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THE MATHIS NEWS
VOL. XXXVIII
MATHIS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1953
EIGHT PAGES — NO. 31
Betterment Assoc. To Meet Tonight
At 7:30; Parking Meter Question
To Be Discussed By Membership
The Mathis Betterment Associa-
tion will hold their regular meet-
ing tonight at 7:30 at the Scout
Hut and the parking meter quest-
ion will be the main topic on the
agenda for the meeting.
The City Council, a parking me-
ter company representative, and
others will attend the meeting to
present some facts on the parking
meter question. A report from the
city police department will be
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Percy L. Johnson, Jr.
Rotary Club Will
Welcome District
Governor Tuesday
The Rotary Club of Mathis will
be host at noon August 11 to
Percy L. Johnson, Jr., Governor
of the 185th District of Rotary
International, who is making his
annual official visit to each of
the 35 Rotary Clubs in South
Texas. He will confer with Presi-
dent Joe C. Dickerson, Secretary
Jerome Braunstein and other local
officers on Rotary administration
and service activities.
- Mr. Johnson is owner of John-
son Furniture and Carpets in Sin-
ton and is a member of the Rotary-
Club of Sinton. He was elected
District Governor of Rotary Inter-
national for the 1953-54 fiscal year
first on the agenda, D. C. Brown,
association president, said .After
the report, the discussion of the
parking meters will begin.
Much controversy has arisen in
town since the possibility of park-
ing meters being installed in town
was first mentioned by the City
Council.
Local merchants seem to be
highly against such a move, if
coffee talk is any indication of
their true feelings on the situation.
However, most of them seem to
be in favor of hearing both sides
of the situation, and a large crowd
is expected to turn out for the
meeting tonight.
Several local merchants have al-
ready signed a petition addressed
to the City Council protesting the
meters.
One member of the City Council,
Wayne Koepsel, said that the me-
ters, if they were installed, would
be the best answer to paying a
police force for full time work in
the city. The only other alterna-
tive, he said, was to add additional
taxes to the 1,100 tax payers in
town. He said the present tax
money of about $10,000 was not
adequate to pay a full time police
force. In other towns, the meters
are paying the police, and are
even paying for the paving of
streets, he said.
Since the city needs money, and
is reluctant to raise taxes, he
said they considered the parking
LOCAL SCOUTS WIN
HONORS AT SWIM
MEET IN FREMONT
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The Mathis -Explorer Scouts at- j
tended a district swimming meet,
at Premont last Saturday and a |
first place was won in each div-i
ision by a Mathis Explorer.
Those winning first places in the
seven divisions were Billy McNeill,
Tucker Sutherland, Michael Ever-
ett, and Robert Lotspeich. Others
entering the meet but not placing
first or second were Jerry Hunt-
singer, and Wesley Baugh.
Those placing first and second
in the events will go on to the
Council Swim Meet in Kingsville
Saturday. A tour of the King
Ranch will also be offered to all
entrants and a barbecue dinner
will be served after the meet.
Rofarians Hear
Talk On Pink
Bollworm Control
George Bourns presented an in-
tormative talk to the Mathis Ro-
tary Club at their Tuesday lunch-
eon on the pink bollworm and
methods used to fight the cotton
destroying insect.
He said about the only effective
way to control the worm was to
plant early, harvest early, and
destroy the stalks early, exposing
the worm to the hot sun, which
quickly kills it.
George Bourns is entomologist
for F. H. Vahlsing at Mathis. He
said that they had about 500
acres of late cotton at the farm,
which he was watching very close-
meters as a very impartial way ly for pink bollworm infestation,
to raise additional money. It did j He said that if he found a 3 to 5
not put a heavy burden on any-! percent infestation, he poisoned
one, and more people would be j the field. The Vahlsing farms he
ty,” W. J. Elliott, chief of
Highway Patrol under Col.
at the Rotary Convention in Paris, "Garrison, stated this week.
paying for police protection, he
said.
He urged everyone that could
to be present at the meeting and
learn additional facts on the me-
ters.
Highway Patrol
Not To Leave
San Pat. Co.
“There are no plans to transfer
the Texas State Highway Patrol
officers out of San Patricio Coun-1 this
the
H.
France, last May. He is one of
the 212 District Governors super-
vising the activities of some 8,000
■ clubs of business and professional
executives in 86 countries and
geographical regions throughout
the world.
Wherever Rotary Clubs are lo-
cated, their activities are similar
to those of the Rotary Club of
Mathis because they are based on
the same general objectives
developing better understanding
and fellowship among business and
professional men, promoting com-
munity - betterment undertakings,
raising the standads of business
and professions, and fostering the
advancement of good will, under-
standing and peace among all the
peoples of the world.
Each year, this world-wide ser-
vice organization continues to grow
m numbers and in strength. Dur-
ing the past fiscal year, for ex-
ample, 217 new Rotary Clubs were
organized in 42 countries of North,
South and Central America, Eur-
ope, Asia, Africa, and the Islands
cf the Pacific.
State Representative Harold
Parish received this assurance
from the highway department this
week after rumors turned up in
the court house that the two-man
highway patrol was about to be
removed from San Patricio County.
Highway patrolmen R. E. Scholl
and Bobby Kisner are reported to
have asked to be transferred out
of the county due to the lack of
co-operation given them by the
Sheriff’s department.
The two-man state highway pat-
rol was only recently assigned to
San Patricio County after a long
absence due to misundei’standings
between the highway patrol and
the sheriff’s office.
A. J. Weaver Has
Operation In Houston
Word was received here this
week from Mrs. A. J. Weaver
that her husband is recovering
from another operation. He is a
patient at the Veteran’s Hospital
in Houston.
"Open Sesame" Could Be New Cry Of
Local Farmers If New Plant Should
Be Grown In The Mathis Area
A sample of what could well
be a new crop to South Texas
and to Mathis farmers was br-
ought into the News office this
week by Thomas Cox, a local
farmer in the Argenta Community.
The new plant (at least it is
new to this area) is named Se-
same, and the particular sample
which he brought into the office
came from Poth, Tex.
Mr. Cox attended a Sesame
meeting at Poth Tuesday where
the facts on the plant were dis-
cussed. He said that it is now
being grown on a limited scale
around Poth and other towns in
the area.
The plant, which stands about
shoulder high, consists of a large
single stalk on which are a few
long-stemmed leaves, and clusters
of four or eight sectioned pods
which contain the seed. The seed
looks similar to flax seed.
The plant will stand dry weather,
he said, and is not bothered by
but one insect, the cutworm, which
attacks the plant in the early
stages of growth.
The seed contains an edible oil
from which many products can
be manufactured. Average yields
run around 800 pounds to the acre,
and some fields have given as
high as 4,000 pounds. Present mar-
ket value of the seed is around
10 cents per pound.
The plant is planted at the same
time cotton is planted, and ma-
tures in 90 days. It is cut with a
row-binder just before the pods
turn brown and is shocked. Then
just before the pods begin to op-
en the farmer can take his com-
bine, set it for flax harvest, and
begin the threashing of the stalks.
A combine type is being worked
on, .which would allow combining
from the stalk.
Mr. Cox said he was going to
plant a few acres this year to try
it out. He said it would grow
only in land which will grow
cotton.
A. D. Warrington and Sons of
Poth have the only mill in the
vicinity which is at present mill-
ing the crop. But Mr. Cox said
that any local mill could be con-
verted to take this seed.
The new plant can be seen at
the Mathis News office, if any
farmers are interested in getting
away from cotton and maize next
year.
said have already spent nearly
$50,000 this year on poison alone
to control cotton insects.
He said that due to the habits
of the pink bollworm. that it
was very difficult to kill. New
methods are now being tried out
at the farm, he said.
One method is the encouraging
of the beneficial insects which
destroy the bollworm larvae. Along
this line he said that a man from
the valley came to the farm three
weeks ago and turned loose 14,000
small insects brought over from
India. These insects have a life
cycle of eight days, and acheck
week showed that the in-
sects had multiplied by ten times
during the three weeks. These
small insects, which are about the
size of a gnat, eat the larvae of
the pink bollworm. They do so in
the following method: The female
adult lays her eggs on the pink
bollworm larvae, the eggs then
feed from the larvae, destroying
it. He said the small insects will
hunt up the pink bollworm and
will lay its eggs only on the pink
bollworm larvae.
He said that the results of this
insect were being watched closely.
He said that until some effective
method is found to control the
worm, that local farmers should
do everything possible to get their
crops out early. The unusually
early crop this year should deal
a good blow to the pink bollworm,
he said.
County Cotton Crop May
Drop Below 50,000 Mark
Dodgers Ahead In Series Play By
Half Game; Yankees Win First
Game Of Play Off Tuesday Night
The Dodgers came out a half-
game ahead of the Yankees in
Little League baseball play in the
18-gajne series completed last
Thursday.
Scotty to third, then a single by
Woodrow Hicks scored him.
There was one run in the second
inning on two hits, and six runs
in the third with 4 hits. A total of
The standings at the end of the 18 runs, 8 hits, and 2 errors was
San Patricio County’s cotton crop appeared de-
stined this week to fall below the 50,000 goal that most
cotton men have been looking for.
As of Wednesday of this week the total ginning in
the county amounted to 44,199 as
compared to 41,703 the week before
which is an increase of only 2,496
bales in a period of one week.
With picking virtually complete it
is extremely doubtful that last
minute ginnings will be enough to
series were:
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made for the Yankees.
The Dodgers didn’t make a run
D.
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until the third inning, when they
Y.
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scored two runs, on no hits, and
A.
18
5
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one run in the fourth, fifth, and
C.
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5
13
0
sixth innings. They had a total of
The Little League teams went
into the play-off series Tuesday
and the Yankees, managed by
Eddie Wollesen, defeated the Dodg-
ers in the first of the 2 out-of-3
game playoff for the champion-
ship by a score of 8-5.
The Yankees went ahead in the
first inning with a single run
scored by Scottie Gregorcyk, who
got on with a fielder’s choice,
after Frank Ybarra had walked
and he was forced to second. A
strike out and a pass ball sent
Wade Hobbs
Quits Sheriff
Wade N. Hobbs, chief depty un-
der Sheriff S. F. Hunt, has an-
nounced his resignation from the
sheriff’s department with the re-
signation to become effective on
Aug. 15.
Hobbs replaced R. T. Cohea as
chief deputy when the latter was
fired by Sheriff Hunt from the
post last January.
Hobbs served as chief deputy
under Vail Ennis during the last
year that Ennis served as sheriff
of Bee County. He was on the
police force in Kerrville for two
years and was with the Corpus
Christi police department from
1942 through 1945.
Hobbs, in a telephone conversa-
tion on Tuesday afternoon, told
the Newspaper that his plans
for the future are as yet indefinite
5 runs on 3 hits and no errors.
Two possible Dodgers scores
were stopped by two beautiful
catches by the Yankees, one by
Scottie Gregorcyk on 2nd, and the
other by Johnny Caddell in right
field.
The second game o fthe series
was played Thursday night. Re-
sults of this game will be printed
next week. If the Yankees won
the game, they will receive the
cup being awarded by Mathis
Lumber Company. If the Dodgers
won, the play-off game will be
August 11 to determine who gets
the trophy.
An All-Star game will be played
on August 13. Two teams of boys
will be picked from the four Little
League teams.
REV. SHERMAN
TO PREACH AT
METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. Val H. Sherman, district
superintendent of the Corpus Chris-
ti District of the Methodist Church
will preach at the Sunday morn-
ing services at the local Metho-
dist Church at 11 o’clock.
A covered dish dinner will be
served for the congregation in the
basement of the church following
the morning services, Rev. J. E.
Mack said this week.
After the noon meal, Rev. Sher-
man will conduct the first Quarter-
ly Conference of the church year,
at which all officials and members
and that he had no statement "for?of the Quarterly conference are to
be present to give reports. All
REV. PALMER AND
FAMILY TO LEAVE
MATHIS FRIDAY
Rev. and Mrs. A. A. Palmer
and sons, Bill and Allen Ray, are
leaving Mathis next week for
their new home in Denver, Colo-
rado.
Rev. Palmer resigned recently
as minister of the Baptist Church
here to take up a new work in
Denver. This new work will be
sponsored by the Denver Temple
Baptist Church.
The Palmers will first go to
Dallas late Friday of next week
to visit his brother, C. E. Palmer,
for the week-end. On Monday of
the following week he plans to
speak at a brotherhood meeting
at the First Baptist Church of Oak
Cliff in Dallas, leaving the follow-
ing day for Denver.
the press at this time concerning
his severance of duty from the
sheriff’s department.
Remodeling Bids
On Courthouse
Being Considered
Five bids were received by the
San Patricio County Commission-
ers Court last week on the re-
modeling of the court house.
The low bidder was M. H. Ry-
land, Uvalde contractor, who sub-
mitted a price of $355,841.00.
Since this figure is somewhat
higher than the estimates given to
the court by their architect, a
contract was not let last week
and Tuesday of this week the “ent-
court met with Mr. Ryland and
attempted to work out some cuts
in the remodeling program in or-
der to save up to 7 to 8 thousand
dollars off the estimate.
Mr. Ryland has been asked to
submit another bid leaving out
the asphalt tile in the basement
and second floor, acoustic tile in
the basement ceiling and 2nd floor
ceiling and several other minor
modificiations. The revised bid is
to be submitted to the court next
Wednesday at 2 p.m.
The high bid was for $390,000.
The bond issue provided for $370,-
000 and in addition to this amount
the county has available $20,000.00
in a permanent improvement fund
that can be spent on the project.
Judge Wm. Nicholas said that
the court hopes to save several
thousand off of the contract price
in order that if some last min-
ute expenses arise they will have
Parking Lanes
Being Marked On
City Streets
Policeman Eddie Wollesen and a
crew of men started marking
parking lanes on the streets of
Mathis Tuesday. The block in front
of the post office marked off first
and then on the south side of
San Patricio Avenue.
“No parking” areas are being de-
signated by a red curb.
members of the congregation and
their friends are welcome to at-
tend this meeting he said.
P. T. A. Executive
Board Meets
At School Tues.
The president of the Mathis
T arent - Teachers Association call-
ed a meeting of the executive
board Tuesday afternoon in the
new elementary .building.
Members of the board are Mrs.
Bob Wehmeyer, president; Mrs.
Griff Moore, vice-president; Mrs.
Edgar H. Eggert, secretary; Mrs.
Maruice Barber, treasurer; Mrs.
Bill Coffin, parliamentarian; Mrs.
L. T. Porter, historian.
The various committee chair-
men presented aims of their com-
mittee for the coming year. After
the meeting they were taken for
a tour of the new building.
The committee chairmen are as
follows: program, Mrs. Milton
Boatwright; finance, Mrs. Clifton
Jennings; social, Mrs. Walton
‘Knolle; membei’ship, Mrs. Glenn
push the figure over the 50,000
mark.
A number of the gins are plan-
ning on winding up their 1953
operations this week while the
rest will gin only on certain days
or upon request by their custo-
mers.
Total ginning in the Mathis area
reached the 7,500 mails late Thurs-
day evening.
Thursday morning Hall Gin had
ginned 2,479 bales and the two
Vahlsing gins had turned out
4,969.
Many farmers are already th-
rough and plowing up their stalks,
and the ginning is not expected
to last more than another week.
It is estimated that last year
there were 165,000 acres planted to
cotton in the county and that ap-
proximately 15,000 less were plant-
ed this year.
Post Office
Receipts Show,
Gain Over 1952
Post office receipts which are
sometimes a good indication of
business in the town, showed a
marked increase during the first
six months of this year over the
first six months of last year, ac-
cording to Miss Nellie Magowan.
The receipts, which did not take
into count the raise in box rent,
showed an increase of $1,077.47
over July 1, 1952.
Total receipts for the first-half
of 1952 were $8,461.03 while re-
ceipts in 1953 jumped to $9,538.50
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The evening services will con- Porris; press and publicity, Mrs.
Harlan Overton Hit
By Ball At Game
Harlan Overton was hit in the
face with a ball at last Friday’s
baseball game. His lip was badly
cut and required stitches. Several
teeth were also chipped and
knocked loose.
He was not playing in the game,
but was catching the ball on the
sidelines at the time of the acci-
sist first of the the Methodist
Youth Fellowship meeting at 7
o’clock, followed by the evening
preaching services at 8 o’clock,
with the pastor presenting a mess-
age on the subject, “A Conscience
Void of Offense”, which is based
on Romans 14:22.
Dispute Board
Set Up For L. L.
Don Collins, Ran Nelson, Adolph
Bomer and Malcolm Maedgen
were appointed as a board of
arbitration to settle disputes
arising between any little league
games.
Baseball commissioner, Oran
Sides, said the board would settle
any dispute arising and if they
were unable to render a decision
due to a tie on the board, that the
president of the local little league
would be called to vote and break
a tie.
Elevator To Double
Capacity By New
Machinery Installed
Mathis Grain and Elevator this
week was working on the installa-
the funds to take care of them. | tion of a new pellet machine at
The low bid of $355,841 does not
include the architects fee.
Mrs. Gordon Cabaniss and chil-
dren and Mrs. W. R. Berryhill
spent Tuesday in Corpus Christi.
the plant.
A head house is being built on
the roof of the warehouse to ac-
comodate the new pelletting mach-
ine, which will double the capaci-
ty of the elevator.
SixTwirlers
Chosen Saturday
For School Band
Six new twirlers were chosen
for the Mathis High School Band
Saturday by the judge, Estelle
Foster, of Bishop.
Those selected were Loretta
Mengers, Mary Wade Westover,
Sharron Dehnisch, Kathy Brown,
Jane Cabaniss, and Shirley Sloan.
A drum major will be selected
from among the six girls at a
later date, and band director, E.
R. Blevins, said.
Carroll Miller; literature and pub-
lication, Mrs. George Heider;
health, Mrs. Fannie Weber; nur-
sery, Mrs. Tom Sutherland; regis-
tration and hospitality, Mrs. Fred
Watson.
The P-TA will meet the second
Tuesday of September for their
first regular meeting, and the ex-
ecutive board will meet the first
Thursday of each month during
the coming year.
BAND PARENTS CLUB
TO MEET MONDAY
AT BAND HALL
Mrs. Arnold McCraw, president
of the Band Parents Club, has
called a special meeting of the
club for Monday night. The meet-
ing will be in the band hall at
8 o’clock.
She said that all members should
be present for the business meet-
ing so that completion of plans
for next year could be realized.
Two Cars Are Stolen
Here During Week
Two cars were reported stolen
in town during the past week. One
has been recovered and no charges
filed against the person found
driving the car, who claimed he
took the car by mistake.
The other car has not been re-
covered. It belonged to a Latin-
American.
Two cars were damaged in a
collision Tuesday night just out-
side of the city limits near the
Drive-In-Theater. None of the oc-
cupants were injured.
Ag. Teachers Attend
Dallas Conference
Gordon Cabaniss, accompanied
by J. D. Carlysle, agriculture
teacher from Orange Grove, left
Monday for Dallas to attend the
annual conference of agriculture
teachers.
They plan to return today.
Methodist Group
To Meet Wednesday
The Commission on Education
of the Methodist Church will meet
Wednesday, August 12, at 8 p.m.
at the church to make plans for
the group’s activity during the
coming school year. The com-
mission deals with the educational
program of the Church School,
Rev. J. E. Mack said.
Mrs. Herman
Jostes Dies In
Beeville Tuesday
Funeral services were held at
4 p.m. Wednesday at the Peace
Evangelical and Reform Church
in Tynan for Mrs. Betty Jostes,
77, wife of Herman Jostes, Sr.
She died in a Beeville hospital
at 3:40 a.m. Tuesday. She had
been a resident of Bee County
for 42 years. She had lived on the
family farm near Tynan.
She is survived by her husband;
two daughters, Mrs. Lottie Meyer
of Tynan, and Mrs. Bettina Strid-
de of Mathis; five sons, H. J.
Jostes of Tynan, Charles A. Jostes
of Oakland, Calif., Frank Jostes
of Tynan, Paul H. Jostes of Bee-
ville, and Helmuth A. Jostes of
Abilene; four great-grandchildren;
and three sisters, Mrs. August
Brinkoeter, Mrs. August Schrie-
wer, and Mrs. Julia Schriewer,
all of San Antonio. •
Burial was in Waldheim Ceme-
tery near Tynan. Rev. C. J. Freu-
denberg officiated at the services.
Galloway Morturary of Beeville
was in charge of arrangements.
Mystery Farm Of
Last Week Still
A “Mystery”
There seems to be some doubt
as to whose farm was featured in
last weeks paper. Some phoned in
and identified it as the Jack
Brown farm, while others said it
was the Alton Miller place.
Positive identification has not
been made as the owner has not
come by the office as yet.
New Elementary School Building
Is Nearing Completion, School Board
Plans To Accept Building August 13
The new elementary school
building is nearing completion this
week, and tentative plans call for
the school board to~ accept the
new building from the contractors
at their next meeting, which is
set for Agusut 13.
The architect, Herbert Kellner,
will be in Mathis Monday, and he
and the school board will examine
the new building as to whether it
is ready for acceptance. Electri-
cians finished their work in the
building this week, and a local
crew is beginning to clean the
floors and walls. Furniture will
are finished.
County Commissioner Paul Ma-
honey has a grader at work level-
ing the play ground and hauling
dirt to fill in the low places.
Supt. T. A. Harbin said this
week that an open house date
was tentatively set for August 27,
but that plans are imcomplete at
this early date.
At the open house, visitors will
be given an opportunity to inspect
the new building and the cafeteria,
which will be operated by Mrs.
C. V. Galloway and Mrs. Jess
be placed in the rooms when they Stone.
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