The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 1968 Page: 2 of 6
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FRESH, FIRM
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12 oz. can
2 Lb. 25c
2 Cans 23c
X TRY THESE
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HOT WEATHER
97c
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3 OZ. BOTTLE ?
6 oz. 99c
3 cans 53c
Knolle, Any Flavor
57c
2 lbs. 31c
39c
2 lb. 29c
5 lbs. 53clb. 29c
33c2 for 25c
93c
. 19c
Lb. 59c
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from
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DEL MONTE 1-2 OR SLICED
PEACHES
NO. 2 1-2 CAN
2 cans 65c
DOWNY SOFT
Northern Tissue
4 Rolls 39c tx
lb. 49c
Specials for June 27-28-2$
Mathis
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time
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This Week
In Mathis
We Reserve The Right A
To Limit Quantities
. 1 lb. box 33c
2 lb. box 65c
MELLORINE
’/2 Gal. 49c
Woman’s Society of
Service, Methodist
Barbara Cunningham
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this powerful spray stops hard-to-control bollworms and late season
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temperature.
Large Heads
Lettuce
Thursday June 27
7:30 p.m. Rainbow, assembly
advisory board, Masonic hall.
8 p.m. Mathis Fire Depart-
ment
8 p.m. Ladies Auxiliary VFW
at the post home.
Saturday June 29,
9-11 a.m. Mathis Library is
open
Monday July 1,
Noon: Chamber of Commerce,
Ranch Motel Restaurant
3-5 p.m. Mathis Library hours
4 p.m. Cenizo Garden Club
7:30 p.m. Jaycees at VFW hall I
8 p.m. Lions Club, at Curlee’s
9:30 a.m. ladies Bible Class,
Church of Christ
Noon: Rotary Club, Ranch Mo-
tel Restaurant
9:30 a.m. Edith Crane circle, 11
Baptist
3 p.m.
Christian
3 p.m.
Circle, Baptist
3 p.m. Woman’s Society of
Christin Service, Methodist
7:30 p.m. Jaycees at VFW hall
Wednesday July 3
3-5 Mathis Library hours
3 p.m,. Study Club
7 p.m. Rainbow Girls, Masonic
Hall
7:30 p.m. American Legion at
Legion Hall
Russett
Potatoes 8 lbs. 59c
Large
PEACHES
I have never been able to
understand why Ben Franklin,
Abe Lincoln and other men like
them had to go and say all the
sharp things that could toe said
and not leave a few choice
pungent utterances to some of
us who would liked to have
said them. But even if they
had left a few axioms adages
and antidotes I probably never
would have said them because
I have always been to busy say-
ing the wrong thing.
If I ever pass a compliment
on anyone, nobody even knows
the fellow, but just let me say
something derogatory about
somebody, and it turns out that
I’m talking to the man’s broth-
er, and his big brother at that.
I have spent more time apologi-
zing, pouring oil, greasing
wheels and trying to explain my-
self out of tense situations
than it took Benjamin to write
his famous Almanac.
There was the time that one
of our kids spilled a glass of
water at the supper table, and
I discoursed at length on the
causes, costs and painful re-
sult's of carelessness, then when
I was getting my “going -
to - bed - glass”, of grape juice,
dropped the whole new quart
bottle.
Then all the family suffered
with me the day that we were
eating lunch in one of San An-
tonio’s larger restaurants, and
I pulled the blooper of the year.
One of the girls was trying to
eat, and at the same time,
balance her weight on one leg of
the chair, while trying to see
everybody in the place.
i I observed the situation and
i decided to gently call her at-
tention to the dangers involved.
> Reaching across the table as
: far as I could, I failed to at-
tract her attention, so I lean-
ed my chair over to get
’ closer and since the floors
’ were evidently freshly waxed,
f my chair went out from under
’ me, and jabbed the customer
i just to the back of us, causing
him to spill his coffee. My pre-
dicament was most precar-
. ious, since I was sitting flat on
I the floor and my chin was hung
on the surface of our dining ta-
ble.
I thought that we would sa-
vour our food, and let those
who were there be gone by the
time we were to leave, but it
didn’t turn out that way, be-
cause as we left, everybody in
the place nodded knowingly, and
smiled as I paid the check.
We always went to Brecken-
ridge Park when we went to San
Antonio when the girls were
small, so while at the park one
of the girls was running along
the top of the rock wall that
channels the river. I never said
a word. I almost knew if I
did correct her, that I’d be the
first man to be dragged
the river.
Then, there was the
that I was visiting Cecil
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Silver Bell
OLEO ..
Hershey’s
Cocoa .
the then famous Yodelling Coun-
try Boy of station WBAP, Fort
Worth. I had known Cecil for
years, and had taught him to
play the guitar, but had never
known what a poor date he
could be until that fateful night
when we double - dated. He
got me a date with a girl who
had written him a fan letter
and of course a girl whom I
had never seen before. He went
with this charming little re-
head who worked in the neigh-
borhood tailor shop.
Sally Jones, my date, turned
out to be a. 7th grade drop out
but a post graduate talker. I
finally told her that I wanted to
say a few words. Anyway though
famous as a folk singer
Cecil was a droll date and
somehow me or Cecil s date
said something in Spanish and
the other answered and that
started the whole mess. She told
me what she didn t think
of her date and I concur-
red that mine was even worse,
all this in Castillian Spanish.
What I thought was stark
admiration from Sally, at be-
ing able to date a bi-lingual col-
lege man, turned out to be
stark fury, because Sally had i
been raised in South Texas,
and knew more Spanish in a
minute than me and the other
girl did in a life time.
That happened at 8:30 and by
9 both girls were home, and
Cecil and me were back at
his apartment, - strumming his
expensive guitar, and wonder-
ing why fate had to be so cruel.
Anyway, there is one person
whom I hope I never see again,
and that person is Sally Jones.
BAR-S x ft £ « /
BACON
BEEF LIVER
ROUND STEAK
SHOULDER ROASTSEVEN STEAK
ARMOUR GRADE A
Fryer whole only lb. 31c
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IBsK^RiPTION
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UNSWEETENED - GRAPE,
CHERRY, STRAWBERRY, ORANGE
KOOL-AID
6 Packs 23c
Limit 6 With Groc. Order
NESCAFE
Hunt’s—300 can
SPINACH 300 can 17c
Del Monte—2’A can
Pear Halves ...
Hunt’s—46 oz. can
Tomato Juice
Snow Bright
RICE
Comstock Mixed
Bean Salad .... 303 can 37c
Hornel
Pure Lard .... 4 lb. ctn 63c
Pillsbury—13% oz. box
Hot Roll Mix
With $5 or over purchase
Fresca .... 6 pack ctn 29c tx.
Criscoe
Shortening .... 3 lb. ctn. 79c
Starcrust
BISCUITS 2 tubes 17c
lb. 65c
lb. 49c
lb. 89c
lb. 59c
lb. 69c
Pillsbury
FLOUR ..
Del Monte
CATSUP 14 oz. btl 23c
Mortons House—12% oz. can
Chicken & Dumplings....45c
Pet—8 qt.
Powdered Milk
Liquid—1 pt. 6 oz.
TREND plastic btl. 43c
Fuller’s—Dill or Sour
PICKLES Qt. 43c
Carnation, Chunk Style
TUNA 1-2 can 29c
Swanson’s—5 oz. can
Chicken Spread .
Campbell—16 oz. can
Pork & Beans....2 cans 35c
New Potatoes....2 cans 23c
Stillwell—300 can
MAXWELL HOUSE, FOLGERS,
MARYLAND CLUB
COFFEE
When 1 first arrived in Mathis to look over the town and
this newspaper, i have to admit, my first impression wasn t
anything io ger exciied about, ihe main thoroughfares had i
guHars riHeJ wilh trash a..d sufficient dirt to grow some quite t
heahhy juiuison grass and six fool sunflowers. Many lots in 1
she area were veritable jungles wirn unknown var-
hients possibly iurking in Their midst. . ,
Sjre frui'iSs seemed io have a certain dead, or dying ap- (
pearance, with pealing paint and posters proclaiming some
fo‘rg't>Uen dance o contest held two or three years ago.
Eiijoying • walking, even in the hottest weather, 1 made
she rounds of ihe downtown stores and introduced myself to
everyone wiio would hold still long enough. The impression
i received was one of lethargy. Lei things slide, nobody else is
doing anything, who ca^es, or io sum up, I couldn’t care less!
attitude! She general idea conveyed was that this town had
been passed by, progress. It had missed it’s chance and
was just plodding along and getting nowhere.
Then too, there was a certain amount of discord that re-
minded me of rhe hound dog that found a bone, but after
gnawing on it, he became sick. Being a smart dog, he buried
this bone and left it for sometime. Later, he thought about
the bone, dug it up, gnawed in it again, and got sick again.
This dog was a fine hunting hound, but he continued to dig
up that old bone and give it another gnawing every so often.
You know, that old dog never did learn that if he left that
old bone buried and forgotten, it wouldn’t make him sick.
He just kept on digging if up, and getting sick!
During the 36 days I have been here in Mathis I have
seen a wonderful transformation -— a change in the appear-
ance of the city and, more important than all else, a change in
the attitude of the man on the street. I might add, a street
that has been cleaned of al! trash, dirt and weeds and has re-
ceived fresh, beautiful seal coat. The City crews have been
doing yoeman work in cleaning up the curb areas along city
streets, and were invaluable to the cleaning of Front Street and
San Patricio Ave. prior to the State Highway seal coat job.
As I hear it, the City and State crews hauled off about 25
yards of unwanted material from the newly paved streets.
The City crews have been going full-steam in picking up
al! of the trash that area citizens have cleaned off of their
property. This has included grass, weeds, tree limbs, trees,
rocks, bricks, car bodies, old tires, old refrigerates, old sinks,
and just about anything you’d care to mention.
The catalyst that has gotten all interests and elements
of the city pulling together has been, and is, the “Mathis
Clean-Up Campaign”, which started around the first of June.
(One of my first head-lines was “June Declared Clean-Up
Week”, hut even this boo-boo didn’t dampen the spirits of
of this drive.)
The City Council and State Highway Department got the
ball rolling, and it’s amazing how the individual citizens
have taken over. Every day you can drive down any street
and see a man or woman, usually joined by children, busy
as can be, getting their yard spruced up and trash put in
r^ns er boxes that they know won’t sit long before the City
trash trucks haul them away.
In thirty-six days, the City of Mathis has put on Seven-
t-ea^ije Boots and made great strides in cleaning up, and
its appearance.
But the main change has been in the attitude of the man
and woman in the street! A friendly “Howdy” or “Hello,”
.ac with a smile greet old friends and strangers
dike. And after all, you know that, “a stranger is just a friend
ybu haven’t met yet.”
Trday,. Mathis, Texas is a clean, beautiful, friendly city,
, ahd pa dder, that’s saying a mouth full.
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Mathis, Texas _______
Greent Giant
PEAS 303 can 27c
Argo, Whole
BEANS 303 can 17c
Franco American
Spaghetti .... 2 can for 35c
Detergent—(Limit 1 with groc.
order)
FAB reg. size 29c tx.
Hormel—4 oz. can
Vienna Sausage 2 cans 49c
MATHIS NEWS
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McBride, H. H. The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 1968, newspaper, June 27, 1968; Mathis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1205891/m1/2/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mathis Public Library.