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Volume IX—Established June 25, 1948
ODEM, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1958
FOUR PAGES — NO. 10
R. Butler
NamedPecos
Top Man
Randle Butler, former Odem
resident, was named the “Out-
standing Young Man of the Com-
munity for 1957” at a meeting of
the Pecos Jaycee Club, recently,
according to a news story carried
in a Pecos paper.
Butler, who is 34 years of age,
was born in Odem and grew to
manhood here. He attended the
local schools and then enrolled at
Arlington State College for two
years. He completed his Junior
year in the University of Texas.
He enlisted in the US Navy and
served three years "'during World
War H.
He is married and he and Mrs.
Butler have two. children, Rory and
Ronnie.
He began his career as a farmer
in Odem and operated a farm here
for several years before going to
Pecos in 1950 to do irrigated farm-
ing.
Butler is a long-time member
of the Rotary Club, a former mem-
ber of the. board of directors of the
Reeves County Memorial Hospital,
a director of the Trans-Pecos Cott
Association, and the 1957 fund chair-
man of the Reeves Loving Com-
munity Fund.
He is a member of the Board
of Stewards of First Methodist
Church in Pecos, Superintendent of
the Youths’ department in the
church, and chairman of the Board
of Controls of the Sacremento As-
sembly in New Mexico.
Butler is the son of E. S. Butler
Sr. of Odem, and he and his family
come “home” to Odem for visits
as often as possible. His brother,
E. S. Btuler Jr. is also engaged
in farming in Pecos.
The award was presented Randle
Butler by Dr. John P. Dunn, the
previous year’s winner of the award
given by the Pecos Jaycees Club.
Face Lifting
Job Finished
On Odem Bank
Mrs. Carson’s Brother
Undergoes Surgery
H. H. West, 62, of Blanco, whose
sister, Mrs. E. T. Carson lives in
Odem, underwnet major surgery
surgery at Nix Hospital in San
Antonio Monday of last week.
At last report Mr. West was in
satisfactory condition, but he will
be hospitalized for an indefinite
The First State Bank of Odem has
received a new face-lifting, with
considerable renovation having
accomplished the feat.
The front of the building was
“squared” and plate glass in-
stalled for the new walls neces-
sary to make the change in the
building. Glass doors are also an
added feature of th® remodeling
job.
The windows were given new
aluminum screens and the entire
face of the brick building was
cleaned and a new name plate and
an electric clock were put up at
the front corner of the building..
The interior of the building came
in for its share of renovation also.
The re-arrangement of a wall div-
ider has provided the cashier and
executive vice-president, C. O.
Hawkins with a more modern of-
fice space. A brick planter com-
pleted that change. New tops were
put on the customer’s counters in
the lobby and the floor covering
has been replaced.
Woodrow Hart
Re-Elected Pres.
Of Farm Bureau
Woodrow Hart was re-elected
president of the San PatricioCounty
Farm Bureau at its monthly meet-
ing February 17, 1958. Other of-
ficers elected for 1958 were M. E.
Decherd of Taft, first vice-presi-
dent; U. E. Ray. Sinton, second
vice-president; and Ray Troup of
Sinton, re-elected secretary.
The budget for 1958 was approved
with strong emphasis this year on
legislative work to get favorable
action on farm bills directed to the
betterment of. agriculture.
Richard Miller of Orange Grove,
new state Farm Bureau director
from this district, spoke briefly on
agricultures need for more re-
search.
The membership at the annual
meeting voted to increase dues
from $10.00 to $12.50 annually. The
board voted to make this change
effective August 1, 1958.
Pancake Supper
Planned March 14
By Kiwanis Club
Lt. Herndon, Wife
Attend Conference
Held In Paris
Lt. Wilson Herndon and wife,
who are making their home at
an NATO airforce base at Toul-
Rossieres, France, attended a
school conference held in Paris
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The former Odem couple planned
to do a stint of sight-seeing and
make use of their camera while
in the French capitol. They were
accompanied to Paris by an US
major and his wife. Mrs. Herndon
and the major’s wife are members
of the school faculty at the Toul-
Rossieres AFB. Their husbands
joined them for the trip to Paris
for the school conference and the
sightseeing expedition planned.
Lt. Herndon is editor of the NATO
paper, “The Toul Tiger”, and re-
cently the paper won third place
in an Europe-wide competition
judging.
Mrs. Herndon is not letting her
husband take all the honors as a
newspaper editor, for she sponsors
the “The Tiger Cub”, a 12-page
school edition which has beem ac-
claimed the first paper of its type
to ever be published in France.
The “Toul Tiger Cub” is a monthly
paper put out by the 6th, 7th
and 8th grades in the Air Force
Base school at Toul-Rossieres. Mrs.
Herndon’s pupils are children of
the NATO Air Force personnel, and
she is enjoying the experience of
teaching children of various nation-
alities, she writes her husband’s
parents, Supt. and Mrs. H. W.'
Herndon of Odem.
Lt. Herndon will complete his
assignment to France in May and
will likewise complete his enlist-
ment in the US Air Force. He
writes his parents that he plans to
enter University of Tfexas Law
School next fall and that his wife
plans to teach in or near Austin
during the time he is taking his
law course at the University.
Lt. and Mrs. Herndon are al-
ready packing for the retiirn to
the States, and they hope to be
in Odem not later than June.
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Religious Survey
Planned By 2
Odem Churches
The Methodist and Baptist Chur-
ches of Odem ^re to make a re-
ligous. census of the community
of Odem in thd \tery near future,
committees have been selected and
the ground work laid for the sur-
vey. A tentative date of March 9th
has been set for the survey and
census taking.
Final Plans For
Chest X-Ray In
Odem Completed
The Chest X-Ray Survey plans
are going into final details, said
A. A. Luckenbach Sr., community
TB Chairman early this week.
The survey will be made in Odem
Monday Mar. .47 from 1:00 to
5:30 p.m. and the following day
from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
The program is sponsored by the
San Patricio Co. TB Association,
the San Patricio Health Unit and
the State Department of Health.
U. E. Ray, Sinton
Man, Announces
For Demo. Post
H. E. Cooper Re-electedC of C
President;IOO AttendBanquet
Three New Books
Placed In Library
Three books have recently beenjferia Thursday evening".
an-
U. E. Ray, Sinton farmer,
nounced today he would be a can-
didate for the office of chairman
of the Democratic party in San
Patricio County.
The office is now held by E. L.
Barrow, Taft, who has indicated
that he will not seek re-election.
In fact, Mr. Barrow is considering
resigning the position in a short
time due to the fact that as an
employee of the county as juvenile
officer he is not eligible to hold
the job as county chairman.
Mr. Ray is well-known through
out the county and has taken an
active part precinct and county
party conventions in past years.
Last year he was a delegate to
the state convention.
For a number of years Mr. Ray
was superintendent of the old Sod-
ville School, retiring from the pos-
ition in 1946 to devote his full
time to farming interests.
“My interest in seeking this
job,” Mr. Ray said, “Is to see
that Democrats retain control of
Party machinery in San Patricio
County.”
Mr. Ray classifies himself as
a “somewhat conservative” De-
mocrat.
The annual Kiwanis pancake
supper has been set for March 14
at the school cafeteria.
The supper will be held between
the hours of 5:30 and 8:00 p.m.
with Dr. A. H. Voss, E. H. Jackson,
H. W. Herndon and Kenneth Shac-
kelford flapping the cakes; Bob
Stalcup, L. T. Kolb and Ed Brown,
frying the sausage; and Stanley
Webb, Jr. and Ruda L/ane, Jr.
brewing the coffee.
O. A. Ehlers. Cleatis Hawkins,
Aaron Lawhon, A. M. Weatherly
A. B. Austin and Calvin Fagan
have been assigned the waiters’
role; E. S. Butler, the Rev. C. O.
Boatman, the Rev. L. M. Burnett,
and the Rev. Hubert Adam will
make up the reception committee.
Bill Dudley is chairman of the
supplies committee and Artie Tally
length of time, taking further treat- heads the ticket committee. Prexy
ment, Mrs. Carson said. I Janicke is the general chairman.
Week Of Prayer
To Be Observed
In Odem Mar. 3-7
Odem Baptists will observe the
Annie Armstrong Week of Prayer
for Home Missions March 3-7.
The Woman’s Missionary Society
will be in charge of the Wednesday
night church service with the
Brotherhood also participating in
the program.
Thursday an all-day service will
be held at First Baptist Chureh
with the WMS again in charge of
the program.
A covered dish-luncheon will be
served at the chur'ch annex at the
noon hour.
All Baptists are urged to attend
one, or all of the programs, and the
public is cordially invited to join
them in the Week of Prayer for
our Home Missions.
Brotherhood Team Speaks In Odem
A Brotherhood team composed
of Rabbi Yonah Geller of B’Nai
Israel, Father J. T. Clarkson, as-
sistant pastor at the Holy Family
Church and the Rev. Barcus Moore,
pastor of St. Luke’s Methodist
Church, all of Corpus Christi, were
the speakers at a Brotherhood pro-
gram at the Kiwanis Club Wednes-
day.
W. L. Maxwell, also of Corpus
Christi, was the captain of the
team and introduced the speakers.
The Rev. C. O. Boatman, program
chairman for the week presented
the captain of the team to the
Kiwandans.
Rabbi Geller based his talk on
the seriousness of brotherhood in
a changing atomic era, stressing
the importance of going back to
the basic truths in establishing a
relationship between the various
races of mankind which will serve
as a foundation for the future of
mankind.
He went back to the laws of
service in Old Testament time call-
ing attention to the classes barred
from making a contribution to the
Jewish nation—the blind, the deaf
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and the child. Then he pointed out
that these classes represented the
moral, rather than the physical
handicapped who were barred from
making a contribution. He stressed
that those blind to reality and to
the needs of others; those deaf
to the call of others and living for
self alonp, and those immature in
their thinking are even today bar-
red through their own moral short-
comings from making any contri-
bution to the good of manking and
the brotherhood of the world.
Father Clarkson stressed the
Fatherhood of God and the Brother-
hood of man in his talk. He pointed
out that birth and death are com-
mon to all mankind and that it is
what is done between those two
common factors in the history of
the individual which makes the
difference between the Brotherhood
®f man and the enemity of man-
kind. “God gives to each of us
a special mission and it is up to
the individual whether the world
is a better place in which to live
or one robbed of some goodness
because of the manner in which
you and I carry out the mission
assigned to us”, said the priest in
closing his remarks.
The Rev. Moore built his
remarks around “Brotherhood vs
Prejudice”, pointing out that pre-
judice in its beginning is just a
difference ip opinion. But when
fear and-or a sense of superioty is
added to that difference the thing
becomes a deeply rooted prejudice.
On the other hand, the difference
plus understanding and unity of
purpose adds up to active good
will and true brotherhood, the
minister said.
The three speakers, though bas-
ing their remarks on different
phases of brotherhood of mankind,
were in agreement that under-
standing and tolerance are two of
the basic factors of brotherhood.
As the priest pointed out in his
talk that life in America best ex-
emplifies true brotherhood, the Rev
Boatman is expressing appre-
ciation of the three speakers words
pointed to the unity of the three
ministers ideas and their appear-
ance on the same program as “a
practical demonstration of brot-
herhood or true brotherhood in
action”.
Judge Miller
Opens New Term
Of Dist. Court
Judge John H Miller opened the
spring term of the 36th Judicial
District Court Monday morning
by empaneling the grand jury and
setting the civil dockets.
Cases on the civil dockets being
given dates of hearing are as fol-
lows: The Associated Press, a Cor-
poration vs San Patricio Broad-
casting Co., a corporation. Suit for
debt and breach of contract. Set
for trial Mar. .24. Ned Castellow
vs Traders and General Insurance
Co. Suit to set aside award of the
Industrial Accident Board. March
17.
Shellie Crothers vs Travelers
Insurance Co. Suit to set aside
the award of the Industrial Acci-
dent Board April 21.
Travelers Insurance Co. vs Jessie
Harris. Suit to set aside Industrial
Accident Board award. April 21.
Guy C Shinn, petitioner, vs The
Lower Nueces River Water Supply
District. Petition to take deposi-
tion. Hearing of defendant’s motion
set for Feb. 28.
Annual T.B. Meeting
Planned For’Thursday
The Annual Membership Dinner
of the San Patricio County Tuber-
culosis Association will be held
at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 6,
at the Lazy V. Circle N, Rob and
Bessie Welder Park, Sinton, Texas.
All members and interested per-
sons are urged to attend. Reser-
vations must be made by Monday,
March 3, 1958, with Mrs. Doris
Palmer, Room B-7 Courthouse, Sin-
ton, Texas. A barbecue dinner will
be served at $1.50 per plate.
Damage Suit
Enters Fifth
Week In Sinton
placed on the Memorial Shelf at
the Odem Public Library in mem-
ory of J. R. Greenwood and do-
nations for two other books have
been made.
Two of Frank Dobie’s books,
“Up the Trail from Texas” and
“Tales of Old Time Texas”, and
Will Henry’s book “The .Texas
Rangers” were placed in his mem-
ory and a contribution to place
one of Fred Gipson’s books on the
memorial shelf in memory of Mr.
Greenwood came in after the other
three books were purchased.
And at the time the new book
is purchased a child’s book in
memory of Bonnie B. Smith will
also go on the Memorial Shelf,
said Mrs. Jessie Hanshaw, libriar-
ian.
A list of the new books for the
general shelves will be released
next week.
Odem, Edroy
People Included
On Sick List
Two local women have been con-
fined to their beds because of heart
ailments.
^Mrs. W. A. Stein of Odem and
Mrs. Jack Thornton of Edroy have
both suffered recent flare-ups of
heart ailment, but both women are
in satisfactory condition, said their
physician early this week.
Mrs. Hobart Janicke has recov-
ered sufficiently from her recent
illness that she will be allowed to
be up and around in her home in
less than a week.
George Hall, who also had to
slow down becaj*se of illness, is out
and attending to his duties again.
M&n Looses Both
Hands As Result
Of Electrical Accident
Albert Green of Bay City, brother-
in-law of Mrs. J. W. Hale of Odem,
has had both hands removed as
a result of a home accident suffered
several weeks ago when he came
in contact with a livewire while
repairing a short in the electrical
wiring at his home.
Shortly after the accident he was
removed from a Bay City hospital
to one in Galveston where he could
have advantage of better facilities
and specialists. His right hand was
removed nearly at the elbow soon
after he was taken to Galveston.
Last Wednesday it became impera-
tive that the left hand be amputated
at the wrist as gangrene had set
up in his hand.
Mrs. Hale and her mother, Mrs.
Lytle of Corpus Christi visited Mr.
Green in the Bay City hospital.
Approximately 100 members and
guests attended the second annual
Odem Chamber of Commerce ban-
quet held at the Odem school cafe-
H. E. Cooper was re-elected
president. Other officers' elected
were A. M. Tony Weatherly, vice-
president; O. A. Tally, secretary;
and Miss Billie Jo Tennill, trea-
surer. Directors named were E. H.
Green, W. R. Dudley, Dr. A. H.
Voss, C. H. Janicke, Stanley Webb,
Jr., and Cletis Hawkins.
Dr. Stanley Arbanghast of the
University of Texas Business Re-
search Board was the guest speak-
er. He brought to the attention of
his listeners the recreational po-
tentialities which lie in and around
CCC To Call
All Grain
Loans Feb. 28
Commodity Credit Corporation
Exercised an option and called in
all outstanding grain sorghum loans
on February 28, 1958.
Loans had been scheduled to
mature on March 31, 1958, but
CCC in an effort to gain an addi-
tional 30 days time to move the
stored grain called all loans early.
All banks holding grain loans
have been requested to bring loans
to the San Patricio A.S.C. Office
in Sinton with interest figured
through February 28, 1958. Notes
will be processed, banks paid by
CCC sight' draft, and notes for-
warded to CCC in Dallas.
The basis price on loans in San
Patricio County was $2.11 'and was
increased to $2.14 in October 1957.
The 3 cents increase will be paid
farmers in April by CCC sight
drafts issued by the County A.S.C.
Office. Drafts will be issued in
amount totaling $78,000.00.
The $250,000 damage suit being
tried in the 156th District Court
went into its fourth week Monday,
with little indication that the case
will be completed this week.
The suit is one in which Eugene
McCown and wife, Nettie Mae Mc-
Cown, of San Patricio are asking
approximately $250,000 against the
Missouri-Pacific R. R. Co. et al
for personal injuries sustained by
Mrs. McCown and the loss of their
home by fire as the result of a
train-oil truck collision which oc-
cur ed on a spur of the railroad
in April 1956.
Red Cross Sets
March 1 As
Drive Date
The annual Red Cross will be
officially launched in San Patricio
Co. on Saturday, Mar. 1, according
to an announcement made by H. B.
Pendleton, county co-chairman.
Pendleton, who shares the county
chairmanship with Bill Ballen-
tine, says that the quotas set for
the communities not under the
the United Fund Drive are set
as follows :Mathis, $1100; Odem,
$758 and Gregory and Ingleside
each $425, Sinton, Portland and
Aransas Pass are all in the United
Fund group.
Mrs. W. E. Davis of Edroy is
chairman of the Odem-Edroy
drive; D. C. Brown, Jerry Braun-
stein, the Rev. James Franklin and
Mrs. Ingle are the workers in
Mathis; Mrs. E. P. Johnson heads
the Ingleside drive and W. R. Nealy
is chairman of Jhe GregWy drive.
CommodityProgram
Awaits OK From
State Agency
Judge W. E. Nicholas reported
early this week that W. M. Herndon
of the State Welfare Department
will be in Sinton late this week to
inspect the facilities for handling
the Government Surplus Commod-
ities which the San Patricio Co.
Commissioners Court had 'made
application for to carry the county
through welfare emergency.
If the facilities meet the speci-
fications laid down by the State
Welfare Board the emergency pro-
gram will swing into operation
immediately said Judge Nicholas.
Preliminary paper work was be-
ing done last week and the early
part of this week in order to set
the program into operation at the
earliest possible date, the Judge
said.
If and when the program is put
into action a full eligibility outline
will be given to the public and the
matter of accepting applications for
the surplus foods will begin.
Odem which must first be develop-
ed before the town can hope to
attract industrial development in
the community. “Industrial deve-
lopers look for living quarters and
recreational facilities in an area
under consideration of develop-
ment” the speaker told the guests,
and without proper living conditions
and recreational facilities a com-
munity is lacking in its offer to
industrial development, he added.
“Texas is in the throws of an
Industrial revolution,” the speaker
told his audience, “And Odem is
well situated to take advantage
of it.”
To drive home the fact that
Texas was undergoing an industrial
revolution the speaker reminded
the group that despite the drought
and the current recession that Tex-
as as a whole, and especially the
Gulf Coast, still enjoyed prosperity.
He predicted an upturn in business
activity next year with a possible
increase in the last half of this
year.
On the credit side of the ledger
in favor of Odem the speaker point-
ed out that there was an abundance
of raw materials in the area, both
agricultural and mineral, good
transportation available in rail and.
highway facilities and formost the
fact that Odem was at the edge of
a booming industrial complex
where it could benefit by industrial
jobs and still keep “them down on.
the farm.”
“Agriculture is not as important
to your economy as it once was,”
the speaker said, “And in the com-
ing years it will receed further.
Farming is rapidly becoming big
business. However, in this area the
trend toward big farming will be
slowed by the nearness to an urban
area where a man can work part
time and farm part time.”
“Employees perform better when
they live in a place they like —
satisfied employees produce bet-
ter.”
Dr. Arbinghast used this quote to
point up his advice to the chamber.
He recommended *
1. Support the C of C
2. Devote time to study and plan-
ning.
3. Exercise some zoning plan.
4. Provide an industrial area.
5. Keep Odem attractive.
6. Provide good schools, recrea-
tion, clean streets, adequate fire
and police protection.
7. Form an industrial team arm-
ed with all necessary facts. and
figures about Odem and area.
“Further growth in Odem is in-
evitable — try to help it along.”
the speaker said in closing.
Door prizes were won by Mr. H.
L. Lane and Barney Clark.
President H. E. Cooper was un-
able to attend the Chamber meet-
ing, but his report of the growth
of the community Was read by
Cleatis Hawkins to the group. (A
copy of the president’s speech will
be carried in full next week.
Dr. A. H. Voss gave a report
of the budget set up for 1958,
announcing that the chamber has
adopted a $1,550 budget, with two-
thirds of the amount set aside for
advertising purposes. A color broc- *
hure of the city is now being pre-
pared for distribution, the doctor
said.
Sets Trap?
Percy Johnson. Collects Info
On Auto Thefts for G. Jury
The Rev. and Mrs. D. E. Simp-
son and daughters, June and Jane,
were overnight guests in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Green Sr.
Tuesday of last week as they were
enroute from DeLeon to Browns-
ville. The Rev. Mr. Simpson has
accepted the pastorate of South-
most Baptist Church in Brownsville
and he and his family were enroute
there for him to assume his pastor-
al duties Sunday* He is a former
pastor of First Baptist Church,
Odem.
Percy Lee Johnson Jr. parked his
car across the street from his
father’s jrlace of business, the Sin-
ton Drugstore, about 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, leaving the motor runn-
ing, which proved a greater temp-
tation to four Sinton youths than
they could resist and when Johnson
returned the car and the foursome
of Latin-American youths were
missing.
The four were taken into custody
about thirty minutes later two
miles north of Papalote in Bee Co.
They were interrogated by High-
way Patrolman Glen Krueger when
they stopped at that point where
he and his partner were investi-
gating a minor traffic accident.
When asked whose car they were
in one of the youths gave the old
telltale reply “My uncle’I”. The
highway patrolmen had picked up
an alert sent out from Sheriff
Frank Hunt’s office in Sinton and
brought the four boys back to Sin-
ton.
Those involved in the theft of
the car were Alfonso Lira Jr.
Pedro Garza Candelario and two
16-year old boys. It was first time
for 20-year old Candelario to be in
trouble, but Lira, who is 18 years
of age was tried on Jan. 18 on a
burglary charge and given 'five
years in the pen and placed on
probation. The two minors have
served time in the School of Cor-
rection. The younger of the two
has been in trouble twice and ser-
ved one term in the reformatory.
The other was committed to the
reformatory in 1951. Two years
later he had his parole revoked and
recommitted. On Sept. 1, 1954 he
was in trouble and was placed in
custody of his uncle. On Oct. 16,
1954 he was found guilty of bur-
glary on two counts and recom-
mitted to the State reformatory.
The four are in jail in Sinton
awaiting the action of the grand
jury which went into session Mon-
day morning.
Incidentally, Johnson is a mem-
ber of the grand jury.
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