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THE MATHIS NEWS
VOL. XXXVIII
MATHIS TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1953
New Water Rates To Go Into Effect
At Next Billing Date; Minimum
Of $2.00 Is Retained In New Rates
New water and sewer rates will
go into effect in Mathis with the
next billing date as a result of
an ordinance passed by the City
Council.
The new rates are higher than
the old, but the minimum rate
of $2.00 was retained for the first
3,000 gallons of water.
The new water
rates
are as
follows:
Was
Now
First 3,000 gal.
2.00
2.00
Per
Thous.
Next 2,000 gal.
.40 ”
” .50
Next 5,000 gal.
.30 ”
” .40
Next 5,000 gal.
.25 ”
” .30
All over 15,000 was 20 cents per
thousand. Now 25
cents.
New sewer rates
are as follows:
Old
New
Residence
.85
^ 1.25
Apt. Rate
2.75
3.40
Business
1.65
2.30
The sewer rates
are governed
by the number of
fixtures
which
EQUALIZATION
BOARD FOR SCHOOL
TO MEET AUG. 5
The board of equalization of the
Mathis Independent School District
will meet for their hearing on
1 August 5 at the school tax office,
Mrs. Augusta Henderson said this
week.
The hearings will be held from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to give people
not satisfied with their tax valua-
tion time to air their views be-
fore the board.
is in each dwelling.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
PLANS TO ADOPT
CONSTITUTION SUN.
A congregational meeting will
be held at the First Christian
Church Sunday evening at 7:30
for the purpose of adopting a
church constitution and electing
church officers, Rev. J. A. Jackson
said this week.
The election of officers is being
held in anticipation of the con-
stitution, and in the manner pre-
scribed by it, he said.
The adoption of the constitution
and the election of officers will
be celebrated by a fellowship even-
ing at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday,
July 29. Jack Baucom is in charge
of the supper, with the men of the
church working with him in pro-
viding a meal of barbecued chick-
en. Following the supper, the of-
ficers will be initiated.
The Christian Women’s Fellow-
ship, in their meeting this past
Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. studied the
subject “Live by Faith”. Mrs.
Tom Simpson is the president of
this organization, Mrs. Frank
Grupe is secretary-treasurer, and
Mrs. George Brown is service
(jirector. The C. W. F. meets
twice each month, the first and
third Tuesdays at 3:30 in the
afternoon. The first meeting each
month is devoted to studying
missions and the second is a
Study or devotional hour,
Jackson said.
Vacation Bible
School Set For
Baptist Aug, 1
Rev. A. A. Palmer of the First
Baptist Church announced this
week that their vacation Bible
school is scheduled to begin the
first week in August, with regis-
tration to begin Saturday, August
1, at 4 p.m.
Mrs. B. S. Whitaker will be the
principal and urges all children
who plan to attend the school to
register Saturday and be back the
following Monday to begin classes,
which will be held from 8:30 to
11 o’clock each day.
There will be departmental work
for all children between ages of
2 through 16 years, Rev. Palmer
said.
ATHLETICS GIVEN
PARTY WEDNESDAY
Eddie Rucker, manager of the
Athletics baseball team of the
Little League and Bob Amaya,
the coach, entertained their ball
team with an ice cream social at
the Rucker home Wednesday of
last week.
Mrs. Rucker, Mrs. .Edward
Knolle, Mrs. E. L. Koepsel, and
Mrs. Henry Knolle assisted with
the refreshments.
EIGHT PAGES — NO. 29
BAPTIST GROUP
RETURNS FROM CAMP
AT ALTO FRIO
Rev. and Mrs. A. A. Palmer
and a group of local children re-
turned from Alto Frio, the Bap-
tist Encampment, last Friday.
Rev. Palmer served as camp
pastor during the encampment.
Those from Mathis who attended
the camp were Kenneth Harbin,
Dennis Hutchens, Lloyd Hutchens,
Bubba Stone, Mary Lou Hutchens
June Evelyn Berry, Peggy Ste-
wert, Carolyn Caddell, Maedene
Maedgen, Re Caffall, Patricia
Ingle, Nancy Griffin, and Bill and
Allan Palmer.
Sponsors who attended were
Mrs. T. H. Ramey and Lawrence
Baxter.
School Will Open
Here August 31;
Classes Start 1 st.
Supt. of schools, T. A. Harbin,
announced this week that the
Mathis schools will begin the
1953-54 term with actual classes
starting September 1.
Although this is slightly earlier
than school has started here in
the past, it is the date that neigh-
boring schools will observe, he
said. Most of the class periods
this year, he said will be one
hour long.
A general faculty meeting will
be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug-
ust 29. The school will open Mon
day morning August 31 with en-
rolling beginning at 9 a.m.
Rev.
Concession Stand
Pays Off For Local
Little, Pony League
The Little League has realized
a profit of $259.74 from the con-
cession stand kept open at all
games. This total was for the
first 13 games.
The Pony League, h'as profited
by $58.65 for the first six games.
Methodist Youth
Fellowship Meets
The Methodist Youth Fellowship
met Sunday evening for their re-
gular weekly meeting in the
church basement.
Mrs. Joe Hill and Mrs. Fred
Watson served supper to the
group. Program leader was Betsy
Hill, who was assisted by Mae-
dene Maedgen, Kathy Brown, and
Bobby Duncan.
Buddy Maedgen read the scrip-
ture reading and also led the
group in singing. They were ac-
companied at the piano by Mary
Henderson. Mrs. T. A. Harbin was
sponsor of the group in the ab-
sence of Mrs. Oran Sides.
Enjoying the supper were Mae-
dene Maedgen, Elaine Maedgen
Kathy Brown, Mary Henderson,
Bobby Duncan, Betsy Hill, Dickie
Harbin, Buddy Maedgen, Charles
Porter, and a guest, Stanley Har-
bin.
Parking Meter
Representative
To Meet Here
The City Council this week asked
the City Secretary to invite a
representative of a parking meter
company to the next monthly
meeting of the Mathis Community
Betterment Association, which will
meet August 7.
D. C. Brown, association pre-
sident, announced that the next
meeting would be devoted to dis-
cussing the law enforcement and
parking meter subjects.
The various committees which
were appointed by the association
will also give a report on their
‘respective subjects during the
meeting.
Rep. Parish Discusses Water Problems
Before The Odem Kiwanis Club
Rep. Harold Parrish was guest
speaker at the Odem Kiwanis Club
on Wednesday at the regular week-
ly luncheon-meeting. He discussed
the Coastal Bend area.
In the course of his remarks he.
pointed out that there is a pos-
sibility of the board of directors
of the San Patricio Municipal Wa-
ter District being expanded to
correspond with the expansion of
the district. If such is the case
Odem, Ingleside and other towns
added to the district within the
past year will receive representa-
tion on the board of directors. The
matter of expanding the board is
slated for consideration by the
State Legislature at its next regu-
lar session and Parrish is hopeful
that legislation will be passed to
increase the number of board
members.
Naturally, the proposed Wesley
Seale Dam was discussed by the
representative, and the gist of
his remarks on the topic was as
follows: “It is not WHERE but
WHEN a dam will be constructed
which counts most to the people
of this area. And wherever and
whenever a dam is constructed it
should be designed to hold the
flood waters of the Nueces River.”
Then Rep. Parrish pointed out
that too often the people lose
sight of the fact that the Nueces
River is a flood stream, rather
than a spring-fed stream, and,
therefore, approximately 600,000
re feet of water annually spills
the present dam to be lost
bay. Proper storage and
te water mains leading into
Sub-Soil Plowing Program
Widely Practiced in Area
MATHIS POST OFFICE
RECEIVES NO WORD
OF MAUL CHANGE
It was rumored last week that
the post office department is con-
sidering cancelling arrangements
whereby mail is shipped from
San Antonio to Corpus Christi and
points between on Missouri Paci-
fic trains 205 and 206, and re-
placing this with truck service.
No official word has been re-
ceived by the local post office.
The Corpus Christi Chamber of
Commerce has written Postmaster
General Summerfield and request-
ed information on the rumored
change. The chamber stated that
as soon as they had received word
from him, they would call a meet-
ing to discuss the change.
Should the change become of-
ficial, it would mean that all mail
coming to Mathis would be by
truck service, since the Southern
Pacific Lines stopped carrying .the
mail last year.
DRAFT TO CALL
1.232 MEN IN TEXAS
FOR SEPTEMBER
A September draft quota of
1.232 men was received Monday
at state Selective Service head-
quarters, Brigadier General Paul
L. Wakefield, state draft director,
said Tuesday.
The quota is the Texas share of
a national call for 23,000 men.
The August quota, announced
nearly a month ago, is 1,235. The
July quota for Texas now being
filled, is 1,286.
General Wakefield said local
board quotas to fill the September
call should be placed in the mail
sometime before the first of Aug-
ust, under present plans.
Also received Monday from na-
tional headquarters was an August
call for 30 doctors of medicine
Corpus Christi would conserve ^be aimed forces. This is the
much of this wasted water the biggest call for doctors every re-
legislator told his listeners. ’ (ceived by state headquarters.
The speaker further pointed out Because of what now appears to
the fact that the present dam has 1 be an amUe supply of examined
W. LeBOURVEA
TALKS TO ROTARY
CLUB TUESDAY
Warren LeBourvea tailed to the
Rotary Club at their regular Tues-
day meeting on the subject of
the drouth disaster relief program
and made some interesting re
marks to the Rotarians on this
subject.
He said that cattle raisers have
been buying feed and other nec-
essities in a protected market,
while they have had to sell in an
unprotected market. He said that
a better support price, program
would be very beneficial to the
cattleman and would aid him
more than any thing else to over-
come the slump which the cattle
industry has hit all over the
southwest. He said it was partly
due to the drouth, but that econ-
omic injustices were also a cause
of their plight.
Braves Challenge
League Parents To
Baseball Game
The Braves, one of the Pony
League teams, challenged the par-
ents of Pony and Little League
baseball players to a game of
baseball any time the parents feel
up to taking them on, it was
announced this week.
The Giants, another Pony team,
announced they would take on
the winners of the two.
A team of parents is being
worked up, and a game date will
be set in the near future.
Cotton Ginning
Passes 4,500 Bale
Mark Wednesday
Cotton ginning in Mathis just
about hit its peak this week as
local gins passed the 4,500 bale
mark.
Local cotton buyers are still
paying an average of better than
32 cents per pound for the cotton
but are having difficulty selling
it to large buyers. M B Covington
said that the large companies in
Corpus Christi were not buying as
they have in prior years, and that
it was difficult to sell at any kind
of profit.
Local cotton pickers seem to be
pulling out of the country every
day, in spite of efforts by farmers
and employment commission men
to keep them in the fields.
A breakdown of the total num-
ber of bales shows that Hall Gin
has turned out 1,704 bales and
the Vahlsing Gins have ginned
2,926.
Yanks Lead In
Little League
Baseball Play
Sub-soil plowing on a larger scale than ever be-
fore in the history of San Patricio County is now being
carried on by farmers it was revealed this week after a
check with a number of farmers and Mr. Dillard, P. M.
A. director.
The Yankee Little League team
is still in the lead in local play
as of the results of Tuesday night.
Another series of games was tractors are caught up and looking
It is estimated by Mr. Dillard
that there are over 300 farmers
in the county who have had their
land sub-plowed or have received
P. M. A. approval for the work. No
estimate as to the number of
acres involved could be obtained
as the work is at its height at
the moment and records are not
up-to-date.
The increased production seen
this year on land that was sub-soil
plowed last year over adjacent
land that was not plowed in this
manner seems to be the big rea-
son that the farmers are signing
up for this program. Time and
time again this year the results
of the deep plowing has been noted
as the factor that helped retain
more of the moisture that fell
last fall and thus the crops planted
on this soil were better able to
withstand the drought.
Another big factor in the in-
ct eased sub-soil plowing is the
fact that for the first time there
seems to be a plentiful supply of
contractors available for this type
of work. Last year and the year
before only a limited number
were available in the county and
as a result everyone wishing to
have the work done was not able
to get it performed. The situation
is reverse this year with P. M. A.
officials reporting that some con-
played Thursday night, with the
Athletics playing the Cubs and the
Yankees playing the Dodgers.
Only two more games are sch-
eduled for the teams and the sch-
edules will be completed. These
two games will be played on July
28 and July 30.
The season winners will then
commence playing a tournament
the winner of which will receive
a trophy from Mathis Lumber
Company.
So far this season, Oran Sides
said, only two home runs have
been hit and both of them were
hit last week. Butch Allen knocked
a 182 foot home run Tuesday night
of last week and Wayne Huddel-
ston knocked a 222 foot homer
Tuesday night of this week.
The season standings are:
p vv 1 t
Yankees 15 10 4 1
Dodgers 15 10 5 0
Athletics 15 5 9 1
Cubs 15 4 11 0
a 34,000 acre feet capacity
and that the city of Corpus
alone uses approximately 24,000,
000 gallons of water per day.
“But let us not lose sight of the
fact that Corpus Christi built the
dam when we consider these fi-
gures”, Mr. Parish said.
Rep. Parrish explained the ne-
cessity of the appointment to the
State Water Resources Committee
someone who will in part offset
the appointment of Rep. J. F.
Gray to the committee by the
Speaker of the House Ruben Sen-
and acceptable men, serious con-
sideration is being give nat this
time not to have any men ex-
amined in September, the state
draft director said.
Instructions were received with
the September call that, where
possible only men 20 hears old
or older would be inducted.
Boards are authorized, however,
to fill calls with men under 20,
where necessary.
Currently, the number of men
under 20 being inducted has drop-
ped. Twenty-four men out of every
terfitt. With Rep. Gray, who has 100 being induc|ed so far in July
succeeded in blocking water legis-,are under 20> as compared to 32
PONY LEAGUE
MAY PLAY GAME
HERE TONIGHT
Late Thursday it was still in-
definite whether the Pony League
would play a baseball game to-
night or not.
Arnold McCraw said they were
ti’ying to get a game scheduled
with Orange Grove to be played
at Mathis beginning at 7 o’clock,
but he was not sure whether the
game would be held or not.-
F. F. A. Members
Attend Meeting
At Ft. Worth
Lonnie Messer and Buddy Maed-
gen, accompanied by Gordon Cab-
Sandia Baptist1
Church Holds
Dedication Sun.
SANDIA — The Sandia Baptist
Church held their dedication ser-
vice and home-coming celebration
along with regular services last
Sunday. The construction of the
building was begun two years ago
and was completed last week.
Regular services began at 10 p.m.
and was the first to be held in
the new building.
A covered dish dinner, including
plenty of barbecue, was served to
several hundred people at 12:30
noon at the old building.
The dedication service was at
2 o’clock in the afternoon with
for work.
Sub-soil plowing is one of the
conservation practices set up by
the department of agriculture and
administered by the P. M. A. in
which the federal government
pays part of the cost of the plow-
ing. At the present time contrac-
tors are getting an average price
of $4.00 per acre for 12-inch plow-
ing and $4.50 for 14-inch plowing.
Of this amount the federal govern-
ment pays the farmer $1.50 for
the 12-inh work and $2.00 per
acre for the 14-inch work. Some
contracts calling for 15-inch root
plowing have been approved by
the local P. M. A. office with a
government support price of $3.00
being paid.
Despite the fact that a majority
of the farms in this area are tak-
ing advantage of the program,
some farmers are letting nature
take its own course. They say
the cracks in the ground that
have been caused by the hot, dry
weather is nature’s way of letting
the moisture down deep into the
soil. There have been several
farms in the area where dikes
have been constructed around the
fields to forstall any run-off of
fall rains until it has had a
chance to soak into the ground.
Some farmers also report that
where they planted cotton on soil
that was sub-soil plowed last year
there is less evidence of root rot
and dead cotton this year. How-
ever, it is felt by agriculture of-
ficials that this is only a tempo-
rary relief.
Some of the farmers in this
area who are practicing sub-soil
plowing this year are:
L. T. Porter, Leo Hennig, Ir-
vin Ramsower, B. S. Whitaker,
George Ramsower, Malcolm Maed-
gen, Garland Hollon, Charles Br-
own, John Tobin, G. A. Person
Hugo Winsauer, Albert Winsauer,
W. C. Young, George Hutchinson,
and Milton Greenwood.
County T. B. Ass'n
Meets July 15
The board of directors of the
County T. B. Association met on
July 15 in Sinton with Allen Law-
rence, president, in charge.
Dr. C. A. Selby, county medical
officer, talked on the importance
of X-Rays for all T. B. contacts
Mrs. Emily Boyd, field consultant
from Austin, talked on the im-
portance of good board members
and showed slides on the effects
and treatment of T. B. She also
discussed the possibility of an in-
stitute for board members and
others interested in the work.
Board members present were
Mrs. J. T. Coppedge of Portland;
Mrs. O. E. Sides of Mathis; P. L.
Irwin and T. M. Vlasek of Ingle-
side; Mrs. W. M. Toland and Mrs.
C. R. Bell of Gregory; Mrs. R.
B. Sanders and Mrs. Roe Jean
Post' Office
Parking Zone
To Be Regulated
The new city policeman remind-
ed people this week that he will
start giving tickets to people who
are parking at a wrong angle in
front of the post office.
The parking problem in front
of the post office has always been
very haphazard, he said, and peo-
ple who pull in front of the post
office from the wrong direction
block off additional space for other
people to park.
A fifteen minute parking limit
will be enforced in front of the
post office as soon as the curb
can be marked, he said.
He asked people’s coopei’ation
in giving more parking space to
people getting their mail.
lation on so many occasions on
the long-range water program
committee, it is imperative that
Gov. Allan Shivers, who has the
appointment of three of the com-
miteemen, be prevailed upon to
appoint men whose attitude is
favorable to the needs of the
water problem in this area. Sen.
John Bell, who has worked “hand-
in-glove” so to speak with Rep ’ ' •
Grey to block much of the pro-1 Thursday night dinner guests of
posed legislation for solution of the | Mr. and Mrs. A. L. McCraw
water problem in this area is a were Mr. and Mrs
out of every 100 in June.
State Selective Service head-
quarters Monday also sent its se-
cond quarter delinquency report
to Washington, showing 758 men
of draft age as being delinquent
at their local boards. At the end
of the first quarter of 1953 a total
of 818 men were reported delin-
quent.
Baptist Church of Corpus Christi
delivering the dedication address.
Regular services were held
again at 7 p.m. and a baptismal
service at 8 p.m. where three
Tuesday eof 'th™ if^tt '^“^rch.^his was^thflasT'servfce
°j '.h,s week ftayhng (or j. D. Lyons of Kingsville,
the 25m anniversary celebration wh0 has resigned. ^
annUaI preachers from Corpus Christi
Th . ’ , . , | College will serve the congrega-
The two boys received theirltion until a ho wli
Lone Star Farmer degrees at the
annual banquet held during th
Rev. A. D. Norris of the Travis|Dixon of Taft; Leon Frankel and
A. A. Luckenbach of Odem; Al-
len Lawrence, C. A. Selby, Mrs.
S. F. Hunt, Mrs. E. F Fullick,
Mrs. G. Holland, Mrs. R. Harkey
member of the committee, having
been appointed by the Lt. Gover-
nor. Therefore, other representa-
tion from the Coastal Bend area
on the committee is important, if
the work of the commitee is to
and children.
H. E. Solly
Mr. and Mrs. Wiley McGee and
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Willman left
early this week on an extended
vacation through the Northwestern
States. They phoned friends here
be of benefit to the Coastal Bend. Tuesday from Wyoming.
meeting. The boys, together with
the local chapter’s pickup truck,
were in the parade which opened
the convention Wednesday.
Mrs. C. L. Epperson of Refugio
and Mrs. P. J. Nary of Sinton
spent last week-end with their
mother, Mrs. W. S. Stone.
Mrs. W. L Talley and daughter,
Vesta Dressett, of Beeville visited
Mrs. Talley’s sister, Mrs. B. F
Adams, last week. Another visitor
was her nephew, Clifton Adams,
of Houston, who came down for
the wedding of Barbara Jean Owen
to Dr. Frank Sunderman.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Alexander
visited their son, Bill Alexander,
in Karnes City Sunday afternoon.
tion until a preacher can be hired
Other pastors assisting with the
dedication services were Rev. A.
A. Palmer of Mathis, Rev. J. R.
Stewert of Orange Grove, and Rev.
Ben Davis of Corpus Christi.
Several charter members as well
as memberships dating as far
back as the early 1900’s were pre-
sent for the dedication and home-
coming. All the neighboring towns
were represented as well as others
as far away as Los Fresnos.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Chafin of
Dallas visited Sunday and Monday
with Supt. and Mrs. T. A. Harbin
and sons. Mrs. Chafin is Mr.
Harbin’s niece.
Miss Barbara Best of Corpus
Christi spent past of last week
with Juanita Jo Wentz.
Sonny Guynes and Billy McNeill
have returned from camp. Others
returning home last week were
Kathy Brown and Sharon Dehnis-
ch.
Mr. and Mrs. L A Crouch of
Corpus Christi spent a few days
last week with his brother, Johnny
Crouch and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Oran Sides spent
the last of last w'eek in Caldwell
with Mrs. Side’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George Isbell. Her two bro-
thers were also present with
their families, Mr. and Mrs.
George Isbell, Jr. and their two
daughters from Beaumont and Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Isbell from Hous-
ton.
Miss Carol Lotspeich of Robs-
town is visiting her cousin, Bobby
Lotspeich this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Henderson
left Tuesday morning for Kerr-
ville.
Mystery Farm
Pictures Should
Be Picked Up
Dan Messer identified last
week’s mystery farm as belonging
to Tom Bomer. Others calling in
and making the same identifica-
tion were H. L. Dolan and Thomas
Cox. Mr. Messer will receive a
free subscription when Mr. Bo-
mer picks up his free picture at
the News Office.
There are still five pictures left
at the office of farms which have
been identified but the owner has
not picked up the pictures. They
are Authur Knolle, A. H. Knolle,'
Roy Jackson, C. S. Brown and
Mr. Bomer, and those making
the identifications and who will
receive a free subscription to the
News when these pictures are
picked up, are J. P. Pruitt, Mrs.
Robert Knolle, Mrs. Albert Gre-
gorcyk, W. E McDonald and Mr.
Messer.
John Standlea
Attends Water Meet
John Standlea attended a bar-
becue at Nixon Tuesday night and
attended a meeting of the water
superintendents from area towns.
Corporation Court
Levies $175 In
Fines 1st. Meeting
Mathis’ city policeman, Eddie
Wollesen, seems to be getting off
to a good start in controlling
traffic in town, judging from fines
which were levied at Corporation
Court in its first session Monday
at 10 o’clock.
A total of $175 was collected
for the city on tickets given Fri-
day, Saturday, and Sunday. This
included $130 in fines for five who
were convicted of being intoxicat-
ed in a public place. The other
$45 was for traffic violations rang-
ing from no tail lights to reckless
and careless driving.
Policeman Wollesen said he has
noted a definite decrease in traf-
fic violators during the past week.
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