The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1953 Page: 3 of 8
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Marriage Licenses, Deeds and Leases
^MARRIAGE LICENSES
Cantrell and Valdah L.
Huey
Casey •>
f Donald Ray Lammon and Min-
. nie L. Jenkins
Dewey Lee Jacobs and Lilly
Merlene Bose amp
- Pablo Perez and Prudencia Rey-
na v .
Ramon Tijenna and Nieves Lo-
Louis F. Perez and Adita Oli-
vares \ .
Isidoro San Miguel Martinez and
Elena A. Hinojosa ---
Don Alvin Wingo and Martha Lot 42
Lee Hitt
Timoteo Perez and Ramona Oli-
varez
Horace Monroe Butler and Jes-
| r sie Marie Fowers
Marcelino De Jesus Aranda and
Carmen Maria Perez
Wm. Cleveland Wills and Bar-
bara Sue McCaughan
Lots 35 and 36 Block 23, R. J.
Williams Addn. Ingleside
Walter L. Roots, Jr. et al to
W. A. Purvis Lots 24, 25 Block 3,
Third Fite Addn. Taft
Farm Lots 4, 5 Out Lot 15; Farm
Lot 33 Land Block 200; Farm
Lot 34 Land Block 200; Burton
and Danforth Sub.
Fred T. Rich' to Ramon Bena-
vides Lot 5 Block 2, Fred Rich
Addn. Mathis
Arnold A. McBride to Trustees
1st Methodist Church Aransas
Pass Lot 20 and 15 ft. off S.
side 21 Block 380, Aransas Pass
Woodson Lumber Co. Inc. to
| Lester Hiram Thorp Lot 12 Block
D. C. Brown, Jr. et al to Jack 2, Welder Addn. Sinton
Allen et al Lots 1, 2, 3 4 Block I M. F. Nix to J. H. Williams
1 B. C. Addn. Mathis j Lot 12 Block 1, Walker-Nix Addn.
Ingleside Lane Co. to J. L. Bar- \ Portland,
nett 1 acre out of T. T. William-'
son Sur.
Alvina Ramirez, by Trustee to
J. B. Cage Lot 6 Block 2, 1st
Hidalgo Addn. Taft
! Humble Oil and Refg. Co. to
! David Goble Lot 13 Block 5,
Humble Addn. Ingleside
I N. D. Sanford to Wayne W.
. . ! Welch Lots 9 and 10 Block 756,
American Realty Co. of Aransas Aransas pass
Pass to Nelson H. Raiford, et al , j E]liott Wilson et al to D. C.
Block 2, Oak Park Sub. :Brown Jr. Lots 11 and 12 Block 2;
Aransas Pass Lots 4, 5, 6 Bloc k3, Wilson Addn.
Policeman Wrecks
Car Near Sinton
SINTON — M. W. Williams.
Corpus Christi city detective, turn-
ed over a 1951 Ford Sedan on the
curve on highway 77 by the Tri-
angle Inn at 9:30 p.m. Sunday.
Williams was taken to a Corpus
Christi hospital by Frank Rodri-
guez of Sinton. The car was prac-
tically demolished but William’s
injuries were not critical. It is
thought Williams lost control of
the car as he hit the curve where
the dirt road comes into the high-
way at the corner. Deputies Joe
Zapata and J. A. Whitehead of the
Sheriff’s department investigated
the mishap.
DEEDS
Mrs. Addie Simth to Smith Gin
Co. Inc. 2.75 ac. out of Farm
Blocks 97 and 111, Welder & Odem
Sub.
Gerald S. Plaughter to Virgil
Lee Mitchell Surface rights only
of a tract out of S. end Farm Lot
10, Block “J” Burton & Danforth
Sub. t
E. E. Ware to James T. Nesbit
R. Bruce Seale to Alton O. Lue-
decke Lots 9, 10, 11, 12 Block 30,
R. J. Williams Addn. Ingleside
Jasper Edison et al by Trustee j 4^?““ 4^1
to Margie Cellum Lot 4 Block 4,
West Court Addn. Sinton
Mathis
Walter L. Roots Jr. to C. J.
'Poland Lot 29 Block 3, Third Fits
W. D. Hopson Jr. to Neal Land
--- ----- T TT . 1.03 ac. out of Block 12, John
Ray E. Kier to Milton J. Hosek PoUan Sur
10 Dayi(J M. RamireZ to Erineo C.
Aguilar Lot 5 Block 13, Dougherty
S-2 Lot 2, all 3, 4, 5 Block 12,
College Hts. Addn. Ingleside ^UL „ ,
Frank Humphries to Edward H. and Root Addn. Mathis
Wray Lots 15 and 16 Block 380, . . _
Aransas Pass
J. L. Kirkpatrick to First Bap
tist Church’ Portland Lots 7, 8
---- TT list U1U1CII JTLM. >, U
P. L. Telford to James O. Haley and 9 Block ir pier F, Portland
Lot 1 Sweet Bay Estates of Me- 1 - , -
Campbell Sub.
Grady West to Jas. F. Dailey
1-2 Und. int. Lots 8, 9 Block 59;
Lots 9 Block 66, Mathis
Dwight H. Purcell et al to Am-
erican Realty Co. of Aransas Pass
Dr. John L. Hester
OPTOMETRIST
Office in Mathis — 1st and 3rd Thursdays Only
Daily Office in Beeville — Except Thursdays
PHONE 40 — BEEVIELE BOX 110
Visual Care
Phone 13 — Mathis
Conn Brown to J. W. Powell
j Lot 8 Block 631, Aransas Pass
j F. F. Quaile, Trustee to M. L.
Williams. Jr. Lots 22 and 23 Block
ill, J. F. Houghton 2nd Addn.
‘ Ingleside
Paul Cox to Vidal Maldonado
Lot 7 Block 1, Fourth Hidalgo
Addn. Taft
Addn. Sinton
Gordon L. Stewart to A. D. O’-
Neal Lot 11 Block 10, Houghton
Addn. Ingleside
J. R. Jones to Frank T. Jones
W. 40 ft. Lots 11 and 12, all W.
50 ft. 10 all of Tr. Lot 13, out of
Block 7, Tier C, Portland
OIL & GAS LEASES
Eugenio Davila to C. W. Hitt
Lot 1 Block 4, Second Yoakum
& Nichols Addn. Sinton
Arnulfa Gutierrez to Jack Camp-
bell Lots 11 and 12 Block 5 .Paul
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| Friday, July 24, 1953, Mathis, Tex. — THE MATHIS NEWS — Page 3
Pfc. Nelson Writes Home Of
The Wonders Of Switzerland
(Ed Note: The following letter
was written by John Nelson to
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W
Nelson.)
Zweibrucken, Germany
July 6, 1953
Dear Folks:
Addn. and Lot 5 Block 24 also
Florention Gonzales to Jack
Campbell Lots 1 and 2 Block 21,
Paul Addn. Sinton
Fernando Hernandez to Jack
Campbell Lot 12 Block 24 Paul,
Addn. Sinton
Virginia V. Yoakum to Jack
Campbell Lots 5 and 6 Block 6,
Paul Addn. Sinton
Monroe Nichols to Jack Camp-
bell Lot 3 Block 12; Lot 3 Block
6; Paul Addn. Sinton
Pedro Tobar to Jack Campbell
Lots 1 and 2 Block 14, Paul
Addn. Sinton
Jose Amador to Jack Campbell
Lots 11 and 12 Block 22, Paul
Campbell Lot 11 Block 24, Paul
Addn. Sinton
Geo. H. Bingham to Jack Camp-
bell Lots 6 and 5 Block 11, Paul
Addn. Sinton
Refugio B. Sanchez to A. Loy
Sims Lot 2 Block 15, Paul Addn.
Sinton
Brijido Moreno to A. Loy Sims
Lot 5 Block 1; Lot 6 Block 1;
J. G. Gonzales Sub. Sinton
Domingo Torres to A. Loy Sims
Lot 4 Block 1, J. G. Gonzles Sub.
Janie Haney Pollard to A. Loy
Sims Lot 1 Block 15, Paul Addn.
Sinton
.Ricardo Adams to A. Loy Sims
Lot 2 Block 1, J. G. Gonzales
Sub.
Simon Grossman to A. Loy Sims
1 acre out of Lot 1 Block E, Paul
See RECORD Page Seven
presented. They all went to some
Junior College together. Anyway
we met them in a store looking
at souv^hirs and ‘junk”. We
found out they had just got to
town and since we were old-timers
in the town we took it on our-
have hard wooden seats, no sp-
rings under the car, and you can’t
walk from one car to another.
They are commonly known as
cattle cars.
I hope everyone is well and that
Daddy is continuing to improve,
Well, I got back from Switzer-
land last night, so I guess a report
is in order.
I don’t believe I ever enjoyed
three days more in my life. The
country is so beautiful you can’t
describe it. We went to the town
of Luzern which is a comparative-
ly small city, but is one of the
main tourist cities. We ware fi-
guring on going to Zurich Satur-
day afternoon but we soon found
that two days wasn't even enough
time for the one- town. The beauty
of the country is not in the big
cities because they are all just restaurants in Switzerland and
selves to show7 them around Satur-iBy the way, I weighed myself in
day night. They were really a j Switzerland, and I weighed 79
good bunch. While I was in the,kilo. Now go look that up some-
store I bought a contraption which where. I haven’t myself, yet. It’s
I sent this morning as a present ■ a funny thing to weigh yourself
to Betty and David. I sent it in j and still not know how much you
care-of you all at Mathis because J weigh.
I was afraid they may be out of) ^ ^ac^ so raany different kinds
school before it gets there. Ij°f money with me when I was
hope you don’t get it before you j *n Switzerland that I had to keep
get this letter because vou will jit separated into pockets. I had.
be wondering what it is. You! German marks, Swiss francs, and
never see it in the States that I ja couple of good old American
know of. It is a plate warmer to!dollars. I found that you can get
put bread or anything else on to j better exchange for the dodar
keep it warm while you are eat-j than anything else^. Next are tia-
ing. They use them in all the
velers’ checks which
about as good. I got
are just
“rooked”
alike anyway.
I left Zweibrucken at 12:15 and
met my buddy at Karlsruhe which
is on the way: From Karlsruhe
we caught the Mannheim Express
which is the finest train I have
yet seen in Europe. We had
scarcely sat down good till we
were in Basel, Switzerland. Basel
is the main incoming point in
Switzerland and there is a train
out to most any city every five or
ten minutes. We saw many Am-
ericans and also talked to English-
men, Scotchmen, and two young
Australian boys sat down at our
table once in a restaurant. It
seems like American soldiers in
uniform are irresistible to anyone
speaking English. There are so
many people of different nationali-
ties that in most restaurants they
have small flags of most countries
in the world, and you pick out
think most of Germany. Over here i because I left here with marks
when you eat at a restaurant theY |“fe ° for ^arte™ if'VlTto one
bring all the hot food for everyone tor marks is 4.zu to o
at the table cut on a metal tray &
with a cover. Then they dish out
about half of it into your plates
and leave the rest on the warmer
until you want some mefre. Am-
erica should wise up. I actually
don’t know how useful it will be
for Betty and David, but anyway
it’s a souvenir. I’m still firguring
on sending you all one of those
400-day clocks. The P X still
doesn’t have them, but I’ll send
one as soon as I can get one. It’s
packaged from over here. We have
marks I got only 96 francs. I
argued but it didn’t matter. Next
time I’ll take travelers’ checks.
It’s hard to get hold of genuine
green-backs. The finance office
will give them to you only if you
are going on leave. So you have
to find somebody going on leave
and get him to buy them for you.
I guess somebody in Washington
dreamed up a reason for that.
We are having a meeting to-
to sign a statement telling what ’ night. Last night a couple of
it is, how we paid for it and!soldiers who were just shipping
with what kind of money, and through slipped off the Post, go^
that we are sending it as a genu- drunk and cut up a couple oi
ine gift for which we receive no other soldiers. So tonight we have
renumeration, and all that stuff.! a meeting so they can tell us to
It’s almost enough to make you
the one you want when you go take the thing back to the store
in, and set it on your table. It’s and get your money back and
t
SPs as busy as
the proverbial bee
jYou~Can readily understand why when you consider the bustling
territory we serve . . . our 8-state "Golden Empire” has had an
industrial production increase of 372% since 1939 . . , the rest
of the country increased only 257%.
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Last year Southern Pacific carried a volume of over)
40,000,000,000 freight ton miles. This total tonnage
was more than a billion ton miles above the previous
high record in the war year 1944. And, too, last
jpHF more than 560 industries producing diversified
t&rload traffic were established or expanded at locations
| along our 13,500 miles of railroad line.
! Southern Pacific’s ability to continue to handle efficiently
the greatly increased demands of our shippers reflects
the hundreds of millions of dollars spent for improvements in
recent years. For example, since 1945, we’ve ordered or placed
in operation 679 new diesel locomotives to advance our 7
motive power program. We’ve ordered or placed in
operation 40,000 new freight cars . . . installed radio
communication in train and yard operations. We’ve installed
a mechanized system for reporting day to day movement
of freight cars, utilizing teletype arid punch card machines,
so that our shippers may be kept advised as to the exact location
of their consignments. Giant pushbutton controlled classifi-
cation yards have been built and others are under
! construction or planned so that shipments can move through
metropolitan terminals faster.
j All these improvements and a multitude of others now in the planning
Stage fit into Southern Pacific’s long-range plan to stay v’
1 abreast of the development of our service area . . . and facilitate
the defense effort... that’s why SP stays as busy as the proverbial bee.
really quite interesting.
Even when we spent all our
time in one town we managed to
miss the main attraction of the
tourists, and that is a boat tour
on the lake to the mountains.
Then you get off the boat and
ride a cable car up Mt. Rigi. It
forget about it. But I guess I’ll
make it. The favorite gift to be
bought over here for the ladies is
perfume. I may send Edna a
bottle if she cares for it. You can
get Chanel No. 5 for a fraction of
what it costs in the States.
I really had quite a rough time
would have been very nice, but _ .__^__„
we didn’t know we were going to g? , *CT ° Msec
have to leave as early Sunday
afternoon as we did. So we
didn’t take it Saturday and when
we checked train schedules back
to Zweibrucken we found we would
have to leave at 3:15 p.m. Then
we found that the tour lasted until
about 6. Oh well, I guess we’ll
have to go back some time. I
managed to get some pretty’ good
pictures, I think, and I’ll sure
send some home if they are good.
Oh, yes, we ran into a party of
American College kids on tour
over here. There were three boys
and seven girls in the bunch with
a sponsor. I guess they have more
money than they know what to do
with because they came over on
the Queen Mary and are going to
be in Europe until August. The
kids were all from the deep South.
I think Virginia, Tennessee, the
Carolinas and Maryland were re-
Karlsruhe I had to ride third class
In case you don’t know, they have
first, second and third class trains
over here. The second class is
good enough and is what we us-
ually buy, but there were not
second class trains running to
Zweibrucken then, so I had to
catch a third class, and had to
change trains three times in about
sixty miles. The third class cars
leave our knives in the barracks
when going on pass, because they
will take it for granted everyone
here has a knife about ten inches
long.
Well, I must quit. So long for
now. Love, John
ROSS
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Helm, Bobby. The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1953, newspaper, July 24, 1953; Mathis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1038818/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mathis Public Library.