Raymondville Chronicle (Raymondville, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 30, 1953 Page: 1 of 20
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Rock-Bottom Prices Put on Score$ o f Items for Raymondville^ Dollar Day Monday Aug. 3
LONG RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE
TOP-RANKING WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS IN
TEXAS, THE CHRONICLE HAS BEEN
AWARDED MANY STATE AND AREA PRESS
Association prizes for exellence.
Raymondville Chronicle
CHUCKLE OF, THE WEEK
Some husbands come in handy
around the house; others unexpected-
ly.
Willacy County’s Best Edited, Best Reed Newspaper
VOLUME XXVII Formerly WILLACY COUNTY CHRONICLE
RAYMONDVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1953
TWENTY PAGES IN 3 SECTIONS
NO. 31
Lutherans To , :
Install Pastor
Next Sunday
Rev. Lammert Has
Served Churches at
Brady and Edna
Rev. Fred R. Lammert will
be installed as pastor of Mt.
Calvary Lutheran Church in
special services to be held
Sunday 2 at 5 p.m. Rev. Wm.
K. Schuester of San Benito
will deliver the sermon and
Rev. Paul Schmidt, Raymond-
ville, will install the new pas-
tor.
A reception for Rev. and Mrs.
Lammert will be held after the
service in the parish hall.
Born at Grove, Texas, Rev.
Lammert attended St. John's
College, Winfield, Kansas and
was graduated from Concor-
dia Seminary in St. Louis, in
1935. He served Mt. Calvary
Lutheran Church in Brady
until the end of 1942 when he
entered the army as chaplain.
After being released from serv-
(Continue on Pago 8)
GIVE
and
TAKE
VICTORIOUS ALL-STARS: Willacy Little Leaguers whooped and hollered following
their 5 to 4 victory over the Harlingen National All-Stars here Monday night before
a record crowd of fans. Shown with Gene Rhodes, winning pitcher, on their shoulders
are (left to right) Bobby Tate, Bruce Mazzare, Gary Chauvin and (rear) Freddie Silva.
(Photo by Gene Smith)
City Permits
Longer Hours
For Sprinkling
New Well May Prove
Law Cast Producer;
Consumption Moves Up
Prospects that Raymond-
ville’s new well may rate as
high as a million gallons of
palatable water per day
prompted city officials to an-
nounce a more liberal lawn
and shrub watering schedule
this week.
,*\
Effective immediately watermg j
hours will be from 7 a.m. to 11
p.m. .Odd numbered houses will
be permitted to water on odd
dates and even numbered houses
on even dates during these hours,
Kermit Lindahl, city water sup-
erintendent, announced Wednes-
day.
Local Hospital
Sets Aug.
Date for Closing
Say County,
City Have Not
Cooperated
The Raymondville Mem-
orial Hospital, first opened in
Previously an alternating sche-^ 1937, will be closed Aug. 15,
BEFORE SEA WATER can be
converted into potable water
some cheap method of utilizing
natural energy will have to be
devised. That’s what Dr. Louis
Koenig, associate director of
Southwest Research Institute,
thinks.
So far the best developed meth-
od of getting pure water from sea
Water is by triple stage evapora-
tion at a cost of about $2 per
thousand gallons. Of this cost
fuel amounts to 60 cents per thou-
sand gallons.
The town of Curacao in the
Dutch West Indies, with a popula-
tion of 45,000, gets its water from
a six-stage evaporator.
•
NOT LONG AGO Port Isabel city
officials asked Dr. Koenig about
setting up a saline water conver-
sion plant there. The town had
been hauling water by tank truck
at a cost of about $3 per thousand
gallons.
Dr. Koenig thinks the city could
afford to set up a sea water con-
version plant unless times change
radically.
•
IF A CONVENIENT canyon about
1,500 feet deep in the Gulf of
Mexico could be located, Dr.
Koenig thinks this might turn
the trick.
Water down that deep is about find the same merchandise at
40 degrees warmer than on the lower prices right here in Ray-
surface. Since it costs money to mondville,” one local merchant
raise the temperature of water, remarked.
40-degree raise would be mighty
welcome. Then you might go on
from there with your multiple
evaporation process and get some-
where, Dr. Koenig thinks.
■ ■ •
BACK IN 1883 a mining company
in the Andes Mountains in
Chile put in a solar evaporation
plant that was able to supply
fresh water to the mining camp
in a most satisfactory manner.
It worked pretty well until
they built a railroad and did
away with the mules used in the
process. When the company could
get no more mules, it started haul-
ing in water by train.
Now all that solar energy in the
Andes is going to waste.
Finally, Dr. Koenig thinks the
water conversion problem will tie
solved some day. When people
get, thirsty enough and there’s
little left anywhere except in
the ocean which by the way con-
tains ninety-nine and ninety-nine
hundredths of all the earth’s ob-
tainable water.
Let’s hope sp,
Monday ci.ed 350 Expected at
a? Dollar Day Lyford Meeting
By Merchants
Members of the retail mer-
chants committee of the Chamber
of Commerce meeting Monday
voted to sponsor a special month-
ly trades day, to be known as
Raymondville Dollar Day and to
be held the first Monday of each
month.
Named on a special committee
to co-ordinate plans for the
monthly sales events were C. W.
Perkins Jr., Andy Anderson and
Ken Brackhahn.
Merchants are providing
splendid cooperation in pre-
paring for Dollar Day next
Monday August 3 and have
marked scores of items down
to exceptionally low prices
for the event, members of the
committee reported Wednes-
day.
Those who favored Monday as
the first Dollar Day stressed the
fact such an event would be par-
ticularly helpful for those anti-
cipating back-to-schocl needs.
Merchants reported that their
stocks of merchandise .( included
hundreds of items seldom offered
at such low prices.
“We want to convince people in
Willacy County that they don’t
need to spend time and money
j going elsewhere when they can
Little Flock Assn,
Session Opens Aug. &
Approximately 350 delegates of
the Little Flock Association of
Primitive Baptists are expected
to attend the 09th annual session
this year to be held at the Lyford
church beginning Thursday night
August 6 at 8 o’clock and continu-
ing through Sunday noon August
9.
The Little Flock Associa-
tion includes member church-
es as far north as Bryan, Aus-
tin, Luling and Cameron. In
addition ministers from ad-
joining states are expected.
Morning preaching will begin
at 10 o’clock, afternoon services
at 2:30 and evening services at
8 o’clock, Elder H. D. Cash, Ly-
ford pastor, announced.
The local committee in charge
of arrangements include O. L.
Harris, Tillman Williams and B.
A. Simpson.
BROTHER VISITS
Mr. and Mi's. F. E. Macmanus
had as. their guests this week end
Mr. Macmanus’ brother and fam-
ily Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Macmanus
and son of Corpus Christi.
Committees
Map Plans For
Barbecue
Plenty of beef and chicken bar-
becue with all the trimmings will
be served Sunday at the annual
barbecue on the parish grounds
of St. Anthony’s Church, commit-
tee members planning the Valley-
wide event reported.
Dinner will be served from 12
noon until 1:30 p.m. and supper
from 5 until 8:30 p.m.
Committee members are:
A1 McCormick, Bob Allen
and Mrs. Jim Ackerman, gen-
eral chairmen. Mrs. Acker-
man. Mrs. A. C. Bush, Mrs.
V. A. Petru, ladies; Mrs. Tony
Schuckenbrock, Mrs. Fred
Palousek, table service; Mrs,
Jim Ackerman, A. C. Bush,
V. A. Petru, food; Mrs. I.
Grotzinger, plate s; Mrs.
Frank Fabian, coffee; Mrs.
Frank Schmidt, Mrs. C.
Stuckly, pie.
Men’s committee chairmen in-
clude Alfred Pearson, chicken
and beef preparation; Clarence
Anderson, Henry Troppy, barbe-
cuing; Tommy Rains, tables; Tony
Troppy, Mickey Schmidt, tarpau-
lin; Bob Clark, grounds; Louis
Petru, cold drinks and ice cream;
Louis Rhone, treasurer; Andy
Chauvin, A. C. Bush, publicity.
dule between odd. and even num-
bered houses permitted watering
from 6 to 11 p.m.
Some cheering news for the
municipal water department
came from indications that
the new well will provide wa-
ter at lower cost than water
formerly purchased from the
Willacy County Irrigation
District.
Under the present contract the
city pays 3 cents per thousand
gallons for district water deliver-
ed to the municipal reservoir. Es-
timated cost of delivering water
to the nearby reservoir from the
new well is 1.18 cents per thou-
sand gallons.
Meanwhile pump bearings
the Beachum well southwest
the city have been replaced and
water from the abandoned oil
well has been flowing into the
city reservoir supplementing the
supply flowing from the new
well.
Current use is running around
1,550,000 gallons daily, Lindahl
reported Wednesday.
Onion Fiesta
Gets Publicity
Willacy’s County’s Onion Fies-
ta received honorable mention in
the August issue of Pathfinder, a
national publication, just off the
press. The article written by
Howard LaFay stated that he
found “festivals celebrating ev-
erything from onions in (Rlay-
mondville, Texas to maple syrup
in St. Albans, Vt.” Almost any
town can have one and almost
any town will be glad it did. A
colorful, well planned festival
not only improves business but
adds zest to life, makes an alert
up and coming community and
provides fun for everyone,” the
article stated.
Check Stores For
Day Specials
Specials f o r Raymondyille’s
first monthly Dollar Day, Monday.
Aug: 3, will be found in the fol-
lowing advertisements of local
stores in this issue of the Chroni-
cle. Check them for exceptional
offerings in quality merchandise.
Neese’s Delta Drug____Sec. I, page 2
Terry Farris ------ page 3
Ken’s Furniture ___________________page 4
E. de la Rosa ------------ page 4
Scheel’s Hardware______________-page 8
Hi-Teen Shop--------Sec. 3, page 1C
Douthit’s Valley Ph’cy. page 2C
Addington’s ----------...----------.page 3C
VISITS DAUGHTER
Mrs. R. E. Haynes of Kingsville,
formerly of Raymondville, was
here this week visiting her
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Don Lewer,
PRIZE WINNER: Maurice Peeples, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Peeples, drew as a prize a
baseball autographed by famous big league players at Little League ceremonies at city
park recently. Barbara Haney, Little Leag ue queen, is shown presenting the ball to the
Little Leaguer.
(Photo by Gene Smith)
the board of trustees announc-
ed today.
A two week period was set. to
permit patients now in the hospi-
tal to make arrangements for
treatment elsewhere and for local
physicians to make arrangements
for hospitalization needed after
the closing date, Bob Allen, chair-
man of the hospital board, an-
nounced.
Other members of the board
include Mrs. E. Cannon, Mrs.
James Smith, John A. Morgan
and L. V. Shaver.
Lapk of revenue needed
io keep ihe hospital operating
On a sound financial basis,
failure of the county and city
to provide for service to
charity patients and institu-
tion of a tax suit in 1947 by
the city which ruled the hos-
pital delinquent in taxes,
were given by ihe board as
as reasons for closing the ins-
titution.
Negotiations between the coun-
ty, city and school district to per-
mit the hospital two years in
which to pay taxes out of reve-
nue have been under way for
some time.
“Since this is the end of July
and no action has been taken by
the commissioners court, the
board believes the time has come
to close down this hospital,” the
statement said,
The board poinied our the
hospital was founded in 1937
by doctors as a private insti-
tution, but was incorporated
in 1947 as a non-profit organ-
ization to widen, the scope of
its service io ihe public.
The Raymondville Memorial
Hospital corporation acquired the
hospital building and equipment
at a price of $120,000, set by im-
partial advisors, and which did
not include some $10,000 to $15,-
000 worth of medical and hospital
supplies then in use.
The statement pointed out that
Dr. E. E. Baden, Dr. George Ben-
nack, Dr. Wayne Baden and Dr.
C. H. Spence had made a loan of
$5,000 in 1952 to pay for an ad-
dition to the hospital and had also
contributed an average of more
than $6,000 annually to keep the
hospital operating.
The board .added it re-
gretted ihe closing, citing its
"f u 11 understanding of the
tragic consequences its clos-
ing may have for Raymond-
ville and for Willacy County,”
“But we can see' no other re-
course. We cannot expect these
doctors to continue their gener-
ous contributions forever, nor do
we see any other place to which
to turn in our search for funds
needed to meet operating and
maintenance costs, charity needs
and taxes.”, . ’
A full financial statement will
be issued after the closing, the
board said, as it expressed the
hope “some future provision will
be made to meet Raymondville’s
and Willacy County’s obvious
need for general hospital facili-
, ties,”
REV. FRED R. LAMMERT
. . . former pastor at Edna, who
will be installed as pastor of Mt.
Calvary Lutheran Church Sunday
evening.
Dates Set For
1953 Whit©
Wing Season
Dates for the 1953 whitewing
hunting season were announced
this week after the Texas Game
and Fish Commission had. serious-
ly considered not allowing any
hunting for the Valley’s famed
game. For conservation reasons,
some groups had recommended a
closed season.
Three days of whitewing hunt-
ing were recommended a closed
season.
Three days of whitewing hunt-
ing were recommended for the
Rio Grande Valley—from 4 p.m,
to sunset on September 13, Sep-
tember 15 and September 17.
The same mourning dove sea-
son as last year was proposed:
From September 1 to October 10
in the north zone and from Octo-
ber 1 to November 9 in the south,
zone. !
Two anteiope hunts were set:
three three-day periods from Oc^
tober 1 through October 6 west
of the Pecos River and two peri-
ods. October 2f>b Ortobet*
27-3' n the Panhandle.
BELTRAN SALINAS
Mrs. Emilia S. Salinas of Sebas-
tian has been notified that her
son Beltran has arrived at the
Antiaircraft Artillery Replace-
ment Training Center at Fort
Bliss to be trained as an anti-air-
craft artilleryman. Beltran is a
graduate of Sebastian school and
attended Lyford High School. He
has completed eight weeks of ba-
sic training.
Champs Leading
Pony League Play
Harlingen Pony Leaguers stag-
ed a 2 to 1 upset over the heavily-
favored San Antonio nine in dis-
trict play at Lyford Wednesday
afternoon. A pinch double by out-
fielder Paul Carruthers after six
innings of no scoring brought in
two runs and established the up-
set.
The San Antonians, long fav-
ored. as winners,. trounced Bee-
ville 19 to 1 Tuesday afternoon,
Monday afternoon at the curtain
raiser of the series, the defending
national champions blasted Wil-
lacy Pony Leaguers 13 to 1.
Other Monday results were
Beeville 6-5 fedinburg and Har-
lingen’s 3-0 shutout of McAllen.
Willacy Weather
Willacy All-Stars
Twice Winners
Match For District
Set For Tonight
Topflight hurling of Alfredo
Garcia plus some effective bitting
at the proper time enabled, the j
Willacy, All-Stars to ; pull what
looked like a lost' garhe out Of
the fire Wednesday night arid rout
the Brownsville East. League Ail-
Stars 5 to 4.
. The hard-fought vretory en-
titled the Willacy boys io play
the winner of tonight's game
between Harlingen and
Brownsville to decide what
nine will represent the Valley
in district finals at Corpus
Christ! Aug 2 to 8, •
In Wednesday night’s game the
score was tied, until the first
half of the fourth when Browns-
ville took advantage of a batting
rally to ’bring in three tallies.
Garcia’s return to the box netted
four strike-outs and,some oppor-
tune hitting gave the local boys
the final five to win.
The Willacy nine won another
5 to 4 decision over the Harlingen
National team here Monday night.
After four innings the game was
tied at 3-3. Two runs scored in
the fifth turned the trick,
ain Char.
0 Clear
T P.Cldy.
0 Clear
0 Clear
0 Clear
0 P.Cldy.
0 P.Cldy,
Rainfall Jan. 1, to July 30, 1953,
3:98 inches; Jan. 1, to July 30,
j 952, 16.55' inches.
R. O, ADAMS
U-.S. Weather Observer
Date
Max.
Min,
July 23
102
76
July 24
101
76
July 25
102
81
July 26
103
79
July 27
100
70
July 28
99
75'
July 29
100
76
Question
of Ihe Week
If a fire broke oui In your
home in ihe dead of nighi,
whai would be ihe first ihlng
you'd grab?
MRS. W. A. ADDINGTON: My
clothes.
EARL TOMME: My wife. ,
J. B. PINSON: My hat.
ROGER ROBINSON, JR.: The
telephone.
EARL WELCH: It would de-
pend on how bad the fire was. .
H, L. WILLCOX: My pants, j
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Raymondville Chronicle (Raymondville, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 30, 1953, newspaper, July 30, 1953; Raymondville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth876877/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reber Memorial Library.