The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 1973 Page: 1 of 8
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50 Years Of Service To Mathis And San Patricio County
I VOLUME L MATHIS, TEXAS, 78368, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1973 EIGHT PAGES—NO. 44 |
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FFA CONTEST pinners. These Mathis ag students won first place in the Greenhand
district chapter conducting contest last week in Beeville. They will compete Saturday at
Kingsville with 10 teams from four other districts for the area title. Team members are (1-r)
first row: Debbie Greenwood, Gayle Jostes, and Diane Stricklen; second row: Larry Sikes,
Paul Teague, Robert Fojtik, and Ramon Fonseca; back row: Walter Moorman, Lindy
Galloway, and Richard Beall.
Mathis Greenhands Win
District FFA Contest
A parking-lot-full of school
buses heralded the arrival of
180 students to the Bee County
College campus Wednesday,
Oct. 24. Representatives from
11 area high schools met for the
annual four-county Future
Farmers of America District
Leadership Contest.
Teams from each school
Long Distance
One-Plus Dialing
Faster And Easier
Mathis residents can make
Long Distance calls faster and
easier as a result of South-
western Bell’s introduction of
One-Plus Dialing.
“Conversion to One-Plus
means that Mathis customers
now are able to dial their own
station-to-station telephone
calls to more than 100 million
telephones in the United
States,” said Shirlyn Welsch,
company manager.
Mrs. Welsch said dailing a
One-Plus call is simple:
--Dial “1” to gain acess to the
Long Distance network.
--Dial the area code if dif-
ferent from 512.
--Then dial the seven-digit
telephone number.
One-Plus calls are billed
automatically. A machine
records the time each call is
placed, the calling number, the
called number, the time the
called party answers and the
disconnect time.”
Mrs. Welsch said One-Plus
dialing is the most economical
way to call Long Distance be-
cause an operator isn’t
necessary in handling the call.
Mathis residents, however,
already had the advantage of
low, One-Plus rates before the
conversion.
“For billing purposes, an
operator will still be necessary
for One-Plus calls for four and
eight-party line customers,”
Mrs. Welsch said. “Also, calls
such as person-to-person,
credit card or billed to a third
number must be handled by an
operator.”
Mrs. Welsch said employees
have been instructing Mathis
customers on how to use One-
Plus. If additional help is
needed, a customer can
receive instructions by calling
an operator.
“If a customer dials a wrong
number using One-Plus, he or
she should contact an operator
as soon as possible. The
operator will see that you
aren’t billed for the call,” Mrs.
Welsch said.
competed in a number of
contests, with the winners
heading to the Area X contest
at A&I University Saturday
Nov. 3.
The top three teams received
awards presented by Central
Power and Light. The top two
teams in each category will
compete in the area 10 contest.
Greenhand chapter con-
ducting contests placed
Mathis, Beeville and Pettus in
first, second and third places.
In advanced classification,
or those students who have had
a year of FFA training, Three
Rivers, Pettus and George
West took the top three places
in farm skills. In the chapter
conducting contest, Pettus,
Pawnee and Beeville walked
away with the prizes. Top
places for the radio teams went
to Pettus, Beeville and Taft
respectively.
New Garbage,
Sewer Rates
Charged Oct.
The new garbage and sewer
rates are in effect, and will be
on the October bills being
mailed out this week, City
Secretary Henry Franco said
Tuesday.
Current garbage rates are as
follows: Residential $2.25
(outside city $3.50). Commer-
cial rates, up 22 percent from
old rates.
See RATES, Page 8
A Farm Electrification Short
Course for adult farmers will
be held November 5 through 8
under the sponsorship of the
Mathis High School Vocational
Agriculture Dept., according to
Olan McCraw Jr., superin-
tendent, and Billy Steelham-
mer and Lonnie Messer,
teacher of Vocational
agriculture.
The Short Course is being
sponsored by the Vocational
Agriculture Department of
Mathis High School.
Cleve Walkup, Farm
Electrification Specialist with
the Vocational Agriculture
Division of the Texas
Education Agency and the
Department of Agricultural
Engineering at Texas A&M
University, will do the in-
Cleve Walkup
structing in the course. He is
headquartered at Texas A&M
University.
Walkup holds a B.S. Degree
in Industrial Education and a
M. Ed. Degree in Agricultural
Education.
The Short Course at Mathis is
scheduled to begin Monday at
8:00 p.m. in the Vocational
Agriculture Building. Other
meetings in the series of four
will be held Nov. 6, 7, and 8.
During the dates the Short
Course is in progress, Walkup
will be available to assist
farmers with individual
problems and to provide on-
the-farm instruction, ac-
cording to Steelhammer and
Messer.
Farmers interested in at-
tending the short course should
write or call the superintendent
of schools, Mr. McCraw, or the
teachers of vocational
agriculture, Steelhammer or
Messer. An entry fee of $5.00
will be charged. Farm Elec-
trification Short Course Cer-
tificates are to be presented to
each farmer who attends all
the training sessions.
Walkup states that the short
course can be adjusted to
wishes and interests of the
farmers enrolled, but he ex-
pects to cover such subjects as
safety, how to properly choose
wire sizes and install motor
circuits, how to choose,
protect, and ground electric
motors, how to reverse and
change motors from 120V to
240V, and how to calculate the
cost of operating electrical
equipment. Demonstrations
will be given and class
enrollees will have the op-
portunity to perform the skills
demonstrated.
Short courses in Farm
Electrification, as well as in
other areas, are now available
to farmers throughout the state
under the new cooperative
program between the Texas
Education Agency and Texas
A&M University.
'This cooperative program is
designed to make the services
of specialists availabe to
conduct short courses under
the supervision of public
schools. Such a program will
See COURSE, Page 8
LEONARD LUTHER, Officer-In-Charge of the Mathis Post
Office, was the speaker at the Rotary Club luncheon meeting
Tuesday. He explained the plans and problems of the new
Postal Service.
Local Rotary Club
Will Give Away
Super Bowl Tickets
Mathis area pro football fans
will have a chance to obtain
two tickets to the NFL Super
Bowl game in January, ac-
cording to Pearson Knolle,
chairman of the Mathis Rotary
Club community service
committee.
The local Rotary Club has
obtained two Super Bowl
tickets which will be given
away. Persons donating $1 for
the club’s community service
project will be given a num-
bered ticket making them
eligible for a drawing for the
game tickets to be held several
WEATHER
Mathis Voc. Ag.
Farm Electrification Course
Slated For Adults Nov. 5-8
Date
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weeks before the January 13
game in Houston’s Rice
Stadium.
The them of the current fund-
raising drive by the Rotarians
is “Invest a dollar in your
community, and get a chance
to see the Super Bowls.”
Second and third place prizes
will also be awarded to two
persons unfortunate enough
not to win Super Bowl tickets.
The drive for the project is
expected to begin in earnest
about the middle of next week
when raffle tickets from the
printers will be in the hands of
individual Rotary members.
Several businesses in town will
also have tickets available.
All profits from the fund
drive will be used strictly for
the benefit of the Mathis
community, the Rotary
spokesman said.
The original value of Super
Bowl tickets is $15 each, but
they are almost impossible to
buy.
Lake Area
Group Organizes
Tourist Promotion
A new group of Mathis area
boosters was organized
recently, and will be known as
Lake Corpus Christi Area
Promoters.
The goal of the organization
is to promote more business for
the Mathis area by getting
winter visitors to stay longer.
The plan is to involve both
sides of the Lake in the
promotion.
The Promoters meet the
second and fourth Wednesday
every month at 7:30 p.m. in the
Junior High Cafeteria. Officers
are Ralph Nichols, president;
Lonnie Glasscock III, vice-
president; Ronald LaDuque,
secretary; and Doris Watson,
treasurer.
Several activities to promote
tourism are being planned, and
any suggestions which would
be helpful are appreciated,
according to Mrs. Watson.
Brochures are ready to be
printed, and will describe
facilities, activities, and at-
See PROMOTION, Page 8
Constitutional Amendments
Election Is Tuesday, Nov. 6
Mrs. Velma Sherman, County
Clerk, announced this week her
office would be open until 2 p.m.
Tuesday to take the ballots to
the curb for handicapped per-
sons unable to make it to the
polls.
A very light turnout of voters
is anticipated in the November
6th election on the nine state
constitutional amendments.
Only 13 polling places will
be open in San Patricio County.
The voting precints and
balloting places are as follows:
Precints 1, 11, 13 and 14 will
vote at the courthouse in
Sinton; Precinct 2 at the Odem
school building; Precinct 3 at
the parish hall in San Patricio;
Precinct 4 at the school
building in Gregory; Precints
5 and 18 at the fire station in
Mathis; Precincts 6 and 15 at
city hall in Aransas Pass.
Also, Precinct 7 at the gin
office in Edroy; Precincts 8
and 19 at the fire station in
Portland; Precinct 9 at the
community building i n
Ingleside; Precincts 10 and 16
at the city hall in Taft;
Precinct 12 at the Taft Gin &
Seed Co. office in Taft;
Precinct 17 at Grower’s Grain
Co. office in St. Paul; Precinct
20 at Seven Seas Marina in
Ingleside-on-the-Bay.
Luther Tells Rotarians
Postal Service Goal:
‘To Pay Its Own Way’
Leonard Luther, Officer-In-
Charge of the Mathis Post
Office, was the guest speaker
at the Mathis Rotary Club noon
luncheon Tuesday.
Luther said the post office
department, which had func-
tioned for many years, went
out of business about three
years ago and was replaced by
the U. S. Postal Service, a new
independent organization. The
new service is freer of
government regulation and
intervention than before, and
has as as one of its goals to be a
business that pays its own way,
and even make a profit. It has
not reached that goal so far,
however.
The acting postmaster said
that the designers of the new
postal service started out by
eliminating some district of-
fices (one was at Dallas). Top
offices were not the only ones
to be cut back on personnel —
the lower ones were too, in-
cluding the Mathis post office.
Hours of work for local em-
ployees were severely cut back
for a while. Of course, with less
hours, there was also less pay
for the workers.
The new postal system hasn’t
completely worked, but the
plan is to make it work, Luther
said, striving toward having a
system that is making money
instead of spending three times
its revenue. Currently the
postal service is spending only
twice its revenue. The way
expenses were cut to begin
with in 1972 was to cut excess
working hours and equipment.
Corpus Christi was especially
hurt in this regard, it was
pointed out.
Labor amounts to 85 percent
of the postal expenditures.
Mechanical equipment and
transportation account for the
remaining 15 percent.
Luther explained that the
postal service goal now is to
keep down the cost of
delivering the mail, not speed.
Cutting costs includes less trips
by mail trucks to dispatch the
mail.
The Mathis officer-in-charge
told the Rotarians about the
four classes of mail which is
serviced. The first mail ever
delivered in the U. S. were
letters in the 1700’s. When
classification began, letters
were made first class mail.
Second class mail includes
newspapers and magazines,
which were also classified
early in our country’s history.
Third class includes 100 per
cent advertising matter.
Fourth class includes
packages. Another class of
mail is from non-profit
organizations, which pay the
least postage of all.
The goal is to make all these
items of mail pay the cost of
delivery; thus the reason for
See POSTAL, Page 8
Council Meets Tonight
Approved Tax Roll Last Week
The City Council has been
busy lately holding meetings,
and this week is no exception.
The officials meet tonight
(Thursday) at 7:30 at the City
Hall.
Items on the agenda are:
-Request for zoning change
by Bill D. St. Clair.
-Bids, police car.
-Water system.
-Letter from Jason Luby -
Re: Choke Canyon Dam.
The city secretary said that
the council will discuss the
possibility of forming a water
district.
In a special meeting last
Thursday, the council turned
down a request of Mrs. Lillian
G. Houlihan for waiver of in-
terest on paving liens against
the estates of Dessie Lorene
Mueller and Mrs. J. F. Nichols.
The council also approved an
ordinance approving and
accepting the general tax roll,
and one for levying taxes for
the use and support of the
municipal government and
providing for the interest and
sinking fund for the year 1973.
The decision was made on
how much of the $1.90 tax rate
per $100 valuation will be used
toward the sinking fund and
bond obligation of the city.
$1.61 will be for maintenance
and support of the general >
government, and the.
remaining 29 cents will go
toward the interest and sinking
fund.'The ratio is 85 percent
and 15 percent. The bond
payment comes due once a
year.
The new ordinances ap-
proved are being published as
public notices elsewhere in this
newspaper.
Pep Rally, Bonfire Tonight
Queen Janie Garcia To Reign
During Homecoming Activities
The Mathis High School
student body elected the
Homecoming Court for 1973-74
on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Homecoming Queen is
Janie Garcia; senior duchess,
Terri Stolley; junior duchess,
Felis Olivarez; sophomore
duchess Lupe Mesa; and fresh-
man duchess, Diana
Dominguez. These girls will be
presented at the Friday night
game during half-time.
This week is Spirit Week at
M.H.S. Monday was sock day,
Tuesday was sign day, Wed-
nesday was shirt day, ^Thur-
sday was hat day, and Friday
will be a combination of all
these. The classes have been
assigned areas of the school to
be decorated for Homecoming.
The seniors will decorate the
main hall, juniors will decorate
the gym lobby, sophomores
will decorate the right wing of
the main building and fresh-
men will decorate the left wing.
It was announced Monday by
David McCraw that students
wishing to bring wood for the
bonfire were to put it in the
designated area of the football
parking lot for the bonfire. The
last day for bringing wood will
be Wednesday afternoon. The
pep rally and bonfire will be
Thursday about 7 p.m. after
the Junior High games. The
rally will be held in the gym
and then all will go to the
bonfire. To be included in Spirit
Week at M.H.S. will be the
selling of cookies in the shape
of mustangs to the student bo-
dy on Friday.
The student council and
many M.H.S. students have
been very busy working to
make this the best
Homecoming ever. They invite
all the public to attend the pep
rally Thursday night and they
also invite all exes to attend the
reception after the game.
HOMECOMING QUEEN - Janie Garcia, elected by popular
vote by the entire student body of Mathis High School, will
reign over Homecoming activities this week. Janie is a
senior.
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Davis, Wilburn. The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 1973, newspaper, November 1, 1973; Mathis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1055928/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mathis Public Library.