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THE WEST NEWS — WEST. TEXAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1964
VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Sulak.
Mary Alice Sulak and Mrs.
Della Grimm visited Saturday
in Dallas with Mr. and Mrs. Don
Hill and fomily.
Mr. and Mrs. Oran Bankston
visited Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Bankston in Bel-
ton. Wesley Bankston ot Austin
also visited with the Donald
Bankstons.
* ♦
Mrs. Millie 'Sykora has return-
ed home alter having spent
three months visiting in Hous-
ton with her daughter and son-
in-law. Mr. and Mrs. B. Q. Mc-
Daniel.
• •
Mrs. Fred Renze of Whittier.
California, is visiting in West
■with her sister and brother-in-
law, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Polasek
and sons. Mrs. Polasek is re-
cuperating following major sur-
gery several weeks ago.
♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Kruse and
Diane spent Sunday in Clifton
visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Wiede. A family
gathering was held in honor of
Mrs. Wiede’s birthday.
♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Harris
spent Sunday visiting in Seguin
with Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Dean
and Mrs. Dora Simpson.
♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Stacy
and family of Minot, North Da-
kota and Mrs. Annie Stacy of
Mertens visited one night last
week with Mr. and Mrs. Buster
Poteet.
* •
Dr. Hazel Montgomery and
Mrs. G. L. Montgomery of Tyler
visited in West recently with
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Montgom-
ery.
Mrs. Rosie Kocuiba spent last
week in Dallas visiting with
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Gallia and
family and other relatives
* •
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smais-
trla and Mike and Karen Gerik
visited in Fort Worth. Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. George Kos-
tohryz and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rydel
and Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Gerik
left Sunday for Hot Springs,
Arkansas.
9 9
Mr. and Mis. Dan Urbanovsky
and Miss Albina Urbanovsky
visited Sunday in Terrell with
Mr and Mrs. Joe J. Maresh and
Henry.
♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. James Park at-
tended a Humble dealers' con-
vention in San Antonio this
week and then will spend a few
days vacationing In Mexico.
• •
Dr. J. R. Kubala attended the
Sixth District Dental meeting
held last Friday and Saturday
in Nacogdoches
9 9
Mrs. Bob Savage and chil-
dren of Du Queen, Arkansas,
and her mother, Mrs. Lucille
Bradshaw of Godley visited
Tuesday with Miss Maybelle
Hartsfield.
• •
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd McCoy
and Ml's. Vera Rydel visited
their children in Pasadena over
Mrs. Fred Taylor visited last
week in Houston with her
daughter and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCoy J
and baby of Victoria visited the
past week with their parents.
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Baseball Schedule
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bailey
and son Jeffrey of Fort Worth
visited Saturday with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. I. M Webb
and with Mrs. Bailey’s sister
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Craig, Kent and Kevin. Other
visitors in the Webb home Sat-
urday night were Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Malone and Gary of Waco:
Mr. Bobby Webb. Ricky and
Debbie of Lorena: and Mrs. H.
L. Anderson. Don and Gina of
Abbott.
• *
Mr. and Mrs. George McMa-
han and Gregory of Austin spent
the weekend with his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Hollis McMahan.
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Mr. and Mrs. Bill McCoy and
Becky visited last weekend with
their parents.
• •
Lt. and Mrs. Harry Littleton of
Reno. Nevada, spent the week-
end visiting in West and Tours
with their parents before
leaving for Laredo where he will
be stationed with the Armed
Forces. Other weekend visitors
in the Littleton home were Mr.
and Mrs. Edwin G. Spruce and
family of Houston: Mr. and Mrs.
By ALLAN C. ASHCRAFT, PH D.
History Department,
the weekend. Mrs. McCoy re-1 ^url McMahan and family of
mained for an extended visit. | Cedar Hill; Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Morse and Betsy of Robinson;
Mr. and Mrs. Hulon Webb of
Austin spent the weekend visit-
ing with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. I. M. Webb.
♦ ♦
Dr. and Mrs. Joe Williams of
Roswell, New Mexico, visited
with her aunt. Mrs. W. C. Mor-
gan and Mr. Morgan on Wed-
nesday.
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tion and the Texas State His-
torical Survey Committee'.
Coastal Defense and Activities
Along the Texas Shoreline
Texas coastal defense — pro-
tecting almost seven hundred
miles of tidewater coastline —
was a major problem that faced
Texas leaders with the coming
of war. Realizing the impossi-
bility of providing thorough de-
fense with the means available,
(state authorities concentrated
on safeguarding with all avail-
able artillery the most valuable
coastal points: the water ap-
proaches to the Houston area,
Sabine Pass, the mouths of and
approaches to the Trinity, Bra-
zos and Rio Grande rivers, Cor-
pus Christi and Aransas Pass
and, especially, Galveston Is-
land. Elsewhere, security mea-
sures were undertaken by Tex-
as Confederate Cavalry, Infan-
try, Marines—manning dredge-
boats, rafts and prize ships -
and county patrols of twenty-
live men per county. Regular
Mrs, Anna Hosek of Grape-
vine visited friends in West on
Thursday.
and Mrs. Paul Martin
dren of West.
and chil-
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Mr. and Mrs. Bill Vanzura
and son Billy of Lubbock spent
the weekend with his mother.
Mrs. Walter Vanzura in West.
Mrs. Norman Denton and son
Glenn, of Dallas, visited Sunday
with her mother, Mrs, Mozzell
Westmoreland.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Reed
visited Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Dishman in Milford on Sunday.
9 9
Miss Minnie Ellis of Dallas
visited Mrs. Kittie Sanders on
Sunday.
« 9
Mrs. George Wilson visited in
Waco over the weekend with her
daughter and family, the John-
nie Tennisons
♦ «
Mrs. J. C. Bennett and Mr.
and Mrs. Luther Tinsley of
Waco visited Wednesday in Fort
Worth with their brother, Mr.
J. D. Tinsley, who is seriously
ill
9 9
Mrs. Eulane Ellis of Bakers-
field, Calif., and Mrs. Leon
Keeton of Hillsboro visited Mrs.
Mozzell Westmoreland on Mon-
day. Mrs. Ellis is Mrs. Westmore-
land’s niece.
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Mr. and Mrs. Crockett Claus-
ner of Austin and Mr. and Mrs.
Tommy Tucker spent Sunday
with their aunt, Mrs. G. R.
Hurlock. Mr. Tucker and Mr.
Clausner were both celebrating
their birthdays
• •
I Mr. and Mrs. George Jansky
and children and their aunt,
Mrs. Marie Krizan, visited re-
cently in Dallas with Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne Moody and chil-
dren and their aunt, Mr. ancl
Mrs. Joe Podsednik.
Mr. Wm. "Boiley” Pareya Jr.
Dr. Joe Ctvrtlik, and Mr. John
Popp of Waco, spent a few days tered the bay and overawed the
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patrols and guards were set up
between the fortified points to
observe the ever-increasing Un-
ion fleet movements off the
coast. The Texans were to pre-
vent landings of Federal troops
or patrols from blockading ves-
sels and, if failing in this, to
remove all items of military
value beyond the grasp of the
invaders. Walking and riding
along the beach. Texas troops
and sharpshooters kept the
blockading vessels maintaining
a respectable distance from the
shore, and many of the boats
had to go all the way back to
New Orleans for water and sup-
plies. The defense of the Texas
coast has been described as
“one of the most brilliant chap-
ters in the story of the Confed-
eracy.”
There were sixty-five differ-
ent battles, skirmishes and ac-
tions along the coast. Eight
places were occupied for a time
. . , but only Brazos de Santiago
at the extreme tip of the Texas
side of the Rio grande was long
held by Federal forces — from
November 1863, to war’s end.
In mid-1862, Corpus Christi
was shelled and Galveston was
threatened with bombardment.
Then, in October, came the
shocking news that Galveston
Island was in enemy hands Fed-
eral blockading ships had en-
Level and Is Now Tied Up in Committee
Editor’s note: The Philosopher | the roof is leaking or the weeds
this week in Hot Springs, Ark.
♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Popp of
Dallas spent the weekend with
Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Popp.
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Mrs. Alvin Payne and sons
visited last Friday and Satur-
day with relatives in Fort
Worth.
• 4
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Payne and
sons visited last Sunday with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bur-
ney Warren of Meridian.
♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Gerik and
Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Gerik at-
tended a Frigidaire Sales meet-
ing and banquet in Fort Worth
Friday.
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Mrs. Stacy Kazda was on the
sick list last week.
town. At the end of a four-day
evacuation period, some 500 Un-
ion troops occupied Galveston.
Immediately Texas authorities
cut off all connections with the
island and took extreme mea-
sures to block enemy penetra-
tion of the mainland. Already
hard - pressed for manpower,
Governor F. R. Lubbock called
for Coushatta, Muscogee and
and Alabama Indian braves to
prepare for service in the de-
fense of Texas.
In the early hours of January
1, 1863, Major General J. Bank-
head Magruder, Commander De-
partment of Texas, instituted a
daring strike to regain the is-
land for the South. Two con-
verted gunboats with bales of
cotton as armament attacked
! the Union fleet while Confed-
j crate and state troops crept
| across a railroad bridge and en-
| gaged the United States gar-
I rison on the wharves of Galves-
ton. The results were spectac-
ular: Magruder and his men
took three Federal ships, cap-
Stephen Marck, three-year-1 tured over 350 prisoners and re
old son of Mr. and Mrs. George j deemed Galveston Island!
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WEST, TEXAS
a tonsillectomy Monday in
Hillcrest Hospital. He returned
home Tuesday.
. 4
Little 6-year-old Nancy Gay-
den of Waco has returned home
after having undergone treat-
ment for pneumonia for nine
days in Providence Hospital.
She is the granddaughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Urbanovsky
of West.
4 4
Little Miss Kim Kolacek,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy
Kolacek, fell Sunday and cut
her forehead. Four stitches were
taken to close the wound.
Who’s New
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Mitchell
McCoy of Pasadena, Texas, are
the proud parents of a son bom
March 16. He weighed 7 lbs.,
6‘/2 ozs. and has been named
Kyle Mitchell. Grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Floyd McCoy
of West; Mrs. Vivian Wilson of
Pasadena and Mr. Marvin Cum-
mings of San Antonio, Texas.
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Mr, and Mrs. Ted Kaska are
the proud parents of a baby
daughter born Thursday, March
12 at Hillcrest Hospital weigh-
ing 6 lbs, 141/2 ozs. She has been
named Krisann Elise. The
young Miss has three sisters,
Kathleen, Karen and Karla.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Nors Sr., of West and Mrs.
Anton Kaska of Dallas.
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Mr. and Mrs. Adolph F. Marek
are the proud parents of a son,
Darrel Wayne, born Sunday,
March 15 at 9:56 a.in. at Hill-
crest Hospital. The young lad
weighed 7 lbs., 512 ozs. Mother
is the former Evelyn Richter.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Johnnie T. Richter of Bellmead
and Mr. and Mrs. Alfons A.
Marek of West.
The next major trial of Texas
shore defenses came in Septem-
ber. 1863. A fleet of twenty-sev-
en ships containing an invasion
force of 5,000 men attempted to
enter Sabine Pass. Defending
the narrows below Sabine City
was an insignificant six-can-
non earthwork manned by Lieu-
tenant Dick Dowling and forty-
seven Irish stevedores. Although
under heavy fire, Dou'ling “play-
ed dead" and lured three gun-
boats to within a close range of
his guns. The Texans then went
into action. After forty-five
minutes of rapid firing that al-
most melted their cannon tubes,
the defenders sank two enemv
craft, damaged one, drove off
the rest of the enemv fleet, ac-
counted for almost 100 casual-
ties and took over 300 prisoners.
In November, 1863. the United
States landed about 7,000 troops
at Brazos de Santiago and quick-
ly took Brownsville. In succeed-
ing weeks, small forces were
landed at Corpus Christi. Mus-
tang Island, Pass Cavallo, Saint
Joseph’s Island, Indianola and
Port Lavaca. To meet this
grave emergency. Magruder
sealed off the occupied areas,
removed endangered supplies,
ordered the destruction of rail-
v/ays that might be captured
and asked for the use of all
men between the ages of six-
teen and seventy who were cap-
able of bearing anns.
Magruder’s skillful deploy-
ment of troops and inland forti-
fications constructed to protect
roads leading to San Antonio,
Houston and Austin, isolated
these points and Federal troops
soon withdrew. Colonel John S.
Ford, Confederate commander
of the lower Rio Grande, retook
Brownsville in July. 1864. leav-
ing only Brazos de Santiago oc-
cupied on the coast.
Although used to menace the
Texas coast ancl to support Fed-
eral troop actions along the
shoreline, the main function of
the United States fleet off Tex-
as was to blockade shipping and
to cut off the state from out-
side sources of critically needed
supplies. The effectiveness of
this blockading effort and the
I on his Johnson grass farm on
I Aquilla Creek defends his farm-
ing methods in an odd way this
week.
Dear editar:
A friend of mine visited out
here on this Johnson grass farm
the other clay and looked the
place over and then asked:
"Tell me, how come you did-
n’t work that field over there
last year?" Contrary to what
you may think, if you look hard
enough you can tell which
fields of mine have been worked
and which haven't.
“Why," I said, “it never got
out of committee.”
"Out of committee? What do
you mean?” he asked.
I could see he was grossly un-
familiar with both Washington
and this Johnson grass farm,
so I didn’t explain to him—with
a man like that there’s no place
to start—but here’s the way it
works.
I farm on the Congressional
level. I don’t just get up in the
morning and say, I believe I’ll
do such-and-such today, review
the plan, argue it with myself,
debate the issue, then vote on
it and proceed to act. No sir.
I send it to a committee.
But you don’t send a matter
to a committee this morning
and expect to get a decision this
afternoon. First you have to
check the calendar and see
when the committee can con-
sider it. Generally, me ancl Con-
gress have found, this is at least
n month off. sometimes four or
five.
Then when it finally gets to
the committee, the chairman
can stall if he doesn’t like the
bill, pigeon-hole it, take off for
Europe, etc. I know exactly how
he feels. I’m chairman of all the
committees on this farm ancl
there are lots of things that
come before me that I have a
great distaste for, and the
longer I can . tall the less I have
to plow'. Plowing and voting in
a rough area are two tilings a
farmer and a Congressman
don't want to do as long as they
can be put off.
Now some people probably
think my fences are down or
in season are too thick because
I'm lazy, but that’s not it at
all. Those things are still tied up
in committee.
Yet I can hear my friend
saying now. if he reads this.
“Yeah, but why doesn’t he start
a year ahead, why doesn’t he
send next year's farm plans to
his committees this year, so he
can be ready to plant- when the
time comes?”
There's no excuse for this
type of ignorance. Hasn’t he
ever read a newspaper or
listened to a newscast? He
doesn’t understand the first
thing about Congress. What
does he think Congress is doing
right now? Why it's arguing
this year’s farm bill and this is
March and planting time is al-
ready underway in some parts
of the country.
When you legislate or farm on
the Congressional level, you
take your time.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
Marlin at
West at
Tuesday, April 1
West
Friday, April 1
Hillsboro
Tuesday, April 21 — Teague at
West
Tuesday. April 28 — West at
Connally
Friday, May 1 — West at Marlin
Tuesday. May 5 — Hillsboro at
West
Friday. May 8 — West at Teague
Friday, May 15 — Connally at
West.
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