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THE MATHIS NEWS
Volume XXXIII
Mathis, San Patricio County, Texas, June 25, 1948
Number 26
San Diego Girl Saved from Lake
MORE STREET
IMPROVEMENTS BEING
MADE AT PRESENT
Racing is Not All Fun
Further street improvements
are going on in Mathis this week.
The north end of San Patricio
Avenue is being topped with ca-
liche from the curve near the
S. P. tracks to the Mahoney cor-
Dr. W. A. Guynes and mem-
bers of the local Fire Dept,
work with Resusitator, on
Teresa Trejo after she had
been rescued from the waters
of Lake Corpus Christi last
Sunday.
CORPUS CHRISTI LAKE
ROTARIANS HAVE ANNUAL
SCENE OF NEAR TRAGEDY BARBECUE HONORING
LAST SUNDAY
OFFICERS
ner.
Gene Key, who is doing the
work, says eventually the road |
will be topped as far as the Me-!
Nabb Memorial cemetery. aid
though at present the Mahoney I
corner’will end the pavement. J
A short piece connecting Sanj
Patricio Ave. with the lake road
has already been topped with ca-
liche. An asphalt topping will be
put on when the caliche work is
finished.
The Beall Chevrolet Co. and
Marcos Lemos are paying for hav-
ing the road by their places built
to the property lines.
BEAUTY SHOP HAS
NEW OPERATOR
----AUTO RACING NOT
VIRGINIA SIMMONS NOW ALL FUN
IN JAPAN -
-_ The above picture shows “68”
Now serving as a civilian em- one of the local hot rods, owned
ployee with the Far . East. Air j by Stone Bros. Service, soon
P'orces in Japan is Miss Virginia after having been turned topsy-
Simmons, a graduate of Mathis i turvy at the Pan American Speed-
. Miss Gwendolyn Wood of Alice j ITlgh acd°o1’ and daughter of. way at San Antonio. The body
around 1 p. m„ telling the citizens going and new officers of the lo-j ,g an expert beaJ She s assigned as Clerk-Steno- pushed out the dents again and
of Mathis that another drowning cal club and of clubs from neigh-! and experienced operator : graPher in the Warehouse Section are really doing a good job on
had occured at Lake Corpus b°rinS towns- Tuesday night at d irwites y0Ur patronage. No of Supply Division at JAMA1 the tracks around here '
Christi, four miles from town, picnic grounds at Lake Ma- appointment is necessary. •afTSto^Ltedl Just before the accident Pic~
Z7TZ°tTJt rS~' ¥ernieBS' PiPeS imr0dUCed ““ Guests ot Mr. and Mrs. Jess approbate* 21 mi,es west of -ed above this car won first
teer Fire Dept, left their Sunday Visitmg Rotanans present: Bob Curlee this week were Mr_ and Tokyo. m the first two races of the
dinners and their quiet afternoon j Sallee, Gordon Lewis and Bill Mrs_ Russell Curlee and children JAMA, supply and maintenance evening and after h.avng its
naps and rushed to the scene as Muttera of Corpus Christi; P. L.|Sara Jp( Rowena Ruth, and! depot fo1' aircraft stationed fa6e lifted won two first places
they have done so many times J<nn^on and Jack Miller of (J#se Wilburn), of throughout Japan and Korea, was t Corpu_ christi Sneedwav last
in the past few years, but this Tf £& ’ }V' »!<»«»£ ^ Visiting Sunday; --tag World War II as, ^ SP-dway last
time it was not in vain for the n T u 1Cla if ieg0’jwith the Curlees were their other j the Wi ight field of Japan ,
time it vas not in vain, tor tne Frank; C. Johnson, Chas. H. Flato, Mr. and Mrs. Eudell as ^ was here that the Japanese! At Present there are two more
life of a 14 year old Latin Ameri- Roy Stripling and Tommy Tompp cur]g^Nv|nk| paby of Sinton, Mr. ■ engineered and tested many of racing cars in town, both of
! which we predict lots of sport
Following her graduation from ; and thrills for the local race fans
high school, Miss Simmons enter-1 this season,
ed Civil Service, and was employ-1 We are pulling for the cars
ed for the past eight years at1 “68”, “41” and “9”.—Photos
can girl was saved, even though bin °f Kingsville; Dave Stock- and Romer Rogers of Corpus'lheir combat Planes
she had been under the waters bridge and Robert Beasley of.Christi) and Mr. and Mrs. H M
of the lake for 5 minutes. j Beeville; George Burthes, Bill;Reed anp baby
The near tragedy happened Albin and A. C. Tutt of Taft; | ______
across from the boat docks, when 1 Hardy Lowe of Alice; and E. G.! ^ y FLOREZ
Teresa Trejo, of San Diego was I Spark and T. J. Wlkinson of ANNOUNCES FOR
swimming and. stepped off into Refugio. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
a hole and was unable to get back j A short program included a; ___
to shallow water. The other swim- talk by the newly elected govern-!
mers called for help, however or> Bill Muttra of District 125, Cor-1 ■ a"
it was reported that the girl had' Pus Chrisit. ^ i / #* ^
been on the bottom of the lake Johnny Linberg was in charge'
fully five minutes, when F. F.] of preparing the food,' and cer-; •.
French, of Portland, who was tainly “did himself proud” for it!
diving for her, finally brought was a delicious meal,
the lifeless form to shore. ——---
Brooks Field, near San Antonio,! Courtesy Taft Tribune
Texas. i _
She reports that she has been LET US HAVE YOUR NEWS
very much impressed with the! -
beauty of the Japanesec ountry-
side. Among the places of interest
she has visited are the cities of
The following article which
appeared in the Ochiltree County
Herald, published by Van Stewart
The Mathis Fire Dept, was KOEPSEL MOTOR CO.’S
summoned and in the meantime OPENING DAY- ON NEW FORD
artifeial respiration was admin- A SUCCESS
istred by some Boy Scouts, who | --
were nearby. As • soon as the The o-oh’s and ah’s of the 400
Resusitator arrived the members people who came to see the “New
of Fire Dept, began an organized Car °f the Year” was proof that
effort to save a life; some operat- the ’49 Ford is—“In a Class By
ed the Resusitator while others Itself."
fared a circle to hold back the! The Koepsel’s and all the em-
crowd. ployees took great delight in ex-
In less than 30 minutes the1 plaining why the car of the year
girl had been revived enough, so would knock your hat off.
that Dr. Guynes advised she be; The show room was decorated!
taken to the local hospital. Re-|with banners, posters, pictures!
ports are that after spending the ]ancl large bouquets of white iris I
night there, she was able to walk and potted ferns,
out and go to her home the Mrs. Bonier, dressed in white | dacy of A. V. Florez, owner of
following day.
Tokyo and Yokohama, famous is one publishers way of saying
Mt. Fujiyama, and the Iwahara | what you do is news to others,
Ski Lodge,' conducted for JAMA; so let us have it. And we add our
personnel, in the heart of the, endorsement to his plea-
“Alps” of Japan.
Mr .and Mrs. B. F. Adams left
Tuesday for Galveston, where
they will visit their son and
daughter-in-law. They will go to
to Hampton, Arkansas for a
visit with their daughter and son-
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ned Blann.
They plan to be gone on their
vacation two or three weeks.
The Mathis News has
Mrs. James H. Holland and
little daughter, Addie from Ari-
zona and her brother, Mr. Slaugh-
been'ter of Kenedy spent the day with
* * Sjs
HAVE YOU
been visiting
had visitors
been divorced
bought anything
sold anything
had a party
been to one
got engaged
been jilted
joined a club or been
thrown out of one
had triplets
or quadruplets
or even one baby?
authorized to annuonce the candi- Mrs. Cora Reames Wednesday j THAT’S NEWS
S. F. HUNT ANNOUNCES
FOR SHERIFF
| and yellow, with yellow rose buds j the Lake Food Market, for Just-
I in her hair, chauffered the 8! ice of the Peace, Precinct 5.
| cylinder car during the demon-1 Mr. Florez states he will devote
all time necessary to the fulfill-
In the afternoon they visited an- our society editor. She’ll
other aunt, Mrs. J. D. Sigler and!.' write it up;.and we’ll all
her family.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lospeich
and children and Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Patteson spent Sunday on THEN WRITE IT UP
on a piece of scratch
know of it!
OR IF YOU’RE SCARED
she can’t spell your name,
or somebody else’s
strations.
- | Mrs. Koepsel served cold drinks i ment of this position provided he
S. F. Hunt, former sheriff 0f j through out the day. j is elected to this office.
San Patricio County, this week August is thrilled over the He is a veteran, wag a member |a drive through the game refuge
authorized The News to place New ’49 Ford, appreciates the! of the 15th Air Force in Italy, at Austwell. A picnic lunch and paper or something and
his name in the Plitical An- interest shown by so many peo-iand served 3 years and nine| the sight of any wild animals, in-! bring it in or mail it to her
nouncement Column as candi- Pie and invites every one to see1 months in the Army, 33 months j eluding over a hundred deer
overseas.
— Florez states he will appreci t
ies in July. j Miss Jimmie Lou Smithson who iate all votes and political in-’ Williapi .Gorom. Watson, born day so drop us a card, telephone
We expect a statement from is attending summer school in fluence, but shall hold no ani-; Tuesday? iff a Midland Hospital Mrs. Frels at 33 or the News of-
him in the immediate future, jSan Marcos, was at home for the] mfisity for those who choose to was named for two uncles, Wil- ifee, 72, and tell us all these things
I liam B. Watson of Austin and we should know. We appreciate
I Edwin W. Gorom of Mathis. - j your efforts very much.
date for sheriff subject to the them now on display,
action of the Democratic Primar-1
At present four candidates are week end. She plans to complete | vote against him.
in the race for sheriff. I work for her degree in August. ‘ (Political Adv.)
and we will all be happy!
made the trip an interesting one. THANK YOU!
News is in the making every
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Whittenberg & McCoy. The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1948, newspaper, June 25, 1948; Mathis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1128220/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mathis Public Library.