Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, March 11, 1938 Page: 1 of 8
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Counts Sentinel
CRYSTAL CITY, ZAVALA COUNTY, TEXAS, MARCH 11, 1938
Crystal City Music Meet to Be Bigg<
Event of Season. Three Judges I
Crystal City will (have the honor
and pleasure of having one of the
biggest and best events of the sea-
son in the district music meet to be
held here on Friday, March 25th.
^ The secretary jot the meet has re-
ceived information and entranee fees
'from the following places: Del Rio,
Hondo, Uvalde, Lytle, Pearsall, Sab-
inal, Cotulla/ Devine and Dilley.
Counting Crystal City, who will be
in tne meet Av'th all four feet, makes
a grand tomd of ten contestants.
Three off the nine judges fir meet
have been selected and furn.shed by
the Southern Music Co. of San An-
tonio. ^ ev are: Florian E Lind berg,
“'c ft mu>ic at Incarnate Word
itonio; Warren E.
of Harlandale
last year’s
■is B bands,
r.he Southern
rand One drum
^ead the parade
Ithe 25th. There
F-ras and a violin
to entertain the
^COMMITTEE.
est Housing Committee
Judges Named Asks Co-operation
ROTARIANS HEAR BOOK
REVIEW
NATION OF
EMENT
March 4th., of the
appeared an article
{had kindly consented
^mber of persons
{ ' on Sunday eve-
i
it needs an expla-
pt, never have and will
•tnyone _the name or
fonfRfho may at-
ron Sunday or any
do want it under-
ays have intended
Intin ue to cooperate
|rches as well as all
zation in our town,
lis opportunity to
portion of our pa-
Ifrom members of
Rns which we always
Sated and still do appre-
lyone in reading this ar-
\erstood the manner in
ptement was made, this
le purpose of correct-
aimpression that might
pived.
that the writer of
lad no intention of even
le wrong impresskm, but
some of the readers may
ceived the wrong impression
this method of correct-
GRAY MILLER.
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tie No. 1 of the F.H.A is again
eration. The Zavala Lumber
get you a loan to re-
Jptall a bath room
{able monthly over
No mortgage on
At Rotary luncheon Monday Mrs.
W. L. Guyler gave a review of the
book “The Rains Came” by Louis
Bromfield.
Since this was the first of several
such programs planned for the club,
Mrs. Guyler first told how books
generally are reviewed She then
went into a review of the book men-
tioned which was quite interesting
and left each Rotarian wanting to
read the book right away for further
details.
Next Monday evening the club
will be host to Rotaryanns at a spe-
cial program. The program, even in-
cluding the menu, will be in charge
of the group from Experiment Sta-
tion, and promises to be exceptional.
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Five Loving Cups
for Music Meet
Crystal City will be hdst to many
visitors during the Spinach Festival
who will need housing accommoda-
tions and for this reason a housing
committee has been formed
It will not be the purpose of this
committee to ask our people to do-
nate rooms. The visitors will expect
to pay for them. It is expected that
the hotels and rooming houses will
be filled quickly and many rooms
will be needed in private homes. The
committee asks that all who can, to
open their homes to take care of the
overflow crowds. If you can possibly
provide a room please notify any
member of the committee and advise
!how many people you can take care
of, your street address,, rate of pay
expected or any other helpful in-
formation, at once to any of the fol
lowing members of the Housing
committies: Grady Walker, Mrs.
Hugh Greer, Mrs. H. R. Lancaster.
Mrs. Joe Reeves, Mrs. T. P. Alger, or
phone the City Manager’s office.
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BROTHERHOOD DISCUSSES
MISSION WORK IN NEW MEX.
■any can
repaint
jr home,!
year
property
prange Ti
Rory Jones.
Rose
Bushes.
tfc
There are now ten entries in the
district music meet to be held here
March 25th. Each school pays an en-
trance fee of $5 .0 and an additional
25c for each event entered. It is ne-
cessary to have a fund to pay for in-
dividual awards, of which there will
be 35, and to defray expenses of
judges.
There will be five loving cups
warded. These are provided by dif-
ferent towns and are to go to schools
or groups. For girls’ choruses Co-
tulla will provide a cup for Class A
group and Sabinal a cup for Class B
group. Mixed choruses, Uvalde will
furnish the cup. Bands, Crystal City
will furnish the cup; and for orches-
tras, Pearsall furnishes the cup. The
winners of these cups hold them for
a year or for the period required to
make them permanent.
The object of these school meets
is not with the hope of insipring the
individual to greater efforts but to
make the communities more musical
minded. Mr. Thomas, director of the
Crystal City band, says there is
greater incentive for the pupil to
practice if he is to have a part on
these programs, otherwise he may
practice only enough to stay in the
band or glee club. It also helps to
develop individual talent, he says,
and he is highly pleased with the in-
terest manifested in the approaching
meet
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CHANGE IN MAGNOLIA
WHOLESALE BUSINESS
*Dan B. Sloan has taken over the
wholesale agency for the Magnolia
Oil Corporation. W. R. Bradford has
had this agency for the past several
months but has other work to go to
elsewhere.
Mr. Sloan has had experience in
the oil business and his friends will
be glad to see him back in the game.
YES INDttD-
I COULD GO FOR ft
SPlNftCH SftNOlGICH
OVlStLF. ESPECIALLY ft
CRYSTAL CITY SPINACH
SANDWICH
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LET US GIVE
THREE ROUSING
WHOOPS FOR
CRVSTftL CITY!
WHOOP‘y
={WH00P?)
I SMELLS
SPINACH' AN
WHEN I SMELLS
SPINACH I KIN
NOT WftIT
FOR NO
BLASTED
HORSH TO
GET Mt
TO IT !*.
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"Our Mission Work in New Mexi-
co,” was the subject at the Brother-
hood Monday night. A good crowd
was present and a very interesting
and informative program was ren-
dered by six men: H. R. McNiel, pres-
ident of the organization, said he
marveled that he could teach school
all these years and not know some of
the things he learned Monday night.
There were others who marveled as
Mr. McNiel did. You will be helped
in every way by attending the
Brotherhood.
New Mexico is the second largest
state within the bounds of the South-
ern Baptist Convention; the fourth
largest in the United States. It is one
of the richest states in resources.
Added to the Union in 1912, New
Mexico has a population of 400.000,
of which number 265,000 are of
Spanish descent; there are 5,000 Ne-
groes, and 35,000 Indians. In one coal
mine near Gallup there are more
than twenty different languages
spoken. New Mexico can boast of
more minerals, the largest silver
mirte in the world, the tallest and
most beautiful mountains, the un-
surpassed National pine forest, the
most beautiful springs and rivers.
The state abounds with fish and
game. It has one of the wonders of
the world in the Carlsbad Cavern.
Baptists began work there in 1848 [
under great difficulties. They now
have 15.000 members with 160
churches, ten Spanish, ten Negro and
two Indian. The W.M.U. of the South
have greatly aided and the Sunday
School Board joins the the Home
Board in doing work through New
Mexico.
It will greatly bless your life to at-
tend these Brotherhood meetings and
have a part on these programs.
Every first Monday night at the Bap-
tist Church; you will learn about
what others besides Baptists are do-
ing to bless the work. All men of
our town are invited to attend.
JACK HARDY, Sec.
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JAMES HUGH DIDEAR KILLED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT MONDAY
County Agent’s
Column
Reports on flaxseed imports indi-
cate that American crushers are de-
pendent almost entirely upon foreign
supplies to run their plants, and fill
the domestic demand for linseed oil.
Five million one-hundred and fifty-
thr£e thousand (5,153,000) bushels
of seed were imported during the
last three months of 1937, and the
1931-35 average imports for these
months was 3,453,000 bushels. To
supply the average annual demand
for flaxseed American farmers
would have to increase their plant-
ings of this crop by around a million
acres, and harvest a normal yield per
acre from their total plantings. Since
flax is one of the crops that farmers
can grow in this country that they
have not grown enough of to supply
the domestic demand the plantings
made here this year will bear watch-
ing. Many fields are coming into
bloom, and as they do, water should
be applied to insure a full set of seed.
The farm outlook is not a bright
one, and as the possiblities of farm-
ers having many dollars to count are
few, farmers themselves need to
take every precaution they can to
assure themselves that the dollars
they do get will be all theirs. To as-
sure this they need to do some plan-
ning, and a whole lot of conserving
of what they have or will produce.
Check food, and feed requirements
for your farm, and plant to fill these
requirements for your own market
is your best market for there is no
transportation charges to be paid.
Abundant feed crops for livestock al-
ways brings the problem of storage.
In arranging to solve this problem
do not forget the trench silo. It is a
sure economical way of conserving
feed for years to come when it may
not be so plentiful.
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COLLEGE STATION—“It is very
important that all cotton producers
take part in the March 12 referen-
dum on the cotton marketing quota.”
Geo. Slaughter, Wharton, chairman
of the Texas Agricultural Conserva-
tion Committee, says.
Tiie cotton quota plan will require
a two-thirds favorable vote to be ef-
fective. or a one-third negative vote
to be rejected, the state committee
(Continued on page 8)
James Hugh (Sonny) Didear, 20,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Didear, was
killed in an auto accident Monday
afternoon at Corpus Christi. The
body was brought to Crystal City for
burial. Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon, Pastor Arthur
Slater of the Church of Christ con-
ducting the services.
James Didear was born March 13,
1918, at Bebe, Texas, and came with
his parents to Crystal City in 1932.
Last summer he went to Corpus
Christi and was employed by Bor-
den Creamery as a truck driver. He
was on duty when a train crashed his
truck Monday afternoon at 3:30
o’clock and he died 45 minutes later.
He would have been 20 years old
next Sunday and was planning a
visit home on his birthday.
Besides his parents, he is survived
by twin brothers, Nowell and Low-
ell, and four sisters, Mrs. Clyde Lin-
ton of Littlefield, Mrs. August Koe-
nig of Corpus Christi, Peggy Jean
and Lena Belle, all of whom were
present at the funeral.
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—See us for particulars on new FHA
90% loans. Zavala Lumber Co.
All Committees
Hard at Work
Laredo Invited to |Clean Up Campaign
Join Winter Garden! to Start Today"
proceedings to the local chamber.
This week Sam Schleicher was Crys-
tal City’s only representative at the
district meeting in Pearsall and he
submitted a detailed report in writ
ing, which we give below in full:
Your District Chamber of Corn-
Commerce, suggests a clean up cam-
paign for Crystal City before the
Spinach Festival and set today (Fri-
day) for the beginning date.
He said that since Crystal City,
along with other towns, usually had
a spring clean up campaign, we may
as well make it now so as to have
merce met at Pearsall yesterday with ;our little city looking spick and span
all locals represent Rm I» .. ..... ® r
Wells and Catrina. as visitors we | ertv 0wner
locals represented except Big f,.r .k,. n H
Is and Catrina A* visitors festlval He uiges every prop-
i. and catrina. As visitors nc!crjy owner to clean uo his own
had Messrs. Eddie Falk of the M -P
. . premises and the adjoining vacant
Lines and the Publicity^ man of the j property if possible .
Gunter Hotel, both of San Antonio, -pbt>
and Mr. Garrison, the new manager trucks
the Laredo Chamber of Com-1 ptac'ed
of
merce
The matter of honorary members
Committees for Spinach Festival
and American Legion Convention are
all hard at work rounding out events
for the occasion on March 25, 26, 27.
The parade committees plan to
break a record by starting promptly
on the hour set, which is 11:00
o’clock March 25. The parade will
be in seven sections, each section
headed by a band or bugle corps and
will be in charge of a captain or
marshal. The Woman's Chamber of
Commerce, Mrs. R. A. Taylor presi
dent, has this event in hand with
Mrs. K. W. Alger as general chair-
man of the parade committee, and
each group has its chairman. Every-
thing seems to be working fine.
The Study Club, with President
Mrs. I. C. Cribbs, has charge of the
coronation of the Queen. They are
working quietly, but have an elabo-
rate program well under way.
Jack Eubank and L. C. Bradburn
for the American Legion have their
part of the program well in hand, but
nothing new to announce this week.
All in all, things are going fine
with everyone in high spirits for a
big occasion.
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P.T.A. MEETING MARCH 17
city has agreed to furnish
to haul trash, provided it is
at the curb or alley where
the driver can get to it
,. , , ,i The festival committee loins Mr.
and stamps wps discussed at length Roberts m u eiu.h otM. d() hi,
Carnzo reported that they had ,,r u— . * .* ' , “
mailed out 450 of these membership for tbe V|
cards, and had received returns on j ] WGD
38 of them, amount collected $39.00. ... ... ...... h n~
They stated that they had several of'
their larger firms that wanted to buy Attendance at the Chamber of!
these stamps in large quantities. At the Chamber of Commerce meeting
ter \eiy much discussion it was de- Wednesday was not up to par, there
cided to sell these stamps to the va- being only 20 present. Judge N H
nous locals in the district at 5c a sheet Hunt presided. Several committee^
pioviding they took them in quanti- rn,.n nuide reports, mentioned in
ties of $10.00. The cost of these other items
stamps to the Winter Garden is 3'2c| County Agent Fred LeCrone an-
a sheet; and as soon as the present j nounced that plans are under way
supply is exhausted the cost will be for a - Klax Field Dav- t0 be held
lc a sheet. Several of the towns stat-|herc early in May, when a group of
ed that they intended to buy a quan- representative flax men will be pres-
tity of these stamps for the purpose |tnt
of putting on a drive, charging 25c L R Hawtorn called attention to
a sheet, using the proceeds for the canning Plant Field Dav Schools
benefit of their local. It was suggest , belng ht.id m the Valley to show the
ed that if the local would go in with j interest these people have in canning
some ladies organization they would plants as a means of marketing pro-
in all probability meet with better |duce
success.
Cotulla stated that they had |
mailed out 30 of these membership \ __
cards, and had received returns on County Health Nurse Lula Cham-
ten. They are going to mail out the pion met recently v. ith the health
balance immediately. Asherton stat- committee. Mrs. Sam Ward, Mrs. A.
ed that as yet they had not mailed M. Battaglia and Mrs. Frank Onzot),
theirs out, but would within the next and discussed with them the pro-
few days. Your committee of one re-j gram for May Day or Child Health
ported that we had not done any- Day. also the 5-point project. It was
thing with these cards and stamps up decided to have this 5-point project
to tins time, as our secretary was. published so all could study and un-
very busy making preparations for derstand it. (It is published 'n an-
our Spinach Festival. These cards other column in this issue of the Sen-
are being mailed to citizens that do'tinel).
not donate to the local chambers, and ; Mr Berg, a representative of the
in some cases are being sent out of American Red Cross, headquarters
town. at St. Louis, Mo., was here last week
The question of what was to be'and conferred with L. L. Williams,
done with the $137.00 which was be- County Chairman. Bob Pipes, treas-
ing held in trust in the First National J urer, and the County Nurse relative
Bank at Eagle Pass was brought up. to best means of spending money
and after some discussion it was vot- held by local chapter It was decid-
ed to .transfer this amount to tin1 ed to use it as a milk-fund for unjier-
general fund of the Winter Garden privileged children.
Chamber of Commerce. Your com- The County Nurse has visited La
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HEALTH NOTES
mittec voted against this as instruct-
ed, and stated our reasons. Mr. Ford
of Asherton stated that certain re-
quirements were demanded before
j the State of Texas would establish
(Continued on page 2)
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RANCH HAND RODEO AT
COTULLA. MARCH 19th.
Pryor and Batesvillo schools and is
doing follow up work in these com-
munities This week she visited the
Crystal City grammar school and has
been examining children. She at-
tended the Mexican P.T.A. and gave
a talk on smallpox and discussed
health week which the Texas Tuber-
culosis Association is sponsoring for
April 24th through April 30th.
In near future she intends to have
articles in local paper explaining the
meaning of May Day.
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BAPTISTS TO BUILD
MODERN CHURCH HERE
A group of high school Cotulla pu-
pils were in Crystal City Wednes-
day putting out advertising posters
calling attention to the “Ranch Hand
Rodeo" to be held a Cotulla on Sat
urday, March 19th., for benefit of
Cotulla Public Schools.
There will be no professional rop (From Carrizo Springs Javelin)
ers—it is strictly amateurs. Two per-1 Carrizo Springs Baptists, Sunday
formances, at 2 and 8 o'clock P M formally launched a campaign for
If will be the first rodeo ever held the erection of a new and modern
under lights at Cotulla. A roping church building, to be located on
contest will probably be matched their property, two blocks from the
between Cotulla and other towns of, business district,
the Winter Garden District, and i A twenty thousand dollar building
other towns of the Winter Garden is contemplated and plans have al-
other special features in ad ready been drawn. The building, un-
dition to calf roping, steer riding, less changes are made for some rea-
/
m
The Crystal City Parent-Teacher
Association will meet at the Gram-
mar School Thursday, March 17, at
3:45.
The program will be given as fol-
lows:
Dental Health talk and discussion
of plans for a May-Day program—
Miss Lula Champion, County Health
Nurse
Piano Selection — Mrs. Reuben
Keller,
Reading—Mis* Edna Butler.
You are invited to attend.
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—Ledgers, double entry record
books on sale al Sentinel office.
f
bronco riding, boots and spur
race, steer necking, etc. There will
also be a band concert by several
school hands. Crystal City schools
have been asked to send a sweet-
son. will face Pena Street (Eagle
Pass highway) and will be located
just south of the present church.
Sunday when pledges to the build-
ing fund were called for the first
heart, and all of tis are invited, either time more than ten thousand dol-
to participate in the events or be a
spectator.
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BASEBALL
(2 Games)
The local baseball team, under the
name of Crystal City Lulacs, will
play Sunday morning at 10:00
o’clock and at 3:00 o’clock in the af-
ternoon, with Eagle Pass Ocampos,
who were defeated last Sunday 10
to 7.
Games will be played at the Polo
grounds. , , te.
lars was pledged, more than threej
thousand being donated in cash
the time.
The local Baptists already have
one of the prettiett pieces of prop-
erty in town, being a full block on
the main east and west street. Thei
north side of the property is now oc-
cupied by the church and the pas-J
tor’s home. The property was d«
to the church in 1881 by the 1|
Levi EngtMk one of the pioneer ]
■•Wien of Dimmit county,
wife. ^ (
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Hardy, J. H. Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, March 11, 1938, newspaper, March 11, 1938; Crystal City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1096811/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .