The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 26, 1964 Page: 4 of 12
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yqp * — r»tt, T*M Wedne«d«y, February M, 1M?
Banquet Held
For Cub Scouts
Monday Night
Senator Yarborough Helps Pass Tax Cut
Farm Bureau
Has Member
Drive On
m
former Toft lady Is Given
life Membership in P.-T. A.
. •* i L . . . nu.mill iiAlll'l
jp.fr.. r s.
Swnwfcte was
Frnsk,r „f fjciv ' a bachelor of science degree in
recently present- .elementary education from
V * r . A » /•'Ha.,,. . n illii
& I College in Kincxville in
«d # SJto membership in the
parent-Teacber Assoct- saw.
vp<*< there. The presentation
w* “*«* Founf,ers Dny! Band Students
meeting on February 13.
Fra?ier is the formr, ! “toy In Al!
) Dib Scout Pack 43 had Iheu
Blue and Gold Banquet at the
Last Elementary St la mi (' de
1 lorium Monday evening with 132
. people present
The den chief* ot the pHck
presented the color# anil th<
Rev Win Kelly, priest at the
, Holy Family Church, offcml the
Invocation Coleman Miller real!
the magic light ixiem and
Steve Ptillin lo< 1 the candle
lighting service
The Kiwuiti# (Tub, si* insuring
organisation, *eived die meal,
j Awards were presented to ihe
’ lioys 1a Tom Btirkhardl. cub
master.
Wolf badge Charles Carlton.
Wolf silver arrow points: Nicky
Syma, r>avid Gut/ki Tom Mayo,
Scoff K«-.ls Wes Williamson.
Jimmy Atkinson, Glenn Burk-
hardt, David SchmUli Mark
Montgomery. Nick) Iteagan.
Jimmy Robertson, Karl Phillips,
Trey Ivey and Benton Floerke
| James Hosson. 1 •>
(and Haymoiid (iai/ki
I lullori
Letter
To The
Editor
‘Seetm/ oursidvos a* oihet
see u*i
Are wo «is eiti/onM <4 T.if!
inttfM'r-wwl in the* progress ot out
community'* If so, then let us
take a serious k*ok at our
method if thinking. Let us
strive to see ourselves as others
see us
There is nothing so essential
to the attraction of non re i
dents as good water. A • .uni-
munity may look attractive hut
foul tasting wilier will drive
Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas, right, fobs over the
legislative program of the S8th Congress with -'.'note Ma-
jority Whip Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota One of tnw
major goals of the Scnote leadership was pm m- of the
bill for a tax tut. Senator Yarborough was nn ric. ve sup*
porter of the to* cut, width will moan more than $40/
rniliion c» year more income for Texans.
litii
Mr*.
* i Brittain ofTafl^ the j Band
tuff swl the Ml* Mr*. Brittain. ; The Gregory-Portland High , Bear silver arrow | mints: Let
a&. Brittain Vrttt In New Broun-1 School Wildcat Hand had four-! Robertson. David Hufforrl Roy
A...v * . btw .,l(,.*whbne ___ in I 1 Innman Al in Vflilrn MflVffll
jieoplc* away. We all know that
Bear badge: Steve Kiner and. our water supply is tenable
im Davis Our mayor and city rnutu ilmen
Hear gold arrow (mints: Gary i have undertaken the respnnsi-
Sieve bilily to provide good water tor
us. Wt* should all give thrall
our full support.
There have been statement!
; Arnold, Jimmy R os son.
Schmidt and Sieve Albritton
JMt to tee Wt daughter receive members participating in j I.ierman
STM* Kit wee UHfl IIinlMRTS JMI Mt-ipwu'tfc, ...
the Hfe membership ptn. as were i th(B All-County Band in Taft on ; Mires, Bob Mayo, George Flinn
— ...» **— *»-*• «fl— . -- ---'a*- ! Steve Schmidt and Steve Al
! brilton.
Lion badge: John Poenisch.
Lion gold arrow points: David
Burkhardt, Uubba Smith
i Chas Reagan.
Lion silver arrow (minis: Oxly
>".vio nuiiuiii, ivi.i
Alan Miller. Darrell ,jy resimnsible citizens ihat thev
Mr. and Mrs. Noel Brittain of
Taft and Mr. and Mrs. B. J.
Art&ilt mti family of San Are
tcnk>. Noel Brittain and Mrs
Avert ft sure brother and sister of
Mr*. Fmder
February 15. The member
practiced all day Saturriay in
Taft and Saturday night the All-
County Band performed a con-
cert for the genera! public.
Those participating in the
teacher
Frmsder is a first grade!band were Donna Guettler. Lana ...... .....................
» •» a*** *r?
fesres
teacher tor 36 :Daehne, Wanda Griffis I.atle j Poenisch, J<»- Perkins.
have learned to like our water.
This may lx- true I have learned
to like it Six years ago my
wife and I looked at property
in Taft that was being offered
and i below its reasonable value. We
; were pleased with what we saw
and without fasting the water.
wo purchased the property. Had - ; KKCORD Tour-
we lasted (he water before '*■ . ......
drilling units \pplii iboiis ot
j these prop J o.tnks mil b
considered at a March ■> tried -
! im: of the Texas Banking Boa id
| (Iraniairy stale Hank. Gn.ii.tii’’
Bank of Lubliock. Kir-: Bank
'„nd 'i i list ......coo. of A o si 111
aid Texas Si:,n L .nk oi Abi-
lene .Vla.l too ' ones r. i n
lor. loriTuvr Si tu1 «it * ■
V
trul
H;*nvi»n. Marim Sr-hmuHor
| KasUiei Til’-We-t I’or*
laid. Marvin Beyer, him-i
(aiedin. W. 1. Shelburne Jr
[l \ (laePlei and R ‘ ‘ fbllon .
Imdesjde. (»ordon Doilei . (a*
,,,-y H s lb sire-, and John
W Mura Jr.
TATT TRIBlIht
PUBLIC RECORDS
Library Notes......
;iljll, DISTRICT COKRT
IKK'K! I'
.HTm;!-. JOHN II M1LLF.R
John
Ma rk
TOURIST SPKNP1NG IN
Bublia ."'e [>un based we would not
Si?Sd^Co5wta P^llwrinmJ'Bumrt S' gS« ! KktnSn Bun h'-l.mmv
meflMKS ortneuotMWin r. , anil..*,, imrt 7.1k Povhina Rill Thomas Pele
j if li( , I Hllhlti '
Phillips Jody have loeated here on any lerms
aequireil a ten-gallon can
wiiicb wa» orKMRbced in j Miller, Cindy Williams and Zu-
t«». She 'is a 11523 graduate of !lema Salinas. These students
!i?aas! High School and receive)! were chosen on their chair
Scout News
positions in the band and on . v,.............., —t—-j —i- .
the quota that Gregory-Portland advancement chairtnan of the
Rushing, Bill Thomas.
Erhard and Chas Reagan
Welielos rank badges were
presented by Dempsey Duprie
and hauled our drinking waler
from Corpus Christi for several
months Every time I tried to
drink Tall water it slunk hut
in time we learned to us<
the quota tnai uregory-runjuiiii : aavanceiiiBio uhu io«n ",
could have from each section.; Mustang District, to Jimmy anil nmv I nave iciimed not to
... *---i „ .... n,„ n~,------- .— t,... oisbke it We can learn to like
Also several students from ! Rushing, Bill Thomas, Joe Per- dislike it.
(the Gregory-Portland Junior kins, Jody
Dsn 3 had a meeting Friday High Band participated in an
We worked on our place mats j AUrCounty Band Concert Satur-
mum tags and cans for a*hUay night in Taft,
trays lor the Blue and Gold \
Banquet. Refreshment*
Paterson. Melvin anything if we work a! it hard
were i
nerved by Les and Wes Baldwin
Les Baldwin, reptwier
HOSPHAl NEWS
Ttoop S3 met Monday. We
dweefced wii. Mary Jo Hack
served. Dr Root# talked to us
as*1 to Troop fi about pets.
Jackie White, scribe.
Tnwjp 8 met at. the Kiva Mon-
day. We listened to Dr. Roots
Be talked about pats. Nancy
Cabrysch served
by Peggy.
SURGICAL PATIENTS:
Mrs. Douglas Brown
Mrs. Bobby Bishop
Mrs. J. H. Shell
Mrs Bob Davis
Chris Taylor
Bill Smith
Jean Jose Chavez
Harry Mar burger
Burch and Darrell Phillips
Denner stripes went to Chas.
■Reagan. Sieve Schmidt,
‘Robertson and Mark Gatzki
land assistant denner stripes to
;Pete Erhard, David Schmidt,,
(David Hufford and Alan Miller
Servii e awards and thank you mi. w
j pin* were given to the '
mothers
fflf*
Special guests at Ihe program
were the Rev Wm. Kelly, the
h-mm
Mini t® N.HLS,
At Gragciry
MEDICAL PATIENTS:
Lola Port is
Mrs. Abdon Garza
Carlos Lozano
Mrs. C. L. Pressley
Anestaeio Jaime
Sally Ruhman
Mrs. Aba Cavitt
Severa Moreno
Sabino Acosta
Rosa Olivo
Rev. Geo. Alexander, the Rev.
Wayne Smith, the Rev. Norman
Stevens. Marshall Davis, Rich-
ard Wright, advancement chair-
man for the Gulf Coast Council;
Mrs. Wright. T. A. Vemnr Jr.,
chairman ot the Mustang Dis-
trict: Tommy Vemor, Mr. and
Mrs. G O Baird. Mr. and Mrs
!>. J. Duprie. John Hardy,
Scoutmaster of Troop 43; Mrs.
Hardy. Hay Turner. Scoulinast-
of Troop 342; Mrs Turner.
enough, bul the outsiders arc
not going to settle where ihe
j I water is ban.
1 remember, many years ago,
while riding through a large
ranch we saw a man alone and
Thinking possibly be
be lost, we rode toward
(I,.,,, him. A hundred yards before
reaching him we began to smell
the terrible odor of a skunk.
man turned out to be a
trapper, and skunks were one
of his best calehes. We ask him
"bow can you stand lhal ter-1
rible odor"" He answered, "It
doesn't take many months loi
one to learn not to dislike the !
odor, you get to where it doesn't, i
bother loo much." Now serious-"
ist s|xndiir. in Texas climbed
| to I532.000.00u last year, brenk-
; ing all previous records
To help keep Ihe tourist • b■>-
la's rolling in Texas Tourist
Development announc'd invita-
tions lo 36 leading trawl vs-nters
to lake a 1600-mile tout 'J
|H»lnts oi interest in ihe state.
Tour will take them io Six
Flags Over Tesa-, the LBJ
Ranch. San Marcos' Aquaren,)
Sail Antonin, lliil (Country guest
ranches Corj>,,s Cliiisii, Padre
Island M, Alien. Reynosa K.isl
Texas parks and tmesis, l.olkii;
Naeogdoches, Houston, and
NASA's Manned Spaeeerufl Cen-
ter.
Attorney general has rul'd
that ihe Agen.-v may use it.-:
funds lo advertise bv reds’,
television, tiillboard-' and oiber
media, as well as newspapers
and magazine-. While it ran use
newspatiers and magazines of
national , in uiaiioii only no
such limitation ajijilies to sei-
eition ol radio, television < <
billbotoil.s.
DRKDG1N1 lU-'I.K \LT!'P
Charles P, H
house, i lamagi
Rre i N I’.tJi
Buenteilii
111 iljslli
The II,
Oily of
thors Bui
tractors el
rontrai t
Gon/aio
United Sian
for i(MTijx>n
lor Fell -1
A IHIinli':!
svd for ihe to
were pa..sed loj
Severe
on molio
eases.
The following cases 1
:siseil oi a- lodov -
P. r Sikes dl.a Siki
Well Sei-V a i vs Lu'i.'s 1
erhnm Soil on .. ouu; P
tiff ippi a red and nnno.n
ready lor b il and nc-.sel
deiault judep:eMi Grained
sworn I...idoncc lie.'iid on
Minuble attorney’s tee Plat.
As ue told
die Library eommt
'lo fill 'be needs
I eommunily
■cverul years’
Recently Inn *>
rnemor.s
'peiial ipifl
Folklore 0
by Moody
i P»»t S
■ sling in Ti
From tk
John R
a highlj ss
eovers ll»!
Iv. isn’t
water??
it the
same with our 1:0 S'”'' P lk' li“' '' : i:"‘'
I VjGi'L-ivjn modified n
cori-
irovorsia! o r d e t* pe rmitt
In ihe Corpus Otristi Caller ,i,w|;.-).,v within
few months back, o stab
ment made b.v the mayor <»(
ft 'ii ; .n«. , ’* ..........' »’ " .....
several Boy Scouts and the pack thai eity is worthy of eonsidei
committeemen Roy Liermnn, ation In speaking of the walei
ttm Gnesamry-Port I and chapter
®»' National Honor Society
wyt xicentiy tor the initiation
tS. Wawca Griffis, Pam Bran- i
tSKii, E3izat«Jtti Woods, Jerry i
S«sfe». Cam! Broughtai. Luana j
XMHrtK and Missy Daehne. The
amffieltsbt ceremony was given
%, wto members of the
(Mkt St Clair, president of
SSjt SSar- G>llege, gave an in-
SfKKKaS apeech. and one of his
«p>ri*d paints to remember was
that "‘we each need to lie pre-
puw3.”
NHS nembms) are required
to posses# four qualities, char-
ader, t&vvice, leadership and
PATIENTS DISMISSED:
Bill ,Smith 2-ikl
Carlos S-aeano 2-25
Mrs. C. L. Pressley 2-24
Sally Ruhmann 2-22
Mrs. Abdon Garza 2-18
Mrs. Bobby Bishop 2-22
Mrs. Bob Davi* 2-22
PROUD PARENTS:
Mr. and Mrs. Julio Flores
Mr. and Mrs. Ponoiano Barera
Mr and Mrs. Raul Yaaguirre,
gui-
Science Students
Tour CPL Station
needs
Mayor
Pairicii
of live oyster
ized Kxecutivi
don \Viitsi>" ’
to muVC u v.i.v
:*.oo m
i,el., il am1-
Hi,.... .or 1 NVe
«»rilf‘r <iredua>r
from reel-
... V, • • I • ■ - .... J JI t > 1 \ * 1
if San Patricio County timt» they see evidence of ".*o.
I’.arnard staled. "San j()US <iij,,buM damage
Omnly has been des- ,\i pic -.cne lime die Dejiaii-
. i rifted as a water depressed ' rm>ni revetsed anotitcr ".mb ■
j area by the Government. Those' versial decision authorizing net
!people are starving to death fm fishing in St Charles, Port and
water. I! you've ever tried • , <"i .an P,a>s I 'm- ot
Tail,
This
Physii s and chemistry slit- drink the walei in
dents of Gregory-PorUand High know what 1 mean,
school were given a tour of 'rue read ion oi everyone who
ihe CPL substation west ol tries to drink out water lor the
Gregory on the Taft highway 1 first time Mayor Barnard enmd
"I Cup.
you !
is »:
RENEW YOUR
SUBSCRIPTION
TAFT' THiBUNK
il
recently.
J. W. Moore Taft
for CPL, conducted the tour and
explained ihe functions of the
substation. Mi Moore also pre-
sented John Piegsa, GP .science a slot
teacher, a picture of Thomm-
A. Edison to be hung in the
science department at G-P High
School
irnmmi
net,-, drag settles, strike net*
and gill nets now arc prohibit,"
in the waters.
State Rep. Robert Kckhan
of llaUxtiiii .aid Sen. A. R. -Sr!
piiibabiv learn not to dislike our Wartz of Galveslon dctnamle
manager water if if was neecessory tor new
him to live here, and if he tried
P0».g «nd Kathy Trees and
L*rry Brerina of Southwest
Itaas jrtantor College were
boom lose tlw tweek-end.
Mr and Mr*. C. H Phillips • Mr. and Mrs. C. A l eer tout -
had as their guests for dinner cd the Valley Saturday and
at Ion Sunday evening four of her ; *!*»« that night nn lower Padrt
cousins, all of whom are sis- : Island,
ters. Mrs. Eva Wilton and Mrs.
! Tin imas
of flic First Presby-
tgr»#» Church, will be in Austin
.inmi Mm* 2 to B for ®pe«d«>
at :the Mtmtoary.
Mr mti Mrs. Roy Floerke
mm to MeAIten tor the week-
end. TMr cWdren. Brenda and : 1WB
Bantoi. mteiye* to Rotatown with j day (.va
iheir gewKtetfhar, Mrs. B. O,
Stowliag. ,
Mr- arid Mrs T, A Cage hnd
m tiwir guraw week-tm# before
Jest Mr. Shd Mrs. W. L. Bran-
nun at Midland.
, ters. Mrs. ova «*«««• —— —- -
s*r,srarswSA'«Z'ZS£ZSXTSSS- J’,K.
.M . W - ' « ,» 1.,/xni D'oetb-ilL'i TllOiitlnV' (ll IltU-Tl
Mr. find Mrs. Jack Crane and
hard enough; just, as the trap-
por learned not to dislike (be
of a skunk Arc we satis •
lirtl iiitli a condition of this
nature" Surely riot
We have the opportunitr
yj- j.L.-rv fr** <****■«••..* M* and pro
£ 1 ^r't'.sMve eommunily through
quiring lake water Let us not
j through selfish interests, turn
I away from opportunity, I have
I heard it said many times dur-
i ing Ihe paxt six years that the
fold timer., here do not want
” Taft to grow I do not believe
this In be true. Our actions
regarding t h e attainment of
gixxl water sbali show where
we stand Let us ail work m
gather for progress, and Un
water dun we can take (>ride
Mrs.- Essie Taylor
Chrisii
of Corpus
went to Kerrville Tuesday and!of town.
! are due home tomorrow.
Earl \V. Paschal
Miss Gladys Threadglli. Mrs. i Dr and Mrs Chas. Kelso and
f' G. Gnbiiet and Mrs. W 0. (Kathleen visited relatives
attended the C.M.A
in Corpus Christ! Fri-
iday evening.
Mrs, W. P. Mullen was in,
Rockdale last, week, with an aunt j
who ss ill.
Temple Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus !>/iadek
j and family were week-end
i guests of her parents in Shiner.
Wtukrfh-I gaaat* of Mr. and
W L. McDonald of
spent last week-end here with
his brothers. Roy re and X. V
•s'’T, ttSJ
Mrs E. E. DeVHbiss and her
j sister, Mrs. Bess Ward of Kings-
Anson | ville, siienl last week-end in
McAllen with Mrs. Ward s
daughter and family.
U W
Mr*. D 0. Dodd re-1
Saturday from Pecos
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Beyer
went home with j attended the Flying Farmer
five meeting in ihe Valley last week-
: end.
Mr, and Mrs. (J Krieg plan
_________„ , Mr. and Mrs W. F. Mclnturf j .............
Wta* he had wasted for War-; an(1 wjn of Houston were the to leave rnday for a few days
sihftAS Entertriaes tdne* Ndvem-! week-end guest# of her mudttr with Mr ami M*-- '"'him ..a - h
ae*V ' Mrs. W. N Roberts. nvnri fam
il ISilutH
htr fhilflrfit "
Mat t lii'M
May we but learn wind
you have tulight
Ami mill eafniitcss atuj
.silent thought
To store that wisdom,
and in strength.
II Pi
hearings on the dredgin:., ,
hassle. Kckhar.lt. attorney in a
lawsuit to nullify the Gitoiav
21 order which struck ifrani ,
lonr-sumdine 1.TtHt -tisJ-lrerr:-
li'cl,- lin il for ibe dredgers,
also seeks "> 'mterium 1.200-1
mol line (tending appeal.
COURTS SPEAK Sre:
Supreme Court ruled the Port ,
Arthur schmil disiricl, in con-i
siructing an elementary schwil
on Its land within the City of ■
Groves, must comply with:
Gloves buiMmy urdiriamre:,. T>c
cision upheld the Court ot Civil
Appeals in a loer r'omroversv
Trial of Fiijtwrui Salinas,
former Starr County di*puiy
sheriff, charred with absentee
fialiot irrceulHr'ilies in ,l%2. Wa.-
:-ot for Min h 23 in county court
at law here Alonzo llinujox:;.
an ex Starr County rote* fore-
man, pleaded no ennte-t to one
of nine ■ nun!, invobirn; a sun-
liar ailes-ed offense and «'.v
lined StiiO Stale i-omend# tbe>
had migrant workers sign a’>- ■
xenlee ballot iccjoests
DIS'miBl TINT. EDUCATION
Texas Kducaiion Agere-i said
it expects more than Ski high
school s*i«d**1s from aiouoil.
the state to gather in San An-
tonio on February 28-28 for ihe .
IKth Annual Youth Leadership
j Conference of Distributive Ed-
j ucriiion t.'inbs,
"Distributive Education ' is .,
plan wherein higii scbocii
dents attend '. lasx in the
mV;, and put their knt«\iedge
1 to practice In afternoon jotis
I SHORT SNORTS Tc.x,.-
!Independent Producers and
(Royalty Owners Asst#lation ■
1 President E. Bruce Street a
I and family in Iowa Park.
Esc'it wisely, until at lensrtu. itsiurieed a special drafting sut-
We elm xoloeitmv — some 'committee is deve5.»i>mg a pre-
Jimmy Shoemaker
Utr
5W
and Mm.
tusd tousfly
YMiSad Skr Tc*k Patorwc
Donald Pater- ‘
0S fl«i»Sf5.'f0Vt: (
and. Mn
in Della
T.
fas
M. Reding Miss Pam Wright of Son An-
week-! fordo was at home for .tiv week-
where aid ot.lifts
Live to it world where
it il arc brut Lei .
! liminary opt-line
hull which protect# imetffcrt? of
201 GREEN AVENUE
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