things you can’tdo," Fisher said. "You can’tgo to the ground."

Cowboys owner JerryJones was angry aboutlosing and furious that arule he fought to loosenwas involved.

Jones spent nearly adecade on the competitioncommittee pushing forplayers to do whateverthey want to rile up thefans. He lavished big con-tracts on Sanders, thenOwens, for their theatricsas well as their talents.

"I really don’t thinksomebody falling down

was an intended conse-quence of this rule," Jonessaid. "When you drawthose bright lines, you’llhave calls or decisionsthat in the grand schemeof things that weren’tright or weren’t fair to theoverall game, and that wasone of them."

Touchdown celebrationswere pretty innocuous inthe days of Johnson’sknee-knocking ritual withthose white shoes. Thencable networks came alongand began immortalizingsuch routines, so suddenlyeveryone seemed to be do-ing it.

League bosses didn’tlike that, not in a teamsport, and they couldn’t al-low such look-at-me indi-viduality.

The crackdown began in1984, targeting Gastineau’s"sack dance" and prompt-ing cries of the NFL beingthe "No Fun League." Ev-ery time a loophole getsexposed, the rules gettightened. The do’s anddon’ts for celebrations arelocated in the tauntingsection of the rule book.

In recent years, theleague banned props (suchas pens, pylons and pom-pons), "prolonged, exces-sive premeditated or cho-reographed" routines and— as everyone now knows— going to the ground.There are exceptions, likespiking the ball or jump-ing into the stands, a lathe Lambeau Leap.

"It’s an emotional gameand you can show emo-

tion," Fisher said. "Butthere were things thatwere getting out of hand."

Colombo wasn’t probingfor loopholes. In fact, Pe-reira said it was cool tosee a skill position playerletting a beefy blockerhave some fun.

"That’s the act of sports-manship the league islooking for," Pereira said.

Colombo and the Cow-boys should’ve known bet-ter from T.O.’s tenure.

In 2006, Owens wasflagged for pretending totake a nap after a touch-down. In 2008, the NFLnabbed him for going tothe ground when hedropped into a trackstance as part of a tributeto Usain Bolt.

This season, Minneso-

ta’s Jared Allen and Buffa-lo’s Steve Johnson wereflagged for going to theground, although theiracts were more elaborateand on purpose.

Jets right tackle DamienWoody is among thosewho learned from Colom-bo’s mistake.

"I didn’t even know thatwas a penalty," he said.

Of course, Woody andthe Jets have had fun withit, too, coming up withways to celebrate andwarning, "Just make sureyou don’t fall down."

More teasing is comingthe next time Woody seesColombo, a fellow BostonCollege product: "I’m go-ing to tell him, ’Hey, bemore of an athlete. Stay onyour feet.’"

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ule put in place, but I’m ex-tremely excited to be ableto confirm our participa-tion in the first four races,”Patrick said. “We’ll havefour extremely challengingand unique races to startour 2011 season, and I’manxious to return to a lot ofthose tracks with at least alittle bit of familiarity.”

Patrick said she knowsat some point next seasonshe’ll have to make a deci-sion about her commit-ment to NASCAR. The raceFriday night at CharlotteMotor Speedway was theninth of 13 scheduled Na-tionwide races this season.

She ended the IndyCarseason two weeks ago, fin-ishing 10th in the finalstandings.

“We haven’t made all ofthose decisions, 2012 is alittle up in the air and itdepends on the opportuni-ties, where I could run,what Kelley is doing,what’s happening at JRMotorsports, what’s hap-pening on the sponsorshipside,” Patrick said. “Ifsomething doesn’t come to-gether, I’d run IndyCar.There’s a lot of things up inthe air right now. We’ll seewhere my heart goes andwhere the opportunitiesare.”

CONCORD, N.C. — JRMotorsports locked in Dan-ica Patrick for the first fourNationwide Series races of2011, and the rest of herschedule will depend onher IndyCar commitments.

Team co-owner KelleyEarnhardt said Friday thatPatrick will run at Dayto-na, Phoenix, Las Vegas andBristol next season. It willbe her first trip to Bristol’s.533-mile bullring.

“That will be kind ofneat for her to get to expe-rience what NASCAR is allabout and that’s basicallygoing around Bristol,” saidcrew chief Tony Eury Jr.

Patrick will take a breakfrom NASCAR after Bristolto concentrate on the Indy-Car schedule through theIndianapolis 500 in May.She’ll then resume Nation-wide racing that will be co-ordinated with her IndyCarcommitments.

Earnhardt said Patrickcan run up to 14 races inthe No. 7 Chevrolet, but thecar will run the full season.Dale Earnhardt Jr. is ex-pected to run four races inthe car.

“I know we’re all anx-ious to get the whole sched-

Patrick to race at DaytonaBy JENNA FRYER

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Drivers Danica Patrick, left, talks with Justin Allgaier, right, beforequalifying for the NASCAR Dollar General 300 Nationwide series au-to race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Friday.

Photo by Rick Havner | AP

HOUSTON — About 100soldiers, some who werewounded in combat, min-gled with Houston Texansplayers and coaches afterThursday’s practice aspart of the team’s weekhonoring the military.

The local USO branchunveiled a statue recogniz-ing the Texans’ commit-ment to veterans. A groupof wounded soldierstoured Reliant Stadiumand met players on Tues-day.

“Most of us go aboutour day without thinkingabout the sacrifice thatother people make for us,”Texans owner BobMcNair said. “This reallybrings it home. You have achance to visit with themand learn of their losses,and their friends whodidn’t come back. They doit to preserve our freedom,and we owe to them anyand everything we cando.”

The Texans (3-2) willhost about 350 soldiersand their families at Sun-day’s military-themed

game against Kansas City(3-1).

Former presidentGeorge H.W. Bush, whoowns a home in the Hous-ton area, will serve as anhonorary captain. Mem-bers of the U.S. Army’sGolden Knights will para-chute into the stadium be-fore the kickoff and theMarine Corps’ Silent DrillPlatoon will perform athalftime.

Col. Mark Campsey,commander of the 72nd In-fantry Brigade based inHouston, recently return-ed with 3,000 soldiers froma tour in Iraq and thankedMcNair.

KRIV-TV reported thatthe Texans are picking upall the expenses related tothe military-themedevents this week. A USOspokeswoman said threeother unidentified teamswanted to host similarevents, but wanted tocharge a fee.

“The Texans reachingout and going so far aboveand beyond — they serveas great role models andlet soldiers know that peo-ple really care about whatthey do,” Campsey said.

Veterans visitTexans practice

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COLLEGE STATION —Missouri defensive backCarl Gettis was asked tolook ahead to his team’s up-coming games, includingnext week’s matchupagainst No. 6 Oklahoma anda trip to fifth-ranked Ne-braska.

Hold it. Gettis said heand the No. 21 Tigers aretoo focused on maintainingtheir perfect 5-0 recordagainst the struggling TexasA&M Aggies on Saturday tolook past this week.

“When you are playingsuch a good team it makesit hard to look to the nextweek,” he said. “I can’t eventell you who we play nextweek because Texas A&M isa good team. So it’s hard tolook past any of the teamswe have coming up. Eachteam is good and each weekis going to be a big game.”

Such is life in the Big 12,where even a team reelingfrom consecutive close loss-es and committing moreturnovers this season thanall but one team in the Foot-

ball Bowl Subdivision iscause for concern.

The Tigers opened Big 12play last week with a 26-0win over Colorado. TexasA&M lost to No. 12 Arkan-sas by a touchdown thatsame day after starting con-ference play with a 38-35loss to No. 20 OklahomaState.

It is Missouri’s first roadgame after opening at aneutral site before playingfour straight at home. TheAggies are expecting morethan 80,000 at Kyle Field asthe Tigers try to start 6-0 forjust the fifth time in schoolhistory.

“We have ways to pre-pare for games,” Missouricoach Gary Pinkel said. “It’sall about focus, preparationand distraction control. It’sa tough place to play, but it’sabout focusing and playingyour best.”

Missouri got a scareagainst the Buffaloes whenquarterback Blaine Gabberthad to leave the game in thefourth quarter with a hippointer. He is better andPinkel said he’ll startagainst Texas A&M.

Texas A&M head coach Mike Sherman after a first half touchdownagainst Arkansas at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, on Oct. 9.

Photo by Mike Fuentes | AP

Aggies bid toupset Mizzou

By KRISTIE RIEKENASSOCIATED PRESS

“It’ll be one of thosegames where you won’thave an opportunity to goto the restroom or get adrink or anything,” Tuber-ville said. “It’s going to bea lot of excitement, a lot ofaction, and hopefully wecan hold our end of thebargain.”

The matchup will betough on a Texas Tech de-fense that is doing a littlebetter against the rushthan against the pass. TheRed Raiders are giving up126 yards a game on theground and about 279 inthe air.

Tuberville wants to seemore turnovers forced byhis team this week. TheRed Raiders (3-2, 1-2) haveeight interceptions andthree fumble recoveries.

They got none the lasttwo games.

“If we are a team thatgets zero turnovers we aregoing to struggle,” Tuber-ville said. “Hopefully wecan get out of this rut andget a few turnovers like wedid early in the season.”

LUBBOCK — TommyTuberville’s Red Raidersface a dual threat Saturdaywhen No. 20 OklahomaState comes to West Texas,where the Cowboys areitching to break a losingstreak that dates to 1944.

Undefeated OSU is sec-ond in the nation is scor-ing (52.6 point per game),has the country’s fifth-leading rusher — KendallHunter’s 140-yard pergame average — and has apassing offense (362 yardsper game) that’s first inthe Big 12 and second na-tionally.

“It is what gives younightmares,” Tubervillesaid. “They are very goodon the offense line beingable to shift from a pass-ing game to being able torun the ball. Maybe themost balanced team wewill see all year.”

Oh, and Cowboys re-ceiver Justin Blackmonleads the nation in recep-tions (9.4) and receivingyards (149.6) per game. Hehad 13 catches for 190yards in his last game,against Louisiana-La-fayette.

“When the ball is in theair and No. 81 is runningfor it, I am ready to putmy hands up for a touch-down,” Cowboys defensiveend Richetti Jones said ofBlackmon. “Some of thestuff that he does is ridicu-lous,”

What could be ridicu-lous is the number ofpoints scored on Saturday.

Texas Tech’s TaylorPotts and the Cowboys’Brandon Weeden rankthird (330 yards) andfourth (322 yards), respec-tively, in passing yards pergame. And OSU (5-0, 1-0Big 12) and Texas Tech(3-2, 1-2) both have porousdefenses.

Raiders preparefor OSU air raid

By BETSY BLANEYASSOCIATED PRESS

In this Sept. 18, file photo, Tex-as Tech head coach TommyTuberville leads his team on tothe field for a game againstTexas in Lubbock.

Photo by LM Otero | AP

LINCOLN, Neb. — Tay-lor Martinez just might beoblivious to all the fussabout this Texas-Nebras-ka game.

No one knows for surebecause the Cornhuskers’redshirt freshman quar-terback doesn’t talkmuch, least of all to themedia.

“That dude has majorblinders on,” offensive co-ordinator Shawn Watsontold reporters. “He doesn’twant to talk to you be-cause he doesn’t want anydistractions. I’ve said itand I know it sounds kindof boring, but he justwants the ball and wantsto play.”

The fleet-footed Marti-nez figures to get histoughest test to date inone of the most hypedgames at Memorial Stadi-um in a decade.

With dominating roadwins over Washingtonand Kansas State on itsresume, fifth-ranked Ne-braska (5-0, 1-0 Big 12) be-lieves it has what it takesto win the national title inits last year in the Big 12.

The Longhorns (3-2, 1-1)need a win to avoid be-

coming the first of MackBrown’s 13 Texas teams tolose three straight regu-lar-season games.

The Huskers have losteight of nine meetingswith Texas since the Big12 started in 1996. They’restill aching over their 13-12 loss in last year’s Big12 title game. Texas wonon a controversial fieldgoal when 1 second wasput back on the clock af-ter it appeared time hadrun out.

Barring a rematch inthe Big 12 title game, thisgame will be the last inthe series for a while. Ne-braska is headed for theBig Ten in 2011, leavingbehind old rivals and aconference where Texashas a lot of sway when itcomes to shaping policy.

“I personally hate tosee Nebraska leave theBig 12 simply because it’sbeen such a great gamebetween Texas and Ne-braska and matchups oftwo of the winningest pro-grams in college footballhistory,” Brown said. “It’sfun to see the Longhornon one helmet and the ’N’on the other.”

The ’N’ on Martinez’shelmet has been a blur toNebraska’s opponents.

Texas head coach Mack Brown yells on the sidelines during thefirst half of a football game against Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowlin Dallas, Oct. 2.

Photo by LM Otero | AP

Brown must reckonwith child of the corn

By ERIC OLSONASSOCIATED PRESS