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THE MATHIS NEWS
Volume XXXIV
Mathis, San Patricio County, Texas, March 18, 1949
Number 11
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MATHIS PIRATES OPEN
SEASON FRIDAY NIGHT
The Mathis Pirates will open
the home baseball season Friday-
night, March 18, at 8 p. m. on the
Mathis Athletic field when they
take on the Three Rivers Bulldogs
in a no-conference affair. New
Braunfels move into the local
park for a contest with the Pi-
rates the following night Satur-
day, March 19
These games should prove to
be crowd pleasers. The Mathis-
Three Rivers teams have met on
the diamond six times in the last
two years and each team has won
three games; however, the Three
Rivers club has won the District
Championship on each occasion,
with Mathis coming in a close
second.
New Braunfels will bring a fine
group of athletes to Mathis Sat-
urday night featuring seme of the
good football players that carried
ihat team to the State Class A
fool ball finals, w.tn the strong
Monahans team. T'-e Unicorns
won 16 out of 18 games played
last season and. have practically
the same line-up intact for this
contest. Coach Weldon Bynum
states that he has a potential
championship team.
Prospects are good in the Ma-
this camp as Bill Highsmith, Ken
Harvey, Tom Jennings, and
Charley Lambert are back for
this season. These lads are being
pushed for their regular jobs by
some very promising rookies.
Thirty-five hoys reported for the
team and have been working out
regularly for the past, month.
The Mathis schedule follows:
March 15, Robstown, there
March 18, Three Rivers, here
March 19, New Braunfels, here
♦March 25, Skidmore, here
♦March 29, Pawnee, here
April 1, College Academy, here
April 5, Taft, here
April 7, Robstown, here
April 8, Three Rivers, there
♦April 12, Pawnee, there
♦April 15, George West, here
April 20, Corpus Christi, there
April 21, Corpus Christi, here
April 28, College Academv, here
♦April 29, Skidmore, there
May 5, Taft, there
♦May 6, George West, there
♦ Conference 48-B
All games scheduled for Mathis
will be played at night.
Fred Rich, Coach
DANCING CLASS STARTS
WITH 25 ENROLLED
MRS. TOM SYMA PASSES
AWAY TUESDAY
Mrs. George Kehoe’s ballet and* Mrs. Tom Syma, the daughter
tap dancing class got off to an of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Gre-
excellent sitart last week with 25 gorcyk, age 74, born December
students enrolled. Classes meet 13, 1874, in Meyersville, Texas,
on Tuesday afternoon in three passed away March 15, 8:36 p. m.
divisions. at the home of her daughter, after
Children enrolled are Mary a long illness.
Ruth Bishop, Jane Caddell, Patsy, She married Tom Syma June
Carter, Jeanette Griffin, Nancy, il, 1895 in Meyersville. They
Griffin, Louise Knolle, Connie' moved to Bee County in 1900 and
McCoy, Mary Erin Porter, Sandra have lived in Mathis since 1931.
Creel, Kay Greenwood, Connie To this union was born eleven
Gunn, Carol Jo Owen, Shirley children.
Ann Thiele, Kay Holleman, Joyce I She is survived by her husband
Ann Votaw, Shirley Whitley, Tom Syma, four sons; Chris. Al-
Terry Lynn Mengers, Kathy bert, and Nick of Mathis; and
Brown, Betsy Hill, Jane Gordon jj0hn of Papalote: five daughters;
Cabaniss, and Wanda Ruth Hum-
ble.
P.-T. A. HOLDS ANNUAL
FATHER’S NIGHT SUPPER
About 80 persons attended the
P.-T. A.’s annual Father's Night
I supper held at the school on
Thursday night.
The smooth, flowing lines of the 1949 Ford passenger cars are
accented by the simplicity of the air-scoop grille. Fresh air for
the pressurized ventilation system also enters through the grille.
Mrs. Frank J. Hoelscher of Alice,
Mrs. Guy Lemon of Houston, Mrs.
S. P. Van Ness of Texas City, j
Mrs. L. C. Hennig of Mathis, and
Mrs. D. W. Mitchell of Munday: j
thirty-seven grandchildren and'_____________________________
twenty-two great grandchildren: j
one sister; Mrs. R. J. Carlisle of! VEW DEAL FOR GRAIN AND which empties in five minutes, a
Papalote; and two brothers, Fred | FLAX GROWERS IN 30 ton capacity truck scale has a
Invocation" was given by the'and Bonnie Gregorcylc, both of,™18 SECTION 42 fcot platform and is equipped
Rev. W. S. Highsmith. Mrs! Mai-. Papalote. j Recent completion of Mathis with a recording ticket b^1”
colm Maedgen, president, gavel Requiem Mass was held at the . . ,. which furnishes a printed weight
the greeting to the fathers and Sacred Heart Church at Mathis, |Gram & klevator corpoiation.. ticket for each load received. This
Joe Hill responded. Toastmaster at ten o’clock Thursday morning j Grain, and Flax Drying Plant weight beam and the weigher arc,
was John L. Norris. Mrs. T. L. with Father Englebert Bartoscb j marks the greatest forward step located within four feet of the
Sutherland was program chair- ’ officiating. Rosary was at 8:30 jn the history of grain raising drivers side of the truck being
man, and George Aldridge an .Wednesday night at the home of ,}n tbe Mathis trade territory since weighed, making it easy for the
nounced the program. - Mrs. Leo Hennig. Burial was in' the use of combines for harvesting driver to see his grain weighed.
The Rev. Vernie S. Pipes gave the Papalote Cemetery. ■ became general. In former years, The grain testing equipment is
a reading; Mrs. Gordon BHnvn1 Pallbearers were her grandsons,! locally grown grain has had to be Seated within a step of the scale
lead a poem and a variety oI.Lgo Hennig, Jr., Floyd Lemon, shipped to terminal markets in platform, for convenience to the
musical numbers were given. The Lloyd Mitchell, Lawrence Syma, i same condition as harvested, customer who likes to witness the
program closed with a 30-minute John Syma, Jr., Thomas Van. This practice has resulted in se- testing oi his grain.,
film, “A Criminal Is Born,” Ness, Sam Van Ness, Jr., Albert vei’e price penalties in many in- An overhead, conveyor extend-
The nominating committee pre- Svma, and Ernest Syma, stances, because of the danger of log acioss the two tiack siding at
seated the names of Mrs E. H.
| spoilage and damage in transit. I*1® back of the building, carries
I Grain of more than 14 or 15 dried giain to the cars. Track
i per cent moisture content begins sPace sufficient for sixteen cars
' to heat and turn sour within 24 per day insures against delay
DEER’S HORNS DON’T
REVEAL HIS AGE
Austin —• An old hunting tra-
dition has been exploded by ex-
perts of the state Game Commis-
sion. There is an old theory that
each pair of prongs on a buck’s
head indicates a year’s age. But
the experts say it just isn’t so.
To prove it they counted horns
on a group of 210 bucks, all a-
bout the same age. They found
that the number of points varied
from a maximum of 16 to a mini-
mum cf 3. They didn’t explain
how to correctly judge his age.
NOTICE
The local chapter of V. F. W.
was to have given away various
items of merchandise on March
2, Texas Independence Day, but
have postponed the presentation
until Saturday night, March 26.
If you have a donation for this
worthy organization get your do-
nation in now.
Salge for president; Mrs. Johnny YOUTH CENTER NOW
Crouch for vice president; Mrs. ^ FULL SWING
T. L. Sutherland for secretary; j rpntAr which is on-; “> ^ — —~~
and Mrs. Bill Messer for treasurer! Uie youttl ’ wmcn 1S op to 48 hours after loading into from switching service.
nrtl ;en on Satnrday nights, has been ears, arriving at destina- Tbe bookkeeper is on the job at
CHAPTER OBSERVES jin operation for several weeks tion in qnrh ronfiition a(- tn re-;211 times during business hours
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY jwith Mr, D c. grown Jr., and | quire drying and conditioning be> *at the customer may receive
The OES chapter observed its GVIrs. Ed Knolle serving as volun-1 fore use or storage in terminal payment for gra*n a- bis conven-
fifth anniversary Tuesday nightyteer directors until a regular di- j elevators. Undue delay in transit ience-
with about 60 persons present ' rector can be secured. Several or in drying, sometimes ’’csulting' , In our °P*n*ori £rain ?llld Lax
in almost complete loss. ' tai mers throughout this entire
The Mathis Drying Plant, with!faiPing section are to be congra-
about one million pounds daily;U;lated on. their good fortune in
capacity for drying grain and flax lldVbj8 tbis b'ant available to
before shipment, does away with :nanc e t aeb crops' f believe
35 of them visitors from Beeville
and George West. Among the
visitors was Mrs. Boh Wehmeyer
c-f Bishop.
After; the regular meeting a
clubs ^have voteduyonthly dona
tions to help support the Youth
Center. The Study Club voted $5
a month; the Hub Club, five dol-
lars a month. Several other clubs
candlelight birthday program was !have voted donations but have risk of damage or spoiling in tran-. * c" ,K '!nenv. lel’e wU
held. Mrs. Walter Leber, Worthy !not yet reported them to the Ad- sit Dried, cool grain may be ship-i . . t0 !‘;t. *!z,° !°cal "ram
Matron, gave the welcome to the|visory Council president |ped anywhere in the. world with|*Xa^s apc add man-v thou‘
visitors, and other officers took* ^ wdd cost about ftIO a week
part cp the program. Mrs. Bill ,to eperate the Youth Center, 32.50 ------------- _ 0„......... -
Watson sang “Memories” accom-lrent 011 the VFW Mall and S7.50 general, pay higher prices for dry, 3'
absolute safety. Feed mills, ex
{sand: of dollars profit to Idea:
porters and the grain trade in gla'*1 °n 'heir crops, eaolr
panied at the piano by Mrs. I. H.
Watson. Malcolm Maedgen gave
the chapter history. Mrs. R. I.
Blackburn was in charge of the
program.
Hostesses were Mrs. J. E. Crane
Mrs. B. S. Whitaker, Mrs. Walter
Leber, and Mrs. Malcolm Maed-
gen. Sandwiches, tea, coffee, mints
and a birthday cake were served.
Mrs. Leber Poured ana Mrs.
Maedgen served the cake.
The centerpiece on the refresh-
ment table was a St. Patrick’s
Day arrangement brought by Mrs.
Wehmeyer for the occasion. It
featured two Irish Potato rigures,
an Irishman and an Irish Lady
with green fern and flowers.
for a director.
Mrs. Knolle, president of the
Advisory Council, said Tuesday
that the Council will probably be
in a position to elect, a director
the next meeting. Thursday,
March 31.
coo] grain. This enables the local', 1 nf pu 3 10 mvded *0 inspect
plant'to pay higher prices to the i 1 ^ lie?V pant at any time it: is
grower, as the cost for drying is f. ' ' pa.®®engei ® evat 1 na£‘"1 -J
less than the penalties charged I climbing.
MRS. RUSSEK HONORED
WITH SUPPER
L. E. Lewis of Boerne was a
Mathis visitor Saturday night and
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Sutherland, ]\(laxjne
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Gene Key and1 ' ‘
Mr. and Mrs. Basil Westover en-
tertained recently at the Suther-
land cottage at Lak^ Mathis at a
supper party honoring Mrs. Frank
Russek on her birthday anniver-
sary.
About 30 guests wort present
for supper and bridge
for wet grain, shipped elsewhere j COB® FAMILY REUNION
for drying. AT GONZALES SUNDAY
Your editor recently had the!
.At the meeting Saturday night j pleasure of an inspection tour j Mrs. A- B. Cobb, Howard Cobb
Mrs. Kehoe planned to give in-,thru the new plant, which is en-:and w^e and Terrell Cobb and
struction in square dancing. | tirely of steel and concrete con-;wife °?-Corpus Christi and Donald
Charlotte Porter, president of j struction. Our attention was di- j Cobb, who is at home on furlough
the Junior Youth Council, says rented to the huge Hess grain werd Gonzales Sunday to at-
that the plan of activity at the diy <rg machine ’..tore than sixty j^end a family reunion at a camp
Center calls for organized games feet tall, where green, wet gtain on dle Guadalupe river, two miles
tne first part of the evening, j is received into a hopper at the below town.
Ajtei 9.30 or 10 o clock the mem-1 tog level and delivers dry. cool * Three sisters and a brother of
vers choose their own entertain- grain into a hopper at the bottom kks- Cobb, two sons from Austin
ment. The Center closes at 11 • level, where it is carried by con and numerous other relatives eu-
•«lock. A different activity is.veyors and elevating machinery ^yed barbecued mutton, cakes,
planned for each Saturday night. | to an automatic weighing macnine p^es> salads, iced drinks, and
t.ficers of the Junior rounciLor. the third floor which weighs. eveiything to make a perfect meal
are Charlotte Porter,president; , t.rds each draft, and delivers iwas served to 49 people.
Bill Highsmith, vice-president; to other conveyors leading to
Crenshaw. secretary,
Marilyn Salge, treasurer; Mary
Sparks, historian.
4-H CLUBBERS RECORD
Here’s what 80,000 4-H Clubs
did this past year: they raised
l\Ii. and Mrs. Homer Rogers of
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The drying machinery is served with Mr.
by four large steel grain eleva-1
rarl-i-ay ears, Tor shipmr,(Corpus Christi vi htecl s'u'mla v
and Mrs, Jess Curlee.
tors. Hundreds of feet of steel |w ® INVITE* * *. * * *
conveyors are used in moving; in another part of this iss,w
grain into and out of the plant.:of the Mathis News there- will’ be
Eight big steel and concrete grain, found the namp nf a in„,i „
80,000 acres of garden crops, 8 tanks are housed inside the build- entirely isolated betwpp erSQ!l'
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McCoy, W. E. & McCoy, Bill, Jr. The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 18, 1949, newspaper, March 18, 1949; Mathis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1038708/m1/1/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mathis Public Library.