The Texas Mohair Weekly (Rocksprings, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, November 16, 1956 Page: 1 of 4
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Rocksprings, Texas, Friday November 16, 1956
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Number 45
Many Hunters On Hand For
What Promises To Be
Very Productive Game Season
Busy hunters arrived in Rock-
springs early this week to get
camps set up and make last min-
ute purchases for grub and shells
before the big seosn opened today.
Hunting season officially opened
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all shooting must cease 30 min-
utes after sunset.
The smell of the hunter is in
the air for the deer have taken
their telescopes, got their radar
systems in operation, hid all col-
or-blind pais, and are on the a-
lert for enemies invading their
territory. Deer seem to sertse the
approach of the hunting season
and very few are sedn on the
highways as the time approaches.
Deer have rallied as the harvest
time nears according to the Game
and Fish Commission and will
provide prime hunting.
Executive Secretary Dodgcn
said all field reports agree that
deer, reflecting characteristic a-
30 minutes before sunrise and bility to withstand extreme drou-
ght, are in the main “getting fat”.
Emphasis was made that no
such optimism prevails concerning
the wild turkey, ordinarily a fav-
orite Texas target. Turkey hunt*
ing has been generally restricted
in advance plans, with many
ranchers curbing prised gobbler
shooting peitdypg a return to nor-
malcy.
Game management authorities
will observe the comirig season with
unusual interest, said the Execu-
7 West Texas Counties
Probably Excluded From
Use Of Edwards Water
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SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—A geo-
logical quirk inr the Edwards Lime-
stone Reservoir probably will ex-
clude seven West Central Texas
counties from a proposed under-
ground water district.
Ben Petitt, Austin geologist with
the USGS, told the State Water
Board there is no geological con-
nection between the southern area
and the seven counties making up
the northern portion of this Ed-
wards Reservoir above the Bal-
cones Fault.
The counties are Real, Edwards,
Bandera, Kerr, Kendall, Blanco
and Gillespie. Under state law,
areas which are not geologically
connected with others must be ex-
cluded from any such district.
Some 100 persons were attend-
ing the state board’s hearing here.
The board was to determine the
boundaries of the Edwards Reser-
voir subdivision, which may lead
to a creation of an underground
water district.
Board chairman R. M. Dixon
said be expects a decision within
a week.
Petitt’s testimony knocked out
the possibilities of this area creat-
ing the largest underground water
district in Texas. The original area
of some 15,747 square miles was
cut almost in half. It originally
included about 6 per cent of the
state.
Petitt said the 15 counties actual-
ly made up two reservoirs. He said
although both are Edwards lime-
stone formations they are not con-
nected underground He said the
northern portion contributes to thv
undeground water of Balotie,
are only through surface water
State Water Board euguieers last
month came to Mochspring*. Ed
ward* County, to caglam tweut
surve.vs of the Edwards limestone
Irka
The surveys showed uudeigrouu.’
storage wude* the 15 counties de-
rived tie wate» now hdwatd* 1*1*'
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Mrs. McNealy, Jr.
Exhibits Paintings
At Club Meeting
The fine art incorporated with
the musical program this month of
the Rocksprings Music Club was
painting. In keeping with the pro-
gram theme, Mrs. O. L. McNealy,
Jr. was a guest of the club and
exhibited her paintings.
The 13 paintings exhibited were
still life, landscape, and portraits.
One piece of art done by Mrs. Mc-
Nealy that created much interest
was a knife painting, the scene—
a setting from an Indian pueblo.
Hostesses for the November 14
meeting at the club house were
Mrs. Lowell Hankins and Mrs.
Brooks Sweeten.
Mrs. Joyce Phillips was program
leader and Mrs. C. O. Whitworth
gave the devotional. A piano solo,
“Balse-Caprice," was presented by
Mrs. G. C. Fleischer. A quartet
composed of Mrs. L. F. Hankins.
Mrs. F. A. Moody, Mrs. Lee Alli-
son, and Mrs. Brooks Sweeten,
sang “Indian Dawn". The program
was concluded with 'a selection by
the choral group, “Whispering
Hope."
279 Votes Cast In
Special Election
Tuesday Nov. 13
The proposed constitution amend-
ment to financially help the sick
and aiflicted of the state carried
If to J over the stateN
47** voles polled in Edwards
County were cast 2.H) tor the
amendment and 49 against it
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WOMEN OF THE CHURCH
The Women of the Chuich ot
the l*ve«h>teiiau Chuich uiei Wed
ueuiay night, Suwctuher 7th to*
’.hen c>icle tueeliug at the Chuich
tive Secretary, because of the re-
cently completed hunting and fish-
ing survey authorized to bring
outdoor harvest statistics up to date.
Heretofore, he said, estimates had
placed the annual big game har-
vest at something less than fifty
thousand deer. The survey, based
on an ‘accurate hunter contact, in-
dicated "the annual harvest would
comprise in the neighborhood of
one hundred thousand deer. Other
estimates place the state’s com-
bined deer herds total around sev-
en hundred fifty thousand head.
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M. B. Hodges Rites
Held In San
Antonio Tuesday
McCloud Bradford Hodges, 62-
year-old district engineer of the
State Highway Department, died
Sunday morning in the 4>anta Rosa
Hospital in San Antonio following
an operation.
Funeral services were held in
Porter Loring Chapel in San An-
tonio Tuesday at 10 a. nt. Rev.
Arthur Hartwell of Bastrop, with
whom Hodges served in World
War I and the First Officers Train-
ing Camp Association, officiated.
The body was cremated and the
ashes taken to the Prade Ranch
in Real County, which Hodges
often described as the prettiest
part of Texas.
Born in Canton, Texas, Hodges
attended the University of Texas
in Austin and received a bachelor
of science degree in civil engineer-
ing in 1917. He was one of the first
to .volunteer for service in World
War One and attended the First
Officers Training Camp at Leon
Springs, Texas, in 1917. He served
as an officer with the Engineers
of the 90th Division in France
and Germany.
At the time of his death he was
permanent commanding officer of
the Engineers of the First Officers
Training Camp Association.
Following his military service,
Hodges returned to the University
of Texas and received his degree
in civil engineering. He joined
the Texas State Highway Depart-
ment and served with that organi-
zation more than 35 years.
For the past seven years he had
been district engineer of State
Highway Department District No.
22 with headquarters in Del Rio.
He served eight years as state
maintenance engineer at Austin
and four years as district engineer
at Yoakum for District 13.
Hodges was at Uvalde from
September 12. 1922 to 1927, served
four years at Freestone and came
to Del Rio for his first service as
district engineer here in the early
JUs, coming here w heu the head-
quarters was moved from Uvalde
and staying lor that tour uutil
September 12, 1934.
\ registered engineer and mem-
ber oi thv leva. Society ol t'rofes-
sioual Engineers, Hodge, was a
nieiulief ol Theta \t fraternity, a
chatter memhei ol University
l odge No. II9U ol tli« VlaaiMi al
Wsim and .* uivinbet ol Vu.lin
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ot the I' I niversrtv ot U vis, has
Rocksprings Wins
R-Loses A Game
To Harper Girls
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Season opener for Rocksprings
basketball girls ended one loss
and one win for the girls. Harper
A team took the game 53 to 24,
but the Rocksprings B's came
back to twist the score in their
favor 48 to 11.
Scoring for the Rocksprings A’s
were Christine Haines, 8; Barbara
Becker, 6; Cornelia Leinweber, 6;
Janis Colwell, 4. Other players
were Kay Hankins and Garylee
Owens, forwards; Sue Storey, Car-
ole Holland, Louise Whittle, Dor-
othy Whittle, Arlene Osburn, Lucy
Hunt, and Lois Griffin, guards. E.
Ellebracht of Harper scored 24
points.
Scoring for Rocksprings B's were
Leinweber, 30; Osburn, 14; Beck-
er, 3; Owens, 2. Others players
were Mary Essing, forward; Lucy
Hunt, Dorothy Whittle, Lois
Griffin, Cmda Stone, Phyllis
Sweeten, Carolyn Miears, Barbara
Smith, and Donna Roe.
Junction A and B girls come
here next Tuesday, the 20th and
Mason A and B girls will be here
on Friday. November 23rd.
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Peerless Pump Company of San
Antonio placed a 4 to 5 hundred
gallon a minute pump on the new
Park Well last week to test the
capacity of the well.
On an eight-hour test the well
produced 542 gallons per minute.
The last few minutes of the test
the pump was speeded up and the
well produced 610 gallons and still
didn’t break flow. Rather than to
ruin the pump in experimenting
further with the well, the testing
was stopped.
There is no testing equipment
available for this type of well
other than the size furnished by
Peerless or by special order. The
City Council and other interested
citizens are curious to know just
how much the well could produce.
The Council has made arrange-
ments with W. S. Seward of Del
Rio 'to move a rig in and ream
the 8 1-2 inch hole to 12 inches
to the depth of 430 feet. The well
will be cased immediately after it
is reamed to prevent any seepage
of impure matter into the water
supply.
The Council is not intending to
equip the well with a pump and
place it in production at the pre-
sent time. It an emergency arises
it can he put in operation within
48 hours.
The well is located within 25
feet of the city main and as much
as 500 gallons per minute can be
pumped into the main, efficiently
and economically.
The engineering crew of the
Central Power and Light Company
tested the well and checked the
Peerless report last Friday morn-
ing and figures from both com-
panies were nearly identical.
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Cemetery Must IV
Made According
To Official Survey
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HtbipiUl News
Congressmen Visit
Diablo Dam Site
Congressmen serving on the in-
terior and insular office affairs were
in Del Rio, Sunday to make a
brief inspection of the site for
the Diablo Dam.
The congressmen, Representa-
tive Wayrte Aspinall of Grand
Junction, Colorado; Rep. A. L.
Miller of Nebraska; Rep. J. Edgar
Chenoweth of Colorado and Rep.
J. T. Rutherford of Odessa, were
joined by Representative O. C.
Fisher of San Angelo, County
Judge Jim Lindsey, Phillip A. Ricks,
president of the Del Rio Cham-
ber of Commerce and Representa-
tive George M.Thurmond of the
100th Legislative District were
entertained by Hal Peterson at his
ranch near Rocpsrings Saturday.
Also with the,group was Colonel
L. H. Hewitt, commissioner for
the International Boundary and Wa-
ter Commission, and other digni-
taries of this area.
Miller and Chenoweth are Re-
publicans; Aspinall and Rutherford
are Democrats.
According to Representative
Fisher, any hill necessary to imple-
ment the authority for the construc-
tion of the dam w'ould come from
the congressional committee visit-
ing the Diablo site.
C. of C. To Ask
For Methodist
Home For Aged
Several members of the Chamber
of Commerce heard Rev. Dick
Fly tell of a project of the South-
west Texas Conference of the
Methodist Church to build six
homes for the aged in Texas_Those
present at the hceting, Tuesday,
agreed that a proposal would he
in order to ask that the Meth-
odist Church consider Rocksprings
as a site for one of the homes.
A meeting is planned in the near
future to discuss the proposal with
the director of the project.
The home would consist of an
administration building and sev-
eral cottages for residents. The
group oi buildings would he built
at a cost of ?250,000 and would
have an annual budget of over
$150,000. The city in which the
home is to he built will he asked
to give the site, which should I
consist of 20 acres within the
city limits. Residents in the home |
would not he restricted to any
denomination. It was .the feeling
of those present that this would
be a great asset to Rocksprings
if it could be secured.
Fisher Says Diablo
Dam Hinges On
1957 Legislature
Proper legislation in Austin and
Washington in 1957 will decide the
fate of the Diablo Dam project, O.
C. Fisher, Congressman from the
21st District, stated in Rocksprings,
Wednesday.
Surveys and coring have been
completed and Mr. Fisher said the
site for the dam is a beautiful lo-
cation, just below the junction of
the Pecos and Devils Rivers with
the Rio Grande. Mr. Fisher visit-
ed the site Sunday with a group
of other congressmen.
Know Your
America Week
November 18-24
Whereas, in the.,e times of worl 1
Bob Sebestas
Having Time
Shopping In
St. Andrews
October 9, 1956
Dear Friends:
For one who is used to doin£
his grocery shopping in super-
markets or in large | stores where
all kinds of food can be purchased,
the experience of shopping Scottish
style is quite different. We soon
learned that one got all the gro-
ceries he needed by shopping in
five or six different shops. We have
specialization in America, but it is
of a different order. In America
people specialize in highly tech-
nical jobs. Here we find that the
people specialize also in shops. At
one shop we get our vegetables,
fruits, and cut flowers. Baskets of
vegetables and fruits stand on the
sidewalk outside for the inside is
too small to accommodate both
produce and customers. There is
no refrigeration here or in any
of the other shops except for
things that are kept in the deep
I dreezes. The shop is dimly lit un-
] less it just gets too dark to see
see at all. With our vegetables
j and fruits in hand, and we usually
look at them in about six differ-
upheava! it is neccssarv for Amer- ! cl" s,,ops’ we K° on to the ,)ut”
icans to appreciate fully their her- cher'- Hcrc we «ct our beef- Pork*
•uutton, and eggs, all fresh, all
standing in the open air. If we
don't want beef or pork or such
hut fish, we go on to a fish shop.
of
themselves to the preservation
basic American principles; and
Whereas, The All-American Con-
ference to combat Communism,
made up of fifty-four national or-
ganizations, representing a total
membership of some fifty million
individuals, is once again' engaged | ,ncat . an,f vegetables
in a program designated as "Know
Your America W eek" to bring the
One can find his way blind fold-
ed to a fish shop by the smell.
Fish, on the average, are the
cheapest meat. We now have our
so the next
stop is the grocers where we get
our canned and packaged foods.
full force oi an informed citizen- Follow,nK thls wc «° to the ,,ak-
rv to hear on democracy’s pre-eiit j ery to *ct and pcrhaI>s some
day problems; and ' tarts for dessert. And finally there
Whereas, it is essential that the' ,s ,he ,la,ry ,,ut for,unateIy our
City of Rocksprings. Texas, make! m,lk ls dd,vcrc<1 cver>'
this occasion
notable exprrs
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ATTENTION QUARTERBACK
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all concerned are invited to a
meeting in the school auditorium
Thursday night, November
when a film ot the Sahmal Rock
springs game will he shown l he
tueeliug wdl convene at T dl>
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being done in many other cities 1,0 other tood* are bought daily
throughout the nation, now
Therefore, I. Forrest J. Weldon. w,’vn we were shopping, we
Mayor of Rocksprings, Texas, d“ socm fou"d that there were a num-
proclaitn the period from Xov !>i'r of familiar brands. Among
ember 18 to November 24 as "Know t1”1"-' that we had used
Your America Week." and 1 here-1 at h',,lu' " ere the Heinz 57 var-
hy call on all the citizens of Rock- ieties, Rin-o. Lux, Tide, Kellog
springs, Texas to contribute freely j eercaL. Kleenex, and Kraft. Wo
of their time and resources to par-! "ere really amazed when we turn-
ticipate in the commemoration of i td the cofner oi a street one day
"Know Your America Week" in ' snd found -taring u- in the face,
order to defeat comimini-m .1
preserve human freedom.
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SOIL CONSERVATION
DISTRICT NEWS
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sent out a new* letter !i» the Ian
owner* in the l>i*triot. I'lsi* h:!
ha* *et forth **»me of the pro’du!
CkMitri'iited hy the lh*!r ct *ii|m
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Price- are usually much lower
here than in the States. The one
item that we have found much
m ue expensive I- any sort of
canned food. We can get good
ground meat for 42 cents a pound,
egg- are from 45 to 75 cents a
dozen according to -ize. \ small
loaf of bread i- ti cents, a large
loai cent-. Potatoes cost 7 cents
for 5 1 2 pound-. and therefore
form an important item in the daily
•H im Both of my brothers who
were in the British Isles for a
summet toiiiid that the steady diet
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tlieir t:.unvs *>thcr than food, l
go’ a Via s nt tor 31 cents (Wails
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to come down on his price???)
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