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- ' etp Zs o/3/a /7o 'B3ER of CdAAERCE5 x k" ^"-o ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY LIBRARY GREATER SAN ANTONIO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 197ANNUAL REPORT IIIq ll 'Pd 0 I - X,-t?-~ A i c~-4~ %9~~~- _ ! .:ti , }t is . " :Irw r !t!< !< 'e!< _ !. s ell as1C The murmur in the room rose its manpower and money. And things. Thus, the participants also to a rumble ... the hesitant and they freely unburdened had to establish a pattern of the assertive ... rapid, intense themselves. priority. voices in counterpoint to slow After three days and nine Chamber President Bill Ochse Texas drawls. sessions, more than 750 Chamber was to comment later, "I have "What this Chamber really members had registered their never seen San Antonians so needs to get crackin' on.." ideas on the needs and opportuni- enthused over their city, so "Everybody goes his own way ties facing their community. The excited over the future or so without regard to any master sessions were so structured that stimulated by newly discovered plan..." "If the downtown each person had three minutes opportunities." doesn't rejuvenate itself ... " all to himself ... three minutes The chance to speak, the "Only a regional airport complex to speak his mind and five pairs knowledge that their ideas were can serve our future needs ... " of ears to hear what he was of interest to the Chamber It was March 1970 and San saying. leadership and would shape Antonio was having an epic Just a mountain of ideas future programming, the sheer talk-in. wouldn't suffice, though. exercise of inventorying San Business and professional Everything's important, but there Antonio's assets and the pleasant men and women had been invited are never enough funds or staff discovery that blessings abound to tell their Chamber of or volunteer leadership to tackle -these were the ingredients that Commerce where they thought everything. So emphasis had to gave birth to a reinvigorated and the Chamber should concentrate be placed on the most important expanded Chamber program. Its name? FORWARD SAN ANTONIO! r"f" r rY r ". r" r" .". r r r a " . tir :r lti ABOUT OCHSE A soft spoken man with a ready smile and a never-too-busy- to-help personality has made 1970 a year to be remembered for the Alamo City and the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. William Ochse is a man of boundless energy and cheerful persistence, and he uses these two remarkable qualities to function within a daily schedule which would break a lesser man. He accepted the challenge of the Chamber presidency and saw a directive from the members to accomplish ideals conceived in the fever that was HemisFair '68. Those ideals took the form of FORWARD SAN ANTONIO ... and Bill Ochse took the lead. He saw the need to take the public pulse and from the prognosis came the March Idea Sessions ... from those came the Goals for Greatness and the / need for One Million Dollars to answer the members' mandate. For twelve productive months, Bill Ochse has been FORWARD SAN ANTONIO. And in many ways, Bill Ochse has been a composite of the city: King Antonio'58 ... Research & Planning Council ... Fiesta San Antonio Commission ... Homebuilders... Boy Scouts ... Livestock Exposition ... banking ... United Fund ... American Legion ... Order of the Alamo: the list is all-encompassing and illustrative of the man and his pervading civic pride and concern. This city and this Chamber of Commerce will not soon forget William Ochse ... the inspiring and dynamic leader who made 1970 a renaissance for San Antonio and her citizens. 7 e GAs K )x &x 1 x ou 12 6< A A 4 6 s& 2 7 - I K 1 cs i A < x- __ A ~1* ~ 2 6~ *6 < " r.tiltiJt. ABOUT COMMITTEES. .O . Committees are truly the vanguard of the Chamber movement. You can make all the jokes you want about a camel being a horse put together by a committee. Or how much easier it is for one man to make a decision and "get the job done." The committee is the heart of the Chamber system and the pooling of many minds voluntarily met around a table to achieve severally what no man could hope to accomplish singlehandedly is the very essence of the Chamber way, the "secret" of successful civic action. The section of this Annual Report that begins on the opposite page recounts the highlights of committee activity during 1970 at the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. F F AIR TRANSPORT ALAMO ROUND-UP CLUB The slower national economy The Alamo Round-Up Club is Silver Spurs ($600 or more) during 1970 has affected the composed of five teams of seven were earned by: Dave Langford, air transportation industry to the men each named after various IBM Corporation; Gene Massy, extent that nation-wide passenger participants in the battle of the National Printing and Stationery boardings are increasing at a Alamo. The Santa Annas, ably Company and Marcus much lower rate compared to led by Vernon Richards of Semmelmann of Southwestern previous years' increases. In a Southwestern Bell Telephone Bell Telephone Company. period of this kind, it is extremely Company, led in production with The $1,000 Round Table is difficult to approach the Civil $10,628.50. awarded on an annual basis and Aeronautics Board to seek new To date the Alamo Round-Up is one of two awards that may competitive air route authorities Club has accounted for be earned more than once. The that are of interest to the San $36,317.50 from the following number in the parenthesis Antonio air traveler. sources: 153 new members following each man's name Local airline boardings have totaling $18,195; 133 increases indicates the number of years also been affected by the slower totaling $15,292.50 and 18 this individual has achieved this economy. Through 10 months of reinstatements totaling $2,830. level: William Ghedi (5), Prudential 1970, domestic passenger During 1970 Honorary Life Insurance Co. of America; Dave boardings are down almost 4% Memberships, the Chamber's Langford (1), IBM Corporation; compared to the same 10 month highest award, for generating John LeFlore (2), Bexar County period of 1%9. Although there $6,000 in new Chamber National Bank; Jack P. Morris has been an increase in investments, were earned by: (5), American Airlines, Inc.; international boardings locally, up Wally Payette, City Public Service Wally Payette (4), City Public nearly 13% during the same Board $6,571; Jack G. Reiner, Service Board; Jack G. Reiner period, this volume is not large United Services Automobile (4), United Services Automobile enough to offset the decline in Assn. $6,196; and Steve Spaugh, Assn.; Vernon Richards (3), domestic boardings. Unity Service Assn. $7,164. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.; Earlier this year, San Antonio Gold phones for producing Marcus Semmelmann (1), was an intervener in the Austin- $4,500 or more were earned by: Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.; West Service Investigation. This Paul Klinger, M.D.; Jesse Lopez, Art Shippey (2), Mission was not a route case in which Jr., Public Accountant; Jack P. Chevrolet, Inc.; and Steve San Antonio was directly Morris, American Airlines, Inc.; Spaugh (3), Unity Service Assn. involved, but a very interested Henry Nussbaum, Hilton Palacio bystander in that we wanted to Del Rio and Jack G. Reiner, protect our quality of service to United Services Automobile Assn. the west. Marcus Semmelmann of The Civil Aeronautics Board Southwestern Bell Telephone has a general passenger fare Company earned a Gold Spur investigation underway and the ($3,000 or more). PAUL MORGAN Committee is following the President proceedings as an interested Alamo Round-Up Club bystander. C. W. "BILL" POPE Chairman Air Transport Committee 40 LOS AMBASSADORS AREA RELATIONS BEAUTIFY SAN ANTONIO In a continuing program to Representatives of the As an arm of the Chamber, serve as liaison between the Committee attended annual the Association prepared scrap- Chamber and its membership, Chamber of Commerce meetings book entries for the city of the Ambassadors Committee in 13 South Texas Cities and San Antonio in the National called on the membership to supported the South Texas Fair Clean Up Contest in which the acquaint them with activities of and Stock Show Association with Alamo City has won 21 awards the Chamber, and its program of representatives at most fairs and in the past 19 years, including work and to recruit committee stock shows in the area and at 1954 and 1966 awards as the members for the total operation. the Association's Annual Meeting Cleanest City in the United States. A special project of the in February and the Fall In addition to distributing committee for the last four Round-Up Meeting in September. Beautify awards to local months of the year was the The Committee sponsored the businesses and institutions for personal distribution of the new Area Executive Council Meeting their efforts to beautify the city, FORWARD SAN ANTONIO in May for representatives from the Association also presented membership plaques to all fifteen South Texas Counties to distinguished service awards to investors in the civic discuss a ten-year plan for individuals for their concerted improvement program. "Forward South Texas." Results efforts in the goal of the of the meeting were mailed to Association. 46 Chambers of Commerce in In February, the Association f 6'7tiA South Texas. sent a delegation to the National Committee representatives Congress on Beautification in also visited the Tourist Washington, B. S. POWARS, M.D. D. C. where San Conference in Del Rio in March Antonio Chairman received a citation and and sent a delegate on to "O.P." Schnabel, founder Ambassadors Committee of the "Know Your Neighbor" goodwill local Association, received the tour of 15 South Texas cities 1970 National Award for in October.

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