The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 13, 1969 Page: 1 of 8
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Visit Lake
Mathis
VOL. XLVI1I
MATHIS, TEXAS 78368, THURS. MORNING, NOV. 13, 1968
10 Cents
Per Copy
EIGHT PAGES — NO. 4
The 1969-70 Homecoming Queen,
Miss Darlene Sugarek was
crowned prior to gametime Fri-
day night and reigned over the platform are the runnerups in second from left; and Miss Deb-
Pirate victory with obvious de- the competition, Miss Darla Di- hie Laechelin, right.
light. Seated with her in the bie, left; Miss Deborah Edge,
Mike
Here...
Registration for the 1970 vot-
ing year will be governed by Se-
nate Bill 8, which became law
on October 1st. There are signi-
ficant changes in the statue
which affect registration.
“Principally, Application may
be made on any form which
supplies all the required infor-
mation.” No longer are we re-
quired to use forms prescribed
by the local Tax Assessor, and
the Tax Assessor “. . . shall not
refuse to accept any application
which contains sufficient infor-
mation to enable him to deter-
mine that the applicant is eligi-
ble to register.”
In addition, the information re-
required on the form has been
duced. The form no longer re-
quires social security number,
occupation, or dates of residency
in the county and state. On page
4 is a sample form which is
being distributed by the Secre-
tary of State to all Tax Asses-
sors. Those who wish may cut
this form out and mail to the
County Tax assessor in Sinton in
order to receive their registra-
tion certificate.
There are no plans cur-
rently known to make any regis-
tration drive in Mathis. Accord-
ing to a report from the Court-
house in Sinton the County tax-
Assessor and Collector will mail
registration forms to all those
who voted last year. Anyone
wishing to vote in 1970 who did
not vote in this precinct in 1969
will have to register on his own
initiative.
With an important state-wide
election of a senator coming up
in 1970 it should be important
to each of us as citizens to not
let January 31 pass without re-
gistering to vote.
SP County Dips Into 1970
Funds To Pay County Bills
San Patricio County dipped in-
to current taxes Monday to bail
out two commissioners who had
overspent their budget.
Charlie Spiekerman, commis-
sioner of precinct No. 2, asked
the court for an additional 16,
000 and Pat Kindle, Com-
missioner of Precinct No. 4, ask-
ed the court for $6,000. Both re-
quests were granted.
It has been evident for some
several months that the budget
in several of the precincts would
be overspent this year and the
Kiwanis Club
Gets Started
Here on Wed.
The Kiwanis Club of Mathis
got off to a start Wednesday
with an early morning break-
fast at the Clubs and Library
Building. Charlie Brown was in-
stalled as the president of the
new club and presided at the
meeting.
Lowell Didear of Corpus Chris-
ti, the district lieutenant gov-
ernor, was on hand to install the
officers. Others installed were
James Knight, vice-president;
Lonnie Messer, president-elect;
and Mr. Jostes, secretary-trea-
surer.
Plans were discussed for a
charter night dinner at the Red
Barn on November 24.
An inter-club from Taft at-
tended the morning meeting yes-
terday. Present were T. G.
Tucker, Dr. John Tunnell, Vergil
Wilson, Robt. Harper, Travis
Mumme, Harold Ewald and
Coleman Miller.
warning was given by the county
auditor to the commissioners on
more than one occasion, but,
judging from expenditures the
past month not all of the com-
missioners took the warning se-
riously.
As of October 31 the Road and
Bridge Fund of Precinct No. 2
had a bank balance of $1,526.
Expenditures in this precinct
last month amounted to $9,320.
Precinct 2 is operating under a
current budget calling for an ex-
penditure of $127,935 for the
calendar years and as of October
31 a total of $125,890 had been
spent.
In Precinct No. 4, where the
annual budget is set at $131,003,
a total of $128,440 has been spent
to date. Expenditures in this
•precinct last month totaled $5,-
309. This Precinct had a Bank
Balance of $1,371.
Actually the county found six
of their seven funds overspent
on October 31 for a total of $57,-
588 over the budget.
The county’s general fund was
over spent in the amount of
$9,141. The budget calls for
monthly expenditure of $73,654
in this department and during
the month of October checks
were issued in the amount of
$81,389.
Barbara McLish
Models for 4-H
Barbara McLish of Mathis
professional model, gave a pro-
gram for the San Patricio Coun-
ty 4-H groups in the home mak-
ing building in Sinton on Novem-
ber 4. Miss McLish is planning
to open a modeling school in Ma-
this soon.
The Road and Bridge General
fund was within its budget limits
Precinct No. 1 balance showed
that A. T. Grandberry was $12,-
229 over his budget on October
31. This precinct has an annual
budget of $125,750, which allows
for an expenditure of $10,479
monthly. Last month Mr. Gran-
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Richard Teller
Promoted in USAF
San Antonio — Richard F. Tel-
ler, son of Mr. and Mrs. James
A. Teller of Greenville, N.Y.,
has been promoted to sergeant
in the U.S. Air Force.
Sergeant Teller is a supply
inventory specialist at Kelly
AFB, Tex.
A 1964 graduate of Cairo
N.Y.) Central High School, the
sergeant attended Ulster County
Community College, Kingston,
N.Y.
His wife, Pauline is the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Adames of
Mathis, Tex.
Jimmie McAllister
At USN Air Station
In Jacksonville, Fla.
Airman Jimmie O. McAllister,
USN, husband of the former
Miss Cheryl J. Jennings of Ma-
this, Tex., is serving with Wea-
ther Reconnaissance Squadron
Four at the U. S. Naval Air
Station in Jacksonville, Fla.
The squadron is known as the
hurricane surveillance and year-
round weather reconnaissance
for the Atlantic Ocean, Carrib-
bean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
School . m 1 tes
Liability Insurance;
Grant-Aid Request
1
Flax, Oats and
Wheat Being
Planted Here
Winter crops planted and be-
ing planted in this area consist
of flax for commercial purposes
and oats and wheat for grazing
of cattle.
The Tynan area raised the lar-
gest flax crop on record last
year, and were favored with re-
cord yields. The area got the
right amount of rain at the right
times, and then about time for
harvest the weather conditions
were right, and for a long
enough period of time for the
crop to be harvested and shipped
before rains came again.
This was not true two years
before, when farmers began to
think that they should have
planted rice, as wet weather
plagued the crop from planting
to harvest. Much damage result-
ed from rain that caused the
pods to rot on the stalk, and
then too, the ground was so wet
until heavy machinery required
to harvest the grain, could not
get in the fields.
It is expected that another
huge crop will be attempted
this year, in fact planting of
large acreages has already be-
gun.
According to Benny Curtiss
manager of a local elevator,
wheat is taking precident over
oats as a grazing crop. The ap-
parent reason for this trend is
that wheat seems to always be
growing. When the weather is
too cold to promote folage
growth, the root system is busy
expanding itself under the
ground so that when topside con-
ditions favor the well developed
root system has all the “ammu-
nition” ready for speedy growth
of stalk and fruit.
Cover crops, once widely
planted are giving way to the
more direct method of fertiliz-
ing. The exception to this rule is
when acreage is put in govern-
ment soil bank, and regulations
of the transaction make manda-
tory such crops.
The Mathis Culture Club will
meet in the home of Mrs. Gor-
don Cabaniss on November 19
at 4 p.m.
las Ki it
Announces
Convention
San Patricio County Farm
Bureau will send eight voting
delegates to the 36th annual con-
vention of the Texas Farm Bu-
reau November 16-1-9 in San An-
tonio, according to James Knight
of Mathis, president.
Voting delegates strength at
the state annual meeting is bas-
ed on number of members en-
rolled and the county farm bu-
reau ended its fiscal year with
806 member families on the rolls
More than 800 voting delegat-
es from 203 organized county
Farm Bureaus will be in San An-
tonio to adopt policies for the
state Farm Bureau for 1970.
They will also approve recom-
mendations on national issues
to be forwarded to the annual
•meeting of the American Farm
Bureau Federation which is slat-
es for Washington, D.C. in De-
cember. Proposed changes in
the Texas Farm Bureau’s by-
laws are also expected to be
acted upon this year.
Speakers at the meeting in-
clue Rep. Gus Mutscher of Bren-
ham, Rep. W. S. Heatly of Pa-
ducah, and Sidney Dean, presi-
lent of the Texas Farm Bureau.
Miss Joan Miller of Sinton has
recently been appointed to re-
present District 12 on the young
peoples advisory committee. She
will go to San Antonio Saturday
for an orientation meeting in pre-
paration for the young peoples
activities, which include queen
contest, talent find and talk
meet.
Justice Earnings
For Month Announced
The six justice courts report-
ed earnings in the total amount
of $8,773.38 for the month of
October.
By precincts the earnings
were: $673.40, Precinct 1, Sin-
ton; $3,662.00; Precinct 2, Odem;
$949; Precinct 4, Portland; $2,39-
.30, Precinct 5, Mathis; $514,
Precinct 6, Aransas Pass and
$645.68, Precinct 8, Taft.
The Mathis school district
board of trustees met Monday
night. The meeting was attend-
ed by Boardmen, Beard, Stapp,
Henning, Rivera, Tyson and
Rackley.
The board voted approval of
last month’s minutes and pay-
ment of bills for the month of
October.
Next os the agenda was the
discussion of the requirements
of the new state law which have
removed govt, immunity t o
civil court action in cases of
personal injury. This immunity
has in the past applied to all le-
vels of government including
school districts. The new law
makes it mandatory that person-
al liability insurance be taken
out by the school district for the
limit of liability, which is $100,-
000 to $300,000 dollars.
The cost of this insurance runs
in the area of $1500 a year for
the 25 vehicles owned by the
school district. The board voted
to authorize the business office
to request bids from several in-
surance companies on this cov-
erage.
The law removing immunity
to tort claims goes into effect
January 1, 1970.
The board, in other action,
voted to place a 1960 Internation-
al bus with a capacity of 72 pas-
sengers up for public bids. Bids
will be accepted by the business
office until the first board meet-
ing of 1970.
Superintendent Masur also in-
formed the school board of re-
cent inquiries by Paul Garza
and Associates into various de-
tails of the district’s student
statistics and financial affairs
for the purposes of fulfilling thier
contract with the city under the
federal 701 Urban Planning
Grant. Masur advised that co-
operation with this project was
desirable provided the results
were objective and non-partisan.
The board gave Masur the go
ahead in supplying the needed
information to the firm.
Mrs. Henderson, business man
ager for the schools, informed
the board that investigation of
the state laws regarding require-
ments for public notice of school
board meetings have revealed
that such notice must be placed
in the post offices and or court
houses within the district. Pre-
vious practice in Mathis had
been news items in the city
newspaper. Henderson informed
the trustees that in the future
such notices will have to be post-
ed in Sinton, George West, and
Beeville to fulfill the require-
ments and intent of the law.
In addition, Henderson stated
that along with the posting of
the time and place of school
board meetings the law required
the posting of the full agenda.
Furthermore the board was li-
mited to action on only those it-
ems listed on the posted agenda.
Also under consideration by
the board was a proposal ad-
vanced by the school administra-
tion for seeking financial aid
from the National School Lunch
Program and the Title I pro-
gram fro the purposes of refur-
nishing and remodeling of the
school’s cafeteria facilities some-
time within the year. The pos-
sibility of state and or federal
aid for bringing the school’s ca-
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City Buys New Motor
For Water Well No. 7
The Mathis city council met
last Wednesday evening in a spe-
cial session to discuss the re-
cent problems with water well
seven.
The motor of the well was sent
to Crane Supply in San Antonio
for tear-down and analysis, ear-
lier in the week. Crane Supply
reported Wednesday that the mo-
tor of the pump was completely
burned up and would require
replacement before the pump
could be returned to service.
The city council voted to ac-
cept Crane Supply’s offer on a
new motor at a cost of $2631.
The motor is a 30 h.p. motor.
The trade-in value of the old
motor has not been determined
but Crane has given an estimate
of about four to six hundred
dollars on the value of the old
motor.
The net cost of this latest well
problem will cost the city some-
where in the vicinity of $2,000.
The regularly scheduled meet-
ing of the city council fe set for
Thursday, November 13.
Pirates Stage Come-from-Behind Victory To Thrill Homecoming Crowd
The Mathis Pirates wrote an-
other thriller into the books Fri-
day night as they pleased an ov-
erflow homecoming crowd by
taking a come-from-behind vic-
tory over the Wooodsboro Eag-
les 26 to 20. The Pirates, who
were trailing 20 to 18 with just
three minutes, left in the 4th
quarter caught a relaxed
Eagle defense napping, and on
the first play from scrimmage,
Ricky Freitag burst through the
line from his own 35 yard line
and outraced the Woodsboro se-
condary to their goal. A final
clearing block was thrown by
Willie Zamudio about the Eagles
45 yard line. Before the game
was over the Pirates had held
the Eagles on dowss on their
own 30 yard line and had punch-
ed to the one yard line before
they withdrew he cutlass from
the Eagles ribs and settled for a
6 point victory
On commenting about the final
T.D. run by Freitag, Coach Gan-
dy stated that the Eagles were
expecting us to go strictly to
our passing game since they
had us deep in our own terri-
tory and it being so late in the
game. Gandy outsmarted the
Eagles as he called off-tackle
play that saw some perfect line-
blocking and downfield running
by Freitag.
The Pirates again won the
game honors rushing and first
downs as they put four T.D.’s
across to also win on the score-
board. Coach Gandy would not
single out any individual efforts
for special commendation after
the bame as he felt every in-
dividual who played contributed
his part to the overall team vic-
tory.
What was obvious to those who
have followed the team this year
was the renewal of the kind of
determination that the Pirates
have mustered this year for on-
ly a few games, with Rock-
port game the primary example.
The Pirate backs, Urquizo, Al-
varado and Freitag ran with ex-
cellent second efforts that re-
quired host of tacklers to bring
them down. The Pirate line com-
posed of Eggert, Zamudio, Nel-
son, Schoepf, Galloway did an
excellent job of moving out the
big front five io the Woodsboro
defense .And the defensive unit
clayed a tough team-like game
that saw only a few metal er-
rors allow the Eagles any “free
land”.
Outstanding on defense were
several specialist who don’t play
much offense. Some of these
were Robert Piaz and Pete Agui-
lar, Johnny Tobin and Tucker
Rackley. All of these boys play
bang-up defensive games as did
regulars like Urquizo and Scho-
epf.
The Game
The Woodsboro Eagles won the
toss and accepted the kickoff
which they returned to the 44
of Mathis. After the Mathis de-
fenses held the Eagles punted to
the 1 yard line of Mathis. After
ekeing our a first down at the
11 the Eagles held the Pirates
and a 26 yard punt gave the ball
to Woodsboro in good field posi-
tion at the Pirates 37 yard line.
After moving the ball to the Ma-
this 25 yard line the Eagles
pitched wide to Avery who skirt-
ed left end for the first score of
the game. The Eagles tacked on
the extra points and the score
stood 8-0 with 6 minutes left in.
the first quarter.
Mathis quickly got back in the
game two minutes later on the
back of a fake punt which gain-
ed 22 yards and three consecu-
tive completions which over-
came a 15 yard clipping penalty,
the last a 31 yard pass to Friske
for the Pirates first score. The
try for the extra points fell short
Ricky Freitag comes to the end
of the trail Friday night as two
Woodsboro Eagles close in for
the tackle in early first quarter
action. Ricky, who has gained
over 700 yards in the last three
games added another outstand-
ing night to his credit as he
rushed for over 150 yds. behind
some fine line and downfield
blocking. His longest run was a
65 yard run scoring burts off
tackle with 3 minutes left in
the game........
and the score stood 8 to 6 in fa-
vor of Woodsboro with 4 minutes
left in the first quarter.
The Pirates got their first real
break of the game on the next
series as they saw the Eagles
drive to the 8 yard line before
a fumble by Avery stopped the
drive short.
The Pirates took the ball and
moved no where. Freitag took
the snap from center and quick-
kicked the ball was partially
blocked and a Woodsboro lad
made an effort to control the
ball at the Pirate 13 yard line
only to see the ball skkter away
into the hands of a Pirate. This
gave renewed life to the Pirate
drive as it set them up with a
first down on the 13 yard line.
The Pirates took advantage of
this break and moved hte ball
downfield to the'37 yard line of
Woodsboro before the drive
broke down again.
The the Eagles cranked up
their passing game as they over-
came a third and 25 yards com-
situation with a 30 yard com-
pletion to Borden winch set them
up with first and ten on the 20
yard line of Mathis Then me
Eagles got their first real break
of the game when they faced
fourth and ten tr go at the 20
of Mathis. The Pirates jumped
off sides and then allowed a
completion to the 2 yard line,
then a T.D. by Ship as the Eag-
les ran the score to 14 to B.
F.ackiey intercepted the try tor
extra point.
Mathis scored again after a CO
yard quick kick by Freitag and
some determined defensive play
xorced the Eagles to punt at the
Woodsboro 25 yard line. With
30 seconds left in the half, a bad
snap from center sailed over the
head of the punter and a whole
host of Piates swarmed over the
ball in the end zone to give Ma-
this six points. Blackie Urquizo
was the last man off of the bad.
Ma’bis could not push over the
extra points and the score stood
12 t 14 as the half ended.
Ihe Pirates received the open-
ing kickoff and it was obvious
that the game strategy was
changed at the intermission as
the Pirates called upon half-
back Blackie Urquizo 5 times on
the drive which covered 66 yards
uj 8 plays. Urquizo carried for
26 yards during the drive as
he punched over from the one
yard line after Porter had hit
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Singleton, J. M. The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 13, 1969, newspaper, November 13, 1969; Mathis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1206042/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mathis Public Library.