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ODEM-EDROY TIMES, Thursday, Sept. 6, 1979
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FOR RENT - Mini storage
small-medium-large units
for your individual storage
needs. Rachal Street Mini
Storage 214 South Rachal
Street, Sinton, Texas. 364-
3020 and 364-3444.
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ADULT PIANO LESSONS -
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SINTON BICYCLE SHOP —
Sales and Service. We have
all major bicycle parts, Ross
and Asterbula and Workman
(industrial bikes) Parts are
now marked 10 per cent off
regular price. 211 S. Rachal,
364-1941, Sinton.
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Public Notice
I, DOTTIE MALEY, County
Clerk in and for San Patricio
County, have made a diligent
effort to contact all political
subdivisions whose boundaries
include all or part of San
Patricio County and who are
authorized to impose and are
currently imposing ad valorem
taxes on property. From the
date of this notice until
September 15, 1979, public
comment will be received by
the County Clerk as to whether
or not any political subdivision
should be added or deleted
from the following list:
City of Aransas Pass,
Aransas Pass Indep. School
District, City of Gregory,
Gregory-Portland Indep.
School District, City of
Ingleside, Ingleside Indep.
School District, City of Mathis,
Mathis Indep. School District,
City of Odem, Odem
Independent School District,
City of Portland, City of Sinton,
Sinton Indep. School District,
City of Taft, Taft Indep. School
District, Skidmore-Tynan
Indep. School District, San
Patricio Drainage District, San
Patricio Navigation District,
Taft Hospital District, County
of San Patricio.
Comments should be
directed to DOTTIE MALEY,
County Clerk of San Patricio
County, P. 0. Box 578, Sinton,
Texas 78387.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND
AND SEAL OF OFFICE this
the 4th day of September, 1979.
s DOTTIE MALEY,
County Ckerk
(SEAL) San Patricio
County, Texas
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FOR SALE: 1976 Ford
Mustang Ghia. Full power,
air, am-fm 8 track vinyl roof,
new tires, good gas mileage.
$3,400 . 364-4178 or 364-1590.
36-1tp
Mrs. Rhonda Sawyer and
son, Michael, of Lubbock
enjoyed the Labor Day
weekend visiting in the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Jimmy Wallace. During her
stay in Odem, she visited with
her many friends and relatives
in the area. She returned to
Lubbock Monday.
Mrs. Jesse Bownds of Center
was here for the Labor Day
weekend, and a visitor in the
home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Bownds.
Mr. J. L. Bownds of Corpus
Christi was an overnight guest
Friday in the home of his son,
Mr. and Mrs. John Bownds.
The couple returned Mr.
Bownds to the Medicenter in
Corpus Christi Saturday,
where he has been a resident
for some time.
WATCH AND
JEWELRY REPAIR
Tim Rogers. Watchmaker
Cert. Accutron Technician, 2984
THE JEWELRY STORE
Phone 364-4511 for Information
118 W. Sinton Sinton, Texas
IFiYOU ARE licensed or just
thinking of getting into Real
Estate, Alfred Edge can of-
fer you the support to
succeed. Call Linda Wood,
241-7661. _3^
209 $. Rachal
Sinton, Texas
Phone
364-2560
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limitation, or discrimination,
based on race, color, religion,,
sex or national origin, or an
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are available on an equal
opportunity basis.
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Public Notice
Notice is hereby given that
the City of Odem, Texas will
hold a public hearing on
possible uses of Federal
Revenue Sharing Entitlement
11 Funds at 7 p.m. on Sept. 15,
1979 at City Hall. All persons
are invited to be present and
participate in the hearing. The
City of Odem expects to
receive $24,699.00
Billie Jo Tennill
City Secretary
City of Odem, Texas
36-lc
......aside from the fact that
we are not great believers in
holidays (probably because
they really don’t mean much in
this business) we have recently
read of one, not well known, but
one which strikes our
fancy......September 9 is
National Grandparents Day.
And coming on a Sunday, we’ll
be able to enjoy it as a real
holiday. Guess the fact that it’s
a day set aside for us older
folks makes it more appealing
to us. At any rate, we’ve got
that day circled on our
calendar.
gfr
.......we’ve gained a lot of
respect (or fear) for our
governor. Last week we
commented on some of his
remarks concerning the oil
spill (chicken little,
remember?) and the fact that
all we needed was (according
to the chief executive) a
hurricane in the gulf to clear up
the mess. Well, we don’t know
what his connections are, 6ut
hurricanes, himacanes, and
possibly themacanes, were
rattling around most of last
week. Maybe he knows the
right people. At any rate, since
he is touring Eastern Europe,
he might have known
something we didn’t. It’s not
nice to mess with Mother
Nature or Governor Clements!
gfr
Aside
By George Rigotti
......bicycles are great
things. And children are
wonderful. But sometimes the
mixture of the two creates
problems. Cars are fine; most
adults are too. But again,
sometime the mixture creates
problems.
And when you put all four
elements on the street, a
disastrous mixture could
result. We’ve already seen a
couple near misses in recent
days, and with the start of
school, there’ll be more bikes,
kids, cars, and adult drivers on
the streets. Let’s all be careful.
Bike drivers, and adult drivers
alike. In these days of so much
talk of conservation, let’s
remember the most precious of
all our resources....our
youngsters. A minute gained,
or saved, can’t compare with a
lifetime lost.
......school started Tuesday.
That means we’re all going to
have to learn a new language.
For instance, our Old Timer
friend says last year he found
out his grandson “verbalized
during class; periodically
engaged in excursions up and
down the aisles, and was, in
general, immature.” What’s
that mean: was the natural
question. The answer—“He
goofs off too much”, ’nuff said.
OFF THE BEATEN PATH
By Mary Cornett Winebrenner
OFF THE
BEATEN PATH
Mary Cornett
Winebrenner
When it rains it pours in
Pasadena—one of the lower
spots in this area of the Coastal
Bend.
We have had few days that
we have been rain-free since
Claudette passed along the
coast before striking land. Had
that muddled up bit of the
hurricane season backed away
100 miles and there fully
organized herself before
sweeping in, Claudette would
have easily been the equivalent
of Carla, Buelah and Celia all
rolled into one. The trail of
thunderstorms and high waves
she left behind her dumped
enough water on this entire
area to really mess up things in
a big way.
To add to the downpouring
of rain is the poor drainage
system in this low area. I am
sure the drainage system was
mapped by engineers who
knew just about as much
concerning drainage as some
other engineering firms whose
work I have observed in the
years gone by. Or it could be
the “lay of the land” is partly
responsible for some of the
almost irrational engineering
feats that surfaced during the
downpours following
Claudette. For instance, the
water in the bayou bisecting
the mobile court in which I am
parked at no point in the
section where my Custom-
built is located at no time
reached the overflow mark,
while water inundated areas
both above and below the
section flowing through the
court.
When I was parked in this
same court in 1973 I saw the
section I am living in now
flooded on more than one
occasion. But this portion of the
bayou has been cleaned out and
deepened since then. And I feel
more secure living on this side
of the bayou than I did when
the excess water folowing
Claudette did not flood the
lower side of the bayou as I had
seen it do in 1973. Oh, well! I
am not an engineer so it is not
for me to say what is the cause
of the drainage problems of
this sector of the Coastal Bend.
Perhaps I may be the only one
living here that blames the
drainage engineers!
My not being an engineer
versed in either drainage or
road and driveway
construction, I am still as
mystified as to the design
followed by those who mapped
the driveways for the
mobilehome court in which my
little home-on-wheels is
located. I have not yet figured
out whether the driveways are
curves bisecting curves or
circles intersecting circles! Be
that as it may, the builder of
those driveways placed whose
drives where every available
inch of parking space left can
be—and is—utlilized for
mobilehome pads. I
understand there is a total of
250 such parking spots in the
court,and that I do not doubt.
The size of the court has
doubled almost since I was
parked here in 1973. And I still
groan when I think of the
parking fees being almost
double those of 1973—What has
not doubled in cost in the past,
few years?) Who is going to
swing the pendulum back—or
can it be done? But I have
griped long enough this day.
I’ll go over by the window and
gaze at the threatening clouds
in the sky, and feel a sense of
conviction in my heart: THIS is
God’s day, and I am going to
enjoy it, be it a day of sunshine
or rain!
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GYSGT. RUDY TORRES
Dan Pawlik Retires After
25 Years As County Agent
Daniel P. Pawlik, County
Extension Agent for San:
Patricio and Aransas Counties
the past 25 years, retired
Friday, Aug. 31. For a whole
host of young people who have
nevep known any other county
agent here, Friday will mark
the end of an era.
Prior to coming here Sept. 1,
1954, he had held only one other
Texas Agricultural Extension
Service position-—assistant
agent in Cameron County for
three years.
Four of Pawlik’s brothers
are still involved in Valley
agriculture, and his mother,
Mrs. John D. Pawlik, lives in
McAllen. His brothers Johnny,
Louis, and Bobby farm near
the Rio Grande in Hidalgo
County, and Wilfred is an
agricultural chemical and
fertilizer dealer in the McAllen
area.
Although he has deep roots in
the Valley, Pawlik, 55, was
born near Groom, Carson
County, in the panhandle, and
was raised on a wheat and
stock ranch in that area until
his father moved to Hidalgo
County in 1938.
After a year at Edinburg
High School, Dan returned to
the High Plains, and was a
member of the “first World'
• War II” graduation class at
Price Memorial High School,
Amarillo, in 1942.
Following a one year
military deferment to help his
father on the family cotton,
grain sorghum, citrus, and
vegetable farm near Edinburg,
the future county agent entered
the Navy in 1944, followed by
three of his brothers within the
next year.
After serving on Guam,
Hawaii, and in the Philippines,
Pawlik was dischared in 1946.
Despite his Navy service
background, Pawlik is today a
reserve Army lieutenant
colonel. This resulted from his
postwar participation in the
Cadet Corps at Texas A&M
University.
Immediately after the war
he attended Edinburg Junior
College (now Pan American
University) for a year, then
transferred to Texas A&M
where he earned a bachelor’s
degree in agriculture in 1951.
Going with the Extension
Service immediately following
graduation, he trained under
the legendary Frank C.
Brunneman, longtime
Cameron County agent, until
moving here in 1954.
Pawlik is probably best
knovyn for the prodigious
number and variety of result
demonstrations he’s put out-
some 394 since 1956. In fact
while replying to his letter of
retirement District Agent Lin
Wilson said former Director
John E. Hutchinson had once
told him that Pawlik “had
more programs in the ground
than any other agent in
Texas.”
Of Pawlik’s nearly 400 re-
sult demonstrations—practices
carried out on local farms
where others can observe and
make their own assessments—
probably his fertilizer projects
have been the most
spectacular. Largely as a
result of his work, begun, 1957,
fertilizer tonnage in the county
increased twenty times by
1968, from 1,761 tons to over,
39,000 tons. Grain yields were
up 1,100 pounds per acre during
this period and cotton
production increased 120
pounds lint.
In the last five years cotton
yield has been over 500 pounds
per acre and hit 653 pounds last
year, a figure Pawlik expects
to be eaualled this year.
A module building demon-
stration, put on with the
assistance of four county co-
operators, helped “sell” an
innovative system which has
pretty much taken the Coastal
Bend by storm at the
harvesting and ginning end of
the business in the five years
since it was first demonstrated
by Pawlik in San Patricio
County.
Pupose of the demonstration
was to ascertain if seed cotton
could retain its quality when
stored in the field under high
humidity conditions, and also
to demonstrate the equipment
used in building and tran-
sporting modules.
During the summer 11 modu-
les were formed and stored on
the ground for up to 33 days.
Temperature and moisture
readings were taken regularly
and data on lint quality was
collected so comparisons could
be made between module and
trailer cotton from the same
field. If practical the cotton
module builder concept would
enable Coastal Bend farmers
to escape loss and damage to
much cotton due to rain since
the new concept of handling
and storing seed cotton was
more independent of ginning i
capacity and availability of
trailers. Once the cotton is
harvested, it can remain in the
fields until the gins are ready
for it.
Basically Pawlik’s studies
showed that seed cotton placed
in modules at 12 percent
moisture or less gave no
problerps with internal
heating. Lint grades and other
fiber properites were the same
as for trailer handled cotton in
the tests.
Today about 40 percent of the
cotton harvested in San
Patricio County comes to the
gin in modules.
Short season cotton varieties
have also had an enormous
impact on San Patricio
agriculture. Having a variety
which would mature early and
come off ahead of many of the
insect buildups and most of the
late rains has revived the
cotton crop, nearly tripling the
acreage in the county since ’71
to about 108,000 this year.
Other notable developments
in county agriculture through
the years Pawlik has been here
have been the use of hybrid
grain sorghum, a proliferation
of good cotton varieties from
which to select and automated
gins producing 20-30 bales an
hour.
Pawlik’s counties have
always had strong 4-H pro-
grams. From very few clubs
and none at all for boys, when
he arrived, San Patricio and
Aransas Counties now have 11
clubs, 526 members and about
100 leaders in the program.
Six state winners have gone
on to the National 4-H Con-
gress in Chicago since 1967.
Four county 4-H’ers have won
the the coveted $6,000 Houston
Livestock Show scholarships in
A. J. Slowik D.P.M. Foot Specialist
announcing the opening of an office
Professional Offices - Suite'2,3763 Leopard St.
Phone 882-9982 - Answering Service 884-0661.
Woodlawn Shopping Center - Corpus Christi
DID YOU KNOW-
There are 3500 species of cockroaches in
the world today — 55 of these in the
United States?
Cockroaches have the ability to carry
disease producing germs?
Cockroaches will eat nearly everything
man eats, therefore contaminating most
unprotected food?
We have the ability and know-how to rid
your home of these pests?
GIVE US A TRY!
Odem Pest Control
"We Guarantee Results"
Ph. 368-9248 Odem, Texas
recent years.
Pawlik has won many honors
through the years, of course.
One that touched him most
deeply came last week....a
simple plaque from his co-
workers in Extension District
14 which read: “To Dan
Pawlik, the county agent’s
county agent.” It was, he said,
“a high tribute I’ll cherish
always.”
On the same occasion, Dr.
Daniel Pfannstiel, current
Extension director, noted that
“Dan has long been one of the
best agents in the state. We
sure hate to lose him.”
Dan was also awarded the
Distinguished Service Award
by the Texas County
Agricultural Agents Assn, in
1962, and the Extension Service
Superior Service Award in
1971. The Texas Plant Food
Education Society and the
Convictions In Texas
Courts To Cost More
Persons ending up in Texas
courts after Sept. 1 may face
more than stiff fines and jail
terms, according to State
Comptroller Bob Bullock.
Bullock said this week that
his office will begin collecting a
$10 or $15 fee from persons
convicted of criminal charges.
“The cost of crime, just like
everything else in today’s
economy, is going up,” Bullock
said.
Money collected will be used
to create a fund to compensate
victims of crime, the comp-
troller said.
A $15 fee will be assessed
against persons convicted of
felonies, and a $10 fee charged
The Grain Sorghum
Producers Association has
officially requested that the
U.S. Department of
Agriculture extend the set-
aside program for 1980 on feed
grains.
In a letter dated Aug. 17 to
Secretary Bergland, GSPA
executive Director Elbert
Harp stated, “there is
absolutely no justification for
consideration of discontinuing
the set-aside programs as
provided for in the Agricultural
Act of 1977.”
GSPA contends that the U.S.
feed grain supplies are still in
surplus and the current stocks
of all grains, plus the bumper
Tuesday, Dwayne
Techendorf of Roswell, New
Mexico, visited in the home of
his grandmother, Mrs. A. W. T-
echendorf, and Mrs. Dorothy
Zurovetz.
Mrs. Ruth Voss is still
recuperating from major
surgery in Memorial Hospital.
She is expected to return home
in a couple of days.
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have both recognized his
outstanding soil fertility
programs.
He is married to the former
Ann Wasson of McAllen. The
couple have seven children,
four still in school. Also two
grandchildren.
Cindy and Karen attend
Sinton High School; Steve is
preparing to enter Texas A&M
as a freshman agriculture
major, and Mike is a petroleum
technology student in Tyler, r
Robert is a petroleum engineer
in Houston; James is with a
chemical company in McAllen;
and David is with the
Department of Public Safety in
Kingwood, near Houston.
The Pawliks have been
active in civic and church
activities, and will continue to
reside in the St. Paul
Community.
to persons convicted of
misdemeanors punishable by a -
jail term or a fine of more than J
$200. The fee will be added on to
other fines or costs that .may be
ordered by the court. It is
expected the new fees will
raise more than $205 million in
the next five years.
The money will be used to
finance a program to be run by
the states Industrial Accident
Board to pay certain losses to
crime victims.
The program is due to get
underway in January of 1980,
and Bullock says his office is
expected to take in more than
$27 million in the first year of ,
operation.
Sorghum Group Asks
Set-Aside Extension
crop which is forecast for 1979,
point to excessive stocks for
the 1979-80 marketing year.
These surplus stocks continue
to suppress the grain prices far '
below the cost of production *
and removal of the set-aside
program in feed grain would
further depress the grain
prices in 1980, according to . *
Harp.
Locals
Mrs. Joe Luckenbach of
Ray’s Point visited Wednesday
in the home of her mother-in-
law, Mrs. A. A. Luckenbach.
John Miller underwent
surgery on his foot Thursday at
Spohn Hospital in Corpus
Christi. He was released
Sunday, and is recuperating at
his home.
Mrs. B. F. Montgomery and
Martha spent the Labor Day
weekend in the home of her
sister and brother, Sarah and
Eugene Power, of Gonzalez
County.
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