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The Mathis Pirate Varsity was on the practice field this week preparing for its scrimmage
Friday at Aransas Pass. They put on a good performance last week against Kenedy.
Gandy Tells Kiwanians Of
Mathis Football Prospects
With both words and film,
Coach Dan Gandy convinced
his fellow Kiwanians Wed-
nesday morning that the
Cotton
jMarket
News
Cotton producers in the
Coastal Bend made the best of
near ideal harvesting weather
this week.
The U. S. D. A. Agricultural
Marketing Service Classing
Office in Corpus Christi,
graded 36,016 samples com-
pared to 13,454 the previous
week, reported E. H. Mat-
thews, Officer-in-Charge. This
* brought the season’s total to
53,245 compared to 33,405 this
time last year.
► Grades on samples classed
„ from the Coastal Bend were
slightly higher this week, with
25percentSLM (41), compared
to 16 percent last week; 25
- percent SLM LT SP (42),
compared to 34 percent last
week; and 16 percent LM LT
SP (52), compared to 19 per-
cent last week. Samples
reduced because of bark or
grass were about the same as
last week - 24 percent.
Predominate staple lengths
were 20 percent staple 31, 26
percent staple 32, and 24
percent staple 33.
* Micronaire readings show
that 75 percent miked in the
See NEWS, Page 6
Attention
Football
Boosters!
The Mathis Pirates Booster
tClubwill meet Tuesday at 7:30
p.m. at the Ranch Motel
Restaurant, Coach Dan Gandy
has announced.
The election of officers is
scheduled, andtheclub will see
a football film. Coffee will be
served.
Coach Gandy said he was
disappoiinted in the poor
turnout of parents and fans at
the first meeting of the new
school year last week.
Gandy urges all parents of
boys practicing football from
the 7th grade on up to attend
the next meeting, which is
designed for the benefit of the
parents, other fans, the players
and the school.
“Come on out and support
„ the team,” Coach Gandy
pleads.
Mathis Pirates will be strong
contenders for football honors
this season.
Twenty-one seniors have
earned positions in the starting
lineup, Gandy said. The film
shown was of the scrimmage at
Kenedy last Friday night when
the Pirates showed up well
both offensively and defen-
sively.
In the pre-season scrimmage
this Friday night the Pirates
will go up against Aransas
Pass, a 3-A school. This work-
out will be at Aransas Pass at 8
o’clock.
Coach Gandy is well pleased
with the attitude of his team
and with the individual per-
formances of his players. He
has enough depth this year to
afford some relief.
The head football coach also
expressed appreciation for the
backing given the Pirates by
the community. He invited
everyone who could do so to
attend the Booster Club
Mathis Theater
Closes Temporarily
The Mathis Theater, which
opened its doors to Mathis
movie fans for the first time
last week, is closed this week
due to a breakdown of the
projection equipment,
Manager I. S. Ramon Jr. an-
nounced.
The theater will be closed
temporarily until repairs are
made, or a suitable projector is
obtained, themanager said. He
is currently negotiating for the
purchase of new projection
equipment, and will reopen the
theater as soon as possible.
Texas NFO
Convention
Meets In C.C.
Members of the National
Farmers’ Organization will
gather in Corpus Christi
Thursday August 31 through
Saturday September 2, 1972 for
the annual convention of Texas
NFO members. The convention
will be headquartered at the
Sheraton Marina Inn. Senator
John Tower will address the
convention at 10:00 a.m.
Friday, September 1 in the
Exposition Hall.
meeting next Tuesday night at
the Ranch Motel at 7:30
o’clock. Prospects for the
Pirates this year are bright.
In a business session the
Kiwanis Club voted to make
the down payment on
Christmas lighting and set
Dec. 2 as the day for mounting
the new lights.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Isenberg
will go with a bus-load of
Corpus Christi Kiwanis
members to a week-end of
Kiwanis activities in Mon-
terrey, Mexico, Sept. 1-4. Mr.
Isenberg invited others from
the club to go along.
Labor Day
Closings
Most business places and
offices will be closed for Labor
Day, Monday, Sept. 4.
The Mathis schools will be
closed for the holiday, as will
the utility companies, the
bank, and the Post Office.
The Post Office will place
mail in the Post Office lock
boxes, handle special delivery,
and outgoing mail will leave as
scheduled at 3:20 p.m.
Exceptions to the Monday
closing include some drive-in
groceries, service stations,
cafes, and one new business in
town which is having a Labor
Day Sale.
Harvest
Continues
Good harvesting weather
during the past week enabled
the Mathis area cotton harvest
to make good progress.
The Mathis Gin Co. has
ginned 3,736 bales for the 1972
season, while the Vahlsing-
Christina Gin has ginned 3,900
bales.
County Agent Dan Pawlik
said this week that another
month of dry weather is needed
by the county cotton farmers to
finish up their crops. He said
farmers are doing a good job of
destroying the stalks of
already-harvested cotton.
Early stalk destruction is
recommended to control cotton
insects.
Available To Groups
Film Features
SWC Football
Adults Register
For BCC Courses
Registration for 50 adult
education courses begins Aug.
31 at Bee County College and
continues through Sept. 2,
according to Vocational-
Occupational Dean Scott
Russell.
Persons wishing to register
for adult non credit courses
may do so by filling out a
* registration form on those
dates at the college.
Registration by mail, will also
I beaccepted. Noncredit courses
9 are open to all interested
persons and, with few ex-,
ceptions, to all ages.
Costs for the courses start at
$5.00.
A complete listing of courses,
instructors, times and costs is
available at the college.
Twenty-five years of South-
west Conference football have
been packed into an action-
filled, half-hour film which will
be premiered on 28 television
stations throughout the South-
west the nights of Sept. 5-9.
Following the TV premieres,
the 16-mm film will be
available for showings to
groups and organizations
through the Humble Oil Film
library.
Opening with the Doak
Walker (SMU) and Bobby
Layne (Texas) post World War
II era, the 28-minute movie
features outstanding players,
teams and games of 1947-71.
Action scenes include such
consensus All-American
players as Froggy Williams,
Lawrence Elkins, Kyle Rote,
John David Crow, Jim Swink,
E. J. Holub, Buddy Dial, Jerry
Levias, Jimmy Saxton, Bob
Lilly, Dicky Maegle, Tommy
Nobis, Steve Wooster and
Bobby Wuensch.
Many other All-America and
All-Conference stand-outs are
featured. It was impossible,
however, for the film to cover
all the great players, narrator
Connie Alexander points out.
The film’s objective,
Alexander says, was ‘‘to
capture the moods, the styles
of play, the trends and the
excitment that have made the
game great for players and
fans alike.”
Seven of the most out-
standing games of the past
quarter-century are reviewed,
including the Doak Walker-
Bobby Layne confrontation in
1947 when unbeaten SMU faced
unbeaten Texas.
Other memorable games
include teams from TCU,
See FILM, Page 6
County Orders Protection
Of Water; Sewer Control
Commissioners court issued
an order last Thursday to
protect water supplies and to
regulate installation of private
sewage facilities in the county.
The order came following a
hearing on the matter in which
representatives of the Texas
Water Quality Board, state
health ■ department, county
health department, Corpus
Christi Septic Tank Service,
members of the court and the
county attorney participated.
Provisions of the order will
apply to all areas in the county
lying outside the city limits of
the incorporated towns of
Sinton, Aransas Pass,
Ingleside, Portland, Gregory,
Taft, Odem and Mathis. The
newly incorporated town of
San Patricio will be included in
the area to which the order
applies until it adopts an ap-
propriate order to protect
water supplies and regulate
use of private sewage facilities
within the city.
After effective date of the
order, only the following types
of sewage discharge shall be
lawful-Sewagedischarged into
an organized disposal system.
-Sewage discharged into a
private sewage facility
licensed or registered in ac-
cordance with regulations
contained in the order.
The term, private sewage
facilities, includes septic tank,
pit privies, cess pools, sewage
holding tanks, injection wells
used to dispose of sewage and
all other facilities, systems and
methods used for disposal of
sewage other than disposal
system operated under a
permit issued by the Texas
Water Quality Board.
Sewage includes waterborne
human waste and waste from
domestic activities such as
washing, bathing and food
preparation.
Organized disposal system is
defined as any public or
private system for the
collection, treatment and
disposal of sewage operated in
accordance with the terms and
conditions of a valid waste
City Council Approves
Water Rate Increase
The Mathis City Council met
Friday, Aug. 25, in a ^special
called session to act on several
items of business.
After considering water
rates studies and recom-
mendations, the council ap-
proved a proposed schedule of
rates, effective for the October
billing. The officials pointed
out that the new water rates
represent a 16.6 percent price
increase, but that it is the first
in many, years, during which
time the costs of producing the
water has increased 280 per-
cent.
The price for the minimum
gallons used will remain the
same, $3.00, but the gallons
allowed was reduced from
4,000 (the present rate) to 3,000
gallons. It was noted that most
consumers paying the
minimum bill use less than
3,000 gallons, anyway.
Minimum users are mostly
elderly people or widows,
many with low incomes.
The new rates are listed as
follows:
Inside city limits: Minimum
3,000gallons, $3.00; Next 17,000
gallons, 50 cents per thousand;
Next 80,000 gallons, 45 cents
per thousand; Next 100,000
gallons, 40 cents per thousand.
Outside City Limits:
Minimum, $4.75; Next 17,000
gal., 60 cents M; Next 80,000
gal, 50 cents M; Next 100,000
gal, 45 cents M; Up to 500,000
gal., 40 cents M.
All water tapping fees will
also be raised, both residential
and business, inside and out-
15 Members Present
Home Rule Commission
Conducts Its First Meeting
The newly-named members
of the Home Rule Charter
Commission for the City of
Mathis met Tuesday night,
Aug. 29, for their first charter
frame work session.
Members who had been
appointed by the City Council
last week and who were
present at the charger session
were the following 15 persons:
Dorso Marcial, Luciano
Rivera, Lalo Villalon, Ar-
mando DeLeon, Oscar Con-
treras, Jerry Rivera, J. C.
Caruthers, Mrs. Santos Garcia,
T. L. Sutherland, Darlene
Holloway.
Also, J. M. Edmondson Jr.,
Rev. James Jensen, Madalene
Wagnon, Santiago Munoz, and
Antonio Martinez.
Nine Mathis Students
Enroll At Bee College
Registration for fall
semester classes at Bee County
College continues with some
762 persons already registered,
according to George Elam,
dean of Student Services.
Regular registration continues
through Sept. 2 and late
registration will continue
through Sept. 19.
The following local area
residents are among those
already enrolled for the fall
semester at BCC:
Mathis: Ernestina Romo
Garza, Ramiro M. Gonzales,
Rosa Linda Huerta, Carl W.
Lewis, Daniel Martinez, Eloisa
R. Moreno, David Tucker
Rockley, Magdalena Sauceda
Torres, Juanita V. Trevino.
Tynan: Yolanda Jimenez,
Mike Milton Kincher, Frank
Rosenbaum. Sandia: Samuel
Henry Newberry.
“The 762 persons is slightly
more students than were
registered at the same time
last year,” Elam said. “At that
time we had 690 registered. We
expect an increase in total
students over last fall...over
1,100 persons will probably be
registered by the beginning of
classes Sept. 5.”
Registration for first-time
students is now underway and
returning students and adult-
education registration is
scheduled for Aug. 31 through
Sept. 2.
First-time, full-time students
must submit-four forms prior
to admission - an admission
form, transcripts from high
school, a medical form and, for
academic students, ACT test
scores. Part-time students
must submit only admission
forms and transcripts. New
students will be referred to a
college counselor who will aid
them in selecting courses' and
areas of study.
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Pvt. Jose Martinez
Pvt. Martinez
Completes Basic
Pvt. Jose A. Martinez, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Antonio L.
Martinez of Mathis has com-
pleted his basic training in Fort
Leonard Wood, Mo. He will be
transferred to Fort Daven,
Mass., where he will receive 13
weeks of training in the
security program of the U. S.
Army.
He is a 1972 graduate of
Mathis High School.
Rev. Jensen was elected by
the members to be chairman of
the charter commission. Lalo
Villalon was elected vice
chairman, and J. M. Ed-
mondson was elected
secretary.
Copies of the charter frame
work were given to each
member and the group went
over the information, with
explanations given by Roger
Butler, city attorney. City
Secretary Richard Villarreal
was also present. The charter
frame work contains 33 sec-
tions, and the commission
approved of 11 of them at the
Tuesday meeting.
Attorney Butler told the
group that the charter was a
non-political business charter
which would enable the city to
operate in a more efficient
manner, and would give it
more freedom to carry out its
affairs. The charter is
available to cities with 5,000 or
more inhabitants.
At the close of the meeting,
the commission agreed to have
its next workshop meeting
Tuesday, Sept. 12, 6:30 p.m.-
M a this
City hall news
Meeting Set For
McGovern Drive
A county-wide meeting of the
supporters of Senator George
McGovern for president has
been set for 7:30 p.m. Thur-
sday, Aug. 31, at the district
courtroom at Sinton.
Campaign plans will be
made.
Anyone interested is invited
to attend.
Baylor Club
Sets Meeting
The Mid-Coastal Baylor Club
will hold a meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 7, at Luby’s
Cafeteria in Town Plaza Mall
at Victoria, according to Roy
E. Acuff, club president.
Guest speaker will be Jack
Patterson, Baylor athletic
See CLUB, Page 6
side the city. The new rates will
be published later. The lowest
tapping fee was set at $50 for
the smallest pipe.
In other business the City
Council passed two resolutions
concerning the proposed Home
Rule Charter for city govern-
ment which authorized the
appointment of a Home Rule
charter Commission, and
authorized the Commission to
frame a Home Rule Charter.
Members named to the com-
mission are listed in another
article of the Mathis News.
In business regarding the
state’s 1972 Beautification Act,
which regulates sign permits
the appearance of junk yards,
etc., the council voted to
request the State Highway
Dept., to handle such
regulations in Mathis along the
highways. The department has
written the city, asking them to
issue the permits if they
desired, otherwide the state
would do it. The council
decided that the city was not
prepared for the additional
expense and being subject to
the inevitable controversies
which would arise over the new
regulations forced by the state
and federal governments.
The sanitation landfill
operation was on the agenda,
and the council was told that
the new pits have been dug and
put into operation, and that 50
percent of the garbage comes
from outside the city. $6,000 is
still owed the firm which dug
the new landfill trenches,
which are50’ x 1100’ and 20 feet
deep. The council agreed to ask
the county to participate in the
cost of the operation, and
expressed a desire to meet with
the proper county officials to
discuss the matter.
control order issued by the
Texas Water Quality Board.
There will be a survey of
water supplies and sewage
installations on a county-wide
basis. Any instance in which
the water supplies or the
sewage installation poses a
health hazard, such hazard
must be corrected im-
mediately.
All new water supplies and
sewage installation must meet
the required standards set
forth by the State Department
of Health and the Texas Water
Quality Board. All existing
water supplies and sewage
disposal must be brought up to
meet those standards, said
Stephen Rosenthal of the Texas
Water Quality Board, who
served as chief spokesman at
the hearing.
Any new private sewage
facilities must have a license
or registration that has been
issued for the facility.
Any person desiring a
license, should obtain an ap-
plication form from the office
of the county judge. Additional
information is also available
there.
A person with title to
property on which a private
sewage facility is in use is
entitled to submit an ap-
plication for registration of the
facility with the licensing
authority within one year after
Jan. 1, 1973 without cost.
In other business, com-
missioners court:
-Approved the request of
Frank F. Kelly to open a solid
waste disposal unit to be
located approximately 3V2
miles southwest of Sinton in
tract 16 of Coleman-Fulton
pasture subdivision of the
Patrick Fitzsimmons survey.
The site contains 100 acres.
-The county clerk was
authorized to advertise Notice
of a public hearing on the
proposed county budget for
1973 to be held Sept, 11.
-the request of the City of
Sinton to withdraw from the
landfill operation at Gregory
was allowed.
-Heard and took under
advisement, the request of
Julius Petrus Jr. of the
drainage district for space to
store the district’s equipment.
He also requested that em-
ployees of the water district be
included in the county’s
See COUNTY, Page 6
Texas Folklife Festival
Set For Sept. 7-10 In S.A.
Texans from all over and
visitors from many states will
be gathering in San Antonio,
the second weekend in Sep-
tember, for what may be
described as “an old-time,
high-heeled Texas shindig.”
This is the first statewide
Texas Folklife Festival,
September the 7th, 8th, 9th, and
10th, on the grounds of The
University of Texas Institute of
Texan Cultures.
The Festival will be a
celebration of the many-
faceted Texas heritage and a
demonstration of how Texans
of all kinds in all parts of the
COG Dinner Set;
Briscoe Speaker
Reservations are now being
accepted for the annual dinner
of the Coastal Bend Council of
Governments. Dolph Briscoe,
Democratic nominee for the
office of the Governor of Texas,
will make the principle ad-
dress.
The dinner will be held at the
Holiday Inn-Emerald Beach in
Corpus Christi at 7:30 p.m.,
September 15. Checks for $7.50
per person may be mailed to
the Coastal Bend Council of
Governments, International
Airport, Corpus Christi, Texas
78408.
State, have traditionally
provided their own community
entertainment throughout
their history. It will be a giant
showcase for the special
talents featured in the many
local festivals and shows which
have grown up in such places
as New Braunfels, La Grange,
Ennis, Port Arthur,
Fredericksburg, Albany,
Galveston and San Antonio.
Many Texans have enjoyed
the special entertainments
provided in their own localities
and a few others. Now they will
have an opportunity to sample
the special delights of all the
rest. This story can mention
only an appetizing few of the
festival’s feast of en-
tertainment because of limited
space in PEOPLE.
There will be a chance to
enjoy the songs, dances, foods,
and skills fo the Alabama-
Coushattas from the deep
Piney Woods and the Tiguas of
high, dry Ysleta. The fun-
loving French Arcadians of the
Port Arthur region will be
going full blast, with their
bouncy Cajun music, hilarious
crawfish races and spicy Cajun
foods.
Not far from the colorful
Beseda Dancers from Seaton,
in their brilliant Czech
costumes, will be cutting an
accented caper to the lively
See FOLKLIFE, Page 6
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