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All World War I Veterans
Invited to State Meeting
In Houston July 16-19
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Houston. — The Houston conven-
tion committe, Veterans of World
War I, Department of Texas, Inc.,
releases an invitation and public
information, as follows:
All World War I Veterans of
Texas, and elsewhere, their fami-
lies and friends, are cordially in-
vited to the State Convenfion of
their organization and Ladies Aux-
iliary in Houston, July 16-19, 1964,
at the Rice Hotel. All of the 200
barracks (posts) of World War I
Veterans throughout Texas have
been urged to send large delega-
tions.
It is strongly emphasized, how-
ever, that attendance is not limit-
ed to members of World War I
barracks and their Auxiliaries, but
the invitation is extended to all
World War I Veterans, members
of other Veterans’ organizations
and the general public. Chartered
by Congress in 1958, Veterans of
World War I of USA, Inc., with a
present 200,000 members Nation-
ally and 10,000 in Texas. (Member-
ship limited to WWI Veterans), is
not in competition with any other
Veterans’ organization but is ful-
ly co-operative in Veterans’ af-
fairs. Non-members will be regist-
ered as visitors at the convention
and may attend business sessions,
participate in social, activities,
conducted tours, etc. Eligible Vet-
erans may also apply for member-
ship at the convention.
Interest and enthusiasm is run-
ning high and this convention
promise to be a real “Old Soldiers’
Re-Union” and the largest assem-
bly of Veterans of World War I
in Texas in many years. Delegates
and visitors from near and far in
Texas, and beyond, will enjoy a
program of splendid entertainment
together with interesting and in-
formative business sessions.
A highlight of their visit to Hous-
ton will be a thrilling sightseeing
tour of the fast growing city, des-
tined to be the largest in the Unit-
ed States. The complete tour com-
bines rides on an air-conditioned
bus and boat to see the famous
Houston ship channel, great indus-
trial plants, battleship Texas, San
Jacinto battleground and monu-
ment, NASA—the space city, and
probably the new dome stadium,
Texas Medical Center and Her-
mann Park.
Convention sessions feature out-
standing speakers and discussions
and actions on pertinent subjects
involving world affairs, national
security and organizational activi-
ties for the welfare of World War
I Veterans and their families in
their declining years.
Jesse L. Caveness, convention
chairman, retired Harris County
Veterans Service Officer, and Miles
Wasson, convention co-chairman,
retired VA contact officer, both
well-known to thousands of World
War I Veterans throughout Texas,
urge all to attend this great gath-
ering of “Old Soldiers” July 16-19
to enjoy fellowship with wartime
buddies and to see the great things
in big and fabulous Houston. They
state that some rooms are still
available for reservation at the
Rice Hotel, convention headquar-
ters, or other downtown hotels at
reasonable rates, within walking
distance of the convention, bus
and railroad stations, and with
free parking to registered guests.’
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VOLUME X—NO. 47
REFUGIO COUNTY, TEXAS, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1964
TEN CENTS PER COPY
Some Are Old
Some Are New
Farm Manager's
Business Kit
University Park, Pa. — Finance
management, marketing and rec-
ord keeping form the business side
of farming. As agriculture be-
comes more and more commer-
cialized, good business manage-
ment becomes increasingly impor-
tant. No longer can farmers spend
all their time with plants and ani-
mals, and continue using check
stubs for their financial records.
To teach the business of farm-
ing, The Pennsylvania State Uni-
versity has three correspondence
courses offered as a Farm Manag-
er’s Business Kit. They are: Farm
Management, Marketing Farm
Products, and Farm Accounting.
Farm Management deals with
decision making on farms. It ties
together the facts gathered by
farm records, with the needs of
the agricultural market, and the
resources, financial and otherwise,
available to farmers.
Farm Accounting teaches dou-
ble entry bookkeeping. It‘s design-
ed for those wanting complete in-
put and output records for each
enterprise.
Marketing Farm Products pre-
sents agriculture’s system of mov-
ing foods and fibers from produc-
ers to consumers.
Anyone can obtain the package
of farm business courses simply
by sending his name and address
with $5.75 to Business Kit, Box
5000, University Park, Pa. 16802.
Mrs. Maximo Jasso
Of Austwell Dies
Austwell. — Mrs. Maximo Jasso,
80, died Sunday afternoon, July
12, in a Port Lavaca hospital after
a short illness.
She had been a resident of Aust
well most of her life and was
born in Roma. She was a member
of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church
and the St. Anthony Altar Society.
Funeral services will be an-
nounced by Rendon Funeral Home
of Port Lavaca.
Survivors are her husband;
four sons, Mike and Joe of Aust-
well, Jesse of Chicago, 111., and
Gilbert of Tearland; six daugh-
ters, Miss Simona Jasso, Mrs.
Lupe Martinez and Mrs. Noberto
Martinez, all of Austwell, Mrs.
Joe G. Martinez of Port Lavaca,
Mrs. Teofilo Torres of Edinburg,
and Mrs. Lupe Perez of Chicago,
111.; 35 grandchildren and 18 great-
grandchillren.
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HIGHLIGHTS AND SIDELIGHTS
Oilfield Waste
Order Readied
(Note: The information con-
tained in this weekly summary
of happenings in the world of
business and industry has been
obtained from sources we con-
sider reliable but is not guar-
anteed. Opinions and forecasts
are based upon careful analysis
but are subject to change with-
out notice.)
New York.—Whether or not a
new car is a status symbol, as
some insist, it is still about the
most popular thing for Americans
to purchase. Sales figures for ear-
ly 1964 show more cars being
bought than ever before.
Detroit reports joyfully that
sales for the first six months of
this year pushed very close to the
4-million-car level, and this fast
selling pace is expected to linger
through the rest of 1964.
There is one stumbling block.
Henry Ford II recently warned of
the possibility of a strike this sum-
mer if wage negotiations fail.
Nevertheless, optimism in Detroit
is hard to dampen.
Nor is Detroit alone in its pleas-
ed contemplation of high automo-
bile sales. The steel industry is an-
ticipating a record year in 1964,
with production in the neighbor-
hood of 118 million tons, a million
tons higher than the record out-
put of 1955. Automobile manufac-
turers are playing their part in
the steel industry’s sales rise.
OIL FROM SHALE IN 1967
2Teachers
Contracted
Woodsboro.—W. A. Reeves, sup-
erintendent of Woodsboro Schools,
announced two new school teach-
ers this week.
Miss Enedina De Los Santos will
be replacing Jesus Noreiga in
High School Spanish. Noreiga re-
signed to work on his Master De-
gree in Kansas.
Miss De Los Santos has one year
teaching experience. She is a
graduate of Texas A&I College.
Her hometown is Robstown.
The other vacancy was in Jun-
ior High Language-Arts. Mrs.
Louise Fossler’s place in this sub-
ject will be filled by Miss An-
tonia Garcia. Miss Garcia’s home-
town is Corpus Christi. She has no
experience. She has a Bachelor
degree from A&I College.
By VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
Austin.—New preliminary steps,
inching Texas toward the inevit-
able realignment of congressional
and legislative districts, were tak-
en last week.
Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr asked
that the federal district court at
Houston allow time for the Legis-
lature to redraw the districts in
its session next year ... as the
court had done earlier with con-
gressional apportionment.
In view of U. S. Supreme Court
decisions that both houses of the
state legislature must be selected
on the basis of population alone,
Carr concluded that there is little
doubt that Texas districts would
be declared unconstitutional.
In view of U. S. Supreme Court
decisions that both houses of the
state legislature must be selected
on the basis of population alone,
Carr concluded that there is little
doubt that Texas districts would
be declared unconstitutional.
Meanwhile, in Fort Worth and
Dallas a committee of the Texas
Legislature Council held its first
DeWitt-Gonzales River
Association Opposing
Dirt Dam Construction
public hearing seeking advice on
how congressional districts should
be redrawn.
A parade of witnesses was heard
before the committee recessed
briefly. It will move to Houston
for its third hearing on July 17. A
fourth hearing will be held in San
Antonio. Committee spokesmen
have indicated they may go to
West Texas, then perhaps return
to South Texas for further testi-
mony.
A session of the full Legislative
Council, research arm of the Leg-
islature, is scheduled for July 27
in Austin. At that time, the Coun-
cil is expected to decide whether
to broaden its own study to include
the explosive, close-to-home prob-
lems of recarving the state’s House
and Senate districts.
OILFIELD WASTE ORDER
As of August the Texas Railroad
Commission and the State Board
of Insurance will put into effect
1963 law which requires oil and
gas operators to file bonds with
the Railroad Commission. Re-
quirement is to assure that aban-
doned wells are properly plugged
in accordance with all commission
rules.
Law requires a $5,000 bond for
a single well. But it allows opera-
tors to post a $10,000 blanket bond
Hospital
Report
Refugio. — Patients listed in the
Refugio County Hospital Monday
morning, July 13, 1964, as report-
ed by the hospital office are:
From Refugio:
Oscar Lerma, Russel Sternadel,
Joe Benson, Henry Gore, Marie
Garza, Rosanne Vela, Keith Mark-
ley, Claude Henkle, Barbara Tro-
jcak, Juanita Garcia, Annie Ed-
wards, Henry Roland, Minnie Wil-
liams, Ola Haining, Carl Baum-
gartner, Amadeo Soliz, Francis
Ryals, Nora Whitenton, Edna Hol-
loman, Lydia Hilton, Encarnacion
Villanueva, Eloisa Vasquez, Gene-
via Anderson.
From Woodsboro:
Andres Lozano, Frank Wales,
Albert Rodman, Julio Aivola, El-
sie Levien, Elodia Escamilla.
From Elsewhere:
Joe Lopez, Tivoli; Ramon Ca-
ballero, Bayside; Audrey Baum-
gartner, Victoria; Euva Cortez,
Houston. — The Guadalupe-Bian-
co River Authority is trying to pull
the wool over the eyes of Texas
tax payers, the executive commit-
tee of the DeWitt-Gonzales River
Association charged today.
“By subterfuge the G-BRA is
trying to force San Antonio into
a corner where the people of Bex-
ar County will be forced to take
water from the dam proposed for
construction near Cuero,” the
group said.
In a recent meeting with the
San Antonio River Authority and
the Bureau of Reclamation, G-
BRA pushed through an agreement
that the City Water Board of San
Antonio would not oppose the con-
struction of a multi-million dollar
pipeine connecting Cuero and San
Antonio.
“Let’s bring this thing out in
the open,” the executive commit-
tee challenged. “The river author-
ity is trying to transport water
into an area that doesn’t want it
and will not buy it.
“San Antonio City Water Board
has said repeatedly, in public and
in the courts of the state, it does
not want to spend $186 million to
take the Cuero water uphill 78
miles. The only way G-BRA can
get congressional approval is to
Austwell; Alva Benham, Austwell. show there is a need for the wa-
ter and enough customers to make
it economically worthwhile to build
the dam.
“G-BRA cannot prove any of
these necessary facts without in-
cluding a dead-end pipeline to San
Antonio which they can use as a
false selling point to Congress,”
the executive committee pointed
out. The G-BRA doesn’t even have
a customer for the water that will
be impounded behind the newly
completed Canyon dam, except
for San Antonio and it won’t sell
the water to San Antonio because
it wants to force them to buy
water from Cuero.
“The river authority is trying
to put the squeeze on San Antonio
and then it will hurt the taxpayers
of Bexar County when they try
to pay for a gigantic dam at Cu-
ero.”
The association, which was form-
ed to “try and talk sense with the
G-BRA,” firmly opposes the con-
struction of the big dirt dam at
Cuero because it would ruin the
economy of the area and create
an unnecessary hazard to life and
property for everybody below the
dam. The proposed Cuero dam is
so big it would store 1,208,577,650,-
000 gallons of water, which is
enough to supply all of the United
States for 40 days.
Lions Elect
International President
Claude M. DeVorss of Wichita,
Kansas, was elected President of
Lions International at the Asso-
ciation's 47th annual convention
in Toronto, Canada, July 8-11.
Lions International, with 720,000
members in 124 countries, is the
world’s largest service club or-
ganization.
Lions International is best
known for its many youth pro-
grams, community service proj-
ects, sight conservation activities
and aid to the blind. Last year
Lions Clubs around the globe
completed more than 400,000 in-
dividual community projects.
covering all wells they operate.
Enforcement of the act is part
of the state’s drive to prevent
pollution of water supplies by oil-
field salt water.
ARCHIVES MURAL UNDER WAY
Work has begun on a $30,000
mural in the new Texas Archives
and Library Building. It will por-
tray state history from the days
of the Spanish explorers to the
present.
American painter Peter Hurd
and English artist Peter Rogers
who is Hurd’s son-in-law, will work
together on the 45 by 13 foot mur-
al. Texans will recognize among
the figures Stephen F. Austin, ‘the
Father of Texas; Sam Houston,
general, governor, senator, and
president of the Republic of Tex-
as; Anson Jones, last president of
the Republic; and Jim Bowie,
Davy Crockett and William B.
Travis, heroes of the Alamo,
Work is scheduled to be fin-
ished by September.
ARMY EXAMS
The number of 18-year-olds who
will be given Army mental-physi-
cal exams by Texas draft boards
during August will be increased to
2,762 (from 1,816 in July)
Tests are in line with the Presi-
dent’s call for examination of all
newly registered men out of school
and available for service. They
will not be considered for immed-
iate armed forces service. But
those failing the examination will
be referred to the Texas Employ-
ment Commission for advice and
counsel on jobs or job training.
Only about 225 in the draft age
bracket (most of them 22 or above)
will be examined next month —
and only 119 are scheduled for in-
duction during August.
This is the lowest induction call
for Texas since April, 1961, when
the quota was 65.
PORT ARANSAS BANK
APPROVED
State Banking Board approved a
charter application for Island
State Bank at Port Aransas.
A requested charter for the
State Bank of Hurst, in Tarrant
County, was refused. Action was
deferred on the proposed York-
town Community Bank and the
Cullen Center Bank of Houston.
SHORT SNORTS
James J. Kelly of Austin now
is assistant executive director of
Texas Industrial Commission, suc-
ceeding Bill R. Shelton who will
become general manager of In-
dustrial Development, Inc. of
Wichita Falls on August 1 . . .
Republican senatorial candidate
George Bush has appointed Jim
Allison, Jr. of Midland, former
executive vice president of the
Midland Reporter-Telegram, as
his assistant state campaign man-
ager.
There are a number of signs
these days that the nation’s com
mercial oil shale industry is tak-
ing definite shape. One of the most
significant developments in this
connection is the recent announce-
ment by The Oil Shale Corpora-
tion (TOSCO) that the first full-
size commercial oil shale plant
the United States is expected to be
in operation by January of 1967.
The announcement, made by
President Hein I. Koolsbergen
TOSCO’s annual meeting, includ-
ed a ground-breaking date set for
this coming September. Site for
the plant is the rich oil shale re
serves in the Parachute Creek
area of western Colorado, near
Rifle.
Koolsbergen told stockholders
that TOSCO “has expanded in con-
cept and size from an organiza
tion primarily directed to the de
Shale
1967
velopment of technologies for the
production of petroleum from oil
shale to a company which, hav-
ing developed technologies, now
has and will develop substantial
oil reserves.”
TOSCO will be joined in the ven-
ture, he said, by Standard Oil
Company of Ohio and Cleveland-
Qiffs Iron Company.
NEW 'COPTER, OLD PRINCIPLE
A jet principle first applied in
ancient Alexandria 2,000 years ago
may give modern America new
lightweight, mechanically simple
helicopters with increased passen-
ger and cargo capacities.
Final developmental work is be-
ing done on a helicopter power
plant which is a 20th Century ver-
sion of a propulsion system known
as “Hero’s Turbine” and believed
have been named after Heron
of Alexandria, a Greek geometri-
cian and writer on physics and
mechanics.
Hero’s Hurbine reputedly was a
water kettle with a duct to a
sphere. When the water boiled the
steam went through the duct and
out directed jets on the sphere to
produce rotation.
Hughes Tool Company’s aircraft
division,, originator of the modem
Hero’s Turbine, says its propul-
sion system eliminates all heavy
gear boxes and complex mechan-
ical drive components to achieve
mechanical simplicity and light
weight which conventional helicop-
ters cannot achieve.
Rotation of the three hollow ro-
tor blades of the Hughes system
results from forcing high-energy
gases through the hollow blades
and out blade-tip jets. The gases
are generated in two General
Elects
It is Deifeved tne new p^puisiora
system may eventually be adapted
to helicopters designed for botW
military and commercial use. The
company has no plans to produce
helicopters using the new power
system.
Cancer Society
Honors W. Carr
Dallas. — Attorney General Wag-
goner Carr has been honored by
the Texas Division Board of Di-
rectors of the American Cancer
Society for his outstanding work
as State Crusade Chairman for
the Society's 1964 Crusade. Dr.
William D. Seybold of Houston,
President of the Division made
the presentation at the meeting
of the Board July 8 in Dallas.
The award was made follow-
ing a report which showed that
Texas would exceed the previous
all time high of $1,575,000 raised
in Crusade last year.
Acting on the recommendation
of the education committee, the
Board authorized the purchase of
50 copies of the film “Smoking
and You”, a film for adults de-
signed to implement the Society’s
public education program on the
relationship of smoking to lung
cancer.
185 County units over the state
were recertified for the coming
year, and 3 units were put on pro-
bation until they could bring their
Cancer Control programs up to
the minimum standards set by the
Board in the areas of Education,
Service and Campaign.
In other action the Board au-
thorized a grant of funds to pre-
sent a session on the latest find-
ings relating to cytology and the
diagnosis of oral cancer at the
Annual Meeting of the Texas Den-
tal Association, and established
new district offices in Harlingen,
Waco, Wichita Falls and Long-
view.
THINGS TO COME
A cordless, battery-operated
slicing knife is expected on the
market next fall, as well as a
cordless, battery-operated vacuum,
cleaner, already perfected and
soon to be marketed.
The cigarette scare is reflected
in introduction of papaya leaf
cigarettes guaranteed to be free
of nicotine and tars. Nothing said
about taste.
Diamonds are a girl’s best
friend, but man-made diamonds
are preferred now for stereo
phonograph styli.
TO DYE OR NOT TO DYE
This is no longer the question
among the ladies. The $85-million-
a-year hair-coloring business as-
sumes that every girl and woman
will dye sometime. To make it
easier the manufacturers offer as
many hair colorings as there are
lipsticks and one of the latest of-
ferings comes in a tube with its
contents used like a shampoo. Are
we getting to the day when the
girls will color their hair to match)
their ensembles?
BITS O’ BUSINESS
Mortgage foreclosures are rising
sharply in some areas and some
experts lay the blame on "skips"
who walk away and leave the
house for mortgage holder.
U. S. corn production this fall
is expected to approach a record
high.
For the first time in the U. S.
there are more branches of na-
tional banks (7,886) than there are
national banks (7,439), one result
of our expanding economy.
Raw cotton exports from U. S.
rose 63 per cent in first eight
months of 1963-64 crop year to
nearly 3.8 million bales.
Mr and Mrs. Elma Anderson of
Refugio are the parents of a son,
born Saturday, July 11.
Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Ruiz of Re-
fugio are the parents of a girl
bom Monday, July 6.
REFUGIO COUNTY
TRAFFIC TOLL
/
1964
DEATHLESS DAYS
Last Death June 29, 1964
DEATHS THIS YEAR
1963 TRAFFIC DEATHS
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