The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 Page: 4 of 70
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IN THE VALLEY --
OUT OF THE VALLEY -
■IS
A Clean-up
Campaign’
All cities are supposed to
have ‘clean-up campaigns’
and the idea gets to be sort
of dull and uninteresting to
the general public,..BUT a
casual glance at rubble-
strewn streets, sidewalks
and alleys, and at piles and
boxes of discarded items and
just plain junk around some
homes and stores should
sharpen our interest consi-
derably,
HAUL THAT STUFF out-
side and call City Hall for a
truck to come and pick it
up this week.
■ Plan a large or small
The Merce
Mercedes, Texas, 78570, Thursday, April 14, 1966
ENTERPRISE STAFF PHDTD
MERCEDES LIBRARY SCENE ... students typify broad, constant use.
BOOKS: 15,546; READERS: 9,073
Library Open Houses
For Public Next Week
Mercedes residents will Pan American college, new
have an opportunity to be- educational programs in
come better acquainted with Mercedes, and a greater
the Mercedes Public Li- number of winter-only resi-
chant, Roger Jones and Gil-
bert Dominguez.
The library is financed in
Mercedes through funds
from the city and county
and through fees and fines
trprise
Vol. 51 No. 15
Price 10c
Chamber, City Back Drive
For Community Clecn- up
Extra Collection
Trucks on Duty
Backed by the Chamber drivers will be provided, if
of Commerce and the City of the lender prefers.
Mercedes, a ‘Clean Sweep’ Purpose of the campaign
Clean-up Campaign is being is toencourage localcitizens
conducted throughout the city to make a joint effort to
this week. gather up unsightly and fire-
dangerous trash and rubble
City trash - collection from in and around their
trucks will be running on homes and businesses, and to
heavier schedules thanusual have it hauled away during
and extra trucks furnished the concentrated campaign
by helpful citizens will be period.
added for duty Thursday, After the trash is piled in
Friday and Saturday, convenient locations, near
First truck loan came the home or business, a tele-
from Interstate Fruit and phone call to City Hall—LO
Vegetable Company, Others 5-1531 or LO5-2262—will
were being added Wednes- bring a truck to pick it up,
day. The City also invites in-
Persons willing to lend ad- quires about use of City
ditional trucks are asked to equipment to clear vacant
C-C Banquet Night Near
Friday of next week--April 22--is date of the
annual Chamber of Commerce membership banquet
and more than 200 Chamber members and guests
are expected to attend. Sale of tickets, at $2,50 each,
by C. of C. directors and others will be accelerated
during the coming week.
“Your Mercedes Chamber of Commerce
earnestly solicits your support”, said new Chamber
president A. L. Clubb Jr. in a letter to members
this week.
Mr. Clubb said, “The officers and directors are
diligently working to make this meeting a huge suc-
cess, as it is vitally important at this time to let
the other communities throughout the Valley know
that Mercedes has a wide-awake, civic-minded group
of citizens,”
He urged all members to plan to attend the
April 22, Civic Center banquet and to take guests.
Texas House of Representatives Speaker Ben
Barnes is to be the featured speaker. Musical,
entertainment is planned and an “excellent dinner”
is promised.
lots.
notify City Hall or to call
Chamber Clean-upchairman
Howard Sparrow at LOS-
1882. Licensed, experienced
Cheerleaders
Named at MHS
Varsity cheerleaders for
the 1966-67 school year have
been named in elections at
paint job and some repair- brary’s facilities during six dents, plus school children,
ing. open house sessions planned An increase in the number of
An next week during ‘Library retired people here is also
pain annual clean-up week in Texas, 1966’- expected to increase usage, orials,
paign period is supposed to The local library is op- The city gives the library
focus public attentionon the The library will be open erated by a three-member $200 per month and the coun-
value of combined effort in on Wednesday, Thursday and staff and by a board of Mer- ty gives an annual contribu-
achieving safe and attra- Friday, April 20-22, between cedes residents. The staff is tion of under $600.
ctive homes, business pia- the hours of 9 to 11 in the Mrs Myrtle Lee head li- The Mercedes library has
ces and entire communites, mornings and 4 to 7 in the af- brarian; Mrs. Elmo Parker, 15,546 books in circula-
AND HERE a wear ternoons and evenings toac- assistant libararian, andCa- tion for 9,073 registered
tin for downtowners’ quaint Mercedes residents rol Barnes, student assis- adult and juvenile bor-
dip rt downtowners with the local public reading tant. On the library board rowers. Last year the
stores aid1 sidewalks into the and studying facilities and are Mrs. Curtis, Mrs. Woody library added 243 volumes
shifrina to inform the public of a new Tullis, Mrs. Garner George, to its collection and 334
street is mereely shifting the emphasis on expansion of Bob Sanders, Ernest Mar- borrowers to its rolls,
responsibility, and over- Texas libraries. T he expan-
at the gutter line. Do the EaLMERPEXT#.’“I City Commission Re-formed Monday
sweeping, then scoop it all ference on libraries last e Mercedes Citv Com-
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for you, leaving our town’s : Ray Hernandez greeting re-
face cleaner and less clut- The city’s library board elected Mayor John W. Bowe
tered, is studying plans now for and Commiss ionese George
. . expansion of the Mercedes Irby ?nd newly electeg.com
And it will keep the trash Public Library by construc- missioner Reynaldo Zuniga.
from plugging up our ex- tion of a new library build-
pensive new storm sewer ing, as well as making a
system, study of expanded usage dur-
Let’s get our town clean,
and keep it that way.
***#
contributions
and mem-
Mayor Bowe and Commis-
sioners Irby and Zuniga re-
peated the oath of office
with City Attorney John Do-
minguez.
Commissioners agreed to
amend the cooperation
agreement between the City
and the local Housing Auth-
WITH VILLANUEVA AS PRESIDENT
School Board Re-organizes,
Sets Calendar for 1966-67
Re-elected trustee Robert
Mercedes high school. Villanueva was elected
Ida Palacios is new head president of the Mercedes
yell leader. Others areBar- School Board Tuesday night,
bra Reger, Gilsie Knapp, And, after naming L. L. Van
Linda Marroquir, Lizzy Berg vice president, the
Galvan and Tina Solis. Ida, Board approved a school
Lizzy and Tina were calendar for 1966-67 and
re-elected. handled other routine busi-
Don’t Miss
C-C Banquet
All Chamber of Com-
merce members should be
planning to attend their an-
nual banquet Friday night of
next week, April 22. It is
an activity conducted in their
behalf—to get them all to-
; gether for a friendly even-
ing, to introduce new offi-
cers and directors to them,
to tell them what Chamber
leaders tried to do for their
city during the past year
and what new leaders hope to
do in the year ahead.
IT ALSO is an opportun-
Third NYC Project Approved
ing the next 20 years. At
the governor’s conference, A third consecutive Neigh-
he pointed out that a grow- borhood Youth Corps project
ing number of college stu- has been approved for Mer-
dents, retired men and wo- cedes. Last summer’s in-
men, technical workers and troductory program was ex-
winter visitors mean more tended through the past
usage of public libraries than school year as an in-school
ever before. NYC and the latter now has
This can be seen in Mer- •
cedes through the increase epp-c-l-pls
of Mercedes enrollees at 1
been extended for two and will be girls, who will, work
one-half summer months of for the City of Mercedes
1966. and the School District. One
crew of NYC boys will be
This summer, 74 young employed on School District
people will be paid $1.25 projects and three crews
per hour for 24 hours of work will work for the City,
each week. Fifteen of the 74
To Benefit
6th Grade
A dance to raise funds for
a picnic honoring students
who graduate from the sixth
grade at Kennedy Elemen-
tary school in May, is plan-
ned Saturday, April 16, at the
Mercedes Civic Center.
ority to permit inclusion of tions from banks to serve a
plans for a new, 80-unit depository of city funds for
apartment structure. Fed- the period beginning July 1,
eral Housing Authority ap- Applications will be accept-
proval of the new project ed at City Hall until 5 p.m.
was announced here two April 25, date of the Corn-
weeks ago. mission’s next regular
Advertisement this week meeting.
was approved for applica- And a proclamation by Ma-
yor Bowe was authorized
calling attention to obser-
vance of Law Day USA on estimate offered by fiscal
y ’ agents, it appears that the
AAre Barron To new tax cost to service the
" A . issue will be about 23.5 cents
Head TSTA Unit instead of the previously es-
Mrs. Della Barron, coun- timated 25 cents per $100
selor at Mercedes junior taxable property valuation,
high, is new president of . The Board approved mak-
the Lower Rio Grande Val- ing an application for in-
ley Educational Association, c lusion of an Area Vocationn-
local unit of the Texas State al School in new high school
Teachers Association, plans, the project to be im-
Officers to serve with her plimented if final approva1
through the next school year comes from the Texas d-
are C, G. Shanks of Los ucation Agency.nrn
Fresnos, first vice president That activity would pro-
Mrs. Willie Ruth Foerster vide government financial
of Edouch-Elsa, second vice support for two school pro-
president; Mrs. Libby Gilll- grams already in the curri-
1and of Raymondville, trea- terrieene
surer; Mrs. Olga deLafuente 10
of Mercedes, secretary, 1
The in-school program
ends May 27 and the summer
project begins May 30. Par-
ticipants must be in school
or planning to return to
school in September. They
will be directed by two paid
supervisors.
Two hours per week of
personal and vocational
counseling is another Youth
Corps requirement.
ness. culum. Distributive Educa-
The other newly-elected tion and Vocational Agricul-
trustee, newcomer Gilbert ture, plus Cooperative Vo-
Dominguez, was ill and un- cational Office Education, ~
able to attend his first ses- Industrial Cooperative
sion. He will take the oath Training and Trades and In-
of office at the May meeting, dustries. 1
Next school year will open A three-year contract with -
on Monday, August 29, and attorney J. D. Vollmerwas ,
follow a 176-day schedule of approved for service as the s
instruction, ending withgra- District 8 delinquent tax
duation exercises at Tiger torney,
Stadium on May 25, 1967, . Doyle Slayton (pictured
(Thio 27 mm below), a native of Pharr
program tine mint or May
Migrant School will run was-employed as freshmen
from October 31, 1966, to football coach at MHS. The s
Mav 10 1967 action frees Frank Airing-3
A 22-year retirement ton move up to head bash
schedule for a $600,000 bond ketballcache . =
plans ..re-imaantoeenign ^^Mahl
bonds on Mav 10 an ment of Mrs. Clyde Hollo s
bonds on May 10. In an for duty at the Migrant School
and approval of a payroll
deduction plan for teachers+,
who want to join the Wesla- X
co Teachers’ Credit Union,
MVEC Sets
Meet Here 1
On April 19"
ity for Chamber members The dance is sponsored
to demonstrate their sup- by the Kennedy Elementary
port for and appreciation of PTA. Hours are 8 p.m. to
the hopes and plans of the midnight. Music will be by
leaders they have elected, the ‘Memories’ of Weslaco.
Don’t be cynical about this
Chamber of Commerce busi-
ness. Without this type of
organized activity in the
business community the only
direction the economic chart
can head is downward.
Don’t complain about what
somebody is not doing for
you...get together with the
others and help do it for
yourself.
THINK POSITIVE, be a
booster.
And show your support
for community action by at-
tending the—your—annual
banquet April 22.
Admission tickets will also
be used in selection of a door
prize winner. Door prize is
a transistor radio.
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Rainfall this year: 4.19
ENTERPRISE STAFF PHOTO
BUILDING AWARD— The aircraft hangar-museum
of the Confederate Air Force was selected as a
1966 'Building of the Year' and a merit award was
made to CAF Colonel Lloyd Nolen, above left, in
ceremonies Tuesday. Also shown are Dale Keelin
of Pharr, representing Valley Ready Mix Concrete,
Inc., of Harlingen, the company planning the 120'
x226' structure. At right is George Mats of Hous-
ton of Stran-Steel Franchised Builders, creator of
the awards program. The clear-span CAF museum
was rated the best of 1,000 other aircraft hangars
built in the world Last year by Stran-Steel fran-
chised builders.
'MOUSE THAT ROARED'
Seniors' Play
Is April 20-21
Seniors at Mercedes high son, Diane Schwarz, Nelda
school present their annual Martinez, Esmeralda Ra-
class play to an afternoon mos, Yolanda Moreno, Ca-
audience at the auditorium rol Barnes, Diana Tijerina,
Wednesday, April 20, and Janis Sumerlin, Dolores de
they plan a 7:30 p.m, stag- la Torre, Jackie Maloy, Car-
ing Thursday, April 21. ol Vogel, Kathleen Salmon,
Frances Jackson, Sagrario
“The Mouse That Roar- Ramirez, Paul Kay Pemelton
ed”, a political comedy, is and Alicia Wisner.
title of the play. Faculty Boys in the play are Rex
director is Jimmy Pinker- Downing, Ralph Cintron,
ton, assisted by Al Smith, John Smither, John Irvin,
Student stage hands are Patrick Tankersley, Jaime
Brenda Creel, Joe Ann Jones Garza, Santiago Robles, Juan
and Gus Harp Jr. Amaya, Richard Brown, 0-
Girls in the cast are mar Flores and Tommy Ter-
Cheryl Adams, Linda Ander- ry.
Members of the Magic ”
Valley Electric Coopera-N
tive, with headquarters at
Mercedes, will hold their
29th Annual Meeting, Tues-M
day, April 19, at 8 p.m.
in the auditorium of Mer-,"
cedes high school. #
Two Directors to the
Board are to be elected for
three-year terms. At dis-
trict meetings, held recent-
ly, Carl Vassberg, of Lyford,
and Jim C. Green, of
Brownsville, were nominat-
ed for re-election from Dis- A
TO COA CH -- Doyle
Slayton, above., of
Pharr and McMurray
College, will be new
MHS freshman foot-
ball coach next year.
1 tricts 1 and 2, respectively. *
1 Reports will be submitted ‘
by the Cooperative’s presi-
dent, Herndon C. Aderhold, ,
Edinburg; secretary-trea-1 ,
surer R. M. King of Pri- / i
I mera, and manager LeeGan- ' 1
I dy of Donna,
A special feature of the !
1 evening will be the presen-
I tation of talks by the Co-
operative’s Youth TourOra-
I torical Contest winners Alen L
Johnson, Santa Rosa high i
1 school junior, and Claudia i
Bagby, a junior student at i
Rio Hondo high school. Both !
will be going to Washington, :
D.C., in June for a two-
week, all expenses-paid tour) 1
as guests of the Cooperal i
tive. E
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