The Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, November 26, 1943 Page: 1 of 8
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Serving Mercedes, Edcouch, Elsa and La Villa
(In Combination with the News-Tribune)
VOL. XXX, No. 48
MERCEDES, TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1943
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REDSKINS SCALP
LOCAL TIGERS
IN FINAL GAME
Football season for the Mercedes
Tigers came to an end with the
game at Donna last Friday night
with the Donna Redskins making a
clean sweep of the game, scoring
four touchdowns without a single
conversion for a score of 24 to 0.
The Tigers, while a comparatively
light and new team this year, hung
up two victories—Pharr-San Juan-
Alamo and Rio Hondo. They lost to
La Feria, Harlingen, Weslaco and
Mission.
Basketball season starts next
week, with a first team, B team and
junior team in prospect. No games
have been scheduled as yet but pro-
bably a game or two will be played
by the latter part of next month.
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Bowman Succumbs
Following Accident
The body of Pierce Albert Bow-
man, citrus buyer for G. E.
Watson Vegetable shipper of Merce-
des, fatally injured in an automo-
bile accident Wed. near Wes-
laco, was forwarded to Alvin, Ill-
inois, for burial. Both Bowman
and Ross Puckett of Mercedes, were
taken to the Mercedes Hospital' for
emergency treatment, where Bow-
man died. Bowman is survived by
his widowi and a daughter.
Tin Clan Collection
Has Set Back Here
Service Clubs Hold
Joint Thanksgiving
Dinner Tuesday
Mrs. Clifford Davenport of Wes-
laco was the guest speaker at the
joint Thanksgiving meeting of the
Rotary and Kiwanis clubs of Mer-
cedes, held Tuesday noon at the
school cafeteria. Mrs. Davenport
centered her talk around Religion
and Education in Japan. The Rev.
W. G. Birkner introduced the speak-
er. Shelley Collier, president of the
Rotary'Club,’ presided.
Visiting Rotarians were Gene
Donlan of Weslaco and A. L. Cra-
mer of Engelman Gardens who had
as his guest Ens. Bob Kern, Jr. Lee
H. Kidder had for his guest Col.
Braxton Webb, and J. A. Slaughter
had as his guests, R. H. Post of La
Feria, Victor Morales and .Antonio
Garcia.
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CATTLE PRATTLE
By BILL SIMPSON
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The salvage tin collection pro-
gram in this section has received a
set back with the announcement
that the shredding plants in Hous-
ton and Dallas are being closed.
Tin collections in the future will
require longer distance shipping. It
is therefore’ necessary that cans be
thoroughly prepared, the tops and
bottoms cut out, labels removed,
cans thoroughly cleaned and flat-
tened.
Due to transportation difficulties,
the tin collection drive in this sec-
tion was never started. However, it
is hoped that a plan can be worked
out to collect salvage tin within the
near future.
BUNDLES FOR
WAR BONDS
The Bundles for War Bonds pur-
chased another $100.00 -bond this
week. Let’s make it $1000.00 by
Christmas!
Monday of this week the mem-
bers of the Los Ebanos Club em-
broidered small animals to be stuf-
fed for Christmas selling. The pat-
terns for these animals were cut by
Miss Miller’s eighth grade home
making class. These girls are also
making similar animals for the Bun-
dles for War Bonds.
Tuesday a group of ladies went to
the home of Mrs. Morris Allen and
spent the day dressing dolls. These
dolls are new and will be interest-
ing to any one who has the pur-
chase of a doll in mind. Our at-
tendants will be glad to show any of
these animals and dolls. We hope
soon to have them on display in our
window.
If you have old dolls and toys
which can be renovated, please bring
them in now. They will make the
kiddies happy and help to buy war1
bonds.
Have you something you do not
use which might be a desirable gift
for some one? or have you some
gadget you make and consider in-
dispensible in your own home?
Will you make several for us for
* our Christmas sales?
We shall have different sizes of
animals cut out for making or we
will furnish you the patterns if you
have your own materials. We have
plenty of cotton for stuffing. This
cotton was furnished by the local
gins.
We shall greatly appreciate any
help you may be able to give us.
ABOUT POISONING DOGS
Our attention has been called sev-
* eral times to cases of dog poisoning
.j in Mercedes. While it is possible
j and even likely that some dog own-
r ers do not perform a human cus-
tody over their dogs and really do
not deserve to own one of “man’s
best friends,’’ it is nevertheless in-
human and unthinkable for a per-
son to poison a neighbor’s dog. Even
the low-down treacherous Nazis
haven’t resorted to poison in this
war. Let’s stop this poisoning bus-
iness and if your neighbor’s dog be-
t comes a menace, simply notify an
officer.
210 head of cattle sold, Monday,
at the Valley Livestock Yards in
Mercedes, along with 300 head of
hogs.
The top fat hog brought about
$13 per hundred pounds, but the
price for light feeder was way off,
and they brought from 6 to 6 4 •
The top milch cow sold for $9 0,
and most of them brought from $65
to $85.
Top Brahma and White Faced
Calves brought up to $11.25.
Mr. Youngblood of Willacy Coun-
ty, was a good stoeker buyer, along
with Bob Clemmens, of Edinburg,
and J. C. Dunn, the canner of La
Feria.
Bert De Vries, of Alamo,, and A.
Molina brought most of the fat cat-
tle, along with the Southwestern
Packing Company, of Harlingen.
There wa® plenty of excitement at
the Community Sales Yard, Harlin-
gen, November, when two wild Bra-
hma calves calves broke away from
the attendants of the yard, and six
men had to chase them all over the
northeast part of Harlingen, a chase
of several miles. These Brahmas,
however, were finnally apprehended
and roped. The men who ran them
down, had the best exercise they
have had in many a moon.
Lester Bufington sold 21 head of
first class fat and stoeker cattle at
this sale.
Mrs. L. R. Muller, who has a fine
•dairy in the Briggs Coleman Section,
consigned several head of nice Bra-
hma calves to the yards, and they
found ready bhyers.
Carl Thomas of Raymondville,
brought in some fat Brahmas, that
were purchased by L. A. Molina, a
Weslaco butcher.
Butchers Lupe Cantu, of Weslaco,
B. Garcia Bros., and Phelix Bermia,
of Harlingen, and Bill Jenkins, of
Mercedes, also bought at the sale.
Jake Hamilton and Forrest Gris-
som, of Harlingen, and V. H. Tum-
linson, of Raymondville, were big
stoeker buyers.
Vickers Writes About
New Mercedes Citizen
Paul Vickers, manager of the Mc-
Allen Chamber of Commerce, while
regretting the loss of one of McAl-
len’s prominent citizens — Clyde
Hollon, nevertheless graciously
sends us the following story about
Mercedes’ newest citizen, viz:
Resignation of Clyde Hodon from
the McAllen Chamber of Commerce
board because of his moving to Mer-
cedes as new Ford automobile a-
gent, was accepted reluctantly and
with resolutions of regret. Hollon
was a vice president of the McAllen
chamber.
Since moving to McAllen, Hollon
has been one of the most active ci-
vic workers as well as an outstand-
ing business man of the Valley. He
is a past Kiwanis president; was a
member of the hospital enlargement
committee, and has served contin-
uously on important committees.
He is also a member of the board of
the First Methodist church.
Hollon was so highly esteemed
as a civic worker in McAllen that
his resignation from the chamber of
commerce board was first declined,
but was later accepted when the
new Mercedes citizen began spend-
ing all of his time at his business in
the Queen City and could not be
here for civic tasks.
Announcement has been made of
the birth of twin boys to Lt. and Mrs.
W. A. (Bill) Barton of Temple, on
Nov. 22. Lt. Barton was reared in
Mercedes and is the son of Mrs. N.
P. Barton of this city. Mother and
babies are doing nicely.
Mercedes Men
Are Decorated
Three Valley men among those
receiving decorations in the 8th
Air-force, according to announce-
ment of Lt. Gen Ira C. Eaker, com-
manding air units in the European
Theatre of Operations.
First Lt. Robert Newman of Mer-
cedes, received the Air Medal and
First Lt. Andrew Downing of Mer-
cedes, received the Oak Leaf Clust-
er to the Air Medal.
Staff S!gt. Albert J. Laughlin of
Brownsville, received the Air medal
and. two Oak Leaf Clusters to the
Air Medal, all announced simultan-
eously.
Three Ring Circus
Coming to Mercedes
Monday, December 6
Thirty giant ferocious, untamable
baboons with eleven huge elephants
are coming to Mercedes Monday
Dec. 6th for one day only.
The occasion is the date of the
Dailey Bros. Three Ring Circus, one
of the most progressive and modern
of the circuses of the day. Not boasting
of its magnitude but preferring to
insist that its performance is far
superior anl very different from
that offered by most shows. The
two hour program, including many
absolutely new features, are sur-
prising sensationaal acts, is produc-
ed in three rings, on the hippodrome
track and in mid-air, and the same
program is presented in the smaller
city as in the metropolitan centers
The Dailey elephants are the only
ones ever trained to play base ball
and the trainer is a little lass not
yet twelve years old, a beautiful
child.
The Dailey Circus is the only cir-
cus in this country to own and ex-
hibit thirty baboons, the meanest of
the ape family. The group were re-
scued from the Malaya war zone
just prior to the fall of Singapore.
The Dailey horse show, features
among other beautiful steads, the
famous show stallions, Black Dia-
mond and Major. Miss Hazel King
the patient trainer of the collection
of pinto and palomino horses, is ac-
knowledged to be the queen of all
circus horsewomen. Her display
alone is worth the admission price.
When the Dailey Circus exhibits
here it will prove that all shows are
not alike and that there is much
that is new in circus world. As all
circuses have more or less had an
appeal for all classes of people the
universal appeal of the Dailey Cir-
cus is unusually strong account of
the many improvements, the great
variety of acts and stunts and the
general high character of its enter-
tainment.
Performances will be given at 2
and 8 P.M. regardless of weather
conditions. There wil be no street
parade.
MERCEDES GIRL NOW FLYING
Union Thanksgiving
Service Held At
Presbyterian Church
An impressive Thanksgiving ser-
vice was held at the Presbyterian
Church last Sunday evening at 7:30,
with the Christian, Methodist and
the Presbyterian Churches partici-
pating. The Young People of the
Presbyterian Church were in charge
of the program. The house was fill-
ed with people and the spirit grati-
tude prevailed for the privilege of
worship in free America.
A number of songs were sung by
the congregation followed by spe-
cial numbers read by Charles F.
Tucker, a sextette composed of Bet-
ty Brewer, Lydell Drawe, Peggy
Johnson, Jennie Lee Drawe, Nadene
Schwarz and Charlyn Avant sang
“Come Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove.”
A story, “Thanksgiving Ann,” was
read by Jennie Lee Drawe and Lydell
Drawe reada poem, “Thanksgiving.”
The union evening service will be
held at the Methodist Church next
Sunday evening, at which time Rev.
C. A. Tucker will preach, and the
Methodist young people and the
"choir will furnish the music. The re-
gular hour has been moved up to
7:30 P.M. The service for the first
Sunday in December will be at the
Christian Church, at which time a
aim will be shown in con-
nection with the service. The public
is cordially invited to these services,
which seek to draw the community
together spiritually.
TWO POULTRY
CLINICS SCHEDULED
FOR MERCEDES
Mercedes Merchants
To Observe
Thanksgiving Holiday
All Mercedes will be closed on
Thursday in observance of Thanks-
giving Day, according to the Mer-
cedes Chamber of Commerce.
This is one of the Valley-wide
holidays. Mercedes school® will be
closed both Thursday and Friday to
give teachers and pupils the custom-
ary turkey day vacation. However,
due to transportation difficulties®,
most teachers will remain in Merce-
des for the weekend.
Reeves Elected
Chairman Mercedes
AAA Committee
A. H. Reeves was elected chair-
man and C. P. Melton vice chair-
man of the Mercedes AAA commit-
tee at a meeting of farmers at the
Mercedes Chamber of Commerce
office Tuesday night. Lee Kidder
was named secretary and J. R. Hop-
kins a member of the board.
Delegates to the county conven-
tion to be held on November 26 are
Lee Kidder with W. H. Drawe alter-
nate; B. R. Webb with Pete Newer
alternate.
The committee voted to use the
Mercedes Chamber of Commerce of-
fice as headquarters for its activi-
ties during the year. Facilities for
this purpose have been offered by
Chamber of Commerce officials.
Texas State Guard
Sends Letter of Thanks
Under date of November 24, we
receive the. following complimen-
tary letter from the 26th Battalion
Inf., Texas State Guard, viz:
Mr. Paul Netz
Mercedes, Texas.
Dear Mr. Netz;
On behalf of the Comanding Of-
ficer of the 2 6 th Battalion of the
Texas State Guard and his entire
command we wish to express to you
the deep appreciation of all officer®
and men of this organization for
your splendid cooperation in mak-
ing Texas State Guard Week a suc-
cess.
We wish particularly to express
to you the appreciation of the Bat-
talion Commander for your gener-
ous contribution in a financial way
to two of the units of our organiza-
tion both of which can use these con-
tributions to good advantage.
Again expressing to you our ap-
preciation, i am,
Yours truly,
James B. Taylor
Major Inf. Commdg.
26th Bn. Texas.
WAR CHEST DRIVE
LAGS FOR LACK
OF SOLICITORS
The United War Chest Drive in
Mercedes has made considerable pro-
gress but i® still below its goal. This
is mainly due to the lack of a suf-
ficient number of workers, accord-
ing to J. A. Slaughter, drive chair-
man. As a result of last week’s call
for volunteers, a number of peo-
ple volunteered and did some ex-
cellent work, “However, we ®till
need more workers and would ap-
preciate it if others would volun-
teer to help us finish up this im-
portant work,” Slaughter states.
Sharing the money collected in
the United War Chest campaign are
the Boy Scouts, U.S.O., United Na-
tions Relief and similar other war
agencie®. People who have not as
yet been contacted by Chest work-
ers are requested to mail in their
contributions to J. A. Slaughter at
the Central Power and Light Com-
pany, D. E. Hollingsworth at the
First National Bank ?r W. A. Hel-
ler at the Water District Office.
Just fill out the coupon listed be-
low, put it in an envelope and drop
it into the mail;
Miss Sidney Clarke, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Clarke of
Mercedes, who is employed at the
Gunnery School in Harlingen, is
taking flying lessons and has had
20 hours in the air, six and one-half
of which, she soloed. Sidney is
striving to enter Ferry Command at
Sweetwater, the requirements being
35 hours of solo flying.
Two poultry clinics, to discuss
wartime poultry problems, will be
held at Mercedes Tuesday night, No-
vember 30, and Thursday night, De-
cember 2, with Joe C. Brown, well
known poultry specialist of A. and
I. College, conducting the clinics.
The two-day poultry school i® be-
ing held under the sponsorship of
the Mercedes Chamber of Com-
merce and all Valley poultry rais-
ers are invited to attend both meet-
ings. With eggs and chickens selling
at good prices, any knowledge gain-
ed for the improvement of their
flocks will be profitable to poultry
raisers at this time, chamber of
commerce officials point out.
The clinic on each night at 8:00
o’lock will be held at the Mercedes
city hall. Brown is recognized as one
of the outstanding poultry special-
ists in the South.
“Poultry Diseases will be discus-
sed at the first meeting on Novem-
ber 30. Poultry raisers are request-
ed to bring sick birds to the meet-
ing for diagnosis. Brown is particu-
larly famed for his knowledge of
poultry diseases. The second meet-
ing on December 2 will deal with
wartime problems in feeding cul-
ling, care and other difficulties con-
fronting poultry raisers.
Tomme Joe Lambertson, a stu-
dent at Schreiner’s Institute, Kerr-
ville, is spending Thanksgiving here
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Lambertson.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dick Bigden spent
several days this week in San An-
tonio.
From H. D. Stuart, Captain of
Co. C, 2 6th Battalion we also receive
the following under date of Novem-
ber 23, 1943, viz:
Managing Editor, •
Mercedes Enterprise,
Mercedes, Texas
Dear Sir;
1) The officers and. enlisted per-
sonnel of Company C, 2 6th Bn., Tex-
as State Guard, Mercedes, Texas,
wish to express their appreciation
for the donation of $88.00 which
was made possible by the coopera-
tion of your good newspaper.
2) In helping us to celebrate
State Guard Week, you have proven
without a doubt that The Enter-
prise is vitally interested in the
community which it serves, and
thus deserves the highest support
from its readers and advertisers.
Very truly yours,
H. D. Stuart, Captain
Commanding
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Scouters Round Table
Held in Mercedes
The Scouters Round Table was
held in Mercedes last Thursday
evening with Fred Bernard opening
the gathering with the Call to Col-
ors. Romu® Diaz and Lonzo Garza
presented the colors and led in the
pledge of allegiance to the flag.
Held in the open around a camp
fire from which coffee was made,
the meet was for the purpose of dis-
cussing ways and means of promot-
ing scouting in Mercedes. The board
of review date was announced by
Roger Terry, chairman, for Decem-
ber 3. Some discussion was held, on
objective for next year.
Besides scout Troops 17 and 64,
Rev. W. G. Birkner, Sterling Prince,
Geo. Summers, A. H. Dreyer, E. B.
Worley, Ed Perry, Roger Terry and
R. H. Post, were present.
Frank Hadden who is stationed at
Corpus Christi is spending Thanks-
giving in Mercedes.
War Chest Contribution
Name_________________________
Amount________________________
Any amount, which you would
like to give for this important hu-
manitarian cause will be appre-
ciated. By bringing in or mailing in
your contributions you will be of
great assistance to the campaign
committee.
A full report of the campaign will
be given in next week’s issue of The
Enterprise. A number of the com-
mittees have not as yet turned in
their reports for the last few days
and up to date tabulation of the
money collected was not available,
for this issue.
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Cost of Living1
Survey Postponed
The cost of living survey, which
was scheduled by the Bureau of Bus-
iness Research of the University of
Texas for three Valley towns, has
been temporarily postponed,
Postponment of this important
economic survey, made in a cross
section of communities throughout
Texas, was necessitated because of
the loss of some of the employees
in the Bureau of Business Research.
“We lost some of our key employees
and must postpone the survey until
we fill these positions,” Dr. F. A.
Buchel director of this bureau, tele-
phoned Carl A. Blasig, manager of
the Mercedes Chamber of Com-
merce.
The three Valley towns included
in this survey are Mercedes, Har-
lingen and McAllen. SupeUntend-
ent Poteet of the Harlingen schools
distributed the forms a few days
ago. Mercedes and McAllen schools
intended to conduct the survey next,
week.
Mercedes General
Hospital Notes
Jerry Hill of Weslaco, underwent
a major operation in the Mercedes.
Hospital, Nov. 15.
Mrs. H. R. Rogers of Houston*
underwent a major operation, Nov.
17.
Mrs. Rodriguez Quintanillo of
Harlingen, underwent a major oper-
ation, Nov. 19.
Mrs. A. B:. Maloy of Mercedes,,
underwent a major operation, Nov.,
20.
W. D. Gundry of Weslaco, has
been released, following medical
aid.
Lincoln Pettis of Weslaco, ha®;
been released, following medical
aid. ’j
Sr. Octavio Munez of Mercedes,
underwent a major operation, Nov.
21.
Mr. and Mrs. Victor H. Holt of
Elsa, are the parents of a daughter,
born Nov. 21.
Mrs. Ernest Scott of Weslaco,
underwent. a major operation, Nov.
23.
Mrs. Jesse Barter of Mercedes,
remains in the Mercedes Hospital,
following an operation.
Mrs. E. J. Marchant of Weslaco,
is improving in the Mercedes Hos-
pital, following an operation.
The United States will produce
19,000,000 deadweight tons of dry
cargo ships in 1943, almost the
epuivalent of the entire British mer-
chant fleet at the start of the war.
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