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THE MATHIS NEWS
VOL. XXXVII
THE MATHIS NEWS, MATHIS, TEXAS, FRIDA^SEPT. 12, 1952
3-6In, Rain Stops Harvest
EIGHT PAGES—NO. 37
The Coffee
... Corner...
By HELM
City Council Approves Purchase Of
Safety Signs; Considers Hiring A
Full Time Policeman for Mathis
Definite action was taken at
Monday night’s regular City
Council meeting toward easing
the traffic and law enforcement
problem which exists in Mathis.
The Council quickly approved
the purchasing of four school
zone signs which will be set up
with two for the street in front
of the high school and two for
, the West Ward school. In addi-
tor the j tion, the Council ordered two
“Safety Sally” signs which will
be placed bn San Patricio Ave-
nue, with one in the center of
the street near the IT Theater
and the other in the street near
the I. S. Butler home. Between
the signs it will be against the
laws of Mathis for a person to
drive over 15 miles per hour.
Three more “No Parking From
Here to Corner” signs were also
ordered and will be placed at
strategic corners where people
have been parking too near the
intersection and obstructing the
view of the roads from persons
Petty thefts, knifings, and
gang wars have reached such a
point in Mathis that it behooves
the citizens of Mathis to do
something about it before it gets
out of hand.
Now that cotton picking is
about over, laborers have plenty
of money, and money coupled
with too many ““one
roads” is making it unsafe for
peaceful citizens to stay on the
streets at night, especially dur-
ing the weekend..
There were four or five shoot-
ings, knifings, and brawls here
in Mathis over the weekend,
with four persons having to re-
ceive hospital attention. All
were victims of gang wars, too
much to drink, and ignorance.
Ignorant of the fact that these
things can’t be tolerated for long
without some measure of pun-
ishment.
Lately, during the cotton sea-
here coming into the road from cross
Mathis has been bulging with rnarie
that this would help matters, but
they also were at a loss to figure
out a method of getting >the
money for his salary without
raising taxes.
Mayor Caffall said that the* tax
rolls are already set for next
year and can’t be raised, while
Mathis needs aid now on her
law enforcement problems. Since
one of the commissioners was not
at the meeting, the question was
put off until all of the Council
can discuss the problem to-
gether.
Gene Miller, fire department
chief, attended the meeting and
1 A thundering rainstorm broke
over Mathis and South Texas
Wednesday night to stop the
cotton harvesting and raise the
hopes of farmers for a good vege-
table season.
Approximately five inches of
rain fell in Mathis, although just
about everyone’s gauge varied
widely. J. L. Dreher’s gauge
showed nearly 3 inches had fall-
en up to Thursday morning.
The gauge at Mathis Lumber
showed 3 and a half inches, and
the gauge at Vahlsing’s Gin
showed four and a half inches,
Walter Leber’s gauge had
over 5 inches. About three inches
fell at Lake Corpus Christi, and
Henry Holleman said that at least
four inches fell in Sandia.
The heaviest rain -was in the
West Sinton area and out toward j
San Patricio.
12,905 Bales
Ginned In Mathis
Area This Season
Over 12,905 bales of cotton ha&
been ginned in the Mathis area
by Thursday, according to a
check at the offices of the two
| gins at that time.
The F. H. Vahlsing gin had
turned out 6,280, and the Hall
Gin 6,625. In addition to this,
both ginsv have several hundred
bales of cotton in the cotton
houses.
Rains earlier in the week
slowed the ginning down this
week to where gins could keep
up with the cotton coming in.
Thursday’s rain put a complete
stop to ginning off the yard and
afforded the gins the time to get
the cotton out of the cotton
houses.
Pirates to Open
1952 Football Season
Against St. Joseph
re t 1 b tCfarleS • T;emam; Pie Ma-
reported about four inches at
his farm on the San Patricio
drunks, brawlers, and other law
breakers every weekend. Some
roads.
Mrs. Frank Dehnisch, Mrs. Mil-
,, . . ton Boatwright and Mrs. Bill Hen-
tames there is not enough room d<,rson attended the Council
to hold them all, and occasional- meeting and brought up the sub.
ly they break out and have tolject 0l a stop ligEht the in.
•Jaily tersection of the street running
be caught again. A new
would ease that situation.
Then we come to the fact that
two law enforcement officers are
not enough to take care of the
situation. Recently there has
been a movement among citizens
to petition the county commis-
sioners and sheriff’s department
to place additional aid here to
help eurb the situation,. This
would be a great help we are
sure, and the citizens of Mathis
ought to see tha tthese petitions
are presented to the right par-
ties and that they do something
about our situation.
It is the belief of many that
Mathis has been neglected when
it comes to law enforcement
aids. Perhaps the stationing of
one or two state officers here in
Mathis would help the matter.
Perhaps the city should hire an-
other officer or two. There has
been some talk about doing this
and it may come up soon.
This newspaper will help all
it can. Will you do your part?
zy the side of the«»theater and
San Patricio Avenue, and they
asked the Council what could be
done about obtaining a light for
the Missouri-Pacific crossing on
Front Street. Mayor Brodus Caf-
fall said the proper procedure
would be for several clubs in
town to write to railroad offi-
cials urging the placing of a
light at this crossing where nu-
merous wrecks have occurred in
the pas. He said the Council
would give their backing to the
subject. »
The Council felt that if various
organizations in town helped in
the matter that it would increase
the chances of getting the rali-
road to place signals at the cross-
ing.
A question then came up con-
cerning the setting of a 20 mile
per hour speed limit in the city
of Mathis. No definite action was
taken on this proposal because
it was recognized that the law
must be enforced to be of any
m .... ,, , , aid in cutting down on the num-
«, “Sf&t V ? *”**, g,aTe i0r ber of wrecks,
the Mathis Pirates and I hope a The question then got around
good crowd turns out to see! to the £iri o( a full time
them play Nothing will boost, liceman for Mathis as th Jve
the spirit of a football team, or | in
reported |he fire department was | highway. Mrs. W. A. Jennings
ffpttinff sinner all riaht hut rrmlrl 1 it___ ___ u, • , 1
getting along all right, but could
use some more fire plugs in the
outskirts .of town. Mayor Caffall
said he knew more plugs were
needed, but the Council was still
waiting the report from the
engineers who are making a
study of the water and sewer
system, This report should be
ready soon, he said.
other towns in the county.
The Council was in agreement
any team, for that matter, more
than to have plenty of support
from hometown citizens. Some-
times a lively spirit means the
difference between winning and
losing.
The first five games are to be
played here in Mathis and, al-
though none of them are confer-
ence games, a strong interest The mystery farm series which
shown by the people of Mathis 1 has been running in this paper
in these games will help them | for the past few weeks now will
on the out-of-town conference be sponsored by Leland Koepsel,
games when not too many boost- who operates the Sinclair Station
Mystery Farm
Series To Have
Sponsor For While
Tickets to Game
Go on Sale At
West Gate at 7
\
Football tickets to the game
Friday night will be sold only, at
the west gate, school officials an-
nounced this week.
The gate will open at 7 o’clock.
No reserve tickets will be sold,
and there will be no season tick-
ets sold. Firemen will be
allowed to come to the game
free of charge and they will be
used to patrol the gate and fence.
Everyone is urged to park their
cars on the streets and on the
east side of the field. No cars
will be allowed to park on the
school property next to the west
fence. That gate will not be
open for ticket sales. Those
parking over there will be asked
to move.
All school children who want to
attend the game will be given
free tickets and they must pre-
sent these tickets at the gate
in order to get in. No children
will be allowed in unless they
pay or have this ticket.
All drinks will be sold in paper
cups this year and no bottles
will be allowed in the stands.
Tickets for this game will be
sold at 75 cents and 25 cents.
who also lives on this road, said
that her gauge only measured up
to three inchees and was run-
ning over, but that by the
looks of the field she would im-
agine that they received about
six inches.
Water was coming across the
road a few miles out Highway 9
toward Edroy, and the cut-off
road to Sinton was blocked off
to traffic due to high water at
some bridges on this road.
At West Sinton several roads
were blocked by high water com-
ing across them. Some reports
placed the rain at 8 inches in
this area, and it was still raining
there when this paper went to
press.
The rain just about puts a stop
to the cotton harvesting, as by
the time it is dry enough to re
sume picking the stalk plow-up
deadline will be too near. All
stalks must be cut down by Sep-
tember 25th, which is only two
weeks off. Most farmers will
probably drive into the field with
stalk cutters when it gets dry.
Meanwhile, this rain is just
what the doctor ordered for far-
mers planning to plant vegeta-
bles this winter. The ground-
soaker almost assures enough
moisure for a good season, and
as this paper went to press there
was no indication that the rain
was going to stop for a while.
ers will be able to attend.
Everyone hopes the team this
year is a winning team, and that
next year we will be put back
in the districts and dispense
with this strong and weak zone
business.
Coach isn’t saying yet what
kind of team he is going to have
on the field tonight, so let’s all
go out and find out for ourselves,
and even if they lose the game,
let’s don’t desert them. The sea-
son is not over on the first game.
We hope the City Council sees
fit to hire additional help. It
may prove to be worth the ad-
ditional expense, certainly if- it
would save someone’s life, it
would.. ,
At Monday night’s meeting the
Council considered the' over-all
problem of safety and law en-
forcement in Mathis. Steps were
taken to ease the driving hazards
by ordering school zone signs and
a few no-parking signs. Some stop
signs will be ordered later, and
the Council seriously considered
the hiring of a full-time city po-
liceman, although they didn’t
know where the money to pay
him would come from. It is my
belief that not a single person
would mind paying a small fee
each month to pay an officer tc
help control a bad situation. The
fee could be added to each per-
son’s water and sewer bill am
the few cents would hurt nc
one.
The Council also discussed the
possibility of asking the Texa:
Department of Public Safety t<
See COFFEE—Page 8, Column £
*
across the street from Hanshaw’s
Cafe.
Mr. Koepsel will sponsor the
pictures for- a few weeks.
The owner of the farm pictured
each week can get a free photo-
graph of his farm by calling at
the station and picking up his
picture. The owner is then ask-
ed to come by the News office
and give the News some informa-
tion for a story to run in -next
week’s paper.
The name of the owner of last
week’s farm can be found on an-
other page of this paper, along
with the first person to identify
it correctly.
State May Put
Patrolmen In San Pat
Capt. Herbert Weeks ,in charge
of the Corpus Christi district of
the Texas Highway Patrol, said
Wednesday that two patrolmen
may be stationed at Sinton in the
near future.
Capt. Weeks said that San Pa-
tricio County Judge W. E. Nich-
olas has asked Col. Homer Gar-
jrfson, director of the Department
of Public Safety, to station men
in Sinton.
Capt. Weeks said “I’d like to
rave men there,” but that pres-
ently there were not enough men
■o go around. None have been
rtationed in Sinton for about two.
/ears.
The captain said that Col. Gar-
■ison may send,two men to Sin-
on from the next group of men
graduating from the school for
training highway patrolmen.
Three Stabbings;
1 Shooting Take
Place In Mathis
Polo Benavides, 20, received
emergency treatment at Mathis
Hospital Sunday night for severe
stab wounds of the r^ght chest.
He received his injuries while at
a dance here.
A shooting fracas took place
here Saturday night, also. It
was reported that one bullet
went through his face, and two
others struck his body. Deputy
Sheriff Sam Beall and Justice
of the Peace C. D. Caffall in-
vestigated.
Two other slashings were also
reported, . but no information
was available on who was in-
volved.
The Mathis jail for the past
few weekends has been crammed
with people arrested in Mathis
for disturbing the peace, reckless
driving, and other .charges.
LITTLE BOY SAYS
HE DOESN’T GET
PAPER EVERY DAY!
The Mathis News has now
grown to a daily paper! Here’s
the story:
A Mathis resident came into
the News office several months
ago, paid for his subscription to
the' paper and we promptly put
his name on our mailing list as
a write-in until Addressograph
plates could be made.
There after every week this
person’s little boy would come
in and say that his father wasn’t
getting the paper, and he wanted
to know why. After repeated
checks of the mailing list and
after placing the paper in the
route bundle each week, he still
complained that he wasn’t get-
ting the paper.
A check at the post office
showed that the paper was going
out with the mailman each Fri-
day morning. The full story
came to light this week. The lit-
tle boy finally said that he was
getting the paper each Friday,
but it didn’t come every day.
After repeated attempts to get
him to understand, a person who
could? speak good Spanish was
told the story, and he explained
to the boy that the Mathis paper
was a weekly and only came out
on Friday.
this area. According to old-timers
the most bales ginned in the past
totaled a little over 8,000.
Gins in Mathis have been4 re-
ceiving cotton from as far away
as Cotula, Three Rivers, and
other towns many miles from
here. This week marks the first
time the gins have shut down,
except to grease and make re-
pairs, in many weeks,
If the weather clears, the
Mathis fans of the Pirates will
have their first opportunity to see
the team in action Friday night
when they tangle with the St.
Joseph’s High School eleven
from Victoria. Kick-off time is
8 o’clock.
This will mark the second time
the Pirates have played St. Jos-
eph. The first game several years
ago resulted in the St. Joseph
team being badly beaten by the
home town eleven.
Coach Fred Rich said this
week that St. Joseph has about
the same 'team as it did then, and
that the Pirates should come out
on top..
The Mathis ;eleven is handicap-
ped this year by the small num-
ber of boys coming out for the
spoct; however, nine lettermen
are playing on the first string,
and several of the boys -on the
second string look promising.
Lettermen returning to the
games this year are Lonnie Mes-
The gins were still going Wed- , ser, Allen Doubrava, Irving
nesday night, but were having j Ramsower, Tedo Stone, Rex Rou-
difficulty keeping their electric ^ sel, Jack Miller, Harvey Adams,
motors running due to a voltage
cut in the lines because of the
rain. /
Services Are Held
In Sinton For
Former Resident
Funeral services were held at
4 p.m. Wednesday at Starbuck
Chapel in Sinton for Tom Nary,
56, a former resident of Mathis.
Nary suffered a heart attack
and was dead on arriving
at a Sinton hospital.
He served as deputy sheriff
under Sheriff Ernest Holbrook
from 1943 to 1946, when he re-
signed to take the county vet-
eran officer post.
He operated a garage in Mathis
and was chief of the Mathis Vol-
unteer Fire Department for a
number of years. He was past!
president of T - !
Club.
The Rev.
Curt Lambert and C. W. Rouse.
The boys have been going
through some heavy workouts
this week, and should be in good
shape for Friday’s game.
Rex Rouse, Jack Miller, I. B.
Ramsower and Curt Lambert
will start the game in the back-
field, with the two ends being
tied down by Harvey Adams and versity.
Donnell Hollon; guards are Allen.
Doubrava and C. W. Rouse;
tackles are Tom Lacy and B. T.
Sikes; center position will be-
held down by Tedo Stone.
The starting lineup, weights
and numbers and positions of
both teams are as follows:
Mathis
No. Name Pos. Wt.
16—Harvey Adams, LE ________ 160
10—Tom Lacy, LT ____________________ 105
23—Allen Dubravo, LG ________ 156
20—Tedo Stone, C ______________: 139
12— C. W. Rouse, RG ___________„ 145
13— B. T. Sikes, RT_______________ 190
54—Donnell Hollon, RE_________ 130
31— Rex Rouse, LH_____________ 160
32— Jack Miller, FB _____________ 176
25—I. B. Ramsower. RH________ 145
29—Curt Lambers, QB___________ 190
St. Joseph
No. Name Pos. Wt.
39—Henry Marthiljohni, LE.. 146
27—James Kubecks, LT ...____ 159
19— Fred Smith, LG._______________ 161
14— Lawrence Buxkemper, C 157
37—Buddy Riley, RG ____________ 176
41—Marviu Buxkeinper, RT..*178
32—Donald Vacker, RE __________ 137
22— Fred Reuter, RE ____ ________ 148
23— Tom McIntyre, FB _________ 158
18—Fred Gripp, RH _____________ 147
20— Dick Hilleer, QB _____________ 140
Officials will be: Referee, Per-
kins of Hannover College; um-
pire, Perrenot of Texas A.&M.;
and head linesman, W. F. Koep-
sel of Southern Methodist Uni-
packed at the first meeting of the
P-TA on Tuesday night at 7:30.
A total of 97 adults registered
for the grade count. All seats
were filled, and the members
overflowed into spare space along
the walls.
Mrs. Bill Coffin, new president,
of the Mathis Lions j presided, and the committee
. . I chairmen gave their reports.
Kermit Menkmg,, Meeting time for this year will
pastor of the Grace Lutheran be the second Tuesday of every
Church, officiated at the services, m0nth at 7:30 in the evening.
and burial was in Sinton Ceme- j This time permits fathers to come
ery‘ ■ along to P-TA meetings. The
night meetings were tried last
year and found to be much bel-
ter attended than after school
meetings.
A change in the room count
He is survived by his wife; a
stepson, Kenneth Harvey, of
Houston; two nieces and a neph-
ew in Pennsylvania.
Fire Department'
To Get Fire House
Painted Soon
The City Council at Monday
night’s meeting authorized the
Mathis Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment to purchase paint and hire
a painter to finish the inside of
the fire house.
Work is expected to start some
time next week on the project.
The walls of the building have
been sheetrocked but unpainted
since the building was built.
P-TA Holds First Meeting of New School
Year; New Teachers Are Honored At
Reception Given by Social Committee
The High School Library was procedure was voted. All rooms
of one grade will be counted as
one. If a grade has three sec-
tions the three sections will be
counted as one grade. A change
in the prize for winning the
grade count (the grade getting
the most parents, grandparents
and neighbors to sign their regis-
ter for the grade) was voted.
Instead of a one dollar prize the
P-TA will sponsor an excursion,
for the winning grade.
A committee was appointed to
investigate the possibility of buy-
ing two water coolers for the
grammar school.
Supt. T. A. Harbin was pro-
gram chairman. He presented
Mrs. Fred Weber, grammar school
principal, who gave a report on
an arithmetic workshop she at-
tended this summer in Houston,
and High School Principal E. L.
Davenport, who summed up plans
for the high school this year.
After the program a reception
honoring the faculty was held.
Hosesses were the electvie offi-
cers and the social committee.
Refreshment committees and
room mothers were appointed, al-
though the list is not yet com-
plete.
New Barriers Blocking Streets Going
Through School Grounds Are Working
Fine; Give Children More Room to Play
According to the school offi-
cials, the new barriers placed
on the street going through the
school grounds are working fine.
The barriers were put up last
week to keep cars from parking
on the street and driving through
it.
The school felt that little chil-
dren had just been lucky in the
past that no serious accidents had
happened while they were out
on the grounds playing and hav-
ing to cross the street from one
building to the other.
Supt. T. A. Harbin said that
since the new building had cut
out a lot of playground space,
the children were having to use
the street to play in, now that
no cars are are not using it.
Mrs. Fannie Weber, principal
of the elementary school said that
Monday was the “happiest day of
her life.” She was enthused with
the new set-up because the kids
felt so at ease while they were
playing and din’t have to worry
about cars hitting them.
“The new barriers will be used
all year, since they are working
so well now,” Mr. Harbin said.
“For the safety of the chil-
dren, we are asking all motorists
to please stay off the school
grounds, and when d r ijv ing
around the school to take every
precaution to avoid hitting any
children,” he continued.
Precinct 3 to Get
New Motor Grader
Delivery of a new Diesel mo-
tor grader for Precinct 3 in Ma-
this is expected soon. The com-
misisoners’ court voted to pur-
chase the grader at their meet-
ing Monday.
W. K. Holt Co. was the only
bidder on the machine, and
agreed to sell the machine to
the county on a lease-rental con-
tract with the monthly rental
going toward paying for the ma-
chine. Total cost is $14,279.
REPAIRS FINISHED
ON NO. 2 WELL
DURING WEE K
The number 2 water well has
now been put back in operating
condition, according to
John Standlee, water superin-
tendent. The well broke its tur-
bine rods several weeks ago and
has been out of operation since
then waiting on repair parts.
The old pumping system in
this well was lubricated by oil,
and the city council considered
replacing the system with a wa-
ter-lubricated system as the oth-
er wells have, but at the time
the contract was made for re-
pairing the well this type system
was not available. The city al-
ready owned enough rods and
pipe to repair the well, so the
same system was replaced.
Mr. Standlea said if the well
went out again -they would prob-
ably place a newer system in
the well which has the pump
and motor down at the bottom of
the well, and uses no rods.
Meanwhile, the repaired
well will not be used, but will
ben on stand-by basis in case one
of the other wells goes out or
the consumption of water rises
to where the other wells cannot
handle the demand.
Students Urged
To Not Come To
School Before 8:30
Classes will take up . at the
school this year at 9 a.m. and let
out at 4 p.m., according to Mrs.
Fannie Weber, principal of the
elementary school.
She announced that teachers
will be in their classrooms at:
8:30 each morning to assist those j til the 25th, then he will go to
students who desire to come! Amarillo to see Cpl. Ramiro
early. She announced that thosej Garcia, who is stationed in Am-
children who do not want to j arillo Air Force Base. From
come into the building may play! there, Cpl. VaSquez will go back
on the grounds. However, par- \ to Ladd Air Force Zase, Fair-
ents are urged to keep children j banks, Alaska, where he is sta-
from voming to school before 1 tioned with the. 449th Inter Squa.
3:30, because there will be no j Cpl. Vasquez joined the Air
one there to watch them. ' Force in May of 1951.
CPL. VASQUEZ IS
VISITING IN MATHIS
ON 30-DAY LEAVE
Cpl. David S. Vasquez is visit-
ing in Mathis with a 30-day fur-
lough. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Gabrio Vasquez of Mathis.
He is planning to stay here un-
BAPTIST CHURCH
TO HAVE GUEST
SPEAKERS SUNDAY
The Rev. A. A. Palmer, pastor
of the First Baptist Church, will
be preaching in a special service
near Nacogdoches, Texas, Sunday
morning and the following men
will fill the pulpit in his absence.
At the 11 a.m. service, Mr. Ed
Bennett of the Corpus Christi
Gideons will speak and present
the work of the Gideons. At the
8 p.m. service, the Rev. Bob
Glogston, student minister from,
the University of Corpus Christi,
will preach.
The newly-elected officers and
teachers of all departments of
the church will be specially rec-
ognized at a supper Wednesday-
evening, Sept. 17, in the base-
ment of the church. At this
meeting the pastor will present
a challenging program and goals
for the new church year begin-
ning Oct. 1st. Rev. Joe Amerine,
Missionary for District 5, will
spe.ak to the group of workers.
Some seventy-five to one hun-
dred people are expected to at-
tend this meeting.
The church was host to the
quarterly meeting of the Blanco
Association Brotherhood Mon-
day night. The men of the Ma-
this church served dinner to
about a hundred men. The ser-
mon for the following evening
was given by B. C. Brown, the
new pastor of the Baptist Church
in Beeville. T. A. Harbin led
the group in singing se\M.ral
songs.
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