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PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE
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ODEM, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1959
Entered as second class matter at the post office at
Odem Texas, under the Act of March 2, i873
FOUR PAGES — NO. 34
BUDGET ESTIMATE
County Auditor Sees Increase
In County Tax Values For
County Auditor Ray Harris sub-
mitted to the San Patricio Co.
Commissioners Court a prelimin-
ary draft of the county budget for
the year 1960 at a special meet-
ing of the court Friday morning.
The auditor is a stickler for a
balanced budget and in his letter
attached to the preliminary bud-
4 get submitted Friday morning Har-
ris said “To continue the opera-
tions of the county in line with
the present standards of opera-
tions, and to have as much re-
venue in each fund as estimated
expenditures, it was necessary that
the tax rate be varied from last
year and approximately $40,000 ad
valorem tax revenue be shifted
from the road and bridge funds
to the general fund.”
The letter also pointed out that
“the budget is prepared with an
estimated increase in valuation in
the amount of $1,688,435.00 over
that of the preceding year. “Harris
» said that the estimated valuation
increase is based on the opinion
of Davis Vickers, county tax as-
sessor-collector. The 1959 estimat-
ed assessed valuations amounts to
$62,000,000.00, with the total asses-
sed valuation based on 15 percent
of the true market value of pro-
perty assessed.
The proposed county tax levy
contained in the budget was set
at $1.30 on each $100.00 of assessed
valuation.
The total amount of county taxes
levied for the budget, based on
the assessed valuation and tax levy,
is $806,000.00. It is estimated that
95 percent or a total of $765,700.00
will be collected within the cur-
rent tax year, while five percent
or a total of approximately $40,-
300.00 of the taxes will probably
* be delinquent on July 1, 1960.
Cancer Program
Being Pushed
By Local Men
Odem is participating in the
American Cancer Society living
memorial program and envelopes
for such memorial gifts can be
had free of charge at the Odem
Pharmacy or in the front office
ip, ‘ Dr. A. H. Voss and Dr. Phillip
' Hudgins.
Many individuals, organizations
and other groups practice memor-
ial giving, according to the infor-
mation given out by the Cancer
Society.
These living memorials are used
to further cancer research, educa-
tion and service program of the
American Cancer Society.
The plan for giving is simple.
“An engraved card is sent to the
family of the deceased, bearing
the name of the person honored
and the name or names, of the
donor. The amount of the gift is
not indicated. The donor receives
an official receipt as memorial
I ♦ ' gifts are deductible by individuals
and firms for income tax pur-
poses”, the printed instructions
read in part.
The Society appreciates each me-
morial gift, large or small, and
assures the donor that the gift is
used to give material assistance
to the research, education and ser-
vice program for combating the
deadliest of all diseases. There is
so much yet to be unfolded in the
laboratories and research centers
and hospitals before a cure, or
cures for the disease can be found.
Until that time, early detection of
the dreaded disease is the one hope
of those stricken. The memorial
f- ■' y gifts help pave the way to a safer
tomorrow, the Society stresses.
Delinquent county taxes due on
July 1, 1959 ran to approximately
$125,000.00 and it is estimated that
$10,000.00 of this amount will be
collected during the current tax
year.
The budget shows that the total
net outstanding bond and time war-
is estimated that on Jan. 1, 1960
rant debt of San Pat Co. on Jan.
1, 1959, was $1,314,000.00, and it
(the beginning of the year cover-
ed by this budget) that the bond
and time warrant debt will be
$1,115,000.00.
The above is a statistical data
as found in the preliminary budget
as submitted by the county audi-
tor.
The county judge, according to
the Budget Law, is responsible for
the preparing of the budget, but
the law provides that the county
auditor may assist in the drafting
of the budget.
There is a budget calendar set
up and followed. The calendar ap-
plies to all counties in the State.
This calender shows that the bud-
get must be prepared during the
month of July, and must be filed
with the county clerk on Aug. 1 of
the year in which the budget is
effective. The copy of the budget
on file in the county clerk’s office
is open for inspection by the public
during the period August 1 to
August 15. The Budget Law pro-
vides the commissioners court shall
set a date for public hearing, with
that date set for this hearing to be
sometime after the 15th of August.
(The public hearing on the San
Pat Co. budget is set for August
28, 1959 at 10 a.m. in the com-
missioners courtroom) The public
hearing is held prior to the adop-
tion of the budget by the count.
And the period for adoption of the
budget lies anywhere between Aug.
15 and October 1. The tax levy is
set after the adoption of the bud-
get. A copy of the budget must
be filed with ifche Comptroller of
State on or before October 15.
This is the first in a series of
articles dealing with the contents
of the budget. These articles will
be carried over a period of several
weeks.
Odem May Send Student To
Notre Dame If Plans Work Out
\
Library To Ask
Each Club To
Give An Item
The Odem Public Library board
of directors met in the library
building Monday night for a re-
gular business session.
The board voted to invite each
club in the community to place
in the library some article of in-
terest to that club—a picture from
the Art Club, for instance, and for
the display to be known as “the
interest corner” in the library, said
Mrs. Jessie Hanshaw in reporting
the meeting of the board.
H ^ Those attending the meeting were
Mrs. H. L. Baylor, Mrs. R. J.
Lane Sr., Mrs. W. C. Gaines,
Mrs. A. H. Voss and Mrs. Han-
shaw.
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As far as it can be ascertained,
the Odem schools have not as yet
sent a student to Notre Dame.
But if Klaus Adam’s plans do not
go awry, come 1961 the local school
will be represented in that famous
college by an Odem High School
graduate.
The plans for Klaus to attend
Notre Dame are already being set
in motion, and it is the hope and
the dream of the young German
lad and his older brother, The
Rev. Hubert Adam, that the noted
school will be where Klaus will
matriculate when he receives his
high school diploma from Odem
High School.
Klaus came to America two years
ago to make his home with his
brother, the parish priest, who had
come in 1951 with a missionary
band from a theological school in
Germany, where the priest had
completed his studies for the priest-
hood which had been interrupted
while he took out time from his
studies to serve in the German
23,026 Bales
Ginned In County
Up To Date
San Patricio County’s 21 gins
turned out 14,775 bales of cotton
during the past week to bring the
season’s total to 28,026. This is
the biggest week for the gins this
season- with the next two weeks
expected to show a like increase
in the number of bales ginned.
Gins in the Mathis area con-
tinued to lead the rest of the coun-
ty in the total number of bales
ginned but this is due mainly to
the fact that these gins““started
ginning about two to three weeks
ahead of the gins in the eastern
part of the county.
Scattered showers over the coun-
ty interrupted the cotton harvest
to some extent but very few farm-
ers report enough rain- to hurt the
cotton still in the fields.
Yield returns continue to be spot-
ty over the entire county. Yields
of one-third and one-half bale per
acre are not uncommon; however,
there are just about as many far-
mers that are getting three-quar-
ters of a bale the first picking
and feel sure that they will hit
a bale per acre after the second
picking is completed.
The breakdown in ginning ac-
cording to gins is as follows:
Hunt ...............................
.... 1240
Midway ..................
...... 862
Taft Co-op ............
...... 963
Baldwin ..............
...... 490
McDonald ............
... 1000
Rosson .................
... 1018
West Portland ..........
.....1180
Hoch Bros.............
...... 480
Retama ...................
..... 823
Scdville .....................................
...... 749
Long Staple ........................
....... 785
Sinton Co-op ............................
.... 1220
Hartzendorf .............................
. 1575
West Sinton Co-op ...................
.....1088
Hubert Switch .........................
...... 700
Mathis Gin ................................
.... 2891
Vahlshing .................................
.... 3018
Farmers, Mathis ....................
.... 1875
Smitjv .........................
1409
Ecfoy Co-op ..............................
..... 2800
Farmers, Odem....................
.......910
\TOTAL ..............................
28,026
Army.
He was joined here by his young
brother, Klaus, in 1957, who had
come to America to complete his
education and prepare himself for
the task of managing the family
estate in the Saarland at such time
his father has to transfer the fam-
ily business to a younger member
of the family when the years have
made it impossible for the father
to further execute the family busi-
ness affairs.
The Adam brothers’ parents are
Mr. and Mrs. Nikolaus Adam and
they live approximately 10 or 15
miles from Luxemburg across in
the Saarland. The Adam brothers
read with considerable interest the
recent AP newsstories concerning
the final negotiations for the Saar-
land to be returned to complete
control of Germany. The political
change-over had been made sev-
eral years ago with the economic
change-over being made only a few
weeks ago. The Rev. Hubert Adam
says that tax laws have been- chang-
ed and the border patrol moved
from the German border to the
French border. The German mark
is now in use in the Saarland in-
stead of the franc.
The priest says that the Saar-
land is not more than twice the
size of San Patricio Co.,1 but it
has a population of approximately
one and one-half million. Coal and
steel mines make up the big in-
terests in the Saarland.
Klaus will complete his high
school education- here in 1961, the
year in which the priest will be
permitted leave to visit his home-
land, and the two plan to go back
for a visit with their parents and
their married sister. And if all
plans work out as it now seems
they will, Klaus will return here
to enter college and to thereby
become Odem’s first student to en-
roll at Notre Dame.
Ladies Auxiliary
To Sponsor A
Rummage Sale
The Ladies Auxiliary will spon-
sor another rummage sale in the
city park Saturday.
They sponsored such a sale last
week and will repeat the fund-
raising project Saturday of this
week.
Anyone wishing to donate cloth-
ing to be sold at the sale is re-
quested to contact Mrs. H. H.
Brown, who suggests that this is
a splendid opportunity for the la-
dies in the community to clear
their closets of clothing they no
longer need.
Barbecue Planned
By Catholic Church
For August 15
The Rev. Hubert Adam, parish
priest, has announced that a beef
barbecue will be held at St. Vincent
Hall from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday
for the benefit of Sacred Heart
Church. Plates will sell for $1.25
each.
The afternoon and evening hours
will be given over to a carnival
and dance, and at 10 p.m. the
drawing for an automatic Deluxe
Westinghouse washing machine
will be held.
The public is invited to attend.
Railroad Closes
Freight Shed
la Odem Yard
The transfer freight shed at Odem
was officially closed by the Mis-
souri-Pacific R. R. Co. Friday of
last week, with the transfer point
combined with that at Corpus Chris-
ti.
The closing of the shed here
brought about the shifting of six
truckers at this point to other
points, with none of them going
to the Corpus Christi shed, since
none of them hold seniority in the
Corpus Christi division-.
A spokesman for the Missouri-
Pacific R. R. superintendent’s of-
fice said in a telephone conversa-
tion with the newspaper reporter
Tuesday morning that the closing
of the shed here was for quicker
service in the movement of freight.
There has been a drastic reduc-
tion of the Mo-Pac station, Odem,
personnel in recent months, and
a spokesman for the Railroad com-
pany said at the time that reduc-
tion of office workers and yard-
men was made that the cut was
an- economy move and that the
jobs abolished here would be re-
stored at such time as those jobs
were again necessary. All clerks
were restored to their old jobs
here druring the grain season rush.
Elmo Wheelis who had been on
the 3-midn-ight job is back on the
morning job, which had been hand-
led by the agent, Mrs. Wisner; J.
S. Harris now holds the afternoon
job; Clarence Cleveland is swing
clerk, working the various jobs of
the other clerks who are on a
five day week; and Pedro Saenz
is the night clerk.
Just where each of the six truck-
ers was assigned duty was not
available at press time. Bob Mit-
chell is on furlough, while the other
five are located at various points
in the division where they hold
seniority.
Robert Cleveland
To Work On
Masters Degree
Robert Cleveland, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Cleveland of Odem,
will receive a Bachelor of Science
degree from A&I College this month
will enter University of Houston
to study for a Masters degree in
Chemical Engineering on a scho-
larship from the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
Cleveland is a petroleum and
natural gas engineering major and
throughout his four years in A&I
his work has been outstanding in
that field of study.
The scholarship under which he
will study at University of Hous-
ton he can continue his work and
receive a Ph. D degree. He will
be allowed time to work at the
profession he has chosen after he
has earned his Master’s degree and
before he begins work on a doctor-
ate, with a limit set on that time.
Cleveland is past president of
AIME, secretary of TSPE, and a
member of “Who’s Who in Amer-
ican College and Universities for
1958-59. He is also in Sigma Tau
and Alpha Chi, both national hon-
orary scholastic fraternities.
Sigma Tau is strictly for en-
gineering students and Alpha Chi
is for junior and senior students
regardless of major field.
Odem is proud of Cleveland for
the splendid record he has made
and the honor bestowed upon him
in the grant given him by the
Department of Health, Education-
and Welfare.
296 In County
Receive Surplus
Food Assistance
The commissioners court met for
its regular session- Monday morn-
ing with all members of the court
present.
All routine reports were made
and approved and the county jail
received its routine inspection by
the court. The jail was carrying
a full capacity of prisoners, with
the usual Saturday night activities
of the migrant cotton pickers ac-
counting for the large number of
prisoners in jail over the week-end.
In the County Welfare Depart-
ment report Mrs. Burl Brittain re-
ported that a total of $1,451.71 had
been paid out on indigent care with
$478.50 of ithe amount going for
care of the tuberculosis patients
whose treatments are being paid
for by the county.
In her report on the Surplus
Commodity program Mrs. Brittain
reported that a total of 399 persons
have to date been certified as elig-
ible for the surplus commodities
and that 296 persons from over
the county had j>een served by
the program during the month of
July. f
Edroy Girl
To Be Crowned
Cotton Queen
Miss Guadalupe Benavide of Ed-
roy will be crowned Cotton Queen
in- a ceremony to be held in St.
Vincent Hall at 8 p.m. Saturday,
Aug. 15, with Joe Gonales, an-
nouncer for radio station KCCT,
Corpus Christi, as master of cere-
monies.
The race for Cotton Queen has
been in progress for the past two
months with several candidates in-
the field for the honor. The con-
test was sponsored by the Sacred
Heart and Our Lady of Guadalupe
Churches. Miss Maria Bargas of
Odem reached the finals with Miss
Benavide, with Benavide stepping
to the fore when the final ballots
were counted.
A dance will follow the corona-
tion ceremony.
Schomer Family
To Move To
Taylor Soon
W. P. Schomer, linesman- for the
Missouri-Pacific R. R., accepted a
job at Taylor, and he and Mrs.
Schomer left last week to make
their home in that town.
Mr. and Mrs. Schomer have made
their home in Odem since Janu-
ary 1947 and their many friends
here regret to see them leave the
community. For the present Mr.
and Mrs. Schomer have just closed
their home in Odem and will be
coming in from time to time to
spend the week-end here. They will
make such a week-end trip to Odem
this week.
OdemStudentsToRegister
For School Next Week
High School Principal Bryan Tay-
lor announced Tuesday that re-
Twice Weekly
According to an announcement
made last week David E. Shep-
herd Jr., who will direct the Odem
school band this fall, rehearsals
will be held each Tuesday and
Thursday evening at 7 p.m. in the
band hall, with the first rehearsal
scheduled for Aug. 6.
All students in grades 7 to 12,
inclusive, who plan to take band
this fall are urged to attend each
of these rehearsals.
Twirler try-outs will be held af-
ter the rehearsal Thursday Aug.
20, and all girls interested should
contact Joyce Nan Smith about
requirements, Shepherd’s announ-
cement read.
Shepherd comes to Odem from
Southwestern University and this
will be his first year here. He
holds a Bachelor of Music Educa-
tion degree from the Southwestern
University.
At the University he was a mem-
ber of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity
and he was a member of the Uni-
versity band, the University or-
chestra, A Capella Choir Interfra-
tern-ity Council and the Religious
Life Council.
County To Set Budget
For 1960 On August 28
In a special meeting of the com-
missioners court held Friday morn-
ing the public hearing of the coun-
ty budget for 1960 was set for
August 28, 1959 in the commis-
sioners courtroom, with 10 a.m.
set as the hour for the hearing.
The county clerk was ordered
to publish notice of the hearing
ten days preceding the date set
for the hearing.
The county auditor submitted to
the court the preliminary budget
which was taken under considera-
tion- by the court. (A story deal-
ing with some of the statistical
data of the budget will be found
-elsewhere in the paper.)
The county auditor, Ray Harris,
reported that Gene Pullin Motor
Co. had sent notification- -that de-
livery cannot be made on a truck
for use by the County Welfare
Department. (The Gene Pullin- Mo-
tor Co. was low bidder recently
on such truck.) Commissioner E.
H. Jackson of Precinct 2 moved
that the next lowest bid for this
truck be accepted. Com. Pat Kin-
dle of Prec. 4, gave the second,
and the bid of George Motor Co.
was accepted. This bid was for
$2,135.50 on an International Truck.
gistration of high school students
will be made next week, and he
urges that all students register on
the days appointed.
Following is the registration
schedule: Wednesday —9 a.m. to
12 noon seniors, and 1:30 p.m. to
4 p.m. Juniors; Thursday —9 a.m.
to 12 noon, sophomores, 1:30 p.m.
to 4 p.m. all seniors and juniors
who were unable to register on
the previous day; Friday —the
freshman class will register with
the entire time from 9 a.m. to 12
noon and 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. given
to the registration of freshmen.
The grade schools’ registrations
were made last May and the few
pupils who did not register at
that time will be registered a s
they enter school this fall.
'The date for registration of Jun-
ior High students has not yet been
set, but the date will appear in
a later issue of the paper.
Faye Isaacks
Gold Star Winner
In 4H Work
Faye Isaacks of the Rosebud 4_H
Club of Gregory was named Gold
Star winner at the judging of the-
record books of the San Patricio-
and Aransas Counties 4-H Girls
Clubs held in the demonstration;
room in the courthouse at Sinton.
at 1:00 p.m. Friday with Mrs.
N. J. Gibson of Sinton and Mrs.
A. E. Hesseltine and Mrs. L. O.
Mar-burger, both of St. Paul ser-
ving as judges.
Faye will be the county dress
revue candidate from San Patricio
Co. in the District meeting.
Other county winners beside Miss
Isaacks were Glen-da Guettler,
clothing demonstrator, and Eileen
Gerdes, food preparation- demon-
strator in the senior group; and
winners in the junior group were
Christine Eakin, food preparation;
Elaine Bremer, public speaking;
Charlotte Gerdes, frozen foods; and
Eileen Kelly, clothing.
The records of these seven win-
ners have been forwarded to the
district office for judging.
The judging of the Boys 4-H
Club records have not as yet been
made, but Dan Pawlik, county farm
agent says the judging will be done
in- the near future, and must be
done by Oct. 1, 1959.
COUNTY HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT
Mrs. Dorthy Ives Putting Theory Into
Practice In Building New Home
Mrs. Dorothy Ives, the county
home demonstration agent, is tak-
ing a one-week vacation which she
is using to good advantage in get-
ting things done around the house
still under construction- where she,
her twins, Pamela and Pat, and
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Sears, are “roughing it” (in Mrs.
Ives’ words)
Mrs. Ives had purchased a home
in Odem several months ago and
planned only an- addition of three
bedrooms, a kitchen and another
bath to make a large home out
of a smaller home, but before the
roof was put on the new wing
Mr. Sears, a professional carpen-
ter, found in tearing into the older
portion- of the home that in years
past termites had weakened some
of the original structure. So up
went the roof on the new wing
and down came the roof and walls
of the original house. Mrs. Ives
and her mother shifted furniture
to the new wing as soon as 'the
roof was on- it. To add to the
“general frustration” of living in
a house while it is under construc-
tion illness hit the family house-
hold. The twins came down with
a virus infection which their grand-
mother later contracted, and worst
of all Mr. Sears had to quit the
job of foreman- and chief carpen-
ter because of a heart ailment,
which struck him out of the blue.
The twins and Mrs. Sears have
recovered from their recent illnes-
ses, but Mr. Sears is still not
feeling up to par. With the “boss”
off any job causes a certain amount
of delay, and this work at the
home demonstration agent’s home
is no exception- to that rule.
Things have slowed -down, but
with Mrs. Ives at the helm for
a week, there is promise of a
speeded up program, and those
who know Dorothy at all know that
she is leading — not bossing a
job.
And it takes but one trip by
the home to know that Dorothy is
exercising all her knowledge of and
knack for getting work done in
the shortest time with the least
effort.
Wielding a spade to get dirt in
the right spots in the large yard
is just one of the jobs that Dorothy
was caught at a few days ago —she
took to that job because she want-
ed the dirt” in the right spot” if
the downpour which was threaten-
ing came. But watching Dorothy
handle that spade made one know
she was not doing her first yard
work. She was making every mo-
tion count and every spadeful of
soil hit the right spot.
Once when she stopped momen-
tarily for a “breather’ , she cast
her eye toward the lowering sky
and said “I believe I have time
to get this pile of dirt where it
belongs before the rain gets here”
(The rain passed over Odem en-
tirely that afternoon, although it
looked for a while that a chunk-
raising gully washer was upon the
town.) Who knows but a silent
prayer went up from Dorothy’s
heart as she shoveled against time
and was responsible for the lifting
of the clouds as they passed over
Odem!
She turned her eyes toward the
house at another brief break in
the scooping of dirt to a low spot
in the yard, and with a wistful
smile said, “We’ve a long way yet
to go, but we are making pro-
gress”.
And with a whole week of time
free from office duties available
it goes without saying that Dorothy
will “make the fur fly” and put
into practice all the short_cuts and
labor-saving motion which she so
ably instructs all Home -demonstra-
tion members and 4-H Club girls
to employ in getting jobs done.
Dorothy is blessed with the abil-
ity to take one duty at the time
and get that thing done without
Jetting other things get in the way.
And Dorothy is no whiner.
She is a firm believer in spread-
ing all the joy you can today, for
there is but one today and no one
has any assurance there will be
a tomorrow'. She consistently works
toward making life a bit more
pleasant for her associates, whe-
ther they be in the home, in her
work as home demonstration agent
or the casual acquaintance she
meets on the street. She never
burdens another with her problems,
but her happy disposition is known
to dispel the gloom of another bent
beneath a load of care.
Happy housebuilding to your
Dorothy. There is in store for you
another victory—near or far, though,
it be.
Monday morning Dorothy will be
back on the job at the office. She
may have a few blisters on her
hands or a blue thumbnail, but
her usual bright smile will be on
her face, and if she makes any
mention at all of her week-long
“vacation”, it will be to express
gratitude for the opportunity the
days afforded her to “get a little
done on the house”.
4-H Planning Meeting
Set For August 17
There will be a 4-H planning
program meeting held in the de-
monstration room at the court-
house at 2 p.m. August 17.
All 4-H Council members, 4-H
sub-committees officers, 4-H Club
vice-presidents, adult and junior
4-H leaders are requested to at_
tend this meeting, says a spokes-
man for the county 4-H program^
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Winebrenner, Mary Cornett. The Odem-Edroy Times (Odem, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 13, 1959, newspaper, August 13, 1959; Odem, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1016195/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Odem Public Library.