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4B Herald-Zeituna Wednesday. April 16,1997 Chamber seeks small business person nominees As a pan of the Small Business Week observance, June 1 to 7, the Small Business Council of the Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominations for the "Small Business Person of 1997." This person will be selected for accomplishments in business and contributions to the Community. According to Pam Kraft, chairwoman of the Small Business Week Committee. "Small Business Week is observed nationally and is designated to highlight the small business in the community. In addition, we use this means to call attention to the importance of small business in New Braunfels." Kraft also explained that the awarding of this coveted award is a high point of the week's activities.

Nomination forms are available at the Chamber office and nominations will be accepted through April 28. (Submitted by the Greater New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce) Group plans Earth Day events The Friends of Guadalupe Creek Inc. will have a range of activiries at the Guadalupe River State Park on Earth Day, Saturday. They will slart at 9 a.m. when University of Texas research geologist Chris Caran will lead a geology walk into Honey Creek Canyon.

The walk will last until noon. The Children's Wilderness Camp, a fun activity for kids to learn what to do if they get lost in a wilderness area, will be from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Live demonstrations of a hawk, eagle, owl, falcon and vulture will be part of a program featuring John Karger's Birds of Prey from 2 to 3 p.m. Finally, from 3 to 4:30 p.m., "The Singing Cowboy," Frank Roberts, will entertain everyone with old and modern songs while at the same time children can participate in play activities geared to teach them about the natural world around them. (Submitted by the Friends of Guadalupe Creek Inc.) Committee slated to vote on school tax plan today AUSTIN (AP) After more than seven weeks of work, a House committee scheduled a vote today on a pi an to cut local school property taxes by about S2.5 billion a year.

The committee worked late Tuesday making final changes to the proposal. It would cut local residential school property taxes in half and would cut local business school property taxes by roughly one-third. The business property tax would be administered by the state. Rep. Paul Sadler, D-Henderson, chairman of the committee, said chances were good that the bill will get a unanimous vote from the 11- member committee.

Eight of the members head other committees including the powerful Appropriations, Calendars and Ways and Means committees. Support from all 11 members could carry much support on the House floor. With less than 50 days left in the legislative session, the bill must pass the House and Senate and could face a conference committee to work out differences between the two chambers before going to Gov. George W. Bush.

An accompanying constitutional amendment would go to voters in November. The governor, who raised the issue of cutting local school property taxes, has said he is confident lawmakers can beat the clock. "It will get done," he said last week. Texas Today Ex-death row inmate to freed in cop killing case HOUSTON (AP) Fomer death row inmate Ricardo Aldape Guerra will return to Mexico right after he is released by prison and immigration officials, his lawyers say. Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped their case against Aldape Guerra in the 1982 shooting death of Houston police officer James Harris.

The dismissal came after a judge said key witness testimony could not be used in a retrial. Aldape Guerra, -who once came within three days of execution, was expected to be freed sometime today from the Harris County Jail. He was in the United States illegally at the time of his arrest. Aldape Guerra became tearful when he learned the capital murder charge had been dismissed, said his attorney Scott Atlas. "He said after 15 years, he wasn't really sure how to feel, that he was a different man than when he entered the jail 15 years ago," Atlas said.

Hate crimes bill moves out of Senate committee AUSTIN (AP) With constitutional questions persisting about whether the Texas hate crimes law is too vague, a bill aimed at tightening the statute has been approved by the Senate Criminal Justice Committee. "The experts I've talked to are right," Sen. Rodney Ellis, D- Houston, the bill sponsor, said Tuesday. "There is a problem because the language is very vague. I think we need to tighten it up.

This bill specifies the categories of hate crimes." Under Ellis' bill, a hate crime would constitute criminal action against a person or property "because of race, color, religion, age, gender, national origin or ancestry or perceived sexual orientation." Sen. Jerry Patterson, R-Pasadena, amended the bill in committee to include age, gender and the word "perceived" in front of sexual orientation. "If a group of radical homosexuals goes to Pasadena and starts beating up people because they think they are of the opposite sexual persuasion, whether or not they are, they would be punished for their perception of the victim's sexual orientation," Patterson said. Senate committee OKs bill against grave-robbing AUSTIN (AP) Grave-robbing of ancient Indian burial grounds in Texas has become a profitable black- market business, according to testimony given to senators. Under a bill approved 4-0 Tuesday by the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, penalties would be increased for disturbing an unmarked burial ground.

The measure, by Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos, D-Austin, would make it a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in jail and a fine up to $10,000 to take from unmarked burial sites. "I know that sounds a bit severe, but we have a small group of grave- robbing, human-remains poachers who know exactly what they are doing," Barrientos said. The bill provides misdemeanor penalties for someone who intentionally disturbs an unmarked burial site and for someone who unintentionally disturbs such a site and then fails to notify proper authorities. Texas woman convicted 40 years ago arrested in Idaho HUNTSVILLE (AP) Annie Allen was familiar to the folks in Grangeville, Idaho, regularly seen walking between home and the nearby post office.

What they didn't know was the woman, whd celebrates her 75th birthday Saturday, really was Annie L. Williams, a parole violator from Texas, where she had been convicted more than 40 years ago of the grisly killings of her two young sons. Last Friday, federal marshals acting on leads developed in Texas, knocked on her door. The woman did not resist and was taken to the Idaho County Jail. "She knew the routine," Robin Tucker of the Idaho County sheriffs department, said Tuesday.

A warrant for her arrest had been outstanding since 1981 when she violated parole by fleeing a Houston halfway house. V.j Texas City survivors mark 50th anniversary of blast ByJOAN THOMPSON Associated Press Writer TEXAS CITY (AP) Georgybel Legendre remembers crawling with co-workers from the rubble of their collapsed building. Outside in the parking lot, cars were crushed or damaged. A large piece of steel had piefced the steel and oak floor of her station wagon, pinning it to the ground like a mounted butterfly. The 21-year-old lab worker tugged it out and began ferrying injured people to hospitals.

That was 50 years ago today in what was to become the nation's worst industrial disaster. "I grew up in a hurry that day," Legendre said. "I think you have to have a pretty strong faith in God to get you through days like that." This morning, she was gathering with other survivors at a memorial service to mark the 50th anniversary of the disaster that killed at least 576 and injured about 5,000. At 9:12 a.m. on April 16, 1947, a fire aboard the docked S.S.

Grandcamp, a French freighter, ignited its cargo of 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. It was the same substance used in the Oklahoma City bombing. However, in 1947, the fertilizer was grew up in a hurry that day. I think you have to have a pretty strong faith in God to get you through days like Georgybel Legendre blast survivor bound for Europe to help farmers recover from World War II. Investigators would theorize that a discarded cigarette caused the fire that burned the 100-pound paper bags of fertilizer.

The powerful blast caused other explosions and fires in the huge petrochemical of the Galveston Bay city southeast of Houston. Windows were broken up to 25 miles away. Two small airplanes were blown out of the sky. A huge 15-foot tidal wave tossed a 150-foot-long barge 200 feet away onto land.Chunks of steel, like those that pierced Legendre's car, rained down on the town of about 17,000. Monsanto Chemical where Legendre and her father worked, experienced the greatest loss.

Some 227 employees and contractors were killed. Ousted official claims UTMB steers donated organs to wealthy HOUSTON (AP) A former University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston official is accusing the hospital of steering donated livers toward wealthier patients, The Texas Journal of the Wall Street Journal reported today. Ousted transplant chief Thomas Broughan also alleges in a lawsuit against the hospital that he was told to remove livers on at least two occasions from patients who were not yet declared brain 7 clead. Broughan said he refused. The lawsuit was filed last month in U.S.

District Court in Houston against the school and three school officials, the newspaper reported. Broughan alleges in the lawsuit that he was demoted in January 1996 for complaining about the alleged practices. He seeks reinstatement and unspecified damages. UTMB officials declined comment on the allegations, saying policy prohibits discussing litigation. EW BRAUNFELS HERALD-ZEITUNG LASS ADVERTISING DEADLINES DEADLINES FOR THE NEW BRAUNFELS HERALD-ZEITUNG Day Published Line Ad Deadline Display Ad Deadline Sunday 10 a.m.

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Monday 5p.m. Friday RATES PAYMENT INFORMATION Advertising rates are available upon request. Special discounts are offered for multiple run ads. ALL GARAGE SALE AND SERVICE DIRECTORY ADS MUST BE PRE-PAID. FREE ADS: Lost Found, Free Giveaways, Any For Sale Item Priced $100 or Less.

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CHECK YOUR AD THE FIRST DAY it runs for errors. Liability of errors shall not exceed the cost of the space containing the error. ANNOUNCEMENTS I PETS LIVESTOCK I EMPLOYMENT Garage Auctions Found more Dogs Cats Birds Pet Supplies Equipment Breeding and much more Business Full Time Part Time Skills Trades Medical much more RENTALS 4 Apartments Waterfront Lots Acreage Mobile Homes and much more JEALESWE -Business Lots JS.farms Ranches Waterfront Property and much more MERCHANDISE Tools Antiques Furniture Firewood Building Materials and much more RECREATION I TRANSPORTATION Sporting Boats Travel Trailers Fishing Motor Homes Trucks Motorcyles Aviation Auto Parts Auto Loans and much SERVICES Electrical Cleaning and rngch more ESTATE SALE Friday Saturday, 18 19 April, 9 AM to 5 PM STOCKDALE, TEXAS (Go to highway 123, one block South of blinker. Follow Signs!) FURNITURE: 1930's bedroom furniture; 1940'soak dining room set; sofa, chairs, lamps, occasional furniture; several older pieces, rough, but restorable; old outdoor furniture. OTHER ITEMS: Mountains of collectibles; Depression and Fiesta; costume jewelry; watches; linens; refrigerator, washer dryer, TV's; loads of kitchen and housewares; some hand tools.

Items are from the estate of the late Pearl Carr, a lifelong Stockdale resident, a teacher for many years and a true collector, and a modest size, exceptionally clean sale. It's a great time of the year for a short and pretty drive in the country. The sale has much to offer and, as always, everything is marked clearly and priced to sell! Numbers about 7 AM Friday. HALLMARK SALES 1344 Cedar Elm Thur, Fri. Sat.

Moving Salel Everthing Must Gol GARAGE SALE Thur. Onlyl 9am-6pm, April 17th. Lots of clothes nic nac's. 320 N. West End.

MULTI-FAMILY PATIO SALE 104 W. Edgewater (NO EARLY SALES) Fri. 9-6pm, Sat. 9am-1pm. Quality items: Furniture, antiques, jewelry, clothes, artwork, mirrors.

NEIGHBORHOOD" GARAGE SALE Sat. April 19th 8am-3pm. Approx. 20 families, Lake McQueeny Estates- Look for signs. The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung, a Great Way to Start Your Day! ESTATE AUCTION SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 10:00 A.M.

401 W. CEDAR, JUNCTION, TEXAS R.E. HOMANN ESTATE China pottery marked Austria, Bavaria, Haviland France, Germany, Limoges, Wico, Swinnerton's Staffordshire, Sleepy eye, Roseville plus more kitchen collectibles, Victorian, Art Nouveau, jewelry, pocket watches, Indian artifacts, coins 3 gold, silver dollars, oak furniture linens, oil paintings, (2 from Max Kruger collection, Texana books, Kueger's biography, Household items, much more. For info, call Auctioneer Curtis Schulze Lie. 7751 at 1-888-483-4465, no buyers premium.

Garage Sales Estate Sales Found Legal and much 100-150 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS SCOPE OF WORK: Comal County Fresh Water Supply District No. 1 in Spring Branch, Texas will accept sealed bids for construction of one (1) 100,000 gallon steel elevated storage tank, and two (2) 80,000 gallon steel ground storage tanks. Separate contracts may be let for the work on the elevated and ground storage tanks. RECEIPT OF BIDS: Sealed bids are due at the District Office at: 439 Gate Post, P.O. Box 97, Spring Branch, Texas 78070 no later than 1:30 p.m.

on May 8, 1997, at which time the bids will be opened and read aloud. INFORMATION AND BIDDING DOCUMENTS: Copies of bidding Drawings and Specifications may be inspected at obtained from the Office of the District Engineer; CM A Engineering, located at: 3998-B Highway 290 East, Dripping Springs, Texas 78620, (512) 894-3230, during regular business hours: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Drawings and Specifications may be purchased at fifty dollars ($50.00) per set made payable to the Direct by check, and are non-refundable.

No partial sets of Drawings and Specifications will be issued. A non- mandatory prebid conference will be held at the District Office at 10:00 a.m. on April 24, 1997, all bidders are encouraged to attend. The Comal ISO will be accepting sealed bids for the Smithson Valley High School Practice Football Field Access and will be received by Mr. Roy Linnartz at 1421 North Business 35, New Braunfels, Texas 78130, until 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, May 6,1997, and, then publicly opened and read aloud.

This bid is to furnish all necessary labor, materials, equipment and supervision to perform all work on this project. Contract Documents, including Drawings and Technical Specifications may be obtained from the Office of the Engineer, Lockwood, Andrews Newman, located at 70 NE Loop 410, Suite 390, San Antonio, Texas 78216. All inquires regarding bid procedures or provisions of the bid docu-ments should be directed to Mr. Thomas N. Turk, P.E., the Project Manager, at the Office of the Engineer in San Antonio, Texas, (210)342-3191.

ABid Bond (or cashier's check) shall be submitted for 5 percent of the total bid amount. The successful bidder will be required to furnish Performance Bonds and Payment Bonds. The contractor shall provide proof of insurance prior to execution of the construction contract. SUBSCRIBE 625-9144 Alamo Workforce Development (AWD), Inc. JTPA Employment and Training Program EARN AS YOU LEARN AWD us presently taking applications for youth (ages 14-21) eligible for the 1997 JTPA Summer Youth Employment and Training Program.

Call our office to get more information on how we can help you or someone you know! AWD Comal County 1110W. San Antonio New Braunfels, Texas (210)629-2949 Monday-Thursday 8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. AWD is and Equal Opportunity Auxiliary aids and services are available to individuals upon request..