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Refugio County Rlcord
VOLUME XI—NO. 13
REFUGIO COUNTY, TEXAS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1964
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Austin. — International attention
came to Austin as President Lyn-
don B. Johnson carried on the na-
tion’s business while resting from
his campaign.
President-elect Gustavo Diaz
Ordaz of Mexico flew in for in-
formal discussions at the LBJ
Ranch, President and Mrs. John-
son arranged a barbecue in appre-
ciation of the strong support given
his candidacy by Americans of
Mexican ancestry.
Latin-Aimerican leaders from
Texas, New Mexico, California,
Kansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana
were invited to the affair. Heaviest
representation came from the cit-
ies of South Texas where huge
LBJ majorities were rolled up.
Top business leaders from Hous-
ton, Dallas, San Antonio and Los
Angeles also were on the select
list of guests. All were entertained
by Milton Berle, Eddie Fisher and
Gene Autry. Also by Clint Har-
low’s sheep-dog troupe and a bevy
of Mexican musicians and singers.
There was talk of a possible
change in a cabinet post vital to
Texas—that of secretary of agri-
culture.
If Orville Freeman should be
named senator from Minnesota to
replace Vice President-elect Hu-
bert Humphrey, Johnson may
choosq a secretary from Texas.
Among those considered to be on
the list are Dolph Briscoe, Jr.,
Uvalde rancher, and Sterling C.
Evans, Houston farmer and ranch-
er who heads the Texas A&M Uni-
versity board of directors.
LATE INAUGURAL
Gov. John Connally may have a
late inauguration.
Ceremonies likely will be post-
poned from January 19, when he
normally would take oath of of-
fice, to January 26.
Postponement, ramrodded by the
State Democratic Executive Com-
mittee, is aimed at helping Tex-
ans arrange their schedules so
they can attend inauguration cere-
monies for both President Johnson
and Governor Connally.
Presidential inauguration is fix-
ed at January 20 and thousands
of Texans plan to attend. Many
prominent political figures would
have to pass up Connally’s swear-
ing-in to reach Washington on time
for Johnson’s ceremonies.
Besides, the President wants
Governor and Mrs. Connally there.
SDEC will call on members of
the Legislature to co-sponsor a
joint resolution to postpone the
governor’s inauguration.
If a majority of lawmakers sign,
the Texas inaugural committee
Will go ahead with its plan to push
back the Connally swearing-in
date. A vote of the Legislature
would make the change official af-
ter lawmakers convene here on
January 12.
Texas constitution provides that
the governor shall be installed on
the first Tuesday after organiza-
tion of the Legislature, “or as soon
thereafter as practicable.”
COURTS SPEAK
Supreme Court agreed that, to
protect the public, the State De-
partment of Public Safety has full
authority to suspend driver licens-
es of motorists found to be habit-
ual traffic violators.
High court declared moot a Starr
County Republican candidate’s
suit to void 650 poll tax receipts
in the stormy South Texas county.
The GOP office-seker claimed the
poll taxes were neither paid for
nor requested by their holders.
A November 25 hearing was set
by the Supreme Court on a suit by
Trinity River Authority to force
the state attorney general to ap-
prove a $42,000,000 bond sale to
finance construction of Livingston
The GOP office-seeker claimed the
issue 4-1.
Court of Criminal Appeals or-
dered new trials in San Antonio
and Houston murder convictions in
line with a U.S. Supreme Court
mandate. Its opinion suggested
new guidelines for passing on ad-
missibility of confessions. Trial
judges now must hold special hear-
ings where a question exists as to
whether a confession was volun-
tary. They may exclude confes-
sions from a trial or withdraw
them from jury consideration if
they find that all evidence tends
to indicate the confession was not
voluntary.
An Austin district court denied
an injunction sought by House of
Tobacco, Inc. of Houston to get
back its state permit to distribute
cigarettes. Comptroller Robert S.
Calvert cancelled the permit after
the firm’s operator was charged
with cigarette tax irregularities.
SLANT-WELL SUITS
Filing of two civil penalty suits
in the 53rd District Court in Aus-
tin, for alleged slant-well activity,
were made by Atty. Gen. Waggon-
er Carr.
First to be filed against were J.
C. Stroud and W. V. Stroud, both
of Rusk County, and G. M. Jordan
of Kilgore. Suit involves one well
in Rusk County.
Named as defendants in the sec-
ond suit were the Strouds and M.
M. Harding of Kilgore. Second suit
involves two wells in Rusk Coun-
ty.
AG OPINIONS
Attorney General Carr ruled that
it would be legal for a commis-
sioners court to buy a helicopter
for the county sheriff, if there is
enough money in the right funds.
He held that a sheriff may buy
any equipment he needs to do his
work, but it is up to the commis-
sioners court to decide whether a
helicopter comes under “reason-
able” expenses.
Carr also determined that, under
a treaty clause, a Mexican consul
stationed in Texas and bringing in
liquor for use by consular officials,
is not bound by the liquor import
restrictions (quart per person) ap-
plying to Texas citizens.
He concluded that the State
Parks and Wildlife Commission
has the right to prohibit deer hunt-
ing on state-owned dry river beds
of Dimmit, Uvalde, and Zavala
counties.
State Employees
Bosses Humber
Over 10 Million
Austin.—“The 68,000 state em-
ployees in Texas have 10 million
bosses—the people of Texas,”
Herbert C. Petry, Jr., chairman of
the Texas Highway Commission,
said while addressing the 19th an-
nual meeting of the Texas Public
Employees Association at the
Commodore Perry Hotel. Petry
also declared:
“ We live in an era when it seems
popular to refer to great programs
of public works as ‘boondoggles’.
Scare words like ‘fraud,’ and
‘bungling,’ resound in our land.
“Fortunately, we have not heard
these words applied in any impor-
tant measure to public works in
Texas. At the Texas Highway De-
partment, we are proud that for
years we have given the state
program in which billions of dol-
ars have been expended with hon-
esty, integrity, efficiency and wis-
dom.
“We believe we have accrued
tremendous backlog of public ac-
ceptance and confidence from an
insistence that we be known by
our integrity.”
Petry praised the 25,000-member
TPEA for its work in state em
ployee relations.
“This is not a thing which may
be controlled by any organized
police force. It is basically a mat-
ter of self-policing from the bot-
tom to the top of the entire state
employee complex, and each de-
partment within it,” he said. “Or-
ganizations such as the TPEA do
a tremendous job in instilling pride
in public service among its mem-
bership. I submit that where in-
tegrity is lacking, there can be
no pride.”
Petry said:
“We live in a cynical time. But
there is no room for cynicism
where the respect of our employ-
er is concerned. Let us never for-
get that our employer is the peo-
ple.
“With hardly an exception, the
record of public service in Texas
has been one of honesty, integrity
and efficiency. There can be no
finer program of public relations
for each of us as individuals, or
for all of us collectively as public
employees.
“As employees of the public, we
have 10 million bosses. Let each of
us always remember our obliga-
tion to those who employ us, and
who place their trust in us — the
people of the great State of Tex-
as.”
Bi - District Class AA
Game Set Here Friday
CONNALLY FIRST
Governor Connally was the first
Texan to participate in the 1964
Census of Agriculture of the U. S.
Department of Commerce. He
filled out a census form concern-
ing his ranch operation near
Flores ville.
Agricultural resources census
has been taken every five years
since 1840. Data is confidential and
can be used only for statistical pur-
poses.
VALLEY MENTAL FACILITY
PLEDGED
State Hospital Board was in-
formed that a new inpatient -men-
tal treatment facility, for the Low-
er Rio Grande Valley, will be pro-
vided in the near future.
Dr. C. J. Ruilmann, director of
mental health and hospitals, said
such a service is under considera-
tion. It is to be patterned after
the local-participation “contract
care’-’ recently made available in
Beaumont, El Paso and Lubbock.
Board members accepted a $225,-
000 grant by the Moody Founda-
tion of Galveston to construct a
regional diagnostic center for men-
tally retarded children at new
Richmond State School. Center was
acclaimed by Board Chairman
Howard T. Tellepsen as a “major
breakthrough in cooperation be-
tween state and private agencies
to combat mental retardation. ”
Whooping Crane
Watch Requested
Albuquerque. — The Bureau of
Sport Fisheries and Wildlife has
asked hunters in the Central Fly-
way states to be on the lookout
for the rare whooping cranes
whose migration from the far
north to their winter home on the
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge
on the Texas Gulf Coast is now
in full swing.
At last count, nine of the huge
white birds had arrived safely at
Aransas, according to Refuge Man-
ager Bob Shields. On October 31,
two adults and one young bird
were observed on the Kirwin Na-
tional Wildlife Refuge in Kansas.
On November 1, these same three
birds had moved on south to the
Quivira Refuge, also in Kansas.
On November 3, this traveling trio
were resting on the Salt Plains
National Wildlife Refuge near Jet,
Oklahoma, where one lone whoop-
er had been seen on October 6.
The repeated sightings of the
rare whoopers on refuges operated
by the Department of the Interior
wildlife agency again points up the
importance of the National Wild-
life Refuge system to the cranes
in their fight for survival. Thirty-
two adults went north last spring.
They nest only on the Wood Buf-
falo National Park, Canada’s
largest park, and winter on the
Aransas Refuge near the village of
Austwell, Texas. An additional
four birds, two young and two ad-
ults, were seen last week on the
headwaters of McConaughy Reser-
voir in western Nebraska, and are
presumed to be enroute to Aran-
sas at the present time.
The cranes are the largest White
birds in America, having a wing-
spread of over seven feet. Hunters
are cautioned to leave all large,
white, long-legged birds strictly
alone, as any bird that would fit
this description is protected by
both state and federal law.
Pictured above is architect Frank Dill’s rendering of the Douglas MacArthur
Academy of Freedom in Brownwood, Texas. The Academy, currently under con-
struction on the old Daniel Baker campus in Brownwood, represents a major
program of study within the division of Social Sciences at Howard Payne College.
It is the only educational institution to which the late general lent his name!
Mrs. H. C. Hunt, of Gregory Elected
A Vice-President of Texas Baptist WMU
Corpus Christi. — Texas Bap-
tists were told last week that un-
less they apply Christianity to the
changing social conditions of to-
day, their denomination will “be-
come stuck in yesterday and
gradually disappear.”1
Dr. Abner McCall, president of
the Baptist General Convention
of Texas and head of Baylor Uni-
versity, Waco, Texas, told nearly
4,000 Baptist that the denomination
must critically re-examine tradi-
tional proceedures and revise and
expand their ministries.
During the opening session of
the Baptist General Convention of
Texas here, Dr. McCall said that
Baptists have been known for
puritanical opposition” for such
issues as gambling, intemperance,
and personal immorality.
He identified these issues as the
basic social problems bf the early
days of Texas history, but society
has now changed and that in too
many cases, such as the race is-
sue, Baptists have been silent on
the problems of modem society,
he added.
“We cannot afford to limit our
concern and action to a few select-
ed provincial issues if we expect
to be heard as witnesses for
Christ in today’s world,” McCall
said.
“Baptists must be more con-
cerned with the problems of the
modern world such as poverty, ig-
norance, prejudice, bigotry, intol-
erance, materialism, dishonesty,
and cynicism and corruption in
business and government,” he
said.
“Baptists must be more concern-
ed with the problems of the mod-
em world such as poverty, ignor-
ance, prejudice, bigotry, intoler-
ance, materialism, dishonesty, and
cynicism and corruption in busi-
ness and government,” he said.
He added that the problem of
justice for minority races, “one of
the problems which Baptists have
for a long time largely ignored,
has exploded in our faces.”
Snell Hook Holder
A good way to keep snelled
hooks in your tackle box or pocket
is to coil snell neatly and wrap
hook and snell in masking tape.
This way rigs will not deterior-
ate, don’t get damage and won’t
catch and tangle in clothes or oth-
er gear.
This Week in Refugio
Each week the time and place of the meetings and
events of your organization will be listed in this calendar.
To have your group listed, call the County Record, LA
6-2400, before 3 p.m. on Fridays.
Monday, November 16
Powder Puff Football Game, Bobcat Stadium, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, November 17
Modern Grandmother’s Club, Luncheon, Methodist
Church, 12 noon.
RHS Ex-Students Association, VFW Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Volunteer Fire Department, Fire Station, 7:30 p.m.
Public Meeting Regarding Tourist Attractions, City Hall,
Club Room, 7:30 p.m.
Show and Tell Tea, Sponsored by Home Demonstration
Club, VFW Hall, 2 to 5 p.m.
Wednesday, November 18
Citizen Civic Club, American Legion Hall, 8
Club, Methodist Parsonage, Mrs. Jimmy
American
p.m.
The Woman’s
Campbell, 4 p.m.
Thursday, November 19
McDonnel-Jarvis American Legion Post No. 298, 8 p.m.
Order of Eastern Star, Woodsboro Chapter No. 678, Ma-
sonic Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Literacy Council Workshop, Elementary School Auditor-
ium.
Friday, November 20
Past Matrons of Woodsboro Chapter No. 678, Order of
Eastern Star, Mrs. M. C. Heath Residence, 3 p.m.
Thrifty Bees Club, Mrs. C. B. Jones Residence, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 22
Church Services, All Refugio Churches.
Monday, November 23
American Red Cross, Commissioner’s Court Room, 3:30
p.m.
Business and Professional Women, Mrs. Carl Baumgart-
ner Residence, 7:30 p.m.
JayCees, A.A. Building, 7:30 p.m.
Refugio Lodge No. 190, AF&AM, (Masons) Masonic Hall,
Woodsboro, 8 p.m.
Rotary Club, City Hall, Noon.
McCall warned that unless Chris-
tians come to grips with the race
issue, and other social problems
of the day, they will become
“stuck fast in yesterday and grad-
ually disappear as our day runs
out.”
“We do not need to lessen our
old struggle against immorality,
intemperance and gambling,” he
said, “but we do need to recog-
nize there are other social prob-
lems with which we should be con-
cerned.”
Earlier, the Texas Baptist Broth-
erhood Convention passed a strong-
ly-worded resolution against legal-
ized pari-mutual gambling in Tex-
as, citing “a very subtle, crafty
and powerful attempt” to legalize
gambling in the state.
In a speech before the Brother-
hood convention, the president
emeritus of Baylor University, Dr.*
W. R. White, called gambling “a
viscious enemy of sound econom-
ics” and “a terrible enemy of
installment buying.”
The Brotherhood convention re-
elected its complete set of offi-
cers to a second term, naming
Paul Cates of Lubbock as presi-
dent; Bruno C. Morgan of Corpus
Christi as vice-president; and Roy
Akers of San Antonio as secre-
tary.
The Texas Baptist Woman’s Mis-
sionary Union Convention mean-
while Tuesday elected a new pres-
ident, Mrs. C. J. Humphrey of
Amarillo.
Named as vice-presidents of the
state-wide Baptist women’s group
were Mrs. H. C. Hunt of Gregory,
Mrs. I. E. Lamberth of Tyler, and
Mrs. Joe T. King of Childress.
Hospital
Report
Refugio—Patients listed in the
Refugio County Hospital Monday
morning, November 16, 1964, as re-
ported by the hospital office are:
From Refugio:
Charles Riley Mitchell, Jessie
M. Weir, John Alfred Moehr,
Leonor Flores, Romula Reyna,
Roxie Josephine Moehr, Willard
J. PiWetz, Lula Traweek, Margaret
Hausman, Ignacia Barraza, Eula
Bradford, Madie Simmons, J. R.
Finch, Georgia Martinez, Felicita
Garza, Eloisa Contreras, Lillie
Ireland.
From Woodsboro:
Gregorio Tijerina, Alicia Elenor
DeLaPaz, Elton Richard Heath,
Vava S. Butler, Carrol V. Mouser,
Raymond Sanchez, Leslie B. Mc-
Kenzie, Carrie Thomas, Robert H.
Rhodes, Celia Tijerina.
From Elsewhere:
Levy Green, Victoria; Jose Al-
maguer, Austwell; Arnulfo Arzola,
Bayside; Edwardo Garcia, Blan-
conia; Kenneth Derrough, Bayside;
Earl Traston, Beeville; Willie Ray,;
Tivoli; Ben Williams, Austwell,
Betty Heard, Harlingen.
Refugio. — Bi-District play off
game of Class AA teams repre-
senting District 25AA and District
26AA will be played at Refugio
Stadium Friday night, November
20, with kickoff being 8 p.m.
The Palacios Sharks, undefeated
and untied in nine games this sea-
son, will represent District 25AA,
while the Flores ville Tigers with a;
seven and three season record will
represent District 26AA.
Arrangements for the game were
completed at Refugio Saturday
afternoon when representatives of
the two schools met with Refugio
; Superintendent Dave Engman and
Refugio Athletic Director Leroy
Wiese.
Reserved seats — in sections B
and G—will be placed on sale in
Refugio on Wednesday at $1.50
per seat. Six sections of the Re-
fugio Stadium have been reserved
for this game.
Two sections will be devoted to
general admission and student
ticket sales. The general admis-
sion tickets will be $1.25 each duel
student tickets will be 75 cents
each.
The Refugio Athletic Department
will have the concession stdikjh
rights for the game. Profits fro^
the concession stands will be used -
to finance the school’s all-sports
award dinner later in the school
year, ’ U
Floresville Will be the “home’f
team for this game and will hayg
tickets in the North Stands fpr
sale, whil? Palacios will have the
South Stands and sell tickets for
these sections.
. --*
Mrs. Caraway
Now Registrar
For Draft Board
Austin.—Mrs. Patsy Caraway of
Refugio has been appointed regis-
trar for the Calhoun-Refugio-Vic-
toria county draft board in the Re-
fugio area,
Males who reach the age of 18
can register in Refugio by calling
on Mrs. Caraway at the Chamber
of Commerce, 301 N. Alamo, week
days until 5 p.m., and until rioon
on Saturday.
A registrar is maintained in the
area so that men will not have
to travel to the draft board at
Victoria.
Colonel Morris S. Schwartz, state,
director of the draft system, ex-
pressed public appreciation of the
services of Mrs. Caraway.
“People of the Refugio area
should appreciate the services she
renders to them,” Colonel Sch-
wartz said, “as she is doing the
work without pay as a public ser-
vice to her country.”
All males are required to regis-
ter under the draft law on their
18th birthday or within five days -
thereafter. Maximum penalties
that can be applied for failure to
register are $10,000 fine, or five
years in prison, or both.
New
Arrivals
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Toliver, of
Woodsboro, are the parents of a
boy, bom Tuesday, November 10,
1964.
Mr. and Mrs. James Ireland, of
Refugio, are the parents of a boy,
bom Sunday, November 15, 1964.
Mr. and Mrs. Francisco Tijemia,
of Woodsboro, are the parents of
a boy, bom Monday, November
16, 1964.
REFUGIO COUNTY
TRAFFIC TOLL
1964
DEATHLESS DAYS
11
Last Traffic Death Nov. 4
DEATHS THIS YEAR
8
1963 TRAFFIC DEATHS
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