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VOLUME XLVII — NO. 36
Mercedes, Texas, Thursday, September 6, 1962
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WHAT A MUD HOLE — In case you’ve forgot, that
is the main canal running east of Mercedes which has
been drained. It will be lined with concrete, to prevent
loss by seepage. Note how sediment has rounded out
the bottom and sides of the. canal which once was con-
siderably deeper. This is part of a $9,000,000 Water
Dist. No. 9 rehabilitation project.
Gravity Canal
Report Slated
For Sept. 15
The long-awaited report
by the Bureau of Reclama-
tion on the feasibility of
the Valley gravity canal pro-
ject will be presented at a
meeting of the Lower Rio
Grande Valley Water Com-
mittee at 10 a. m. Sept. 15
in the Valley Chamber of
Commerce Auditorium.
J. S. McManus of Weslaco
chairman of the Committee,
said the. report will be given
by Harry Burleigh of Aus-
tin, head of the Southwestern
division of the Bureau.
Congressman Joe M. Kil-
gore will fly from Washing-
ton for the important Com-
mittee meeting and will take
part in the discussion of the
report.
The report originally was
to have been presented ear-
lier in the summer during
a joint meeting of the
LRGVWC and the Water
Committee of the Valley
Chamber of Commerce, but
the meeting was postponed
to allow more time for re-
search and study by Bureau
of Reclamation engineers.
McManus said all mem-
bers of the 100-man Water
Committee are expected to
attend the meeting. It will
be open to the publie.
The gravity canalhas been
a Valley project for more
than 20 years. With the
completion of Falcon Dam
and a more reliable flow
of Rio Grande water, the
need for the canal became
more apparent and the 100-
man Water Committee was
selected to work with the Bu-
reau of Reclamation on the
project.
The Bureau was asked to
bring up to date its 1954
report on the canaL
The canal, purely a water
transportation system would
cut the travel time of re-
leases from Falcon to the
user by half.
Combined with existing
off-chanel reservoirs the
canal would eliminate the
necessity of sluicing water
, into the Gulf of Mexico.
It also would virtually eli-
minate the excessive salt
existing in Valley water at
periods of low flow.
LIFE SAVING COURSE
Seven students completed
the Senior Life Saving Red
Cross Course conducted by
Miss Maurene McBride at
he new Civic Center Swim-
ming Pool. Passing the
course qualifies these stu-
dents to be life guards. They
were: Donnie Whitlock, Bob-
by Onderdonk, Lloyd Stotler,
Larry Porter, Pete Cox, Al-
len Stafford, Mary Brower.
CITY MAY TALK
SECRETARY POST
AT MONDAY MEET
Speculation rose this week
as to what action the city
commission may take in se-
lecting a new city secretary.
Mrs. Virginia Eaton, long-
time city employee, tendered
her resignation at the last
meeting.
It has been rumored since
prior to last Spring’s citye-
lection that Mayor A. J. Ha-
gan had an applicant picked
out in case a vacancy deve-
loped.
However, it des not ap-
pear that he will get enough
backing to employ his candi-
date. Hiring of a city secre-
tary takes a majority vote of
the commission.
It is known that some com-
missioners have beenconsi-
dering the possibility ofhir-
ing an accountant who could'
help keep tab on the city’s
accounts as well as act as
city secretary. At present,
the city is using the services
of W. B. Kennedy of Lauder
& Kennedy on a part-time
basis. Originally, the firm
acted only as auditor, but in
recent months, Mr. Kennedy
has actually done consider-
able of the detail accounting
work.
It has been suggested that
the auditor’s fees could be
reduced substantially if afull
time accountant were em-
ployed to keep the books
posted on a current basis.
Also on the agenda for the
next city commission meet-
ing is setting of the tax rate.
The commission has a-
dopted a budget, with part of
the group protesting the bud-
get was too low and unrealis-
tic. They say even on the fi-
gure adopted a $1,80 tax
rate, which Mayor Hagan is
holding out for, cannot pro-
vide enough funds to meet
the year’s needs, and that
the current rate of $1.85
should be maintained.
The regular meeting time
is 4 p.m. Monday at the City
Hall.
Rudy Garza Opens
Barbecue House
The cafe formerly was
known as El Pollito.
Announcement has been
made that Rudy Garza, well
known in restaurant business
here, has opened the Bar-
becue House on West Hwy.
83.
Mr. Garza is a former
operator of the Mercedes
Cafeteria and the Green Hat
Until its closing recently,
he was manager of the Uni-
ted Food Service which han-
dled all dining rooms at
Harlingen Air Base.
COMMITTEES
ANNOUNCED
BY LEGION HEAD
Committees for the coming
year have been announced by
Commander Woody Tullis of
the American Legion.
These include (1st. named
chairman) refreshments and
arrangements, Leonard King,
Ferg Wood, Alfredo Garza
and Jimmy Lyons.
Programs: R. R. Hollon.
Americanism: John Bowe,
C. Dahl, Benny Soto, Ferg
Wood, Amado Garcia and
Noa Sisk.
Welfare: Lisandro Solis,
Epigmencio C. Garcia, Gil-
bert Solis and Louis Espi-
noza,
Publicity: Bill Holmes,
Herman Merten, Noa Sisk,
Building upkeep: Jim Riley
Elias Gonzalez, Floyd Mont-
gomery and Jose G. Reyes.
Legion Club: Ernest Me-
redity, Presley Allen, Leo-
nard King.
Reception: Bill Holmes,
Silvestre Palaclos, Elias
Gonzalez.
Boy Scouts: Don Salmon,
Bill Downing.
Civil Defense: Henry Bor -
chelt, Charlie Ricke, Nick
Borchelt.
Institutions representa-
tives: Ferg Wood, Bill
Basinger, Jim Lyons.
Interpost relations: Bill
Holmes, Don Salmon.
NAMED DIRECTOR
Liborio Hinojosa of H&H
Meat Products Co., Merce-
des, was elected a director
of the Texas and Southwes-
tern Meat Packers Associa-
tion at the group’s re-
cent meeting in Dallas.
NEW HOURS SET
FOR CITY POOL
New swimming pool hours
for the fall season were
announced this week by Civic
Center Manager Bill Sava-
rino.
Monday through Friday,
the pool will be open from 3
to 9 p.m.
On Saturday, hours are
10 a.m. to 9 p. m.
Sundays, hours will be 1
to 9 p. m.
WATER, ELECTRICAL
CONNECTIONS UP
Mercedes Water connec-
tions are up 115 over Aug-
ust of last year, it was re-
ported this week.
Also showing an increase
trend were electric meters,
2807 compared with 2788
last year, and telephone, 22
81 compared with 2191.
Bank deposits showed an
increase of almost $1,000,
000, from $7,782,370.91 to
$8,615,128,65.
Most business observers
point out that these are good
indicators of an upsurge in
general conditons.
Sewer connections were up
slightly, from 1532 to 1552,
with gas meters off slightly
from 1853 to 1805.
Registration
Changed Little
From Last Year
Mercedes school enroll-
ment on first regular day
showed little change from
this time last year.
A total of 2,659 students
attended Tuesday, compared
with 2,665 a year ago.
Of the present total, 1,754
were elementary, 380 junior
high and 525 high school.
An influx is expected later
in the fall when families
who have gone north return
to their homes.
The peak total last year
passed the 3,500 mark.
Professional staffs were
rounded out Tuesday night
as the Board of Education
accepted several resigna-
tions and election of two
others.
Those elected were Philip
Glasgow of La Feria to teach
in junior high school and
Celia Pena for sixth grade
In North Elementary.
Resignations accepted
were Mrs, Inez Suderman,
Mrs. Teresa Cantu, Aman-
cio Cantu, Mrs. Dora
Sanchez Dominguez, Miss
Elizabeth Reese, Mrs. Willie
Miller and Mrs. Ruth
Armstrong, .
---EEnterprise Staff Photo
WORLD CHAMPIONS -- Hidalgo County All-Stars who
won the world's Championship in 'the colt league re-
cently, stopped in at the El Sombrero last Thursday
for lunch enroute down the Valley, Front row, left
to right, are Robert Zamora, Frank Santiago, Norris
Lewis, Gary Robinson, Jack Williams, Jose Jones and
Gabriel Serda, Back Row: Glen Rollo, manager; Mike
Cline, Mike Santana, Ted Larson, Sherwood Lucas, Les
Saunders, Conrad Villarreal and Roy Lee Hinojosa, Lu-
cas, son of Mr. and Mrs, Sherwood Lucas of Mercedes
was a pitcher with the team.
High School Teacher Appointed
New Principal At West Elementary
LC
Cotton
2,021 Bales Up
From Last Year
Mercedes gins are 2,621.
bales ahead of this time
THINGS WERE HUMMING IN Mercedes last weekend.
Many times Saturday morning there were no parking
spaces on Texas Ave, and traffic was bumper to bum-
per. This was the second of the newest.retail pro-
motion, Super Value Days.
Value Days Winners Told
Mercedes merchants par-
ticipating in the second
monthly Super Value Days
announced winners of the
gifts Tuesday.
Mercedes Oil Co. - Mrs.
Bill Onderdonk, Mercedes.
C. R. Anthony Co. - Nor-
ma Palaclos, Box 74, Ed-
couch.
Ferg Wood Food Center -
Muriel Rennaker, Mercedes.
J. & J. Discount House-
Mrs. E. L. Robinson, Rt. 1,
Edcouch,
Borderland Hardware -
Mrs. Adolfo Lopez, Mer-
cedes,
O’Shea - McQueen Fur-
niture - Tony Yznaga, Mer-
cedes.
Queen City Pharmacy -
Mrs. L. V, Hernandez, Mer-
cedes.
Minimax Supermarket -
Mrs, E. C. Bazar, Merce-
des.
Mercedes Drug Co. -Cote
Benavides, Mercedes.
Hanshaw’s Store - Belin-
da Rios, Mercedes.
Valley Boot Co. - Alex
Moreno, Jr., Mercedes.
Dominguez Shoe Center -
Lupita Robles, Mercedes.
Ripperts Gift Store- Mrs.
F. Reynolds, Mercedes.
Bazar’s Service - Jackie
Peterson, Mercedes.
Baum’s Men’s Wear - Raul
Vega, Mercedes.
Mercedes Enterprise -
Martin W. Waldron & Felix
Garza, Mercedes.
Beall’s Dept. Store - Mrs.
E. F. Hauff, Mercedes.
Leal Electric - Lupita Ro-
bles, Mercedes.
Arguelles Dept. Store -
G11 A. Flores, Mercedes,
Salinas Food Store - Ame-
lia T, Lopez, Mercedes.
The Vogue - Mrs. EdHauff
H.E.B. Grocery - Gloria
Reyna, Mercedes.
Rotarians Hear
Of U.S. Morals
Mercedes Rotarians heard
a McAllen attorney. Bill Pat-
terson, Tuesday at their re-
gular meeting at theElSom-
brero.
He discussed a recent
newspaper article which out-
lined ways in which Ameri-
can morals are reported to
be decaying.
He cited the revalence of
sex and violence in television
show themes and said many
persons abroad are choosing
Communism to the American
way.
Mrs. Talbert Wins
Low Gross Honors
Mrs, Ed Talbert of Mer-
cedes and Ned Solether of
Weslaco carded an 83 for
low gross honors Sunday at
the monthly Scotch tourna-
ment at Llano Grande golf
course in Mercedes.
First low net was won by
Mrs. Jimmy Morrow and
‘ Don Shepp of Weslaco. There
was a tie for second low
net between Mrs. Bob Spies
of La Feria and Jimmy Mor-
row of Weslaco and Mrs.
Ned Solethe r and Johnny W11-
liams.
O’back Club
Pushing Drive
The Mercedes Quarter-
back Club held its first meet-
ing of the school term Tues-
day night at the ElSombrero,
Members present dis-
cussed ways of getting addi-
tional members.
The Club boosts the Ti-
ger grid squad in numerous
ways, including filming
games for study by the play-
ers.
Memberships are avail-
able from officers, headed by
Luis Espinosa, president,
and also at both drug stores
and at The El Sombrero.
Annual barbecue will be
held at the Showgrounds Sept.
18 just ahead of the first
game of the season on Fri-
day.
Basis English Class
To Be Offered Here
Basic English classes for
non-English speaking resi-
dents of Hidalgo county will
be offered in six Rio Grande
Valley cities by Pan Ameri-
can College this fall, ac-
cording to Dr. LyleG. Boun-
ous, director of the College’s
Extension division.
Tuition for the 17-week
course is $15 for classes
meeting in Elsa, Mercedes,
Donna, McAllen, Mission and
Edinburg. Sessions will meet
one evening a week in each
city from 7 until 9:45 o’clock.
Interested persons may
enroll as follows:
Sept. 10 - North Elemen-
tary school. Mercedes.
Sept. 11 - Edcouch - Elsa
high school.
Sept. 17 - Donna Junior
High School.
Emmet Albright, a high
school business administra-
tion teacher, has been elect-
ed as part-time principal-
for West Elementary School.
The action was taken at
a closed executive session
of the school board Tuesday
night from which patrons and
the press were barred.
During the regular meet-
ing, Supt. S. F. Cernosek
said he would like to pre-
sent three prospects for the
job. He explained that ear-
lier plans to have Curri-
culum Director C. C. Norris
double in that capacity were
abandoned after further
study. He said Mr. Norris
would have a full-time job
in his administrative duties
and as director of the high
school choir.
Mr. Cernosek said the
three prospects considered
were Mrs. Consuelo Hino-
josa, a teacher at West;
A. P. Solis, a former prin-
cipal at West and now on
general administrative
assignment; and Mr. Al-
bright.
He explained that he did
not feel it would be wise
to elevate a teacher to the
principal post and leave her
on the same campus where
she had taught. He also point-
ed out that a previous board
had reassigned Mr. Solis
from the principal post at
West. A petition signed by
10 teachers was mentioned,
and it is presumed the trans-
fer was made because of staff
difficulties. Five of the 10
original teachers remain on
the campus and served last
year under Principal H. D.
Wallace, now junior high
principal.
He then said he would
recommend Mr. Albright as
the best prospect. Trustee
Liborio Hinojosa asked what
percentage of the student
body was Latin and Anglo.
Reply: about 80-20. Hinojosa
then said he felt more ad-
ministrators should be La-
tin. It developed that Mr.
Solis is the only one on
administrative assignment.
Hinojosa then asked that
the matter be tabled and
discussed further in an ex-
ecutive session following the
open meeting. No member
objected so the matter was
postponed.
Mr. Albright is working
on his master’s degree spe-
cializing in business admini-
stration. He will continue to
teach some classes in the
high school.
In other action, the board
offered a vote of confidence
to the high school principal
N.K. Fitzgerald. No explana-
tion was made for the motion,
made by Dr. Lawrence Cox,
but it was clear to obser-
vers the board had taken
into account what earlier had
been termed unfavorable and
misleading reports inValley
daily newspapers concerning
a grade changing incident
for a high school football
last year, a survey Wed-t
nesday showed, c
This is considered signi- +
flcant in view of the fact ”
cotton opened later this year. ′
The speedup in picking, is
attributed to mechanical-1
picking. 2
On a Valley-wide. basis, =
the total is running nearly 8
100,000 bales higher. te
player. The principal had
voluntarily appeared before
"the board at its last meeting a ue ,U„U1 weekly sux
and explained that the stu-T cy cotton ginnings: conducs-""
dent’s teacher came co nin - - cooing, conquC2#M
The ninth weekly surv
for permission to re-check
the grade average because
she had failed to give him
credit for some special work
on which other class mem-
bers had received grades.
A three - member com-
mittee was named to nego-
tiate for an auditor to make
the school’s annual audit.
The board also discussed
possibilities of building a
bus garage and also of buy-
ing a nearby building for
industrial shop purposes, but
no decision was reached.
With the beginning of the
fall term, the board meets
on First Tuesdays and first
Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.
Work Pushed
By Two Firms
There was lots of acti-
vity over the Labor Day
weekend at two places in
Mercedes,
Preparations are being
made to open two new busi-
nesses on the 200 block of
South Texas,
A sign already is up for
the Western Auto Associate
Store just north of The En-
terprise Bldg, and work is
proceeding on installation of
fixtures and stocks.
Almost directly across the
street, Javier de los Santos
is readying the building just
vacated for a new home for
the Mercedes 0′1 Co. parts
department, a furniture and
appliance department, and
the general offices of the
firm.
Both are trying to open
by mid-September.
The Western Auto will be
owned and operated by F. R.
Williams of Kingsville.
Kiwanians Elect
Convention Delegate
Mercedes Kiwanians have
elected Edwin Harvey, first
vice- president, as official
delegate to the Texas-Okla-
homa District Convention to
be held Oct. 4-6 in Oklahoma
City.
The group’s board also
authorized participation with
other service clubs in fi-
nancing of trophies for the
Valley - wide tennis tourn-
ament held here last weekend
at the new Civic Center.
At the group’s regular
meeting today, Rev. 0. W.
Summerlin, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, will
be speaker, according to
George Carnes, program
chairman for the month.
ed by the Valley Farm biu-s
reau, Mercedes, reports the e
season’s total ginnings now “
stand at 424,629 bales. The s
past week’s ginnings only 3
totaled 6,417 bales in the
four county area, and the
56 gins still operating re-$
port that on'y a day or two s
more remains for the final.”
clean-up. Starr County gins, s
of course, may remain open
until September 25 as that
is the official closing date
for their area, ,
Totals by Counties to date
are: Cameron, 166,599. 2
Hidalgo, 165,809. 3
Starr County, 7,335, x
Willacy County, 84,886. E
With one more week to 1
close out this season’s gin-e
nings, the 1962 crop already :
exceed the 1961 total crop 3
of 342,113 bales by 82,516 -
bales, and exceeds the total
1960 crop of 362,263 bales
by 62,366 bales.
Ginners report that the
crop has been harvested 1
much faster this year with u
an estimated 90% of the crop 3
harvested by machines. The
total ,1962 crop will be ex-
seeded only by the 1959crop .
of 467,093 bales, or about -
42,000 bales. The largest
crop harvested in the Valley
area was the 1951 crop of
632,610 bales. .
The Valley Farm Bureau
will make the final survey
next week to compile the
season's .closing reports. ' Y
WEATHER REPORT
Date
Aug. 29
Aug. 30
Aug. 31
Sept. 1
Sept. 2
Sept. 3
Sept. 4
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