Thursday's Internet Edition, September 09, 2010.
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- Staff Sergant Luis Corral, son of Manuel and Belinda Corral of Van Horn, is serving our nation in Afghanistan right now.
Sergant Corral was recently awarded the U.S. Army’s fourth highest award for valor in combat. He was awarded the Bronze Star for Valor while under fire.
The U.S. Army only awards the Bronze Star to deserving service members who are in combat.
Staff Sergant Corral, the son-in-law of Israel and Sooky Borrego, is a 2004 graduate of Van Horn High School. He is married to Tiffany, and the couple has one child, Kaydie.
Staff Sergant Corral has been in the U.S. Army for 5 years and is currerently assigned to the 4th Infantry Division, a Ft. Carson based unit, stationed in Afghanistan.
Column One
By Dawn Simpson
Congratulations to SSG. Luis Corral, one of our ‘home-grown’ sons. He’s just 5 years out of Van Horn High School and has already attained the rank of Staff Sergeant in the Army and has now been awarded the Bronze Star for Valor. You make your hometown very proud, Luis, and we pray God’s protection and blessing on you each day you are in harm’s way fighting for us. Thanks a million for your service to our country.
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I was looking back in the pages of the Advocate for some interesting ‘stuff’. I’ll call it ‘news by the numbers’ from August and September of 1949, 1959 and 1969.
1949……… 15 cents would have bought you a new Harmonica at the Bozeman Drug Store, the Rexall Stare in Van Horn. 18 days is how long Reservists local Reservists Don Heath and Pancho Torres were on the U.S.S. Huge Purvice DD709 to a cruise to the Panama Canal. Six and a half hours is how late Train No. 7 was because of a derailment of a freight train near Longview. Phone #43 is what you would dial for information on the “Next Look in Cars” – the 1950 Studebaker at Lomax Motors. 75 cents would buy you the luncheon special at El Capitan Hotel’s Coffee Shop. And $993,012.28 were the total assets listed on the Van Horn State Bank’s Statement of condition.
1959……………..50 Years is how long Bubba and Gisela Heath have been married. A lovely wedding photo of them was in the August 13, 1959 issue of the Advocate. 69 cents would buy you a 1 lb. can of Folgers Coffee. $250 was the prize money won by Lawrence Allen for the first bale of cotton in the county. 41-13 was the final score as the Eagles mauled the Alpine Bucks on Sept. 25, 1959.
1969…………….16th of August of that year Van Horn realized the dream of a local hospital with a ground breaking for the new facility. Almost 30 years later, we have just broken ground for the new remodeling and enlargement of that facility. $2.9 million is what Culberson County oil and gas wells pumped into the county’s economy. 30 families moved into Van Horn as a result of Western Gillette Trucking moving their headquarters to Van Horn. 1,019 was the students enrolled on the first day of school. 25 years is the anniversary that the 20th Century Club was celebrating. And 15 was the number of local pilots who organized a flying club here.
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And here’s some disturbing ‘News by the Numbers’. It’s the impact of tax increases....
$2.4 Trillion – that’s the overall tax increase faced by American Families, Seniors and Businesses if current tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 are allowed to expire.
$2,034 – the average tax increase that will hit 17 million Seniors if those tax cuts are allowed to expire.
8.2 million – the number of jobs created after the tax cuts of 2003.
$91 billion – the cost of reinstating the Death Tax.
$17.2 billion – the amount spent in 2008 by Congress on frivolous ‘pork’ projects that use taxpayer funds to reward local special interests and pressure groups.
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Thought for the Week… Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
October 1st - Hotel El Capitan will hold an Open House today from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. The officers and directors of the Van Horn Community Christian Shelter are scheduled to meet his eveing at 6:30 p.m. at the Shelter. The Van Horn Junior High volleyball teams play Marfa here today beginning at 5 p.m. Van Horn JV plays here today beginning at 5 p.m. The Van Horn Eagle varsity plays the Fabens JV here today with kickoff set for 7 p.m. The Van Horn Volunteer Fire Department is slated to meet with Mayor Flanagan tonight at the Firehouse at 7 p.m.
October 2nd -
October 3rd - The Van Horn Lady Eagle volleyball team plays Sierra Blanca in a district game here today beginning at noon. The Van Horn Junior High volleyball teams are slated to play in the Crane Tournament today in Crane. The Van Horn Eagle Cross Country teams are slated to run in the Fabens Invitational today at Fabens’ San Felipe Park.
October 4th - Attend the church of your choice today.
October 5th - The Van Horn Junior High volleyball teams are scheduled to play Pecos in Pecos today beginning at 4:30 p.m.
October 6th - The Van Horn Rotary Club will meet today at noon at Chuy’s Restaurant. The Van Horn Lady Eagle volleyball teams play Ft. Hancock in a district matchup here today beginning at 5 p.m. The Van Horn City Council is slated to meet this evening at City Hall at 7 p.m.
October 7th -Nothing scheduled at press time.