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507 Commerce
Hefugic, Texas
Lady Bird Compared to Great Texas Heroines of Past
Refugio County Record
THE ROA WIFE
KNOWS COURAGE, TOO
(Excerpts ‘from an address by
Senator Yarborough before the
Reserve Officers Association La-
dies’ Annual Luncheon at the
annual Mid - Winter National
Council Meeting of ROA at Sher-
aton - Park Hotel Washington,
D.C., February 27, 1964)
As a married man who has 'been
a member of the Reserve Officers
Association for nearly a score of
years, and a Reserve officer sinlcej
World War II, I learn from the
distaff side that holding the home
together While the man is over-
seas in war, or warming the fire
alone while he is training in
'peacetime, is a weary, lonesome
business, hard on the heart and
mind and body.
You who wait and work and en-
ner husband and all of their J
friends in the Alamo, she rode the
80 miles with her babe alone ex-
cept for Travis’ Negro man-slave.
Ever after, the baby, Ange-
lina, has been known as the child
of the Alamo.
Another young woman became a
heroine of Texas by marriage
when beauteous, gentle 20 - year -
old, college - educated Margaret
Lea, of Alabama, fell in love with
and married the hero of Jan Ja-
cinto and president of the Republic
of Texas, rough, uncouth, hard-
fighting, hard - drinking 47 - yea
old Sam Houston. She succeeded
where two former wives failed.
Sam Houston became a teetotal-
er and a temperanlce lecturer and
became such a devout husband and
churchman that there is now a
stained glass window to his mem-
courage, you keepers of the home1
fires, you morale builders, you
heads of the family during the
lonely vigils, you also serve the
Nation, above and beyond the calls
of duty alone.
The human race has honored its
Joans of Arc but has often over-
looked the quiet sacrifices of its
many Penelopes, Who, like the Wife
of Ulysses, hold a nation together
while the husbands are awaly on
some great quest.
This Nation was built and its
frontiers extended by heroines who
held many a frontier blockhouse
or a, settler’s cabin alone, while
the men were away on expedi-
tions.
For more than 300 years, the
women ot America have been an
auxiliary force in support of the
military centuries before the Wo-
man 'Contract Surgeon, the Army
Nurse Corps, and WACS and
WAVES and Lady Marines came
into legal existence.
In times of our early wars, wo-
men often accompanied their of-
ficer husbands to the scene of ac-
tion, often living with them in the
Revolutionary and Civil Wars,
near the battlefields, even as Mar-
tha Washington came and lived
with George Washington that bit-
ter winter at Valley Forge.
Practically every State in the
Union has its heroines. It is re-
markable how many of them1 were
wives like you of citizen soldiers.
My own native State of Texas
is typical. Dr. James Long led a
filibustering expedition into Tex-
as while it was a Spanish pro-
vince; his military forces were
dispersed by Spanish troops. He
went to Mexico City, leaving his
young wife, Jane Long, well-edu-
cated daughter of General Wilker-
son, of the U. S. Army, in a fort
with a detachment of 40 men as a
guard a! Point Bolivar on Galves-
ton Island in Spanish Texas. The
40 men deserted when the food
gave out. Jane Long was left
alone in the deserted fort on a
wild and turbulent frontier With
her small child and a small Neg-
ro maid on abandoned Galveston
Island.
The tall cannibalistic Karanka-
wa Indians came to attack. Jane
Long manned a cannon at the fort
and fired it, frightening the Kar-
ankawas away. She continued to
fire the morning an evening artil-
lery salute and kindled fires in
the fort so that the Mexican sol-
diers and the Indians in the vi-
cinity would not know that all the
Anglo - American volunteers ha!d
desserted her and left.
She fished and waded in the cold
waters of the bay in a bitter win-
ter to gather oysters to save her
little band of three from starva-
tion. The bitterly cold winter of
1821 Jane Long’s third child was
born at the fort, the first Anglo-
American child born in Texas. Be-
cause of this, Jane Long is known
as ‘'The Mother of Texas.”
Her doctor - officer - citizen -
soldier husband was murdered in
Mexico City, but it was the year
of Mexican independence, and the
eve of the Anglo - American settle-
ment of Texas, and Jane Long
stayed in Texas to become a colo-
nist in Austin’s first colony of Ang-
lo - Americans in Texas.
When the Alamo fell to Santa
Anna’s thousands Mjarch 6, 1836,
after al2-day siege with all of its
186 defenders, men and boys,
slain, 16 women,, and very small
children and two Negro man-sla-
ves were spared as non-com-
batants. Among the fallen were
Ca>pt. Almeron Dickinson, able
commander of the Alamo’s artil-
lery, a former ordnance expert in
the U.S. Army, but a Texas farm-
er for 5 years before the Alamo
fell.
But Mrs. Dickinson and her
small babe, Angelina, were spar-
ed. They were the only Anglo-
Americans among the women and
children. Mrs. Dickinson and her
baby daughter, Angelina, were
placed on a Mexican burro and
sent through Indian country to
Sam Houston’s gathering army, 80
miles away to carry a message of
threat to Texans who continued to
resist. Unarmed, terrorized, shock-
ed and stunned by the death of
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REFUGIO COUNTY, TEXAS, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1964
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ory in the First Baptist Church
on 16th Street NW., here in Wash-
ington, D. C., where he served as
a Senator from Texas for 13 years.
Margaret Lea Houston bore Sam
Houston eight children; the young-
est, Temple Lea Houston, was
born in the Governor’s mansion at
Austin in 1860 while 'Houston was
67, and was the only child born
to a Governor of Texas in office
until Dan Moody became Gover-
nor in the late 1920’s.
Margaret Lea Houston built a
family to match her husband’s
frontier leadership, military
achievement, and his high state-
craft, still first among all Tex-
ans. Sam Houston had served 5
years in the U. S. Army under
Andrew Jackson, as enlisted man,
ensign, third lieutenant, and first
lieutenant. He was a major gen-
eral and commanding general oif
the armies of the Republic of Tex-
as.
Margaret Lea Houston, like Jane
Long and Mrs. Dickinson before
her, was the wife of a citizen sol-
dier, a man who was basically
a civilian but always ready to go
to the front in time of danger.
The wives I have mentioned, like
many in this room, were scarce
ly less in active service than
their menfolk.
Do not think that all the hero-
ines were in the past. I saw three
of our own times, under fire in
Dallas that sad Friday, last No-
vember 22, as I rode in a car
with President/ and Mrs. Lyndon
B. Johnson. The incomparable
courage and nobility in disaster of
Jacqueline Kennedy touched all
the world. She gave this Nation
and all the world a new pride in
woman’s courage in the face of
disaster, in the hour of the cruel
and malevolent taking away of
her beloved husband, the late be-
loved John F. Kennedy. Her an-
guish and travail have been des-
cribed too many times for me to
dwell upon that sad 'chapter of
our history here. And so has the
conduct of Mrs. John Conn ally,
whose husband lay wounded and
helpless in her lap.
But what of Mrs. Lyndon B.
Johnson in the second car back of
the President’s car during those
fateful minutes? With becoming
modesty and sense of fitness, she
has had no news interviews to des-
cribe what was happening to her.
The cameras at that time and
place were trained on the Presi-
dents car. The Vice President,
Mrs. Johnson and I rode in the
rear seat of Vice President John-
son’s automobile.
What happened to Mrs. John-
son in these seconds of crises?
Loud crashing sounds of rifle fire
were echoing over her head and
her husband’s head as the bullets
followed their evil trajectory from
the assassin’s lair in a comer
room above her head and the
Vice President’s head and into the)
President’s car and body. The
smell of burnt gunpowder from the
rifle’s muzzle, blasted down the
downward sloping bullets’ path,
was strong in the Vice President’s
car.
With the first rifle shot, the ca-
valcade ground to a halt or vir-
tual halt; after the third shot, it
roared away.
In that 6 seconds of pause, with
people to the right of the caval-
cade falling to the ground upon
the embankment, Mrs. Lyndon
Johnson sat her place like a queen
looking neither to the right nor
left, neither seeking cover nor ut-
tering a sound. There was no pa-
nic there, but a tremendous self-
control, worthy of one who was
having the heavy burdens of First
Lady of the land cast upon her.
In the wild 5 minutes ride past
the Trade Mart where the Pre-
sident was to have spoken, on
to the hospital emergency en-
trance, Mrs. Lyndon Johnson re-
tained complete composure and
self - expression, her upright pos-
tue changing only when the Sec-
ret Service agent ordered, ‘‘Get
down, ’at which she leaned down
beneath the top of the doors of
the open-top car.
As the President’s car, the Sec-
ret Service car, and the Vice Pre-
(Continued on Paee 4)
Bobcats Fourth in Goliad Relays
Fire Destroys W. P. McGuill Home
Refugio. —W. P .McGuill home (
and contents were totally destroy-
ed by fire Saturday morning,
March 21. The frame building, lo-
cated on the McGuill road, was 10
miles from Refugio and entirely
engulfed in flames with roof hav-
ing fallen in When Refugio Volun-
teer Firemen arrived after receiv-
ing the alarm at 11 a.np
Mr. and Mrs. McGuill and
daughter, Irene, were at home at
the time of the fire. They escaped
without injury but were unable to
remove any possessions from the
building.
The fire started in the kitchen
area, on the north side of the
house, arid the brisk norther push-
ed the flames quickly the entire
length of the house.
Inspection
Date Nears
Austin. — Colonel Homjer Garri
son, Jr., director of the Texas De-
partment of Public Safety, report-
ed today that some 1,500,000 Tex-
as vehicles have only until Wed-
nesday, April 15 to be inspected
as required by law.
"In the remaining 3 weeks of
the inspection period, it is possible
for the state’s 5,100 licensed in-
spection stations to handle the last
minute inspections only if motor-
ists take their vehicles in immed-
iately so there will be no delayed
periods between inspecting one ve-
hicle and the next.” he said.
‘‘From now until the deadline,
every minute of the inspection sta-
tion’s time will be at a premium,
and waiting lines will become gen-
eral throughout the state as it ap-
proaches.”
Garrison urged Texans to avoid
the inconvenience of waiting in
line to get the safety inspection
sticker for 1964 by taking immed-
iate action. He said that begin-
ning Thursday, April 16, officers
will be obliged to start handing out
tickets for non-compliance with the
Motor Vehicle Inspection Law
which requires an annual inspec-
tion of vehicles.
Noon Day Holy Week
Services
First Presbyterian Church
March 23, 24, 25, 26 and 28, 1964
12:30 to 12:55 p.m.
MONDAY, MARCH 23
The Rev. R. Bruce Brannon
The First Presbyterian Church
TUESDAY, MARCH 24
The Rev. James W. Campbell
The First Methodist Church
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25
The Rev. Vernon D. Grumbles
The First Assembly of God
THURSDAY, MARCH 26
The-Rev. Lee Sampson Block
The Church Of The Ascension
FRIDAY, MARCH 27
NO NOON DAY SERVICE
(Good Friday Service 1:00-3:00 p.m. in
First Methodist Church)
SATURDAY, MARCH 28
The Rev. Robert H. Hogg
The First Baptist Church
4-Day Easter
Holiday Set
For Schools
Refugio. — Easter holidays have
been set for Refugio Schools as
follows:
Refugio Public Schools: Classes
dismissed for all day Friday and
Monday, for a 4-day holiday. All
classes will be resumed on Tues-
day, March 31, lor regular sche-
dule.
Our Lady of Refuge School at
Refugio: No school for Thursday
prior to Easter or Monday follow-
ing Easter.
Woodsboro Public Schools: Same
schedule as Refugio with no class-
es on Friday, March 27, or Mon-
day, March 30.
School Board"Workshop'
Set April 15 at Texas A&S
Kingsville. — Members of South
Texas school boards will have an
opportunity to learn more about
their leadership responsibilities at
a School Board Workshop to be
held at Texas College of Arts and
Industries April 15.
C. E. Burnett, coordinator of the
afternoon and evening event, said
that invitations to school officials
of the area have been sent out
POSTER GIRL: Laura Lee Greathouse, 10, of Parkersburg, W.Va.,
is one of 1,200,000 Americans alive today, cured of cancer. Laura
developed cancer when she was 20 months old. Treated surgically,
she has been free of the disease for over eight years. Laura share*
the spotlight on ACS posters with four others cured of cancer.
with the request that reservation
cards be returned by April 9. Bur-
nett is a member of the educa-
tion faculty and director of place-
ment and extension at the college.
The workshop is sponsored joint-
ly by Texas A&I College and the
Texas Association of School
Boards.
Theme of the meeting is ‘‘Local
School Leaders Face the Issues.”
Dr. Bascom Hayes oif the Univer-
sity of Texas will be the opening
speaker.
Topics to be considered by six
discussion groups will give parti-
cipants an opportunity to explore
major areas of responsibility.
The topics are ‘‘School Board Lea-
dership in Public School Educa-
tion,” ‘‘The School Program of In-
struction,” ‘‘Professional Person-
nel for the Schools,” ‘‘School Fi-
nance,” ‘‘School - Community Re-
lations,” and ‘‘Basic Fundamen-
tals for New Board Memjbers.”
Burnett said that both new and
experienced school board members
will find points of interest in the
discussions.
All sessions of the workshop will
be held in the Klebeg Agriculture
Building.
The program, includes registra-
tion from 2 to 3 p.m.; a general
session fom 3 to 4:15 p.m.: dis-
cussion group sessions from 4:15
5:30; dinner in Lewis Hall cafe-
teria from, 6 to 7 p.m,., and closing
session in Kleberg Agriculture
building from 7 to 8 p.m..
Members of the workshop plan-
ning committee besides Burnett in-
clude :
John Hunt, president of the
Gregory - Portland school board;
E. F. Rogers, vice president of
the Kingsville board; Preston Hol-
mes, president of the Alice Board;
Fred R. Sanders, member of the
Corpus Christi board; Eugene Tur-
ner, president of the Odem board;
J. C. Barnes, superintendent of
Aransas Pass Schools; A. L. Peay,
superintendent of Jim Hogg Coun-
ty Schools; and R. S. Morgan,
cnruvrin+mrriAnt nf Rishoo Schools.
FROM WOODSBORO —
Three Make
Ail-District
Calallen. —■ Charles Freeman of
Odem led the District 31A all-dis-
trict basketball team which was
announced yesterday by Clyde
Teague of Calallen, district chair-
man.
Freeman was the only senior on
the team. The other four, all jun-
iors, are: James Lamprecht.
Woodsboro; David Whitney, Ingle-
side; Gary Slusher. Calallen; and
Red Conners, Bloomington.
Ties developed on the all-district
girls teaini and four players at
each position were announced.
Forwards are; Linda Linville,
Bloomington; Phillis Greathouse,
Calallen; Rosetta Lewis, Woodsbo-
ro; and Maggie Mancias, Odem.
Guards are: Glenda Geane,
Bloomington; Dottie Pfeil, Woods-
boro; Diana Gonzalez, Odem,; and
Barbara Sullivan, Bloomington.
The Woodsboro boys won the dis-
trict title and the Bloomington
girls won a playoff after a tie
with the Odem girls.
Woody M. Wilson
Completes MP
Course in Army
Fort Gordon Georgia. — Pvt.
Woody M. Wilson whose parents
Mr. and Mrs. Overton D. Bell
live on Star Route, Woodslboro,
completed eight weeks of military
police training February 14 at the
U. S. Army Training Center, Fort
Gordon, Georgia.
Wilson was instructed in ci-
vil and military law, map reading,
prisoner - of - war control and
self - defense.
He entered the Army last Octo-
ber and completed basic training
at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
REFUGIO COUNTY
TRAFFIC TOLL
1964
DEATHLESS DAYS
80
DEATHS THIS YEAR
1
Last Death January 4, 1964
1963 TRAFFIC DEATHS
1
Goliad. — Edward Roeder scor-
ed 25 points individually and York-
town raced to 81 points Saturday
to win the first annual Goliad Re-
lays.
Pettus came in a distant second
with 59 points, while host Goliad
was third with 45',<2.
With George Lewis taking first
place in the discus, Refugio scor-
ed 40 points for fourth place hon-
ors. Coach C. B. Jones’ lads turn-
ed in some of their best times of
the entire year at Goliad as his
young Bobcat squad continues to
develop.
Twenty - six schools from all
over this section competed in the
meet. All events were records be-
cause of the meet toeing in its
first year.
Rooder won the high hurdles in
15.7 seconds, took third in the low,
hurdles and won fourth in thel
broadj'ump and high jump.
Barry Noble of Jourdanton turn-
ed in one of the finest perfor-
mances of the afternoon with a
high jump of 6 feet 3 inches. The
Goliad 440 yard relay team of An-
dy Koenig, Tommy Johnson, Ja-
mes Shelton and Henry Randolph
sped the distance in 44.9 seconds.
Summaries
Discus — 1. Lewis, Refugio. 2.
Valdez, Bloomington, 3. Dwor-
aczyk, Pettus, 4. Cook, Halletsville
5. Krause, Yorktown, 6. Chaplin,.
Karnes City. 135-3
Pole Vault — 1. Derrough*
Woodsboro, 2. Hewell, Nixon, 3,
Haertig, Woodsboro, 4. McIntyre,
Poteet. 5. Jamies Industrial, 6. Tiaf
between Hooks, Ganado and Mor-
ganroth, Laverna. 11-6.
Shot Put — 1. June Butler, Kar-
nes City. 2. Gutierrez, Three Riv-
ers. 3. Krause, Yorktown. 4. Strat-
mann, Yorktown. 5. Whitner, Plea-
santon. 6. Valdez, Bloomington. 51-
4.
High Jump — 1. Barry Noble,
Jourdanton. 2. Mevvely, St. Jose-
ph’s of Victoria, 3. Toney, Laver-
na. 4. Roeder, Yorktown. 5. Pierce,
Pettus. 6. Tie between McIntyre,,
Poteet and Springs, Stockdale. 6-3
Broad Jump — 1. Hodges,
Woodsboro. 2. Zamzow, Three Riv-
ers. 3. Korian, St. Joseph’s Yoar
kum. 4. Roeder, Yorktown. 5.
Smith, Refugio. 6. Randolph, Go-
liad. 21-1.
440-yard Relay — 1. Goliad (An-
dy Koenig, Tommy Johnson,
Jamfes Shelton, Henry Randolph);
2. Pettus. 3. Refugio. 4. St. Jo-
seph’s Yoakum. 5. Agua Dulce 6
Three Rivers 44.9.
880-Yard Dash — 1. Gomez, Po-
teet. 2 Stureaup, Bloomington. 3.
Korth, Yorktown. 4. Dernmer,
Karnes City. 5. DeLeon, Threel
Rivers. 6. Perales, Refugio. 2:04.2
120-Yard Hurdles — 1. Roeder,,
Yorktown. 2. Dworzayk. Pettus. 3.
Bauman, Stockdale. 4. Akin, Stotck-
dale. 4 Springs, Stockdale 6. Rob-
inson, Goliad. 15-7.
100-Yard Dash — 1. Hardt, York-
town. 2. Buecek, Hallettsville. 3.
Profit, Pettus, 4. Nicrois, Kenedy.
5. Green, Refugio. 6. Koenig, Go-
liad 10.4.
440-Yard Dash — 1. Keller, Poth.
2. Lueker, Stockdale 3. Roebuck,
Poth. 4. Gomez, Skidmore. 5. Qiri-
sum, Jourdanton. 6. Valdez, Poth,
51.5.
180-Yard Low Hurdles — 1. Hen-
ry Randolph, Goliad 2. Johnny
Peacock, Goliad. 3. Roeder, York-
town. 4. Argo, Pettus. 5. Pearce,
Pettus. 6. Dworaczyk. Pettus. 20.5
220-Yard Dash — 1. Bucek, Hal-
lettsville. 2. Hardt, Yorktown. 3.
Koenig, Agua Dulce, 4. Morris,
Pettus. 5. Dixon, Stockdale. 6.
Muniz, Smiley. 22.9
Mile Run — 1. Fisher, Pettus. 2.
Ortiz, Poteet. 3. Thurman, Refu-
gio. 4. Sanchez, Woodsboro. 5. Go-
mez Skidmore. 6. Martinez,
Woodsboro, 4:39.2
Miller Relay — 1. Yorktown
(Heil, Hardt, Korth, Klodeziczyk)
2. Poth. 3. Three Rivers. 4. Refu-
gio. 5. Goliad. 6. Poteet 3:33.6.
Team Totals — Yorktown 81.
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