The Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 05, Ed. 1 Friday, July 29, 1949 Page: 1 of 20
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JUDGE A. H. ROTHE, spark-
plug tor the new project, is
shown at the lower left in the
gtoup ot eiglit "prisoners" photo-
graphed in the hold-over cell
adjacent to the sheriff's office
on the ground floor. This cell will
be used for drunks and temporary
cases who do not need to be held
for a longer time. Those in the
picture are, left to right, fir>t
row: Judge Rothe, County Clerk
Howard Haby. Supervising Archi-
tect Joseph i’alie, and Sheriff Jack
Fusselman, who will move inty
his new home soon. Top row, left
to right: Commissioners .John G.
liritsch,- Hondo; C. W, Sweatt,
Devine; Charles B. - Lang’feld,
D'Hanis; and Hiimer Mangold,
Castroyitle • f #
SECOND SCENE SHOWS a
view of the cell accommodations
Upstairs. This cell will house six
hien. and their dining table .s
.shown.. It is made of heavy steel,
, and welded throughout. The six
coat hooks at the upper edge of
the picture are made with a
•„ break-a-way device *6 that a «man
can not hang himself on them:
They will hold up a normal load,
hut not the weight of a man.
Alsp visible is the window over
the -"food passage way, made of
heavy bullet proof glass. There is
a c speaking opening, through
which sound will travel, but which
. will not allow hacksaws or files to
be handed to the prisoners. This
will permit the prisoners to have
a visitor without the necessity of
a jailer watching. At the lower
left of this picture is a view of
the sanitary facilities in each cell,
including the toilet, wash basin
and shower. At the upper right
is an inset view of the big chrome
plated wheel that locks the up-
stairs cell doors — but it is not
inside where the prisoners can
reach it — much as they might
like to have it there.
THIRD PICTURE shows S. A.
Jungman, former county clerk,
signing the guest register while
his friend Ray Taylor looks on.
Mrs. A. H. Rothe. who was super-
vising the registration, is asking
another lady to give Mr. Jungman
some cookies.
DOWN AT THE BOTTOM is a
very sad scene. This is what the
prisoner can see of the outaide
world as the sun goes down.
Producers Plan Talks
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Vote On Aug. 6 rnday Night In Devine
Castroville,
Four Districts
Man Found Dead
Buried Tuesday
Eli Daniels, 78, whose body was
found last week near the Hondo
river bridge east of town, was
given a county burial Tuesday
after no relatives came forward
to claim the remains.
Daniels was found a half-mile
from the Hondo bridge east of
town last week, and appeared to
have been dead for about a month.
He had been staying at the Hondo
Rest Home, but left there on June
23.. He had been living in Devine
prior to coming here, and had
no relatives in Medina County.
Only known survivors are a
granddaughter, Mrs. Volney Braw-
ner of Poteet, and Mrs. Enid
Ross, a daughter living in Rerrv-
ville, Ark. Both told Sheriff Fus-
selman that they did not have
funds available to claim the body
and conduct the funeral. „
VOTERS TOLD ELECTION
IS LAST CHANCE'
FOR PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL
Voters from the Rio Medina,
Maverick. . Enterprise, Dunlay,
and Castroville school districts
will decide next Saturday, Aug.
6, whether they will group them-
selves into the Castroville Rural
High School District No. 1.
Those living in Castroville will
vote at the public * school ; those
from Maverick and Rio Medina at
the school house in Rio Medina;
and those at'Enterprise'and Dun-
Jay at- the Dunlay school housg.
Polls will be open from 8 to 7
P. M., and voters must have only
a poll tax or exemption to
participate. The new oaltot, which
contains a stub, will be utilized.
Castroville, Rio Medina and
Burrell were recently consolidated
bythe county board and establish-
ed as a rural high school district.
The proposed annexation will give
the new district more territory.
~ a larger nutnfaer of people for tax
purposes, and more farm land
under their taxing powers.
According to 'Chairman P. S.
Keller of the county board, the
next step after the annexation is
approved will be to vote bonds
for a new high school. At present,
there is no high school building
in Castroville.
A warning that this might be
the “last and only chance Castro-
ville will ever get to have a high
school in its own district" was
voiced by W. R. Griggs, president
of the Castroville school board.
Griggs said that he believed that
-a* the high school could be built
without too much taxation, as
“we now have the lowest valua-
tion of any district in the county."
The board president asserted that
there is no outstanding indebted-
ness against Castroville or any of
the other schools involved in the
annexation election. An Indebted-
ness of $3,500 which the C astro-
ville system had was paid off this
month.
Griggs stated that there would
be about 90 students who could
go to the. new LastroVille ltr^hr
School if the annexation and bond
—elections arc suer eyeful. The new
GRAIN
SHIPMENTS
BROOM CORN —
Shipped to date by rail, five
cars. Also several truck loads.
Prices ranged fro hi. $100 for
damaged corn to $250 for top
corn. Average of about $.230
for gopd corn. ■C1 « .
MAIZE —
1 „ Shipped to date by rail, 00
cars. Average prie'e of $1.60
r.> $! 05, deliver'd in Hondo.
Open House At
Medina Valley
Bank Saturday
The new $50,000 Medinft Valley-
State Bank of Devipe., will be
shown publicly fjpr the first time
Saturday, July 30, when an open
house will be held, according to
the bank’s president, \V. W. Bain.
Saturday is the twelfth an-
niversary of the bank's founding
by the. Bain family on July 17,
1937, Bain said.
The new bank is said to be
one of the most modern of its
kind and includes a night deposi-
tory. drive-in window, safety
deposit boxes, and completely
air conditioned by refrigeration.
The building is of brick, stone,
and tile construction and the
wills of the concrete and steel
vault are eighteen inches thick. A
three-ton door, with time locks on
both the door and safe, closes the
vault. _
A banquet at Bain's home will
precede the open house Friday
evening.
district would have some 539
scholastics in it. One of the ad-
vantages of the enlarged dis-
trict, according to Griggs, woubt
be that all school children woulo
get free transportation if they
lived two miles from the school.
CASTRO FIRE DEPARTMENT
SPONSORS DANCE JULY 31
CASTROVILLE — The i ’astro-
ville Volunteer Fire Department
will sponsor a benefit dance Sun-
day night. July 31. beginning at
8 P. M. Pat Lafferty and the
Boys will furnish the music.
Funds derived from the dance
will be used toward improving the
fire department.
POLIOv ICTIM IMPROVES,
DUE TO COME HOME SOON
Roberto Garcia, 11 month old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Garcia,
is improving in a San Antonio
hospital from an attack of polio,
and is expected to be released
soon, according to Dr. R. W.
lenders.
Something New This
| eek In Your Paper
-*sThis week you may notice
something different about The
Anvil Herald. It is the new type
style on our regular features.
Each is headlined in a similar
manner, so that it will be easier
for you to spot your favorite
column as you turn the 20 pages
of this week's Anvil Herald.
There’s a new column, too. We
hope you will look for PERSON-
AL APPEARANCE, a brief little
bit of gossip about people you
know. It ran in The Anvil Herald
about ten years ago, but was dis-
continued after a few months.
You’ll find SPARKS wearing a
different look, along with
FLETCHER DAVIS, the REAL
ESTATE TRANSFERS, and even
our “name-plate", which tells
the price of subscriptions, when
the paper was established, and
other necessary information.
The second meeting of the new-
ly organized Broom Corn Produc-
ers Association will be held in
. Devjne, Texas, Friday night at 8
p. m., July 29, at the high school
auditorium.
All growers, bankers, arid
people who have an interest in the
production of broom, corn are
"’cordially invited to attend this
meeting, which will be principally
devoted to the organization work
necessary to make the Broom
Corn Producers Association ef-
fective and • profitable for t|ie
farmers.
The next big problem will be
to extend the organization's news
•gathering facilities to all broom
corn producing areas in the United
States, so that farmers will be.
able to learn the facts about
quality of crops, favorable and
unfavorable rain>, marketing prac-
tices and prices, and all other in-
formation to help guide them in
their business. ^
By-laws for the association will
be presented and discussed, and it
is believed that 500 producers
may be in Devine for the second
meeting.
Hondo District
To Vote Again
Voters' of the recently enlarged
Hondo Independent School Dis-
trict will go to the polls once more
regarding the bond issue busi-
ness, this time to pa-s on the
questions raised by the addition
of the Peachtree district to the
previous group, and1 to vote on
assumption of bonded indebted-
ness now outstanding against the
Hondo Independent School Dis-
trict. ___ j____
There will he no change in tax
rates, and no change in valua-
tions, according to Superinten-
dent Hons Richards. He said that
the bond assumption part of this
election has been made necessary
by an opinion of the Attorney i
General which states that the en-
tire district must participate in
the bond payments before any
nqw bonds can be issued.
The original Hondo Indepen-
dent District went through a
board of equalization session re-
cently that increased school tax
rates on many people in the City
of Hondo, in accordance with a
promise made by the school board
that the incoming districts would
not have their tax valuations
changed. Total increase in local
valuations amounted to $495,674.
Valuations for the original
Hondo district are now $2,275,389
compared with $1,779,715 in
1948. The enlarged Hondo Inde-
pendent School District, including
Preachtree, has a total valuation
of $3,548,579. ________
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANVIL HERALD STUDIO
THREE MEN CONVICTED
FOR STEALING AUTOMOBILE
Charles Chase and Val Symond,
soldiers from San Antonio, re-
ceived sentences of two years in
the penitentiary this week for
stealing a car in San Angelo last
month. Ray Marshall, 18, a
civilian who was with the soldiers,
turned state’s evidence and was
put on five year’s probation.
The men stole the car in San
Angelo and drove it to Medina
Lake where it was abandoned.
Tomatoes, Cabbage, Cauliflower,
Beans, Will Be Major Crops
NATALIA — Tomatoes, cabbage, cauliflower and
beans are expected to be the major drops grown here
this fall with the water recently released by the BMA
water district. ( '
The local cannery Has processed some spinach,
mostly hauled in from other areas, and it is not
known whether there will be much canning done here
this fall. Buyers are expected to come in when the
crops are ready, and most of it will be shipped out
by railroad cars or truck lots.
The irrigation district is counting on a September
to fill up the lake again — and the weather
are hoping that the usual fall downpours
will arrive on schedule arid in the right places.
rain
prophets
New County Jail Shown To Public
MEDINA COUNTY’S NEW $7Q,000 JAIL was
thrown open for public inspection recently, and The
Anvil Herald news photographer was on the job to
show the other 15,400 people what it looks like. (There
were 605 visitors registered during the tour, and with
a county population estimated at somewhere around
16,000, it may be that 15,400 people were not
pVesent). Here are the pictures for those of you
who didn’t get around to the opening.
.AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE is the new jail
which Medina county has jrist completed to house
prisoners and the sheriff. The doors shown lead to
separate garages, and the one on the left has am
automatic lift. When the sheriff or a deputy drives
up, a button is pressed inside the car which operates
a magnetic door control. The garage door goes up,
the car drives in, and then the door comes dows
again. It is not necessary to get out of the car to
open the door.
The other view shows the old jail and living
quarters, and the new jail as well. The door on the
new jail opens into the sheriff’s home, separated
from the prisoner compartments by a solid wall and
steel doors.
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HONDO, MEDINA COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1949
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David, Allen. The Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 05, Ed. 1 Friday, July 29, 1949, newspaper, July 29, 1949; Hondo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth648508/m1/1/: accessed April 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hondo Public Library.