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SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT PORT LAVACA, TEXAS
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VOL. VII—NO. 43
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1961
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Published in Port Lavaca . . . "Gateway to the Gulf
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3 Mayors; Bond Issue—December 9:
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New Alignment
Lessens Need
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For New Building
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HO FEDERAL FUNDS:
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Aim is
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2 UF Drives Rolling
surviving
daughter of Mrs Welsch.
will carry the two percent Tex-
the
their pledges, a practice that
Fred Rhodes. Troy Carmichael
plans.
tribution or pledge
ertz Friday set up the second
•the advance gifts campaign.
division, and met with Lenertz goals that will move the drive
Henry
to
POSTMAN S CHORE:
FROM CONVERSATION TO CASH:
New HD Agent
current federal fiscal year.
to accelerate county growth in
May reported to Mineral Wells
the post she was scheduled to
on Monday. He li a first lieu-
wa*
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of Travis Jun-
County Agent . since
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Philip Lauer was ordered to' out of the service for almost
on November 11.
49th Natioani Guard unit.
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teport to Fort Polk also. He
reported on October 18 with the
With the first section rolling. |
UF Drive Chairman Oscar Len-
was a recommen-
12-member school
signed
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district will pay the balance of
the cost. At the start, naviga-
tion district payments will run
Billy Joe Boyd who had only
been out of the service since
22,
in
pected to come in November,
or by early December at the
. Friday’s bonds were sold at
an overall interest rate of 3.
7374 percent to Ra use her Pierce
Company of Houston and Dallas.
First payoff of the bonds is
Lenertz
schedule
was announced by Mias Wil-
liarhs on October 9. and she
had been in training with the
s
Whittett said last week.
One of the reductions
Victoria
then.
The
final
to be
light”
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than ever, and this has an ef-
■ feet on the bids,” he added
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notified of the resignation in a
letter last week from District
HD Agent Miss Claudia Wi]-
Highway 35 towards the cause-| workers George Fred Rhodes and third rounds of the drive
Welsch's suit alleges negli-
gence in marking of a detour
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UNITED FUND campaign chairman,,
Oscar Lenertz, left, and campaign
counsel R. W. Kullman look over
the tightly packed schedule under
' it. .
architects decided after a com-
prehensive study.
It’s Spook Night!
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minor and
Resigns Post
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and Mr. and Mrs. Emil Olsen week with a team of top work-
of El Campo were passengers ers.
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New Suit
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Filed in
Fatal Crash
it assured through a navigation cantile National Bank of Hous-
district agreement with the Al- ton are pving agents for the
uminum Company of America, bond company.
and nine months after serving a
three year tour, half of which
was spent in Germany. He is
to report for active duty on No-
vember 3.
of the qjber car
Rasmussen seeks most of his
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Team majors are
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“Provisions are included to
add classrooms and other tacil-
ities to all elementary schools
The Matagorda Ship Channel
took a first big step toward
and Whittett. architects for the
new building I
’ A bid session two weeks ago. |
held to -et contacts tor the'
addition. resulted in no contractT
when b‘ds ran up to $200,000 j
above the money the court had
field, a
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been a pilot, and will be attend-
ing helicopter school.
Marion Smith was another of
the men rcalled to duty who
reported to Fort Polk.
United Fund total.
Top advance gifts workers I
School Vote Set
/ - - - - .mn„.u...,,. 1 .-.qwa.za. .amazqulenqasinepaioanccu.m.z
; dation of
advisory
made an
The advance gifts drive of’ally raises 52 percent of the
be required first. along with
in five years, by 1966. the
'Calhoun high school enrollment
is expected to reach 1,667 stu-
First up probably would be
more chassrooms at Crockett
df $673,000, architect Bill Whitt-1 Of this amount $100,000 has as sales tax that went into ef-
ett estimated in a meeting with ' been committed for land costs, 1 fect on September 1, although
the comissiqners furniture, and architect's fees.i it is 14 government county facili-
paired and they can move
bark home
They are both continuing ac-
tive in their civic offices and
are on hand for all council
meetings, and other activities
that require their preSence
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aerotate
grades at the Calhoun
i by i and Bill Massey shoved the ad- Clayton Toalson and Leo
wife ■ vance gifts drive into gear last Westerholm head the employees
hospital contract
a tow years'.
present enlargement
the student number of 4,700 in all
of the 13 schools in the Cal
- I houn district
"This student projection de-
mands immediate attention and
creates an absolute necessity
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For $1.5-million
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va«"rM v‘-e“ . -
the Calhoun United Fund is
rolling optimistically midway in
Mrs, Mildred Rogers has re-
route onto
which this year’s United Fund cam-
paign will be conducted. The drive
is to wind up on November 22 with
a “Torch-Light” rally.
approaches its first week, with prospects opened their drive by making
under construction, and charges of getting together 50 percent, , . ,
tnat* this was a cause of the of the overall $25,267 UF goal was picked up by solicitors.
_ . . | With this system, no solicitor
Th advance gifts drive. ( will be making calls who has
not already made his UF con-
Enrollment projection com-
piled by the Calhoun schools in-
dicate a "continuous increase at
all levels and areas of the school
program," said school superin-
tendent E. V Huffstutler.
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junior high. These needs can be
vember 8. i met by improvements in Travis
The special gifts section of and by moving its upper grade
the drive kicks off today with UP to the newer, more modern
- high school, school officials and
a report on organization at 10 ' ""
a. m? Ralph Power. George
Calhoun HD Agent's
Hake over on November 1.
tenant in the Air Force. He had Commissioners Court
5-3-4" plan that will be put
into effect next September 1
This plan will put four stu-
| dent
GHOSTS. GOBLINS AND SPOOKS
will be on the loose konight for their
traditional Halloween “Tricks and
Treats" Little Shelby Hammons got
an-advaneeook last week at some
of the horrors that will be on tap
at the Jackson School Halloween
Carnival Spook House tonight, and,
in the county as the need
arises," Huffstutler said. "Plan
(School Vote—Cont. an Pg. 2)
three years when he was
ordered to report to Fort Polk
in a planning session The two swiftly along towards a
co-chairmen will meet with key report on November 17.
■ year
Total school enrollment for
the school year 1966-67 is expect-
ed to climb to 6 900 students.
This compares with a present
school growth trends and build-
ing needs.
The new issue -is , about $1-
* million lower than the approxi-
e mately $212-million recommend-
ed by the advisory committee
N ’last year
I The reduction in need is be-
e ing effected through a realign-
■ ment of students in the dif-
l ferent schools under a new
as Calhoun County
Demonstration Agent.
sue in July, 1960
told -the court in her letter. I The next upcoming step -
Mrs Rogers’ appointment construction contracts — is ex
latest Firbt contracts „fok dredg- , , .. . .
ing work on the upper end of. ahead of the federal, govern-
the deep water channel, are be- ment.
line out reach persons missed
on No- ifferent drives.
committe which
extensive study of
ing prepared for bids call by
the U. S Army Engineers now,
with a call date estimated for
mid-November.
Friday 's session provided I
about 80 percent of the money due on November 1. 1964 It who are committ d to the dis- ’ ‘ resent approval of deep wa-
that will go into channel con- will be for $170,000 in principal trict for lease of channcl dock-i *1 S "* Pn& in ° a oun oun-
struction by next June 30, the and interest to that time mg faemta- a development that came
., . cenn in September and is expected
Payoffs go on an accelerated Alcoa is to pay the CCND
Under an agreement with the schedule from that date through an annual amount cqual to 110
U S. Engineers the navigation November 1, 1976 The 1965 pay- percent of the bond obligations
district is advancing $1,614,000 ment will be for $175,000 in prin- for that year, through the life
..... — - of all bonds issued
_, for additional classrooms by
Channel Bonds OK is Big Stepe
“ed ■ ' conditions that existed before
representatives of school, followed by a "torch
county. city. federal and state cleanup on November
purpose facilities, as lunch
Huffstutler called the "5-3-4"
school plan "sound educationally
— , , and added that it will better
The bond session Friday wasi- « . .
. ... ... 1, . . . utihize P> esent school plants, per-
headed bv A ton White, pres - , . , ..... ,, ’
, , .v . . , sonel and facilities."
lent of the navigation district. L. c11 _.... _
, । . . , ,, . „ , The >1%-million improvement
The $8,800,000 is the first is and ine uded, fu oard program would enlarge most of
that can total membership.mnDan ere the present school plants. elem-
the navigation tary 1 ’ '" car ahn entary, junior high and high
district. In addition to approv- " ilenn 1 ‘ amey, school. Added clasrooms would
ing the first issuc Fridas the and Perr). Heekini
district board agreed to make Ran (her Pierce was repre- shops, laboratories and multi-
future issues up to a total of sented b Taylor Almon and
$12-million for the channel, for Arnold Kocurek of Houston and rooms.”
the CCND’s part of the channel Giuy Ayres -of San Antonio At-
construction cost torney Victor Boulcin of Hous- _______
Each subsequent bond issue ton. who representes the CCND), Junior hizh school, and a"
win be approved and sold in. sat inonthe St ssion along with eral renovation
A a » .. 1,c, John Faubion. president of the
dividually, under the overall $12- ....... .. . . _ .
.... w . First State Bank and Trust
million agreement , _ 20
Company.
Payment of the revenue bonds i 11)0 First State and the Mer-
A $1 -million bond issue to
I enlarge school plants in the
Calhoun County Indepenient
. . school distr ict has heen set for
vott on December 9, by the
— distrtet schoot bozre— —----—
— Ihe bond. issue has been—in
prospect for almost two years,
this position” Miss WilHams
has a day-by-day
j hams. She said Mrs. Rogers
I had resigned to accompany her
Buster Crober had been out hushand to West Texas where
of the service for two years he is working.
“ " "We wi continue to try to
find a satisfactory employee for
position has been vacant since
the death in February 1960 of
former agent Miss Frances
Gray.
Now Live
I In Port
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Three mayors live Th Port
4 . Lavaca but Port Lavaca has
E1 • only one mayor?
K This is another odd result
E of Hurricane Carla
S in addition to Port Lavaca
Mayor Frank Kinsey who reg
E ularly lives here. Point Com-
“We may be able to shrtnk County Judge Howard Hartzog J-
this, sme and, still rtain the pointed out . . The Texas attorneygeneral
" - - - The court recently put a min- has ruled on this sort of situa- ‘
ute into its records holding the tion under the tax law. Whittett
may F contract to be let to $600,000. said.
of-street parking, the architect The addition will give the pre-, Actually, the tax is not on the
said and "there may be some ent 40 -bed hospital another 30- building but on the materials
more give ” he added 40 beds, will add a second floor that go into it, and these are
Whittett is a member of the are* to the plant — this to bought by the contractor who
firm of Page, Southerland, Page house a maternity wing—and 18 subject to the tax, whtttettway. It met a car driven
will enlarge hospital operating exPlained. Rasmussen in which his
loom*, kite hens and service. This raised the price a few
facilities ' • • thousand dollars,”
Whittett has been in talks with Then all building sub-contrac-
County high school. Instead of
the three presently there,and
will move one grade upwards
krom the elementary schools.
At present, the Calhoun schools
have grades 1 through six in
the elementary school, grades
i seven through nine at the jun-
“ forh TgnschootsanTIthrougE '
12 at the high school.
The new distribution will re-
quire classroom additions at
several schools, but eliminated
the need for an additional jun-
ior high school, recommended
by the advisory committee.
| The committee fast year had
tas a major item a new junior
high school to replace Travis
business firms not included in
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accident. The advance gifts drive,
Hs is represented by the law headed by Lee Wallace, takes
firm of Davant and Dunnam of in contribution* from business
Port Lavaca and industrial firms and their
Mr and Mrs Welsch were management,
the only passengers in their ,
automobile. coming west on i Wallace with ranking co-
in spite of her fright, said she was
going back to see the whole show.
Point Comfort P-TA is also spon-
goring a Halloween carnival at the
school tonight Both schools .will
have a wide variety of booths and
food in addition to the Spook
Houses, i
At least seven Port Lavaca
army reservists or National
Guard members are on an early
• schedule to report back to army
duty, in calls issued the past
week.
The On welcome chore of de-
livering registered mail calls to
duty or alert notices has been
a frequent chore for city post-
men the past few days.
, One recipient had his own way
of answering the call. He was
unavailable to the postman
when he called with an official
envelope, and hasn't < been
found yet.
Those reported so far are:
Howard Hoffman had served
I two tours in the army and was
still in the reserve when he
i was ordered to report to Fort
l Polk. U., on October 23.
• - « I first of three persons to die in
mm m Im {th crash. was named a defend-.
m _________A* m— f. ant in a $324,800 suit filed here
Hospital “OntrC ct. me, E md Fare
• e----ee --m- l
ama • dm Agu adu gm damages from the South Texas
KB K"A€A€A_ContructionCemranybulders
s- ’ • ph vaca Bay.
fort Mayor Scott Vaughn and —
Port O’Connor Mayor Mrs.
Louise Sharp are making their
residence in Port Lavaca.
But Mayor Vaughn and May-
or Sharp are only here tem-
porarily until their Carla-
L damaged homes can be re-____
■ A cross-actiongto a $324,800 1
damage suit ffed here last
week has been filed in district
court with its own suit for
$326 900
Krimm Welsch, Corpus Christi,
driver of one of the cars in-
volved in a 2-car head-on crash
here October 6. has denied re-
spohstbility in the original suit
and is seeking $326,900 in dam-
ages from a road building firm :
he blames for the accident.
' Welsch whose wife was the j
of UF reports and dents. compared with 943 this
construction here Friday, when
it moved from the conversation
to the cash stage, with the ap-
proval for sale of $2,800,000 in
revenue bond* that will finance
start of construction. in money now for channel work, cipal plus interest The schedule
The $2,800,000 in bonds are be- to go with $500,000 in federal steps up to a final payment of
ing issued by the Calhoun Coun funds recently voted by Con- 6270.000 in principal, and final
ty Navigation District, the agen gress for the present fiscal ! interest.
cy that will be a partner in 1 year Another $200 000 is being
construction of the z-mile deepjadvanced for channel needs sue of bonds
wa er e anne . i other than construction, through ! 812-millkm by
Bonds are dated November 1. the engincers
1961, and will be retired from
district revenues over a 15-year Ultimate l. the federal Kov-
period ernment will pay more than
The next upcoming step - half of the estimated -million
channel job. and the navigation
Army Calls
Howard Garner had just been
out of the service for three
months when lie received his
recall orders.
Maurice Abbott had also been
nw -ocrent gdeput tg tors up and ton (he cost arel. Both of the Olsens died about Bowman. Curtis Nelson, Dr:
hesapent "Eraddiern cT buster than at any time in two days a fterithe crash.Their FM Logsdon.Larry Die. Fred
seson met. brasciton con . „c,0 __ । three minor children are parties Stedman, Ed Eckert and How-
true non - Pim — I oipva Ito the suit, filed by Rasmussen ard Chrisco. employee groups to
‘•Everybody has more work ' as -friend of the family. The advance gifts drive usu- their division kickoff
F M Logsdon and Lamar1
Marshall head the special gifts j
campaign.
The special gifts drive w ill '
generally teach individuals and'
• The fatal wreck occurred at
.Federal aid on the Calhoun earmarked for the building job. f Christi, to work out savin** in Point Comfort, at the start of
Memorial Hospital addition hat The upper figure reflected an the building’s design “without work on the causeway at.
■ been ruled out and it will be -rt to get all pm*ibk- featurea, wi" extras, ’ the architect ■ proaches,
*—-hetarto around me ssod, ooongure •’ the m a m. fTT.: Whittett I' Welsch seeks all of his dam-
nvatibie trm bond* voted in said With the basic require- Several things entered between ages from the construction
1960, a meeting of the county ments of the new addition, the ast year s Dond vote and this company.
-ommtsstoners court with hos-ow bid fizure worked out totyears contra- toue to drive Plaintiffs " in the new action
pital architects agreed last around $673,000 building costs up. Whittett ex- are Welsch and Dena Lee May.
weekend. The erunty has $700,000 for plumed.
, Right now the proposed addi- the hospital enlargement, voted First, the
,» tion has a budding price tag I in a bond is
fmo-ee
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