The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, January 11, 1957 Page: 1 of 4
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gTlj.e Cotulla ItccofD
VOL. NO. 59 NO. 46
COTULLA, LA SALLE COUNTY, TEXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1957
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
By VERN SANFORD
Austin—Austin is in its ev-
ery-other-January whirl. In*
a igural lestivities on the 15th
v. ill climax two weeks of fan-
Bill Inlriiduivd For
Noulh Texas
Velerans Hospital
Washington—United States
Representatives Joe M. Kilgore
of McAllen and John Young of
Corpus Christi introduced com-
panion bills in the House of
obti. m a Veterans’ Hospital for
Representatives in an effort to
South Texas.
The Congressman stated that
South
on, NEWS
A bigger rig was being mov
ed on to the Gilbert L. Brown
No. 1 M. L. Girard to be a 5,700
foot wildcat, 3 miles southwest
o1< Cotulla. Surface casing had
been set a week or so ago.
Paul J. Moore No. 1 Martin
wildcat in the Stuart City (Ed-
wards) gas field was drilling Judge J. W. Martin
Highway 81 From Nueces River
To Webb County Line Complete
Highway 81 from the Nueces The contract north from Co-
River to the Webb County line tulla to the Frlo County line
-has been completed and accept- will probablv be let in two or
ed by tne Texas Highway Dep- * , ,, ,.
artment according to County three months’ Jud*e Mart,n
ahead a fter making fresh water
on drill stem test at 3,131-56 ft.
Last report drilling was at 3,550
feet on a 4,000 foot permit.
Kirkwood and Morgan, Inc.,
fare traditional to the premiere ..... .
of a new state administration. Va^ is stinuhled' The leris- i and Walter Scott Light No. 1
Steppen-up tempo in the Cap- K • upuiatia. hi legi* | , ,, . . , . t o
itol began New Year’s Dav when latlon wa< introduced simply to Deorge h. Light, Ji.. wildcat *
oigau i\e\\ i-ear s ua> wnen; , , .. , . ., *r miles east oi Catarina was drill-
scores of new officials took the *” a hospital in the South lex-, («.() f t .j if tho'249 00
oath of office. It redoubled as area- ?» l.he or loth | ^at teet i.u m tni ;249.00.
reported all right-of-way deeds
The first contract was let in were in the Highway Depart -
January, 1955 for the construe- meat hands,
tion of the Highway from the judge Martin has received
Kiin.ihiiF
FKiiiiimi f:\tf\iifd
The Roughage Program for
Texas has been extended in all
238 counties previously desig-
nated, Walter T. McKay an-
nounced today. County Com-
mittees in all designated coun-
ties are being advised that they
may now accept applications
for a supply of roughage feed
Nueces River bridge to Artesia tr- . r. , . to carry basic livestock through
Wells and the M.l contmet fr0m th' Hl|fhw“> Dep“rtn,e',t I March 15. 1957.
e accident report for the first I McKay was also advised that
ine at Encinal.
These
| From Frio county line to Millett
From Millett to Gardendale
jFrom Gardendale to Cotulla
From Cotulla to Artesia Wells
Tom Artesia Wells to Encinal
Total 11 months
11
months of 1956 on
Highway
81
through the county
which is
as
follows;
Fatal
Injuries
1
3
0
2
0
1
3
10
2
18
6
34
in
1955, there were 14
fatal ac-
Highway, fatal accidents have cidents, in 1954, 15 and 13 fat-i
ihis week as gavels banged in J essional Districts, they
another Legislature. .said, and added that the selec-; -
\o,vt thniKsands more I Don'of a site undoubtedly would .
!hl' «-«w of a close inveati- America s toremost
governor.” Their 1957 inaug- *at>f!n as ^,.needs- Population Bell Kinder Al H. S.
ITS “ Auditorium Jan. 15
purple-tasseled. Forty thous- Uotn/., .. . _ , I . -
and were printed. i Kilgore said that Texas has; David Workman, Americas _--------------- _---------------------------------
Other arrangements are aim- 3 total °* 10 Veterans’ Hospital | Foremost Bell Ringer, presents j een educed more than half as al accidents in 1953.
iiarly lavish. An hour long and Medical Centers, but they “Living Bells”, a program of j________________________
-■cade wilL. v «ede Ihe high are crowded and their locations 1 the worlds most colorful tash-l
13?Central Power & Light Review* 1956
afternoon there?! be a band »ilea for m^iical attention. | television. '
concert then h recention <it the* ^ onn^jf out thut the i aIi. >» oiKniun s collection ot
Capitol.’ In That evening G™ facilities at X^e U. S. Naval bells numbers over 1,000, in-
and Mrs. Price Daniel and Lt. Hosptial at Corpus Christi are eluding sleigh bells, Cow bells,
v. and Mrs. Ben Ramsey will extermely limited and are little j L|ig\ sti Organ chimes, ■ and
;,e gratid march of state more than required by active j the famous Swiss bells, former-
... . -----1 ---------. ------,jy owned by the Royal Swiss
ment of Agriculture to continue
the emergency feed grain and
ropghage programs in the dro-
ught areas as long as there is
need for these programs.
Hon Bins V I. II.
i*im liases (irass Need
Activity - Electricity Use Up
^ and their wives at the duty naval personnel in Corpus
&d.a! .ball at Gregory Gym- Christi and the surrounding area
urn. From there the offici- Kerrville, Kilgore said, is ihe
jarty will make a round of closest hospital to South Texas
four other balls over town, but its facilities are Jimited and
itizens of Austin pick up the Veterans must travel to Hous-
?k for this biannual spree, ton or farther for medical care,
stimated cost this year: 315,- This, he pointed out. is unecon-
omical foi the Veteran and his
/EW LAND BOARD— Land family who already have econ-
lommr. Earl Rudder begins his omic problems or they would
rst elective term with a re- not be seeking melical care thro-
urgaimeC boarff- —- - ugh Veterans’ Hospitals.
Sworn in with Rudder were The 14th and 15th Congress-
William Gossett. El Campo ban- ional Districts have a large Vet-
ter, and L. E. Page of Carth- eran population, the Congress-
age, former state commander man pointed out and stated that
i? the American Legion. they feel a 300 bed general med-
A new constitutional amend- ical and surgical hospital is
r/.ent dropped the governor and necessary.
attorney general as ex-officio ----
board members. Instead, the
governor is required to appoint \4ftit III I ll’l*HPI’fl'd
two “citizens at large,” one ver-!1"^" IFllIvC'l 8 LltlU «
sed in finance, the other in i
veterans affairs.
Board members immediately
went to work on the new $100,-
>30,000 bond issue for veterans, - .. _ , , , Q
,und buying as authorized in Garden Club on Jan. 8
the same amendment. the following officers were elect-
WILSON PROMISES STATE io* \h*' "ext c!ab ^
SUPPORT—New Attorney Gen- G!en Talbut, president; Richard
eral Will Wilson promised to 5umf‘e,d vice-president; Mrs.
"consistently support state sov- Secretary; Mrs.
trignity” in cases where Feder-1 Utis Cox, Tieasurer; Mrs. Rov
f
II Harden Hub Heeling
At the regular meeting of the
ai-state authority is at issue. St urges, historian.
Wilson said his office would seek F,ower Show Schedule Discussed
Bell Ringers. The most inter
esting of this collection will be
displayed and played by Work-
man on his program.
The program will begin at
9 a. m. Tuesday, January 15, in
High School Auditorium. Ad-
mission will be, pre-school
children tree, school children
25c; adults, 30c.
The Supervisors of the Dos
Rios Soil Conservation District
have purchased 7,000 pounds of
; buffel grass seed and 2,000
| pounds of blue panic grass seed
I which they have sold to Dis-
; trict coojierators at cost plus
! handling charges. By purchas-
- ing in a large quantity the
South Texans increased their .was begun on another plant. A j Supervisors could obtain the
home use of electricity by the second 75,000-kilowatt generat- seed at a lower price. They
largest amount in history in ing unit was placed into ser- believe that there will probably
1956, Central Pomer and Light vice at the Lon C. Hill Power be a shortage of grass seed at
Company has reported in a Stations early in the year to planting time and urge all Dis-
review of the year’s activities, double the capacity of the plant, trict co-operators who intend to
1 he average domestic custom- As the >ear ended, constructi- plant grass this spring to make
er used about 2,295 kilowatt ion work was underway on the arrangements for their seed
hours of electricity in 1956. an ; J. L. Bates Power Station at , now.
increase of 231 over the previ- j Mission which will be ready for
ous year. South Texans are j service by early 1958. Com-
now using about twice as much pletion of the Bates plant will
electricity as eight years ago. increase CPL’s power supply
Much of the residential in- to 633,000 kilowatts, twice the
crease during the past year was j amount available in 1953.
Ill) \(Mlll(T I! I!IIOS
iiiiii Siicii
A strong dry. dusty norther
| home lighting, and increased tween Laredo and Uvalde dur- hit hereabout 4 a. m. Thursday
use of electricity for cooking, j ing the year, CPL now has a morning, ending a warm spell
Hiimii**! Vam iniKt Uiilil! attributed to more extensive use 1 With the completion of a 138,-
ruilt I nl IJcIllLuiS ill III J of ail- conditioning. Improved 000-volt transmission line be-
FOr WrS. Lilly DdlliPi |cjotjles ,jryjng alui heating, also [complete loop of these high vol- Which saw the mercury reach
- j contributed significantly to |tage lines around its South Tex- 91 degrees on Wednesday.
Funeral services for Mrs. Lil-! the greater usage in 1956. jas system. The company also Thursday morning the mercury
y Daniel were held at the First] i'be use Qf electricity by in-j constructed a 69,000-volt line was in the low 50’s.
Haptist Church Sunday after-1 dustrial and commercial cus- from Laredo to Freer, and work According to the weather
loon at 4 o'clock with her pas- Corners increased substantially [is now underway on the build- forecast thi.- area should have
tor. Rev. Hardy Reese and for- a]0ng with the use by residen- ing of a 138,000-volt line from temperatures ranging in the
mer pastor, Rev. Jesse G. Cooke fjai an(i rural customers. The (Blessing to Lane City, which high 30’s today.
officiating. total use by all customers in will interconnect with the Hous- -
Interment was in the Cotulla 1955 exceeded two billion kilo- ton Lighting and Power Co.
lemetery. ^ i watt hours. 1 f 4 vrvrr.iiv;ion cables across
Mrs. I.elia McElyea Daniel | Several new industries were the Corpus Christi ship channel
establsheq in the area during were also relocated to make way
the year and many oi’ the lar- .or .To new high level bridge
ger South Texas industries ex-Which will be built across the
panded their facilities. Many [channel.
new business buildings, stores: At the end of 1956, Central monthly meeting Monday, Jan.
and offices added to the com- Power and Light Company was 14, at 7';30 p. m.
was born April 25, 1871 in the
ttate of Tennessee, and passed
eway at Myers Hospital January
6, 1957 after a lingering illness
of nearly two years.
P-T. t. Heflins
Honda) \islil
The P-T. A. will hold their
:o protect school officials and
-:udents from violence and in-'charge of the discussion on the
timidation stemming from de-[ Flower Show schedule and had
at the opening of that settle-
ment in Dimmit County. They
Mrs. Scotty Light was in moved to Cotulla in 1931 where,
segregation efforts
i members ask questions about,
He also promised to push com- jthe schedule which they did not
pietion of the Duval County and understand,
veterans land cases begun by j
this predecessor, John Ben Shep-
;<erd.
a year later, her husband pre-
ceded he)' in death.
The program will be on Saf-
in 1913. Mrs. Daniel and her
husband moved to Valley Wells mercjai USe of electricity for serving 228,500 electric custom-
lighting and power. [ers, a net increase of about 9,- ety Education and the speaker
The, steadily increasing use of ;500 for the year. Total use of from the Texas Department of
electricity was reflected in electricity for the year—2,160,- public Safety.
CPL’s 1956 building program, 000,000 kilowatt hours, was also Guests of'Honor will be the
las the company spent over $16,- an all-time record. parents of the 5th and 6th grade
Although Air. and Mrs. Ban-; qqq^qqq for new service facilit-] CPL paid out a total of about tudents.
el had no children of their own i€8 [$9,000,000 in salaries to employ- j Hostesses will be Mrs. Dud-
, . adopted and reared several j Qne ialge power station ad-'ees in 1956. Another $10,- lev Storey, Jr. Chairman. Mrs.
' snow Uiairmar [children. idition was completed during j 000.000 went to the government Roy Martin, co-chairman. Mrs.
Anrouuces Committees 1 “Miss Lilly", as she wasjtbe year an(j construction workiin the form of taxes. Rov Keck Mrs. Leo Watts. Mrs.
Mrs. Otis Cox, Flower Show 1 known to her friends, was con-! -A---------
OFFICIAL CHANGE - ABOUT j Chairman announced the com-jverted at an early age. she £jD/i\nnDI\ir RUT
_Will Willson’s resignation as mittees for the show and ex-*vas a member of the Cotulla 1 or BIN dU KI INI* 1-
Supreme Court Justice last plained the duties of each. First Baptist Church. TER GOVERNMENT
summer touched off a chair re- * Plants Exchanged \ Pallbearers were John Wil-I
action. Membeis brought plants forjdenthal, Jr., Sie Lann, Roy R. [ wiii carrv a
Results: James R. Norvell of exchange at the close of the ,Keck. C. L. Foltz. Clyde Harris j^j s ()f artkC on the Diival
Band fonrcrl
i
January 21
San Antonio is the new Sup-(meeting. A variety of plants! nd J. T. Pogue,
reme Court justice. He was was brought. J
elected.
'County oligarchy that we think
John Wildenthal, Mrs. D. C.
Garcia. Mrs. N. C. Martinez and
Mrs. Meredith Wilson. ^
Garden Club Worksho'
Scheduled For Jan. 22
The Cctulla Cowboy Band _
! wTlT"open"the~eyea * of our read': will pre.wnt a mid-winter concert members of
lers to the dangers that exist in 21- «f‘ hfcotulh! GaX Club is sch-
_ . _ is
... „.. ..................fa„&r^irt ,.»,«««.,»
John F. May of Karnes City i lost of the members were in 0ne failed to receive their cal-j man-\ heretotore un,e'ealed in’ popular idiom and noveltv tunes t'rin*f her own ,table and mateI’-
• A .1 f~1 1_ • . _ . . i. ^ M n M /l TL A • a, ax aar. ara/ai i'r. u a .a a a P 1) III , 4.. aa-rMtlg 1 I • 1 4 ll
H. D. Barrow of Jourdanton
was appointed by Gov. Shivers
to succeed Norvell as associate
justice of the Fourth Court of
Civil Appeals at San Antonio.
4H CLUB NEWS
BAND CALENDARS
‘ELIVERED THIS WEEK
was appointed by Shivers to [attendance. Their project for endar, thev are asked to con-
sjeceed Barrow as judge of the ! hat meeting Was the making i tact Mrs. Louis Cotulla
culents.
These articles have been writ-
The evening concert will be- id*to "01.^ v'*tb;.
______________U1S l oiuua. —......— ■ .......... crin at 7-30 on Mondav Tan *1 Tht>re Wil1 be th,’ee nat,onal
81st district court. >nd serving of party sandwiches There are a few extra calen- ten by two New Vork newspap- fin a ' ’ ' ' ‘ - ’ ! “ ’ flower show judges from San
Richard L. Dobie, Jr. of Co- Xrhich were very dainty andi(jars available for those who !er men who were able to ap- m the High School Auditorium. Antonio who will conduct the
-,ulla was appointed to succeed Velicious. They voted on and vvould like one and failed to j proach the subject w ithout bi- The public is invited to attend workshop.
May as 81st district attorney. S was passed to have a party in ’ p]ace an order for one. stated «s and without political leanings this adnfission free concert. Every garden club member
i Gov. Shivers also named L. I), connection with the closing of ! Mrs. Cotulla.
Ratliff of Spur as judge of the ,|the school program
110th district court. And more ^Christmas holidays,
than a score of others were ap- Dec. 21 the 4H Club
pointed to state agencies, com-
missions and college boards.
Another appointee, John Os-
•;.rk> of Austin, was elected
chairman of the board of Insur-
had a
Christmas party, including the
school children and the club
members. Games wrere played
after which refreshments of
Jil l) NEAL UNDERGOES
SURGERY AGAIN
On Jail 1st Bud Neal under-
went surgery for the amputa-
tion of another toe. Mrs. Neal
cookies and punch were served,
snee Commissioners immediate- furnished by the club girls, reports that he is progressing
(Continued on Back Page) Gifts were given to all. favorably at home.
of any kind. One of these men.
Franz Rosenwald, is a German
refugee who was forced to flee
from Nazi terroism. The oth-
er. Frederick Hodgson, is a'
new>papii correspondent and )ar-
should make a special effort to
| be present at this workshop as
Band Selling Candy
The band is still selling bars they will receive valuable infor
of chocolate candy at 50c
These are reported to be
mation from these experienced
women.
magazine and screen writer. |very good almond filled milk Stated Meeting Cotulla Lodge
Their approach to the Duval chocolate bars wrapped in per-; yTo. 892 A. F. & A. M., 7:00
County story is so different and sonalized wrappers for the Cow- P- nr Tuesday. Jan. 15. Members
* bov Band urged to attend Visiting
(Continued on back page) Rrethern cordially invited.
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The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, January 11, 1957, newspaper, January 11, 1957; Cotulla, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1158585/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Alexander Memorial Library.