The Kingsville Record (Kingsville, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 47, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 10, 1929 Page: 1 of 12
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TW £ NT Y-SECON D YEAR
KINGSVILLE, TEXAS, JULY 10, 1929
NUMBER 47
CITY COMMISSION
BEGINS PROGRAM
r~*» Could Food Beef four DAYS DAIRY
Cattle on Native Grain
OF RETRENCHMENT “
Reduction of Expenses Made to Balance Budget.
City Engineer’s Office Abolished—Fred Yeary
Superintendent of Water Works—Savings
Total $7,500—Paving Warrants to Receive
Attention
Acre
Making good its promise to give the taxpayers an economical
and businesslike administration of city affars, the re-organized
city commission, at its meetng last week, cut salaries, including
their own, and re-arranged the duties of mayor, commissioners
and employees in a manner to save at least $7,500.00 per annum,
according to a statement made by Mayor Herbert Andrews this
morning. The mayor stated that further reductions of expenses
to bring the reduction up to $10,000 were under consideration,
and added that this saving to the taxpayers was being effected
without impairment of efficiency of any municipal department.
In making the reductions, the city
fathers did not overlook their own
salaries, the mayor reducing his from
$160 to $100 a month and the commis-
sioners rating theirs at $40 instead of
$60, as has been the limit for several
years. Further reductions in the in-
cidental expenses of the mayor’s of-
fice were made to reduce that item
from $2050 of 1928 to $1200. All re-
ductions made are to be effective on
August 1.
The office of city engineer, carry-
ing a salary of $275 a month was
abolished and Fred D. Yeary was em-
ployed as superintendent of the wa-
ter works and foreman of labor in
all departments at a salary of $150 a
month. The mammoth street sweep-
er was taken out of service as being
too expensive for the job, its upkeep
and repair bill mounting as high as
$400 in one month, Mayor Andrews
said. The operator, whose salary was
$135, was removed from the pay roll.
In this connection the mayor explain-
ed that a much more economical
method of keeping the streets clean,
probably with a lighter machine such
as other cities of this size use, would
be employed.
Other items entering into the cut
in expenses mentioned by Mr. An-1
drews were an annual salary reduc-1
tion of $240 a year in the clerk’s of- i
fice, $300 in the city attorney’s office !
and $000 in the health department, |
where inspection duties will be taken
over by the police department.
These and the supervision of the
various departments by the commis-
sioner in charge, together with a re-
arrangement of duties as between em-
ployes, will net the citizens a saving
of $7500 yearly and serve to bring
the budget to a point more nearly in
balance with anticipated revenues.
Questioned as to the status of the
paving warrants issued by the city
to pay the contractor for the property
holders’
share
of the paving,'
Mr.
Andrews
stated
that, legal ;
udvict
3 as
to the v
alidity
of the warr
ant s
was
being se
cured,
and that he
had
ap-
pointed
a committee of rt
?prest
-uta-
tive citizens to
advilse with
the <
•om-
mission as to the best solution of this
very « omplicated problem.
“Some of our property holders have
met their paving payments as they
Rofc)nans Hear
About Bird Island
have come due; others have failed to
do so, said the mayor. At the time
this paving was laid the city, htrough
its commission, gave warrants paya-
ble over a ten year period and bear-
ing 7 per cent interest to compensate
the contractor, looking to the proper-
holder for prompt payment. Fail-
ure to pay by some property holders
has made others feel that should
they pay the amounts due on their as-
sessments, they would, later on thru
taxes, be compelled to pay for the
work done on non-payers’ account. I
expect, after a legal opinion is se-
cured to work out wit hthe commis-
sion and committee a plan of refi-
nancing these warrants. Perhaps a
bond issue at 5 per cent, maturing
over a 40 year period would be the
best solution. If it is, then the city
must refund to those who have met
their paving obligations the princi-
pal sums so paid, i am depending on
the committee to assist in arriving
at an equitable solution after we have
had adequate legal advice in the mat-
ter.”
The committee to which the mayor
referred consists of Judge W. H. Mc-
Cracken, John i). Finnegan, F. W.
House, L. M. Edrington, Ben F. Wil-
son, Frank Kirk. J. W. Stephens, B. O.
Sims Jr., and B. C. Brookshire. This
body will meet with the commission,
it was stated, in the very near fu-
ture., probably within the week.
Funeral Held For
Robert Driscoll
(Corpus Christl Caller)
Magnificent floral offerings from
everywhere marked the funeral ser-
vices yesterday at St. Mark’s Episco-
pal Church in San Antonio of Robert
Driscoll, who before his death Sun-
day afternoon was counted among the
greatest, of South Texas financiers
and empire builders. Among the fin
est floral tributes was an armchair or
pink carnations with “Our President”
lettered upon it from the Corpus
Chris!i National Bank, of which insti-
tution air. Driscoll was president.
The chancel was a bank of flowers,
as was also the whole church. Flow-
ers lined the aisles and were every-
where.
Rev. K. P. Crum, rector of St. Marks
conducted the services at the church
and also at the family mausoleum at
metery, where interment
(By I. B. Williamson, in Dallas News,
June 19, 1929.)
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grot
the
lildi
:ig facts about the c
:ou
ntry . wm
3 made
i Kingsvillewere pr*.
iited ! (
jsvillc Rotary Club 1>
it rial e
, bead of the Biolo;
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re pres
if A. & I., ,who told
mm- 1 ory
of tin
> club that publicity
ould tro
m the
j the tourist attract!
ion
s of j Coi
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l in p;
mentioning the
hi
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utheast of this city
IV
here Pot
■ter Lo
C the Carancuhna ti
'ibi
m and
if railroads
uterprises a
cut to do ho
dr friend, a
San Anl.ou
1 over flic
nor to the
rid a dele
o Chumb
represented that or
nng last respect?.
ia!ns lay in state
ng mortuary Monda'
night and yesterday
mem-
gat,ion
1 r of
canlza-
it the
after*
morn-
(Editor’s Note The following
article is published in the hope
that the ranchman and farmer of
South Texas may consider the
soundness of the writer’s argu-
ments for Texas fattened cattle.
Without posing as an authority
on either ranching or farming, wo
are struck with the force of Mr.
Williamson’s statements, as they
might by made to apply to this
section which is shipping, each
year, thousands of head of beef
cattle to northern pastures and
feed pens.)
If Texas had produced enough corn
to finish the cattle produced within
its borders In 192.8, its cotton acreage
probably would have been approxi-
mately 15 per cent smaller.
Approximately >2,000,000 head of
beef cattle disappear from the Texas
ranges each year, most of them be-
ing “grass” animals, to be shipped
from central markets to grazing and
feeding areas in Oklahoma, Kansas
and further north. These animals fur-
nish a market for approximately 55,-
000,000 bushels of corn or its equiva-
lent in grain sorghum or other grains,
which at the present time is supplied
largely by the Middle Western States.
At the rate of 1928 yields, approxi-
mately 3,000,000 acres of Texas land
might be devoted to the production of
feed for these cattle.
The profit made from feeding beef
cattle varies with the margin lie-
tween the cost of grain required to
produce 10 pounds of fat and the
market value of the beef.
Experiments at the Ruling Founda-
tion Farm last year show a profit of
more than 20 per cent on money in-
vested in animals, or of $8.30 per
acre for land on which the feed was
produced. A yield of approximately
half a bale of cotton per acre would
lie necessary to make the same net
profit at present cotton prices.
Texas Advantages
it. is possible that since corn yieldH
in Texas very greatly and are gener-
Funeral Services
For Robt. Smith Held
This Morning:
Funeral services for Robert Andrew
Smith, 17-year-old son of Mr. arid Mrs.
Andrew Smith, East Fordyee Avenut .
who received fatal injuries in a mo-
torcycle accident Monday evening,
| were hold this morning at 9:45 o’clock
I from the First Christian Church. Rev.
! E. A. Osborne and Rev, .). M. darner
were in charge of the simple sir
• vices, which were attended by a lieu
j of friends, attesting their love for tin
young boy whose life had ended so
j Tragically. Interment was made in
h:he Chamberlain Burial Bark
) The accident in which the hoy re-
ceived injuries resulting in IBs death,
j occurred on the highway just north
of the city limits at 0:45 o’clock Mon-
motorcycle
lorth on the
i southbound
He was rush-
ally below those of the Middle West,
the profit in this State might be. less
some years than in the corn belt, hut
the determining factor in this section
seems to be whether feeding pays a
greater profit than cotton. Having
no capital tied up in animals and com-
paratively little investment in barns
and pens, the farmer would be free to
shift back to cotton when the price
of that commodity offered greater re-
turns than the feeding of beef cattle.
The Texas feeder has the advant-
age of his competitor in the corn belt
in freight charges, which in many
cases would lie nothing, as cattle
might be driven from pasture to feed
lots. He is further front the centers
at which finished cattle are custom-
arily sold, and the price range on the
Fort Worth market, according to the
bureau of railway economics, is the
lowest of the major markets, since it
source of feeder animals. However,
is at present regarded largely as a
the seller on this market gets 89.8c
of the purchaser’s dollar, compared
with 90c at South Omaha, 88.8c at
Kansas City and 89.4c at Chicago.
Losses and Delay
Losses and delays caused by mov-
ing animals in the spring to the cold-
er temperatures of the present feed-
ing area would not hamper local feed-
ers, and a constant source of supply
of young animals is offered in the
permanent grazing Hands of Soujth
and West Texas. The average ship-
ment from these areas over a five-
year period is approximately 750,000
head, which may be increased as the
carrying capacity of the ranges is
raised. That this capacity may be
improved has been demonstrated by
the Sonora Station of the Texas Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station.
In moving from range to market
(best* animals are shipped from or
across sections of Texas adapted to
the production of the grain required
to finish them for slaughter. A more
than sufficient supply of cottonseed
meal with which to supplement the
grain is available. And the forage
of the grain sorghums in West. Cen-
tral and Northwest Texas furnish an
adequate proportion of roughage.
A^ed Woman Dies
In Auto Crash
Miss None line McKinney, aged 84.
<>l Bishop, died al the Kleberg County
Hospital at .8 o’clock Friday morning,
July 5th, as a result, of injuries re-
ceived when the car in which she
was riding was overturned on tlu-
Corpus- Christi highway near Robs
SHOW AND SHORT
COURSE PLANNED
Entertainment Features to Be Added—Third
Year of Dairy Show to Have Wide Interest.
College Short Course and City Birthday Party
in November—R. M. Kleberg Again Heads
Association
Re-electing It. M. Kleberg president of the association, the
directors of the Third Annual Kleberg County Dairy and Stand-
ard Livestock Show, set the dales November Id to 1(5, both in-
clusive, for a combined dairy and stock show, short course under
the auspices of the A. & 1. College and celebration of the twenty-
fifth anniversary of the city, at a meeting held at the Commer-
cial Club Tuesday afternoon.
The greater interest shown over the whole of South Texas in
the ever-increasing prestige of Kleberg County as a dairy and
livestock center, the added educational attraction in the form of
an agricultural short course under the
direction of R. J. Cook, head of the
agricultural department of the col-
lege, and the observance of the 25th
year of the city’s life, all contributed
to the necessity of planning a four-
day program Instead of one covering
only two days as heretofore.
Entertainment features, absent from
the shows of 1927 and 1928, it was
decided will be added.
A commute composed of Clyde Al-
len. John Cypher, W. E. Hopkins, R.
J. Cook and J. K. Northway will be
in charge, of the pageant commemor-
ating the founding of the city, and
members of this group state that an
amusement or entertainment feature
will be staged on each of the four
nights.
The demand for such entertain-
ment led the directors, also, to pre-
pare for a rodeo during one of the
days of the show, and a committee
beaded bv J. H. Keepers Jr., assisted
by ('has. Harwell, Morgan Chandler.
Epp Goodwin, Jim Me-Bride, Worth
Wright and Claude Niemann, will be
in charge of that part of tlx* program.
The premium list is being prepared
for live stock exhibits by
Dr. J. K. Northway, assisted by
C, A. Ford, Oscar Anderson and W.
L. Wilkinson. These gentlemen state
that their lists will be ready for the
publisher in a .ew days. They are
opening all classes of exhibits to all
citizens of Kleberg County and to
customers of the Dairy Products Com-
pany wherever located.
A Woman's Home and Rural De-
tiines, the co-ordination of the vari-
ous educational and amusement fea-
ltires into an interesting program be-
ing in the hands of John Cypher, It.
J. Cook and J. K. Northway.
The finance committee appointed
by Marcus Phillips, president of the
Commercial Club, is as follows: R.
C. Eckhardt, chairman; C. C. Weller,
Sum Fimble, C. P. House, Hal Lynch,
Sherman Plummer, C. A. Ford, Oscar
Anderson. B. Gillespie, T. H. Ellison
and Charlie Robbins.
Besides R. M. Kleberg, mentioned
as elected to head the show, the fol-
lowing officers were chosen by the
directors of the Commercial Club ami
representatives-. of the .‘college saml
dairy association: Vice President and
General Manager, W. L. Wilkinson;
Secretary, E. B. Erard; Treasurer, B.
W. House.
All committees are expected to be-
gin work on their respective tasks at
once, President Phillips of tlie Com-
mercial CIuli says, adding that with
all Kingsville enthusiastically work-
ing to that end, this show can bo
made the outstanding community
event, of the year in the Gulf Coast
Country.
H. L. Oxford Meets
Death in Collision
1L L. Oxford, 25, son of Mrs. Ox-
ford of this place, died at 9:10 a. m.
last Wednesday at the Baptist Hospi-
tal, Houston, following a collision be-
partnieiil will be under the joint sup tween a Houston fire truck and an
town, July 4th. The
driven by a nephew, 1
with whom she nuxh
Miss McKinney wo
local hospital shortly
dent, though her
seemed of n in
condition rapidly
lug tin* night, d
hour named.
1 lie remains wen
family home of tl
:-ar was being
o. McKinney,
her home.
i.s rushed to the
; after the acci-
injuries at first
or nature, lier
became worse dur-
ith ensuing at the
ervlsioa ot the local home demonstra-
tion agent, Miss Robbie Lilly, and
Miss Lelols Davis, head of the Home
Economies Department of the Texas
A. & I. College
Suitable grounds with ample hous-
ing facilities will be provided thru a
committee headed by A. L. Kleberg,
who will have Oscar Anderson
• Conner and L. M. Edrington
I with him.
E. B. Erard will lie in charge
I publicity committee.
four d;
-d tlia i
if into
fit Ogl'i
Hi
III w
re vviil
for visiti
ill lx
Co
ir.ty Tax Suits
On August Docket
taken to flu
- M< Kinney
oh
oil-
oil train on the Telephone Road at
midnight Tuesday, The young man
received the fatal injuries as the
truck whh thrown from a railroad
crossing by the train which struck It.
The death of E. II. Grant Jr. of
Houston, companion fireman with Ox-
ford, was Hu- other fatality which re-
John suited, and others were critically i»-
ir-tiug j Jured.
Mi Oxford and daughters, Mrs.
It E. Maori and Mis Velma Oxford,
and son. Jay Oxford, ail of Kingsville,
survive the young man. They rush-
’d to Hon ton. <t'-eon.-„i>.ici) by IMr
Moore, wlieii tiny received word of
the accident, but road conditions com-
pelled them to make the trip by way
utotiin, and they reached
Her bis death.
services
Itursday.
of tin
Ml
of
Ho
nqu
sun
Ron
inei r
den
held In
i T:
lull
' ■
rvening,
which i
highway
truck of
when tli
ridi
d Mi
Wright
their moth
t.l
Hundreds of friends from C
collided
a local r.
e K leber;
ate auto me
Wentworth
a few min
\1 though (■'
e his lift
t,
spent
d In-
o’t 8i
on
rth,
hist ori
c spots.
Mr. Reid’s talk
was
* pus Chris
iti •
alter
ided the.
Services. the first thai
mainly
devot* d
to a vivid vecit
al ol
r! “Think
,” the
editorial
column on i — -——
the w
thousa
onders ol
mbs of wa
f Bird Island. \
ter fowl of many
r ape
} ’ the front
- j Express,
y ester di
of the S
ay raort
’an Antonio conduct’ d it
ling carried (and extraord
cies n
est each
spring. He bel
ipVe.d
1 a tribute
to
Mr.
Driscoll
, which fol-i gained an«l d
It was apparent frot:
is injuries were fata!
fh that fine integrit
ry skill which ha
nguished his own buf
utiior
tan 1
d the
iilm ly,
stand-
that p
d and
island
Kings-
issued
imphlots carrying print
pictorial descriptions of this
to which one-day trips from
ville can be made, should be
for general distribution.
Reid’s classes each year visit Bird
Island and he finds that this tripis
the h!eh spot in the class year, the
one thing every member of the class
tell their friends about when they
return to their homes.
It being at the beginning of John
Cypher’s term as president, Julius
Gibbs, chairman of the day. called
upon each department or committee
chairman to outline his plans for the
year, much interest in the organiza-
tion In the dub’s new year being de-
veloped in the co-ordination of these
plans.
lows:
! "Many have been the occasions for
t setting down in this column the name
|of Robert Driscoll. Today's c-al! to do
j so “bitter constraint and sail ocra-
' sion” Is the only one to which
THINK ever has responded with re-
gret This morning in San Antonio,
funeral services will be held for that
good friend, in personal associations,
to many men and excellent friend, as
a doer of big things, to all Texas,
from the Gulf to the Panhandle.
"Robert Driscoll’s service, as a
build' r of Corpus Christ: city and
port- particularly is familiar to Tex-
ans and -to financial, commercial and
.development interests far beyond
this state. To that task he brought
i years of unremitting devotion, arid
Linens successe!
I "To buinesH
i with delight, i.s
| thought from
1 mind. Because
! i led on the
that we love we go
a Seventeenth Century
England’s greatest.
Mr. Driscoll thus car-
business of making his
(Corpus Christi bigger and more use-
ful to all the region around about, and
thereby more prosperous through-
out the time he was engaged in ob-
i tnining, and then in directing, the
port- both the manner and the mo-
Live of his striving were an inspira-
| tion to Texanbs. Moreover, that
spirit, that manner, made association
and friendship with Robert Driscoll
a privilege and a source of helpful-
ness. Words of gratitude and liking
I send him to his resting place. He
lived for something.”
iand gave every evidence or
1 ing character and real manhood.
Friends throughout the ctyinmoitf
I are b -momling his loss, and sympa-
thizing with the stricken family.
The deceased is survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Smith
j of this place; (wo brothers, Eugene
and Howard Smith of tills place;
'one sister, Annette Smith of this
place; three uncles, Henry Smith and
A. W. H* ni ne, of Pasadena, Texas,
and R. VV. llearne of Houston, Texas;
two great uncles and great aunts,
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Barnes of Pasa-
dena. and Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hearne
of Pasadena
All these relatives, with the excep-
tion of Mrs. Henry Smith of Pasa-
den» Texas, were able to be present
for the funeral services.
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11 era
rrod,
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duty
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ions flub
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in to bring a
now m
ember
Into ‘ho
'ictus
|ranks of tba
t organ l
Ization
at n*-xt
lUtle.s
| Monday’s lun<
’boon, at:
cord in
;; to plans
have
j tor a membei
(hip dri
ve (its
cussed at
9 re-
the regular luncheon 1
lejd at
t)it» Casa
agri
| Ricardo teat. ’
donday.
New
plans ami
more
j projects to e
onut ituto
tho
> Inti’s ac-
■re filed thi
Judge Ret- e and his fellow officials
Kleberg county by taking action in
cases where tax payments are nog
are maintaining the good record of
lected, they way. and are hvoidlng the
! unpleasant conditions reported from
j counties where the collecting has
i been allowed to accumulate large
penalties.
All those who have been served
with tax suit citations, Mr. Reese
points out. may avoid the expense in-
cident. to final judgment by making
pnytm lit to the tax collector before
August 5th.
11vitif-H will wait til! this drive L, co
plated, members of the organizati
say.
The entertainment features of tl
wo* k - luncheon consisted of a gro
of delightfully rendered vocal so
by Miss Bessie Mae Church, wl
Miss Beryl Barber at the piano, a
Misses Audrey Barber and Margai
Honea iri a sailor dog dance, e
turned as jolly tars.
Lions F. H Elmore, H. G. Bak
and L. L. Crabb were appointed
committee on entertainment for t
month of July.
D O. Woods and It. R. Fletcl
were new members accepted.
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