The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, October 1, 1948 Page: 1 of 10
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THE MATHIS NEWS
Volume XXXIII
Mathis, San Patricio Couoty, Texas, October 1, 1948
Number 40
HOWARD SALGE TO RECEIVE
HONOR AWARD AT
STATE FAIR OCT. 16
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CIA NT DOUBLE WHEEL
READY TO STARTLE
STATE FAIR VISITORS
The Skyrider, first double
ferris wheel and highest portable
ride ever seen in the South, will
Nine outsanding Future Farm-
ers will receive Honor Awards
medals from the State Fair of
Texas at a special luncheon on
Saturday October 16, James W
Aston, chairman of the Rural
Youth Committee, has anounced.
‘'These boys have been chosen
because of their outstanding rec-
ords in farming, leadership and
other activities. One boy was se-
lected from each of the areas in
the state. They are top notch
young men as they were chosen
over hundreds bf other Future
Farmers from all over Texas,”
Aston said.
The Future Farmers listed by
Aston to receive the awards are:
Jerry Ray, Sudan; Lambert Bar-
on, LaGrange; Perry Shepard,
Graham; Glenn R Raney, Rock-
wall; Lynn R. Rhodes, Roxton;
John Irwin Yancy, Tyler; Melvin
Mathis was represented at thejBonn> Fredericksburg; C. F. Hil-
MATHIS PEOPLE ATTEND
HOT ROD RACES
Corpus Christi Speedway last
Saturday night where two of
Mathis’ three hot rods made a
be introuced to South westerners very nice showing.
at the 1948 State Fair of Texas,' Stone Bros.’ P-68, after having
Dallas, October 9-24 been completely remodeled, made
a*ii wheels rotate inepewl> very nice lowing for »
car cn the track. When one is
ently as the chase each other up
around in the sky. Other specta-
cular rides at the Fair this year
include the Hurricane, Hi-Ball
an $100,000 Rollar Coaster.
MATHIS TRIMS BISHOP
6 TO 0 FRIDAY NIGHT
cmpletely remodeled it is then
a “new” or untested car.
J. W. McGee’s car, No. 6, has
had a lot added to it but looked
j basically like it did before but the
performance was greatly im-
iproved.
_ | Both cars placed in several of
Kenneth Harvey, flashy'Pirate 7‘race rneet.
back, sent 1,500 Mathis fans de-j When Eddie Wollesen gets. No.
leriously on their way home Fri-12x4’s face re-lifted, Mathis should
day night with two “Frank Mer- give some of the “Rods” from
dwell” climax runs to sneak a-[San Antonio, San Angelo, Corpus
cross a 6-0 win over Bishop’s' Christi and other points some
Badgers. 'real competition.
The clock was running out j --■;--
when Harvey snagged a 15-yard. PIRATES GO TO CALALLEN
pass from Thomas Jennings and FOR TONIGHT’S GAME
f an 45 yards, only to be pulled | --
down 8 yards from the goal line.
ton, Jr. Jasper; and Howard Salge
Mathis.
The Honor Award luncheon
will be one of the highlights of
Rural Youth Day at the State
Fair of Texas. Thirty eight other
cutstanding farm boys and girls,
members of Future Homemakers
and 4-H Club boys and girls will
be presented awards at the lunch-
eon.
Sixty-thousand farm youth are
expected to attend the State Fair
of Texas on Rural Youth Day.
They will be served box lunches
by the business men of Dallas
These young people will have a
chance to see one of the greatest
livestock and agriculture shows
yet presented by the State Fair.
JUDGE IVEY DIES AT
TAOS, N. M. WEDNESDAY
L. C. Ivey 68, San Patricio
County Judge and resident ol
South Texas for more than 35
years, died at Taos, N. M. Wed-
_ _______ The Friday night football game' nesday, of heart ailment.
The final whistle had sounded. will be played this week*«at Cal- ■ Ivey, a resident of Taft, went
when Harvey smashed his way alien at 7:30. I to New Mexico a month ago with
gcross the goal lifte for the vie- Mathis is expected to be desert- his wife, on a vacation trip. He
ed at that hour since the band
and the pep squad will go along
| 1 j .
I ' f I
f v -M '
H A* : l
“BABE RUTH
AT THE IT
STORY”
“The Babe Ruth Story” the in-
teresting life story of the late
King of Swat will be showed at
the IT Theatre next Wednesday
and Thursday, October 6 and 7.
DAVID HUTCHENS LEADER
AT ROTARY PROGRAM
IP '« ;
ILs -
TWO-THOUSANDTH
WESTERN AUTO STORE
OPENS IN HARRISON. N. Y.
David Hutchens was program
leader at the Rotary Meeting on
Tuesday and gave an interesting
discussion on Rotary and Rotary
Service.
Visitors were John Fenner of
Beeville and John Hansard ol
Robstown and Melvin Nagel and
Elaine Nelson.
MRS. KEHOE TO
TEACH DANCING
lory punch that sent the Pirates’
District 42-B stock soaring.
One of the largest crowds to
to help the Pirates and of course,
see a game here in years were a-. everybody else in town is a fan,
bout to settle for a tie score with,and all the fans are always at the
ihe battling boys from Bishop games.
entered Holy Cross Hospital • at
Taos, following a heart attack;
Mrs. George Kehoe has announ-J
ced that plans are being made to
conduct classes for tap, ballet and
acrobat dancing here for pupils
4 to 14 years, beginning in the
near future.
Mrs. Kehoe received her train-
ing at the Pauline Harris Studios
in Texarkana, Arkansas and
taught classes at Kingsville prior
to coming to Mathis.
Enrollment will be limited as
classes will be held only 1-2 day
each week and Mrs. Kehoe may
be contacted by calling 243-J.
on September 8. He suffered a
second attack Saturday.
Ivey was born June 11, 1880 at
Forney, Kaufman County, Texas.
X-RAY SURVEY REPORT
The San Patricio County Tu-
berculosis Association submits
The two-thousandth home-own-
ed store to bear the Western
Auto name has just opened in
Harrison N. Y. On hand to con-
gratulate Owner John Ianiri
(right) for establishing a numer-
ical milestone in Western Auto
history is Samuel Boxer, presi-
dent of the Harrison Chamber of
Commerce, Western Auto Sup-
ply Co., which started as a mail
order house in Kansas City, Mo.,
in 1909, instituted the private
store ownership plan in 1935.
The company does not control
the locally owned stores but
serves only in a wholesale capa-
city.
In addition to the 2000 home-
owned Associate stores, there are
263 company-owned stores in the
rapidly expanding Western Auto
system.
The Mathis store, established
in' 1939 is managed by Leroy
Mengers.
ISMS DEFINED
who seemed certain to annex; This is the second conference ; He was the son of the late Mr.'this report on the X-Ray survey
the conference game nod on pene-,game of the season and the third and Mrs. T F Ivey. The Taft1 that was made in July.
trations and first
several trys—the
vey pass clicked.
downs. After game. In view of the Pirates’, man was serving his second carr
Jennings-Har-
MORE IMPROVEMENTS
FOR MATHIS
look
Things are beginning to
“citified” in Mathis now
pavement from beginning to end
of San Patricio Avenue and a
street marker at the school house
corner that says San Patricio and
Duval.
C. E. Key is putting a hard
surface topping on several of the
stunning victories over Premont
an Bishop it will be surprising
if they don’t win tonights’ game.
VOTING TIP
as county judga. He was defeated
in the 1948 primary by A D Ai-
kin, of Sinton. A successor to
Judge Ivey will be appointed by
San Patricio County Commission-
ers’ Court.
Prior to his election to the
This X-Ray Machine was set
up in five towns in the county,
Mathis, Sinton, Taft, Gregory,
and Aransas Pass.
This report is for the entire
county.
X-Rays reported on 3,903
Essentially negative 3,793
Tuberculosis
Definite TB
Suspicious TB
classification
Are you wondering who to
with vote for, for the Hallowe’en Car-! county judgeship, Ivey served as
nival Queen? Marilyn Salge is j business manager for Taft In-
your safest bet. Marilyn is a dependent School District. He was
blonde with green eyes. She is j also a former active vice presi- Other pulmonary pathology
the Sophomore candidate and( dent of the First National Bank
about the cutest thing you ever of Taft and a former partner of
laid eyes on. | E. L. Barrow in the Taft Mercan-
In case you are wondering; tile Co. He served on the school
CARD OF THANKS
I deeply and sincerely appre-
ciate the wonderful hospitality
streets that get the hardest wear just who Marilyn Salge is, just j board at Taft for many years. , - _ __________^ ____r______v
from traffic. Selection of streets take a peek at the cute majorette! Ivey was am ember oi the'given my mother, Mrs. Ladonia
to be surfaced was made by sev- j prancing in front of the Mathis; Presbyterian Church of Taft and
gral business men with the view j Band next time you go to ala member of the Masonic Lodge.
of paving streets leading to the \ football game. | -
school, churches and hospital. | The Sophomore’s money jars! BAND PARENTS CLUB
which of course, get the hardest!are posted in many different bus-
wear. The street connecting San'iness places ;-in which you may
Patricio Avenue with the Lake
road has also been topped.
Miss Billy Spinks of Houston
visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs
T. R. Steelhammer.
WILL MEET THURSDAY
deposit your votes. Be smart and The Band Parents Club will
give her your votes.—Adv. j meet next Thursday, October 7
| at 8 p. m. at the Band Hall.
Mrs. Willie Hinnant and Mrs.
T. R. Steelhammer spent Satur-
day in San Antonio shopping.
All parents of band members
or anyone interested in the band
are urged to be present.
M. Gorom, during her visit in
Mathis; also, the kindness shown
during my illness.
Edwin W. Gorom.
Millions of words have been
written to describe the various
forms of government, political
philosophies, social orders, or
what have you. Some unidenti-
fied genius has undertaken to
wrap the whole thing up in a
small package, starting with a
single example. Considerable de-
tail is necessarily omitted, but.
it gets a fair score for accuracy:
SOCIALISM: You have two
cows. You give one to vour
neighbor.
COMMUNISM: You have two
cows. You give them to the gov-
ernment and the government
gives you some milk, maybe.
•FASCISM: You have two cows.
You keep the cows and give the
milk to the Government; then
the Government sells- vou some
milk.
CONTROLLED ECONOMY:
You have two cows. You shoot
one, milk the other, then pour
the milk down the drain.
NAZISM You have two cows.
The Government shoots you and
keeps the cows.
CAPITALISM: You have two
cows. You sell one and buy. a
bull.—C. P._& L. News
Mit and Mrs. N. L Crane and
daughters, Marie and Nelda, and
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Sonny Redus, all of Kings-
ville visited Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Vernon Adams and Mr.
J Q Adams.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Baker have
returned home from a vacation
spent in San Marcos, Lockhart,
and Gonzales. At Lockhart they
visited relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Dennis and
children of Kingsville visited Sun-
day with Mr. and Mrs. W. G,
Cabaniss.
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Whittenberg & McCoy. The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, October 1, 1948, newspaper, October 1, 1948; Mathis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1039102/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mathis Public Library.