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MERCEDES ENTERPRSE
SERVING THE CENTRAL RIO GRANDE VALLEY
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1952
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Old-Age Plan Shown
At Baptist Meeting
The Mercedes Enterprse
and Community Newspapers
Richard Widmark
and Constance Smith
Boiler Is Leader in
State Church Group
FOR FASTER LONG DISTANCE
SERVICE ... CALL BY NUMBER ,
Methodist ‘Advocate’
Resumes Publication
Shelley Winters
and Richard Conte
Now the Guard is getting ready
to increase enlistments and fix up
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Published Every Thursday
By W. J. Hargraves,
Jim Conner, Editor '
Mrs. G. C. Fitz, Society Editor
Entered May 22, 1941, as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post
Office at Mercedes, Texas, Under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Any erroneous reflection upon the standing reputation or character
of any person will be gladly corrected if brought to our attention.
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for many summers to come.
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Charles Laughton
and Maureen O'Hara
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FIVE (5) Color Cartoons
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dehumidifies and circulates the air. Put one in the
bedroom for cool, restful sleeping; one in your
living room provides quiet, cool relaxation for the
whole family; and one in your office will make
worlds of difference in increasing efficiency and
lessening fatigue.
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Lawyers say that if judges and
juries were not bound by law and
precedents—and ifin each law-
suit, the judge or-juror could set
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were many of us who were be-
ginning to wonder if France would
ever offer the kind of leadership
with the courage it takes to com-
bat successfully the onslaught of
the Communist Doctrine.
(This column, cased on Texas
law, is written to inform—not to
advise. No person should ever ap-
ply or interpret any law without
the aid of an attorney who knows
the facts, because the facts may
change the application of the law.)
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12th century.
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IT’S THE LAW
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A publie eerviee feature
el fhe Stole Bar of Texas
Mercedes has welcomed back its
National Guard outfit, Company C,
from Camp Hood and the city has
reason to be pleased with the
showing made by C Company and
the 112th Cavalry Regiment of
which it is a part.
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The 112th made a “superior”
rating in all departments inspect-
ed. This is very unusual, because
the Army is apt to be cautious
about passing out bouquets and es-
specially about handing out even
a small rose to a National Guard
cutfit.
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The whole purpose of laws and
rules is to insure equal justice by
providing a single standard of
rights and duties, applicable to all
persons similarly situated.
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Sunday dinner, country-
style . . . with Grandma’s
famous fried chicken and
that deep-dish apple pie
that melts in your mouth.
It’s amazing how a
simple telephone call can
set the stage for so much
pleasure.
And yet—the average
cost of a local call,
including tax, is less
than 3.
What else does so much
for so little?
has been published -since
under three different titles.
1949 what was known as
“Then they use it to stretch over
wires and make flowers for cor-
sages.”
(Mrs. Archer has a shelf for sav-
ing things to be sent to the TB
patients regularly. The Catholic
Guild here is one of the recent
substantial contributors, she re-
ports, and everyone else is invited
to help out.
“They don't want to put on a
drive and collect a lot of things
because they don’t . have storage
space,” Mrs. rAcher says. “They
would like to have a steady flow
of the things they need from Hi-
dalgo and Cameron counties.”
So if you’re feeling friendly, you
might see if there are some things
you have that would help bed-
bound patients or those who can
walk around some, and take them
to Mrs. Archer.
It is your Congressman’s hope that
at last we have a French Govern-
ment who will help provide an in-
spiration to the other Western
European nations to consolidate
more quickly formation of a Euro-
pean Army that can stand up in
defense of Europe if it should be
attacked by the Communists. The
successful creation of such a land
army of Western Europe will
speed the day that our American
boys return to American shores.
Premier Pinay looks as tho he is
short in stature but long on cour-
age, but then France’s strongest
leader in history came in a small
package labeled Bonaparte.
come a semi-monthly supplement
in the Christian Advocate (Chi-
cago). The circulation has reach-
ed an all-time high of over 30,000
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Religion was the subject
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4th OF JULY
In the last month France seems
to have stiffened its backbone with
the courage of a quiet little man
who, because seemingly no one
else would take the job, became
Premier of France. Little hope was
held that Antoine Pinay could do
any more than his predecessors in
bringing to a halt the tactics of
Communists who sought to de-
stroy the enonomy and solidity of
France. His actions have been a
most encouraging sign to those
who would like to see a strong
France as our ally. Despite the
fact that they number almost one-
fourth of the voters of the coun-
try, he has imprisoned the Com-
munist leader and has taken active
steps to shelve party members
who held positions in the key in-
dustries of France that were more
susceptible to , sabotage in the
event of a war’s being waged on
France by Russia. Even more sur-
prising, the French people appear
to be cottoning to this little guy
who has the courage to fight back
at these people who thought they
had a paralyzing grip on the
French Government. Those who
would substitute the “Interna-
tionale” for the “Marseillaise” find
that at last they have a French-
man to contend with who does not
just pay lip service to Democracy.
An excellent example of the ef-
fectiveness of the new premier’s
tough policy with the Communists
is the way his strong hand on the
reins of the government thwarted
the Communists’ general strike
they threatened to pull on the ar-
rival of General Ridgeway in Paris.
happen during a lawsuit. It would
be impossible to prepare properly
for the trial. No one would know,
until the judge had ruled, what he
would be permitted to say or do,
or in what order. Such a situa-
tion would inevitably result in con-
fusion and injustice.
Because cases must be tried
and determined on established and
recognized public standards of
right and wrong, we call ours a
government of law and not a gov-
ernment of men.
MESCEDES — R. G. Boiler Jr.,
was elected regional director at
the State Christian Endeavor
League Convention at Houston last
week. Boiler was formerly state
junior-age-level director.
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Visitors in the office this week
included Mr. and Mrs. H. A.
Hodges and son, Robert Hodges,
all of Edinburg; Perry Chapin of
Dallas, formerly of Weslaco, W. C.
Todd of Donna, and Mr. and Mrs.
Lloyd M. Bentsen Sr. of Mission.
Adios.
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its new Armory. The rest of us
citizens can help some on this,
even on the recruiting. If you let
eligible young men know you have
a high regard for C Company and
admire the men in- it for what they
are doing for their nation, them-
selves and their community,
they’re that much more likely to
join. And when the refurbishing
of the Armory really gets started,
there will probably be a variety of
needs in the way of materials,
sports equipment and so on that
some -members of the community
may be able to help supply.
Mrs. C. F. Archer at 1300 South
Texas has another way to be
friendly. She is chairman in Mer-
cedes for an organization, so far
as she knows, doesn’t have a
name. But the organization does
have a purpose—to collect articles
for needy patients at Weaver
Baker Memorial Tuberculosis San-
itorium.
The patients need shaving soap,
razor blades, shaving lotion, tooth
paste, tooth brushes, toilet soap,
combs, creams and powder. They
also need medium-sized pajamas,
and for the kind of pleasant ac-
tivity that helps them want to get
Some of the nicknames the
Guard members have developed
for their more outstanding bud -
dies are self-explanatory, some
need explanation, and some are
probably better left unexplained.
Manuel Lopez, for instance, is
called “Tonto,” meaning “the crazy
one.” The word sounds as if it’s
used a little enviously, be cause the'
happiest soldiers are usually a
little different from the rest.
' Max Ford is called “V-8” and
Ramon Moreno has the rugged
name of “Spike.” Juan Segura is
Rafael was guarding some of
C Company’s prisoners when one
of them started wandering off.
Rafael didn’t have anything but
blanks in his weapon, but he blaz-
ed away just the same and the
wadding and powder took effect.
“It burned me! It burned me!”
yeled the prisoner, covering his
face with his hands.
“Then don’t run away,” said
Rafael concisely, offering a prac-
tical solution to the prisoner’s
problem. The rest of the Army
seems to be trying out Rafael’s
attitude on Communist prisoners
in Korea with similar results.
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obvious that the Communists are
waging not only military warfare
through their satellites, but also a
major offensive, sociologically and
politically. In short, they seek not
only to shackle th physical man.
but to capture minds as well. This
battle for the minds of men with-
out the overt use of military
weapons has been nowhere more
apparent than that waged in Eu-
rope since the close of World Wat-
Il. With many of these nations
ravaged by war, and much of
their sound leadership killed off in
battle, there was little stability and
guidance to steer them out of the
economic chaos left by war.
Communism made alarmingly
large gains immediately following
the war throughout ‘Western Eu-
rope. In the last two years we
have seen this battle for the minds
of men beginning to turn. Not only
have the Communists found that
their propaganda has been blunt-
ed, but their threats, deceit and
trickery are being found out for
what they are by Europeans. The
enrollment in the Communist Par-
ties in Western Europe has shown
a marked falling off in the last
two years. This is particularly
true of the Scandanavian Coun-
tries, Belgium, Western Germany
and England.
The one country that has given
us the most cause for concern for
its inability to furnish the leader-
ship to steer its people away from
the blatant propaganda of the
Communists has been France.
Even in France, we find that the
Communist Party enrollment has
at least stopped its increase, and
in the last year has shown a small
lessening of membership. Last year
, the communists in France totalled
over 26,% of its population — and
this year a little less — 24%. Most
of our other European allies have
made much greater progress in
combatting Communism. There
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Men in the Guard aren’t taken
in the draft as long as they stay
in the Guard because the work of
the Guard is important to deserve
keeping units together. When the
National Guard is needed more
than it already is, the chances are
that a lot more men will be need-
ed, too. The difference will be
that the men in the Guard will be
trained and organized to serve
with men they know.
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JUDGES RULE ON LAW
Judges get the law by which
they decide legal questions aris-
ing in a lawsuit from three
sources: federal and state consti-
tutions; federal and state statutes;
and from previous judicial de-
cisions and legal writings. Previ-
ous decisions state the public stan-
dards of rights and duties in mat-
ters not covered by constitutions
and statutes.
Mrs. R. C. Davis was happy to
hear that one son was coming
home from Korea, Pfc. Jerry Neu-
mann. Then she was dismayed to
find that another son, S/Sgt. W.
B. (Bill) Neumann was leaving
his station in Chicago to go to
Korea.
However, it worked out the best
it could when Bill and Jerry met
each other in California. They got
together and called her up the
other nght. Jerry is due home
sometime in a week.
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446 1st St. Ph. 16 well. they need good wire coat
hangers and white Rit.
“They use the Rit to bleach out
"eeee old nylon,”' Mrs. Archer explains.
up a private standard of rights
and duties as a basis for deciding
that case—no one would know in
advance of the decision how he
should have acted in a particular
situation. Cases arising out of
similar circumstances would not
be decided on settled principles
but on the personal ideas of the
trial judge or juror.
Judges have access to state-
ments of the law and know which
apply to the situation involved in
any lawsuit. So that justice may
be done according to the law, it is
imperative that the jurors in each
case accept the law as the judge
gives it to them. They are there-
fore required to base their verdict
on his instructions as to the law,
rather than on their own notions
of what the law is, or ought to be.
For somewhat similar reasons
there are rules governing the way
a case is tried in court. These
rules prescribe what must be
stated in the pleadings, in what
order evidence must be presented,
what evidence is proper, what
form questions must take, in what
order lawyers are permitted to
argue, what is permissible and
not permissable argument.
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Sometimes the cost of a pre-
scription seems high. That is
because it requires a drug
which is rare and, therefore,
expensive. But modern mass
production methods steadily
bring the price down. An ex-
ample of this is penicillin. Nine
years ago a single dose of
penicillin cost $22.
You can be sure that the
prices we charge for prescrip-
tions average no more than
you would pay anywhere else.
will reach a buyer
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The National Guard is occupying
a fair amount of space in this
week’s issue, but it takes quite a
few words to give an idea of how
much the Mercedes unit has ac-
complished and is working on now.
Morale was pretty good before
the Mercedes men went to Camp
Hood, but it got even better When
they spent a week in the field to-
gether, according to 1st Lt. Robert
Porter, the commanding officer.
They’re still talking about how
Lt. Marshall Compton, Larry Solis
and Rafael Ybarra Jr. slipped up
on the “enemy” in a field prob-
lem and captured- a alatoon leader
and some of his men.
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The Guard isn’t an "easy” deal.
Soldiers in the National Guard are
subject to the same military law
as Regular Army soldiers to the
limits of their time on duty. Miss-
ing a Tuesday night drill is AWOI
as much as skipping reveille at a
camp or post. An M-1 Rifle
weighs as much in the Guard as it
does in the Regular Army. A la-
trine is still a latrine.
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A very pleasant response has
been made by Mercedes'citizens to
a few remarks here about the
helpfulness of turning in news
that might otherwise be missed.
Big or small, a few items more
add a lot to a home newspaper
and we hope the friendliness con-
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MERCEDES — Members of the
Woman’s Missionary Union of the
First Baptist Church at the gen-
eral meeting Tuesday afternoon at
the church were presented a pro-
gram on the Ministers’ Old Age
Program, with Mrs. George Avant,
program chairman, in charge.
For the devotional, Mrs. J. C.
Potts and Mrs. R. H. Smith por-
trayed the aged minister and his
wife and were assisted by Mrs. H,
W. Balay and Mrs. C. P. Melton
Jr.
Mrs. T. G. Edwards and Mrs. J
F. Baingo sang a duet, “The
Shepherd of Light,” accompanied
by Mrs. Meeler Markham.
I labeled “Coyote,” and Rodolfo
Chapa is called “Cheap,” because
he so often refuses to waste
money in town. Ramon Vela is
“Camouflage,” because he usually
sports a branch in his helmet-
liner and Rudy de la Pena is
“Humphrey,” after the unbeatable
fighter and eater in the Joe Pa-
looka comic strip.
There’s bound to be a' Durango
Kid in the outfit, and Rafael
Ybarra Jr. qualified. Edelmiro Cas-
tillo has the military-sounding
name of “ At Ease,” and Javier de
los Santos is called “The Monster,”
perhaps sometimes “The Monster
with Four Stripes,” which may be
a tribute to his success as a ser-
geant.
Fred Vela is nicknamed “The
General” and Amadeo Rodriguez is
called “Zapata.” Rpbert Playford
is named “Coffee,” because , it is
the first word he shouts when he
gets up in the morning and occu-
pies a fair share of his conversa-
tion through the day, according to
other members of the outfit.
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People say they don’t teach pen-
manship in schools any more, but
it would be hard to write any
more gracefully or clearly than a
report just received about the
Tigerettes' bake sale Saturday
morning. The sale, acorcding to
Virginia Ann Hay, one of the pep
squad members, features baking
by every memeber “and no help
at all” from other members of
their respective families. Sounds
interesting.
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sUNDAY DINNER
Others attending the convention
from Mercedes were Rev. and
Mrs. George Wheeler, Miss Kitty
Ree Wheeler, Mrs. R. G. Boiler
Jr., Joan Knapp, Bobby and Ca-
mille Johnston, Bob Graf, Martha
Allan, Joanna Frix. Rev. and Mrs.
Wheeler and family are now visit- te
ing relatives in Shreveport, La.
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DALLAS — Publication of the
Texas Christian Advocate, Metho-
dist church paper, was resumed
June 19 when the first issue was
maned, church officials reported
this week.
The newspaper format is used.
It is printed by the All-Church
Press of Fort Worth, which pub
lishes a weekly paper for local
churches. Nearly 100 Methodist
churches use the service with a
circulation of about 40,000. The
Advocate, bearing the title “Texas
Methodist News,” will appear in
many local church editions.
Churches which don’t use the
All-Church Press are sending sub-
scriptions for individuals.
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