The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 4, 1958 Page: 1 of 8
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“They came quickly and some
one with the fire department
took over and started giving
artificial respiration,” said Mrs.
Underwood.
Mrs. Ui derwocd and her four
Brenda Lee Underwood Has
Narrow Escape From Drowning
worked over her unconscious
child, others called the emer-
gency corps of the Alvin Fire
Department.
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Registration for the 10th year
at Alvin Junior College will
start on Thursday, Sept. 4,
said Registrar Neal M. Nelson.
The hours of registration on
each date are 9 a.m., 2 p.m.
and 7 p.m. Sophomores, stu-
dents with 24 or more hours
of college credit, will register
Sept. 4, freshmen students will
register Sept. 5-8-9.
Mr. Nelson asked that fresh-
men register as follows: A-G
I register on Sept 5; H-O register
I on Sept. 8; and P-Z register on
also four new Sept 9
° All classes will begin on sche-
an* 1 Accident Rate
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ready to settle down and hatch
them out.
“In fact.” Mrs. Baxter said,
“It would take both of the
cover up that
| A total of 2,316 students
were in classes on Sept. 2 and <
at least 100 more were expect- '
ed to register before the end
of the week, said Superinten-
dent A. B. Templeton.
Mr. Templeton said there
were 2,206 students registered
on the first day of sch'jol last
year and 90 more registered
within the next two days.
Late registrations are expect
ed throughout the first week
of school and even into the |
second week, the school admin -1
istrator said.
Pre-registration periods were ;
set up throughout the latter:
weeks of August and Mr. Tern
pieton said students filed i
straight to their classrooms on ;
opening day wthout any of the !
usual “first day confusion.''
There were 680 students in
the primary building, 608 in
the elementary building, 550 in
the junior high school build-.
ing, and 476 registered in high ■
school.
Figures for the Liverpool and
Chocolate Bayou schools were
not available Tuesday as the
school telephone had not been
connected there, it was report-
ed.
Almost daily showers of rain
during the last week in August
plagued the area rice farmers
who are at the peak of the har-
vesting season and rushing to
get the zemainder of the 1958
grain in to the dryers
Alreday, some 100,000 bar
rels of rice has been cut on
the Briscoe Irrigation Canals
alon and Kermit Dyche of that
company, said officials expect
some 250,000 barrels before the
season ends.
“We’ve had two sales but we
haven’t .sold much rice,” Mr.
Dyche said. “The mills are bid-
ding awfully close to loan
value but the prices are pretty
low and we are just going to
wait it cut and see what hap-
pens.”
R. H. Stansel, manager, said
some 5,000 to 7,000 barrels of
grain is arriving daily, most
This is the first year that
clases at A vin Junior College
have not started on the same
date as th-* public schools.
However, tl is year the college
will begin legistering on Sept.
4 and classes will open on
Sept. 15.
There were 435 students re-
gistered in the junior college
last year ard some 450 arc ex-
pected this year.
will be set up in the college
cafeteria and lounge.
Dean W. H. Meyers has an-
nounced that students who en-
ter Alvin Junior College for
the first time will take entrance
exams. The next examination
period will be Thursday, Sept.
11. at 7 p.m. in the College Stu-
dent Union Building.
iSta
Nineteen-month-old Brenda
Lee Underwood, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Under-
wood, was possibly alive this
it but she loves the water and
| begs to be put in the bath tub!”
110th Term
Registration At Junior
College Is Started
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ped at the Santa Fe rail-
d tracks. The Keir car was
led into a car driven by
!In Annie Kiri, 50, of Alvin.
No damage was done to the
Moore vehicle or the Kiri car
ut the Keir car had some
:100 damages.
Officers reported, also, that
Mrs. Howard Keir, a passen-
( i in the car with her hus-
.ind, suffered bruises and
heck. Hospitalization was not
nred. however, and she was
r.kcn to her home in Houston.
Cheif Shepperd said that of
66 accidents reported here
In- y .ar. 35 of them have oc-
ured on Gordon Street. Of
• 105 accidents logged dur-
Bird’s Eye View
A parakeet, owned by Mrs.
Selma Baxter, takes a dim view
of doing the expected. In fact,
she must have heard that
things “are cheaper by the
dozen!”
This bird, one of a pair kept
by Mrs. Baxter, has already
laid 12 eggs and still isn’t
The child was believed to
have tumbled into the tank
shortly after 8 p.m. and she
j aid not fully regain conscious-
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ar- until about 2:30 ama, .
She was taken to the Alvin
■ Memorial Hospital and treat-
I cd for shock and given medi-
| cines to forestall the dangers
of pneumc aia.
Mrs. Underwood whose hus-
band is now working in Daw-
son, Minn., and learned of the
i r ear-tragedy only by telephone.
| said that Brenda Lee is "back
to normal.”
“She is better off than I am,”
said the child’s mother. “I still
j Supervisors of the Brazoria -
I Galveston( Soil Conservation
District held their August meet-
ing last week at the Lone Pine
I Farm near Danbury with J. M.
j Skrabanek as host.
In addition to the supervis-
ors, others present were some*
50 farmers, ranchers, business-
men and agricultural workers.
Speaker at the meeting was
Olan Dil'on, soil conservation
I biologist of Rosenberg. Mr. Dil-
• Ion talked on the place and
j value of wildlife in sound con-
servation: and profitable land
use plan for farms and ranches
in the upper Gulf Coast area.
A bountiful fish dinner was
■ served at noon by Mr. Skra-
banek and his employees. One
> of the large reservoirs in Skra-
. banek’s rice-fish rotation pro-
vided the delicious catfish
served.
Two staff members of
\ in State Bank have return-
d from Austin where they at-
• i led a four-day conference
• isored by the Texas Bank-
i rs Association.
They were Tom Blakeney Jr.
! "ice f resident and cashier, and
Frank Renfrow, assistant cash-
County Fair
To Open Oct. 7
Bigger and better is still the
theme of the Brazoria County
Fair, and Oct. 7 is the opening
date for the 16th Annual Bra-
zoria County Fair.
Among the numerous events
scheduled each year, one
which attracts a lot of atten-
tion is the scrambling for beef
calves by County 4-H and FFA
members. Three scrambles are
scheduled this year to take
place during the two rodeo per-
formances Friday and Satur-
day nights, Oct. 10 and 11. In
the past there have been two
beef scramble only, but this
year a Dairy Scramble has
been added, and 4 sponsors
have been secured to give cer-
tificates valued at up to $200,
which the boys will use to pur-
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children, Brenda Lee, Audy
Dean. 5, Terry Lynn, 3, and
Susan Renee, three months,
were
nold Kirk at 1503 Stadium
Drive when the 19-months-old
child wandered away from the I
house.
Mrs Underwood was tending
her youngest child when the j
toddler was missed. She rush- .
ed in search of her and dis-
covered her lying face down
in a horse trough now’ being
during the died as a fish pond.
.... u -bert; “I don’t think she was -ven ...............
theI breathing when I pulled her terrified when I think of
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charged has been 95 cents on
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this swimming
season an “average” one which
saw the pool facilities busy at
all times under the direction
of Mrs. Betty Copeicnd, non!
manager, and Glenn York,
swimming instructor.
The pool grossed some $9,000
during the three months swim-
ming season and Williams said
expenses will be about $5,500.
Since funds were borrowed to
construct the pool, a total of
$3,300 will be paid on the pool
debt, and other funds will be
used to expand park facilities
in the area of the pool.
"We want to open a park:
area south of the pool,” said
Commander Williams. “We hope
to have shaded areas with Celt 1180 JVlCclI
benches for spectators.” i ci IT
In fact, the VFW has beer J $ bCFV€(l 1 0
interested m building up the j ~ . • • .
pool equipment and buildings ( OnSerVatlOllIStS
for the past five years and now |
has a $40,000 investment in
Membership
Barbecue Is
Set Sept. 18
Alf Jernigan. assistant gene-
ral manager of the East Texas
Chamber of Commerce, will
come from Longview to install
new Chamber of Commerce
officials here at the chamber’s
annual membership barbecue
on Thursday, Sept. 18
The annual oarbecue will be
held at 7 p.m, in the American
Legion Memorial Community
•nter and the dinner will be
catered by Fred Sellers of the
Trophy Inn.
Tickets at $1.50 per person
are now on sale and the families
of chamber members and their
guests are invited to attend the
affair.
At the September meeting.
Jesse Alexander of Alvin will |
“Drowning”
Victim Is
“High and Dry”
I he 17th Texas Bankers Con-
nee was conducted on the
- .p’is of the University of
Texas on Aug. 31, Sept. 1, 2
and 3.
lectures and discussion per-
ils covered a wide range of
inking subjects. Social events
included a cruise on the Colo-
rado River.
The board of directors of the
Rotary Club of Alvin will meet
at 5 p.m. today at the Alvin
State Bank, A. Pat Daniels,
president of the club, has an-
nounced.
Plans for a reception for
Norman Peterson, who ds study-
ing in New Zealand on a Ro-
tary International Fellowship
and will return here in Decem-
ber, will be made at the meet-
ing, Daniels said.
ing the same period last year,
52 of those were Gordon Street
mishaps.
This year, 12 persons have
been injured. At the same time
last year, there were 22 in-
juries.
The chief also said that some
45 per cent of the drivers in-
volved in accidents here are
out-of-town drivers.
“August was an unusual
month in anybody’s town,” the
chief laughed. “Five of our 10
accidents involved parked cars!
The chie? continued in a more
serious vein when he said:
“The tourist season is about
over and judging by the figures
showing 45 per cent of our
accidents caused by out-of-
town drivers, we can all work
together to cut our accident
ration by that percentage or
more.”
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Reserved seat tickets for the
Points local football season are sti'1
on sale at the school business
office, said Ed Brown. The
tickets may be purchased at
the price of $1 each through
Friday. Sept. 5.
After that date, Mr. Brown
said all football tickets will
be sold for $1.25 each.
Sept. 1 marks the beginning
of a new motor vehicle inspec-
tion period for more than four
million veh de owners in Tex-
as, according to the Texas De-
partment o’ Public Safety.
Inspection stations through-
out the st; te will open their
doors for the inspection period
that runs through April 15,
1959. There are more than 4.300
stations in ihe state which have
been autho ized to check auto-
mobiles ani trucks.
In announcing the opening
date. Col. Homer Garrison Jr.,
director of the Texas Depart-
ment of Public Safety, suggest-
ed that T xas residents have
their trucl s and automobiles
the bo< Innir
Tie period1. This, he said, v/uulci
avi motorists < > ns id er able
time and ir convenience annual-
ly accompanying long waiting
lines at the inspection dead-
JEPHSON
INSURANCE agency
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Joe . ephson
Tom Elliott
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each $100 valuation. This year
the tax rate will be 91 cents
or a four cent decrease for
each $100 valuation.”
Mr. Taylor said the total re-
?elpts expected during 1959 are
$3,(38,115.83. C—
dulc Monday, Sept. 15, he ex-
plained
Curricular offerings include
shorthand, typing, accounting,
general business math, business
machines, economics, education-
al psychology, education al
methods, introduction to edu-
cation, child psychology, com-
position and rhetoric, English
literature, orientation, h a r-
mony and ear training, piano,
organ, harp, design, drawing
and painting, art for elemen-
tary majors, Spanish, French,
textiles and clothing, foods and
nutrition, general woodwork-
ing, machine shop, engineering
drawing, college algebra, tri-
onometry, introductory geo-
metry, differential calculus,
physical education for women,
physical education for men,
general physics, inorganic
chemistry, biology, United
States history, Texas history,
American National and State
Government, and principales of
economics.
A charge of $1 per day, up
to $5, will be charged students
who register late, said the re-
gistrar. Late registrations will
be held Sept. 15 and 17 at 7
pm. and Sept. 16 and 18 at 2
p.m. The registration station
['•AUGUST
' >»es are
L are in
the balance on hand which
is expected at the end of 1958,
available funds will total $4,-
295,230.55.
The expenditures are divided
into six funds. These funds
and the amounts to be spent
during the next year are: Jury
fund, $17,900; road and bridge
fund, $2,093,631; general fund,
$594 232; permanent improve-
ment fund, $136,250; officer’s
salary fund, $453,607.78; and
Interest and smking lund,
$359,472.71.
ALVIN, BRAZORIA COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1958
j Casuality List For ’Jackets
Is High Before Season Starts
Alvin’s high school Yellow
Jackets, crippled before the
season starts, will meet their
first antagonist here Friday
night. Sept. 12.
Coach C. B. Roland said the
District 12-AAA ’Jackets will
face a powerful West Columbia
team, ranked A A this year for
the first time.
The athletic director said Al-
vin’s practice session began
, last Friday at 7:30 a.m. and two
daily practices have been held
since that time. About 50 boys
Yre working out in the pre-
season training bouts.
Pre-season casualties
high this year, the coach said,
and nine of last year’s top
□layers will be out for at least
a portion of the season. Some
will not play at all this year
i as expected.
Donald Meyer has joined the
’J. S Air Force and will not
he available. Jerry Lukens has
: a back injury, Joe Barfield
evered a tendon in his leg in
a motor scooter accident, Lar-
of the rice is moving right out
to the mills.
“The prices offered are right
at loan value,” he said. “The
farmers cannot afford to store
the rice, tacking on a cost of
50 cents a barrel, when the
mills are offering ‘almost-loan’
prices.”
Both Mr Dyche and Mr
Stansel said this season’s rice
is not up to the usual standard
of the Alvin-area grain.
Low quality may be keeping
the prices down, the rice men
believe.
Most of the rice coming in is
chalky and includes a lot of
broken grain.
“Some rice men believe that
the low humidity and high
temperatures when the rice
was heading is the cause of this
condition,” Mr. Dyche sad.
“We haven’t had this prob-
lem in recent years and we
really don’t know for sure what
The Alvin Volunteer Fire De-
partment’s emergency ear, De-
puty A. A. Saveli and the Fro-
berg Funei al Home ambulance
raced to the old wooden bridge
over Chocolate Bayou Sunday
afternoon when it was reported
that a chili had been drowned
there.
Once on the scene, however,
be installed as the new presi- Deputy Saveli discovered the
dent. Riley Godwin is the new- I child had hidden in a nearby
ly elected vice president and i house and nowhere near the
Tom Blakeney Jr. is the trea- ' deep and treacherous waters
surer of the organization. Hollis : of Chocolate Bayou.
McGinness is the manager- Apparen ly the boy, who
secretary. came Iron Houston with bts
Retiring President L. B., family, had decided he'd rather
Manry Jr. appointed A W. remain in the country and at
Webb, Allen Gray, A. Pat Dan-; the waters.de. When his family
iels, Riley Godwin ar.d Alton • decided to return home, he
Burgess to make plans for the' “hid out”.
membership barbecue. When th- Alvin rescue squad
One of the highlights of the I left the scene, the father of the
barbecue will be the naming child was administering punish-
of the 1958 “civic salesman” j ment of a sort which may have
cf the year. M. M. (Bud) Brown made it difficult for the youngs*
was honored with this title in ■ ter to sit down on the home-
1957. ward trek'
causes th chalkiness but we
can’t out-sjuess the weather.”
Mr. Stansel, too, believes
that the extremely hot sum-
mer may have had something
to do with the lower quality.
"We k"ow there are good
growing seasons and bad grow-
ing seasons,” he said, “But we
can’t always pinpoint what
makes up either one!”
It is estimated that the rice
harvest is about 40 per cent
over in this immediate area.
Building Is
On Increase
In August
■ Alvin’s building p e r m its
soared in August to the second
highest point of this year when
the construction of a $24,000
home and a new Gulf service
station boosted the total of per-
mits issued at City Hall.
Building has been slow dur-
in" most of 1958 and the only
month which saw more new
construction than August s $77.-
100 was April when $78,100 in
new buildings were started.
Three new business struc-
tures were begun last month.
One was listed as storage space,
a second was a new beauty
shop and the third was the
$25,000 service station to be
erected just north of the Santa
Fe Railroad on Gordon Street. .
There were ele" fri"r new i
residences begun, said C. P-1
Strickland, city secretary.
Last month, new construe-;
tion totded only $28,500
Building in Alvin reached ;
its peak during 1955 and has !
been slowly decreasing since
that time. Last year, the total
was $514,067 To date this
year, the total is $382,050.
Our Chief Says—
By GLEN SHEPPERD
We were extremely lucky
over our Labor Day weekend
with the heavy influx of tourist
traffic to have only two minor
accidents, both of them being
i ear-end col 1 ision s.
Now that we have Labor Day
behind us, let’s concentrate on
our driving around the school.
Every care and caution should
be taken while driving near the
school.
Of course, the first day of
school created a traffic prob-
lem as usual because of the
lack of parking space.
Court for the county, said F.
A. Taylor, county auditor, as
he Explained that the budget is
only slightly increased over
L95B.
“And this year we
reduced tax 1
out.
the area. Last year, a new con-
cession stand was added
“In four more years, the pool
debt will be paid," said Com-
mander Williams "And I think
that is of special interest to
Alvinites. Many people do not
know that when the pool is
completely paid for, 50 per
cent of ail receipts will be
spent for recreational facilities
in the Cit^y of Alvin.”
“Since ;he community as a
whole assisted in building the
pool, the VFW pledged one-
of (he net receipts for |
recreation once the pool debt
was paid, ’ he explained.
He emphasized that this 50
per cent pf the net profit and
stressed that higi maintenance
costs will lessen the amount
that can be spent on new re-
creational projects.
"We heve had a great deal
of abuse of the poo! and
grounds this year,” Williams
See SEASON ENDS
Page 8, Column 1
2,316 Students Meet
ry Turner has an injured knee ; /
and Bobby lyogers lost several
teeth while swimming. "I TT "W
gsssSept. 2 Classes Here
vacation tri^> to Mexico and ■
contracted a Mexican virus in-
fection.
“West
practicing about 10 days long-
er than we have in Alvin,”
said Coach Roland. “It will be
a hard-fought game the ’Jack-
ets face on their first pre-
district try-ojt but we expect
to find it ah exciting event!”
“Thank You
Barbecue” Is
Set Saturday
The seventp annual barbecue
for voluntee*" firemen of this
area of which the Wiginton-
Hall Insurance : Agency is co-
I sponsor is .scheduled for 5 p.m.
Saturday. Rcjy Thorson, agency
manager, has announced.
Approximately 350 firemen
and other special guests, includ-
ing city and county officials,
are expected, Thorson said.
The barbecue will be held
at the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. W. G. Hall in League fams
City.
Cb-sponsorls of the affair
with the Wiginton-Hall Insur-
nace Agency are Hall’s Insur-
ance Agency of Dickinson and
the League City Insurance
Agency of League City.
Entertainment at the stag
event this year will be provid-
ed by Cecil Bowman ar d his
Arrows, the recording band
headed by the Alvin song-
writer.
"Each year we want to pay
tribute to the volunteer fire-
men of the area who protect
our lives and t property and
keep our insurance rates at a
low figure,” Thorson said.
“The barbecue is our method of
saying ‘Thanks’.”
- • - _ • —---. There
were a few frayed nerves and
lost tempers but I feel that our
ats should be taken off to
the mothers of Alvin for their
cooperation and safe driving
during the first few days of
school.
Remember, there are small
children who have never cross-
ed our streets alone until they
started to schoo . Therefore,
we, the driver. Lave to help
them.
Please cooperate with the
officers around the school as
our only aim is to protect the
lives of your children.
’he precipitation chart in Al-
■ i registered a total of three
'inches of rainfall c
month of August, said Hubert;
Wood, official gauger for Gie t---------- -
■ S Weather Bureau. i «ut a< ,here- sald Mrs’ Under‘
One rain early in August, wood. I L t
m ated about one third of the As the mo her r i< v
•.otal moisture for the 30-day
period. Other rains have been
n the form of almost daily
showers during the last week
of the month.
Last month, a total of 3.61
■ inches of rain fell.
While the three inches of
r; infall during the past month
I ..< about the average for this
• area, it is the highest August
; rainfall since 1953 when re-
: i cord floods sent the total soar-
ing :o 9.96 inches.
j In 1957, a year that saw
double the rainfall of the two
prev.ous years with its 71.30
inchcjs, Alvin-area folks knew
the long drouth was broken.
This year, a total of 24.28
inches of rain has fallen dur-
ing the first eight months.
Peak Despite Showers
Successful Pool Season Ends;
Maintenance Costs Are High
I^abor Day saw the closing of
the VFW Community Swim-
ming Pool here, said Ray Will-
iams, post commander of the
sponsoring Veterans of Foreign
Wars, as he made his annual
report to the community.
“It’s a community pool and
we want the community to
know what is going on,” Will-
said.
He termed
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