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JWVOT1PTO THE BEST INTERESTS OF TAFT AND SAN PATRICIO COUNTY
« «7—EST 1921—PRICE TEN CENTS .»
^ J7 _—. —,——Co- TAFT> TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14,
n Patricio Cotton
ENTKABO A9 MCOKO cm** MATTER! AT TW# KM? WIIR AT
TaPJT, TaaA*, UHUIUi i.H* Act Ol*' MANCH <*, 1*7*.
TWELVE PAGES •
its 63,972 Bales
School Board
Attends To
Routine Business
fAGrass Judging
•gam Wins 3rd
District Meet
Tlie Taft FFA grass judging tram
j j^ird in a district contest
tot Saturday at the Welder
Refuge. There were ten
IhjM competing
fa team was composed of Cor*
rt Teltechek, Bill Ingram. Oiar-
b smith ami Israel Martinest. The
Mscortecily identified all except
out of the over 1(H)
second place team
City Petitioned
For Relief of
Flooding by VA
to grasses
ilrfes. The
jjjised five and the first peace
tfsen missed hair.
m
Country
ttesswads
HUH
toy Methodists that have been
jaeeving judgment <m the Rev.
to Griffin joined the group of
Jsysl fans last Sunday. Ijec got
nmd up in his sermon a hit
tot), wrapped it ail up in a neat
jaciage and deliveed it to his
feck with 15 minutes to spare. Of
rent. everyone will probably ex*
pact jo be turned out 15 minutes
«rjjr every Sunday now.
~-ccr-
Beraice Lamprechf looks !.ke a
f wr woman this w eek. Bernice and
fitch got up to A&M last «wk-
«nl ostentatiously to see the Aggie*
Ay football, but naturally Bernice
sni more interested in seeing Son
SI than in seemg the Aggies per*
tern. Bernice has ix-<.n takur?
$«ste a ribbing about lousing her
'toy chick and has been the first
is >dmi: things haven't !>cen the
saw? around tin* Ijtmprecht hotise-
kesd. The crow*, nc blow
S«rsl days ago vuien i... cat •*.!
and his m.-trier was out;
A representative of the Veteran
Administration together with Mr.
ami Mrs. O. V. Torno. appeared
before the Taft City Council at
their regular meeting Tuesday to
seek relief from the Hooding that
occurs on Reynolds street in the
vicinity of the Torno home.
The council was told that during
heavy rains, similar to the one
Sunday before last, water hacks
up into the Torno home. Tile conn*
:l di.vussed the matter at length
and promised to study the problem
ind submit a repeat on their find-
ings.
Bills in the amount of J3 449.78
were approved and ordered paid
by the council.
The purchase of four automobile
tires was tuPhoraed by the coun-
cil from White Auto Store at $23.48
each plus the old tires. A total
of four bids were submitted. The
tires will go on the police car.
E. A. Cambren, district manager
of the Gene-a! Telephone Com-
pany, appeared briefly before the
council in regard to the Telephone
Company’s refusal to pay back
gross receipts taxes. The company
has b;*en holding out on payment
of the taxes trying to force the
rity to grant the company a fran-
chise. The city has taken the posi-
tion that the telephone company
should pay ’heir taxes like anyone
else and after the taxes are paid
the question of a franchise will be
discussed. A .sum of approximately
$700 is owed by the company,
which is based on 2 per cent of
th*or gross business.
Limited use of auxilary police-
men for night work was authoriz-
ed by ile council when one of
toe regular policemen has to lake
time off.
San Patricio County produced a
total of 63,972 bales of cotton this
.year a final check of the 22 tons
in the county this week revealed.
• his is a few bales higher than
the last count as several gins in
the county ginned a few bales as
late last week.
Some cotton was left in the field
when the piowup deadline passed
but probably no attempt would have
been made to pick it even if
rainy weather had not interferred
because of the extremely low grade
experienced on most of the late
cotton. Insect and weather dam-
age hurt the late harvest.
The bulk .f the cotton fields
in the county are plowed under
agricultural inspectors report; how-
ever, a subsi mtial amount of acres
of cotton stalks are still standing
due to late rains.
The bale count for the various
gins is as follows:
Gregory
Hunt
Midway
Taft Coop
Baldwin
McDonald
Rosson
West Portland
Hoch Bros.
Retama
Sodvillo
Staple
Sinton Coop ...
Hartzendorf
West Sinton
Hubert Switch
Mathis Gin
Vahlsing
Farmers. Mathis
Smith
Kdroy
Former. Odem
TOTAL,
3020
2358
2189
2115
1075
2440
2152
2502
1528
1637
1539
1455
2863
4017
2623
1215
5943
6990
4122
3804
6650
1735
63,972
Gregory P.-T. .4.
stootver, Dutch bandied the sc.tua- ! « ■> | /x i */»
.to with aplomb aixi iristne-icd ; J O /fleet \JCt. JO
<8* with aplomb ’iii.i instructed
'few awl date so dial he could
safe sure Mama would i*> on
tot
GREGORY The Pareni-Tearh-
Association will have a meet-
ing at 3:45 Thursday, October 15.
—OCR—-
Mrs. J. E. Ford gave tin* drug
*t£« sandwich trade a rare treat
■today. Mrs. F..rd is in the habit
jf feting her lunch at Candy's
frequently and so to spice
the rather set menu she brought
a German chocolate cake
proceeded to give ai! of the
and lucky customers a geu-
serving. We all made a note
fee time Mrs. Ford lunched.
—OCR—
Sw that ail of ttifx new cars are
to Taft can exp. , > its share to
*7 UP and d r.vn the street,
the Ciamber of Cm-
should comp egn for every- )
febuy one ct smaller ■
fehjidn t sit. k oe; f,*; ;nr .
'* "atrotv s.'r,its a real I
Hd winding d ,w n i l een Ave- i
*‘*b a row ,4 ,y. irp fins hen'
»*« on the left aro a nervotij
*Wr crowding from the right.
I . . —OCR—-
of the Chamber of Com-
wc certainly hope that th»
President, Tom Reding, is
to breatiie a bit of fir? int >
feganizatiur.. Taft doesn't reed
yj*** of organization hut
fe Wrtainly do need a group tor t
I l™ *bempt to exploit our city's
I it jJ8' ®^van*ages to the utmost,
•to always ber-n our contention
»L Jse really bright future for
| tej!n as far as industry is ron-
. lies ai the development of
• toets that we have at hand
t J “®d*nce. By that we mean
Wcuhtn-al products of grain
p® cotton.
• to?1,0 *lro*f ::'s strain irvo food
ai the Austin School cafetorium,
A program w .ii be presented by the
ssxth grade pupils and refreshments
will be served. A baby sitter will
be available.
Mrs 11 K, Sanders. Mrs. Pearl
Moore and Mr. and Mrs. A. V.
Wyatt returned Monday evening
from a five-day visit with their
sister. Mrs. M. A. Johnson, and
family in Frederick. Okla.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Davis and
IJ.I.L. Planning
Meeting Set
For Taft Oct. 21
The U.I.L. spring meeting for
tills district has been scheduled
for Oct. 21 in the Taft High
School, according to Supt. H. E.
Massey. Administrators from all
district schools will be on hand to
set dates for the literary meet,
one act piay contest, tennis meet,
golf meet and the track meet.
The IQ testing program began
in earnest in the high school this
week Pre-scholastic aptitude ex-
aminations will be given to junior
high students on Tuesday, Octo-
ber 20.
Seniors have been notified that
they are to select their graduation
invitations it 8:40 Monday, Octo-
ber 19.
The Taft Debate club will a (tend
a debate tournament in Bellalre
on Saturday, October 24. They
Bibs In the amount of $10,606.96
were approv'd by Taft Independent
School District Board at their re-
gular meeting last Thursday night
ami ordered paid. This is an ex-
ceptionally large amount but re-
flects all of the summer purchases
made of school materials that will
be used throughout the year. The
bulk of the purchases were teach-
ing supplies arid equipment.
The board accepted a report by
their auditor showing that the
books of the district were In good
shape with no outstanding abnor-
malities. The auditor's bill in the
amount of 5600 for his services
was paid by the board and the
same auditor was rehired at the
same price for next year.
The board officially hired Mrs.
Jack Jones to teach in the East
Elementary school. Mrs. Jones
was hired several weeks ago to
taxe a group of late-coming Latins.
A clarification of the district's
sick leave policy was spelled out
by the hoard. The school's policy
calls for 30 days sick leave and
this was speiled out to mean 30
school days and not 30 calendar
days. A teacher is entitled to full
pay for 30 days of sick leave after
which the pay of a substitute is
deducted from the pay check.
The board authorized the use of
a school bus to take the football
boys to Austin to sec the Baylor-
Texas game They also approved
the increase cf mileage pay of
school district employees from 7
to 8 cents. Per diem pay was in-
creased from $7 to $8 for in state
travel and from $9 to $15 for out-
of-state travel.
The board also considered the
sale of the eld superintendent s
home and the remaining 75 feet
of land on McIntyre acoss from
the gymnasium. No action was tak-
en on this proposal.
Deposits in
Show *2.2
Area Banks
M. Increase
■ Wt
NAME
Portland State Bank
First State Bank
The Taft Bank
First National Bank
DEPOSITS
Oct, 1958
$ 642,1*9.34
1,883,797.14
3,197,449.45
3,327,313.83
June 1969
$1,188,219-20
1,423,718.19
2.185,855,74
2,178,915.87
$1,3*6,304.41
i ,874,389.5-7
3,017,738.1®
2.306,080-18
NAME
Portland State Bank
First State Bank
The Taft Bank
First National Bank
LOANS
Oct. 1958
$ 246,971.89
364,866.31
294,958.98
1,332,788.42
June 1959
$325,516,10
880.173.47
525,448,88
421,543.16
New Agricultural Program
Opened in San Patricio
Jamboree Plans
Taking Shape
For Oct .11
Plans are movlpg ahead for the
annual Hallowe’en Jamboree which
is to be sponsored by the Parent-
Teacher Association. Mrs. Richard
Swanson is chairman for this year
and urges every one to plan to
attend on the evening of October
31.
family are moving to Mission Mon- will not enter the debate
ton He was transferred there by but will merely observe the techr.i-
!ho Phillips Company and left last que of stand ird and cross examina-
Momlay. *' '•«« d.?bato___
North Ward Makes
Plans lor Carnival
The North Ward Parent-Teacher
Association had their first meeting
of the school year last Wednesday
afternoon.
A business session was held with
plans made for a Hallowe'en car-
nival on October 30. A fish supper
will he served that night at the
school, with serving to start at
5:30. Johnny Johnson, principal,
pointed out to the group that re-
cords for the new record player
at the school are needed.
r Pr°d,‘*.*ts would certainly
IS " equate reserve >• avail-
Z® to and around Taft. Th* en-
h ol*"" ^IJH S m't 4‘ssarily have i
|BP* 31 Win ix* J: i- ... . i
lik°| rtS Pfw,uort
P*rsMy the
P*to>ie.
^ « ara-.-ly
cotton oi
I enterprise, i
•hill of Jo* a' j
With
i diitsger >.*f !<>«-
mill which has
o. the mainstays oi our
community for many
San Patricio Co. was fortunate
enough to draw one of the two
agricultural “program pilots" as-
signed the Stale of Texas under
the expanded-scope agricultural
program for the U. S. The pro-
gram is co-sponsored by the Texas
A&M Extension Service and the
Ford Foundation.
The purpose of the "program
pilot” phase of the aprieultural
extension work is to discover new
areas of education for both tile
4-H Club and adult extension ser-
vice program. The agricultural con-
sultant, or program pilot, will be
working in close coordination with
the county farm agent and the
county home demonstration agent
in broadening the scope of the
extension service. The pilot will
be particularly interested in find-
ing those new areas of education
in public affairs, leadership and
good citizenship, and he will be
working with t’ne county agents and
the extension sendee it? general In
finding and applying new proce-
dures in agricultural program de-
velopment.
Dr. Edward Sehlutt has recently
assumed his duties in San Patricio
Co. and be shares the office of
the county farm agent, Dan
Pawiik.
The other program pilot assign-
ed to Texas is serving in Kaufman
Co. There are but 12 such program
pilots serving in the entire Union.
Two are assigned to each of the
, following States. Texas, Michigan,
Arizona, Montana, Illinois and Pen-
nsylvania.
Dr. Sehlutt is a native of Ber-
rien Co. Mich. He is a graduate
of Berrien Springs High School in
Michigan and completed seven
years of 4-H work during his school
years as a grade and high school
student. He also was a member
of the Future Farmers of America.
He won awards in 4-H work on a
State level.
He attended Michigan State Col-
lege on a 4-H scholarship. He also
ai tended the University of Hawaii
one .year on a scholarship. He
earned his Bachelor of Science from
Michigan State, and his Master of
Science and Ph. degrees from the
University of Wisconsin.
He grew up on a fruit and dairy
farm and was one of seven sons
and daughters who were interested
in 4-H Club work from their early
school days. He is married, and
his wife, LaVerne, holds a Bache-
lor of Science degree from North-
ern Michigan College of Education.
She served as a home demonstra-
tion agent in Wisconsin and also
taught home economics or high
school level in that State.
Dr. and Mrs, Sehlutt have three
children, Edward Frederick Jr. who
is called "Freddy”; Eric Daniel,
four year* of age; and Kris Marie,
who is .just rounding out six months
of age.
Dr, and Mrs. Sehlutt are mem-
bers of die Lutheran Church and
they and their children attend ser-
vices at Grace Lutheran Church
in Sinton.
The Sehlutt family is at home
in one of the modern three-bed-
room mason ary homes in Odem.
They are well-pleased with their
new home-State, Texas, and Dr.
Sehlutt is fast making the acquain-
tance of the residents of San Pa-
tricio Co. He will welcome visits
from the people of She county. "It
is my goal to be of service to the
people of Sail Patricio Co. in solving
their problem* and lending any
assistance possible in helping them
attain their aims in living life to
its fullest extent", said Dr. Sehlutt.
| Deposits in the tfuw Taft i
Oct 196# an<l **•* Bfefland bank ________,
crease* over the J*** call 5» ,
of Shi* year and a slight
over * year ago, TM* ws* a
to the bank call of
Deposits in the three Taft I
mhI the Portland tank
18000.32 compared to
in June- A rise in depositt
in the fall of the fear i#
expected stav * harvest depotfe* i
the heaviest at this time ei
year. The same 1# true la :
for the call >n the summer ftssM
this time withdrawals are
due to crop costs.
'Hie work cm the part of
in this area to reduce fliefe'
standing loans was also
in Mine bank call, to Jam
year loans had fatten to 1
93 ax compared to
Jinw. The loan total as of >
6 w as also considerably km i
that of ooe year ago vtrtas#
!wu» stood at Sl.B>.m
Owl 1968
*642,410.00
432,461.96
294,764.35
245,381.91
Individual
sure* an u Mtaww:
O. J Mm#
Tffilfr Jugfk®
384 Samples of
San Pat Soft
Tested by AIM
Toft Committees
Homed For
Youth Work
'he «mount of capita!
„ in tbb area it looks
'eh men with vision could
own?rship of the mill and
” expand into further
t»w materials.
.ctrial leaders Industrial expert tram the Houston
AREA INDUSTRIAL Lt»«™ chamber of Commerce. From left
•V risM, they «• O, A. Bfefe
Men from a number of surround
injl cltie* were present !a*t Friday
at an industrial meeting tporsttfto
by the Indwrtx al Committee of the
corpus Cbrfeft Cfcsmbw $***
marc* to hear Jtfm Wnher, *>
(Xt«m ctmmmr of Commore®; Tom
BMl«m. p'rafedant ef T*^ Sbam-
bsr of t.«-nm*rew; 4h® speaker; and
, V. af #« b»*
dustrial committee of the Mathis
Chamber of Commerce. The meet-
ing Friday was a forerunner of the
organization of an area wide in-
dustrial committee is encourage
the i«xfm*ri*l growth ef ttw ontlni
area.
E. L. Barrow is the county chair-
man of the white house conference
on children and youth and he
has named the school superinten-
dent in each town in the county to
serve as a local chairman. They,
in turn, have set up committees in
the various towns to answer ques-
tionaires sent out. by the national
committee.
Harold Massey has named all
of the committees for Taft.
Members of the committee? on
values and Ideals of American so-
ciety are Lee Griffin, chairman,
Fred Rotzler, ?. C. Huestis. Harry
Young and Mrs. If. G. McKamey
The juverulc delinquency com-
mittee is made up of Karl Vincent,
chairman, Roy Johnson and D, R.
UNtnfl
1 The youth shidy committee is
made up of Don Chrestman as
chairman and members of the stu-
dent. council of Taft High School.
Dr. Rose Tunnel! is chairman of
the health committee and Mrs.
W, ft. Fites beads Use welter® wra-
1 mllllt.
According to information receiv-
ed from Dr, William F. Domett,
Extension service Sol! Chemist, a
total of 3M soil sample* were sub-
mitted to the oU Testing Labora-
tory in College Station, Texas from
San Patricio County arm* between
September 1, 1958 to August 31,
1959 In the game period in the
two previous years the total sam-
ples submitted were 145 from Sep-
tember 1, 1957 to August 31,
and 234 from September 1, 1956 to
August 31. 1957. Soil samples sole
mitted from San Patricia County
to ihe Soil Terning Laboratory from
1948 through 195! totaled only 117.
Ttiis past year San Patricio Coun-
ty ranked fourth in th* state to
the largest number of sample* sub-
mitted. Counties submitting more
samples were Hopkins-907. Harris-
422. and Brazoria County with 412.
Surely the service that San Pa-
tricio Electric Coop is rendering
to the farmers in the area they
serve, paying the $1.00 fee, bos
inspired farmers to hatve their
soils analyzed.
Dr. J. F. Fudge, State Chemist,
has recently released fertiliser
sales for the first half of ISSi,
The total sates for die state in
this first half were slightly lower
than for the first half of 1958.
The total sates for San Patricio
County for this same period ha*
increased 7 ions in 1*59. Total sates
for the first half o! 1958 was 2047
tons, sates for the first halt in
1959 is 2054 toms.
Now is a good time to have
your soil tested. Soil testing is a.
tool you can use on your farm to
help determine the level of fertttity
in your soil and how much fer-
tilizer you need to add for most
profitable production.
Dr. Edward Sehlutt wfa»
recently assigned to Son
Co. oa a "protect piioc" in the
pmflqdanoa of the StetooMi
vice agricultural program to
county, appeared before ttta
missJoners court Monday
at its regular session to mskte
acquaintance dt the
the court and to feritoR
the purpose of Mrdulfc
county as a project pitot,
concerning these ttattaa i
elKwiwre in titis torn# «*»
o. j. Mttoftf «e::nm.
pointed by the conn to
unexirod term of 3. E.
deceased, as justice of the
in Taft,
Moody will draw the
salary of toe office tor toft
maiudter of this year, tort toe-
will increase the salary whm
farie* for county officer* ore
In January 1960.
The court ammmS &m
of toe etectfc® recenliy held
termine whether or mto.
side School District wotM
date with the Aransas Paos
district. The canvass show®*
the measttre was ttefmtal
'Die court votod to cMaeaK- to
order for an enporar* feature
preparing standard ftmm »
used to «» variant «Asrtteo«»!
Hoes. Ike purchase of the
was authorised 'tout Has «wds
not been Issued wtaa. it wm
tivat the usa of m off-aet
for tlve verifax moohtoe
county clerk’s office would f
of a greater c«w«tetiee' *J*i
lug to tl* coiBtty in prepares
forms.” The attachment tor
Verifax machine will serve
purpose adequately," said Kay I
ris, county auditor," and ttta
Uchmeni iw«ii it* opemthmeh
pmoe is much less than tha
pouere Iranjc and its opera'
expense."
Die routine report* «md toll*
read and approved, fftae mBB
balanco sheet ws* pw»e«n.tol
te county auditor.
m
m
Revival- Services
At Church of Christ
Suit uc iHTvyrimS
Revival seraioes at the Oun\*b
of Qa'ist will cesitsmse thrmsgte sw*t
Sunday. Tim stertoi Iwi 3a*y,
with C. J. Barton cowSuettog fttt
nwraJag ostvtmft.
. Xymme is isrifed 1ft.
ss re* pis-
A. W.
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PorHoiMl
. tor AM *
Robert SSwfereft,
Funeral sei*vro«»
tey Cnffte. $7, of Fwriwril
held «t 3 p.m. 'Djestfety - to
First Bopitel Church of Pi
wife the Rev.
tor, afficiatin* . ..HHHpL .
Rev. -John Weatoft, $mstar d:
First Methodist Cbonfe
land. Burial toStowsd to tin®
Onuetery with Mextom rSt*» ifti
Coffee died -»t »;» SfetsSsy M'zi
Cotpu* tliiristi hospital MtowSsg;
long illness.
Mr, Coftee »**# o ebrttef *
her of the Forikfei Vs*t«wfe
Depar intent m& at «sm
wd a* Fire ManfeaB. Ste ate
an active part to «Hte md
affaira. 'He wm a awstshra; Hi
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