The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 36, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 4, 1959 Page: 1 of 10
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Senator Johnson
To Be h SIMM
From 3:15 to 3:45
Senator Lyndon B, Johnson. who
a scheduled to appear lit Stnion
on November 5, has been forced
s to rut the time of his San Patricio
i County engagement shorter than
jorglnally scheduled due to another
; speaking engagement in Bievule
’ later in the day.
Senator Johnson will appear at
a public coffee and informal gather-
ing In the district courtroom be-
tween 3:15 and about 3:45 p.m.
j and will probably have a few in-
formal remarks to make.
mmimmwamnmmBa
I Heard Hound» Win
\ 14 out of IS
• Ribbons at Show
j Mr, and Mrs. Brooks Beard en-
[ tercet their hound dogs In the an-
jnunl South Texas Wolf Hunt show
'Inst week at Freer and came home
with 14 of the 15 first ribbons of-
fered in the show. This is not new
for the Beard's hounds, as each
year they take more than their
share of the honors at this and
other shows over South Texas.
The dogs won aii the pup class
ribbons; first class in the derby
Turkey Shoot
Set For Saturday
By Service League
Officers Worn
That Accidents
To be Report©*!
Several minor traffic accidents
that have oc-cured in Taft in the
past few weeks have not been re-
ported to the police and have re-
sulted in later confusion, particu-
larly in connection with insurance
claims.
Chief of Police D. R. Wyatt call-
ed attention to drivers to the fol-
lowing sections of ihe traffic or
Fund Drive is Underway §
With $13,600 Goal Sol
-a AM.-. nr. dt 4d.«„ .,««« t>.«vVr« VtntL- tsr WA
female, ail age female, alt age j finance now in effect in Taft.
male, grand champion dog, grand
champion female and grand cham-
pion running dog. The only second
class won was for derby male.
There were 40 cayotes arid a
number of bobcats killed during
the four-day hunt.
Slim Bevvley attended the hunt
along witi! the Beards.
SotBALL ROYALTY — Mis* i Vincent, high school principal.
Ferguson was elected Foot- j handing Peggy a miniature football
Zr Queen of the Homecoming statue properly inscribed. Miss Fer-
“ ,alt Friday night. Karl | guson's escort is Sonny Smart.
G-P School Plans First
Homecoming for Friday
The Community Service League
will sponsor a turkey shoot nt
Worsham Field on Saturday, No-
vember 7. Shooting will begin at
10 a m and you may bring your
own open sight gun or there will
be guns and ammunition furnished.
Tickets are $1. per shot.
Sandwiches and cold drink* will
be sold during the day.
C. J. Toland
New President
Of Girl Scouts
Mail Schedule
Changed Slightly
l$j plans are being made to have
K» first annual homecoming cele-
Intiaii tor Gregory Portland ex-
Witt's which will also include the
*BSCf the old Gregory school and
ftrtlwd school. Tt»e two school
l^ricts were consolidated in 1519.
Highlight of the program will be
Ihe football game with Ingienidc
rtieh has been shif'ed from Frt-
isjr, November 6 to Saturday. No-
wtr.fccr 7 in order to better ae-
asnedaic die hotnecotnina fans
The game is - ii.ad to start
tit 8 pm.
A special invitation is being e\-
tended to all e\-stn<ten*s to atlervi
s Electing scheduled for 4 p.m.
Saturday in the Au.wtiii School Cafe-
in Gregory at which time
Country
iufssioads
ioo will tic formed
A bomeenmintt ii-iren wilt be j
owned at the halPune. Nominees J
hr this honor art ■ r senior tirls ,
rto are .feme Tankersley Nan;
GMpatrick, Ci.,-1 Tim-- ami !, iii t j
Rfltneat. Thfa winner will be do j
tided by a vote of
fcdent body.
fait Teach era
h Program For
TJS.T.A. Meeting
Taft had quite n gay Hallowe’en
.shut with mud. eggs, paint, to-
j mat ts and plenty of horse play,
ji suppose, it could be called gay:
ihowever, parts of the gayness war
| a hit expensive tor others
j ! subscribe to having a big time
>•» -■ — ,j Hallowe'en 100 per cent, fur
u hoped -in e- student urgamru- i j ,. ... remember tin* pranks
j ttw ki>1s in tie relate used to get
Mt on Hallowe'en. A little mud
»r-! smeared about on win*
dm*. , can't hurt much as most
• v. iiKi'tws need washing anv-
w ay.
, Vandalism and malicious dam-
me high school of t,ropcr.y doesn't come un-
it-! the heading »f Hallowe'en fun
and I'm afraid v number of Taft
.i,yvs indulged a bit too 'reely in
smearing paint on buildings and
automobiles to classify themselves
much meber than small time punks
•vith a perverted sense of humor.
I meeting of the San Fatrivioj Y-. know, it takes“
tty uni. of the Texas State | ^.ve man to bombard a little
4»r» A»o.-iai:..ii was held in ***«**•' ,hat p;l5ro!ing of-
ten Monday evening, with a ‘ , V • > ... u,...- j
** attendance John Bounds ofjf,l ‘’r< ditln re itve - h ^
ikt., president of the group, was Pamt :inrf e*e* . .. . t’err.Dta-
charge and then the various sec- an opportum y o .
M met separately for study, '-on
mdroe Petty of Taft was elected j .'.....um,
•Hirer ,ep' ee Oia*. Barber! The automobile housing shuadon
o mow/* ,-vv at the Malcolm Moore housenoM
to Vincei ' ' Pr v-ipal of Taft jha.i f .den victim ot ctong.^ ti^
|h School, was cliuirman of the jliie Mome» are P - ^however
then for junior high and high ! ■’ « new automobile; hmye ef;
tool, principals. This group hud j '-Uoy *>ve: .uoked wi v chase
Hate on the subje, , “R- solved |«lK>n they made the
«l Every Arcredi e.l High School , Tbev forgot to measure the car
A slight change in the outgoing
mail schedule is now in effect in
Taft, according to Poet muster Mau-
rice Cummin*. The Higtiway Post
Office th«t used to arrive in Taft
at 1:2D pm. notv comes in at 2 45
p.m. This run* between Corpus
Chi-isti anti San Antonio and out-
going first class mail is dispatch-
ed by this route.
Taft’s primary mail service still
comes at night with the trucks
arriving early iri the morning
hours. A shift In these schedules
was also recently effected, how-
ever it did not change the closing
lime of Ihe night mail in Taft which
is 6:15 p m.
Mail aino arrives in Taft via bus
at 12:1? p m.
Jennifer Hardy to be
in Cor pm WaterS how
Jennifer Hardy will take part in
C. J. Toland, of Taft, took over
Monday night as president of the
Whooping Crane Girl Scout Coun-
cil. Mr. Toland replaces Dick White
of Siriton who submitted his resigna-
tion due to moving to Corpus Chris-
ti.
December 7 was set by the board
for the annual meeting of the coun-
cil at which time a new set of
by law* wili be adopted. The board
of directors has been working on
the new bylaws for several months
and gave them their final OK at
the board meeting Monday night
If the new by laws are adopted
by die council the annual meeting
date will be changed from Decem-
ber to September with the election
of officers scheduled for early in
the Spring to take office the foliow-
ing September. The election of
officers is to be by mail ballot
under the new by-laws.
In order to make the transation
from the old dale of officer elec-
tion in December t« the new date
of September all of the old mem-
ber* of the board have agreed to
serve until the new board is elect-
ed next year These nominees will
lie presented at the annual nice--
Ing.
Article XVII
Sec. 104. Immediate report of
accidents, (a) Die driver of a
vehicle involved in an accident re-
sulting in injury to or death of
any person or property damage to
an apparent extent of S25.G0 or
more, shall immediately by the
quickest, means of communication,
either verbal cr written, give no-
tice of such accident to the police
department if such accident oc
curs within Hi's city.
(B). It shall ne unlawful for the
driver or any other person to re-
move such vehicle from the scene
of the accident untii authorized to
do so by a police officer of the
police department of this city; pro-
vided, however, .hat the foregoing
portion of subsection «b> shall not
apply if there exists or arises a
duty’ on the part of such driver
or other person in control of such
vehicle to use said vehicle In carry-
ing any person injured in said ac-
cident to a physician or surgeon
for medical or surgical treatment.
Penalties for violations of this or-
dinance, can be up to $300-00.
Solicitation for the I960 Taft
Community Fund is now under way,
according to Harold L'waW, co-
chairman of the drive together
with John Owen.
Cards containing the names of
all of the prospects in the Taft
area were distributed to the team
captain* at a meeting held Mon-
day night at the Chamber of Com-
merce Building. The cards were
turned over to the workers Tues-
day and solicitation work began
immediately.
The first report meeting has
been set for Thursday night, in
the Chamber of Commerce Build-
ing at which time all funds col-
lected will be turned in and the
first total of the contribution*
made.
The goal for the Taft Community
Fund has been set at $13,606, which
includes fund* for 28 organization*.
Fourteen of these organizations re-
ceive direct assistance from the
Taft Community Fund and ill otter
organisations are included under
ihe fund* allocated to the Texas
United Fund. The goal this year
is $2,600 higher than last year
chiefly due to toe inckudai of sev-
eral new organization in the drive
♦bis year which ww .not fa *«4*\
vtou* drive*.
An effort is 5wln* made
year to got people to ,
pledge and pey on thi* $*•
ihraughwit But year.
"It is a well Ssncwa fart,
man Kwald said, “That mu
pie will gi ve a dollar to flw
Fund, fait at the same n«w» (
would give a dollar to ten we
drive®.' What we wan* to get
is that this drive » £«* Ihe i
of 28 organizations and urge
to give accordingly by *■
pledge method.
A system vvtierefcy pledge*
be handled and processed
out the year ha* been net
the Taft Fund thi* year.
The complete list of orgar
and the artwunt aisled
is a* follows:
Rifle Club Pimm
Meeting on Monday
Tamale Sale
Bed Craw.......-......—........
Gulf Coast toy tow** U
Taft toy toeuta, ExpHarara I
Girt Scout*.......................
Salvation Army ......---------- u
S*a Bat Agrteitora! Mm V
Little LoaMua, blkKW League
Connie • Xf.'A .***
Youth ReereaMleu Maud —
Heart Fuad---------------
Taft Cawutsry-----------
Texa*. United Pmd......-
Cub toauta-----------r- -
The ladies of the Kbeneser Pre*- ^JafT.^rn'
safe Saturday at Use church tram MmMMtVlf** ®®»*: —......
4 30 to 6. * TOTAL........................
a water shew at the Y.W.C.A. in
Corpus Christi next Tuesday and
Wednesday evening*. She wili do
a solo in the performance which
is sponsored by a club there.
Jennifer is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Hardy.
Woodroe Petty Has
Surgery on Saturday
Woodroe Petty had surgei-y last
Saturday in a Corpus Christi hos-
pital and came home Monday. He
expects to be back in his office
at the North Elementary School
next Monday, if everything goes
well.
The Mud Flats Rifle and Pistol
Club will hold their first meeting
of the season at 7 p.m.. November
9 at the range north of town, ac-
cording to John Tunnelt, president
of the club.
All persons interested, and par-
ticularly all members are urged
to attend this meeting with their
pistols.
Match shooting between club
members and members of the high-
way patrol will be one of the
features of the evening. Patrolman
McCoy of Alice, a noted exhibi-
tion pistol expert, will be on hand
to give a demonstration in the use
of pistols.
Diplomas w ill be awarded to Hie
members of the Junior Rifle Club
who have successfully passed their
pro-marksmanship work.
Panther-Greyhound
Due to l@ leal 8
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Masonic Temple Due to Be
Built in Taft Soon
Richard Threadgill
Wins 3rd in Riding
The 50-year-old Taft Masonic
Building Permits
For October
Total $15,300
the State Should'Go On'Alieven j -npa'te notes
Minute i v: -i Gay. Taking : ago. Sure Tuff It turned out
it on the affirmative were Ken- (fa* r';!iV ?>,(!*, she
!h Roach of Taft. Joe Sehestn j now- w t<.*n .iooJjt «- *
« Vr.rw.s i>0,* > .dm to ease '.‘.to .he^ slot with
others of the neiMtlVi were W I bore tr.-jes ctb.c. x - ,
«wy •" tontor: Ray Rulher- j ■Sh.ieks. *a,d ®°^* J a n«v
>6 of Odem Jvo* wvbh of Sin ; the v. up « might
» and 0.1 v. Millet of Math* |garage plus a ”
tfe (v,i> ..,n of the debate j , ,«u<2u.sted
1 8r«P resolved that they did ' .! to Tunwll i* .*JW»
* Mvor the program under de- j v\ :tn htmscJ.
ite. Sec CROSSROADS F««« ______
The City of Taft issued build-
ing permits in the amount of
$15,330. during the month of Oc o-
bc’r.
Cage Lumber Company, addition
♦<> a residence in toe Hidalgo Ad-
‘“!i<'narBurch, construction of a
two-car garage at his residence,
* B?» H. Jansen residence on lot
lt> block 9, Driscoll Addition, l.dw
L E- Gatt moving a house, no
amount Ivs ronstnJt.;ion ufware-
J^TUa^o-tottlandJor
block 4ft, $3000.
Tornado Funnel
Sighted Near
Taft Monday
I-odge. Gregory Lodge 99S, AF&AM
998 have completed plans to con-
struct a new $49,000 Temple in
Taft.
The new meeting place will be
built immediately west of the Fast
Elementary School and Will face
un Gregory Street U will contain
an office, library, lobby, dining
room and kitchen and a lodge room
approximately 59x27.
Plans for the building have been
completed and a model of the build-
ing has been built; however, final
details on some items are still
pending and no date for receiving
bids has been set.
The Gregory Lodge has approxi-
mately 200 members and got its
start in 190ft in Gregory, ft con-
tinued to meet in Gregory until
1923 when the shift to Taft was
carried out. It has its office and
meeting hail at the present time
on die second floor of the Taft-
First National Bank Building on
Green Avenue.
Bob Mem is the worshipful mas
Richard Threadgill entered the
junior riding contest at toe Beeville
Fair last Monday and won third
place. Richard is toe seven year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. T. D.
Threadgill, Jr.
Richard and his sister, Susie,
rode in toe fair parade that day
along with their father. Others in
the family who attended the parade
and fair with them were their
grandmother, Mrs. T. D. Thread-
sill. Mrs. T. D. Threadgill, Jr.,
Jan and Betty Jean Threadgill.
The Aransas Pas# Panthers have
been waiting a whole year to
pounce cm the Taft Greyhounds for
the defeat that the Hounds handed
them last year, so it probably
goes without saying that the game
Friday night in Aransas Pass wili
be a whale of a ball game.
'Die Panthers have a record of
four victories and foijr defeats
this season and have conic- up
against some pretty tough teams.
They opened toe season by de-
feating the Ingleside Mustang# .27
to 7 and then went on to down
Rockpcrt 16 to 6 and Karnes City
20 to 7. Hebbrunvlllft stopped the
panthers 12 to 0, Rohstown rolled
over the Coast boys 30 to B and
another AAA team, Port Lavaca
whipped them 24 to 8. Two weeks
ago toe Panthers broke back Into
toe victory column with a win over
W. B. Ray “B team 14 to 0 and
of course last week Refugio de-
feated toe Panthers 6 to 0 in the
opening district game.
The Panthers put up a whale
who lives
Mrs Jerry BartonVi.
.K-.it six miles north east of Ins
lighted # tornado funnel near hm
home around 10 *.»■ . ,S .
j' , j [ho farm bands wale r < 1
!. v, , hiew away fa »'«• d;rk
u, ‘‘j which cam' in fn>m t!Ki
mat they saw the hmoeli-
FARM BUREAU—'Three
wen wili guide like policies of jnc*t to
&*« Patricio County Farm I best vice
roleman. Miiiw watt in San An-
.TlteSv-'P Quartet Contests.
h ri a memm of to® Karmon-
_ S!^S<2 gw and 1ht,y
u, ^ m
♦h# ¥Si ^ ^
of
and
I of the m-membor or- !«#««, '««* (m TF*
by toe airstCK* hM re-jpt-ettowai
**« for the next year.
*»rt. Taft, ( iefii w»« re-elected
who has stacked up a pile et. w
age agafasi ev«ry qpp-ywBt
Iw has played against this
As usual Cbadi Key;
006 eye cs 'J:* skk and
list as fie made plan# to*
part, ei ihe wedc ft» the
Don ca»re*tinan and 3.
were boto out of scinool
with e sniW case of ©h
will. prcfoaMy It* FWdNg
either of toese boy* will be w
to play.
Joe Fgbesla* watt oat
game last Friday before
with an injured wrist and
it is not «®i(M»td to be
it is respondir.g to treatment i
awi he wiH ala© he on tt«
fui list as a starter. Otbar
on the team sustained toe
number of. faasip# and
to* Sintort game but vex*
Hickey Huenlis, who had
removed from Sue is
third quart®, after etc
lick oss toe wo®, recovered
toe.- weirk-ei.it! mid he* beea
at Ml ***
Hi O. WMKIW.'VV -------- -----
(agio and it was not until ft fumble
in the fourth quarter opened the
door ajar did tt>e Bobcat# manage
to score. David McConetue- i* the
mainstay of the Panther line from
his tackle spot.
Powerhouse of the Panther m-
ieitse is Fullback Rudy Johnson, (same-
R-rserve scat tickea are cw s
at flue high snLccl office van
wilt tetmafa, toere until 3 pJ«-
day at which time tis»T W52' .;!
returned to Arsana* ftaii*. A 4^}.
capacity crowd fa expected tor r
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The job of building an J
agricultural( p"*fx Pie { prtatentatfve loeal people ctawen ao| Wan# were mi-.de toman?
committees under the supervision
of Dart Pawtick, county agent.
Work in this county fa bring plan-
ned by ten committees.Chief among
these committees are Livestock
Development, Onion
and Range __..... .
ter of the lodge. Members of the jSorgbuin Gram aixl Poi:ltry. Other
-and committee are E. M. Beard, tveed, irrigatton 4-H Oubs, Wine,
chairman, E. N. Tutt, C. C. VViJ-jlawn* and public affair*.
wrest group fa represent**
It is toreugh such at* wrga»tik«d
approach shat prognurw can be
developed that are truly baaed up-
on the want* and needs of the
people as interpreted by the people
themselves with tt» guidance of
county extension agents who serve
as general advisors ami resoorce
Hams, Georg* Withttr and VV, O,
Lamprecht. The advisory commit-
tee is made up of MW, A. C.
Xnti, and Dr. John TtinneU. Har-
program building i* a mean#
bringing togetticr representative
groups and individuals to determine
county problenw. and what can be
<tU3 jjper. im.
Of 5 P«0p)«#
Vviuf and Mgurise Gey“ tire i^uboitt ttew. The «»*«£.
co-chairmen of the finance com-
mittee, Funds with which the tem-
p-el# to be built are being raised
wmong toe lodge membership.
Members of the building com-
mittee ai'C Bob Myers, Otto Ray-
burn, Rob Koonee, Milton Herron,
Bob Whitehead and Marvin Elfh-
biatt ,
Mr. Rayburn is secretary of the
organisation, a post that lie has
held for a number of years-
Preston Mtillen, Taft city secre-
tary, fa tot oldest living worship-
ful master of the Gregory Uxlfc-c.
ite fa also the first rnastej
M»w.
write as # channel for bringing
problems from the people to the
attention of the agencies concern-
ed and for taking needed informa-
tion to the people. In this way.
the committee* helps make full use
of all available resources, both pub-
lic and private, in solving pro-
blems.
Experience lias proved that the
most effective county extension pro-
grams are those developed- with
the assistance of tt county pro-
gram building committee. Exper-
ience ha* further tomm that *»h
wmm.iu.sm the WMdss* c«sn-
tnfawkwt team tosy tm emtqh-
Extension subject matter »!>«-»-
list* anti other professtoraU work-,
erB carve a* technical consuMatos. jfhre night*,
usually to sub-committees. This
process provides an opportuntiy for
enlisting tin1 vital creative and,
leadership abilities of local Wto J
not onlv fa planning toe «xt«mion
program but in carrying it mi m
well.
Last week toe cotton ctmmuttoff
hKKl their meeting and rnttiined
-he )>robten‘* e* they sffw town,
facing the cotton industry Sr -*hfa
county and toe step# toey jm-
to meet the problfto* Mtewi-
hecs ot to* cotmnittot «w
sk- PutKte. ebstrman. M&mA
ter. s. b. m*m, *m
last tmis fef hatdmg. a »«*,*
cotton fcmsct cHttte $a Bw m
ot April with JatoM Mgs*. .
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