The Bandera Bulletin (Bandera, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, April 24, 1964 Page: 5 of 8
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FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1964
THU BANDERA BULLETIN
PAGE FIVE
Lakehills News
By Mrs. Edith Evans
Lakehills W.S.C.S.
The regular meeting of the
WSCS was held Friday evening,
April 17, in the Fellowship Hall of
the Methodist Church. Twelve
members were in attendance.
Officers present were: Gladys
Flanigan, President; Sara Wilkin-
son, Vice-President; Irene Zigler,
Secretary; Jeannette Miller, Treas-
urer; Hilda Webber, Chairman of
Local Activities; and Catherine
Young, Chairman of Spiritual
Life. Theme for the program was
“The Church Speaks—Or Dies”
with Catherine Young as Leader.
The business meeting included
announcement of the officers for
the coming year and they are:
Sara Wilkinson, President; Lucille
Dodson, Vice-President; Monty
Markolf, Secretary; Jeannette Mil-
ler, Treasurer; Catherine Young,
Spiritual Life; and Hilda Webber,
Literature and Publications. The
group voted to be hosts for Sub-
District Conference meeting to be
held here on October 22. Tenta-
tive plans for a tea for new mem-
bers and installation of new of-
ficers in May were also discussed.
The next regular meeting will
be held on Friday, May 15, at
7:30 p.m. All member are cor-
dially invited to attend.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Heisler of
San Antonio spent last week here
at their home, on Medina Lake.
Their guests during the week
were: Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Clerk of
Bandera, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Forres-
ter and son, Mr. Dan Renfro and
Larry Heisler, all of San Antonio,
also C. R. Heisler of here.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Webber
had as their week-end guests Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Machts, Mr. and
Mrs. Darrell Taylor, Mrs. Hazel
Legendre, Mr. Erwin Homeier,
Mrs. Mary Niebuher, Mrs. Ce-
celia Schneider, all from San An-
tonio, and Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Laskowski from Bandera. All en-
joyed the Sausage Dinner at the
Fire House. ,
Guests to the L. C. Evans home pack trips can be taken lo various
on Thursday were Mrs. Pearf Riley j vantage"points. The food is ex-
from Madison, Wisconsin, and cellent and in April the days are
trailer was a loss but the fire
was held and was stopped from [
spreading.
We are sorry to report that)
Mr. and Mrs.-John Loftin will be,
moving to San Antonio in the
very near future. John and
Marge are sorry to leave all the
friends that they have grown to
know and love so much. We wish
them both all the best of Luck
and Good Health in their new
surroundings.
The Bob Markolfs report a most
interesting trip to the Big Bend
National Park as guests of Mr. j
and M rs. George Henderson of;
San Antonio. The first stop was
at Presidio, the famous “hot spot”
of Texas. For the benefit of those
who may make this trip they wish
to report a very nice small hotel
at Persidio, but make reservations
well ahead of time. Here they'I
crossed over the border into: 1
Ojinaga, Mexico, which is still J
the typical small adobe town, notjg
as yet a big tourist center. Here |
they inquired about the new rail-j|
road trip into Mexico down to the
city of Chihuahua and on to the
coastal town of Los Mochis, Mex-
ico. The round trip fare is $26,
extra for stop overs in Chihuahua
and Los Mochis. Those who have
taken this trip say it is fascin-
ating. From Presidio to the Basin||
in the Park, the 98 mile drive overjl
the newly paved road “Camino del if
Rio” is one of exceptional grjn-il
deur. Towering rock cliffs arejj
on both sides, in the U.S. and
across the Rio Grande in Mexico.
Abandoned silver mines and their
ghost towns may be seen at sev-
eral points. This road has not
as yet been well enough publicized
and these travelers report that it
alone is worth the entire trip.
Going into the Basin at the Big
Bend Park, the road rises to 5800
feet elevation, then down to 5480
feet, where modern cabins and a
modern camping ground nestle
among a circle of high mountains
of the Chisos Range. Horse back
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FISHER EXPLAINS ST ANDS j Congress approves aid to some
ON CIVIL RIGHTS HILL I Communist and neutral nations.)
V. 8. Rep O. C. Fi ber, the San' ^er, who will go back to
Angelo Democrat in West Texas Washington Sunday, also touched
for Easter, revealed Tuesday why I briefly- on the Golden Eagle Slt-
he voted against the civil rights restricting and hu» vot-
bill ami the $ll o billion tax eut.ji,,K W',r‘l »" Hus moms inter-
But the veteran congressman,
who is running for another term1 Tlieie aie lots of bird lexers
this year, commended President j m count i y • * • w‘- '*
Johnson for the "smooth transi- '•*<»' icferring
"Bon*1 of admTnKt rSTHiTtT’fftTTWtrtng*• ^"* &*M**S' aitaalioa ia
HWest Texas. “The Audubon So-
ciety is a great, organisation but
President Kennedy’s aasasination
for the Johnson’s “realistic” ap-
proach to foreign aid.
Fisher said he was against "all”
of the civil rights bill, which pass-
ed the House of Representatives
vver his objection and is now in
m
they’ve been very shortsighted in
their views on control of the Gol-
den Eagle.”
Fisher said he and other con-.
1 gressmen are attempting to in-
the/Senate. “In the first place,! ^‘.ee Secretary of the Intt
1 think it is a misnomer,” Fisher | St.-wart Cdall to grant permits
to ranchmen, to control, the Gol-
den Eagle with the use of air-
f * " * planes ami shotguns, something
‘ *,B 1 '* Udall presently refuses to do.
Cowboy Breakfast at the Mayan Dude Ranch honoring Traveling Writers.
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SSgt. and Mrs. G. W. Robertson
from San Antonio. Mrs. Riley is
Mrs. Robertson’s .mother and she
enjoyed a trip to the Mayan Dude
Ranch in Bandera. She also visit-
ed many of the historic places in
San Antonio. After her visit in
San Antonio she will go on to
Phoenix, Arizona, before she re-
turns home to Madison. On Sun-
day Mrs. Louise Currie and her
son, Richard, and daughter, Mil-
dred, visited at the L. C. Evans
home.
Sausage Dinner Held
The Annual Sausage Dinner giv-
en by the Medina Lake Volunteer
Fire Department on Sunday, April
19, was a big success. The Ladies
of the Auxiliary received many
fine compliments on their new
plastic table covers and the food
according to comments was “out
of this world.”
During the dinner Mr. Tasto of
San Antonio present Mr. V. A.
Hill, Hire Chief, with a gold
Fire Chief Badge and the
President of the Fire Dept., Mr.
Ralph Brown with a gavel. Mr.
Tasto is always ready to help
the Dept, and everyone was very
pleased with the presentation.
It was nice to see so many of
our friends from Hondo, Helotes,
Sail Antonio, Bandera and the Hill
Country here at the Lake. The
men of the Dept, and the Ladies
Auxiliary would like „ to express
their appreciation to all who came
to be with us and all who worked
so hard to make this the success
it was.
The Fire Dept, has been kept
busy this past week. They have
made four runs the past week.
On Sunday night, April 19th they
made a run to the trailer house
Street parade honoring National Travel Writers.
TRAVEL WRITERS ENJOY
REAL BANDERA
HOSPITALITY L.
Tourist Development Agency ex-
ecutive director and an ex-news-
payer man himself, was with the
Travel Writers from many of! group. The tour cost the state
the nation’s leading newspupers| nothing, Hildebrand said. The
Examiner;
Bernard Kelly, Denver Post;
Hugh Brannon, Jr., Baltimore
American; Johnny Jones, Columbus
Dispatch; Bill Thomas, Cincinnati
were royally entertained by Ban-
warrh and the nights quite cool.
Reservations must be made well
in advance here also. Two roads
are now' passable within the park,
one to Santa Elena Canyon where
the Rio Grande comes between1'
sheer rock cliff3 back into the
U.S. proper. This is another
beauty spot. The other road goes
to Boquillas Canyon, there the
little village of Bosquillas, Mexico,
can be seen from the cliff tops.
Time did not permit this trip.
Leaving the Park, these folks went
north to Marathon, Texas, another
scenic route with entirely differ-
ent rock and cliff formations, and
miles of cactus and wild flowers
in bloom. Along this route is
the spot where the bones of dino-
saurs were found, they may be
seen in a small museum, sitting
alone on the plains. Just before
reaching Marathon a strata of
marble may be seen along the
cliff sides. There is so much to
he seen that the Markolfs and
Hendersons plan a return trip in
the future to include the train
trip into Mexico.
derans Monday night and Tuesday
morning while they were here on
a brief visit to the Hill Country,
and in San Antonio where they
attended the Fiesta San Jacinto.
The local guest ranches sponsor-
ed a tjumber of entertainment
features for the famous visitors,
the Bandera schools turned out, a
western parade was led by the
Bulldog Band, which included
Bandera Trail Riders, and many
other western entries prepared by
the ranches and local business
firms.
It is the first formal travel
writers’ tour of Texas and is ex-
pected to produce a bonanza of
publicity for the state’s attrac-
tions. Frank Hildebrand, Texas
entire tab amounting to about.1 Enquirer; Robert Houston, Omaha
$15,000 was picked up by the at- Work! Herald;
tractions involved.
Writers on the toui and their
news media were: Gerald Snyder,
United Press International; Paul!
James McAdory,
said.
“Just a small part of it deals
with civil right
an extension of federal power over
'he rights and freedoms of the
I American people at the expense
' of the states and local government.
The civil rights hill won’t create
one single job and, after all, that
is the main thing that would help
the colored people—jobs and job
Opportunities,” Fisher added,
Fisher said he voted against
the tax cut bill “at. a time when
the deficit is running close to $10
* billion.”
He added:
"My position Has always been
that if there is a lux cat it
should he accompanied by a -uh-
staniial cut in spending. Other
wise, it becomes a gamble with
lour fiscal affairs. Of course,
we're- all hoping that the claims
that have been made will be realiz-
ed . an upsurge in the economy
a: a result of it. But frankly, I
! just feel that the size of the cut
| was too much. We find ourselves
j in a situation tff where we're bor
rowing money to give the people
a tax cut. The public debt is $308
billion and it's going up every
year. Unless there is a substan-
tion cut in spending, we might be
in trouble.”
Fisher said the transition from
the Kennedy to the Johnson ad-
ministration “hit been handled
Fisher said he couldn't believe
that Texas congressmen will be
forced to run at large. "If the
court should hold that redistrict-
ing is needed now, it would be a
question of a possible special ses-
sion of the Texas Legislature,"
Fisher said. The social three-
judge panel in Houston is expect-
ed to return a verdict in Texas’
congressional district cast* this
afternoon.
Of his voting record, Fisher
commented that “rtdatively speak-
ing, I’m on the conservative side
on most issues (with an Ameri-
cans for Constitutional Action vot-
ing record of 94 per center 1 try
to vote for what ! think is best &
I for the country, without regard
| for petty political situations.”
ATTEND I* T A CONFERENCE
Banderans who attainted the
FT A Conference at New Braun-
fels last Wednesday were Mrs.
Henry Adams, Mr*. Hill Short,
Mrs. Lester Haun, Mr. A. B.
Lewis and Mrs. E. R. Teel.
Mr. la'wis and Mrs. Teel are
district office*s and appeared on
the Conference program.
Birmingham News; Gene Wyatt,| very efficiently. Johnson had the
Nashville Tennessean; Bob Ton advantage of having hud more
smg, Wichita Eagle & Beacon; ■ . vnenem-e .m Congress than any
\t \ ion Gia ef. W .e->au,g' • 'ii„ I >at:.. piu>r ■**»♦*• ........
National Gear-graphici Nows; Bill Butler. Mrs KMelji- ut.iwK-pin-ic of understanding !>*•-
Sampson,
Society; Miss Florence Somers,
Red book Magazine; Robert I).
S'.oane,- Genetal Features Syndi-
cate;' Mrs. Irene Copbirt^y Kuhn,
King Features Syndicated Henry
Ward, Pittsburg Pro.--; Clayton
Irwin-, Detroit News;
Walter Wilkie, Chicago Sun-
Times; H. T. Fitzgerald, St. Louis
Post-Dispatch; Miss Charlotte
Brunk, Des Moines Register &
Tribune; Don Deaton, Atlanta
Journal and Constitution; Mis*
Georgia Hesse, San Francisco
Foster Brock, Florida Time*
I nion; Charles 1). Collins, Mil-
Mi. and Mr , L. C. Baumer and
s.m of l lupin si’ii' pleasant visi-
tors in our office last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. (Mitt Hughes are
■vhdting in Sweetwater this week.
tween the two branches texecutive., /„
ami legislative) that isn't ordin- j ritins in t^e Handera Hill,
waukee Sentinel; Herb Rau, Mia-jarily presept." J Country this past week have put
mi News, and Richard,* Ml. Cun-1 And Fishjk commended President t(l() oou,^*y jp Excellent shape,
ninghnm, ' Worcester Telegram- j Johnson rtLor "recommending the j
Gazette. • [lowest figure oh foreign aid that!
. The out-of-state group was any President has recommended
joined' for most of the tout* by: j since the foreign aid program be-
Miss Charlotte Phelan, Houston j gap. This shows that he is real -
Post; Miss Hat Shelton, Houston: is tic and is taking into account
Chronicle; JeiTy: Flemmorts, Fort the feeling and attitude of < un-
Worth Star Telegram; and Miss ; gross in its determination to re-
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GASOLINE ALLIY
Frank King
Marilyn
Herald.
Coco, Dallas Times
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Griffin of
South Dakota spent several days
here in the home of Judge and
Mrs. A. V. Pue last week, before
going on to New York City where
they will embark on a trip to
England for a visit of several
months. Mrs. Griffin will be
remembered here as the former
Joyce Newcomer, sister of Mrs.
Pue and daughter of the late Joe
Newcomer.
Mrs. Johnny Langford
daughter, Betsy, attended
and
the
most interesting talent show in
belonging to Oscar Frazer, the Utopia Tuesday night.
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1NTEKESTING V ISITORS
IN BANDERA
We enjoyed a ..pleasant visit Sat-
urday with Mr. and Mrs. George
R. Inke who were sight seeing in
Bandera. They are presently re-
siding in Hondo since his re-
tirement from the United States
Army.
Mr. Inke is a native of Riga,
Latvia, which is called the Amber
Coast of the World, and is now in
the possession of the Russians.
The little country has a very
interesting history, being dated
back to 52 BC. The inhabitants
were sun worsRipers originally.
Mr. Inke was stationed at Camp
Stanley during 1920 with the Third
Heavy Mobile Unit. He tells an
interesting story of his service
there when he had 300 Chinese
under his command. He also re-
calls the times when Charles
Lindberg was in Hondo where he
transported bombs to Camp Stan-
ley.
He served under Tommy Tomp-
kins, the famous Army Comman-
der of the 7th Cavalry at Camp
Stanley. v,
During his tour"'of dutyi there
he visited Bandera a number of
times.
HEART O’ TEXAS SINGERS
REUNION
Brady: The Annual Heart O’
Texas Singers Reunion will meet
Saturday night arid Sunday, April
25th and 26th in the high school
auditorium at Brady, Texas.
A concert, by the visiting quar;
tets will be given Saturday night
beginning at 8 o'clock. Four,jout-
standing quartets and many other
groups will be on hand for your
entertainment.
Doors open Sunday rooming to
the public for the all-day singing,
which will include class singing
and also quartet singing until 4
o'clock in the afternoon.
Lunch can be had at noon in
the school cafeteria.
Mrs. A. C. Stewart, president
of the organization, cordially in
vites everyone to attend.
Miss Kathy Brady of Uvalde
has been the guest of her grand-
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Brady,
this past week.
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Bandera, Texae
COTTAGE BEAUTY
SHOP
All PKam of tfeantj
Work at R***>nabl*
Mary
Owner and Operator
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SPECIALIZES IN
Making You Beautiful
BANDERA Cl’BS TAKE SEVEN
OF TOP 20 PLACES IN
PINE WOOD DERBY
When the last four cars had
finished their trip, down the track
Saturday afternoon there was
little doubt about what eommun-
ity of the Hill Country district
had the best miniature racing car
builders among Cub Scouts.
Winner of the Pine Wood Derby
was Bobby Tschirhart, of Hondo,
but Bandera boys took even of
the top 20 places to dominate the
winning circle. Young Tschir-
hart’a car, a grayish colored,
bullet shaped piece of pine wood
j! was also the winner of his heat
‘ of the race held at Hondo on
March 30.
Saturday’s affair, the district
finals, was held at Antler foot-
ball stadium in Kerrville. Ap-
proximately 300 persons from
every section of Hill Country dis-
trict were in attendance and
cheered to the very last race of
the almost three-hour event.
Mike "Livingston of Comfort,
had the “prettiest’* car, and Les-
lie Taylor of Kerrville, displayed
the car with the most unusual
design.
Closely following the Tacbjr-
hart boy in the final race were
Allen Clark, second place; Bobby
Mullen&x, third ami Joel Clark,
fourth, all of Banders.
In fifth was Bill Tibbits, also
of Bandera; Jimmy Klematein, of
Comfort, *ixth; Larry Robinett of
Kerrville, seventh; Dennis Chris*
tilies of La Comte, eighth; John
Tschirhart of Hondo, ninth; Mike
Heinke of (’astroville,. tenth;
Garry I.idiak of Kerrville, llth;
Steve Santuelson of Ingram, 12th;
Kerry Turner of Bandera, 13th;
Mike Council of Kerrville, 14th;
Steven Reeh, Comfort, 15th; Jeff
Turner, Center Point, 10th; Rex
Bourland, Comfort, 17th; Tom
Schmidtke, Bandera, 18th; Adolph
Hutcheson, Bandera, 19th; and
Mark Maxwell, Kerrville, 20th.
A special den chief’s race saw
Mike Robinson of Ingram, emerge
a* winner.
Glen Doyen, district chairman,
mannned the public address sys-
tem, while Joe Webb and Glenn
Nelson served aa finish judges.
Starters were John Carpenter and
Donahl Robinett.
Chairman of the district-wide
Pine Wood Derby was Glenn
Nelson.
din foreign aid.’’
Fisher said he believe* that
foreign aid,should lie extended on
•\ selective Imsm and not extend-
ed unless it is clearly in the in-
terest. of the. United States. “I'm
oppo^ftfi to arty aid to Cdmmunirt
nations and to any neutral nations
that fail to cooperate with us and
the Went,” lusher said. At ex-
amples, Fisher pointed to Ghana.
“We’ve poured money down that
rathole that we shouldn’t have
done. Indonesia is another one
from whom we’re not getting co-
operation in view of the contri-
bution we’ve made to their sur
vival,’*
(The Foreign aid bill passed by
OKAYl Everybody
lina up and get your
JJ.5. Savings Bondsl
dalJ
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Now that Spring is in full
blossom Banderarm are getting
the fishing fever. Last week Mr.
and Mrs. G. M. Merritt, Mr. and
Ms. Pat Freeman and Mr. and.
Mrs, J. W, Edward* were among
Banderans who enjoyed fishing at
Falcon Lake in the Valley.
Mr. Clem Haun and Mr*. Ann
Haun of Bandera received a tele-
phone call from their son, Clem-
ens D. Haun Jr., who is present-
ly stationed in the United States
Marines at Camp Pendleton, Cali-
fornia, that he has received his
new rating of. Corporal. He and
his wife, the former Martha
Redding, are living at Dana Point,
California. They plan on coming
home in August on furlough.
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