NEWS
April 9, 1988 | RAY PEREZ, Times Staff Writer
This languid little town in the heart of South Texas is like many across America where everyone knows everyone else's business. And that has made the trouble all the harder to take. Settled 136 years ago along what is now San Diego Creek, the town of 5,200 people has survived hard times and a legacy of political corruption. Now it has again unexpectedly achieved a measure of national notoriety.