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Page 2 — THE MATHIS NEWS — Friday, May 1, 1959, Mathis, Texas
Government Sets *2.30 As
Floor For Baccero Pickers
DALLAS — The U. S. Depart-
ment of Labor announced today
that $2.30 cwt. would be the mini-
mum acceptable opening wage rate
under w hich Mexican National
workers would be certified to pick
cotton in- Texas’ Lower Rio Grande
Valley.
Regional Director Ed McDonald
of the Department’s Bureau of Em-
ployment Security here made the
announcement following Depart-
al decisions relayed by BES Di-
rector Robert C. Goodwin in Wash-
ington.
The announced purpose was to
assure compliance with the Depart-
ment’s piece-rate earnings policy
of 50 cents an hour—commonly
known as the “90-10” policy.
Established last year to avoid
adversely affecting wages of do-
mestic workers, the policy applied
only ito employers of Mexican Na-
tionals engaged on a piece-rate
basis. The rate was to have been
enough to yield 50 cents an hour
to contracted workers “of normal
competence who applied themsel-
ves diligently.”
’The Department deemed the po-
licy had been met if 90 er cent
of such workers averaged 50 cents
an hour for each pay period. Dur-
ing last year’s cotton harvest, em-
ployers of Mexican Nationals were
urged to comply voluntarily with
the 90-10 policy.
But only a few did so, the
Department has found. Payroll au-
dits during and after the season
showed that the customary $2.05
cwt. for picking cotton produced
wages well below 50 cents an hour.
And investigations showed that no
rate less than $2.30 cwt. could be
expected to meet the Department’s
policy.
Mr. McDonald pointed out that | Chopelas.
the decision means that employers
must offer the $2.30 rate to do-
mestic workers before Mexican Na-
tionals can be authorized. Also, af-
ter the first full week of the cotton
harvest, no offering to domestics
may be less than that which meets
the 90-10 policy for Mexican Na-
tionals.
He said Mr. Goodwin’s message
contained three policy decisions:
(1) those few employers who com-
plied with the Department’s wage
policy in 1958 may open at last
year’s rate, (2) for all others the
opening rates will be $2.30 cwt.
with an addendum requiring com-
pliance with the piece-rate earn-
ings policy for each payroll period,
and (3) these provisions apply only
to 1959 with no commitments for
1960.
Judy Huddleston
Birthday Honoree
Mrs. Jeff Huddleston, Jr., honor-
ed her daughter, Judy, with a party
last Wednesday afternoon at their
home. The occasion was her eighth
birthday.
Games were played and favors
of plastic straws and candy were
given to each guest.
Refreshments of birthday cake
and colas were served to Janice
Hartnett, Sharron Hartnett, Ginger
Braim, Curtis Braim, Pat Craig,
Johnny Craig, Johnny Craig, Carol
Benningfield, Shelly Brown, Don-
Barber, Jan Wade, Cindy Whitfill,
Ellen Porter, Karen Berry, Jane
Updike, Jeffie Huddleston, Steven
Huddleston, Libby Rouse, Victoria
Koepsel, Bill Lasater, Ann Tieman
Linda Kay Adams and Dana
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MOTHER'S
DAY
MAY 10th
mSPECIALS
f/ Mon. May 4
Just Right For
Mother’s Day
Regular $1.98
COTTON SLIPS, Ladies______$1.33
Regular $1.29
DISH DRAINER, Rubber_______77c
Tax Included
COSTUME JEWELRY - 2 pcs. — 99c
County Soil
Judging Team
Places First
The San Patricio County Soil
Judging Team, composed of Billy
Joe Vanecek, John Rozypal, John
Bremer and Allan Lueckemeyer
placed first in the District Elemina-
tion Contests held in Alice last
Saturday, April 25.
The four contestants will com-
pete in the state Soil Evaluation
Contest to be held at College Sta-
tion during the 4-H Roundup on
June 9 and 10, 1959. Gold medals
were presented -to the four boys
Saturday by Mr. Tom Hurd, re-
presentative of the Rio Grande
Electric Company, whose firm do-
nated the awards for all contests.
Jerry Wayne Felsing placed sec-
ond in the Tractor Operator Ele-
minmination contest, Senior Divi-
sion in Alice. He will represent
San Patricio County at -the tractor
operator contest at the 4-H Round-
up at College Station on June 9-10.
He received a silver medal from
Mr. Tom Hurd at the presentation
Saturday.
Henry Joe Raska placed first in
the Junior Tractor Operator Con-
test at Alice. He received a blue
ribbon.
Howard Salge, assisted in train-
ing the tractor operators for this
contest.
Cotton Convention
Opens May 4
In Waco, Texas
Several hundred farmers, gin-
ners, merchants, and other per-
sons interested in the cotton in-
dustry are expected at the 20th
annual American Cotton- Congress
to be held in Waco, Texas, May
4-5.
Highlights of the opening day’s
sessions include talks by Boswell
Stevens of Macon, Miss., President,
National Cotton Council; Burris
Jackson, Hillsboro, Texas, Congress
General Chairman; Lamar Flem-
ing, Jr., Houston, Chairman of the
Board, Anderson, Clayton- & Co.;
Henry Kearns, Washington, Assis-
tant Secretary of Commerce for
International Affairs; Charles C.
Wilson, Director of Research, West
Point Manufacturing Co., West
Point, Ga.; and Carl Cox, Research
Division Director, W. D. Felder &
Co., Dallas.
The program for the second day
will include speeches by F. Marion
Rhodes, Head, Cotton Division,
Commodity Stabilization Service,
USDA Washington; Wm. Rhea
Blake, Executive Vice President,
National Cotton Council, Memphis,
Tenn., and True D. Morse, Under
Secretary of Agriculture and Presi-
dent of the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration, Washington, D. C.
This year’s Congress will feature
exhibits depicting 20 years of
change and progress in the cotton
industry.
The American Cotton Congress
is an organization dedicated to the
improvement of the cotton indus-
try. There is no formal member-
ship and anyone interested in cot-
ton is invited to attend. Reserva-
tions for the Congress may be
made through Joe Hahn, Roosevelt
Hotel, Waco.
Cause Of Grain ,
Seedlings Turning
Red Explained
COLLEGE STATION — Small
grain losses due to diseases in the
excessively wet seasons of 1957 and
1958 were estimated to be more
than 20,000,000 bushels. Damage to
the crop may result in reduced
stands, reduction in amount or
quality of forage or in reduced
yields and quality of the grain pro-
duced.
Diseases which caused these loss-
es are discussed in a bulletin re-
leased by the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station titled, “Diseas-
es of Small Grains in Texas”.
The control or reduction of losses
from many small grain diseases in
Texas is n-ot only of local impor-
tance, but has national and inter-
national significance. The fall in-
fection, winter survival an-d spring
increase in South Texas of airborne
pathogens, such as the cereal rusts,
may endanger the small grain
crops throughout Texas and other
states.
Diseases of wheat, which consis-
tently cause losses or are poten-
tially dangerous to the crop, in-
clude leaf rust, stem rust, speckled
leaf blotch and loose and covered
smut or bunt. These and diseases
less frequently found are discussed
and control measures are suggested
where known-.
The two most serious diseases of
and the Helminthosporium blights.
These are described along with
stem rust, smuts, Septoria diseases,
powdery mildew and yellow dwaft.
The control measures for reducing
Ten Short j
Years Ago
FROM THE
FILES OF
(THE MATHIS NEWS
■a——
APRIL 29, 1949
Mary Sparks and Elizabeth Por-
ter will represent -the Mathis High
School as a debate team at the
State Meet in Austin this year.
Patsy Gilstrap, coached by Mrs.
Rug Club Entertains
Group From Corpus
The Mathis Hooked Rug Club en-
tertained the Corpus Christi Hook-
ed Rug Club Thursday afternoon
at 'the home of Mrs. Mae Stone.
Co-hostess was Mrs. A. G. Smith.
The hostesses served refresh-
ments of sandwiches, cookies, cof-
fee and colas to ten guests and
12 members.
losses are given.
Net blotch, leaf rust, mildew and
the smuts which cause some dam-
age to barley nearly every year
are discussed. Bacterial blight,
false stripe, scald an-d yellow dwarf
which are less frequent in Texas
are also discussed. The suggested
means for controlling or reducing
these losses are given.
For a copy of the bulletin write
the Agricultural Information Office,
College Station. Ask for B-921.
Barnes, will go to Austin to the
State Meet 'the same time the de-
bate team goes. She won secon-d
in shorthand at the Regional Meet.
The Mathis Hooked Rug Club held
its annual rug show Thursday af-
ternoon at the B. M. Westover
home. About 90 women attended.
The Mathis area received heavy
rains during the past several days
causing thousands of acres of vege-
tables, feed crops, cotton, and flax
to stand under water and causing
heavy damage.
'Mrs. Charles Beckendorf will pre-
sent her students of piano in- their
annual recital on the evening of
May second at eight o’clock at
the Methodist Church. Those ap-
pearing on the evenings program
are following: Zepha Lou Green,
Willene Coym, Maedene Maedgen,
Jan Sides, Janet Gregorcyk, Bob-
bie Duncan, Reeves Brown, Carolyn
Caddel, Marilyn Hicks, Beryl Lin-
berg, Norma Lee McCraw, Gus
George Willmann, Betsy Hill, Mary
Henderson, Jo Ann Salge, Betty
Linburg, Jane Gordon Cabaniss,
Salge, Mary Jo Hollon, Elizabeth
Porter and Charles Beckendorf.
Miss Joyce Freasier, daughter of
Mrs. Ethel Freasier of Mathis, and
Fred Hawley, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Wade Hawley of Lindsay, Calif,
were married Saturday evemiig at]
the Baptist parsonage in Mathis
with Rev. Vernie S. Pipes officiate
ing.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.)
W. W. Simpson on the birth of
twins, a boy and a girl, Thursday
at Memorial Hospital in Beeville '
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.I
O. M. Nichols of Mathis and Mr.|
and Mrs. Simpson of near Housh
ton.
Monday morning from 9:30 ur
eleven o’clock Miss Inez Huddles
ton, Mrs. Sidney Weir and MrsJ
M. M. Shilling entertained at the
Schilling home at a linen shower
honoring Mrs. Fred Hawley,
Saturday bride.
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Values To $1.19
COTTON SLIPS, Girls_______
____ 77c
Regular $3.49
Plastic Cannister Sets — l
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Regular 25c Master Piece
NOTEBOOK PAPER - 6 for $1.00
46“ Wide - Regular 69c yd. — V/2 Yards
OIL CLOTH-Special___________99c
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Annual Sale Starts May 1
WILL CONTINUE FOR 30 DAYS
GOOD SELECTION OF NEW 1959 FORD ARi
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LITTLE IT WOULD COST YOU TO TRADE.
57 Fairlane 500
4 Door, R & H Auto
Trans. Air Conditioned
Gold &
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57 Ford Custom
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V-8
R & H
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Four Door
*1195.
55 FAIRLANE
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R & H
*895.
55 FORD
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*795.
54 BUICK
R & H — NEW PAINT
Wine
& White
54 MERCURY
4 Door Monterrey
Blue
& White
*795.
55 MERCURY
2 DOOR HARDTOP
R & H
Air
Cond.
*1095.
55 CHEVROLET
TWO DOOR
*450.
53 HUDSON
HORNET
Over
□ rive
*350.
52 Chevrolet
*295.
Four
Door
52 PONTIAC
*250.
Door
Four
55 Chev Pickup
*750.
57 Ford Pickup
6 Cyl.
-1195.
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Haden, John. The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1959, newspaper, May 1, 1959; Mathis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1045263/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mathis Public Library.