The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 20, 1974 Page: 1 of 6
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Mathis Area Newspaper Collection and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Mathis Public Library.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Ilte Mathis lew
PER COPY
50 Years Of Service To Mathis And San Patricio County
VOLUME LI
MATHIS, TEXAS 78374, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1974
SIX PAGES - NO. 25
[★★★★★★★
Sketching
By John L. Norris
i★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 'Aif,
Some weeks ago, we took a
swing up to Dallas, Wichita
Falls, and back by Hamlin and
McCaulley. It had been about
20 years since we had been to
McCaulley, where I did the
most of my growing up. I was
impressed with the narrow
country roads, and didn’t
remember them being only 40
feet wide. They looked wider
than that to me when I was
driving them in a Model T, or
behind Kit and Tobe in our
wagon.
Despite the fact that the
roads were unpaved, and of-
fered protection from oc-
casional rains by being
graveled, other things had
changed a lot. The high school
had been rebuilt, and was
much smaller, but the
Superintendent bought two of
my specially autographed
books. He said that he was
going to put one volume in the
high school library, and the
other in the elementary
library. I hope that he did, as I
am going to check on him one
of these days.
Naturally, I thought of my
growing up days, as we drove
familiar roads. Since I lead a
pretty sheltered life, and you
could say that, what with Dad’s
shadow never far from me, I
didn’t recall any “rip snorting”
big times. What I did think of,
and what I told Kathryn about
as we drove along, was how
hard I had to work. Not that it
was the first time she had
heard it, but she did listen
respectfully, which was good
for both of us that she did.
I do know what it is to push
one’s self to the very limit of
one’s endurance. I thought of
my weight as being about 90
pounds, and yet I don’t see how
I dragged a 100 pound sack of
cotton to the wagon, weighed it,
and got it up into the wagon and
emptied it, but I did it, perhaps
hundreds of times. The law of
gravity does its best when
trying to keep a 100 pound sack
of cotton on the ground. It does
almost equally well with a
mesquite log, intended for the
family fireplace.
This probably nearly hap-
pened: It was said that the
cowboy and the yearling calf
left the corral gate, with the
See SKETCHING, Page 6
WEATHER REPORT
rttslr.....
Signs EPA Grant Agreement
Date
High
Low
Rain
June 10
79
77
3.77
11
91
70
.00
12
94
70
.00
13
92
71
.13
14
90
70
.30
15
93
67
.00
16
94
66
.00
eS'SI itii
1
......----"'J
' JM JL Ml
-----— -y- ■■ -- ... -are
Grain Harvest Begins
FIRST LOAD. The first grain sorghum of the 1974 harvest season was brought in from the C.
M. Porter farm at Argenta Tuesday about 4 p.m. and unloaded at the Mathis Grain and
Elevator on Front Street. Shown in the truck after taking a grain sample is Melvin Smith,
elevator foreman; Kim Hennig (center) truck driver; and Duncan Hedtke, elevator em-
ploye. The grain from the truck, weighing about 30,000 pounds, tested a respectable 15.2
percent moisture content. Grain price Tuesday morning was $3.70 cwt., Smith said.
4-H Dress Revue
Style Show Is Tonight
The events of the 1974 County
Dress Revue will be held on
June 19-20. The judging of the
garments was held Wed-
nesday, June 19, at 1:30 p.m. in
the County Homemaking
Building in Sinton.
The Style Show and Awards
Program will follow on
Thursday, June 20 at 8:00 p.m.
in the E. Merle Smith Junior
High School Cafetorium in
Sinton. Among the awards will
be Teen Queen, Junior Miss,
and Maid of Cotton. The
winners will then compete in
the District 4-H Dress Revue on
July 29, in Corpus Christi.
All families and friends are
invited to attend the style show
to view the work our 4-H’ers
are doing and to give support
and encouragement for their
efforts toward building a better
life for our youth of today.
Entries for the 1974 Dress
Revue include: Seniors, Gayle
Maxwell, Julie Jansen, Jody
Edmondson, Jane Schneider,
Jenny Hansen all of West
Sinton 4-H Club; Pamela Davis
and Marie Luedke, St. Paul 4-H
Club; Sharen Steinmeyer,
Mathis 4-H Club; Mary Beth
Rhule, Ingleside 4-H Club;
Linda McCown, San Patricio 4-
H Club. Juniors Brenda
Balensiefen, Odem 4-H Club;
Nancy Jo Adams and Grace
Sheneider, West Sinton 4-H
Red Cross Seeks
Funds In Mathis
families were loaned $425 until
their checks arrived.
Assistance to needy families
for food and medical needs
amounted to $128.49 in the past
year. This assistance was
made possible because others
cared and made their donation
to Red Cross. John Burk, First
Aid Instructor, held several
classes in Mathis and trained
See FUNDS, Page 6
The San Patricio County
Chapter of the American Red
Cross will have a letter cam-
paign for funds for the chapter.
Mathis has not provided funds
in the'past five years to service
the programs which give
assistance to the people.
During the past year 23
families and servicemen from
Mathis were serviced in an
emergency. Servicemen
, Old Recipes
Are Needed
Old-time recipes are still
being sought by the San
Patricio Historical Restoration
Society.
The compilation of a second
volume of the “The San
Patricio Cookbook” will begin
soon. The new book will be four
times larger in size than the
previous one, Lonnie Glass-
H cock II said.
‘ The society would like to
have typical old South Texas
food recipes. Especially
desired are ones dating back
into the early 1800s.
Persons with the desired
information should contact
Mrs. Eugene McCown, Route 2,
Mathis, giving the origin and
age of the recipe if possible.
The annual cotton and
sorghum grain field tour will
be held today, Thursday, June
20. The tour will begin at 2 p.m.
at the Jack Schmalstieg farm
on FM road 1944, Sodville
Community. Planted at this
location are 48 sorghum
hybrids representing 19 dif-
ferent seed companies.
The second stop of the tour
will be the sorghum variety
demonstration on the Adams
Bros. Farm, 2V2 miles north of
Edroy on FM 796. In addition to
discussing the different
hybrids in the test, Dr. Jose
Amador, Area Plant Path-
ologist, Weslaco will lead a
discussion on sorghum
diseases.
The third stop will be on the
Council Okays Telephone
Company Rate Increase
It was a long night for Mathis
City Council members Tuesday
as they faced a lengthy agenda
for their regular monthly
meeting, preceded by a special
meeting scheduled for 6 p.m.
Some of the council were late
to the early meeting, but it was
called to order by Mayor Pedro
Cavazos Jr. at 6;40 p.m. Ad-
journing the first session at
7:45, the council went right into
the regular business and
continued that marathon sit-
ting until 11:35.
All council members were
present. Besides Mayor
Cavazos, Guadalupe De Leon,
Simon Galvan, Margarita Paiz
Rivera, Pedro Zapata Jr. and
Ramiro Paiz were on hand to
discuss the city’s affairs.
The special meeting was
called to discuss the wa-
stewater treatment plant grant
agreement. The city has been
approved for an initial federal
Mathis School Board
Elects TASB Delegate
The Board of Trustees of the
Mathis Independent School
District met Monday night in
regular session at the
superintendent’s office.
Five of the board’s seven
members were present: An-
tonio Rivera, Walter Person,
Leroy Mengers, Dwayne
Hicks, and L. C. Hennig Jr.
Minutes of the regular
meeting in May and a special
meeting were read. The
minutes recorded the board’s
decision last month to offer to
purchase for $16,500 a house
and lot on East San Patricio
Avenue. The property, which
adjoins other school property,
has since been purchased and
will be used for office space.
The council reviewed the
accounts payable report and
approved payment of bills
totaling $18,777.83, which in-
cluded a payment for $7,665.14
for fire and storm insurance on
school buildings to the Tran-
samerica Insurance Group.
V. M. (Pete) Thyssen and
Antonio Rivera were elected as
delegate and alternate to the
Texas Association of School
Boards (TASB) convention in
September. The men are
president and vice-president of
the board, respectively.
Santos Gaitan was approved
as an alternate on the Board of
Equalization for the Mathis
school district.
The board approved con-
Club; Robbie and Carie
Hollingshead, Brenda Daniel,
Brenda Searcy, Portland 4-H
Club; Kimberly Cox, and Nary
Naylor, Mathis 4-H Club;
Donetta Turner, Teri Ann
Rowe, Pamela Adams, Sheri
Adams, Julie Young and
Michelle Majek, Ingleside 4-H
Club.
Boy Scout Troop
Meeting Slated Monday
All interested boys, ac-
companied by their parents,
are urged to attend a meeting
Monday night at 7:30 p.m. at
the Scout Hut, for the purpose
of reactivating Boy Scout
Troop 413.
Due to a lack of volunteer
leaders, the troop has not
functioned for some time.
District scout executive Bob
Knupple of the Mustang
District will be present. He will
be available to take any Scouts
who want to sign up for sum-
mer camp this summer.
All prospective Scouts ages
12 to 18, new or old members,
are invited to attend the mee-
ting. The V.F.W. has agreed to
again sponsor the troop, a
spokesman said.
Simon Padron Jr. has
volunteered to act as scout-
master.
Fund Drive Nets *400
Cotton And Sorghum Field
Tour Slated For Today
Rescue Team Flea
Market Is Success
R. E. Marburger farm about
one-half miles north of FM 881
on FM 796. Planted on the Mar-
burger farm are twenty-five
cotton varieties. Fred Elliott,
Cotton Specialist, Texas A&M
University will discuss the
different varieties in the test.
See TOUR, Page 6
The Mathis Rescue Team
would like to thank all of those
in the area who made
donations of money or mer-
chandise to the flea market
fund drive which was held last
weekend, June 15 and 16, at the
Rescue Team headquarters.
Businesses and local in-
dividuals who gave donations
of money to the Rescue Team
were Mathis Market,
Sutherland’s, Butterkrust, C.
D. Caffel, Mrs. Austin Nelson,
and Coca-Cola, which donated
three canisters of Coke and
serving equipment.
Thanks to the support given
by these businesses and to the
merchandise donated by local
people, the Rescue Team
earned a desperately needed
$400. Because of the success of
this event, the Team is plan-
ning to make the flea market a
monthly event; therefore,
donations may still be made at
any time by calling 547-5871.
The Team will continue its
fund drive until it reaches its
goal of $2000.
New Rotary President
Lists Club Objectives
City Water
Off Thursday
The City Hall reports that the
water will be turned off from 9
p.m. till 11 p.m. Thursday,
June 20. They will be working
on water hydrants.
Dan Wade, president-elect of
the Mathis Rotary Club, was
the speaker at the club’s noon
luncheon Tuesday at the Clubs
and Library Building.
Wade and a new slate of
officers assume their duties
July 1. He told the club the new
board of directors met Monday
night to set the objectives for
the coming year.
The new president listed
some of the objectives and
suggestions for club activities
during the 1974-75 year.
Richard Heidland will be
director of club services,
Pearson Knolle will be
vocational services chairman,
and Irvin Watson will head the
community service committee.
Watson is the incoming vice-
president and Erwin Land-
grebe will continue his duties
as secretary-treasurer. Heid-
land and Knolle are directors,
as are Leonard Luther and
outgoing president A1 Pietsch.
The three officers named
above also will serve on the
board of directors.
The club voted to meet at the
Clubs and Library Building for
the next six months and have
family style meals. The action
is subject to change later if the
club sees fit.
The club also voted to pay
fees of delegates going to the
district meeting in Alice this
weekend.
Visiting Rotarians present
were Cotton Sweasey of Alice,
Dick Hatch of Aransas Pass,
and John Miller and John
Miller Jr. of Sinton.
aV
tracting for another year the
services of the Educational
Service Center in Corpus
Christi. The cost is $1 for each
student, plus 12 cents each for
living materials used in biology
studies.
In personnel matters,
resignations were accepted
from teachers Angie Scales,
Julia Perez, and Yvonne
Alvarez.
New contracts were signed
for Miss Patricia Ann Smith,
who will be a kindergarten
teacher, and Mrs. Sandra W.
Burk, who will teach fifth
grade.
Nine personnel for the Brush
Country Co-op (special
education) were approved by
the board, including one
teacher for the Mathis
program, Cynthia Ann
Glasson.
The board discussed the
hiring of a new band director
due to the resignation of
William A. Cox. Several ap-
plications are on file, but no
action was taken.
grant of $39,770 to finance the
planning phase of the plant, but
must furnish 25 percent of the
money itself.
The total cost of the com-
pleted plant, estimated to be
$400,000 a year and a half ago,
will cost nearer $500,000 with
an additional two years of
inflation and new EPA
requirements, the city official
were told. Local money
required for the entire project
will amount to $125,000.
On hand to discuss the
financial aspects of getting the
Step 1 paper work on the way,
plus later steps, were the city’s
financial advisor, Thomas
Anderlitch of San Antonio;
Norman Robertson of the
accounting firm of Harris and
Robertson of Sinton, which
conducts the City of Mathis
audit; Dan Pugh of Urban
Engineering Co. of Corpus
Christi, who advises on city
engineering problems; and
Albert Pena of Corpus Christi,
new city attorney for Mathis.
Also present was Madeline
Wagnon, city bookkeeper.
Engineer Pugh told the
council that each step in the
procedure to get a new sewer
plant here must be to the
satisfaction of the Texas Water
Quality Board and the En-
vironmental Protection
Agency.
Anderlitch, who works with
many Texas cities to obtain
financing, mainly through
bond issues, advised the
council to raise utility rates to
improve the city’s financial
status. He said he had
recommended this years ago,
and that while rates were
See COUNCIL, Page 5
Commissioners’ Court
Looks At JP Salaries
NEW OFFICERS of the Mathis Rotary Club are (l-r) Erwin Landgrebe,
treasurer; Irvin Watson, vice-president; and Dan Wade, president.
The commissioners court, at
the June 17 meeting, rescinded
an order passed last week
setting a hearing for June 27 to
raise the salaries of Peace
Justices J. B. Outlaw of Port-
land and T. E. Pullin of Taft.
The order called for setting
their salaries at $731 and $675,
respectively.
There will be a public
hearing on July 8 to consider
setting the salaries of all
justices of the peace to $731, the
amount already being drawn
by Raul O. Gonzales of Sinton.
Peace Justice Walter Person
of Old San Patricio will be left
out of the wage hike hearing as
members of the court said that
he is too new to the job and is
serving as an appointee. He is
Democratic nominee for the
office and unopposed in
November.
There was talk of eliminating
Person’s post, after Ray
Harris, county auditor said
something will have to go. The
cost of operating the county
government is climing too fast,
he said.
The commissioners delayed -
discussion on constables’
mileage. Several constables
were present, including
Igancio Perez of Taft, whose
$477 mileage payment for May
drew comment from some of
Judge Ridenour
Attends Seminar
E. L. Ridenour, Justice of the
Peace, Precinct 5, attended the
30th Annual Seminar of the
Justices of Peace and Con-
stables Association of Texas at
the Red Carpet Inn on Padre
Island, Corpus Christi, June
12-15.
Speakers at the event in-
cluded District Attorney
William B. Mobley, Nueces
County Attorney Frank L.
Smith, former Senator Ralph
Yarborough, Dr. Cleo Garcia,
Tony Bonilla, Joe Christi of the
state Board of Insurance, and
Tom Bullington of the Attorney
General’s office in Austin.
the commissioners.
Joe Zapata, commissioner
said it was intended for the
court to discuss constable
mileage in general and not just
that of Perez.
In other business Monday,
the court heard good news
about higher valuations for the
1974 tax roll because of in-
dustrial growth and new oil and
gas wells.
Representatives for Prit-
chard and Abbott, Inc.,
valuation engineers for the
county had earlier informed
the court of a $12 million boost
in assessed values, but said
See COURT, Page 6
Publisher’s
Comments
by j.f.t.
There is always a cord or
more of dead wood in a budget.
San Patricio County’s budget is
no exception. The taxpayers
always pay for more than they
get.
It takes a bit of backbone and
direction to keep the ship on an
even keel and in our opinion the
San Patricio County Judge and
the other members of the
Commissioner’s Court have
wavered from their course. It
is time that they get back on
the compass point and
straighten out a few of the
laxities that have crept in the
past several years.
There is one way to do it and
it doesn’t take anything but
determination and a simple
vocabulary. . .the word is
“NO.” The court is confronted
by every kind of a request and
99 percent of them cost the
county money.
We have been in this county
for 37 years. When we came
here there were fewer people
and much fewer people on the
county payroll. The county has
not doubled in population since
that time, but the expense of
See COMMENTS, Page 5
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Matching Search Results
View two places within this issue that match your search.Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Davis, Wilburn. The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 20, 1974, newspaper, June 20, 1974; Mathis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1052754/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mathis Public Library.