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GO TO THE POLLS AND VOTE SATURDAY!
THE MATHIS NEWS
VOL. XXXVII
THE MATHIS NEWS, MATHIS TEXAS, August 22, 1952
FOUR PAGES NO. 34
The Coffee
...Corner...
By HELM
Among the pile of mail which
is received each week at the
News office is a service publish-
ed each week by a Portland, Ore.,
concern. It is called Industrial
News Review, and sometimes it
contains some worth while mat-
erial that we, as citizens of this
free country, should consider and
think ovej* along about this time
each election year.
For evample, here is one of
their little gems of thought for
this week.
“Sometimes we use our free-
dom badly—forget about i t—
trade it cheaply — and fail to
fairly give, as much to some as
others. But we know no people
on earth have more freedom, or
love it better or will fight so
hard to keep it.
“Listen! Read! Look! Talk!
Argue! Think; Then Vote.”
9 New Families
Move to Mathis
Nine new families have moved
to Mathis during the past few
days. Most of them are new
teachers in the schools.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Blevins
have moved into one of the new
houses in the Brown and Caffall
Adition. Mr. Blevins is the new
director of the band and Mrs.
Blevins wil teach in the elemen-
tary school .
L.. H. Cartel has moved into
another house in the same addi-
tion. The Jack Allen and Bill
McCoy families have also moved
into the other two houses of
this addition. They recently mov-
ed their typewriter and adding
machine business to Mathis.
E. L. Davenport and his fam-
ily have moved to Mathis and
are renting a house while theirs
is still under construction in
the Horton Addition. Mr. Dav-
enport is the new high school
principal.
The W. G. Cockerham family
has moved into a house in the
Griffin Addition.
The George John family has
moved here. Dr. John is the
new doctor who will assist Dr.
Guynes at the hospital.
The W. N. Cash family has
moved into the Coltrin house.
Mrs. Cash is the new Homemak-
ing teacher at the high school.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Steinman
have moved into Mrs. Gillet’s
house. Both will teach in the
schools, with Mrs. Steinman
teaching the first grade and Mr.
Steinman teaching the sixth
grade.
Poiis Open at 8 o'clock at High School
For Democratic Run-off; Small Turn-out
Expected Due to Lack of Voter Interest
Polls wil open at the High
School in Mathis at 8 a. m.
Saturday for the Democratic run-
off electioS.
A small turn-out is expected,
as not much interest has been
shown, on the part of the voters,
in the run-off.
Only two races will be on the
ballot. The race for place 1 in
the Supreme Couprt between
Spurgeon Bell of Harris County
30 Cases of Polio
Reported in 1952
To Health Unit
Thirty cases of poho have been
reported in San Patricio County
so far this year, according to
Dr. C. A. Selby, director of
J ^ , „ « . . „ . the County Health Unit. This is
and Frank P Culver of Tax rant one more case than was reported
County is the Only State-wide
race in the runoff. Another state-
wide race was dropped when
John L. Smith bowed to Mar-
tin Die’s commanding lead in
the congressmah-at-large posi-
tion, although Mr. Die’s name
will be on the ballots.
In San Patricio County voters
have only one race, that between
Vernon Harville of Mathis and
Harold Parish of Portland for
the state representative spot.
Polls will be closed at 7:00 p.
m. Presiding judge will be Mary
Wiliams, who will take the place
of the Princt 5 chairman, J.
R. Nelson, who is out of town.
Others who will help hold the
election are Lena Porter, Mrs.
Augusta Henderson, Gordon Cab-
aniss and Bobby Helm.
Skidmore-Tynan
And Mathis Schools
Settle Controversy
In a special meeting of the
Mathis school board and the Skid-
Gordon Cabaniss
Attends Voc. Ag.
Meeting Tuesday
Gorden Cabiness, vocational
ag teacher in the Mathis school,
attended an agriculture teacher’s
workshop at Texas A&I College
in Kingsville this week.
The shop was held for all first
and second year agriculture
during the same period last year,
he said.
Last year, no cases were re-
ported until June when 14 cases
appeared both in June and July,
then only one more case in Aug-
ust. During 1952 the first case
came in February with a total
of five reported for'that month,
one case in March, four in April,
three in May, six in June, seven
in July, and four already in
August, he said.
Dr. Selby stated that last year’s
cases occured mainly in the Taft
and Sinton areas, but this year
they have come from the eastern
part of the county.
New Gymnasium
May be Ready for
Basketball Season
The building contractor for
the new elementary school build-
ing said this week that there
is a good possibility that the
gymnasium part of the building
will be completed in time for
basketball season.
This information was learned by
Supt. of Schools T. A. Harbin,
and was told to the members of
Local Farmers Are
Active in Soil
Conservation
Tom Luther of Mathis is con-
structing terraces on his more
sloping land. Luther said he
should have done this 15 years
ago so a lot of soil and water
also going to seed a considerable
acreage to Huban Clover for
soil improvement and grazing.
W. J. Horton of Mathis has de-
cided rather than terrace his
farm that he will seed it to clover
and permanent grasses and thus
control erosion, and convert it
into a stock farm rather than
use it for crops. By opening up
the soil with this type of vege-
tation and maintaining a good
cover, water will be used much
more efficiently and erosion will
almost be eliminated.
Joe Owens, of Mathis, likes
his contour rows very much.
Joe said that he used to make
crops at the ends of his rows
but now this year he had the
same from end to end.
Cotton Season At Peak;
Business Best in Years
Cotton harvesting has about
reached its peak throughout the
country this week, with some
farmers already finished and cut-
ting down the stalks.
It has been the kind of cotton
season that farmers like to see,
although the cotton was slow in
opening up, and additional rain
earlier in the season would have
made a better crop. Farmers ’ season. Pickers have been in.
have been happy that no rain or plentiful supply,
intermittant showers have slowed Merchants in town are report-
up the season and dropped the ing one of the best seasons in
grade of the cotton. The price many years.
for picking has remained lower
than it has in the past several
years, and the price of lint cot-
ton has stayed fairly steady, av-
eraging a little over 38 cents all
County Tax Rate for 1953 Is Lowered
To $1.14 by the Commissioner's Court
N ueces Water Dist.
Mgr. to Discuss
Dam at Mathis
It was learned this week that
the director of the Lower Nue-
ces Water Supply District, Vic-
tor Jaeggli, plans to be in Mathis
soon to talk with citizens on the
proposal to place the new dam
at Mathis.
Mr. Jaeggli talked to Basil
Westover during the week and
requested that he be given a
chance to talk before the Rotary
Club within the next few weeks
on the controversial issue.
Wr. Westover was to contact
him this week-end to see if he
could come to Mathis for the
Rotary Club’s meeting next Tues-
day.
The 1953 budget for San Pat-
ricio County was approved by
the Commissioner’s Court at a
special meeting Wednesday morn-
ing.
The adopted budget reduces
taxes to $1.14 per each $100 of
assessed valuation, as compared
to the 1952 rate of $1.22. It also
provides for $899,610.97 in total
county expenditures for the com-
ing year, an increasee of $108,-
138.50 over the estimated cost
of running the county for the
1952 budget year.
An increase in salaries of elect-
ed officials was provided for in
the budget, with most of them
receiving an 8 per cent increase
in their base pay.
The cutting of taxes and the
provision for increased expendi-
tures was made possible by the
tremendous increase in the as-
sessed valuation of property in
the county. It was estimated in
the budget that San Patricio Co.
has a valuation of $46,750,000,
which is an increase of $11,606,-
525 over the preceding year.
Much of this increase can be
attributed to the location in the
county of Reynold’s huge alum-
inum plant, and to a large in-
crease in the volume of oil acti-
vities.
Elevator Truck in
Wreck at Pleasanton
One of the trucks belonging
to the Mathis Grain and Ele-
vator Corp. was involved in a
wreck near Pleasanton last week
end, according to Chas. Foote,
manager of the concern.
The driver of the truck was
not injured. The car which hit
the truck came out of a side-
road and swerved into the truck.
The driver was injured slightly
and his car was demolished.
Gins in Mathis have received
well over 7,000 bales of cotton
by today. Early Thursday morn-
ing the Hall Gin had weighed
in 3,531 bales and the Vahlsing
Gin 3,381.
Cotton price was holding close
to 38 cents per pound and the
price of cotton seed was still
$75 per ton.
Two Local Teachers
To Get Degrees
Lola Lindsey Caffall and Lola
Hayes Allen of Mathis are candi-
dates for graduation at Texas
A&I College this month.
The office of Dean J. C. Jer-
nigan reported the names of
157 caididates for bachelor’s de-
grees and of 122 who are seek-
ing masters degrees.
The summer commencement
exercise is scheduled for 7 p. m.
Friday in Jones Auditorium. Dr.
John Fur bay, director of TWA’s
Global Air Education program,
will deliver the principal ad-
dress.
Mrs. Caffall is a candidate for
the Bachelor of Science in Sec-
ondary Education degree and
Mrs. Allen is seeking the Master
Union Building at the College.
Mr. Cabaniss talked on the
subject of t“The Value of Ex-
perience in the Vocational Agri-
culture Program” at the meeting
Tuesday.
LOCAL FAMILIES
TRY TRAILER LIFE
Two Mathis families have re-
cently left to try a bit of trailer
life.
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Stone
and Regina have purchased a
trailer so that Mrs. Stone and
Regina can spend their vacation
and week-ends with Mr. Stone,
who is employed by an oil com-
pany now drilling in McMullen,
Live Oak and Atascosa Counties.
They will return home when
school opens.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Salyer, Jr
Summer Band
Clinic Starts
teachers to acquaint them with the Rotary Club at their regul
new methods of teaching and ar Tuesday luncheon. Mr. Har-
various subjects pertaining to bin said Mr. Crawford told him
their field of work. earlier in the week that due
Approximately 45 teachers from to the plan of the building he
South Texas schools attended the started on the gym part first,
two-day meeting held Monday Framework is now going up on
and Tuesday at the Student the gym. Unless the?e is an ex- . ^ «mmer band clinic started
cessive amount ol bad weather!;? Mathis Monday and will Con-
or other construction delays, the!tlnue unU sch°o1 st2rts' E' R'
gym should be ready, he said.
If the gym is ready it will be
a big help to the basketball
team, who have had to practice
outside in the past.
CAR THIEF CAUGHT
AFTER DRIVING
CAR FOR MONTHS
A car thief was caught in
Mathis during the week and the
old saying thkat “crime doesn’t
pay” was proved again.
But in this instance the thief
had the pleasure of driving the
car he stole for several months,
and had it not been for a slight
wreck, he would probably still
be driving it this time next
trailer a year at least and have
rented their home in Mathis.
They are now at Three Rivers,
where Mr. Salyer is employed
more -Tynan schoolboard offi- in °il field work between Three
cials Tuesday night a final set- Rivers and Tilden. They expect
tlement was made between the to be in Pleasanton part of t e
two school districts on the several
year-old controversy which arose
when the Mathis school district
annexed part of the Skidmore-
Tynan school district in 1949.
A cash settlement will be made,
but as yet, the exact figure of
the settlement has not been de-
termined, according to Mrs. Aug-
usta Henderson, school tax as-
sessor and collector.
The whole controversy arose
when citizens' of the district an-
nexed presented the Mathis dis-
trict with a petition asking to
be annexed into the Mathis dis-
trict. According to Texas Law
this is perfectly legal but nev-
ertheless, the Skidmore-Tynan
school district would not accept
the annexation and took the case
to court, where a ruling was
made in 1951 in favor of Mathis
and the annexation.
The special meeting Tuesday
night was to settle the amount
of tax money which the Skid-
more-Tynan district owed to the
Mathis school for collections they
made during the years since the
annexation, aad to settle the
amount of economic index money
which the Mathis district owed
them.
and boys plan to live in their J jjere>s tbe story according to
year.
Marvin McEachern
Leaves for Hawaii
Marvin McEachern left Tues-
day morning at six o’clock from
Corpus Christi for his base at
Hickam Air Field, Honolulu, af-
ter spending a short vacation
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
H. L. McEachern.
McEachern expects another
leave in December to visit his
home. At that time his two over-
seas years will be up.
J. E. HENDERSON
ATTENDING REUNION
OF WAR VETERANS
J. E. Henderson left Wednes-
day on a trip to Louisville, Ky.,
where he will attend the Nat-
ional Reunion of Spanish-Ameri-
can War Veterans meeting there
August 24 and 28.
Mr. Henderson served two
years in Cuba in the Spanish-
American War in the Volunteer
infantry under Captain Cordell
Hull.
He will also visit his boyhood
Blevins, new band director said.
Fifty-three students registered
for the clinic and are taking
the lessons in playing and march-
ing. Mr. Blevins said that a
good number of new students
have made inquiry about instru-
ments and joining the band.
2nd Mystery Farm Proves a Problem
As Few Knew Farm had New Owner
- of Science degree.
The New’s mystery farm last
week was a problem. Around 20
people identified the farm as be-
longing to George Chopelas
with Mrs. M. B Covington the
first to phone in and identify
it. The second to identify it was
Melvin Nagel, who said it was
Milton Greenwood’s farm.
Saturday Mr. Greenwood came
in to claim the picture of the
farm and said that he had just
bought the place three weeks
ago, although Mr. Chopelas still
lived on the farm. Since he was
cnmptimp TiPYt wppk the maior- 1 the Present owner of the farm,
ettes for the band will be select- | ‘he News gave him the picture,
ed. Nine girls will tryout fori1™1 ^ere was stlU the problem
the posts. At least four of the jof who to award the year s free
nine will be selected by three; subscription to the News, as not
• - i--- everyone knew tne farm had
Vernon Adams at Beall Chevro-
let. They received a wrecked
1951 Chevrolet to repair two
months ago. They told the Mex-
ican man who brought it in to
bring in his papers on the car.
He never did and neither did
he come back for the car.
This week they learned that
the car had been stolen from a
San Antonio used car lot months
ago. The insurance / company
had paid the owner of the lot the gcouts from the green boll
out-of-town judges sometime dur-
ing the next week for the major-
ette posts.
Those who will try out for the
posts are Wileta Gullion, Kathy
Brown, Sharon Dehnisch, Jo Ann
Salge, Jane Cabaniss, Mary Hen-
derson, Mary Wade Westover
Loretta Mengers and Jo Ann
Jennings.
SCOUT COTTON
BALE IS GINNED
'The bale of cotton the Hall
Gin gave to' the Boy Scouts of
Mathis was ginned over the
week-end. The bale weighed over
600 pounds and the toys receiv-
ed $300 for it, according to Mil-
ton Boatwright.
The bale was “picked” by
for the car since no trace had
been found of the stolen vehicle.
The license on the car were
some that weretaken from anoth-
er car which had been registered
for 1952 license plates.
If it hadn’t been for that
wreck, he might have gotten
away and made “crime pay”—
but he didn’t.
Rotary Club Plans
To Attend Water Meet
Members of the Rotary Club
met Tuesday for their weekly
luncheon and heard a report by
a representative of Herbert Kel-
lner, architect who planned the
new elementary building, on the
i progress of construction at the
project.
Pouring of the first of three
concrete slabs forming the floor
was started Tuesday and work-
ers were busy trying ' to corn-
catcher at the gin. The green
bolls were hauled out to a field
and spread out to let the sun
open them. According to Mr.
Boatwright the Scouts will have
another bale ready for ginning
soon.
---i at Lebanon. On the way home
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Gunn and; he plans to stop for a short
Conie spent their recent vaca- visit with his nieces at Baton
home at Lebanon, Tenn., and plete the pouring,
spend some time with his sister He reported that the Crawford
lion visiting relatives at Hous-
ton and Kilgore. They also took
a short vacation trip to Long-
horn Cavern swith Mr. and Mrs.
Gerald Schmidt and son.
Rouge, La.
Mrs. Henderson is staying in
Kingsville with their daughter
and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Bruce Ramey.
Construction Company was close
to being on schedule on the con-
structing of the building.
Several of the Rotarians plan
to attend a meeting to be held
in Beeville on September 25 to
hear discussions on the South
Texas water problems.
Elvin Snyder Gets
Degree at SWTSC
Elvin V. Snyder of Mathis was
among candidates for gradua-
tion this summer at Southwest
Texas State Teachers College at
San Marcos.
Three hundred and seventeen
degree aplicants 153 for the mas-
ter’s and 164 for the bachelor’s
degrees, completed exams by
August 18. James Henderson,
British consul-general in Houston
made the commencement address
at the College on Thursday, Aug
21 at 7:30 p. m.
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Caffall
and Re spent the week-end at
Ingleside at Mr, and Mrs. Victor
Kolb’s home. Otherer guests at
the time were Mr. and Mrs.' R.
Matthews of San Antonio and,
Mr. and Mrs. Orlan Snitker of] +
South Carolina.
changed hands. So, the News
will give a six months subscrip-
tion to both Mrs. Covington and
Mr. Nagel.
The farm is located several
miles out west of town and Mr.
Chopelas has lived on it since
1937. Mr. Greenwood bought the
farm house and part of the land
three weeks ago. Frank Denisch
purchased the remainder of the
land. The Chopelas family is
moving from Mathis soon.
Among those identifying the
farm as belonging to Mr. Chope-
las were Mrs. Leo Hennig, Mrs.
Charles Teimann, M. M. Shillings,
Mary Wren, Bill Parrish, Bud
Horton and Clayton Jennings.
Mrs. Charley Wren thought it
was the Fincke Farm on the
Tynan Highway. Several others
identified it as belonging to Mr.1
Greenwood.
Mystery farm No. 3 is on this
page. Whose is it? This may be
a hard one. Remember the News
doesn’t know whose farm it is,
and only the owner can make
positive identification. Phone 72
and give the News your guess.
Firemen Put Out
Blaze in Trailer
Firemen answered a call Fri-
day to go to a fire on the Edroy
highway. They found a trailer-
load of cotton afire and quickly
extinguished it Very little dam-
age was done to the trailer, but
the cotton was burned consider-
ably.
1952 Bay Scout Fund Drive to Start
la September* Geo. Henderson Chapman
The 1952 Boy Scout drive for
funds will get under way in
the 15 counties comprising the
Gulf-Coast Council sometimes in
the latter part of September, it
was announced by scout officials
who visited in Mathis during the
week.
Locally, the drive is being
headed by George Henderson,
who accepted the job after meet-
ing in Alice of Scout officials
from towns in the area. In the
meantime, Mr. Henderson is
seeking the help of 20 to 25
workers to assist in the drive.
A breakfast for helpers has
been planned for the morning
the drive wil start. It will be
served at the Scout Hut by the
Scouts themselves.
The budget for the Gulf Coast
Council for the coming year has
been set at $85,836.40
amount 8,429.15 has been ear-
In the past Mathis has contri-
buted $500 to $700 per year to
the scout fund.
The money from the drive will
provide, among many other es-
sential helps, badges and awards
for Scouts, Cubs, and Explorers,
year-around camping facilities at
three council camps, and pro-
gram material and training helps
for scout leaders.
The fine camp at the lake is
one of the three which the
Council keeps for boys.
Mrs. A. L. McGraw of Sinton
and Mrs. L. S. Thorpee and
children of Corpus Christi visit-
ed Monday with Mr. and Mrs.
Arnold McGraw.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Jones spent
a five day vacation last week at
Rockport in a waterside cottage
XT tT* i wit}l a fishing trip every morn-
°f thls ing.
Mrs. W. L. Reams and Mrs.
marked to be raised in the Qen-! D. j. Thornton visited in Cor-
izo district which Mathis is in. pus Christi Thursday.
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