Frio-Nueces Current (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1991 Page: 4 of 16
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S.M. True was re-elected Presi-
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Our delegates. President Joe Crisp
and his wife, Linda, enjoyed the
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Cotulla — Oscar Gonzalez
graduated validictorian of the
Cotulla High School senior class
of 1986 and is the first Cotulla
student to attend Stanford I ni
versity in Standford, Calif. He is
the son of Valentin and Juanita
Gonzalez of Cotulla.
After graduation, he attended
the University of Texas in Austin
where he received a Bachelor's of
Science and .Mechanics Engineer-
ing Degree with highest honors in
May 1991. During this time, he
had the opportunity, through the
Education Cooperative Program,
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In Dilley on October 5, Rachel
was once again joined by Mary Jo,
and Bret Boatwright in the 4th
Annual Ranch Rodeoesta Parade.
Before the parade got underway
at 11:00 a.m. they were awarded a
first place trophy for outstanding
representation.
November 2 was the next stop
made. On Saturday, Rachel. Mary,
and Bret attended the Carrizo
Springs Annual American Legion
Homecoming Parade. A first place
ribbon was mailed later to the
Chamber for this parade.
The final destination on the
map was Crystal City. On Satur-
day, November 9, Crystal City held
their Annual Spinach Festival
Parade. For this parade Rachel
and Marleni represented the La
Salle County Chamber of Com-
merce.
Rachel and her Court would
like to thank all of the people who
helped make all of their travels
possible. Rachel would like to say
thank you to all of the moms,
dads, and even her uncle who
helped her out.
Cotulla -The 58th Texas Farm
Bureau Convention held in Lub-
bock last week came to an end
with a lot accomplished.
Roxie Lee Hillje, 20, of Cot-
ulla was crowned the 1991 Oueen
by Mechell Grahm reigning Miss
Texas Farm Bureau.
Roxie received a $2,000 schol-
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Lubbock -- Awards for county
Farm Bureau public relations,
safety and membership were pre-
sented during Texas Farm Bureau's
58th annual state convention here
Monday.
The 10 counties receiving public
relations awards for their scrap-
book entries include: Cherokee.
Colorado. Dawson. Fayette, Lam-
pasas. Lavaca, McLennan, Me-
nard, Montague and Van Zandt
Counties.
Those counties were judged to
have done the best job during 191
in public relations activities, inlcud
ing public media coverage and the
useoforganizational newsletters
Blanco County Farm Bureau
won the safety award. The award
is presented annually to the County
Farm Bureau judged to have
conducted the best safetv educ 1-
lion program during the past year.
Glen G. Grote of Junction City is
the president.
Cooke County received 11 B's
County Young Farmer & Rancher
Committee deemed to have car
ried out the best program tor
involvement of farmers and ranch-
ers up to age 35.
Matt Bezner of Lindsey, as
chairperson ol the Cooke County
Farm Bureau, receives one year's
free use of a 1992 half-ton Ford
Roxie Lee Hillje
... 1991 Miss Texas Farm Bureau
Sue Taylor, Laura Barnes and
Gayle Sportsman went to San
Antonio last Monday and had an
enjoyable day shopping.
Jimmy and Gayle Sportsman
and two daughters left Loreen
Daughtrey’s last Tuesday to re-
turn to their home in Riodoso,
New Mexico.
Marvin and Pat Jenkins went
to San Antonio Tuesday.
Mary Virginia Landrum had
her two daughters home for
Thanksgiving. Jan and Richard
Aaron and daughter, Amanda,
came from Orlando, Fla. and Vicki
and Charlie Spickerman and son,
Chuck, came from Odem, Texas.
Evelyn Parker had the Landrums
for Thanksgiving Day in Encinal.
Besides Mary Virginia, the Aar-
ons and Spickermans, there were
Johnnie and Mary Lou Landrum
and three sons, Andy and Bonnie
Landrum and two daughters, all
from Cotulla. They all enjoyed
the day but Evelyn suffered a heart
attack on Sunday evening and was
rushed to Methodist Hospital in
San Antonio where she still is.
Tests have proved three by-passes
must be made. Surgery will be
performed some time this week.
Evelyn is such a great Farm Bu-
reau director and we arc all pray-
ing for her recovery.
June Ann Flowers Ashley lives
in Rockport instead of Alice as I
reported last week.
Mark Plocek from Carrizo
Springs and Randy Pullen from
Pleasanton enjoyed an evening visit
at the Plocek Ranch on Sunday.
Malvin and Jessie Plocek went
to Kenedy on Saturday. Jessie’s
father, Andrew Overby, and a
brother, Waymond, are buried in
the city cemetery and it was her
father’s birthday, December 7,
1895. She took flowers for their
graves.
They visited Gladys Overby
Livingston, Margaret Overby
Octkins, and Oda Overby at the
Green Nursing home; Elvin and
Cotulla - The 1991 La Salle
County Fair Queen, Rachel Crane
and her Court, Little Miss Piggy
and Little Boss Hog completed
their year of representing La Salle
County by attending local parades
in our area. They not only repre-
sented our county, but they also
represented the La Salle County
Chamber of Commerce as they
traveled down a long road of pa-
rades.
The first stop Rachel made down
the long road of parades was in
Poteet. She and her Court, Little
Miss Piggy Mary Jo Piland and
Little Boss Hog Bret Boatwright
traveled to Poteet on Saturday
April 13wheretheyweremetbya
little rain. Lucky for them the
rain let up and the parade went
on. Poteet was the farthest desti-
nation on the map this year.
Their next stop was on Satur-
day, April 20. Rachel, Mary Jo,
and Bret attended the Freer Rat-
tlesnake Round-Up Parade. As
they passed the announcer’s booth,
they were awarded a second place
ribbon for their good representa-
tion
On May 18, the three busy bodies
traveled to Jourdanton. There
they participated in the Jourdan-
ton Kaktus Kick Parade. They
got off to an early start by setting
up for the paradeat 9:00a.m. The
parade itself got underway around
10:00 a.m. that morning.
The next destination on the
map was Pearsall. Little Miss Piggy,
Mary Jo Piland was unable to
attend this parade, therefore,
Rachel called on the first runner-
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Recognition was also given to
counties showing the largest gain
in membership, the highest re-
newal percentage, the largest
number of new members and the
longest continuous gain.
Winners in the largest gain
category were: Cass, Tom Green,
Gregg, Rockwall, Cooke, Smith,
Live Oak, Erath, Robertson and
Refugio Counties.
Recognized for the largest
number of new members were:
Collin, Hidalgo, Bell, Ellis, Bra-
zos, Jim Wells, McLennan, Har-
ris. Denton, and Brazoria Coun-
ties.
Cited lor the longest continu-
ous gain were: Lampasas, 44 years;
DeW nt. 42 years; Karnes, 37years;
Cass, Franklin, San Augustine,
Cooke, Lubbock, Morris and
Willacy Counties, 11 years each.
Recognition was given for the
highest renewal percentage: Fay-
ette. Austin, LaSalle, Briscoe,
Karnes, Guadalupe, Gillespie,
Milam. Wilson and Baylor Coun-
ties.
Texas Farm Bureau finished
fiscai year October 31 with 296,024
member families. TFB is the larg-
est general farm organization in
Texas.
The 25 th edition of Who’s Who,
published in 15 regional volumes,
features nearly 700,000 students
or just over 5 percent of the na-
tion’s 12,000,000 high school stu-
dents. They represent 18,000 of
the 22,000 public, private and
parochial high schools in the
country.
Who’s Who students also
compete for over S75,0XX in schol-
arship awards and participate in
the publication’s annual opinion
poll of teen attitudes. The book is
distributed to 15,(XX) high schools,
colleges, universities and public
libraries throughout the country.
Local students selected for this
year’s volumes are: Curt B. Bris-
coe, David Colchado, Leticia
Flores, Annabelle Garcia, Susie
Garcia, Grace Gonzalez, Stacie
Hillje, Shawn Mitton, Oscar J.
Rios Jr., McClean Van Cleve, Jodie
Cantu, Irene De Los Santos, Reyes
Galvan, Frankie Garcia, Erica
Gonzalez, Juanita D. Gonzalez,
Almira Nuvia Lopez, Marisol
Muriel and Jennifer L. Tenery.
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COTULLA - A total of 19
students from the Cotulla area
have been included in the 25th
Silver Anniversary Edition of
Who’s Who Among American
High School Students, 1990-91.
Who’s Who, published by
Educational Communciations,
Inc., Lake Forest, Illinois, is the
largest high school recognition
publication in the country. Stu-
dents are nominated by high school
principals and guidance counsel-
ors, national youth groups,
churches or by the publishing
company based upon students’
performance in scholarship award
contests or extracurricular activi-
ties.
Final selection is determined
on the basis of criteria which in-
cluded high achievement in aca-
demics and leadership in school
activities, athletics or community
service. Traditionally, 99 percent
of Who’s Who students have a
grade point average of"B"or bet-
ter and 97 percent are college-
bound.
Lorette Overby at Paunee and
Alma Overby w ho lives by herself
between Pawnee and Mineral. I
was born at Overby in Karnes
County. Soon, there will be no
family there to visit.
Edward and Louella Schulz
entertained a host at their ranch
north of Fowlerton during Thanks-
giving. Those who came were Mr
and Mrs. Glen Matthews and
daughter, Regina; Mr. and Mrs.
David Delcourt; Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Bargfrede and daughter, Brenda;
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nester, and
children, Julie and Justin; Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Matthews, Jr. and fam-
ily, Sandi and Bubba; all of San
Antonio; Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Vil-
larreal of Hondo; Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Natuse and family; Joe and
Ben from Kerrville; Rene Del-
court, who is attending college in
Denton; David Delcourt, 11 and
wife, Whitney, who brought an
Exchange Student from Paris,
France. Clemont Levoux was
fascinated with South Texas, he
had never seen a pickup until he
got to the United States. They
killed a large rattlesnakeand gave
him the rattles; they found an arrow
head which he proudly possessed
to take back to Paris.
Vernon and Madelin Brown at
Los Angeles had a host of family
for Thanksgiving. Dianne and
John Mac Diarmd and three sons
from San Antonio, Bill Stokes and
children from Katy; Allan and Gail
Brown and children from Tilden;
Charlie Brown, Ill and wife, Di-
anne & girls from Cotulla; their
son Mark’s wife & daughter. Hanan
and Suzie, from San Antonio. Mark
will be home from Saudi Arabia
in the spring. For the Thanksgiv-
ingweekend they had Sandra and
Ford Taylor and daughter, Whit-
ney, from College Station and a
number of grandchildren.
Mary and Roy Martin were in
San Antonio one day last week
and had lunch with Margaret Ann
Kimble Jarett from Boerne.
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Marleni. and Bret rode in the
Annual Pearsall Potato Festival
Parade, and were awarded a third
place ribbon.
Saturday, September 28, Little
Miss Piggy and Little Boss Hog
were unable to attend the parade.
Therefore, Rachel rode in the Lytle
Homecoming Parade on her own.
After the parade, Rachel was highly
complemented for her represen-
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and received a General Dynamitec
Certificate with a large framed
picture of the plane.
Oscar passed all qualifications
with honors to enter Stanford and
is doing well. He has been pre-
sented a number of helpful schol-
arships to further his education.
His family and community are
very proud of him and wish him
well He has two brothers,
Valentin, Jr. and Fernando
Gonzalez.
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Fair, Wilton H., Jr. Frio-Nueces Current (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1991, newspaper, December 12, 1991; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1677038/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Alexander Memorial Library.