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VOL. NO, 54 NO. 7
COTULLA, LA SALLE COUNTY, TEXAS FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1951
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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Baseball Season
Opens la Cotulla
The 'baseball season opened in Co-
tulla Wednesday night when Ox
Brown’s Cubs crossed bats with the
any Harlandale Indians. Due to the cold
Washington—Your Congressman’s
letter this week contains excerpts of
a speech delivered before the House
of Representatives during the debate
on the Universal Military Training
Bill.
“Mr. Chairman, there have been many
statements in the last three days by
the opponents of this piece of legisla-
tion that they do not want to draft
18-year-olds, 20 year-olds, or
mother’s son.
“The question is: Do we have to as it would have been otherwise,
draft the 18 1-2 year olds? Prior j Regardless of the cold weather it
to this bill I felt as many of you that was a pretty good ball game after
we were not sufficiently utilizing the the second inning,
manpower pool in the 19 to 25 year j Cotulla Cubs opened with a bang in
age group. This bill now takes steps 'the first inning, getting 3 hits, 4 bases
necessary to fully utilize this age on balls and scored 7 runs,
group by reducing the mental and - Harlandale scored 4 runs in second
physical standards to the level of inning on 2 hits, 2 bases on balls
January 1945. I assisted by 2 errors.
“Despite this increase, a study I Both teams warmed up and settled
made by tha Committee on Armed down and played good ball the bal-
Services shows that additional men ance of the game which only went 7
are needed which would result from innings.
lowering the draft from 19 to 18 1-2 The finai score: Cotulla 11 runs,
years. Such a manpower pool would Harlandale 6 runs,
permit the maintenance of an armed j The Cotulla Baseball Stadium is
force of 3,500,000 men. In addition, one of the nicest ball parks anywhere
it would permit the release of many in this section, and one that Cotulla
hundreds of thousands of veterans has a right to be proud of. Marvin
and reservists who in many cases have
already given many years of their
lives in service to their country.
“The question of immaturity of
judgement of 18-year-olds has been
brought to the floor in this debate,
and as to some young men of this
age, I believe the question is justifi- t:on Company of Corpus Christi was
cd But, unfortunately, immaturity here this week with a crew of
of judgment is not something that men and did considerable work in re-
leniis itselfclo the simple limitation of arranging flood lights on the field
age. For all practical purposes, and setting some new poles.
therefore, nn arbitrary line must be j --
drawn. In this bill the provisions
are such as to help give these young
men full training and additional time
to measure up to the demands of man-
hood by providing that no man will
be placed in combat outside of the
U. S, possessions before reach-
ing the age of 19 years. He cannot
be inducted until he is 18 1-2 years
old, and then we must have a lapse
cl 6 months from that date before he
can be sent into combat.
“The issue can be very simply
drawn on this drafting of 18 1-2 year
olds if you accept the fact that we
need 3,500,000 men in the service
to defend this country. You either
vote to draft 18 1-2 year olds or you
vote to leave men in the reserves
AN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT \^m\ Retailers
Bysu,,..ejeu.*™ tome toiler “Frozen
Within the next few days the pat- the fact that the county and state II*| I*!.' ■■ |a99 II uim |»j t inn
rons of Cotulla Consolidated Com- taxe wou!J have to be raised through JIllIKUU ItlTl'Illul 1(111
(non School District will have the op- the county, also, the school taxes in _____
portunity to sign a petition asking the the other . hool districts in the coun-
County Judge to call an election for ty would have to be raised.
John Jones
Found Head fin
Baylor Ranch
the purpose of incorporating the pres- — - „v. uuucun io see mai mis _____ . -----------*
ent district into an independent school is a ratli.r ridiculous situation in markuD” regulation"rPR 7° c" V* J‘ Bay,or Ra,lch 25 “iles
... ,_____u __________ v markup regulation CPR 7 on April Southeast of Cotulla
district for free school purposes.
A number of questions will nat-
urally arise as to why an independ-
It is not difficult to see that this
More than 700 additional retailers John Walter Jones, colored, age
in the San Antonio district, OPS, will 50 years, was found dead last Sunday
for it is obvious that should
He apparently
which w find * iregulation urn i on April Southeast of Cotulla. ...
and riLd of th, i 1 *u T , 10’ Warren Smith- distlict 0RS price died from a heart attack
*!!*..n!?*xdi> °* the school children of j specialist has announced. | The body was found at a w ater
He said amendment 2 to CPR 7 tank by Clyde Franklin and Joe Ches-
of an in- money, and it most certainly does ' f s 15 addltlonal items of consumer ter of the Rhumann (Burk) ranch
— that the taxDavers of the eountJ f„P"C.,ng. U?d? the margin who had gone to Jones’ camP to tell
“»“J w, -..-j «■ ---- | V.OI.U id ... ,, v/u.mua mat snuuiu jje amen{
tent school district is needed and what ; Cotulla no J the $15,000 additional1 iists 15 additiona|
would be the advantages
dependent district over a common that the taxpayers of the county Avne of ennYroi Zh~u T "au 10 Jones eamP t0 ten
school district. wold W willing to have r.iscd ' cdU b» ™t,iLY., ,1 T T! ■" «*
t» «*« ,0 h„p ,ho p“co ePr^ h*d 'o,te" Fr°” *“
I shall try to anticipate some of jto that extent in order to help
these questions and answer them as Cotu.la schools.
briefly as possible, in this article. We ai not, however, bound up in
First, I think a definition of the [a hopeless situation. There is a so-
Iweather the crowd wasn’t as large two types of districts would be in or- lution—an independent school dis-
der.
A common school district is a sub-
1 trict.
An independent school district
division of the county which has been different 1 om
common school dis-
so designated by the County Boa'kd of .trict in that it is separate and inde-
School Trustees for free school pur- ! pendent f the county administra-
poses and normally is under the sup- ,tion. It supervised and adminis-
crvision of the County Superinten- jtered by a board of seven trustees nieans that the specified merchandise
pearances Jones had been dead sev-
*»ram’ eral days.
“Retailers affected by this new a- Deputy Sheriff Frank Newman and
mendment will welcome it,’’ Smith Justice of the Peace John W’ildenthal
said. The new items are musical were called to the scene and after a
instruments, radio and television sets, thorough investigation found nothing
phonographs and records, housewares to indicate that he had died other
notions, luggage, spoiting goods, than from a heart attack. Wilden-
silverware, Chinaware, glassware, thal stated that Jones had gone to the
jewelry, watches and clocks. tank in his pickup truck to get a bar-
Extension of CPR 7 to these items iel of water for his house which
dent and a district school board of 'ana a school superintendent. The generally will be removed from pne-
three trustees. The County Tax board of ti sices has the authority to ing under the General Ceiling Price
Assessor and Collector serves the dis- j employ a tax assessor and collector Regulation and will be priced by use
of a "Pricing chart”.
Brown has spent lots of money on this
park and deserves the support of the
public. He has just had a new coat
of green paint put on the stadium and
fence,
Lights Changed
H. H. Pickens of the Lay Construe-
fiininiisxiiiiim Hull!
Hcpliir Heeling
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The La Salle County Commissioners
j met last Monday for their regular
I monthly meeting.
j The returns of school trustee elec-
tions held over the county were can-
vassed. Frank L. Crawford was
elected over Pedro Muriel by a vote
of 443 to 140 for trustee of the Co-
jtulla Consolidated Common School
District. At Fowlerton, Ross Bragg
and Gene Branch were elected as
trict as assessor and collector of tax- 'for the ,-l..uo1 district to assess and
es for school purposes and the com- collet: tax for school purposes and
missioners court sits as an equiliza- the board of trustees sit as an equaii-
tion board to make necessary adjust- zatior. board. Should the same sit-
inents in the appraisal of property tiatioi arise as in the illustration
assessed within the district. The 'above in an independent school de-
valuation of property within the dis- trict, it would only be necessary fo>
trict as set by the commissioners the school taxes alone to bo raised
court for state and county taxes, sufficient to raise the $15,QUO needed,
therefore, becomes the valua- The state and county taxes would not
t'on of property for school purpos- iie effected.
es also. Under such a system, j Th oppoii ioii will naturally raise
should it become necessary to raise ;the cry that should an independoiK
additional money to operate the school be created, the taxis would go
scnools within the district it is not so high that all property owners
only necessary that the valuation of would have to sell out and leave,
property within the school district be Poesnt it stand to reason that the
raised but throughout the entire coun- 'seven men -business men, or farmers
ty, and, in addition, the state and and .ranchers, who sit on the school
county taxes would have to be raised board would be interested in keeping
proportionally. tha <.m -1 as low as possible ami at
An illustration— Should Cotuiia 1T4 n.TT'ie time give the children of
Schools need $15,000 additional man- tli community’ the type of education
ey in order to operate ihe schools of they justly deserve?
the district for the coining year, it i Give the school children of Cotulla
would cost the tax payers of the p break: sign the petition. And more
county approximately $50,000 in important still, vote for the indepen-
taxes in order to provide Cotulla with dtnt school district when the election
the §15,000 needed. This is due to is called.
t
was about 150 yards from the tank.
The barrel was about half full of
water, which he was filling with a
large bucket. Over exertion probaJbly
brought on a heart attack. A straw
Retailers affected in preparing Hat in the front seat of the pickup
Gypsies Swindle Local Mica as;
Sheriffs Department limners $7111.1111
their charts will show the cost, the
selling price and the markup in ef-
fect in their stores for each of the
items as of March 31, 1951, the “list
date” for the new commodities.
After they have filed their charts
with the district OPS, 128 South
Flores Street, they must figure theii
ceiling prices by using the chart mark-
up- for each article, whethci they re-
ceive it before or after March 31.
Pricing charts must be filed with
th j district OPS by April 30, and non.
of the items may be sold after May
30 unless the seller has received ac-
knowledgement of filing of his chart
from the OPS district office.
P.etail grocers were reminded this cowboy,
week they are required under provis-
ions of the price control program to
preserve certain records.
P. Fielding Breeden, San Antonio
district OPS food price specialist,
cited Ceiling Price Regulations 15 and
16 affecting them on listed food
items.
“After April 5, retail grocers must
retain for one year all their invoices,
freight bills and other records show-
ing the prices they paid and the dates
they received delivery of each item
covered by’ the regulations,” Breeden
said.
He explained that th*. regulations
require these retailers to show their
invoices or give a written record of
their ceiling prices if requested by an
showed that it had been lain on and
was mashed flat. He had gotten out
of the truck and was lying on the
ground when found. The body was
in a very bad state of decomposition
and showed that he had been dead 4
or 5 days.
The remains were brought to Co-
tulla by the Funeral Home and buried
in the Cotulla Cemetery.
At the tune of his death Jones was
working for a party who had one of
Jack Baylor’s pastures leased. He
has lived in and around Cotuiia for
the past 25 years, having come here
from Gonzales. He was a good man
and always worked on ranches as a
Frank L. Fraufoirf
Flciled Tins! ci'
Frank L. Crawford was elected
Trustee for the Cotulla Consolidated
Common School District No. 1 at the
election held Saturday’.
Four Gypsies, two women and two of amounts running from $50 to $400.
men, parked their trailer house and I The men were placed in jail and
ears on Highway 81 in Cotulla after [were placed under $1,000 cash bond, opg representative,
tiustees of the Fowlerton County Line being ordered out of town by the which was promptly given. It is im- The grocer must also keep available
, ... Common School District. Louis T. Sheriff’s Department and immediately [possible to know how much money for insoection the records he uspd in
who have already contributed so;Shannon was elected for County began a wholesale swindle amongst
School trustee
much for their country. Personally,
I believe in equilization of sacrifice
that each man shares the burdens in
protecting this Nation's liberties, and
that the purpose of this bill proposes
that.
“These veterans who have worn
their country's uniform, who have
sacrificed to preserve its freedom, who
know what it means to be shoved into
battle without adequate training, vet-
erans who know the humiliation of
before adjourning.
of Precinct 4. j the Mexicans the past week.
Monthly accounts were approved Sheriff Wildenthal’s attention was
'called to the the fact that a Mexican
j woman was about to deed her houso
| to pay $400.00 in cash to have her in-
i valid child cured. An investigation
was immediately begun by
1951 License Plates
Sales Show Increase
they have gotten, as quite a few Mex- deciding what group his store is in,
i. uns will not tell anything as they which is determined by his annual
are afraid something terrible will dollar sales volume,
happen to their families. Breeden also reminded groeerymen
Captain AUee and Rangers Seay and that by April 28 they must notify
Miller were called in on the scene and in writing, the district OPS, 128-132
.Monday morning by agreement seven South Flores Street, of the group in
Following is
the vote cast
in the
various boxes of the district:
Cotulla
393
135
Los Angeles
44
5
Sauz
6
0
Total
443
140
A GREAT CLIMAX
The Revival
at the First
Baptist
Church will close Sunday night. There
will be a baptismal service coming at
the close of the regular evangelistic
sermon and appeal. It has been a
giand meeting in many ways. To
Monday night (April 10), there has
been something like twenty oi more
I Wildenthai and Deputy Sheriff Frank lever to Sheriff Wildenthal and in the
J Newman. They found absolute evi- [presence of the Gypsies the money
- idence of a large swindle. j wa- paid over to the rightful owners.
B. W ildenthal, Jr., Tax Collector re- ’■ The Gypsies suspicioned something i li first payment amounting to $400
... , ports that there were more motor ve- was happening and moved before day- j wa - paid to Porfario Garcia and bal-
torrigiioi ecause t is countiy n Hicle licenses issued for the year 1951 light, but were apprehended in San 'ancc paid in sums amounting from
not have adequately trained, large as for the same pe,.^ of 1950( which Antonio and brought back to Cotulla. ?5G to $100. A fine of $35.00 was
rea y poo so sn /e.-, o not want jg February 1st, through March 31st. | Positive evidence was found where eased for vagarancy and paid by
their sons to go into battle as green jThe 1951 ijcenses are iisted as foi_ cight pers0ns had been swindled out : the men.
Sheriff , hundred and forty dollars was paid which their stores fail. Printed forms -‘d iitions, sixteen for baptism.
for this purpose will be available
soon at the district OPS.
\ii Mill Mines
In LaSalle I'nimh
lows:
shock troops. They want their sons
and I want my sons to be trained ad-
equately to deal with the combat de-
cisions of the battlefield.
“It is an easy thing as a Congress-
man to demand the necessary sacrifi-
ces of our people to protect their lib-
erties at a time of a Pearl Harbor,
but the task of voting for these sac-
fjfices of our people four months be-
fore Pearl Harbor, as when the draft
was extended by a vote of 202 to 203,
is immensely more difficult.
“Then we had the invasion ofCzec-
hoslovakia and others to toll their ! tration, of 241 vehicles.
warning. Today we have a nasty j _
little war in Korea. If that war billy J. OVERBY AT
were the only war we could contem- jCAMp CHAFFEE, ARK.
plate in the future, then universal
military training would not be neces-
sary for our country, but we know
that if war III comes, it will be
sudden; it will be without warning.
This Nation as the arsenal of democ-
racy will be a primary target. We
will have no allies capable of carry-
ing on the fight and buying us time
while we prepare, as we did last time.
No one thinks we will have time to
Passenger
1,192
Commercial Trucks
335
ELEMENTARY PRINCIPALS
Farm Trucks
375
MEET IN AUSTIN
Tractor-Trucks
31 1
Farm Tractor Trucks
4
Austin, April 10—Elementary piin-
Commercial Trailers
SO
cipals and supervisors of Texas school-
House Trailers
10
will meet at the University of Texas
Dealers
3
Thursday through Saturday (April
Motorcycles
3
12-14) for the 1951 Elementary Edu-
TOTAL
2,033 ,
cation Conference. More than 1,000
ATTENDS MEETING OF WEST-
IKN TEXAS PRESBYTERY
Supt.. C R-. Landrum was elected by
le ,-ession of the Cotulla Presbyter-
lii Church to represent the local
For 1950 the total registration for Persons are expected, Dr. Henry J.
the same period was 1,792, which Otto, University of Texas education
makes an increase in the 1951 regis- Professor, estimated.
out-of-state educators will
mi t in Kerrville on Tuesday and your county and hope that you will be
Wednesday of this week. able to continue such a good record in
Mr. Landrum also attended the in- |the future”.
stallation of Dr. Andrew Edington as - -
President of Schreiner Institute at Chrysler Cllt-Away
1 Motor On Display
Happy are we that so many of out
friends from other churches, (and
from no church), have been ir. the
services, and have done much to help
out with the meeting. It \s our de-
sire that every Church, Family and
Person in our entire city shall in some
way be helped by the meeting. We
pi ay that our Sister-Churches shall
be strengthened for greater crusade^
against evil, and Christ.
Our helpers have all done the fin-
est of work and, under God, have been
| great blessings to us, for which wo
j snail continue to be grateful. Friend,
there are no slot machines or gamb- if you-ve not yot been in the meetin!l>
ling devices in La Salle County. won’t you come for these remaining
He further states that “I congrat- I services—to share the rich blessings?
ulate you and the other officers of \Vc shall be most happy to greet you
j tl\ere.
i May we remind you, once again.
County Attorney Richard L. Dobie
received a letter Thursday from At-
i lorney General Price Daniel, which
stated that according to the records
of the Bureau of Internal Revenue
Four
lecture. They are Dr. E. T. McSwain, Kerrville which took place on Wed
Northwestern University’s education 'nesday, April 11th.
I dean; Miss Helen Heffernan of the j Mrs. Landrum accompanied Mr. K©IT MotOT Co
(Continued on back page)
ATTEND HEARING IN AUSTIN
Billy J. Overby, brother of Mrs. CaIlf°™'a State Department of Edu- JLandrum to Kerrville.
Alton Daughtrey and Mrs. Malvin ;“tlon; Dr' Robert Richey. ,ndiana
Plocek left for the service March 22, Lnive™ty associate professor of edu-
nnd is now in the Medium Tank Bat- ^at,on; and Dr. Kate V. Wofford,
allion at Camp Chaffee, Ark. |hcad P,of«sor of elementary educa-
Hc will get 7 weeks basic training |t,on at the University of Florida,
and 7 weeks artillery training. |f Theme for the convention is “Tha
Billy was formerly of Cotulla but Int*rn*1 Organization of an Elemen-
at the time he was inducted into the i***? School.
service he was employed by the I Conference group discussion lead-
McFarland Drilling Co. at Corpus trs wil1 include Mrs, Beryl R. Rock
Christi. of Cotulla.
I The Kerr Motor Company invites
I the public to visit their display room
on Tuesday, April 17, and see the
' Chrysler cut-away engine in opera-
' j tion.
L. E. Schulze, H. L. Rymal, M, L, ' The cut-away engine is being put on
Girard, and Sheriff B. Wildenthal, Jr. display at all their Chrysler dealers,
attended the Committee Hearing in [ A complete explanation by loud speak-
Austin Tuesday night on the Gray [er system will be given to show how
Bill, concerning the building of the j the motor was developed and how it
Oakvilit dam. . operates.
that the revival will come to a close
Sunday night, the baptismal included.
l\e urge that all the candidates for
baptism be there and ready, as you.
will be instructed.
May the blessings of God rest rich-
ly upon you all always, amen!
A Grateful Pastor,
Jesse G. Cooke
COUNTY HOSPITAL
NEARING COMPLETION
The La Salle County Hospital is
nearing completion and in all prob-
ability will be ready for occupancy
in two or three weeks.
It has been under construction since
last July.
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