El Uvalde Times says goodby
Two years and five months after continuous publication, El Uvalde Times, Uvalde’s only bilingual newspaper officially closes for business.	Olga
Rodriquez, founder, owner, publisher and editor makes the following statement to its many readers and supporters:
“It is with deep regret that we make the decision to close our newspaper. It has been a long struggle these past two and a half years, but they have also been very happy and rewarding ones.*1
“We feel that we are closing at the time when a lot of people were beginning to realize our
potential and were finally getting to really know us. We know also that we had begun to really make a positive impact on our community.”
Regretfully, because of the economic situation all around us, we cannot see an immediate solution to rising printing, gasoline and other operating costs.
We find ourselves with growing demands for service, and with very little financial ability to enlarge our staff. Because we want to leave with an image of being good at what we were doing that we have decided to close down at this time.“
El Uvalde Times began publishing bimonthly
issues on November 13, 1977. On May 21, 1978 it turned into a Sunday weekly and in January of 1979 it changed its publication day to Thursday.
Employees of El Uvalde Times who must be given credit for its beginning and development included in order of employment:
Jose Luis Rodriquez, San Antonio; Manuel and Sarita Perez and Manuel, Jr. Rev. Jorge Baistra, Manuel and Ofelia
Castillo, Bobby Lopez, George C. Juarez, Aurora Rendon, Elia Moreno, Oscar Lopez, Ana Gomez, Ana Munoz, Esperanza de
Hoyos, Gilberto Torres,
Leonor Hernandez, Rosa Miranda, Becky Orosco, Janie Samarripa, Patricia Guerrero, Rene Xasquez, Roland Cardenas, Lisa Olivarez, Richard Flores, and Johnny Flores.
The newspaper began operations from a small office located in the offices of Attorney
Rogelio Munoz, brother of the editor. A few months later it moved to an office in the Casa Martinez complex, 565 West Main. And in November of 1979 it moved to its present location at 621 Wr. Main St.
“With its outspoken editorials in the editor's
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El Uvalde Times dice adiós
cinco meses publicación El Uvalde
Dos anos y después de continua, Times, el único periódico bilingüe de Uvalde y la area del wintergarden, oficialmente cierra sus puertas. Olga Rodriquez, fundadora, propietaria, publicadora y editora, de la siguiente explicación:
“Es con hondo pesar que hacemos la decision de cerrar nuestro periódico. Ha sido un largo esuerzo estos dos últimos dos anos y medio, pero también han sido unos anos muy felices y de mucha recompensa.
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cerramos el periódico al tiempo en que mucha gente empezaba a realizar nuestra potencia y por fin nos llegaban a conocer. También, sabemos que ya empezábamos a tener un impacto positivo en nuestra comunidad.”
“Sinembargo, a causa de la situación económica todo alrededor de nosotros, no podemos ver ninguna solución inmediata a nuestros costos de imprimir el periódico y otros gastos de operación del negocio que siguen aumentando cada dia. Nos vemos con mucha mas demanda para
nuestros servicios y con con muy poca abilidad económica para ampliar nuestro personal. Porque queremos despedirnos con una imagen de ser “muy buenos” en el trabajo que sabemos hacer, es que nos decidimos a cerrar a este tiempo.
El Uvalde Times empezó sus publicaciones dos veces al mes en Noviembre 13, 1977. En Mayo, 1978 empezó publicaciones semanales cada domingo y en enero, 1979 cambio su dia de publicación a los jueves.
Empleados	de	El
Uvalde Times a quien se les debe dar crédito por su empiezo y desarrollo incluyen, en orden de su fecha de empleo: Luis Rodriguez, Antonio; Manuel y Sarita Perez and Manuel, Jr.; Rev. Jorge Baistra, Manuel y Ofelia Castillo, Bobby Lopez, George C. Juarez, Aurora Rendon, Elia Moreno, Oscar Lopez, Ana Gomez, Ana Munoz, Esperanza de Hoyos, Gilbert Torres, Leonor Hernandez, Rosa Miranda, Becky Orosco, Rosemary Tafolla, Janie Samarripa, Patricia Guerrero, Rene Vasquez,
Jose
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Roland Cardenas, Richard Flores and Johnny Flores.
El periódico empezó operaciones en una pequeña oficina ubicada en el edificio del Licenciado Rogelio Munoz, hermano de la editora. Varios meses mas tarde, El Uvalde Times se traslado a una oficina de Casa Martinez, en 565 W. Main. En Noviembre, 1979 se cambio a su presente local en 621 W. main. St.
Con sus editoriales francos en la columna de la editora, “Esto Lo
Tengo Que Decir”, Uvalde escucho comentarios de la verdad y al punto sobre asuntos locales. El cuerpo governante que recibió mas critica fue la mesa directiva escolar y varios cambios en el distrito escolar resultaron por los comentarios en este editorial semanal.
La Corte de Comisionados y el Concilio de la Ciudad también recibieron su parte en “reganandas”, asi como el Departamento Policía de Uvalde muchos otros grupos.
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Cuando se merecían elogios y felicitaciones por un individuo o una organización, estos también se podían esperar en “Este Lo Tengo Que Decir ”. Muchos trabajos de servicio al publico recibieron asistencia de El
Uvalde Times.
“La experiencia mas excitante al crear El Uvalde Times,” concluye la editora, “fue ei de ser un espejo de tantas hermosas ocasiones que mi gente contribuye a nuestra ciudad. Cuando antes los acontecimientos y traba-
jos de nuestros ciudadanos sobresalientes eran ignorados, o nuestras reuniones sociales eran desprestigiadas por el otro periódico, nosotros les dábamos su lugar merecido. Este nuevo reconocimiento a nuestros triunfos, contribuciones envolvimiento en comunidad, crearon respeto, dignidad
admiración para nuestra gente que no podra lograr el otro periódico en otros 100 anos de vida."
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The only Bilingual newspaper in the Wintergarden Area.
* * * El único periodica bilingüe en el area del Wintergarden.
Uvalde, Texas 78801
May 29. 1980
278-3616
P.O. Box 1671
621 W. Main St
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There was large crowd on hand for the Uvalde City Council's 6 o’oclock meeting last Tuesday, May 27. It appeared that most of them were interested in the discussion of alleged pollution of Cook Slough by the City’s Sewer Plant.
When that item came before the council, City Engineer W. H. Mullins of San Antonio told the audience that he and Skip Francis of the Texas Water Resources, and who was also present, had been studying the situation and bad some observations and suggestions. The most important point made perhaps is that the City definitely is exceeding its capacity to recieve water from sewer lines at its present facility. When the permit was orginally acquired by the city for its operation, the plant was recieving 750,000 gallons of water per day, when today it is recieving 1.5 million gallons per day.
Cook Slough, it appears, is being contaminated by drainage from sewer lines, but not purposely and not from the sewer plant, but very likely from infiltration in the city’s sewer lines in town, also, Mullins explained, each time we recieve heavy rains, as we have had in the last few days, the present facility is very likely to overflow into the nearby creek.
Mullins advised the council to solve the problem with a short range plan for immediate relief and a long range plan for enlarging the plant. The immediate solution would be to construct additional water storage plans, add pumps and pipe to carry the water to nearby land. The long range plan he suggested was to apply for a federal EPA grant that could finance up to 75% of the cost to enlarge the facility. This appli-* cation could take as much as five years to become
approved according to Mullins.
Francis told the council that while the city was not directly violating its permit, it nevertheless was allowing the pollution of Cook Slough and said he was in a position to begin action against the City to place restrictions on its permit. He said the water from the sewer lines contained a lot of nutrients that produced algae to a degree that believed should not allowed.
Mayor Cain told
audience the Council was concerned and would be appointing a committee to work on the situation and reach a solution.
The Council recieved two bids for a concessionaire at the Uvalde Civic Center to sell alcoholic beverages. Bidding were Bob Blevins with 15.7 % of alcoholic beverages sales offered to the city and Henry Vasquez with







15% offered. Blevins also included a 10% on soft drinks, 10% on ice, 10% on food and 10% on other items.
Bids were also recieved for supplying 300# anodes. The council normally holds the bids for 48 hours before reaching a decision.
The low bids on a centrifulgal pump for sewer farm, and on
forms and envelopes previously recieved were approved. A very low bid for the 97.5 acres south of the sewer farm that the city is interested in selling was declined.
Investigation Underway
Mayor Charles Cain very briefly reported on an incident that occurred on Thursday, May 22 at the American Legion Hall Post 479, saying only that an investigation was underway.
Councilman Bill Mitchell asked for a report on two matters. Caff all
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DE LOS VETERANOS -Miembros de la
EN MEMORIA
Legion Americana Posta 479 y de la Posta 26 de Uvalde visitaron las tumbas de los numerosos veteranos en los dos panteones locales para colocarles banderitas Americanas. Esta tradición fue empezada por el Sr. Wayne Tudor cuando el fue comandante del la Posta 26 hace varios anos y todavía se observa como un pequeño obsequio a la memoria de todos aquellos que dieron su vida por nuestro pais. El evento tuvo lugar el pasado domingo por la tarde como parte de la celebración de Memorial Day.
IN MEMORY OF OUR VETERANS-Members of the American Legion Post 479 and Post 26 visited the graves of the numerous veterans buried in both local cementarles, and placed small American flags. This tradition was started by Wayne Tudor when he was commander of Post 26 several years ago and is still observed as a small toquen in the memory of all those who gave their lives for our country. The event took place last Sunday afternoon as a part ot the observation of Memorial Day in Uvalde.
Agricultores devolverán $55,000 en salarios atrasados a trabajadores sin documentos
Bajo un arreglo con el Departamento de Trabajo de los Estados Unidos, dos agricultores de Presidio, Texas acordaron pagar $55,;000 en pago atrasado que les detuvieron ilegalmente a aproximadmente 300 trabajadores mexicanos sin documentos.
El Asistente Administrador Regional para los Reglamentos de Empleo, Al Ramsey dijo que Oscar Spencer y su hijo, Charles llegaron a un acuerdo de consentimiento con el Labor Department después de que el departamento hizo
una demanda a favor de los trabajadores, después de una investigación por oficiales del departamento del cumplimiento del salario por hora.
La Corte ordeno a Oscar Spencer a que pagara $45,000 en pagos atrasados y a Charles
Spencer se le ordeno que pagara $10,000. La Corte permitió a los Spencers a que pagaran en abonos.
El Departamento de Trabajo alego que los Spencers violaron la Ley de Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) al negarse a pagar a los empleados el
salario mínimo entre Mayo 1975 y Junio 1977 y por no mantener records adecuados requeridos por el FLSA.
La investigación descubrió que los Spencers si les pagar el salario mínimo a los ciudadanos legales Americanos.
Farmers agree to pay $55,000 in back wages
TRUCK WINNER-Ann Bounds of Sabinal receives the keys to the 1980 Ford pickup truck she won at Sacred Heart Catholic Church’s 8th Annual Parish Festival last Sunday. THe truck giveaway highlighted the church’s major fund raising event of the year. Rev. Vicent Fecher, Pastor of Sacred Heart Church presented the keys to Mrs. Bounds.





Under a settlement with the U. S. Department of Labor, two Presidio, Texas farmers agreed to pay $55,000 in illegally withheld back wages to approximately 300 undocumented Mexican workers.
AssistAnt Regional
Administrator for Employment Standards Al Ramsey said that Oscar Spencer and his son, Charles, reached a consent agreement with the Labor Department after the department filed suit on behalf of the workers, following and
investigation by Wage and Hour compliance officers.
The Court ordered Oscar Spencer to pay $45,000 in back wages and Charles Spencer was ordered to pay $10,000. THe Court allowed the Spencers to pay in install-
ments.
The Department of Labor alleged the Spencers violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by failing to pay employees the federal minimum wage between May 1975 and June 1977 and by failing to maintain
adequate records required by the FLSA.
Wage and Hour compliance found the Spencers paid American citizen employees the legal minimum wage.
GANADORA DE LA TROCA-Ann Bounds, de Sabinal, Texas recibe las Raves de la troca Ford 1980 del Rev. Vicente Fecher, la cual eUa gano en la rifa del Octavo Festival Anual de la Iglesia Sagrado Corazon de Uvalde. La rifa fue lo mas sobresaliente del evento mas grande de la iglesia para recaudar fondos, y el cual tuvo lugar el pasado domingo Mayo 25.