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Governor Shivers To Speak
For Sinton-Taft-Odem
Kiwanis Banquet In Sinton
ODEM., TEXAS, WEDNESDAY- OCTOBER 19, 1949
Methodist Church
Wednesday Noon
KIWANIS
CLUB i
T. Bandy_____________ President 1
L.-ohn S. Edgar____Vice-President i
* W. F. Heinsohn______Secretary i
Eight Pages — Number 19
SINTON — Arrangements q
were nearing completion this
week for a South Texas Ki-
wanis banquet in Sinton on
November 8, at which Gov.
Allan Shivers will be the prin-
cipal speaker.
The banquet will be held at
7:30 p. m. at the Sinton Com-
munity Clubhouse. J. H. Cur-
lee, interclub relations chair-
man for the Sinton club, said
that an attendance of 300 from
a dozen South Texas towns and
cities is expected.
Governor Shivers will come to
Sinton following a visit to Kings-
ville where he will attend the
opening of the South Texas Fair.
The banquet at Sinton will be
a joint meeting of the Sinton,
Taft and Odem Kiwanis Clubs,
the third in a series of three tri-
community banquets held this
year. The first such meeting was
held at Odem in April. The sec-
ond banquet was held in Taft
last summer.
Perry Horine, of Corpus Chris-
ti, who recently returned from
New York where he was employ-
ed as a radio and television en-
tertainer, will supply the special
entertainment for the Kiwanis
banquet. Horine is a brother of
Ernest Horine, of Alice, former
president of the Sinton Kiwanis
Club.
J. Ward Crow, former mayor
of Sinton, will preside as mas-
ter of ceremonies. Committees
from the three San Patricio
County clubs are completing
arrangements for the banquet,
under the direction of Leo
Owen, president of the Sinton
club; John Bandy, president of
the Odem club, and Jack O.
Tutt, president of the Taft club.
Gins Donate
To Fire Dept.
Roy Smith, chief of* the local
Volunteer Fire Department,
wishes to express the fire depart-
ment’s appreciation to those who
have made such generous dona-
tions to the Fire Department, es-
pecially the Edroy Co-Op Gin
Company and the Farmers Gin
Company.
Donations is the only source
of income the department has to
depend on for the purchasing of
new equipment and maintaining
the equipment the department
already has.
The Edroy and Farmers gins
recently made generous donations
to the Fire Department for this
purpose and the Edroy Gin Com-
pany also designated an amount
to be used for a barbecue for the
boys.
These men are always “Johnny
on the Spot” when the fire alarm
sounds and even though they
have not had the experience of
the city departments who do
nothing but fight fires and prac-
tice methods for such, they have
drills and are much more capable
of combatting fires than those of
us who do not go to these prac-
tices, so when the siren sounds,
make way for the boys who
know how to do the job!
VISIT SON, PATIENT
IN VICTORIA HOSPITAL
Mrs. R. W. Gilbert and Mrs. W.
B. Cleveland of Odem and Mrs.
Carl Davidson of Corpus Christi
•went to Victoria Monday to visit
Roy Gilbert, their son and broth-
er who is a patient in the Detar
Hospital there. Mrs. Gilbert re-
mained to be with her son, whose
home is in Austwell.
Sixty Parents And
Friends Attend Cub
Pack Program
Sixty parents and friends at-
tended the Cub Pack meeting
and program held at the local
Methodist church Monday night
when the following program was
presented:
Call meeting to order—Denner
Brent Huntsinger; presenting col-
ors, James Williams and Ronnie
Lane; minutes of last Pack meet-
ing, Keeper of Buckskin, Daniel
Bartek; song, “Grand Ole Duke
of York,” Edgar Whitten; Nat-
ional Uniform Inspection and
Roll Call, A. M. Weatherly; Pres-
entation of New Den Mother,
Mrs. Wilson Baylor, and new Den
Chiefs, John Ehlers and Ernest
Williams, by Cubmaster, J. E.
Williams.
Presentation of Awards
Bobcats—Richard Gale Smith,
Johnny Huntsinger, Orville Max-
well, Jr., Mike Parker, John Lee
Brough, H. E. Raab and Stanley
Webb.
All these were branded CUB 35
by the Den Chief.
Other awards—James Williams,
1 silver arrow on Wolf badge;
James Knight, Bear; Daniel Bar-
tek, Bear and 1 gold arrow; Ron-
nie Lane, Bear; and Brent Hunt-
singer, Lion and Webelos.
Webelos Ceremony — James
Knight, Shooting Shining Arrow.
America — Retiring Colors,
James Williams and Ronnie
Lane.
Cub Scout members of Troop
35 are: James Taylor Knight,
Brent Huntsinger, Ronnie Lane,
Daniel Bartek Leslie Leggett, Ed-
gar Whitten, Richard Whatley,
James Williams, Cary De Eads,
Bentley Baylor, Richard Gale
Smith, Stanley Webb, John Lee
Brough, Mike Parker, Orville
Maxwell, Jr., Johnny Huntsinger
and H. E. Raab.
Refreshments were served to
those attending by Mrs. J. M.
Knight, Mrs. R. T. Whitten and
Mrs. C.. D. Eads, Jr.
Odem Chumps
Win Second
Place In League
The Odem Chumps got on the
ball last Thursday after a two
weeks bad run. They bowled the
Nixon Cafe and after losing the
first tilt to the Nixon five, won
the next two and took total pins,
giving the Chumps three out of
four points, which put the local
tegm second in the Corpus Christi
City league. The Blue and White
Cab team is in the first place at
present. *
Cooper came out with the local
high score with an average of
178, J. W. Lane second with 158,
Rip Rentz third with 156^ and
Calvin Fagan fourth.
Frank Bounds, a new recruit,
bowled in Bill Smith’s place, get-
ting in practice so that the team
will have a substitute in case
any one of the old timers cannot
play. He shows prospects of
making a good “sixth man” for
the team. He bowled an average
of 123.
Mrs. Cooper and Mrs. Bounds
were sid,eliners rooting for the
locals.
Next week the Chumps will
meet and tangle with the Knolle
Dairy team.
Last Thursday the Chumps
bowled the best series of the
season with a total of 2,388.
Cub Scouts Plan
Booth At P-TA
Carnival Sat.
The Cub Scouts were treated
to a special thrill last Wednesday.
The Den Mothers, Mrs. J. E. Wil-
liams and Mrs. Wilson Baylor,
were waiting for them when they
came out of school at 4 p. m.,
with a trailer behind the car and
took them to the Methodist
church in the trailer.
Upon arrival at the church the
meeting was called to order by
the Den Chief, Brent Huntsinger.
Edgar Whitten led the singing of
some motion songs.
During the business session
plans for the concession booth
the Cubs plan to have at the
P.-T. A. Carnival October 29
were discussed.
Mrs. Williams checked the
achievement books and found
that .only one boy, James Wil-
liams, was the only one who had
completed his achievement for
the week, that of breaking prop-
erly one dozen eggs (egg prices
are too high to ex'pect that folks
can use a whole dozen store-
bought eggs in one week, Eh,
Cubs?) Shampooing Jheir own
hair was given for ' the next
week’s achievement and 100 per
cent is expected in this.
Mrs. Baylor assisted Mike
Parker and Stanley Webb III
complete their chaps. John Walk-
er Ehlers, a Scout from the regu-
lar Boy Scout Troop 35, who is
assisting with the Cubs, and a
group of the Cubs made an 18-
foot manila rope of twine. The
boys also assisted with the mak-
ing of programs for the Pack
meeting to be held Monday,
October 17, when H. W. Herndon
and A. M. Weatherly will serve
as inspection officers for an in-
spection and roil call.
Ernest Potter Williams is a
new Den Chief from the Boy
Scout Troop 35, who will assist
the younger boys in their work.
Edgar Whitten made plaster
molds of bear, wolf and lion.
Those present were Mrs. J. E.
Williams, Mrs. Wilson ^Baylor,
John Walker Ehlers, Ernest Wil-
liams, Brent Huntsinger, Daniel
Bartek, James Knight, James
Williams, Edgar Whitten, Ronnie
Lane, Leslie Leggett, Bently Bay-
lor, Richard Whatley, Mike Park-
er, Stanley Webb III, Carey De
Eads, Johnny Huntsinger and H.
E. Raab.
The Primary, Junior and Inter-
mediate departments of the local
Methodist church will -hold a
tamale sale in the Peeks Electric
Shop Saturday. The tamales will
be home-made and will sell for
85 cents per dozen.
Cotton Continues
To Roll into
Edroy Gin Lot
And still the bales roll in! Day
after day a slow, steady trickle
of cotton moves on to the gin lot
of the Edroy Co-Op gin, making
this one of the most unusual sea-
sons in the history of the- gin.
Even the old timers are shaking
their heads in wonderment as
fields of snow white cotton can
still be seen in -most any direc-
tion you may choose to travel.
Since the government gave the
farmers an extension on their
plow-up time they have harvest-
ed any number of bales, and
there’s more to come if only
their time doesn’t run out. At
present they are asking for an
extension to the first of Novem-
ber and if granted it will make
this the longest gin season since
1931, according to Mr. R. D.
White, gin manager.
Since the installation of the
new Hardwick Etter gin machin-
ery the Co-Op gin has been able
to do such a superior job of gin-
ning , the farmers’ cotton that
they have come far and near to
do business with them. At the
present they have ginned cotton
from 17 different counties, the
farthest county being 150 miles
distant. The'gin, first to install
this particular kind of machinery,
were truly pioneers in their field
of work, but Mr. White says
when a farmer brings in one bale
of cotton at a time over a dis-
tance of 150 miles that proves
their ginning job must be far
above the average or even good.
Labor, as in so many other in-
dustries, proves a big headache
for the manager. It gets increas-
ingly harder to keep a full crew
of men, even inexperienced ones,
since most of the young men
went off to college or school in
September, and the Mexican la-
bor went to West Texas and yet
the gin has turned out more
bales since that time than be-
fore.
To date they have ginned 11,-
500 bales. Saturday evening late
the lot carried ”0 bales, necessi-
tating an all night run and still
it comes in day after day by one
bale on a trailer to 4 or 6 bales
on a cattle truck
With each time extension Mr.
White looks a little more wish-
fully on a fast vanishing vaca-
tion, but as long as there’s cot-
ton to gin, the Co-Op will be do-
ing its job.
Odem-Edroy
Gins Turn Out
22.240 Bales
Up to Tuesday morning, re-
ports received by The Times
from three gins of Odem and
Edroy revealed that a total of
22.240 bales of cotton of the
1949 crop had been processed
by these three gins, as follows:
Smith Gin, Odem, W. H.
Gerdes, manager—6,480 bales.
Farmers Gin, Odem, W .T.
Warren, manager—4,080 bales.
Farmers Co-Op Gin, R. D.
White, manager—11,680 bales.
Heads Dimes March
Rev. Bowmann Preaches
Ordination Sermon At
Travis Baptist Church
Rev. O. R. Bowman, pastor of
the First Baptist Church of Odem,
preached the Ordination sermon
at the Travis Baptist Church Sun-
day when Rev. Lions was ordain-
ed to the minis tery.
Rev. A. D. Norris, pastor of the
Travis Baptist Church, served as
moderator and also presented the
Bible and charge to the churches.
Rev. L. S. Cole, pastor of the
Baptist Temple, Corpus Christi
led the prayer. Rev. J. M. Luns-
ford, pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Beeville, did the ques-
tioning. Rev. Roselle led the
ordination prayer.
These pastors, with a number
of other deacons, including three
from Beeville and the Missions
Committee of the First Baptist
Church, completed the Ordaining
Council.
Rev. Lions has been called to
the Satsuma Mission, a mission
of the First Baptist Chui’ch of
Beeville, from jvhich a goodly
number of people attended the
ordination services. One of the
lady members of the group
bringing a special message in
song.
Rev. Bowman chose as his top-
ic, “God’s Called Men.”
Onion Planting
On In Big Way in
Odem-Edroy Area
The onion planting is on in a
big way in the Odem-Edroy-Sod-
ville area since the recent rain.
S. M. Bownds kind of jumped
the gun by planting before the
rain. He has 100 acres planted
and up to a good start.
The John B. Hardwickfe Com-
pany, one of the largest growers
and shippers in this area, have
their onion planting under way
and expect to plant nothing but
onions this season. . They already
have a large acreage of cabbage
growing in the Valley and will
not plant that commodity here
this season.
Two partners, George Hall and
Wilson Baylor, planted some
spinach last week and are plant-
ing cabbage and onions this
week.
Lloyd Newmann and the Gulf
Vegetable Company are extensive
growers and shippers in this area
and are busy laying the ground-
work for a large acreage of win-
ter vegetables and will undoubt-
edly have a considerable variety
of commodities planted.
Farms With Cotton
Still Unpicked May
Complete Harvest
San Patricio County farmers
who have unpicked cotton on
the October 31st deadline may
be granted individual exten-
sions to permit them to com-
plete harvest, according to the
latest information received by
R. R. Gibb, County Agricul-
tural Agent.
The deadline which was set by
the Pink Boll Worm Commission
will remain in effect. This re-
quires the total destruction of all
stalks where harvest has been
completed. Where there is a le-
gitimate need for extensions
farmers will be given a reason-
able length of time to get the
cotton out of the fields, Mr. Gibb
said.
“This places a tremendous re-
sponsibility on farmers to de-
stroy all cotton vegetation at the
very earliest date to assist in
controlling cotton insects,” the
county agent explained. “There is
known to be spotted infestations
of pink boll worms in the coun-
ty and every precaution needs to
be taken to .halt their spread.”
Field men ’ charged with en-
forcement of pink boll worm con-
trol regulations will conduct sur-
veys of the county and grgnt
extensions where necessary, ac-
cording to Mr. Gibb.
The County Agricultural Agent
said that San Patricio County
had the lightest infestation of
cotton insects in its history this
year. This was attributed to the
early and complete destruction of
cotton vegetation in previous
years, which eliminated the hi-
bernation of insects through the
winter months, he explained.
Annual Carnival
Odem P-TA To Be
Held Here Saturday
Mrs. Sam Lane, general chair-
man of the annual P.-T.iY Car-
nival to be held on the high
school grounds October 29, be-
ginning at 6 p. m., announces the
following committees:
Booth Building
T. C. Carpenter, H. W. Hern-
don, H. M. Montgomery, Ted
Peeks, E. H. Jackson, Roy E.
Gregory, L. R. McGalliard, Lewis
Horn, W. F. Heinsohn, Roy Un-
derwood, Clarence White, John
Hall, Don Hall, J. D. Huntsinger,
C. W. Campbell, R. D. White, T.
M. Carson, W. C. Coe, J. D.
Knight, J. S„ Edgar, G. Lv Jarvis,
Clyde Parker, Walter Leggett, C.
F. Speikerman, O. V. Hightower
and the Agriculture Boys.
Information
Mrs. A. H. Voss and Mrs. Sam
Lane. "
Posters
Miss Elisabeth Raun and Art
Department.
Tamales
Mrs. F. M. Bounds, Mrs. B. A.
Walton, Mrs. R. J. Lane, Mrs.
Sylma Smith, Mrs. W. P. Scho-
mer, Mrs. R. D. White, Mrs. Ray-
mond Rentz, Mrs. Leon Coonrod
and Mrs. A. B. Austin.
Bingo
Mrs. Lynn Lowe, Mrs. C. E.
White, Mrs. J. A. Meador, Mrs.
H. E. Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Carey
De Eads, Jr., Mrs. H. L. Lane, Jr.,
Mrs. J. D. Huntsinger, Mrs. M. F.
Stinnett, C. W. Campbell and
Stanley Webb, Jr.
Cake Walk
Miss Ruby Garner,. Mrs. T. M.
Carson, Mrs. H. W- Herndon, Mrs.
V. F. Shelton and Leon Frankel.
Cakes and Pies
G. B. Scull, Mrs. H. M. Mont-
gomery, Mrs. E. H. Green, Mrs.
R. T. Childress, Mrs. C. E. Brown,
Mrs. Ray Childress, Mrs. J. M.
Knight' and Mrs. A. J. Spieker-
man.
Hamburgers
Mrs. Ann K. Williams, Mrs. L.
A. Boultinghouse, Mrs. O. A. Eh-
lers, Mrs. Frank Montgomery,
Mrs. Jack Miller, Mrs. L. E.
Miller, Mrs. W. B. Cleveland,
Mrs. Gertrude Curtiss, Mrs. Ei-
leen Carter, Mrs. Louise Helm,
Mrs. Sherman Wells, Mrs. W. C.
Coe, Mrs. Carl Bluntzer and Mrs.
H. E. Raab.
Cold Drinks
Mrs. J. E. Williams, Mrs. Roy
Whiteley, Mrs. H. B. Sipes and
Mrs. H. L. Baylor.
Negro Babies
Sam Lane, Mrs. Leon Mertz,
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Green, Jr.
(Continued on page 10)
ED. S. STEWART
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Ed. S.
Stewart, prominent Abilene busi-
nessman, has been appointed
Texas State Chairman of the 1950
March of Dimes, Basil O’Connor,
president of the National Founda-
tion for Infantile Paralysis, an-
nounced. It is Mr. Stewart’s sec-
ond year as head of the fund
raising appeal in Texas.
As chairman, Mr. Stewart will
be in over-all charge of plan-
ning and organizing the annual
polio drive, and will coordinate
activities of all city and county
campaign directors in the state.
The March of Dimes is con-
ducted each January by the Na-
tional Foundation and its 2,800
county chapters to finance the
pationwide fight against polio in
the fields of patient care, scien-
tific research and professional
education. The 1950 appeal will
be held January 16-31.
Mr. Stewart, a native of Waco,
has been long active in civic
affairs and welfare work. A west
Texas food broker for 17 years,
he is now' owner of the Abilene
Candy Manufacturing Company.
During the first World War he
served overseas with -the Army’s
Corps of Engineers. A past presi-
dent of the Abilene Chamber of
Commerce and the Rotary Club,
he was Taylor County director of
the American Red Cross War
Fund in 1943 and 1944.
Commenting on Mr. Stewart’s
re-appointment to Texas’ top
March of Dimes post, Mr. O'Con-
nor declared that the National
Foundation is now facing the
“most crucial period” in its
twelve-year history.
He described the 1949 polio.epi-
demic as the worst on record,
with more than 40,000 cases ex-
pected by the end of the year.
“By December,” he said, “the
National Foundation and its chap-
ters will have spent $31,000,000
assisting polio victims through-
out the nation.”
Mr. O’Connor also pointed jout
that by mid-summer the national
epidemic aid fund had run “dan-
gerously low” and the organiza-
tion was forced to conduct the
recent Polio Epidemic Emergency
Drive as a “stop-gap” measure to
carry it over until the regular
March of Dimes campaign in Jan-
uary.
From January 1 through Sept-
ember 30, he said, the National
Foundation sent more than $7,-
000,000 to hard-hit Chapters
whose own March of Dimes treas-
uries were exhausted caring for
local polio patients.
Odem Girl Is
One of 6 Lux
Radio Beauties
Miss Barbara Glenn Scull has
been chosen one of the six 15-
year-old beauties in the Lux
beauty contest in the Corpus
Christi area. The contest is spon-
sored by radio station KEYS in
Corpus Christi, the CBS station,
This is a national contest and
the winner of the local contest
will have her picture submitted
to the national contest, which
will be judged by June Haver
and Mark Stevens, motion picture
stars in Hollywood.
Miss Scull is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Scull of Odem
and is a junior in the Odem High
school.
The winner of the national con-
test will be given a 10-day trip
to Hollywood, a complete ward-
robe designed by Cole of Cali-
fornia, a screen test at a Holly-
wood motion picture studio and a
television test at CBS Studios, a
personal appearance on the Lux
Radio Theater and a dinner at
the glamorous Mocambo as guest
of famous stars.
Death-Dealing Crash V
At Railroad Crossing
Claims Lives Of Two
The S. A.U. & G. R. R. crossing on Highway 77
in the center of Odem was the scene of a death-dealing
crash at 1:25 Sunday morning when a 1946 Ford sedan
struck the caboose of a freight train standing on a
spur, and the caboose partly across the highway.
Instantly killed was Mrs. Ruby Hart, 29, of Re-
-:-s fugio. Critically injured was
—* a Mrs. Geraldine Dehm, 24, of
Banquet To Open
Membership Drive
Of Farm Bureau
The San Patricio Farm Bu-
reau membership drive will
open with a banquet for work-
ers on the night of October
20. County membership chair-
men and workers will be hon-
ored with a banquet at the
Scout Hut in Sinton by the
board of directors.
The county chairmen and the
board of directors met Friday,
October 7, and made final plans
for the membership drive which
will last one- week, beginning
with the banquet on October 20.
W. T. West, president of the
San Patricio County Farm Bu-
reau, said farmers of San Patricio
county have received many dol-
lars in 1949 as the result of one
action alone of the Farm Bureau.
He pointed out that farmers re-
ceived $12 to $15 a ton more for
their cottonseed as a result of the
organized efforts of the Farm
Bureau in 1949. Seed prices
opened $30 to $34 but through
the quick ^and organized efforts
the prices were raised* immed-
iately to $49 per ton where they
remained through most bf the
season.
Mr. West says that it is even
more important that farmers have
an organization to face the situa-
tions that will arise during the
coming year. Every farmer^ and
business man should help
strengthen the organization by
joining immediately, as their in-
terests are all dependent on a
strong agriculture.
Odem Couples Catch
Big Salmon On
Vancouver Island
Local fishermen who had poor
luck this summer and spent a
good deal of their time fighting
salt-water cats, dog-fish, gars and
sharks could well wish they were
away off in the far northwest
where Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Butler
and Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Caldwell
have been vacationing.
Avid fishing fans, they tbok
their tackle along with them and
sarted wetting their lines as soon
as they reached the waters where
the famed salmon roam.
They fished in Oregon, then
later on Vancouver Island. Using
spoons mostly they caught about
20 salmon, the largest weighing
19 pounds. With the men having
such good luck, Mrs. Butler—who
is a good rod-and-reeler herself—
tried her luck on the salmon and
caught two ^weighing 11 pounds
each, fish large enough to win a
prize for any angler, whether
caught in Copano Bay or on Van-
couver Island.
Brothers And Sisters
Celebrate Silver Wedding
Anniversary Same Date .
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Green cele-
brated their twenty-fifth wed-
ding anniversary recently by tak-
ing a trip to San Antonio. They
also visited in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Green in Kenedy.
The two Mrs. Greens are twin
sisters and the husbands are
brothers. Both couples were
married on the same day, twenty-
five years ago.
Odem FFA Boys
To Receive Two Gilts
From Sears Roebuck
C. T. Carpenter, advisor of the
local FFA group, states that the
boys of the local chapter will
receive two of the forty gilts to
be given to FFA boys in the Cor-
pus Christi district by Sears Roe-<
buck and Company.
There will be four boars in the
| district to be used for breeding
I purposes and when these gilts
j litter, each boy having received
! a gilt now is to give Sears a gilt
j back, which in turn will be given
j to some other FFA boy.
This original forty pigs does not
seem to be a very big bunch of
hogs, but multiply them by the
usual number ei pigs in a litter
and then imagine how much
pork will be produced directly
from this original forty, in, say
five or ten years!
Sears has a foresighted man at
the helrm of their company, and
deserves our thanks.
VISITS ODEM COUSIN
Mr. Carroll Dennard, who is
connected with the Collector of
Internal Revenue from the
Northern District, at Dallas, was
an over-night visitor of the O. V.
Hightowers who is Mr. Dennard’s
cousin and had not seen each
other for some time. Mr. Den-
nard will be in Corpus Christi
attending -the Federal District
Court.
Woodsboro, who was thrown
about 20 feet from the automo-
bile, suffering injuries from
which she died in the Sinton
hospital about an hour later.
Also critically injured was H.
J. “Johnny” Hart, 32, Mrs.
Hart’s husband. He was re-
moved from the wreck in an
unconscious condition, and is
in the Sinton hospital with a
fractured right femur, dislocat-
ed right hip, multiple lascera-
tions of face, scalp, right arm
and elbow, and also appears to
have severe internal injuries.
' Suffering from concussion and
a right leg injury Bobbie Pearl
Hart, 9-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Hart, is also in
Sinton hospital.
The occupants of the car were
traveling toward Sinton on their
way to their homes in Woodsboro
and Refugio when the accident
happened. The automobile was
evidently traveling at a very fast
speed fdr the car was split wide
open by the impact. It is un-
certain who was driving.
Sunday the demolished car
stood beside the pavement and
upright on its left side, the steel
body split open and thrown back
like giant wings, and the motor
driven down through the chassis.
The area was covered with scat-
tered bits of fenders, radiator and
other metal objects, while the
only evidence the caboose had
been involved was an air hose
valve that had been broken off
and which was lying behind the
wrecked car. All day long a con-
stant stream of cars parked be-
side the highway as people in-
spected the vivid, mute evidence
of a terrible crash, many of the
people voicing the statement that
they had ever seen,
they had ever seen.
Mrs. Dehm is survived by her
daughter, Connie Rae Dehm; her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe A.
Hubka, Campbellton; three broth-
ers, Jackie, Thomas and Billy
Hubka, all of Pleasanton.
Hart had been employed by the
Missouri Pacific R. R., as a weld-
er’s helper in the Odem section
and left a short time ago to work
in the oil fields.
Dr. A. H. Voss was called to
the scene of the accident immed-
iately and administered first aid
to the injured, then had them
transferred to the Sinton hospital.
Pancake Supper
Benefits Jr. Class
The “Aunt Jemima” pancake
supper at the high school cafe-
teria Tuesday night for the bene-
fit of the junior class' proved a
great success.
The guests were ushered in by
Aunt Jemima herself, portrayed
by Mrs. H. M. Janicke. Students
dressed as negro waiters, served
the table. Chief chefs were H. M.
Montgomery, J. S. Edgar, Sam
Lane, Dr. A. H. Voss and Mrs.
Gertrude Curtiss.
Aunt Jemima served .as master-
of ceremonies and announced the
numbers on the floor show which
began at 8100. The program was
as follows:
“Topsy Takes the Cake”—Mrs.
R. T. Whitten.
“Uh-hu, Not Me” — Barbara
Glenn Scull.
“Jambo and Liza” — Carolyn
Weatherly and Mike Parker.
The Chorus sang, “Sleep Ken-
tucky Babe,” “Dry Bones” and
“Get Aboard, Little Children.”
Solo, ‘“Old Man River” by Eu-
gene Helm.
\Room Mothers for the junior
class who helped to make the
affair a success are Mrs. G. B.
Scull, Mrs. Sam Lane, Mrs. M. F.
Stinnett and Mrs. Leon Coonrod.
Miss Ruby Garner is the class
sponsor.
Sixty-two dollars was taken in.
to swell the junior class pocket-
book for the annual Junior-Sen- ~
ior banquet and other class ex-
penses.
County Federation Of
Women’s Clubs Meet
In Sinton Friday
The San Patricio County Fed-
eration of Women’s Clubs’ pub-
licity chairman, Miss Allie Han-
cock of Odem, announced that
there will be a Federation meet-
ing at the First Methodist Church,
in Sinton October 28, beginning
at 10:30 a. m.
The speaker for the occasion,
will be announced later.
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