The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1961 Page: 3 of 8
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BAPTIST YOUTH
ATTEND MEET
IN BROWNSVILLE
The monthly Youth Cru-
saders meeting of the Lower
Rio Grande Valley Baptist
Association met in the First
Baptist Church of Browns-
ville this past Sunday after-
noon, Aug. 13. A total of 49
attended from Mercedes.
Joining with the Baptist
young people were some
from the Methodist, Presby-
terian, Lutheran and Chris-
tian churches.
Two banners for high at-
tendance were received by
the group from Mercedes.
Mr. and Mrs. Tracey Met-
calfe sponsor the Intermedi-
ate Training Union of the
First Baptist Church, and
Bill Bailey is counsellor for
the Young People's Union.
Those attending included:
Adonna Peacock, Martha
Hollis, Vonita Vandiver,
Glenn Gulley, Jim Trussel,
Gayle Phelps, Connie Edge-
mon, Elizabeth Brammer,
Jimmie Edwards, Tommy
Montgomery, John Irvin.
Kenneth Brewer, Ronnie
Leonard, Steve Hager, Gary
Stotler, Chip Wilt, Wayne
Trussel, Linda Adams,
Carol Barnes, Rosa Mae
Wheeler, Bruce Basinger,
James Farris.
Also Connie Kelley,
Carlene Gordon, Dianne
Phelps, Priscilla Lentz,
Linda Garry, Virginia Metz-
ger, Allen Rennaker, Linda
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Howell, Margie Howell, Wal-
ter Howell, Elma Munz, Isi-
dro Navega, Robert Domin-
guez. Also, the Rev. Frank
Ramierez, Bill Bailey, Don
Hoffman, and Mr. and Mrs.
Metcalfe._
Winners of the All-Valley
Women's Golf Sweepstakes
Tournament held in Browns-
ville Aug. 11 are: low gross,
Mrs. Ed Talbert of Merce-
des; first low net, Mrs. Ruth
Fenack of Brownsville; se-
cond low net, Mrs. Nick Dof-
fing of Edinburg; third low
net, Mrs. Mary Sitton of
Harlingen.
Winners of the Llano
Grande Women's Golf Asso-
ciation Tournament in Mer-
cedes Aug. 15 are first low
net, Mrs. Harold Stevenson
of Mercedes and second low
net, Mrs. J. Hawkins of La
Feria.
Woody Tullis has returned
recently from Abilene where
he attended a State Directors
of Machine Dealers meeting.
The meeting was to plan the
State Convention of Machine
Dealers to be held later this
year in Abilene.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Kas-
trop and son, Kenneth, of
Palacios visited Mr. and
Mrs. C. 0. Foerster and
family several days last
week. Mrs. Kastrop also
visited in San Benito where
the family formerly resided.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Armstrong, Mercedes, are
leaving this week end to visit
their son, Charles Arm-
strong, Jr. San Antonio.
Christian Endeavor
Meets In Harlingen
The Christian Endeavor
Rally will be held at Har-
lingen Sunday Aug. 20 George
Wheeler, pastor of the New
Testament Christian Church,
announced. The meetings
will start at 3 p.m. at the
First Christian Church
there. Charles Meek, inter-
national first vice president
of the Christian Endeavor,
will be speaker.
Morning worship for the
New Testament Christian
Church will begin at 11:00
a.m. and George Wheeler
will speak on “The
Thirteenth Hour”.
The evening service will
begin at 7:30 and the subject
will be “Have We Reached
the Point of No Return”.
The congregation of the
New Testament Church gave
the board of trustees the go
ahead to negotiate for a
building site at a recent
meeting.
New Kindergarten
Opens September 5
A new kindergarten is to be
opened Sept. 5 at the home of
Mrs. Hardin Ervin on 1/2
mile East and 1/2 mile
north. \
The kindergarten will be-
gin at 9 a.m. and continue
through 11:30 a.m. and will
cover all first grade prepa-
ration.
Mrs. Ervin was a teacher
in the Mrs. Ray's Kinder-
garten for two years.
She said that the enroll-
ment will be unlimited and
that she will have helpers
in the kindergarten if the
number of studentsenrolling
was too great for one teacher.
How many of these
did you have
10 years ago?
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The Lt. Thomas Barlow
Chapter, National Society of
the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, has arranged
a series of lectures on Com-
munism to be presented over
KGBT television from 10:30
until 11 each Wednesday
night for the next several
weeks.
“The series was original-
ly planned as a study course
by the National Committee on
National Defense of the or-
ganization, but has been re-
arranged by the National De-
fense Committee of the Lt.
Thomas Barlow Chapter for
broadcasting with the hope
of reaching more people of
the Valley than could be done
effectually in any other way,”
Mrs. Harold S. Hensley,
chairman of national defense,
said.
“Know Your Enemy” the
caption of the course as a
whole, is based in large
measure on materials from
the United States Govern-
ment Printing Offices, and
for the most part on reports
of the House Committee on
American Activites, the
Senate Committee on Inter-
nal Security and the findings
of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
Clyde Fincher of San Beni
to will give the first lecture
of the series.
The Mercedes Enterprise — Page 3
Mercedes, Texas, Thursday, August 17, 1961
Jehovah's Witnesses
To Attend Conclave
The Mercedes and Wesla-
co Spanish congregation of
Jehovah's Witnesses is
making last minute plans to
attend a 3 day convention in
Brownsville, Aug, 25-27.
A. Casas, presiding
minister of the group, ex-
plained the reason for the
keen interest in this Bible
convention by local ministers
and Bible students. He said
“this Brownsville conven-
tion is a follow-up assembly
on the heels of a highly in-
formative 20 State conclave
held last month in Houston.”
Watchtower representatives
from New York Headquart-
ers will show how the Chris-
tian ministry of Jehovah's
witnesses can be improved
and expanded in South Texas.
Van Ike, a travelling min-
ister known from Coast to
Coast, will show from the
Bible how God will bring
about a lasting peace.
Spanish speaking Bible stu-
ents will especially be in-
terested in his featured pub-
lic talk, Sunday Aug. 27 at
3:00 P.M. It is entitled: “The
20th Century in Bible Pro-
phecy.” The public is in-
vited to all sessions of the
assembly at Jacob Brown
Auditorium in Brownsville.
Christian Science
Brotherhood will be a
theme dealt with at Christian
Science services Sunday in
the Lesson-Sermon on
“Mind”.
Paul’s exhortation to the
Colossians (3) will be in-
cluded in the Scriptural
readings:
“Lie not one to another,
seeing that ye have put off
the old man with his deeds;
And have put on the new man,
which is renewed in know-
ledge after the image of him
that created him: Where
there is neither Greek nor
Jew, circumcision nor un-
circumcision, Barbarian,
Scythian, bond nor free: but
Christ is all, and in all.”
A correlative passage
from “Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures”
by Mary Baker Eddy states:
“With one Father, even God,
the whole family of man
would be brethren; and with
one Mind and that God, or
good, the brotherhood of man
would consist of Love and
Truth and have unity of Prin-
ciple and spiritual power
which constitute divine
Science” (pp. 469, 470).
John R. Eisenbeger will be
moving this week to Merce-
des from Corpus Christi. He
will take a position with the
Tullis Office Equipment as
salesman. Before the start-
ing of school Mr. Eisenbeg-
er’s wife and three children
will make their home here.
Fashions For The Grade School Set
When school bells ring this fall, 8-year-old Pam Pittman of Birmingham, Ala.,
will be the happiest girl in her class. Pam, winner of the 1961 Little Miss Cotton
title, has an all-cotton, back-to-school wardrobe styled by the nation’s leading
childrens wear designers. She is shown below in three of her smart new fashions.
STYLISH — Unusual styling
highlights the Scandinavian
print in this cotton frock de-
signed by Kate Greenaway for
Pam Pittman, 1961 Little Miss
Cotton. Black crocheted lace
emphasizes the vertical stripes
in the tunic which flares out
over a skirt cut with horizon-
tal stripes.
PATRIOTIC — Her country’s
colors are proudly worn by
Pam Pittman. 1961 Little Miss
Cotton. Red and white braid
and rickrack are used for
trimming on the royal blue
sleeveless overblouse and the
one-piece cotton dress by
Joseph Love.
WARM — Pam Pittman, 1961
Little Miss Cotton, is ready
for winter snows in her all-
weather coat of tan and black
novelty woven cotton. The coat
by Itosenblatt-Kahn is loosely
belted and has a hood which
unzips to make a large flat
collar.
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John 3:1-11
Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy
neighbour. (Exodus 20:16.)
Traveling through the
mountains from a farm
where we had had some days
of vacation, we gave an
elderly lady a ride. She was
going to a religious meeting.
During the few minutes she
was in the car, we soon
learned that she was very in-
quisitive and was willing to
use her tongue.
She wanted to know from
where we had come. I men-
tioned the name of the farm-
er, ‘*Oh”, she said, “he is
quite a man - impossible to
say anything evil about him.**
Then she talked about
other people. I am sure they
all were sinners, though
some were Christians and
some non-Chrisitians. She
did bear witness - evenfalse
witness against many of
them. It is possible, to bear
false witness even against
non-Christians.
I am quite convinced that
it is sin to speak when we
bear false testimony and do
not keep to the truth. Let us
be careful when we talk —
keep to truth and be governed
by love.
PRAYER: Dear Father, help
us to be more careful when
we talk and bring our wit-
ness. Let us never hurt
people by telling things which
are not true. May all we say
and do in life express that
love which was revealed in
Jesus, the truth and the love
by which we live. In His
blessed name we pray.
Amen.
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Harvey, J. Edwin. The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1961, newspaper, August 17, 1961; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1090036/m1/3/?rotate=90: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.