Alvin Sun-Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 57, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 21, 2002 Page: 3 of 58
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Hockin estimates that around Heights School, Parker School,
5,000 people lived in Alvin during Chigger School," he said. "I think
his work on the family’s farm, and he said. "My dad got $25 a month
Hockin often had to miss school for hauling kids out of the Davis
must have been an awful good >
worker, because I would move the
houses by myself. I’d lift it up,
put them on dollies and move it
Van Hargis is known as one of the most
versatile horseman/clinicians in the
business today. Van's practical experi-
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on the ranch coupled with a dynamic
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the most exciting presenters and
requested clincians.
Alvin LULAC Council 4729 is having
Ms first Annual Fiestas Patrias Beauty
Pageant on Sunday, Sept 15. Anyone,
between the ages of 5 and 19, who is
interested in participaling in the pageant
may pick up an entry form at the follow-
ing locations: Alvin City offices,
Chocolate Bayou Community Federal
Credit Union, Union Planters Bank,
Alvin Public Library. Fust National
Bank of Alvin and The Express Bank.
The crowning will include one king, one
queen, one prince and one princess. For
more information, contact Julia Juarez at
281-388-2081 cr Sam Juarez at 281-798-
8886.
wanted it to go."
In 1933, Hockin married his wife
of nearly 60 years, Viola, who
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the Depression years, years that
he calls "hard times."
"A lot of people would send cow
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"I worked in the hayfields for 10
years, stacking bales,” Hockin
said.
"After that, I was in a boilermak-
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draw some retirement money
from that.
“I also used to move houses; I
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The Alvin Community Homemakers
Club has adjourned meeting for the
summer months. Meetings will resume
on Aug. 28 at the Senior Center at 9:30
am
Crime Stoppers
• Anyone with information about
any crime is encouraged to contact
Crime Stoppers at (281) 331-STOP
(7867) or Sgt. Todd Arendell at the
Alvin Police . Department, (281)
388-4370. Anyone with information
about any crime in the Manvel area
can contact Lt. Aaron Bell at the
Manvel Police Department, (281)
489-1212 ext. 203.
Information for the Police Beat is
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"Our roof was shaking up and
down, and my dad nailed two-by-
fours to keep the roof stable.
During a calm in the storm, we
could look out and see a windmill
and lots of things blown down.
We had four inches of water in
our house. A lot of people left
Alvin because of that storm."
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1915, when he was nine years old. "Dad kept me out the first day of* His first long-lasting job after
"It just about blew our house school one time to help dip the leaving school was workjng in the
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the reason I could never under-
stand algebra. I was good at arith-
metic, but I still can’t see any
sense in algebra."
When Hockin first started school,
the schools were not yet located
in one central area.
"There were other country
schools like Mustang School,
“There would be a half-mile long Hockin went to school up until the passed away in 1990. They had
line to wait for strawberry crates eighth grade, and can remember four children: Kenneth, Margie,
to pack them for shipping on the many of his classmates and teach- Thomas and Robert. Kenneth
train," he said. ers by name. cares for his father’s financial
During the Depression years, "I remember one time, the teacher affairs now, and Hockin said that r
Hockin remembers taking a trip to told Henry to go out and get a all of his children visit him regu- n
Arkansas. switch to whip him with. He went larly.
"I got gas for nine cents and all I out and brought back a switch Hockin broke a hip in March of
spent the entire trip was $6.50," about six inches long," he said. 2001, and has lived in Winchester
he said. "During those years; I "She said, ‘You go back out there Lodge for over a year. < • 13 ■
■ paid $4 for a Model-T Ford and and get a real switch. He then "I've got a bad leg, and I can’t h
also bought 16 cars for $120." went to the shed, got an ax, and walk," he said. "I’m in a wheel- I
"One time, I snuck $5 into my cut a willow limb about 20 feet chair now."
friend’s pocket so that he could long and drug it into the school. I He was one of the younger boys in
buy milk for his babies at the gro- know what happened, but I’m not the family, and his youngest sis- "
eery store," Hockin said. going to tell!" ter, Mary, age 88, is his only sur- L
Education was limited because of After Hockin left school, he viving sibling. , •
worked odd jobs around the farm The history of Alvin comes alive I
and for his father, not through books, but through its
"I drove a covered wagon and long-time residents, such as
hauled kids to the Alvin school,” Thomas Hockin.
Unsafe Speed. According to the
police report, the officer was in the
process of reading Sanford’s rights,
when the man turned and began to mately :
walk away. patched
The officer then grabbed the man, street in reference to deadly con-
and told him that he doesn’t need to duct. According to the police report,
walk away, because he was in cus- the officer arrived and spoke with
tody. At that point, Sanford turned the complainant, who advised him
toward the left, and struck the offi- that someone fired a pellet rifle at
cer in the chest with his left elbow, her sister-in-law’s residence.
and again in the face with his left She said that the pellet struck the
shoulder. T side of the home, penetrating the
he officer placed Sanford on the exterior wall, and passed through
ground, and advised him that he was the bedroom, through another wall
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was treated by Alvin EMS, after he said she saw four male juveniles,
sustained an abrasion on his face, approximately 14-years-old, riding
bicycles southbound on Booth
Street, and that one of the boys
appeared to have a pellet rifle.
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Schwind, Jim & Holton, Kathleen. Alvin Sun-Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 57, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 21, 2002, newspaper, July 21, 2002; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1602849/m1/3/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.