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-----------------------AFTER LITTLE DELIBERATION -----------------------
City Council Passes Commercial Garbage Hike
The Mathis City Council un-
animously passed the proposed
garbage rate hike for business
establishments within the city li-
mits, at their regular monthly
meeting Thursday night.
The Council which had only
discussed the matter briefly
passed the ordinance with no
deliberation.
The rates for each business
establishment in the city was
set after a survey was conduct-
ed by the city in the month of
December.
The new raes for tht follow-
ing businesses are: Villarreal
Food Market and Salon - 7.50;
Texas Co, Warehouse-$4.50;
Southwestern Bell - $4.50; John
C. Carruthers - $4.50; Key’s
Drug Store - $6.50; M. E. Moses-
$7.50; Mathis Equipment p $4.50;
London Grocery Co. - $4.50;
Enco Service Station - $4.50;
Ray’s Foods - $7.50; Sears Roe-
buck Co. - $4.50; D&W Feed -
$4.50; La Retama Motel - $8.50;
and Dot’s Cafe - $10.00.
Also: Rackley Humble - $4.50;
Mathis Cafe - $7.50; Curlee
Restaurant - $19.00; Joe Ramirez
$4.00; Gregorczyk Mobile -
$4.50; Ranch Motel - $8.50;
Ranch Motel Restaurant - $6.50;
Dairy Mart - 4.50; Mathis Co-Op
Locker $10.00; Arrowhead Oil
Co. - $4.50; Braden Oil Co. -
$4.50; Leland Koepsel Phillips
66 - $4.50; Layton Chevrolet -
10.00; City Lumber Co. - $4.50;
Mathis Grain and Elevator -
$4.50; Armando Flores Store -
4.50; Fernando Lopez Store -
6.50; Mathis Builders Supply -
$6.50: Juan Coronado - $6.50;
Walter Breeding washateria -
$4,50; Marcos Lemos Garage -
$7.00; City Finance Co. - $4.50;
Wagnon Hardware Co. - $4.50;
Sutherland Store - $7.50; Frank
Russek Cleaners - $4.50; and Ma-
this Feed and Seed - $5.50.
Engler Brothers - $4.50; Piggly
Wiggly - 15.00; Hub Drug-
$6.50; Jimsons Department Store
$6.50; Jack’s Garage - $4.50;
K. Wolens - $6.50; Heiders Cafe-
$10.00; Mathis Oil Co. - $6.50;
U. S. Post Office $6.50; Ma
this Independent School District
(cafeteria) 20.00; Four schools
7.50 each; School Business
4.50; Sells Auto - 4.50; Flower
office - 2.50 Freeze K i n g-
$4.50; Sells Auto - $4.50; Flower
& Gift Shop - $4.50; Quick Way-
6.50; Pullin Gulf - $6.50; Dr.
Bean - 4.50; Adams Service
Station - 4.50; Adams Trailer
Park - 4.50; Dar. Cagle 4.50;
Jose Coronado Store - $6.50;
Julian Robles Store - 8.50; R.C.
Freasier - 6.50; Holemans Ser-
vice Station - 4.50; and Johnny
Burke Tractor Service - 4.50.
The Council also passed a
resolution condeming discrimin-
atory hiring practices by three
South Texas firms.
The council also heard a
report by the Mathis Volunteer
Fire Department.
It was also brought out by
city secretary, that the Fire De-
partment needed to get together
with the council to discuss their
needs in the 1968 city budget
which is scheduled for comple-
tion in the month of February.
Phiefer told several members
of the fire department who were
present at the meeting, that the
fire department needed to meet
with the council in a workshop
session to discuss their needs.
He also pointed out that a new
fire truck for the city would be
cne of the items that would be
close to the top of the list on
the 1968 budget.
He asked the firemen to get
together with representatives
from suppliers concerning the
terms for a fire truck.
The council also approved the
application for two new mem-
bers to the fire department.
This brought the membership
total of the department to 24
members.
The fire department also ask-
ed that the authorized force of
1he department be raised to 40
men.
Members of the fire depart-
ment also brought up the ques-
tion of the fire siren being
blown for ambulance calls,
saying that it was confusing to
the members.
Pfiefer said that the arrange-
ment was temporary, and that
the city was trying to’ make
other arrangements for the am-
bulance service.
He said that at the proposed
meeting to establish a volunteer
ambualnce corps for the city of
Mathis last Thursday, that no
one had showed up.
The council also said that they
planned to use a second am-
bulance which is at the fire de-
partment for a backup ambu-
lance.
The council also asked the
fire department to report on the
fire that' destroyed the Engler
Brothers Lumber Company in
December. He asked the depart-
ment for a detailed report of all
actions that looked suspicious at
the fire.
The council also gave the city
the go-ahead on the formation
of an industrial development
committee for the City of Ma-
this.
The council gave Pfiefer the
authority to have an ordinance
drawn up for the formation of a
non-profit corporation of this
type in the city of Mathis.
The committee, according to
Pfiefer, will try to “aggressively
attract business and industry
to the city of Mathis.”
In other action, the council
passed a resolution authorizing
a quit - claim deed for al-
leyway in Block 6, Original Town
of Mathis, to the Missouri
Pacific Railway for the sum of
$350.
The counc’l denied a request
for a variance in the city zon-
ing laws on a building permit
to Jose G. Rodriguez.
Rodriguez had asked the city
to allow him to place a 40-foot
house on a 50-foot lot allowing
unly five feet on either side of
the house and to put the house
22 feet back from the property
line, and then to put a 16 foot,
carport in front of that, thus
leaving the structure only 6 feet
from the property line.
The council agreed to go along
with him on the variance on the
side distances, but flatly reject-
ed the idea of the variation of
the zoning law which specifies
that a house be 25 feet from the
front property line.
Zoning laws require that a
house be six feet from the pro-
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-- THE MATHIS NEWS
VOL XLVII
Second Class Pustaum
Paid At Mathis. Texas
MATHIS, TEXAS, 78368, THU.RS., MORNING, JAN. 18, 1967
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE
Guthrie Publishing Co.
EIGHT PAGES — NO; 21
CINDY WRIGHT — A junior at
Mathis High School, is another
queen contestant from Mathis.
She will be reprtsentating the
Mathis FHA in the queen con-
test to be held at the Sinton
High School auditorium Tuesday
QUEEN CONTESTANT — Glen-
nis Edge, a senior at Mathis
High School is one of 14 con-
testants in the queen contest at
the San Patricio County Live-
stock Show .and Homemakers
Exhibit. She is representating
the Mathis FFA Chapter.
Plans Finalized For 1969 San Pat County
Livestock Show And Homemakers Exhibit
An announcement by San Pa-
tricio County Agent Dan Paw-
lik at the meeting of the San
Patricio County Fair Association
meeting Monday night re-
vealed that the 1968 show
would be dedicated to Marvin
Buetow, a former Mathis Area
farmer who was killed in a
traffic accident in December.
Pawlik said that Buetow had
been a faithful worker in the sho
in the past years.
Jerry Edmondson of Odem,
president of the fair association,
reported to the group of some
24 persons present that pre-
parations for the show was
progressing well, and that the
show was now financially stable.
He reported that of the 1968 bud-
get $6,000 for the show, that
some $5,862 had been pledged
so far.
This leaves the association
$132 short of the proposed bud-
get, but Edmondson reported
that they had $250 left over from
last years show, to boost the to-
tal funds for the show over
the $6,000 mark.
A breakdown of the pledges
from the San Patricio County
towns is as follows;
Mathis - $1,500; Taft $1,000;
Odem -$700; Sinton United Fund-
$2,000; Aransas Pass Fund -
$350; Gregory - Portland - $300;
and Ingleside - $200.
All of the quotas for the towns
have been met with the excep-
tion of the Sinton United Fund,
which only pledged $1800, which
is $200 short of the proposed
amount. This was due to what
Edmondson called a ‘‘mixup
in communications,” and the
Aransas Pass area which has
Forty ■ Six New Books
In Mathis Library
Forty - six books have been
received at the library. They
will have some of these books
ready as soon as they cataloge
all of them. Some of the new
books are Tommy and Pepper,
The Three Bears, Little Red
Riding Hood, The True Story of
Smokey the Bear, The Golden
Bunny, Hansel and Gretel, Mr.
Hazelnut, Meet Dr. Dolittle,
Barbie’s Adventures at Camp,
The Goat that Learned To Count,
Heide, The Happy Twins, An-
gel Child.
Fair Queen
Contest Draws
14 Candidates
Babar Loses His Crown, Las-
sie Finds A Way, Top Cat, My
Elephant Book, Plush, Scram-
bled Egg Super, Alice In Won-
derland, Frostie The Snowman,
A Big Ball of Spring, Stories
That Never Grow Old, The Call
of The Wild, Storeies To Read
To The Very Young, Travels
of Dr. Dolittle, Fish Do The
Strangest Things.
Freddie Bear, Thumbelina,
Playful Puppy, Pinocchio, Black
Beauty, T he Sneet'ches and
Other Stories, Don and Donna
Go To Bat, Kathy and the Doll
Buggy, Yertle the Turtle and
other Stories, Bambi’s Children,
The Ginger Bread Man, Walt
Disneys Peter Pan, Walt Disneys
Old Yellow, Puss In Boots,
The Speeping Beauty.
The annual contest to name
a queen of the San Patricio
County Agricultural and Home-
makers Show will be held at
7:30 p.m on January 23 and
there are 14 girls seeking the
crown. The contest will be held
in the auditorium of the new
Sinton High School.
The entries and their sponsors
are Frances Spiekerman. Odem
FHA; Mary Gillespie, Odem
FFA; Judy Wallace, Odem 4-H;
Cmdy Wright; Mathis FHA;
Glennis Edge, Mathis FFA;
Cheryl Shelburne, Taft FFA;
Janet Marek, Gregory-Port-
land FHA; Margaret Rhule, In-
gleside, 4-H; Debra Carlisle, St.
Paul 4-H; Jackie Davis, Ingle-
side FHA; Betty Bess, Sinton
FFA; Katherine Cabla, Sinton
4-H; Merida Deanda, Sinton
FHA; and Joan Miller, West
Sinton 4-H.
The girl who is chosen queen
will reign at the 18th annual
fair which is set for January
25 to 28 at the fair grounds in
Sinton.
School Census
Is Progressing
Mrs. Augusta Henderson, tax
assessor and collector for the
Mathis Independent School dis-
trict, announced Monday that
the school census is now well
under way.
Mrs. Henderson, who is the
trustee for the election, is being
assisted in the census by Mrs.
Glroia Franco and Mrs. Mar-
tha Pilgrim who are serving as
enumerators.
“We would like to ask all
parents who haven’t been con-
tacted by these enumerators to
call us at the school business
office,” Mrs. Henderson ex-
plained. “We are not able to
reach all of the parents in town,
because in seme coses it is dif-
ficult' to catch them at home.”
The phone number of the
school business office is KI7-
3291.
only half of the $300 alotted
pledged.
Pawlik .reported to the group
that there are currently 69 en-
tries in the fat steer showing;
29 in the breeding beef; seven
in the dairy cattle division;
261 fat hogs; 76 breeding swine;
75 fat lambs; 17 breeding sheep;
124 pens of broilers; 11 pens of
hens; 6 capons; 2 turkeys; 75
pens of rabbits; and 59 horses.
Chairmen of the individual
committees for the show gave
their reports on the progress, of
each of the committees. Each
reported that the work of each
of the committees was coming
off smoothly.
J M., Edmondson, represent-
ing the Mathis Chapter of the
Young Farmers of America,
revealed that his organization
was inviting 12 wounded Viet-
nam veterans to attend the show
compliments of the Mathis
Young Farmers.
Edmondson said that the 12
boys, who would all be from
Texas, would be picked up by
the chapter on the 27th of Jan-
uary at the Naval Air Sattion
in Corpus Christi.
Pawlik, speaking on rule
changes for the 68 show, reveiw-
ed each of the chaiges with com-
mittee heads, and answered
questions on the new rules.
Only one of the rule changes
affects the gneral rules of the
showi That is An application
for entry - each person will be
given a receipt for entry.
Other changes in the rules of
the classes included the rule
which allows only four lambs
per exhibitor in the show, re-
gardless of class or age. The
time for the judging of rabbits
has also been changed, from
Friday night to 9 a.m. Friday.
According to Pawlik, this was
necessitated because of the av-
ailability of a judge.
Another change in the show ru-
les boosted the premium s in
each of the divisions in the
show.
Pawlik also reported that a
new, portable scale, with half
pound graduations would replace
the old platform scales at
the Fair Grounds. The old
scales were graduated on 5-lb.
basis.
A special premium of 30 for
the grand champion fat hog
and a 20 premium for the re-
serve grand champion fat. hog
has been donated to the show.
The show will get under way
Tuesday night with the queen
Visual Testing For
Youngsters Given
Eye Testing for first and se-
cond grade students in the Ma-
this School system began Tues-
day, according to Mrs. Farley
school nurse.
contest, which will be held in
the Sinton High School Auditor-
ium at 7:30.
Thursday, the stiffing of all
of the breeding aniamls in the
show will take place at 5 p.m.
On Friday, the judging in the
show will begin at 9 a.m. with
the horse judging, and the rabbit
judging. This will be followed at
1 p.m. by the grading of all of
the fat animals in the show.
The order of grading will be;
Fat hogs; fat lambs, and then
fat steers. At 6 p.m. the judging
of the poultry will take place.
On Saturday, January 27, the
show will kick off with the judg-
ing of all breeding animals
from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
This will be followed at 1 p.m.
by the judging of fat lambs; at
2 p. m. by the judging of hogs,
at 6 p.m. by tht judging of
fat steers; and at 8 p.m. by
the selection of champions.
The livestock exhibit in the
show will be viewed by the pu-
blic from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sun-
day.
In the homemakers division,
the judging will begin at 9:30
a.m. Thursday with the judging
of the individual entries; This
will bo followed at 2 p.m.. by the
modeling for the judges (not
open to the public) and at 4
p.m. by the judging of the elu-
cational exhibits (not open to
the public.)
On Friday, from 9 a.m all
to the exhibit's will be open to
the public, and at 3:30 p.m.
Sunday, a style show will be held
in the Sinton High school Au-
ditorium.
James Knight Named State
Vice President of Young Farmers
James Knight, a cotton and
milo farmer from the Mathis
Chapter of the Young Farmers
of America was named first
America was named first
vice-president of the State
Young Farmers 14 th Annual
state convention held in
Austin Saturday.
Knight headed a delegation
from Mathis Chapter that at-
tended the convention.
Others who attended, the meet
were; Bill Steoihammer; J.M.
Edmondson Jr.; James Davis
Mrs. James Knight, John Lloyd
Bluntzer and wife, and Pearson
Knolle and wife.
At the convention, Billy Steel-
hammer received a 5 - year
advisor tenure, award, and Knol-
le was recognized as’ the area
10 star farmer runner-up.
According to Edmondson, area
10 was well represented at
the convention, with the Cuero
Chapter being named the top
Young Farmer Chapter in the
state.
Joe Heller of Weslaco was re-
cignized as the star farmer from
area 10.
EYE TEST Ampara DeLeon,
a second grade student at the
Mathis Elementary schools was
one of many first and second
grade students undergoing eye
past week. Shown helping in
giving the test is Hope Hernan
dez.
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