the zapata times 10/17/2015

EL PASO — Our Ladyof Mount Carmel Church,which was founded in1680, has survived the Pu-eblo Revolt, fire, Texas in-dependence and evenboundary lines switchingit from Mexico into Tex-as. It remains in use tothis day as churchgoersevery Sunday celebrateMass at the oldest churchin the United States.

For anyone who doubtsthe church’s antiquity,the Rev. Miguel Brisenoand church volunteer Al-fonso Baeza have theproof.

Tucked inside churchcabinets are old birth anddeath certificates. As Bri-seno browsed the books,he said, “Let’s see howfar back wego.”

The par-ish officehas hand-writtenledgersof birthand

death certificates goingback to the 1800s.

The names and datesprinted on the books aremoments frozen in time.The smell of the old led-gers are a history refresh-er, of people who livedand died during a timewhen the mission was al-ready long established inthe El Paso region.

The ledgers, the origi-nal church walls and arelic of a life-size Jesusthat might be as old asthe mission itself re-mind parishionersof the mission’simportance.

“I think it’simportant

to cele-brate

and remember those im-portant moments in ourhistory,” Briseno told theEl Paso Times. “Especial-ly when a small group ofpeople have come to cele-brate Mass. The firstMass was celebrated herein Ysleta on Oct. 12,1680.”

The Ysleta Mission isthe oldest continuouslyused church in the UnitedStates. The Ysleta and So-cor- ro mis-

sions are historic sites in-cluded in the NationalRegister of Historic Plac-es and certified by theNational Parks Service aspart of El Camino Real deTierra Adentro.

Although the missionwas established in 1682,church officials commem-orate Oct. 12, 1680, as thedate when Spanish andTigua Indian familiesgathered in thanksgiving.

Last Sunday, beforeMass, a procession start-ed at the Thula, a place

EL PASO

335TH ANNIVERSARY

This photo taken Oct. 7 shows Father Miguel Briseno, who will celebrate the Ysleta Mission’s 335th anniversary of the first Mass, in ElPaso, Texas. The celebration culminates Sunday with a procession and service led by Bishop Mark Seitz.

Photo by Mark Lambie/The El Paso Times | AP

Mission is oldest continually used church in USBy LUIS CARLOS LOPEZ

EL PASO TIMES

See CHURCH PAGE 10A

Tucked inside church cabinetsare old birth and deathcertificates. As Briseno browsedthe books, he said, “Let’s see howfar back we go.”

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A man claimed he wasthreatened into guiding agroup of illegal immi-grants through the Fal-con Lake area in ZapataCounty, according tocourt documents.

Homeland Security In-vestigations specialagents identified the sus-pect as Jesus Francisco

Villanueva-Saldaña, ofMina, Nuevo Leon, Mexi-co.

He remains in federalcustody.

On Oct. 11, U.S. BorderPatrol agents respondedto reports of illegal activ-ity at about 1:15 a.m. nearthe shores of FalconLake. Reports state sever-al people were seen walk-ing toward the SiestaShores neighborhood in

Zapata.“In the (agents’) expe-

rience, smuggling organi-zations often make land-fall on the uninhabitedshores of Falcon Lake,then walk their (human)and, or narcotics loads tothe Siesta Shores neigh-borhood or U.S. 83 fortransportation further in-to the United States,”states the criminal com-plaint filed Tuesday.

Agents who respondedto the area detained 15people in the brush area.Records allege all were inthe country illegally.

Agents transported thegroup to the Zapata sta-tion, where HSI specialagents responded to in-vestigate. Villanueva-Sal-daña allegedly waived hisrights and chose to speak

ZAPATA COUNTY

Foiled at FalconMan claims he was coerced into smuggling

By CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZTHE ZAPATA TIMES

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A man from Zapata wasrecently arrested in Laredofor performing a lewd act inpublic, according to author-ities.

Gerardo Martinez, 29,and a woman identified asElisa Moncivais, 41, of Lare-do, were arrested andcharged with public lewd-ness, a Class A misdemean-or punishable with up toone year in jail or a $4,000fine or both.

LPD responded to a pub-

lic lewdness call at 1:26 a.m.Oct. 10.

Officers were dispatchedto reports of a man and awoman in the middle oflewd act in the area of Cres-cent Loop and Lancer Road.

Officers arrived andfound couple in the bed ofthe truck with the tailgateopen, according to police.Both were taken to theWebb County Jail.

Martinez and Moncivaisare out on bond.

(César G. Rodriguez maybe reached at 728-2568 or [email protected])

LAREDO

MARTINEZ MONCIVAIS

Couplearrested for

lewd actOfficers found them in the bed of

a truck with the tailgate openBy CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZ

THE ZAPATA TIMES

A man was arrested inZapata County for trans-porting nine people whohad entered the country il-legally, according to courtdocuments released thisweek.

Identified as the suspect,Alejandro Leal-Hernandezwas charged with transport-ing illegal immigrants. Heis in federal custody.

A U.S. Border Patrolagent assigned to an areaalong Texas 16 near Zapataobserved a black DodgeRam at about 5:15 a.m. Oct.10.

Reports state the agentobserved what appeared tobe a sleeve of a jacket orsome other garment flap-ping in the bed of theDodge, states the criminalcomplaint filed Tuesday.

Records add the agent no-ticed some inconsistencieswith the oilfield pickup,such as an aftermarket liftkit, lack of company logos,among other factors.

The agent activated theunit’s emergency lights toconduct an immigration in-spection on the occupants of

the Dodge.Reports state the Dodge

swerved in and out of theroad.

Then, several people exit-ed the Dodge and ran to-ward the brush, recordsstate. Authorities caught upto the group, a total of 10immigrants. Authoritiesidentified one as the driver,Leal-Hernandez.

BORDER PATROL

Man arrestedfor allegedlytransportingimmigrants


See ARRESTED PAGE 10A

Records addthe agentnoticed someinconsistencieswith theoilfield pickup,such as anaftermarketlift kit, lack ofcompany logos,among otherfactors.

A Zin brief SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17Pumpkin Patch, First United

Methodist Church, 1220 McClellandfrom 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Public invited;admission free.

Chess tournament benefit forDaniela Montemayor who is fightingbrain cancer. 8:30 a.m.–9 a.m. Onsiteregistration. First Round: 9:30 a.m.Donation: $10 minimum. All donationsbenefit Daniela. Location: Holding Insti-tute, 1102 Santa Maria Ave. Please en-ter through back side, Davis St.

TAMIU Lamar Bruni Vergara Plan-etarium shows. 2 p.m.: Cosmic Adven-tures; 3 p.m.: The Little Star ThatCould; 4 p.m.: Back to the Moon; 5p.m.: Violent Universe: Catastrophes ofthe Universe. General Admission is $4for children and $5 for adults. Admis-sion is $4 for TAMIU students, facultyand staff. Matinee Shows are $1 less.Call 956-326-DOME (3663).

21st Paso del Indio Trail Workday.Lamar Bruni Vergara EnvironmentalScience Center. LCC Ft. McIntosh cam-pus, 1 West End Washington St. (Nearthe windmills).

Laredo Noon Optimist Club’s dis-trict meeting at Ramada Plaza, 800Garden St. Luncheon from 12–1:30p.m. and formal dinner at 7 p.m. Dur-ing the dinner there will be an auctionfor a painting by Paty Orduña benefit-ing the Border Region BehavioralHealth Center.

Author of international bestseller“A Long Way Home” visits to presenthis book and experience for “One City,One Book” participants and others thenext day, at 10:30 a.m. at the LaredoPublic Library, 1120 E. Calton Rd. Theevent is free and open to the public.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18Pumpkin Patch is open in front

of the First United Methodist Church,1220 McClelland. 12:30 to 6:30 p.m.Public is invited, and admission isfree.

Green Party presidential candi-date Dr. Jill Stein in Laredo. 5:30–7:30p.m. public appearance at TAMIU Stu-dent Center.

Laredo Noon Optimist Club’s dis-trict meeting at Ramada Plaza, 800Garden St. This closing meeting willbe from 9–11 a.m.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19Pumpkin Patch, First United


Chess Club meets at the LBV–In-ner City Branch Library from 4–6 p.m.Free for all ages and skill levels. Basicinstruction is offered. Call John at795-2400, x2521.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20Pumpkin Patch, First United


Take the challenge and climb theRock Wall. Free. All participants mustbring ID and sign release form. 4 p.m.to 5:30 p.m. at LBV–Inner City BranchLibrary, 202 W. Plum St. Call 795-2400, x2520.

TAMIU Lamar Bruni Vergara Plan-etarium shows. 6 p.m.: Cosmic Adven-tures; 7 p.m.: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side ofthe Moon. General Admission is $4 forchildren and $5 for adults. Admissionis $4 for TAMIU students, faculty andstaff. For more information call 956-326-DOME (3663).

UISD and LISD will have theirannual school bus parade in honor ofNational School Bus Safety Week. Theparade will begin at West Martin (Vet-erans) Field and conclude at the UISDSAC where a formal program will beheld inside the auditorium.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21Pumpkin Patch, First United


Bringing Vitality to Main Street:How Immigrant Small Businesses HelpLocal Economies Grow, from 7–8:30p.m. at TAMIU Student Center Ball-room, 5201 University Blvd. FeaturingDavid D. Kallick, senior fellow and di-rector of the Immigration Research Ini-tiative at the Fiscal Policy Institute inNew York. Free and open to the public.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22Pumpkin Patch, First United


Spanish Book Club from 6–8p.m. at the Laredo Public Library onCalton. For more information call Syl-via Reash at 763-1810

CALENDARASSOCIATED PRESS

Today is Saturday, October17, the 290th day of 2015. Thereare 75 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in His-tory:

On October 17, 1915, play-wright Arthur Miller, authorof “Death of a Salesman” and“The Crucible,” was born inNew York.

On this date:In 1777, British forces under

Gen. John Burgoyne surren-dered to American troops inSaratoga, New York, in a turn-ing point of the RevolutionaryWar.

In 1814, the London BeerFlood inundated the St. Gilesdistrict of the British capitalas vats of beer ruptured, send-ing more than 320,000 gallonsof liquid into the streets; up tonine people were reportedkilled.

In 1919, Radio Corp. ofAmerica was chartered.

In 1931, mobster Al Caponewas convicted of income taxevasion. (Sentenced to 11 yearsin prison, Capone was re-leased in 1939.)

In 1933, Albert Einstein ar-rived in the United States as arefugee from Nazi Germany.

In 1945, Col. Juan Peron, thefuture president of Argentina,was released from prison afterprotests by trade unionists.

In 1965, the musical “On AClear Day You Can See Forev-er,” with a score by BurtonLane and book and lyrics byAlan Jay Lerner, opened onBroadway. The New YorkWorld’s Fair closed.

In 1979, Mother Teresa of In-dia was awarded the NobelPeace Prize.

In 1989, an earthquake mea-suring 7.1 on the Richter scalestruck northern California,killing 63 people and causing$6 billion worth of damage.

In 1990, the Internet MovieDatabase (IMDb.com) was cre-ated.

In 1995, President Bill Clin-ton told wealthy contributorsat a Houston fund-raiser that“you think I raised your taxestoo much. It might surpriseyou to know that I think Iraised them too much, too” —a statement that drew criti-cism from both Republicansand Democrats.

Ten years ago: A two-manChinese space crew landed inChina’s northern grasslandsafter five days in orbit.

Five years ago: Pope Bene-dict XVI gave Australia itsfirst saint, canonizing MaryMacKillop, a 19th century nunwho was briefly excommuni-cated in part because her reli-gious order had exposed a pe-dophile priest.

One year ago: The WorldHealth Organization acknowl-edged it had botched attemptsto stop the Ebola outbreak inWest Africa, blaming factorsincluding incompetent staff,lack of information and bud-get cuts.

Today’s Birthdays: Ac-tress Marsha Hunt is 98.Newspaper columnist JimmyBreslin is 85. Actor MichaelMcKean is 68. Astronaut MaeJemison is 59. Country singerAlan Jackson is 57. Movie crit-ic Richard Roeper is 56. Actor-comedian Norm Macdonald is52. Reggae singer Ziggy Mar-ley is 47. Singer Wyclef Jean is46. Singer Chris Kirkpatrick(’N Sync) is 44. Rapper Emi-nem is 43. Actor MatthewMacfadyen is 41. Actress Felic-ity Jones (Film: “The Theoryof Everything”) is 32. ActorChris Lowell is 31.

Thought for Today: “Ifyou believe that life is worthliving then your belief will cre-ate the fact.” — Arthur Miller(1915-2005).

TODAY IN HISTORY

AUSTIN — The worst of a rural Texaswildfire that has destroyed nearly 50 struc-tures is likely over as firefighters make bigstrides containing more than 7 miles ofscorched and bone-dry forestland, author-ities said Friday.

Some residents remain unable to return totheir homes on barricaded roads in BastropCounty. But officials said the fire that beganTuesday and grew big enough to waft smokeinto downtown Austin, some 40 miles awayfrom the fire, now appears to be getting un-der control.

“Barring some totally unforeseen circum-stance, we’re on the downhill side of thisfire,” Bastrop County Judge Paul Pape said.

No deaths or serious injuries have been re-ported. Firefighters expect to have favorable

weather this weekend as the Hidden PinesFire is now 40 percent contained, up from 15percent a day earlier.

About 200 firefighters from across Texashave battled the blaze during daylight, andon Friday, a DC-10 jet tanker flown in fromTennessee dropped nearly 12,000 gallons ofretardant on the smoldering area.

The fire has been fueled partly by hot, dryweather, but a cool front moved into CentralTexas on Friday.

The fire is chewing much of the same areathat was devastated in 2011 by a far moremassive wildfire that wiped out 1,600 homesand killed two people. But this time, windshave paled to the 50 mph gusts that over-whelmed firefighters four years ago.

Pape said a preliminary investigationfound that an accident during a “farming op-eration” may have caused the fire.

AROUND TEXAS

In this photo taken on Thursday night, the Hidden Pines fire burns at Alum Creek Road and Park Road 1C near Bastrop, Tex-as. On Friday evening authorities said firefighters were making big strides in containing the rural wildfire. However, someresidents remain unable to return to their homes on barricaded roads in Bastrop County.

Photo by Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman | AP

Wildfire destroys homesBy PAUL J. WEBERASSOCIATED PRESS

South Texas pipeline blastleads to evacuations

ENCINAL — A fiery naturalgas pipeline explosion in SouthTexas has forced dozens of peo-ple from their homes and can-celed classes at a nearby school.

Nobody was hurt in the acci-dent before dawn Friday nearEncinal. Authorities are seekingthe cause of the blast.

City Manager Velma Davilasays 30 to 40 people who live nearthe pipeline evacuated to EncinalCity Hall, as a precaution.

Disguised customer gets75 years for robbery

PLANO — A North Texasman must serve 75 years in pris-on for robbing a cellphone storewhere a clerk recognized him asa frequent customer. David Fifeof Plano was convicted of aggra-vated robbery in the 2014 holdupof a Metro PCS store. Prosecu-tors on Friday announced hispenalty. He had four prior aggra-vated robbery convictions.

1 arrest after shots firedinto educator’s parked car

SAN ANTONIO — Authoritiessay a woman faces gun and drugcharges after shots were fired in-to a San Antonio educator’sparked car in an apparent dresscode dispute.

Grace Seward has beencharged with deadly conduct, un-lawfully carrying a weapon in agun-free zone and possession ofmarijuana. Officers found mari-juana on the 22-year-old Sewardduring booking.

More than 60 indicted ingang-related drug casesSAN ANTONIO — Federal

and state grand juries in SouthTexas have indicted more than60 suspects in gang-related drug,conspiracy and racketeeringcases. Investigators say the de-fendants are associated withgangs in the San Antonio, Austinand Uvalde areas. The crack-down involves gangs operatingsince 2005.

STAAR tests to take lesstime in grades 3 to 8

AUSTIN — State-mandated ex-ams are getting shorter for Texasstudents in grades 3 to 8. TheLegislature approved a require-ment that State of Texas Assess-ments of Academic Readiness, orSTAAR tests, be less time-con-suming for young students. Now85 percent of students in grades 3to 5 complete the tests in twohours, and that 85 percent of 6th,7th and 8th graders finish theirtests in three hours.

White man sentenced for hate-crime attack

HOUSTON — A white Hous-ton-area man has been sentencedto nearly six years in federalprison for committing a hatecrime when he surprise punchedan elderly black man.

In federal court in Houston onFriday, Conrad Alvin Barrettwas sentenced to prison followedby three years of probation.

— Compiled from AP reports

Exam for mom accused ofthrowing baby out window

NEW YORK — A judge or-dered a psychiatric evaluationFriday for a mother chargedwith murder after witnesses de-scribed a horrifying scene wherethe woman threw her naked ba-by girl from a sixth-floor windowas they begged her not to.

Tenisha Fearon appeared in aNew York courtroom where shewas arraigned and held withoutbail. Judge Kim Wilson also or-dered medical attention for Fea-ron and protective custody.

Fearon’s attorney asked thatshe be placed in protective custo-dy only if necessary because hedid not want her to be “isolated.”

United Airlines new CEOadmitted to hospital

United Airlines said Fridaythat its new CEO, Oscar Munoz,has been admitted to a hospital.The airline gave no explanation

or details of his condition.The Wall Street Journal re-

ported that Munoz suffered aheart attack, citing people famil-iar with the matter.

United Continental HoldingsInc. said Friday that Munoz’sfamily informed the company

that he was admitted to a hospi-tal on Thursday. The company,based in Chicago, said in a shortstatement that it was continuingto operate normally. A spokeswo-man said the company would notprovide additional information.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE NATION

Police officers stand guard near an apartment building in the Bronx borough ofNew York, Thursday. A 6-month-old girl died Thursday after being tossed fromthe window of an apartment building, witnesses and police said.

Photo by Mary Altaffer | AP

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015 THE ZAPATA TIMES 3A

4A THE ZAPATA TIMES Local SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015

The Zapata CountyChamber of Commerce isreminding locals to savethe date for the annualChristmas Parade andLighting of the County Pla-za, which will take placeThursday, Dec. 3.

The chamber also ex-tends an invitation to allbusinesses, churches, clubs,organizations, schools andelected officials to partici-pate in this year’s parade.

Trophies will be awardedto the top three best deco-rated floats.

The parade lineup starts

at 5 p.m. on Glenn Streetand 17th Avenue behindOur Lady of Lourdes Catho-lic Church. All entriesmust be in line no laterthan 5:30 p.m.

The parade will startpromptly at 6 p.m. and pro-ceed on 17th Avenue, head-ing south on U.S. Highway

83 and then taking a left on6th Avenue to end the pa-rade.

Immediately followingthe parade will be the an-nual Christmas tree light-ing ceremony at the CountyPlaza followed by gifts fromSanta.

Those wishing to partici-

pate in the parade must fillout an entry form and re-turn it no later than Dec. 1to either [email protected], by mail toZapata County Chamber ofCommerce, Attention: CeliaBalderas, P.O. Box 1028, Za-pata, TX 78076 or in personto 601 N. U.S. Hwy 83.

Children rode on this Western-themed float during the 2014 Christmas Parade and Lighting of the County Plaza activities. This year’s parade will take place Thursday, Dec.3. The Zapata County Chamber of Commerce extends an invitation to all businesses, churches, clubs, organizations, schools and elected officials to participate.

Courtesy file photo

Christmas parade preparations beginSPECIAL TO THE TIMES

A man has been ar-rested for stealing a flatscreen television from ahome, according to theZapata County Sheriff ’sOffice.

Identified as the sus-pect, Gabriel Santos Mo-reno, was charged withburglary of habitation.

At 4 p.m. Tuesday, dep-uties responded to theSiesta Shores neighbor-hood for reports of aman riding on an elec-tric wheelchair with alarge TV on his lap.

The man, who was lat-er identified as SantosMoreno, threw the TV ina brush area when he no-ticed deputies approach-ing the area, reportsstate.

Deputies said they re-covered the TV from thebrush area of Victoriaand Weslaco lanes andreturned the item to theowners.

(César G. Rodriguezmay be reached at 728-2568 or [email protected])

Man arrested for stealing TV


MORENO

The Zapata Lions Club ishosting a casino nightfundraiser benefiting the4th annual Christmas Tur-key Giveaway.

The fundraiser will takeplace Saturday, Nov. 14from 7–10 p.m. at the Holi-day Inn Express.

There will be blackjack,Texas Hold ‘em, rouletteand craps, along with fin-ger foods, drinks, gamblingchips and a chance atdrawings for a gas grill pit,50-inch HD television and aweekend at Kickapoo.

Tickets are $30 a personand additional entries areavailable for $5.

Tickets are available atthe Zapata Chamber ofCommerce, Zapata CountyNews, Steak House andState Farm office.

All games are casino-style and do not involve ac-tual money.

Lions to hostcasinonight

SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

A recent search warrantin the Medina Additionyielded narcotics, a firearmand cash, according to theZapata County Sheriff ’s Of-fice.

Sheriff ’s officials identi-fied the sus-pect as Gil-dardo JesusVillarreal III.He wascharged withpossession ofa controlledsubstance,possession of

marijuana and theft of fire-arm.

On Oct. 8, authoritiessaid they executed a searchwarrant in the 1700 blockof Bravo Avenue in the Me-dina Addition neighbor-hood.

Reports state the searchrendered 10.06 ounces of

marijuana, 9.7 grams of co-caine, $1,180.36 and a stolen

Colt .38 special.(César G. Rodriguez may

be reached at 728-2568 or [email protected])

Man charged for drugs

The Sheriff’s Office found marijuana, cocaine, cash and a stolen firearm in a recent search warrant. Gil-dardo Jesus Villarreal III was charged with possession of a controlled substance and theft of firearm.

Courtesy photo


VILLARREAL

The Laredo Police De-partment recently made astop in Zapata County toshare messages of anti-bul-lying, “Say no to Drugs”and provide Halloweensafety tips.

The LPD community re-lations unit stopped by Fi-del and Andrea R. Villar-real Elementary and Zapa-ta North Elementaryschools on Oct. 8.

LPD Officer AbrahamH. Diaz Jr. said the mess-age to the kids is to stayaway from drugs. For that,they used McGruff theCrime Dog.

With an interactive andenergetic show, officerspresented a skit to the chil-dren on the damage the

drugs do to the brain, Diazsaid.

“It’s fun and education-al,” he said.

Noemi Ramirez, coun-selor at Villarreal Elemen-

tary, echoed the thought.“It was really fun for the

kids,” she said.Anti-bullying Awareness

and Red Ribbon Week fallin October.

“We promote the anti-drug and anti-bullyingmessages, so children canmake better choices, sothey can go to college andbecome successful citi-

zens,” Ramirez said.Regarding narcotics, Ra-

mirez said children needto be aware of the dangersof drugs.

“It’s critical that we

start educating kids at avery young age to say nobecause they may be ex-posed to them, and theyneed to make the rightchoice,” she said.

LPD also offered Hallow-een safety tips to theyoungsters.

Diaz said children needto look both sides of thestreet before crossing.They are encouraged touse a flashlight at night,he said. Children shouldnot approach a home if it’snot well lit, according topolice.

After knocking on thedoor, children should takea few steps back. Childrenshould go trick-or-treatingwith an adult, Diaz said.

(César G. Rodriguezmay be reached at 728-2568or [email protected])

The LPD community relations unit stopped by Fidel and Andrea R. Villarreal Elementary and Zapata North Elementary schools on Oct. 8.

Courtesy photo

Laredo police visit Zapata elementary schoolsBy CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZ

THE ZAPATA TIMES

McGruff the Crime Dog helped spread the message to kids to stayaway from drugs.

Courtesy photo

With an interactive and energetic show, officers presented a skit tothe children on the damage the drugs do to the brain.

Courtesy photo

CABALGATA ANUAL10ª Cabalgata Anual

para Atención al Cáncer deSeno se llevará a cabo el 17de octubre. El registro iniciaa las 7 a.m. y la cabalgataarrancará a las 9 a.m. enBrewster Ranch sobre Carre-tera 59 en Laredo. Comidaen Hurd Ranch y final en LifeDowns. Donaciones: 20 dóla-res para cabalgantes, niños yadultos; donaciones para ca-rretas es de 5 dólares, niñosy adultos.

EMBRUJADAS CON ESPUELASPretty in Pink invita a

“Wicked in Spurs” el sábado17 de octubre en L.I.F.E.Downs Hwy. 59 de Laredo apartir de las 4 p.m. Informescon Lisa al (956) 744-6606 ocon Joe al (956) 489-7736.

TEMPORADA DE CAZALa temporada de caza

de la Paloma Ala Blanca enTamaulipas concluirá el do-mingo 18 de octubre.

A la par se tiene el perio-do de caza de la Paloma deCollar y la temporada de ca-za de la Paloma Huilota.

La temporada de caza dela Paloma Collar termina el18 de octubre, mientras quela temporada de la PalomaHuilota, terminará el 8 de no-viembre.

MUESTRA DE ARTE ‘DIGIART’El Instituto Tamaulipe-

co para la Cultura y las Artes(ITCA), convoca a jóvenescreadores, artísticas urbanosy grafiteros, a concursar enla 3ra. Muestra de Arte Urba-no DigiArt.

El tema de la muestra es“El Día de Muertos”. Cadaparticipante puede presentarhasta tres bocetos originalesinéditos. Las inscripcionesconcluyen el 23 de octubre.

Los resultados de estaconvocatoria se darán a co-nocer el 5 de noviembre. Laexhibición se llevará a caboen la Explanada del CentroCultural Tamaulipas, el vier-nes 13 de noviembre.

Las bases completas sepueden consultar en www.it-ca.gob.mx/convocatorias.

ACTIVIDADES EN PUERTO ISABEL

Celebración del Día delos Muertos se realizará del10 al 31 de octubre, en hora-rio de 4 p.m. a 11 p.m. en317 E. Railroad Ave. Habrámúsica, baile, vendedores, ex-hibiciones, actividades, músi-ca y concursos de disfraces.

Recepción para Artis-tas de la Galería se realizaráel viernes 30 de octubre, de5 p.m. a 8 p.m. en los Muse-os de Puerto Isabel y en laBiblioteca Pública de PuertoIsabel. El evento es abierto ala comunidad y se les invitaasistir disfrazados. Se ofrece-rán refrigerios por el Día delos Muertos y Halloween.

SEMANA DE LISTÓN ROJOEn el marco del Mes

de Prevención de Uso deNarcóticos a nivel Nacional,se celebrará el evento “RedRibbon Week” del 23 al 31de octubre.

El evento representa uncompromiso nacional paracrear conciencia y evitar eluso de narcóticos, entre estu-diantes.

Durante la semana se rea-lizarán diferentes actividadespara concientizar a los estu-diantes.

Para realizar donacionespuede ponerse en contactocon Norma González llaman-do al (956) 765-8389. Lo re-caudado será destinado acomprar obsequios para losestudiantes.

NOCHE DE CASINOEl Club de Leones de

Zapata invita al evento Casi-no Night Fundraiser que serealizará el sábado 14 de no-viembre de 7 p.m. a 10 p.m.en el Holiday Inn Express deZapata.

Ribereñaen Breve

Un incendio en las instalacionesde las tuberías de Lewis EnergyGroup en Encinal, fue confirmadoa las 7:48 a.m. mediante un comu-nicado de prensa por parte de lamisma empresa.

El incendio inició a las 4:15 a.m.del viernes y fue extinguido apro-ximadamente a las 10 a.m. No sereportaron personas lesionadas.

La causa del incendio continúasiendo investigado, indicó LewisEnergy.

“Primeros reportes indican queel incendio estuvo asociado con unconducto de gas natural de 24” queestá ubicada dentro de lo que Le-wis Energy Group conoce comoWest Yard Facility”, indica un co-municado de prensa por parte deLewis Energy.

Las llamaradas eran vistas des-de millas a la redonda, y equiposdel Departamento de Bomberos delCondado de Webb y del Departa-mento de Bomberos del CondadoLa Salle participaron en controlarel fuego.

“Bomberos y policías locales seencuentran monitoreando la situa-ción y se están tomando las pre-cauciones necesarias para protegerla seguridad de los residentes de lacomunidad de Encinal”, revelabaen un primero comunicado la em-presa.

La Carretera Estatal 44 en Enci-nal fue cerrada después del incen-dio pero una vez controlada la si-tuación fue reabierta a la circula-

ción.En un comunicado, el Departa-

mento de Transportación de Texasexpuso que el cierre fue “debido auna explosión en la planta de Le-wis Energy cerca de Encinal”.

Ricardo Rangel, Jefe del Depar-tamento de Bomberos del Condadode Webb, dijo que su personal con-cluyó su labor a las 8:50 a.m.

“Un grupo de trabajadores de laempresa estaban ahí tratando decerrar líneas y aliviar el fuego”, di-jo Rangel vía telefónica.

En la cuenta de Facebook de laOficina del Alguacil del Condadola Salle escribieron: “El peligro in-mediato a residentes de áreas cir-cunvecinas y conductores ha pasa-do”.

Testigos dijeron que escucharontres o cuatro explosiones.

“Sacudió mi pequeña casa”, co-mentó un testigo. “Parecía como siel Sol estuviera saliendo por elNorte”.

Lewis Energy Group sostuvoque están coordinando esfuerzoscon diversas agencias para atenderde manera apropiada cualquier da-ño y limpieza asociada con el inci-dente.

El Cotulla Independent SchoolDistrict informó a través de su por-tal que las clases estaban cancela-das el viernes en Encinal Elemen-tary School debido al incendio.Agregó que estudiantes de secun-daria y preparatoria de Encinal notenían que presentarse a clases de-bido a que no habría servicio deautobús escolar hacia Encinal.

LEWIS ENERGY GROUP

ExplosionesTIEMPO DE ZAPATA

Llamaradas fueron captadas por residentes cercanos a Lewis Energy Group, en Enci-nal, el viernes por la mañana. No se reportaron lesionados.

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A juzgar por los carteles, lamuchedumbre reunida el juevesen San Antonio, parecía estartotalmente a favor de “La Hi-

llary”, pero la pre-candidata presi-dencial demócrataHillary Clintonaún tenía variosases en la mangapor si no habíaquedado claracuál es su formade sentir sobre la

comunidad hispana, al menosdurante sus actividades de cam-paña en Texas.

Por ejemplo, tomemos una delas canciones populares.

En lugar de seleccionar lostemas “Born in America” o“Don’t Stop” de Fleetwood Mac,un tema que su esposo Bill utili-zó en su campaña, ella escogió“Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” de Selena.

En cuanto a su selección dequien interpretaría el HimnoNacional, dio la oportunidad ala Sabastien de la Cruz, vestidode mariachi. De la Cruz es el ni-ño contra el que se hicieron co-mentarios racistas después deque cantara el himno durantelos finales de la NBA en 2013.

Después de la actuación deSabastien tocó el turno de serpresentada al estrado.

Julián Castro, ex alcalde deSan Antonio y actual secretariode Vivienda de los EU enardecióa la muchedumbre al decir: “En2016, la comunidad latina de-sempeñará un papel muy im-portante para la elección denuestro presidente”.

Luego, habló en español a lamultitud y el auditorio enloque-ció.

En el escenario, Clinton ha-bló de los dreamers.

“Defenderé las acciones eje-cutivas del presidente (Barack)Obama. Me opondré a cualquieresfuerzo para deportar a losdreamers y si el Congreso seniega a actuar, iré mucho máslejos”, sostuvo Clinton.

Igualmente dedicó un tiempode su mensaje para relatar suexperiencia en San Antonio.

ELECCIONES

Clintonexhibesentirlatino

POR JESSICA HAMILTONLA VOZ

CLINTON

MÉXICO — Soldados mexica-nos detuvieron al presunto líderde una facción del Cartel del Gol-fo en Matamoros, informaron au-toridades estatales.

El gobierno de Tamaulipas se-ñaló en un comunicado que Án-gel Eduardo Prado Rodríguez,alias “Ciclón 7” y considerado el

jefe local del carteldel Golfo, fue captu-rado por los milita-res el viernes tem-prano en Matamo-ros, fronteriza conBrownsville, Texas.

Prado Rodríguezes señalado como lí-

der de los “Ciclones”, una de lasfacciones en que se ha dividido el

cartel del Golfo, y quien mante-nía un enfrentamiento con el gru-po rival de los “Metros”, de Rey-nosa.

El cartel del Golfo se fraccionóen una docena de grupos en losúltimos años, los cuales mantie-nen el control de varias activida-des de tráfico de drogas y perso-nas en varias zonas de Tamauli-pas, en el noreste del país.

MATAMOROS, MÉXICO

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PRADO

Iniciaron las fiestas para celebrarel 62º Aniversario de la fundaciónde Nueva Ciudad Guerrero, México.

La Presidenta Municipal Nathyel-li Elena Contreras Villarreal dio elarranque oficial de las festividadescon el encendido de la Lámpara Vo-tiva, el jueves.

Una carrera previa permitió alos residentes y visitantes al agenteFantaleón Díaz Torres, integrantede la Policía Estatal Acreditable,transportar la antorcha que encen-dería la lámpara votiva.

En su mensaje, Contreras Villar-real rindió un reconocimiento pú-blico a quienes fueron responsablesde construir la historia de la ciu-dad, “haciéndola cada día másgrande y más fuerte”.

La carrera fue organizada por elDirector de Fomento Deportivo, Ru-bén Llanos Tenorio.

El segundo evento del día fue unespectáculo de lucha libre gratuito.

Contreras Villarreal reiteró queel sábado y domingo el Puente In-

ternacional Falcón permaneceráabierto hasta la medianoche pararecibir turistas de Texas.

En tanto, para el viernes por lanoche estaba prevista la Coronaciónde la Reina de las Fiestas, y la pre-sentación del intérprete Santana Ol-vera, y del comediante Gary Show.

Para el sábado a las 9 p.m. seofrecerá un baile frente al Palacio

Municipal con la participación deLos Barón de Apodaca y SonoraTropicana.

Las fiestas concluyen el domingopero por la mañana habrá una Ca-balgata desde el Rancho El Jaujal yhasta el Centro Cívico y a las 8 p.m.la presentación de la obra teatral“Hija de su Madre” de Monterrey,Nuevo León.

GUERRERO, TAMAULIPAS

Momento en que la Presidenta Municipal de Nueva Ciudad Guerrero, México, Nathyelli Elena Contreras Villarreal, encendió la Lám-para Votiva de las fiestas de la ciudad.

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Celebran fiestas de ciudadTIEMPO DE ZAPATA

El agente Fantaleón Díaz Torres, integrante de la PEA, encabezó la carrera por el 62Aniversario de Nueva Ciudad Guerrero, México, llevando la antorcha, el jueves.

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SALT LAKE CITY — Pa-leontologists have discov-ered a cliff-side in Utahbrimming with fossils thatoffers a rare glimpse of des-ert life in western NorthAmerica early in the age ofdinosaurs.

Among the discoveries inwhat used to be a lakeshoreline between giantsand dunes is a new ptero-saur (TEH’-ruh-sawr) thatwould have been the largestflying reptile of the time. Itwielded its ferocious teethand powerful skull to gobbleup small crocodile typecreatures as it soared over adesert some 210 millionyears ago.

“If you saw one of thesethings coming at you withits jaws open, it would freakyou out of your mind,” saidBrooks Britt, a BrighamYoung University paleontol-ogist who presented prelimi-nary findings this week atthe Society of Vertebrate Pa-leontology conference inDallas.

He and fellow paleontolo-gists plan to publish thefindings in scientific jour-nal next year. Eight differ-ent animals, most likelynew, have been identified ata site discovered in 2009near Dinosaur NationalMonument on the Utah-Col-orado border. The discov-eries include:

A type of a strange-looking reptile with a headlike a bird, arms like a moleand a claw on the tip of thetail called a drepanosaur.

Several small crocodile-like creatures with armoron their backs called sphe-nosuchians.

Two different types ofmeat-eating dinosaurs, onerelated to the coelophysis, ascrawny dinosaur featuredin the recent movie, “Walk-ing with Dinosaurs.”

“It’s a fantastic site,” saidBrian Andres, a Universityof South Florida paleontolo-gist who heard the presenta-tion this week. “It’s in atime and a place that we

really do not have a good re-cord of.”

The pterosaur discoveryis significant because it fillsa gap in the fossil record be-tween earlier, smaller ptero-saurs and the giant onesthat came later, Andres said.

It is related to anotherwicked-jawed pterosaur dis-covered in England: the Di-morphodon.

Each side of its lower jawhad two fangs and 28 teeth.“This thing is built like anaerial predator,” Andressaid.

The skull and wing bonefound are also noteworthybecause they are intact, andnot crushed, a rarity for pte-rosaurs. It is the firstknown Triassic pterosaurfound in North America,other than one unearthed inGreenland, Britt said.

“It is absurdly rare tofind delicate, small skele-tons from anywhere in time,anywhere in the world,”said Adam Pritchard.

Treasure troveof fossils found

By BRADY MCCOMBSASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW HARTFORD, N.Y.— A mother and fatherwhipped their 19-year-oldson in church with anelectrical cord and whatappeared to be a belt dur-ing a deadly, all-night spir-itual counseling sessiontriggered by his desire toleave the fold, according towitness testimony and po-lice Friday.

Church deacon DanielIrwin testified he peeredthrough a doorway win-dow in the sanctuary dur-ing the more than 12-hourordeal at the Word of LifeChristian Church and sawLucas Leonard bleedingand in apparent agony.

“Lucas was rolling him-self back and forth on thefloor and making a sus-tained, monotone moan-ing,” Irwin said.

Within hours, the youngman would be dead, killedby blows inflicted by hisparents, sister and fellowchurch members, author-

ities said. His mother toldpolice the group tookturns hitting him andholding him down, statepolice investigator JasonNellis testified.

The testimony came ata court hearing for theparents, Bruce and Debo-rah Leonard, on man-slaughter charges. At theconclusion of the hearing,a judge ruled there wassufficient evidence to sus-tain the charges.

The arrests in NewHartford, an upstate townof 22,000 people, havethrown a spotlight on

Word of Life, a highly re-gimented and insularchurch that operated outof a large, red-brick for-mer school that alsoserved as a communalhome for several mem-bers.

Police Chief Michael In-serra said outside courtthat members told author-ities Lucas Leonard andhis 17-year-old brother,Christopher Leonard, werebeaten during what beganas spiritual counselingSunday night over Lucas’desire to leave the church.

A neighbor, James Con-

stantine, also said Lucashad talked about movingon and had mentioned hemight join the Army.

Christopher was hospi-talized in serious condi-tion, but his health wasimproving.

Four other churchmembers, including thevictims’ 33-year-old sister,Sarah Ferguson, have beencharged with assault.Their hearings will beheld later. All six defend-ants have pleaded notguilty.

Lucas Leonard’s motherand father sat silentlythroughout the proceedingwith their heads bowed,his eyes mostly closed, herlong, graying hair hangingin her face.

Bruce Leonard’s attor-ney said prosecutorshadn’t proved the coupleintended serious injuriesto their son. Deborah Leo-nard’s lawyer said themother felt helpless to stopan “intervention” shedidn’t expect to become soharsh.

Son beaten, tried to leave churchBy CAROLYN THOMPSON

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Deborah Leonard enters the courtroom for a hearing, Friday inNew Hartford, N.Y.

Photo by Tina Russell/Observer-Dispatch | AP

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015 Politics THE ZAPATA TIMES 9A

WASHINGTON — JoeBiden is sending out anunmistakable “forget-me-not” plea for 2016, brush-ing past signs of a HillaryRodham Clinton resur-gence with fresh and di-rect suggestions he couldbe on the verge of enter-ing the presidential race.

The vice president’s po-litical team broke itsmonths-long silence onthe subject with a lettercirculated by one of Bi-den’s closest friends andtop advisers. In the letter,though Biden is still offi-cially undecided, formerSen. Ted Kaufman de-scribes a “campaign fromthe heart” that Bidenwould wage and says a de-cision isn’t far off.

“If he decides to run,we will need each and ev-ery one of you — yester-day,” Kaufman says tempt-ingly, alluding to thebreakneck speed at whichBiden would have to rampup a campaign.

To its recipients — Bi-den’s former Senate,White House and cam-paign staffers — Thurs-day’s letter smacked of anunambiguous indicationBiden was all but green-lighting a presidentialcampaign. Several indi-

viduals familiar with theletter say it was circulatedwith Biden’s blessing. Theindividuals weren’t au-thorized to comment pub-licly and requested ano-nymity.

For his part, Biden hasbeen silent on the issuefor weeks while allowinghis own self-imposeddeadlines to fly by. His in-decision has led manyDemocratic leaders topublicly write off his pros-pects, particularly as Clin-ton revels in a strong de-bate performance and animpressive stretch offundraising, solidifyingher status as the Demo-cratic front-runner.

Clinton and Sen. BernieSanders both announcedthis week they’d raisedmore than $25 million intheir last three-monthstretch, a potent reminderthat many of the Demo-cratic establishment’s do-nors and top players havealready committed to a de-clared candidate.

To some Democrats, Bi-den runs the risk of beingperceived as a spoiler atthis point, drawing votesaway from Clinton with-out any substantial pros-pect for electoral success.In public comments, theGOP is all but laying out awelcome mat.

Even Biden friends and

aides remain at a loss toexplain exactly what isholding up his decision.

In more than a dozeninterviews over the pastweek, individuals close tothe vice president de-scribed a man still wres-tling with whether he andhis family would be wellserved by campaign pres-sures while they continuegrieving the death of Bi-den’s son in May. Yet morethan two months after Bi-den began seriouslyweighing that question,those individuals said itwas unclear what couldchange that would pushhim from undecided toyes or no.

Still, Biden and histeam are approachingtheir just-in-case prepara-

tions for a potential cam-paign with a new level ofseriousness.

This week he has beenplacing calls to top Demo-cratic strategists in earlyprimary states such as Io-wa, New Hampshire andSouth Carolina to solicitcandid assessments of hischances, according to in-dividuals familiar withthe calls. Biden’s team hasalso had detailed conver-sations with campaign da-ta and analytics experts todetermine how quickly hecould ramp up the digitalside of his campaign, theindividuals said.

For Biden’s supporters,including those backingthe Draft Biden superPAC, those signals serveas the reassurance they

were seeking that theirenthusiasm hasn’t beenmisplaced.

“The steps that we’reseeing toward a potentialcandidacy are definitelycreating some excitementand anticipation and hopein people that this mightbe happening,” said MikeCuzzi, a former Obamacampaign official in NewHampshire who is sup-porting the pro-Biden su-per PAC. He added that Bi-den’s supporters were “ea-ger for him to make adetermination.”

Clinton’s supportersfeel the same, but for dif-ferent reasons. After herwidely lauded perform-ance in Tuesday’s debate,her campaign chairmantold reporters it was timefor Biden to make up hismind.

Republicans, mean-while, have been piningfor a Biden campaign, inhopes that a more combat-ive Democratic primarywould weaken Clinton.

“Right now there’s noquestion Joe Biden wouldbe the toughest candidatefor Republicans to beat inthe general election,” saidRepublican National Com-mittee spokeswoman Alli-son Moore.

The lack of certaintyhas also put President Ba-rack Obama in a delicate

position, caught betweenloyalties to his vice presi-dent and his former secre-tary of state. “I’m not go-ing to comment on whatJoe’s doing or not doing,”Obama said Friday, de-scribing Biden as his “ve-ry able vice president.”

Most recent polls showa hypothetical Biden can-didacy running third, be-hind both Clinton andSanders, with support inthe high teens. Biden ap-pears to primarily drawvoters who would other-wise lean toward support-ing Clinton. Surveys haveshown a recent uptick inpositive opinions of Bidennationally, with 85 percentof Democrats viewing himpositively in a Gallup Pollthis month.

In the letter, Kaufmanoffered the first clues toBiden’s rationale for arun, describing an “opti-mistic” campaign thatwould focus on expandingmiddle-class opportunityand protecting Obama’slegacy. He also drew animplicit contrast withClinton, who has beencriticized by some as ap-pearing calculated oroverly choreographed.

“I think it’s fair to say,knowing him as we all do,that it won’t be a scriptedaffair,” Kaufman said. “Af-ter all, it’s Joe.”

Biden breaks silence, hints at potential runBy JOSH LEDERMANASSOCIATED PRESS

Vice President Joe Biden attends a meeting with U.S. President Ba-rack in the Oval Office Friday in Washington, D.C.

Photo by Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press | TNS

Democratic presidentialfront-runner Hillary Clintonstopped in San AntonioThursday to energize sup-porters and launch a cam-paign targeting Latinos, thecountry’s fastest-growingminority voting bloc.

Clinton received rousingapplause as she pledged toreform immigration laws,tackle income inequalityand provide more access tohealth care for workingfamilies.

Stumping in San Antoniofor the first time since 2008,Clinton reminded her sup-porters that her ties to thearea reach back to 1972,when she visited Texas forthe first time to help theGeorge McGovern cam-paign register voters.

“I owe the people ofSouth Texas a lot. Youtaught me so much, youopened your homes, you be-lieved in me, you workedhard for me,” she said. “I’mrunning for president towork hard for you.”

On Thursday, she addedan endorsement from amember of President Ba-rack Obama’s Cabinet. Ju-lián Castro, the U.S. housingsecretary and former SanAntonio mayor, officiallythrew his support behindClinton.

Castro has been widelydiscussed as a potentialClinton running mate,should she win the Demo-cratic nomination.

Southern Methodist Uni-versity political scientist CalJillson said Castro is on alengthy list of potential run-ning mates, but there’s stillample time for that decisionto be made. Right now, Clin-

ton is traveling around thecountry, racking up endorse-ments that serve as “onemore defense” against a lateentry to the race from VicePresident Joe Biden, whohas yet to decide on wheth-er to run.

“I think that it’s veryearly in the campaign,” Jill-son said. “She’s very fo-cused on winning the nomi-nation.”

And she’ll depend heavilyon Latinos and AfricanAmericans, the political sci-entist said.

Castro, who introducedClinton at the event, notedthe importance of the Lati-no vote in the 2016 election.

“She appeals to Ameri-cans of all backgrounds andcolors, different perspectivesand walks of life,” Castrosaid. “In 2016, the Latinocommunity is going to playa critical role in electing thenext president, so youcouldn’t have chosen a bet-ter city to kick off ‘Latinosfor Hillary’ than right here.”

The event at the historicSunset Station train depotdrew a couple thousandClinton supporters.

Event organizers are hop-

ing that Thursday’s turnoutwill help woo Clinton backto the Alamo City on March1, when primary election re-sults from Texas and severalother states will be tallied.

Earlier in the week, Clin-ton appeared with rivalsJim Webb of Virginia, Sen.Bernie Sanders of Vermont,Martin O’Malley of Mary-land and Lincoln Chafee ofRhode Island in the party’sfirst nationally televisedpresidential debate.

On Thursday, bannerswith an artistic image ofClinton hung in the San An-tonio venue, emblazonedwith the Spanish/Englishname “La Hillary” acrossthe bottom. It was her firstpublic appearance since thedebate.

As Castro and Clintonmade their way to the stagein the center of the outdoorpavilion, they worked thecrowd, shaking hands assupporters shot photos ofthe two. They chanted “Hill-ary! Hillary! Hillary!” as shewalked on stage.

The crowd belted out adeafening cheer as Clintonand Castro embraced justbefore the candidate began

her 25-minute speech.In addition to policy

ideas, Clinton told the thou-sands who’d gathered thatthere was no doubt in hermind that Texas, a staunchconservative state, wouldturn Democratic if theyworked to make that hap-pen.

Clinton thanked her sup-porters for everything theydid during her failed cam-paign for the 2008 presiden-tial election.

It didn’t take much forClinton to energize thecrowd. She chided GOP can-didates for divisive rhetoricon immigrants, saying thatLatinos “are our neighbors,our friends our families.”

Applause and cheerserupted from the crowd onthe candidate’s first men-tion of Obama and what shesaid he’s done for the coun-try since being elected in2008.

“For the past severalmonths … I’ve been travel-ing around our country, lis-tening to as many people asI can, and it’s clear that yes,our country has come along way these past six anda half years, thanks to thehard work and the sacrificeof people like you and to theleadership of President Oba-ma,” she said to cheers.“Folks, I don’t think Presi-dent Obama gets the credithe deserves for preventingus from falling into a greatdepression.”

She talked about fixingthe problems that plaguemiddle-class Americans: re-ducing student debt, makingchild care more affordable,ensuring equal pay for wom-en, and ensuring that first-generation college studentsstay in college and graduate,among other things.

Hillary targets Latinos at rallyBy JOSH BAUGH

SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, isshown during a campaign event, Thursday, in San Antonio.

Photo by Eric Gay | AP

WASHINGTON — Theperson responsible for en-suring that more than 12million veterans get theirbenefits has resigned asundersecretary of the Vet-erans Benefits Adminis-tration.

Allison Hickey hasserved as an undersecre-tary at the Department ofVeterans Affairs sinceJune 2011. She was incharge as a backlog in dis-ability claims pending formore than 125 days bal-looned to about 611,000 inMarch 2013 and then fellby nearly 90 percent.

VA Secretary Robert A.McDonald says he regret-fully accepted the resigna-tion and credited Hickeyfor modernizing the dis-ability claims process,moving it from a relianceon paper records to one inwhich records are stored

on computer. McDonaldsaid he appreciates allthat Hickey has done tohelp transform the VA.

But Hickey was alsocoming under fire fromveterans groups and law-makers after a critical in-spector general’s reportfound that two other exec-utives within the VeteransBenefits Administrationreceived a total of about$400,000 in relocation ex-penses and retained theirannual salaries despite asignificant decrease in jobresponsibilities.

A House committeewas scheduled to hold ahearing on that reportnext week. And 13 sen-ators from both partieswrote McDonald lastweek demanding that he“hold accountable thosewho orchestrated, partici-pated in, or benefitedfrom the unethical prac-tices outlined in this re-port...”

Veterans Affairsofficial resigns

By KEVIN FREKINGASSOCIATED PRESS

10A THE ZAPATA TIMES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015

where Tiguas gather toworship, and ended at theYsleta Mission, whereMass was celebrated. Theprocession included mem-bers from the Ysleta delSur Pueblo and the differ-ent organizations of themission, Baeza said.

“Many times we forgetthat we have this kind ofbuilding in our backyard,”Briseno said.

The mission kicked offthe celebration of its his-tory the previous Fridaywith a gathering of alum-ni, parents and teachers ofIncarnate Word, a schoolthat later became Our La-dy of Mount Carmel. Theoldest graduate of Incar-nate Word is 98-year-oldConchita Fernandez, whograduated in 1931.

The Ysleta and Socorro

missions were establishedin 1682, as a result of thePueblo Revolt in NewMexico. They were thefirst permanent missionsin Texas. After the PuebloRevolt of 1680 forced theTigua Indians and Spa-niards to leave New Mex-ico, Gov. Don Antonio deOtermin led 2,000 Spanishsurvivors and 317 Indiansto El Paso del Norte,where they establishedseveral missions.

In a 2013 column, Ja-nine Young, author of“Centennial History of theDiocese of El Paso,” notedthat El Paso’s missionsare 50 years older thanother missions in the stateand a century older thanthose in California. Thefirst mission that was es-tablished in the El Paso-

Juarez region was theMision de Nuestra SenoraGuadalupe, located on theother side of the RioGrande.

“I think the significanceof it obviously is that it’sthe oldest community inTexas,” Young said aboutYsleta’s anniversary. “Itmarks the beginning ofwhat would be the Catho-lic Church in the UnitedStates. That’s somethingthat a lot of people don’tknow. It’s an honor for theDiocese of El Paso to haveunder its stewardship andcare such a significantchurch and historical siteas the Ysleta Mission.”

The mission was found-ed by Franciscan monkswho originally named itCorpus Christi de la Ysle-ta del Sur. The mission

was later named the SanAntonio de Ysleta Mis-sion. It was named afterthe patron saint of the Ti-guas. In 1881, Jesuitschanged the name oncemore to Our Lady ofMount Carmel.

In its early years themission’s community in-cluded the church, a mon-astery, a dining hall, kitch-en and granary, Youngwrote in her column.

In 1829, floodwaterschanged the course of theRio Grande. The changingof the river put Socorro,San Elizario and Ysleta onthe U.S. side of the border,Young wrote. It also de-stroyed the Socorro andSan Elizario churches.

The Socorro Missionwas rebuilt in 1843 ap-proximately a half mile to

the west of its previoussite using the vigas (ceil-ing beams) from the origi-nal church, Young said.

“Even with the destruc-tion of the mission withthe changing of the river,the faith still continuedfrom the people in this ar-ea,” Briseno said. “Theycontinue to rebuild and re-build.”

The mission sufferedanother devastating set-back in 1907 when a firedestroyed it.

A May 15, 1907, articlefrom the El Paso MorningTimes retells the tragedy,saying that “the old Catho-lic Mission built at Ysletain the early part of the six-teenth century by pioneerpriests who constructed achain of churches fromthe Gulf Coast of Texas to

Santa Barbara, Cal., wasdestroyed last night byfire which started fromcandles that had been keptburning before its altarfor nearly four hundredyears.”

The fire destroyed ev-erything but the life-sizestatue of Jesus that is stillpart of the mission. Thestatue is used annually forHoly Week and Good Fri-day when Catholics com-memorate the death andresurrection of Christ.

Reflecting on the historyof Ysleta, Briseno saidperseverance and faithhave long been part of thechurch and the region.

“Even with physicaldamage to the mission,the faith of the people con-tinued to live on,” Brisenosaid.

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to authorities regardingthe smuggling attempt.

“Villanueva-Saldañastated that he was recruit-ed on the Mexican side tobe the foot guide for thegroup,” records state. “Vil-lanueva-Saldaña stated thathe was not getting paid,but that they threatenedhis family if he didn’t crossthe group.”

Immigrants held as ma-terial witnesses identifiedVillanueva-Saldaña as thefoot guide of the group, re-cords state. Villanueva-Sal-daña allegedly told immi-grants to hide when a hel-icopter was hovering in thearea.


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Homeland Security Inves-tigations special agents re-sponded to interview Leal-Hernandez, who allegedlyagreed to talk to authorities.

“Leal-Hernandez statesthat he was driving the (un-documented immigrants)

from a stash house to adrop-off location before theHebbronville (Border Patrol)Checkpoint,” states the com-plaint.


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RAMALLAH, West Bank— Stone-throwing protestserupted across the WestBank and Gaza on Friday,and assailants firebombed asite revered by Jews as thetomb of biblical Joseph on a“day of rage” against Israel.Four Palestinians werekilled by Israeli fire, includ-ing a laborer disguised as ajournalist who stabbed anIsraeli soldier.

The U.N. Security Coun-cil convened an emergencymeeting to discuss the esca-lation, which has beenmarked by a spate of Pales-tinian stabbing attacks andan Israeli security crack-down. Troops manned road-blocks in Arab neighbor-hoods of Jerusalem, a cen-ter of unrest, and orderedsome Palestinian men to lifttheir shirts to show theywere not armed.

The violence comes at atime when a possible parti-tion of the land between theJordan River and the Medi-terranean into two states —Palestine alongside Israel —is fading.

This has left many Pales-tinians frustrated becauseall paths to independenceappear blocked. The ten-sions have also been stoked

by Palestinian fears that Is-rael is trying to expand itspresence at a major Muslim-run shrine in Jerusalem, aclaim Israel has denied.

Taye-Brook Zerihoun, asenior U.N. official, told theSecurity Council that Is-rael’s long rule over the Pal-estinians and diminishingprospects for achieving aPalestinian state have trans-formed “long-simmeringPalestinian anger into out-right rage.” The current cri-sis cannot be resolved by se-curity measures alone, Zeri-houn warned.

Israel’s new U.N. ambas-sador, Danny Danon, ac-cused Palestinian PresidentMahmoud Abbas of “dan-gerous incitement” againstIsrael with what he called“hate-filled speech,” includ-ing claims that Israel is try-ing to change the status quoat the hilltop Jerusalemcompound. The shrine is re-vered by Muslims as thespot where Prophet Muham-mad ascended to heavenand by Jews as the home oftheir biblical Temples.

Over the past month,eight Israelis have beenkilled in Palestinian attacks,most of them stabbings.During the same period, 36Palestinians were killed byIsraeli fire — 15 labeled byIsrael as attackers, and theothers in clashes between

stone-throwers and Israelitroops.

Most of the attacks on Is-raelis were carried out byPalestinians with no knownties to militant groups. Pal-estinian factions, includingAbbas’ Fatah and its rival,the Islamic militant Hamas,have mainly been involvedin organizing stone-throw-ing protests in the WestBank and on the Israel-Gazaborder.

On Friday, hundredsjoined protests after Muslimnoon prayers, after Palesti-nian factions called for a“day of rage.”

Israeli troops opened firein several locations, killingthree Palestinians, includ-ing two in Gaza and a 19-

year-old in the town of BeitFurik in the West Bank.

Munadil Hanani, a pro-test organizer in Beit Furik,said hundreds of Palesti-nians walked to an Israelimilitary post on the out-skirts of the town and threwstones at troops who re-sponded with live roundsand rubber-coated steel pel-lets. “They were very angryand wanted to attack thesoldiers,” he said of thestone-throwers, most ofthem teens.

He said tensions rose inrecent days after Israel an-nounced plans to demolishthe family homes of severalsuspects in a shooting am-bush earlier this month thatkilled an Israeli couple who

lived in a nearby Jewish set-tlement.

“This intifada (uprising)will continue in variousforms,” Hanani said. “Peo-ple are fed up.”

Nearby, in the West Bankcity of Nablus, dozens of Pal-estinians firebombed a siteknown as Joseph’s Tombthat is revered by someJews as the burial place ofthe son of the biblical patri-arch Jacob. The pre-dawnattack blackened exteriorwalls of the stone structurelocated near the Balata refu-gee camp and a scene of Is-raeli-Palestinian clashes inthe past.

Abbas condemned the ar-son as “irresponsible,” or-dered an investigation andpromised quick repairs.

U.N. Secretary- GeneralBan Ki-moon condemnedthe arson attack and wel-comed Abbas’ condemna-tion, U.N. deputy spokesmanFarhan Haq said.

“This reprehensible act isyet another example of theescalating violence in the re-gion, threatening to furtherinflame sensitivities owingto the religious significanceof Joseph’s Tomb,” Haqsaid. “The secretary-generalcalls on all sides to respectthe sanctity of all holy sites,refrain from any inflamma-tory actions or statementsand reject the extremist ele-

ments that are pursuing apolitical agenda seeking totransform the current situa-tion into a religious con-flict.”

The Palestinian leaderhas tried to lower the tem-perature, telling his securitycommanders that armed at-tacks on Israelis hurt Pales-tinian interests. However, hehas also told his forces notto stop Palestinian stone-throwers heading to con-frontations with Israelitroops.

Dore Gold, a senior Israe-li Foreign Ministry official,said Joseph’s Tomb was tar-geted “just because it is aplace in which Jews pray.”Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an Is-raeli army spokesman, saidthe attack violates freedomof worship and that the mil-itary will “bring the perpe-trators of this despicable actto justice.”

For centuries, the site hasbeen identified with the bib-lical Joseph but some Pales-tinians say it was a sheikh’sgrave or used as a mosque.The tomb has become a pop-ular prayer site in recentyears among some sects ofreligious Jews.

The site is located in anarea under Palestinian self-rule and visits by Jews arecoordinated between Palesti-nian security forces and Is-raeli troops.

4 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in unrestBy MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH

AND KARIN LAUBASSOCIATED PRESS

Palestinians burn tires during clashes with Israeli troops near Ra-mallah, West Bank, Friday.

Photo by Majdi Mohammed | AP

BUDAPEST, Hungary —Hungary shut down its bor-der with Croatia to the freeflow of migrants on Satur-day, a move experts saycould leave thousands ofpeople on their way towestern Europe strandedin the small Balkan nation.

Hungarian Foreign Min-ister Peter Szijjarto an-nounced the decision aftera meeting of the nationalsecurity Cabinet and theborder, reinforced with arazor-wire fence, was closedfrom midnight (2200 GMTFriday).

Several hundred mi-grants who reached theborder minutes before thedeadline would still be al-

lowed to enter Hungary forhumanitarian reasons, gov-ernment spokesman ZoltanKovacs told reporters in theborder village of Zakany.

“The Hungarian govern-ment has taken the steps ...to protect the internal Eu-ropean freedoms and thesecurity of the citizens ofHungary and Europe,” Ko-vacs said minutes after theshutdown.

Hungary decided to or-der the border clampdownafter EU leaders who metThursday in Brussels failedto agree on a plan backedby Hungary to send EUforces to block migrantsfrom reaching Greece.

“We know that this isnot the best, but only thesecond-best solution,” Szij-jarto said.

He said normal bordercheckpoints between thetwo countries would re-main open, though inspec-tions will be tightened. “Wewill introduce stricter con-trols to be able to block bor-der crossings done illegal-ly,” Szijjarto said.

Although Croatia is alsoa member of the EuropeanUnion, unlike Hungary it isnot part of the Schengenzone of passport-free travel.Migrants could still applyfor asylum in Hungary attwo border transit zones,Szijjarto said.

Over 383,000 migrantsfleeing war and poverty inthe Middle East, Africa andAsia have entered Hungarythis year, nearly all passingthrough on their way toGermany and other desti-

nations further west in theEU. The country clampeddown on its border withSerbia with a similar fenceon Sept. 15 and since thenmigrants have been takinga detour through Croatia toreach Hungary.

“We have every hopethat the introduction of theborder closure (with Croa-tia) will have the same posi-tive effects as what we ex-perienced on the borderwith Serbia,” said GyorgyBakondi, senior adviser toPrime Minister Viktor Or-ban.

Croatia will now startsending migrants to its bor-der with Slovenia, anotherEU country in the Schen-gen zone, which also sharesborders with Hungary andAustria.

Hungary closes border with CroatiaBy PABLO GORONDIASSOCIATED PRESS


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If there is one commonlanguage across the foodsystem in America, fromthe fields to the dishwash-ing rooms, it is not Eng-lish. It is Spanish.

Immigrants from Mexi-co and Central Americaare an integral part of U.S.agriculture. They work infood processing andslaughterhouses; they aremilkers and cheesemakers;they prepare and servefood.

About 50 percent of allagricultural workers areundocumented, while 19percent are immigrantsauthorized to work. Nearlythree-quarters of all agri-cultural workers are fromMexico or Central Ameri-ca: 68 percent of all agri-cultural workers wereborn in Mexico and 6 per-cent in Central America.Mexicans and CentralAmericans were also 95percent of the peoplerounded up and deportedby the U.S. government in2014. Over and over again,I have heard farmers, busi-ness owners and restau-rant owners say they can-not find American workerswilling to work as hard asimmigrants (or for as littlepay, they always forget toadd). Why, then, do theynot advocate for immigra-tion reform?

The answer can befound by comparing theminimum wage for anagricultural worker on anH2A visa to the wages ofundocumented workerswho often do the samejobs. Often the workerswho are here illegally arepaid substantially lessthan those here legally onan agricultural visa.

The median wage forcrop farmworkers was$8.99 per hour in 2011, themost recent data. The H2Avisa sets the minimumhourly wage for agricultu-ral workers between $10 to$13.59 per hour dependingon the state plus free hous-ing and transportation tothe worksite at no charge.

Furthermore, undocu-

mented workers cannot or-ganize, are unlikely tocomplain, and can be firedif they get injured on thejob. So besides beingcheaper to hire undocu-mented workers, employ-ees can treat them howev-er they like. While manyemployers do treat theirworkers well, the point isthat they do not have to.

In theory, it is a viola-tion of federal law to hireundocumented workers,punishable by civil finesand criminal penalties ifdone as a pattern or prac-tice. Yet despite rhetoricthat the Obama adminis-tration has increased audi-ts of employers, a reportby the Office of the Inspec-tor General of HomelandSecurity criticizes Immi-gration and Customs En-forcement for frequentlyissuing warnings ratherthan fines to employers.And when fines are im-posed, they are reduced byan average of 40 percentthrough "negotiations."

Hiring undocumentedworkers is in fact a sys-temic pattern and practiceof agriculture and the foodindustry. When I tell peo-ple in the local food move-ment that I have spoken toundocumented workerswho work at one of theirfavorite local food restau-rants, they respond that"obviously" the owner orchef did not know theywere undocumented.

But I have also seen theworkers’ pay stubs from lo-cal restaurants. Some arehandwritten notes thatcontain neither the namenor address of the busi-ness or employee, nohours or Social Securitynumber, just the total payand an amount deductedfor unspecified "taxes." Itseems pretty clear theseemployers know exactlywhat they are doing.

Fundamentally, our foodsystem depends on theseimmigrant workers. Ourfood system literally couldnot function without them.We need immigration re-form that acknowledgesand gives basic rights tothe people who feed us.

COLUMN

Immigrantfood workersneed a break

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Friends of mine havebeen raving about the docu-mentary “Most Likely toSucceed,” and it’s easy tosee what the excitement isabout. The film is a bold in-dictment of the entire K-12educational system.

Greg Whiteley’s docu-mentary argues that theAmerican school system isultimately built on a Prus-sian model designed over100 years ago. Its main ac-tivity is downloading con-tent into students’ minds,with success or failure mea-sured by standardized tests.This lecture and textbookmethod leaves many chil-dren bored and listless.

Worse, it is unsuited forthe modern workplace. In-formation is now ubiqui-tous. You can look up anyfact on your phone. A com-puter can destroy Ken Jen-nings, the world’s best“Jeopardy!” contestant, at agame of information retriev-al. Computers can writeroutine news stories and doroutine legal work. Our test-driven schools are trainingkids for exactly the rotetasks that can be donemuch more effectively bycomputers.

The better approach, thefilm argues, is to take con-tent off center stage and toemphasize the relationalskills future workers willactually need: being able tomotivate, collaborate, per-severe and navigate througha complex buffet of free-lance gigs.

Whiteley highlights one

school he believes is train-ing students well. This isHigh Tech High, a celebrat-ed school in San Diego thatwas started by San Diegobusiness and tech leaders.This school takes an oldidea, project-based learning,and updates it in tech cloth-ing.

There are no textbooks,no bells marking the end ofone period or start of thenext. Students are givengroup projects built arounda driving question. Onegroup studied why civiliza-tions rise and fall and thenbuilt a giant wooden model,with moving gears and giz-mos, to illustrate the stu-dents’ theory. Anothergroup studied diseasestransmitted through blood,and made a film.

“Most Likely to Succeed”doesn’t let us see what stu-dents think causes civiliza-tional decline, but it devotesa lot of time to how skilledthey are at working inteams, demonstrating gritand developing self-confi-dence. There are some greatemotional moments. A shygirl blossoms as a theaterdirector. A smart but strug-gling boy eventually solvesthe problem that hasstumped him all year.

The documentary isabout relationships, not sub-

ject matter. In the school,too, teachers cover abouthalf as much content as in aregular school. Longstretches of history and oth-er subject curriculums areeffectively skipped. Studentsdo not develop conventionalstudy habits.

The big question iswhether such a shift fromcontent to life skills is theproper response to a high-tech economy. I’d say it’s atbest a partial response.

Ultimately, what mattersis not only how well youcan collaborate in groups,but the quality of the mindyou bring to the group. Inrightly playing up soft skillsthe movie underemphasizesintellectual virtues. For ex-ample, it ignores the distinc-tion between informationprocessing, which comput-ers are good at, and knowl-edge, which they are not.

If we want to producewise people, what are thestages that produce it? First,there is basic factual acqui-sition. You have to knowwhat a neutron or a gene is,that the Civil War came be-fore the Progressive Era. Re-search shows that studentswith a concrete level of coreknowledge are better at re-membering advanced factsand concepts as they goalong.

Second, there is patternformation, linking facts to-gether in meaningful ways.This can be done by a goodlecturer, through class dis-cussion, through uncon-scious processing or by go-

ing over and over a chal-lenging text until it clicks inyour head.

Third, there is mental ref-ormation. At some pointwhile studying a field, thestudent realizes she haslearned a new language andway of seeing — how tothink like a mathematicianor a poet or a physicist.

At this point informationhas become knowledge. It isalive. It can be manipulatedand rearranged. At thispoint a student has themental content and archi-tecture to innovate, to comeup with new theses, chal-lenge others’ theses and bechallenged in turn.

Finally after living withthis sort of knowledge foryears, exposing it to the rig-ors of reality, wisdomdawns. Wisdom is a hard-earned intuitive awarenessof how things will flow. Wis-dom is playful. The wiseperson loves to share, andcajole and guide and won-der at what she doesn’tknow.

The cathedrals of knowl-edge and wisdom are basedon the foundations of fac-tual acquisition and cultur-al literacy. You can’t over-leap that, which is whatHigh Tech High is in dan-ger of doing.

“Most Likely to Succeed”is inspiring because it re-minds us that the new tech-nology demands newschools. But somehow rela-tional skills have to betaught alongside factual lit-eracy.

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Approach to educationfocuses on modern life skills

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To the editor:I, Alonso M. Lopez,

sheriff of Zapata Countyannounce my re-electionbid for sheriff. As yoursheriff I’m responsiblefor law enforcement forthe county, responsiblefor providing safety andsecurity to all citizens,supervising all issuesdealing with state lawsand assuring compliancewith state and federalagencies.

During my first termin office, I’ve been deter-mined to continuously bea full time county sher-iff, and I have diligentlytasked myself with theduty of working closelywith my staff to performat the highest level ofproductivity. Being yoursheriff is my only joband I have solemnly ded-icated all of my time andeffort to perform all theduties and responsibili-ties of a sheriff with ded-ication, hard work, hon-esty and integrity.

As your sheriff, I willcontinue to be highlycommitted to the citizensof Zapata County, andwill work tirelessly tomeet all the law enforce-ment needs of our com-munities. In my effort to

keep Zapata County agreat and safe place tolive, I will continue towork hard and diligentlyto improve the lines ofcommunication betweenthe Sheriff ’s Office andother elected officials, aswell as other law en-forcement agenciesworking in Zapata Coun-ty. I will continue tomaintain my strictly en-forced “Open Door Poli-cy,” welcoming all citi-zens into my office as Ihave done to this day. Iwill continue to hold allpersonnel accountable tothe highest standardsand expectations setforth by the State of Tex-as, Zapata County andthe Zapata County Sher-iff ’s Office.

I have worked in lawenforcement for 33 yearsand I’m prepared to con-tinue serving the citi-zens of Zapata County asyour sheriff. It is withgreat respect and hum-bleness that I take thisopportunity to ask foryour continued supportand vote as I initiate myre-election campaign.

Sincerely,Alonso M. LopezSheriff of Zapata

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The United States andMexico on Thursdaylaunched a pilot cargo pre-inspection program in La-redo that aims to facilitatetrade between the two na-tions.

Under the program, car-go will be inspected justonce in the exportingcountry by customs offi-cials from both nations.Officials say it has the po-tential to ease shippingcongestion by reducingwait times up to 80 per-cent and lower storagecosts and other expenses.

U.S. Homeland SecuritySecretary Jeh Johnsonsaid at a news conferencein Mexico City that theprogram “represents a re-markable evolution” of thebilateral relationship.

“The pre-inspection pi-lot program which thismemorandum will en-shrine opens the door fora 21st century approach totrade facilitation betweenour two countries,” John-son said.

Mexican Treasury Sec-retary Luis Videgaray saidthe program began Thurs-day at the airport in Lare-do, Texas, with the first in-

spections carried out byofficials from both sides ofthe border, includingarmed Mexican agents.

In the coming days andweeks the program will beexpanded to two facilitiesin Mexico: Mesa de Otayin Baja California, nearSan Diego, and San Jero-nimo, which is in Chihua-hua state near the bordercities of El Paso and Ciu-dad Juarez.

“In essence it meansthat instead of having twobureaucratic hurdles ...now, thanks to joint coop-eration and trust, we aregoing to have just one in-spection,” Videgaray said.

“What are we aimingfor?” he added. “To gener-alize this way of working,based on efficiency andtrust to achieve securityand competitiveness.”

Johnson said more than$1.45 billion in trademoves between Mexicoand the U.S. each day, to-taling over $530 billion ayear.

In the last two decades,he said, Mexican importsof U.S. goods have risenfrom $41.6 billion to $240billion. Over the same pe-riod, U.S. imports of Mex-ican goods went from $40billion to $295 billion.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson attends a pressconference in Mexico City, Thursday.

Photo by Eduardo Verdugo | AP

US, Mexico starttrade program

By PETER ORSIASSOCIATED PRESS

BETHLEHEM, Pa. —Christmas won’t come earlythis year, but the giftsmight.

Just in time for the win-ter holiday shopping season,Amazon, Wal-Mart, Macy’sand other retailers areworking behind the scenesto make sure they can deliv-er online orders to shoppersfaster.

Retailers are building big-ger warehouses —some thesize of 20 football fields — tohandle shipments. They’realso sending orders to shop-pers directly from theirstores and using sophisticat-ed software that tells themthe quickest, cheapest wayto get orders shipped. AndAmazon is cutting the timeit takes to process an orderfrom hours to minutes byusing robots to pull itemsfor shipment in its ware-houses.

It’s a race for time by re-tailers as more people shoponline. U.S. online sales areexpected to increase 12 per-cent to $371 billion this year,accounting for 10 percent ofoverall retail sales, says For-rester Research. But as on-line shopping grows, sodoes the impatience of shop-pers who want their ordersfast.

Traditional brick-and-mortar stores are trying tocatch up to Amazon.com,which set the standard forspeed with its two-day deliv-ery for members of itsPrime loyalty program whopay $99 a year. But evenAmazon feels pressure toplease customers who havelittle tolerance for lengthydelivery waits.

“I would like to planahead, but I’ve been able towait until the last minute toget things done,” said KeriEarly, a Clyde, Illinois, resi-

dent who orders from Ama-zon frequently.

For many retailers, thegoal to meet the demands ofshoppers like Early forspeedy service is to maketwo-day delivery standard.That’s half the average forstandard delivery for the top40 online retailers, accord-ing to data company Stella-Service. But most are stop-ping short of guaranteeingcustomers faster deliveries.

Wal-Mart says it aims toget packages to shopperswho get standard shippingwithin two days for a major-ity of the U.S. this holidayseason. The retailer now us-es 83 of its more than 4,500U.S. stores to ship to custom-ers.

The world’s largest retail-er also is spending $1.2 bil-lion to $1.5 billion in onlineinvestments this year and$1.1 billion next year. That’sup from last year’s $1 bil-lion. The investments aresqueezing profit: Wal-Martstock tumbled Wednesdayafter it warned earningswould be down as much as12 percent next year in partbecause of its heavy spend-ing on e-commerce.

Still, Wal-Mart is spend-ing to stay competitive withonline rivals. Since last year,the world’s largest retailerhas opened five warehousesacross the country in Beth-

lehem, Pennsylvania; FortWorth, Texas; Plainfield, In-diana; and Atlanta to handleonline orders. Next year,Wal-Mart plans to open an-other center in southernCalifornia, one in Dallasand two more in Florida.

The new warehouseseach will ship hundreds ofthousands of orders daily,four to five times its dozensof existing smaller ware-houses. Each new ware-house has several millionitems, five times the net-work of older warehouses.That will enable Wal-Martto offer more consolidatedorders arriving in fewerboxes.

“This is going to allow usto be more efficient, to do itfaster, to do it cheaper andbe more accurate with theorders, which is importantwith the customers,” saidGreg Foran, CEO of Wal-Mart’s U.S. business.

One of Wal-Mart’s twoBethlehem warehousesopened in July and is con-sidered the retailer’s crownjewel. It has two towers withfour stories of the fastestmoving items of the seasonthat can be retrievedthrough a computerizedchute. For example, for theholidays, that would includeiPads and swimsuits for thesummer

“By mid-November, this

place will be humming,”said Justen Traweek, Wal-Mart’s vice president of e-commerce operations andfulfillment.

Other retailers also havebuilt new warehouses tomeet demand:

Home Depot opened itsthird and largest warehousein Troy, Ohio, in Septemberto handle online orders. To-gether, these warehouseswill allow Home Depot toship to 90 percent of shop-pers within two days.

Macy’s new facility,which recently opened inTulsa, Oklahoma, will en-able the retailer to send 90percent of packages in cen-tral western states withintwo days. By year’s end, Ma-cy’s says the chain will beable to deliver packageswithin two days overall, fas-ter than its standard ofthree to six days.

Target opened two newwarehouses this year. It alsois now shipping productsfrom 462 of its 1,800 stores,up from 150 a year ago. Tar-get said online shoppers arelikely to get deliveries with-in two days if the product isdelivered from the store,compared with four daysfrom the warehouse. Targetalso launched a programthat enables it to let shop-pers know a precise deliverydate. That’s instead of offer-ing a wide delivery windowof four to six days.

Nordstrom opened athird warehouse in Eliza-bethtown, Pennsylvania, tohandle online orders. Thatwill eventually allow thechain to deliver orders tohalf of its customers in twodays.

“You know our friends inSeattle continue to set thestandard,” Mike Koppel,Nordstrom’s chief financialofficer, told investors in Sep-tember, referring to Ama-zon.

Wal-Mart speeds up deliveriesBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO

ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this July 22 photo, Wal-Mart president and CEO Greg Foran wearsa Wal-Mart vest as he talks with employees in Bethlehem, Pa.

Photo by Mel Evans | AP

WASHINGTON — U.S.manufacturing productionfell for the second straightmonth in September asfactories cranked out few-er appliances, computers,and electronics.

Factory output declined0.1 percent, the FederalReserve said Friday, fol-lowing a drop of 0.4 per-cent in August. Manufac-turers also cut back onproduction of steel andother metals.

The decline suggeststhat a strong dollar, weakoverseas economies, andcautious U.S. consumersare holding back factoryoutput. Many companiesare also focused on reduc-ing stockpiles that werebuilt up in the spring bycutting back on orders for

new goods. Overall industrial pro-

duction, which includesmining and utilities, fell0.2 percent, also its secondstraight decline. Miningoutput plunged 2 percentas energy companiessharply reduced oil andgas drilling. Utility outputrose 1.3 percent.

Factories have had atough year and there is lit-tle sign of improvementany time soon. A strongU.S. dollar and weak over-seas growth have ham-mered U.S. exports. Thedollar has risen about 13percent in value againstother currencies in thepast 12 months. Thatmakes U.S. products moreexpensive, and thereforeless attractive, in othercountries.

U.S. consumers have al-so slowed their spending

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Big overseas economiesare grappling with sloweror nonexistent growth, in-cluding China, Canada,Europe, and Brazil. Cana-da, the United States’largest trading partner, isin recession.

China and Brazil hadbeen critical sources of de-mand for American-madeindustrial machinery,such as mining trucks,construction equipment,and agricultural ma-chines. Their economicslowdowns have hit salesand profits for companiessuch as Caterpillar andUnited Technologies.

Falling oil prices have

also dragged down factoryoutput. Crude oil prices,which were around $60per barrel in the spring,have fallen to about $49.The decline has forced en-ergy firms to curtail drill-ing, eliminating much ofthe need for new pipelinesand equipment that hadboosted factory orders inprevious years.

A private survey earlierthis month found that U.S.manufacturing activity ex-panded last month at theslowest pace in two years.Measures of new ordersand production alsodropped sharply, suggesti-ng weakness in manufac-turing is likely to contin-ue.

Overall, the economy isexpected to expand at justa 1 percent to 1.5 percentannual rate in the July-September quarter.

Cautious consumers hold backBy CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER

ASSOCIATED PRESS

AUSTIN — The Texasunemployment rate roseslightly in September to 4.2percent, the Texas Work-force Commission reportedFriday.

Statewide unemploymentwas 4.1 percent during Au-gust. The nationwide joblessrate last month was 5.1 per-cent, according to a com-mission statement.

Amarillo had the lowestSeptember unemploymentrate across Texas, at 3.1 per-cent. The McAllen-Edin-burg-Mission area had thestate’s highest jobless figurelast month at 7.4 percent,TWC officials said.

Texas employers added224,800 jobs in the past year,the commission said. The

trade, transportation, andutilities industry expandedby 11,400 positions lastmonth, leading job growthamong all industries.

“Texas employers addedjobs in eight of 11 industriesin September, offering op-portunities to a diverse poolof job-seekers,” said Com-missioner Ronny Congleton.The education and healthservices industry added10,900 jobs last month.

“Private-sector employ-ment was strong in Septem-ber, with our Texas employ-ers outpacing the overall jobgrowth, adding 31,200 jobs,”said Commissioner RuthHughs.

The Texas economy con-tinues to generate a steadygrowth of jobs, said Chair-man Andres Alcantar.

Unemploymentup in Texas

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NEW YORK — Gwen Ste-fani is leaving “The Voice”this winter, when ChristinaAguilera returns, but she’snot done with the NBCshow yet.

She said in an interviewFriday she’d love to return.Now about halfway throughSeason 9, Stefani alreadymisses her show family.

“They’re all so smart,they’re all lovely. They allgot my back. I love them,”she said.

As for the rest of her life,she’s trying to live in thehere and now and enjoy afew “priceless surprises,” ahashtag she’s taken on for aprivate concert Saturdaynight for MasterCard card-holders.

The California native andmom of three oozed joybackstage ahead of the ex-clusive appearance, sowhat’s got Stefani so happy?

“Everything. It’s exciting.I’m in New York. Just thatalone. ... I mean, I neverwent anywhere when I wasa little girl,” she smiled.

And there’s also the birthof her third child, Apollo,about 19 months ago, andthe rest of this season on“The Voice.”

“I can’t wait to get back

on set and do the lives. It’sso fun. It’s the funnest thingI think I’ve ever done, andso inspiring,” Stefani said.

She’s going through aphase, of sorts.

“I don’t have any plansfor the future. In fact, mywhole thing right now is notthinking about the past orthe future and, like, beingright here, right this second,because it’s so great rightnow. It’s such a great, amaz-ing time,” Stefani explained.

So if she were a contest-ant rather than a judge on“The Voice,” who would shepick as a mentor?

“Impossible to answer,and I will not,” she laughed.“But I would say, I knowthat I’ve worked with Phar-rell before and I know whatthat feels like. I’ve workedwith Adam and I knowwhat that feels like. I’ve nev-er worked with Blake so Idon’t know what that wouldbe like, but I do know thatme and Blake have a lot ofsimilar tastes in people, invoices, which is a shock.”

Stefani’s band, No Doubt,last put out an album in2012, but she’s recorded solo,made music with Pharrelland joined Eminem on arap-rock turn, “Kings NeverDie,” for the soundtrack ofthe film “Southpaw.” She al-so has put in some writing

and studio time on a newsolo album but hasn’t an-nounced its timing.

“Kingston (her 9-year-oldson) said, ’Mom you betterget a hit,’ so I’m gonna tryto do that for him,” she said.

Meantime, she’ll continueto juggle family and musicand TV, acknowledging thatthe latter as far as “TheVoice” is concerned has be-come less about finding thenext superstar and moreabout helping out young tal-ent.

“How many MichaelJacksons are there in a life-time, or in generations?They come along when theycome along,” Stefani said.“It’s just a platform. There’sso many talented people butthere has to be magic andthings, destiny and fate, andGod, and all these thingshave to happen for a super-star to emerge.”

Would she survive thegrueling competition?

“I can’t imagine doingwhat they do. I couldn’t doit,” she said. “I mean, thepressure, and then to behaving us trying to tellthem, ’OK and then you cando this and you can do that,’taking in all that informa-tion and trying to make ithappen on a live TV show.It’s a lot. They do reallygood.”

In this May 16 file photo, Gwen Stefani arrives at An Evening with Women in Los Angeles. Stefanicoaches young talent on the singing competition series, "The Voice," on NBC.

Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision | AP file

Stefani not done yetBy LEANNE ITALIEASSOCIATED PRESS

ARLINGTON — JeffBanister is a baseballlifer, but never was a ma-jor league manager be-fore the Texas Rangershired him a year ago Fri-day.

Exactly 52 weeks afterhis formal introductionin the same room, Banis-ter again was sitting next

to general manager JonDaniels, this time dis-cussing his first seasonthat included the ALWest title after an 88-74record and the Rangersgoing to a deciding fifthgame in the AL DivisionSeries.

“Very proud of this or-ganization the last 365days,” Daniels said. “Weall wish we were in Kan-sas City (for the AL

Championship Series)right now, expected to bethere, believe in this clubstill ... but it doesn’t takeaway at all the pride Ithink we all feel.”

After an AL-worst 95losses last year, and an 8-16 start a month into thisseason, the Rangersplayed more than 162games for the fifth time

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Regrouping in 2016

Texas manager Jeff Banister and general manager Jon Daniels, right, discussed the Rangers’ suc-cess in 2015 on Friday.

Photo by Tony Gutierrez | AP

Rangers reflect on winning ALWest, looking ahead to futureBy STEPHEN HAWKINS

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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HOUSTON — TheHouston Astros weren’teven thought by most tobe a postseason contenderthis year.

That’s little consolationin the wake of their elim-ination by the KansasCity Royals in Game 5 ofthe American League di-vision series.

“It’s going to leave asour taste for a very longtime,” ace Dallas Keuchelsaid. “Next year can’tcome soon enough.”

The Astros were sixouts from a trip to the ALChampionship Series onSunday with a three-runlead entering the eighthinning before the Royalsused a shaky bullpen anda costly error to score fiveruns and rally for the 9-6

victory. Houston wasahead by two runs earlyon Wednesday night be-fore Johnny Cueto shutdown the Astros in theRoyals’ series-ending 7-2win.

“Our guys last nighthad the right balance ofpride and disappoint-ment,” first-year managerA.J. Hinch said. “Very

After a run to the American League postseason following three consecutive 100-loss seasonsfrom 2011-14, the Astros are trying to build upon their success in 2016.

Photo by Orlin Wagner | AP

Surprising Astros hope to buildon playoff run next season

By KRISTIE RIEKENASSOCIATED PRESS

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CHICAGO — Billy Sie-gel doesn’t want to hearany talk about a billygoat curse or a SteveBartman hex afflictinghis beloved ChicagoCubs. He dismisses asrubbish any suggestionthat a little black cat hadanything to do with theteam’s heartbreakingcollapse down the stretch

in 1969, too. But when Kyle

Schwarber hit a homerun the other night atWrigley Field that helpedvanquish the hated St.Louis Cardinals, Siegelfound it impossible notto see divine providenceat work. After all, theball landed on a video-board advertising a beersynonymous with St.

MLB: CHICAGO CUBS

Sam Sianis, left, and his son, Tom, arrive with a goat outsideWrigley Field before in Game 6 of the NLCS in Chicago.

Photo by Anne Ryan | AP

Cubs fans try toshed curse

By DON BABWINASSOCIATED PRESS

See CUBS PAGE 2B

WACO — Baylor coachArt Briles quickly tried todispel any idea that thesecond-ranked Bears haverevenge on their mind.

At least concerningWest Virginia, the onlyteam to beat them in theregular season a year ago.

“If there’s any revenge,it needs to be on us,”Briles said. “Are we goingto blame them for beatingus? The way we look at itis that it’s our fault, myfault. We didn’t take careof business.”

NCAA FOOTBALL: NO. 2 BAYLOR BEARS

Baylor hosts West VirginiaBy STEPHEN HAWKINS

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Baylor wide receiver Corey Coleman and the No. 2 ranked Bears face off against West Virginia Sat-urday.

Photo by Charlie Riedel | AP

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AMES, Iowa — TCUhas been defined by its re-silience.

With another road winat Iowa State on Saturday,the third-ranked HornedFrogs will head into theirbye week having surviveda very tough stretch un-scathed.

TCU (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) willplay a Power Five oppo-nent away from FortWorth for the fourth timewhen they face the Cy-clones (2-3, 1-1).

The Horned Frogs’ firsttwo road games in league

NCAA FOOTBALL: NO. 3 TCU HORNED FROGS

TCU hopes to avoid upsetBy LUKE MEREDITHASSOCIATED PRESS

TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin and the Horned Frogs escaped Kansas State 52-45 last week and faceoff with Iowa State Saturday.

Photo by Orlin Wagner | AP

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proud of what we did, whatwe accomplished, how wecame together as a team ...but yet hungry enough tobe devastated that the sea-son came to an end.”

Houston made the play-offs for the first time sincea trip to the World Series in2005. The Astros’ rise tocontender status this sea-son came just two years af-ter they lost a franchise-worst 111 games as part ofthree consecutive 100-lossseasons.

“We made baseball a top-ic of conversation in Octo-ber in the state of Texasand that’s not easy to do,”general manager Jeff Luh-now said.

They made the turn-around thanks to the devel-opment of a crop of youngtalent highlighted by short-stop Carlos Correa, the topoverall pick in 2012 whothey expect to the be cor-nerstone of the franchisefor years to come.

“We’ve got a lot of confi-dence,” Correa said. “No-body expected us to behere. And we accomplisheda lot this year ... the futureis bright and we’re lookingforward to next season.”

Polished beyond hisyears Correa, who turned21 on Sept. 22, was calledup in June and set a fran-

chise record for home runsby a rookie with 22, themost by an AL rookie andthe most by a shortstop inthe majors. He had 68 RBIs,45 extra-base hits and 22doubles.

“The story of Carlos Cor-rea is still early,” Luhnowsaid. “This is the secondchapter of a long book, soit’s going to be fun for ourfans to watch him and oth-

er young players develop.”All-Star second baseman

Jose Altuve reached 200hits for the second straightseason and led the AL. Hetopped the Astros with .313average, was first in the ALwith 38 stolen bases andhad 40 doubles and 66 RBIs.

The Astros also got a sol-id season by outfielderGeorge Springer, who hit.276 with 16 homers, 41

RBIs and 16 stolen bases inhis second season despitemissing two months with abroken wrist.

“We kind of raised thebar for Astros’ baseball forsure and earned the respectof a lot of people, whodidn’t believe in us before,”Springer said. “This teamhas been through some upsand down and has beenable to accomplish a lot

more than a lot of peoplethought they would. We’veshown we can go out andplay with anybody and beatanybody.”

The Astros went 15-7 inApril and led the AL Westfor most of the season be-fore Texas overtook Hous-ton in mid-September. TheRangers won the divisionand Houston gained thesecond AL wild card and

beat the New York Yankees3-0 in the wild-card game toadvance.

Keuchel won that gameand also pitched Houston toa victory in Game 3 of theALDS to cap a stellar yearwhere he led the AL with acareer-best 20-8 record andwas second in the AL witha career-low 2.48 ERA.

The Astros added pitch-ers Scott Kazmir and MikeFiers and outfielder CarlosGomez to boost their teambefore the trade deadline.Kazmir started out well be-fore struggling late and was2-6 with a 4.17 ERA in 13starts. Fiers provided oneof Houston’s biggest mo-ments of the regular seasonwhen he pitched a no-hitterin August against the Dodg-ers.

Gomez provided a sparkto the team in the regularseason but was slowed by aribcage muscle strainthroughout the postseason.

Luhnow, the architect ofHouston’s rebuilding pro-ject, wasn’t ready to discussoffseason needs or plans forpersonnel changes.

“If I could bring back thewhole team, I would,” Luh-now said. “This is a funteam and I think they havea chance to do next yearwhat they did this year andmaybe more.”

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Acquired at the trade deadline, Houston center fielder Carlos Gomez is under contract through 2016 with the Astros.

Photo by John Sleezer | MCT

Louis — and it didn’tcome down.

“Look at that ball thathit the Budweiser sign,”said the 67-year-old Siegel,a season ticket holdersince 1970. “Oh my god,that was a sign.”

Cubs fans can insist allthey want that they aredone with talk of cursesand just plain bad luck,from goats to cats to Bart-man. But this is not aneasy habit to break for thedevoted faithful of a teamthat has not won a WorldSeries since 1908. Heart-break and superstition areas much a part of Cubslore as Wrigley Field it-self.

As the Cubs take on theNew York Mets in thehopes of getting to theWorld Series for the firsttime since 1945, fansswear that this team is

different from all theteams that have tried andfailed before. This teamwill win — and they will,fans will tell you — be-cause of the way they playand not because a cursewas lifted or just ran outof steam.

“I am so sick of billygoats, sick of Bartman, it’sall a bunch of baloney,”said Jim Kelly, a 62-year-old substitute teacher.

For some, it’s just differ-ent rooting for a team thatis so young the playershave no connection to pastfailures. These fans seemwilling to thumb theirnoses at those who worryabout, say, jinxing theteam by celebrating beforea victory is secure.

“I was in Pittsburgh (forthe wild card victoryagainst the Pirates) and Igot criticized because I

was on Twitter sayingthere are 6 outs to go, 5outs to go,” said Al Yellon,who runs a Cubs fan site,bleedcubbieblue.com. “ButI was saying, no, we’re notgoing to be slaves to histo-ry.”

Still, to be safe ...“I have a Jake Arrieta

game-worn jersey thatseems to be lucky,” Yellonsaid. “I wear that jerseyevery time he pitches.”

Years of watching ateam snatch defeat fromthe jaws of victory havemade it impossible forsome other fans to shakethe idea that if somethingbad can happen to theCubs it will.

“There’s no real curse,”said Steve Rhodes, a long-time fan who runs beach-woodreporter.com. “At thesame time, (stuff) happensto this team that doesn’t

happen to anyone else.”While Rhodes wonders

if Schwarber’s next homerun might be blown backinto play by “a gust ofwind,” these Cubs have al-ready exorcised the de-mons that are the Cardi-nals, at least for one year.Fans wonder if they cannow exact revenge on theMets, the team that over-took the Cubs in 1969 notlong after a black catstrolled by Cubs thirdbaseman Ron Santo atShea Stadium.

“I think it would be fit-ting to go through theMets after what happenedin ’69,” said Jeff Santo, ason of the late Cubs great.

For their part, the Cubsare staying far away fromall this talk. They havenot, for example, invitedBartman back to Wrigleyas a guest of honor — a

gesture some fans havesuggested would be appro-priate for someone vilifiedafter he deflected a foulball just before the Cubscollapsed in the 2003 play-offs.

It is pretty much thesame story with the goat.

Seventy years after theowner of the Billy GoatTavern put a curse on theCubs when they wouldn’tlet his pet goat attend theWorld Series, the tavernowners have asked theCubs to let a goat back in-to Wrigley for a postsea-son game. On its blog, theBilly Goat reminds theteam that the last time itrefused to sell a ticket to agoat was in 2003 and ev-eryone knows what hap-pened then.

“We don’t allow animalsin the ballpark and wedon’t believe in curses,”

the team said in a state-ment.

Still, the Cubs have cho-sen to ensconce Schwar-ber’s home run ball in aplastic box atop the video-board for all to see. It pre-sumably will be there nextTuesday for Game 3 of theNLCS against the Mets.

Kelly said he suspectsthat Santo and the late Er-nie Banks are “up theremaking sure nothing cra-zy happens” to their team.And he also suspects ifthe Cubs win the WorldSeries the celebration willextend to the great be-yond.

“The cemeteries will beoverloaded with Cubs fanstelling their loved onesthey did it,” he said. “Iwill be the first one outthere, taking a (World Se-ries) sweat shirt to mydad’s grave.”

CUBS Continued from Page 1B

COLLEGE STATION —Texas A&M quarterbackKyle Allen remembers ex-actly how he felt afteryear’s 59-0 drubbing by Ala-bama.

“It was a feeling of em-barrassment to be on a na-tional TV stage and be beat-en like that,” he said. “Itfelt like we were a highschool team playing a col-lege team, honestly, and it’snot a feeling we ever wantto feel again.”

No. 9 Texas A&M gets achance to avenge that blow-out Saturday when it hostsNo. 10 Alabama. The Aggieswill be trying to open a sea-son 6-0 for the first timesince 1994 and keep pacewith LSU in the SEC West.A loss by Alabama wouldbadly damage its Southeast-ern Conference title andplayoff hopes since they lostto Mississippi on Sept. 19.

While the Aggies (5-0, 2-0SEC) are thinking aboutlast year’s game to help in-sure that something likethat doesn’t happen again,the Crimson Tide (5-1, 2-1)is trying to ignore all thetalk about it as the teamgets ready for another meet-ing with Texas A&M.

“It’s just like last week’sgame against Georgia, wehave to block that out to fo-cus for Arkansas,” runningback Kenyan Drake said.“Every game is a seasonwithin itself. Obviouslywe’re not going to focus onlast year. That was a wholedifferent year, a whole dif-ferent team for both sides,so we’re just going to focuson this year.”

A 19-year-old sophomore,

Allen already has a lot ofexperience and is 8-2 in 10career starts. He’s been ex-tremely accurate this sea-son and has thrown 79straight passes without aninterception.

“They’ve really workedhard to try to create bal-ance on their offense thisyear, in terms of being able

to run the ball a little bitbetter,” Alabama coachNick Saban said. “Butthey’re still one of the mostprolific passing teams inthe country. Kyle Allen hasdone a really good job atquarterback for them. Hispassing efficiency rating isone of the tops in the coun-try.”

Some things to knowabout the top-10 matchupbetween Alabama andTexas A&M:

TWO-PRONGED RUSHING AT-TACK

Alabama’s offense fea-tures two solid runningbacks in Derrick Henry andDrake. Henry leads theteam with 665 yards rush-

ing and 10 touchdowns andDrake has 244 yards rush-ing with a score. TexasA&M coach Kevin Sumlinand his staff are focused ontrying to slow the pairdown on Saturday.

“One is a bigger bruiser,the other is more a shake-and-bake guy. Certainlycomplement each other

well,” Sumlin said. “Bringdifferent styles. See timeswhere they’re putting bothon the field and able to uti-lize them ... we have to playgood, sound, fundamentalfootball. Gap responsibility.Got to gang tackle. Got toget a lot of people to theball.”

PILING UP SACKSTexas A&M defensive

end Myles Garrett is tiedfor third in the countrywith 7 1/2 sacks. He haspiled up 19 sacks in his ca-reer after breaking Jadeve-on Clowney’s SEC fresh-man record by taking downthe quarterback 11 1/2times last season. But he’snot the only Aggie gettingto the quarterback often asteammate Daeshon Hall hasfive sacks this year.

“I think their defense isplaying a lot better,” Sabansaid. “They’ve got a reallygood scheme. They’ve gottwo really tough pass rush-ers to single block on theedges, which always cancause issues in the passinggame.”

RIDLEY’S RECEIVINGThough Alabama relies

more on its running game,Calvin Ridley has proven tobe a threat in the passinggame. He had nine catchesfor 140 yards — both career-highs — against Arkansasand leads the team with 385yards receiving and threescores.

RACING TO 1,000Texas A&M freshman

WR/KR/PR Christian Kirkneeds 42 yards to reach1,000 all-purpose yards.Kirk leads the team with519 yards receiving withfour touchdowns and he’sreturned a punt for anotherscore.

Unbeaten A&M to be tested vs. AlabamaBy KRISTIE RIEKENASSOCIATED PRESS

Texas A&M quarterback Kyle Allen and the unbeaten No. 9 Aggies face off with No. 10 Alabama in their first meeting since losing 59-0 lastyear.

Photo by Tony Gutierrez | AP

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Seth Russell leads the na-tion with 22 touchdownpasses, and Corey Cole-man is the national lead-er with 13 TD catches.

“It’s important for us todefend our home turf.When anyone steps footin Waco, it’s our job torun them out of here.They outdid us last year,so we have a little bit ofan edge going into thisgame,” Coleman said.“We’re ready to get thatbad taste out of ourmouth.”

A few other things toknow when the Bearslook to stretch theirFBS-best 18-game homewinning streak, includ-ing all eight gamessince moving into theirnew campus stadiumlast year:

LEADING RUSHERSBaylor junior Shock

Linwood and West Virgin-ia junior Wendell Small-wood rank 1-2 in the Big12 in rushing yards pergame. Linwood is run-ning for 143.8 yards pergame, including four con-secutive 100-yard games.Smallwood has surpassed100 yards his last threegames and is averaging114.8 yards per game.

BIG-TIME SCORINGThe highest-scoring

game in Big 12 historycame in 2012 when WestVirginia, in its first con-

And they wound up thefirst team left out of theinitial College FootballPlayoff because of it.

Just like last October,Baylor (5-0, 2-0 Big 12) isundefeated going into itsgame against the Moun-taineers.

The Bears, now withtheir highest AP rankingever, were coming offtheir epic 61-58 comebackvictory over TCU last sea-son when they went toWest Virginia and lost 41-27.

WVU (3-2, 0-2), whichlost in overtime at homelast week to 15th-rankedOklahoma State, doesn’tbelieve Baylor has forgot-ten that four-hour game inMorgantown last season.

“Definitely. Anytimeyou lose to a team, you’relooking forward to beatingthem the following year,”junior cornerback DarylWorley said. “We look at itas though every team thatwe play against is tryingto beat us. ... They’re allout to get blood.”

West Virginia has anFBS-best 13 interceptionsand has been one of theBig 12’s best defenses, al-lowing a league-low 20points a game and 342yards a game.

Baylor counters withthe nation’s most produc-tive offense, at 64 pointsand 725 yards a game.

ference game after mov-ing into the league, beatBaylor 70-63 at home.When the Mountaineerswent to the Waco for thefirst time two years ago,Baylor scored on nine ofits first 10 possessions andwon 73-42.

WINNING PENALIZEDWest Virginia pulled off

the upset last season evenwhile committing 14 pe-nalties for 138 yards andhaving three turnovers —while the Bears didn’tturn over the ball. “I don’tknow how to explain thatone,” Mountaineers coachDana Holgorsen said.Maybe some of it had todo with Baylor’s 18 penal-ties for 215 yards.

NEVER THIS HIGH BEFOREAsked about the No. 2

national ranking, Brilessaid the Bears are proudthat people have noticedwhat they are doing andrespect them as a qualityteam. But he doesn’t feelany different. “I probablydon’t look the same, butmentally I feel the sameas I did in 2012 when wewere unranked,” he said.

X-FACTORBears junior corner-

back Xavien Howard, aformer high school quar-terback, had his third in-terception of the seasonand returned a fumble 30yards for a touchdown lastweek against Kansas.

BAYLOR Continued from Page 1B

beleaguered defense.Rhoads opened hisweekly press conferenceby throwing bouquetsBoykin’s way, sayingthat the senior “could bepeople’s tailback. Hecould be a starting widereceiver, and certainly isa Heisman Trophy-wor-thy quarterback.” Boy-kin’s 11,059 yards of ca-reer total offense are byfar the most of any ac-tive quarterback in thecountry.

OH MIKEThe highlight of Iowa

State’s season has beenthe emergence of fresh-man running back MikeWarren. He ran for 245yards against the RedRaiders, the most anyfreshman in the countryhas run for so far. ButWarren also showed hisyouth to reporters Mon-day with a nonchalantresponse about what hethought of TCU. “I heardthat their run defense isa little shaky, and Ithink that’s a big plusfor me because I think Ican probably have likeanother great perform-ance,” Warren said. TheHorned Frogs are sixthin the Big 12 in rushingdefense, though their 16touchdowns rushing al-lowed is second-worst inthe league.

ONE FINE DOC

play have been way tooclose for coach Gary Pat-terson’s comfort. Theybeat Texas Tech 55-52 ona last-second TD pass andrallied from 18 down tostun Kansas State 52-45last week.

“You’ve got to findways to win. That’s whatgood programs do. Theyjust find ways to win.Some days it’s not pretty.Some days it is,” Patter-son said.

The Cyclones might notpresent such a toughchallenge though.

Iowa State took a majorstep back last week in a66-31 loss to Texas Tech.The Cyclones allowed theRed Raiders to gain aschool record 776 yards,and senior quarterbackSam Richardson threwthree interceptions.

Still, Iowa State hasbeen waiting for its shotat TCU ever since theHorned Frogs embar-rassed them 55-3 in lastseason’s finale.

Here are some of thekey things to consideras the playoff-hungryHorned Frogs look toavoid a cataclysmic up-set in Ames.

BAD, BAD BOYKINIowa State coach Paul

Rhoads didn’t sugarcoatthe challenge TCU quar-terback Trevone Boykinpresents to his suddenly

Boykin’s tremendousseason has somewhatovershadowed the fantas-tic year that fellow seniorJosh Doctson is having.Doctson has 50 recep-tions, third-best national-ly, and he’s second with877 yards and 10 touch-downs.

MATCHUP ISSUE?If there’s one area

where Iowa State mighthave an advantage, it’swith the height of itswide receivers. StartersD’Vario Montgomery andAllen Lazard are 6-foot-6and 6-foot-5, respectively,while TCU cornerbacksCorry O’Meally and NickOrr are just 6-foot and 5-foot-10. The Cyclones alsohave five other wideoutson their depth chart whoare taller than any of theHorned Frogs’ backs. Io-wa State spreads the ballaround, too, with fiveguys already with at 13catches. The Cyclones“have a couple mismatch-es for us. So you’ve got toplay the run better,” Pat-terson said.

WHAT A NUMBERAccording to the Big

12, FBS teams were 241-0when holding a lead of atleast 18 points in the sec-ond half. They were 241-1after Boykin found Doct-son for a 55-yard TD passwith 1:10 left last week atK-State.

TCU Continued from Page 1B

in six seasons. Ace left-hander Cole Ha-

mels and every other play-er who started Game 5 ofthe AL Division Series inToronto on Wednesday,which included thatstrange nearly hour-longseventh inning, is undercontract for next season.

“I feel just as excited to-day as I did a year ago.The mission for me hasnot changed one bit,” Ban-ister said. “The waythings ended for us, thefeeling, I’ll let that fuel meevery day this winter tofind a way to make us bet-ter, so that we can start

spring training with themindset of where we wantto finish.”

Before getting to Texas,Banister spent 29 years inthe Pittsburgh Pirates or-ganization as a player,coach and instructor onall levels. He was ClintHurdle’s bench coach thelast four years.

Hamels is signedthrough 2018 with a cluboption for 2019, in a rota-tion that also returns left-handers Derek Hollandand Martin Perez, with YuDarvish expected back inmid-May after TommyJohn surgery last spring

training. Sam Dyson andJake Diekman, key reliev-ers who like Hamels weremidseason additions, arealso under contract.

The offseason also pro-vides time for players toheal, including third base-man Adrian Beltre, whocame out early in ALDSGame 1 and missed thenext two games — andclearly was still hurtingwhen he returned for thelast two games of the se-ries.

Beltre also had ajammed finger on his lefthand the final month, andDaniels revealed Friday

that the 36-year-old thirdbaseman played most ofsecond half of the seasonwith a torn ligament inhis left thumb.

But Beltre wasn’tamong the three playerswho Friday had what Da-niels referred to as “clean-ups.”

Colby Lewis, a 17-gamewinner who is a potentialfree agent, had torn me-niscus repaired in hisright knee, catcher ChrisGimenez had the AC jointin his right shouldercleaned out, and catcherCarlos Corporan had sur-gery on his left thumb.

Other potential freeagents are starting pitch-er Yovani Gallardo andMike Napoli, who return-ed to Texas as anotherlate-season addition.

There will be at leasttwo changes on Banister’scoaching staff for his sec-ond season. Hitting coachDave Magadan and bull-pen coach Andy Hawkinsare not returning nextseason.

The Rangers said it wasa mutual decision withMagadan, who would liketo seek opportunities clos-er to his home in Floridaafter three seasons in Tex-

as. Hawkins informed theteam that he is resigningto pursue opportunitieswith other teams. He wasthe longest-tenured coachon the major league staff,having been with Texassince Aug. 1, 2008.

The six other membersof the staff have been in-vited to return in 2016.They are third base coachTony Beasley, bench coachSteve Buechele, assistanthitting coach BobbyJones, pitching coachMike Maddux, first basecoach Hector Ortiz, andfield coordinator JayceTingler.

RANGERS Continued from Page 1B

LAWRENCE, Kan. —Kansas allowed seventouchdowns and a fieldgoal by halftime last weekagainst Baylor.

The Jayhawks aren’tgetting much of a re-prieve.

Texas Tech and its simi-larly potent offense rollsinto town on Saturday, in-tending to become the lat-est team to run roughshodover the Jayhawks. TheRed Raiders have scoredat least 35 points in everygame this season, andhave twice topped 60 — in-cluding last week againstIowa State.

Then again, maybe theJayhawks learned some-thing from their licking.

“They’re very differentin terms of how they at-tack people,” said Kansascoach David Beaty, who’sin his first season tryingto resurrect the downtrod-den program.

“Don’t be fooled bythose formations. Thoseplays are very, very differ-ent,” he said of the com-parison between Baylorand Texas Tech. “In termsof the spacing and under-standing disguises andthings like that, I think itwill be — just watchingpractice or walk-through,I could already see a lotmore retention that willbe helpful this week, Ithink, as we move for-ward.”

The Jayhawks (0-5, 0-2Big 12) are grasping forwhatever positives theycan this season.

Beaty inherited a de-pleted roster, fan apathyand little else when hetook over for the firedCharlie Weis. He’s beenforced to play a slew offreshmen and the resultshave been predictable: awhole lot of lumps againstjust about everybody.

Baylor has been theworst yet, a 66-7 thumpingin which the starters sat

the second half.But Red Raiders coach

Kliff Kingsbury hasknown Beaty for years,partly because their ca-reers keep intersecting.And he knows better thanto overlook his buddy,even if Kansas is strug-gling.

“I think he’s a tremen-dous football coach,”Kingsbury said. “I knowhe’s trying to build some-thing special out there. ...They had a tough run, butthey’re getting better.”

The Red Raiders (4-2,1-2) seem to be getting bet-ter, too.

After their heartbreak-ing loss to TCU to open

conference play, they wereslapped around by Baylor,63-35 in defeat. But theyhandled the Cyclones eas-ily a week ago, their de-fense playing much betterand their offense just asgood in a 66-31 victory.

Texas Tech had aschool-record 776 yards oftotal offense in the game.

“They’re playing withconfidence and playingfaster,” Red Raiders offen-sive coordinator Eric Mor-ris said. “I thought thatwas the biggest thing iswe got some of the youngkids that are playing witha lot of confidence.”

As they prepare to vis-it Kansas, here are a

few things to remember:LOPSIDED SERIES

Texas Tech is 15-1against the Jayhawks, andhas won eight straight inthe series. The averagemargin of victory duringthat streak is more than 18points.

DON’T BLINKOf the Red Raiders’ 44

scoring drives this year, 19have taken less than 2 min-utes. Ten of them were un-der a minute. As a result,they ranked 121st out of127 teams in the FootballBowl Subdivision in timeof possession, but No. 2 inscoring.

MAHOMES THE MANPatrick Mahomes II has

thrown for 3,692 yards and33 TDs in his first 10starts, putting the sopho-more on pace to finishahead of Kingsbury, hiscoach, and Graham Har-rell — the top two passersin school history. “He’spretty special,” Morrissaid.

SPEAKING OF QBSRyan Willis will get his

second start for Kansas onSaturday. Willis had somepositive moments againstBaylor, including a nice TDtoss to fellow freshman Ste-ven Sims Jr., but also madesome noteworthy mistakes.“I like his demeanor. I likehow he handled the mo-ment. I like how he made amistake, and he didn’t letit rattle him,” Beaty said.“He came right back andwas able to continue tolook forward and didn’t letone bad play turn into twoor three.”

HURTING JAYHAWKSWide receiver Bobby

Hartzog and defensive line-man Damani Mosby areexpected to be out againwith injuries, but Beaty ishopeful wide receiver Tre’Parmelee, running backKe’aun Kinner and corner-back Brandon Stewart areavailable. “We’ll have tosee how the week progress-es,” he said, “because it’snot a slam dunk for thoseguys.”

Texas Tech offense rolls into LawrenceBy DAVE SKRETTAASSOCIATED PRESS

Texas Tech heads on the road Saturday as they face off against winless Kansas. The Red Raiders are 4-2 with their only losses to No. 2Baylor and No. 3 TCU.

Photo by Allison Terry | AP

Jakeem Grant and Texas Tech’s offense has scored at least 35points in every game this season.

Photo by Mark Rogers | AP

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