Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 21

-I I i- LV1V': v- if V- tf rf yf)vt tjyirrr r- Vrv''1" vi y- y-p 4 If Corpus OILDIOB I Thursday July 11 1985 LI -FM owners station to 2 investors ByFeNx Sanchez' STAFF WRITER Radio station KEXX-FM has been sold for $16 million to two investors one a West Texas magistrate and another a former Corpus Christi radio personal i- ty current station owner Vann Kennedy said The transaction is subject to final approval by the Federal Communications Commission Kennedy said 1 KEXX (939 FM) an easy-listening music station i has been on the air since 1972 and formerly (merited as KSIX-FM Kennedy said -A sister station KSIX (1230-AM) will continue to operate as a Kennedy property as will television station KZTV-TV Channel 10 in which Kennedy also has controlling ownership Kennedy said the SI 6 million offer for the FM station was we He said the principal operator of the station will be Dan Cutter a Dallas attorney involved in the communications field who formerly was involved in radio here The other principal buyer of the station is a Corpus Christi-based magistrate whose jurisdiction is in the Big Bend area of Texas Kennedy said KDCX currently is owned by Corpus Christi Broadcasting Co Inc of which Kennedy is principal stock- holder According to the Federal Communication Mass Media Bureau" an application for reassignment of ownership and license is pending for transfer of KEXX-FM to the American Wireless Co of Dallas Cutter is listed as foe principal owner of the corporation Kennedy said he has no plans to sell either KSIX-AM or KZTV-TV He added that work on a new studio for KZTV is continuing at 301 Artesian Sl where a new micro-wave relay tower was recently completed Kennedy said work should be finished on the studios by the end of the year i i I I the lettuce Texas board delays naming president rj-j evl You can keep the Let's see an ail-beef patty special sauce lettuce cheese pickle onion on a WHOA! Wrong cheeseburger It might pickle but hold 1 4 not be whataburger oughta be but please hold the lettuce which was precisely what Jimmy Reyna appeared offer any drug you he said He noted that area of open sales was one which was characterized by numerous rundown shacks abandoned cars and trash in the yards The drug problem in the area while still there has improved substantially with the cooperation of the Corpus Christi Police Department prosecutors and the city staff Bonilla said He noted that city officials now require the property owners in that area to upgrade their property to minimum standards But the open sale of drugs is not limited to foe 14fo Street area on the city's West- tide Bonilla said open sales of drugs are occurring at foe intersections of Williams Drive and Airline Road on foe Southside Jester Street and NAS Drive in Flour Bluff and Leopard Street and Stariite Lane jn Annaville' A way for the community to work together against foe problem of drug abuse is foe Dnigbusters program he uid He described the program as a movement to make the public and especially young By Ben Goodwin flTAFF WRITER I KINGSVILLE The board of directors of the University System of South Texas was unable to agree on who to name as foe new president for Texas University Following a closed session that lasted al- most three hours board chairman Ricardo Gutierrez of Rio Grande City said are not going to make an announcement today of a president for Texas The board which supervises Cot pm Christi State University Laredo State University and the Citrus Research Center at Weslaco met Tuesday and interviewed three finalists for the job The finalists announced by Lawrence Pettit system chancellor were: Thomas Brewer S3 academic vice president for Georgia State University at Atlanta Don- aid Zach arias 50 president of Western Kentucky University and Steven Alman 43 provost and academic vice president of Florida International University at Miami The announcement of a new president was expected at meeting The board was not able to reach a con- sensus More discussions Will Jbe Pettit said following foe meeting The bqard still is in the process of selecting a Pettit1 who served on foe presidential search committee said some problems still must be worked out by the bofixL is not that easy to Cbme to a decision qn a Pettit said Pettit and Gutierrez agreed it possibly will be at least two weeks before the board will meet to select a new president A search committee of Gutierrez Gilbert Acuna Wayne King and faculty members i David Neher John Thompson and Gusta- vo Gonzalez screened applicants for the job A professional search firm also was used to help process more than 150 appli-j cants for the job Eliseo Torres vice president of student affairs has been serving ai interim presi- dent since January Billy Franklin resigned as president to become president of Lamar University at Beaumont In action taken during the public ing the board approved the hiring of an architect to prepare a preliminary study for Mhe renovation of the Student Union Buikl-Z ing at Texas William Pena chairman of the building committee said the study is need-ed to determine how much renovation is needed and the estimated cost before final plans can be submitted for board approval The board also approved a $166000 bid by David Van Fleet Construction of Kingsville for construction of a greenhouse com- plex for Texas Also approved were new parking registra- tion fees for Texas A 12-month parking sticker for students will be in- creased from $7 to $10 Faculty stickers twill be increased from $10 to $15 annually Citizen aid sought to curb Ex-fireman is allowed suit award Kwto-Hanka AuMln Buraw AUSTIN Former Flour Bluff firefighter Ron Black can collect damages from a Nu-' eces County fire district for injuries he received while on duty the Texas Supreme Court ruled yesterday Black who was a volunteer fireman was iqjured on July 25 1981 when struck by a fire truck as it backed into position at the scene of a fire He suffered a fractured pelvis and severe facial lacerations Black sued the rity of Corpus Christi and the Nueces County Rural Fire Prevention District No 2 which provided fire protection under a contract with the city In June 1983 he won a $100000 award against the fire district in Judge Margarita Garza's 148fo District Court The fire district appealed that judgment and won a reversal in the 1 3th Court of Appeals in Corpus Christi The appeals court uid the district and the city were protected from a lawsuit under these cir- cumstances due to In its majority opinion the Supreme Court upheld Garza's and uid thl appeals court erred in exempting the district and city from a lawsuit wider such circumstances The opinion uid the law recognizes gov-emmental bodies as immune from suit when an employee is to emergency calls or reacting to emergency Situations when such action is in compliance with foe laws and ordinances applicable to foe emergency action' But it added trial testimony by the lirisli Fire training chief of the Corpus Chr Department established there are no laws or ordinances pertaining to such an emergency situation In a dissenting opinion joined by Justices Scars McGee and Raul Gonzalez however Chief Justice John Hill uid the district is immune from liability majority's interpretation places an impossible burden on governmental units to provide by comprehensive laws and ordinances for every response that-must be taken in an emergency in order to gain Hill wrote Black testified in the original trial in 1983 that he arrived at the scene of a fire in Flour Bluff about 10:30 pm and approached a fire truck from behind planning to jump onto the rear of the truck As he lifted his right foot onto the tailboard Black uid the truck moved backward suddenly and he was knocked to the ground He said the rear wheels of the truck backed over him John Holmgreen Jr attorney for the fire district said in his 1983 jury argument that Black was negligent because he did not approach the rear of the truck with caution Black's attorney David Perry argued that the fire district was negligent because it wu policy that a driver was not supposed to back up foe truck without a flagman or signal man uying it was safe to do so Is the this aftirnocn fl SEX WOES It's estimated that half of the married couples in America have mild to moderate sexual problems Because of the number of people reporting sexual problems more researchers are studying those problems and beginning to find some answers DROWNING Drowning is the second leading cause of accidental death in Nueces County and in Texas 13 people drowned in Nueces County last year Many times experts say it's because swimmers mixed alcohol with aquatic fun ft i i i I 1 I 1 2 1 'i By Linda Carrico STAFF WRITER Corpus drug-abuse problem will continue to spread like a cancer across all social economic and geographic lines without citizen involvement Tony Bonilla said last night cannot afford to allow curbside drug service in our city £ut that will be a pattern until the people stand up as one voice raying mas no said Bonilla a Corpus Christi lawyer and organizer of the Corpus Christi Dnigbusters campaign Bonilla made his comments before a meeting of the Corpus Christi Jaycees at the Round Up 5817 Weber Road He described the drug-abuse problem as one which makes no distinction between ethnicity economic standards or a specific part of town Bonilla said he helped to initiate the Dnigbusters program last May when he witnessed the open sale of drugs at the intersection of Morris and 14th streets in Corpus Christi could drive up to the stop sign and 10- and 12-year-olds would walk up and I GEORGE TTJLEYCMEF PHOTOGRAPHER to be doing as he replaced an oid Whataburger sign with a new one on a billboard pn Taylor Street yesterday drug abuse people aware of the types of drugs effects of drugs and symptoms of drug abuse In an attempt to bring national attention to foe Corpus Christi anti-drug programs Bonilla said Dnigbusters officials are hoping to secure a visit by First Lady Nancy Reagan by the first of the year Also addressing the Jaycees last night was Rudy Gonzalez president of foe Association for Drug Rehabilitation and Educational Services or PADRES Gonzalez noted that youngsters from the lower socio-economic classes usually cannot afford foe cash needed to purchase marijuana or cocaine As a result he said they frequently turn to products that produce a when inhaled Such products include airplane glue spray paint varnish paint thinner gasoline and correction fluid Gonzalez noted that PADRES received initial funding from the Pyramid Project an Oakland Calif -based drug rehabilitation program which Mrs Reagan visited as she began her national anti-drug campaign make fine perches from which to insult and taunt dogs Many times when dogs get yelled at for barking late at night a cat is behind it all sitting up there flipping his tail back and forth smiling as foe dog gets his with a rolled-up newspaper for waking the neighborhood for no reason Cats have a peculiar way of expressing pleasure Their little internal engine starts purring they dose their eyes in contentment and sink their daws into your leg This is an act of love so you arenl supposed to throw them across the room in a fit of painful rage The lawmaker who believes you can keep a cat locked up is a loony He's probably the same character who thinks cats can make love quietly Cats are more popular since the advent of air conditioning because their trysting place is always below a bedroom window at an early hour But harness cat power? You might as well try to hold up foe tide with a Leash ordinance is fine but not feline alone unless they decide their backs need a massage Dogs make excellent garbage disposals They will eat practically anything except commercial dogfood Cats at least those I have known tend to be gourmet eaters who think leftovers are sheer poison Cats will never conform and will only do tricks of their own invention They'll be cute and sit up and beg or play soccer with wadded-up paper only if it is their own idea I have heard of ordinances passed to keep cats from running at huge That is the kind of law that would be passed by council men who never owned a tomcat There a fence in the world that will hold a tomcat intent on a night on the town Actually cals think that fences were made as highways for felines They know that fences are often designed for foe sole purpose of keeping dogs penned up Therefore fences are safety valves for cats being pursued by dogs They also omeone sent me a clipping from the Portland paper telling of a new ordinance requiring cats to be on I harnesses That is better than hanging them by a collar and leash or carrying them around by foe taiL But there a -whole lot of cats of my acquaintance who wbuld bring in the old cat leash and meow to be taken for a walk Try to imagine what would happen if you strapped on Kittie harness and wise walking her around the block and a Gorman shepherd came charging down a driveway First there would be claw marks on your legs Deep scratches would creep up your thigh abdomen and finally to your face and scalp as you became the only tree available 1 Laws rightly apply to cats You can give a dog a ticket for not having a license tag a vaccination or for running loose or for entering a food establishment You can even tag him for not having a vasectomy Dogs are vulnerable They will stand still fat a bath You can scratch their ears and they scratch back Cats are independent They'd rather bathe themselves and sharpen their own daws They prefer to choose the furniture they use as a whetstone for the sharpening operation Dogs wag their tails and lick your hand in friendship when they are hungry or when their stomachs are fulL Cats are more fickle They get friendly arch their backs and rob against your leg But that's usually when they want to be fed Otherwise just as soon be left 4 I narti ii ii imAiiAi xfi i.