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THE MATHIS NEWS
VOLUME XXXVI
MATHIS, TEXAS — FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1951
EIGHT PAGES — NO. 22
Dr. A. i. Love
Wins State
Archery Tourney
* Dr. A. J. Love of Mathis shot
a 607 score Saturday to win the
') annual Texas State Field Arch-
ery Tournament which was held
in Houston on May 26th and
27th.
Dr. Love is a member of the
Corpus Christi Archery Club,
which won first, second, third,
and fourth places in the tourna-
ment.
Second place was won by Mac
Machen of Corpus Christi. His
score was 604. Weldon Bowen
on third place with a score of
0: Fourth place was won by
’oyd ‘Krause.
Approximately 45 participants
m all over the state partici-
ted in the tournament which
is held at the 28 target field
urse in Houston’s Memorial
?k. Cities represented were
rpus Christi, Austin, Dallas,
i Antonio, and Houston.
'ext year’s tournament is to
held in Austin.
Dr. Love has been interested
archery for about ten years,
te has been a member of the
Corpus Christi Archery Club for
iree years.
obn McCumber
Arrives in States
From Korea
SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 26 —
John A. McCumber, USN, sea-
man apprentice, son of J. A.
McCumber of Route 1, Mathis,
Texas, arrived here today aboard
the tank landings ship USS LST
975, after ten months of combat
duty in the Korean war zone;
During this time his ship made
a total of 60 amphibious landings
at 12 points on the Korean coast.
His ship participated in the
September amphibious landing
at Inchon, where it was the
third LST to hit the assault
oeachhead. She remained on the
Leach for 17 hours, sustaining
several hits from enemy fire. A
month later she took part in
the landing at Wonsan, and in
late December participated in the
redeployment operations at the
east coast port of Hungnam in
North Korea.
Take a Look*
New Shades Dress
Up Corner Shop
Have you noticed the new
bamboo shades in the Cor-
ner Shop? These sunshine-
hlue Veni-Shades were in-
stalled last Wednesday. Ac-
cording to Mrs. Izzy Butler,
these new shades add pri-
vacy to the shop and act as
a background for the show
windows. The sunshine-blue
color carries out the gray
and blue color scheme of the
Comer Shop.
Several other business hous-
es in Mathis have installed
new bamboo shades in their
windows in recent months.
Jonas Grocery installed lime
green shades and Edgar Eg-
gert and C.P. & L. have in-
stalled red ones.
John A. Mayfield,
Former Resident,
Dies in Sinton
John A. Mayfield, former Ma-
this resident, died in a Sinton
hospital Monday morning. He had
been ill for about a month.
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Third Drowning
In Lake Points
Out Danger
The third drowning at Lake
Corpus Christi this year occurred
Sunday afternoon when 14 year
old Pablo Trevirio of Orange
Grove drowned in 8 or 10 feet
of water in the area that is now
being fenced off for swimming.
Nearly 40 persons have drown-
ed in the lake since its comple-
tion in 1929.
Trevino came to the lake early
Sunday morning, one of a party
of six youngsters. Fire Chief Per-
cy Hartman of the Mathis Fire
Volunteers, who answered the
two blast fire whistle (which
means a drowning at Mathis)
with their resuscitating appara-
tus, was told that the boys had
spent the morning diving and
swimming.
Young Trevino was last seen
at about 12:30 p. m. Late in the
afternoon his friends went home
and reported to his parents that
he was missing. Mr. and Mrs.
Trevino came to the lake and
notified J. C. Henderson, park
superintendent. The Mathis Fire
Department was called.
The boy’s clothes were found
stacked by the lakeside. Three
boats then began dragging the
lake. About 40 minutes later Fred
L. Long, W. S. McCurdy, and
Dennie Dickerson, who were in
one boat, brought his body up.
Funeral services were held at
10 a. m. Wednesday from the
I'esidence to St. John’s Church.
Burial was in Orange Grove
Cemetery.
Justice of the Peace, C. D.
Caffal, returned a verdict of ac-
cidental death by drowning.
Mathis Scouts
Among 107 Tiroops
At Karankawa
107 Boy Scouts from eight
troops are. camping at Camp
Karankawa at Lake Mathis this
week. This is the first week of
the Scouts’ annual camping sea-
son.
Troops here this week are Ban-
quete 54, Bishop 53, Laredo 75,
Falfurrias 28, Laredo 193, Orange
Grove 32, Premont 156, Seven
Sisters 48.
There are eleven staff mem-
bers, among them two Mathis
Scouts. Sam Farler is - camp di-
rector; Vern Herring, program di-
rector; Gilbert Myers, camp co-
ordinator.
Other staff members include
Irving Burns. Ramsower and Don-
ald Armstrong of Mathis. Ram-
sower is working in the canteen
at K&rankawa and is dining hall
steward. Armstrong conducts the
nature trail tours.
Mathis boys will go to camp
next week, the second week of
the camp.
Those planning to go are Billy
McNeill, Jerry Huntsinger, Tuck-
er Sutherland, Wallace Gregor-
cyk, J. M. Edmondson, Billy Mil-
ler Jimmie Crumley, Lonnie
Sloan, George Alridge, Lonnie
Messer, Eph Weathersby, Sammie
Henderson, Wesley Bauch, Carol
Rouse, Richard Rouse, Harry Joe
Timon, Jackie Miller, Michael
Everett, William Aaron Allen,
Jimmie Rich, Bobby Lotspeich,
Robert Adams, and Reeves
Brown, Charles Carr, Donnell
Hollon, Dennis Earl Hutchens,
Loyd Hutchens.
Mathis leaders will take turn
about spending the night with
the Mathis troop 38.
I. B. Ramsower will spend
Sunday and Sunday night at
the camp with "the Mathis Boy
Scouts; Wiley Huntsinger will go
Monday night; Charles O.. Tie-
mann, Tuesday night; Frank De-
hnisch, Wednesday night; Clifton
Jennings, Thursday night; and
Bill Davis, Friday night.
Guest night at the Boy Scout
Camp ' will be Thursday night,
June 7. Last year 154 guests
attended the guest night at the
camp.
Mr. Ramsower says he hops
there will be a bigger crowd
this year. There will be Indian
dances and candidates for Order
of the Arrow will be called out.
Remember the Public is in-
vited to attend. ^
Commencement Exercises Occasion for
Presenting Awards to a Number of
Outstanding Mathis High Students
Standing left right: William
Davis, Jesse Williams, John
Standlea, Percy Hartman, Mrs.
Bob Roberts, Gene Miller, Ed
Heider, Derward Hayes, Pete
Mussman, W. E. McDonald.
Seated left to right: Melvin Na-
gel, Tom Kusel, Max Pipes, Chas.
O. Tiemann, Jerome Braunstein.
Two firemen werp absent.
316 Mathis People Visit Telephone Exchange During
Open House; Volunteer Firemen Visit as a Group
Mr. Mayfield was born in Ten-
nessee 101 years ago but had
lived most cf his life in Texas.
Funeral service • were held on j
Tuesday in the Odem Church
of Christ, with Solon Bailey
officiating. Burial followed in the
Prairie View Cemetery in Sinton.
Mrs. Mayfield in his only sur-'
vivor.
Rainfall in 1951
Below That of
Drouth of 1950
Rainfall in 1951 at the close of
the fifth month is a fraction be-
hind 195 0’s record breaking
drought.
Mr. J. L. Dreher, local weather
observer, has recorded 5.8 inches
the first five months this year.
In 1950 rainfall January through
May was six inches.
Total rain for May was 1.3 in-
ches.
Among the visitors to the re-
cent telephone open house pro-
gram here were the members
of the Mathis Volunteer Fire
Department.
On the second night of the
telephone open house activities,
fourteen Mathis volunteer fire-
men, in “dress” uniform, rolled
up to the telephone central office
aboard the city fire truck.
The men were greeted by Mrs.
May Kneupper and welcomed to
the telephone building by Mrs.
tea Roberts, chief operator for
the Southwestern Bell Telephone
Company, and Leo McIntosh, lo-
cal telephone manager. At the
first stop on the telphone tour,
the firemen heard their “own
telephone voices” as recorded by
a machine operated by Mrs. Bue-
na Beyer. Following this, the
men completed their rounds in
the telephone building visiting
each of the several displays and
exhibits set up for the program.
The occasion for the visit, a
spokseman for the group said,
was to “show our appreciation
for the excellent service and as-
sistance on fire calls rendered by
the Mathis operators.” The role
played by the telephone operators
in sounding the fire alarm and
handling fire calls “. . .is of
vital importance to the depart-
ment and to the entire com-
munity,” he said.
In the photograph, Mrs. Ima
Roberts, chief operator, is pic-
tured with the Mathis volunteer
firemen who made the telephone
tour.
Buddy Poppy
Sale Nets $104.
The Buddy Poppy sale Satur-
day on the sidewalks of Mathis
brought in $104.30, E. J. Cren-
shaw, Jr., vice-commander of
VFW McWhorter Post 3079, said
Monday.
. The post paid $25 for the pop-
pies and all above that will go
into the local relife fund, to be
used for hospitalization for vet-
erans and families of deceased
veterans, as well as to local hos-
pital relief.
Crenshaw said that $12.50 of
the $25 a thousand that the pop-
pies cost goes to the veterans
who make the poppies and the
other $12.50 goes to the VFW
home at Eaton Rapids, .Michigan.
Girls who sold the poppies
were Joanne Crenshaw, Barbara
Freasier, Betsy Hill, Willeta Gul-
lion, Sandra Key, and Jane Ca-
baniss.
FLASH! NEW
MAYOR BORN
TO MATHIS
Mayor and Mrs. B. E. Caffall
are the parents of a new son.
John Leslie, born Friday night
at 11:25 in Mathis Hospital.
John Leslie was named for his
two grandfathers, neither of
whom is living. John was for
Mrs. Caffall’s father and Leslie
for Mr. Caffall’s father, the late
E. L. Caffall of Mathis.
The Caffalls have three other
children, Brodus, Jr., 10; Betty
Lynn, 8; and Sandra, 6.
Relatives coming to Mathis
Sunday to visit the baby were
Mr. and Mis. Bill Moore and
children of Taft; Mr. and IMrs.
Luke Hart, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce
Ruebush, Mr. and Mrs. F. H.
Mixon and Patsy, Mr. and Mrs.
Bennie Taylor and daughter,
Ruth, and Mr. A. C. Ruebush, all
of Beeville.
According to Telephone Man-
ager Leo McIntosh, a total of
816 Mathis people took advantage
of the opportunity to visit the
telephone building during the
two day open house program.
“It’s very encouraging,” McIntosh
said, “to have the townspeople
here turn out in such large num-
bers to visit , the telephone build-
ing and see for themselves the
“behind the-scenes” operations of
the city’s telephone system. We
should like to express our ap-
preciation to the hundreds of
people who visited the telephone
office and, on behalf of all the
telephone people of Mathis, I es-
pecially wish to thank all of our
visitors for their friendliness,
their interest in the displays and
exhibits we had set up for the
show, and for the many compli-
ments they expressed to us. We
shall do our best to continue to
merit the kind of public approval
the people of Mathis so generous-
ly extended to us.”
Science Wins, But Hortense
Sits on Brooder Just to Be Sure
Those eerie noise that drift
over Mathis' in the early morn-
ing and late evening breezes are
not going to stop soon. Indeed
indications are that they willl
increase another year.
For the Peacock family at the
W. A. Guynes home more than
doubled during the week-end
when Hortense, the peahen
hatched quadruplets.
Dr. Guynes, not content to
let the peafowls raise their young
in the old fashioned way, decid-
ed to use a little medical science
and bring the babies up in a
brooder. He undertook to put
them in the brooder Sunday
morning at church time, not
knowing that Hortense would
give battle that would attract the
attention of the church-going
crowd across the street. Science
won and Hortense lost, but she
consoled herself by sitting on
top of the brooder all day keep-
ing watch.
This brings the peacock family
to seven. The three older pea-
fowls are Hilary — it’s his voice
you hear—, Hortense, and their
daughter, Hazel, who was hatch-
ed last summer.
TWO MATHIS GIRLS
TO ATTEND YWCA
DISTRICT MEETING
Two Mathis University of Tex-
as girls are going to the Region-
al Conference of Texas, Arkan-
sas, and Oklahoma YWCA and
YMCA at Camp Parthenia, Tulsa,
Oklahoma. .
Jimmie Jo Edmondson, this years
president of the University of
YWCA, left Wednesday this week
for the conference at Tulsa. She
says about 100 delegates from
various groups in the three states
will attend.
Mary Jo Hollon, co-chairman
of the Freshman YWCA group
at the university, will leave from
the university for Tulsa this
week-end. Mary Jo expects to
be at the camp for the ten days
duration of the conference, after
which she will come home to
Mathis and leave from here for
the YWCA Camp at Comfort,
where she will stay four weeks
as a counselor.
Jimmie Jo plans to go from
Tulsa to Phoenix, Arizona, where
she will join- Mrs. Lonnie Glass-
cock and Miss Mary Margaret
Edmondson on a tour to Canada
and Alaska.
E. H. Eggert to
Attend Texas U.
This Summer
E. H. Eggert is leaving Monday
for Austin where he will take
'a six weeks course in damages
in the law department at the
University of Texas.
Mrs. Eggert will stay in Mathis
and keep his office open during
that time.
Hazel is the church going pea-
hen, who frequently follows the
family to the Baptist Church two
blocks away, and other times
attends services at the First Me-
thodist Church across the street.
Mrs. Guynes says they haven’t
figured out yet which church
Hazel likes best, but she strongly
suspects Hazel of having a pre-
ference for the Methodist.
Leslie Bauch
Receives Degree
From Centenary
t Leslie Bauch, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Bauch of Mathis, re-
ceived his B.S. Degree last Sun-
day night, May 27, from the
Centenary College of Louisiana
in Shreveport. The graduation
exercises were held in the col-
lege’s Open Air Theater.
Leslie received his B.S. Degree
majoring in Commerce and min-
oring in History and Economics.
While at Centenary College he
was a member of the Spanish
Club; the Gentry, a social organ-
ization; and Chi Sigma Nu, an
honorary educational fraternity.
This was the second largest
graduating class since the Cen-
tenary College was established
in 1825. There were 223 graduat-
es.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Bauch are
moving to Austin June 1, where
Leslie will study law at Texas
University. Mrs. Batich will take
additional work in education at
the university. She plans to teach
this fall in the Austin Elementary
Schools.
Attending Leslie’s graduation
were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bauch,
Dolly, Wesley and Bob of Mathis.
On May 11, Leslie received his
Masters Degree in the Queens-
borough Blue Masonic Lodge in
Shreveport, Louisiana.
Awards presented at the com-
mencement exercises on Friday
night at the school auditorium
were handed out by Elizabeth
Person, who tied with Verna Mae
Meyer for salutatorian.
Marilyn Salge received four
awards: the valedictorian award,
for highest four year average,
the athletic award for having
participated in all sports, the
band award for being drum ma-
jor and playing the bell-lyra for
four years and for doing ex-
cellent work with the band, the
debate award, a medal, for being
on the team that won first place
in the district.
Joanne Guynes, Marilyn’s de-
bate collegue, was presented a
debate award.
Verna Mae Meyer was given
an award as salutatorian and the
Babe Ruth award for girls.
Elizabeth Person, who also re-
ceived a salutatorian award, was
given two awards, the second
being for being selected the best
homemaker of the year in the
Homemaking Department.
Agriculture award in the Fu-
ture Farmer group went to Al-
len Jonas.
The Babe Ruth award for best
sportsmanship among the boys
went to Edward Bremer.
Each year the students and
faculty elect a senior boy or
girl for the best citizen award.
Margaret Anne Fusselman was
presented this award Friday
night.
John R. Nelson was given
the athletic award for being the
best boy athlete. He also re-
ceived the Frank Doubrava tro-
phy at a ball game several weeks
ago.
A wrist watch handed out at
the program to Betty Jean Mil-
ler who won it in Carl’s Jewelry
Stop Clock contest.
Vegetable Shipper
Packing in Other
Onion Centers
The drought spoiled Mathis’
record as a big onion shipping
center this year, but- the vege-
table shipping companies are
finding plenty of onions to ship
in other sections.
Glen Dorris has been shipping
from Del Rio for several weeks
and has had a very good season
with plenty of fine onions to
load. This week Dorris and Roy
Pullin of Robstown moved to
Ferris where Karl London has
been getting things shaped up
for the season there. All three
are with Abe M. Katz Co.
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Tobin and
Elroy Frietag are spending three
weeks at Ennis where they are
shipping onions.
Mr. and Mrs. O, L. Gorbett
and son, Monte, and Walter Ko-
epsel are at Ferr for the onion
shipping season. Koepsel and
Gorbett are with Vahlsing Co.
Mr. and Mr^. Howard Ayers
are at Italy for the season.
Highlight's Given
In Graduation
Program Friday
Highlights from Friday night's
commencement exercises —
One Air Force uniform among
the caps and gowns — Willis
Mac Hickman flew home from
Westover Airforce Base, Mass.,
to receive his diploma.
The simple, but very attractive
decorations of palm leaves on the
auditorium stage, palm leaves
that were cut from the date,
palms on the high school grounds.
The crowds that stood in the
hall because there wasn’t room
in the ancient auditorium.
The valedictorian, Marilyn Sal-
ge, telling the audience that she
had always heard that “oppor-
tunity knocks but once, but now-
a-days he may call you on the
telephone.”
Dr. C. E. Hereford, commence-
ment speaker, speaking out plain
on the subject of work. Dr.
Hereford told the graduates,
“God said — Six days shalt
thou work — and man’s been
trying to get away from it ever
since.” And he read them a
poem about a sprouting seed that
couldn’t decide what it wanted,
to be when it grew up. It didn’t
want to be a lily because a lily
was too cold; nor a rose because
a rose was too brightly colored;
nor a violet because a violet was
too small. And while this super-
cilious seed was trying to decide
it wound it had grown into a
weed.
Mrs. Miller Undergoes
Eye Operation
Mrs. H. D. Miller has been
in Baptist Memorial Hospital for
over a week where she went
for another eye operation.
She is now at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Miller in
San Antonio and Mr. Miller" says
she will probably be there sev-
eral weeks longer.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
TO CONDUCT
VISITATION PROGRAM
A visitation Evangelism cam-
paign will begin at First Christ-
ian Church, June 13, under lead-
ership of Rev. George J. Brown,
evangelist from Fort Worth, an-
nounces Edwin Go-rom, minister.
The chief emphasis of the cam-
paign will be visiting by mem-
bers in the home of prospective
members and persons interested
in the Christian Church.
BOY BORN TO MRS.
CHARLES OWENS
ON MAY 22ND
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Owen
Miller are the parents of a boy,
born May 2 in the Navy Hospital
in Corpus Christi. The baby has.
been named Charles Owen, Jr.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Jeff Miller of Mathis and Mrs.
Alice Moore of Tuleta.
Mr. Miller flew home from
Camp Gordon, Georgia, last week
on account of Mrs. Miller’s ser-
ious condition.
She is now doing okay and
the family expects her to be re-
leased from the hospital by the
end of this week. And the
baby is fine.
GRIFFINS RECEIVE
LETTER FROM SON
IN NAVY RECENTLY
Mr. and Mrs. Otho Griffin
have recently had two letters
from their son, Ronnie, who is
on board a ship with the U.S.
Navy.
The Griffins hadn’t heard from
Ronnie for the last nine months
and they were getting very anx-
ious. Inquiries through the Red
Cross had gotten the answer that
he was okay but unable to write
on account of the secrecy of his
assignment.
They received the first letter
on May 9 and came to them via
New York. He said he was well,
but had nothing to say about
his work.
Allen visited several days last
week with Mr. and Mrs. Schil-
ling. •
Rev. W. 0. Schulze
Assigned to
Mathis Church
Rev. W. O. Schulze will preach
in the services Sunday at the
First Methodist Church. He was
assigned £o Mathis at the recent
session of the Southwest Texas
Annual Conference in San An-
tonio.
Rev. Schulze was ordained an.
elder in the Southern Confer-
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in 1927 and came into
the church with us in 1939 with,
unification. Rev. Schulze last
served Trinity Church of San.
Angelo and served long pastor-
ates in Fredericksburg and in
Austin. He has a wife and two
children. His son Wesley is pas-
tor of a church in Palacios and
his daughter is the wife of Rev.
Lee Griffin, pastor of in Sabinal.
Rev. Highsmith asks that we
get acquainted with the Schulzes
and give them the same cordial
welcome which you have always
extended to him.
Two Mathis Men
With Army Going
Into Germany
Two Mathis men are in the
Fourth Infantry division which
is landing in Germany this week
as the first of the four divisions
being sent to help General Eis-
enhower’s growing Atlantic Pact
Army.
They are L. C. Hennig and
John Watson. Hennig was made
a sergeant just before he left
Fort Benning for New York City
where his group was to be ship-
ped out for Germany. He wrote
to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Hennig, that they were leaving
Georgia Saturday, May 19, and
would be in New York to board
ship on May 24. He participated
in. the parade when 5000 members
of the Fourth Infantry’s Eighth-
Regimental Combat team mar-
ched up Broadway in a solemn
“bon voyage.”
John Watson, a member of the
Fourth Infantry’s medics, also
shipped out, his group being the
last of the 18,000 in the Fourth
to leave New York.
The first of the men landed
at Bremerhaven, Germany on
May 27. First man off ship was
Pvt. Edwin Sternberg, 26, o
Richmond, Va., a former inmat
of a Nazi concentration camp,
was drafted”, he told reporters
“I like the army pretty good,
didn’t think an army could b
this good.”
The Fourth Infantry has a hea
vy percentage of Texans.
Of course it’s good.
Mrs. J. W. Simmons
Memorial Day in Seguin.
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