The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1966 Page: 1 of 8
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from the Mathis signals the end | ing Co. are #Vmg to Northwest
of another cotton crop. The ten Texas cctton fields where the
trailers being loaded by Nano ' harvest is getting underway.
Mexican Lion Is
Reported Seen
In Wilder Ranch
THE MATHIS NEWS
VOL XLVII
Looking for Bobcat the other
night Frank Vaneck’s dogs had
put one up a tree. The cat didn’t
like his situation and he jumped
down and got into another tree.
Dogs treed, the bobcat again.
Again the bobcat got away.
Mr. Vanecek and party do not
like t.o shoot bobcats. They
figure it is the business of dogs
to take care of the extermina-
tion of bobcats. He and his
friends usually use about 10 clogs
on a bobcat hunt.
Hunting with Mr. Vanecek
(as usual) were R. T. Cohea,
chief deputy sherriff and Albert
Hesseltine, Sr.
Vanecek is the ranch warden
of the Wilder Ranch.
Starting out about 8 p. m.
that night, the dogs were happy.
After the third time they
had the bobcat up the tree they
gave -up. They refused to hunt.
Vanecek saw dogs, acting this
way in the'1930’s. At that time he
later learned that, what was
spooking the dogs was a Mexi-
can Lion or a greyish couger.
This animal is a long animal
with a long tail. He has a long
stride and his main fare is
young deer. ’
Since the night of the hunt the
dogs will only go to a certain
point. They work good and get
after the bobcats up to a cer-
tain point. When they got to this
point they give up and quit.
According to Vaneck the dogs
had rather go home. At least,
they abandon the hunt and dis-
obey all commands to “sick-
’em”. They just want to some-
place else. ’
Tuesday Vanecek saw a Mex-
ican Lion that appeared to him
to be about 14 feet long—head
lo tail—he calls tills some kind
of a couger and is no longer
worried about his clogs quitting
hunting.
Also in the community Bill
Smith lost some young pigs last
year. Cat tracks Avere found in
the neighborhood. Emil Vanecek
lost a small dog. Cat tracks
See LION on Page 8
Newcomers Like
Friendliness And
Climate Of Area
Visitors in the Mathis News
office Monday morning were
newcomers to our: city, Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Russel and children
from Michigan.
The Russel Is are looking for
a house to rent and may; buy a
home later if they decide to re-
main here. : '
Russell said they left Michi-
gan for a warmer ..climate; for
health reasons and were inter-
ested in Ma+his bec?.u«e of the
lake nearby. He operated a coin
and stamp shop in Michigan
until the hotel building where
the shop was located closed. He
decided it was a good time to
make the needed change since
he was forced to close the shop
anyway.
He commented favorably on
the friendliness of the people
here and seemed very inter-
ested in settling in Mathis.
Michael Robertson
Completes Advanced
Navy Course
Michael C. Robertson, USN
son of B. C. Robertson .of Sleepy
Hollow near Mathis, has been
graduated from the advanced
Training Serviceman School at
the Naval Air Technical Train-
ing Center in Memphis, Tenn.
During the 36 week course he
studied electricity and mathe-
matics, principles of electronics,
advanced electronics, special
technology, flight simulators,
radar trainers and administra-
tion.
The curriculum included basic
electricity, amplifiers, digital
computers, closed circuit tele-
vision, engine simulation, fight
simulations, radio aids circuits
and moving target simulation.
Pror lo entering this school
he had served in, the fleet and
was a graduate of the basic
Training Service School.
Robertson entered the service
in February of 1963.
Lon J. Sledge
Dies Following
Short Illness
Lon J. Sledge, 64, died in an
Alice hospital Monday morning
following a short illness.
He had been a resident of
Sandia for about two years,
moving there from Midland. He
was a member of the First Bap-
tist Church of Sandia.
I-Ie is survived by one daugh-
ter, Mrs. Norman Rushing of
Sandia; five brothers, A. W.
Sledge of D eLeon, Wess Sledge
of Brownwood, Curt Sledge of
Bangs, Bill Sledge of Merkel and
Luther Sledge of commanche;
one sister, Mrs. W. D. Chapman
of-Commanche and three grand-
children.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at Dobie Funeral
Chapel in Mathis with Rev. Bob
Hairston, pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Mathis, offici-
ating. Burial was in the Sandia
Cemetery.
Pall bearers were Lee Crisp,
Paul Crisp, Del Fuqua, Ross
Morris, Carl Holleman and Jim
West.
Second Class Postao*
Paid At Mathis Texas
Kip Grigsby
Dies Monday
MATHfS, TEXAS 78368, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1966
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Pirate team. Galleon Staff Photo
Funeral services for K i p
Grigsby, 8, were held Monday
at the Dobie Funeral Chapel
with the Rev. Paul Conrad, pas-
tor of the Calvary Mennonite
Church, officiating. Burial was
in the Sandia Cemetery.
Kip died Saturday in a Robs-
lown hospital following a long
illness. He was a member of the
Seventh Day Adventist Church
in Alice.
Survivors include his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. William Grigsby,
Jr. of Mathis; a sister, Kim
berly Ann of Mathis; paternal
grandfather, William Grigsby of
Daytona Beach, Fla.; patei'nal
grandmother, Mrs. L. W. Sher-
man of Chugiak, Alaska; and
maternal grandmother, Mi's.
J.ohnnie Burk of Sandia, his
paternal great grandmother is
Mrs. Johnnie Jaddel of Los
Angeles.
Pall bearers were Gene Miller,
Erich Bauch, Jimmy Walker,
all of Mathis, and Ernest Egg-
leston, Jr. of Orange Grove.
Honorary pall bearers were
Bobby Burk, Jerry Burk, Ronnie
Burk and D.onnie Burk.
Hallowe'en
Carnival Set
For Monday
The Halloween Carnival, spon-
sored annually by the Mathis
Band Boosters Club, will be held
on the Eelmentary School
grounds Monday. Proceeds of
the carnival will g.o to benefit
the band.
The chili supper will be serv-
ed in the school cafeteria and
boths for food and games will
be set up on the school grounds.
Most of the old standbys will
be back this year with a few
new games and booths added.
Foods stands will be sellling
tamales, pies, coffee, popcorn,
candied aples, enow cones,
candy, com dogs, and cotton
candy. The mobile wagon used
at football games will also be
on hand to sell cokes and coffee.
Games will include the dart
board, dunk the man, the fish
pond, the country store, the cake
walk, the pumpkin booth, where
one can shoot at lighted candles
with a water pistol, nail the
board booth, pop gun booth, for-
tune teller tent, and new booth
where WTatkin’s vanilla extract
and black pepper may be pur-
chased. Rides will.include the
hay ride and fire truck ride.
A new addition this year will
be bingo which will be played
in the band hall. This will take
the place of the baby show and
business houses who usually
sponsor the baby show entries
will be asked to donate- prizes
for bingo or money to purchase
prizes.
Lutherans To
Celebrate
Loyalty Sunday
Grace Lutheran Churcn of
Mathis will celebrate Loyalty
Sunday on Sunday. Teams of
callers went out two by two on
Tuesday of this week to visit
the homes of all confirmed
members in preparation for this
special event. Those comprising
the calling teams are Leroy Men
gers, E. G. Frols, Rudolph,
Hingst, Winston Bott, E. H.
Salge, Sherman Schibler, Mrs.
Woodrow Hicks, Mrs. Wallace
Wollgast, Mrs. E. H. Salge and
Mrs. I. A. Burow.
This year at Grace Lutheran,
Loyalty Sunday coincides with
the observance of Reformation
Sunday. The theme of the ser-
mon will be “Christ’s Church is
built upon a Rock in order to
prevail.” (Matthew 16:19). Ac-
cording to Don Vlasak, Pastor,
the Loyalty Day Sermon will
emphasize that the church be-
longs to Christ and since it is
under His Command, it is bound
to prevail.
4-H Club Elects
New Officers
A meeting of the Mathis Com-
munity 4-H Club was held Oc-
tober 11 at the VFW Hall with
approximately 50 members and
adults attending.
New officers elected were
A1 Laechelin, president; Glenn
Jostes, vice-president; Debby
Porter, secretary; Gary Jostes,
treasurer; Lael Moore, reporter;
Allen Tiemann, county delegate,
and Ricky Bomer, alternate del-
Petition Requests Lillies
In Lake Mathis Be Killed
MRS. V. C. Rankin shows pet-
itions she is circulating in the
lake area asking for the eradi-
cation of water hyacinths in the
lake and rivers.
Hwy. 359 To Be
Widened Here
A 30.05 mile highway impro-
vement project began Monday
with Mathis being about the cen-
ter point of the improvement.
Construction will widen should-
ers of Highway 359 from the
Nueces River Bridge, five miles
Funeral is Held
Saturday For Wife
Of District Judge
Mrs. John H. Miller, wife of
the district judge of Sinton, died
Friday after a short illness.
Funeral services were held
Saturday in the Sinton Presby-
terian Church with the Rev.
Geo. Sullivan officiating. Burial
was in the Sinton Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Harry Bur-
nett, D. S. Hitt, Jr., Taft Mor-
row, all of Sinton; IT. W.
Schmidt of Austwell; D. E.
Nicholson, Luther E. Jones, Jr.
and G. R. Vandervoort of Cor-
pus Christi; and Weldon Cab-
aniss of Rockport.
Mrs. Miller was a native of
Stanley, Wis., and had lived in
Sinton since 1937. She was a
member of the Sinton Presby-
terian Church, where she was
active in the ladies study club
She was also a member of the
Sinton Library board.
Survivors include her hus
band, Judge Miller of Sinton; a
son, John Miller of Austin; a
daughter, Mrs. J. W. Copeland
of Refugio; two sisters, Mrs.
Frieda Moen .of Chippewa Falls,
Wis., and Mrs. Winston Imbo-
den of Whittier, Calif.; a broth-
er, William Higholt of Duluth,
Minn.; and two grandchildren.
south of Mathis to Skidmore.
South of the ’ riveri bridge to a
point at the intersection of High-
way 359 and Farm to Market
Road 2044 south of Alfred, re-
surfacing of the present road
and shoulders will take place.
J. M. DUh.nger. .of .. Corpus
Christi is the contractor for the
job. Known in highway circles
as one of the fastest contrac-
tors in the state of Texas, Dil-
linger has 225 days in which to
complete construction. He ex-
pects to complete the contract
in about four months, barring
unusually bad weather condi-
tions.
The contract calls for widen-
ing shoulders of the highway
from Nueces River to Skidmore
to a total of 46 feet with the
exception of bridges and under-
passes. Most of the bridges on
the. highway have..-been wided-
ed to the prescribed width in
earlier contracts.
Underpasses will not be widen-
ed. The minimum width of un-
derpasses on the project is the
underpass at Mathis under the
Missouri Pacific Railroad which
is about 20 feet.
Shoulders on the section of
highway new extend the width or
the highway l.o 30 feet addition a1
widening will add eight feet to
each side of the highway and
will be wide enough, for a four
lanes of U'affic.
Resident engineer for the pro-
ject is F. H. Smith of George
West. Assisting Smith is Lamar
James, also of George West.
Mrs. V. C. Rankin is pursuing
her one woman campaign to sve
not only her livelihood but other
camp operators around Lake
Mathis. Mr. and Mrs. Rankin
used to operate Rankin’s camp
on the Nueces River when it
was possible to get a boat on
the lake.
Now the camp is completely
surrounded by water liyachinths.
Not an inch of water is visible.
Boats cannot navigate. What
used to be a thriving business
for the Rankins is gone.
In an article. in the Mathis
News last week it was explained
that water covered by hyacinths
or known better as water lillies-
exudes an inch of water every
hour.
Carefully conducted experi-
ments have proven the evapora-
tion of water could even exceed
this amount.
The evaporation is of parti-
cular concern to cities served
by the lake’s water supply. The
hyacinths are of more concern
to camp operators and business-
es interested in the toui'ist, bus-
iness;.
A false rumor spread in the
city of Big Springs last week.
Four carloads of prospective
iisherrhen drove into Rankin’s
Camp after hearing that the
“water lillies” had been re-
moved from the river.
The lillies now cover about
eight or nine miles of the river
and threaten the entire lake. As
as reported last w’eek, each
“Lillie spike” produces 40,000
seeds. Each seed produces an-
other spike which in turn pro-
duces 40,000 more seeds.
Mrs. Rankin is circulating a
petition. The petition pleads that
something be done toward eli-
minating the hyacinth. Tuesday
it had better than 100 signatures
and Mrs. Rankin is hopeful of
getting more than 1,000 before
submitting it to water authori-
ties.
The petition will remain in
I he office of the Mathis News
for the next two weeks for the
convenience of local supporters
of Lake Mathis.
Mrs. Rankin has asked that
'■very individual who has an in-
erest in the betterment of the
orea surrounding the lake sign
he petition.
The petition is as follows:
“We, the undersigned resi-
dents of Live Oak, Bee and San
Patricio Counties, Texas, have
been using the waters of the
Nueces River from the Wesley
oeale Dam near Mathis, Texas
uorth to George West, Texas,
or fishing, boating and other
’ecreational purposes for many
/ears. During the last 12 mon-
ths the water hyacinths have
become so numerous and so
thick on these waters that even
a small outboard motor boat
cannot travel up and down the
river.
It is imperative that some
governmental agency do some-
thing to alleviate this condition.
We understand that the gov-
ernmental authorities in Louis-
iana have successfully poisoned
these water hyacinths and kept
them from polluting their
streams. These hyacinths on the
Nueces River, because of their
being so thick, have so used up
the oxygen in the water as to he
a detriment to iish.
We appeal to you to take some
steps to eliminate the water
hyacinths on the Nueces River.”
Respeotfu®y ,submitted-—
(Signatures follow.)
The petition will be in the
office of the Mathis News until
Monday, November 7, at which
time it will be carried to another
location for additional signa-
tures. Office hours of the Mathis
News are from 8 a. m. to 5
p. m. Monday through Friday
and 8 a. m. to noon on Saturday.
Future locations of the petition
will be announced in this news-
paper.
Mennonite
Youth Flan
Money Project
Members of the Calvary Men-
nonite Youth Fellowship are
busy with projects to raise
money for a building for neigh-
borhood recreation facilities.
The activity started with mem-
bers picking pickles for two Sat-
urdays in a row with the money
going into the building fund.
Last Saturday the group spon-
sored a car \yash with proceeds
going into the fund.
Residents who want to have
their car washed may call KI7-
2259 and a member of the Youth
Fellowship will pick up the car
and return it when the wash
job is .completed.
Vernon Snyder is the adult
leader working with the group.
Mrs. Richard Devilbiss of
Sandi and Jo Ann of Carrizo
Springs spent the week-end in
Mathis visiting Mrs. C. M. Hart
and the Erich Bauch family.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Williams
of Corpus Christi were among
the ex-students attending home-
coming activities here last week-
end.
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HEADS LIKE THIS promise
good grain tonnage in some area
out of is fast maturing and is lo-
cated about five miles East of
A total of 676 farms was
counted in San Patricio County
during the 1961 Census of Agri-
culture, the U. S. Department
of Commerce’s Bureau of the
Census reports.
In the last previous Census of
Agriculture (1959) the total coun-
ted in the county was 816 farms.
The 1964 total is published in
a preliminary report on the
county just issued. The report
also shows that average farm
size in the county was 802.4
acres and the the average value
of the county’s farms (land and
buildings) in 1964 was $190,631.
Other important country sta-
tistics in the report are:
1. Value of all farm products
sold by farms in the county in
1964, $25,527,517; in 1959, $17,-
944,046.
2. Value of all crops sold by
county farms in 1964,, $19,925,-
740; in 1959, $15,434,417.
3. Value of all livestock arid
livestock products sold by coun-
ty farms in 1964, $5,585,452; in
1959, $2,509,629.
Information obtained for the
first time in an agricultural cen-
sus included the amount of in-
come received by the county’s
farmers ($16,325) from recrea-
tional services as well as data on
the use of pest control chemicals
A Census of Agriculture is
taken every 5 years in years
ending in‘4” and “9” to gather
imformation on the nation’s
agricultural resources and pro-
duction. The data are needed to
make decisions affecting many
segments of the U. S. economy.
The 1964 farm census was the
18th in a series that began in
1840.
The preliminary i-eport for the
county contains more than 500
facts about agriculture in the
county. Among additional facts
it contains are the number of
farms by size, type, and econ-
nomic class; the number of
fai’m operatoi's by method of
tenure, age, color, off-farm
work, and number of school
years completed; land in farms
by use and by land-use prac-
tices; data on equipment and
facilities; farm expenditures;
number of hired workers; and
number of farms reporting
poultry and livestock produc-
tion and those reporting crop
production by acres and quanti-
ties as well as sales.
NOTE: Single copies are
available for 10 cents from the
Bureau of the Census, Washing-
ton, D. C. 20233 or from any
field office of the Department of
Commerce. These are located
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Foster, Marshall E. The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1966, newspaper, October 27, 1966; Mathis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1039170/m1/1/: accessed April 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mathis Public Library.