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THE MATHIS NEWS
VOL. xxxvni
MATHIS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 17, ,1953
EIGHT PAGES — NO. 28
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8 - Foot Alligator
is Caught Thursday
At Lake Here
Above is the picture of the 8
foot alligator caught at Lake Cor-
pus Christi by a fishing party
from San Antonio.
On the left is Mr. Wood, one of
the men who caught the gater and
on the right is Frank Henze, local
game warden wih he Game and
Fish Commission.
The alligaer weighed around 200
pounds, Mr. Henze said, and mea-
sured 8 feet, 2 1-2 inches in length^.
It was caught on a trott line near
Miller’s Bluff. The alligater caught
its rear hind feet on a hook on
the line and couldn’t free itself.
Mr. Henze said the gater could
have easily broken the line, ex-
cept that it was long and would
give wit hthe struggle of the gater.
The amphibian crawled into a
brush pile in the lake and drowned
himself. The men then pulled him
into a boat and brought him to
shore:
Mr. Henze said that there are
a few alligators at the lake, and
that on several occassions gaters
larger than this one have been
caught on trot lines but they
have always succeeded in break-
ing loose.
Alligator’s chief diet is turtles
and snakes and fish, if they can
catch them. He said that alligators
will rarely attack human, beings
unless they are protecting their
eggs or young. Crocidiles, how-
ever, will attack humans any
time, but he said none were in
this part of the country.
As far as can be determined,
the Game and Fish Commission
has not found alligators to be de-
trimental to aquatic life. Some
counties in Texas even have laws
protecting the alligators.
w. f. McWhorter dies
THURSDAY; SERVICES
TO BE HELD TODAY
Funeral services will be held at
10 o’clock this morning at Dobie
Funeral Chapel, for W. F. Me
Whorter of Lagarto, who died at
Mathis Hospital about 2 a. m.
Thursday morning following a
long illness.
He was a farmer and rancher
who had lived" at Lagarto for the
past 41 years. He was born in
Live Oak County on July 31, 1875.
Services will be conducted by
Rev. James Stone of Three Rivers
with burial in McNabb Memorial
Cemetery in Mathis.
He is survived by two sons, Ed
McWhorter of Mathis, and Emmett
McWhorter of Lagarto.
Building Permit
Ordinance Is Passed
By City Monday
An ordinance requiring a build-
ing permit for the construction or
alteration of any bbilding within
the city limits of Mathis was put
into effect this week with the
printing of the notice in this
pqper.
The ordinance was passed in
June bu was not put into effect
because the city had not appointed
a building inspector and met other
requirements for such an ordin-
ance to be in force.
Monday night, the City Council
appointed John Standlea as build-
ing inspector. Once a permit is
obtained for building a structure,
Mrs. Standlea’s job is to see that
all building codes are confomed
with in the construction of thd
building.
As compensation for his work
as building inspector, Mr. Stand-
lea will receive a fee to be fixed
after the council finds out the
amount being paid in other cities
for such work.
The ordnance, which is printed
on another page of this paper,
makes it unlawful for anyone to
construct or structurally alter any
building within the city without
obtaining a permit from the city
secreary except where the total
cost of the structure or alteration
does no exceed $25.00.
The building fee for the permit
wiH be $5 for work up to and
including $5,000 and ten cents per
hundred for all construction or al-
terations costing over $5000.
Well and Tank Contract
Awarded By City Council
City Policeman Is Hired By City
Friday On Part Time Basis; Will
Start Giving Tickets Here Today
Eddie Wollesen was hired by
the City Council last Friday night
as city policeman.
Mr. Wollesen is associated with
Mathis Radio and T. V. Sales
Company, and will work as police-
man on a part-time basis for a
trial period of 90* days.
Mr. Wollesen has worked with
the police force in Brownsville in
prior years. He has been warning
people during the past week and
has given no trafic tickets. How-
ever, beginning today, he will give
tickets for violations.
Edgar Eggert was appointed as
Corporation Court judge, and will
hold court at the fire station each
Monday and Thursday mornings
at 10 o’clock. He will also serve
as clerk of the court.
Both men will receive salaries
for their work and will not work
on a percentage-of-fines basis.
Percy Hartman
Appointed Adjutant
Of VFW District
In the closing hours of the 33rd
Encampment of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, which met recently
in San Antonio, Leon K. Frankel,
of Odem Commander of District
6, named Percy Hartman, veter-
ans county service officer, as Ad-
jutant of District 6. \
He will succeed J. A. Petts of
Corpus Christi, who was appointed
legislative officer of the district.
Chiltipin Street
To Be Opened
The City Council this week au-
thorized the opening of Chiltipin
Street from Aransas to Frio Stre-
ets. This has been designated as
a street for sometime, but has
never been opened up but will
be opened now in the near future.
R. R. Rosa Sees Drought as a Possible
Bright Spot in the Fight Against the
Spread of Pink Boll by Early Plowing
Service Station
Owner Is Injured
In Sunday Fire
A fire about 2 o’clock Sunday
evening slightly damaged the Sin-
clair Service station in town and
resulted in the injury of its owner.
The fire broke out after the
grease rack had been cleaned with
kerosene. The inside of the grease
rack port was scotched but no
other damage was done.
Owner Leslie Faurie was injured
when he attempted to pull the
overhead door shut so firemen
could smother the blaze. Afire-
loosened window pane fell from
the door and hit him on his left
hand. The pane severed the lead-
ers in his hand. He was rushed
to the doctor where one of the
leaders was tied together. He was
then taken to the Naval Hospital in
Corpus Christi where doctors work-
ed on the hand for over an hour
to get the other leaders back to-
gether.
Thursday, he was reported to
be improved, but his hand was
badly swollen.
R. O. GRIFFON BUYS
SINCLAIR SERVICE
STATION AT McGEE’S
R. O. Griffin announced this
week that he has bought out the
Sinclair service station at McGee
otor Sales. This service station
formerly operated by Eldon
ings, prior to several months
when Mr. McGee took over
peration.
A bright spot for cotton farmers
in the prolonged drought that has
cut yields in half was sounded
this week by R. R. Rosa, head
of the county pink boll worm unit;
“Farmers have a golden op-
portunity this year to reduce the
ravages of the pink bollworm if
they will destroy their cotton
stalks as soon as the cotton has
been picked, then after four
or five days go in and plow out
the roots so that no new growth
will return for the pink bollworm
to propagate upon.
“It appears now that any late
cotton coming in to fruit will
suffer extremely heavy damage
as indicated by the numbers of
pink bollworm moths now being
trapped by the Research Mer-
cury Vapor Light being operated
on the G. A. Standlee farm west
of Taft,” Mr.' Rosa said.
According to figures made a-
vailable by Mr. Rosa on a sur-
vey started on June 30 an in-
crease of almost 1000 percent in
moths has been recorded. On June
30 eight moths were trapped, on
July 7 there were 222 recorded
BAPTIST GROUPS
ATTENDING CAMP
IN ALTO FRIO
Among the Mathis boys ~ and
girls who are attending the Bap-
tist encampment at Alto Frio this
week are; Bubba Stone, Dennis
Hutchens, Lloyd Hutchens Ken-
'neth Harbin, June Berry, Mary
Hutchens, Re Caffall, Patricia
Ingle, Nancy Griffin, Bill Palmer,
Allen Palmer, and the sponsors,
Lawrence Baxter and Rev. and
Mrs. A. A. Palmer.
Rev. Palmer is serving as the
camp pastor this week.
Local Elev. Is Now
Processing Meal For
Gov. Drouth Aid
The Mathis Grain and Elevator
Corporation began work this week
on a government contract making
cotton seed pellets from cotton
seed meal to be sold to farmers
and ranchers in the drouth strick-
en Soughwest.
Warren LeBourvea, manager,
said that the first- pellets were
made Tuesday and the first of
2,000 tons of the meal was coming
in.
The company has gone on a
24-hour basis to take care of the
government contract.
The meal pellets are being ship-
ped to government designated
areas at reduced freight rates to
help drouth stricken cattlemen.
and on the eighth of July 645
were trapped. On July 9, the
last day on which official figures
are available, 1001 moths were
caught.
“With such vast numbers of
moths in flight it follows that
any green succulent cotton will
become a concentration point for
the moths and any fruits set
will be totally eaten up,” Mr. Rosa
warned.
Pony League
Will Play At
Orange Grove
The Pony League will probably
play a doubleheader game at
Orange Grove tonight beginning
at 7 o’clock, Arnold McCraw said.
He hoped to play Orange Grove
and Alice, but did not know for
sure whether Alice would make
the game or not.
Monday night the Pony League
will play Beeville at Mathis, with
game time starting at 8 o’clock.
25 Stop Signs
Ordered To Help
Control Traffic
Twentyfive stop signs were order
ed by the City Council Mon. night
in the first move to help the new
City Policeman control traffic in
the city.
Policeman Eddie Wollesen re-
quested the fifteen signs and said
they would be erected at bad
corners in the city. After the
signs are erected, streets going
north and south will be regarded
as through streets.
The Council also mentioned dur-
ing the course of the meeting
that parking meters for the city
were being considered. If the
meters are put in town, the streets
will be marked into parking lanes,
a 15 minute parking limit will be
set up in front of the post office
and other parts of town will be
designated as parallel parking
areas.
The meters will be of the type
which take one cent or five cents
giving the parkqr 12 minutes or
one full hour.
296 Grain Loans
Made in the County
For $976,262.78
There have been 296 grain loans
made in San Patricio County, ac-
cording to P. M. A. Director Dil-
lard.
This represents a total of 41,-
738,790 pounds of sorghum grain
with a total loan value of $976,-
362.78. The loan rate this year
was $2.54 on grain stored in San
Patricio County. A small portion
of the grain in the above figures
was stored in Nueces County due
to shortage of storage facilities
in this county.
A storage charge of 21 cents
was made on all grain stored be-
tween June 26 and 'July 13, which
caught the bulk of San Patricio
County grain. Grain stored before
this time bore a 22 cent rate and
that coming afterwards will bear
a 20 cent rate. In addition to the
storage charge of 1 cent per hun-
dred service charge is also made.
Cotton Ginning Here
Hits 2,452 Bales
During Past Week
Cotton ginning increased consi-
derably this week with local gins
turining out 1392 bales.
Hall Gin ginned 465 this week to
make a total of 940 for this year.
Vahlsing Gins ginned 927 this week
to make a 1512 total.
Overall total for the Mathis area
is 2,452.
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Robert Ramsower
Receives Star Badge
At Meeting Monday
Robert Ramsower, . 12-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Ram-
sower, was awarded the Star Rank
in Scouting at the Court of Honor
held Monday night at the local
Scout Hut.
Robert, who will be in the eighth
grade when school starts, has been
in Scouting for a year and a half,
and according to Scoutmaster, Wi-
ley Huntsinger, he has been very
'active in all Scout work. At pre-
sent, he is serving as Scribe for
the local troop.
He earned the First Aid, Nature,
Home Repair, Forestry, and Con-
servation merit badges to receive
the Star Rank.
Commissioners Buy
New Car and Set
Budget for Health
SINTON — Commissioners Court
met Monday morning in the San
Patricio County Court House. Co-
unty Judge Wm. E. Nicholas,
Raulie L. Iriwn, commissioner of
precinct 4, P. B. Mahoney, com-
missioner of precinct 3 and Leo
Owen, service agent for the Farm
Ordinance Passed
In 1951 Now Being
Enforced Here
Truck Knocks Down
Frasier Gas Pumps
Beginning with the last billing
date, the city water department
has been inforcing an ordinance
passed on July 9, 1951 by the last
administration which specifies
that each water tap on a single
water meter will cost that person
a $2.00 minimum rate.
By inforcing this ordinance, the
city gained a total of $585.93 on
Bureau, were present. E. H. Jack-.. ~ .... . ...
’ , , ,, , .Vlast month bills; $474 of this was
son, another member of the boardi . . f ,0 .
. .. .. .T ,. .'.gamed from water, $27.43 from
is m Boston attending a National
The Layne-Texas Company of
Houston was awarded the contract
for the new water well last week-
end and the drilling rig moved
on location .on Wednesday.
The new well will be drilled on
property owned by P. S. Cur lee
near the Drive In Theater. The
city has a letter of committment
from Mr. Curlee and if the test
hole, which is to be drilled first,
proves that the well will be a good
one, then the city will purchase
the land from Mr. Curlee.
Layne-Texas’s bid was $21,590.-
00 with a completion date of 30
days. This total will include
$6,090 for a turbine pump with
the remainder for the well.
Other bids were Texas Water
Wells Inc., $20,117 with 75 days
completion date; Carl Vickers,
$20,713; and Southern Engine and
Pump Company, who bid $5,922
for the pump only.
Layne-Texas was awarded the
bid since they were the only
company which sent in an un-
conditional bid,., and the city hired
engineers considered their bid to
be the best, even though it was
the highest of the three.
The tank contract was awarded
to Union Tank and Supply Com-
pany, the only company to bid on
the alternate proposal 2 and 3
which was for a galvanixe bolted
steel tank, which engineers reco-
mmended as the best tank for
this water.
The company was also the low-
est bidder on any of the four
alternate proposals, and agreed to
finish the tanks in 36 days. Other
companies could not finish the
tank for 320, 270, and 120 days
respectively for the three other
bidding copanies.
Association of County Judges and
Commsisioners.
The Commissioners accepted
bids and bought a new Ford car.
The bid accepted was turned in
by Stone Brothers at Mathis and
the car was purchased for P. B.
Mahoney, county commissioner of
precinct 3 at Mathis.
A tentative budget for the San
Freazier’s Service Station was Patricio County Health Unit was
slightly damaged Sunday night approved. The budget was set at
when a truck driven by a Latin-
American turned into the station
and knocked over two gasoline
pumps.
The pumps did not catch fire,
however.
approximately $15,000.00 for the
county and $10,000.00 for the
State.
Numerous small items for the
County Welfare Agency were re-
viewed and approved.
Telephone Company Accepts Lower
Rate Increase Schedule Offered By
City Council; Business Phones Increased
The City Council Monday night
rejected the Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company’s request for
a rate increase on telephones in
the town, but offered the company
a compromise schedule, which in
effect, lowered the rates from the
company’s requested increase.
The telephone officials, Stan Bell
and Bill Mclntosch, accepted the
compromise rate which will now
go into effect on August 11, the
next billing date.
The rates were set on the foEow-
ing schedule:
Aong the patients at Mathis
Hospital this week are Mrs. Mattie
Edmonds, who is reported to be
improved; Henry Mussman, Mrs.
P. B. Mahoney, who underwent
surgery Thursday, and Mrs. J.
N. Edmondson.
Pre. Rt.
Com.
Pro.
Business
Phones
7.50
8.50
8.00
Residence
one party
3.50
4.00
4.75
two-party
3.00
3.50
4.00
Rural
Business
4.75
None
5.50
Residence
3.00
None
3.50
(Pre. Rt. is for Present Rate —
“Com.” is for Compromised Rate;
and “Pro.” is for the compay’s
proposed rate;' “None” is where
company’s request was granted.)
In turning down the original
schedule, Mayor Milton Boatwright
said that it penalized the resid-
ence user of the phone, whereas
he believed that businessmen
would not mind paying a slight
increase in their phone service
over what the company requested,
since they depend on their phones
in their business. He said he con-
desired a phone in a home as a
luxury, and that the company’s
request for such a large increase
in residence phone rates would
make the telephone seem less
like a luxury.
The company therefore agreed
to lower its request on residence
phones and increase the rate on
business phones.
Alamo Express Opens
Freight Deliveries
Here Last Friday
Alamo Express, with head-
quarters in San Antonio, opened
freight service to Mathis the lat-
ter part of last week. The com-
pany has Mathis Reynolds Sales
Company here as local agents.
Overnight service from Corpus
Christi, Houston, San Antonio, and
all valley points are a main fea-
ture of the company’s service.
Additional information can be ob-
taned from Wayne Koepsel or
Jesse Williams.
Holmes Motor Co.
Shop Is Now Open
After Remodeling
Allie B. Holmes, who recently
bught Curlee Motor Company,
announced this week that he has
completed the remodeling work on
the inside of the shop and is now
ready to service cars.
The inside of the building has
owner of the meter the only one been painted, and new equipment
paying the minimum wafer fee.
The amounts from the garbage
and sewer are the result of the
fact that anyone with a water
bill automatically pays garbage
fees if they are in the city, and
the $27.43 came from fees charged
for community bath houses.
sewer, and $84.50 from garbage.
As can be seen by the total gained
from water, there were 237 houses
in town getting water from an-
other person’s meter, with the
Fire Truck Reshod
With Six New Tires
The City Council voted Monday
night in their regular meeting to
buy six new tires for the city
fire truck.
Bids were taken from local deal-
ers for the tires. F. P. Chambers
was low bidder and received the
order for the tires.
has been added. Virgil Marler is
shop service manager.
GM.C. trucks and Oldsmobile
cars are being sold by the agency
as well as parts for these and
other cars.
He has changed the name of the
company to Holmes Motor Com-
pany.
Mrs. Flynn Dennis sister of
Mrs. Gordon Cabaniss, is a pat-
ient at Memorial Hospital in Cor-
pus Christi where she underwent
a major operation the first of
the week. She is reported to be in j Church
Rev. Mack Attends
Pastors School
Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Mack at-
bought Curlee Motor Company,
and church music institute at
Southwestern University in George-
town from July 6 to 10.
They are now on vacation in
Oklahoma having gone there after
the last session of the school last
Friday.
Rev. T. N. Barton of Taft is
speaking at the local Methodist
in the absence of Rev.
fair condition.
Mack.
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Bunco Party Held
At Edge Home
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Edge enter-
tained with a bunco party Thurs-
day night of last week. Those
present were Mr. and Mrs. Ar-
thur Crumley and sons, Mr. and
Mrs. E. J. Dang, Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Freitag, Miss Peggy Stewert
and Lloyd Hutchens.
High score prizes were won by
Peggy Stewert and Lloyd Hutchens
and low score prizes were won
by Mrs. Jack Freitag and Arthur
Crumely.
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Alfred Phelps and Wiley Hunt-
singer are shown with the over
60 flounder caught last Thursday
night while fishing near Ingleside.
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Mr. Huntsinger also caught one
red fish on his gig. The red was
feeding on mullet in shallow water
when he gigged him.
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