The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 29, 1974 Page: 8 of 10
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posit to date of withdrawal. Remember, savings in by the tenth earn
from the first at Tropical, Harlingen's ONLY insured association —
where money earns the highest rates permitted with maximum safety.
Fish,
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Cost of fuel
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Fuel cost for generating
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and speed you on your way.
We’re always working to provide
Beginning Week of September 2
Class Instruction in Ballet, Tap,
Acrobatic, Modem and
Folk Dance.
Also Exercise Classes for Women.
SUGAR CANE WAS an early crop in the Mercedes area.
“If we’re going to live in Mercedes we ought to love it and try to make it a
better place to live in.
“I love Mercedes very dearly...you can’t help but love it when you’ve been
here some 50 odd years.”
granddaddy of all celebrations,
the third annual Texas Folklife
Festival. September 12-15.
Texas’ Biggest Block Party
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interest rates permitted for maxi-
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savings thru an agency of the
Federal Government.
Drive on down to Tropical...Harl-
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Texas Cultures
Registration All Day Saturday, Aug. 31 At Studio at
111 W. Commercial. La Feria or Call 797-8200
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Mercedes, Texas, Thursday, August 29, 1974 •
I REMEMBER MERCEDES WHEN...---1
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side and loved every minute of it. My husband and I made it all our Sunday
afternoons to visit the shutins and we called on them almost every afternoon
right up until he died...I’d take cookies to the sick and take homemade custards
and things I’d thind they’d enjoy. I received the senior citizens’ award for
Mashed Potatoes,
Fish Sticks,
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ACCEPTS FFA CHAPTER AWARD-Jaime Arguelles, Mercedes FFA member, is shown
above, at right, accepting an electrical award won by the Mercedes chapter at the Future
Farmers of America Awards Banquet at Texas A&I University. The club was one of 28 groups
which received the Central Power and Light Company’s Farm Electrification Award and a
‘superior’ rating at the Area X awards banquet. Making the presentation is -- ce
President Fred Repper.
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Next time you visit us, you’ll be
pleasantly surprised at how quick
and easy it is to use our drive-in
facilities. We now have three
will offer a
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manager 0. T. Baker.
There will be three festivals
making their first appearance
in San Antonio:
The Saint Patrick’s Day
World Championship Rattle-
snake Races of San Patricio
will send two couples to
demonstrate making cactus and
mesquite bean jelly. They will
offer visitors fried rattlesnake
steak, according to spokesman
Lonnie Glasscock, of Mathis.
The State Championship
Fiddlers' Frolics. Hallettsville,
will send old-time fiddlers to
Folklife Festival.
modern drive-in stations...with
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Peach Slices, Hot Corn Rolls,
Coconut Pudding, Chocolate
Milk.
Breakfast - All Schools
MONDAY—Chilled Orange
& Grapefruit Juice, Pre-Sweet-
ened Cereal, Buttered Toast &
Jelly, Milk.
TUESDAY-Orange Juice,
Toasted Waffles & Syrup,
Crisp Bacon, Chocolate Milk.
WEDNESDAY—Mixed Fruit
Juice, Scrambled Eggs &
Sausage, Buttered Toast, Cho-
colate Milk.
before the Texas Railroad
Commission in Austin, the
Manager said.
“Carlton McQueen’s father owned a
bakery...he helped me when I was
trying to take care of some destitute
families-he’d always save his extra
cookies and bread for me to take them
and Garcia, who owned the store, was
always good about helping me take care
of them.
“My husband’s people came from
Germany...we both lived simple lives
and loved Mercedes. Mercedes was
more progressive then than now...we
had four drug stores.
“My husband was quite a violinist.
He and my oldest son who died used to
play together...he first got his violin
from the college in 1907-08. It was a
Stradivarious...one of the earliest.
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San Antonio prepares for Folklife Festival
San Antonio, the fiesta city, fashioned and exotic foods, and Bernice White will demonstrate The historic Night in Old games. o t,
dancing to foot-stompin’ hand pie baking. The women will San Antonio will develop an • da p01
clappin' music. wear old-timey dresses of attractive cosmopolitan decor wild zany Cajuns of Port
Visitors come to participate Yamboree orange; the men in the front garden area ri ur.Caiun Crawfish Races
in domino games, watermelon overalls and orange shirts. adjacent to a stage dedicated ha P P
seed spitting and corn shuckin’ Texas Possum King Jack F. to popular country-western will bring their spicy ,
contests offered by the State (Spot) Baird and his assistant entertainment. Mrs. James N. humor, and laughter to v
Domino Tournament. Halletts- Richard Potter will have Castleberry, Jr. and Mrs. UP aun -and
ville; the watermelon Thump, possum stew cooking as well as William H. Parrish are
Luling; and the World Cham- baked possum surrounded by co-chairpersons for the San
pionship Corn Huskin’, Hondo, yams to display. Baird will Antonio Conservation Society,
bring a pickled baby possum The San Antonio Greek
Many area festivals will along with homemade relishes. Funstival will bring 32 Greek
offer a wide variety of foods. The Wurstfest, New Braun- folkdancers and offer souflaki electricity at Central Power and
music and dances. fels, will serve their popular and tempting pastries stated Light Company power stations
Representing the Castro- German sausage-on-a-stick, Luke Postolos, chairman. has gone up again, but its not
ville Saint Louis Day Celebra- apple strudel and sauerkraut, . ,, as high as earlier in the
tion. the French-Alsations will according to Milton Haehnel. ‘ oody ood. summer.
decorate a colorful booth where rome, founder of the All CPL Manager Preston
costumed Alsations will serve The Easter Fires Pageant, American Gospel Quartet Fes- Murphy announced today that
"paresa" with a French flair. Fredericksburg, will be repre- tival in Woodville, will M. C. the price of fuel of electric bills
Mrs. Charles Suehs, Jr., of sented by the colorful Bunny the religious and gospel music starting August 26 would be
Castroville, is chairman. Brass Band according to Mrs. in the state’s largest pioneer 86 06 center per million BTU.
The 5th Annual Republic of Tyrus Cox. Brush Arbor. This is up from the 75.97 cent
Texas Chilympiad, San Mar- The Czechfest, New Braun- Representing the All Na- figure reported last month,
cos. will have chili kings fels, will send eight young tions Day Festival of Wharton He pointed out that the
decked out in red overalls Czech Beseda Dancers from County Junior College is Chuck 86.06seven
demonstrating award-winning the SPJST Lodge 84 in Dallas. Schwartzkopf. He will manage cents lelow the price for July,
recipes and serving tasty The Texas Cowboys Re- the various ethnic folk enter- He attributed the increased
“bowls of red” under the union, Stamford, will operate tainment with Robert Thonhof fuel cost for the coming billing
The International Cowboy watchful eyes of Joe Kohut and the Cattle Drive Corral home of (Professor Katzenjammer), of month to the fact that large
Cook-Off. Abilene, is sending Dick Yak. hardy cowboy fare. Director Fashing. amounts of spot-purchased
Richard Bolt, cook at the It’s ‘taters and possum for Clifford Teinert, of Albany, will Texas only reservation natural gas were burned to
Pitchfork Ranch. Guthrie, as the East Texas Yamboree, feature beans and sowbelly, tribes, the Tiguas ot -Sta de generate the electricity needed
wagon boss for the festival’s Gilmer. They will bring 600 Cowboy Stew and sourdough Sur, El Paso, and the b y South Texans.
Cattle Drive Corral. yam pies and 27 workers, biscuits baked over a campfire. Alabama-Coushattas of Living- The Manager said CPL
The Texas Folklife Festival according to co-chairman Mrs. Food will be served from ston, will introduce unique reached a new system peak
is dedicated to showing how all Bettye Lou Smith and Mrs. authentic chuck wagons from Indian foods, tribal songs, load of 1,942,000 kilowatts on
types of Texans have fun in a Ray H. Greene. Champion pie the Pitchfork, Y-O and Mat- dances, arts crafts an Friday, July 26, and did not
panorama of costumes, old- bakers Albertine Fowler and thews ranches. demonstrate Indian stickball require any fuel oil to meet
_ -------------------------—------------------------- | this record demand. Fuel oil is
selling for about $2.00 per
million BTU compared to
spot-purchased natural gas at
about $1.40 per million BTU.
A plan now before the
Texas Railroad Commission
would further limit CPL’s
supply of natural gas. If the
plan proposed by Lo-Vaca is
approved by the Texas
Railroad Commission, utility
companies would be placed at
the bottom of the priority list
for gas. This would force them
to buy more expensive fuel oil
and new supplies of natural
gas at much more than present
contract prices call for.
CPL is vigorously fighting
the proposed allocation plan
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A RARE SNOW SCENE...on levee west of Mercedes.
“Since his death I have given his library to the Presbyterian Church. James
Whitcomb Riley was a cousin of my grandfather and we have given all of his
books to the church.
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Mashed Potatoes, Carrot-Line
Jello, Hot Corn Rolls, Coconut
Pudding, Chocolate Milk.
Grades 7-12
MONDAY - Swiss Steak,
Snowflake Potatoes, Sliced
Tomatoes and Lettuce, Hot
Rolls, Fresh Apples, Chocolate
Milk.
TUESDAY - Chicken Pot
Pie, Green Beans & Tomatoes,
Pineapple Rings, Hot Dinner
Rolls, Carrot Cake, Milk.
WEDNESDAY - Beef &
Bean Burritos with Chili Gravy,
Spanish Rice, Jello & Carrot
Salad, Brownies, Milk.
THURSDAY - Bar-B-Que
Sandwich, Shoestring Potatoes,
Fruit Salad, Applesauce Cake,
Milk.
Orange Juice, Toasted Sweet
Rolls & Bacon, Chocolate Milk.
FRIDAY - Chilled Fruit
Juice, Dry Cereal, Toast &
Jelly, Milk.
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CAFETERIA MENUS
September 2-6, 1974
LUNCH
Grades Preschool - 6
MONDAY - Bar-B-Que
Sandwhich, French Fried Pota-
toes, Pineapple Rings, Peanut
Butter Cookies, Chocolate
Milk.
TUESDAY - Chicken Pot
Pie, Green Beans & Tomatoes,
Fruit Jello, Hot Dinner Rolls,
Carrot Cake, Milk.
WEDNESDAY - Beef &
Bean Burritos with Chili Gravy,
Spanish Rice, Chilled Peach
Halves, Brownies, Milk.
THURSDAY - Hot Dogs,
Shoestring Potatoes, Fruit
Salad, Applesauce Cake, Milk.
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The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 29, 1974, newspaper, August 29, 1974; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1466695/m1/8/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.