The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1965 Page: 4 of 10
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Page 4 — The Mercedes Enterprise
Mercedes, Texas, Thursday, July 1, 1965
Telephone
Excise Tax
Removed
Telephone excise tax re-
ductions, which become ef-
fective January 1, 1966, will
save Texas telephone users
$35 million annually, ac-
cording to Dick Mayfield,
local manager for Southwes-
tern Bell Telephone Com-
pany.
Mr, Mayfield said, “When
the tax is completely elimin-
ated in 1969, this annual
savings will increase to $50
million,
“We are glad that Con-
gress has passed and the
President has signed this
measure into law.
“We have long felt that
these emergency taxes,
which stemmed from war and
depression, should be eli-
minated. The tax on tele-
phone service was levied
against that most people re-
gard as a necessity, not a
luxury.
“We shall be pleased to
see the end of our job as
collector of this ‘luxury tax’
from our customers who I
am sure look forward
to these reductions in their
telephone bills.”
Airman
Boosted
Ernesto Werbiski, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Werbis-
ki of Mercedes has been pro-1
moted to airman second
class in the U.S, Air Force
at Lincoln AFB, Neb,
Airman Werbiski is an
air policeman in a unit that
supports the Strategic Air
Command mission of keep-
ing the nation’s intercon-
tinental missiles and jet
bombers on constant alert.
The airman attended Mer-
cedes high school. His wife
is the former Refugia More-
no.
Patriotic Music
And Hymns for 4tE
Patriotic music and hymns
will be broadcast from the
tower of the First Baptist
Church of Mercedes at 2
p.m., Sunday and Monday,
in observance of Indepen-
dence Day.
At the morning worship,
the pastor, 0. W. Sumerlin,
will offer an Independence
Day message from 1 Peter
2:16, “Live as free men,
yet without using your free-
dom as a pretext for evil;
but live as servants of God.”
“Responsibility and free-
dom are not antithetical,”
said the pastor, “and for-
tunate indeed is a com-
munity, a nation, that shoul-
ders both. Unless both are
borne, nothing but chaos re-
sults.”
His Assurance
“Certainly I will be with
thee” (Exodus 3) was God’s
assurance to Moses before
he led the children of Israel
in their escape from Egypt.
How Moses continued to rely
on God’s power in the wild-
erness will be brought out in
Christian Science services
this Sunday, including First
Church of Christ Scientist,
Mercedes. The subject of the
lesson is “God,” Included
in the readings will be this
passage from “Science and
Health with Key to the Scrip-
tures” by Mary Baker Eddy:
“When man is governed by
God, the ever-present Mind
who understands all things,
man knows that with God all
things are possible” (p. 180),
C ENTERPRISE STAFF PHOTO 3
LEARN TO SWIM — Scores of youngsters regis-
tered for swim lessons at the Civic Center pool
Monday morning, and this was a scene as beginners
milled around to get their names on the list.
tENTERPRISE STAFF PHOTO3
SNAKE EXHIBIT —A glass case of snakes, all na-
tive to this region, is just one of many features at
the Sunrise Hill museum. The snakes, none alive,
are carefully displayed in their own simulated en-
viornment. (See story on Page 1)
"m AND SAVE!
STOCK UP
ON FILM FOR
Make sure you have plenty of film
camera and outing supplies for
the big 4th of July week-end.
CHECK YOUR STOCK NOW
Take advantage of new lower film
prices at Mercedes Drug.
P.S. Remember too, you get one
day film developing service at
Mercedes Drug, your photo
center in Mercedes.
Mercedes Drug Co
246 S. Texas LO 5-1891
"Writing Insurance "
N.P. Barton & Sons
Mercedes
O'Shea Included In 'Who's Who'
Gene O’Shea, executive di-
rector of the Mercedes Ur-
ban Renewal Agency since
1962, and civic worker in
Mercedes, is listed in the
current edition of ‘Who’s
Who in the South and South-
west*.
Accomplishments listed in
Lloyd Heggen was re-
elected local director and
community chairman for the
Lower Rio Grande Valley
Chamber of Commerce and
Truett Baucum was named
the volume include the
following positions: retailer
in Bryan, Harlingen and
Mercedes; local city com-
missioner, one year; mayor,
two terms; Pope JohnXXIII's
decoration as a knight of St.
Sylvester, for work in the
Roman Catholic church, and
a director at a meeting here
Monday.
The Valley Chamber con-
ducted its annual Mercedes
community membership
meeting at El Sombrero.
Knights of Columbus coun-
cil.
Mr. O’Shea is also cited
as president of the Texas
Urban Renewal organization
and the Valley organization;
past president of the Mer-
cedes Chamber of Com-
merce, and director of the
Valley Chamber for two
years. He has also received
a certificate for outstanding
community service from the
Mercedes Chamber.
Mr. O’Shea has made his
home in Mercedes since
1945. He and Mrs. O’Shea
are parents of five children..
Heggen, Baucum Are C-C Workers
HARMAN STUDIO
NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS
at a
NEW LOCATION
Texas LO 5-18
Mercedes
ti for our Grand Opening
Announcement
JANUARY
APRIL
FEBRUARY
MAY
MARCH
JUNE
. . . that is, if you are not already a mem-
ber of Rio Grande Building and Loan As-
sociation, where your savings ALWAYS
Seam the highest interest. . . currently 5%
per annum, paid every 90 days!
Rio Grande Building and Loan, the OLD-
EST Savings Association in The Valley, just
paid the 150th CONSECUTIVE QUART-
ERLY DIVIDEND, amounting to $202,-
308.49.
New accounts opened now, will instantly
earn the current 5% interest rate and share
in the 151st quarterly dividend payment
on September 30th. Place your savings
where you will enjoy earning the most. . .
NOW! You make the move . . . our ex-
perienced management will do the rest.
Resources over
$17,500,000.00
Reserves . . .
Over $1,000,000.00
TIME TO MOVE
YOUR SAVINGS TO
HIGHER
EARNINGS
0/ CURRENT
/aANNUAL
* u INTEREST
PAID EVERY
90 DAYS
(2 More Dividend Payments in’65)
YOUR SAVINGS WILL EARN
EVEN MORE ... IF LEFT ON
DEPOSIT A YEAR!
Your quarterly-dividend earnings,
at 5% per annum, if left on dep-
osit, compounded, will pay you
5.10%! This is more than most
savings institutions, in the nation,
pay.
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THAT SETS THE PACE
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HARLINGEN, TEXAS
Chartered and Supervised by the Savings
A Loan Department of the State of Texas
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FOR SALE
FOR RENT: House, newly
decorated. 320 S. Virginia.
LO5-1805.
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FOR SALE: New autumn haze
mink stole. Reasonably pric-
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STERLING PRINCE
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REAL ESTATE
Sales and Rentals
City and Farm Property
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FOR RENT: Saladino Apts,
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WANTED
WANTED: We can cut and
bale your hay. Also condi-
tion hay. Write or call even-
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WANTED: Baby bobcats,
baby Ocelots. $10.00 to 50.00
each. Also turtles, horned
toads, lizards, snakes. Write
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Lost — Found
FOUND: Wristwatch. Con-
tact the Enterprise and give
accurate description.
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LOST: 10 month old female
chihuahua puppy. Sable
brown, no tag, answers to
the name of Daisy. Chil-
dren's pet. Reward. Phone
L05-2425. L05-2714 after
6 p.m.
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MISC.
LOSE WEIGHT safely with
Dex-A-Diet Tablets. Only
980. Mercedes Drug.
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/to Seefatifafe HEALTH
Don’t gamble with your
health. See your doctor. And
heed his counsel, too, in the
matter of having prescriptions
filled. The wide use of our pre-
scription service is your guar-
antee of satisfaction.
MERCEDES
DRUG CO.
Two Registered Pharmacists to Serve You
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Puckett, Lee Ross, Jr. The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1965, newspaper, July 1, 1965; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1099021/m1/4/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.