The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 41, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 8, 1986 Page: 3 of 10
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The Mercedes Enterprise — Page 3
Texas music will be featured at
565-9335
Behind Memories Flower Shop
Quiz Number 15
STEEL BUILDINGS
565-1477
2810 S. International
968-6260
[One mile south of Business 83 on FM 1015]
the Equitable life ASSURANCE SOCIETY
OF THE UNITED STATES
DARIUS W. HEROLD
1101 S. Missouri
Rios of Mercedes
BOOT OUTLET
565-4555
565-3026
1306 S. Missouri-Mercedes
565-2473
1101W. Highway 83
1. What Luckenbach
legend called himself an
“imagineer"?
This Series Made Possible by
These Business Firms and Individuals
Who Support Our Right to Worship Freely.
VanBerg
and Flares
Festival
invitation
is offered
“Come join us in the fun” is the
Second class postage
paid at Mercedes, Texas
78570. Published each
Wednesday at Mercedes,
Hidalgo County, Texas.
Office of publication 230 S.
Texas Ave. Subscription
rates $9.50 per year in
Valley, $11.50 per year out
of Valley. Single Copy
price 25 cents.'
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Backed By Years of Experience
GONZALEZ ROOFING
General Contractor
Phon. Collect 968 - 9133
Mile 6 West & Mile 9 North
parish of Sacred Heart Catholic
Church, who will host their annual
Fall Festival Sunday, October 19.
Featuring a variety of food and
games booths, the fund-raising
event will take place on church
grounds on the corner of Anacuitas
group singing of well-known Texas
. songs and will conclude with the
singing of “Texas, Our Texas,”
, state song.
The event begins at 5:15 p.m. at
TEXAS
* - TATAT
NCR
Mr. Sam’s
Legacy
P.O. Box 962
Mercedes, TX 78570
51 2-565-5960
The Mercedes Enterprise
USPS 177-100
Mercedes, Texas 78570 Wednesday, October 8, 1986
Course scheduled for ‘mature drivers'
Chiropractor
Dr. Lyle A. Strunk
OFFICE HOURS: 9 a.m. to noon, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Juan M. Gonzalez
Owner
1211 Joyce St.
Weslaco, Texas 78596
565-1696
Mercedes, Texas 78570
Welcomed
202 N. Vermont
Mercedes
IN LOVING MEMORY
...of Baldemar Sauceda, Sr., who
departed this life one year ago,
October 12, 1985.
God saw you getting tired
and the cure was not to be
So He put His arms around you
And whispered “Come to Me.”
It broke our hearts to lose you
But you did not go alone
For part of us went with you,
The day God called you home.
Forever missed,
Josefa Sauceda
Mr. and Mrs. Eliseo Sauceda
Brothers, sisters, children and
grandchildren.
RETAIL SPACE FOR LEASE AT
SUPER DRUG PLAZA
We will lease space according to your needs.
Call Bob Canales
565-1891 or come by 242S. Texas
In Mercedes.
Bill Bunton Auto
Supply and Machine
565-2460
Corner of Vermont & Business 83
Win a ‘50 Gift Certificate
in Bunton Auto's
"Texas Trivia" Game!
Come into the store for complete contest rules.
After an early education in a one- This Texas Sesquicentennial series is
room schoolhouse, Sam Rayburn courtesy of The Texas Committee for
attended Texas Normal College, now the Humanities. The Shell Companies
East Texas State University. He Foundation, Inc., and this news-
graduated two years later, then taught paper. © Texas Committee for the
public school for two years before act- Humanities, 1985,
GALVAN'S GLASS
Custom-cut glass and windshields
Residential and Commercial
-- $50 deductible waiver --
Also - Auto, Residential, RV
Window Tinting
"The Building You've Needed All Along”™
LONGORIA'S
WELDING SERVICE
Steel Erection and Fabrication
Sam Longoria
Performances highlight
SQ musical program
Texas music will be featured at The program will also include
FUNDAMENTAL AREAS OF LIFE
Recently I put a small magnet near my auto compass. Suddenly the compass began to change directions
and succeeded in finding a new NORTH! •
The Christian faith is characterized by three fundamental changes which take place after one has personally
tollowed Christ. new sense of values concerning what you own (2) A new sense of understanding
concerning who you are (3) A new sense of values concerning the worth of your fellow man.
Unless your faith gives you new directions in these three vital and fundamental areas of life you had
better re-examine the whole matter.
reduction on portions of most
automobile insurance premiums.
Benefits are in effect for three
years, after which time the course
may be repeated.
Pre-registration is required and
there is a fee of $7 to be paid at
time of registration. Registration
can be completed by calling
their daughter, Gail Duncan, to
Harry Albert Hardcastle, III, son of
Class hours will be from 1:30
p.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day. This is
an eight-hour course and attend-
ance at both sessions is required to
qualify for certification.
The course is designed speci-
fically for persons 50 years of age
and up. Emphasis is placed on
those areas of driving safety which
are most frequently affected by the
aging process.
Graduates of the course will be
eligible to apply for a 10 percent
Street and North Washington
Avenue.
Activities will run from 4 p.m. to
10 p.m.
Driving class on October 16 and 17
at the Retreat, 501 S. Texas in
Mercedes.
the Mercedes High School cafeteria. Rep. Sam Rayburn called a press conference in Jan., 1947 to accept the
. - . , minority leader’s post in the House. (Sam Rayburn Memorial Library, Bonham)
Weigels tell
of daughter’s
engagement
Mr. and Mrs. Tom J. Weigel,
Jr. announce the engagement of
The American Association of
Retired Persons Mercedes Chapter
688 and Queen City Retreat will
co-sponsor a 55 Alive” Mature
2 biCS .M,00PC • eerr-oca
a program sponsored by the
Mercedes Music Club marking the
state's independence Sesquicen-
tennial, this Thursday. ’
All are invited to attend the
program, which will feature musical
performances by Miss Fawn
Ashbrook, Miss Judith German,
J.H. Penn, Miss Celeste Canant
and Rene Guzman.
Program leader and accompanist
will be Mrs. Penn. Vocal and
instrumental selections to be
featured were written by Texas
composers.
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The class is limited to 30
persons. There is room for 15 more
paticipants at this time. Robert'
Cruse will instruct.
An additional course can be
scheduled if there is sufficient
interest, or more than 30 apply for
the present course.
Sam Rayburn left few personal ing on his childhood dream of achiev-
remarks or records of his strategies ing political office.
Mrs. Harry A. Hardcastle, Jr. of and accomplishments—not even Rayburn’s distinguished political
Austin and the late Harry A memos. Writer David Halberstam career proved successful—both for
Hardcastle Jr observed that Congressman Rayburn Texas and the United States. From
. ‘ ‘ ... , . "did all his serious business in pencil 1907 to 1913 he was in the Texas
The bride-elect is 3 graduate of on the back of a used envelope.” House of Representatives, serving as
Weslaco High School and Baylor When asked how he kept track of speaker during his last term. In 1912
University, deals and promises, Rayburn he became the Democratic Con-
Her fiance is a graduate of growled, “I always tell the truth, so gressman from the Fourth District of
Austin High School and Baylor I don’t need a good memory to Texas and in taking the oath of office
University. remember what I said.” in April, 1913, began the longest con-
The couole plains a December Indeed, at his death on November tinuous service of any member in the
0. : 16, 1961, Mr. Sam was the most history of the House, according to
20th wedding in St. David s revered man in Congress, the unques- Procter.
Episcopal Church, Austin. tioned leader of the House, the During this 48-year span, Rayburn
■ "teacher, tyrant, referee, and father was majority leader from 1937 to
JO e E1V DO m to his changing brood of 434 con- 1940, then was chosen speaker of the
* gressmen. He had served in the house in 1940 to fill the unexpired
€ u . 1 A DE United States House of Representa- term of Wil 1 iam B. Bankhead. Except
eDTDe 40 lives for 48 years, during two Republican-controlled
, An expertin procedure, he was able Congresses . (1947-1949 and .1953-
Mr and Mrs. Rudy Lopez to pass legislation that some political 1955) when he was minority leader,
announce the birth of a son, Joe observers had considered impossible Rayburn served as speaker for the
Ely, born September 25 at 2:02 to accomplish. His fierce determina- next 21 years. He also chaired the
p.m. at Knapp Memorial Methodist tion, his sense of what was just and National Democratic Convention in
Hospital in Weslaco.. fair dominated his mission as a public 1948, 1952, and 1956.
The child weighed 7.5 pounds servant. Regardless of presidents’ Rayburn was responsible for much
and was 20 inches in length political affiliations, he helped each important legislation. In 1914, Proc-
,., 8 one when he perceived national need ter says, Rayburn introduced ameas-
ir ' to be paramount and fiercely main- ure that increased the power of the
Grandparents include Mrs. tained that "I didn’t serve undereight Interstate Commerce Commission,
Adolfo 0. Lopez of Mercedes and presidents. I served with eight.” and in 1917 he sponsored the War
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Crenshaw of Rayburn was known as an incor- Risk Insurance Act. During the New
Buchanan Lake. Great grandparents ruptible politician. Under no cir- Deal period he authored the Truth-in-
are Mr. and Mrs. Ben Crenshaw of cumstances would he be obligated to Securities Act, the Public Utility
Arrovo Citv anyone, asserts historian Ben Procter. Holding Company Act, and an act
. t, , . He would not even allow anyone to establishing the Federal Communica-
The mother of the new child is buy him a meal. At the time of his tions Commission. Then; together
the former Miss Carolyn Crenshaw, death he had no stocks or bonds and with Senator George Norris of Ne-
no significant savings; he owned only braska, he secured passage of the
a ranch and some farm land that he Rural Electrification Act. From 1941
had bought decades earlier. In the to 1945 he fully supported the nation’s
legislative halls in Washington, war efforts. In the postwar years his
everyone knew that Sam Rayburn was leadership was crucial in passing
not for sale. President Harry S. Truman’s Fair
Bom in 1882 in Roane County, Deal program and President Dwight
TN., the son of William Marion and D. Eisenhower’s New Republicanism.
Martha Rayburn, Sam Rayburn In 1949, Procter recounts, Mr. Sam
enjoyed a typical rural upbringing received the $10,000 Collier Award
with a poor, but honest and aspiring for distinguished service to the nation,
invitation issued by members of the family. When Sam was five years old, When he walked down the halls of
his family moved to a 40-acre cotton Congress, people would make way in
farm in Fannin County, Texas, near reverence and awe. His funeral in
Windom. Eventually, the Rayburns Bonham, Texas, was attended by
adopted Bonham in northeast Texas, political leaders from all over the
just a few miles away, as a permanent world,
residence.
r MEMBER
TA -
TEXAS PRESS
ASSOCIATION
A. Way I on Jennings FETATET HI ■
B. Bubba Hart FTVPTTT
C. Buddy Holly I W
D. Hondo Crouch MIU VMA
2. Who was the first TV
woman colonel in the U.S.
Army?
A. Mrs. Almaron Dickenson
B. Miriam “Ma” Ferguson
C. Oveta Culp Hobby
D. Cindy Kate Briscoe
3. What is the name of the covered wagon which
rolls into Texas from the north each October?
A. The Blue Norther C. 20-mule team Borax
.B. Sooner Schooner D. Silverado
• 1986 Ki rk Dooley. Reprinted front "Everyth ing You Ever Wanted To
Knote About Texas," available for $11.00 from Half Court Press, P.O.
Bor 141199-197. Dallas. TX 75214.
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The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 41, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 8, 1986, newspaper, October 8, 1986; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1614087/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.