The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 7, 1958 Page: 5 of 8
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Mercedes, Texas, Thursday, August 7, 1958
The Mercedes Enterprise — Page 5
Mr. and Mrs. W. K.. Swift have
returned from a month’s visit to
Yellowstone National Park, Salt
Lake City, Grand Canyon and oth-
er points of interest in the Western
States.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. McQueen,
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Roland of La
Feria and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Haynes marked Mr. Haynes’ bir-
thday Monday evening with dinner
at Arturo’s in Nuevo Progreso..
ROW ©PEN
D. D. WHEAT JEWELRY
302 S. Texas
Expert Watch cr Clock Repair
1 8 Years Experience
WE SALUTE
our local
VOLUNTEER
Firemen
JIMMY LYONS
Jimmy Lyons
A resident of Mercedes 11 years, Jimmy has been a mem-
ber of the Mercedes Volunteer Fire Department 10 years.
He moved here from Oklahoma.
He is married and has three children. They own their
home on Dowler Avenue. He is a member of the American
Legion and they are members of the Methodist Church.
Jimmy’s hobby is golf. He owns and operates Jim’s Tiger
Inn on South Ohio.
Know your volunteer firemen, who protect your life and
property on call — day or night — without’ pay. On
alternate weeks we will introduce one of these firemen.
This is a public service feature of
0UEEN CITY LAUNDRY 4 DRY CLEANERS
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Now is the time to think about protecting those winter
garments. The most economical way is BOX STORAGE. Come
in and let us show you how convenient BOX STORAGE is.
We store it all summer, you get the garments back this fall.
Have you tried COLORBRITE Dry Cleaning lately?
FHA COUNCIL MEET
PLANS YEAR'S WORK
The Future Homemakers held
their last summer council meet-
ing on Monday, July 28, at 2:30
p.m. at the home of Mrs. Leah
Hamilton with Miss Carolyn Cer-
nosek presiding.
Business items discussed were
the projects to be carried during
the year and ways of raising
funds. The girls decided to help
the cheerleaders with the rum-
mage sale to earn money for their
uniforms.
Sept. 16 will be the date of in-
formal initiation of the new FHA
members at the home of Celia So-
lis. Formal initation will be at the
music room of the Senior High
School building on Oct. 7. Regu-
lar chapter meetings will be held
every second and fourth Thurs-
days. The September Council
meeting will be at the home of
Betty Anne McElyea.
As money raising projects the
girls discussed hobo day and hav-
ing a concession stand at the bas-
ketball games. It was decided to
again have the point system and
Daddy Date Night. Among the
members present at the council
meeting were Carolyn CernoSek,
Linda Vela, Betty Ann McElyea,
Gloria Solis, Celia Solis, Karen
Lyons and Pat Taylor.
Mrs. Hamilton served punch and
cookies to the girls after the meet-
ing.
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Visitors over the weekend in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Polo Vil-
larreal were Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Aguilar and children and Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Brewer and son, Joey,
Harlingen; Mrs. George
Canterbury and daughter, Terri
Ann, San Benito. Mr. Brewer and
Mrs. Canterbury are nieces of
Mrs. Villarreal. Lt. Canterbury is
in Spangdahlem, Germany, at
present and his wife and daughter
plan to join him there next month.
4,550 Bales Cotton
Ginned in Mercedes;
Valley Total 168,005
Mercedes gins have processed
4,500 bales this year, while Val-
ley ginnings have now reached
168,005 bales according to a week-
ly survey conducted by the Val-
ley Farm Bureau. County totals
for the season are as follows:
Cameron 73,130; Hidalgo, 51,654;
Willacy, 42,449; and Starr 772.
Cameron county lead again last
week in total ginnings with 29,-
713 bales. Hdalgo county ginned
25,HI bales; Willacy county 18,833
bale's; and Starr county 259 bales,
for a Valley total for the week of
74,416 bales.
Last year at this time the total
bales for the season was 216,695
bales. Of this 80,660 Was from
Cameron; 85,081 from Hidalgo,
49,405 from Willacy and 1,549 from
Starr.
The Mercedes breakdown was
2,750 for Mercedes Co-Op Gin
and 1,800 for Ross Gin Co.
and 1,800 for Ross Gin Co.
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Pittsburgh Pirates
Slate Try-Out Camp
For Valley Hopefuls
The Pittsburgh Pirates will con-
duct a tryout camp at Palms Park
in McAllen, on Friday and Satur-
day, August 8 and 9, starting at
9:30 a.m..
MISS NORA SIERRA
WEDS, MR. PALACIOS
Miss Norma Irene Sierra and
Julio Palacios were married Au-
gust 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Our Lady of
Mercy Church here.. The bride is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gil-
berto Sierra of Mercedes and the
groom i’s the son of Mrs. Virginia
P. Vda. de los Santos of Edcouch.
Father Carlos Krzewinski offici-
ated at the double ring ceremony.
The church was decoarted with
basket's of white Gilliam daisies
and chrysanthemums with cande-
labras holding seven white tapers
and en+wined with fern placed to
either side. Emerald palms flank-
ed the altar. Pews were marked
with satin ribbons.
Miss Aurora Reyna played wed-
ding music and accompanied Mrs.
F. Hinojosa who sang “Ave Ma-
ria,” and “Panis Angelicus.”
The bride, who wa’s given in
marriage by her father, wore a
gown of white lace, waltz length,
fashioned with a fitted bodice*
bouffant skirt, scalloped neckline
and cap sleeves. She wore a head-
dress of seed pearls and a 'should-
er length veil.. Her bouquet was
a white orchid with feathered car-
nations and stephanotis.
Miss Mary Rose Solis was maid
of honor. She wore a gown of coral
chiffon over taffeta, made with a
V neckline, fitted bodice,, full skirt,
waltz length. Her flowers were
white Gilliam daisies with coral
Miss Karle Feted Board of Development, Library
At Bridal Shower Funds Restored To City Budget
Chicago — It’s not necessarily
the itchy-fingered hunter in the
field who mistakenly kills some-
one.
The “unloaded” gun in the home
is an even more dangerous killer,
according to the National Safety
Council.
In 1957, for example, firearms
helped account for 1,150 accidental
home deaths. Half of the fatal
firearms accidents happened in
the home.,
The Council’s recently published
statistical yearbook, “Accidents
Facts,” shows that acciden-
tal deaths from firearms are the
No. 4 home killer — ranking be-
hind falls, fire burns (and other
deaths associated with fires) and
The sessions will be under the maline Puffs and white streamers,
direction of Buster Chatham, Miss Bertha Lopez, Mercedes
Scouting Supervisor, assisted by and Miss Sylvia Garza, Edinburg,
David Guerra, Scout, and Felix Tre bridesmaids. They wore
Mancha Camp Coordinator. Jef', of aclua’ fashioned like
The players must be at least 16 th1at of the maid of honor and wore
years of age to be eligible to at- sdver crowns, and carried mis-
tend the camp and no Junior saL books and rosaries.
American Legion player will be P™ros Pad5m°s, ™ere Mr-
permitted to participate in the and DaY*d Ceballos> Rio
camp if such participation would Granda Clty] Padrf°'s de Arras
interfere with any of hi's Legion were r‘ a*?d Ma>s' cia \ Gar‘
activities. Such participation will
The Raymond Klein home west
of Mercedes was the scene of a
bridal shower the evening of July
30 honoring Miss Rosemary Karle,
whose marriage to H. B. Rogers
of Mercedes will be an event of
Aug. 16.
Guests were received by Mrs.
Klein, Miss Karle and Mrs. Ben
Karle, mother of the bride-elect,
and Mrs. Harold B. Rogers, moth-
er of the groom-to-be.
Decorations throughout were in
the bride’s chosen colors of paste!
pink and green. The serving ta-
ble was covered with a white da-
mask linen cloth and set with cry-
stal. Tall pink tapers in double cry-
stal holders flanked each side of
the fan-shaped floral centerpiece
of pink carnations and baby mums
with silver tipped greenery car-
ried out the color scheme.
Iced fruit punch and frosted
cake squares were served to the
guests by Mrs. Lawrence Fossler
and Mrs. Edgar Hawk, aunt's of
the bride-to-be..
Guests were assisted by Mrs.
Howard Davis, sister of Miss
Karle, in signing the bride’s book.
Another sister, Miss Barbara
Karle, had charge of the gift dis-
play.
Joining Mrs. Klein in honoring
Miss Karle were Mrs. Bud Fin-
ley, Mrs. Ralph C. Jone's and Mrs.
A. E. Krause of Mercedes and
Mrs. H. O. Hovda and Mrs. Frank
Theimer of Progreso.
cia, Mercedes; and Padrinos
de Lazo were Mr., and Mrs. Julian
only be permitted with a letter , . , _ _
of approval from either his Legion | °^n.a‘.
Coach or the Commander of the
Legion Post he represents in Le-
gion play.
Players are also expected to fur-, . ...
nish their own baseball shoes, uni- b™1 mallne puffs' coral bows and
Nelda Nora Garcia was flower
girl. She wore a dress of coral
with silver crown and carried
white basket with white muni's and
ribbons.
Juan Cisneros, La Villa, was best
man.
The mother of the bride wore a
... ,, , , ,. „ i dress of navy blue with white ac
witn the understanding that all ex- , . i , ,
... , . cessones and her corsage was of
forms, and gloves with the Pirates
furnishing all other equipment.
Players will also be responsible for
their traveling and living expenses
penses will be reimbursed to those
players 'signed to contracts with
Pittsburgh organization clubs.
white carnations.
A reception was held at El Tex-
ano.
Miss Hilda Garza of Edinburg
Buckwheat, by its rapid growth, I and Miss NicolaSa Cantu of San
stifles weeds and leaves the field ^uan were at d-e guest book,
clean for the next year. | Following a wedding trip to
Mexico City, Acapulco and Gua-
dalajara the couple will live at
Elsa. For travelling the bride chose
a navy blue suit, with pearl neck-
lace and earrings, white acces-
sories. She wore an orchid cor-
sage.
Out of the Valley guests includ-
ed Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hernandez
of Kingsville and J. Palacios, Ma-
tamoro’s, Mexico.,
The bride was graduated from
Mercedes High School and is now
working as secretary to the sup-
erintendent of the La Villa School.
The groom was graduated from
Edcouch-Elsa High School and is
attending Pan American College.
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Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Streckfu’s,
formerly of Mercedes, now of San
Antonio, are parents of a daugh-
ter, Loraine Marie, born Aug. 2,
their wedding anniversary.
Mrs. J. W. Wank of Houston
visited with her sister and hus-
band, Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Rich-
mond, last week. She returned to
her home on Saturday.
The Mercedes City Commission
in a public hearing Friday in-
creased the library allocation from
$600 to $2,000 and set up $3,000 for
the Board of City Development;
An earlier tentative budget had
failed to include the Board of De-
velopment, which last year was
allocated $4,500.
In the public hearing, the only
group who formally made a re-
quest for additional fund’s was the
Public Library Board. Mrs. Gar-
ner George acted as spokesman
for the group, with Mrs. Woody
Tullis and Mrs. C. L. Curtis also
pre'sent. They pointed out that they
could not operate on the $600 orig-
inally 'set aside.
After considerable discussion,
Councilman Howard Sparrow, who
also is a member of the board of
the Federated Clubs, which owns
the Community Building in which
the Library is housed, suggested
he would be in favor of restoring
the full $2,000 amount if the library
could work with the Club board
and help share some of the ex-
penses. It was agreed informally
that the library would turn over
$300 to the Club and retain $1700
for its own use.
On this basis, the Commission-
ers agreed unanimously on the $2,-
000 figure.
After this was settled, Mayor
C. A. Ripley pointed out to the
commission that one item — the
Board of City Development — had
been completely overlooked in the
tentative budget. He indicated he
had talked with some members of
th Board of Development and
that it was their general opinion
the Board would not need the full
$4,500 as was set aside last year.
It was pointed out that the Board
had purchased an industrial site
just east of Mercedes and had
erected a large sign inviting in-
dustry. The sign was paid for by
the Board and a down payment
wa’s made on the land, with the
balance to be paid out.
After a brief discussion and re-
marks from Col. H. G. Stein,
Chamber of Commerce manager,
the commission voted to allocate
$3,000 to the Board of Develop-
ment.
As the meeting closed, the com-
missioners reduced the estimated
expenses in the street department
from $34,320 to $32,920 and reduc-
ed the health and garbage budget
from $25,400 to $22,400. The latter
was mainly by elimination propos-
ed purchase of a new truck.. II
was pointed out a more thorough
check of present equipment show-
ed it probably would be adequate
for another year. .
This i: balanced, the : budget and
provided 'funds for the two items
increased roJthe. hearing.
' Ther commission ;; agreed that
there would bee no tax raise, and
decided to pass' the. budget ordi-
nance, making the revised budget
official at its next regular meet-
ing.
The final budget totals $121,130,
which is slightly less than the
$121,990 from last year. It was re-
ported in some Valley papers thi’s
new budget was an increase over
the current year. However, it is a
reduction of $800 over the budget
as set up for the current year.
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Methodist Group
Met in Hollon Home
For General Meeting
The home of Mrs. Clyde Hollon
was the scene of the Tuesday
meeting of the Woman’s Society
of Christian Service of First
Methodist Church.
Mrs. H. H. Somnitz, vice pres-
ident, introduced thp speakers,
Mrs. Howard SparrovV and Mrs.
Lester Powers, who. spoke on “Life
in the March of Missions.” Mrs.
Sparrow also gave, a devotional
talk on “The Way Which Thou
Should Go” from the-33rd Psalm.
Plans were made; for a rum-
mage sale to be held Saturday,
Aug. 9. Clothing for the sale is to
be taken to the home of Mrs.
Walter Bazar on Friday.
Among those present were Mrs.
Bazar, Mrs. Hollon,. Mrs.. Charles
Coleman,, > Mrs. Bruce Medford,
Mrs. J. C. Deyo, Mrs. Charles
Greenwood,. Mrs. Somnitz, Mrs.
Sparrow, Mrs. Powers, Mrs. W. C.
Seals, Mrs. E E. Mairchant, Mrs.
Ellen Davenport, Mrs; R.. C. Jones,
Mrs. John IJrquhart and Mrs.
George Markham. *
The next general meeting will
be held the second Tuesday in
September instead of the first be-
cause of the opening of public
school.
Refreshments were served by
the hostess.
Recent visitors in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Santiago Duran and
family were Mr. and Mrs. G. P.
Bernal and son, Ernest, from
San Francisco. This was the first
visit to the Valley for the Bernal
family. 1;
By 1902 the buffalo was almost |
extinct in the U. S..
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RECONCRETE
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irrigation drainage
CULVERT
We are happy to announce
that we now have installed
RCA 3-Way Radio to serve
you better. This gives us
close control of our vehi-
cles all the time. And each
driver is as close to you
as he is to us! We hope
you will like this improve-
ment in our facilities in
your interest.
FEATURED ON THE PRICE IS RIGHT
The Merce^^Enterprii
Now you can enjoy Effortless Typing
, With beautiful, “print-perfect” fetters every time
Never before has it been so easy and so much fun to type. With the new Smith-
Corona Electric Portable a gentle touch of the keys and electricity takes the work
off your hands . . . quickly, quietly and effortlessly. You finish typing feeling as
fresh and relaxed as when you began. And no matter how you strike the keys,
every character prints with the same sharp, uniform impression. Just think of the
new pride you will take in your personal correspondence! You owe it to yourself
to see and try the revolutionary new Smith-Corona Electric Portable today.
Even with the many new features on the Smith-Corona Electric
Portable typewriter, it’s amazingly compact and easy to carry. And
it comes with its own luxurious “Holiday” carrying case.
Top (right) you see one of the drivers
with a Liston Ready-Mix Concrete Truck
on the' job at the new Hiway 83 Express-
way over-pass just south of San Benito.
He is receiving orders, via 2-wav radio,
from headquarters. The photo immediate-
ly above is Liston vice-president and gen-
eral sales-manager R. T. (Bob) Hawkins
in 2-way radio communication with the
general office. And to the immediate
right is the big 2-Way radio tower at the
Liston plant in Harlingen nerve center of
service and supply.
MAIN OFFICE AND PLANT ;
HARLINGEN >
BRANCH PLANTS
MISSION
\ HARGILL
With RCA 2-Way Radio in trucks, all drivers are as
close to the dispatcher as if he had a seat along-
side of them! You can now call In and a dispatcher
‘ will contact one of our trucks already in your vicinity.
Radio improves our service to you in these important
ways
The same-unparallel-
ed service contacts
and directs the W. T.
Liston Concrete Pipe
trucks enroute or at
point of delivery.
230 S. TEXAS
MERCEDES
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Harvey, J. Edwin. The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 7, 1958, newspaper, August 7, 1958; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth723988/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.