The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1973 Page: 1 of 9
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Workouts to begin for football teams
Contract offered to
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open offices here
Dentists...three of them in two separate
locations...will begin practice in Mercedes
this month.
Drs. Jim and Carol Kehoi, who had been
LAST TO SEEK TITLE-These four girls are the last entrants in the ‘Miss Mercedes’
contest set for Thursday, August 9 at the Mercedes high school cafeteria. Girls, and
sponsoring businesses, are, left to right, Patti Ryan, Bunton Auto Supply; Karen
Passmore, Winns Store; Bonnie McDonald, Hil-Way Tractor Company and Josie
Villarreal, Rae-Donna Beauty Salon. [Mercedes Enterprise Photo.]
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the orders. Even though it is a seven day a
week, night and day business, for some
reason September is the slowest month, and
Monday is the slowest day for this local
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Season tickets for the four home games
of the varsity Tigers will go on sale Tuesday,
August 21 at the high school, reports
Principal Salvador Barron.
Prices for the reserved seat section will
be $6.00. General admission single game
adult tickets will be $1.25 each and student
tickets are priced at 50c.
Holders of season reserved tickets who
wish the same seats will have until August
29 to claim those seats. “After that date,”
says Mr. Barron, “all tickets will be sold on
a first come, first served basis.”
Internment followed the chapel services
at Highland Memorial Park. Rev. Carl Israel
officiated at the service.
Pallbearers were, James Lauderdale, Ned
Swarner, Gilson Knapp, Floyd Langford,
Mancel Cockburn and W. C. Ross, III.
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SOFTBALL LEAGUE WINNERS RECOGNIZED—Top teams of the Mercedes Men’s Slo-pitch Softball League were presented trophies
by local merchants Friday. On hand for the presentation were, left to right, Isidro Carr, Jr., league director; Bob Eilers, sponsor;
Catarino Palacios, Borderland team manager [Winning team]; Leo Ramirez, Jaycees manager [Second Place finishers]; Juan Aguilar,
captain, Roy’s Lounge team; Ricardo Rodriguez, manager, Roy’s Lounge team [Consolation prize]; Tom Leavell, manager, McAfee
team [Third Place]; Maxie Moore, sponsor; and R. G. ‘Tiny’ Perez, league president. Not present was Wally Gutierrez, H and H
team, [Sportsmenship winner]. [Mercedes Enterprise Photo.]
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Mercedes based Mid-Valley Florists and Aladin Caterers called 'one stop shopping ‛
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Although it may not seem like it to an
outsider, the flower shop business is a hectic
one. There are slow times, but these are
more than balanced out by the periods like
Mothers Day when all the employees must
work around the clock for two days to fill all
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Most of the shop’s work is done in
weddings, funerals, parties, football mums,
and hospitals, but they are willing to do
anything that calls for floral work. The
average arrangement takes Mrs. Dupree
about 10-15 minutes, however a small item
like a corsage could take only four minutes,
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Aladin Caterers was born December 1,
1969. Since then Mr. Dupree reports that
more than 100,000 people have been served
by this operation. The largest single group
that the caterers have so far served has been
1000, but Mr. Dupree is quick to say that,
“no group is too small for us either.”
“We have four champagne fountains,
complete kitchen facilities to deal with any
size group, the equipment to transport the
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Mrs. Dupree has 31 years experience in
floral arranging, and presently runs the
flower shop. She explains that it is a
Valley-wide business and that through their
connections with the Telafloral network they
can send flowers world wide. Flowers for the
shop are obtained from Pharr, Corpus
Christi, Colorado, and California.
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practicing in a clinic in Galveston, will open
offices in the Lawler Clinic at 418 S. Texas
Avenue. The husband and wife team will
practice during regular office hours as soon
as possible at the Lawler Clinic location.
Dr. Mike Herod, Santa Rosa resident
who now practices in Harlingen, will open
his office in the Chamber of Commerce
building at 534 E. Second Street (Business
Highway 83) on or before August 13. Dr.
Herod will have Mercedes office hours two
days a week and will spend the remainder of
his time at his Harlingen office.
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To meet Monday
Quarterback Club members will meet
Monday, August 6 at the Rodeway Inn in an
effort to ‘wind up’ the football program sales
for this year, according to Herman Merten,
club reporter.
Mr. Merten urges all members and
prospective members to attend the 8 p.m.
meeting.
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ping,” says Mr. Dupree. “It all ties into
together. We can decorate for the wedding
or whatever, and then cater the food for the
reception, dinner or party.”
From a two room shop that they had
seven years ago, the Duprees made the
move to their present location six years ago,
and with the expansion in space that the
move brought, came an expansion in
business. Now the flower shop employs
between 3-10 people depending on the time
of the year and has three vehicles for
deliveries. In the shop itself, there are two
refrigerators with a combined storage space
of 180 sq. ft. for fresh flowers. These areas
require the use of 35 tons of refrigeration.
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in the Mercedes high school cafeteria, at 8
p.m., the evening of August 9.
Contestants and their sponsors are,
Debbie Jones, Davis Real Estate; Yolanda
Moreno, H&H Meat Co.; Francis Sanchez,
Bazar’s Service Station; Debbie Villareal,
Mercedes Super Drug; Aida Saldana,
Cosmetics International; Eva Jean Dalton,
First National Bank; Mary Oralia Garza, W.
B. Lauder; Margaret Wade, Queen City
Laundry; Rosalinda Herrera, Mercedes
Enterprise; Marion McDonald, Bookout-Mit-
chell; Karen Passamore, Winn’s Store;
Bonnie McDonald, Hilway Tractor Co.; Patti
Ryan, Bunton Auto Supply; Josie
Villarreal, Rae-Donna Beauty Salon; and
Cynthia Galvan, Hidalgo County Bank.
Master of ceremonies for the contest will
be Les Brecht, Jr. Entertainment will be by
the Ghost Riders. As in the past, a 50c
admission fee will be charged.
Judging to select this year’s ‘Miss
Mercedes’ will be by Miss Maria Lozano,
Miss Kingsville; Bill Cristoffel, manager of
the Kingsville Chamber of Commerce; and
Tom Mason of Harlingen. Basis of the
judging will be personality, poise, figure,
and beauty. All girls will wear ‘hot-pants’
outfits.
Members of the Chamber of Commerce
‘Miss Mercedes’ committee are Mrs. Francis
Cooper, Mrs. Odilia Champion, Mrs. Lydia
Montoya, Mrs. Mary Terry, Miss Mela
Adame, and Mrs. Colleen Furguson.
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The complete varsity non district
schedule:
September 7, La Feria, there; September
14, Weslaco, here; September 21,
Harlingen, there; September 28, Mission,
here; October 5, Raymondville, there.
October 12 is an open date before district
play.
District 16-AAA play begins October 19
against Donna at Donna. Other district
games are October 26, Raymondville, here;
November 2, Edcouch-Elsa, there; Novem-
ber 9, Falfurrias, here and November 16,
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food, and will provide everything for a
complete bar set-up except the liquor,” says
Mr. Dupree.
“Equipment,” he says, “is a big factor
in the success of a catering operation, and
we have just about everything you could
need. In fact, a good deal of the space that
we have here in our new building is given
over to storage of the needed equipment for
our catering.”
Mid-Valley Florist and Aladin Caterers
are two businesses owned by Mr. and Mrs.
John Dupree, which create a complete
operation that they feel is on a par with
anything in the Valley. It’s a growing
business, and growing here in Mercedes.
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Band rehearsals
begin August 6
Monday, August 6 is the first day of
practice for Mercedes junior and senior
bands, announces Director Ramon Aguilar,
III.
High school bandsmen will have full
band rehearsals Monday and Thursday
nights at 7 p.m. Section drills for the high
school band will be Monday through Friday
for the first two weeks of summer practice-.
Woodwinds will rehearse at 10 a.m., brass
at 11 a.m. and drums at 1:30 p.m.
Junior high band members, under the
direction of Robert Hinds, will meet in
section drills with the following schedule:
Flutes, 9 a.m., Monday; clarinets, 9
a.m., Tuesday; saxophones, 9 a.m.,
Wednesday; cornets and French horns, 10
a.m., Monday and Wednesday; trombones,
baritones and basses, 10 a.m., Tuesday and
Thursday.
“Hope to see you all,” says Mr.' Aguilar,
“let’s start working for another great year.”
Schools face fund
cut of $112,000
“Unless further information is forth-
coming,” says Superintendent of Schools
Lauro Guerra, “Mercedes will face a cutback
of $112,000 in Title I Federal funds in the
1973-74 school year.”
According to Mr. Guerra, 1970 census
figures, upon which partial projections are
made, showed Mercedes having a decline in
the number of students eligible for the Title
I funds. Unless changes are made in the
allotment, total funding under the Federal
programs will drop from $738,000 to
$626,000 with many planned programs
affected by the cutback.
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E. D. Villanueva
E. D. Villanueva, director of
Federal programs for the
Edcouch-Elsa School District for
the past two years, has been
offered the same position in
Mercedes, by a vote of the local
school board in session last
Wednesday.
Mr. Villanueva, age 42, is a
Mercedes native and a 1949
graduate of Mercedes high
school. He has a master’s degree
from Texas A and I University.
He has been with the
Edcouch-Elsa system for 12
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Started in Mercedes just seven years
ago, Mid-Valley Florists has grown into one
of the more important florist operations in
the Valley. Now, combined with Mr.
Dupree’s newer operation, Aladin Caterers,
the Duprees offer their customers a
complete operation.
“We like to think that we offer the
people who come in here one-stop-shop-
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Two a day workouts for Mercedes
football players on the ninth, junior varsity
and varsity levels will begin Wednesday,
August 8 at Tiger Stadium.
Morning sessions will begin at 8 a.m.
and evening workouts will start at 6:30 p.m.,
announced head coach ‘Chipper’ Zamora.
The Tigers, picked by high school
coaches as the district favorite in 16-AAA,
will open the season September 7 against La
Feria.
while a large arrangement could take as long
as 20 minutes.
The Duprees explain that they first
brought their business to Mercedes because
there was no flower shop here, and they felt
that the central location of Mercedes gave
them a perfect location for expansion. “And
apparently,” says Mrs. Dupree,” its
working.”
By Mark Van Berg
In describing the business that he and
his wife Lois have built in Mercedes, John
Dupree says, “With the set-up and
equipment that we have now, we can
compete with anybody in the Valley.”
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Final preparations for the 1973 version of
the annual ‘Miss Mercedes’ contest are
almost complete. This year’s contest will be
Longtime area
resident, C.H.
Hupp, dies at 85
Funeral services for Charlie H. Hupp of
Mercedes, were at 4 p.m., August 1, in the
Stotler Chapel. Mr. Hupp, age 85, died July
30 in Knapp Memorial Hospital.
Born October 5, 1887, he moved to
Mercedes in 1920, and soon after opened an
insurance agency here. He was a veteran of
World War I, a past member of the
Mercedes School Board, and County
Commissioner of Precinct One during World
War II. He belonged to the Methodist
Church, the American Legion, and was a
Master Mason, a member of Knights
Templer, and the Alzafar Shrine Temple.
Mr. Hupp is survived by a sister, Mrs.
Mattie Belle Cox of Alamo.
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