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page 4—THE ODEM-EDROY TIMES—Odem, Tex., Wed., July 27, 55
Judge Moss Conies Up With Tale
To Beat One About Praying Pigs
By MARY WINBRENNER
Judge W. B. Moss, veteran San
Patricio Co. solon, who has been
receiving varied inquiries con-
cerning the “praying pigs” story
that he brought home from his
vacation early in the summer says
that “Praying Pigs” are nothing
compared with the ghost he once
saw.
The one-time county judge tells
this story:
Back in 1909 when he and two
brothers, Roy and. Floyd Inks,
were law students at the Universi-
ty of Texas, much was being
said about a certain large red
brick home in Austin being haunt-
ed, with the tale taking the turn
that the house had become haunt-
ed when the owner had been hang-
ed for murdering his wife and
their two daughters ■ and sealing
the bodies of the three women
in the walls of the stately old
mansion.
Moss and the Inks brothers de-
cided to see the ghost for them-
selves—a decision which caused
the three biggest fright of their
lives along with years of wonder-
ing just what it was that they
actually saw on that memorable
evening.
Twilight was just settling over
the old mansion as the three
young men made their way up
the yralk to knock on the front
door. No response to their repeat-
ed knocks led them to try tlr
doorknob and convince themsel
ves that the door was securelj
locked. The cruious youths ther
made their way around the build-
ing through overgrown running
rose canes to test each windov
and door to find all securely fas-
tened.
The young men came back tc
that locked front door and as the
trio stood facing the door they
were debating whether or not
they would make a forced entran-
ce, so strong was their urge tc
see the ghost which reputedly walk
ed through the mansion at twi-
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light. One of the young men was
so emphatic in his decision that
seeing the ghost was a MUST so
far as the success of the evening
was concerned that he stomped
his foot down hard on the porch
floor to emphasize his words. In
that split second every dog in
that end of the city of Austin let
forth a mournful wail, and through
the locked oaken door walked a
little old woman of perhaps 80
years to ask: “What do you want
here?” One of the Inks brothers
shakingly replied “Nothing, we are
leaving here.” Though the tangled
rose canes had been a detriment
to the three young law students
as they had approached and made
their way around the mansion
these same were no impediment
at all to the speed of the retreat
the law students made.
Five blocks away from the man-
sion the three exhausted students
sat down on the curb to talk
over what they had seen—and all
three had SEEN the little old
woman walk through the locked
door.
The Judge was a bit hesitant
to say that he and his compan-
ions were plain-flat scared from
the experience. But he did say
that the three had dates with
three sisters that evening and the
three sat in the parlor of the
young ladies’ home talking with
their dates until in the wee small
lours of the morning. In fact they
;tayed so long in the comfort and
security of that parlor that the
mother of the young ladies finally
walked into the room and asked
the girls and their dates to stand
and sing with her. This request
was almost as mysterious to
the three young men as the ghost
had been until they arose and
the mother broke forth in sing-
ing “Goodnight, Ladies.”
The Judge will admit without
hesitation that there is a solution
to the ghost story as clear as
was the solution to the mystery
of the request for a songfest made
by her mother in the early hour
morning, but as yet the solon has
to find that solution. And he clos-
es his “ghost story” which the
flat statement: “We were all fac-
ing that locked door and saw the
little old woman walk through it,
but reason tells us that we did
not actually see what we thought
we had seen at all.” Then the
Judge tilted his Dobbs straw
hat (which he claims that only
three of that style were made-
one for him, one for Pres. Eisen-
hower, and one for Winston Chur-
chill; and looked off into space
to say: “Dadgum, she DID walk
through that locked door.”
But be that as it may, one
readily can detect that the Jud-
ge is really more undecided about
the ghost than he could ever be
about the “praying pigs.”
Mrs. Jack Humbler
Recovering From Accident
Mrs. Jack Humber, the former
Eisabeth Raun of Odem, and her
little son, John Marc Huber,, ar-
rived from Harlingen on Thurs-
day to be guests of Mrs. Huber’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
Raun, and other relatives while
Mrs. Huber recuperates from in-
juries sustained in a recent traf-
fic accident.
Mrs. Huber was driving a car
which was struck by another car
whose driver violated a traffic
rule at a street intersection in
Harlingen. Mrs. Humber was hos-
pitalized for ten days following
the accident, and she is still using
crutches part of the time. She is
employed by the Child Welfare
Department in Brownsville and
Harlingen, and since she is un-
able to be at her accustomed
duties she and John Marc came
up to Odem for a visit with rela-
tives while she recuperates from
her injuries.
Dr. Phillip Hudgins
To Practice
Medicine In Odem
Dr. Phillip Hudgins arrived on
Monday of this week to become
associated with Dr. A. H. Voss at
the latter’s office in the Voss
Building, with a possibility of per-
manently locating here.
Dr. Hudgins is not a stranger
in the community since he has
been here on previous occasions
to take care of Dr. Voss’ practice
while the latter would be out of
town.
The plans of Dr. Hudgins are
as of this date rather indefinite
as he is awaiting his call to duty
and getting his military service
behind him with the Medical Corps
of the U. S. Army before he can
actually make any definite plans.
However, he is hoping to be frere
in Odem for the next few months
anyway.
He is a graduate of Baylor Med-
ical School of Houston and in
June he completed his internship
at Memorial Hospital in Corpus
Christi. He is married and he
and Mrs. Hudgens are making
their home in Corpus Christi and
he commutes to the office here
each day.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Hudgins of Corpus Christi
and he and his wife are frequent
visitors in Odem.
Gregory Boy Home
After Bout With
Bulbar Type Polio
Tommy Brown, 11, of Gregory,
who is the grandson of Mr. and
Mrs. T. F. Whiteley of Odem, is
satisfactorily in his home follow-
ing a bout with bulbar type polio
which struck him during the mon-
th of June.
Tommy spent some time
in Memorial Hospital in Corpus
Christi and was under oxygen
much of the first few days he was
a patient there. Though his throat
muscles and palate ware affect-
ed by the disease the attack was
not severe enough to call for his
being placed in the iron lung.
However, that piece of mechanism
stood by his room door as a pre-
cautionary measure until the crisis
had been passed. Tommy is still
making tri-weekly trips to the
hospital for physical therapy.
Mr. and Mrs. Whiteley have
been making trips over to Gre-
gory to visit Tommy since he has
been home. The little boy’s sis-
ter and brother, Carolyn and Ron-
nie Brown, have been visiting with
their grandparents here sineeTom-
my contracted polio. They and
Tommy are the children of Mr.
and Mrs. Jim Crum.
Odem Fireman Attend
Course At A. & M.
Among those attending the re-
cent short course for firemen held
at A&M College were Fire Mar-
shal J. E. Wallace and Jack
Boyd of Odem.
Wallace was registered in the
fire marshals’ course while Boyd
took training in general fireman’s
duties.
The Odem Volunteer Depart-
ment maintains a weekly prac-
tice, meeting each Monday night
for the purpose of drill with an
average attendance of 20 men.
The department has a good rat-
ing with the State Fire Board,
and has maintained that rating
through rather difficult periods
when the interest in the import-
ance of the Volunteer Fire De-
partment would lag temporarily.
But according to a statement from
Mayor J. S. Edgar, immediate
past fire marshal, the group is
responding in a good manner at
this time with interest high among
the men.
San Pat Reserve Unit
To Leave For Camp
Twenty one members of Com-
pany “C” 341st Engineer Batta-
lion, “San Patricio County’s Own”
Army Reserve unit, departs for
North Fort Hood, Texas, for two-
weeks active field training. While
at camp Reservists will study and
practice such subjects as demoli-
tions, land mine warfare, rigg-
ing, road and bridge construction.
Attending camp are the follow-
ing Sinton and Taft men:
From Sinton: 1st Lt. Daniel P.
Pawlik, Sergeants First Class Wil-
liam S. Dillard and Alvaro S.
Ruix, Corporal Richard N. French,
Privates First Class Rene R. Ra-
mirez and Richard T. Vanecek.
From Taft: Sergeant First Class
Leon M. Garcia, Sergeant Benja-
min R. Cisneras and Roberto G.
Vega, Corporals Fred A. Medina,
Jr., Gumeeindo P. Narvaez and
Antonio C. Riogas.
Weber Pool To Attend
Farm Bureau Meeting
Weber Pool, President of the
San Patricio County Farm Bu-
reau and Mrs. Pool plan to at-
tend the Texas Farm Bureau Sum-
mer Institute at Mineral Wells,
Texas July 31 to August 3. This
institute is a state wide training
school for Farm Bureau lead-
ers.
Among the classes to be taught
at this institute will be one on
History and Philosophy of Farm
Bureau which will be taught by
J. H. West, State Farm Bureau
Director from Bishop. Weber Pool
will assist Mr. West with the
teaching of this course. Mr. Pool
has devoted a tremendous amount
of time studying the history and
philosophy of Farm Bureau. Ac-
cording to Leo Owen, Local Ser-
vice Agent, Weber Pool is one of
the best informed men in the
State of Texas on Farm Bureau
and its policies.
Odem Baseball Teams
Fare Well In Games
The recent baseball games play-
ed by the Odem Eagles and the
Odem Latin Boy Scout Troop show
that the two Odem teams are
holding their own well in the gam-
es played by those teams with
out-of-town nines.
Recently the Eagles lost a game
to the Taft Latin team, by a
score of 4 to 6 but came back
in the next game between the
Eagles and the Taft Redbirds to
take an 8 to 5 victory over their
opponents.
The team made up from the
Latin Troop of BSA defeated a
Corpus Christi Latin team 14 to
2 in a game played by those
two teams on July 17.
The gate receipts of the games
played by the Eagles go to the
TB Association in appreciation of
the good that organization has
done for at least one member of
that team.
Simpsons Attend Church
In Austin Recently
During their recent vacation pe-
riod the Rev. and Mrs. D. E.
Simpson had the pleasure of at-
tending church at Sky View Bap-
tist Church in Austin with their
entire family.
Those making up the family
group were the Rev. and Mr. and
Mrs. Simpson and daughters, Ju-
dy and Jane, of Odem; Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Simpson and Janice,
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Simpson and
Diane and Lynn, and Mr. and
Mrs. Feuerbacher and Chris and
Bobby, and Mr. and Mrs. Claude
DeDear and Alecia, all of Austin.
The Rev. Mr. Simpson is pastor
of First Baptist Church here, and
he and his family entered the
Sky View Baptist church together
and sat in a group. They were
given recognition as the largest
family group present in the ser-
vice.
Baptist Group Names
Nominating Committee
The First Baptist congregation
voted on Sunday morning of last
week to select the nominating com-
mittee which will bring before the
church the names of church offi-
cers, Sunday School officers and
teachers, and Training Union of-
ficers and leaders.
Mrs. Crawford Whetstone was
named chairman of the commit-
tee to be composed of Mrs. Ray
Childress, Roy Whiteley, Eugene
Davis, John T. Whitley, and Mrs.
Whetstone..
Visting Pastors Fill
Odem Baptist Pulpit
During the absence of the pas-
tor, the Rev. D. E. Simpson, on
Sunday the pulpit at First Bap-
tist Church was filled by visiting
ministers, with the Rev. Ray Box
of Beeville delivering the morn-
ing sermon and Chaplain Raymond
Morgan of Chase Field bringing
the evening message.
The Rev. Mr. Box is pastor of
the Blanconia Baptist Church. He
was accompanied to Odem by
MissNelda Hatcher. Chaplain Mor-
gan was accompanied by his wife
and their children, Janice, La-
Neis, Jimmy and Randy.
The Rev. Mr. Simpson and his
wife and their daughters, Judy
and Jane, were in Leon on Sun-
day, where he had been invited
to be the speaker at both ser-
vices at First Baptist Church in
that town for the day.
Odem People Attend
Barbecue In Sinton
Among the 250 employees cf
the Seaboard Oil Co. and their
families who attended the annual
barbecue given by the Seaboard
at Park Welder in Sinton was a
large group from the the Odem
field.
Barbecued chicken was the main
feature of the menu, and potato
salad, ranch style beans and all
the trimmings were plentiful, with
icecream and soft drinks topping
off the meal.
Practically every employee of
the Seaboard Oil Co. living in
Odem, along with members of the
family, attended the annual get-
together of the employees in this
area.
Janickes Attend Gift
Show In San Antonio
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Janicke of
the Odem Pharmacy have recent-
ly attended gift shows given in
San Antonio, spending two days
at each of the two displays of
fall and winter gifts.
The San Antonio Drug Co. show
was held in the Plaza Hotel, while
the Rexall Drug Co. held their
gift display at the Gunter Hotel.
Kim, young son of Mr. and Mrs.
Janicke, spent the time that his
parents were absent with his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H.
M. Janicke. ^
LEGAL
NOTICE BOARD OF EQUALIZA-
TION MEETING ODEM INDE-
PENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
In obedience to an order of the
Board of Equalization regularly
convened and sitting, notice is
hereby given that said Board of
Equalization will be in session at
its regular meeting place in the
City of Odem, San Patricio Coun-
ty, Texas, at 9 o’clock a.m., be-
ginning on the 21st day of July,
1955, and from day to day there-
after, for the purpose of deter-
mining, fixing and equalizing the
value of any and all taxable pro-
perty situated in the said Odem
Independent School District, until
such values have finally been de-
termined, for taxable purposes,
for the year 1955, and any and
all persons interested or having
business with said Board are here
notified to be present.
Done by the order of the Board
of Equalization of Odem Indepen-
dent School District, San Patri-
cio County, Texas, at Odem Tex-
as, this 5th day of July, A.D.,
1955.
J. W. Lane,
Secretary
Odem Independent School
District
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Sill Lonquist Gets
Promotion With
Seaboard Company
Bill Lonquist, who for the past
year has served as petroleum en-
gineer of the Odem field office
of Seaboard Oil Co., has beer,
promoted to assistant district en-
gineer for the same company
with headquarters in Corpus Chris-
ti.
Bob Wallace, the former district
engineer at Corpus Christi was
transferred to the Dallas office
and his assistant, Joe Prejean,
was promoted to the rank cf dis-
trict engineer at the Corpus Chris-
ti office, with Lonquist being pro-
moted to the assistant engineer
position. Charles Parker of Dal-
las will fill the place made va-
cant here through the promotion
given Lonquist.
Mr. and Mrs. Lonquist and their
young son, Paul, have moved to
Corpus Christi.
Aransas Pass Youth
Indicted In Corpus
Cecil Ray Phillips, an Arans-
as Pass youth who has recently
been released from the State pen-
itentiary, was indicted last week
by the grand jury in Corpus Chris-
ti on a car theft charge.
Philips was tried on a burgla-
ry charge and a felony theft char-
ge in San Patricio Co. On the
first charge he was found guilty
by a jury and given a five-year
suspended sentence. He waived ju-
ry trial and plead guilty to the
felony theft charge and was as-
sessed punishment of two years
in the penitentiary, with the judg-
ment reading that the defendant
would serve not less than two
years in the State prison.
The burlgary charge grew out
of the defendant’s breaking into
a waterfront building in Arannsas
Pass on July 18, 1953, and the
felony theft charge was based on
the defendant’s having taken from
that building on the same date
on Marlin rifle valued at $75; one
Remington bolt-action rifle, valu-
ed at $150; one Smith and Wesson
revolver valued at $75; and 15
Penn reels valued at $10 each.
Since sentence was passed on him
on June 24, 1954, with that term
in the State prison to date from
April 24, 1954, giving the defend-
ant credit for time served in jail,
the prisoner evidently received
credit for good behavior while serv-
ing the sentence, for Dist. Attor-
ney John Miller says that Phil-
lips has been out of the peniten-
tiary for more than one month.
The youth, who is still less than
21 years of age, has been in and
out of court over a period of the
last several years, according to a
spokesman for the sheriff’s de-
partment.
with her daughter and family, Mr.
and Mrs. W. R. Dudley and Dick.
Col. Denzil Baker and his wife
and their children have left for
his new station at Carlisle Bar-
racks, Pr., following a visit in
Mathis with his parents and Mrs.
Baker’s sister, Mrs. Jack Thorn-
ton, in Edroy.
Mrs. C. M. Bramlett left last
week for her home in Stillwater,
Okla., after having been a guest
in the home of her sister and her
family, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Drum
and daughters, for several days.
Mrs. E. P. Warren of El Paso
who spent six weeks visiting her
son, J. C. Warren and family in
Corpus Christi and her brother-
in-law and his wife, Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Warren in Odem has re-
turned home. Mrs. Katie Warren
of Edroy visited the out-of-town
guests in the W. T. Warren home
during the time Mrs. E. P. War-
ren was here.
Mrs. U. W. Browne, Sr. of Ed-
roy is spending the week in
Freer with her son and his fami-
ly, Mr. and Mrs. U. W. Browne,
Jr. and children. She went over
especially to make the acquain-
tance of the youngest member of
the family, Mark Taylor, who ’’
made his arrival on July 17.
Misses Pat and Donna Voss ai’e
at Camp Mystic near Hunt. They
plan to be there until August 25.
Bryant Davis of Edroy spent
the week-end in Sinton at the
home of Mrs. Peyton Williams
where he and Dennis Troup of
Sinton visited with their classmate
Jimmie Williams, son of Mrs. Wil-
liams.
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day.
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day.
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