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terprise
Mercedes, Texas, 78570; Thursday, August 29, 1968
Vol. 53 No. 35
Price 10c
Schools Open Tuesday, Bus Routes Altered
Teacher Shortage, Street
Work Are Top Problems
• E •
Sixth Bus
Is Added
More than 3,000 students
and 185 teachers re-open
public school classroom ac-
tivity here Tuesday, Septem-
ber 3, after Monday’s no-
business Labor Day holi-
day ends a three-month va-
cation.
A teacher shortage and
rain-delayed street con-
struction in high school and
junior high areas are the
re-surface 10th Street from
Texas to Capisallo, a major
Florida Street MHS access
route and a vital traffic
link with cafeteria, audi-
torium and gymnasium fa-
cilities at the former Ohio
Street campus.
Work there, under an Ur-
ban Renewal contract, has
been delayed by frequent
rains.
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most "perplexing problems Also due early attention
right now", says Superin- is City of Mercedes re-sur-
tendent N. K. Fitzgerald, facing of Florida Street past
An eight-teacher shortage the new MHS campus, in-
includes four at the elemen- eluding pull-off areas for
tary school level, two in the loading and unloading stu-
Mercedes high school Eng- dents.
lish department andoneeach And correction of adrain-
in the junior high English age problem on Florida in
and girls’ health depart- front of the MHS building is
ments. nearing completion.
That is the top adminis- On Thursday morning, Au-
trative problem as school- gust 29, teachers new to the
opening nears, but almost district will meet for an
as ‘perplexing’ is an un- orientation program at 10
finished project to widen and a.m. in the MHS library.
They then report to their
A PI Neo e A f campuses for conferences
DuOGe ub-OIVciOn ApproveO with their principals. Atl
p.m. Thursday, teachers of
Pre-school children meet
many other Cities are not at the central business of-
paid and that such services fice.
A general faculty meeting
opens at 8 a.m. Friday at
the Mercedes Civic Center,
after which all personnel
are to report to schoolcam-
puses for faculty meetings
during the remainder of the
day. 4
And a full schedule of
classroom activity begins at
8 a.m. next Tuesday,
Earlier this week, admini-
ENTERPRISE STAFF PHOTO
WHEN THE SEASON OPENS, THEY'LL BE THERE -- These MHS Pep Squad
girls, with Mrs. Livia Tidwell, faculty sponsor, modeled the Squad's new un-
iforms at their Tiger Stadium bleacher position Tuesday. Left to right, Mrs.
Tidwell, Cindy Champion, Vangie Martinez, Lydia Barron, Nelda Garcia.
City Commissioners ap- unchanged tax rate of $1.75 cond
proved a new city budget per $100 valuation formal
and accepted a plan of a pro- Monday. Taxable property denial. _ ______________
posed residential sub-divi- valuations are,, estimated there are other similar .here, are scarce, anyway,
Sion after a public budget' at $ 12,053,520, up about $85, businesses operating in vio- ′ --Decided to wait until
hearing Monday night, - .....: 000 over the current year. Dilation of zoning regulations, additional funds are receiv-
Slightly higher than for A plan by Rudy Garza to but Commissioners George ed from the federal Office
the fiscal year now ending build 24 brick veneer homes Irby, Rey Zuniga and Grady of Emergency Planning be-
(September 30), the 1968-69 as ‘Cynthia Sub-division’be- Herold would not reverse fore paying the balance of a
budget calls for general tween San Jacinto and Tay- the zoning commission’s ru- Hurricane Beulah clean-up
operating expenditures of lor housing projects on ling. bill from Dodds and Wede-
$256,034, and tax bond debt North Washington Street was Also Monday night Com-
service of $89,779, plus approved. The plan, pre- missioners:
$127,980 in water and sew- viously approved by the ci-
er department expenses, ty zoning commission and —Rejected a request from
along with debt service in planning board and submit- Dr. Gonzalo Caballero, de-
that department of $53,320. ted to the Commission by signated as City Health Of-
Commissioners made an City Building Inspector Mar- ficer, that he be paid by the
vin Roberts, also includes city for services rendered,
two business lots.
Denial by the zoning com- A. HP. I .
mission to permit a varia- COION LOW
tion in zoning regualtions■J
so Mrs. Janie Wisner could Cotton quality does not
operate a beauty salon in seem to be improving with
her home at 1118 South Ohio all the rain this area has
was upheld when otherCom- been getting. Yield and
missioners refused to se- quality are lower than last
year and one ginner reports
Adame County that they “are. getting low-
er all the time".
NYC Counselor Another ginner says that
the cotton he has been gin-
Bob Adame of Mercedes ning has been "very good"
has been employed by the although others claim it to
local Community Action be a “poor crop”.
Program Board as Hidalgo Elsa Cooperative ginned
county counselor for Neigh- 2,786 bales this past week
borhood Youth Corps direc- to bring their season total
tion. He replaces Roy Ad- to date to 5,400 while the
ams of Mercedes, who re- Mercedes Cooperative in
signed to accept a teaching Mercedes is close behind
position with the Weslaco with 4,832 for the season,
school district. The Mercedes Cooperative
a motion by Mayor They said Health Officers in
Adan Cantu to reverse that
ENTERPRISE STAFF PHOTO
A SUMMER OF PREPARATION ... while schools
were unoccupied, found maintenance crews paint-
ing and repairing the buildings for a new school
year. Above are Henry Jalifi and Ramon Pina fin-
ishing a paint job at West junior high building.
Mayor Cantu said
Tennis Tournament
Opens Here Friday
Junior High
Majorette,
Twirlers Set
Beverly Brewer as drum
majorette and Marlcela Lo-
pez as head twirler, plus
five twirlers, have been
selected for Mercedes jun-
ior high school band leader-
ship and decoration. Both
are eighth graders.
The band, directed by Ra-
mon Aguilar III, will also be
decorated by eighth grade
twirlers Janet Wood and
Carla Smith and by seventh
graders Sally Lauder, Bar-
bara Schwarz and Jill Po-
wers.
Junior high football games
are played on Thursdays, be-
ginning September 26.
City Earns
'No-death’
AAA Plaque
Police Chief R. G. Perez
and city and Chamber of
Commerce representatives
will be on hand Friday in
McAllen when Mercedes and
Raymondville receive ‘no-
pedestrian-death’ plaques
from the American Automo-
bile Association.
It will be the second such
award for Mercedes and the
third for Raymondville. Pla-
ques will signify that each
city honored is "cited for
its record of No Pedestrian
Deaths as reported in the
AAA Pedestrian Safety In-
ventory while meeting AAA
standards of program per-
formance”.
Plaques will be presented
at a noon luncheon Friday
in the Gold Room of the Casa
de Palmas Hotel in McAl-
len. The two cities were
the only ones so honored in
a 46-county South Texas
area and were among the
top cities in the 685 in the
10,000 to 25,000 population
class which were consider-
ed in the AAA contest.
Mercedes hosts Harlingen
tennis pro Kaye Garza’s an-
gartner construction com- cite at nual Labor Day tennis tour-
pany. The company lists the classroom activity begins at nament Friday August 30
balance at $10,799. 8 a.m. next Tuesday, through Sunday, September
—Approved an application Earlier this week, admini- 1. Re-conditioned courts
from Maria Zepeda to re- strative staff meetings were at the Civic Center will be
open ‘La Perla’ at 618 Hi- conducted and supervisory the scene of the action,
dalgo Street with a beer per-, personnel met with the Su-
mit in her name. perintendent for confer- Local sponsor is the Mer-
ences. Principals are in cedes Lions Club, with W.B.
their offices all week. Lauder Jr. as chairman.
Trophies will be financed
by Borderland Hardware,
Central Power and Light,
Rio Grande Valley Gas, Hi-
dalgo County Bank, First
National Bank and Mr. Lau-
entries are expected from
throughout the Valley and
from Corpus Christi, Kings-
ville, San Antonio and other
South Texas cities.
ENTERPRISE STAFF PHOTO BY DICK HARMAN
WRECKED CYCLES WERE STOLEN--Two motor-
cycles stolen from Edinburg and Raymondville own-
ers were found wrecked and abandoned in and near
the F-M 491 canal crossing, above, Tuesday morn-
ing. Mercedes Police are looking for injured driv-
ers and a third stolen cycle presumed to have been
discarded in the area.
in Edcouch reports 3,205
bales so far.
As of Wednesday morning
the Pealor Gins in La Villa
and Stockholm together to-
taled 3,900 with the Stock-
holm having ginned 2,800
bales. Ross Gin in Merce-
des added 1,331 bales to its
total ginnings so far to re-
port 2,001 bales for the sea-
son to date. The Progreso
Cooperative has ginned 3,
027 for the season.
This week a total of 12,
630 bales of cotton were
ginned in the area to bring
the season total to date to
22,365 bales.
A total of 57,318 sam-
ples were classed the past
week by the Harlingen Clas-
sing Office. This brings the
seasons total to 113,426
samples which compares
with 294,174 samples clas-
sed by this time last sea-
son.
Demand was weak with
prices averaging 50 to 100
points lower, the U. S. D. A.
Consumer and Marketing
Service reports. Market
activity was slow with less i
cotton selling than in pre- |
vious weeks.
Some averaged prices
paid for cotton in the 3.5-
4.9 micronaire range as re-
ported by the Cotton Divi-
sion were: Middling 1-1/16,
31.05; Strict Low Middling
Plus 1-1/16, 30.05; Strict
Low Middling 1-1/16, 29.15; |
Middling Light Spotted 1-
1/16, 29.30; and Strict Low
Middling Light Spotted 1- 1
1/16, 26.95. Cottonseed pri- 5
ces remained unchanged at *
$51 to $52 per ton to produ- f
cers at most gin points.
The statistics show that
Strict Low Middling was the
predominant grade with 49
percent of the cotton classed
falling in this category.
Other principal grades were
Strict Low Middling Light
Spotted, 19 percent; Low
Middling, 14 percent; and
Middling and Middling Light
Spotted 5 percent each.
If Hunters
Find Birds
This year’s two-
weekend White Wing
hunt has just one Sat-
urday.
A 1968 alternation
has the White Wing
season set for Sunday
and Monday, Septem-
ber 1 and 2, and Sat-
urday and Sunday,
September 7 and 8.
Remembering the
one-Saturday factor
and finding the birds
are the chief White
Wing worries here
this year.
der.
Singles and doubles com-
petition is set for boys and
girls 14 and under, 16 and
under and 18 and under.
There also will be mixed
doubles and senior veterans
categories.
Thursday, August 29, 7
p.m. is entry deadline. En-
trants may contact Mr.
Lauder in Mercedes or call
Mr. Garza at GA3-3932,
Mr. Garza, tournament First-round play begins
director, said more than lOO at 8:30 a.m. August 30.
But Tigers Did 'Real Well’
He saw “a lot of rough
spots", but agreed he was
“well pleased" after Sat-
urday’s Orange and White
MHS Tiger football scrim-
mage at Tiger Stadium. And
said Coach Dale Hatley,
“They did real well after
only a week of workouts.”
The Orange squad, lead
by quarterback Jimmy
Greenwood (who "looked
good”) scored 30 points to
22 for the Whites, quarter-
backed by Jack Lyons.
Tigers will be at Boggus
Field Friday of this week
for a 7 p.m. scrimmage
with Harlingen, and they
scrimmage at Rio Hondo
on September 6 or 7.
After school opens next
week, the squad moves to
one-a-day 3 p. m. workouts.
With a new school bus in
operation and a sixth bus
run scheduled, better ‘load
balance’ and transportation
service will be in force when
schools open next Tuesday*
There were five bus runs
last year.
Bob Smith, school district
administrative assistance,
invites parents with ques-
tions about the altered routes.,
created by the extra bus
run to call him at LO5-2427.
“Actually”, said Mr.
Smith, “All the same roads
in the same areas will be
covered, and better than in
previous years, but some,
students will be served by.
different buses than before
and may be confused for a
while”.
Buses will follow regular
collection schedules begin-
ning at 7 a.m. Tuesday,
leaving the school bus barn
at that time and depositing
students at their schools by
8-
Loads will be divided for
“better balance", he said,
and there will be a few ad-
justments when he knows:
exactly how many students
will need service on the six
routes. .
Bus drivers will meet with
Mr. Smith at the central
business office on Sixth
Street at 9 a.m. Thursday,
of this week to arrange as-;
signments. n
In pre-school planning, it
is estimated that 500 stites
dents will be riding buses,
to and from school next woete
over 109 miles of buses,
routes.
Precinct 21
Is Divided .
Mercedes will havea
third voting precinct near
year. -
County Commissioners,
split West Mercedes pree
cinct 21 Monday, adding 1
new Precinct 46. Precinct.
21 had more than 2,000
voters, the level at which,
precincts must be divided.
Exact areas covered will be.
announced later. n
Precinct 32 at Stockholm
was dissolved, having few-
er than the legal minimum,
of 50 voters. -
To Teach
Religious)
Instruction’e
The Diocese of Browne,
ville is sponsoring 40 works
shops throughout the Vale
ley--from Brownsville'
Rio Grande City-in 20 Id.
cations for training teach.
■ ers of religious instruct
J tion. a
The training sessions wills
be conducted every Tues.a
day and Thursday from 7:30
to 9:30 p.m. 3
In Mercedes the sessions,
are .to be at Holy Family.”
Hall of Our Lady of Mercy.
Catholic Church for all.
junior and senior high teach-,
ers. Chairman of teachers
will be Mrs. Oscar Gore-
na. The elementary level
sessions will be on the
same date at Vera’s Pala-
dium in Weslaco with Mrs."
Camilo Estevis of Merce-3
des as chairman. 1
These study sessions will
deal with basic pyschology.
and teaching techniques for
religious instruction of all
elementary, junior high and -
senior high students. :
Instructors for these ses-
sions are Sister Alice Mar-
ENTERPRISE STAFF PHOTO garet Tastrano, Missionary
LEVEE-CRESTING ROA D I IAS NOT A LL BEEN SMOOTH -- A mass ive water Varbeciso of trainin Pro-
wagon, used to moisten dirt spread to extend the height of North Floodway elementary teachers.8 and
levees through Mercedes, slipped off the crest Monday evening and it took Sister Mary Felize Mojica, :
more than the caterpillar above to bring it upright. The driver jumped "just M. C. D. P., for secondary ,
in time", according to witnesses, teachers.
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