Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1950 Page: 1 of 10
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Zavala County Sentinel
VOL. M
CRYSTAL CITY, ZAVALA COUNTY, TEXAS, AUGUST 25. 1*50
NO 1*
Coasty Agent’s
Column
«ACK AD ABM
Interest in seeding of Herding
grass and other perennial grass-
es is expected to be expanded
greatly this fall. Over 8,000
pounds of Harding grass seed has
been" sold which would indicate
around E609 acres to be seeded.
Jimmy Woods of Batesville
plans to seed about 200 acres to
Harding and about the same
amount of Kentucky Fescue. He
has a field of K.R Bluestem that
is being grazed now and some
Angleton Bluestem.
Howard Murphy plans to seed
an additional 200 acres the first
week of September to Harding
on the Holt Murphy farm. He al-
ready haa over a hundred acres
seeded over the past three years.
He plans to add about 200 pounds
of superphosphate to the new
seeding and apply 200 pounds of
16-20-0 fertilizer to the old grass.
Murphy will seed some Fescue
grass which should give a good
comparison with Harding.
S. C. Freed plans to increase
his seeding of Harding grass this
fall. O. E. Bookout will seed
Harding this fall for the first
time.
There will be sufficient Hard-
ing seeded to get some compara-
tive gain records with oat pas-
ture which should be worth a
lot to cattlemen of the county.
Anyone interested and wanting
details on planting Harding grass,
contact the County Agent.
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Rotarians Invited
To State Fair
The Crystal City Rotary Club
has been invited to participate in
a gigantic Rotary Fellowship Day
on Friday, Oct. 20, at the 1950
State Fair of Texas.
A block of tickets to "South
Pacific,” the sensational music
show which will play in the Au-
ditorium during the Fair, and to
‘Tee Cycles of 1951,” sparkling
skating extravaganza, will be
available to Rotarians on a first-
come, first served basis on this
day at the Fair.
Dallas Rotarians have mailed
out about 15,000 invitations to
members of some 255 clubs over
the state. Members of the nine
Dallas County clubs are hosts for
the occasion.
A Rotary Friendship House in
the Foods Building will be head-
quarters for the Rotarians. Rota-
rians will receive attendance
credit by registering at the
Friendship House or at a box
luncheon to be served at the Pic-
nic Pavilion at noon. Following
the luncheon, transportation will
be provided to the Auditorium
where an impressive program
will be presented.
The 1*50 State Fair Mid-Cen-
tury Exposition, Oct. 7-22, will be
the greatest state fair in history,
in every phase. Never before, say
State Fair officials, has such an
array of top-flight shows, ex-
hibits and special features been
assembled at a State Fair.
The All-American Show, a
Midway with sensational new
rides and shows, glittering Auto-
mobile, Farm Implement, Foods,
Home, Electric,' Petroleum, Ag-
riculture and Women’s shows
and a host of free attractions and
special events will place the fab-
ulous 1950 Fair head and shoul-
ders above anything that has
gone before.
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Before you question your hus-
band’s judgment, take another
look in the mirror.
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Weather Report
Bracero Station
Open, But Farmers
Find No Laborers
JOHN B. HOLDSWORTH
U A Weather Bureau Observer
<34 hrs. ending I p.m.)
High Low Rain
Thu. 103 73 .
•FH. 93 70 .48
Sat. 96 88
Sun. 97 69
Mon. - 96 70
Tue. 100 71
Wad. lot TS
A *hu. (noon) 75
The following was taken from
last week’s issue of the Eagle
Paas News Guide:
The station opened at 284 Main
Street Monday,\but so far not a
single laborer has been cleared
for agricultural work. According
to the amendment to the United
States-Mexico agreement, a Mexi-
can national is not eligible for
agricultural work here unless he
was in the U.S. illegally prior to
July 27. The Border Patrol has
picked up for deportation practi-
cally every “wetback” in the
country within the last few
weeks, and farmers point out that
there are few, if any, braceros in
the country eligible for work.
With approximately one-half
the county’s cotton crop picked,
and farmers facing a September
15 deadline wl^en cotton stalks
must be plowed under by govern-
ment order, feeling was running
high throughout the county.
Many farmers, angry because
wetback’s were picked up before
the processing station could be
opened, have locked gates on
their farms in open defiance of
the Border PatroL
“If they want to come into my
place and check my men, they’ll
have to climh through a fence
and walk to my cotton field to
do it,” one declared.
County Jugde R. E. Bibb, who
farms in the Rosita section,
termed the situation “ridiculous.”
“I want to compliment the U.
S. Immigration Service on doing
an excellent and efficient job,”
he said. “We had a group of Mex-
ican nationals employed on our
farm prior to July 27 but couldn’t
process them because the bracero
station was not in operation.
Shortly after that date, the labor-
ers were picked up and deported.
Now, I can’t hire them because
they can’t say, on re-entering the
U.S., that they have been here
prior to July 27.”
U.S. Immigration officials, on
the other hand, pointed out that
they are merely doing their job
in picking up aliens found in
this country.
“We have nothing to do with
setting dqtes or determining un-
der what conditions aliens may
be admitted to the U.S. for agri-
cultural work,” one official de-
clared. “We are following instruc-
tions, and we fail to pick up an
alien when one is found, the Ser-
vice will send someone in here
who will do it.”
Judge Bibb and J. J. Schick,
secretary of the Eagle Pass
Chamber of Commerce, have
made repeated calls to Senator
Lyndon Johnson and Represen-
tative Lloyd T. Bentsen Jr., in
Washington urging them to take
steps to correct the situation.
Both have promised full and
speedy cooperation.
Under the present set-up, it has
been pointed out that the only
solution open to farmers is to re
cruit “wetbacks*1 from the Lower
Rio Grande Valley, where it is
reported there are at least 150,
000.
Approximately 625 migrant
workers have come into the coun-
ty since the cotton picking sea
son opened, and are being paid
from $2.25 to $2.50 a hundred for
picking the crop. It was esti-
mated there is approximately
2,500 bales remaining in the
fields, but the general consensus
is that the cotton will be picked
before the September 15 dead-
line. However, unless the critical
labor shortage is relieved, farm-
ers pointed out that winter crops
such as tomatoes, broccoli, cauli-
flower and spinach, will suffer.
Telegrams, signed by more
than 50 Eagle Paas and Maverick
County businessmen, farmers and
heada of local and civic and ser-
vice clubs, were sent to Congress-
man Lloyd Bentsen, Jr., and Sen-
a tors Tom Conn ally and Lyndon
Johnson yesterday by County
Judge R. E. Bibb and J. J. Schick.
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Cancer Clinic
To Be Held at
Carrizo Springs
The regular Cancer Clinic for
this area will be held in Carrizo
Springs at the Dimmit County
Memorial Hospital on Thursday,
September 14th at 3:30 p.m. The
last Clinic was held in Uvalde
at the Uvalde Memorial Hospital
on August 17th, and was well at-
tended.
Any person in this entire area
suspecting a growth, tumor or in-
ternal cancer should ask his fam-
ily doctor to refer him to this
Clinic. He will then be examined
free of charge by Dr. James W.
Hendrick, Cancer Specialist of
San Antonio. Report as to diag-
nosis and recommended treat-
ment will be made to the family
doctor.
These Clinics are sponsored by
the staffs of the Hospitals in this
area in cooperation with the pro-
gram of the American Cancer So-
ciety. Too much importance can-
not be attached to the fact that
the only cure for cancer is to de-
tect it in the early stage and be-
gin immediate treatment. Delay
is extremely dangerous and may
cost the patient his life or an am-
putation. If you have any sus-
picious symptoms, do not hesi-
tate to see your regular family
doctor, and let him make ar-
rangements for you to have this
free examination by Dr. Hen-
drick.
Raymond Mundt, M.D., Sec.,
DIMMIT COUNTY MEMO-
RIAL HOSPITAL STAFF.
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Sentinel Adv.
Paid Off Again
Last week the Crystal Drug Co.
carried a half page ad in the Sen-
tinel and had some dodgers print-
ed, announcing special prices on
ice cream, etc., for Friday, Sat-
urday and Sunday.
We were in the store Friday
afternoon and Mr. Howard gave
us a scar.e He said "We have a
crow to pick with you about the
advertising.” We asked .“What’s
happened now?” He said, “The
ad sold us out of cream before
noon.”
Home Dem. Agent
VERA THORMAMN
Son Set
Though sunshine is one of the
best and safest bleaches for white
clothes after laundering and
though it often fades colors, it
may have just the opposite effect
on some common stains, cautions
Margaret Furry, textile chemist
of the U.S. Department of Agri-
culture.
The heat of strong summer sun
may set and darken stains con-
taining tannin, such as those from
cherries, peaches, pears, plums,
soft drinks or the mustard served
on hot dogs or ham. Play clothes,
sunsuits, house dresses or aprons,
even bathing suits worn at beach
picnics, may be permanently
marked by leaving these stains
exposed to the sun.
Give such stains first aid im-
mediately by sponging with cold
water while they are fresh and
moist, Miss Furry advises. If any
traces of the stains remain, they
may be treated at home by rub-
bing glycerine or soapless sham-
poo into the stain, then sponging
with cool water. Sometimes it
helps to apply a few drops of
vinegar to the stain after the
glycerine or shampoo treatment,
rinsing thoroughly afterward
with cool water. Never use soap
or heat until the stain has dis-
appeared.
Miss Furry adds that sunning
may make other stains more dif-
ficult to remove. Grease may
penetrate fabric more deeply if
heated in the sun. Egg, milk and
meat stains may be “cooked” into
fabric by hot sun.
A bulletin No. C-213 “Home
Methods of Removing Stains”
may be had by request from the
Home Demonstration Agent.
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MM AN W. HOLMAN
CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL
Luman W. Holman of Jackson-
ville is being promoted for gov-
ernor of the Texas - Oklahoma
District Kiwanis International.
He is presented by Division 13
and the Kiwanis Club of Jack-
sonville.
Two Crystal City Anthrax At
W omen to Receive Loma Vista
Degrees Friday
(Special to Sentinel)
SAN ANTONIO. Tex., Aug 25
—Two Crystal City women will
receive degrees from Trinity
University Friday evening, Au-
gust 25 at 8 p.m., at the First
Presbyterian Church, San An-
tenio.
The Bachelor of Arts degree
will be conferred upon Mrs. Ruby
Anderson Webb, wife of Guy
Webb, 800 N. Seventh Street;
end the Bachelor of Scinece de-
We were informed last Satur-
day that a case of Anthrax on the
Emet Brice ranch at Loma Vista
had taken the lives of 50 per cent
of his cattle, according to Dr.
Palmer, veterinarian.
When Mr.^ Brice found some of
his cattle daed, he burned them
but not entirely. The buzzards
got the remains and scattered the
disease and consequently killed
more of his cattle.
Dr. Palmer says to destroy all
dead animals by burning and
then bury the remans deep
M__.__,1,. enough so as not to let the buz-
gre* upon ’ 801 zardjl Ket 10 them- This “ one
Alger, wife of T. P. Alger, to ^ ^
Seventh Street, Crystal City.
Dr. L. D. Haskew, dean of the
College of Education of the Uni-
versity of Texas, will address the
graduates on the supbject "Free-
dom Requires Courage.”
Dr. Bruce Thomas, acting
president and dean, will confer i
the degrees and Dr. Felix H. Ul-
rich, director of the summer ses-
from spreading.
Vaccination is another preven-
tative. There are two vaccines
that are effective; one is Anthrax
Vaccine which is injected under
the skin on subcutaneous. This
about two to three
weeks to take effect. The
second one is Intradermal Vac-
cine which is injected in the
sion will present the class. j
„ ^skin. This method only requires
Donald Willing, professor of, b*com-
organ at Trinity Umversity, will .1
play the processional and the re-
■HMand M.ss Anne Linde-! P™e °<
calf would pay the price to vac-
cinate one hundred head of cat-
Lad, 13, Meets
Tragic Death on
HighWay Sunday
Billy Ray Franklin, 13 year
old son of Mr and Mrs Ray
Franklin of Cryatal City, met
tragic death Sunday at 12:30 p.m.
on U.S Highway 83 about 9 miles
north of Crystal City.
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin and
three children had driven out on
Highway 83 and parked their
car on the paved highway near a
bridge just beyond the old Cross
S Ranch cattle guard, and the
father and mother and two of
the children were in t :e ditch on
west side of the highway seining
for minnows. Billy Huy was at
the car and started across the
highway to join the others just
las a car, driven by George Stew-
j art, was about to pass tne parked
car. The moving car struck the
! iad, and while he was not killed
instantly, he was badly hurt
j and died on his mother’s lap en
(route to a hospital at Uvalde.
I George Stewart, driver of the
car that hit the boy, is 22 years
cessional,
mann, contralto, will sing.
Summer graduates, numbering
83, raise the total of the 1950
class to 301.
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School News
The Crystal City Schools will
of age and employed by David J
one four months old JosePh ot Houston. He ;s said to
have been en route to Odessa. No
arrest was made and he remained
in Uvalde voluntarily while a
thorough investigation was made
by Highway Patrolmen Thomp-
son and Henderson and other of-
Anthrax has been reported all
lover the state of Texas and we
I must be on our guard against it.
t The State has imposed a month's i f*cers-
Quarantine on the Brice place to i Funeral services were held
be ready for the registration of ; jt spread
children on the 5th of September j
try to check it there and not let
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at 9:00 a.m., and teachers will rp i • o. ££
meet on the 4th at the high school 1 C3CIHI12 m13II
#r»r fVtn mootir\a r%f tVto v#*»r L?
1930-51 School Yr.
Grammar School
Uvalde Monday afternoon for
Billy Ray. The mother was re-
covering from an operation and
since the accident has been se-
I riously ill. She was taken to a
hospital in Uvalde Tuesday and
we understand she has been
taken to Galveston. The family
I came to Crystal City about a
All positions have been filled
with the exception of the Com-
Mr. Holman is me son-in-law j mercial position in the high
of Mr. and Mrs. C. Q. Crawford ,chool which was held by A. E.
of Winter Haven. He is a grad-lRagg. Mr. Ross resigned a few
for the first meeting of the year.
Children should report for reg- j
istration with the class or section
to which ttuiy were assigned last j
yq»r. Children reporting for the First Grade: Miss Allene Reed, |year ago from Uvalde and Mr
first time should present birth Mrs Wilma Greer; second grade: j Franklin is employed by Califor-
certificates and evidence of vac- Mrs T. C. Hill, Mrs Fannyc|nja packing Corporation,
cination and immunization. Pu- Cribbs; third grade: Mrs. Ruby
pils from other schools should, Webb, Mrs. Mary Jane Lard;
have in addition to the above fourth grade: Miss Alma Nester,
report cards and book cards from Miss Mary Jane Bird, fifth grade:
the last school attended. Mrs. Helen S. Brady, Mr. O. W.
Fagala. Mr M. E. Noble is prin-
cipal.
De Zavala Elementary
uate of Lon Morris College of
Jacksonville and attended Bay-
lor University. He is a partner of
days ago to accept a position in
Oklahoma Baptist University.
(Beginners, first and second
grades)—Mrs. Fannie M Tinsley,
Mrs. Lucille L. Busby, Mrs. Alice
J Brown, Mr. William Powell,
We believe we have a faculty j Mis3 Ada Middleton, Miss Martha
This is the second fatal high-
way accident in Zavala County
this year. The other death was a
Latin-Amer.can boy killed e%r!y
this year on Cometa highveiy
when a car struck loose gravel
and turned over.
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American Legion
Sponsors Banquet
They had stocked only 500 Cobb-Holman Lumber Company! that wj„ make of this year the j Manifold, Miss Helen Clyburn, ( i . f’ f'l-.k
hest that is Dossible in the edu-1 Mrs. Myrtle Moore, Mrs. Addle HI UjUIlirV ViIUIJ
in position to give the time for1
pints for Friday. They then or-
dered 1,000 pints for Saturday
and it was gone by 4:00 o’clock
in the afternoon. Another 500
pints was ordered for Sunday.
They sold 2,000 pints of cream
during the sale, besides other
specials and many items that
were purchased while in the
store.
Messrs. Howard and Stansell
are believers in newspaper ad-
vertising and seldom an issue of
the Sentinel goes out without
their ad in it. And they seem
well pleased with results, and
the share of business they are
getting.
one holding the office of gov-1 exception of four all are expen-
ernor. Mr. Holman is a deacon in
of Jacksonville and qualified and best that ig posgjble in the edu-jMrs. Myrtle Moore, Mrs Addle
* cation of our children. With the ! Hardaway. Mr. R. A. Taylor, Sr.,
is principal.
enced teachers and are reeom- Airport Elementary
the Baptist Church and teaches jor tbe very jjne worjt 'Grades one through five)—
a class of college age boys, also j tbey bave done jn the past. | Mrs. Arcadia Davenport, Mrs.
president of the Brotherhood in. We are planning to offer Book- Norine Alger, Mrs. Ada Dickey, „„ ... —---
I Plans had been made to offer a Mrs. Alice E. Ingram, M.ss Dia-
i course in safe driving, but, duein:antina Rodriguez, Mrs. Maudie
The American Legion spon-
sored a banquet at the Crystal
City Country Club Wednesday
evening, at which Hon. John Ben
Shepperd, Secretary of State,
was guest speaker. He discussed
secretary.
Crystal City friends of the
family are hoping he gets the
promotion and honor.
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Thorough cleaning of grain
bins is necessary to prevent the
infestation of the new crop with
insects.
Farmers Urged to Destroy
Stalks Soon as Cotton Picked
Low moisture content is neces-
sary for long, safe storage of
grain, especially of grain sor-
ghum, which should not test
over 12 percent
H. O. Carson, district leader in
division of Pink Bollwarm Con-
trol, USDA, is urging farmers to
destroy their cotton stalks imme-
diately after picking. Do not wait
until the deadline of Oct. 15, he
says, since "in all control areas
.the infestation of the succeeding
crop is directly proportional to
the efficiency of the control
measures practiced in the pre-
vious crop.”
The present population of Pink
bollworms and weevils In this
area is great enough for a heavy
winter carry-over unless they are
killed before cool weather causes
winter carry-over unless they ere
them to go into hibernation.
Before delaying the clean-up
to save a few hundred bolls at
the top of the stalks, it would be
well to examine theee bolls and
see if they are worth waiting for.
Consider the cost of scrapping
this last bit of cottton and the
price you will get for this type of
cotton.
• Complete destruction of cotton
stalks is just as important as an
early clean-up. To leave only a
dozen old stalks in each field
would be furnishing a winter
haven for just enough of all kind*
of cotton insects to infest next
year’s crop by the time it starts
to square. £
Cotton stalks should be de-
stroyed while the ground is still
hot enough to kill the insects
Some Zavala county farmers are
already cutting the cotton stalks
as the cotton is picked, and will
plow them under as quickly as
possible. It is hoped that all cot-
ton stalks will be destroyed long
before the deadline of October
IS. In Maverick county the deed-
line is Sept. 15th.
And thoroughness of the clean-
up is as important as tba time.
Contrary to popular belief that
boll weevils hibernate in weeds
and brush, Mr. Carson says they
infeat only cotton. ‘IRyaim i
every grower should destroy his
own cotton stalks at the rorlinst
possible time, haslet that his
neighbors do llkiwins
to circumstances, it will not be
passible to offer this course this
year.
Under the present program the
Crystal City Schools are allowed
49 white and one colored class-
room units. In addition to these
there is a superintendent, one
full-time principal, two voca-
tional teachers, one visiting
teacher, and one librarian.
Under the plan for migratory
increase other teachers may be
added as the attendance grows.
We expect to be in the office
every day from now until the
opening of school and will be
glad to talk with any who have
questions regarding the schools.
We respecttfully request your co-
operation in all phases of the
school program Sind in turn as-
sure you of our every effort to
make your schools whit you want
them to be.
STERLING H FLY,
Superintendent.
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Natl. Guardsmen
Leave for Training
Eight National Guardsmen of
Qryptal City left Sundey for
Camp Hood, Texas, for two
weeks’ training. They were Sgt-
F R. de la Rosa, Sgt. Rudy Per-
ales. Anestaeio Medllln, Jesus
Maldonado, Francisco Rodrigues,
Manuel Vargas, R. Casey and
Agapito Lopes.
Lee Rogers, Mr. Ray Jones
W G. Moore is principal.
Junior High School
Mr. Clifford Davis: Sixth
grade: Mr. George Mabe: sixth,
seventh and eighth grades; Mr.
James P. Jett: seventh and eighth
grades; Mrs. Thelma Ford: sev-
enth and eighth grades, Miss
Nina Slummy: sixth grade; Miss
Mary Hardin: sixth grade; Mrs
Henrietta Stone: seventh and
eighth grades; Miss Mary S. HU1:
seventh and eight grades. Mr.
John M. Talmadge is principal
Senior High School
Mr. H. R. McNiel, Miss Maxine
Wilhnan, Miss Jean Dona Ison,
Mrs. Lilian K. Groesbeeck, Mr.
Lawrence R. Wesson, Mr. Henry
Gardner, Mr Chester Richardson,
Miss Jean Pagel, Mr. John An-
derson. Mr R. C. Tate is princi-
pal. The Commercial position is
as yet unfilled.
Mrs. R. C. Tate will teach Pub-
lic School Music in the Grammar
and Junior High Schools and
Glee Club in tbe Junior High
School.
Mr. J. O. Robertson will teach
Band in the Junior High and Se-
nior High Schools and Glee Club
in the High School
Mrs. Lena Thomas Redd will
teach in the colored school.
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Pullets which retain their abil-
ity to produce eggs with a high
percent of thick albumen are the
to keep for breeding pur.
of being set up, a synopsis of
which may be found on page 6 of
this papier
Supt. S. H Fly acted as mas-
ter of ceremonies. He presented
officers of the Gus Ware Ameri-
can Legion Post and introduced
Mr and Mrs. Herbert Petry of
Carrizo Springs, Mr Petry hav-
ing recently been elected Presi-
dent of Lions International He
then introduced our State Repre-
•entative, Dolph Briscoe Jr., who
in turn introduced Mr Shepperd
Mr. Shepperd paid high tribute
to Mr. Briscoe, saying he is one
of the most representative repre-
sentatives in Austin and predict-
ed he would go far politically if
he wants to.
There were approximately 125
at the banquet
2766 Bales Cotton
Ginned in County
«f
The three gins in Zavala Coun-
ty report a total of 2796 bales of
cotton ginned up to Thursday
morning, to-wit: Crystal City
601, La Pryor 607 and Batesville
1568
The price being paid at Crystal
City was 26c ponud. Each gin re-
ported the cotton at about 60
percent already picked, and aona
cotton stalks are being destroyed.
A>ryTHTNCWWE SELL W*
WILL SERVICE. Krakow Refrig-
eration and Air Conditioning,
Crystal City. *-t$c
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