The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 5, 1974 Page: 6 of 10
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present; Mrs. Florence Kelly of Hensley, Mrs. H. F. Jonas,
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Mrs. R. Stoll talks to Dorcas Aid group
different? May we suggest
a package of six of any
Happy Days?’. She also gave
the scripture reading and the
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Mrs. Walter Klein, Mrs. A. E.
Krause, Mrs. Henry Rickert,
Rev. and Mrs. Roy Stoll, Mrs.
J. A. Schupp, Mrs. Westfall,
Mrs. Wayne Woolery, Mrs.
Rose Erchinger.
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The Enterprise:
Since I do not know who
writes your column "Palabras
de Pablo”, I can only remind
you about T. W. McQueen who
I believe was our first football
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ness session. After the group
repeated the club collect, Rev.
Stanley with Mrs. Stanley at
the piano led the group in
singing the hymn of the month
‘We Gather Together’.
Hostesses were Mrs. Clara
Wilson, Mrs. Pearl Burdette
and Mrs. W. H. Drawe.
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proclamations and executive publication by telephone. If governmentalese in the publi-
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effect. These orders and ments to appear in the next
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Two return
from trip
Recently returned from a
weeks vacation trip to Hope,
Arkansas are Mrs. Ethel Wilt
and Mrs. Bertha Brown, both
of Mercedes.
Mrs. Wilt visited with her
daughter and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Hardee and children
Tami and Scottie. Mrs. Hardee
is the former Miss Joan Wilt.
Mrs. Brown visited her
cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Houston
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government agencies with will be given quick, summary murky.
PVT. MARIO G. TORRES
JR., son of Mr. and Mrs.
Mario Torres of Elsa,
completed Infantry Train-
ing School at the Marine
Corps Base, Camp Pen-
dleton, California. He
received specialized in-
struction in infantry wea-
pons and tactics. He
joined the Marine Corps
in June 1974.
were two guests Dillon, Mrs. Heggen, Mrs. L.
Improvement Corps to assist
jobless workers who have used
up their unemployment bene-
fits.
Now of course the Econo-
mic Development Administra-
tion has extensive experience
with exactly these kinds of
projects. EDA is the ideal
vehicle for carrying out the
President’s proposal for attack-
ing the unemployment pro-’
blem.
Accordingly, I have intro-
duced in the House a bill to
expand the public works
impact program. My bill
proposes the authorization of
up to $500 million annually for
of the Economic Development Register carries Presidential an advance look at the idea, for sometimes the
FEDERAL REGISTER - Is- es the Register, has announced in the Register clearer and
sued five days a week, the that interested persons can get more effective. This is a good
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As South Texans have orders and regulations of you dial (202) 523-5022, you cation is more than a little
address to
creation of
by President Ford in
reason to know, EDA makes
grants to communities in order
to provide useful work to
people needing jobs in high
unemployment and low income
areas. Many of our communi-
ties have carved out useful
projects of lasting value under
this public works impact
program.
When Congress extended
the Public Works and Econo-
mic Development Act this year,
we added a provision for a new
economic authority designed to
reach communities either ex-
periencing or on the verge of
facing high levels of jobless-
ness among their people.
Grants can be made directly to
communities for them to use in
job-providing projects of their
own devising.
This expanded program fits
in well with a proposal made
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”We Bank on People
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or fieldman for your
Mrs. John Karle and Mrs.
Pauline Borchelt served re-
freshments to Mrs. A. R.
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of Weslaco.
The club will join with the
Mary-Martha Guild December
12, at 8 p.m. for the Christmas
party. Gifts will be exchanged
and secret pals will be revealed
at that time.
Hostesses Mrs. Neuhaus,
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Enterprise readers are invited to
express their opinions under this I
Emmheading. Letters must be signed.hum
I see that the Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee up in Washington is going to devote all the
ways and means he can to make a movie star out of the
“stripper” who leaped out of his car and took a dip in
the Potomac River several months ago when a policeman
stopped the car for having no lights. Unless she were
already “stripped” at the time, her plunge into the
Potomac was so quickly done it was without benefit of
“a la stripping.” Already the place has been
memoralized as “The Old Mills’ Stream.”
No wonder we are being “sold down the river” and
there is so much bedlam and confusion in Washington.
We have leaders whose central intelligence system is
atrophied by the hardening of the arteries and whose
central erotic system is activated by “strippers.” Maybe
Nero wasn’t so bad after all. He just fiddled while Rome
burned.
—the Pastor
Dorcas Aid Society met
November 14, at Immanuel
Lutheran Church fellowship
hall and elected Mrs. D. L.
Westfall as their president for
the year. Other officers to
serve with her are Mrs. H. E.
Vogel, vice president; Mrs.
Edgar Neuhaus, secretary;
Mrs. Lloyd Heggen, treasurer
and Mrs. A. R. Dillon,
Christian growth chairman.
Mrs. Roy Stoll presented
the topic on ‘Are Holidays
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coach and who always was at
the games in his Tiger
uniform. A more loyal fan the
Mercedes Tigers never had
than Mr. McQueen.
Shame on “Pablo” for
omitting Mr. McQueen from
his column.
Visit relatives
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kelly
of Weslaco accompanied by
Mr. Kelly’s sister, Mrs. Amy
Bowers of Elsa, visited a
brother in Burleson. They also
made stops to visit with
relatives enroute.
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urgent. Fortunately, the basic effectively fought by the surtax area. Now the General Services asked for their views on how to
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two-year life of the Public
Works and Economic Deve-
lopment Act. The need for jobs
is now.
My bill was referred to the
Committee on Public Works.
ASCS OFFICE--It seems
very strange that at the same
time that U.S. farmers are
being urged to do everything
they can to increase their
production of food a service of
vital importance to them is
being greatly curtailed. County
offices of the Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service in South Texas have
been notified that they must
make substantial cuts in
personnel by next February.
These offices have taken
severe employee reductions in
the past and now they are
being told they must take
more.
The workload of these
offices has not decreased --
certainly not of those located in
our area. I have been receiving
reports from South Texas
counties about the work they
are doing and how adversely
they will be affected by the
ordered reductions in person-
nel. I am passing this
information on to USDA-ASCS
and urging that a sober second
look be taken.
I am fully aware of the
need for greater economy in
government. I will continue to
support every sound proposal
to reduce or eliminate unnec-
essary Federal spending. But it
is surely a penny-wise pound-
foolish policy that arbitrarily
cuts down service to our
farmers at a time when U.S.
agriculture is being urged to
work as never before to help
feed the world’s starving
millions.
INCOME SURTAX-Along
with other Members of
Congress, I have received a
letter from Treasury Secretary
William E. Simon which, he
says, is designed to clear up
“much misunderstanding”
about the proposal to place a
five percent surtax on indivi-
dual incomes. I read the letter
and an accompanying chart
with interest, but I remain
unconvinced that this is the
right time to raise taxes.
Most of us live on rather
strict budgets, which day after
day are being thrown out of L
situation is immediate and doubtful that inflation can be nesses and organizations in our Readers also are being
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Sincerely,
Katherine Merchant
P.S. I know my Dad, Fred
Johnston, never missed a game
either. The Booster Club even
dyed their shirts orange in
those days.
Club hears
speaker
Mrs. L. C. Roots, president
of the Tenth District of the
Texas Federation of Music
clubs, was guest speaker when
the Mercedes Music club met
November 21, at Queen City
Retreat.
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The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 5, 1974, newspaper, December 5, 1974; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1466728/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.