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THE MATHIS NEWS
VOL. IXL
Second Class Postage
Paid At Mathis, Texas
MATHIS, TEXAS, THURS. MORNING, JULY 20, 1961
Published weekly by the
Guthrie Publishing Co.
EIGHT PAGES — NO. 31
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Men's Softball League
Begins Action Monday
The Mathis Men’s Softball
.League will begin action Mon-
day night at 8:00 when Mac
Hickman’s Dusting Service
meets Cherry Dusting Service
in the season opener at the Little
League Park.
Then on Friday night, July 28,
Key’s Drug will play Quick Way
Grocery.
This is the first time in several
years that a men’s softball
league has been-, organized in
Mathis.
According to Bill Barber, or-
ganizer of the league, over 100
men signed to play in the
league. However, the league was
designed for only four teams of
15 men apiece.
Barber called a meeting of all
those interested in playing for
Wednesday of last week. At that
meeting the names of those
present and others who notified
Barber they could not make the
meeting were dropped into’ a
hat. The names were drawn and
players assigned to the four
teams in rotation.
Before the drawing, however,
the four team sponsors were al-
lowed to choose three managers
for their team, or to choose two
managers besides themselves.
Mac Hickman was not present
at the meeting to choose his
managers but the group voted
to allow him to pick any two
men he wanted as long as they
did not come off of the same
team.
Including the three manag-
ers each team was allowed 15
players. If any of these men
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drop off the team will receive
another player from a list of
alternates kept by the league.
These alternates are men who
signed up too late to be chosen
on a team.
Caps and Tshirts will serve
as uniforms for the teams. These
items will be purchased by the
players.
The teams are:
CHERRY DUSTING SERV-
ICE — Managers, R.E. Bailery,
Jack Freitag and Bill Barber.
Players, Herb Dickinson, Joe
Dickerson, Jimmy Franklin, Jim
Grant, Bobby Rouse, Erich
Bauch, Tom Jackson, Gaylon
Barry, Woodi’ow Hicks, Sr.,
Howard Salge, Clarence Allison
and Dennis Hutchens-
HICKMAN DUSTING SERV-
ICE — Managers, Austin Nelson,
John R. Nelson and Tucker
Sutherland. Players, Marvin Mc-
:Eachern, Vistor Jouffray, Har-
old Winsauer, James Knight,
Butch Allen, Kenneth Calloway,
Ray Blackburn, E.A. Murff,
Clarence Mueller, John Chope-
las, Jeff Huddleston and Joe
Wyatt.
KEY’S DRUG STORE
— Managers, Barry Wood, John
Key and Bill Henry. Players,
Bubba Stone, Donnell Hollon,
Del Ray Winsauer, Cassie Nel-
son, Jack Allen, C.B. Hood,
Charles Nichols, Jerry English,
Kyler Allison, Otis Grupe, Bill
Galloway and Larry Stapp.
QUICK WAY GROCERY —
Managers, Jimmy Wright, Ed
Eggert and I.A. Burrow. Play-
ers, W.F. Green, J.H. Thromah-
len, Woody Hicks, G-W. Mc-
Cown, Paul Conrad, Burnell
Hedtke, A.G. Holt, Floyd Webb,
Don Tennill, Loyd Mengers, Pete
Mussman and Melvin Nagel.
Monday, July 23
Cherry vs Hickman
Friday, July 28
Key's vs Quick Way
Monday, July 31
Hickman vs Quick Way
Friday, August 4
Cherry vs Key’s ' V
Monday, August 7 '■
Quick Way vs Cherry
Friday, August 11
Key’s vs Hickman
This same schedule will be re-
peated the following three weeks
State Officer
Visits Jaycees
Tues. Night
T.D. Parsley, state vice-presi-
dent of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce, visited the regular
meeting of the Mathis Jaycees
Tuesday night in' the Mesquite
Room of the Ranch Motel Res-
taurant.
Parsley complimented Presi-
dent Bill Henry on the work this
club has done. He said he had
heard special praise of the
community survey made by the
Mathis club.
He spent some time with the
members present in an informal
discussion of the duties and func-
tions of Jaycee clubs. He issued
each member a special invita-
tion to the Tri-regional Conven-
tion to be held in Harlingen on
July 29 .and 30. Parsley is a
member of the Harlingen club.
Little League All Stars
Play Oil Belt Thursday
Managers of baseball teams in
the Matnis-Odem Little League
met, )pfst Thursday night and
selected 14 boys to play on the
All ‘Star team. The All Stars will
play the Oil Belt All Stars to-
night, Thursday, at 7:00 at the
Oil Belt Park in Annaville-
The winner of this game will
play the winner of the Taft-S in-
ton game on Friday night for the
District 3 championship. All of
the District 3 play-offs will be
in the Oil Belt Park. The champ-
ionship game Friday night will
start at 7:30.
The Mathis players selected
by secret ballot to the All Star
learn and the teams they rep-
resent are: Bill Cabaniss, Ath-
letics; Charles Crouch, Athlet-
ics; Frank Pena, Athletics;
Lutheran Congregation
Organized Here Sunday
On Sunday evening, July 16,
a group of Mathis Lutherans
met with the Rev. Dr. Vernon
A. Mohr, President of the South-
ern District of The American
Lutheran Church, and the Rev.
Norman E. Dornquast for the
purpose of organizing a Luther-
an congregation in Mathis. Res-
olutions were drafted and passed/
to form a congregation, to ac-
cept a constitution, and to apply
for membership in TALC.
The name chosen for the new
congregation is Grace Lutheran
Church. Interim congregation
officers are: Edgar Eggert, Jr.,
president, Ernest Salge, vice-
president, Jarvis Thormahlen,
secretary, and Percy Hart-
mann, treasurer. A pastor has
been called.
A temporary meeting place
for Grace Lutheran congrega-
tion is being arranged through
the cooperation of the local Vet-
erans of Foreign Wars Post 3079.
Regular Sunday morning Serv-
ice and Sunday Church School
are scheduled to begin toward
the middle of September.1
Jeanne Wehmeyer
Finalist Ini Contest
Miss Jeanne Wehmeyer,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rob-
ert E. Wehmeyer, was a finalist
in the Miss Padre Island beauty
contest held last Sunday at Pad-
re Island.
Ronnie Freitag, Yankees; Rob-
ert Tennill, Yankees; Quirino
Rojas, Yankees; Billy Cocker-
ham, Yankees; Tony Gardiner,
Dodgers and Powell Brown,
Dodgers.
David Marez, Yankees and
Lupe Rosenbaum, Athletics, are
alternates from Mathis who will
play if any of the All Stars can
not play.
Boys from Odem selected for
the All Star team are: J. Ra-
mon, Indians; C. Martinez, In-
dians; B. Romero, Indians; S.
Rodriquez, Indians and J. M;a:ri-
cias, Cardinals.
W. Burnett, Cardinals; B.
Parker, Red Sox and R. Nunoz,
Red Sox, were the Odem boys
selected as alternates. '
The winner of District 3 will
advance in the national Little
League play-offs to the regional
level.
Women's i|
Softball?
The question which seems to>
be going around town lately is
“Why don’t the women organize
some teams and play softball
too?’’ Several women have ex-
pressed a desire and interest in
playing softball since the men
organized four teams.
Those who are interested in
forming some teams, for a soft-
ball league for women may call
the Mathis News, KT7-3274 or
Mrs. R.E. Bailey, 107-2030.
Bill Boatwright of San Anton-
io spent the week-end with his
grandmother, Mrs. J.H. Boat-
wright.
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GRADUATION — The Mathis Atenhoffer, Bill Nelson, Fabian
Kindergarten graduated 34
young pupils this week. The
graduating class of 1961 pictured
above are: (bottom row, left to
right) Janie George, Stevie
Freitag, Ricky Nichols., Bob
Porter, Carrie Person, Jerry-
Dobie, Bridget Bailey, Steven
Jones, Gene Allison and Mark
Eggert. Second row, Phyllis
Miller, Jimmy Porter, Randy
Stanlea, Shane Nelson, Jan
Thyssen, Bruce McFall, Kent
Steinmeyer, Bob Baen, Jody
Beard and Jeff Blackburn. Third
row, Don Robbins, Timmie Hol-
lon, Johnny Tobin, Jane Corne-
lius, Steven Huddleston, Sandra
Schivetz, Kim Hennig and Deb-
bie Wall. Not pictured were
Stevie Stapp, Charles Mac and
Sally Schneider, Charley Ty
Beall and Clint Freeman.
Yacht Regatta
To Race On
Lake Mathis
The second annual sailing re-
gatta on Lake Mathis is due to
begin this Saturday under the
sponsorship of the Mathis Cham-
ber of Commerce and the Corpus
Christi Yacht Clnb.
The racing regatta will last
two days and will feature com-
petition in the Penguin, Cata-
maran, Highlander, Snipe, 505
and Sunfish sailboat classes.
Several national champions
and area trophy winners will be
competing in this year’s regatta.
Saturday evening the Mathis
Chamber of Commerce will host
a fish fry at Davis Boat Docks
for the visitors. Registration for
the regatta will be at noon Sat-
urday at the same docks.
A favorite in the Highlander
Class, O.C. (Buck) Bailey, Cor-
pus Christi, has won the nation-
al championship two years. He
also won the Galveston Cup last
year and the Sunfish Division
of the first regatta .on- Lake
Mathis.
From San Antonio will come
Mr. Logan Gore, a favorite in
the 505 Class, and Dr. B.B. Horn-
er, widely known for racing in
the Snipe division.
Bill McDugald, of the Houston
Club, and Carter Crain, Galves-
ton, will enter in the Sunfish Di-
vision.
In the Catameran Division.
Billy Higgins, winner of the Buc-
aneer Trophy this year, will be
a favorite.
Judy Givens, Corpus Christi,
a second place winner in the
Sunfish Division at Buccaneer
Days and in the Galveston Cup
Regatta, will also be here this
week-end.
According to Winston Bolt,
chairman of this event for the
Chamber of Commerce, many
more entrants are expected from
all over the state. He also said
the public is invited to the lake
this week-end to watch the re-
gatta.
Rabid Skunk Kills
Puppy Last Week
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A skunk, proven to have rab-
ies, attacked and killed a small
puppy belonging to the Ed Har-
ris family at: 721 W. Rockport
St. last Wednesday night, July
12. It was reported to the city
secretary, Clifton Berry, that the
skunk also fought with another
neighborhood dog before being
killed.
The dog which fought with the
skunk had not been taken info
custody by the city late Tuesday
The owner had been notified, ac-
cording to Berry, but when Po-
lice Chief Erich Bauch went to
pick up the dog the owner could
not find it.
Dr. T.F. Hubert, veterinarian,
said Tuesday, animals bitten by
the rabid skunk will show visible
manifestation of the disease
from between seven days and
eleven months. However, he
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SIBERIAN HUSKIES — Mr.
and Mrs. W. D. McNeill are
shown holding the two Siberian
Husky puppies they received
direct from Alaska this week.
The dogs have not yet been
named but the McNeill’s have
received a number of interest-
ing suggestions.
Two Alaskans Find
New Home In Mathis
Local Fireman
Receive $75
During June
It was reported at the July
business meeting of the Mathis
Volunteer Fire Department that
the department received $75 in
gifts during the’month of June.
Mrs. Charles iTheile gave the
fire department $25 and thanked
them for stopping a fire in her
garage in May. .
Mr. John Despair*-, Corpus
Christi, sent the department
($25 and expressed his apprecia-
tion for the fire departments
help in rescueing he and a com-
panion after their boat sank
near Sleepy Hollow.
R.L. Taylor, Train-master, and
W.G. Brown, Inspector Of Trans-
portation, presented the depart-
ment a $25 check, on behalf of
the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company, in appreciation for
the department stopping a fire
near the river bridge on High-
way 359.
Miss Wehmeyer was repre-
senting the Mathis Jaycees in
the contest. She was earlier
named Miss Fiestarama at the
Navy Relief Festival held in
Kingsville.
Two Siberian Husky pups ar-
rived at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Bill McNeill eaiTy Sunday
morning direct from Anchorage,
Alaska.
The puppies, a -male eight
weeks old and a six-week old
female, made the trip in three
days by air from their northern
home to Mathi's-
According, to Bill McNeill, Jr.
the whole story started about
two years ago when the: family
saw a Siberian Husky belonging
to a friend of' his at the S-M.U.
Law School in Dallas. This dog
had been brought from Colora-
do to Texas. Since that time the
HartmanNamed
San Pat- Cancer
Campaign Head
It was announced last week
by HW. Gist, president of. the
San Patricio County unit of the
American-' Cancer Society, that
Percy Hartman of Mathis has
been appointed county campaign
chairman for the society.
Other chairmen of standing
committees named by Gist are
J.D. Carlisle, Sint on, public ed-
ucation chairman; Dr. Charles
H. "Simpson, Sinton, professional
education chairman; Mrs. Bob
Whitten-, Odem, service chair-
man and Mrs. R.E. Curlee, Sin-
ton, publicity chairman.
According to Gist there will
be a training meeting for the
four officers and the five com-
mittee chairmen at 8 p.m. Aug.
17 at the- San Patricio Electric
Cooperative Building in Sinton.
McNeill’s have wanted to get a
pair of the Eskimo dogs.
The only reason they did not
get the dogs sooner, according to
Bill McNeill, Sr-, is that the fam-
ily had a dog at their ranch that
was already enough to take care
of. Then Sunday, July 9,
“Brick”, the border collie ranch
dog, died.
The next day the McNeill’s
made a long distance telephone
call to Anchorage. They called
Lt. Col. Hahn Wynne, the father
of Bill McNeill, Jr.’s roommate
when he was at Texas A. & M.
Lt. Col. Wynne promised to
find a pair of registered Siberian
Hiskies and to ship them immed-
iately.
For the next several days the
family made a number of tele-
phone calls checking on the
where-abouts of their dogs. By
Saturday they were on a 24-hour
alert. Mrs. McNeill said, “It
was almost as bad as waiting
for a baby to arrive.”
Finally at midnight Saturday
a call came through informing
the McNeill’s that their dogs
had arrived safe and sound in
Corpus Christi.
Thus, two native born Alas-
kans found a new home in the
heart of South Texas.
Cotton, Grain
YieldReported
High In Mathis
The Mathis cotton and grain
picture reportedly is still bright
as cotton harvesting began ir,
earnest this week.
With the harvesting of grain
about 65 per cent over the esti-
mates of the crop are very high.
Not hamper-ed by the costly in-
sect battle waged by cotton
farmers the grain profits should
be good. Local grain buyers re-
port that fields in the Mathis
area are also having a much
heavier yield than the national
average. Over 300 cars of grain
have been harvested in the
Mathis area as of Tuesday.
The cotton harvest will prob-
ably be large but the heavy cost
of fighting the insects after each
rain has cut deeply into the
profits, according to most re-
ports. »
As of Tuesday night the Math-
is gins had ginned 328 bales of
cotton. The individual totals are:
Mathis Gin 180, Farmers Gin,
50 and Vahlsing Gins, 98.
reported only 20 percent of the
animals bitten by rabid animals
will take the disease.
Dr. Hubert was quick to add
that, although only 20 per cent
of the animals bitten by rabid
animals take the disease, it is
100 per cent fatal to those that
do. This includes humans.
The skunk killed the Harris
puppy and began fighting with
the other dog under the Harris
home. A neighbor seeing the
skunk, thought it might be rab-
id, so he shot and killed it. Har-
ris took the skunk to Dr. Hu-
bert to be sent to the state
health agency. The agency re-
ported back early this week that
I he skunk did have rabies.
II the skunk bit other dogs
or wild animals last Wednesday
they could possibly have the dis-
ease this Wednesday or Thurs-
day, according to Hubert.
Berry said the city is plan-
ning an immediate roundup of
all untagged dogs in the city.
The dogs must have a vaccina-
tion tag and a city tag.
Dr. Hubert said he has not
been vaccinating dogs under
four months old because they
have to be vaccinated again in
six months. He said, however,
that now, because of the disease
in the area, all dogs should be
vaccinated, regardless of age.
Rabies is a virus which acts
oh the .central nervous system.
It is one of the most painful
deaths, according to Dr. Hubert.
He said, “I don’t usually believe
in scaring people, but this is
very serious. I have seen a mov-
ie of a man who died with rabies
and if everyone could see this
they would waste no time in hav-
ing their dogs vaccinated.”
He said the first symptoms
that a dog has rabies may be
when he stops eating. They will
also begin to froth at the mouth.
The common picture of a rabid
dog “foaming at the mouth” is
usually in the late stages of the
disease, according to Dr. Hu-
bert, when the dog’s bottom
jaw is paralyzed.
He said rabid dogs do not al-'
ways become vicious, but some-
1 times docile.
EmploymentCommission
Opens Office This Week
Engineer From India
Visits Mathis Water Plant
M.L. Salian, Assistant Engin-
eer of the Sanitation Department
in Mangalore, India was a Math-
1 is visitor Wednesday afternoon.
He was accompanied by Hector
Herrera, Junior Engineer of the
State Health Department.
Salian is an exchange stude’-*
and has been studying at Texas
A & M and Texas University.
He has been in the United
States for about 10 months and
Kindergarten
Graduates 34
Last Tuesday,
Graduation exercises for the
TWathis Kindergarten were held
■Tuesday afternoon from 3 to 4
of clock;. Attendance and
achievement awards were pre-
sented 1:o the 34 students who
hare attended the school.
ijhe school term started in
January and ended in July with
the [teachers being Mrs. Charles
Milter and Mrs. Vernon Adams.
Mrs. Paul Chambers and Mrs.
J.A. Hawse were assistants for
the term-
Parents and guests were pre-
J sent for the ^program.
is presently visiting several
South Texas cities to see the
water and sewer plants.
John Standlea took the visitors
on a tour of the water and sew-
er plants here; also to the State
Park and Wesley Seale Dam.
Salian was very impressed
with the tour and especially ad-
mired Mathis’ street paving pro-
gram, saying he thought Mathis
would be a very pretty town
when the streets were complet-
ed.
In speaking of India, Salian
said the children there start
learning English in the fourth
grade and continue their study
through school. He also stated
that while exchange students
from India are sent to all parts
of the United tales, the majority
of engineering students wanted
to come to Texas because they
felt the best engineers were
here.
Salian was given a Chamber
of Commerce map of the lake
and Mathis; several picture
post cards and an invitation to
visit Mathis again.
He visited various plants in
Corpus Christi Thursday before
returning to Austin where he is
completing his studies. He will
return to India later this month.
John Sutherland
On Scout Trip
To New Mexico
John Sutherland, member of
Boy Scout Troop 38 in Mathis,
joined nine members of Boy
Scout Explorer Post 164 of Cor-
pus Christi for a trip to Philmont
National Boy Scout Camp in
northeastern New Mexico. They
left Mesday and will return
Autust 7th.
The trip is being made in a
school bus under the leadership
of Adviser William Cole.
During their stay at the camp,
the group plans to hike at least
50 miles on the slopes of the
Sangre de Cristo range of the
Rockies.
Enroute home, the group will
visit the Indian Pueblos at Taos,
New Mexico and will tour Carls-
bad Cavern.
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Gordon Cabaniss announced
this week he has opened an of-
fice here for the Texas Employ-
ment Commission to serve farm-
ers and farm laborers. The of-
fice is at Frazier Auto Parts.
The office, according to Cab-
aniss, will assist the farmers in
securing cotton pickers who fol-
low the cotton crop across the
state. He said there is no charge
for this service to either farm-
er or cotton picker.
Cabaniss said, “The commis-
sion has nothing to do with
setting the price of the labor,
but our job is to get farmer and
worker together as quickly as
possible.”
The area commission offices
communicate through the dis-
trict office in Corpus Christi so
each field office can inform the
workers where cotton harvest-
ing is in progress. This office
will remain open until about the
last week of August, according
to Cabaniss, when the cotton
Chamber Needs Maps
The Mathis Chamber of Com-
merce sent out a plea this week
for all Chamber of Commerce
members to bring in maps of
the lake they may not be using.
The maps are needed badly to
answer mail request.
season is about over here.
This is the second year Caba-
niss has served as Farm Labor
Interviewer for the commission
in Mathis.
There are similar offices is
Tynan, Odem, Robstown and
Bishop.
Edroy Youth
Awarded $500
Scholarship
Alvin Michael Spiekerman,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin John
Spiekerman of Edroy, has been
awarded a National Methodist
Scholarship by the Board of Edu
cation of the Methodist Church,
Nashville, Tennessee.
Spiekerman, a freshman stu-
dent at Southwestern University
in Georgetown, Texas, was
chosen along with four other
Southwestern students on the
basis of superior academic
standing.
National Methodist Scholar-
ship awards cover tuition and
fees up to $500.
Funds for the support of Na-
tional Methodist Scholarships
are received from local Metho-
dist churches on the basis of a
church-wide offering on Metho-
dist Student Day.
NEW SIGN — Ray Blackburn
and Charlie Caddell stand by
the new sign recently purchas-
ed by the Mathis Lions' Club to
use where ever they are holding
civic projects. Blackburn is the
charter president of the club and
Caddell is the charter secre-
tary.
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