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THE BAY CITY NEWS
Thursday, April 5, 19'5f>
NOTES
FROM OUR NEWS
Scratch Pad
Boone To Texas Or Kaintucky?
Walker, Hall Flying For Fehmel
Uy LANOY GUNN
Sweeny's fabulous basketeer, RUSSELL BOONE, has
been named to the All-American Junior College Basketball
Team; he'll graduate from Tyler Junior College this spring
and has indicated he'll head Texas-way or Kaintucky to finish
his career on the boards. . . BILL FEHMEL of the Fehmel
Dusting Service announced that the same pilots, BILL
WALKER and CLINTON HALL, are flying for him again
this season. . .
JAMES WESTMORELAND and the scribe made a
trip to Houston Tuesday night to hear the concert of
Ted Heath and his veddy, veddy English orchestra.
'Twas super. . . FRANK HURLEY JR. and FRED
BROUGHTON are building a fishing camp on the Colo-
rado River; it'll be used for night fishing. . .
Seostrunk Takes Over 2 Freight Lines;
Ulland Tells Of Early-Day Automobiles
Our hardworking Grand Prize
and Budweiser beer distributor,
GUiS.SEASTRUNK, also has taken
over the local agencies of the Red
Arrow Freight Line and the Ala-
mo Freight Line. . . MISS ANN
HAGAMAN, LARRY WAYNE
SHAFFER, and DENNIS YATES
have signed up for the summer
activities at KAMP KARANKA-
WA. . .
The Federal Civil Defense Ad-
ministration says being inside an
ordinary house will cut radia-
tion danger in half; an under-
ground shelter will (five almost
complete protection. . . Radio
Station KULP's call letters came
from the owner's given name,
GULP KRUEGER, who is busy
campaigning these days for state
senator. . . Attorney JOHN
CAMP and Real Estater LAY-
TON MOORE among the many,
many devotees of the great game
of golf. . .
Coach DON HALEY almost
parked his car in the kitchen of
Paul's Cafe last week; he said
later it was one w-e-i-r-d 'feeling
to put on the brakes and keep
right on moving. . . In a Little
League baseball game last year
the score was something like 34
to 19 in the third inning when the
catcher called time to talk to his
pitcher, who was crying up a
storm. "jWhat's the matter, Fred-
dy?" the catcher asked, "you've
still got your no-hitter working!"
Definition of a sailor: "A wolf
in ship's clothing!"... RAYMOND
DAVIDSON, sprint star at Whar-
ton High School, will be a lad well
worth remembering. He was high
point man in Boling's meet and is
only a sophomore. . . O. A. UL-
LAND an office visitor last week;
he and his wife make their winter
home in Markham and, during the
hot summer months, live in North
Dakota. MP,. ULLAND was telling
about the early days of the auto-
mobile in Matagorda County. He
said that if you were driving
through Markham heading for
Bay City, you were required by
law to telephone the lawmen of
this town so as to give them time
to warn all drivers of horse-drawn
vehicles to get their teams off the
main streets. Otherwise, there'd
be runaways for sure. . .
This is APRIL, the month of
showers—and also the month of
a great crusade against can-
cer. . . Great strides have been
made in this fight but still
greater ones must be made be-
fore the disease is completely
Is*
lung cancer
increasing?
The answer is Yes—and very
rapidly, too. In thapast 20 years,
deaths from lung cancer in
women have increased over
20096 and in men over 600%. In
1954, 17s of all male cancer
deaths were due to lung cancer.
You can help tight lung cancer
—and aU forgis of cancer—in
two ways. A thorough checkup
at least once a year.. . and a
check to the American Cancer
Society.
Give to your Unit of the Ameri-
can Cancer Society or mall your
gift to cancer, c/o your town's
Postmaster.
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Society
conquered. . . The best way you,
as an individual, may help in
this fight is to join in with the
drive for funds and to have
periodic physical examinations...
FIGHT CANCER WITH A
CHECK-UP AND A CHECK...
And. in this connection, incident-
ally, a promising new drug for
patients with acute leukemia, a
form of cancer, is being tested
in nine institutions at this time
throughout the country. It is
called AZASERINE. . .'
District Clerk J. GRADY
WALKER recupei-ating from an
operation. . ..Smilin'KIRK RICH-
ARDSON hospitalized with the
mumps; our sincere wishes for a
speedy recovery. . . And right
along here let's relate this: a little
lad came home from the barber
shop and exclaimed, "Daddy, you
know what," "No, What?" "KIRK's
got the mumps!" "No!" "And,
Daddy, you know what?" "No,
what?" "BILL had the chicken pop
corns!". . .
Congratulations to MR. AND
MRS. CHARLES ROBERTS—
it's a ffirl, DEBORAH LEAH!...
R. D. CRAWFORD is the per-
sonable young man who is now
general manager of Peoples
Ideal Cleaners and Laundry. R.
D. attended Oklahoma A.&M.
and was an instructor in dry
cleaning as well. His family will
join him here about the middle
of this month. . .
In Bay City's recent golf tour-
ney, the threesome of TOMMY
QRUSE, JOE QONRAD, and JACK
CLARK approached No. 5 green
on their first round. CLARK was
about 90 yards from the pen and
his approach shot hit the base of
the pen and plopped in for an
eagle three. . . On the next hole
his second shot landed alongside
CONRAD's ball in the trap. As
they walked up to the sand, CON-
RAD said to CLARK: "JACK, no
matter how good a guy plays golf
there's still a lot of luck that goes
with the game. On the last hole
you were just about the same dis-
tance from the pen and you got an
eagle. Now just look at the shape
we're both in on this one!". . .
As you know, CONRAD had lots
of luck in the tourney but it was
of the Friday the thirteenth kind!
A mountaineer and his daughter
entered a bus station and1 the girl
sat on the bench while her pappy
got the tickets. "I'd like a ticket
fer Georgia," said the man."£Which
part of Georgia?" asked the irate
ticket taker. "All o'f her," said the
mountaineer. "That's her sitting
over yonder!". . .
High Temperature
Of 84 Degrees
Recorded Here Friday
High temperature for the week
was 84 recorded Friday by the Bay-
City Weather Station. Low was 56
degrees reported Friday and Sat-
urday nights.
DATE MAX. MIN. PREC.
March 27 79 59 0.00
March 28 80 67 0.00
March 29 78 59 0.00
March 30 84 56 0.00
March 31 82 56 trace
April 1 81 66 0.00
April 2 79 69 0.00
Chamber Membership
Meeting For Realtors
Set Thursday Morning
Insurance and relator personnel
in the Bay City Chamber of Com-
merce will meet with city business-
men in the same occupation cate-
gory Thursday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock in the Service Center.
Other sinsilar meetings next
week will include retail-hard line,
9:30 o'clock Monday morning in
the Service Center, and beauty
shops, 7:30 o'clock Tuesday night
in the Service Center.
Dinner Club
Speaker To
Be Ed Harding
A jack of all trades, Platform
Speaker Ed Harding, will be guest
of honor and speaker at the April
12 meeting of the Bay City Knife
and Fork Club.
President W. O. Salter has an-
nounced that the meeting will bt
held at 7:30 o'clock that night at
the Tenie Holmes Elementary
School.
Bald and "comfortably rotund"
Mr. Harding has been a news-
paperman, author, and poet. More
recently he was in the fertilizer
business, but swears he reformed
when he became a professional
after-dinner speaker.
Also he has been a farmer and
secretary of the (Washington
Chamber of Commerce.
A Rotarian, Mr. Harding has
served as that group's district
governor.
COMFORTABLY ROTUND—
After-Dinner Speaker Ed Hard-
ing will be speaker at the Bay
City Knife and Fork Clob's April
12 meeting at Tenie Holmes Ele-
mentary School. Meeting time
will be 7:30 o'clock.
Julius Caesar suffered from
epilepsy.
15 ACTS NAMED . . .
Performers ,ln April 23 Jaycee
Amateur Talent Review Selected
CLEMVILLE FOLKS PROUD
OF OIL FIELD HERITAGE
By MRS. G. C. McELRATH
How many people living in
Matagorda County know the lo-
cation of a small prairie village
once known as Hardy ?
Almost 50 years ago and some
10 miles northwest of Bay City
out on the prairie a short distance
from the north bank of the Tres-
Palacios history was in the mak-
ing.
A man by the name of Hardy
was hope'fully drilling for oil.
Henry and James Perry, sons of
a rice farmer living dose by, were
scooping out an earthern reser-
voir with their father's teams and
slips. The reservoir was expected
Contestants to participate in the
Bay City Junior Chamber of Com-
merce Talent Review April 23 have
been named by Louis Markewich,
publicity director.
The 15 audition winners:
Sybil Westbrook, song, Sweeny;
Douglas Ealy, solo, [West Colum-
bia; Anthony Acosta, harmonica
solo, Bay City; Jo Ann Rich, solo,
El Campo.
Marshall Morris, quartet, Old
Ocean; Judy Rhea, modern dance
group, Wharton; Basil Shannon,
solo, Sweeny; Kewanettas, panto-
mime, Palacios.
Nancy O'Connell, song, Van
Vleck; Laura Ford, Poffenburger
Puffers Polka Band, Palacios; Bob-
by MeCullough, song, Bay City;
Mariam Roe, song, Bay City; Jer-
ry Matthews, mimic-piano act,
West Columbia; Lionettes, song,
Bay City.
A dress rehearsal will be held
April 22 at 2 o'clock in the Service
Center, and the actual talent show
will get under way at 7:55 o'clock
April 23.
If unforseen circumstances pre-
vent performers from going on
stage April 23, performers who
were not selected as audition win-
This Week In
Matagorda County
THURSDAY, APRIL 5
Art Class, Service Center, Bay
City, 9-noon.
Livestock Sale, Matagorda
County Fairgrounds, 1 p.m.
FRIDAY, APRIL 6
Teen-Age Night, Service Center,
Bay City, 7 p.m.
Bay City Lions Club, Chicken
Grill, Bay City, noon.
Baseball: Boling at Bay City,
Stewart Field, 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, APRIL 7
Bay City High School Dance,
Women's Exhibit Building, Mata-
gorda County Fairgrounds, 8 p.m.
Golf: District 25-AA School
Tourney, Bay City Country Club,
9 a.m.
Bay City Independent School
District Trustee Election, Mata-
gorda County Courthouse, Bay
City, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.
SUNDAY, APRIL 8
Church Services: All Matagorda
County Churches.
MONDAY, APRIL 9
Bay City Pilot Club, Service
Center, Bay City, 7:30 p.m.
Preparations for Flower Show,
Service Center, Bay City, 9 a.m. ;
Army Reserves, Company I, |
358th Infantry Regiment, 90th Di-J
vision, Matagorda County Fair-|
grounds, 8 p.m. j
TUESDAY, APRIL 10
Setting Up Flower Show Begins,
Service Center, Bay City.
Deadline: 3 p.m. for all news
and advertising copy for the April
12 issue of THE BAY CITY
NEWS.
Bay City Rotary Club, Chicken
Grill, Bay City, 12:10 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11
Bay City Garden Club Flower
Show, Service Center, Bay City,
3-9 p.m.
Children's Art Class, Service
Center Lawn, Bay City, 4:30-5:30
p.m.
Measles Still Tops
In Matagorda County
With 40 Cases
Measles was again the number-
one communicable disease in Mata-
gorda County this week with 40
cases, the county health unit re-
ported.
Virus dysentery was a close
second with 36 cases. Following
were 20 influenza, 13 mumps, eight
chicken pox, two pneumonia, and
one case of gonorrhea.
ners will be held in reserve.
Among these performers are
Charlene Harrison, Bay City;
Frances Finster, Bay City; Tommy
Goodwin, Sweeny; Nancy New-
man, Bay City.
Eddie Dunk, Danciger; Gail C.
King, Palacios; Wanda Hood,
Sweeny; Jerry Massey, Old Ocean;
Carroll Hogden, Sweeny; Bernard
Gerhardt, monologue.
Dell R. Lee, El Campo; Pat
Guyners, Markham; Gary Rowe,
Bay City; Joy Kay Rogers, Bay
City, and Nat Charles, Bay City.
Chapman Divorce
Case Filed This Week
With District Clerk
Only one divorce cane was filed
this week in the civil docket of
the district clerk.
Style of the case was Joan Chap-
man vs. Bobbie Kenneth Chapman,
March 30.
Flower Show Slated
For Service Center
Wednesday At Three
The Ninth Annual Flower Show
of the Bay City Garden Club will
get under way Wednesday after-
noon at 3 o'clock and conclude that
night at 9 o'clock in the Service
Center.
Club officials are hoping for at
least 500 visitors during the six-
hour exhibit.
The theme of this year's show
will be "April Showers," Mrs. J.
E. Fanson, president of the club,
said.
to hold the black gold.
This was the second oil well to
be drilled in Matagorda County.
The first was drilled at Gulf Hill
near Matagorda but nevar ma-
terialized into a field.
Like Campers' Village
By August, 1908, Hardy looked
like a campers' village with its
tent houses along each side of a
black dirt street that would bog a
snipe when it rained.
There were only two wooden
structures, one of which was the
story-and-a-half hotel. A ladder
was used for the outside stairway
leading to rooms above the cook-
ing and dining area.
People were excited and came
from far and near to see the oil
well in the drilling process.
Time went by and in 1909 a
black fluid gushed forth spraying
the rig, equipment, and every-
thing close by.
In those days there were no
means of controlling a combina-
tion oil and gas blowout so the
well went wild for awhile. Finally
it died down and there was no
more oil in the hole.
This marked the beginning of
the first oil field in the county and
it still flourishes to this day with
wells rich in both oil and gas.
No More Hardy
There is no more Hardy, Texas.
The small prairie village grew un.
til it was a nice size country town
with a church, two stores, a cafe,
post o'ffice, and service station.
It did have a school until good
roads came along and progress
necessitated a consolidation with
Markham to provide the children
of the community with high school
facilities. < •
The folks living in Clemville,
the present name of the village
once known as Hardy, are proud
of their heritage in oil.
Two County Couples
Feel Cupid's Arrows,
Clerk's Records Show
Spring is here and two county
couples felt the sting of Cupid's
arrows this week, the county
clerk's records show.
Marriage licenses were issued to
Clyde Nelo Seaman, 19, and Vir-
ginia Mae Zapalac, 19, of Pala-
cios, March 31, and to Saul Rich-
ards, 33, and Clordena IW&rd, 33, of
Cedar Lake, March 31.
The El Campo Garden Club will stage its annual flower
show at the Community Center in El Campo on April 1$
the theme of which is "Southern Gardens." The club is well
known for its beautifully produced shows each year and
this year's theme promises to be equally as beautiful. Gen-
eral chairman for the show is Mrs. C. D. Bergstrom, second
vice-president of the Texas Garden Clubs, Inc., and her co-
chairman is Mrs. John W. Bergstrom.
There is no admission charge to the show and all who
are interested are invited to attend between the hours of
3 to 8 p.m.
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Century 6-Passenger
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Stewart, Bob. The Bay City News (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1956, newspaper, April 5, 1956; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth428425/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.