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VOL. XXXIX
MATHIS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1959
EIGHT PAGES — NO. 18
ONION PRICES UP
The prices remained high for the
1959 onion crop which' was being
harvested, sacked and shipped at
full speed by mid-week.
All sheds were keeping the rail-
roads and independent truckers
busy carrying the $5 to $7 sack
fulls of onions to northern markets.
The price level was nearly a 10-
year high.
Through Thursday night Mis-
souri Pacific estimates it will have
shipped 38 carloads. By Wednesday
noon 23 had ‘been shipped since the
season’s start and about 15 more
cars were in the process of loading
or were scheduled. Southern Pacific
had shipped 29 cars through Wed-
nesday at noon and planned to have
15 more on the way through Thurs-
day night, giving them an approxi-
Thunderstorms
Dump More Ruin
Tuesday Morn
An old fashioned thunderstorm
passed over Mathis after midnight
Tuesday, dumping between .4 and
.6 inches on the already rain-soak-
ed fields.
Rains had kept the onion harvest
at a standstill until Monday morn-
ing. Tuesday’s extra rain apparent-
ly didn’t delay the onion shipping
activities. A dry blowing norther
which accompanied the thunder-
storm rapidly brought the land
hack to normal.
H. A. Porter New
Building Inspector
For City Permits
H. A. Porter_ veteran tax ap-
praiser for the city, has been hired
by the city to work one day a week
as a building inspector.
Porter’s main duties will be to
follow up on the building permits
to see that builders were comply-
ing with the terms of the permit.
In the main he will see that the
sewer ordinance is being observed.
The ordinance provides that no
new construction or repairs will be
permits on house that do not have
sanitary sewer facilities, unless
the building includes that necessary
plumbing.
City Awaits Word
On Right-Of-Way
Before Annexing
The city’s announced plan to an-
nex the south side of Highway 9
into the city limits is pending pur-
chase of right of way for a street.
All right of way except for two
lots has been acquired for the
street. The proposed street would
connect Highway 9 to Farm Road
€66 and would run parallel to the
football stadium parking lot.
mate total of 44.
Meanwhile, at Vahlsing’s the an-
nual carrot harvest was underway
alongside the onions. Vahlsing has
850 acres in carrots this year.
Honor Roll At
Mathis High Is
Given By Miller
The fifth six weeks honor roll
for Mathis High School was an-
nounced this week by Principal
Charles Miller.
Seniors on the honor roll were Re
Caffall, Tim Rodriguez, E. C. Will-
mann, Glen Tennill, Jimmy Grouch
and Richard Henderson.
Juniors on the honor roll were
Louise Knolle, Mary Wayne Koep-
sel, Patsy Mahoney, Jeanette Nor-
ris, Erwin Porter, Carol Winsauer,
Billy Curlee, A. W. Knolle and Roy
Sugarek.
Sophomores on the honor roll
were Ruth Duncan, Eleceia Gardi-
ner, Angelmira Garza, Kay Gil-
bert, Paula Hall, Carolyn Knolle,
Kathy Knolle, Isabel Nevarez, Vel-
ma Rouse, Kathleen Stone, Bob
Barber, Kenneth Pullen and Dennis
Greenwood.
Freshmen on the list were Rus-
sell Fowler, David Harbin, Charles
Knolle, C. A. Maedgen, Carolyn
Heider, Beverly Henderson, Kay
Holleman, Ginny Knolle, Thana
Sue Norris and Mary B. Rackley.
1 Cast, 1 Hook
Brings In Three
Big Catfish
The fish fever which struck Mathis
about a month ago still rages -—
and the story of the week comes
from the Boy Scout camp.
It seems Tracy Huffstutler was
trolling for some bass in the
camp’s cove last Friday when some
“brush” snagged his line.
When he reeled in he discovered
he had caught three catfish total-
ing 21% pounds.
Someone, apparently, had caught
the trio and strung them and they
got away —- stringer and all. So,
Huffstutler’s hook had caught die
stringer.
Firemen Renew
Plea For New
Fire Station
A delegation of Mathis volunteer
firemen were present at the city
commission last Monday to renew
their plea for a new and larger
fire station.
The commission agreed to meet
with a delegation to review the var-
ious types of buildings which would
be suitable for a station.
The financing of such an opera-
tion would also be a problem for
the special meeting to consider.
HONOR GRADUATES — Patsy
Striddle was named valedictorian
and Jeanne Wehmeyer salutator-
ian of the Mathis Junior High
eighth grade graduating class.
There are 67 in the year’s class,
one more than the 1958 graduates.
Of the 66 last year, 54 entered high
school the following September.
Miss Stridde, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Stridde, has a grade av-
erage of 96.52. Miss Wehmeyer, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
E. Wehmeyer, has a grade aver-
age of 96.16. The next two high
ranking students, classed as honor
graduates, are Lloyce Ann West
with 95.16 and W. A. Henderson
with 94.91. Both of the top girls
are members of the senior band
and girts volleyball and basketball
team. Miss Stridde is treasurer of
the 8B section. Miss Wehmeyer was
a cheerleader and a declamation
contestant winner from the school.
1st Boat Races Sunday, 1 P M
7 Miles Out Off Highway 9
'Our Town Is Presented
By Seniors On April 30
White Auto Store Leases
Butler Bldg., Opens June 1
Girl Stabbed In Fight
Near Dance Hall Saturday
Arc 18-year-old Sinton girl, Elena
Alvarado, was stabbed in the side
in Mathis Saturday night during a
fracus near the Celito Lindo dance
hall.
She was treated and dismissed in
two days from the Mathis hospital.
Antonio Guerrero, 19, of Mathis
allegedly was the stabber, Deputy
Sheriff Sam Beall said. Guerrero’s
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Porterfield New
Exalted Ruler Of
Oklahoma Elks
Everett K. Porterfield, son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Porterfield of
Mathis, has been elected exalted
ruler of .the Midwest City, Okla.,
Elks lodge. He is a retired lieu-
tenant colonel.
Until his retirement in 1957 after
23 years in the service he was as-
signed to Tinker Air Force Base.
After retirement he went to work
for the Civil Aeronautics Admini-
stration at Will Rogers Field where
he now is senior project engineer
in the engineering section of the
Facilities Flight Inspection branch.
He has lived at 120 Tiller drive
since Jan. 4, 1954, with his wife, a
daughter and son. He has been an
Elk since 1955 and since then been
esquire and lecturing knight.
attack on the girl was accidental
and occured during a general fight,
Beall said. He was fined in the
justice of the peace court for fight-
ing and drunkeness. The fighting
fine was $223.70 and the drunkness
fine was $69.50.
Beall said Guerrero and a 15
year-old boy were attempting to
fight a group of other boys and the
girl was stabbed when she got in
the way.
In other action this week Beall
arrested two men, both 20, charg-
ing them with stealing gasoline
from a car. They were fined $69.50
each. In the same arrest two 15-
year-olds were apprehended for at-
tempting to break into the Chuck-
wagon Cafe last Wednesday morn-
ing. Both have records of burglar-
ies and thefts and were to be tried
in the juvenile court in Sinton
Wednesday morning.
Last week what could have been
a serious highway tradegy was
avoided when Beall arrested three
men who had passed out from
drunkeness in their car. The vehicle
was stalled in the middle of the
highway at night, but the lights
had been left burning. The driver,
Alisar Troja of Sinton was fined
$229.50. The other two occupants of
the car, Emileo Martinez and Juan
Olivarez, both of Edroy, were fined
$69.50 each.
Another man, Porfirio Sanchez,
was fined in the JP court this week
for drunkeness. His fine was $20.50.
B. T. Touchstone of Aransas
Pass will locate a White’s Auto
Store in Mathis in the Butler Build-
ing, across from London’s Food
Market, by June 1.
I. S. Butler, owner of the vacant
building, said that the lease had
been signed this week.
Touchstone currently operates a
service station in Aransas Pass. He
plans to move his family, includ-
ing three children, to Mathis as
soon as they locate a three bed-
room home.
The White stores, which have
home offices in Wichita Falls,
have been negotiating to locate one
of their stores here for nearly one
year.
Methodists Start
Budget Campaign;
Ends Next Week
About 30 workers in the Metho-
dist’s budget campaign had a
covered dish supper Monday night
to kick off their week-long drive.
The church is seeking to increase
its budget by 40 per cent this year.
Workers Monday were given en-
velopes of names of church mem-
bers to contact seeking their pledge
for the year .Three teams of work-
ers are involved. They are headed
by Malcolm Maedgen, Gordon
Brown and W. C. Watson.
Report meetings were scheduled
April 22, 24 and 27. The victory din-
ner is scheduled April 29.
Glenn Whitfill was in charge of
Monday’s dinner. Guest speaker
was Paul Jostes of Beeville. Mrs.
Van Wagner and Mrs. J. J. Baker
were in charge of the food arrange-
ments. T. A. Harbin, general chair-
man of the campaign, was master
of ceremonies. A special musical
number was sung by a trio, Burn-
ley Brown, Lynn Boatwright and
Dee Watson.
Mathis Barber
Dies Sunday
Norberto Ybarra was found dead
Sunday about 2 p.m. at his home.
He was a barber.
Graveside services were held at
7:30 p.m. Sunday. Rev. Gregory
Deane officiated. Burial was in the
Descansa Etema Cemetery.
There are no known survivors.
Mathis Ranks 4th
In District Track
Ingleside emerged as winner of
the District 30A track competion
with Mathis in fourth place with
18 1-2 points, ahead of Gregory-
Portland’s 16 1-2 points.
Rockport and Woodsboro ranked
second and third.
The . meet was hosted by Rock-
port last week-end on a rain soften-
ed track.
Woodsboro captured the junior
division honors while Mathis rank-
ed second. Woodsboro had 51 points
to Mathis’ 211-2.
Placing at the meet were David
Coffin, second, 880 yard run; Rob-
ert Dickinson, First, mile run;
Woody Hicks, second, high jump;
Hollis London, tie for third, high
jump; E. Elias, second, 220 yard
dash; Mathis team, third, mile
relay.
White stores have, in the past
two years, made a remarkable
headway in locating in South Texas.
Locally there have been new stores
going in Taft, Portland and .in the
Parkdale Shopping Center in Cor-
pus.
J. R. Wright, 65,
Dies Saturday In
Aransas Hospital
Jay Robert Wright of Summers,
Ark., 65, passed away at the
Veterans Administration Hospital,
Fayetteville, Ark., Saturday night
April 18. He had been a patient
there for the past five months.
He was a World War I Veteran,
Member of the Masonic Lodge of
Lincoln and member of the Metho-
dist Church at Summers.
Relatives include his wife, Hen-
rietta; two daughters, Mrs. Gene
Brown of Whittier, Calif., and Mrs.
Bill Schrieber of Englewood, Calif.,
and six grandchildren: also five
sisters, Mrs. Forest Stone, and
Mrs. Ardell Boothman of San An-
tonio; Mrs. Leah Dug at of Port
Lavaca; Mrs. Mary Berryman of
Kerrville, and Mrs. Grace Michon,
Galveston; Three brothers, B. B.
Wright and E. W. Wright of Mathis,
and M. V. Wright of Tucson, Ari.
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday, April 21 at the Methodist
Church in Summers .Burial was
in National Cemetery at Fayette-
ville. Masonic graveside service
were conducted by Lincoln Masonic
Lodge.
The senior class of Mathis High
School is sponsoring a production
of “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder
on April 30 at the Mathis High
School Auditorium.
This play will be presented by
the Speech One students and is ‘the
first opportunity for many of the
students to “walk the boards.” Ac-
cording to their teacher, Mrs.
Tracy Huffstutler, this is an at-
tempt to develop more than a few
talents.
The students of speech two with
their extra experience make it dif-
ficult for these students to get good
parts. In this play the inexperienc-
ed have the leading roles while the
speech two students take the bit
parts.
Leading the cast of characters
for “Our Town” will be Kathy
Knolle, E. L. Koepsel, Carol Ann
Edmondson, Woody Hicks, E. C.
Willman, Barbara Huffstutler, Ben
Crouch, Karen Sue Dorris, Roy
Sugarek, Kay Daubert, Bill Brown,
Travis Wollesen, Sonny Miller, Isa-
belle Navarez, Angel Garza and
Leonard Syma.
’’OurTown” has had universal
appeal and had a long Broadway
run. It is well loved for Thornton
Wilder has caught the essense of
every small town in America and
the audience finds itself represent-
ed time and time again.
The curtain time is 7:45 p. m.
and the admission will be 60 cents
for adults and 40 cents for school
children. The proceeds will go to
the senior class.
Little League
'Play Ball7 Is
Tuesday Night
Little League’s annual “Play
Ball” will be sounded here Tues-
day night at 8 p.m. when the Dod
gers take on the Athletics.
Thus will begin nearly 12 weeks
of two baseball nights per week
which will keep 45 Mathis boys
busy. Also this year the farm
teams will be organized and a third
night of the week will be designat-
ed for their games.
Also keeping on the busy side
will be the Mathis Rotarians and
the Jaycees who will take turns
operating the concessions stands.
The Dodgers will be coached by
C. E. Caddel again this year and
the Athletics will have Gordon
Cabarciss back also. The Athletics
coaching will be taken over by
Jack Freitag who succeeds. Bob
Wehmeyer.
Mathis is again linked with Odem
in the Little League tournament.
Games are held in both towns dur-
ing playing nights.
State-Wide
Group Plans
On 16 Heats
The Mathis Chamber of Com-
merce will sponsor the first boat
races of ithe season this Sunday at
1 p.m. with a state wide boating
association furnishing the boats,
drivers, and concessions.
The races will be held seven miles
north of Mathis on Highway 9.
Road signs will be erected inform-
ing spectators where to turn and
park.
Admission is 50 cents for adults
and no charge for children under
12.
The Lone Star Boating Assn, will
put on the show . The Corpus Chris-
ti Outboard Boating Club, which •
put on last summer’s boating
shows, is a member of Lone Star
and will participate in the races.
Sixteen heats in all will be stag-
ed during the afternoon.
A private catering company will
set up concessions to sell coffee,
sandwiches, and soft drinks to the
spectators.
Man Uninjured As
Train Hits Car
Ernest Bordayo escaped injury
Tuesday night when the rear of his
1954 Ford was struck on the left
side by a Missouri Pacific engine.
The train was switching at the
rail-road intersection by the Tobin
shed when the accident occured.
Report Shows 108 Children Handled By
San Pat Juvenile Counselor During 1958
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Baptists Pass
Sunday School
The First Baptist Church reach-
ed and passed its goal 201 in Sun-
day School last Sunday according
to the report by the pastor, Rev.
James B. Franklin.
The attendance at the church was
217, and, added to the attendance
at the Latin-American mission, the
attendance for Sunday School was
291. The most successful depart-
ment was the Junior department,
whose superintendent, Mrs. Robert
Wehmeyer reported that of the en-
rolment of 43 there was an attend-
ance of 41. In that same depart-
ment, Mrs. Howard Ramey’s class
of girls was 100 per cent in attend-
ance and all preparations for the
lesson, offering, and staying for
church. Mrs. Ramey also had a
visitor who was 100 per cent in all
points of the report.
Bob Dehnisch, general superin-
tendent, thanked all those who visit-
ed, called and went by to pick up
those who attended. He hopes that
on each Sunday the Sunday school
will continue to remain high in at-
tendance.
According to a statistical report
given recently to the San Patricio
Commissioners Court by the juve-
nile counselor E. L. Barrow, there
were 108 children involved in cases
disposed of in Juvenile Court dur-
ing the period Jan. 1, 1958 through
Dec. 31 1958.
'The types of cases were listed
as (1) Official cases, or those which
are placed on the official court
calendar for adjudication by the
jud'ge through the filing of a peti-
tion or other legal paper used to
initiate court action, and (2) Un-
official cases, or those not placed
on the court docket, but which are
adjusted by the judge, the proba-
tion officer, or other officer of the
court.
There were 48 official cases and
60 unofficial cases disposed of dur-
ing the year. Of 'the official cases
there were 36 boys and 12 girls in-
volved, with 14 Anglo boys, 22
Latin-American boys, three Anglo
girls, seven Latin American girls
and two Negro girls in the group.
In the unofficial cases disposed
the group is broken down as fol-
lows: 20 Anglo and 33 Latin Amer-
ican boys, and three each of Anglo
and Latin girls.
Of the 108 children involved there
were 92 who were involved in one
case; 15 involved in two cases;
and one child involved in three
cases.
Of the total number of children
taken into custody there were 58
who were detained overnight or
longer, and these juveniles were
placed in the county jail or a
police station, according to the re-
port given by the juvenile officer,
with the detention of the juveniles
being prior to their court hearings.
The 14 and 15-year old group
each had 17 boys; the 13-year old
age bracket shows 12 juveniles
involved in the court while eight,
five and two boys fell in the 12-
year, 11-year and 10-year groups,
respectively. There were four boys
17 years of age who were referred
back to the juvenile authorities af-
ter the youths bad each passed
his 17th birthday.
The girls who were in juvenile
trouble ranged in age from 12 to
16 years, with seven in the 14-year
age group. One was 12 years of
age; three fell in the 13-year age
bracket and the same number in
1st Conf. Game Is Ours!
Mathis baseballers won their first
conference game Tuesday night,
downing Ingleside 2-1 in a nine
inning game.
Jerry Edmondson allowed three
win. Mathis hitters collected six
hits to spell the victory.
Banquete will be here Friday
night at 8 p.m. The Pirates will
host their second conference game
hits and three walks to earn the here Tuesday night with Calallen.
the 16-year group, and four were their parents and the other one was
15 years of age.
The categories of crime included
car theft, burglary or unlawful en-
try, forgery, running away from
home, misdemeanor theft, vagran-
cy, sex offenses, injury to persons,
and liquor or drug violations. Bur-
glary ran highest among the boys,
with 32 cases of that law viola-
tion recorded. Misdemeanor theft
accounted for trouble which led 24
boys into trouble. Running away
from home was five times as great
among girls as among boys and
sex offenses were nine to one great-
er among the girls. Of the 108
juveniles referred to the court the
referral of 102 of those girls and
boys came through law enforce-
ment officers; five were referred by
from another source.
The marital status of parents of
the delinquent children showed that
50 of the parents were married and
living together; another 32 were
divorced, separated or deserted; in
13 cases the father was dead; in
another five cases the mother was
deceased.
In 50 cases the delinquent child
was living with both parents; in
23 cases the child was living with
mother only; seven were living with
father only; eleven lived with mo-
ther and stepfather; five were
with grandparents.
Twenty-five children in official
cases were placed on probation and
See REPORT Page 8
PTA To Vote On Plan
To Reorganize Into
Four Different Groups
Next month the Parent-Teacher May to
Association of the Mathis Schools . tivities.
will vote on a proposal to reoganize
next September when school starts
again.
Under the plan which was pro-
posed by Mrs. Otto Tiemann, fol-
lowing much discussion, the P.-T.
A. will be divided into four sec-
report on the year’s ac-
m
tions — elementary, intermediate,
junior high and senior high. Each
section will meet at its discretion
and will have its own chairman
and projects and committees nec-
essary for its business.
The regular P.-T.A. dues of 50
cents will be collected under the
direction of the general chairman.
Twenty-five cents will be sent to
the state organizations as usual;
the other 25 cents will go back to
the group from which it was col-
lected to be used by that group.
Any general P.-T.A. business will
be conducted throughout the year
by the executive committee, com-
posed of the president, vice-presi-
dent, secretary, treasurer, mem-
bership chairman and the chair-
man from each section as well
as the superintendent.
Any money left in the treasury
from this year would be used by
the executive committee for such
things as seem necessary.
There would be only two general
meetings, one in September to
meet the teachers and get organ-
ized and the other in April or
This project is recommended to
be (tried one year only and fur-
ther plans will be made after the
year’s trial.
Families who have more ‘than
one youngster will be able to make
individual arrangement with their
children for P.-T.A. participation
just as they do for other activi-
ties of church, Little League,
scouts, etc. Meeting times will de-
pend entirely upon the individual
groups so it is possible that all
meetings will not be held at the
same time.
Housing Board
Makes Contract
For $53,857.90
The Mathis Housing Aupthority
this week negotiated its annual con-
tributions contract to receive $53,-
857.90 of the $440,003 needed to
building 36 low rent housing units.
The $53,857.90 would be the ini-
tial loan committment prior to the
purchase of land for the units and
financing the initial phases of con-
traction.
July or August has been estimat-
ed as the date actual constrluction
of the units, behind the Mathis
Drive In Theatre, would begin.
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