| Transportation costs slam working poor
Third in a yearlong series on the struggles of Tarrant County's working poor. Getting reliable transportation has been a journey for the Lockwoods. The family of five moved about two years ago to Arlington without a car, but that didn't last long in the nation's largest city with no public transportation system. "You're walking or riding a bike," Bobby Lockwood, 37, said. Throughout much of Tarrant County, public transportation is nonexistent or limited by hours and routes. For the working poor, this means the added expense of buying a vehicle. There are loan payments, maintenance costs and, if drivers run afoul of the law, costly traffic tickets and citations. The working poor spend a higher percentage of their income on transportation than any other income group, according to the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
HELEN A. MRAZ | 1905-2007: Union activist helped settle '52 steel strike
Helen Mraz went from making beer cans in Chicago to helping make history in Washington. Mrs. Mraz, president of a United Steelworkers of America local, was the only woman on the labor delegation that settled the 1952 national steel strike with the personal intercession of President Harry S Truman. While Mrs. Mraz stood up to the steel industry executives, she was too shy to ask Truman for his autograph, according to her son Walter E. Mraz. Mrs. Mraz died Monday at the age of 102 in LaGrange Hospital. She had been in good health until a recent fall, according to her daughter Eleanor Myczek. She was a lifelong trade unionist as well as an activist for women's equality, her daughter said. She was born in Chicago on June 25, 1905, and attended Chicago public schools.
The mascots have their say ...
With the help of a special animal interpreter, Rocky writer Paul Willis asked Chip the Buffalo from the University of Colorado and Cam the Ram from Colorado State to answer some questions about today's football game. Chip the Buffalo • If you suddenly found yourself in the CSU student section, you would . . . Pass out tissues. • Your fighting words for Saturday's game are . . . I think CSU knows we're champions, so we don't have to resort to fighting words or trash talk. • CSU won the football game last year. The reason for that was . . . Pure luck. • Who would win a steel-cage match: Cam the Ram or Chip the Buffalo? I'm not even going to justify this question with a response. It's pretty obvious that Chip would win.
Hornet, Mucker faithful: rejoice
Beatty and Tonopah football fans ought to love the 2007 season. The Hornets are at home for seven of their nine games, while the Muckers have to travel out of Tonopah only four times during their 10-game campaign. Nevada Class A Central Division Beatty, with Gus Sullivan back for his second season as coach, opens at home Aug. 24 against Laughlin, a 1-A South Division team. The following week, Las Vegas Calvary Chapel, a playoff team in 2006, will visit Beatty. Other home games are Sept. 14, vs. Lone Pine, Calif.; Sept. 22, vs. Big Pine, Calif.; Oct. 12, vs. Round Mountain; Oct. 19 vs. Tonopah, and Oct. 26, vs. Spring Mountain. The road games are Sept. 28 at Henderson International School and Oct. 5 at Indian Springs. Tonopah is at home Aug. 24 against Diamond Ranch Academy of Hurricane, Utah; it's a Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association Hall of Fame game, which means THS pays $500 into the NIAA 'Hall' fund.
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