The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 10, 1972 Page: 1 of 10
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GRAHAM SCHOOL WINNERS WITH AWARDS are shown in these pic-
tures. ABOVE, girls 7th and 8th grade volleyball squad with trophy
from the McAllen Central Tournament. Team members are, left to
right, Cherry Villalobos, Gloria Presas, Julia Ramirez, Ofelia Gar-
za and Rosa Alvarez. MIDDLE ROW, left to right, are Ida Gomez
Rosa Barrientos, Martina Diaz, Estella Urbina, Mary Jane Garza
and Irma Rodriguez. TOP ROW, same order are, Sara Zamora, Al-
LeoDlaz’ Rosa Rivera and Mrs. Gloria Bates, coach.
BELOW, boys basketball team with 'Wooden Bucket Trophy' won in
game against Mercedes Junior High All-Star team. Team members
are, FRONT ROW, left to right, Ramon Medina, Abel Flores, Raul
Presas and Balde Flores. BACK ROW, same order are, Lupe Alda-
pe, Juan Urbina, Mario Perez, Rey Presas, Tony Olivarez, Amado
Trevino, Jesus Nevarez, Noe Duenas, Albert Agueros, Lupe Luna
and Javier Castillo. Adults are Coach Leo Ramirez, Principal David
Gonzalez and Ass’t. Coach Arnoldo Silva.
ENTERPRISE PHOTOS
Administrative Personnel Contracts Talked
'Some Hired, Some Not*
In Lengthy Board Meet
YEARLY REPORT TELLS STORY
Routine school business
began a meeting of the Mer-
cedes School Board Tuesday
evening and an executive
session ended the same
meeting after it extended
into Wednesday morning.
The lengthy talkfest began
at 7:30 p.m. and was finally
adjourned at 1:30 a.m.
Most of that time was oc-
cupied by Board considera-
tion, inclosed executive ses-
sion, of administrative per-
sonnel contracts. Results of
actions taken by the Board
will not be announced by
School Superintendent Lauro
Guerra until he has had a
chance to discuss those ac-
tions with the personnel
involved. "Some contracts
were extended and some
were not,” said Mr.Guerra,
"and I think it proper to
inform those involved just
what the Board action was
before they read about them-
selves in the newspaper.”
In an open meeting the
Board passed a resolution
allowing the district to
borrow up to $100,000 for a
30 day period. The possible
loan need came about after
a delay in receiving some
$600,000 in Federal funds
already alloted the district.
The late payment is con-
sidered normal and reflects
a usual time lag between
allocations and payments
from the Federal program.
The Board also set April
1 as the official election date
and decided to continue to
have the election at Merce-
des City Hall. Because of the
city election being held on
the same day, some sort
of partition will have to be
maintained to keep voters in
the two elections apart. J ack
Martin was named election
judge at the polls and Ig-
nacio Romeros, school busi-
ness manager, was named
judge of the absentee voting.
Barbecue Is
For Chamber
Second annual Chamber of
Commerce barbecue is
scheduled for Thursday,
February 10. Mercedes Ci-
vic Center is the place and
6:30 p.m. is the time.
Tickets, which ser-
ves two, are $5. They may
be purchased from any
chamber member or at the
door.
Winner of a rod and reel
door prize will be announ-
ced at 7:30 p.m. You must
be present to win say Cham-
ber officials.
And, says Secretary Peggy
Dalton, musical entertain-
ment will be provided during
the evening by a group from
Edinburg, Dr. Pet Cross,
Hector de la Garza and Mo-
ya Castillo; and by Kathy
and the Country Club,
a group from Donna.
Low bid from the West
Texas Coffee Company was
accepted for $4,774 in ca-
feteria equipment. This is
equipment for use in all
cafeterias and will replace
existing and worn out sup-
plies.
Two requests for field
trips were considered and
passed by the Board. Gra-
ham school 8th grade stu-
dents, some 50 in number,
will be allowed to go to San
Antonio for a ‘cultural en-
richment* trip in March.
Local high school students
from the Mexican-American
history class will also be
allowed a San Antonio trip
as part of their studies.
Thirty students are expect-
ed to make the trip in late
March or early April.
Superintendent Guerra
was instructed by the Board
to investigate the possibili-
ties of Mercedes hosting a
summer school program. In
the past, Weslaco high school
has had the program, but
because of maintenance
problems in their school
system it will be necessary
for them to discontinue the
program there.
"We are interested in
maintaining a Mid-Valley
summer study program for
our youngsters,” stated Mr.
Guerra "and will do all we
can to try to provide need-
ed facilities.”
In other action the Board
accepted the following re-
signations:
Mrs. Elida Elizondo (West
Elementary) - effective at
the end of the first semes-
ter, January 21, 1972;
Mrs. Berta Cantu (High
School teacher aide) - Leave
of absence effective January
14, 1972;
Mrs. Liselotte Pinkerton
(High School teacher aide)-
Leave of absence effective
February 1, 1972.
Hired by the Board were:
Miss San Juanita Reyna
(High School) BA degree and
no experience;
Miss Nellie Garza (Junior
High School) BA degree and
6 years experience;
Mrs. Esilda Solis (Junior
High School) BA degree and
1 year experience;
Miss Sylvia Cavazos (Gra-
ham) BS degree and no ex-
perience;
Miss Maria ElenaBuente-
llo (West Elementary) BS
degree and no experience;
Mrs. Jo Anne Stotler (West
Elementary) BS degree and
2 years experience;
Miss Aida Martinez - Sen-
ior High School aide;
Miss Rosalinda Marro-
quin - Senior High* School
aide;
Miss Marilyn Basinger -
Senior High School aide;
Miss San Juanita Gon-
zalez - Graham School aide.
Mercedes Has 'Better Than Average1 Protection
re a believer in sta- The department shows 161 Overall mi+u ^_____.. . _ , - .
If you’re a believer in sta- The department shows 161
tistics and you want to avoid criminal offenses reported
a traffic accident in Mer- during the year. Sixty-seven
cedes then you d better not cases of burglary and 68
get behind the wheel between cases of theft under $50
3 and 6 p.m. Those were the lead the investigations made
most dangerous hours todri- by local officers. There was
ve according to an official one assault on a police of- 311 wei
police department year lyre- fleer, 21 cases of theft over charged
port released by Chief Clau- $50 and four auto thefts on Department oercnnn.l
d.0 Castaneda, Jr. the records. worked “afflcTc"
The safest time to dr.ve? JXgSf
1*7 6. a j _
Overall, criminal cases de-
signated as class one were
cleared by arrest in 102 of
the 161 reported cases.
In all criminal offense,
classes one and two, 383*
adults were arrested and
311 were found guilty as
with no driver’s license and student clerk,
running of red-light ranking In addition to the traffic
next in order. and criminal cases, Mer-
Department personnel be- cedes police handled 1,540
sides Chief Castaneda in- calls for assistance, made
elude Sergeants Felipe Pe- 4,269 house checks, 138 mo-
na and Baldemar Rivera, tor vehicle inspections, pro-
Senior Patrolman Santos vided 143 escorts, found 99
Galvan and Patrolmen Desi- doors and/or windows open,
derio Silva, Albert T. Gar- received 7,586 calls on the
cia, Juan Davila, No*e Es-
Between"3=attd 4 fn the morn-
occurred during the year of
1971.
Traffic accident summa-
ries plus criminal offenses
form the bulk of the report
submitted to the Mercedes
City Commission.
- /CK J--/u *'*•*'''* b
produced arrests (nationally
18.2%) and half of the auto
theft were cleared. (27% na-
tionally.) The sole case of
assault on a police officer
was also cleared by arrest.
More people between the
ages of 25 and 34 were in-
volved than any other age
group. And men drivers
committing offenses out-
numbered the ladies more
than two to one. Speeding was
the most common violation,
Joe Campos, David Duenes
and Ramiro Aldape, areem-
ployed by the department.
Animal control officer is
Jose Garcia. Secretary and
Court Clerk is Gilda Cava-
zos and Estella de los San-
tos is employed as a VOE
telephone, served 165 war-
rants and drove 133,800 mi-
les.
They also made bic-
cyle safety presentations to
seven local schools, safety
presentations to various lo-
cal schools, conducted by
bicycle safety road-eo and
made nine drug abuse pre-
sentations.
Whew!
ENTERPRISE PHOTO
RE-ELECTED AS BEEF SYNDICATE OFFICERS are Ignacio Rome-
ros, secretary; Joe Crenshaw, vice-president and Sid McClendont
president. First order of business after officer election at last week's
meeting was the selection of March 9 and April 6 as annual barbecue
dinner dates. Membership and dinner tickets for 1972 will be on sale
this week by present syndicate members.
Robert J. Sanders Rites Are on Sunday
Funeral services were
conducted 2 p.m., Sunday,
F ebruary 6 at Stotler Mor-
tuary in Mercedes for Ro-
bert J. Sanders, editor and
part owner of the Merce-
des Enterprise. Rev. John
S. Dunham, Vicar of the Epi-
scopal Church of the Re-
deemer officiated. Burial
followed Monday at Little
Hope Cemetary in Jasper,
Texas.
Mr. Sanders died early
Saturday in a Harlingen hos-
pital after a brief illness.
He came to Mercedes in
1965 from Jasper where he
served as news editor of the
Jasper News-Boy. He had al-
so been editor of newspapers
in Kansas and Nebraska.
Mr. Sanders served two
terms as president of the
Mercedes Chamber of Com-
merce, was a past president
of the Rotary Club, chair-
man of the Mercedes Li-
brary Board, a member of
the Mercedes Charter Com-
mission and a member of the
concessions and entertain-
ment committee of the Rio
Grande Valley Livestock
Show.
He was a member of the
Episcopal Church and a lay
reader in the church.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Lorene Sanders; a dau-
ghter, Joanna of Mercedes;
a son, Steven of Lamar Uni-
versity at Beaumont; mo-
ther, Mrs. Mildred Sanders
of Kokomo, Indiana; and a
sister, Mrs. Sue Gordon of
Long Island, New York.
He was born June 12, 1925
in Kokomo and had a degree
in journalism from Butler
University at Indianapolis,
Indiana.
Pallbearers were W. J.
Mize, Ralph Jones, N. K.
Fitzgerald, Dan Morrison,
William Savarino, J. R.
Wade, and Kenneth Barth.
ENTERPRISE PHOTO
WINNERS AT THE 'M' ASSOCIATION TOURNAMENT -- MHS fresh-
man team members exhibit their first place trophy won last week at
the local 'M' basketball meet. The team, coached by Dave Ritchey,
compiled an 11-7 season won-lost record. Shown above, FRONT, left
to right, Rafael Martinez, Mario Martinez, Ignacio Romeros and
Juan de los Santos. REAR, Coach Ritchey, Danny Savarino, Rey-
naldo Trevino, UbaldoDe Leon, Erineo Huerta, Rusty Smith and Wes
Herndon. Not present were team members Mario Bernal, Ernest
Garcia and David Lopez.
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The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 10, 1972, newspaper, February 10, 1972; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1110760/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.