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Consolidated with THE WOODSBORO WEEKLY TIMES February 1, 1937
VOL. X.—No. 5
REFUGIO, REFUGIO COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1937
Twelve Pages
Small Buildin
Boom Is Now In
g Corpus Air Show Is
Sunday Attraction
Progress Here
Check Reveals More Than 15
Homes Now Under Con-
struction, With No Lessen-
ing in Housing Shortage
Apparent.
If Refugio’s growth can he
measured by the number of new
homes under construction at the
present time, a definite small
building boom is in progress. With-
out any way to make a definite
count, a check this week showed
more than 15 homes under con-
struction and plans to start many
more in the near future under way.
These homes represent all types,
from the palatial residence of Mr.
and Mrs. Wilson Heard, which is
nearing completion, to modest cot-
tages and garage apartments.
While many of these are being
built for rental purposes, the ma-
jority are to be occupied by their
owners as homes.
The housing shortage in Refugio
during the year now closing has
been most acute, despite the fact
that building of small homes and
apartment buildings has been con-
tinuous during the entire year.
They are filled as soon as com-
pleted, with no noticeable lessen-
ing of the demand for homes here.
The following are a few of the
homes now under construction:
Mrs. A. A. Rogers,, Sunshine ad-
dition, four-room cottage.
Ira Hulse, Mission Heights, four-
room cottage.
Frank Thompson, Mission
Heights, five-room cottage.
Mr. Milliff, Mission Heights,
five-room residence.
Mrs. James Wolfe, Mission
Heights, five-room cottage.
Mr. Prater, Mission Heights,
five-room cottage.
G. B. (Fats'- Ha ding Heard
addition, four-rcum cottage.
C. J. McGuill, Power Street,
seven-room residence.
Mrs. C. H. Cable, near the high
school, five-room cottage for rental.
R. S. Snelling, Methodist Church
block, garage apartments.
Mrs. Julia McDaniels, Power
Street, two four-room cottages and
two garage • apartments.
George and Beverly Sportsman,
Purisima Street, garage apart-
ments.
3 meander Piehl, Power
Street, remodeling old home for
rental.
Mrs. E. W. Coward, Power
Street, garage apartments.
This list is not complete, as there
are other homes being built or for
which plans are being made, that
owners could not be learned.
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LARGEST BAND IN TEXAS.
Col. R. J. Dunn, bandmaster of
A. & M. College, has announced
the cadet military band will total
more than 190 pieces and may
reach the 200 mark. A concert
band unit will be selected from
among the best musicians com-
posing the larger cadet band.
Tex Rankin, world’s champion
stunt flyer and famous movie flyer
and actor, will be the feature at-
traction at the big air circus which
will be held Sunday afternoon at
Clift Mauss Municipal Airport in
Corpus Christi. Rankin is coming
direct from Hollywood to perform
in the show, which is being spon-
sored by the Corpus Christi Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
However, Rankin’s performance
is only a part of the big show, ac-
cording to V. Hayes, Junior Cham-
ber air show manager. Other per-
formers will include Dean Rex,
who hangs by his heels from a rope
ladder hanging 14 feet down from
the plane while it is traveling 100
miles an hour; H. C. Eppwright,
who kills his motor while in midair
and crawls out of his plane and
cranks it, and George Cook,
famous parachute jumper, who
makes a jump in which he falls
8,000 feet before he opens his
chute.
Visiting pilots from all over the
state in all types of planes will be
present. The roads to the airport
will be closed a mile from the
field and a smoke screen will be
laid around the field by Ace Corben
so the public will have to come
inside to see the show.
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Porter S. Garner
Speaks to Rotary
Porter S. Garner, superintendent
of the Victoria Public Schools, was
the principal speaker at the fifth
Monday Rotary “Ladies’ Night”
banquet, which was held Monday
evening in the clubroom of the
City Hall. Rotarian Roy Elkins
was in charge of the program.
Mrs. Roy Elkins rendered a
piano solo to round out . the short,
but enjoyable program. The “Ro-
tary-Anns” and other guests were
introduced by Rotarian Louis Cole.
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Golf Professional
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At Local Club
Bruce Wilcox, a professional
golf instructor from the South
Shore Golf Club of Lake Wewassee,
Ind., will be at the Refugio County
Golf Club links this Friday, Satur-
and Sunday. Any player who de-
sires to improve his or her game
may avail themselves of the in-
structor’s services on either of
these days.
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Recruiting Station
Opened in Victoria
The United States army has
opened a recruiting station at Vic-
toria, in an endeavor to bring the
army up to its authorized strength
of 165,000 men, according to a
letter received by this paper from
H. L. Gremillion, sergeant 9th in-
fantry, who is in charge of recruit-
ing in surrounding counties, in-
cluding Refugio.
The recruiting office is located
in the Victoria postoffice building.
The Rambling Reporter Learns How
Thanksgiving Was Spent Years Ago
By the Rambling Reporter.
Ka-choo, ka-choo! Did you have
a good Thanksgiving week-
end ? I hope you did, I would have
had a better time if I hadn’t
caught cold and eaten too much.
I woke up early Thursday morn-
ing and found a beautiful sunny
day, but I didn’t feel very good. I
had a sore throat and a running
nose, but the odor of turkey in the
stove made me get up and start
looking around. I decided to go
down and see an old friend of mine.
Old-Time Thanksgiving.
When I arrived at his house my
friend was sitting in the sun in a
large rocking chair. I asked him
to tell me about how Thanksgiving
Day was observed here years ago.
Then I just listened and here is
what I heard.
“Thanksgiving really began on
Wednesday afternoon when the
master of the house started the
turkeys for the chopping block.
While the turkey was being clean-
ed, the women folks started to bak-
ing pumpkin pies and making the
cranberry jelfy. In the meantime
the house was getting a good
cleaning and mopping. When the
turkeys were ready then the task
of stuffing the birds began. By
this time it was pretty late and
everybody went to bed. Early on
Thursday morning the women
folks would get up and put the tur-
keys on to cook. Generally all the
kids and a good many of the old
folks went to church. Church was
always held early in the morning
just as it is now.
A little after 8 o’clock the guests
began, to arrive and by dinner time
the house was full. Dinner was
about like it is now, except there
was just more of it and a great
many more people to eat it. After
everyone had eaten all they could
hold then the men all went into
the parlor, where they lit their
cigars and started talking over old
times they had spent. All of the
women gathered in the kitchen,
where the dishes were being
washed a,nd dried. They talked
about recipes and how they cooked
special vitals.
“There wasn’t much more to the
day, because there wasn’t any-
thing to go to and so the day was
spent in conversation. That’s about
all that they did,” my old friend
concluded.
Just about that time the whistle
blew and I knew it was time to
start at that turkey. I was feeling
pretty bad with my cold, but every-
thing on the table looked so good
that I just made a pig of myself.
By the time I got through I just
felt terrible. I kept feeling worse
and worse until finally I decided
that I had better go to bed before
someone had to put me there.
I am thankful that I am still
here, but what makes me mad is
that I went and got sick when I
should have taken my best girl to
the show or a football game,
Birthplace of Daughters of Republic of Texas Will Be Shay & Crozier’s
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The “Cradle” of the Daughters
of the Republic of Texas is to be
restored and preserved by the
members of the Sidney Sherman
Chapter of Galveston, who re-
cently purchased the building. It
will be removed from its present
location in the residential district
of Galveston to Menard Park,
which is located on the beautiful
seawall drive, and preserved as a
shrine of Texas history.
The “Cradle” was originally the
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library of the Ballinger home,
“The Oaks,” and it was here that
Miss Betty Ballinger and her cou-
sin, Miss Hally Jack Bryan, later
Mrs. Emmett Lee Perry, of Hous-
ton, read Yoakum’s history of
Texas and conceived the idea of
forming an organization of those
interested in perpetuating the his-
tory of the state. Through their
efforts the organization was com-
pleted in 1891.
The society has now grown un-
til there are 23 chapters over the
state. The preservation of their
birthplace will be distinctly in
keeping with their stated purpose
“to perpetuate the memory and
spirit of the men and women who
achieved and maintained the in-
dependence of Texas.” '
Mrs. Thelma W. Heard is presi-
dent of the Refugio Chapter of
the. Daughters of the Republic of
Texas, and Mrs. H. B. Woods is
secretary.
Refugian Hurt in
Blanconia Wreck
Mrs. George E. Strauch was in
the Woodsboro Hospital Thursday,
suffering from severe bruises and
shock, following a wreck which oc-
curred near Blanconia about 10
o'clock Wednesday night. Mrs.
Strauch will probably be released
from the hospital early today (Fri-
day).
Mr. and Mrs. Strauch were re-
turning home from a trip to Mrs.
Strauch’s mother, Mrs. J. E. Allen,
at Mexia. Jo Ann and George,
both children of Mr. and Mrs.
Strauch, escaped without the
slightest injury.
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To Receive River
Bed Bids Dec. 20
The board of mineral develop-
ment at Austin has announced
that bids will be received either
December 21 or 22 for mineral
rights on 310 acres of state-owned
lands in stream beds of five coun-
ties.
Included in this land is approxi-
mately 100 acres in Mission River
and Medio and Blanco creeks, ly-
ing east of the four-league town of
Refugio grant. However, it does
not include, as stated in last week’s
paper, that part of Mission River
bed lying in the four-league grant,
which is at the present time in liti-
gation.
Minimum cash bonus require-
ments ranged from $15 to $100 an
acre, depending upon nearness to
producing areas. Drilling obliga-
tions also ranged from 60 days to
one year.
The board, composed of the gov-
ernor, land commissioner and C. V.
Terrell, chairman of the railroad
commission, recently postponed
submitting the areas to bids pend-
ing completion of a study of possi-
ble returns to the state. Governor
James V. Allred expressed prefer-
ence for high cash rather than high
royalty offers.
Tracts for leasing also include
the Nueces River in Live Oak
County, Trinity River in Freestone
and Anderson counties, and Black
Cypress Bayou in Marion County.
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New Electroluxes
Are Announced
Frank Patty Sales Company this
week announces the new Servel
Electrolux for 1938. The new line
embodies seven models and many
new features.
A few improvements enthusias-
tically put forward by Frank Patty
for his new line are new trigger
ice cube release for ice trays in
the de luxe models and the dura-
ble, easily cleaned Newtone finish
of all models. Like previous lines,
all models are noiseless, with no
wearing parts.
“Give a Servel Electrolux for
Christmas,” is Mr. Patty’s slogan
at the present time,
New 1938 Ford
Models Shown
Here Tuesday
Popular Make Offered This
Year in Two Distinct Lines,
Differing in Appearonce and
Price, But Both in Lowest
Price Field.
Heards Ship Race
Horses to Florida
The new Ford automobiles for
1938 went on display at Shelton-
Bailey Motor Company, local Ford
dealer, Tuesday morning, simulta-
neous with their showing through-
out the United States. They are
offered this year as two distinct
lines, differenig in appearance and
price. Both are in the lowest price
field.
According to V. V. Bailey, man-
ager of Shelton-Bailey, orders have
been booked ahead on the new
models and are awaiting delivery.
Many persons viewed the new
models at their initial showing,
which had been awaited with in-
terest here.
One is a newly-styled standard
Ford line, in coupe, Tudor and
Fordor body types, powered either
with the 85 of the 60 horsepower
V-8 engine. The standard cars
are designed to meet requirements
of the many motor car owners,
whose means dictate maximum
economy in first cost, as well as in
maintenance and operating costs.
The other is a newfiy-designed de
luxe line for owners who desire
additional style and appointments.
Powered only with the 85 horse-
power V-8 engine, the line includes
eight body types, the coupe, Tudor
and Fordor sedans, as well as the
club coupe, convertible cabriolet,
club convertible cabriolet, converti-
ble sedan and the phaeton.
The two lines of cars have the
same improved V-8 chassis, but
their styling is distinctly differ-
ent.
The de luxe cars are larger in
appearance. The hood has been
lengthened. Its nearly vertical
front is carried in a “V” well down
into the radiator grille, with the
familiar V-8 emblem at the tip of
the “V.” Horizontal lines of the
grille bars and the louvres are
echoed in a bright rustless steel
band which is carried along the
belt to the rear.
The new standard line cars also
present larger appearance, with
a newly designed front end, grille,
hood and fenders. The front end
is formed in a “V,” with the hori-
zontal grille bars extending un-
broken along the hoodside to form
the louvres.
Fenders in both cars are massive
and formed lower to provide more
complete coverage of the running
gear and extending farther back.
Headlamps are again recessed in
front fender aprons, new type tail
lamps in the tips of rear fenders.
Interiors of the two cars are
roomy and attractive, styled in
keeping with the exteriors. The
The H. & H. Stock Farms,
owned by T. H. and T. J. Heard,
Tuesday shipped 14 race horses to
Tropical Park, Florida, via a spe-
cial Railway Express Agency car.
A large crowd witnessed the load-
ing of the animals, which took
place between 1 and 3 o’clock.
T. J. Heard, who supervised the
loading, said that the $45,000 cargo
was composed of Black Nose, Ken-
tucky Wonder, Paint Creek, To
The Rescue, Pry Pole, Texas Tony
and other promising horses.
The special car was placed in
the Missouri Pacific afternoon
northbound train Tuesday and left
at 3:20 o’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Heard left
Monday for Florida, where they
will spend the winter.
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To Hold Annual
Football Banquet
The annual Refugio High School
football banquet, honoring the 1937
Bobcat squad, will be held at 7:30
p. m., next Tuesday, December 7,
in the new study hall of the high
school building. The banquet is
being sponsored by mothers of the
football boys and pep squad girls.
Continuing a policy inaugurated
last year, the banquet will be
thrown open to the general public.
Tickets are being sold and may
be secured from members of the
football team and pep squad, or at
the high school.
Head Coach Louis Germer will
announce the 1937 Bobcat letter-
men as a highlight of the program.
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Theaters Reduce
Admission Prices
The management of both of Re-
fugio’s theaters this week an-
nounces a big reduction in admis-
sion prices. The new prices are
for the Rig, 10 cents and 15 cents,
both matinee and night perform-
ances, and for the Rialto, 10 cents,
15 cents and 25 cents, for all per-
formances.
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Cemetery Society
To Hold Bazaar
Mt. Calvary Cemetery Society
will hold a bazaar on Tuesday eve-
ning, December 14, at the City
Hall auditorium. A feature will be
a home-cooked turkey dinner, with
amusements in the form of differ-'
ent kinds of games, with many
beatutiful prizes awarded.
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BUDS PECAN ON HICKORY.
(Continued on Page 8)
T. J. Riggins, who lives near
Pittsburg, Camp County, budded
the pecan on 2,000 hickory trees.
He has some pecan trees that he
i estimates will yield five bushels of
pecans to the tree.
First Anniversary
This week marks the first anni-
versary of Shay & Crozier in the
grocery business in Refugio. Philip
Shay and J. A. Crozier founded the
business one year ago with a small
stock of groceries in the building
formerly occupied by the Sanitary
Market.
The growth of the business since
that time has been almost phe-
nominal. Floor space has been
doubled by taking in an adjoining
building and the stock has been
enlarged until now it is one of the
largest and most completely
stocked groceries in the county.
To celebrate their first anni-
versary, Messrs. Crozier and Shay
have arranged a two-day party
for this Friday and Saturday, with
a number of special attractions.
Saturday, Dalton Bruce, radio en-
tertainer, will be at the store all
day to entertain with his guitar
and songs, with free coffee and
cake for everyone. A number of
baskets of groceries also will be
given away on Saturday.
Shay & Crozier is located on
Commerce Street, north of the-
City Hall.
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Fine Game Refuge
In Refugio County
Texas will soon have another
fine game preserve, with the fed-
eral government’s acquisition of
the old St. Charles ranch in Refu-
gio and Aransas counties.
One of the largest remaining
undivided ranches in the state, the
ranch has been acquired by the
federal government at a cost of
nearly half a million dollars.
According to experts, the ranch
is almost ideally situated as a
game preserve. It has bays on
three sides—the St. Charles, Aran-
sas and San Antonio; it is remote
from traveled highways; is dotted
with small lakes and ponds, and
has every kind of vegetation and
surface, including thickly wooded
hills and rolling prairies.
The ranch is in fact already a
game refuge, with more than 70
species of migratory birds settling
there every winter for feeding.
The tract will be acquired and
maintained by the U. S. biological
survey and will be the largest gov-
ernment-owned block in the state,
being twice as large as the govern-
ment’s military reservations in and
near San Antonio.
In addition to the migratory
birds, the ranch already is per-
manent home to deer, wild boars
and many kinds of native birds.
A. E. Simmons
Dies Following
Long Illness
Former Refugian Passes*
Away in San Antonio Sun-
day, November 28—Funeral
and Burial Held in Refugi©
Monday Afternoon.
Junior Society Will
Hold Benefit Party
The Junior Altar Society will
hold a benefit party Monday night,
December 6, at the City Hall Au-
ditorium clubroom. Games will be
played and tamales and coffee
served. There will be a number of
prizes. The public has been in-
vited.
Allie Everett Simmons, 33 yearff
of age, died last Sunday, November
28, in San Antonio .following arc
illness of five months. . He was a
resident of Refugio for many
years, but recently had been living
in Conroe, where he was employed
by Hooper & Rutherford.
Mr. Simmons came to Refugio
about 10 years ago and for many
years was engaged in oil field work
in the local field. He was married
to Miss Winnie Mae Winsor,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. H
Winsor of this city, who survives
him. He had a wide acquaintance
and a host of friends in this sec-
tion.
The body was brought to Re-
fugio by the Zizik-Kearns Under-
taking Company of San Antonio,
and taken to the home of his
widow’s parents, from where the
funeral was held Monday afternoon
at 3:30 o’clock at Our Lady of
Refuge Catholic Church, the Rev„
Father William H. Oberste con-
ducting the service. There was a
large gathering of former friends
and neighbors in attendance, and
many beautiful floral offerings.
Burial followed in Mt. Calvary
Cemetery.
The deceased is survived by his
widow; two sons, Jack A. and
Jerry W. Simmons; his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Simmons, of
Austin; three sisters, Mrs. Hazen
Pilaux, Mrs. Goldie Weigle and
Mrs. Mildred McCluskey, all of
Austin, two brothers, Everett Sim-
mons of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Muni-
ford Simmons of Austin,
Active pallbearers v/ere: G. E„
Moss, Lee Moss, Bill McClintock-
Earle Edge, Wilson Heard anc
Thomas J. Heard.
Honorary pallbearers: Jimmie
Wilkins of Corpus Christi; M. R*
Kelley. Bernie Kelley, D. J. Kelley.
Joe F. Rodgers, Ira Heard, Bebe
Jecker and Floyd Kelley of Re-
fugio; Otto Garner of Karnes City
and Louie Morawitz of Falls City*
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Methodist Pastor
Given ‘Pounding'
The R,ev. Dennis Macune, wh(P
recently came here to be pastor
of the Methodist Church, was given:
an old-fashioned “pounding” Mon-
day evening, when 50 or more of
the members of his church swooped!
down on his home with a varied
assortment of articles needed it
the home. The gifts consisted for
the most part of food. The pastor
was all smiles when telling of the
event Tuesday morning.
Shallow Producers on West Side of
Field Being Carried to Deeper Sand
Native Refugian
Dies in Beeville
(Beeville Bee-Picayune)
Funeral services for Amos C.
Miles, pioneer McMullen County
ranchman, were held at the Tilden
cemetery at 11 o’clock last Sunday
morning, the Rev. Mr. Ray officiat-
ing. He was a brother-in-law of R.
L. Eidson of this city.
Mr. Miles died in a local hospital
last Saturday afternoon, the result
of a heart attack, and had been
ill for four months. He would have
been 82 years old November 21.
Born in Refugio in 1855, Mr.
Miles was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Amos C. Miles, Sr. He did not
move to McMullen County until
1878. Five years he and Miss Allie
Eidson were maried in Lavaca
County. He was a member of the
Baptist church.
A son, Emmett Miles of Tilden,
is the only one of four children
who survive.
Galloway Mortuary was in
charge of the funeral arrange-
ments. The body was prepared for
burial here and taken overland to
Tilden.
Active pallbearers were Murray
Franklin, Clifton Wheeler, Earl
Wheeler, Sid Kuykendall, Bert
Shannon and R. S. Taylor.
H* Refugio County’s new activity-
centers around the east side of the
Refugio townsite, where several
more 7100-foot producers were
being completed late in the week
and a projected deeper test was
being carried ahead below the
lowest pay strata.
Pearson Properties, Inc., No. 1-C
M. H. Ryals found the 7100-foot
sand and casing has been set prep-
atory to completion. It was deep-
ened from 5,475 feet. Republic
Natural Gas Company’s Scott 1,
block 86, and considerably west of
the 7,100-foot sand wells, has been
deepenede to this zone and is
cleaning into the pits. Fred Shields
and Southern Cross Oil Company’s
Ryals 2-C, also in the deep area,
is around 5,000 feet on a 7,000-
foot contract.
Union Producing Company’s No.
9 Phil Power, which found several
good shows below 6,000 feet, is be-
ing carried ahead below the 7,000-
foot zone, reportedly projected to
8,500 feet or deeper.
One mile northwest of Refugio
field, Hogan Oil Company No. 1 J.
S. Kelly is coring around 6,000
feet.
A slight northeast extension to
the 6,200-foot pay on the west side
of the field was provided through
the compeltion of William F. Mor-
gan and Joe Simmons No. 1-A
Lambert, which flowed 160 barrels
per day through 1-8-inch choke
after completing in sand at 6,214-
22 feet. Tubing pressure was 500
pounds, casing pressure 925
pounds. Location bias become ac-
tive 660 feet farther north.
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