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THE MATHIS NEWS
VOLUME XXXVI
MATHIS, TEXAS — FRIDAY, SECTEMBER~7ri95t
EIGHT PAGES — NO. 35
A
609 Register 1st Day
In Mathis Schools;
Number Will Rise
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Give Light, and the people
will find their own way.
Motto of the
Scripts-Howard Newspapers.
Every so often when one
chooses journalism as the work
•he will do in this life, he finds,
to his surprise ,that he is not
reporting happenings, -digging out
information about or writing
about things that are not to his
liking.
One of the hardest things a
newspaperman has to overcome
is to the fact that things do not
very often happen as he would
like to have them happen — or
the way that he as one private
individual citizen feels things
should happen.
Every day he must compro-
mise his feelings with the
days happenings in the particular
community in which he is prac-
ticing his trade. In short, he
must report as accurately and
as truthfully as is possible for
him the news — not the way
he feels that it should have hap-
pened, but just as it did happen.
It is only in columns like this
one, where one’s personal feel-
ings should appear. Sometimes
that’s a real compensation.
Just after we had written a
column concerning the way we
saw the present state of our
public school system, we have had
several folks come in and tell
us that they thought we were a
little off the beam. This is just
as it should be. We like to talk
over these few words over with
anyone who will listen.
It seems as though some of
our readers felt that we were
condemning football (and all
sports) per se.
Such was not the case We
were attempting to say that we
feel that first things should be
put first. And we went on to
say that we didn’t feel that foot-
ball was not the first most im-
portant thing students can gain
from our educational systems.
However, regardless of the way
we personally felt, we still be-
lieve too much emphasis is being
given to all extra-curricula ac-
tivities. For this we blamed the
parents of the children for al-
lowing this to exist, and the
educators who have traded, or
compormised, their ideals.
No one — but no one — en-
joys football better that we do.
We won’t miss one game this,
or any other season. And our
news columns will be filled with
football — if that is what is
making the news.
You make the news. How do
you want it to read?
When registration of students
of the Mathis Independent School
District was completed Tuesday
609 had been enrolled in the
three schools, according to T. A.
Harbin, superintendent of
schools.
Students were still registering
when classes began Wednesday.
And it is expected that students
will continue to register until
the early part of next week.
In the West Ward School 189
were registered, 270 students
were enrolled in the junior high
school (42, those in the seventh
grade, will be attending classes
in the high school building) and
150 registered in the high school.
This is the first semester that
children in the seventh grade
have gone to their classes in the
high school building. It is also
the first time the fifth and sixth
grades of the West Ward School
are attending classes in the ele-
mentary school building.
At present there are thirty-two
teachers in the three schools.
It is expected that the faculty
of the West Ward Ward School
will be increased by at least five
teachers, as more students regis-
ter there later in the year.
The enrollment in the high
school will increase by from 15
to 20, the number of students
attending the elementary school
will rise about 25 before the
semester ends at the West Ward
School one official things the
enrollment will double in the
next four to five months.
All of the walls and ceilings in
the high school building have
been repainted The floors have
been refinished and the desks
and blackboards have been re-
painted.
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Bobbie Lamb
Promoted While
Serving in Korea
Bobbie Lamb, senior clerk with
the Far East Air Forces’ 314th
Troop Carrier Group, has been
promoted to staff sergeant.
The promotion, in recognition
of his outstanding devotion to
duty and the part that he is
playing in the Korean air effort,
was announced by Col. Richard
W. Henderson, group commander.
He said, “It is due to the out-
standing manner in which Sgt.
Lamb and all others of this com-
mand have done their duties that
the Japan-Korea airbridge has
been one of the most successful
ventures of its kind in aviation
history.”
Since arriving in the Far East
Command, Sgt. Lamb’s organiza-
tion has been awarded the Dis-
tinguished Unit Citation. The ci-
tation was awarded, for con-
spicuous gallantry and heroism
while performing urgent resup-
ply missions to encircled United
Nations troops (fighting Com-
munists at the Chosin Reservoir
in North Korea last fall.
It was during this phase of the
Korean conflict that the world’s
first bridge was airdropped to the
SEE LAMB — Page 8
School Board of Trustees Meet With
Architect to Determine Building
Materials as Bond Sale Date Approaches
A special meeting of the Board
of Trustees of the Mathis Inde-
pendent School District was held
Thursday night to confer with
Herbert Kellner, who is to be
the architect of the new elemen-
tary school building.
“While no definite date can
be set for beginning construction,
the board will meet with Mr.
Kellner from time to time to
discuss types of materials to be
used in the building, the final
plan and the direction in which
the building will be built,”
Adolph Bomer, chairman of the
board explained.
It will be September 11 before
the board can request a certifi-
cate of non-litigation from the
district court. After this has been
done, the permission of the state
attorney general will have to
be obtained before the bonds
can be offered for sale.
“Though this is all just all a
matter of legal procedure we
must follow now that we have
had our election, it all takes
be at least two to three weeks
before we offer the bonds for
sale,” he said.
Bonds not to exceed $400,000
were voted to be issued by a
more than three to one vote
August 11. However, this does
not mean that all of this amount
will be sold during the first
issue. An amount, to be decided
upon by the Board of- Trustees
can be sold to purchase addi-
tional land that may be needed,
or to begin construction with
and the remainder can be issued
later.
A number of bonding <eom-
panies have already made appli-
cation with the board to pur-
chase the bonds when they can
be sold.
The board will seek to issue
the bonds to the company or in-
dividual that offers us the lowest
interest rate on them, one board
member said.
At the Thursday meeting plans
were made to order certain types
of building materials which the
52,733 Bales of
Cotton Ginned
In San Pat
With a total of 52,733 bales of
cotton ginned in San Patricio
County through August 31, the
harvest season appears to be
over except for a few scattered
patches where “scrapping” is still
going on in a limited way. A
number of the gins over the area
are planning to close their stands
for the season with the end of
this week and seven have al-
ready closed their doors.
These figures were made avail-
able this week by R. R. Rosa,
district leader of the pink boll
worm project in this area.
In commenting on the pink
boll worm situation Mr. Rosa
pointed out that his men have
been finding a very high infes-
tation of works in the fields with
some small bolls having as many
as seven or eight worms. How-
ever, he pointed out that there is
a good chance to get rid of a
substantial part of these worms
if all cotton is plowed up now
and the harvest is finished while
the ground is so hot. Checks of
soil temperatures have ranged
from 115 to as high as 120 and
tests have shown that the ex-
posed worm will not live but
several hours when exposed to
this high temperature in the
soil.
Mr. Rosa’s office has put the
total number of acreage in cot
ton in San Patricio County at
165,000, which is lower than their
figures actually indicate but in
keeping with the figure of 160,-
000 put out by County Agent
Gibb. Mr. Rosa’s early season
checks showed that about 80
per cent of the land in cultiva-
tion was in cotton.
Boy Scout Bar-B-0
To Be Held Sept 22
At Football Field
The location of the Bar-B-Q to
be sponsored by the local Boy
Scout Troop, Scouters and the
Scout Committee, has been chan-
ged from the old Church of
Christ building to the football
field.
The date, Sept. 22, and the
time, beginning at 5:30 p. m.,
will be the same.
Carl Beall, chairman of the
committee sponsoring the Bar-
B-Q, says that there will be a
good time for all.
“We have planned booths and
games for folks of all ages. No
one will be disappointed, be-
cause it will be an evening of
fun spent supporting one of the
most worthy causes this com-
munity can sponsor.”
Because the committee is at-
tempting to make as much as
they possibly can, they are ask-
ing the people of Mathis and the
surrounding area to donate beef,
cakes, pies, soda water or prizes.
Anyone feeling that they are
able to do this is asked to call
either I. B Ramsower or Carl
Beall.
The money made at the Bar-
B-Q will go towards buying the
old Church of Christ building,
which will be used as a Boy
Scout headquarters for the Ma-
this boys.
Gene Miller will be in charge
of the food preparation and will
be assisted by Charlie Tiemann.
On the football field that night
will be pie sales, cake walks,
bingo, penny and nickle pitches
and many other games.
The Mathis High School Band
will be on hand to furnish music
all during the evening.
Alcalde Dairy
Sold to Knolle
The Alcalde Dairy of Taft has
been sold to the Knolle Dairy of
Corpus Christi, according to an
announcement this week by W
L. McKinney, owner of the dairy!
According to Mr. McKinney
the Alcalde Dairy was sold in
tvfo separate deals with the
dairy route and some dairy
equipment going to Knolle while
the cattle were sold separately
to a man in Falfurrias.
The Knolle Dairy started op-
eration on the local milk route
Thursday morning, giving all of
their customers a quart of Knolle
orange juice as an introductory
gift. No announcement has been
forthcoming from Knolle as to
their future plans for milk busi-
ness in Taft.
First County Clinic Set to Open
September 7; Well Baby Theme
To Be Keynote on Opening Day
The long awaited Health Clin-
ic will open its doors to the
public Friday.
The first clinic will be a well-
baby clinic Friday from 1:30 to
2:30, according to Dr. C. A. Sel-
by, San Patricio County Health
officer.
Since the clinic’s opening was
announced three weeks ago the
old Bassit Wright, where the
clinic will be located, has been
undergoing much reconditioning.
It has been repainted, cleaned,
the water and other utilities
have been turned on and two
nurses, assigned by the San Pat-
ricio County Health Unit, have
been supervising the installation
of equipment.
The sVipment is all set up,
according to one of the local
persons who has been working
with the clinic officials
The clinic will be open three
days each week and is absolutely
free to the public.
On Mondays from 9:30 to 11:30
there will be an immunization
clinic, Wednesdays from 2:00 to
3:00 there will be a blood, or
veereal diseasfttclinic, on the 1st
and 3rd Frida^ of every month
from 1:30 to 2:30 there will be
a well-baby clinic and on the
2nd and 4th Friday of every
month from 1:30 to 2:30 there
will be a maternity clinic.
Dr. L. A. Voss of Odem, will
be at the clinic every Friday.
On- the other two days another
doctor, who has not been named
Who is Chief of Mathis Fire Department?
Percy Hartman Hands in Resignation,
Which May Not Be Accepted by Council
Percy Hartman has turned in partment Thursday but I
his resignation as Chief of the
Mathis Fire Department to the
City Council.
However, this may not be the
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PERCY HARTMAN
. . Is he Chief
end of Hartman’s career as chief
of the local department.
When questioned about Hart-
man’s resignation Wednesday
Mayor Brodus Caffall said:
“Yes, we have received a let-
ter of resignation from Percy.”
Caffall didn’t volunteer any
more information concerning the
Hartman’s successor, so we ask-
ed him about it. To this he
said:
“You know, not all resigna-
tions are accepted. The council
hasn’t acted on Percy’s letter
yet. I imagine it is one of the
things we will discuss at our
meeting Monday night Percy
has told me that he will meet
with the department Thursday
night as chief.”
Thursday morning Hartman
contacted. Concerning his leter
of resignation he said:
“I turned in my resignation to
Brodus about ten days ago. At
that time he told me that there
was very little chance of it
being accepted/ I said that there
was nothing I could do if they
did not accept it. I am going to
meet with the men in the de-
yet will be at the clinic. Other
personnel at the clinic will in-
clude two county health nurses
and a receptionist.
This clinic has been brought
to Mathis through the coopera-
tion of a local group of civic
minded individuals, who have
asked to remain unnamedUand
the San Patricio County Health.
Unit.
Mathis Pirates Will Meet St. Joseph
Bloodhounds in 195l7s First Football
Game Friday Night; Kick-off at 8 P. M
'Stop Sanchez'
still
intend to quit as chief.
Hartman has been chief of the
local department for the past five
years. He has been a member of
the department for more than
eleven years. Thursday he also
said, that there is a possibility
that he remain in the department
as one of the men, but did not
care to remain as an officer.
It is understood that Gene
Miller was the first man contact-
ed to replace Hartman. Miller is
reported to have refused the job.
According to Hartman, Miller
flatly refused. Hartman said
Thursday morning that he felt j
that Wayne Koepsel would be a
good man for the job. He said
he knew that Koepsel had the
ability to fill the position and
that he had been a willing work-
er when there was a job to be
done
According to Hartman he turn-
ed in' his resignation because:
“I felt that it was taking too
much of my time. I wasn’t giv-
ing enough of my time at home.
I am also working with the
local V.F.W. post and that takes
a lot of time. And another thing
there was a lot of desention
within the department. Some of
the men did not like to take
orders. If the men won’t take
orders, a department can’t be
run efficiently. I have done my
level best. I now feel that it is
time for a change. I am quitting
with a good record. Our depart-
ment has given the town the
best insurance reduction key-rate
it has ever had
Monday night’ the City Coun-
cil will probably either accept
Hartman’s resignation and ap-
point a new chief, or Hartman
will be persuaded to remain on
temporarily as chief.
time,” one board official pointed j board decided upon at the advice
out. “I would guess that it will See School Board — Page 8
Mrs. Lucy Wheeler, Mrs. Eva
Trotter and Mr George Turner
are new members to the Mathis
High School faculty. Mrs. Wheel-
er will be the sponsor of the pep
squad this year.
Joanne Guynes
Leads Pep Squad
At Football Games
Joanne Guynes, who was elect-
ed at the close of the last school
semester by the girls of the
pep squad, will lead the pep
squad of Mathis High School this
year.
Paula Beyer, who was a cheer
leader last year, and Joan Sch-
midt will both assist her.
Joanne attended a cheerleaders
camp conducted at Huntsville the
early part of this summer. The
camp was sponsored by the Sam
Houston State College of Hunts-
ville and was under the direc-
tion of C. R. Hackney.
Mrs. Lucy Wheeler, who is
new to the Mathis school system,
will be the pep squad sponsor
this year.
It is expected that about thirty
five girls will be in the pep
squad this semester.
Rotary Governor _
Makes Official Visit
To Mathis.
Dr. Van Chandler of Kingsville,
governor of Rotary International,
district 185, made his official vis-
it to the Mathis Club on Tuesday
and spent the day attending two
meetings with Mathis Rotarians.
At noon Tuesday Gov. Chand-
ler was guest speaker at the reg-
ular luncheon. He joined Rotary
29 years ago and is now a senior
active member. He discussed the
attractiveness of senior active
memberships and the advantages
of the classification system of
membership.
Jane Gordon Cabaniss was
present as the new Rotary Sweet-
heart. She succeeds Marilyn Sal-
ge, who will attend college this
fall.
New members present were
William Davis, Joe Dickerson,
and T. E. Harbin.
Visitors present were B. M.
Cummings of Taft, Dr. Gibson of
Robstown, and Bruce Ramey of
Kingsville.
On Tuesday night a chicken
barbecue was enjoyed by Rotar-
ians at the home of the president,
B. M. Westover. After the barbe-
cue, the members adjourned to
the C.P. & L. office to hear
Dr. Chandler discuss methods
of procedure in air conditioned
comfort.
To Be Pirafe Cry
The Mathis Pirates will open
the 1951 football season Friday
night against the St. Joseph
Bloodhounds of Brownsville, who
travel northward boasting of one
of the finest backfield men ever
to don pads in this section of
the state and a spirited team
coached by a former three-time
“All American.”
The word that has been passed
to the Pirates is that if they are
able to stop the fleet-footed bor-
der city youngsters, Noe San-
chez, they will be better than
an even bet to beat the ’Hounds.
Now tutoring Sanchez, and the
rest of St. Joseph’s team, is big
George Strohmyer, former line-
man and three-time “All Ameri-
can” from Notre Dame. Stroh-
myer began his football career
at Harlingen. After that he se-
lected the colors of “The Fight-
ing Irish” from South Bend as
the team with which to continue
his pigskin career. Obviously, it
was a fine choice — for both
Notre Dam and Strohmye:g. For
in that period, Notre Dame was
never beaten and was tied only
once, and the sportswriters of
the nation thought enough of
Strohmyer’s ability to select him
on “All American” teams three
times He also played a lot of
football for the Corpus Christi
Naval Air Station.
Sanchez is a former All South
Texas back from Brownsville
High School. After being selected
t othe All South Texas team, he
transferred to St. Joseph. That
made him ineligible to play last
season. Sanchez is also one of the
fastest men ever to wear track
shoes in this section of the coun-
try.
As for the remainder of the
Bloodhound team, Strohmyer, in
a letter to Coach Fred Rich says
that they “are a rather inexper-
ienced team as a whole. How-
ever, they are very happy to be
able to play your school.”
While scrimmaging Robstown
Monday night Coach Rich says
that he talked to several people
who have seen Sanchez in action.
Says Rich: I
“They tell me that if you miss
that boy the first time there’s
not going to be a second time,
because ne won’t be there. We’re
expecting to see a lot of him
trying to, come around our ends.
SEE PIRATES
Page 8
Gates Open at 7;
No Advanced Sale
Game time for the first Mathis
High School football game of
the 1951 season will be 8 p. m.
Friday night.
The East Gate and the West
Gate and the ticket windows will
open at 7 p. m. There Vill be
advance sale of tickets and no
reserved seats.
“It will be first come, first
served for this first game,” said
Coach Fred Rich, Wednesday.
“We are expecting to see a good
crowd out there Friday night to
see what the Pirates have this
season.”
The fans may not get to see
all that the Pirates have in the
first game. Probably the most
promising back in the Mathis
lineup, Curt Lambert, will not
start the game. He may not play
at all in this game with St.
Joseph of Brownsville During1
the Monday night scrimmage
with the Robstown team he suf-
fered a knee injury. Though "the
injury is not a serious one, Lam-
bert is not expected to see action.
Friday night.
Another of the strongest of
the Pirate crew, Allen Doubrava,
is also limping from a knee in-
jury he sustained during the
Robstown workout. However, as
late as Thursday Coach Rich
said that Doubrava would be in
the starting lineup against the
Bloodhounds.
Erasmo Galvan will kick-off
for the Mathis Eleven.
The probable starting lineup
will be:
Position Name
Right End — Norbert Sternadel
Right Tackle --------- Jack Miller
Right Guard ___________ C. W. Rouse
Center ......--------------------- Ted Stone
Left Guard .------- Allen Doubrava
Left Tackle ---------... Bobby Rouse
Left End -------------------- Issy Franco
Quarterback — Irving Ramsower
Left half back ____________ Rex Rouse
Right half back____Harvey Adams
Full back ------------ Doyle Lambert
Gordon Cabaniss and George
Turner will be on the West Gate
and Vernon Harville and Griff
Moore will be attending the East
Gate.
YOU SHOULD ATTEND ! ! !
The City Council will meet
Monday night at 8 p. m. at the
city office.
The school board of trustees
will meet Thursday night at 8
p. m. at the high school building.
Mathis Pirates Looked Impressive
In Friday Night's Scrimmage Against
College Academy of Corpus Christi
A small crowd was out Friday
night to see the ’51 edition of the
Mathis Pirates give an impressive
account of themselves in an hour
scrimmage against the College
Academy of Corpus Christi.
The sun hadn’t set when the
first string backfield of the Pir-
ate team cracked both sides of
the Academy’s line and complet-
ed several deep passes.
Before the game got under-
way Coach Fred Rich and Coach
Father Alvin Kubis agreed to
allow each team ten minutes of
play, rest, and then ten minutes
more.
Looking especially good on the
Pirate eleven were the Lambert
brothers.
Curt ran and passed the ball
with the confidence of a college
senior, instead of the high school
sophomore he is. This 190 pound
young man covers his lack of
experience well with his weight,
courage and innate ability.
Rex Rouse showed the Pii
ate faithful that once he is be
yond the enemy line, he is
constant scoring threat.
It seemed a bit ironic the
the local boys should be usin
the Notre Dame huddle agains
the Catholic eleven they wer
hosts to.
Harvey Adams, at left ene
didn’t look like a boy who ha
worked all day. He played
strong fast game that showe
great promise of action in
nine games coming up. I
rest of the line the outs
men were Jack Mi] ^ ana A
Doubrava.
Francis Dougherty of Math
and son of Mn and Mrs. F. 3
Dougherty, pltyed a fine gair
for the visitors.
What did 'all this indicate
Everyone left, the lield eithe
arguing this question or hopin
Coach Rich had the answer.
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