Deportation vow alarms construction industry

The state’s construction industry is voicing concern that President-elect Trump’s vow to deport millions of undocumented immigrants would cause major labor shortfalls, according to the Texas Standard.“It would devastate our industry, we wouldn’t finish our highways, we wouldn’t finish our schools,”...

Jimmy Dean More Than A Sausage Salesman

“Big Bad John,” a talking ballad written and recited by a tall drink of water from the Texas Panhandle, stayed at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 40 for the week of Dec. 4, 1961.Jimmy Ray Dean was born in Plainview the summer before the stock market crashed.

Slum Refugees Dumped In Hell On Earth

Texas HistoryFive dozen Europeans from the slums of New York City set foot in Texas on Dec. 3, 1833 on their way to a promised paradise on the Rio Grande.John Charles Beales was an English expatriate, who moved to Mexico in 1804.

VIDOR’S PAST

VIDOR’S PAST

Rose City discussing plans for new City Hall

5 years ago November 20, 2019A Vidor pedestrian walking along a freeway service road in Vidor was struck by a passenger car when the rising sun blinded the driver last Saturday morning.Jeff Huckaby has been named as a new Ag agent in the Orange County AgriLife Extension office and has assumed his...

More than 1,500 bills filed as session approaches

AUSTIN – Texas lawmakers last week filed more than 1,500 bills ahead of the next legislative session, which begins Jan. 14.

Connally Thought He Was Done For

When the presidential limo came to a screeching halt at Parkland Hospital on Nov. 22, 1963, the Governor of Texas believed John F. Kennedy was dead and that his own wounds would prove to be fatal.In his autobiography In History’s Shadow, published in 1993 the year he died, John Connally relived in...

Social Security Matters

By Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature American CitizensDear Rusty: I served in the U S Army from January 1958 to Feb 1961. What increase should I receive for those years and who do I call and at what phone number?

GOP win raises stakes for Cornyn’s leadership bid

With Republicans regaining majority control of the Senate, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is making his bid to become that chamber’s majority leader. U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, had previously announced he would step down as party leader.

Orange County voters pick Mondale over Reagan, Vidor school kids don’t

5 years ago November 13, 2019It’s a time honored tradition at Vidor Junior High School and the National Junior Honor Society of the VJHS was not going to let the school down.On Monday, some forty-five men and women veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces were thanked and honored for their service to...