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The Merce
Mercedes, Texas, 78570, Thursday, August 31, 1967
MERCEDES PUBLIC LIBRARY
534 3RD ST*
CITY XXX
nterprise
Vol. 52 No. 35 Price 10c
STILL AT THE OLD STAND... but MHS
office personnel had plans for moving to
a new building in mind (in a month) as
they greeted late-registering students
this week. ..1. to r. — Principal E. M.
Albright; Mrs. Tom Freeman, records
clerk; Mrs. Delia Barron, Counselor;
Mrs. Beth Tankersley, secretary to the
principal; Dale Hatley, athletic director
and administrative aide. staff- phqtd
Schools Open Tuesday, Registration Lags
Crowded High School
On 8-period Schedule
ENTERPRISE STAFF PHUTO
AND THEN THE JAVELINAS CAME TO TOWN ... last week, publicizing the
Texas A.&I. intra-squad football game here September 9. Above, left to right
are fullback LeRoy Deando from Brownwood, Coach Gil Steinke, tackle Jerry
Hajovsky from Columbus and Halfback Roy Farmer from Lubbock. (More of
the story below.)
BEFORE AND AFTER 8 P.M. GAME
Chicken Barbecue 6 to 7:30,
Dance Later September 9
Final plans for a barbecue
supper to preceed a Septem-
ber 9 Texas A&I football
game here, and for a teen-
age dance to follow it, were
announced this week. The
game pits ‘Blue and Gold*
Javelina teams in their only
intra-squad contest before
their season opens Septem-
ber 16 at McNeese State
College in Louisiana.
Chicken barbecue will be
served to the public from
6 to 7:30 p.m. — before
8 p.m. game-time in Tiger
Stadium. The near-by Rio
Grande Valley Livestock
Showgrounds coliseum will
be the barbecue location.
To Try-out
On Friday
T ryouts for junior high
school band twirlers have
been scheduled Friday, Sept.
1, at the band hall.
Girls interested in trying
out are asked to report to
the band hall at 4 p.m.,
Ramon Aguilar III, junior
high director, said.
Each contestant will be
responsible for the funda-
mentals of twirling and a
routine of her own.
Out-of-town band direc-
tors will serve as judges
and will make their deci-
sion on the basis of ability.
Price of the meal is $1.50
per plate.
Gilbert Dominguez of the
Kiwanis Club is chairman
and Harvey Broyles of the
Rotary Club is vice chair-
man of the pre-game meal
production. Other committee
members are Ferg Wood,
Charles Greenwood and
Claudio Hinojosa of the Ki-
wanis Club and Javier de
los Santos and Marvin Sch-
warz of the Rotary Club.
Kiwanians and Rotarians
have charge of the barbecue.
J aycees and Lions will be
in charge of concession stand
operation during the football
game and of a teenagers’
dance that will follow the
Longoria Speaker
Raul Longoria, state re-
presentative for Hidalgo
County, presented a program
on the accomplishments of
the 60th Legislature for the
Lions Club Wednesday.
He covered such subjects
as the revisions of the Code
of Criminal Procedure, city
problems, city sales tax,
teacher pay raise, highway
safety, air and water pollu-
tion and redistricting.
Dance Saturday
A Labor Day dance, with
Noe Pro and his band, be-
gins at 9 Saturday night at
the Civic Center. Knights
of Columbus are the spon-
sors.
game in the National Guard
Armory.
For the dance, the ‘Sky-
larks* will provide the mus-
ic. Members of the band are
leader and guitarist Joe Mar-
tinez; Pete Chacon, vocalist;
John Hinojosa, drums, Ar-
turo Galvan, bass, and Hu-
bert Rhodes, organ.
T eenagers will be ad-
mitted to the Armory imme-
diately following the game, at
50 cents each.
Tickets to the football
game cost $1.25 for adults
and 50 cents for students.
Those game tickets also
qualify each purchaser to win
a Winchester 12-guage shot-
gun to be awarded at
half-time, whether they
attend the game or not.
The public entertainment
program is presented by the
new Mercedes Presidents
Council as its first major
project of joint action among
Lions, Kiwanians, Jaycees
Rotarians and the Chamber
of Commerce.
Some 3,000 students are
expected to report to classes
Tuesday, September 5, at the
senior high, junior high, and
four elementary schools of
the local school district.
Incomplete registration
figures at the high school
and junior high show 596
students have registered at
the high school and 340 at
the junior, bringing the two-
school total to 809 students.
Approximately 300 students
have yet to register at the
high school and about 40 at
the junior high.
A first at the high school
has been the scheduling of
an eight-period day, which
will replace the regular se-
ven-period schedule used the
last several years. The new
schedule will accommodate
two lunch hours for high
schoolers, the first at fourth
period from 11 to 12 noon
and the second, fifth period,
from 12 to 1 p.m. The ex-
tended lunch hour, revamped
from the regular 45-minute
periods of the past, will ex-
tend the school day an addi-
tional 15 minutes—to 4 p.m.
Each of the eight classes
will begin on the hour, from
8 a.m. to 4 p.'m.
For the time being, the ju-
nior high school will operate
on the 12 to 1 lunch break.
Other arrangements may
need to be made when the
high school is transferred
to the new building around
October 1, Mrs. Delia Bar-
ron, counselor at the high
school, said Wednesday.
M.H.S. Story
Continues
‘The MHS Story* is
launched into a new
school term this week
by MHS sophomore Betti
Sisk, whose observa-
tions and news reports
from the Mercedes high
school campus will ap-
pear in the Enterprise
each week of the next
nine months. Her par-
ents are Mr. and Mrs,
Noa Sisk.
‘Story* No. 1 is on
Page 3, Section 2.
When the high school vacates
the old buildings, the junior
high school will occupy the
two vacated buildings, in ad-
dition to their own, accord-
ing to W. J. Mize, junior
high principal.
Travis Elementary School
Tuesday registered 48 pre-
schoolers, 26 first graders
and 22 children new to the
school or the district, for
a total of 628, including stu-
dents pre-registered at the
close of last school year.
Travis Principal Jimmy
Pinkerton said the pre-
school program, now in its
first year under Title I funds,
is expected to increase in
number as the first day of
school nears. The pre-
school program is open to all
five-year-olds.
West Elementary School
has enrolled 35 children in
its pre-school program.The
program, this year, princi-
pal Genaro Rodriguez said,
has been expanded to a full
nine-month school term. The
last two years the program
was run only seven months.
Mr. Rodriguez said he ex-
pects some 250 to 260 stu-
dents to report the first day
of school.
Included in West’s sum-
mer face-lifting were the
painting of all the rooms
and outside painting of one
of the buildings.
Zachary Taylor’s Princi-
pal E. R. Broughton, said he
had registered 25 children
in the pre-school program,
and 13 first graders who had
not been pre-registered last
year. According to pre-en-
rollment figures, Mr.
Broughton said he expects
some 470-480 to attend clas-
ses there this fall.
Renovations at Zachary
Elementary included the
converting of the school's
bookroom into an air-condi-
tioned library. Previously,
all teachers had kept a small
library in their rooms. Many
of the books will be left in
the instruction rooms, where
new bookshelves have been
installed, but most of the
books have been transferred
to the new library. The dis-
trict has employed Mrs. Bill
Hartnell as school librarian.
Enrollment at Kennedy
(Continued on Page 5)
TAX RATE REMAINS AT $1.75
City Budget Given Public
Review; Baseball Park Due
Quarterback Club
To Count Tickets
M.H.S. COACHES
...leading Tigers
and farm teams
through last of two-
a-day, wet workout
weeks;left to right-
Head Coach Dale
Hatley; Roland
Jones, varsity back-
field; Doyle Slayton,
varsity line
City Commissioners of-
fered their 1967-68 operat-
ing budget to public inspec-
tion Monday, approved it as
reviewed in a pre-hearing
presentation last week and
will give it formal adoption
in September.
The new budget calls for
General Fund expenditures
of $242,515, balanced by an-
ticipated GF revenues of
$243,325, and $115,450 in
the Water and Sewer De-
partment, for which income
is estimated at $188,800.
Commissioners will hold
the city tax rate at $1.75
per $100 valuation, unchan-
ged.
The budget includes capi-
tal expenditure items for
replacement of equipment
for street work, renovation
of a garbage truck, a new
police car and repairs to
the city's street sweeper.
Also included in the bud-
get are provisions for sal-
ary increases for employ-
ees, extensive street im-
provements and extension of
AND...Joe Gonza-
le z, junior high; J im
Cuthbertson, junior
high; Robert Fer-
nandez, junior var-
sity; Tom Villar-
real, freshmen;
Alex Estrada, jun-
ior high. Freshman
aide Bill Walker ar-
rives this week.
water and sewer lines.
Most of the street work
will be accomplished by city
crews and machinery.
Commissioners signed a
contract with Urban Renewal
Monday night to build a $7,
000 Pony League baseball
park at City Park. Minus en-
gineering fees, the city con-
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A key meeting is slated
for members of the Mer-
cedes Quarterback Club
Thursday night.
Members selling mem-
bership tickets are asked
by president R. G. ‘Tiny*
Perez to make current re-
ports. The $5 tickets also
entitle members to two
beef barbecue suppers to be
served at the Rio Grande
Valley Livestock Show-
grounds coliseum next
Thursday night, September
7. Service begins at 8 p.m.
Chief barbecuer for the
supper is Fred Pattillo.
Purchase of a $5 mem-
bership card entitles the pur-
chaser to Quarterback Club
membership, two Pattillo
barbecue suppers and a
chance to win a Remington,
700 Deluxe 30.06 rifle, whi-
ch will be awarded on bar-
becue night. The rifle is on
display at El Sombrero Res-
taurant.
Club members who want to
buy extra barbecue plates
for their children may do
so at $1.25 per plate.
The Thursday night meet-
ing begins at 8 at El Som-
brero. President Perez
said it is imperative that
reports of membership card
distribution be made, in
order to help those pre-
paring the barbecue know
how many to anticipate.
The President also wants
it known that persons want-
ing to qualify as club mem-
bers, barbecue eaters and
rifle contestants—and who
have not been contacted'by
club members — are in-
vited to contact' him. He
will, he says, see cfesf they
receive membership cards.
Rainfall this year: 11.36.
Sign-up Time
Set for NYC
Applications for partici-
pation in the Neighborhood
Youth Corps will be accept-
ed Thursday, September 7,
at the Mercedes high school
auditorium. Boys and girls
16 to 21 may apply for in-
school NYC work in a new
program which begins Sep-
tember 19.
A total of 230 jobs are
available in Hidalgo county,
50 in Mercedes.
tract approximates $6,000
for installing a diamond, fen-
ce and bleachers.
And Commissioners pas-
sed a resolution thanking
Hidalgo County Bank and
Trust Company for furnish-
ing new traffic safety signs
at all elementary school
campuses.
J.K. Brown
To Preach
The Rev. Jim Kimmel
Brown Jr. pastor of Oak
Haven Methodist Church at
Irving, will be the prea-
cher at the 11 a.m. worship
hour, Sunday, September 3,
at First Methodist Church of
Mercedes.
The Rev. Mr. Brown was
graduated from Southwest-
ern University at George-
town. He served the Mt.
Sylvan-Union Chapel circuit
in the Tyler District of the
Texas Conference from 1962
to 1964. He was associate
pastor of Walnut Hill Metho-
dist Church in Dallas for two
years. He was appointed to
his present pastorate in June
of this year.
He is married to the for-
mer Miss Mildred Lawler,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
Marion R. Lawler of Mer-
cedes.
Junior Wrestling
Tourney Saturday
T wenty-six young local
wrestlers will square off
in three divisions Saturday
in a tournament that climaxes
two weeks of training by
Mercedes Jaycees. The boys
have taken wrestling in-
structions and physical con-
ditioning work under Jaycee
direction at the old Merce-
des high school gymnasium
for five days each week.
They now are set to compete
for championship trophies,
ribbons and certificates in
the Jaycee Junior Wrestling
Tournament, which begins
at the old gym at 8 p.m.
Saturday, September 2.
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Trophies and ribbons are
on display at the Mercedes
Enterprise office.
The public is invited to
attend. Admission prices are
50 cents for adults and 25
cents for children.
Boys 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
are participating. They will
compete Saturday in heavy-
weight, middle-weight and
light - weight divisions,
wrestling to a championship
in each.
Three two-minute rounds
are planned for each match,
a point system deciding the
winner, unless one contest-
ant pins his opponent twice
before the end of the match.
Here are the names of
boys in the competition:
Luigi Munoz, Oscar Gore-
na, Joe de los Santos III,
Rolando Salinas, Rafael Ro-
diguez, Anthony Flores,
Ruben Cantu, Frank Wil-
liams.
Eddie Munoz, Gilbert
Moreno, Jose Lorenzano,
Lee Garza, Eben Garcia,
Steve Freeman.
Bobby Williams, Sergio
Garcia, Robert Williams,
Alex Lopez, Robert Flores,
Gregory Canty, Stanley
Carr.
Eloy Garcia Jr., Robert
Garza, Bill Johnson, Rolando
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