Refugio Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 1, 1950 Page: 1 of 8
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The News from Every Section of Refugio County
i VOL. XXII—NO. 32
HEFUGIO, REFUGIO COUNTY, TEXAS
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Eight Page*
Impressions
Attention is called to the
article on this page concern-
ing the use of the Victoria
County lie detector in solving
a Refugio County crime, with
a paragraph concerning a test
of a Beeville girl.
Particular attention is call-
ed to the Beeville case. In
this instance the detector was
used to prove the innocence
of the person in question.
Sheriff Crawford of Victoria
County is rendering a great
service to his own county and
to others in the use of this
machine. Not only is guilt and
innocence determined by the
machine, but it will indicate
an unstable mental condition
of a person. Oft-times a men-
tal condition will bring about
a crime, that the correcting
of the mental case will place
back in society a person that
is a real asset to the commun
ity.
Prevention and cure are as
much a part of society’s ob-
ligation to itself as is punish-
ment.
With the new, modern jail
to be erected for Refugio
County it might not be amiss
to give consideration to the
securing of a lie detector for
the county and the training
of a personnel in the use of
the machine.
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“Flower of the Week”
nominee is Dudley Bredthauer
county agricultural agent of
Refugio County. Dudley
could, for services be nominat-
ed any week, but this week
he is preparing to do some-
thing “just a little more.”
The District 4-H Encamp-
ment will be held next week
at Chase Field in Bee Coun-
ty. Some 400 members of the
4-H Clubs will be present to
study, work and play. Dudley
will be present to assist in
supervising the work and to
give particular attention to
the Refugio 4-H Rifle team,
entered in competition with
other 4-H Clubs.
Faithfully and sincerely the
county agent is working with
the boys of this county. He
has several 4-H Clubs organ-
ized and the boys active in
working on projects. This is
just the first year that Dud-
ley has been in Refugio Coun-
ty, but this coming fall will
witness the exhibiting at the
Refugio County Fair and oth-
er shows'of animals that will
do honor to their owners and
the county.
Dudley loves his work . . .
both with boys and adults. He
studies his work ... he stud-
ies his county ... he studies
his people. He has vision to
look into the future and ar-
range to present work in such
a manner that maximum bene-
fits can be derived in the
years to come.
It would be a good invest-
ment for each and every
business man of Refugio
County and particularly those
of the Town of Refugio to
spend several hours with Dud-
ley discussing the farm and
ranch outlook of Refugio
County.
Refugio County is indeed
fortunate to have such a man
as Dudley Bredthauer at the
head of its extension service
department as county agent.
Mrs. Jack Phillips Named
Manager of Retail Credit
Association for County
Kyle Vick
Asks Bonds
For Vets
An additional issuance of $50,-
000,000 bonds for the Veterans’
Land Program plus additional ap-
propriations for increasing the
staff of the office to facilitate the
handling of loan requests will
be urged before the next Legisla-
ture by Senator Kyle Vick of Wa-
co, candidate for Lieutenant Gov-
ernor of Texas.
“This increase in bonds and staff
allotments can be handled without
a penny cost to the Texas Taxpay-
Mrs. Jack Phillips was employed
as manager of the Refugio Retail
Credit Association by the Board
of Trustees at a meeting held Wed-
nesday night of this week. Mrs.
Phillips assumes her duties the
first of June and will start im-
mediate work on setting fip the
local office.
Mrs. Phillips served the retail
credit association at Henderson for
nearly three years as manager.
The local association will affi-
liate with the state retail credit
association.
At a general meeting of the as-
sociation membership last Friday
night the Board of Trustees was
increased by two with the election
of Jack Farren of Woodsboro and
Juan Anzaldua to the board.
The constitution and by-laws of
ers,” Senator Vick said. “Of the . , , ,
$25,000,000 bonds issued last year, the organization was presented and
$5,000,000 have already been used,
another $10,000,000 in bonds have
been cashed, leaving only a $10,-
000,000 surplus, with thousands of
loan applications crowding the loan
staff.”
Some veterans’ applications have
been in the mill for from six to
eight months with no action in
sight. “This is not the fault of
the Veterans Land Board,” Senator
Vick emphasized. “The staff is just
not large enough to take care of
the flood of loan applications, and
the original bond issue will not
be sufficient to cover all appli-
cations.”
The Veterans’ Loan Bill author-
ized the issuance of $25,000,000 in
State bonds to cover loans to GI’s
of the last war for the purpose
of buying farm and ranch loans.
Tourist Court Bids
Received by Dunbar
Bids were received, opened and
read Wednesday of this week for
the erection of the tourist courts
of Dewey Strauch on Highway 77
across from the Bobcat Stadium,
by I. H. Dunbar in behalf of the
builder.
Tabulation of bids and announc-
ing of the contract letting will be
made the latter part of the week.
approved.
The present office of the retail
group will be in the building with
the Refugio Chamber of Commerce.
Members Ballot
On CC Directors
Balloting by members of the
Refugio Chamber of Commerce on
nine persons to serve on the Board
of Directors for the coming year
will take place by mail this week
it was announced by Archie Bar-
ber, manager. Fourteen names are
listed on the ballots being sent to
the members.
The nominees for directors are
George Solka, Louis Germer, R.
H. Gilliam, Miss Emma Huddles-
ton, W. W. Hardy, Jack Rogers,
B. E. McGuill, E. J. Freeman, V.
V. Bailey, C. H. McCright, Jim
Wales, S. H. White, E. G. Sparks,
Anderson Goss.
After the election of the Board
of Directors, the group will select
officers for the coming fiscal year
from their own number.
J. B. Wilson, J. E. Bauer, V. E.
Heard are present directors who
are not candidates for re-election.
Other directors are Miss Hud-
dleston, White, Hardy, Germer,
Gilliam and Sparks.
lie Detector'
Solves Burglary
At Woodsboro
Solving of a burglary in Woods-
boro was completed by the use of
the Victoria County ‘lie detector’
Monday. The following article, in
regard to the case, appeared in
the Tuesday issue of the Victoria
Advocate:
Victoria County’s lie detector
was given another assist'Monday
when it caused an admission of
guilt to a burglary charge to be
drawn from Alvin Lott, 26,
Woodsboro negro.
Lott was placed on the detector
by Sheriff W. F. Crawford. He
was brought here with three other
negroes in an effort to solve the
burglary of $17 from the cash
drawer of a hardware store at
Woodsboro Sunday.
Lott, the second of the group to
take the test, readily admitted the
burglary. He is, or was an em-
ployee of the store.
A 14-year-old girl from Beeville
also was placed on the lie detec-
tor this morning in an effort to
solve the theft of a diamond-stud-
ded cross missing from a home in
Beeville. Sheriff Crawford said the
test disclosed the fact that the girl
was telling the truth and did not
know where the cross was located.
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Refugio Episcopal Church
Purchases Chapel, Parish
House and76x166 Foot Lot
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Refugio County Bond
Sales Total $93.75
Only $93.75 worth of Series E
Savings Bonds were sold in Re-
fugio County during the first week
if the Independence Savings Bonds
Drive to give this county less than
one per cent toward its quota of
$30,000 for the drive. The sales
represented .31 of the quota.
Gordon C. Brown, director pub-
licity and promotion, for the cam-
paign which opened May 15 and
continued through July 4 supplied
the information of Refugio Coun-
ty Sales.
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TEXAS’ REPLICA of the Liberty Bell started its tour
of the state Tuesday (May 16) following ceremonies in
Fort Worth to inaugurate the Independence Savings
Bonds Drive. Governor Allan Shivers, left, unveiled the
bell, which is one of 49 duplicates of the original Liberty
Bell that are touring the states and the District of Co-
lumbia. Nathan Adams of Dallas, Savings Bonds chair-
man for Texas, is pictured with the Governor shortly
after he had rung the great bell to officially open the
drive. The bell, mounted on a specially decorated truck,
will visit 120 Texas cities and towns on its 5000-mile
tour, which will end on July 4, Independence Day.
MP "Valley Eagle"
Booklet Describes
Towns on Route
Supplementing its comprehen-
sive library' of travel publications,
Missouri Pacific has recently is-
sued the booklet “On the Route of
the Valley Eagle,” a deliniation of
the South Texas country from
Houston to Brownsville and the
Lower Valley of the Rio Grande.
The Valley Eagle, diesel-powered
streamliner, operates daily in each
direction between Houston and
Brownsville; carries a coach be-
tween St. Louis and Corpus Chris-
ti, which operates in the South
Texas Eagle between Houston and
St. Louis, and makes direct con-
nections at various points for cities
in the Lower Valley.
Starting with Houston and work-
ing its way southward and west-
ward, the book carries brief de-
scriptions of all towns and cities
in the area served by the Valley
Eagle and each description is en-
hanced by line drawings presented
in a semi-serious vein. The book-
let is a definitive work on a small
scale and has value as a reference
book in addition to its entertain-
ing qualities.
By means of the new addition
to its library; Missouri Pacific
Lines is spreading news of the
Valley throughout the nation for
it is being distributed by all of
the more than 100 traffic agencies
the railroad maintains in key cen-
ters of the United States, Cuba
and Mexico. Distribution also is
being made through railroad ticket
offices in all parts of the land
and directly to passengers aboard
the Valley Eagle.
The booklet discusses Refugio
County towns of Refugio and
Woodsboro as follows:
Refugio
no more cannibals
(Halfway mark)
Houston .............:.............. 185 Miles
Brownsville ...................... 186 Miles
County seat for Refugio County,
Refugio got its name from the
mission built on this site during
the Spanish era in Texas. Purpose
of the mission: To civilize canni-
bal Karankawa Indians! Evidently
the mission succeeded, for now
ranches and feed crops are the
mainstay of the area. Natural gas
was discovered in 1923, oil five
years later. Refugio claims to be
the only town still operating under
a charter granted by the Republic
of Texas.
Woodsboro
first . . . shipping pens
Houston ............................ 191 Miles
Brownsville ...................... 180 Miles
The shipping pens established
near a rural Church were called
the Church Station Pens. The town
that grew up around this nucleus
called itself Woodsboro to honor
the original owner of the land
on which it is located.
REV. C. R. BREWSTER
Rev. Brewster
Reappointed
Local Pastor
Rev. C. R. Brewster, pastor of
the First Methodist Church, was
reappointed as pastor of the local
church at the final session of the
1950 Methodist Annual Conference
held at San Antonio over the
week-end.
Appointments were read by
Bishop A. Frank Smith, highest
officer in this area.
Other appointments in this area
of the Corpus Christi district
(John Deschner, superintendent)
included:
Austwell-Seadrift, I. R. Magers;
Beeville, W. G. Birkner; Bloom-
ington, Don Youngblood; Cuero-
Nursery, A. C. Patterson; Edna,
I. E. Walker; Ganado-Cordele, C.
M. Myquist; Goliad-Fannin, J. L.
Atkinson; Port Lavaca, A. H. Bank-
ert; Woodsboro, C. E. Moreland;
Victoria, R. E. Wilson.
Rev. Brewster returns for his
fifth year at Refugio. During his
four years here the local church
has made considerable progress
with attendance in Sunday School
now being more than double what
it was when Rev. Brewster came
here.
Frances L. Smith
Will Receive B.S.
Degree from Baylor
Special to the Timely Remarks
Waco, May 23.—Francis L.
Smith, a student from Refugio,
will be among the 855 students to
receive degrees at Baylor Univer-
sity’s Spring commencement exer-
cises Sunday, May 28.
President W. R. White said that
167 students have already receiv-
ed degrees without benefit cere-
mony at the end of the Fall and
Winter terms—making a- total of
1,022 graduates during the school
year.
Ten different degrees will be
awarded. Totals for the year in
each degree are: Bachelor of Arts,
453; Bachelor of Business Admin-
istration, 278; Bachelor of Laws,
132’; Bachelor of Science, 49; Bach-
elor of Science in Physical Edu-
cation, 22; Bachelor of Science in
Home Economics, 12; Bachelor of
Music, 31; Master of Arts, 40;
Master of Science, 4; and Master
of Music, 1.
Dr. Sculley Bradley, authority
on American Literature of the
University of Pennsylvania, will
deliver the commencement address
at graduation exercises in Munici-
pal Stadium Sunday night. He
and six others will receive honor-
ary doctor’s degrees.
Smith is a candidate for the
Bachelor of Arts degree.
The Episcopal Church of the
Ascension of Refugio last week
completed the purchase of a chapel
building, parish house and 76 by
166 foot lot at the comer of Plasu-
ela and Oak Streets in Refugio
from Hobart Huson. The property
extends east and west along Plasu-
ela Street.
The purchase was of the build-
ing known as the Gloria Dei Chap-
el, erected a few years ago by
Huson as a service to the com-
munity. The parish house is at the
rear of the church.
Rev. W. R. Belford, with head-
quarters in Beeville, serves the
local church as rector.
The local church was organized
just four years ago and has trip-
led its membership since that time.
A very active ladies organization,
The Guild, is a part of the church’s
program. Services are held each
Sunday morning.
Members report that they were
well pleased with being able to
secure the large size lot as this
will afford ample room for the
erection of a larger chapel when
needed.
A part of the Diocese of West
Texas, with the Rev. Everett Jones
of San Antonio is the Bishop, the
local congregation received an out-
right grant from the diocese to as-
sist in the purchase of the prop-
erty.
Merchandise Display
School Booked Here
Classes in window merchandise
display, show window decorating
and show card lettering will be
offered in Refugio starting Mon-
day, June 12, it was announced
this week by Archie Barber, man-
ager of the Chamber of Com-
merce.
The classes will be held for a
two-week period and will be in-
structed by Mr. Bohannon of the
University of Texas extension
service.
Further information can be se-
cured by contacting Mr. Barber at
the Chamber of Commerce office,
phone 27.
Oporto, Portugal is famous for
its port wine.
Funeral Services of
Mrs. Baker Mayfield
At Springhill La.
Mrs. Audna L. Baker Mayfield,
47, died in Refugio County Hos-
pital at 7:15 p. m. Saturday, May
20, 1950, of cerebral hemorrhage.
She was stricken during the after-
noon, while in Corpus Christi, and
was brought back to Refugio by
ambulance.
Born in Louisiana, October 23,
1902, she was the wife of T. C.
Mayfield, an employee of Union
Producing Company. They came to
Refugio about two years ago.
Survivors, in addition to her
husband, include a daughter, Mrs.
Raymond Gies, and two sons, Earl
and Robert Mayfield.
A brief service was held at 9
o’clock Sunday morning in the Zar-
sky Funeral Chapel by the Rev.
C. R. Brewster, pastor of First
Methodist Church. The body was
then taken by train to Springhill,
La., for burial.
In South Carolina divorce is im-
possible on any grounds.
Mayor L. R. Jeter Continues
Policy of Boosting Refugio
Mayor L. R. Jeter continued
to boost his town of Refugio. In
the issue of the San Antonio
Light for Wednesday, May 31,
the following article appeared
along with a picture of Mayor
Jeter, Mrs. Thames of Kenedy
and Miss Agnes Sagebiel, of
Fredericksburg. The story reads,
in full:
Refugio is the most prosperous
small city in Texas.
This claim was advanced in San
Antonio by L. R. Jeter, mayor of
that city for the past 18 years.
He was here Monday, attending
the regional meeting planning for
the Oct. 22-25 state convention of
the League of Texas Municipali-
ties.
Refugio was given $100,000 last
year by the county for the streets
he said. The city now has only one
block of unpaved active thorough-
fare.
Oil wells in the city limits have
brought the municipality prosper-
ity. Taxes from oil now average
$3000 monthly.
Refugio has $70,000 in sewer and
water bonds outstanding but has
a $40,000 bank balance.
Also in prosperous condition is
Kenedy, the state’s flax capitol,
according to John E. Thames, may-
or, another of city officials at-
tending the meeting.
His city has recently let con-
tracts for paving of 20 blocks of
streets for $75,000.
Kenedy now has a population of
5000. Thames expects the number
to double by the next census.
At present 75 per cent of the
streets are paved. The tax rate
is $1.50 on valuations of 75 per
cent of pre-war actual values. Cot-
ton, ranching and dairying com-
bine with flax to make the resi-
dents prosperous.
Miss Agnes Sagebiel, city at-
torney of Fredericksburg since
1938, was another attendant at the
Plaza hotel meeting. She said 99
per cent of city taxes in that
municipality were paid.
Jeter is an outspoken opponent
of adoption of a sales tax in this
state. Thames was noncommital.
Another official at that meeting
was Roger Moore, bachelor mayor
of Seguin. He said 136,000 visitors
used the municipal swimming pool,
golf courses and picnic grounds
last year. The number is expected
to increase this year.
Victoria College
Offering Variety
Of Summer Courses
Special to the Timely Remark**
A wide variety of summer school
courses are to be offered during
two six-weeks terms at Victoria
College, according to Dr. John
Stormont, dean and registrar.
Pre-registration for all courses
is now under way, but the official
registration date is not until June
5. Until then, students may regis-
ter any weekday in the registrar’s
office at the college.
Standard college courses will be
offered by regular faculty mem-
bers and other instructors. Sum-
mer school work will be transfer-
able on the same basis as that of
a long session, Dean Stormont said.
A student may receive credit for
six semester hours work in one
term of six weeks or for twelve
semester hours by attending both
terms.
Courses which will be available
for the first term include fresh-
man and sophomore English,
speech, American history, govern-
ment, economics, mathematics, typ-
ing, art, and music and art educa-
tion.
Freshman chemistry has already
been scheduled for the entire sum-
mer, as twelve persons have al-
ready registered for the course.
Elementary school teachers may
take courses in education specific-
ally designed to fulfill State De-
partment of Education require-
ments.
Students in the summer courses
will take a single subject for three
hours daily, meeting from 8:00
until 11:00 each weekday except
Saturday. Three semester hours
will be completed in three weeks.
Dr. Stormont stated that no bus
routes will be maintained during
the summer, but that the college
will cooperate in arranging rides
for any out-of-town students.
New Type Bumper Gate
is Demonstrated Here
A new type of bumper gate is
being installed for demonstration
purposes just west of Modem-
Cleaners on the Clarkson proper-
ty.
W. H. Crawford, local agent for
the new style gate, stated that it
can be obtained in 8, 10 and IE
foot widths.
The gate is pushed down by the
approaching vehicle and is held
down while the vehicle drives over
it.
Lycurgas was
giver of Sparta.
the famous law
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