The Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1950 Page: 1 of 16
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fio jailed Monday
or Castro Robbery
THE HONDO
16 Pages
VOL. 65
Aimvil Herald
10c
HONDO, MEDINA COUNTY, TEXAS, APRIL 7. 1950
NUMBER FORTY ONE
rusteesName
D ut Charlm Hitzfelder take* handcuff* off John I. Davi* while
a companion*, »rre*ied fey armed robbiry, look on. To Hitz-
(eft are Billy Archer (face covered with hand) and Donald E.
rS Pat'ciman Neland Black and Henry Halier are to the lighi.
owner 0f the station robbed, i* below. Blood on hi* clothing
°iu!t oi wound* suffered in a *cuffle with one of the men.
jrestea
ifter Chase
fear Dunlay
[hrej men wnv charged with
Li robbery foliowing a hold-
|0f the L Otto Service Station
Lie ea-it of Castfoville Monday
nt about S:30;
wir,;’ held in the Medina
fcty jail are Billy ‘ Archie”
Kiev, 21. of Houston, Donald
I Basham. 22. of Miami. Fla.,
John Iverson Davis, 24, of
trado Spring'. C do. They were
^«tej by Texas Highway Pat'*
tin Neland Black and Chief
Sheriff Charles Hitz- •
ef shortly-, after the robbery
nine a chase of about a mile,
cconiimr to voluntary state-
rs obtained- by officers from
and Bashain, the men enter-
Ihe nr v.re -tation and order-
soft drinks They paid Otto,
when he turned his back to
* change. Archer and Basham
id pistols and Davis a knife
demanded money from the
box. Otto and his son,
lard Jr., then grabbed at the
men with the pistols and
Sr.it the scuffle, Davis slashed
with a knife, and struck him
the head with a chair. The
fired one' ’shot during the •
fie, grabbed what Otto said
minted to about $25, and drove
ir a 1939 Chevrolet sedan.
young Otto telephoned
felder who contacted Black,
they left Hondo immediate*
® the patrolman’s car. They
repted the trio about a mile
of the Hondo River bridge
*duiir west, turned around
pulled up behind them flash-
the rej spotlight. When the
speeded up to esc ape. Hitz-
r opened fire with a ,4">
l then shot three hursts with
-utomatie rifle. Three bullets
automobile, one
causing a flesh
prated the
ptir Davi*
°rr h:s back and shoulder
m was injured by flying
... ar‘1 a,h.‘r a chase of about
■ ' they stopped the car and
Peered.
fht.'harn and Davis gave
‘’“Tytatements to officers.
Archer refused to do so.
, 8erv®d time in the
P netentiary and was due
| ’ in Houston Wednes-
a. urgUry Basham is want-
U'nTU'» violation of
[*“ P'ohation.
p?;. au<«»nobile belonged to
[hf ,t{)1" !tfl M°nda, and
L ,h,J kmns used in the
Ca wi,h a br«®f case.
net' liav" ,'ak°1 rharU>a* J'a
|aton a,1‘ Archer in
H bullet re‘
to a" 5 st»tion were
R to* ll, l!,n Patrolman
L a ballistics test.
ks to u"l the three men
of ;ra °tal of six the nom*
w":' h-'dup men ap-
the past *U‘dina County dur-
»'«*» Victor.
w'll.am Mattice were
Dolph Briscoe
Asks Re-election
Dolph Briscoe Jr., Uvalde ranch-
er and business man announc-
ed last week that he would be a
candidate for re-election to the
Texas House of Representatives
from the 77th District.
Briscoe was first elected to the
post in 1948, and it was the first
public office he had held. During
his first term, he was co-sponsor
of ' the * Colson-Briscoe Farm-to-
Maiket Road bill, and sponsored
and pushed the Rural Telephone
bill through to completion in the
special session. Briscoe pledged
continued support of measures to
aid counties with their road prob-
lems if elected to a second term.
The candidate served as a first
lieutenant duiing World War II
in the Asiatic-Pacific theatre. He
is a graduate of the University
of Texas where he learned his
ir> himinoas administration
in 1942.
-Briscoe, aside from owning anil
operating a ranch north of Uvalde,
is associated in the ownership of
the Uvalde Wool & Mohair Co.
The 77th Texas District in-
cludes Medina, Dimmit, Zavala
and Uvalde counties.
Winner* in Caatroville’* school election, left to
right, are Tommy Frey, W. J. Jungman, Emil Linde-
Garcia Case
Transferee!
To County Court
Beit Garcia, who' was involved
in a two-way collision on Feb. 22
in which Mrs. Eniilie Cain >f
('hadron Nebr., was killed, will
be tried in county court on a
charge of negligent homicide iti
the performance of an unlawful
act. The case was transferee! to
county couit fn.m district court
last week.
Judge H. L). Barrow of the hist
Judicial Disrtict,. presided at the
session in which the following
cases wore disposed of:
Eufrasia Cadena - vs. Ramor.
Cadena. divorce granted. Two
minor children awarded to the
dependent, with court costs order--
ed paid by the plaintiff
Margaret A. Wright vs. Alvin
C. Wright, divorce, dismissed.
Darvlna Vnuk vs. John Vnuk.
Revival Campaign
To Start Easter
(See COURT, Page 4)
011 Activity
Hums At Devine
DEVIXE — CHI activity around
Devine is humming.
The Texas Company has just
completed Burns No. 4, and Shell
Company has the rigging up on
Drodyski No. 3.
Miller Royalty and C. C. Dauchy
have two wells on the Tom Nowlin
lease, two on the Carroll Thomp-
son lease, and one of the Bain
place.
Activity is primarily between
12 and 15 miles from Devine in
Frio County.
A large number of storage
tanks have been moved in.
ANVIL HERALD OFFICE
CLOSES SATURDAY
The Anvil Herald Office will
be closed all day Saturday.
April 8. We will be open for
business a* usual Monday
morning, April 10.
Rev. V. W. Tatum
a® . • •
Easter Sunday, April 9, will be
the beginning of the simultaneous
revival campaign in some 8,000
Baptist churches west of the
Mississippi River, according to
Rev. John Align, pastor of the
Hondo church.
The local meeting in Hondo
be conducted by Rev. V. W.
Tatum, manager of the Alto Frio
Baptist Encampment. Week-day
services will be conducted twice
daily at 7 A. M. to 8 P. M.
Rev. Allen states that this is
one of the greatest programs ever
launched and has attracted nation-
wide publicity. He also reports
that interest among local church
members is high and that the out-
look for a revival is the best the
church has seen in several years.
‘‘A cordial welcome is extended
to the entire community to share
the blessings of these perrieea,”
he said.
HONDO, NATALIA F. F. A. BOYS
PLACE IN AREA X JUDGING MEET
and ;enJ'S,rict court
tntiary fr'nf od l<> the state
4 Ik. r„.rtw° i°««
r»4:
to
y of several
and adjoin-
“The Hondo Future Farmer
Chapter made a good showing at
Kingsville Saturday in the Area
X. Smith Hughes Livestock Judg-
ing Contest,” according to J/>hr
MeAnelly In a telephone conver-
sation with A. & I. Colleg» yester-
day, MeAnelly learned that the
Hondo hoys had taken a first in
dairy judging, third in poultry
judging, and seventeenth in live-
stock judging. There are at pres-
ent 72 departments of Vocational
Agriculture in the Area X.
The Dairy team is composed of
Wilbur Bohmfalk. James Cagle,
and Clonus Saathoff. They will
compete in the state livestock
judging contest to he held at Col-
lege Station May 13.
The ppultry judging team is
Tony Brucks, Albert Saathoff, and
Darrel Muennink. Both teams
will be awarded a banner for
their placing in the area contest,
making a total of five banners
the Hondo Chapter has won this
year. ‘‘The Poultry team has a
habit of taking third place honors
NATALIA The Natalia Future
Farmers livestock team won
second place at the Area X judg-
ing contest in Kingsville last Sat-
urday and won the. right to go to
the state contest at College Sta-
tion on May 6.
The team is composed of Sim
Pruitt, Gene Morris and Billy
West Crawford. A total of fifteen
boys made the trip to Kingsville,
including tbe dairy team com-
posed of Jack Burns, Mike Walker
and Sonny Kohlcppel; and the
poultry team, composed of Sonny
Barkley, Jim Morris and Pat
Capps.
The F. F. A. boys made a tour
of the King Ranch. Texas A&I
College and college farm, the Uni-
versity of Corpus Christi, and the
Corpus Christi Naval Base.
in the area judging contest,” Mc-
Anelly said. ‘‘This is the third
time they have tried for top
honors to be pushed down to third
place.”
Delavan Heads
Farm Bureau
Permanent officers for the
Medina County Farm Bureau
were elected as the group met in
Hondo Monday night.
E. M. Delavan of Biry, who
has been acting as temporary
president, was chosen as presi-
dent, and other officers were
chosen as follows: B. D. Carl,
vice-president; and Ralph Stiegler,
secretary-treasurer.
Dr. T. B. Knopp, Armin Ben-,
dele. Arnold Lindeburg, and Ervin
Bendele wej;e appointed as a
committee of four to pick direc-
tors f< r the year. Selected were
Anton Hardt, Yancey; Wilfred
Zen, D’Hanis; Rudolph Reus,
LaCoste;, Arnold Griffin. Devine:
C F. Martin, Natalia; A C. Gil-
liam, Hondo; Jack Winkler,
Hondo; W. L. Taylor, Hondo;
John G. Bohlen, Dunlay; and
Arnold Lindeburg, Quihi, Officers
will also serve on the hoard of
directors.
The new directors will prepare
by-laws which will be presented to
the next meeting on May 1. Direc-
tors will meet at the courthouse
in Hondo on April 24.
Jim Amberson of Hondo talk-
ed briefly about fretting a support
price for broom corn.
burg, George Boehme, Archie Schuchart, Harley J.
Haegelin, and Cornelius Schott.
497 Turn Out
As Incumbents
Win Majorities
Dr Walter Meyer. C. D. Sadler
and Rudy Rath were returned as
members of the Hondo board of
trustees by voters Saturday as a
contested election resulted in n
larger than usual turn-out.
A total of 497 votes were cast
with Meyer receiving 409. Sadler
385. and Rath 340. W. & Scott
polled 153. while Fred W. Bohm-
falk got 148
Iu the Hondo city election. Tues-
day. 42 voters went to the polls
• to re-elect George‘Dawson. Henrv
Windrow and O. A. Fly No write-
in votes were reported by the
election judge, Fletcher Davis.
K A Bendele and W. O. Rothe
were re-elected to the county
. board by voters of their precincts.
★
CASTRUVILLE—Only 13 vote*
were cast in the city election, here
Tuesday due to the fact that there
were no opposing candidates.
Candidates for re-election re-
ceived the following votes: Wil-
fred Wernette, 13; Joseph Hoog,
13; and Dr. Wood'.ow Sharp, 12.
There were no write-ins.
•k
D’HANIS — The truster ole?
tion here Saturday resulted in the
re-election of Raymond Wo’ff
Cletus Batto and VV. A. Nebr to
the D’Hanis school board. They
were unopposed, ar.d voting wa-
light.
Grisham's Opening
Held Last Saturday
Another new business firm
opened its doors in Hondo nrr~
Saturday, April 1, as Grisham’s
Market staged HTi
Grocery and
opening sale.
Located in the former Anvil
Herald building, the business is
housed in a completely redecorated
and remodeled interior. It is
owned by Mr. and Mrs. G. C.
Grisham, and J. D. Schweers is
in charge of the meat department.
Rio Medina
Group Wins
Six Place*
School politics in the new
Castrovlile Rural High School
District took a new turn Saturday
as a record number of voters
flocked to the polls to give
majorities to six candidates of the
so-called Rio Medina faction and
one candidate running with the
group representing the school
board majority in the recent
controversy.
Results of the election showed
Harley J. Haegelin with 357 votes;
W. J. .Jungman, 325; Archie
Schuchart. 307; Cornelius Schott,
305; Emil Lindeburg, 291; George
Boehme, 288; and Tommy Frey,
2&7 as seven candidates chosen
for the board, pending an official
canvass of the votes.
Other results were Ruth Curry
Lawler, 278; D. W. Ricks 272;
O. W. Bendele, 267; Clarence
Bippert, 253; W. R. Griggs, 242;
Leo Yena, 226; and James Fitz-
Simon, 220.
The seven victors took the oath
of office Monday evening after
they had learned from L. A.
Woods, state superintendent, that
they could assume office immedi-
ately. They must still be issued
certificates of election from the
outgoing president of the board,
W. R. Griggs, however, and pres-
ent indications are that this will
be done at the next meeting of
the board on April 17.
According to Dr. Woods, the
newly-elected board may take of-
fice immediately and take over
school affairs. He said 0that the
old board could do nothing ex-
cept issue certificates of election.
Work on the new high school
building, over which the con-
troversy raged and which was
taken to the State^ Board of
Education for ^ final decision, is
continuing with the foundation
dug, and concrete was to be
poured by the contractor this
Thursday morning.
ij *4
Special Easter
Services Sunday
CASTROVILLE — All business
houses will be closed in Castro-
viile from 12 to 3 in observance
of ‘‘Good Friday.” Special serv-
ices will be conducted at the St.
Louis Church during these hours.
The Zion Lutheran Church will
have a service at 10 A. M. when
the choir will sing the well known
spiritual “Were You There When
They Crucified My Lord?”
Sunday will mark the first ap-
pearance of the 20 voice choir,
its director, and organist in their
new maroon robes and caps. C. H.
"Gabriel's chums fm mixed voices—
“Awakening Chorus” will b«
given with Mrs. Carl Richter con-
ducting and Mrs. Harry Bongen
at the organ.
Solemn High Mass will be cele-
brated at 9:30 at St. Louis Church
Easter morning. The choir will
sing a three-part Mass.
HONDO V. F. W. POST, AUXILIARY
CONDUCT INSTALLATION MONDAY
New officers for 1950 were
installed by the Ladies Auxiliary
of the Veterans of Foreign War-
Post 3891, Monday night at the
American Iiegion-V. F. W. Hall.
Lucille Tonieriin wns installed
as president; Christine Saathoff
as senior vice-president; Ethel
Kruis. junior vice-president; Flor-
ence Hans*, treasurer; Ada Bell
Carrasco, conductress; Lillian
Freeman, guard; and Alleen Rich-
ter, trustee.
(Tther new officers who will be
installed at a later date are
Margaret Virginia Mueller, secre-
tary; Celestine Pichot, chaplain;
and Gladys Williams, historian
and patriotic instructor.
Installation was performed by
Irene Salzman and Mrs. Weiblin
of LaCoste Auxiliary 8184.
The entrance award waa given
to Edna Nester, while Ada Bell
Carrasco and Howard Haby were
Installation of new officers for
the Medina Post 3891, Veterans
of Foreign W’ars, was conducted
Monday evening by District Com-
mander Fred Schulze of LaCoste.
Emmett Nester of Hondo will
command the post next year, and
Cody Tomerlin will serve as vice-
conimandfr. Harry Freeman w
junior vice-commander, while
Harry C. Mueller vill fill the of-
fice of post quartermaster-ad-
jutant. Louis Pichot becomes
chaplain, and James Amberson la
post advocate. Dr. Everett Vin-
cent is post surgeon, and Clar-
ence Haass was named a trustee.
A social meeting with the
Ladies Auxiliary followed the
regular business session.
also given prises. Refreshments of
sandwiches, drinks and cookies
were served by Anna Maude TiL
lotson and Christine Saathoff.
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David, Allen. The Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1950, newspaper, April 7, 1950; Hondo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth648635/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hondo Public Library.