The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 1980 Page: 1 of 8
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The Merce
Mercedes, Texas 78570 Thursday, February 7, 1980
nterprise
Volume 65 Number 6 Price 15’
Library 'Friends'
to meet Tuesday
The Mercedes Friends of the Library
will meet Tuesday, February 12 at 5:15
p.m. at the library. At the last meeting
by-laws were adopted and members are
now working on attaining non-profit
organizational status.
Membership categories have been set
and are as follows: Student - 50 cents;
Friend - $1-14; Regular Membership
(voting) - $15-99; Sponsor - $100-249;
Patron - $250 and up.
The Friends invite all interested
persons to attend the Tuesday meeting.
Syndicate selling
membership tickets
Annual membership tickets in the
Mercedes Beef and Pork Syndicate are
now on sale throughout the community
at a cost of $20.
The tickets entitle the purchaser to
two plates of barbecue at each of two
dinners. March 6 and April 10. Both
meals will be served at the Civic Center
beginning at 6:30 p.m. and lasting until
8 p.m.
Tickets are available from any
member of the Syndicate Board of
Directors or from any member of the
Mercedes Future Farmers of America
Chapter.
Primary election ballots
set as filing deadline
passes for candidates
Voters in the May 3 Democratic Party
Primary Election will see some old and
familiar names when they enter the
voting booth, but they’ll also find that a
number of political newcomers have
found a place on the ballot.
Monday at 6 p.m. was the final time
for office seekers to pay a filing fee and
ask for a ballot spot, and according to
one source at Hidalgo County
Democratic Party Chairman Morris
Atlas’ office, more than 50 candidates
from across the county waited until the
last 60 minutes to file.
Top Mercedes interest may be
centered in three races: Justice of the
Peace, Place I, Constable, and Precinct I
Commissioner.
In the JP race, incumbent R. G.
Housing Authority office is registration site
Registration will be done between 8
a.m. and noon and from 1 to 5 p.m.
Mondays through Fridays.
Further information may be obtained
by contacting Mr. Reyes at 565-1822.
Prospective voters who are not
currently registered may now do so at
the office of the Mercedes Housing
Authority at 430 N. Vermont, reports
Abel Reyes.
He's mad enough to offer reward of $500
“How mad are you, Eddie
Childs? the radio commercial asks.
And then Eddie goes on to tell the
listening audience just how mad he
really is.
Well, there’s someone in Merce-
des who is at least as mad as good
old Eddie. That’s Buddy Ross,
farmer, cotton ginner and mayor,
who is just about as mad as you can
get.
Seems that Buddy’s gin was
‘ripped off’ over the weekend with
about $2,000 worth of office
equipment taken. Buddy says the gin
has been open for 27 years and the
first 25 were without incident, but
he’s been robbed three times in the
past 18 months.
Now that’s enough to make
anyone mad...really mad.
But this time it’s even worse. For
in addition to cleaning out the gin
office of all its equipment, the
#*##*#**# so and so’s (Buddy’s
quote) took his prize mounted deer’s
head.
4t wasn’t necessarily the largest
deer ever taken. And it didn’t
certainly have a record number of
points or the biggest spread. But it
was the very first deer taken by
Buddy as a youngster...and the
sentimental value of it is obvious.
So, Buddy is offering a reward for
its return. $500. That’s right,
Five-hundred dollars.
Anyone who can come up with
that deer’s head and see that it is
returned to Buddy can claim the
reward.
And once it’s back home at the
gin office, Buddy promises he’ll be
just a little less mad.
Season ends with win at Raymondville
It was a storybook finish: The ball hit
the basket rim at the buzzer, went
straight up in the air — took what must
have seemed to Tigers and their fans an
eternity to come down — and then
gracefully swished through the hoop to
make the final game of the season a
51-50 victory for Mercedes over zone
champion Raymondville.
It was, says Coach Mauro Vasquez, a
“sweet” win. “We played the best we
ever have,” says Vasquez. “It was a
great win to close the season and it took
a perfect pass and a perfect catch to
even make the play possible. We’ve
come a long way this season and I’m so
proud of the team.”
The ‘perfect’ pass and ‘perfect’ catch
was a throw from Ruben Hinojosa to
James Lauderdale...who then took the 20
foot shot that put the game away.
According to Coach Vasquez,
Mercedes made only four turnovers in
the game. “We didn’t beat ourselves...
and we came back to win in a game that
was close all the way.”
First quarter score was 17-15 in favor
of Raymondville after Tigers closed an
early gap of nine points. Halftime saw
Mercedes with a 29-25 lead and the third
quarter score was 34-33 in favor of the
Tigers. Mercedes had a three point lead
with just over a minute to play, but a
call against the Tigers and a R’ville steal
put the score at 50-49 in favor of the
BearKats with just three seconds left.
“We called a time-out, put four
players down the floor and told Ruben to
throw it down court to give us —
hopefully -- one final shot,” said the
coach.
The victory put the Tiger record at
18-11 for the season...and it gave the
team and their fans something to
remember for a long time.
TYPICAL OF EARLY SCENES to be shown Thursday by Mrs. Goza Is this photograph of a gathering in 1925...perhaps
at Sunrise Hill?
Slide show will tell of our heritage
“Mercedes -- Yesterday and
Today” will be the subject of a talk
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the
Mercedes Memorial Library given by
Mrs. Goldsby Goza, member of the
Hidalgo County Historical Commis-
sion.
Mrs. Goza’s program is part of a
continuing February presentation at
the library of “Heritage Month,” a
series of events designed to focus
attention on the past and how it has
made Mercedes and her people what
they are today.
The Thursday program will
consist of discussion and a number of
slides compiled by Mrs. Goza over
the years. Many of the slides are no
longer available in picture form, she
says.
Sources credited with helping
provide program information include
Mrs. Jeanne Lively of California,
who sent photographs that belonged
to William Lingenbrook, early
Mercedes settler, Floyd Langford,
Mrs. Camila Castaneda, Mrs. Luz
Sauceda, Mrs. Marion Haslam, now
of Philadelphia, and Ignacio Garcia
at the MISD Media Center, who
helped with making the slides from
the rare old photographs.
The public is invited to attend the
program. There is no charge.
‘Tiny’ Perez of Mercedes has opposition
from D. E. ‘Dan’ Lorenzana of Mercedes
and Jose G. ‘Lupe’ Garza of Donna.
Long-time Mercedes Constable Gene
Foley has drawn a contest from J. P.
Garza, Horacio Aguirre and Jose A.
Lopez, all of Weslaco.
One-term incumbent County Com-
missioner Ramiro Cavazos of Weslaco is
being opposed in his re-election bid by
Hector Casiano, present mayor of the
city of Donna.
Hidalgo countians will select a
sherriff from among five candidates
including the one-term incumbent Brig
Marmelejo. Other ballot hopefuls for the
sherriff’s job include Rick Marville of
Mission, Raul Hernandez, Jr., McAllen,
Ray Rodgers of Mission and H. C. Vicars
of McAllen.
Tax assessor-collector Ciro Trevino is
unopposed for re-election.
Raul Longoria, present state senator,
is unopposed for the judgeship of the
139th District Court. Incumbent there, F.
M. Guerra, is not asking re-election.
A three-man race will take place for
the seat on the bench of the 92nd
District Court where Judge J. R. Alamia
is retiring. Seeking that post are F. P.
‘Pete’ Benavides of McAllen, Rene A.
Guerra of Edinburg, and Alfonso A.
Guerra of McAllen.
Joe A. Cisneros is asking re-election
to the bench of the 93rd District Court.
Jaime Garza of Edinburg is running
for the job on the County Court-at-Law
No. II. Richard H. Garcia, also of
Edinburg, is seeking the judgeship on
the newly formed County Court-at-Law
No; III.
Running for the chairman of the
Hidalgo County Democratic Party are
Joe Chapa, Jr. of McAllen and Juan J.
Maldonado, present mayor of San Juan.
Current Demo Chairman Morris Atlas
has not sought another term.
In local party organization Amado
Garcia is running unopposed for the slot
as precinct chairman of Precinct 21. Alex
Yriarte is running for the chairman’s job
of Precinct 46. Local precincts one, 32,
40 and 56 have had no applicants for the
chairman’s post.
Republican party local precincts have
attracted candidates in four of five of the
local precincts. Sam Reed seeks office in
Precinct I, Juan Ramirez is running in
Precinct 21, Oscar Presas in Precinct 32,
Don Tidwell in Precinct 40, Mrs. Susan
Schwarz in Precinct 46, but no candidate
filed for the Precinct 56 post.
Other candidates for state and
national office file on a state level.
Commissioners
hear idea of
development
Industrial development was a prime
topic of the Mercedes City Commission
at their Tuesday meeting when
representatives of the Harlingen Cham-
ber of Commerce and Development
Committee were present to brief
commissioners.
David Allex and Randy Whittington
traced Harlingen’s use of the Texas
Industrial Development Act of 1979 to
expand a local industry - Gorges Meats
-- by providing $1.7 million in tax
exempt bonds for the firm’s expansion
and the creation of new jobs in the
community.
The Harlingen use of the act was the
first in the state approved by the Texas
Industrial Commission.
First step in the program, according
to Mr. Whittington, is the creation of a
city sponsored and organized Develop-
ment Committee. That group then serves
as a coordinating body between
businesses wishing to raise money and
purchasers of the bonds. Bonds may be
used to finance new or expanded
commercial, industrial, manufacturing or
medical research facilities.
Benefit to the business is a much
lower rate of interest over conventional
financing due to the fact the bonds are
considered tax exempt.
Commissioners took all the inform-
ation under advisement and will most
likely bring the matter up for additional
consideration at their February 19
meeting, said Mayor Buddy Ross.
In other action Tuesday, the
commissioners approved a landfill
contract with Rudy Arguelles for disposal
of brush collected within the city.
HAPPY HUNDRED -- Mrs. Candelaria B. Gonzalez, above, celebrated her 100th
birthday Saturday, February 2, with a merienda at the home of a daughter, Mrs.
Aurora Lozano of Mercedes. Mrs. Gonzalez has another daughter, Miss Belia
Gonzalez of Edinburg, and a son, Thomas Gonzalez of Gilroy, California, plus 24
grandchildren, 54 great-grandchildren and 15 great-great-grandchildren. She
was bom in 1880 at Congregacion Garza near Mier in Mexico and came to
Mercedes in 1906. She remembers knowing both Pancho Villa and his wife in
Mexico. After coming to Mercedes, she worked for many years for the
Fernandez family of Toluca Ranch and Mercedes. About 50 family members
attended the party for her 100th birthday. [Cuadra Studio Photo.]
WORK IS PROGRESSING ‘ON SCHEDULE’ on a three-month, three-area
street paving project in Mercedes being done with Community Development
funds. According to City Manager Mike Perez, construction is about
one-third of the way complete on the $137,535 project. Scenes above show
work being done at Melton Park Subdivision, top photo, and preparation
work along Jones Street. Picture below is of East Liberty Drive in Queen
City Annex area where most subsurface work is completed. [Mercedes
Enterprise Photos.]
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