Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. [24], No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1936 Page: 1 of 8
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CRYSTAL CITY, ZAVALA COUNTY, TEXAS, MAY 1, 1936
No 50
iionDollar Gift to Crystal City,
the Town Big Enough to H^idle it?
le of the greatest assets an Indus-
or City can hope for is a Place
in the Sun; a well advertised
spot on the map
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Since the return of Messrs. Holsomback and Eubank from
Popeye publicity trip to New York, every one who followed
Jventure has marveled at the invaluable publicity given in
of the entire nation to Crystal City, Crystal City Spin-
|and the unique undertaking of building a Statue to Popeye.
hard to find a parallel in ttie entire history of publicity
l where a small and comparatively obscure town has been
such valuable publicity in the press, radio and stage.
Crystal City has been brought to the attention of a larger
lering of representatives from the Country’s Newspaper ed-
s, National celebrities of the stage, cinema and ratfio, by virtue
'his Popeye Stunt, than any amount of paid advertising could
i done. Yet, we are further assured by one of the largest syn-
tes in the newspaper game that they will keep this publicity
and that they are at our call. Thus we are now faced with
[ problem of
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH THIS GIFT?
It is a well known fact to every produce man that the mere
on that a particular vegetable or fruit is from California is
ent reason for the particular commodity to command a
price, regardless of the quality of the article. That
inly due to the Millions of Dollars spent by Cal-
and the efforts of the California Chamber of Commerce,
membership fortunately contained MEN OF INTELLI-
^VISION AND BUSINESS ACUMEN. Men, merchants
hmers who are BROADMINDED and appreciate the fact
,t which is good for California as a whole is good for the
;tial Californian, and because of this txdief have invested
s of Dollars in advertising and are now reaping heavy divi-
on their investment.
Any one connected with the cultivation and marketing of
!ih knows that Crystal City Spinach of the better grade is
fiEST that can be had anywhere. Better than either Cal-
a, or any other part of U. S. A. can produce. The same fact
wn to many brokers and wholesale buyers in the East.
Tact that the ultimate consumer knows nothing of the
ty of oui^MaxUict (Spinach is as Spinach Does) leaves
merc^^^wcry other “Hit or Miss” farming district
“Sand Patdi^^wiach with the result that in the confusion
product isanother bunch of Crab Grass and is sold
linst such co^^^pion.
WHAT A GIFT!
La Pryor’s
•J
Centennial Party
Friday, May 1st
Crystal City people who can
should attend the La Pryor Centen-
nial party this Friday evening, May
1st. Following is the program, to be
held on school grounds:
Exhibition of Antiques and
Texas Curios.
Program
1. America
2. Invocation:
Rev. Edgar Rambie
3t Address of Welcome . .
. . . Judge
4. Pageant
Scene 1. May Pole Dance
County Agent’s
Column
Crystal City Men Meet Many Celebrities
on Recent Trip to New York City
Texas Farm and Home Hour pro-
grams of interest. Hear them at 11:30
daily over the Texas quality net-
work.
Monday, May 4th., one hundred
! years of grazing in Texas.
ROY PENNYCUICK MANAGER
OF UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB
Mayor B II. Holsomback and Jack
Eubank, chairman of the Popeye
car sr
Thursday, May 7th., Important
Questions on the new Agricultural
Program answered.
May I remind farmers again that
A. C. Mogford |the new agricultural program ap-
[ plies to every farmer and offers him
__________ the opportunity of assistance in put-
Tex. Flowers and Vegetables !ting into practice soil concerning and
Scene 3. Texas Marches On |50^ building practcies he has long
—Discovery, Settlement and i felt were needed on his far™.
Becai
Jlarity,
khers, we|
3peratid
of/
ITAf
It il
lence il
itimulal
id the fame
[OF CRYSTAl
The const
happy thought of cashing in on the Popeye
Jtiring efforts of Jack Eubank and a few
kour means of cashing in on the quality of
the mouth of Popeye and the valuable
fcd newspapers we are establishing in the
lat we are the WORLD’S SPINACH
Uduce THE FINEST QUALITY OF SPIN-
le growers, shippers and every man of con-
[ty to realize on this splendid opportunity,
It. created by the POPEYE STATUE CLUB,
ITAL CITY AND THE BETTER QUALITY
SPINACH.
iing public is ready to pay a higher price for a
Progress.
5 Colo . . . H. C. Brantley
6. American Legion
. . . Grover Rambie Post
7. Introduction to Pioneer
Games . . Judge Hunt
8. Group Singing Audience
“Texas Our^Texas”
“The Eyes of Texas—”
“Home on the Range”
“Auld Lang Syne”
Informal Hour of Games and
Songs with Exhibit Open
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LEWIS F. SIEBE HAS
BIBLE 200 YEARS OLD
Work sheets are now available
and should be filled out and filed
before May 15th. These work sheets
are not contracts nor even obliga-
tions. They are rather a statement
of your farming practices which de-
termine_your eligibility for grants
available to qualifying farmers un-
der the new Agricultural program.
Attend the canning demonstration
this afternoon, Friday, May 1st., at
the high school Home Economics'
room. The most up-to-date methods
will be portrayed by an expert in
this field.
Texas University, Austin, and son of
Mr. and Mrs. T A. Pennycuick, of
Crystal City, has been elected as
manager of the Texas University
Men’s Glee Club for next
1936-37.
This is the
season,
second season that
week. The ocasion was to presen
E. C. Segar, creator of the cor
cartoon Popeye, a deed to spinach
park in Crystal City on which is to
be erected a statue to Popeye. This
presentation was made in New York’
at the solicitation of the Texas Cen-
tennial Commission, and is an out-
Roy has been active in the handling growth of the recent spinac“h TestW,*1
the fMnh hPS and ot‘ier 0t which attrac*ed nation-wide atten-
thc Club, having just returned from ! tion
klZri R the Talley and CorpUSl The* k’ft Costal City Saturday
The a xf pr/t, t° TT°I the!morni"«. April 18th., and were met
Theta X. Fratermtv of which he iujin Sa§ Antonio by ropresentatlvet
I of the San Antonio Light. At Dallas4
j they were met by representatives of
i the Texas Centennial Comission and
j pictures were taken for publicity
Tine purposes. They were met and inter-
* ” vCK j viewed by newspaper representa-
- j tives at Chicago where they were
Xi Fraternity of which he is
a member.
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Long Drouth
i Texas Farmers Organize to Admin-
ister New Program
A total of 2.3 inches of rain fell in J de,ayed several hours, and did not
Crystal City this week, according to,ach New York until Monday
a gauge at Zavala Lumber Co. Sun- j mo,'ning
day night 1.8 inches registered and* At the Newark airport they werej
Monday night another inch. With mot b.v Segar and Popeye—in tfc
the exception of only .02 inch reg- j Dcsh, portiayed by Harry F. W^
istered on April 21st., the rain this |who characterizes the astonij
week was the first since December cornic striP strong man on stj
10th., when one-half inch was re-1 screen. It was at this airpo'fl
ported, according to the Zavala Mayor Holsomback presentedI
Lumber Co. gauge. j with crates of spinach and read'
Farmers and ranchmen had begun a scroll the assignment to Popeye]
to worry about a drouth. Some of! certain property in the Spinach Cap-]
| the grain planted early came up, but Aal of the World. Dick Hyman, pub-j
thei ^ r iark of moisture did not grow *>city manager for the King Syndu
1 off other seed never sprouted. The i calt' was present to add his welromL
Some time ago we published sev-1
eral short articles in our paper about |
people who reported having old ] COLLEGE STATION—That
books in their possession. This week j Soil Conservation allotment pro-,
we received a letter from Lewis F.: gram is progressing is evidenced by mo*sture left by the rains this week Following the ceremony the spinach
Sjebe of Crystal City, Texas, a form-l” c many hundreds of meetings be-1 wil1 help a11 this and Permit other1 capital’s mayor announced he would
er resident of the Stendal communi-1 ing held throughout the State by \ plantings. Some 800 acres of popcorn i remain in New York several days,
ty, who reports having a Bible which : Countv agricultural agents, and the wiU be grown here tllis spring, and ! adding that so far as he is concerned,
was printed in 1738. This Bible was j organization of county boards to ad-1 thc rains wil1 carr-v 11 wel1 along j "continuous spinach eating for
~ ~ ‘ towards maturity. Cotton planting,: many years has made me strong
no doubt has already started since enough to stand the rigors of the
thc rains. toughest kind of life in the biggest
Ranges that were getting dry will j city in the w orld." a.
be covered with weeds within a few Mayor Holsomback attends
days, and stockmen feel better. i Ad Club luncheon Tuesday.
printed in Berlin, Germany, and is J minister the new farm program,
in the German language. Mr. Siebei Farm demonstration councils and
had an offer of $300 for it, but did key fanners have divided the coun-
not sell it.—The Huntingburg (Indi-jties into “communities” of about 500
ana) Argus. farmers. Each of these ‘communities’
The Sentinel has mentioned this i i>as elected three committeemen who
rare volume two or three times and
each time the notice brings inquiries
to Mr. Siebe about (he book. The
book has been well presrved. On the
front cover is imbedded a metal
cross fully intact. The binding is
still good and no sheets are missing.
altogether will constitute a County I
Soil Conservation Board.
Officials point out> in reviewing j
some of the highpoints of the pro-1
gram, that all crops will be classified I
into two classes—soil depleting and j
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(Continued on page 4)
Biir Entertainment Program Planned
for Uvalde Honey Festival, MaW-f!
DONKEY BASEBALL
The Lions Club with Jack
Eubank, “Popeye” cooperating will
on next Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock
on the High School grounds give
Crystal City another chance to sec-
one of the funniest baseball games
ever attempted on trained donkeys.
Half of the funds will be donated
to the Popeye Statue Club and our
old friend Popeye, Jack Eubank, has j jade
promised to get up a team to play j
were eighteen celebrities on tP
stage, including Jesse Jones anl
some .>f the outstanding advertising
men of the Nation. Mr. Holsombac*
was introduced as the mayor of thJ
Spinach Capital of the World.. This
proceedings were broadcast and sev]
oral hundred newspapers of tl
country carried reports of thw^mwa
ing.
Later Mayor Ho Isom bad
Mr. Eubank attended a partj]
room of the Waldorf
[better article. A brand on an article is without value unless it is
roperly identified with the superior quality of the article. We
ow have the advertisement of the fact that we are the spinach
ijjital and raise finer spinach. We have a potential Million Dol-
rs additional in the continued publicity promised us by the par-
es interested in keeping POPEYE before the public, National
' even International. HOW ARE WE GOING TO CASH IN ON
’?
I (EDITORS NOTE: The above was submitted by a person who is
[tally interested in seeing Crystal City take advantage of the opportunity
at is ours, and h’s thoughts and ideas are well taken. The Sentinel
I
>uld be glad to have further comments on the subject.
IING NEW, PAINTING
I CAN NOW BE DONE CHEAPER
EXPERIMENT STATION
SHIPS FIRST CAR ONIONS
One of the most outstanding pro-
grams of entertainment ever pre-
pared by a Southwest Texas town is
being planned by committees for the
Uvalde County Honey Festival here
on May 7 and 8, and preparations
are being made to accommodate sev-
eral thousand visitors during the
two-day affair.
One of the features of the program
will be a rodeo, in which riders and
ropers from throughout this entire
section will participate. J. H. Mun-
dine of Uvalde, and Earl Sellers of I The honey exhibits are to be in!
Del Rio, are in charge of this event, j many of the Uvalde business houses j
and state that no expense will be and also a central exhibit in the Kin-1
spared in making the event one of|caid Hotel. This will enable
other events of the two-day Q ogram j
are free.
Exhibits in the Kincaid Hotel will |
be among the many attractions for
visitors as well as local people, ac-I
cording to Fred W. Hall, chairman of j
exhibits.
The exhibits, with their respective!
chairmen, are as follows: Honey,
John Broussard; wool and mohair, j
Guy Haby; Texas antiquated relies, |
Mrs. Green Martin, and art, Miss I
Claudelle Lewis.
Hotel at which some 1800 new:
men and celebrities, includini
If you have never seen a Donkey old Lloyd Frank Buck, Mae
Baseball game, and you really want D Or say. Jack Dcmpse
to have a real hour or more of imatV-others; also Frank
laughter, then be
against the Lions Club.
Anaconda Lead Product Com-
a subsidiary of the Anaconda
Company, the largest con-
of its kind in the world have
announced the first real prog-
in the grinding of White Lead
zer 2,000 years. The Anaconda
Lead is ground twice as fine
ly other known White Lead and
ach whiter. Its working qualities
i joy and delight to every Master
|ter
ler to provide quick distribu-
| the Anaconda have selected one
it in each town or city to
exclusive distribution and in
City they have selected the
Uumber Company. Wallis has
stock in all sizes from
down to the 1 pound can
the prices are almost unbeliev-
i Them unusually low prices are
r possible by the Anaconda fore-
some of the usual profit in
i Lead and in addition by elim-
several middlemen. In fact
a deal direct with Wallis
sve an opportunity now,
occurred before,
known
The Winter Garden Experiment
Station shipped the first carload of
onions from Crystal City this season.
They will probably ship two more
cars. They are getting a yield of
around 275 No. One onions per acre,
which is considered good.
A meeting of onion growers of this
section was held at Laredo last
week and passed a resolution asking
the National government to purchase
3,000 carloads of onions, thus absorb-
ing the surplus crop. These could be
distributed to CCC Camps or to
needy through relief organizations.
It is understood this is to be done.
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TRADE EXCURSION TO
VISIT CRYSTAL CITY SOON
I ’
the best ever held in a town of this
size. An attractive premium list has
been arranged for each of the two
days. Events will include bronc rid
ing, calf roping tip down, saddle
bronc riding, steer wrestling and
steer riding. There will be a break-
every
visitor in Uvalde during those days
to be reminded that this is the cen-
ter of the production of the world’s
finest honey.
present next Tues-
day evening 8 p m. at the football
field under the lights.
A loud speaker will lend much to
the amusement and some remark-
able uniforms will be used by the
Lions who play.
Don’t forget the time—Tuesday,
May 5th.
Admission: Adults 25e, children
5c. ^
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TO BROADCAST SAN ^
ANTONIO BALL GAMES !
also
Rockbridge who writes .the
and Tomorrow" column for tK3
vala County Sentinel, was pr^
On this occasion Popeye acted
lice, wearing the large badge^
sented him by Mayor Holsor
! on which were the words "Ct
Police, Crystal City, Texas.”
Crystal City as the Spinach Cl
ital of the World and the prop-bsl
I to erect a statue to Poj >»* afford*
subjects for much talk Some of thd
advertising experts declared it to bi
_ one of the cleverest publicity stunts
A letter to the Sentinel from Ala- j theV had known Representatives of
mo Broadcsting Co., Inc, savs: |the King Syndicate say they propose
We wish to announce that’ Station It0 keeP the proposition alive and Mr.
rr,, . . . ... . j KABC will carry the play-bv-plav! S('gar is now preparing new strips
The wool and mohair display , .
t brodacast of all out-of-town games
should be one of the most education- j
al ever shown in Uvalde. The Asso-
| end special pictures to be used thru-
away calf roping if time permits. Ef- dated Wool Industries of New York
forts are also being made to arrange
some of the State’s outstanding rop-
ers.
A parade on the morning of the
opening day, headed by the Sul Ross
College Band, will be the greatest
Uvald has ever seen. Jos. Carper,
who is in charge of decorated floats,
announced this week that approxi-
mately 25 entries already had been
made and others are coming in al-
have offered their assistance and at-
tractive displays of the process wool
goes through after leaving the range
country. Similar articles of mohair in
the possession of Horners, will add |
greatly to the educational value of
the exhibit.
Many relics of Texas history have
been accumulated and will also be
displayed in the hotel during the
days of the festival. Various articles
of the San Antonio team this year.
This is in accordance with our cus-
tom of the past five years.
We have received a considerable
number of inquiries from people in
and around San Antonio, and in
other communities, and we would
i thank you to make announcement
j of f ;se broadcasts in your column.
“Bolivar,” our famed Sports an-
| nouncer will, as usual, be at the mi-
i crophone.
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A group of San Antonio business
men will tour this section on May
12-14 There will be around fifty
people in the party. They are to be
he® tor lunch on Wednesday, May
is i* the regular meeting day
the Chamber of Commerce, so a
mint meeting will be held at the
Community- building. Visitors from
neighboring town# aye also expect-
I
from the old San Bruno mission sitej The home of Mrs w B Quillau-
of Montell, will be very interesting j deu 122 Avenue B, has been con
verted into two modern apartments.
The interior of the place has been
most daily. Substantial cash prizes frorn Fort Inge, near Uvalde, and
will be offered for the most outstand-
ing commercial float and the out-
standing civic float. The latter group
will include entries by clubs or or-
ganizations and which do not carry
commercial advertising.
A polo game, golf tournament in
which teams from all surrounding
towns have been invited to partici-
pate, dances each evening at the Kin-
caid Hotel and other forms of enter-
tainment will be additional features.
Admission will be charged only to
the rodeo, polo game ang dance*. All
MODERN APARTMENTS
(out the country. When the statue to
be erected in Crystal City is ready to
be unveiled, Mr. Segar and publicity
experts from New York promised tc
be present and sound pictures
be made of the unveiling.
A statue of Popeye will bf
many curious visitors to Crys
City. This publicity stunt will befar-1
reaching for our little city as well as'
for Popeye
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FIELD DAY FOR BOY8
THIS (FRIDAY) AFTERNJ
to the local people and visitors will ‘
also be displayed.
The work of some of Uvalde's local
artists will be exhibited in the ball
room of the hotel. A number will
be those of Mary Hornby Lea, J. R.
Shaw and others.
On the evening of the first day, a
gigantic pageant is which more than
900 school children and citizens will
participate, arid which will depict the
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redecorated throughout. Each apart-
ment has several large, cool rooms,
with plenty of closet space. Only one
of these is for rent and Mrs. Guiilau-
dcu offters it at a reasonable price.
—We all like lee Cream and Wallis
hr.vc made it possible tor none to go
without. See their Ice Cream Frees
ikrs. ■ j
The annual field day for th<
of the community is to be
Friday afternoon, beginni
3:30 o'cleok. Various game
tests will be held and pr
.■d the winners About
barbecue supper will be i
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CEMETERY ASOCIATION
AT MM. PEEL'S
The Cemetery Association
meet «t the home at Mr# J. E. Peel,
rhurrtsy, May 7, at'JiSd P m. for,
!*~ bu^.ness and social
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Hardy, J. H. Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. [24], No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1936, newspaper, May 1, 1936; Crystal City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1096832/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .