The Calhoun County Times (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 26, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 27, 1961 Page: 1 of 8
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In September, 1958. the Game failed to get out of committee
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But, legislation aside, the fact and Fish people asked the high- this legislative session, Dodgen
4,000 feet of the old Lavaca Howard Dodgen, executive see- mission to operate the pier —
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VOL. Vil I—NO. 26
TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1961
ONE SECTION, 8 PAGES
Published in Port Lavaca . . . "Gateway to the Gulf
yours truly
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erations, has been named Man-
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MISS BONNIE KENYON, 17.
The week ending June 8. a
• day before the rains started had
Herman Ladewig show.
Lavaca
September 23, 1956, about "Wil-
and Commerce. (The hotel’s ad- ly" the hummingbird.
Houston Man
By ANN FARAGHER
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Drowns Near
back of the building.
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a boat
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alleges has not been paid.
hearing the case.
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ed to grab his abdomen and
aeeident en-Dee: 6, 1888 Judge said.
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Shepard to
Pittsburgh
Rains Slash
Waler Sales
City water use the past two* water use at 7.065.700 gallons,
weeks dropped to about an ev- where it had been running dur-
W, J. Black, real estate dir-
ector for the HEB stores, was
collapsed.
The two couples were spend-
2 Judges Hear
District Court
Cases Today
feet deep water, after Capt. A.
J. Anderson of the Matagorda
Air Force Base found it from
the air.
ted Monday morning, and is con-
vening today for a district court
hearing in the case of J. O.
he collapsed in the water at
Decros point, on the peninsula
off Port O'Connor.
North Lights but once in the
last three days. He was last
sen out in Bill Morris' maize
field where he appeared to be
reading a copy of last wek‘
while surf fishing on Matagorda
Island Saturday afternoon.
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Howard P. Green will hear
this case.
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County Judge Howard Hai
zog said Wednesday that as so
as a final copy of HB 432, t
valldating bill, is received I
Commissioners Court. the cm
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Judge Frank Crain will be ed the body at 9:50
in two
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weather The delay of rain was
caused by the absence of Myr-
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Friday Kills
Port Resident
Charles Quick Floyd, 15. was
killed in a two-car head-on col-
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A 46-year-old prominent Housn hole, from which he was res-
to pick six commissioners
the district.
James Sudduth for his clipping
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Ed Eckert and problems awaiting Eckert aqhen be
enu Mne. Nell took over his new job last week?
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tie Whitmire who was in t h e
hospital for a spell.
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WE VIEW WITH ALARM:
No doubt you have noticed the
elegant, new paint job which
car belonging to Mr and Mrs
To Be (ailed
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By August 1
has been put on the
Hotel at the corner
The Calhoun County Times
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tell to whom you are talking.
The unlikellest looking person
, could well be a scout for aa and
(to CMC MAN. Page 2A) ,Whi|
Hayne is reported in critical
condition at the Bryan hosrital.
and Mrs Hayne is in the Mad-
isonville hospital, where her con-
dition is listed as* not critical
They had lived at Iley's Trail-
er Court, and just two weeks
ago moved into town
The dead boy was the son
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The new section will be twoal
story, and the upper floor willI
house the maternity section and
Aluminum Company of Am- of the weekly
and also in the Korean . War.
Before coming to Point Comfort
in 1956. he was in charge of
public relations at Alcoa's Rock-
dale Works.
He was president of the Port
Lavaca Rotary Club in 1959, has
served as director of the Cham-
ber of Commerce and is pre-
sently a director of the Library
Association. Active in church af-
fairs he is a lay reader, has
served as Senior Warden and
is now on the vestry at Grace
Episcopal Church in Port La
vaca. He is also a director of
the Christian Faith and Life
Community in Austin.
Shepard, his wife Dorothy
and their four children plan
to move to Pittsburgh late in
August.
dale, Knight served as Wire
Editor, State Editor and Pro-
motion Manager for the Waco
News-Tribune. He and wife Lois
are members of the Episcopal
Church. They have two sons,
Andy, now in the Air Force,
and Pat who. is 9.
Shepard began his career with
Alcoa in 1949 in Pittsburgh after
graduation from the University
of Texas and Boston University.
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ing in waist deep water off De- 1
croe Point when McCarty seem
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The body of C. E. McCarty
was spotted by an Air Force
fall forward, sheriff's office here a visitor late last week, work-
.ing:/onplana.for a .new store
hospital three operating rooms,
apparently suffered a curd by Louis Schultz of Port along with increased recovery 1
e " -t-cka end S"anmer. in a boat and emergency rooms.
Mrs McCarty and Mrs Herb ( The kitchen and other service'
were some distance away fish- . facilities will be brought up to
ing from a boat when the man a size to handle the larger op.
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June rains whacked the wa-,
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to vaca by about 30 percent, the city reports,
records of City Works Director
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ANOTHER ENTRANT in the
. -a9 den 5-million gallons weekly, on ing a dry May.
Sudduth expects construction
work to start by late August or
early September Estimated
ty, he served to the Air Force
during World War II.
Before joining Alcoa at Rock-
West North street, on account
of what we now call Main. was
formerly North Street • We sub-
mit that the painting of this
local landmark has some haz-
ard for all of us:' According
to the Chairman of the Weather. 1, .
— ... .00 .1 i Grady Hayne, and they were
Committee, every year that the „ '.
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hotel has acquired a fresh coat .
of paint.-the Port Of The Cow um
has acquired a Hurricane! Now,
this condition of circumstances
would seem to call for some
close harmony between Myrtle
Whitmire, and Lamar Marshall
We leave it to them.
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dress is officially listed as 101
of Madisonville on Friday night ALCOA INTERNATIONAL
Young Floyd was driving a t
de
The possibility that the Hous-
ton man might have been in-
jured in the water was ruled
out when his body failed to show
any marks of injury, the sher-
iff's office said.
Peace Justice Louise Sharp
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Here for the session were for the Game and Fish com- its of a "local” bill.
1892 " he
corrected this by blessing us
Fd Eckert, new Port Lavaca
Chamber of Commerce mana-
ger. found some urgent mat-
ters needing attention when he
took over his new poet last
week
Ai rangemen’s for the July 1
Lavaca Bay » auseway dedica-
tion were at tin top of the list.
have the longest fishing pier in "interested" in taking the pier Both legislators agreed, how- ary, 1958. shortly after a $4 2- of a "hith in circumstances with adoining land right-of-way
Texas properly operated for asrarpart of its holdings, but ever, that it might be hard un- million contract was let to build brought about by the laws.” for parking. —-—------
the thousands of southwest fish- will have no money for it for der the rules of a Special scs- a -new causeway. A legislative act to clear the Barlow explained, in turn,
ermen who will wet a line from another biennial, Barlow said, sion to pass the needed laws, The court asked for 1.000 feet commission to set up fishing that his agency liked the pier.
| building time is 11 months.
(Photo by Ghiselin)
with a project to encourage
United States flag displays also
high on the list A
"But tilings were to good k
shape, and Mrs Shrader had E
done a fine job of keeping things "
MCKIN- MISS BEVERLY HICKMAN,,
A friend of McCarty's. Frank held an inquest, but withheld |
Herb of Houston, had to be res- verdict pending an autopsy re-
cued from a deep hole on the port from Houston, where Mc-
beach. Into which he stepped Carty’s body was taken,
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tHerbinldwsheritfscpficensi Calhoun Visitor :
NON, 16. is a contestant in the 18, queen of the First Fishing
Miss Fishing Festival Contest Festival in 1958, is an entrant
to be held at 8 p m. Friday in this years Mss Fishing Pes-
, in the Calhoun High auditor- tival contest. She is the daugh-
ium She is the daughter of Mr. ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Hick-
A 12-member jury was selec- aeartnatt ac K or Aestrofapmndoconnor
The Calhoun Memorial Hos-
pital this week is putting its
area in .shape to stretch its
plant in a $700 000 expansion
program for which plans were
approved last Thursday night
by -its trustees. : -•0
Some minor changes in the
pions remain to be done by the
hospital’s architects, but bids ,
are expected to be sought about
August 1, reports James Sud- -
duth. hospital administrator. I
Sudduth last week had a hos- I
pital storage building moved '
from just behind the main build* I
ing about one-half block back,,
to make way for the hospital I
extension which will go back. I
of the .present plant, and'up to I
a second story. I
Architect Bill Whittett of Cor- I
pus Christi firmed up final plans I
for the major enlargement to I
the meeting here. Whittett is I
with the firm of Page, Suther- |
land. Page and Whittett. I
Chairman Phil Marquette of I
the hospital board and board II
members agreed with the plans, I
which have been in develop- l
ment since last July 30 when I
a $700,000 bond issue was ap- I
proved by Calhoun County vot- I
ers, 4 to 1. I
The additions will give the I
hospital an extra 25 to 30 beds I
to add to its present 42 beds. I
A major change will be to I
turn the hospital around. in ef- ]
feet, and front the hospital with I
the new section facing Anni
Street, which is the present 1
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He served as an infantry officer
in Europe during World War II
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running" he said referring to
chamber secretary Mrs. Nell
Shrader who had been alone to
the office since former manag-
er Cliff Terrell left for Rosen-
berg in April.
Eckert was in Port Lavaca
several weeks ago for i lunch-
eon meeting, and while here
made an unusual curves of the
town, a kind which he says
many industries conduct
He drove around town, stop-
ping in service stations, restau-
rants and stores, and striking
up a conversation with the work-
ers. He used a few leading
questions to_gef their opinion
of their town, and said he was
"real pleased to find that they
liked their town,- and spoke well
of it.”
Eckert is convinced that bus-
inessmen have a debt to their
community to train their per-
sonnel to talk well of their
town, because "you can never
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said "And it has stood every
hurricane we ve had here since.
and Mrs. Darwin Floyd.'
nved an"porhlznvataaboutonoxaShepard, Pubuig.Retatons
weeks, though his father had Manager for Point Somfort OP-
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Herb started over towards his | scheduled to the Viking
friend and stepped into a deep Shopping Center.
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Roach, doing business as
Roach Rig Building versus
Kirkwood and Morgan, Inc.
The suit seeks to collect $1.-
$96 plus attorney fees for a
sand T-head installed in the
bay between Seadrift and Port
O'Connor, which the plaintiff
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been workins here for sometie ager of International Public Re
been workinK h c r e lor some lations. He will assume hipew
Funeral services for Floyd duties in the Pittsburgh public
were conducted Sunday after- relations department on Septem-
noon at the Central Baptist ber 1. ,
Church in acksonville, and James A Knight Jr.. now at
burial was in a Jacksonville Alcoa’s Rockdale Work*. will
cemnetery- Mill , , X- become Public - Relations Man-,
Bill Ray Miller, 25. of Nor- ager at Point Comfort opera-,
magee, driver of the other ear, tions and’be charge of Alcoa’s
Was also killed in the wreck, statewide public relations acti-
' vities, according to T F Ander-
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The hitch in an original plan which may go beyond the lim- on each end of the bridge. piers in state recreation areas (See CAUSEWAY, Page 2-A)
CofC manager--- I
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Sterling thought R was before
1900. Mrs Whitmire agreed, but
neither could remember the ex-
act date But right outside the I
Sterling Drugstore, we found
the answer Naturallyw,we con-
t son. Point Comfort Area Mana-
ger.
Knight is a native Texan,
born in Madisonville where his
WEAHER OR NOT’ On
March 23. 1961, we decided
something had to be done about
’ the weather, so we appointed
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Bay causeway for use at a fish- retary of the Game and Fish a proposal they initiated three is that much of the faithful way department for the end said.
ing pier'was a necesary thing Commission, R. W. Barlow, aa- years ago — is a lack of en- bridge will stand, 3,000 feet on sections of the causeway, stat- But he added: “We are de- r
to do, and they would be glad sistant executive director of the abling legislation that will let its Port Lavaca end, 1,000 feet ing a purpose 9f using them termined with you to keep this
to help if the law would let State Parks Board and W. A. the agency depart from its on the Point Comfort side, and for fishing piers. S.——.pier available" for fishing use.
them, g King, resident engineer for the business of managing wild life that it will be available to fish- The highway department a- King cleared the highway de-
Tills was the concensus of a Texas highway department, and enter the recreation busi- ermen soon, even if a long- greed in a letter to Dodgen late partment from a suggestion by
serious planning session here - The agreement reached was ness. range plan for its improvement in 1958, and requested permis- Cory that they might build a
last Thursday, to map a future for the Game-Fish agency to Dodgen agreed to advance and operation takes awhile. sion from the U S. Engineers T-head" at the end of the pier
for the sturdy, soon-to-be-aban- go ahead and accept the’bridge with these plans, if State Sen- County Judge Howard Hart- to leave this much of the bridge section, where the middle of the
doned bridge across fish-rich from the highway department, ator Bill Pktman and State Rep- zog opened the hearing, held in the navigable bay. bridge is removed.
Lavaca Bay, which must dispose of it, and resentative Dick Cory, both of in the courthouse and attend- This was granted, and later Texas laws allow highway ex-
And from the agencies rep- to improve it as a sporting fa- them at the meeting, could man- ed by some 40 persons, on transferred to the game com- penditures only on roadways,
resented, the Texas Game and cility, if the commissioner can age some enabling legislation, First off, King brought the mission which had agreed to King declared. He liked the pier
Fish Commission, the State get some legislation to author- possibly of a local nature, in bridge status up-to-date, start- "accept all responsibility for idea just fine, he added, but
Parks Board andTexas High- ize spending Game-Fish money the upcoming special session of ing with a request to the high- maintenance of this structure ’ his department would have to
way Department, came an on the pier/ the Texas legislature, opening way department by the Calhoun They backed off from this quit with turning the bridge ov-
agreement that utimately will The State Parks Board is July 10. commissioners court in Janu- some, Dodgen explained because er to the game agency, along
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is the latest entrant In the Miss Miss Fishing Festival Contest
Fishing Festival Contest. She is Miss Beverly Elliott, 19. Miss
is the daughter of Mrs. Irene Elliott is the daughter of Mr.
Kenyon, and Mrs. W. A. Elliott.
(Photo by GhiselinI < Photo by Ghiselin)
Brown, local Churchman. Chair-
man. Henry Wehmeyer, farm-
er of note; Ernest Vela, pur-
veyor of frijoles; John Faubion,
President of The First State
Bahk & Trust Company; L. M
Bierman. Mayor pro - tem of
Long Mott; Myrtle Whitmire,
official hostess of the Port of
The Cow; Father Vincent, Chur-
chman and world's Champion
money-raiser; and Lamar Mar-
shal
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mar
to do with the prevention of
Hurricanes.)
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THEY STAND ON THEIR
RECORD One has to concede
that this committee has done
a superior job as compared to
Marsh Canton and Whip Mun-
sch’s sorry record of 1960 (Up
to now । We did have a small
drouth here in May, and a
slight over-supply of rain to
June, but the crew has hastily
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To Be Called
The formation of Calhoun
County Drainage District 1) has
been validated to the legislature
and signed by Governor Price
Daniel.
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The next step to get things
rolling will be an election call
and Mrs. Graham McKinnon. man.
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Jurors selected Monday morn-
ing were B J. Charbula, Alex
Dean, Raymond Barefield. W.
H Stanley. Charlie Watkins,
Roque Ramirez, H. S. Thomas
Jr., Joe W. Shafer, R. D. Mic-
kle. R. J. Dahse, Albert D.
Erickson Jr., and Domingo B
Hernandez
On Monday afternoon jurors
were to be selected for the case
of Gerald M. Dunham versus
Travelers Insurance Co. which
seeks to collect 814,033 for in-
juries allegedly received to an
Causewayto Stay - but Law in Way
helicopter and recovered from ing a weekend at the McCarty's
Gulf waters early Sunday morn- beach cottage in Port O’Connor,
ing. about two miles from where McCarty was president of Eq- j
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