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School Starts Friday; Teacher
Assignment List Announced
Mercedes students and
teachers will get a taste of
school Friday when the lo-
cal system opens officially.
The first day will be for
orientation and will be on
a half-day schedule Supt. S.
F. Cernosek said.
Senior and junior high
school will begin at 8 a.m.,
grade schools at 8:30. The
day will end at 12:30 noon.
Monday, the schools will
observe the labor day holi-
day and the first full day of
regular classes will be
Tuesday.
Supt. Cernosek released
the following list of teacher
assignments:
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
N. K. Fitzgerald, principal
Emmett Albright
Mrs. Emma Jean Atteberry
Mrs. Mary Alice Biango
Mrs. Dorinda Brewer
Mrs. Carol Cowden
Mrs. Woody Bee Dillard
Miss Livia Garcia
Mrs. Goldsby Goza
Ray Hernandez
Mrs. Forence Hild
Milton Hild
Mrs. Sharon Moyer
James Carlton McQueen
Kermit Natho
Mrs. Lucile Parrish
James Pinkerton
Mrs. Vaudene Pruitt
James Reed
Miss Sara Sanders
Mrs. Virginia Sumerlin
Miss Alma Whatley
Jim P. Collins
Ralph Brooks
James Dollery
Lauro Saldana
Billy Pruitt
Mrs. Leah Hamilton
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
H. D. Wallace, principal
Robert Fernandez
Jesus Garcia
Miss Olga Gutierrez
Willie E. Kellar >
Mrs. Polly Haynes
Miss Mary Lawhon
Mrs. Marjorie McQueen
Mrs. Willie Miller
Lester Martin
Mrs. Ermina Price
Wm. Roberds
Miss Estela Salinas
Miss Frances Sory
Mrs. Winnie G. Tatum
Philip Glasgow
Roy Adams
John Dominguez
TAYLOR ELEMENTARY
E. R. Broughton,principal
FIRST GRADE:
Mrs. Sara Garza
Miss Odelia Briseno
Mrs. Margaret Waldron
SECOND GRADE:
Mrs. Eugenia Joyce
Mrs. Ray Trousdale,
Mrs. Mary Palmer
THIRD GRADE:
Mrs. Modene Wood
Miss Emma Guzman
FOURTH GRADE:
Mrs. Shirley Louther
Mrs. Elnora Fitzgerald
FIFTH GRADE: ;
Alejandro Estrada
* Ruben Cantu
SIXTH GRADE: i
Ignacio Garcia
TRAVIS ELEMENTARY
Harvey Broyles, principal
FIRST GRADE:
Mrs. Grace Norman
Mrs. W. E. Perry
Mrs. Ann Warner
i Mrs. Evangelina Martinez
■SECOND GRADE:
Mrs. Mildred Archer
Mrs. Sara Markham
Mrs. E ma Worley
Mrs. Virginia Fernandez
THIRD GRADE:
Mrs. Mary E. Wallace
Mrs. Sandra Jacobs
Mrs. Lola Robertson
FOURTH GRADE:
Mrs. Jane Hawkins
> Mrs. Minerva Olivarez
John Lowe
FIFTH GRADE:
Mrs. Lorraine Kennedy
Mrs. Elisa Garza
Miss Mary B. Wallace
Mrs. Cora Mae Allen
SIXTH GRADE:
Mrs. Ofelia Estevis
Basil Estes
James Louther
Miss Irene Garrett
NORTH ELEMENTARY
R. W. Jones, principal
FIRST GRADE:
Miss Lidia Garcia
1 Mrs. Eleanor Reser
Mrs. Maria Gonzales
Mrs. Celia Cantu
Mrs. Edith Alsbach
SECOND GRADE;
Miss Louise Harris
Mrs. Lois Hedberg
Mrs. Dora .Dominguez
THIRD GRADE;
Miss Zelma Terry
Mrs. Margel Lyons
Mrs. Elsie Bailey
Mrs. Ruth Armstrong
FOURTH GRADE:
Mrs, Gladys Shelton
David Gonzales
Israel Garza
FIFTH GRADE:
Mrs. Mary Pool
Robert Tharp
Rene Zamora
Francis T, Griffiths
SIXTH GRADE:
Rodrigo Santa Ana
Miss Cecilia Pena
Dave Waldron
WEST ELEMENTARY
FIRST GRADE;
Mrs. Estefana Hinojosa
Mrs. Andrea Bueno
Miss Dolores Longoria
SECOND GRADE:
Mrs. Matie Redman
Mrs. Juanita Guajardo
THIRD GRADE:
Mrs. Consuelo Hinojosa
Mrs. Mary Ann Downing
FOURTH GRADE:
Mrs. Hannah Natho
Ruben Wedel
FIFTH GRADE;
Ramon Moreno
SIXTH GRADE:
Adolfo Martinez
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SUBDIVISION
BEING OPENED
THIS WEEKEND
Ralph I. Clark, developer,
has started work on his new
Melton Park Estates subdi-
vision on Baseline Road.
One main street already
has been cut and materials
are on the grounds for con-
structing an entrance from
Baseline.
The addition will have
some 175 lots, a playground
and a light retail area for
shopping.
First announcement of
starting the development is
published on another page
of this issue, setting out
terms of sale for the lots.
A salesman will be on the
grounds from noon till dark
Saturday, Sunday, and Mon-
day.
This is the first large
development of an exclusive
nature in Mercedes. Houses
must meet city and FHA
codes, Mr. Clark said.
Gene O ’Shea, said the
addition is needed to pro-
vide new homes for resi-
dents moving from the park
area and other sections be-
ing acquired by Urban Re-
newal.
Mr. Clark said he will
sell the lots, or will ne-
gotiate a complete deal with
house constructed to the
buyer’s specifications.
Dillon Heads
4-H Club Here
David Dillion has been
elected president of the Mer-
cedes 4-H Club for the com-
ing year.
At the annual election
Monday, other officers
elected included: Vice-Pre-
sident, Ralph Cintron; Se-
cretary, JoAnnJones; Trea-
surer, Dennis Lugg, Report-
er, Denice Dodd; Parliment-
erian; Gracie Cortez; Re-
creation Leaders, Linda An-
derson and David Powell;
Council Delegates, Denice
dodd, Paula Kay Pemelton,
Ralph Cinron, and David Dil-
lon; Adult Leaders; Mrs.
Gene Dodd and Dr. Ralph
Cintron.
Dillon gave a report on
the county council meeting
held recently at Edinburg
Glenda Dodd, outgoing pre-
sident, reported on the state
leadership lab which she
attended.
WEATHER REPORT
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Aug. 22
97
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Aug. 23
98
76
Aug. 24
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77
Aug. 25
98
75
Aug. 26
92
75
With .07 rainfall
Aug. 27
92
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THIS GROUP OF SOME two dozen boys entered the
annual boys golf tournament at Llano Grande Golf Course
Tuesday.
Hidalgo County All-Star Team Wins
Colt League World Championship
Hidalgo County Colt Lea-
gue All Stars defeated Ri-
verside, Calif., in final pl-ay
Saturday night to become the
world champions for the first
time in history.
A Mercedes boy, Sherwood
Lucas Jr., is a member of
the team.
The world series was
held at Shawnee, Okla., and
Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood Lu-
cas, accompanied the team to
Shawnee.
The Valley team had met
the strong west coast team
earlier and had lost by a
few points. In the face of
Only a trace of rain
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Edcouch Youth
Loses Left Arm
George Artimo Escobar,
II, of Edcouch, lost his left
arm when it was caught in
a grain mixing machine
Aug. 22.
He was helping with grind-
ing cattle feed near Pan-
chita. He was taken to Knapp
Memorial Methodist Hospi-
tal in Weslaco where he
underwent surgery and the
arm was amputated at the
shoulder.
Authorities credit first -
aid by Mr. and Mrs. Max
Hard, Don Cotton, W. W.
Bracket and Howard Good-
man, Jr., with saving the
boy’s life.
George is a sixth grade
student at Joan of Arc Cath-
olic school in Weslaco. He
has served as altar boy at
the Weslaco Church and al-
so at St. Theresa church in
Edcouch.
CITY TO KEEP
OHIO OPEN
For the first time in many
years, Ohio street adjacent
to the high school may not
be closed during the school
term.
At Monday’s city commis-
sion meeting,, the commis-
sioners instructed Police
Chief Claudio Casteneda to
work with the school authori-
ties in providing crosswalks.
It was explained that
principal reason for the
blockage had been that young
children attended the old
South Grammar school. Now,
that building is used for
junior high students and no
classes below that level are
conducted on Ohio.
The commissioners said
they felt the higher grade
student could cross the
street safely from one build-
ing to another with proper
crosswalks.
uneven odds, they came back
and won two straight Friday
and Saturday nights. The. last
game ended 6-2 in favor
of the Valley.
Lucas was one of three
pitchers used by the local
team along with Ted Lar-
son Conrad Villarreal and
Frank Santiago.
The team returned to Ed-
inburg at 6 p.m. Monday
where they got a big re-
ception.
The team has been gone
since Aug. 10 when they
left for Abilene for the first
of three tournaments.
They have played 20 games
and won 16 in the series.
I The team is sponsored by
the Veterans of Foreign
Wars of Edinburg.
A big barbecue supper is
planned in honor of the team
by the Pharr American Le-
gion from 5 to 8 p.m. Sept. 9
The public is invited and
tickets are priced at $1.25
per plate. They are on sale
in Mercedes by Garland Lea-
vall at Lo 5 - 2923;
Members are: Roy Lee
Hinojosa second base; Ted
Larson, pitcher; and Jack
Williams, leadoff man and
center fielder, all of Edin-
burg; Conrad Villarreal, pit-
cher, Mike Cline, , Qoutfield
and Leslie Saunders, pit-
cher, all from McAllen;
Frank Santiago, pitcher and
outfielder; and Robert Za-
mora, catcher, both from Pe-
nitas; Lee Gonzalez, outfield
and Gabriel Cerda, pitcher,
both from Pharr; Sherwood
Lucas, pitcher, from Mer-
cedes; and five boys from
Mission, Norris Lewis, third
base; Gary Robinson, short-
stop; Ted Gerlach, first base
Joe Torres, right field; and
Mike Santana, pitcher and
outfielder.
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h!VuR1TuS ^ TH^ LLANO GRANDE boys tournament were left to right: Grady
erold, Mercedes Don Birdwell, Mission, Tommy Sellers, McAllen Tim Mayer
Pharr, and Steve Crutchfield, McAllen. mayer,
K of C Barbecue
Set For Center
The Mercedes Knights of
Columbus will hold their fif-
th annual pre-labor day bar-
becue Sunday afternoon at
the new Civic Center pa-
tio.
Servings will be from 3
to 6:30 p.m. The public is
invited and plates are $1.25.
Officials predict a record
turnout since advance ticket
sales already have exceeded
previous years.
LIONS HEAR COACH
Head Coach Milton Hilt
gave Mercedes Lions Club
members an outline of pros-
pects for the Tiger 1962
season Wednesday at The
El Sombrero. Jack Cowden
was program chairman.
Super Value
Days Ahead
Mercedes merchants this
weekend are offering a big
pot of prizes during the se-
cond Super Value Days pro-
motion.
Oscar Torrez, retail mer-
chants chairman, emphasiz-
ed that no purchases are
necessary. Readers just clip
out the coupons on page 1,
sec. 2 of the Enterprise
and deposit them in the
stores listed on the coupon.
Adults only are eligible,
however.
Many stores are offering
special sale prices on back
to school items and fall mer-
chandise in their own indi-
vidual ads in this issue.
Merchants participating in
the Super‘Value Days in-
cludet Minimax, The Vogue,
HEB Grocery Co., Ripperts
Gift Store, Dominguez, Shoe
Center, Hanshaw’s Store, J &
J Discount House, Salinas
Food Store ;, Baum’s Men’s
Wear, Arguelles Dept. Store,
Ferg Wood Food Center,
C. R. Anthony , Borderland
Hdw. & Supply, Beall’s, Mer-
cedes Drug Co., Valley Boot
Co,, Bazar’s Phillips 66,
Queen City Pharmady,
O’Shea - McQueen Furniture,
Mercedes Oil, LealElectri^
and the Mercedes Enter-
prise.
NAME TO COMMITTEE
Mrs, Dewey Acker, execu-
tive director of the Housing
Authority of Mercedes, has
been appointed a member
of the management com-
mittee of the Southwest
Regional Council of the
National Association of '
housing and redevelopment
officials. She attended an
executive meeting in Dallas
on Aug. 17 and 18
Boy’s Golf Tourney
Winners Announced
Winners of the annual
Llano Grande boys tourna-
ment held Monday and Tues-
day are:
Medalist: Steve Crutch-
field of McAllen with 73,
Championship Flight: Jim-
my Stevenson of Weslaco 1st
with 71, and Steve Crutchfield
2nd with 74; 1st Flight: Bob-
by Jenkines of Weslaco 1st
and Gregg Morrow of Wesla-
co 2nd; 2nd Flight: Bobby
Hild of Mercedes 1st and Ri-
ckey Talbert of Weslaco 2nd;
3rd Flight: Mac Pike Wes-
laco 1st and Kendall Harvey
of Mercedes 2nd; 9 Hole
Flight: Randy Talbert 1st and
Jimmy Payne of Weslaco
2nd.
Mac Stevenson of Weslaco,
was given a trophy for being
the youngest golfer to parti-
cipate.
Members of the Ladies
Golf Association served the
boys lunch following the
tournament. After lunch
Mrs. Bob Spies, tournament
chairman, awarded the tro-
phies.
Suspect Caught
In Quick Time
Mercedes police made
quick work of a breaking at
the Curtis Self - Service
Laundry on Ohio.
A call was received at
12:40 a. m. Monday of a
prowler.
One officer approached on
foot and as the prowler saw
him, he fled. Another officer
came from the opposite
direction in a police car and
arrested the youth.
Charged with breaking and
entering a coin machine with
intent to commit theft was
Jose Eloy Garza, 18, of
Mercedes, according to Po-
lice Chief Claudio Castaneda
Espinosa Heads
Football Club
Officers for the Mercedes
Quarterback Club were
elected at the group’s meet-
ing Tuesday night in the El
Sombrero.
Louis Espinosa was nam-
ed president; Roger Terry
vice - president; Garland
LeavelJ; secretary and Clau-
dio Hinojosa treasurer.
Date for the annual bar-
becue was set for Sept. 18
at the Livestock Show-
grounds. Players are ex-
pected to be introduced.
Club officials urged
parents of players to attend
the club’s weekly meetings
Tuesday nights at 8 at the
El Sombrero, Membership
tickets are on sale from pre-
sent members and at The
El Sombrero and at both
drug stores.
The club sponsors a num-
ber of projects to boost the
Tiger football squad, includ-
ing filming of each game.
The team then studies the
film before the following
game to improve their
technique.
“We urge every Tiger fan
to join the club and help
boost the team,” Mr. Es-
pinosa said.
Bank Deposits
Hit 10-Year High
Deposits of the First Na-
tional Bank reached a new
10 year high over five mil-
lion dollars, President Shel-
ley Collier, Jr., anounced
this week.
“This is the highest since
the bumper crop following
the 1951 freeze,” he said.
In commenting on what
may have accounted for the
present peak, Mr. Collier
said he could see no one
thing but the general growth
and progress of Mercedes
and the Mid-Valley.
Long Budget Sessions, Secretary
Resignation Top City Events
A city budget hearing which
lasted three days and the
resignation of City Secre-
tary Virginia Eaton high-
lighted news from the City
Hall during the past week.
Mrs. Eaton submitted a
letter of resignation at the
regular meeting of the com-
mission Monday. She said
her reasons were personal
and that she would be glad
to assist her successor in
any way possible. The re-
signation is effective Oct. 1.
She has been in the city
office for 14 years, much
of that time as chief clerk.
Last April when the new
adminsitration went in City
& Sec. J. O. Clark resigned
and Mrs. Eaton was appoint-
ed to the post. Mrs. Eaton
never was replaced as chief
clerk and continued to hand-
le her old job as well as
that of city secretary.
The city charter states
that the Commission shall
appoint a city secretary who
shall serve at the pleasure
of the commission.
Officials would make no
comment for publication
Wednesday on whena succes-
sor may be named or who
is being considered for the
post.
During the election cam-
paign, it had been rumored
that Mayor A. J. Hagan has
selected a successor for Mr.
Clark from outside the pre-
sent city staff. However,
Mayor Hagan later denied
this and said he had pro-
motion of Mrs. Eaton in
mind all along.
After two days of discu-
sions on the budget, the com-
mission finally adopted it
Monday. The new budget
calls for expenditures
of $157,824. This compares
with $144,284 total estimated
expenditures for the current
year and with $200,710 ac-
tual in 1960-61.
Primary objective of Ma-
yor Hagan was to carry out
a campaign promise to cut
the tax rate from the present
$1.85.
“I will accept no budget
which does not provide for
a reduction in the tax rate
as I promised the people,”
the mayor declared at one
of the budget meetings.
Although the proposed
budget was amended and was
adopted Monday, the tax rate
EXCHANGE STUDENT
LIKES MERCEDES
Jens Filtenborg, foreign
exchange student from
Copenhagen, repeatedly ex-
claims, “I like it VERY
MUCH!
He was flown to New York
via SKL jet and was sur-
prised to find his own
brother-in-law was the pi-
lot. Also accompanying him
on the flight, his first, was
a Swedish student, LarsAhl-
strand, coming to Weslaco.
The boys were excited over
seeing their first baseball
game in Houston when the
Colts won a close game from
St. Louis.
On arriving in Mercedes,
Jens was welcomed by the
Dr. Robert Johnston family
and by a group of Mercedes
High School seniors. Jens
says he likes very much:
the friendly people of Mer-
cedes, the Civic Center, co-
lor TV, the beautiful palm
trees, Padre Island, swimm-
ing warm water as a con-
trast to the extremely cold
water of the Baltic and North
Seas where he recently spent
a vacation with his family.
He is enthusiastic about
bowling and football. Al-
though he admits Copenha-
gen has the finest food in
the world, he exclamis again
and again, “I like it”, when
he tries Mexican food, ban-
ana nut ice crem, chili and
hot dogs, chop suey, dough-
nuts, turkey and dressing,
frog legs.
Jens aspires to being the
Danish Dr. Kildare or Dr.
Casey. He knows most of
U.S. movies and TVstars.
He has a quick wit and good
sense of humor. He expects
to exchange his Oxford En-
glish accent for a good Tex-
as drawl within a short per-
iod of time.
He will enter Mercedes
High School Friday, as a
senior.
can not be set until Sept. 10.
The budget was adopted on
motion of Claudio Hinojosa
with his casting Yes votes
along with Joe Adame and
Mayor Hagan. Howard Spar-
row and Gordon Leonard vo-
ted No, saying the budget
was not realistic.
Target of Mayor Hagan’s
proposed cuts was the po-
lice department. His first
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Plan To Locate
VA Hospital
Here Rejected
The Veterans administra-
tion has turned now a pro-
posal to locate a veterans
hospital in Mercedes.
A group Valley civic and
veterans organizations has
requested one for the Valley
and local groups had propos-
ed use of the old Mercedes
General Hospital building.
Its owners have offered to
remodel to meet VA speci-
fications on a sale, lease or
rental basis.
The VA turned down the
request on the grounds that
there is no medical school
in the area. All future VA
hospitals are to be located
near medical schools to in-
sure the availability of ade-
quate professional per-
sonnel,
There is no VA hospital in
South Texas. In.fact, there
is not one in the Southern
part of the state--south of
a line from El Paso to
Houston.
At the time of the request
and supporting statistics,
there were 368 veterans on
the waiting list for admission
to Texas VA hospitals. Only
emergency cases were being
admitted.
One U. S, Senator has said
that a bill was introduced
in June asking for an appro-
priation for locating a VA
hospital in South Texas but
no favorable action was
reported.
One active supporter said
that there are several cities
of Texas which have VA
hospitals which do not have
medical colleges nearby.
These include Amarillo, Big
Spring and Kerrville.
It was indicated the Val-
ley groups will continue to
work toward securing a hos-
pital for South Texas, pre- ;
ferably in the Valley.
Ginnings Pass
400r000 Mark
Going into the final week
of ginning before the plow-
up deadline, Aug. 31, the
eighth weekly survey con-
ducted by Valley Farm Bu-
reau, Mercedes, brings the
season’s total to 418,212’
bales ginned to this date.
There were only 20,578
bales ginned this past week
but the 1962 season total
already exceeds the 1961
total' of 342,113 by 72,099
bales and the 1960 total of
335,535 by 82,677 bales.
The totals by counties are
as follow:
Cameron county, 166,486.
Hidalgo county, 160,482.
Starr county, 7,015.
Willacy county, 84,229.
The end of the season
is reflected by the number
of gins reported closed today
Out of the 97 gins operating
in the four county area, 10
are closed and 8 more will
close within the next 3 days.
The survey for next week
will be taken on September
4, and will possibly show
the final totals for the cur-
rent season.
Valley Farm Bureau man-
ager, Bob Lilly, stated that
the final week of ginning
should bring an approximate-
ly 12,000 to 15,000 more
bales to bring the 1962 sea-
son total close to 433,000
bales.
Bales ginned byMercedes-
Co-op Gin so far this sea-
son, 8,058 and bales ginned
by Ross Gin so far this sea-
son, 6,022, a total of 14,080.
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