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YOAKUM HERALD-TIMES
COVERING LAVACA and DeWITT COUNTIES
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Published at Yoakum, Texas Every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
Second Class Postage Paid at Yoakum. Texas 77995 Tu.-*dav, January asih, i»«r. h cents HER corv. no. io
SENATOR PATMAN URGES POLL TAX PAYMENT
AT SMAM BARBECUE SESSION SUNDAY AFTERNOON
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Frank Parma Passes
Away In S. Antonio
Frank Parma, aged 62 years,
of San Antonio, passed away
Sunday, January 23. Mr. Parma
was a brother - in - law of Mr.
John Kvinta of Yoakum.
Funeral services will >ie held
Tuesday, January 25 at 2 p.m.
at Sacred Heart Catholic Church
in Haiiotts-iilo with burial in the
Ca'holic Cemetery in llalletts-
v'.lle. The body will lie In slate
at the Kub.cn i Funeral Horne
until service time.
Other survivors include his wife
Ange'a and son Frank of San
An'on o; leveral bredhrrs and nu-
nierru-, nieccs-and nephews.
Third Session Of Beef Cattle
Shortcourse Held At Cuero
SMAM Hall officials welcomed
Slate Senator Bill Patman of
Ganado Sunday afternoon at a
big barbecue climaxing a poll
tax drive staged by the associa-
tion. Senator Patman address-
ed the gathering later in the
afternoon.
Seen here, left to right, are:
Pete Barrera, secretary of
SMAM; Robert Leal, publicity
chairman; Gus Meza, president
of the society club; David Meza
resident of SMAM, Inc.; Sena-
tor Bill Patman; Jerry Welch,
supervisor at Eddy Packing Co.
’which furnished meat for the
barbecue; and Joe Morales, Sec-
retary of SMAM.
Organized Feb. 26, 1911 with
36 charter members, SMAM
(Soeiedad Mutualista AgrieuUorcs
Mexicanos) has served the Latin
American segment of the area
as a mutual aid and social socie-
ty. Their spacious hall on High-
sident David Meza informed.
Shortly after its beginning in
1911 the society was reorganized
on the 5th of April 1915 and again
in December of 1930. Since it
has continued to function and
way 111 at Hoehheim Praire now serve the needs of its community,
serves the populace as a nice!in ; I Its first president was Bernar-
place and is for the staging ol j do Rivera. Three years ago
dances and celebrations. SMAM observed its 50th anniver-
Mutual aid is extended to the | sary.
male members of the society j The Hoehheim area, historic
Cpl. Gary O’Neill
Returns After One
Year In Vietnam
U. D. Thompson, Animal Hus-
bandman with the Texas Agricul-
tural Extension Service and herad
quartered at Texas A&M. will
discuss feeding beef cattle both
under range conditions and in
he feed lot. Items such as feed
requireiTent.s for various classes
of livestock and feels will b
iiseussed in detail.
The Third sess'on, as all other.,
will be held in Ihe DeWitt County
Electric Cooperative budding in
which pays an average of 45 per-
cent of doctor’s bills. A fund is
also set aside for socials and
barbecues. Total membership
now consists of 35 members, un-
doubtly all active. More than 600
have joined the ranks of the as-
sociation since its beginning, Pie-
Oil Pooling Bill Supporter Answers
\ Charges Against Alleged Inequality
eJ1 The new Texas oil pooling law
w passed by Ihe legislature is not
Ki-Ajl lair to landowners, C. Y. Jacobs
r " nf llnnn coir! tuieonllii at moot.
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of Hope said recently at a meet-
ing of the Lavaca County Land
ami Mineral Owners ASSN. In
Hallettsville.
,* Sunday. San Antonio Express
•end News oil editor Nancy Heard
had comments about the story
in the Herald-Timee and quoted
41 company spokesman in reply
he chargee, statements in
oil executives said the
bill”"was fair to all in compari-
son with the deals given the land
owners in other states.
. In Hallettsville Jacobs said the
group was undecided whether to
go to court or just get the bill
beat some way. He said the bill
takes the mineral rights away
from the landowners and gives
the major oil companies the con-
trol of all the land. Chief ob-
jection of the Lavaca group is
directed at the provision in which
a landowner who has not leased
})is land is "fcrced” into a unit
and wiU not receive production
Revenue until after the cost of
.lie well plus 100 per cent is
paid.
C. W. Alcorn of Houston, head
of the Committee for Equitable
Development of Oil in Texas, and
stipi>ortor of the oil pooling bill,
said he believes that Jacobs
and tlie Lavaca County organiza-
tion numbers have not fully studi-
ed or possibly misinterpret the
regulation.
“I cannot think of any pro-
vision under the pooling bill where
a landowner would lose anything
unless it might be a theoretical
bonus that he might get under
<A»rta n conditions,” said Alcorn.
‘‘Ttie loss of that bonus would
b,. much more than ;nade up for
if a good well were drilled for
after the well was paid for he’d
get a working interest.”
"If a man won’t lease, does
he expect to get a free ride—
that is, revenue from a well
paid for by someone else?” Al-
corn ^sked. “It seems only fair
that this fellow wait until the
well paid out. He can get his
one-eight royality by signing a
lease — and that normally is
all the landowner ever gets.”
The so-called 200 per cent re-
turn la simply the two for one
clause common in so many busi-
ness operating agreements, said
J. Ed Kendall of San Antonio,
executive vice president ot Blan-
co Oil Co. Kendall is one of those
who worked up the model from
which the pool.ng legislation was
written.
"Many of these agreements
are drawn up with a four for
one clause,” Kendall explained.
in its beginning itself, is well
known for another mutual socie-
ty, today known as the Hoehheim
Praire Mutual Eire and Storm
Insurance Assn., now headquart-
cd in Yoakum, but tracing its
humble beginning to the Hoehheim
Prairie. Proud of their historic
heritage and their share in com-
munity life betterment, little
more then is needed to explain
the interest in elections as evi-
denced by the poll tax drive
staged by the SMAM association.
There’s a strong sense of patrio-
tism and loyality lo country al-
ways evident in our small com-
munities whose roots are deeply
See PATMAN |>agc ;{ col. 5
BEN <T FRELS
DIES IN CUERO
Funeral services for Ben. G.
Frets, aged 72 years, will be held
at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
in Cuero on Tuesday, January 25
at 2 p,m., Rev. John A. Jacobs
officiating. Burial will be in
M( mory Gardens.
Mr. F'rels was bom on June
2, 1893 in Yoakum, the son of
Carl and Henrietta Reumann
Fr; Is. On February 13. 1919 he
was married to Miss Alvcna
Rathkainp. She proceeded him in
death on September 21, 1958. He
was a veteran of World War I.
He is survived by one son, Ger-
Over pooling bill calls only I hardt Frols of Cuero, 3 daughters
for two for one.” Mrs. Alvin Petering of Yoakum,
Mrs. Norvan Eichholz of Cuero
Kendall also said it was the an() \{rs William Arndt of Cuero;
lease between the landowners and „ gramlchlldmi. ;> brothers. Otto
the oil company that detcimines [ .|n(| willio F'rels of Concrete and
whether the company controls Frds ()f , sister8i
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parts of a lease not in a i>oolcd
unit.
’Repeal of the pooling bill if
this is what they have in mind
would not change this situation,”
Kendall said. “This can be con-
trolled only by a provision in the
lease, and I’d guess that 30 to
40 per cent of the recent leases
contain that corrective clause.”
"The landowner is treated very
fairly under this pooling bill,”
Kendall maintained.
’Some of the oil stales have
pooling regulations which limit
the interest which can go to the
landowners. In Texas, the land- rolet Co. of Yoakum. The corn-
owner may get the full 8-8ths or plaints charge Janak with
whatever is determined fair. And three counts of embezzlement;
it is irres|ionsible for any one j one false entry in accounting;
to ehargP that the Railroad Com- j one ol altering books of ac-
• mission is unfair.” count.
Mrs. Janie Koehler of Cuero and
Mrs. Henrietta F’rank of Lampas-
sas.
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JANAK POSTS
BOND FRIDAY
Eugene J. Janak of Sweet
Home posted $5,(8)0 bond Fri-
day in Hallettsville after be-
ing picked up by Lavaca of-
ficers, it was reported.
Janak is named in five fe-
lony complaints filed by his
former employer, Zaruba Chev-
Cpl Gary O’Neill, at age 20-
Spending the past month on
furlough in Yoakum after one
year in Vietnam, Cpl. Gary
O’Neill is now stationed with a
helicopter squadron at New River
North Carolina.
Gary has been serving as a
member of Squadron 163 MCAF
which was featured in the April
16 issue of Life Magazine.
Gary O’Neill was crew chief
on a Hell copier called Yankee
Papa No. 20. Stationed abroad
the aircraft carrier two Jima,
he was credited with 109 Helicop-
ter Missions in the Da Nang area
of Vietnam flying from the decks
of the Iwo Jima into battle re-
gions. Crew chief on the Heli-
copter, Gary acquired numerous
citations including eight gold
stars and one silver star.
Gary, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Douglas O'Neill of Yoakum
Route '3, is thus thru that very
advanced type of training which
the boys receive when they take
their one-year tour of duty in the
battle zones wherc free natioas
are receiving help in fighting oif
communists slavery.
Funeral Rites
Sunday For Mrs.
Woody Hairell
Mrs. Woody (Lonie) Hairell,
age 73, of Ft. 2, passed away
Saturday in fluth Memorial Hos-
pital.
Mrs. Hairell was born on Jan-
uary 13, 1893, in Lavaca Coun-
ty and was a life - long resident
of the Yoakum area.
Funeral seivices were held
I Sunday at 2 p.m. at Buffington
I Chapel, Rev. Frank Hollan of-
ficiating. Lunal was in County
| Line Cemetery.
j Surviving are one daughter,
Mrs. Louis F'abian of Victoria;
two sons, Luther Haircl! of Vic-
toria and Allen Hairell of Yoa-
kum; a daughter - in - law, Mrs.
Jim Hairell of Houston; a sis-
ter, Mrs. F'rank Hairell of Yoa-
kum, a brother, R. B. Long of
Yoakum; 16 grandchildren and 5
great - grandchildren
Cuero beginning at 7.30 p m.
"F'eed.ng beef cattle is import-
ant to the income derived from
beef production. Many times bre-
ed ng problems which affect call j
crop prosen’.agrs, low weaning !
weights, diseases and parasites |
ns well as other proMems arc
a result of inadequate nutritional j
supplies." Gilbert Heidi nan, De-
Witt County Agent stated.
This shortcourse is sixinsored
hv tiie Feel. Pasture and Hang'
sub - committee of the DcW’.tt
County Program Build.ng Com
mittee.
ONE KILLED, ONE CRITICALLY
INJURED IN Um ROAD CRASH
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One man died and
was < ritically injured
1941 Chevrolet pictured above was
demolished in a one car FM road
crash at 10:40 F’riday night. They
were both identified as Yoakum
.residents. The man resided 3
blocks north of Asberry School,
with an elderly relative, Ada
Simmons. The woman lived east
ot YHS Stadium.
Killed was Laris Chapman.
a woman The car then flipped and landed
when the upon its top.
fj. D. Thompson, Animal Hus-
bandman, who will discuss beet
cattle teedlng at the third ses-
sion of the tael ealtle short-
eourse currently being conduc-
ted in DeWitt County.
Chapman was apparently
killed instantly, mainly as a re-
sult of nock and head fractures,
lie had also lost considerable
blood. The Johnson woman suf-
fered a broken leg and head and
facial injuries: her tongue and
lips were badly mangled.
The car struck the culvert
licadon and is considered a total
bout 40. of Yoakum, who was loss. The Pustejovsky Motor Co.
driving the car. Seriously injured \ wrecker pulled Ihe ear lo the
was Annie Johnson, 41, also ol company garage at Hallettsville.
Yoakum. The Kubena ambulance ; Assisting Patrolman Horstman
was called to the scene and took ' at the scene where Deputy Sheriffs
charge of the body and carried Bill Morley and Albert Jaku-
the woman to the Renger Memor- Ix-k and City Policeman Charles
ial Hospital, Inc., in Hallettsville. j Holley, Justice of the Peace Os-
car Shoemake went to the scene
According to Highway Patrol-
man Wilbert Horstman of Hal-
lo hold the inquest, his verdict
being accidental death. Annie
lettsville, who investigated, the j Johnson was still on the criti-
Traffic Crash
Results In Jail
For DW1 Driver
One driver ran the stop sign
Stingy night, 7 p.m., January
23rd at the Highway V - A - 111
intersection near Quast’s in ____
Yoakum. He hit another car j Buffington Chapel, Rev. Gerald
broadside, causing neavy da-
mage, and was taken to the
Cuero jail charged with DWI.
Jailed following the crash
was Janies Haidusek, ol Hal-
lettsville, driver of a ’64 Chev-
rolet, likewise heavily damag-
ed. The driver was treated at
the hospital here for injuries,
so was his passenger James
Zapalac of Flallcttsville.
Milton Flessner
Dies Suddenly
FYineral services for Milton
Flessner, age 40 years, 11 months
and 17 days will be held Tues-
day, January 25 at 2 p. m. at
accident, occurred on FM Road
532, which is the Hackberry-Oak-
land road, and the site of the
crash was 9 miles north ol Hal-
lettsville.
The man and woman were driv-
eal list at last reports. She was
later brought to the Yoakum hos-
pital here according to Jamison
Funeral Home.
Funeral seivices were pending
a! Hallettsville for Laris Chap-
ing westward, evidently at a high man who has relatives at Gon-
rate of speed when tin' vehicle zales.
failed to make a curve. The 1911 | He was employed here by
Chevrolet left the left side of the ; Stevens Plumbing Co at Yoa-
road (south side) and struck a ' kum and lately did construction
culvert to a private driveway, work here.
Interment
City Cemc-
Up The Trail
Again IN ’66
Hit broadside was a '60
Ford driven- by John Rodriguez
of Gonzales. Rodriguez was
treated for injuries and releas-
ed, then was back next day
for X-rays.
The driver of the other car
was believed to be still con-
fined at Cuero awaiting the
posting of bond.
The heavily damaged cars
l were towed in here by City moved to
” Auto Sales wrecker. months ago.
Wascom officiating,
will be in Shiner
tery.
He was Ixim in Shiner on Feb-
ruary 6. 1925. He was dead on
arrival at Methodist Hospital in
Dallas Sunday, January 23. He
has been employed in Dallas
for the past three months.
Survivors are his parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Gus Flessner; one
sister, Mrs. Earl Y. (Doris)
Nall, ' two nephews and and
niece, all of Yoakum.
22,000 Acres Pecans In DeWitt....
Braden Pecan Bottom Producing
Over 1,500 Pounds Per Acre
he felt he cou'd afford to
”1 didn’t believe this pecan bot-1 priei
tom could make this many pe- pay.
fans," John Braden, Sr. of Hoch- At the start of the 1964 grow-
heim said after almost eompiet-1 ing period tree health and vigor
ing harvest of the 1965 pecan crop had improved greatly. Evidence
A former employee of the City
of Yoakum in the office of City
Utilities where he served for ma-
ny years, Mr. Flessner was also
active in the Li tile League or-
ganization here and worked with
(ho Boy Seoul movement. He
District, County, Precinct Officials Gather
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Appeals Fail, Salazar, Torres
To Serve 99 Year Sentences
Jjiunty and precinct officials
withered at SMAM Hall Sunday
for the barbecue staged by the
Hall association. Precinct, County
and District officials are pictured
here as they appeared at the
Nall, Sunday.
right are Lavaca Con-
Albert McElroy; DeWitt
Commissioner Herbert
fcijppert; DeWitt Sheriff "Cutter"
Dietze; DeWitt Constable E. F.
Rush; State Senator William
. '
Patman of Ganado and La-
vaca Justice of Peace Malt Chu-
dej.
All precinct officers are from
the Yoakum area. Senator Bill
Patman delivered the main ad-
dress, stressing the importance
of proper qualification of votere,
specifically through the payment
of the poll tax. Deadline for pay-
ing the tax is January 31st. Poll
thx receipts will be pre-requisites
for balloting in IMS.
Senator Patman, a champion of
instate
a staunch supporlpr of the indivi-
dual taxpayer as opposed to legis-
lation via lobbying groups, is
seeking re-elect ion to the 18th
Senatorial District which includes
DeWitt and Lavaca Counties.
Hollie Hairell, above, of
Yoakum will be a new Circle
Y Saddlery products salesman,
local officials announced while
outlining catalogues. Hollie
will go up the (rail altho in
a slightly different way than
the pioneers used to go. He
will ride somewhat faster
transportation to Ohio, and
prepare a sales route also thru
Michigan, Pennsylvania and
New York. All Circle Y sad
dies and riding equipment will
be the merchandise handled
by the new salesman. Hollie
was reported to be number ten
among the active Circle Y
Saddlery salesmen. Ten leather
products distributors arc thus
on the road for the Circle Y
section of the Yoakum leather
goods industry.
Twenty-fourth District Court
Judge Joe Kelly of Victoria ro-
sentenced F'elix Salazar and Jesus
Torres to 99 years in the peniten-
tiary for the death of Pi te Rosa-
les.
On July 20, 1963 Rosales was
shot and knifed lo death in a
Westhoff tavern and the two, for-
mer Yoakum area residents, were
convicted of the crime. The vic-
tim was nearly decapitated.
The re-sentencing came after
(he defendants had exhausted all
possibilities of appeal in the Court
of Criminal Appeals. Since their
trial they had been confined to
the County Jail in Cuero and will
he taken to the penitentiary this
week.
Another Yoakumite, John Rosa-
les, charged with assault with
intent to murder, had his charge
reduced to aggravated assult. He j
pled guilty and was sentenced to
six months in the county jail and
assessed a JilOO fine.
Rosales was charged with the
shooting of a 410 ga. shotgun at
F'rank Molina, 18, and Macedonia
Maciel ami other occupants of a
car at the intersection of Irvine
and W. Grand Avenue the night
of October 23rd, last year. Pel-
lets cut into the face of Molina
while the others escaped serious
injury.
Others sentenced in District
Court after pleading guilty were:
from his 53 acre pecan bottom at
Hoehheim.
To date lie has harvested almost
76,000 pounds of pecans from this
bottom. "I don’t know where the
pecans arc coming from but hands
are still bringing, in 100 to 200
pounds every day they work. I
might end up with 80.000 pounds
by the time we are through,” Bra-
den said. “If we get this many
the yield will average about 1510
pounds per acre. This is more
than twice the production this bot-
tom has made in any year,” he
stated.
Thes0 arc the results of a long
time result demonstration sot up
in this bottom in 196.!. This is a
joint venture between Braden and
the DeWitt County Agricultural
Agent, Gilbert Heideman to con-
trol zinc deficiency and carry
out an adequate insect control
program. This bottom had been
cleared and some thinning of
trees had be n done.
In 1963 trees wore qvnyed two
times with zinc sulfate (36 per
cent zinc) and once for nut oase-
Juan T. Jones, forgery, seven
years in the penitentiary.
Clifford Lee Ransom, forgery,
seven years in the penitentiary;
Clifford Lee Ransom, forgery,
five-year probationary sentence,
and ' Elroy Williams, burglary,
five-year probationary sentence, i bearer control. One application
--—- | of zinc was made when trees
we e sprayed for casebearer con-
trol. This application was made
about May 10th. The second ap-
plications was made in the early
part of September.
Because of the acreage involv-
ed and a sprayer that was inade-
quate to cover the bottom quickly
i nough to control the casebearer.
results of casebearer control were
disappointing. Dry weather in Ju-
ly and August also cause a heavy
sin d of nuts. Second generation
nul casebearer did very little da-
mage.
The sprayer used in 1963 was a
hydraulic pump witli a 500 gallon
tank. Pressure at 6.000 pounds
was adequate for thorough tree
coverage hut because of the time
it took to spray a tree Braden
could not get over the bottom in
the five to seven day period in
which trees must be thoroughly
sprayed to get effective nut case-
bearer control.
Bulldogs Lose
To Cobras
The Industrial Cobras moved
in on the Yoakum Bulldogs at
Vanderbilt Friday to take the
game 42 to 41 and mov'd up to
tie with Fdna for first place in
Dist. 25 - AA. Both teams have
2-0 records. The Bulldogs are
now 0-3 in district and 2-17 for
the season.
I.ast week the Bulldogs gave in
the Ganado Indians in the last
part of the game.
Top scorer for the Buiidogs was
again tall, lanky, Charles Hall,
but he was held to only 15 points
in the stand against the Cobras.
The Yoakum B Tram won over
the Industrial team 43 - 25. Don
Blank of Yoakum was top scorer
with 14 points.
Cobras - - 6 27 34 42
Bulldogs - - 7 18 32 41
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of this was shown in that leaves
had a darker green color, there
were fewer dead branches and a
-slight improvement in the nut
crop set.
Tr(.es were sprayed three times
i:i li)61 with zinc sulfate and one
tune for nut casebearer control.
Again the first application of zinc
PECANS page I col. 5
Mrs. Clyde Williams
Expires At Age 39
Mrs. Clyde tWillio Mae) Wil-
liams aged .39 years. 5 months
and 2 da.vs, passed away at Hath
M< inorial Hospital on Monday
January 26 at 10 a.m.
She was born on August 22,
1926 in Yoakum and was a life-
long resident of this area. Her
home address was 201 Arms-
trong Street.
Funeral services will he con-
ducted at Buffington Chapel,
Wednesday, January 26 at 8:45
a.m. continuing at 9 o'clock at
St. Joseph's Catholic Church Bu-
rial will be in St. Joseph Ceme-
tery Rosary will tv recited at
7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Survivors include her husband,
Clyde, one son, Char'es, one dau-
ghter. Doris Williams; one grand-
daughter. Debra Jean Williams;
In r parents. Mr. and Mrs. Willie
Ward and one sister, Mrs. Janies
Boone, ail of Yoakum.
BARGAIN DAY
HERE FEB. 1st
The next Yoakum Bargain Day
will be observed Tuesday, Feb.
1st, the first Tuesday of tMh?
month. Advertising copy must
in by Wednesday afternoon M$3
the circular printing this week.
All potential participants
been contacted, but if you
Braden decided that some other ... . . _,
type of spray rig would be neces- j 1° participate and
sary and started looking for equip- notified please call the
ment that could dothe job at a | Times office.
■FAy yOUR KILL TAX
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