La Marque Times (Newspaper) - November 25, 1987, La Marque, Texas George Molina drop out La Marque falls to MacArthur See Page IB Thanksgiving HOAG & SONS BOOK BINDERY MI 49284 Train that trains Train car helps train firefighters See Page 4A 1-99 77 WINDSHIELD DOCTOR anil Mmo when replace when necessary VOLUME NO. LA MARQUE YOUR NEWSPAPER 1947 25C Weekly THE LA MARQUE NOVEMBER 25.15)87 Two Of flowers dust Fanning calls on a country thankful for warmth Serving it up from the heart This is tiie fourth installment of a series by La resident Capt. Karl who is in charge of the S.S. Ruth a freighter circling Fanning is in the war-torn country of If readers have had a hard time finding blessings to count this his description of this land should make thanks easy to By Capt. KARL FANNING Guest Columnist Mozambique - Though many light houses are along this none of them work - there isn't enough or rebels have destroyed the We've sailed from and are headed down the Mozambique Channel toward We can't establish radio contact with We've sent our arrival time by telex At 2 we anchor and try call the harbor pilot on a VHF After 15 minutes of futile attempts to say we're I tell Michael Jackson and Mickey He happily And they know we are are The pilot who takes us in is very nice and The Russians have been here for Mozambique's socialist goverment relies heavily on block with many technical advisors from Cuba and East We pass a beach littered with tugboats and fishing some almost There are no spare no mechanics to fix Maintenance is unheard of. The boats run until they and then are I Hundreds of people now use - them as Six ships are in port. Five of them bring aid cargo - cooking oil and medical supplies - from the Cuba and our last few of the laborers here have most are dressed in When not they sweep up rice from the dock and deck and fill their They eat the raw Rice shipments from the dock to the silos must be guarded by all of it would be stolen by hungry townfolk before it got to The government sells rice at a very low trying to recoup their But many still can't afford it. The income of the average worker is about a Our longshoremen make less than a dollar a They are lucky to have a From flowers to dust There isn't much to see in See Fanning Page 3 A by Members of the La Marque Knights of Columbus serve area senior citizens a Thanksgiving dinner provided by the Concerned Citizens and Ministers of Galveston Holiday dinners benefit needy As Thanksgiving area organizations are working hard to insure that no one goes untouched by the holiday On Concerned Citizens and Ministers of Galveston County hosted thier third annual Pre-Thanksgiving Senior And area working with the Salvation are providing food so needy residents can prepare a traditional Thanksgiving meal at The Concerned Citizens fed an estimated 400 people at the of Columbus Hall on Delaney Road Another 800 meals were delivered to Knights of Columbus ' the hall and all the we bought the food with funds provided by the the business people and good citizens who Constable Joe founder of Concerned Citizens Harry a member of the Knights of said enough food for 1,500 people was prepared over a three-day The feast required 400 pounds of with all the 216 pounds of peas and hundreds of hot Leftovers were given to area food The Concerned Citizens began raising money for the dinner in Judge Ted Mora chairman of the Fundraisers and direct donations from area businesses and residents contributed to the To Bud one of the hundreds who dined at the See Needy Page 9A La Marque man killed in mailbox bashing TEXAS CITY - A La Marque man was killed here late Thursday night when he struck a while leaning out of the of a moving Don T. 23, 801 Hathaway was pronounced dead at Mainland Center He had suffered massive head Russell Allen 21, 7206 Yucca was charged by Texas City police with involuntary Con- nard was driving the Chevrolet Blazer in which Henderson was police The two were driving down the 8800 block of Humble Camp Road mail boxes with a baseball bat when the accident occured at 11:58 police Two ages 18 and 20, were also passengers in the but they were not detained by Connard was released from Galveston County Jail Friday after posting a Texas City police said residents along Humble Camp Road had reported acts of vandalism prior to Thursday In other police reports last La Marque police arrested two juveniles Monday in connection with a burglary in the 700 block of Police Chief Larry Crow said Four more juveniles were picked up Tuesday in connection with the same Weather Channel regular Childhood interest leads to simny future for LM native photo by Jim La Marque native Keith a the Weather watches himself on videotape recently at the home of his Charles and Charlotte Staff Writer La Marque native Keith Westerlage belongs to a profession that's often doubted and joked it's what he's wanted all his 26, is a weatherman on the Weather a 24-hour cable weather service based in hear I think they're Westerlage But people ask about his work more often than they laught about he find it They always seem to have own interest in the weather began in a sixth grade science class and continued throughout his academic He eventually received a degree in atmospheric science from the University of Texas at After his junior year at Westerlage worked as an intern in the Weather Channel's forecasting The job led him to reconsider his career went back to school thinking that I didn't want to be a he by it was too late to Despite his Westerlage returned to the forecasting lab after There he some benefits to working at the Weather was a good opportunity to get little bit of understanding about forecasting for the country and developing he Westerlage spent his spare time in the Weather Channel's where he to make the switch from forecaster to In the he practiced in front of the At he practiced in front of the With a map taped to the wall behind he rehearsed his gestures and memorized the geography of the United States so pointing out states would become second nature See Weather Page 9A