The Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1955 Page: 2 of 16
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PAGE TWO — THE MERCEDES ENTERPRISE
SERVING THE CENTRAL RIO GRANDE VALLEY
If You Trade
JEEPS
Without Seeing Us
We Both Lose
A. & E. Garage
4th and Iowa Weslaco
Phone 296* R
Party-Time Drinks
The social season is with us again—the busiest time of the year.
There’ll be parties for young and old, shopping trips, time out for
wrapping and tying attractive packages and all the other happy
chores it takes to make gay holidays. ...
And whether for party drinks or a pick-up in the middle of a busy
hour, it’s important to have an assortment of fine-flavored bottled
beverages on hand. Ginger ale and sparkling water, of course, and
the flavors to please each member of the family as well as guests.
There’s true fruit cherry, orange, grape and lemon soda, all delicious
served chilled, and wonderful for mixing with frozen fruits, cream
and ice cream to make sodas.
Here are two drinks, good for special occasions.
Lemon-Peach Cooler
2 cups sieved quick-frozen peaches Carbonated lemon soda
cup light brown sugar Fresh mint
Combine peaches and sugar. Divide among 4 tall glasses. Fill
glasses with ice cold carbonated lemon soda. Stir gently to mix. Top
each glass with a sprig of mint.
Christmas Special
1 cup cider 1 cup apricot nectar
Pale dry ginger ale
Combine chilled cider and apricot nectar; pour over ice in 4 tall
glasses. F’11 classes with pale dry ginger ale. Stir gently to mix.
To our many friends:
Merry Christmas Greetings
we send to you — And, our
warmest wishes, too . . . May there
be special joys in store —
All the wondrous things,
Legal Notice
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals will be re-
ceived at the Business Office of
the Mercedes Independent School
District located at 206 Sixth
Street, Mercedes, Hidalgo County,
Texas, until 3:00 P. M. December
29, 1955 and there publicly open-
ed for all labor and material re-
quired for the erection and com-
pletion of a concrete, steel and
wood stadium structure which Is
to be located on School District
property known as Lots 2, 3 and
4 of the Silver Subdivision out
of the Cavazos Tract, Mercedes,
Hidalgo County, Texas. General
contractors wishing to submit
bids on this project may secure
plans and specifications from the
architect, Wililam C. Baxter, Pio-
neer Building, Weslaco, Texas. A
bid bond in the amount of 5% of
the bid made payable to the
Mercedes Independent School
District must accompany each
nroposal. Upon the acceptance of
the Successful General contract-
ors bid he shall furnish an Own-
ers Protective Bond in the
amount of 100% of the contract
price.
The Board of Trustees of the
Mercedes Independent School
District reserves the right to re-
ject any and all proposals sub-
mitted on this project.
Mercedes Independent
School District
Joe B. Winston, President
Board of Trustees.
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addressing Christmas
cards, to husband: “We sent
them one last year and they
didnt send us one so they pro-
bably won’t send us one this year
because they’ll think we won’t
®aad them one because they
didn t send us one last year, don’t
you think, or shall we?”—from
Punch.
3-Dimensional Picture Surprises for Xmas
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1955
win De selected by a prominent
array of food experts represent-
ing every segment of the food
industry. Members of the state’s
top professional food organiza-
tions will serve as judges; and
the winner will be announced at
the annual convention of the
Texas Home Economics Asocia-
1956 in'*Galveston’ February lfj
The professional organizations
involved m the special event in-
clude: the Texas Home Eco*
nomics Association, -Texas Diet-
itic Association, Texas State Nu-
trition Council, Texas Restau-
rant Association and the Texas
food press.
The Texas Beef Council is a
non-profit educational organiza-
tion composed of all segments
of the Texas cattle industry,
formed to encourage Texans to
eat more beef.
Enterprise Want Ads.
HOLLYWOOD — “Just lookin’ at pictures” is still' America’s
number one parlor pastime on cold winter nights, especially during
the holiday season. The loveliest of all of Santa’s helpers, motion pic-
ture star Marla English, selects a packet of View-Master 3-dimen-
sional color pictures of the new adventures of Rudolph the Red No.sed’
Reindeer as her surprise Christmas gift for the small fry. A priceless
treasure of View-Master stereo color photographs for everyone, from
the oldsters to the moppets, are available at local camera shops.
Second Annual Recipe Contest
For Meats Open tp Texans Now
at
eve &
you cvett...
To all of you who have favored us with
x your patronage, we extend
our greetings for a
■ Very Merry Christmas!
VALLEY STOCK YARDS
■t:
The second annual “Texas'Ex-
perts Recipe Contest”, sponsored
by the Texas Beef Council for
graduate, professional home
economists and dietitians in Tex-
as, begins today, Leo J. Welder,
president of the statewide beef
promotion organization, a n-
nounced here.
Contestants are required . to
submit original, taste-tested Tex-
as favorites using the less-ex-
pensive cuts of beef. The grand
prize is a trip for two to New Or-
leans, “the food capital of the
world”, Welder sta'ted. The con-
test will extend through January
31.
“In repeating the Texas Ex-
perts’ recipe contest this year,”
Welder said, “we are doing two
things, first, we are saying ‘thank
you’ to the many home econom-
ists who participated last year,
thereby supplying us with the
new and exciting recipes used
to service all Texas newspapers,
radio and television stations.
These recipes contributed to an
overall increase of 17 per cent
in beef sales at retail level.
“In the second place, we want
to encourage Texas home econ-
omists and dietitians to continue
to spread the gospel of nutrition,
and we think they can best do
this by telling beef’s story of
high food value, economy and
variety of cuts through attrac-
tive, appealing and delectably
prepared dishes.”
The “best beef recipe in Texas”
Blooming Plants
Far
Christmas
Jenk’s Flower Shop
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May a serene happiness be
yours this Holiday Season
BILL WALKER'S
MAGNOLIA SERVICE
STATION
246 2nd Ph. L05-158I
Mercedes
tuyere's no time like
nolo to fiSap tfjanfeg anb
Wtnv Christmas!
JERRYS
You’re surely hoping for!
GRAF PACKING COMPANY
JAKE HAMILTON CHESTER COTTER
VALLEY BOOT CO.
ThERE are no other words
that expresses so well the
age-old greeting of
MERRY CHRISTMAS
TO ALL OUR FRIENDS
^CfNTRAL CHEVROLET
,ioriO IoorioCTfSON KNAPP, GENERAL MANAGER
,i9lIiM eilliW Raymond Shotwell, Sales Manager
-genbeW glcmRichard Ochoa Derold Hentrich
riuID arioiJ gebeoii Joe Mochner, LaFeria
t99m rto9fionuI -ib Ely Garza
019ldl 0ff|ce Manager
,°lqb~^'K9?mi,h S. E. Kieschnick, J
SJoh io Par* Manager
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May your Christmas candle
light a world of peace
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From Santa's pack to you_
our many friends and customers.
a bounty of good wishes for
oil the many joys of the gay.
HOLIDAY SEASON
Ad 75 Form 15
FROM THE GAN
. . .with
the best
of the
season
all the
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Harvey, J. Edwin. The Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1955, newspaper, December 22, 1955; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1062809/m1/2/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.