The Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, May 23, 1941 Page: 1 of 8
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CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES!
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Serving Mercedes, Edcouch, Elsa and La Villa
Formerly The Edcouch-Elsa Enterprise
Vol. XIV, No. 52
Mercedes, Texas, May 23, 1941
$1.50 per Year; 5c per Copy
J. L. (RED) BATES
RE-ELECTED
FIRE CHIEF
J. L. (Red) Bates, Mercedes fire
Chief since 1937, was re-elected to
his fourth term at the annual meet-
ing of the Mercedes Fire Depart-
ment the past week. J. V. Adams
was elected assistant chief succeeding
J. A. Glover, Calvin Gulley was re-
elected secretary-treasurer.
Other officials elected were Lar-
ry Bonner, re-elected as captain of
Company No. 1, and Bob Noe elect-
ed captain of Company No. 2 suc-
oeeding J. V. Adams. Garland
Leavell was elected as driver of the
fire truck and full time attendant
at the fire station. He succeeds
Mike Burns who resigned to ac-
cept a job at Corpus Christi.
J. A. Glover, Garland Leavell
and Herbert Hemeenway were
chosen to serve as commisioners of
the fire department for this year.
Delegates to the annual State Fire-
men’s Convention at Wichita I alls
on June 10-12 will be J. L. Bates,
Calvin Gulley and Art Biel, while
Qarland Leavell and Cal Gulley
;will attend the firemen’s short
course at A. and M. College in
July.
The fire Department was called
out to the former United Printing
Co. building last Saturday during
hour when a small blaze result-
ed from wiring which had apparent-
ly been tampered with. Chief Bates
stated that the damage was negli-
gible.
Junior American Legion
Miss Barbara Clarke was elected
president of the Junior American
Legion Auxiliary at a meeting held
recently, succeeding Mary Marie De-
yo.
Other officers elected for the com-
ing six months are; Vice Pres., Gene
Hoppe; Secretary, Patty Sue Kind-
la; Sergeant-at-arms, May Marie
Deyo, and Reporter, Grace Worley.
Mercedes Furnishes
Chemical Engineer
AUSTIN—Meeting the nation’s
needs for trained engineers, the U-
niversity of Texas will send more
than two hundred graduate engin-
eers into industry in June of this
yejar.
Among the 212 candidates for de-
gree of bachelor of science to be
conferred at the June 2 commence-
ment is Eric T. Borchelt, Mercedes,
a candidate for degree in chemical
engineering.
Edcouch-Elsa Goodwill
[Tour Postponed
The goodwill tour planned by the
Edinburg Chamber of Commerce
and scheduled for Wednesday night
of this week was postponed due to
conflict with the Edinburg College
graduation exercises which fall on
the same date.
Harry Cook, manager of the Edin-
burg chamber of commerce states
that ia date for the goodwill tour
and program will be announced
later.
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XJ. S. .NAVY
Applicants for appointment as
^Midshipman Class V-7, U. S. Naval
teserve, must be between the ages
of 20 and 28—nativeboxm—unmar-
ried—male citizens of the United
States. They must possess a B. S-,
B. A., or Engineering degree from
an accredited university or college.
Pay and allowances as Midshipmen
of the Regular Navy is $780 per
yeear and daily rations. Applications
may be made at the Navy Recruit-
Office, Federal Building, Halr-
«n, Texas
Entire Mercedes
Faculty Re-elected
The only change to be made in
the Mercedes schools is the resigna-
tion of Suerintendent E. H. Poteet,
who will be the new school head of
the Harlingen school system next,
year. Leon Graham succeeds Mr. Po-
teet as superintendent. W. E. Perry
was re-elected as principal of the
South Ward and Wililam O’Hair
as principal of the North Ward
School. Mrs. L, N. Shepard was re-
elected. as principal of Heidelberg
school and Mrs. Mildred Davis as di-
rector of the high scliool cafeteria.
The high school faculty are;
(Mrs. Elizabeth Alston, language arts
and speech; Miss Lois Bell, mathe-
matics; Mrs. Merle Blankenhip, lan-
guage arts; Miss Brooks, physical
education; Mrs. Maymie Bryson,
social studies; Miss Amy Cornish,
language arts; Mr. jack Davis, ma-
thematics and athletics; Mr. Will-
iam Dudley, vocational agriculture;
Miss Ruth Edwin, art; Mr. W. T.
Gooch, science and mathematics;
Miss Leona Hawkins, library; Mr.
Albert Kinder, Spanish; Miss Mar-
garet Mallatt, music; Mr. Leroy
Phillips, social studies; Miss Mau-
rine Phillips, commercial work; Mr.
H. L. Schmalzried, physical educa-
tion; Mr. Ferman Scroggins, math-
REV. LAWSON OF
SANTA ROSA TO
FILL PULPIT HERE
Rev. Edward N. Lawon, who for
the past several years has been pas-
tor of the Baptist Church of Santa
Rosa, has arrived in Mercedes to be-
come the pastor of the First Baptist
Church here, succeeding Rev. E. V.
May, who has been pastor here for
approximately ten years.
Rev. May and family left Monday
for Fort Sam Houston, Texas where
he goes to serve as a chaplain in
the army.
The new pastor is married and
has two fine young children, Isabel
and John Morgan. All Mercedes
joins in welcoming this new family.
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Lions Club Hears
Judge Ernest Bennett
Judge Ernest Bennett of Merce-
des was the principal speaker for
the Mercedes Lions Club meeting
Tuesday night at the Waters Cafe.
Judge Bennett chose as his subject
‘‘The State of Texas’’, which he ad-
mitted was a pretty big subject.
The talk, however, was very in-
teresting, the speaker going back
into the early history of the state
when Moses Austin undertook his
first colonization projects, and
and athletics; Mr. Rojbert Taylor, j WOund up with an appeal to all Tex-
social studies; Mrs. Kathryn Thomp j ans to fight for their rightful heri-
son, home economics; Miss Alma tage.
Whatley, language arts; Miss Ann j _q_
Wood, language arts; Kenneth j pit i <nn RANK
Zercher, science and mechanical j i DiAijI
drawing. PURCHASED BY
Those, re-elected as teachers of MERCEDES MEN
the South Ward Grammar School j
are; Mrs. Bertie Day, primary level; j Announcement was made Monday
Mrs. Marcella Gooch, intermediate , of the purchase of the Security
level; Miss Ala Mae Hudson, music; j State Bank of Pharr by John C.
Mrs. Lellah Lyle, primary level; j Jones and associates of Mercedes
Mrs. Leah Perry, intermediate lc< j from Jack L. Stone of Phair.
vel; Miss Wilma Lee Pope, primary I Jones, who is active vice presi-
level; Mrs. L. N. Rice, primary le- j dent of the First National Bank
vel; Mrs. Ray Trousdale, interme- ; here, will become president of the
diate level; Miss Helen Teal Stot- ! Pharr bank. S. H. Collier of Meree-
ler, primary level; Miss Annalee j des will be vice president, Mrs. Shan-
Williams, primary level; Miss Grace | non Jenson of Edinburg and San
Wright, primary level. j Antonio, active vice president, and
Harry L. Starr of McAllen,, cashier.
The bank at Pharr was opened on-
Teachers re-elected in the North !
! Ward school areMrs. Ruth Adams, >
music; Miss Frances Bedlow, pri- j a few 1*10n S ^°'
rhary level; Misss Dixixe Chaffin, in-
termediate level; Mss Margaret Ed-
wards, primary level; Mrs. Virginia
Fleuriet, intermediate level; Miss
Jacqueline Johnson, intermediate
PARENTS VIEW
F. F. A. WORK
A meeting of parents of Vocation-
level;. Mr. James Kitchen, assistant al agriculture students and prospec-
principal; Miss Beatrice Moye, pri-
mary level; Mrs. Lorene O’Hair, pri-
mary level; Mrs. Sara R. Ramsey,
plrimary level; Miss Ray Sinclair,
primary level; Miss Opal Stansell,
primary level; Miss Annie C. Verser,
intermediate level; Miss Martha
Webb, primary level; Miss Marjorie
Wilson, primary level; Miss Louise
Wright, primary level; Miss Addie
Rees, primary level.
Eggum’s Continue
Free Dress Sale
Eggum’s free dress sale at their
stores at Mercedes and McAllen
which has proved so sensationally
popular with the trade since the
sale was announced a few days ago,
is still in progress according to Miss
Feme Christenson, manager of the
Mercedes store.
Along with the sale of dresses
in which one dress is given free
with each sale, many other bargains
are offered to the public. Note their
advertisement on page four of this
issue.
Final rites were held Tuesday af-
ternoon at Ebony Grove Cemetery,
Mercedes, for W. C. Duncan, Donna,
who died at the Mercedes General
Hospital Monday morning. Mr. Dun-
can is the father of Frank Duncan
of Mercedes.
tive students was held at the high
school over the past week-end, with
Hoke ■ McKim, vocational agriculture
instructor acting as chairman. The
chief topic of discussion was pro-
ject discussed toeing the Fifty beef
calves recently purchased by Mc-
Kim. The parents participated in
a round table discussion following
which the students expressed them
selves as panning to feed from 35
to 50 calves as projects for next
year, with other projects being
cotton.
About 30 parents were present
for the meetng.
Edcouch-Elsa Girls
Drop Two Games
For the past two games the Girls
team of Edcouch-Elsa has been on
the losing side. First they lost to
San Benito by a score of 10-3. One
home run was made in the eight in-
ning by Nattinger. Monday night
the team started out on equal terms
with the La Feria girls but before
long the expert tossing of Stallings
(built up ia score for her teamates
far ahead of the local team. The
score for this game was 26-8 in fav-
or of La Feria. Umpires for this
game were Hughes and Adkins.
The Lower Rio Grande Workers
Conference of the Baptist churches
will be held in Santa Rosa, Frida)7,
May 23, starting at 10 a.m.
1ST NATIONAL
PASSES MILLION
IN DEPOSITS
Tuesday was a memorable day for
the First National Bank of Merce-
des as it was on this day that the
deposits of this Mercedes bank went
over the million dollar mark.
This announcement whs made
Wednesday morning by Shelly H.
Collier, president, who stated that
the record set at the end of business
Tuesday evening was the highest in
the history of the bank. The First
National was established here in
1921.
Mr. Collier, along with the other
officers of the bank, are to toe con-
gratulated Upon the steady progress
that has been shown by their insti-
tution.
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Rotarians Hear
Brownsville Speaker
The Mercedes Rotary Club met
Tuesday noon in the local High
School Cafeteria, with Cleve H.
Tandy, of Brownsville, as guest
speaker. Mr. Tandy’s subject was
“International Relationship Begins
With Ones Self and With Ones
Neighbor.” It was a most interest-
ing talk.
Tie guests included; Bill Wood,
Weslaco; Frank Williams, Raymon-
ville; Preston Shirley, Edinburg;
and Paul Netz, as guest of E. A.
Brown.
Mrs. Paul Shotwell
To Present Pupils
Friday Evening
The pupils of Mrs. Paul Shotwell
will be presented in a recital Friday
evening at the First Methodist
Church. The program will be as fol-
lows;
Duet—Here Comes the Parade
-^-Peggy Schwarz and Claudia
Mae McConnell
March of the Fairy Guardsmen
Country Garden
-—Betty Ann Deyo
Swing Me High on Roller Spates
—Ruby Lee Schwarz
Squirrel at Play
Fairyland Music
—Judy Potts
Evening Bells
The Fox Hunt
—Doris Jean Schwarz
Novelette Petite
—iMary Chilton Potts
Duet—The Little Lead Soldier
—Ruby Lee and Doris Jean
Schwarz
The Kings Review
Pixies Good Night Song
-—Peggy Schwarz
In the Orchard Swing
—Elizlabebth Riddlehoover
Hawaiian Nights
The Brook in the Forest
-—Claudia Mae McConnell
Duet—The Lovely
—Mary Chilton and Judy Potts
Adaptations from Hungarian
Rhapsody No. 2
Ballet Russe
—Betty Tullis
Poupee Valsante
—June Poteet
The Butterfly
The Swfan
—Sidney Clarke
Yalse Triste
At the Donnybrook Fair
—Billy Brooks
A reception for the pupils and
their parents was held at the home
of Mrs. Shotwell following the recit-
al. Assisting at the tea table were
Betty Jean WiP^e and Joyce Clarke.
EDCOUCH-ELSA
GRADUATION
EXERCISES SET
Tfwenty-five seniors of the Ed-
couch-Elsa high school are schedu-
led to receive their diplomas next
Tuesday night, May 27 at the high
school auditorium.
The senior grduating class in-
cludes Wanda Barker, Truett Bau-
cum, Louise Burns, Christine Can-
non, Margaret Cellum, Roland Coff-
man, Elmo Crenshaw, Heidrick
George, Carl Harbison, Harold Ives,
Marie Lookingbill, Jean Maloy, Ad-
rian Newman, Dorothy Nolle, Dare
Odom, Stanley Odom, Elvira Rio-
jas, Randolph Schneider, Cloves
Shepherd, Mildred Smith, Elwin Lee
Snyder, Marvin Stowe, Aileen
Wade, Earle AVhipple and Arlene
Witt. William Hughes, president of
the school board will present the
diplomas.
Baccalaureate services will also
toe held at the H. S. auditorium.
The services will toe held Sunday
night with Rev. J. W. Shepherd de-
livering the sermon. Invocation will
be by Rev. R. G. Van Royen.
Graduation exercises and presen-
tation of diplomas for graduates of
the Seventh Grade will be held Mon-
day night, May 26th.
ANOTHER HEAVY
RAIN FALLS
After two and a half weeks of re-
lief from the last hard downpour,
this section was visited Wednesday
afternoon by another surprise
deluge which in most cases was
more than bargained for.
Although we have no official, es-
timate, it is estimated that approx-
imately two inches of-rain fell over
this section during the afternoon.
“Uncle Dick” Catches
Biggest Fish
“Uncle Dick” Cloudt of Edcouch
has a fish story to keep the boys
going for some time and in this
case it is a true one. Many Ed-
couchites will verify the story be-
cause the fish was brought to town
Tuesday morning for all to see.
The fish, a jewfish or sea bass,
weighing between six and seven
hundred pounds was hooked Mon-
day night on the south jetty near
Boca Chica. It is believed to be
the largest ever caught along the
Gulf coast.
Uncle Dick and Wes Carnes, an-
other Edcouch angler, spent the
past week fishing for jewfish and
caught several smaller fish. They
generally had about eight lines bait-
ed and used crabs for bait. It was
necessary for Games to return
home Monday to answer a jury
summons so the care of the lines
was left to Uncle Dick. When the
big boy bit Uncle Dick had to sum-
mon help and even then it took
about three hours to land his prey.
TOEPER SAYS
This is the gospel of labor,
Ring it, ye bells of the kirk;
The Lord of Love comes down from
above
To live with the men who work.
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By CLAUDE ROGERS
All of us are born free and
equal, they say, but most of
us abuse the privilege of the
Henry Van Dyke freedom end of it.
DIPLOMAS FOR
MERCEDES SENIORS
THURSDAY NIGHT
Forty-seven seniors of the Mer-
cedes High School are scheduled to
receive their diplomas at the com-
mencement exercises Thursday night
of this week. The presentation will
be made by Principal L. R. Graham.
The seniors scheduled to receive
their diplomas are Frank Arnold,
Barnett Atteberry, Joe Adame, Don-
ald Anderson, Bill Boiler, Archie
Brewer, Melvin Brust, Abel Garcia,
Roberto Garcia, Carl Hughes, Rollis
Meredith, Harry Parker, Billy Py-
lant, Bobby Schaeffer, Richard
Schrank, C. W. Schwarz, Bill Sei-
bert, Arturo Trevino, Manuel Yento,
Ferdinand Voelker, Edison Wann,
Wesley Warne, Bill Warner, Boyd
Wilson, Stanley Wilson, and Oliver
Young.
Dan Atteberry, Sara Avila, Jo
Ella Baumgart, Margaret Champion,
Sidney Clarke, Mary Marie Deyo,
Herlinda Garcia, Josephine Garcia,
Odilla Garza, Jean Kirkpatrick, Bet-
ty Jo McKinney, Dorothy Sue Mc-
Neil, Ilene Neff, Marorie Onderdonk,
Masako Otsuki, Otila Perez, Annie
Mary de Rosa, Lorraine Schaeffer,
Lane Smith, Vera Truitt and Nancy
Prothro.
Twenty-Thirty *-■
Golf Tournament
Sunday Afternoon
The Mercedes 20-30 Club is spon-
soring a Valley-wide Golf Tourna-
ment to be held at the Mercedes-
Weslaco Country Club on Sunday,
May 25. Participants will include
members of the 20-30 clubs from
Brownsville, Harlingen, Mercedes,
Weslaco, McAllen and Edinburg.
The tournament will start at 1 x
p.m. Sunday. Following the tourney
a barbecue will be held for the mem-
bers and their guests. Prizes will be
awarded by the merchants of the
Valley.
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Vacation Bible School
Will Start Monday
The Daily Vacation Bible School
will begin Monday 2 6, at the First
Presbyterian Church, with Rev.
Charles Tucker as general superin-
tendent. The sponsors include the
following; Mrs. Charles Tucker,
beginners; Mrs. Donnahue, prima-
ry; Mr. Leroy Ziegler, juniors; Mr.
Tucker, the Intermediate group.
The Bible School* will continue for
two weeks and all \ children be-
tween the ages of four aad. fourteen
are cordially invited to attend.^The
beginners will meet at 9:00” a.
at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Tuck-
er. The other groups will meet at
the church, Monday morning at
8:30 a. m. >
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Memorial Day Services
Sunday Morning
Memorial Day Services will be
held at the First Presbyteria
Church in Mercedes Sunday morn-
ing at 11:00 a. m., with a Memo-
rial Day Sermon, according to Rev.
Charles Tucker, pastor. The A. J.
Garcia American Legion Post and
the American Legion Auxiliary will
attend in a body.
A representative of the Presby-
terian Sunday School and Ladies
Auxiliary will present a gift to the
members of the church who are
graduating this year from the Mer-
cedes High School. The mem
include Jean Kirkpatrick, Bill
bert, Richard Schrank. and
Meredith. The public is i
attend.
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Netz, Paul C. The Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, May 23, 1941, newspaper, May 23, 1941; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1105534/m1/1/: 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.