The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1966 Page: 1 of 12
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Welcome
Jaycees
Welcome—for those who
get an Enterprise in time--
to about 100 Valley Jaycees
convening here Wednesday
night at the Civic Center.
THE VALLEY Jaycee
Congress picked Mercedes
for their installation and
general business meeting.
We’re always pleased when
that sort of thing happens...
and we are especially pleas-
ed on this occasion, because
a Mercedes Jaycee, Ruben
Hinojosa, was installed as
president of the Valley Con-
gress. -
He presided at the Wed-
nesday night session at the
civic center, and at a meet-
ing of the new board of di-
rectors earlier in the even-
ing at El Sombrero.
AGAIN — if you get the
word in time — Welcome
from the people of Merce-
des.
* * * *
Anxious
To Help
Once a year they com.
around for a nominal amount
of financial help--offering
an evening of entertainment
in the bargain. All the rest
of the year the boots are on
the other feet...the help
flows in the other direction.
There are ample reasons
for us all to be anxious to
help in any way we can with
the annual ‘Booster Plaque’
and beef barbecue project of
the Mercedes Volunteer Fire
Department.
EVERYBODY WANTS a
‘Booster Plaque’. To qualify,
for one, firemen ask a don-
ation of $10, or more. They
throw in tickets, at $2.50
each, to the big barbecue
feed they will serve at the
Rio Grande Valley Livestock
Show coliseum on the night
of November 8.
If they haven’t been
around to see you, call one
of them and tell him you
are ready.
THE BARBECUE arrives
at an appropriate time. Ser-
vices starts at 6:30 p.m.,
30 minutes before the polls
close in an important Gen-
eral Election. It can turnout
to be a non-political rally
where the winners celebrate
and the losers try to regain
their appetites.
* * * *
Sorry
About That
Why wait till the end of
the week to read part of the
story when you could have
read the whole story on the
preceding Wednesday night
or Thursday morning?
IF YOU ARE interested in
county, state, national and
international news, a daily
newspaper is indispensible.
We would not be without one
or more.
But if the Mercedes area
holds a special interest for
you, you will not get the
news any sooner or any stra-
ighter than you find it in the
Enterprise. You can wait
for the facts, and disinteres-
ted interpretations of them,
in the Valley daily of your
choice.,.but--almost always
—you COULD have gotten the
facts sooner and in greater,
more friendly detail here in
your home newspaper.
WE TRIED AN EXPERI-
MENT last week. Publish-
ed the story of contract
awarding for the new MHS
building in detail. Only we
changed the total project cost
figure from $660,882 to$660,
881. Sure enough, both Fri-
day papers—two days after
the story broke—used our fi-
gure instead of the actual
one.
Won’t do it again. Just
had to prove a point.
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'Singing Christmas Treef Suggested
Plans for presentation of a community-wide ‘Singing Christmas Tree’ will
get further discussion Thursday by representatives of local churches, schools,
civic clubs and other organizations. The meeting is to begin at 5 p.m. at City Hall.
'Idea for a local ‘Singing Christmas Tree’ version came from Mrs. O. W.
Sumerlin, after she had become acquainted with it through correspondence with
sponsors’of a similar ‘Tree’ in Charlotte, N.C. (Mrs. Sumerlin, an accomplished
choir director, is the wife of the minister of the First Baptist Church of Mer-
cedes.)
Hoping for'complete, comnurnity-wide, non-denominational participation, she
explained” tfrdf prbject to a representative group at a meeting last Thursday.
‘‘RgjSpeftsq hi'fi been encouraging”, she says, ‘‘And we hope that definite plans
can be formulated this Thursday.”
A ‘Singing Christmas Tree’ is a stage arrangement in which a choir--
with green robes and greenery--forms the shape of a Christmas tree, being seat-
ed on rows of scaffolding. The choir sings from the position, giving the audience
the effect of a ‘Singing Christmas Tree’.
It is planned as a major annual contribution to the community’s sacred, non-
denominational celebration of Christmas. It may become a community tradition,
giving an appropriate opening each year to the ‘Christmas Season’ in Mercedes.’
Office, Christmas, Members
Prospects of new and per-
manent location for the Mer-
cedes Chamber of Com-
merce office, 1966 Christ-
mas season plans and a cur-
rent membership campaign
were among discussion
items as Chamber directors
met Tuesday afternoon.
President A. L. Clubb Jr.
appointed a committee to
consider possible future of-
fice locations. Members are
E. A. DeJong, Howard Spar-
row, L. W. Clifford, A. T.
Baucum, W. B. Lauder Jr.
and Dick Harman.
Mr. DeJong and Robert
Eilers were named as com-
mittee to begin Christmas
season planning by arrang-
ing for downtown holiday
street lighting.
Twelve new Chamber
members were listed in re-
ports from membership
campaigners. The Chamber
drive to enlist new members
and to collect annual dues
payments from all members
is now underway.
New members so far:
J. V. Adams Garage
Barth’s Garage
Country Discount House
Custom Kitchens
Dominguez Shoe Center
John F. Dominguez
Mid-Valley Florists
Minimax Super Market
Norm’s Pharmacy
Roy’s Sinclair Station
Sav-More Home & Auto
Supply
Bob Williams & SonsWel-
ding Service
Businesses and indivi-
duals interested in joining
the C. of C., and those ready
to renew their dues pledges
To Celebrate 20th Year
Sunday, October 30, has
been designated as ‘Home-
coming Sunday’ by the Mer-
cedes Men’s Bible Class,
now in its 20th year here.
The Rev. George Wheeler,
teacher and founder of the
class, will receive special
honors, according to a let-
ter mailed to class members
by GarnerGeorge, long-time
attendance chairman.
Mr. Wheeler organized the
class September 27, 1947.
It meets each Sunday morn-
ing at City Hall.
Mr. Wheeler is celebrat-
ing his 40th year in the min-
istry, 22 years spent in Mer-
cedes.
Cable TV Unit
Gets Extension
Valley Microwave, Inc.,
was granted a one-year ex-
tension Monday to its fran-
chise with the City of Mer-
cedes to construct a cable
television system.
The franchise would have
expired Tuesday. City Com-
missioners approved the
firm’s extension request, to
October 25, 1967.
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Food and Game Booths
Feature Monday's Carnival
Open At
6:30p.m.
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--if not contacted by a cam-
paign solicitor—may notify
Mrs. Peggy Dalton, Cham-
ber office secretary, LOS-
2221.
CPL Sets
Open House
November 2
Open House is planned at
the Central Power and Light
Company office here Wed-
nesday, November 2, as part
of the power company’s Gol-
den Anniversary celebra-
tion, CPL Manager A. T.
Baucum has announced.
He pointed out that that
day will mark the 50th an-
niversary of the company’s
founding.
‘‘We’re proud of the fact
that we have been supplying
electric service to the people
of South Texas for a half-
century, and hope all our
friends will drop by the office
to take part in our birthday
party,’ Mr. Baucum said.
Open House at the CPL
office will be from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Free coffee, cake
and soft drinks will be ser-
ved, and visitors will be gi-
ven a booklet which des-
cribes the company’s his-
tory.
As part of the anniversary
celebration, special displays
have been set up in the CPL
office here and conducted
tours are planned.
Seventeen sets of booths
for food and games will fill
an area of stalls at the Rio
Grande Valley Livestock
Show coliseum Monday for
the annual Mercedes Hallo-
ween Carnival.
The evening of entertain-
ment begins with a chil-
dren’s costume parade at
6:30 p.m., directed by Tra-
vis elementary PTA.
And four Mercedes high
school Carnival Queen can-
didates, and their class
boosters, are conducting
campaigns to raise funds for
the Carnival treasury,
money that is spent for new
uniforms for the MHS band.
In the race are Nelda Mon-
dragon, senior; Janice Hov-
erson, junior; Brenda Bro-
thers, sophomore; Stephan-
ie Dollery, freshman. Win-
ner will be introduced at
9:30 Monday night.
The booths and sponsors:
Kennedy PTA —Chalupas,
raffle.
Zeta Eta Sigma—Fishing
booth
Future Business Leaders
--Candy apples
Future Teachers and Nat-
ional Honor Society —White
elephant sale
Lions -- Sno-cones
Rotary — Baseball throw
Kiwanis -- Sponge throw
Band Boosters -- Food,
cake walk
Lutheran PTL — Pie and
coffee
Jaycees —Raffle, hay ride
Junior high -- cup cakes,
coffee
Legion Auxiliary -- Soft
drinks
Fire Department -- Penny
pitch
Y-Teens — Marriage
booth
FFA — ‘U - Paint-It’
Record dedi-
FHA
cation
FHA
I --
II — Popcorn balls
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ENTERPRISE PHOTO
AS THE C.A.F. MUSEUM WAS RE-FILLED — Confederate Air Force Col.
Billy Drawe, an official in the CAF’s weekend Air Show in Harlingen, is shown
above with the T-6 trainer he flew home to Rebel Field here Monday morning.
They were the first returnees after the show. (More about the show, Page 1,
Section 2.)
'Extras' Approved for MHS
All facets of government
financial ‘extras’ in connec-
tion with construction of a
new Mercedes high school
building have been approved
and are being included in
construction plans. Approval
had not been finalized when a
contract award announce-
ment was made a week ago.
Total project cost of$660,
882 was affirmed the past
weekend with approval of
federal assistance of $51,
463 to help build an $81,
600 language arts depart-
Water Suppliers Meet
W. D, Dillon, chairman
of the Mercedes Rural Wa-
Scout Campaign
Due This Week
Annual Girl Scout fund
drive is set for Thursday.
Friday and Saturday of this
week, October 27, 28 and
29. Solicitors will be busy
all three days, collecting
donations to support Scout-
ing activities for girls here
for the next 12 months.
ter Supply Corporation, re-
minds incorporators and
others interested that a
meeting of the group
is planned for 7:30 p.m.
Thursday of this week at
the First National Bank.
Through the corporation,
residents of an extensive
are north and east of Mer-
cedes will be supplied with
City of Mercedes water
through their own distribu-
tion system.
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VOLUNTEER FIREMEN DISPLAY BLAZER SETS THEY BOUGHT WITH 1965 BOOSTER-BARBECUE PROJECT. . .They'll build a re-
creation park with 1966 funds. The Department, left to right, FIRST ROW — Bill Basinger, Bill Bunton, Leonard King, Charles Bor-
chelt, Fire Chief Garland Leavell, Floyd Montgomery, Hermen Merten, Jim Lyons, Hardin Erwin; SECOND ROW — Don Bearden,
J. V. Adams, Johnny Williams, Fire Marshal Marvin Roberts, Buddy Reeves, II. B. Rogers, Loren Meredith; Arnold Timpkin;
FOURTH ROW — George Amadon, Joe Powell, Howard Jones, Walter Junker, Don Salmon.
ENTERPRISE PHOTO BY DICK HARMAN
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ment. The assistance comes
through provisions of Title
I of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act.
A structure separate from
the main classroom building
will house the language arts
department.
Winning contractor on that
job, and on the main building
at $451,600, was Donald D,
Ferguson Construction
Company of Brownsville.
Dirt will be moved, at the
Florida Street site south of
Tenth Street, “in a few
days”, said Superintendent
N. K. Fitzgerald.
Also last week, Mr. Fitz-
gerald signed a contract with
the Texas Education Agency
in Austin assuring 50-50
participation of the federal
Vocational Act of 1963 in
construction of an Area Vo-
cational School as a wing on
the main building, costing
$98,000 and awarded to the
Ferguson company.
Firemen
Add 18
'Boosters’
Eighteen more 1966
‘Boosters of the Mercedes
Volunteer Fire Department’
made donations and were
presented ‘Booster Plaques’
the past week.
Firemen are distributing
the wall plaques, plus tic-
kets to their annual barbe-
cue supper set for Novem-
ber 8.
The latest ‘Boosters’,
bringing the current total
to 51:
Markham Lumber
Red Barn Chemicals
Rae Donna Beauty Shop
Robert Kirkpatrick
Lauder and Drew, CPA
Leonard Feed and Seed
Reynolds Jewelry
Rio Grande Valley Gas
Roew Laundromat
Rio Machine Shop
H. and M. Sales
Blue Bar
El Fenix Bakery
Hidalgo County Bank
Williams and Sons Welding
Hanshaw’s
Harman Studio
H. and H. Meat Co.
Persons not contacted on
the plaque and barbecue pro-
ject may notify any of the
firemen picture near-by.
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