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Methodist Church
Wednesday Noon
KIWANIS
CLUB
fDr. W. M. Allen.
John S. Edgar____
'W. F. Heinsohn—
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FIRST
Newspaper Off the Press
Each Week
In San Patricio County
.
TWELVE PAGES—No. 39
County Agent's
Column
By R. R. GIBB
Paul Hill, farming west of Sin-
ton, is diverting part of his acre-
age to raising hogs. He has
fenced a Hubam clover field hog
proof and has placed twenty
feeders in it. He has another field
planted in Sudan to move the
hogs to when the clover is ma-
ture. He has also bought some
registered gilts and expects to
raise his feeders in the future.
L. H. Stalcup has some feed
planted on new land that is
having a hard time coming up,
the ants and wire worms are
eating the seed. The old recom-
mended control is to treat the
seed before planting and then
roll the seedbed tight as soon as
possible.
—E—-
M. A. Broughton planted twen-
ty-five acres of Blue Panic grass
on his farm between Sinton and
Taft. Mr. Broughton is operating
a dairy and says he needs grass
to cut production costs. Blue
Panic has a high feeding value
but requires some cultivation.
Dairy cows will return approxi-
mately seven times as much as
any other type of livestock from
an acre of improved pasture.
Therefore, dairymen are justified
is spending money for cul-
tivation and fertilizers to raise
good pastures.
Spring weather and spring
weeds bring up the complaint of
off flavors in milk. To prevent
the off flavors take the cows off
the pasture several hours be-
fore milking time.
Johnnie Gallag"her has been un-
successful in having winter and
early spring pasture for his dairy
herd. Johnnie planted pastures of
oats and Hubam clover last Octo-
"Cub-Paree"
In Toft To Be
Held March 18
The Cub Scouts met Wednes-
day afternoon at the Methodist
Church with Richard Whatley,
dener, opening the meeting.
James Williams read the minutes
of the previous meeting and of
the recent pack meet.
Mrs. J. E. Williams, den
mother, explained the Kite
Tournament to be held on Shore-
line Drive in Corpus Christi, on
March 12, sponsored by the Cor-
pus Christi Chamber of Com-
merce. Eight Cubs expressed a
desire to enter the tournament.
Gov. Shivers Lauds
Work Of Special
Legislative Session
Mrs. Williams also reported
on scout leaders planning meet-
ing in Sinton, Monday night of
last week, when plans were
made for the “Cub-Paree,” to
be held in Taft March 18, be-
ginning Saturday 10:30 a.m.,
when Cubs will enjoy an “Ad-
venture Trail” in the morning
and track and field events in
the afternoon. Parents are
urged, to attend this meet with
the Cubs.
Robert Lee Horn was welcomed
as a new member and was initi-
ated, shown the handshake and
told of the Cub Promise.
Eliminations for the 50-yard
dash for the “Cub-Paree” were
held and Robert Lee Horn was
the winner. The Odem Cubs plan
to enter a number of the other
events also.
Some of the events for the
Cub-Paree will be the 50-yard
dash, throwing of auto tires,
horseshoe, shot-put, relay races,
pull-up and such.
Those attending the Wednes-
day meeting were: John Lee
Brough, Bentley Baylor, Carey
DeEads, Johnny Huntsinger, Les-
lie Liggett, Orville Maxwell, Jr.,
Mike Parker, H. E. Raab, Richard
Gale Smith, James Williams,
Richard Whatley, Albert Day and
ber. Up to March first he had j the new member, Robert Lee
not been , able to graze either of Horn and the Den Mothers, Mrs.
Williams and Mrs. Wilson’Bay-
lor.
them this winter, too dry. Silage
would have been good insurance.
Kenneth McKamey and Leo
Miller were checking up Friday
afternoon in Gregory and report-
ed they had raised sufficient
capital to build a dryer and fifty
cars of grain storage.
Flax growers should begin
checking the borders of their
fields closely for an invasion of
Wooley Worms. The first crop
of worms should appear soon.
Wooly Worms can be controlled
when they are small.
may
Kiwanis Party For
Underprivileged
Children Thurs. Kite
Kiwanis Party, Thursday night
at the school cafeteria for the
benefit of the Kiwanis under-
privileged children, with A. M.
“Tony” Weatherly as the chair-
man of the program committee
and E. H. Jackson in charge of
the house arrangements.
There will be a teacher to
teach those who wish to learn to
play canasta. There will be
games of canasta, bridge, dom-
inoes and forty-two. The price
will be fifty cents per person
and you can choose any of the
games you wish to play.
Refreshments will be served
and as this is a benefit party
no prizes will be given.
P.-T.A. To Meet
March 14 In H.S.
Auditorium
The Odem P. T. A. will meet
Tuesday, March 14, at 2:30 p.m.,
in the High School auditorium
with Mrs. W. M. Allen as lead-
er of the following program:
Prayer, Mrs. J. W. Lane; Play-
let, Seventh Grade pupils under
the direction of L. R. McGilliard;
Quiz by Mrs. George Raun; Par-
liamentary Drill, Mrs. H. W.
Herndon.
Mrs. A. H. Voss, president, will
preside over the business ses-
sion.
Hostess for the afternoon will
be Mrs. C. D. Eads, Jr., Mrs. J.
O. Stein and Mrs. C. E. White.
Don’t Forget The Big Party
Thursday Night, March 9, at the
School Cafeteria. Take Your
Choice of Forty Two, Dominoes,
Bridge or Canasta. Benefit the
Kiwanis Clubs Underpriviliged
Children.
Texas "Does"
May Supplant
Texas "Brags"
AUSTIN—“Texas does”
well supplant “Texas brage” be-
fore the second half of the cen-
tury is well begun.
Such is the conclusion of
Booth Mooney, who sums up 50
years of business activity, and
takes a* look at the next half
century, in the March issue of
TEXAS PARADE magazine.
“Expert business opinion fore-
sees a continued high level of
capital investment in new indus-
tries, machinery and plant equip-
ment and in commercial struc-
tures,” Mooney writes.
He quotes Burt C. Blanton,
Dallas consulting industrial en-
gineer and industrial forecaster,
as predicting that capital invest-
ments in Texas during 1950 will
aggregate about $1,700,000,000.
By 1960, according to Blanton,
there will be 10,000 industries
operating in Texas, employing
more than half a million produc-
tion workers.
“Texas will pace the nation’s
industrial growth and expansion,”
Blanton prophesies.
Summing up the last 50 years,
Mooney shows that there have
been startling changes since 1900,
when Texas depended mainly up-
on the cattle industry for its
wealth. In 1901, the Spindletop
oil field discovery changed the
state’s economy and offered a
great new source of riches.
More recently, the billion-dol-
lar basic chemical industry came
to Texas, with about 150 plants
scattered along the Gulf Coast.
Expansion in this industry may
be expected to continue for many
years, Mooney says.
Much of Texas’ industrial
growth, the writer declares, has
come about through the efforts of
far-sighted business men who^ap-
plied capital to the development
of the state’s natural resources.
“Capital is put to work pro-
ductively in Texas,” Mooney ob-
serves. “That explains the un-
precedented growth of the last
decade. It explains why Tex-
ans look forward with confidence
to the second half of the Twenti-
eth Century.”
. Governor Allan Shivers, re-
porting to thq people of Texas
on work of the special session
of the Legislature which ended
last week, declared that the pur-
pose for which the session was
called had been fully accom-
plished.
The session was convened to
raise money to operate the state
hospital system during the next
fiscal year and to finance a long-
range building program for the
inistitutions included in the sys-
tem. The Governor reported
that the Legislature made $21,-
000,000 available for operating
the system and established a
building fund of $5,000,000 a year
for seven years.
As a result of this progres-
sive step,” Gov. Shivers said ::our
state hospitals will be places
where sick people can be brought
back to mental and physical
health — rather than unsafe, un-
sanitary places of confinement
where they exist without much
comfort and without much hope
of a permanent cure.
“Thus the 51st Legislature, al-
ready distinguished as a Legis-
lature that has attempted to give
Texas one of the finest school
systems in the United States;
that was the first Legislature to
provide for a system of rural
roads, and a Legislature that
made a long step toward the con-
trol of juvenile delinquency, has
now crowned its record with this
humanitarian legislation of en-
during merit and continuing
benefits.”
Money to finance the program
will be raised through an increase
of one cent per package in the
cigarette tax and in slightly in-
creased levies on beer, wine,
whiskey, natural resources, pub-
lic utilities, insurance companies
and other items included in a
tax bill passed in 1941.
The purpose for which the
lawmakers were summoned was
carried out in the first 24 days
of the session, the Governor said.
The remainder of the 30-day ses-
sion was devoted to passage of
other emergency legislation.
“These additional acts mean,”
Gov. Shivers pointed out, “that
from now on, we will be protect-
ed by more stringent and com-
prehensive laws against sex
crimes; that telephone service
will be easier to secure in the
rural areas of the state; that the
search for a cure for concer will
be accelerated at the M. D. An-
derson Hospital in Houston; that
our battle against federal con-
trol of our tidelands will continue
unabated, and that the legal
status of many newly created or
consolidated public school dist-
ricts over the state has been es-
tablished.”
The Governor declared that
the session’s record provides
“conclusive proof” that business
methods will work in govern-
ment.
“The success of this session is
a tribute to the business ap-
proach to governmental prob-
lems,” he said.
He explained that the accom-
plishments were made possible,
first, by vision: “a grasp of the
problem and a conception of the
solution”; second, by orderly
planning, participated in by a
wide segment of the state’s pop-
ulation, and, third, by “the co
operative action of the Legisla-
ture, the administration, the
State Hospital Board and all the
individuals, groups and organ-
izations that had interested them-
selves in the program.”
Governor Shivers said this
formula was submitted to the
people of Texas “as a sound
basis for present and future op-
eration of our state govern-
ment.”
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Blackland Sweetheart — The
Blackland district of the Future
Farmers of America picked
Miss Patti Sparks, above, as
Sweetheart of the district. Miss
Sparks is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. C. Sparks, Jr.,
of Taft. The five chapters of
the district are Sinton, Taft,,
Odem, Mathis, and Orange
Grove.
Marine PFC M. F. Perkins of
Camp Pendleton, Oceaside, Calif.,
is spending a thirty day leave
with his mother, Mrs. Pearl M.
Perkins. PFC Perkins has just
returned from overseas duty on
t Guam.
Mrs. W. A. Jauer, Sr.’s
Brother Dies In Sleep
At New Braunfels Home
Little Laura Lee Jauer, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Jauer,
Jr., of Corpus Christi, spent sev-
eral days last week with her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. D. E.
Gilmore, while her parents and
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Jauer, Sr.,
of Robstown attended the funeral
of Mrs. Jauer, Sr.’s brother in
New Braunfels, who died in his
sleep Monday night.
A hover-plane which can take
off from and land on a truck
was shown recently at an air
pageant in England.
Texas Industrial
Week Proclaimed
By Gov. Shivers
HOUSTON — Governor Allan
Shivers has proclaimed the week
of April 1-8 inclusive as the
first annual “Texas Industrial
Week” and the Texas Manufac-
turers Association has announced
plans for a program to emphasize
the importance of industry and
commerce to the State during
that period.
The Governor’s proclamation
called upon individual Texans
and all groups and organizations
to dedicate “Texas Industrial
Week” in recognition “of our
rapid manufacturing and com-
mercial growth, and in develop-
ing that depth of understanding
which is based to our contin-
ued industrial growth and eco-
nomic expansion.”
“Governor Shivers, is to be
commended for his recognition
of the fact that the business
community needs the encourage-
ment of both the people and the
State Government to invest in
new ventures, as his proclama-
tion stated,” Robert E. Clements
of Amarillo, president of the
Texas Manufacturers Association,
said.
“The Texas Manufacturers As-
sociation is requesting its mem-
bers to work with their local
Chambers of Commerce to ar-
range exhibits of products made
in their communities, to arrange
displays of local and Texas-made
goods in store windows, and to
conduct plant tours wherever
possible as a means of helping
develop the understanding the
Governor called for.”
The Texas Manufacturers As-
sociation has approximately 2,000
members organized in 21 chap-
ters covering the state. The as-
sociation’s objective is the main-
tenance of a favorable atmos-
phere for business in Texas.
Mr. Clements pointed out that
the tremendous industrial expan-
sion of Texas in recent years has
resulted in a large degree from
the fact that the state has no in-
come tax, no manufacturing ex-
cise tax, and no general sales
tax.
“Through its tax structure,”
the TMA president said, “Texas
up until now has encouraged the
investment of risk or venture
capital, and our industrial es-
tablishment has been strength-
ened in direct proportion. In
light of the appropriations and
new taxes passed by the last two
sessions of the Legislature, how-
ever, it would be well for us to
re-examine our position. We
can’t spend and spend without
taxing and taxing. There is no
surer way of crippling our pres-
ent prosperity than by draining
off through taxes the capital
which would otherwise be used
to create new jobs in Texas.”
W. H. Griffith
Dies In San
Francisco, Cal.
Word was received in Odem
Sunday afternoon of the death
of W. H. Griffith, 50, in San
Francisco, California. No details
of the death were given in the
message.
Mr. Griffith is a half brother
to Clarence White and Mrs. N. J.
Scott of Odem and a nephew of
Miss Allie Hancock and Mrs. Sam
Stanley of Odem.
He is survived by his wife and
one son, W. H., Jr., of San Fran-
cisco, besides the Odem relatives.
Plans In Progress
For Revival To
Begin Here April 9
Rev. O. R. Bowman, pastor
of the First Baptist Church of
Odem states that plans are in
progress to begin a revival at
the church April 9th through 23,
with Rev. Robert Mclnnis of
Rowlett, Texas, doing the preach-
ing.
Every one is invited to attend.
Interest in the revival is already
being manifested. A full house
attended the services the two past
Sundays. Grason Glass of the
University of Corpus Christi has
been present the past two Sun-
days to lead the song service.
Death Travels
Highway En Route
To Canasta Party
(Edroy Correspondent)
Death was an unwelcome pas-
senger with Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Leber, Jr., and little girl, Joyce,
as they traveled the highway to
a friend’s home to enjoy a game
of canasta, Friday night about
7:30. As they decided to turn
back and pick up another couple
their car was in a collision with
another automobile going in the
same direction on No. 9 highway,
wrecking both cars and killing
Mrs. Leber instantly. Mr. Le-
ber and Joyce were both injured
though not severely while the
owner of the other car was in a
serious condition.
Mrs. Leber was born and
raised in Mathis but since her
marriage to Walter Leber, Jr.,
they had made their home on
the farm not far from Edroy.
They had just recently completed
a nice new home.
Funeral services were held at
the First Baptist Church in Ma-
this, Sunday evening at 3 o’clock
with the Rev. V. S. Pipes, pas-
tor, officiating assisted by the
Rev. W. S. Highsmith, pastor of
First Methodist Church of Ma-
this. Burial was in the McNabb
Memorial Cemetery under the
direction of Dabie Funeral Home.
Surviving are her husband, a
daughter, Joyce Eileen, her moth-
er, Mrs. Lois Wagnon, her grand-
mother, Mrs. Sally Grooms, a sis-
ter, Gaynelle Wagnon, all of Ma-
this and Mrs. Norma Williams
of San Antonio and a host of
friends in the Edroy community
whose heartfelt sympathy goes
out to this bereaved family.
“Goodwill” Subscription
Campaign Nearing End—
To Close March 18, 1 P. M.
Contestants In Hot Race For Coveted
Top Position In Contest; Cash Prizes
And Commissions Total Over $1500.
By GRACE C. KOPPENHAVER
Up today and down tomorrow. With the lead
changing almost daily, and with the first four con-
testants so close that it might almost be called a “four
way tie,” the subscription contest being staged bv the
Taft Tribune and Odem Edroy Times is fast drawing
to a close.
Two Houses Near
Completion In
Big, New Addition
Two frame houses are nearing
completion in the Cooper-Comp-
ton addition. They are being
built by the Peoples Lumber
Company of Sinton with H. H.
Webb of Sinton as the building
contractor. He has sublet one
of the contracts to H. H. Broan
and Clyde Parker of Odem for
the carpenter work.
Kelton Matlock of Odem is do-
ing the painting on one of the
houses. One will have the gar-
age attached to the house while
other one has the garage to the
side and back of the house. Both
houses have five rooms and bath.
It is our understanding that the
houses have been sold to Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Green and Mr. and
Mrs. Kelton Matlock.
75 th Birthday
Celebration Held
For Mrs. Lane’s Mother
Mrs. J. W. Lane spent Thurs-
day night with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. M. Cardwell, in
Banquete, and attended the 75th
birthday celebration for her
mother.
Others attending were Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis Cardwell of Corpus
Christi, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Brad-
fute, Corpus Christi; Mrs. Ray
Ingram, McFadden; Mr. and Mrs.
E. W. Odom,, Banquete; Mr. and
Mrs. A. B. Cardwell and fam-
ily, and Mrs. Cullen Wright, of
Banquete.
Heinsohn To Attend
A&M Short Course
For Water Supts.
Supt. W. F. Heinsohn of the
Odem Waterworks System, will
attend the short course on water-
works to be held at A&M Col-
lege, College Station, March 13-
14-15-16.
Mr. Heinsohn ,has been super-
intendent of the Odem water
system for some time, and has
been licensed by the state for
ten years. He has had 11 years
of experience, plus 280 hours of
schooling. The requirement to
qualify for examination is two
years experience and 40 hours of
schooling. Considerable knowl-
edge is required before a license
is granted, such as how to keep
contamination out of a water
systemand proper treatment of
the water; how to make proper
and necessary repairs, which re-
quires a knowledge of plumb-
ing, etc.
Mr. Heinsohn is a member of
the American Waterworks As-
sociation and the Texas League
of Municipalities.
Sinton Caravan To
Visit Odem March
15; 30 Cars In Trip
The Trade Development Com-
mittee of the Sinton Chamber of
Commerce, enlisting the cooper-
ation of the Rotary and Kiwanis
Clubs, plan one of the largest
booster caravans to be seen in
this area. The two clubs are
taking the day off to advertise
and promote the new Plymouth
Oiler Baseball Park recently com-
pleted in Sinton.
J. H. Curlee, Chairman of the
committee and coordinator for the
two service clubs, said that the
tour would leave Sinton at 8:00
a.m., Wednesday, March 15th,
from the Courthouse square. The
tour will be to Odem, Robstown,
Mathis, Skidmore, Beeville, Re-
fugio, Woodsboro, Bayside, Rock-
port, Aransas Pass, Ingleside,
Gregory and Taft. The caravan
is due in Odem at 8:40 a. m. o’-
clock next Wednesday.
The Plymouth Oiler Park seats
3000 persons, including grand-
stand, boxes and bleachers. The
general layout is big league speci-
fications with concrete player
dougouts, shower and locker
rooms, press box, concession
stand, and the best lighting sys-
tem that can be purchased. There
are eight 102 feet high steel
towers with 240 fifteen hundred
watt sealed lights around the
park.
Curlee said that some 100 bus-
inessmen in 30 cars plan to make
the trip.
0 Mrs. Jack Sandars has come
up from fourth to first place this
week, but Mrs. O. W. Nolen is
close behind her in second posi-
tion. Mrs. D. H. Thurmond is
in third place, Mrs. Richard
Breese, Jr., in fourth and Ber-
tha Sanchez still hold fifth posi-
tion, although Mrs. C. E. Brown
is a close contender. With the
close of the contest only a little
over a week distant, (March 18
at 1 p.m.) it is still impossible
to predict who will win the first
cash prize of $600. The con-
testants are working hard. They
need and deserve your support
NOW. After March 9, there is
a big decline in votes.
All delinquent subscriptions
have been taken from the file.
Patrons are often unaware that
their subscription has expired.
Perhaps they do not realize
how much they value the home
town paper. But by missing
a copy, its importance is
brought horn to them.
. We urge that you bring in
your renewal to the Tribune of-
fice at once and designate the
person to whom you wish the
votes given. Extra copies of the
paper may be had by calling at
the office of the Taft Tribune
(for the Tribune) and at the of-
fice of Dr. A. H. Voss (for the
Odem Edroy Times).
March 9, after totaling each
contestant’s reports, 400,000 ex-
tra votes will be given for each
twenty dollars worth of business
they have turned in since the
opening of the contest. These
extra votes play an important
part in the deciding vote in the
contest. So—get on the band
wagon NOW — and help t your
friend win one of these cash
prizes—$600.00, $400.00, $200.00,
$100.00, and $50.00. any people
have given one year subscriptions,
which pay a delinquent subscrip-
tion only a short time in advance.
It is possible to help a con-
testant with an additional year
and still not be paid very far in
advance. Look at your expira-
tion dates and give your assist-
ance now when it will help a
friend be a winner.
A pro-rates listing of votes, and
standings is given below:
Brother Of Judge Nolan
Reported 111 With
Double Pneumonia
O. W. Nolen received word on
Monday that his youngest broth-
er, Jack Nolen, of Louise, Texas,
was quite ill with double pneu-
monia. He has been in ill health
for several years and had a seri-
ous operation about a year ago
when physicians removed a part
of his stomach.
Mrs. Jack Sanars, Taft .
Mrs. O. W. Nolen,
Odem_____________*_____
Mrs. D. H. Thurmond,
Taft_________________
..5,770,000
..5,750,000
..5,720,000
Mrs. Richard Breese, Jr.,
Taft ________________ 5,710,000
Miss Bertha Sanchez,
Taft __________________________ 980,000
Mrs. C. E. Brown,
Edroy __________________ 970,000
Leon Garcia, Taft _________ 340,000
Mrs. Zahara Williams,
Portland_________ 10,000
Mrs. Clyde Humes,
Sinton ______________
10,000
Blanco Baptist
Brotherhood To Meet
At Mathis March 13
The Blanco Baptist Brother-
hood will meet at the First Bap-
tist Church at Mathis, Monday,
March 13, for a program on Evan-
gelism. All men and boys are
invited to attend.
Mrs. Gilmore And Son
Go To New York On
First Lap To Balboa
Mrs. J. S. Gilmore and son,
Dave, left by plane Thursday for
New York, where they will re-
ceive the immunizations neces-
sary before taking off for Bal-
boa, Panama Canal Zone, where
they will join their husband and
father, J. S. Gilmore T.E. 2/c,
who will be stationed with the
U. S. Navy there for the next
two years. She plans to leave
New York about Junel. She and
baby had been visiting here since
Dec. 22.
Italy which now has seven
Youth Hotels, with accomodations
costing from 300 to 350 lire
(about 55 cents) a night, and
meals 200 lire (about 30 cents).
Jimmy Lane And
Partner Win Golf Ball
For One Below Par
Jimmy Lane, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Lane, and his partner
won a golf ball when they shot
a one below par on the Robstown
County Club golf course Sunday
in the Scotch Foursome games.
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