The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 17, 1964 Page: 4 of 8
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_ The Mercedes Enterprise — Page S
Mercedes, Texas, Thursday; September 17, 1964
MORE PRIVIES REMOVED —. City workman haul off
more outdoor privies which are being removed from
the Urban Renewal area as residents complete modern
bathrooms. When the program began in 1959, there were
711 of these open privies. Now, only 50 remain and
more of these are slated to go. Pictured above are Pedro
Yanez and Ramon Salinas, city employees; Cc E. Murray,
Urban Renewal Rehabilitation officer; and J. U. Garza,
contractor for some Urban Renewal demolition work.
TIGERS
(Continued from Page 1)
Duran. Tommy Terry, Tho-
mas Montgomery, David De
Los Santos, and Rolando Bri-
seno. Tackles are David
Goza. Patrick Tankerslev.
Roberto Peynado, David
Presas, Omar Flores, Jim-
my Swain. Rene Peynado,
and Santiago Robles. Ends
are Cecil Marchant, Charlie
Gutierrez, Gene Riley, Ricky
Lea veil, Mike Gonzalez, Ro-
meo Garza, Ralph Cintron,
and Garv Stotler.
So far as last week’s game
went, Edinburg’s Class 4A
Bobcats beat the Bengals,
but not until the inexperienc-
ed Tigers had shown the host
team and football fans that
they had come to play foot-
ball.
For three quarters, bruis-
ing defensive play by Tigers
Larry Herold. Steve Hager,
and Jesse Villarreal held the
score on even terms, but a
Tiger fumble on their own
21"yard line set up the go-
head score, and a 57-yard
pass and run play by the
Bobcats put the lid on the
scoring for the evening.
The Tigers offense started
to roll a couple of times in
the first quarter, but the
Bobcats beat them at getting
to the goal line and following
short gains by fullback Ra-
miro Caceres, Bobcat quar-
terback Vernon Boswelltos-
terback Vernon Boswell
tossed to end Pete Vela for
the touchdown. Ronnie Boney
kicked the extra point and
the Bobcats led 7-0.
In the second stanza, the
Tiger defense rose up and
stopped a Bobcat drive from
their own 26 to the Tiger
14. With thrd and one re-
maining, the Bobcats were
thrown for a yard loss and
with fourth and tow, the drive
stopped as the Tigers held
and took possession.
Third quarter play saw
Edinburg move to the Tiger
29 only to fumble and lose
the ball to an eager Tiger.
The Bengals made their
count beginning at their own
35. Herold plunged through
the middle for a short gain,
then Villarreal passed to
Cecil Marchant for a first
down. A second completion
to Gene Riley for 36 yards
placed the ball on the Bob-
cat 9 and Villarreal went
over standing up. He tied the
game 7-7 with his extra
point kick.
Early in the fourth period,
a 57 yard pass from Boswell
to Robert Alaniz netted the
go-ahead touchdown for Ed-
inburg. Boney repeated his
extra point feat and the score
was 14-7.
The Tigers gained posses-
sion on two interceptions by
Villarreal, but they had to
punt once. The Bobcats re-
taliated with a pass inter-
ception. The ball changed
hand four times on pass in-
terceptions during the last
stanza. The Bobcats finally
took advantage of a Tiger
fumble on their own 21 and
the winners punched out
short yardage plays to move
13 yards in 8 plays, with
a Boswell pitch to Alaniz
for the socre. The extra
point'try failed and the final
score was 20-7.
Following the game, Mer-
cedes Quarterback Club
members named Tiger play-
ers of the week. Winning the
honors for the week were
Steve Hager, blocker; Larry
Herold, tackier; David Her-
old, lineman; and Jesse
Villarreal, back.
Valley Shows
335,850 Bales
The ninth and final survey
of cotton gins for the 1964
season, conducted by Valley
Farm Bureau, shows a total
of 335,850 bales ginned.
Three gins are still op-
erating today to complete the
few bales on the gin yards.
Four gins in Starr County
and one in northern Hildago
County will remain in opera-
tion until the September 25
plow-up deadline for their
area. However, bales yet to
be - ginned are expected
to make very little change
in the final totals reported
today.
In 1963 at this same date,
the final ginnings totaled 278,
084, and in 1962, total gin-
nings were 427,854.
The final report showed
many of the ginners correct-
ing prior figures due to
errors on gin tags and the
final figures by Counties are:
Cameron 136,159
Hidalgo 127,574
Starr 5,177
Willacy 66,940
FB Launches
Member Drive
One hundred fifty mem-
bership workers from twen-
ty-four Farm Bureau Units
in Cameron, Hidalgo and
Willacy Counties are staging
their annual drives this
week.
Wayne Little, Texas Farm
Bureau Organization Direc-
tor of Waco, will speak at
the three County Farm Bu-
reau Kick-Off Meetings.
Cameron County Farm
Bureau will hold its mem-
bership workers Kick-Off
Breakfast at 7:30 a.m., to-
day, at Richard’s Gold Room
in Harlingen. Forty workers
from the ten County Units,
headed by John C. Atchison,
Jr., Harlingen, as chairman,
will be present for this
breakfast. The County’s
quota is 1048 for this year-
wlth a goal of 100 new mem-
bers also. The Drive willex-
tend through Friday, Sep-
tember 18, and will be cli-
maxed with a report meeting
at the County Farm Bureau
office in San Benito at 3 p.m.
Sixty 1 lidalgo County Farm
Bureau workers and their
wives will open their mem-
bership drive with a Kick-
Off Supper meeting on
Thursday, September 17, at
Luby’s Cafeteria in McAllen.
Heading up the Hidalgo
County Drive will be Earl
Barnes, Weslaco, and Mike
Frost, McAllen, as co-
chairmen. Their member-
ship quota for this year has
been set for 1411 members.
Their report meeting will
be made at the Hidalgo Coun-
ty Farm Bureau office in
Pharr on September 25.
Religious Goods
Firm Enlarging
Guadalupe Religious
Goods is expanding and has
rented the Kern Bldg, for-
merly occupied by the Snack
Bar. w ,
Mr. and Mrs. Marcelo
Munoz opened the new firm
in the small space next to
Lee’s Queen City Pharmacy
several months ago.
They plan to expand their
lines to include stained glass
windows, pews and other
church and religious
supplies and to sell valley-
wide. The Kern Bldg, is
being readied for the move
this week.
KIWANIS MEET
Kika de la Garza, Demo-
cratic nominee for the con-
gressional seat of Joe Kil-
gore, will be speaker at
Thursday’s Kiwanis meet-
ing, according to Wayne
Love, program chairman.
MANAGER TRANSFERRED
Claude Lovett, former
manager of the Harlingen
and Mercedes telephone offi-
ces, has been transferred
to Austin as division com-
mercial engineer.
NEW POOL HOURS
At a meeting of the Board
of Directors of La Gloria
Pool, Inc., held Sept. 11,
it was decided to close the
pool except on Saturdays and
Sundays during the re-
mainder of September. Be-
ginning Oct. 1, the pool will
be closed every day until
spring.
LIGHT MAY STAY
The signal light at Eighth
and Texas may be left in
operation around the clock,
Police Chief Tiny Perez
said this week. It was left
on last weekend. In the past,
it has been operative only
during school hours. He said
that when turned off, the
light caused a traffic ha-
zard because there were no
yield signs on either street.
He said one possible solu-
tion might be to convert
it to a blinker during off
hours.____
BAND BOOSTERS
CONTINUE DRIVE
Mercedes Band Booster
Club has 153 members for
1964-65 it was announced
at the first meeting of the
fall Monday night at the Mer-
cedes High School Band Hall.
Mrs. H. K. Brewer, chair-
man of a summer member-
ship drive among parents of
band members, said about
100 other band parents have
not signed up as yet. Their
names have been turned over
to members of the booster
organization for solicitation
before the next meeting Oct.
5.
The Mercedes Band Boos-
ter Club has undertaken to
sign up all band parents as
members this year, then call
upon the general public
to support the sweepstakes
organization.
The Band Booster mem-
bership dues of $1 per per-
son and other revenues pro-
mote the band and finance
a spring tour to Austin or
San Antonio.
Crash Victim
Still In Clinic
A Mercedes woman was
still in Knapp Memorial
Methodist Hospital Wednes-
day after suffering injuries
in a two-car accident Mon-
day at Texas and Express-
way.
She reportedly suffered a
fractured hip.
She is Mrs. Julia Castil-
lo. of 670 S. Missouri.
According to Police Chief
R. G. “Tiny" Perez, she
was a passenger in a car
driven by Oscar A. Castil-
lo, 18, also of Mercedes.
Driver of the other car
was listed as John Milton
Houlette of McAllen. He said
the Houlette car was a total
loss and damages would run
over $400 to the other ve-
hicle.
Investigation is continuing
and no charges had been
filed at noon Wednesday,
Chief Perez said.
A total of five accidents
were investigated during the
past week, two major. Loss
was estimated at $4,000 when
driver of a meat packing
truck lost control and the
vehicle overturned last
Thursday on the West Ex-
pressway.
Miss Janie Bowe, daugh-
ter of Mayor and Mrs. John
Bowe, pledged Chi Omega
sorority at the University of
Texas, where she is a fresh-
man student.
Lion Club Sets Cub
Raising Next Week
The Lions Club has set
a Cub Raising for Wednes-
day, Sept. 23, at Arturos.
Cubs to be raised to Lions
include Philip Atteberry,
Adan Cantu, Lee Ross
Puckett, Jr., Juan L. Brew-
er, R. G. “Tiny" Perez,
Roger Van Burkelo, Ray
Zuniga, Richard Sledge,
Bill Bunton, and Mike Mur-
ray, Carlos del Hierro, Jim
Palmore, Genaro Rodriguez,
Gene O’Shea. The event will
be a Ladies night function.
At their Wednesday noon
luncheon, members heard
fellow Lion Milton Hild,
Tiger Coach. He reported on
other coaches’feelings about
16AAA bal clubs. This dis-
trict is the toughest one in
the state he said. Coach
Hild said that the Tigers
had made a good showing
last Friday night in Edin-
burg and spoke of the local
team as one now rebuilding.
Guests were Dr. Joe
Coulter and Lions Ray
llughston of Brownsville and
Phil Harris of Weslaco.
EDELSTEIN HURT
Eli Edelstein, former
Mercedes businessman, is
in a Kerrville hospital suf-
fering from a broken back.
He was visiting a brother
in Kerrville when he fell
backward onto a rock, it
was reported.
DR, JOHNSTON LOW
Dr. Robert Johnston is
in a Houston hospital in a
critical condition, friends
reported this week. He un-
derwent surgery several
weeks ago there and return-
ed home. He was rushed
back last week but further
surgery was reported un-
successful.
Mercedes Man
Among Valleyites
Joining Army Units
Twelve volunteers enlist-
ed through the Harlingen U.S.
Army Recruiting Station
during the month of August,
according to Sgt. Roberto
Mata local Sergeant in
charge of the station.
All applicants chose di-
verse occupations, mostly
thru the Army’s High School
Graduate Program. From
Harlingen: George Duncan
Jr., chose Airborne train-
ing, Federico Salazar and
Frank D. McCormick select-
ed the Personnel Field, John
Larson from La Feria will
be a Pay Specialist. While
Elias Olivarez Jr., Lyford,
re-enlisted for Armorer
training at Ft. Hood; George
Cadena from Mercedes
chose an assignment in Eu-
rope. Also from Port Isabel
Eddie G. Perez will be a
Communications Specialist;
Brownsville enlistees are
Juan Medrano fortheTrans-
portaton Corps, Alfredo Pe-
tranca III for Auto Mechanic
and Florennio Garza will be
trained as a Radio Techni-
cian. For his high mental
and moral qualification Sam-
uel Saenz Jr., was selected
for the Army Security
Agency. Also Miss Arlene
M. Heverling a Harlingen
High Schoolgraudate select-
ed and approved to attend
the MEDICAL Course at the
US Army Medical School.
--Official Photo U. S. Navy
1ST LT. WILLIAM L. RICE, jet fighter pilot, was
awarded two “top-gun" awards for excelling in missile
ground control intercept and broadcast control intercept
mission tactics last moth in ceremonies at Beaufort,
S. C. Six Beaufort ba^ed squadrons were given awards,
but Lt. Rice was the only individual eited. Ground control
intercept missions are those where ground radar opera-
tors talk a pilot to his target. Broadcast control is w en
a pilot sed his own plane’s radar equipment to home- n
on another airborne target. “Lt. Rice excelled in both
throughout the fiscal year," the certificates state.
REASON
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Mercedes vs Brownsville
IP. M. Sept. 18, Tiger Stadium
Come Out And Help The Tigers As They Meet This AAAA Team In Our First Home Game.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
>; 'd/V' ' v' 1
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BLOCKER
Steve Hager
TACKLER
Larry Herold
LINEMAN
David Herold
BACK
Jesse Villarreal
ED ATE
SEPTEMBER II
SEPTEMBER 18
SEPTEMBER 25
OCTOBER 2
OCTOBER 9
OCTOBER 16
OCTOBER 23
OCTOBER 30
NOVEMBER 6
NOVEMBER 13
NOVEMBER 20
OPPONENT
EDINBURG
BROWNSVILLE
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★ FALFURRIAS
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DONNA
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Harvey, J. Edwin. The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 17, 1964, newspaper, September 17, 1964; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1091860/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.