The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 32, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 12, 1998 Page: 4 of 14
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IN THE VALLEY -
OUT OF THE VALLEY -
The Mercedes Enterp
Volume XLVIII — No. 43
Mercedes, Texas, Thursday, Octobe.r 24, 1963
Price iOc
$ Million Motel-Apartmer
Complex Nearing Real
A group of Houston in-
dustrialists is negotiating
for a Million Dollar plus
development in Mercedes, it
was learned this week.
The project would he cen-
tered around a 104 - unit
motor hotel to be built just
Tigers To Meet Powerful PSJA
Bears In Homecoming Tilt Friday
Now & Then
By EDWIN HARVEY
Who said youth wasn’t
responsible?
An incident at the new
Civic Center recently should
prove interesting to the
socialogists and those who
say today’s generation is the
worst yet.
Manager Bill Savarino
started out soon after the
center opened last year
sponsoring teen dances on
Saturday night. Most of the
events have been orderly,
with a minimum of rowdy-
ism. Each is accompanied
by at least one adult couple.
Recently it was discover-
ed several glass windows
were broken out of the men’s
rest room.
- Mr. Savarino announced
during the intermission the
problem and firmly urged
those guilty to admit the
breakage. Shortly before the
dance ended at midmight,
serveral youths approached
him, stating they had been
“cutting up” and had ac-
cidently bumped into the win-
dows. They said they hadn’t
mean to break them and said
they would pay all costs of
material and labor.
Patrons Offered
Tax Discount
City and school taxpayers
may save 3 per cent on their
taxes by paying them during
October.
This reminder was issued
this week by Adan Cantu,
collector for the joint city
school tax office.
He pointed out that if it
were not convelnent to pay
during October, two percent
discount is allowed during
November .and 1 per cent
if paid in December.
CIVIC CENTER
POND BEING
Needless to say,
dances will continue.
the
Valley Cattle
Place At Fair
Three red brahman en-
tries from Mercedes placed
in the Pan American Live-
stock Exposition at the State
Fair of Texas in Dallas last
week.
Rio King 997, owned by
Clifford Bros., placed sev-
enth in Class 42 — Summer
Yearling Bull. Their Rlo
King 986 placed eleventh in
the same class.
They also placed eleventh
In Class 51—Two bulls bred
and owned by the exhibitor.
IMPROVED
New improvements have
been started at the Mercedes
Civic Center.
Most noticeable is work
on the pond in front of the
main building.
The pond has been drain-
ed and is being made deep-
er. A gravel base will be
laid to prevent it from silt-
ing up. The -area immedia-
tely east of the pond will
be landscaped, with a dirt
filled and sand base gently
sloping down to .the pond.
With the recent installa-
tion of underground sprink-
lers, additional work is being
done on grass and shrub
plantings.
CLUB TO HEAR BANKER
Shelley Collier, Jr., Mer-
cedes bank president, will
discuss modern banking at
the Mercedes Kiwanis Club
meeting at noon Thursday
at The El Sombrero.
First National Bank
Deposits Increase
A correction in bank call
figures published in a re-
cent Enterprise news item
was reported this week.
Totals were correct, but
in itemized deposits for each
bank, the same figures pub-
lished as appearing in some
other newspapers were in-
correct.
The First National Bank
did not lose in deposits from
the previous bank call June
29, but showed an increase
with current deposits total-
ling $4,554,079.72. Hidalgo
County Bank and Trust Co.
reported deposits in the
latest bank call of $3,898
909.28.
—Enterprise Staff Photo
ENTERPRISE PLANT INVADED-Members of the Mercedes
High School journalism class and Tiger staff visited The
Enterprise plant Tuesday during National Newspaper
Week. The group was taken on a tour of the plant, was
given souvenirs and refreshments, and halted near the
big offset newspaper press for this photograph. Among
the group, at extreme right, are the sponsor, Miss Alma
Whatley, and Enterprise Publisher J. Edwin Harvey.
4Swim Meets Bring
$30,000 Into City
Four swim meets held at
the Mercedes Civic Center
this summer put some
$30,000 into circulation in
Mercedes, it was estimated
this week.
At the first meet June
13 and 14, there were 350
swimmers.
At the next June 29,30
there were 250 entries.
This was followed by a
big one in August with 425
swimmers and the meet in
September with 240 contest-
ants.
This totals 1,265 swim-
mer's here for two days,
conservatively estimated at
$10 per day per swimmer,
or some $25,000. Adding to
that parents and friends who
attended and you have well
over $30,000, Manager Bill
Savarino estimates.
And Mercedes will get
even more trade when it has
adequate motel accommod-
ations. Most of the swim-
mers had to stay in neigh-
boring cities.
During the last meet, there
were 60 persons in the Mex-
ico City delegation alone.
They stayed at a Harlingen
motel for about five days,
spending an estimated $10,
000. Add to this other meets,
athletic contests and con-
ventions and the new Civic
Center can be expected to
produce well over $100,000
in added retail sales in this
area when hotel facilities are
available.
Mr. Savarino pointed out
that according to best avail-
able information, this was
the first time in six years
there has not been a drown-
ing in the Mercedes area.
Community leaders attribut-
ed this to supervised swim-
ming at the Civic Center
Pool, encouraging youngs-
ters to stay away from can-
als and the river.
Safe Haule
From Office
Burglars broke into the
Rosenthal Produce Co.
office Tuesday night and
carted off the safe after
failing to get It open, Mer-
cedes police reported.
Company spokesman said
the prowlers entered through
a shed. The safe contained
no money but had account
books and other valuable
documents.
The burglars also took a
typewriter and a carton of
cigarettes. They forced all
locked desks open but ap-
parently found nothing of in-
terest. Other valuable items
including radios, type-
writers and adding machines
in the office were not taken.
In other reports police
investigated five dog calls
during the past week, seven
miscellaneous, four distur-
bance, two personal assault,
two vandalism, one attempt-
ed breaking and entering and
one minor vehicle accident.
Four Mercedes
Students Named
A&I Class Officers
Four students from Mer-
cedes have been among those
elected to serve as officers
in their classes at Texas
A & I College in Kingsville.
They are Truman Olson,
son of Mrs. Marlon Olson,
senior class president; Lynn
Drawe, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Dale Drawe, senior class
reporter; Jerry Jacobs, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Jacobs
student council reporter and
Dewey Acker, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Dewey Acker; fresh-
man class treasurer.
WEATHER REPORT
OCT.
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RAIN
1.02
1.5
Trace
The Bears from Pharr -
San Juan - Alamo come to
the Mercedes homecoming
Friday night with many of
the key players back from
their 1962 Semi - final team
to tangle with the Tigers.
Currently, the two teams
are undefeated but the Mer-
cedes team has two ties to
mar its record, and the
Bears have one tie along with
three wins in district play.
The Bears were tied by
San Benito, currently ranked
sixth in conference stand-
ings. Although the Grey-
hounds held them to a score-
less tie, the Bears have man-
aged to run up 107 points
in their three wins while
holding opponents to 15
points total.
P - SJ - A has romped
over Mission 41-7; Robs-
town 35-8, and Rio Grande
City 31-0. Tigers beat Robs-
town 12-0, and ties Mission
13-13, and Weslaco 0-0. The
Bears have been ranked in
the top ten in the state all
season.
Because of depth on a team
that represents ahighschool
bordering Class AAAA en-
rollment, Coach Charlie
Williams will field twocom-
pletely different teams on of-
fense and defense. Most of
the Mercedes players must
play both offense and de-
fense. Coaches Hild and
Broughton are attempting to
condition the Tigers to play
the full sixty minutes.
The Tigers battled to a
stalemate last Friday night
in Weslaco in an encounter
whose purpose was to deter-
mine neighborhood supre-
macy as well as a District
16AAA win. Both teams pen-
etrated twice in a thriller
that remains a 0-0 tie un-
less the two teams emerge
at the end of regular season
play tied for the title.
Pass completions and
breakaway runs that brought
the capacity crowd to its
feet and six fumbles caused
by hard - hitting defensive
play highlighted the Home-
coming game.
End Mateo Cadena was
named “Lineman of the
Week”; Charlie Hinojosa
was both "Back of the Week”
and "Tackler of the Week,"
and Brian Schwarz received
the “Blocker of the Week”
award. Others cited for ably
carrying out their blocking
assignments were Fleet
Lentz, Bobby Peynado, and
Arnoldo Flores. Cadena,
Larry Herold, and Lentz
were close contenders for
the “Tackler of the Week”
honor.
Senior quarterback Darius
Herold, seeing action for
the first time this season,
openedthe game with a 50
pass completion to End Fred
Johnston who was “on his
way” until a Weslaco safety
caught him “by a shoe-
string” at the Panther 11
yard line. Herold was in-
jured on the next play, and
Sophomore Jesse Villarreal,
a converted halfback, took
the reins for the balance of
the game. His attempted field
goal on fourth down and five
was wide and the Panthers
took over.
Mercedes penetrated in
the second quarter. Another
18- yard pass completion
from Villarreal to Johnston
began the drive starting at
the Mercedes 30. Fullback
James Pemelton carried for
gains of 3-and 5 yards, Vil-
larreal kept for 5 and 3
yards, and Hinojosa netted 3
more as the Tigers rolled
for two first downs cap-
italizing on a 15 yard pen-
alty against. Pemlton car-
ried for 4 yards to the 18
for the penetration but on
the next play the Tigers were
penalized back to the 32, and
the Bengals failed to over-
come the deficit.
Weslaco’s scoring threat
began at their own 20; they
tallied 3 first downs; then
Tigers covered a fumble at
the 6 yard line. Their sec-
ond penetration culminated
at the seven where the Tig-
ers failed to budge.
Homecoming
Program Set
Festitlvites for the annual
Homecoming program for
Mercedes High School this
weekend were announced
Wednesday.
First big public event will
be a pep rally at the school
at 3 p.m.
The class of 1944 will have
a reunion dinner at The El
Sombrero just before the
game.
At 7 p.m., the band, pep
squad, cheerleaders and four
homecoming queen can-
didates will parade through
downtown Mercedes. The
parade will form at the post-
office on Texas and proceed
north through the business
district.
Queen canidates are’Jan
Whitlock, Martha Garza,
Mary Elena Marroquin and
Margaret Solis.
The queen will be crowned
in pre - game ceremonies
beginning at 7:40 p.m.
A block of seats will be
reserved for Mercedes exes.
These tickets may be pur-
chased at the MercedesHigh
School Principal’s office
from Harvey Broyles, and
should be purchased by noon
Friday for the reserved sec-
tion.
There will be ahomecom-
ing dance after the game at
the gymnasium.
Alumnae have been invited
to hold a meeting at .the
school at noon if they desire.
, west of Mercedes on the site
selected by the Mid-Valley
Motor Hotel Corp. In the
same area would be 50' ef-
ficlency apartments and 50
to 100 trailer court units
with concrete slab con-
nections.
The delegation flew to the
Valley Tuesday for its sec-
ond visit. Details of their
proposal were discussed
with officials of the local
motor hotel company Indivi-
dually, Later, the entire
motor hotel board of dir-
ectors met with the group
for luncheon at The El Som-
brero.
A spokesman for the Hous-
ton interests said tentative
plans for the big project
already have been drawn and
presented to a prospective
lendor. He said they were
ready to go with the project
the minute a loan commit-
ment is obtained.
Local persons said one of
the group predicted ground
could be broken in six to
eight weeks if there were no
unforseen delays.
Mercedes leaders hailed
the interest of the group as
one of the biggest projects
planned for Mercedes in
many years. The complin
would cost well over a mill
lion dollars. .
The motor hotel would buy
the land on which the come
munity hotel group had fl
option. They plan 104 unit
(the local group had revises
their plans to 50 units) with
a meeting room seating 305
persons, a dining room seat.
Ing 200, a 60-seat coffee
shop and a private she
Prospects look extremely
good for the completion a
this project, one spokesman
said.
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HALLOWEEN J
QUEEN BACKERS
PUSHING PLANS
Halloween carnival can
didates and others are worked
Ing fast and furiously for
favorite candidates and thy
other projects for the annirg
carnival Thursday night
Oct. 31.
Candidates for queen are
Consuelo Gonzalez, Sherrie
Jackson and Blanca Lopez,
Travis PTA is in charge
of the Kiddie Costume
Parade and Mrs. W. A. On-t
derdonk is general carnival .
chairman.
Groups may reserve con-
cession booths by calling
High School Principal Hard
vey Broyles or Avie Tel
tschik, band director. To-
day is the deadline for reg
servations.
Food booths will open at
5:30 -p.m. The queen will
be crowned * at 9:30 p.m.
Booths and earlier parts
of the program will be set
up at Tiger Stadium behind
the bleachers since there,
will be a football game from
5 to 7. Crowning ofthe
queen is expected to be held
in front so that spectators,
may use the bleachers. S
STATISTICS
Civic Center Getting
Repeat Bookings
Several repeat bookings
have been made for the Mer-
cedes CivicCenter, Manager
Bill Savarino reported.
The Southeasters Public
Service Co. will hold a Val-
leywide dinner for produce
men Nov. 5.
Central Power & Light
Co. will hold a Valleywide
meeting Nov. 9.
The La Ferla Baptist
Church has scheduled a bar-
becue for Nov. 20.
1st Downs
Penetrations
Yds. Rushing
Yds. Passing
Total Net
Passes Att.
Passes Cmpl.
Passes Inter.
Punts & Av.
Fumbles & L.
Penal.
T
5
2
77
90
167
12
6
1
W
11
2
150
50
200
9
3
2
4-30 2-25
2-2 4-4
7-63 2-20
DISTRICT 16AAA
STANDINGS
—Enterprise Staff Photo
SPECIAL AWARDS for 10 years service in the National Guard were presented two men
of the local unit Sunday during command inspection. Making the awards was Col.Richard
Worth of Houston, 1st brigade commander. Looking on are Col. Hugh Riley of Browns-
ville, battalion commander; Lt, Juan Mata, company commander; Sgt. Jose Trevino
and Sgt. Salvador Rodriguez who received the awards.
PSJA
Rio Grande
Mercedes
Mission
Falfurrias
San Benito
Weslaco
W
3
3
1
2
0
0
1
T P
1 .875
u .750
: .666
i .625
2 2 0 .500
1 1 1 .500
1 2 1 .375
R aymondville 0 3 0 .000
Robstown 0 3 0 .000
HOMECOMING QUEEN CANDIDATES awaiting results-
Friday night are Martha Garza, Margaret Solis, Jan :
W! Itlock and Mary Elena Marroquin.
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