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Page 2—THE ODEM-EDROY TIMES-Odem, Tex., Wed., May 23, 56
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~C0UNn RECORDS
MARRIAGE LICENSES — DEEDS — LEASES
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Francisco Gonzales and Maria
Cavazos.
Camilo Molina and Matilda Pi-
na.
Thomas Walton Jones and Lor-
raine Ruth McKnight.
Leo Moore and Izora Jane Wil-
liams. ’
Jose Cruz Pineda and Senaido
Sanchez Medrano.
Norbert Joe Sternadel and Shir-
ley Glenn Luce.
Marcos Reyna and Andrea Pi-
na Sisneros.
Thomas Joseph Aver and Rena
Watts McCully.
Richard Clair Dean and Edna
Lella-Pearl Mathews.
DEEDS
A. V. Maley to Charlie Monse
Lots 5 and 6, Block 29, R. J. Wil-
liams Addn., Ingleside.
T. E. Fullictc to H. H. Webb
Lot 25, Block 2, Fulweb Addn.,
Unit No. 2, Sinton.
H. H. Webb to Adolph J. Val-
enta Lot 25, Block 2, Fulweb Addn.
Unit No 2, Sinton.
H. H. Compton to O. A. Tally
Lots 3 and 4. Block 6; Lots 1,
2, 5, 6, 9, and 10, Block 9, Comp-
ton & Cooper Addn., Odem.
John Tobin, Trustee to Manuel
Peralto Lot 10, Block 5, Park
Addn., Mathis.
Carl Y. Davis to Charlie B. Ow-
en Sec. 62, Paul Subd., C. F. P.,
2.7 acres.
T. E. Fullick to Walls Lbr. Co.
Lot 6, Boock 3, Fulweb Addn.,
Unit No 2, Sinton.
Walls Lbr. Co. to Kenneth
James Fritz Lot 6, Block 3, Ful-
web Addn., Unit No 2, Sinton.
Coast Development, Inc. to G.
W. Wilkinson Lot 9, Block 3, East
Cliff Addn., Portland.
A. Loy Sims to 'Gilberto Perez
Lot 1, Block 1, La Paloma Addn.,
Portland.
Elma L. Jernigan to B. B.
Jernigan Lot 8, R. L. Irwin Addn.,
Aransas Pass, being a re-survey
of Farm Lot 1, Land Block “C”
B&D Subd.
E. R. Blaylock to William Han-
ke Lots 31 and 32, Block 380,
Aransas Pass.
William Hanke to E. R. Blay-
lock Lots 28 and 29, Block 380,
Aransas Pass.
Agnes Meyer to Robert J. Hay-
den Lot 4, Block 275, Aransas
Pass.
Corrie Fitzsimmons, Extrx. &
Tr., et al to Neil A. Kennedy, et
al Lot 13, Block 25, Drummond
Subd; Lot 4, Block 20, Drum-
Service Business
In San Pat Goes
Over 2.5 Million
Receipts of 167 service estab-
lishment enumerated in San Pat-
ricio County in the 1954 *.Census
of Business amounted to about
$2,675,000, according to a prelim-
inary report covering service
trades, published by the Bureau
of the Census, U. S. Department
of Commerce. The combined year-
ly payroll of the county’s service
establishments was 5601,000. They
reported 326 employees of whom
290 worked fulltime in the ,pay
period ending nearest November
15. Proprietors actively employed
in the operation of unincorporated
businesses numbered 181.
Establishments providing person-
al services numbered 65 and re-
ported receipts of 5735,000. Esta-
blishments primarily engaged in
automotive repair, parking and
other automotive services num-
bered 16 and had receipts of 5190,-
000. Establishments listed as “all
other services” in the preliminary
report numbered 86 and had re-
ceipts of 51,750,000.
“Personal services” group in-
cludes such businesses as barber
and beauty ^shops, cleaning and
dyeing plants, laundries and laun-
dry services, garment alteration
and repair services, funeral ser-
vices, photographic studios, shoe
repair shops and shine parlors,
as well as other personal services.
“Automotive services” group in-
cludes general automobile repair
shops, battery service shops, tire
repair shops, body repair and
paint shops, automobile rentals,
storage garages, parking lots, au-
to laundries, and other miscellan-
eous automotive services.
“All other selected services”
group includes business services,
miscellaneous repair services, am-
usement and recreation services,
motion pictures, • hotels, tourist
courts, motels and camps.
mond Subd.
C. Guerguih to Nelson H. Rai-
ford Lot 16, Block 5, Macaze
Park ADDN., Gregory.
Guaranty Title and Trust Co.,
Trustee to Dewey A. Holden, et al
Lot 40, Block 6, Reynolds Park
Addn., Gregory.
H. E. Cooper to San Pat. Lbr.
Co. Lots 5 and 6 Block 6; Lots
3,. 4, 7, 8, 11, and 12, Block 9,
Compton and Cooper Addn., Od-
em.
Edness Marie Roots to David
Gonzales Lot 4, Block 7, Roose-
belt Addn., Taft.
H. C. Hunt, Indiv. and Agent
and Atty. to Uell D. Peoples
Lots 14 and 15, Block 17; N.
15’ of Lot 26, Block 18, M.K. Hunt
Addn., Gregory.
Guadalupe Cano, et al to Unit-
ed Gas Corp. N-2 of Lot 6, Block
69, Mathis.
O. F. Tally to James Hardy
Dunbar Lot 3, Block 2, Wood-
lawn Addn., Sinton.
D. C. Brown, Jr., et al to Mel-
vin M. Shilling Lot 5, Block 1,
B. C. Addn., Mathis.
OIL & GAS LEASES
Gregory-Portland Consolidated
Indep. School Dist. to Robert M.
Rayne A tract of land described
by field notes out of the M. J.
McLean Sur., Abst. 203; Lots 5
.to 24, incl., Block 17, Tier “H”,
Portland.
Milton Gabriel to Delos Doug-
las Lots 2, 4, 6, and 8, Block 56,
Sixth Eubd., T. F. L.
Walter Tips to Plynouth Oil Co.
Tract 6, J. J. Welder and C. F.
P. Co’s. Subd., James McIntyre
Sur.,! Abst. 196.
W. W. Rothlisberger to Ply-
mouth Oil Co. Tract 6, J. J. Wel-
der and C. F. P. Co’s. Subd.,
James McIntyre Sur., Abst. 196.
R. E. Hart to Walter A. Hen-
shaw, et al Sec. 75, Paul Subd.,
Welder, 80 acres.
J. J. Elick, et al to the Texas
Co. Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, Block 15,
T. F. L., 383.71 acres.
Philip A. Bouillette by Atty-in
Fact to Dudley Dunlap N-2 of
SE-4, Sec. 35, Paul Subd., Wel-
der.
Irene Brouillette Evans to Dud-
ley Dunlap N-2 of NE 4, Sec. 35,
Paul Subd., Welder.
Walkathon Set
For June 1st.
Corpus Chrisi, My 14, — The
Padre Island Walkathon, a three-
day race along the confines of
historic Padre Island, begins its
fourth outing on June 1. From
Port Isabel, near Brownsville, 110
miles to the Island park, near
Corpus Christi, nearly 200 contes-
tants will plod the sandy beach.
This is not the world’s longest
walking event, however, it may
be the most unusual. Considering
the legend of its beginning, the
event would have to be unusual.
The most acceptable story on
the creation of the Walkathon is
that four years ago two sun-
bathers were tipping a few drinks
on the expansive beach, and one
flexing his soggy muscles blurted,
“If I can have another cold one
I’ll race anybody the length of
Padre Island.”
That challenge was never an-
swered, however, an alert public
relations man got wind of the
boast, not the zeverage, and be-
gan to envision a walking con-
test over the snowy sands, inbid-
ers not eligible. Hence, the walk-
athon. .
Since that day the Walkathon
has become an institution for the
contestminded, and merchants do-
nate several thousand dollars in
cash and prizes. Last year’s win-
ner copped 5500.00 in cash, a
second-hand automobile and a tel-
evision set. The first woman fin-
isher received 5250.00 and an au-
tomatic washing machine. One
contestant was awarded a comp-
lete course in ballroom dancing,
but we understand after the 110-
mile trek, he was never in the
mood to cash in his winnings.
If anybody is interested in en-
tering the 1956 Walkathon all the
participant needs is 510.00, he
must be in good health, and of
sould mind. In some instances the
officials have been known to eli-
minate the last qualification.
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Armed Forces Day
To Be T.V. Feature
Armed Forces Day activities in
Texas/ will be spot-lighted next
week on the Humble Company’s
TV Program, Texas in Review.
Cameramen for the program visit-
ed Orange, Houston, Dallas, and
San Antonio to film equipment and
events.
Among other features on
the same program will be Splash
Day at Galveston; Buccaneer’s
Day at Corpus Christi; dedication
of Taylor County’s health unit; ah
industrial arts exhibition at Kil-
gore Junior College that featured
work from high schools in Haw-
kins, Sabine, Longview, White
Oak and London; the Uvalde
County Centennial; and dedication
of Sam Houston State Park in
Huntsville.
Cotton Prospects
Dim In Some
Spots In Texas
Cotton prospects are very much
in doubt in some areas of Texas
this spring where farmers are
plagued with either too much or
too little rain.
“Too much rain” is only a tem-
porary condition of course, but it
occurred in one area where ex-
treme drouth prevailed only a few
miles away. I was in the hard-
ship zone between San Antonio,
Laredo &nd Corpus Christi — a
17-county region that has been
subnormal in moisture for nearly
seven years.
Bee, Live Oak and McMullen
counties are examples where dro-
uth has made the cotton outlook
negative this year.- Bee County
has a cotton allotment of 15,000
acres and, until a few days ago
only 9,000 had been seeded.
Many of these were planted on
a “risk” basis and about 3,000
may never come up unless rain
is recieved immediately.
In Live Oak County, only about
2,500 of the 20,000 cotton acres
alloted had been planted the first
of May and many of these allot-
ments were returned for redistri-
bution over the state. McMullen
County has had less than one inch
of rain sincd January 1st. One
15.1 acre plato of the 1,500 allot-
ment was sown by May 1st.
Around Nueces County with Cor-
pus Christi as the county seat,
much of the cotton already
planted was washed out by recent
rains. Counties to the north and
northeast have the same problem.
These counties are not typical
of the state, but each area has
its own problems. Moisture is
badly needed in the dry-land
farming- sections of the Panhan-
dle and West Texas where farm-
ers soon will be planting.
Estimates of the cotton crop
traditionally are released about
the first week in August. A re-
vised version of the 1955 crop
was realeased this week which
placed Texas production at 4,039,-
000 bales of 500 pounds gross
weight. Value of the 1955 lint pro-
duction amounted to 5511,388,000
based on the average price of 30.3
cents per pound for the season
Cottonseed from the 1955 crop
amounted to 1,687,000 tons or 2
percent above the 1,647,000 tons
of 1954. The increased production
was more than offset however by
lower proces with value of cotton-
seed last year amounting to 577,-
433,000 or about three-fourths that
of the year before.
Cv
VI NEWS
Austin, Gex. — Record turn-outs
at this year’s precinct conventions
produced a surprising by-rposucr,
a flood of suggestions for election
law changes.
County convention resolutions
sent the Secretary of State’s of-
fice reflect interest at the grass-
roots/ in giving more power to the
people and less to the pros.
Ector County Democrats charg-
ed the party has become “of...
by... and for. the politicians.”
They passed a resolution to pro-
hibit any officeholder, state or
federal employe from being a nat-
ional convention delegate.
Yoakum and Harrison County
conventions recommended prefer-
ential primaries for presidential
nominees.
A number of resolutions were
aimed at forcing conservative
Democrats into becoming Repub-
licans. Gwo Counties, Swisher and
Wilson, resolved that voters be re-
quired to register party prefer-
ences when they pay poll taxes.
Gray County Democrats also
took a dim view of present pro-
cedures. Something is wrong, they
said, when admitted Republicans
are so scarce they can hold “pre-
cinct conventions in a telephone
booth,” yet carry the state in a
general election.
Two Austin corporations, Amer-
ican Guaranty Undervwiters and
the Karisch Co., have been cleared
of charges of violating the state
securities act.
In an agreed judgement the
firms were! absolved of any
wrongdoing.
The judgement directed Amer-
ican Guaranty to refrain from re-
selling its own stock. I t also was
directed to call in, and require
payment within 60 days, loans
made to Aviation Finance Co. and
Metropolitan Finance Co., both of
San Antonio.
There was no allegation of in-
solvency involved.
Calvin C. Huffman, Austin attor-
ney, is president of American
Guaranty. He is a former news-
paper publisher frdm Eagle
Pass.
Civil recovery suits may yet be
filed against the salesman of the
Certified Drafts of the defunct US
Trust and Guaranty Co.
At the request of the Insurance
Department’s liquidation division,
the attorney general is preparing
a ruling on the legality of such
suits.
Testimony from buyers would
be the basis of charges.
Some 120 insurance companies
have yet to meet the legal require-
ments for annual permits to do
business in Texas.
The Insurance Commission has
indicated tjiat it will take prompt
action toward closing the firms
that fail to make the June 1 dead
line. The firms include 20 stock
life insurance companies and 100
mutuals of various sorts. Most are
small concerns.
Procedure calls for ‘a show-case
order and a hearing in each case.
This will require some 30 to 60
days.
The U. S. Supreme^ Court, a
frequent target of criticism, has
a defender in Austin Attorney
Everrett Looney, immediate past
president of the State Bar of Tex-
as.
Looney declared, in a speech
before the Dallas Criminal Bar
association, that such attacks by
politicians are “heresy without
equal in our history.” He said
“the number one scapegoat of
American politics, the one safe
target of the vilifiers, the rabble-
rousers, the washed and unwashed
mongers of hate, is the federal
judiciary.”
Looney accused critics of the
court of creating a “climate of
frenzy” and “hysteria” which
threatens to destroy the American
system of justice. He charged that
political agitators who preach dis-
obediance will reign supreme if
the court is dislodged from its
supremacy as the arbiter of law
and order.
In forwarding the money, Rick-
ey wrote that “A serious ques-
tion has arisen as to the pro-
priety or my commission on these
sales to the land board,” hence
the refund.
Atty. Gen. John Ben Shepperd
said, as 'to the commissions,
“There is no allegation of fraud
involved.”
A 10 year “total war” against
tuberculosis is under way in Tex-
as. There are 20,000 active cases
in the state, not including an es-
timated three per cent of the wet-
backs who enter the state ille-
gally.
Strategy was mapped inAustin
by some 300 health experts and
laymen. They met under auspices
of the Texas Tuberculosis Associ-
ation.
Out of the discussions came 20
recommendations for “killing the
killer.” Included were (1) intensi-
fied efforts to find and treat tub-
erculars, (2) increased ajd to
dependents .of TB victims and
(3) more incentive to medical per-
sonnel to work in TB hospitals.
Widespread innoculation to pre-
vent a major polio epidemic is
being urged by the State Depart-
ment of Health. Polio cases for
1956 already total 257. This is an
increase of 62 over this time last
year. Peak outbreak usually hits
Texas in July and August. Only
one-third of those eligible for
Salk shots have received them.
Charles K. Devall, publisher of
the Kilgore News-Herald, was el-
ected president of the Texas Good
Roads Association at its annual
meeting in Austin. He succeds
Fred A. Wemple of Midland.....
A suiwey of highway needs and
problems is under way by the
TexasResearch League. One phase
of the study is the future role of
counties and cities in providing ad-
equate highway facilities......Her-
kHop
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Public Records
District Court
New Filings:
Charles Thomas Cole vs Eliza-
Beth Pearl Cole. Divorce.
Walter Martin vs Helen Martin.
Divorce.
W. E. Hamilton vs Texas Em-
ployers Insurance Association.
Suit to set aside the award of
the Industrial Board.
Edelmira > Hernandez vs Juan
Francisco Hernandez. Divorce.
Allie Jackson et al vs John
Schmitz Jr. et al. Trespass to
try title.
Ricardo Gonzales vs Carolina
Gonzales. Divorce.
W. O. Perry vs The Fidelity and
Casualty Co. of New York. Suit
to set aside the award of the In-
dustrial Accident Board.
Juana Badillo vs Emeterio Bad-
illo. Suit for divorce. Divorce
granted to plaintiff as per decree.
L. Jt. Ashmore et al va Beck-
Henderson et al. Suit on account,
breach of contract and for dam-
ages. Motion filed by defendants
for judgment not withstanding the
verdict of the jury.
State vs A. B. Cast. Perjury be-
fore the grand jury. Defendant’s
motion for new trial overruled to
which defendant excepted and
gave notice of appeal to the Court
of Criminal Appeals.
bert O. Paul of the Brother hood
of Locamotive Engineers is the
new chairman of the Texas Joint
Railway Labor Legislative Board.
He succeeds veteran J oe T.
Steadham, Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmefi.
Young Democrats of Texas have
elected Rep. Edgar Berlin of Port
Neches as their state president.
Roger Daily or Austin was named
national committeeman; and Mrs.
Sarah Hodgson of Fort Worth,
national committeewoman.....
Allowable oil production in Texas
for the month of June has bfeen
cut by the Railroad Commission
to 3,261,799 barels a day. This
is a reduction of 74,456 barrels
It is the fourth straight month
that reductions have been author-
ized.....Pleas for a water conser-
vation program that would giye
farmers and ranchers first call on
impounding the rain which falls on
Texas were made before the Wat-
er Resources Committee. Spokes-
men from 11 agricultural groups
urged the formation of a work-
able water conservation program
in Texas.
County Court
New Fillings:
State vs Jimmie Pollard, Driv-
ing while intoxicated.
State vs Robert H. Richardson.
Hot check.
Cases Tried:
State vs Mrs. A. R. Knippa.
Hot check. On plea of guilty the
defendant was assessed punish-
ment of a fine of 510 and court
costs.
State vs C. H. Holley. Hot check
Passed.
State vs Bobby E. Clark. Theft
under 550. On plea of guilty the
defendant was assessed punish-
ment of confinement in the
county jail for a period of one
year.
State vs Bobby E. Clark. Theft
under 550. On plea of guilty the
defendant was assessed punish-
ment of confinement in the county
jail for a period of one year to
run concurrently with the term
assessed in Cause 3667.
State vs Jimmie Pollard. DWI.
On plea of guilty the defendant
was assessed punishment of a fine
of 550 and court costs and a jail
sentence of three days with credit
given for time served.
Ruth Cheek vs San Patricio
Broadcasting Co. Suit for debt.
Both parties announce ready for
trial. After introduction of evi-
dence both sides closed. Judg-
ment rendered for plaintiff against
defendant in the amount of 533.30
and attorney’s fee in the amount
of 550. Judgment for plaintiff as
to other amounts sued for. All
costs to be taxed against defen-
dent.
Game Wardens Limited
lit Search Rights
AUSTIN, May — Peace officers
may search a person for contra-
band wild game only when there
is “probable cause” for law viola-
tions, according to an interpreta-
tion by the Executive Secretary
of the Game and Fish Commis-
sion based on an Attorney Gen-
eral’s opinion.
Primary authority for this law
enforcement function, the opinion
stated, is vested within the Com-
missions warden force.
The opinion cited that the “pro-
bable - cause” provision is fre-
quently defined as “a reasonable
ground of suspicion, supported, by
circumstances sufficiently strong
in themselves to warrant a cau-
tious man in the belief that the
person accused is guilty of the
offense with which he is charged.”
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