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Page 4 — The Mercedes Enterprise
Mercedes, Texas, Thursday, July 30. 1964
GROUP STUDIES PLANS
Directors of the Mid-Val-
ley Community Motor Hotel
still are considering plans
to get the project underway,
but no contracts have been
signed.
Officials pointed out that
a number of contacts have
been made to interested
large motel operators in-
terested in this area.
FUNERAL SERVICES were
held Thursday morning for
Joe Foley. (See story on
page 8.)
KC’S SET FISH FRY
The Knights of Columbus
of Mercedes will sponsor
a fish fry at Trevino’s Place
in Santa Maria Saturday be-
ginning at 6 p.m. Donations
of $1 per plate will go to
support their, candidate for
Queen of Fiestas Patrias,
Nelda Martinez.
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lf .TODAY AND TOMORROW
\f j BY RALF HARDESTER
Feature Editor TV GUIDE MAGAZINE
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f* LOR1A SWANSON AND BUSTER KEATON will do
VF a silent-screen version of “Cleopatra” on the Holly-
wood Palace ... NBC has announced 13 hour-long specials
for next season. They include: pictorial voyages
down the Volga and Ganges rivers; a profile of
Michelangelo; a tour of Washington, D.C.; an
exploration of the Grand Canyon led by natural-
ist Joseph M ood Krutch; a visit to the National
Art Gallery; a documentary on the Great Barrier
Reefy a story on the Vatican; a history of the
Lewis and Clark Expedition; an examination of
the French Revolution; and a tour through Eng-
lish haunted houses, led by Oscar-award-winner
Margaret Rutherford . . . Title of next season’s
dramatic series originally called Solo has been
changed to The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Robert
Vaughn stars as the suave agent for U.N.C.L.E.,
“an international organization responsible for
the welfare of people and nations anywhere in
the world.”
Gloria Swanson
... a silent Cleo
MIKE NICHOLS AND ELAINE MAY, who bowed on Jack
l’aar's Tonight show in 1957, make six guest appearances on
Baar's show next season ... A new David Wolper special, “Man
on the Moon," has a sponsor and is being prepared now for
syndication to local TV stations. The documen-
tary will review the American program to put j
a man on the moon, and also will explore the j
controversy over the cost and feasibility of'the
project. Another Wolper special in the works is j
■'Washington, U.S.A.,” to he written and nar-
rated by columnist Art Buchwald. The latter
show is aimed for network airing next spring . . .
Game-show programming invades the children’s
field with Shenanigans which premieres on ABC
in the fall. Broadway comic Stubby Kaye emcees
the Saturday morning baby sitter . . . The Andy
Grifiith Show, continuing on CBS, goes into day-
time reruns, Monday-Eriday, 11 A.M.
Shirl Conway
.. . hospital in
the wings
SHIRK CONWAY OF THE NURSES is ask-
ing performers to donate their services for a benefit to build a
hospital in Bhoenixville, Pa., near her home . . . Joan Harrison,
once cuief of the Alfred Hitchcock TV production staff, is forming
a. motion-picture production company in partnership with her
husband, suspense-novelist Eric Ambler. She’ll still produce some
episodes of the Hitchcock show . . . Although the producers of
The Outer Limits insist that the emphasis next season will be on
science fiction rather than monsters, William O. Douglas Jr. (son
of Supreme Court Justice) has been signed to play in a few
monster-type chillers for them . . . George Gobel has been signed
to do the' Xerox commercials that will be shown during ABC’s
political convention and ensuing fall election coverage.
BILL BUNTON
Muffler & Auto Supply
LOCALLY OWNED & OPERATED
BRAND NAME PARTS
PROMPT SERVICE
333 S. OHIO
L05- 1712
Dr. Wm. G. Kitchell, Optometrist-New Office hours
for remodeled office (same location — 537 Texas
Boulevard, Weslaco, Texas): daily, including Saturday,
9-12; 1:30-5:30. Office open Wednesday until noon.
Evenings and house calls by appointment. Phone W08-
2220. Eyes examined. Glasses fitted. Contact lenses.
Prompt optical service. Now in the eighteenth year
serving the mia-Valley area.
31-2tc
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank all who
have been so kind to us with
their offerings of flowers,
masses, thoughts and deeds.
We can find no words to ex-
press our appreciation. The
loss of our beloved son and
brother, Joe, has been com-
forted by your generous ex-
pressions of sympathy.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Foley and Johnny
SHOPPERS AT Ferg’s Foodland now have more parking space and get this view of
the new building on Hwy. 83 near Texas Ave. When fhe new store first was opened,
the old Ferg’s Drive-in blocked the view. Now that is has been moved, more store-side
parking is provided.
RELAMPAGO SCHOOL1
BOARD NAMES
FACULTY MEMBERS
The Relampago School
board completed appoint-
ments of its faculty for the
1964-65 school year at its
regular monthly meeting.
The faculty for next year
includes Arturo F. Olivarez,
principal, and teachers, Jose
F. Moreno, William J.Shee-
ran, Mrs. Fela V. Garza,
Adrian Cisneros, Mrs. Yol-
anda G. Gonzalez, and Miss
Maria Alicia Perez.
Registration, hand-out of
books, assignment of desks
and other opening school ac-
tivities are scheduled for
Aug 31. The first day of
instruction is Sept. 1.
Members of the Relampa-
go school board are Juan
Serna, president; D. C. Cano,
secretary; and Rafael Gar-
cia, Sr.
MRS. TEMPLE FETED
Mrs. J. S. Temple was
honored with a birthday pic-
nic Tuesday evening at her
home. Co-hostesses were
Miss Loretta Temple and
Mesdames R, T. White and J.
S, Purl. Others attending
were Mr. and Mrs. Dewey
Acker and Dewey Terpple
Acker, Mrs. Tommye Acker,
and W, H, Owens, father of
Mrs. Purl.
Mrs. Leon Sparkman and
son, Leon Jr., of Denton,'
Tex., were weekend guests
in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Dick Roach and family.
MYF ATTENDS MEET
Members of the Methodist
Youth Fellowship of Merce-
des went to Edinburg Wed-
nesday evening to attend the
Youth Week of the MYF in
Edinburg. Mrs. Dewey Acker
accompanied the group.
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ROBERT FRIX
MERCEDES MAN
AND FOUR OTHERS
SET JUMP RECORD
A Mercedes serviceman
is one of five who set an
unofficial parachute jump
record at Sembach, Ger-
many, recently.
He is Robert Frix, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Frix.
The unofficial European
record was set when they
jumped from a C-123 provi-
der aircraft from a height of
26,420 feet.
The purpose of the high
altitute jump was not to set a
record, offificals stated, but
to test oxygen equipment
used at such heights by sky-
divers.
The Army participants in
the jump were 1st Lt. Robert
S. Frix, Co B, 8th Avn Bn;
Sfc Alva J. English, 81st
Arty; Sp4 Donald A. Chase,
Hq Co., 8th Inf Div, and
Sp4 Lennis H. Gillian,
1 /509th Inf.
SSgt Lawrence N. Lower,
Det 1, 5th Aerial Port Sqd,
was the sole Air Force jum-
per.
Prior to this jump, the
unofficial European record
was marked at 23,800 feet
and claimed by a skydiving
club of the 24th Inf Div.
Documentation of the new
unofficial record made by the
quintet here will be sent to
the Federation Aeronauti-
ques International Hqs in
France for official recogni-
tion.
The group conducted free
fall movements for about
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Bobbie Jean Brooks
Rites Held Sunday
Funeral services were
held at 4:30 p.m. Sunday for
Bobbie Jean Brooks, 36, who
died in a local clinic Friday.
Rev, John L. Herzog, pas-
tor of the Lutheran Church,
officiated. Burial was in
Ebony Grove Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Woody
Cellum, Bobby Hollon, Way-
burn Dalton, Bob Graf, all
of Mercedes; Sam Watts
Donna, and Robert McLain,
Brownsville.
She was born in Oklahoma
and had resided in Mercedes
for the past nine years. Sur-
vivors include her husband,
Morris Brooks, daughter,
Mary Jean Roser, two sons,
Bob Abernathy and Larry
Brooks, all of Mercedes;
father, Ezekiel Putman, Mid
West City, Oklahoma; two
brothers, Billy M. Putman,
Albuquerque, N. M., and
James C. Putman, Dallas.
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two minutes, tumbling down-
ward at an estimated rate of
180 miles per hour. The
chutes were opened at an
altitute of 2,500 feet..
A German fighter pilot,
1st Lt. Gunter Lange of the
73d Fighter Wing,
Pferdsfeld, rode the Provi-
der as an observer of alti-
meter readings prior to and
during jump procedures.
A freezing temperature of
22 degrees below zero met
each mumper as he exited the
aircraft five miles above the
earth.
Each man landed within a
few yards of the established
cross in the center of the
drop zone.
When interviewed by an
ARROW special correspon-
dent as to the feeling of each
member upon exit from the
high altitute, the most fre-
quent comment was “Cold,
really cold.”
GROUP RETURNS
FROM ASSEMBLY
Local delegates from the
congregation of Jehovah’s
Witnesses returned home
this week from Austin where
they were in attendance with
some 13,371 others at the
group’s “Fruitage of the
Spirit” assembly.
The meet, held jointly at
Muncipal. Auditorium and
Disch Field, in English and
Spanish, drew representa-
tives from 17 states, Cana-
da, Mexico, El Salvador and
Honduras. According to
Frank Glace, presiding
minister of the Weslaco
group, the entire program
at Austin was designed to
assist the Witnesses in their
Bible education and Chris-
tian quality growth.
According to Glace, the
regular meeting schedule
will be resumed at the Wes-
laco Kingdom Hall this week.
A special 32-page, two-color
travel guide to the U.S. East
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The 8M>-by-ll-inch guide-
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historic points of interest
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major state, interstate and U.S.
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Three sample six-day tours
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The guide is designed to help
in planning a “fly-drive” visit
by time-saving plane to New
York with a Hertz car to tour
the surrounding area.
More than 300 hotels and
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listed with their rates in the
book. The lodging places are
among the 1,500 participating
with 16 major airlines in the
Hertz “3/R” triple-reservation
plan.
Under the plan, travelers can
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destination airport and hotel-
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FOR RENT
FOR RENT — Nicely fur-
nished apartments. Special
rates to permanent tenants.
Coleman Courts Phone -
L05-1322 14-tfc
FOR RENT: One bedroom.
Furnished house mile 2 1/2
East of Mercedes L05-2887.
16-tfc
FOR RENT -Nicelyfurnish-
ed, air conditioned apart-
ments available. Swimming
pool. Saladino, L05-1739.
50-tfn^
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“A loose nut at the wheel
is not often as dangerous as
a tight one.”_
FOR SALE
FOR SALE: Townsite lot 13,
block 19 La Villa, Texas.
Write Rt. 1, Box 125 Mer-
cedes, Texas.
28-tf
FOR SALE; Three-bedroom,
two bath country home with
barn, pasture, open land,
irrigation wells, natural gas.
2 miles East, Mercedes
L05-1639.
FOR SALE: Jack Kraemer
autographed Wilson tennis
racket. Very good condition.
Danny Erwin L05-1639.
26-tfn
Parents
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Ready for School!!1.!
FOR SALE: Three-bedroom
brick veneer home at 309
south Crockett Street in
Elsa. Has 100-foot frontage
and' faces quiet street. Has
mahogany-pannelled living-
- dining room, hard-wood oak
floors, two bathrooms, en-
closed porch and garage.
$12,000.00. See or
call S.E, Barron—AM-2-
1523.
Order Childcraft--
World Book
Encyclopedia--
Dictionary
NOW 1!
Mrs. S. E. Kieschnick, Jr.
Aut. Rep.
L05-1597
RITZ THEATRE
WESLACO
now showing through
Saturday:
Big Double Feature
Family Show
"THE BRAVE ONE”
and
'BASHFUL ELEPHANT'
Starts Sunday:
"THE INCREDIBLE
MR. LIMPET"
the story of a man turned into
a fish — Color
Also, John Wayne’s greatest
Picture,
"HATARI"
Color
Weddings In. Color
Portraits, Weddings, Groups
Color ' Black & White
Closed until August) 10th
STERLING PRINCE
PHOTOGRAPHY
Call SW7-623J La Feria
REAL ESTATE
Sales and Rentals
City and Farm Property
H. Cc Settles
Logan 5-1175
FOR SALE -- Fine lots in
Queen City annex. $20 down,
$10 per month. Charles Sal-
adino. Phone L05-1739.
5-tfn
LAWN MOWER for sale.
Used 22-in self-propelled
mower. 3 1/2 h.p. engine.
Just a year old. See at Bill
Walker Servicenter,
tfp
FOR SALE: G. E. washing
machine, slightly used. One
year old. Call L05-2751.
30-tfc
WANTED
LAWNS MOWED to please
the customer. Also do trim-
ming. Have own tools.
Dependable. Call Kendall
Harvey, L05-1387.
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WANTED; We can cut anc
bale your hay. Also condi-
tion hay. Write or call even-
ings. AM2-1607 or Noel
Janvier, Box 306, Elsa. .
25-tfc
WANTED: Baby sitting in my
home at 1224 S. Virginia.
Day or night. Reasonable
rates. Call Mrs. Knight at
L05-1137.
30-2tc
WANTED: Homes for kit-
tens. All colors. Male or
female. L05-1639.
31-tfc
WANTED TO BUY: Good
used Reynolds Engle r 2 1 2
or 3 yard scraper. Lynn V.•
Jones: Box 921, Mission.
31-1 tc
Deep Gr Shallow Wells
Trade-In On Pumps
WALK
DRILLING CO.
La Feria
SW7-5000
FOR SALE: Storage shelving
in 6 foot lengths. Suitable
for display. Priced for stor-
age use. Call L05-2751.
30 tfc
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FOR SALE: Brand new
Danish modern den and living
room furniture with extra
chairs plus 3 new occas-
sional tables with formica
tops. Also wall picture. Call
Dr. John Lawler, W08-4563
or W08-4737.
31-tfc
REALESTATE LISTING
WANTED
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Also have several
acreage tracts for sale
Have 3 homes with small
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L05-2122
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FOR SALE: In Edcouch, a large three bed
room frame house; two full baths; living
room; family room; large kitchen and
utility room/ Extra large den. Two air
conditioners; 1868 square feet; double
garage. 100 foot lot. Close to schools.
On paved street. Monthly payment $68.00
plus taxes and insurance. No closing cost.
MRS. M. A. SHIELDS REAL ESTATE
535 South Tex. Blvd., Weslaco
WO 8-3040 WO8-3084
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THE MERCEDES ENTERPRISE
Telephone — LO 5-2425
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J. Edwin Harvey — Editor and Publisher
Telephone — LO 5-2425
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Harvey, J. Edwin. The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 30, 1964, newspaper, July 30, 1964; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1091742/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.