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A fire drill was held at the Weber Elementary school building Tuesday morning. The 450
students filed out of the building in two-minutes, 25 seconds. Mrs. Lydia Roberts, second
* grade teacher and Mrs. Ninfa Gaitan, teacher’s aide, are shown leading their students
during the drill. Fire MarshaD Santiago Munoz and Principal Gordon Cabaniss supervised
the drill. Adrillwas also held last week at Jr. High.
CPL To Request
Rate Increase
A request for the first
general rate increase in
Central Power and Light
Company’s 56-year history will
be presented to the Mathis City
Council on September 19, CPL
Manager I. S. Butler said
today.
He said that the proposed
increase would affect all CPL
residential, commercial and
industrial customers. It will
mean an increase of 8 to 10 per
cent for most residential
cusotmers.
The CPL manager indicated
*that the planned increase
would add about a nickel per
day to the bill of the company’s
-average residential customer.
. In asking City Council
members to approve the new
electric rate schedule, the
power company spokesman
'•pointed out that the new
charges would not go into ef-
fect until the January billing.
“Thespiraling cost of nearly
everything we must buy to
produce electric service makes
a price increase essential,” the
CPL manager said.
He emphasized that the
power firm had been caught in
a “cost squeeze” as the result
of increasing costs of equip-
ment, services and labor; costs
of new power plants and lines,
and increased costs for en-
vironmental services.
While this is CPL’s first
general rate increase, the
power company manager
noted that CPL had voluntarily
reduced rates more than 20
times in the past. The firm’s
last major rate reduction was
in 1964!
“We’re proud of our record
of supplying good electric
service at reasonable prices,”
hesaid. Since 1951, the average
price paid by CPL’s residential
customers has dropped from
Kiwanis Club Hears
City Secretary Talk
An optimistic note with
^reference to the present and
future of the City of Mathis was
sounded by Richard Villarreal,
city secretary, at the meeting
“ of the Kiwanis Club Wednesday
morning at the Ranch Motel
dining room.
Mathis has been included in a
program known as a Workable
Program for Community
Development making federal
funds available for local im-
provements. This is known as
an official plan for community
action to eliminate slums, to
prevent blight and to foster
hocal development.
Some of the projects that
have been tentatively ap-
proved for funding under this
program are: a community
library, a filtration system
permitting us to use lake water
and a more adequate sewer
system, according to the city
secretary.
Housing developments in
Mathis, were discussed by
Villarreal who does not ap-
prove the type projects that
have been completed but
favors individual home units
that can be purchased by the
people who occupy them.
Surveys are being made by
outside business firms in-
dicating an interest in opening
places of business in Mathis,
the speaker said. He also
requested favorable vote in
support of the Home Rule
Charter.
In a business session
following the program, Dr. W.
A. Henderson and Mike Mearse
were approved for mem-
bership.
Paul Mahoney, president;
the Rev. Ross Welch, president
elect; and Frank Jostes,
secretary, attended a district
set-up meeting for Kiwanians
in Corpus Christi Sunday af-
ternoon.
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J. R. Villarreal, Mathis City Secretary (left) and Roger Butler City Attorney, are shown
with Home Rule Charter Commission officers, the Rev. James Jensen, chairman, and J. M.
Edmondson, secretary. Lalo Villalon, vice-chairman of the commission was not present for
the picture. Something amusing apparently struck the group when the camera was snap-
ped. The commission met Tuesday night to continue drafting the new charter which is due to
come before the voters soon. Nine other members were present for the meeting.
Taxpayers Voice Objections
Proposed Pay Hikes For County Officials
3.88 cents per kilowatt hour to
2.29 cents.
He noted that CPL’s
residential customers last year
paid less per kilowatt hour for
electric service than the
average family nationally, and
that during the past 15 months,
electric companies across the
nation recieved 116 rate in-
creases.
The CPL manager pointed
out that the use of electricity by
CPL customers has more than
doubled during the last_ 10
years, and that customer use
is expected to double
aba in by 1980. To supply
these future needs, the com-
pany expects to spend more
than a billion dollars on new
facilities within the coming
decade.
Cemetery Meeting
The Cenizo Hill Cemetery
Association will meet at the
home of Wiley Huntsinger
Thursday September 14 at 8
p.m. Please attend if you can.
Cotton
Market
News
Sample receipts from the
Corpus Christi territory began
decreasing last week. The
harvest should be just about
complete within the next few
days, reports E. H. Matthews,
Officer-in-Charge of the U.S.
D.A. Agricultural Marketing
Service Classing Office in
Corpus Christi.
Approximately 30,000
samples were classed this
week, bringing the season’s
total to 122,198.At this time last
year, 72,736 samples had been
classed.
Predominate grades on
Coastal Bend cotton were
See MARKET, Page 2
Approximately 20 taxpayers
were on hand for the public
hearing of the 1973 county
budget Monday and voiced
objection to a proposed in-
crease in salary for 11 elected
officials and one appointed
official.
There wa s no opposition to a
proposed 5.5 per cent increase
for county employees (ex-
cluding road and bridge em-
ployees), constables and
justices of the peace, to be
effective Oct. 1.
Under the set-up of the
budget, the proposed increase
was from $12,000 to $12,660 per
year Oct. 1, 1972 and an ad-
ditional raise to $13,500 and
$15,000 Jan. 1, 1972.
The county judge, county
attorney, county auditor,
county clerk, tax assessor-
collector and sheriff were
named as officials to receive
San Patricio
Hosts Supper
Citizens of the town of San
Patricio will have a covered
dish supper Sunday, Sep-
tember 17, at 5 o’clock.
Interested persons of the
area are invited to the affair,
according to Mrs. Lonnie
Glasscock HI, wife of the
mayor.
Ronnie Crenshaw
...player of the week
KIII-TV
Honors
Crenshaw
Halfback Ronnie Crenshaw
and Head Coach Dan Gandy
were guests Tuesday night on
Channel III—’TV NEWS.
Sports announcer Bob
Tucker presented Ronnie with
a plaque for “Player of the
Week”, and Coach Gandy
received for the school a
trophy.
Ronnie was honored for his
performance against Calallen
last Friday night when his
team won 51—0. In that game
Crenshaw carried the ball for
1 more than 3 00 yards and scored
three touchdowns for the
Mathis Pirates.
Draft Lottery
No. Revealed
Colonel Melvin N. Glantz, the
State Director of Selective
Service for Texas has an-
nounced that the Lottery
Number Cut-Off for induction
of non-volunteers for the
remainder of the year is 95.
The Department of Defense
has asked for 15,400 men from
all states to be inducted during
the last three months of 1972.
This will require raising the
Lottery Number for induction
from 75 in September to 95 for
the last quarter of the year.
Glantz said projections in-
dicate that approximately 1,100
men will be inducted in Texas
during the last three months of
this year. Induction orders will
go to men who are available
and fully qualified for military
service and who are in the 1972
First Priority Selection Group,
which is made up of men born
See LOTTERY, Page 2
the proposed $15,000 salaries.
The four county com-
missioners, the county clerk
and the district clerk were
listed for the proposed $13,500
salaries.
Dave Odem, Harry
Hamilton, E. C. McDaniel,
Homer Easterwood and
George Meeker, all of Sinton,
C. H. Mayo of Taft, Edwin
Schneider of Mathis and Bob
Dehnisch of West Sinton were
among those voicing opposition
to the proposed increase in
salaries for the elected of-
ficials. Each of the speakers
gave approval for the proposed
5.5 increase for the employees,
justices and constables.
Odem pronounced as
“ridiculous” the difference
in percentage in the proposed
increase in salaries for the
employees and that of the
elected officials. He then asked
bluntly who made th decision,
decisions.
Ray Harris, county auditor,
Fishermen Need
New Licenses
Hunters and fishermen are
reminded to obtain their new
licenses for the new year,
which began September 1.
Justice of Peace E. L.
Ridenour said a number of
fisherman were found by the
game wardens during the
Labor Day weekend to be
without the current license.
Patrolman Sierra
Resigns His Post
Patrolman Nick Sierra has
announced his resignation
effective this week from the
Mathis Police Department.
Sierra has accepted a new
position with the City of Dumas
Police Dept, in the Texas
panhandle. His move will
enabale him to receive a higher
salary and more benefits, he
said.
Patrolman Sierra wishes to
express his apprecitoin to all
of the people of Mathis,
especially to those who made it
possible for him to complete
his police training. He also
expresses his sincere thanks to
Chief Rodriguez as one of the
people who made possible his
training and job here.
“It was my pleasure serving
you all,” Patrolman Sierra
said.
Barbecue
Slated
Friday
A chicken barbeque will be
held Friday afternoon from
5:30 until 7:30 at the Clubs &
Libraries Building, across
from the football field.
The Mathis Pirate Booster
Club is sponsoring the bar-
beque, and proceeds will be
used to underwrite the cost of
film and camera used for
movies of the football games,
according to a representative
of the club, John Tobin.
Teenage Pool
Tournament
A pool tournament for the
teenagers will be held Satur-
day night at 8 o’clock at Mac’s
Bar—B—Que, located across
:rom the entrance to the park.
There will be trophies
awarded for the first and
second place. While the
tournament is mostly for
teenagers, others who are
interested are invited to at-
tend, according to Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. McMasters, owners
of the business.
said that he and the county
judge always discussed the
matter, and he in turn con-
tacted each department head
and then the decisions were
arrived at principally by
himself_after _taking into
consideration the disucssions
held with the county judge and
the department heads.
Harris stressed that the 1973
budget was the most difficult
budget he had made in his
tenure in office as county
auditor, pointing out the
various unexpected expenses
that had arisen during the
year, and the many changes
made in regulations governing
state and county business as
two of the reasons for this
difficulty in preparing the
budget.
The unexpected ex-
penditures over a period of the
first nine months in 1972 ran to
$66,000, according to the budget
prepared, and Eastergood
asked the question, “If the
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unexpected expenditurs rose
to that figure in the past nine
months, where will we be in
another nine months?” No one
gave an answer.
Harris, in explaining the
highlights of the 1973 budget,
said the acutal tax valuation of
the county is $137 million, an
increase of $2 million over the
budget estimates and will
provide an additional $18,000 in
revenues.
An increase in the allocation
for road and bridge fund from
3.5 to 13.5 cents is being made
to give each of the precincts an
additional $30,000 to operate on
next year. The 10 cent increase
in the allocation to the road and
bridge fund was deducted from
the general fund allocation,,
said Harris.
A deficit of $285,331 in the,
proposed budget will be made
up from federal revenue-
sharing funds a bill which is
now under legislation and
expected to be made into law.
At this point L. E. Ridenour,
justice of peace from Precinct
5, pointed out that according to
information which he has
obtained from Washington, D.
C., the proposed federal
revenue-sharing funds would
not be retroactive to Jan. 1 and
that the federal funds could not
be used for salaries.
He also warned that any
federal funds come with
“strings attached”. And
Schneider suggested the court
wait until such federal
revenue-sharing funds are
received and it is found what
“strings are attached” before
spending of the funds is taken
into account in the budget.
Harris said the 1973 budget
will be $211,428 higher than the
1972 budget. The proposed
expenditures in the 1973
budget, including the $30,000
salary increases for the of-
ficials, is set at $2,245,944. The
proposed increase in salaries
for the officials is included in
See TAXPAYERS, Page 2
County budget hearings Monday brought several objections to the proposed salary in-
creases for elected public officials. A hearing was set on the matter for Oct. 9. Homer
Easterwood of Sinton is shown questioning the necessity of the increases. E. L. Ridenour of
Mathis is at left.
Hot
Temperatures
Some of the hottest tem-
peratures of the summer were
recorded last week with the
high readings ranging from 97
to 100 degrees every day.
Monday ’ through Sunday
temperatures were 100, 99,100,
98, 97, and 99 degrees.
Beeville
Collectors
Plan Show
The Beeville Coin Club has
set its Fifth Annual Coin Show
for Sunday, Sept. 17, in the Bee
County College Student Center
Building in Beeville from 10
a.m. to 6 p.m..
It will be open to the public
and there will be no admission
charge.
Over 25 coin dealers from the
area and from Houston, San
Antonio, Corpus Christi and the
Rio Grande Valley have
reserved space at the show to
buy, sell and trade coins.
It is an unusual opportunity
for collectors of both United
States and foreign coins to add
to their c ollecticn s or to dispose
of their duplicates through sale
or trade.
There will be exhibits of
United States and foreign coins
and currency.
Door prizes will be given
away each hour to visitors
attending the show.
Food and refreshments will
be available in the building at a
modest charge.
City Council Meets September 19
The City Council of the City
of Mathis will conduct its
regular meeting Tuesday
night, September 19 at 7:30
p.m. at the City Hall.
Among the items on the
agenda a re a request from CPL
for a rate increase, and con-
sideration for a discount on
taxpayers’ statements who pay
during October, November and
December.
Mathis Native Named
To C Of C Position
Dennis Parrish, 26, a native
of Mathis, has been named
assistant manager of the
Corpus Christi Chamber of
Commerce.
Parrish lived in Mathis for a
time and attended schools
here.
He was graduated from Agua
Dulce High School in 1964, and
received a B.B.A. degree in
marketing from Texas A&M
University in 1968. He served in
the Army Adjutant General
Corps two years, and is an
Army Reserve first lieutenant
in inactive status.
Since 1970, Parrish has
resided in San Antonio, where
he managed the southwest
district for Lendman
Associates, a personnel
recruiting firm.
Parrish will work with
several chamber committees,
including the area develop-
ment and the industrial
committees.
Parrish is the son of Mrs.
Robert Smock of Agua Dulce
and the late W. R. Parrish. He
is a grandson of Mr. and Mrs.
P. W. Krager of Mathis. He and
his wife Donna and son Brett
will reside at 3901 Montego in
Corpus Christi.
Justice Courts
Earnings Told
Six justice court earnings
were reported and the indigent
care bills were approved in the
regular session of com-
missioners court Monday.
Earnings for the courts ran
to an unusually high figure of
$14,376,45. This was due to the
illness of the Justice of Peace
in Precinct 5, who was unable
to make the regular report
from that Precinct in July. He
submitted the reports for July
and August.
Reports showed the following
earnings: Precinct 1, Sinton,
$1,045; Precinct 2, Odem,
$1,624.50; Precinct 4, Portland,
$1,638.50; Precinct 5, Mathis,
$3,048 and $5,151; Precinct 6,
Aransas Pass, $570 and
Precinct 8, Taft, $1,869.45.
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The indigent care bills ran to
a total of $2,499.40, which was a
comparatively low amount.
Hospitalization accounted for
$1,641.79 and drug bills took
another $787.01. Other bills
were doctors, $20; tran-
sportation, $15.32; groceries,
$20 and miscellaneous, $15.28.
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