San Patricio County News (Sinton, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1937 Page: 1 of 8
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A Boost for Sinton and San Patricio-County
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VOLUME 29
Term*:. $2.00 Per Year, In Advance 8INTON, 8AN PATRICIO. COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1937
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Tomorrow night at 7:30 a meet-
, ing will be held in the county court
room at the court house to consid-
er the forming of a hospital assoc-
iation. Every interested citizen Is
not only invited, but urged to be
present. It is a public meeting and
your voice in the meeting will be
appreciated. Even If you do not
feel that you might a sugges-
tion to offer, come out'any how;
your presence will show your i^
terest and support of the move and
will encourage, those men who are
striylng to give Siriton a much
needed hospital.
It is true, and admittedly^ so,
that a brand new building would
be much more deslrablb, and it is,
likewise, true that a better loca-
tion for a hospital could be chos-
en .. . BUT the situation is just
THIS: the county has agreed to
spend the necessary money which
they have available to put the old
jail building into shape; whereas,
they will not even consider pur-
chasing additional property and the.
construction of a new building. The
'commissioners -are probably right
on this score, after all, they feel
justified in spending the money on
the old jail building, because it 'Is
just a matter of putting property
they already own- into income pro-
ducing condition.
To us it sums up like this; we
can ^et a hospital right now by
leasiW*the remodeled jail build-
ing, which a competent architect
says will be very suitable, if we
take up the commissioners’ offer of
lasf Monday ... . If we hold off un-
till we can build a brand new build-
ing, we’ll have to 'wait Until solme-
one comes along with another
$10,000 from so'meyher^ . , , \Ve
need that hospitaV today! v
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We teem to be on the building
theme; but hertfk another: press-
ing need In Sintoii and gne we have
been led to believe
FFA Show Hit
County Officers’ Salaries
Set in Meeting Monday
Public Meeting To
Establish Hospital
Called for Fri. Nite
Pirates Lose a
Close Opener to
Beeville Quint
lAfter dropping th.e first game of
the conference season to Beeville
last Friday night, the Sinton -Pi-
rates face'their second conference
game with the Aransas-Pass Panth-
ers on foreign soil—so to speak—
tomorrow night.” The locals will
find some touch opposition in the
in good
To Convene at Court House;
To Explain County Offer;
To See Architect’s Plana; ‘
To Discuss Association.
Interested citizens of Sinton are
urged.to attend a public meeting Vo
be held in the county court room at
the court house tomorrow (Friday)
night at which time plans wifi be
discussed and an organization form-
ed for the purpose’of equipping a
hospital here in Sinton.
Members of a special .chamber of
commerce committee appointed by
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Parade Has To Start Ahead
of Schedule Because' the
Norther Threatens; Bar-
becue Supper Climaxies the
Program. ..
• With the , attendance naturally
suffering from the ■cold weather,
which struck Sinton just about 30
minutes before the afternoon’s pro-
gram started, nevertheless, tije
second annual FFA Calf and -Pro-
ject show staged at the high school
athletic field by the local chapter
was undoubtedly ,a success and
proved of much Interest to local
citizens. Some fit&e calves and
poultry were exhibited, jfodged, and
eventually sold at premium prices.
B. G. Davis of / Beeville high
school, well known here as the
former Vocational agriculture teach-
er aT Taft high school, judged the
calves and hogs. H. I. Brengle, Ag
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Wolf huflter and Ia*yman alike
were all agog in Sinton Tuesday
afternoon with the exhibition down
town of a gray fox killed by a pack,
of dogs Tuesday afternoon about
two o'clock in the chicken yard of
the R. Kunitz home. The fox is as
scarce in these, parts as the pro-
verbial hen’s teeth, apd the fact
that he was caught’'rigitt in town);!
added color to the event.
ed the poultry. The following wort
cash prizes, which had been m&de
possible (by Sinton business men
and citizens:
jfC Alves
1. D. J. Moss —-___________$8.00
■ i 2. Bill Mutchler —____.1—. S.OflT
,»*- V solved j 3vThomas Houser...........4.00
i; LeRoy Davis .$5.00
Sinton have to apolo- a. Buel Moore .........4.00
gi*e each year to neighboring towns . ■ - >at Barrowc
flHW our inadequate, gymnasium fa-k Clinton Boscamp .....i:..$5.00
^WiltiM. Every year ot^er members 2. LeRoy Davis _____________4.00
• of tjh» basketball league wants to Y.oung Pigs
It -came about as brothers W. T.
teacher of Odem high school, judg- an(i Hugh Whitehurst, Chester
Webb and K. E, Varnado were Tun-
ing a pack of seven dogs west of
town about nine o’clock Tuesday
morning. The dogs jumped a cc>y-
ote and chased him for several
hours as^the' wily creature just led
them in circle around town.
About eleven o’clock, in the Chil-
tlpin creek neighborhood northeast
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the basketball league wants, to
ban Hinton because there is no
■proper place in which to play a
game here, and-whether we'’like to
or not, we’ve got to admit they
have a lot of ground on which to
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.. We’re trying to use the auditor-
18m in the Grammar school, and it
tost will not do. The ceiling’s too
« walls crowd the court's
ling, and the floor sends
s home afteT each game
splinters.
the Grammar school needs
H auditorium as such. This
’• school building program calls
>ut five or six thousand dol-
orth of remodeling of the
r school: beUer lighting
and othef. improvements
ould modernize the building
ng it up to an approved
id. When this work starts
ter echool is out this spring,
ot even have the semblance
1. Robdrt Evans ______$3.00
2. LeRoy Davis —________— 2.00
iiens
1. Wayland Gist .......___..$3.00
2. Albert* Lewis......._______-3.00
3. Chas. Bentz ........______1.00
“Capons
1. Wayland Gist ______...___$3.00
2. Bobby Hunt___________2.Q0
3. Tommie Adams -----1.00
R. H. Welder paid the boys the
premium price of .09 cents a pound in this section,
for the calves and then resold them
to local markets for .081 cents,
which is about the present market
price in Ft. Worth and San Antonio.
The calves have been butchered
and the meat will be on sale at
ihewet markets today, Friday and
Saturday. In all likllhood it will
be sold out rapidly.
The paAde, which annually starts
off the show, got underway about
20 minutes ahead of schedule Fri-
day afternoon because of the threat-
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added to the high school
could also provide ade-
I quarters for the vocational
lture department, bind activ-
ate., which would relieve a
nt crowded condition at the
Jteol, as well as giving Sin-
well rounded school plant
reek we’ll move over to the
al desk, and after digging
ire factF on this matter from
rs that be, we’ll' pen an-
essage on this matter.
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the weather, the FFA
Project show was a dta-
and the stock and
Sshown was much better
ot laet year.
to organise at) FFA chap-
(a the future will develops
county-Wlde affilr.
the exhibits at last
Just a i
ening weather. It was colorful and eight farms on ft total of 1253 ac-
attracted much attention. The
main attraction was the Queen’s
float, which was attractively dec-
orated and on which rode Miss
Totsie Feathering, this year's FFA
Sweetheart. She looked,very at-
tractive in the tailored uniform,
which featured the organisation’s
colors of blue and gold. The float
of the city limits, the dogs left the
coyote’s trail as tjiey crossed that
of the fox. They ehaa^l it for a
couple of hours and then it began
heading for town, and fpr the time'
being the hunters lost track of the
pack. *,
As they were coming into town,
they were informed that their dogs
had cornered what was thought to
be a wolf in the Kunitz chicken
yard, but when they got there, they
found that the dogs had killed a
gray fox.
It was brought on to town and
created quite a great deal of inter-
est as oldtlmers fried to remember
the last time that a fox was caught
President F. I!. Curlee qiet in a
coast community, but-are in good lengthy session Tuesday night at
Shape for the encounter. the chamber’s office, and.’after con-
jftkheduled non-conference- game sulerable discussion voted to call
with 'Robstown for Tuesday night I the public, meeting for Friday nlgbL
was called oft'by Coach Rocky Run-1 Thjs-same committee., will meet
dell because most of his Cotton-' again this Thursday morning at the
piejeef squad is . in the miifst tJf
midterm examinations*. This game
will be played at'some later date
in the season.
Coach Joe, Smartt’s Beeville high
Trojans took a .neW*-Iease on life
with the start of the si^pd half,
overcame an eight point^fcfti. and
4?ent on to win over the Sinton high
office to prepare final recommenda-
tions to submit f,o the public meet-
ing. ' . ,
J, E. DodSfln presided at Tuesday
night's meeting as chaLrman with
the following members of the com-
mittee present: A. Loy Sims, J. O.
Cook. Dr, F. S. Eiwng. J. W. Star-
buck, and Alex Lillico, Previous
.school Pirates 25-22 ip the opening-! onimitments prevented’ tWo other
conference game of the*1937 seas- members of the committee from
on for bo'th clubs.
During the first two quarters
Sin ton., outplayed^. and
their* taller opponents
1937 salaries for San Patricio
county officers were set at_ the
regular 'meeting of the Commission-
ers’ Coupt Monday. January 1 l.’All
in all, it' was a busy and important
session with much'business coming 1 lading- l»-7 at the intermission,
up on the docket. But from then on out the visitors
. , outmaneuvere'd them, outscored
The salaries of the following el- , * , .. , , .
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ected county officers were fixed i , , ,
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for the year as follows and to be
paid in 12 monthly installments:
League Directors
Meet in Taft Mon.
W- B. Moss, county judges___$3,000
C. Burtt Potter, county atty... 2,900
Minerva Hardeman, ety. clerk 3,000
S. F. Hunt, sheriff____...... 3,000 j
J. L. Hamilton, dist. clerk____ 2,400 |
tjy H. Hunt,-county treas_____ 2,000 ->——
M. W. Williams, assessor-col; 3,000, \ very important executive meet-
J. H. Morrow, commissioner.. 1,800! jng of the San Patricio county In-
E. H. Jackson, commissioner. 1,800.j terscholastic League ' was held in
J. S. Dobie, commissioner...r 1,800 J Taft Monday night, January, 11, to
W. E. Tedford, commissioner -1,800 draw*up piarts for the annual coun-
It was orde-red that the county j_ t-y meet which will, be staged, in
Judge, be authorized to employ a Sinton Friday and Saturday, March
stenographer at a salary of $480 a 19 and 20. Director ’.General C. R.
attending. Too. Victor Brock of
Corpus Cbristi: member of the ar-
out.hustied I chitect firm of Brock & Roberts,
arofc w'e’re w*as also present.
Alex Lillico' reported^.!t> the com-
mittee that he and J.' ■w. P^urbU' k
had met with the county commis-_
sioners Monday anil that they had
received definite assurance from
them tjia: the countj n'ould spend
$8,000 to remodel the old jail build-
ing fob: use as a hospital as soon as-
they were sure that, they had some
one,to .rent it to. '
At the same time an architect's
drawilng of the proposed remodel-
ing was exhibited and the worth-
whilenet's of the project discussed.
The committee voted unanimously
that a hospital was sorely needed
in this section of’The county and.
that the architect's plans, seemed to
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year, payable in monthly install-
ments. It was.understood that she
would alsp act as stenographer for
the commissioners and also keep a
RobeTtson pr-sided at the meeting,
and later in ' h•- week'got out. a bul-
letin on the action taken to be sent
to those member schools, who were
gasoline refund book. She will ^ unable to have a representative
prepare instruments necessary to 1 present at Monday'night's conclave,
secure ..gasoline refunds from the! Superintendent Raymond E. Black
SUMMARY OF COUNTY
AGENTS REPORT FOR
PAST YEAR IS GIVEN
The year 1936 shows varied ac-
•tivitles of the County Agent in a
summary of annual report made
January 1, by R. ft. Gibb.
Statistics show that under the
supervision of the County Agent
terraces were run . and (built on
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AOVI80RY COMMITTEE 18
APFOINTED FOR DISTRICT
The county commissioners Mon-
. ____, day appointed an advisory commit-
With Taft, tee for road district No. 1 to aid
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; year and Mathis already the reit of the court In jjaasing on
one, w**re hopjng that the: important matters in connection
with the farm-to-market road con-
^i|;struetJoh program which in getting
Hi
res; four new trench silos were
constructed storing a total of' 655
tons of silage; three Cotton Flea
Hopper demonstrations were con-
ducted and three farmers cooper-
ated by conducting cotton variety
tests,
4-H Club work was revived in
1986 in San Patricio county and
yras pulled ; by a AlllnChalmers^flve clubs were organised with a
total enrollment ot 128 members.
The report shows that 51 boys com-
pleted their projects. Three boys
attended the Farmers Short Course
at A ft Mi and ten boys attended
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CEMETERY A880CIATI0N
MEETING IB CALLED FOR
MONDAY, JANUARY 18TH
Due to the inclement weather the
yearly meeting of the Sinton Ceme-
tery Association has been postpon
No 1 includes Taft “>til Monday, January 18th
8:80 o’clock p. m. at the David
state. .
The application of Minerva Har-
deman, county clerk, for reappoint-
ment of the four deputies in the
clerk’s office at the present salar-
ies was disallowed. Instead it was
voted that she should have only
three deputies at these salaries:
one deputy at $120 a month and
two at $85 each. The clerk was
allowed one extra deputy during
the month of January, 1937, at $85
a month.
Likewise the application of M. Wi
Williams, tax collector-assessor, for. jjc
an extra deputy during the busy I"11
seasons was disallowed and be was
authorized to employ a first deputy
at $150 a month; a second at,$120
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WINFREY CALLED THIS
MORNING TO MOTHER’S
BEDSIDE AT ENNIS
J. M. Winfrey left this Thursday
morning by bus for Ennis, Texas,
to be at the bedside of his mother,
Mrs. J. B. Winfrey, 70, who is in a
very critical condition.
(Mr. Winfrey received a message
at five1 o’clock thlg morning stating
that his elderly mother had suffer-
ed a stroke during the night, and
was hardly expected to survive
through the day.
GIRLS' QUINTET WINS
~ TWO GAMES IN WEEK
Coach Ann Bnrnett’s able bask-
eteerrs chalked np two more victor
les last week wheft the Sinton gtHs
defeated the West. Sinton girts’
team 32-14 Monday night after
trougclng the Ingleside team the
preceding Friday M-14. k
The local team is compiling an
enviable record, having lost only
one game so far; 4) was an early
affair with West Sinton.
nd is composed of the fol-
Helen Hunt
of Rockport was appointed director
of the Arithmetic; W. 3. Manning'
of Sinton was appointed director of
typing and shorthand; Lita Ray of
Sinton, director of One-Act play
contests. Rockport, because it is
the only school 1 n Aransas county,
participates in the San Patricio
county league, and has done so for
years-.
Following the definite setting of
the dates as March 19 and 20 for
the general county meet and Sin-
ton as the site, it was-voted to
old the junior tennis tournament
Large-Crowd at
Annuctl Kiwaitis
Ladies Banquet
Although disappointed at Attor-
ney General Wm. McCraw's inabil-
ity ,to be present, 82 Kiwanians,
their ladies and guests enjoyed the
anguai Ladies Night banquet of the
Sinton Kianis club, Thursday night,
January 7. which featured the in-
stallation of officers for the new
year.; It was held in the basement
auditorium of the Methodist church
and the ladies of the Missionary
Society served a tasty turkey plate.
The meeting was called to order
by retiring President C. Burtt Pot-
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arch 6, the senior tenpis Asd vol-jter. He introduced past Lt. Gov-
ley’ball tourneys March 13, and the
One-Act play contests March 18.
The last, of couse, will be staged
at night. Too, it was voted to
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‘B” Basketball
Teams To Hold
Couifty Tourney
County Director of Interscholas-
ernor Joe Naylor, San Antonio pub-
lisher, who served during the even-
ing as toastmaster. He in turn in-
troduced Lt. Governor-elect Robin
Pate-of Brownsville, who installed
the officers elected to office for
1937.
Mr. Pate made a fine installation
talk to eacjij particular officer and
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Oil News
Surface casing was 3et -at 600
feet in the L. A. Douglass-J. O. Wil-
tic League Athletics, O. M. Moore j liams No x Kokeraot thlg paSt week
presided at a meeting of coaches end, and drilling wa) resumed on
in Taft Monday night at which Tuesday. Wednesday aftern&n a
time it was voted to stage a double
elimination tournament for San Pa-
tftbio county Class "B" basketball
teams February 5 and 6. All gam-
es will be played in the Taft High
school gymnasium.
This will be the first time that
the “B” tournament has ever been
[acted as a double elimination
meaning that a team'will
have to be defeated twice before
losing out entirely. Too, it was
announced (hat the winner would
receive a handsome trophy, pre-
sented by the Taft Athletic Assoc-
iation. ^
conduc
Atfftir,
The San Patricio' county winner at 6,580 feet,
will be eligible to play to the dish Plymouth
was
report from the well stated that
they were down to 1,400 feet al-
ready and making good progress.
This is a 6,500 foot test, and will
be watched closely by resideuta of
this section. It is only six miles
south of Sinton. ‘ - 1
Golding ft Fearis No. 1 Turner
Bros, was coring ahead in shale
Wednesday afternoon at a report-
ed depth of 4,340 feet. „
The drilling report from the Ply-
mouth field Wednesday morning
showed: ,
Plymouth Gil Co. C-65 Welder
preparing to run a drill stem test
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