The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 20, 1961 Page: 6 of 8
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Pa'S'S.6 — NEWS — Mathis, Texas, Thurs. Morning, July 20, 1361
Commissioners Court Delays
Any Action On Re-Districting
No action was taken on the re- Auditor Ray Harris has asked, missioners precincts seems to he Com A.T.
No action was taken on the re
alignment of the commissioners
precincts in San Patricio Co.
when the matter came before
the commissioners court Fri-
day.
The court discussed the mat-
ter formally and informally for
several hours, but was in agree-
ment that the matter involved
too many angles and too much
study to be settled in one meet-
ing of the court.
On several occasions County
Auditor Ray
for a survey of the roads for his
records in the office, but as of
Friday no such survey had been
completed by any of the com-
missioners. Com. Pat Kindle
has his survey almost complete
and reported approximately 500
miles of roads of variqus types
in Precinct 4.
Temporary relief for Precinct
4 until such time as the court
reaches a definite decision as to
the division of the county com-
the only thing that will be done
in the immediate future. This
relief for Precinct 4 could come
through Precinct 1 and Precinct
2 assuming part of the load now
on Precinct 4.
Except for a few minor chang-
es in the boundary lines of the
four precincts there has been no
change of boundary lines since
the precincts were defined more
than 30 years ago.
Com. A.T. Granberry offered
the only suggestion as to the
realignment of the precincts.
His suggestion was to divide the
county into four precincts with
the lines running north and
south. Currently the county is
divided with Precinct 3 on the
west end of the county and Pre-
cinct 4 on the east side divided
from Precincts 1 and 2 by lines
running roughly north and south
and the division line between
Precinct 1 and Precinct 2 on an
east-west slant.
Fishing Rights County T.B. Group To Hear
Defined in Seal Program on July 29
New Booklet
' AUSTIN — Fishing rights in
public waters are defined in a
complete article in the July is-
sue of TEXAS GAME AND
FISH magazine, according to T.
D. Carroll, director of informa-
tion and education.
This article was prepared by
Jarris Toler, Assistant Attorney
General, and covers all of the
statutes affecting the fishing in
public, waters. “The wildlife re-
sources of this state are the
property of the state and are
held in trust by the state for the
benefit of its people, with no
proprietary rights existing in the
people to such game and fish
until such are reduced to cap-
ture in a legal manner,’’ Toler
points out. He then covers the
rights of persons who own land
to protect against trespass, and
says that the Legislature cannot
remove these rights except for
conservation purposes, or where
the use of such land constitutes
a public nuisance.
According to Toler’s article, it
is legal for a person to fish in
any navigable stream, but they
must not trespass upon the bor-
dering landowners without per-
mission. Toler cites marly pre-.
vious cases in fully covering the
question of public rights in fish-
Directors of the Coastal Bencl
Tuberculosis Association* will
hear a program on the Christ-
mas Seal Campaign at their reg-
ular quarterly meeting Thurs-
day, July 20.
The dinner meeting will begin
at 7 p.m. at Crain’s Cafe in
Robstown. Regular business will
include a proposed amendment
to the association’s by-laws to
enlarge the number of directors
from a total of 45 to 60.
Dr. Frank Higgins of Kings-
ville, president, will preside at
the meeting. Directors include
Mrs. Joe Barksdale of Aransas
Pass; Mrs. F.W. Huddleston of
Bishop; Mrs. Opal Chapman.
R. N., of Calallen; Dr. William
E. Anderson, Mrs- Edward E.
Ethel, Dr. Mclver Furman, Mrs.
Jake Goldstein, .G. Gonzalez,
Sr., Jolpv Halloran, Mrs. Felix
Irwin, Dr. W.R. Metzger, Mrs.
Jospeh Mueller, Jose Ontiveros,
George Prowse and D-D. Snow,
all of Corpus Christi;
John L. Brough of Edroy;
Mrs. N.D. Wingo of Gregory; A.
C. Blanscet of Ingleside; Dr.
Eldon Brinley, T.M. Cmapbell,
Louis Fuentes, Jr., Mrs. John
S. Gillett, The Rev. W.B. Hall,
Dr. Higgins, Mrs. Gayle Riebel,
Mario Salazar, Ray-
mond Schmidt, \J oseph P.
Schnitzen, Raymond Scholz,
ing lakes and streams of Texas. George D. Stephens, Dr. John
D. Watson, Jr., and Mrs. O.J.
Zwernemann, all of Kingsville;
Dr. Dan R. Baen and Mrs.
John Fusselman of Mathis; A.A.
Luckenbach of Odem, Ivan C.
Baucom of Portland, E.C. Bark-
er of Ricardo; Dr. Sidney Pos-
ner of Robstown; Frank F. Kel-
ly, Jr-, Judge William E- Nicho-
las, Epifanio Paz and Dr. CA.
Selby of Sinton; J.B. Hansen of
West Sinton; and Harold E:
Ewald and K.G. McKamey of
Taft.
$4,060 In Fines
Collected By
County J. P. Courts
A total of $4,060-95 was taken
in on fines and costs from the
Justice Courts during the past
month, with Precinct 1 edging
ahead again to turn in the larg-
est amount. Precinct 4 had led
the previous month.
Frank Markussen of Precinct
1 submitted a report showing
the collection of $1,604.95; W.H.
Zavits of Precinct 4 followed
with a total of $1,231.; C.D. Caf-
fall of Precinct 5 reported a col-
lection of $532.50; W.H. Womack
of Precinct 6 reported $317.30;
Bob Whitten of Precinct 2 turned
in a report of $231-90 collected;
and O.J. Moody of Precinct 8
had a report showing a collec-
tion of $143.30.
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Sunday School Class
Sends Love Offering
To State Hospital
A love offering will be sent
to the Abilene State Hospital by
the Alathean Sunday School
Class of the First Baptist
Church.
The money will be applied to
the' purchase of window fans.
This project was decided Dy
the members at their monthly
meeting Thursday evening, July
13, at the home of Mrs.Karl
London. Mrs. C.D. Caffall was
co-hostess for the' meeting.
Mrs. L.B. Pullin presided at
the business meeting and also
gave the devotional.
Following the meeting, re-
freshments of congealed salad,
coffee and ice tea were served
to Mrs. Pullin, Mrs. Caffall,
Mrs. Henry Finley, Mrs. Till
Harbin and Mrs. London.
Nematodes Do
Damage To
Cotton Crop
Nematodes damage cotton,
more or less, in all areas of Tex-
as. The small microscopic
worms are more damaging in
sandy or loam type soils where
water is a limiting factor.
Nematode injury is often over-
looked or mistakenly diagnosed
as drought damage and poor
soil. Damage may vary from
slight to as much as 30 percent
of the crop.
The root knot nematodes are
the most damaging and most
easily recognized. Damage by
these nematodes result in knots'1
or galls being formed on the
roots. Young cotton seedlings
can be attacked by the parasites
causing them to die or be weak-
ened.
In some areas nematodes
damage the roots and provide a
gateway for the fusarium wilt-
fungus to enter. The fusarium
wilt disease once thought of as
only an East Texas disease has
been moving west in recent
years. Specimens have been re-
ceived at College Station from
Wichita Falls, O'Brien and Mule-
shoe areas.
Other nematodes that cause
damage are the dagger, stubby
root and stylet nematodes. The
root lesion, lance and true spiral
nematodes are suspected as
causing damage. Special soil and
root, samples can be checked in
the Plant Disease Diagnostic
Laboratory at College Station in
order to determine kind and
number of nematodes.
Nematodes are controlled by
certain cultural practices or the
use of certain chemicals prior
to planting. Contact your exten-
sion agent for additional infor-
mation and ask for a copy of
MP-356, “Plant Nematodes —
Their Identification and Con-
trol.”
T ynan News
The general meeting of St.
Paul Lutheran Women of the
Church Auxiliary was held on
Thursday evening, July 13.
Pastor Norman Dornquast op-
ened the meeting with scripture
reading and prayer and also led
the Bible study on the Book of
Jonah.
Mrs. H. F. Meyer was in
charge of the business session.
Refreshments were served by
Mrs. C.H. Steinmeyer and Miss
Elise Mengers to the nineteen
members who attended.
The. next meeting of the after-
noon circle will be on August
15, at 3 p.m. and the evening
circle will meet on August 10,
at 8 p.m.
Rev. Robert Breitkreutz will
deliver his first seimion on July
30, at 9 a.m. He is the new pas-
tor of the Peace E. & R. Church.
An invitation is extended to at-
tend the services.
Grain harvest is in full swing;
and cotton is beginning to come
in so there is a lot of activity in
our small town.
Anyone in and around Tynan
who have news items for the
paper are asked to call 2401 or
2403.
The Women’s Guild of Peace
E & R Church met on Thursday
afternoon, July 6, at 2:30 o’clock
in the Educational building of
the church.
Mrs. Ed. Stridde was program
chairman, assisted by Mrs. H.F.
Bruns and Mrs. Walter Kinkier.
Mrs. Bruns, vice president,
presided at hte meeting. Plans
were made to have a covered
dish supper for the new pastor
and his family.
The guest speaker was Mrs.
Herbert Stridde who led the Bib-
le Study.
Refreshments were served by
the hostess, Mrs. Martin Schu-
bert.
Mrs. Frank Klepac and child-
ren are spending a few days va-
cation in San Antonio.
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Agriculture
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There is a persistent convic-
tion among many city dwellers
that no farmer or his wife ever
should have any business in a
grocery store except to buy cof-
fee, salt, perhaps a little sugar
and the like.
They still carry the vision of
the farmer with his own vege-
table garden, his, own orchard,
milking his own cows, gathering
his own fresh eggs, and so forth
and so on.
Bill Durham, the astute agri-
cultural editor of the Houston
Post, did something to dispel
this concept not long ago with
one of his columns elaborating
on an article in Food Business,
a publication for the food manu-
facturing, processing and mark-
eting business.
“Apparently,” Durham com-
mented, “these people still
thought that every farm had' a
garden and a milk cow and that
all the purchases from the gro-
cery store involved only coffee,
flour and corn meal. Farm Jour-
nal magazine did a lot of work
in getting information together
on the importance of the farm
market for food stores.
“Farmers and those who serve
them have failed to get across
the story that agriculture is big
business and that today’s farm-
er must be one of the most
shrewd and astute business men
in the economy.
“You just can’t find a com-
mercial farmer in the Houston
area who doesn’t have a capital
investment of less than $50,000-
In most cases it amounts ij
more than that. You can.find a
lot of people in business in Hous-
ton who don’t have to stand that
kind of financing.”
It was pointed out that, as a
matter of fact, farm women
buy more when they go to the
store than do women who live,
in town. The reason is that they
serve more food — a farm wo-
man fixes three big meals a day.
Feeding a bunch of men who
are doing hard work in the field
just naturally takes more gro-
ceries.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
Frank Henry McCray and
Mrs. Ophie Cash McCray
Hardy Lee Collier and Bar-
bara Lucille Lowe
Allen Henry Wiechring and
Carol Ann Winsauer
David Pereyde Gamez and
Elidia Ramirez
Ray Gene Crisp and Dorothy
Ann Klaevemann
DEEDS
Corpus Christi Builders, Inc to
John Francis Wehrheim. Lot 60
Blk 6 French Village Addn No.
2 Portland.
Robert L. Miller to J.W. Fow-
ler. Lot 11 Blk 3 Mesquite Acres
Unit 1
• Marcos Guzman to Miguel R.
Guzman. Lot 4 Blk 2 Dougherty
and Roots Addn Mathis
Lonnie Johnson to Margaret
White. Lot 8 Blk 30 Mathis.
Peoples Lumber Co to Sherm-
an Gibson. Lot 22 Blk 36 Taft
B.B. Jernigan to Don IT.
Welsh. Lot 8 of the R.L. Irwin
Addn Aransas Pass
John T. Tucker to Marvin
Adolph Bartz. Lot 3 Blk 2 Suther-
land Addn Unit 1 Portland
Marlboro Developers Inc to P.
M. Saenz. Lots 52, 53 Blk 6
French Village Addn No. 2
P.M. Saenz to Howell-Cole
Portland
Committees Named For
Coastal Bend CROP Group
ES0IL CONSERVATIONS
DISTRICT NEWS
= CUR SOIL * OUR STRENGTH E
Marvin and Elmo Beyer are
of the opinion that native grass
is difficult to beat because of
its many characteristics that na-
ture has given it to tolerate giv-
en condition. They have tried
several species of introduced
grasses but have found that und-
er their conditions, these grasses
are too $hort lived. The Beyer
Brothers' Have good productive
soil, but it is rather low and at
times will stand water for some
time. The introduced grasses
that they have used can with-
stand the wetness. They have a
90-acre “Swale pasture”- that
has produced real well for them.
The vegetation is made up of
water tolerant grasses and can-
not only withstand the extreme
wetness, but does real well und-
er these conditions. This grass
has a low air requirement.’
A portion of their cropland al-
so had the excessive wetness
factor, They only made good
crops on this area during years
of low rainfall. It was concluded
that possibly they were not
breaking even in their farming
on this area, so' they decided to
sod 16 acres to this native water
tolerant grass. They had to use
sod because this seed is not to
be found commercially. In May,
when time was available, they
sodded 16 acres in three foot
rows. The June rains have got-
ten it off to a good start. Run-
ners are two to four feet long.
Most people refer to the Beyer
grass as “Swale grass”. The cor-
rect name is Hartweg paspal-
um. It is similar to Dallas grass
and belongs to the same family,
R.S. Hodges, one of the San
Patricio Soil Conservation Dis-
trict Supervisors, is making
farmland out of a 20-acre area
that in the past has not been
profitable to farm. It is a low
and uneven area. He is using
the District’s 3-yard dirt buggy
to scrape off the high spots and
moving this soil into the low
spots. He has also put in a
small ditch to. take off the last
water. Hodges is of the opinion
that when he gets through with
the project that this will, probab-
ly be the best land on the farm.
The Soil Conservation ^Service
technicians assisted Hodges
with the. design and staking.
M.F. Nix to William E. Hunt.
Lots 3, 4 Blk 5 Walker Nix Sub
No. 2 Portland
Public Motors Inc to Elwin W.
Bull. Lot 7 Blk 139A Ingleside
Townsite
D. Elton Ewing to E.W. Bell.
Lot 27 and S 12’ Lot 26 Blk 3
Third Fite Addn Taft
John Hickman to B.R. Bivin.
Lot 10 Blk 7 Driscoll Addn Taft
W-D. Weller Inv. Co*to N.H.
Raiford. Lots 19, 20, 21, 22 Blk
91 Ingleside Townsite
R.D. Brashear to Mrs. Gert-
rude Worley. Lot 3 Garden Oaks
Unit 1 Aransas Pass
Edward Earl Shaw to Everett
F. Crane. Lot 2 Blk 124 Ingle-
side Townsite
R.C. Morley to W.D. Weller
Inv Co. Lot 12 Blk 6 Frank
Phelps Garden Tract Ingleside
Fred T. .Rich to Robert T.
Rich. Undiv int in Lot 7 Blk 1
Rich Acres Addn Mathis
OIL AND GAS LEASE
Herman W. Eubank, Jr. to W.
E. Bakke. 3 ac out of Sec 2 Paul
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The Coastal Bend CROP
(Christian Rural Overseas Pro-
gram) Committee has recently
completed plans for a campaign
to raise cotton for overseas re-
lief purposes through Church
World Service.
The committee, of which Rev.
Fred Harms, pastor of St. John’s
Lutheran Church in Robstown,
is chairman also consists of:
Miss Mary Mahoney, Publicity
Director; R.E. Nolan, Secretary,
Talmage Williams, Treasurer.
Other members of the'committee
are the following community
chairmen for their respective
communities: John Chapman,
Jr, and B.I. Barnes for Chapman
Ranch; E.R. Russell for London:
C.C. Albrecht for Petronilla; G.
C. Hartgraves for Bishop, Dris-
coll and Conqordia; E.H. Grote
for Rabb and Banquete; B.H.
Mueller for Orange Grove; W.A.
Aldrich for Robstown; E. Cliff
Cates for Auga Dulce; and R.J.
Lane for Odem.
The plans discussed at the
meeting were for the collection
of raw cotton for which many
requests are coming to Church
World Service. It was decided
that the growers would be con-
tacted, through the gins, on the
possibility of receiving donations
of bale remnants. Donations of
full bales will also be received,
and arrangements will be made
through the community chair-
man.
The appeal in San Patricio
County will be specifically for
cotton samples due to the large
government loan program. R.J.
Lane will assist the gins in this
program. Remnants and full
bales will also be received in
this part of the Coastal Bend
region.
CROP Sunday will be observed
throughout the Coastal Bend re-
gion on July 23. On this Sunday
leaflets will be distributed
through the area churches, and
announcements of the program
will be made. Prior to CROP
Sunday the CROP film “Sounds
of the Earth” will b e given
many showings. It may be
booked by calling R.E. Nolan,
Robstown.
The Christian Rural Overseas
Program is the “Community
Food Appeal of Church World
Service” and is also engaged
throughout the United States in
meeting the needs of the hungry
overseas. Hong Kong, for exam-
ple, has a great need for raw
cotton; and, in this refugee cen-
ter, the refugees are employed
in making blankets with the cot-
ton received.
Gifts, through CROP, may be
designated to overseas l’eligious
agencies other than Church
World Service. Many Protestanl
denominations who do not con-
sider themselves a part of CWS
actually take part in the over-
seas distribution of CWS,
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