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Page 10/The Battalion/Monday, January 20,1986
To dredge or not to dredge Fish Pass
now. I don’t think the state has the
money to do it now. I’m not sure you
will ever see it dredged.”
The pass, on the northern end of
Mustang Island State Park, was pop
ular with fishermen until sand cut
off the flow of water between the
Gulf and Corpus Christi Bay.
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CORPUS CHRISTI — Silt has
filled the once-popular Fish Pass on
Mustang Island while a report on
whether to re-dredge the inlet lan
guishes in Austin, officials say.
Nueces County Commissioner
j.P. Luby, whose precinct includes
Mustang Island, says he doesn’t be
lieve the pass ever will be cleaned
out.
“I don’t see any hope of getting
the Texas Parks and Wildlife De
partment to dredge the pass,” Luby
says. “It will take cold, hard cash
Whittling
East Texas woodcarvers find creative outlet
The study,
set a cost of about $10 million for
dredging, a bridge to allow fishing
boats into the Gulf and other im
provements.
In May 1984 Luby proposed
the pass be dredged of silt at no
that
cost
to the state. He says a private com
pany was willing to do tne project in
return for dredge spoil which could
be used in island construction.
A $50,000 feasibility study was
commissioned in August 1984 by the
Parks and Wildlife Department to
determine if the pass should be
opened and whether it should be
opened to boats.
Luby says although the study by
Goldston Engineering Co. of Corpus
Christi was finished last spring, he
didn’t receive a copy until about a
month ago.
The Fish Pass was dredged in
1972 at a cost of $3 million, tn
say the pass was built in the m |
place and that jetties intothet
weren’t long enough to prevemi
ing.
“It probably will take $75O,0(l|
dredge now,” Luby says. “The
threw a monkey wrench int
whole thing.”
Luby says he was negotiatiiij|
have free dredging at the pass
than two years ago, before tnest
was announced. He says filldinis
longer needed for construction!
jects on Mustang or North ’
lands.
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GLADEWATER — At the age of
12, Virgil Miller would sit under the
trees where hobos gathered near his
home in El Dorado, Ark., and at
tempt to copy their whittling talents.
The hobos would whittle various
articles and then sell them for a
nickel apiece to raise money for
food. Miller got so intrigued in whit
tling he had little interest in any
thing else.
Today, Miller is a semi-retired
owner of a roofing company — and
still whittling and carving.
Miller is one of the members of
the East Texas Woodcarvers Club in
Gladewater. His pieces generally re
volve around a theme involving
frontiers people, Indians or animals.
Miller will sculpt his piece in clay,
and then carve the sculpture into
wood. He prefers catalpa, basswood
or mahogany because of their tex
tures and grains.
He Said the clay model could be
used to make a bronze casting, but
he considers the wood carvings to be
more valuable than bronze pieces.
“Usually there are 25 or 30 pieces
made when they cast bronze, but
there is only one wood carving, so I
think it is worth more,” he said.
Miller, whose works show fine de-
jail with the grain carefully inte
grated to accentuate details, prices
his Works between $200 and
$ 18,000. The most he has ever been
paid for a piece is $2,200.
The $18,000 work is several
pieces and a three-dimensional re
production of a painting called
“Captured” by the Western artist
Frederick Remington.
The piece shows a captured U.S.
Army soldier, stripped of clothing
and obviously cold, sitting with his
legs crossed some distance from a
campfire. Meanwhile his Indian cap-
tors sit around the campfire, dressed
in his clothing, waiting for him to
freeze to death.
Jim Nelson, a Longview electri
cian, became interested in carving
about six months ago, and has since
practiced to the point where he has
learned the skills of the art of work
ing with wood.
He said he approached Miller and
said he wanted to learn carving, and
Miller “said he would teach me half
of what he knows. Then he carved
half of a face into a piece of wood
and told me to bring it back when I
had finished the other half,” Nelson
said.
He said wood carvers sometimes
place high prices on their works be
cause they become attached to them
after working on them for hours at a
time.
“I have got a $700 Johnny Apple-
seed that I don’t want to sell. But if
someone comes along and wants to
pay me $700, maybe it’s worth more
to him than it is to me,” he said.
“If you have spent two days or
1,000 hours carving on it, you be
come attached, and you really don’t
care whether it sells or not. What
makes you feel good is when you
take it to one of the shows and one of
the oldtimers comes up and tells you
that the piece looks good,” Nelson
said.
Charlie Winstead of Midlothian
says he got started in wood carving
about 3'A years ago as therapy after
experiencing three heart attacks.
“I was retired at age 40 and sat
around feeling sorry for myself,"
Winstead said. “I sat around the
home by myself and started putting
on weight. I went from 170 pounds
to 245 pounds.
“One day my wife brought home a
knife and a book by Harold Erilow, a
well-know caricature carver. She
thought she was helping me, but she
never realized she was creating a
monster,” laughed Winstead, who is
now trim and whittling caricatures
so well that he goes to several shows
a year and last year spent two week
teaching a course on caricature carv
ing in Eureka Springs, Ark.
“It’s the greatest tnerapy there is,”
he said. “If someone is disabled it is a
fantastic pastime. It may not be a
masterpiece, and you may only be
whittling a point on a stick, but you
enjoy it.
Raymon North, a Dallas lawyer,
said he had started carving as a
youngster in the Boy Scouts, but had
more or less dropped the habit until
seven or eight years ago when he
started again as a challenge.
North said he finds the hobby re
laxing and that it gives him some
thing to do when a client gets on the
telephone and starts rambling on
about his problems. North said he
cradles the phone with his shoulder,
and gets out his knife and his latest
. project.
Spanish sailoi
brought Texoi
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Associated Press
In 1528, the ill-fated Sp
expedition to "La Florida
shipwrecked on the coasi
Texas. This landing on the
of Malhado," most likely Gai
ton Island, marked the fini
corded European intrusion i
the present state of Texas.
Of about 300 Spaniards'
survived, historian WilliamGr^
recounts, only four men p;
tually lived through sickness!
encounters with hostile consul
dians. These four, Alvar Nt
Cabeza de Vaca, Andres Dons
de Carranca, Alsonso del Cat |
Maldonado, and Estevandc
black slave of Dorantes, I
among the Texas Indians
nearly eight years. Travelingfe
tribe to tribe, the four evenns
made their way through Tc
back to Spanish settlements!®: I
east coast of New Spain, orwlu
now Mexico.
It was Cabeza de Vaca whop
petuated rumors of seven dwi
gold on the frontier. Deep in:
“New World, ” the desire too
quer, to gain wealth and po*
took root. And for more ii
three hundred years, Spar.
French and American adven:
ers traversed the unmappedla
of Texas searching tor elu
wealth and power. Eventm
these quests fueled the wen
development of the NorthA®
can frontier and the permas
settlements that resulted.
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