The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, July 10, 1953 Page: 3 of 8
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Friday, July 10, 1953, Mathis, Tex.—TH EMATHIS NEWS — page 3
I Farm Safety Week
Reduces Accidents
By 20 Per Cent
COURT HOUSE PLANS
READY FOR BIDS
SINTON — The final plans for
the remodeling and redecorating
on the Sinton San Patricio County
Court House were finished on Mon-
day and handed in. Bids for the
work will be called for on Thurs-
day, July 3.
Parish of Wichita Falls. They
were accompanied by their daugh-
ter, Pamela, and Mrs. Parish’s
mother, Mrs. S. S. Kouri, also
of Wichita Falls.
J. F. Matchett, Seagraves bus-
iness man, has been named Fed-
eral Housing Administrator in
Lubbock. He will be responsible
for the direction of all FHA pro-
grams in the 65 West Texas
counties served by the Lubbock
trip to Europe under the Ford
Foundation’s Community Am-
bassador Project.
The Senate last week quickly
confirmed the President’s nomin-
ation of Robert B. McLeaish of
McAllen as Farmers’ Home Ad-
ministrator.
Rent control will end July 31
in San Marcos and Laredo.
I was glad to see my good
friends, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer H.
Fourth of July Week-end Proves To Be
Busy One For Highway Patrol, Sheriff
a 1950 model Chevrolet driven by
Gay Albert Riley of Poteet. Two
women passengers of the Murphy
vehicle were taken to the Aransas
Pass hospital in a Cage ambulance
for emergency treatment. There
were no ether injuries resulting
from the wreck.
On Saturday night on Highway 9
one mile south of Edroy Herbert
Hernandez Canto drove a ’46 Chev-
rolet into the rear of a ’49 Buick
driven by Santos G. Reyes. The
Reyes care was propelled into the
back of a trailer being pulled by
a 1941 Chevrolet driven by Silverio
Hinajcsa. The trailer was demol-
ished. The Buick and the Chevro-
let were driven from the scene
but the car belonging to Cano
was pulled off by a wrecker.
Cano was changed with driving
while intoxicated. He pled guilty
and was fined $200.00 in the Co-
unty Court on Monday morning.
Investigations were made by Sher-
iff S. F. Hunt and Deputy Hobbs.
College Station, July — During
the ten years that National Farm
Safety Week has been observed,
farm accidents have been reduced
20 perent. This reduction is a
real achievement, says the Texas
Farm and Rach Safety Committee,
but adds that farming remains a
hazardous occupation. Some 15,-
000 farm people will lose their
lives as a result of accidents dui’-
ing 1953 unless they v practice
safety in their daily living.
President Eisenhower in the
Safety Week Proclamation. July
19-25, points out that last year
more than a million and a quarter
far mresidents to cooperate in an
all-out effort to make 1953 as
accident-free as possible. “Farm
to Live and Live to Farm” is the
way he puts it.
According to the State Commit-
tee the immediate objective of
the week is to arouse interest
and increase participation in the
community approach to the prob-
lem of safe living. The long-time
objective is to make rural resi-
dents so conscious of accidents
and their causes that through
their own efforts the agricultural
industry can be made as safe as
other industries of the nation.
History proves, explains the
state committeemen, that much
good is derived from the obser-
vance of safety week but after
the concerted effort begins to lose
steam, the accident rate begins to
climb. The committee hopes that
community organizations will keep
up the steam and even increase
the pressure during every week in
the year. They feel that when
farmers, ranchers and their famil-
ies, working individually and col-
lectively, set their minds to solv-
ing the accident problems that
further reductions can be made
and -eventually farm accidents can
be made as scarce as the pro-
'hen’s teeth.”
Woman Picked up in.
Sinton Connected With
Aransas Pass Crime
SINTON — Mary Butler was
picked up in the negro section of
Sinton on Saturday afternoon by
Chief of Police Frank Vanecek
and patrolman Dick . Cohea. She
was displaying and spending sums
of money beyond any amount she
was due to have. She gave a
fictious name but due to the fact
that she fitted the description of
a woman listed as wanted in
connection with a crime committ-
ed in Aransas Pass on Friday,
July 3, the officers went back
and searched the house where the
woman was picked up. They found
a dress covered with blood between
a box which served as a storage
cabinet and the wall. In the kit-
chen they found more money hid-
den in the back of the frame of
a picture which was hanging on
the wall. On being confronted with
this eveidence the suspect ad-
mitted she was the woman who
was wanted in connection with the
beating and robbing of Mrs. Rose
Golden.
Police Chief F. N. Turhbough
filed charges of assault and rob-
bery in the court of Justice of
the Peace W. H. Womack on
Friday after the beating with the
hammer and the robbery of $500.00
occurred. The complaints named
Mary Butler, Margarite Marcolm
and her husband, Preston Mar-
colm. The Marcolms were picked
up in Rockport on Sunday after-
noon by Sheriff Arlie Shivers.
Mrs. Golden is a long time
resident of Aransas Pass and lives
alone in the Minter Hotel where
the beating and robbery took
place. Mrs. Golden remains in a
Rockport hospital and is reported
in fair condition.
At 11:05 on July 5 six miles
east of Taft on Highway 181 a
1948 Plymough coupe diven by
Fredrick Bauer 20 yrs. old from
1011 St. Marys St. Beeville, ran
into the rear of a ’48 Chevrolet
tuck driven by Marcos Montes
age 19, of Rt. 1, Taft. Both ve-
hicles were traveling west and the
hood of the truck came up and
as he pulled off the highway
Bauer plowed into the rear of
the truck. There was extensive
damage to the autos but no in-
juries to the persons involved in
the accident.
On Saturday, July 4, at 5:35
p.m. while pulling a trailer with
a 1941 Nash just outside of Aransas
Pass city limits Marshall Marvin
Hunt of Rockport was involved in
an accident when the trailer came
loose and ran into the oncoming
car. Hunt, was traveling east on
Highway 35 and the car of Clyde
Washington Murphy was going
west when struck by the trailer.
The Murphy auto swerved and hit
The Highway Patrol reports 8
arrests for speeding, 2 for failure
to have driver’s license, 2 for
defective muffle, 1 for following
too close, 1 for improper turn,
1 for failing to stop at stop signal
and 1 for an unregistered trailer.
The Highway Patrol investigated
the accidents near Aransas Pass
and Taft.
Cuellar, Jr. Sinton; Edwardo C.
Rodriguez, Sinton; William H.
Samsel, Kenedy; Arthur L. Dial,
Beeville; James J. Ellis, Aransas
Pass; Miguel M. Mancello .Math-
is; George T. Salas, Odem;
Claudio Belis, Mathis.
James A. Jones, Rockport; An-
tonio Lopez, Jr., Taft; Manuel
Marin, Mathis; Jerry W. Dunlap,
Sinton; Daniel C. DeLeon, Edroy;
John J. McGuill, Beeville; Arthur
Rincon, Beeville; Charlie L. Mc-
Collum, Portland; Ronnie C.
Daniel A. Villagran died in a
Sinton hospital about 3 hours after
he wrecked his car five miles
north of Sinton on Highway 77, at
9:20 p.m, on Saturday, July 4.
Villagran was headed for Woods-
boro and pulled out to pass a
car, cut back in too quick and
turned the auto over on the left
side. He was
thrown from the
car and landed some 60 feet from
the car. His body struck wires of
a fence and broke the wires
wrapping them about his body.
The vehicle kept turning over and
over and made numerous flips
and turns and judging from the
crushed condition of Villagran’s
body must have rolled over his
body.
Villagran was married and lived
in Robstown.
The accident was investigated
by Sheriff S. F. Hunt, Deputy
J. A. Whitehead and Deputy
Hobbs.
verbial
Draft Registrants
For May Listed
The following is a list of the
men who registered with Texas
local board No. 107 during the
month of May 1953:
Felipe L. Pena, ingleside; Rich-
and L. Kephart, Rockport; Ray-
mond H .C. Roberts, Rockport;
Anastacio E. Maldonado, Sinton;
Larry R. Williams, Beeville; Rex
N. Rouse, Mathis; Marcelino A.
Insuring Office.
Gen. Ike Ashburn of Austin, ex-
ecutive vice president of the
Texas Good Roads Association,
came by the office while in town
1 for a committee hearing,
i I joined Senator Taft in sponsor-
i ing a foreign aid bill amendment
j giving President Eisenhower au-
thority to withhold one billion
' dollars in European arms aid un-
| til the unified army treaty is
ratified.
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the U. S. economy will collapse?
Official Washington is con-
cerned over the wave of pessi-
mism that swept nation with
Korean peace talks. The spread
of the idea that peace means a
depression, can, officials say,
talk the nation into depression.
The answer is that too much
of the business is controlled by
monopoly practices, by manu-
facturer owned retail outlets, by
business practices which deprive
independent business, the major
furnisher of employment in the
nation, from expanding.
* * *
Many in government still be-
lieve that a major plant expan-
sion of $2 billion per year, as was
evidenced during the Korean
war, furnishes prosperity. Yet,
the expansion of a few huge in-
dustrial-plants is but a drop in
the bucket to the expenditures
that could be made by the build-
ing of new independent stores,
factories, and the remodelling of
existing establishments.
* * *
However, with the control of
business falling into fewer and
fewer hands due to cutthroat
competitive tactics, employment
producing independent enter-
prises either fall by the wayside,
or die aborning.
* * *
At the same time, pessimists,
and those seeking rigid controls
over the economy, cry that meas-
ures must be taken to stop infla-
tion before the economy collaps-
es.
* * *
'Yet government itself has fash-
ioned the backbone of inflation
through taxation. Last year the
nation spent $81 billion on food
and clothing; but Federal, state,
and local taxes cost the public
$84.6 billion. There can be no as-
sured prosperity when taxes take
more of the people’s income than
food and clothing.
* * *
Many panaceas are advanced.
* * *
Yet many in Washington feel
no solution is possible until en-
forcement of anti-trust laws elim-
inates price fixing competition
and taxes are cut. There has nev-
er been any substitute for a com-
pletely free and open economy in
producing prosperity.
A counter-propaganda program
is discussed,
but so far no^ ^ J
one seems in " \J
agreement as! J||^ ' |1
to the direction J||p^ ' v - M ]
it should take. ^ Hi
The probable j ,
truth is thaU '1
there is no j j
agreement
the measures MELMsia
needed to C. W. Harder
maintain a healthy economy.
Actually, the United States
should be entering into an era
of even higher prosperity than
at any time in the past. That is
the opinion of many economists.
* * *
This school of thought points
to the fact that home ownership
in the United States is at an all
time high. And it is well known
that far more money in repairs,
remodelling, in fact for every-
thing from lawn seed to pianos is
spent on owner-occupied homes
than on rental homes. Econo-
mists also point to high auto
ownership whose servicing pro-
duces a huge business volume.
* * *
Neither do they feel that the
U. S. is consuming anyvflhere
near the goods and services that
it can. Even during a year of
510-called Korea prosperity, al-
most one-tliird of the nation’s
families have incomes of less
than $2,000 per year, over 60%
of the families have incomes of
less than $4,000 per year. There
is still a great market to be de-
veloped by increasing the aver-
age annual family income.
* * *
What, then, the question is
asked, creates the fear that with-
out war, or preparation .for war,
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Helm, Bobby. The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, July 10, 1953, newspaper, July 10, 1953; Mathis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1039120/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mathis Public Library.