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Vol. 44-No. 14
Edna. Jackson County. Texas. Thursday, March 10, 1955
16 Pages - 10 Cents
A SMALL classified ad in this !
week’s Herald advertises a set of j
golf clubs for sale. And thereby j
lies a story.
Spring is in the ofing, and
Jackson County’s two new golf j
courses will gel some play the !
minute they are ready, expect-!
ed sometime during the summer
months, perhaps as late as July
or August. Several golfers al-1
ready have been noted in open \
pastures or clearings practicing
driving or pitching^ in eager an-
ticatiori of the time the new
courses will be ready.
The water well for the swim-
ming pool and to water the golf
course greens on the Edna Coun-
try Club a mile west of Edna was
being put down this week. Clear-
ing of some of the underbrush
from the proposed fairways also
is well under way'.
GOLF COURSE Architect
Plummer of Dallas, one of the
most famous layout specialists
in the country, will come to
Edna to supervise the laying out
of the actual nine-hole course.
He is due here when he can get
away from a course he is build-
ing at Port Arthur.
Meantime, plans are going
forward on the -pool and . the
clubhouse, and actual work is
foreseen in the inunetLife fu-
EVERYTHING LOST — The frame
home of- Mr. and Mrs. Willie Lopez at
509 North Pumphrey, and all their pos-
sessions, were completely destroyed in a
fire about 10:45 Sunday night. The
owners told firemen that more than $400
in cash kept in the house was also burn-
ed. Firemen said the house was con-
sumed with flames before the alarm wTas
turned in. Cause of the fire has not
been determined. (Photo by Nelson)
City Pledges $1,500
To Fight Gas Raise
Morris Seligman, recently
; named 1955 lied Cross cam-
paign chairman for Jackson
County, announced this week
; that the drive is underway, and
I the county goal has been set at
I $2,515. The campaign will last
; through the month, and work-
ers in the good cause request
| the public’s generous coopera-
tion.
Mr. Seligman was appointed
! by Mayor Harry Maurit\ to
head the 1955 campaign. Mr.
! Mauritz is chairman of the
Jackson County Chapter of the
American Red Cross. Commun-
ity chairmen named to assist
; Seligman are as follows:
Residential chairman for Ed-
| na, Mrs. J. D. Fenner; Zone
captains, Mesdames Walter Ray
Cook. Jack Novosad. Howard
Wells Jr., Jack Hargis, Pete
Layden, John T. Vance Jr., Fir-
man Williams, Raymond Sowell,
Thomas Johnston, Wayne Myers,
Ora Mae Ware; schools, Oscar
Bounds. i
Residential chairman for Ga-
nado, Mrs. Carl Swenson; Busi-
ness area, T. J. HoWell; Schools,
B. F. Harbour.
Other leaders will be: Morales,
Mrs. Johnnie Greer; LaSalle,
Mrs. C. Sembera; Cordele, Harnp
Hardy; Lolita and LaVVard, L.
j A. McRae; Maubro Camp, Mrs.
J. T. Weaver; Vanderbilt and
| Magnolia Camp, Mrs. J. E. Din-
ger: B. F. Ward Community. W.
B. Gayle; Arenosa, Mrs. D. B.
Gassaway; Francitas, Mrs. Louis
| Capak; Koop Community, Mrs.
; Roe Littlefield; Navidad, Mrs.
| Wayne Whitley; and Casa Blanca, j
! Mrs. Roe Littlefield.
Advisory Group Meets to
Study School Expansion
The Edna Citizens Advisory
Committee met Monday night at
the request of Edna school board
of trustees to again assist with
the future planning of the local
school program
Gifford Madges,, chairman of
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Scholastic Census Shows Enrollment
In Edna to Pass 2,000 This Year
The 1955 school census in the i will be new students this year.
Edna Independent District.show- This year's count showed 156
ed a total of 1.936 scholastics, i white and 38 negro six year olds,
representing an increase of 114 j compared to 142 white and 21
over the 1.822 counted last | negro of that group in last
year. | year’s census.
Superintendent .Oscar Bounds ; Bounds added that while there
pointed out the Edna schools al-1 would be an overall increase in
so will receive a number of j enrollment next September, the
transfers, which will run the j district will lose only about 50
total past 2,000. The enumera-1 scholastics by high school grad
tion was made of scholastics j uation.
from the age of six to 17.
The 1955 total of 1936 in the
district includes 807 male while,
769 female white, 183 male
negro and 177 female negro.
Mr. Bounds stated that another
evidence in growth is shown by j
the increase in the number of
six year olds counted, those who I
The Edita City Council in its ■ Edna was involved in the eon- j Commission, which upheld the
last regular meeting voted iaj troversary when the city ref us- City of Edna, after which the
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ment and the cities of Alice, j ter was appealed to the Railroad City Attorney Tom Bell re-
port Lavaca and Alvin in the j_____! ported to the city council that
fight against the gas rate in-j ~ I he and city attorneys from
the pool ready for use by June |
or earlier. ,
THINGS ALSO are humming at
the Mustang Country Club ten
miles east of Edna.
The fairways already have
been cleared of treees and
stumps and have been leveled.
The dirt work also has been
done on one green.
The location of the pool and
clubhouse have been staked out
and plans will be submitted to a
general membership meeting to-
night. Work is expected to be
started on these two units short-
ly afterward.
Persons interested in the
dubs are invited to drive out and
visit them at any time. The
Edna club may be entered down
Low Water Bridge Road, while
the Mustang club property is
about a mile east of Ganado on
Highway 59.
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A VERY WORTHY project is
being undertaken in Edna and
the county this week with the
establishment of an “Our Buddy
Memorial Fund” for the relief of
those persons who suffer a sud-
den tragedy such as fire, etc.
The fund is being raised in
memory fo Otto Lochausen Jr.,
who died recently. Anyone can
contribute and a committee,
headed by Mrs. Ben Crabb, will
sec that the funds are gotten
into the proper hands at "the
proper time. (See article else-
where in this edition).
CLEANING OFF our scratch
pad. Howard Templin ranking
in the high 25 per cent of the
huge freshman class at Texas
A&M for the first semester . . .
And William (Potter) Putnam,
another graduate of Edna High,
who attends Texas I&A, going to
Austin recently to express the
feelings of the A&l student body
on the issjue of raising the tui-
tion fee for state supported
schools. He is student council
president . Another Edna
youth being discharged from the
service is Howard Maschcck,
He has been stationed at Fort
Hamilton, Brooklyn, N. Y . . . .
And Wm. M, Anderson fresh out
of boot camp at San Diego, being
flown in 36 hours to Japan,
where ’ he boarded a ship for
duty . . • The Marcell Mareshs
attending a gift show in Dallas
recently.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to: March
12, Mr*. Waldo Schroeder, Norton
Well*. O. H. Staples, Mr*. Erna*t
Yoas; March 13, W. H. Dru*hal
Jr,; March 14, O. B. Fannar. Jhn-
( See HOWDY on page 8)
crease.
Uphole completion of South
Texas Oil & Gas Company’s
Number 1 J. W. Johnson in north
Jackson County made 180 mil-
lion cubic feet of gas daily on
an official Railroad Commission
open flow potential test.
Originally completed from a
32-foot Frio zone topped at 4,410
feet last June, the second com-
pletion was made from perfora-
tions between 4,089 and 4,093
feet.
The well Is in the l&GN RR
Survey, A-128, on the company’s
22,000 acres under lease.
Two additional sands have been
successfully drill-stem tested at
2,745-70 and 3,90542 feet.
There also was other good
news on the oil front in the
county this week. The No. 2
Vernon Hensley in the southern
part of the county was report-
ed to have been brought in as a
good oiler.
Nearby, a well was being drill-
ed on the property of Mr. and
Mrs. E. M. McDowell. There
were no reports from it.
The defense was expected to
call their witnesses to the stand
today or Friday in the retrial of
the Rosa B. Singleton et al vs.
Josephine W. Carmichael will
contest case underway here in
Judge Frank W. Martin’s 135th
District Court.
Through .Wednesday, attorneys
for the plaintiffs had placed
seven witnesses on the stand.
They were Josephine Carmich-
ael, William Diggs, Eva Lewis,
Madison Carmichael, Seleana
Singleton, Lula Sayles, and Dr.
Martin Towler, a psychiatrist
from the University of Texas
Medical School at Galveston.
David Whitlow of Edna and
Claude Carter of Harlingen are
attorneys for the plaintiffs, and
S. G. Sample and Thos. R. Bell
are representing the defendant.
Attorneys said Thursday that the
case probably would continue
several more days.
Serving on the jury are F. L.
Magee, T. M. Clingingsmith, M.
M. Peck, J. W. Murphy, D. D.
Stephens, Joe Johs, R. V. Gres-
ham, J. W. Nyegaard, L. A. Mc-
Rae, Charles Koudelka, F. H.
Barron and Sam Allen.
Alice, Port Lavaca and Alvin
had recently met with the At-
torney General’s staff in Austin
on the case. They were ad-
vised adequate evidence would
be needed in order to have a
good chance in the suit, and that
a trained expert would be need-
ed to secure such data.
The group agreed about
$6,000 should cover the ex-
penses,, and the cities concern-
ed would be asked to contribute
a share of that amount. Port
Five persons have filed’ for the
three places on the board of
trustees of the Industrial Con-
solidated Independent School
District of Jackson County. The
election has been called for Sat-
urday, April 2.
The terms of J. A. Leissner,
Lavaca pledged $2,000 of the ! Tillman Hunt and John Atkin-
amount, and the Alice represen- I son <“xPire. but all three have
tatives said that city would announced for re-election,
probably contribute a larger In addition to these three,
sum, something like $2,500. Bell I Bennie Jones and Orville Brown-
40 Edna High Seniors Attend Annual
Victoria College Career Day Event
More than 600 high school j Dr. C. C. Colvert, consultant
seniors attended the Second | on Junior College Education at
Annual Career Day at Victoria
College on March 9, according
to J. D. Moore, president of the
college. -- »
The program started at 9 a. m.
in the college gymnasium. Stu-
dents were given an opportuni-
ty to consult with specialists in
the various career fields. Pur-
pose of the program was to
give students information about
the field of work In which they
are interested. Students attend-
ed discussions dealing with their
first choice of career fields in
morning sessions and heard dis-
cussions dealing with second
choices in the afternoon.
the University of Texas, was
principal speaker-gt the opening
session.
Forty-nine Edna High School
students were scheduled to at-
tend the Career Day program.
They were as follows:
James Barron. Don Hessong,
Dorothy Mata, Joseph Stark,
Martha Kennedy, Bertha Reck-
away, Charles Nickles, Bobby
Raney, Vera Holstein, Leon
Jansky, Wayne Ledkins, Minnie
Muschalek,
Beverly Greer, August Ham,
Jo Beth Cherry, Jo Wes Rubac.
Walter Ray Konzen, Carroll
(See SENIORS on page 8) ,
said he would suggest $1,500 for
the City of Edna.
Beil explained other cities who
would benefit by a victory in the
case would be contacted and
asked to contribute to the fund,
In other business, the city
council awarded the contract for
a fence around the new water
plant to the Alamo Iron Works,
on its bid of $1,032.50. The con-
tract calls for 416 feet of seven-
foot fence to circle the 500,000
gallon storage tank and new
pump house.
Other written bids considered
were those of $1,039 by the Cy-
clone Fence Company of Hous-
ton and $975 by the Amco Com-
pany of Victoria. The report on
the bids was made by Water
Supt. Elress Porche.
Following the discussion and
agreement by the group, the
mayor instructed the city at-
torney to contact other gas com-
panies and make official request
for tentative rates under a long-
term contract basis.
Attending the session were
Mayor Harry Mauritz and Al-
dermen W. T. Westhoff, Henry
Dittrich, Alison Gayle Jr., and
Dewey Strane; City Secretary
Florrye Crawford; Bell and
Porche.
NAISER AGAIN
HEADS EDNA
LITTLE LEAGUE
Frank Naiser, Edna auto
dealer, again will head the
Edna Little League as presi-
dent. He was elected at a
meeting of team sponsors and
managers.
Herman Gerjes is vice-presi-
dent and Ernest Singleton is
secretary-treasurer. All were
re-elected from the 1954 organ-
ization.
Teams and managers are:
Rotary, L. L. Zimmerman;
Lions, Leroy Leschper; Jay-
cees, L. A. Parks Jr.; Firemen,
Ray Short.
Practice will begin April 1
and the first league games are
carded for May 23. The date
for the boys to report will be
announced later, Naiser said.
No announcement has been
made concerning the organiza-
tion of the Jackson County
Little League.
the committee, presented a com- : tary schools, the acquisition of
plcte report of the findings and ! property adjacent to present,
recommended actions that were j school sites and the recent pur-
submitted to the school trustees i chase of a 25-acre plot on West
in its study of 1952 which re- I Gayle for a proposed new high
suited in the building of the school.
new Austin and Carver Elemen- ’ Hodges was assisted by L. L.
^ t t Zimmerman, principal L. W
McConachie and Supt. Oscar
Bounds. The Advisory Com-
! mittee report will be published
| next week.
Three committees are already
: at work. Under the leadership
of Co-chairmen W. E. Myers and
j W, H. Fitz, the population and
enrollment committee will take
a complete eensus of all child-
ren in the district not in school
now. Included in the census
will be all handicapped children
with the nature of their diffi-
culties. This data will enable
a projected enrollment of the ele-
mentary school for the next six
year’s and of the high school for
the next twelve years.
The financial resource com-
mittee headed by Charles Noble
as chairman is now studying a
table of bonded indebtedness of
the school district. The com-
mittee will seek the amount of
revenue that can be raised on
; the basis of the present valua-
! tion. They will also look into
the length of a bond issue that
I should be issued to secure any
} Reeded building.
NVIrs. W. M. Jones, chairman
| of the exhibit and information
; committee, has set up machin-
ery to get the findings and the
recommendations of the com-
mittee to the lay citizenery
“Our Buddy Memorial Fund,”
a .fund to help the unfortunate
people (or buddies) of Jackson
County regardless of race, relig- j over the school district,
ion or color has been establish- j Cullen Vance was elected new
e(j ■ chairman. Since the last meet-
II has been started in memory of< the«roup Hodges was
of Otto (Buddy) Lochausen Jr elected t0 the board of trustees-
Wanda Quinn Makes
All-District Team
Wanda Quinn of Edna was
honored with a position on the
All-District 26-AA girls’ basket-
ball team announced this week.
Marie Muschalek of Edna was
given honorable mention.
Others on the team were Shir-
ley Hamilton, Evelyn Henry and
Anna Joyce Lott of the cham-
pion Beeville team and Joyce
McDowell and Gwen Regaiv.of
Port Lavaca.
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ing, both employees of Magnolia
Petroleum Co,, have filed for
election. And there are rumors
of a sixth man filing.
The deadline for filing has
been set by the board, at 4 p. m.
March 21.
At a recent board meeting, J.
M. McGlaughlin, a Magnolia of-
ficial at Vanderbilt, was appoint-
ed to fill the unexpired term of
E. E. (Buster) Campbell, who re-
signed when he moved to Louis-
iana.
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Juveniles Confess
To Burglary of
City Chevrolet Co.
The -three juveniles who were
involved in the burglary of
$310.93 from the City Chevrolet
Co. in Edna last week have been
picked up and have admitted
their part in the affair and have
been turned over to their parents
for punishment.
• Two of the youths, 10 and 11-
years-old, admitted actually enter-
ing the building and finding the
money in a desk drawer. A third, i The new Coastal Bermuda
13, told officers he waited out- I grass, being called the “miracle
side, but received $10 of the ! grass” because of Its rapidly in-
loot for “hush” money. j creasing popularity due to its
The same youths also are be- ! versatility, high production and
lieved to have entered the Hill- | palatability is being grown in
man Gin Co. several times with- J Jackson County,
out obtaining anything of value, j Thirty-three Texans recently
All but about $30 of the Chev- j went to Albany, Ga., to look
rolet Co. money has been recov- j over some acreage of >the grass.
Luther Hamilton’s
Sister Is Buried
Rites were held at San Antonio
Monday at 2 p. m. for Mrs. Liz-
zie Goodenough, sister of Luther
Hamilton Sr., of Edna and Mrs.
S. J. Farris of Ganado. She
died at her home in Beeville
Sunday morning after a long ill-
ness.
Surviving are her husband,
Will Goodenough; two brothers,
Luther and A. J, Hamilton of
Gonzales, and the sister at Gan-
ado,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Loc-
chausen of Edna, who died very
suddenly January 26, 1955, in
California. He had gone through
two wars and suffered the loss
of three children, yet had time
to do for others, a friend point-
ed out this week. A plant em-
ployee on the West coast, his
last holiday before his death
was spent repairing a wheel
chair free of* charge for an un-
fortunate cripple.
Mrs. Ben Crabb of, Edna, who
has worked tirelessly with
charities for the past 12 years,
will head a committee of respon-
sible citizens which will handle
the funds.
The Buddy Memorial Fund J
will be maintained by free will I
offerings arid contributions from
anyone in Jackson County 'Who
feels inclined to aid the less for-
tunate. Special attention will
be given to those persons who
Assisting Vance will be Dr.
Charley Dugger as vice-chair-
man. Thirty-three members
were present.
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Scotch-Lite Sale
By Jaycees March 26
Another Scoteh-lite sale will be
held by the Edna Jaycees Satur-
day, March 26. Proceeds will be
used to sponsor the Little Lea-
gue team this summer and other
youth activities.
The reflector tape is used on
cars, trucks, bicycles, trailers,
boats, toys, mailboxes, wagons
and lawn markers, among other
things.
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FIRE DAMAGES WALL.
One wall in the Jack Grissom
home on South Pumphrey Was
damaged Tuesday night, when
the wallpaper reportedly was
suffer losses by fire and any man, scorc'hed by a heater. The Ed-
woman or child needing the na ^ *re Department answered
the call.
necessities of life who has no
means of supplying them.
The fund will be given men-
tion in all churches of the coun-
ty and anyone making a gift in
memory of some loved one who i TONIGHT
This Week in Edna
has passed away may direct it
to this fund.
Plans call for a chartered or-
ganization. All funds will be
deposited in the Jackson Coun-
ty State Bank, a spokesman
said.
Popular Bermuda “Miracle” Grass
Being Raised in Jackson County
ered, officers said.
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TODAY’S LAFF—
A' colored parson, who went
into a bar, asked for a glass of
milk and was handed ,a glass of
egg-nog by mistake.
Looking heavenward, after
devouring the mixture, he mur-
mered reverently:
“Lawd, what a cow?”
And many are having the grass
stolons flown back to Tex-
as for planting. Of course, they
didn’t know of the acreage here.
George Schattel of La Salle
has 100 acres of the Coastal
Bermuda and now is getting
ready to sell stolons from 30
acres that are ready. He is tak-
ing orders at $3.25 per sack of
some 35 to 40 pounds of the stol-
ons (see ad on classified page).
Here’s an article that appear-
ed in a Houston paper Sunday
concerning the popular grass:
The grass’ remarkable poten-
tialities for South and East Tex-
as-made a big impression on the
33 Texans who recently flew to
Georgia. There they toured pro-
duction areap and bargained
with producers for truck lots of
Coastal Bermuda stolons to be
sent to Texas.
THE TOUR was part of a king-
sized campaign by South - and
East Texas chambers of com-
merce and farm and ranch clubs
to promote larger acreages • of
the grass. Orders are now being
taken for the grass.
Coastal Bermuda was de-
veloped by Dr. Glenn Burton ptf
(Sec BERMUDA on page 8)
7:30 School Board. Sam Hous-
ton School.
7:30 K of C, Parish Hall.
7:30 Ganado P-TA •
7:30 Eastern Star.
6:00 Scout Troop 138, Parish
! Hall.
FRIDAY
I Livestock Auction.
SATURDAY
7:30 Teenville. City Aud.
SUNDAY
Go To Church.
MONDAY
10:00 Commissioners Court
7:30 B&PW Club.
7:30 Fair Board, Courthouse.
7 00 Vanderbilt Men’s Club.
7:30 Edna Jaycees. Chamber
Office
7:00 Scout Troop 436, Scout
Hut.
7 30 St. Agnes Youth Club.
TUESDAY
12:00 Lions, Edna Restaurant.
7:00 Fire Dept., Fire Hall
7:30 Presby. Business Women’s
Circle.
7:30 National Guard, Armory
WEDNESDAY
12:15 Kotary, Edna Restaurant.,,
3:30 Eleanor Brackenridge.
4:30 Edna Study Club.
7:30 Cat|!f>lic Daughters, St.
Agnes Parjfch Hall;
6:00 Wat^r & Flood Control
Board, Chamber.
7:45 Junior Newman -Club,
Parish Hall.
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