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The Aransas Pass Progress
-UME XXX
ARANSAS PASS. TEXAS, THURSDAY. AUGUST 3, 1939
NUMBER IS
hree New Locations Made as Field Activity Mounts
[hthouse Week
irves Century
Half Service
(itors will be
ten to Local
rhthouse.
MICKIE SAY:
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GOOD OU HOAAE
TOWM TOLKS
lin James Alsup, command*
| the Port Aransas Coast
Station, announced today
le week of August 7-14 had
tt aside by presidential pro-
lion as Lighthouse Week, in
ition pf the 150th anniversary
Lighthouse Service,
lie no elaborate celebration
be planned locally, Captain
announced that throughout
[week coast guard boats
be made available to take
to lighthouse on Harbor
rom Port Aransas. This
was established almost 50
fo.
Lighthouse Service became
of the United States Coast
on July 1, 1939, Captain Al-
—jlained. The service was
Sshed in 1789 and this is the
year of its organization.
M. W. Clay born was to
proclamation (this week call-
ttention to the anniversary
Equesting civic and fraternal
rations to join in its obser-
Mayor’s Proclamation
treas, the President of the
States has set aside the
•beginning August 7, as Light-
e Week to commemorate the
l anniversary of the Light-
e Services, and
hereas, the observance of this
t is of especial significance to
who live upon the coast and
protected both by the Light-
e at Harbor Island and the ex-
St Coast Guard Service at Port
isas under the able leadership
aptain James Alsup,
erefore, I, M. W. Claybornv
worf the City of Aransas Pass,
iereby designate the week be-
ing August 7 as a period of
il observance to the Light-
i Service in honor of its splen-
vork in preserving life and
lerty and providing for the
|y of the seas.
M. W. GLAYBORN, Mayor,
puts Leave for
Trip to Victoria
jout 30 Boy Scouts from Troop
ft Wednesday morning for a
ay camping trip near Vic-
tor the Guadalupe river. They
[accompanied by Allen Miller,
ant scoutmaster.
local Scouts made the trip at
fcvitation of the Victoria Boy
at whose camp they will
[three days.
3SSS&
Extra Long Winter of Sleep «
is Spent in Hibernation *Jby
Snake in Local’s Stove Box
A hibernation that was willing
and natural in the beginning, but
unwilling and quite unnatural in
the end, brought a fright recent-
ly to Mrs. E. B. Freese, who
lives on North Commercial next
to the N. E. Hicks Grocery, and
accomplished a reduction by one
in the reptile kingdom.
It all started early last fall,
when it came time to bring out
the stove. Mrs. Freese had it set
up on a large box, with a tin
underneath to protect the wood
from fires. She forgot about it
then, except now and then to
wonder about occasional noises
which seemed to come from
around the box. She naturally
thought of a rat, especially when
the house cat spent considerable
time near the box, watching it
closely.
With the coming of summer.
Mrs. Freeze put up her stove
again and . threw the wooden box
out in the yard. She went out
to the hen house later in the day
and, hearing a noise in the box
that had come from beneath her
stove, she investigated.
There was a rattlesnake about
three feet long trying to get out
of the box! Mrs. Freeze promp-
tly got a hoe and killed the var-
mint
Through forced hibernation
the snake had wasted away to
little more than uln and bones
and hardly had strength enough
to hold up his head when Mrs.
Freeze dispatched it with her
hoe. Every once in a while now
*he thinks abont that snake and
how she thought it was a rat
and how interested the houae
cat waa in the strange noises and
strange creature in the box.
City Council Will
Consider Seawall
Bond Ordinance
Date for Election
on Bond Issue Will
be Set.
A city council meeting to pass an
ordinance for the issuance of
$500,000 in seawall bonds is sche-
duled this afternoon. Following
the passage of the ordinance the
council wHl set a day for an elec-,
tion, at which time the city’s voters1
will approve or reject the issu-
ance of these bonds.
Searwatl bonds sold would be se-
cured by a five-ninths return of ad
valorem taxes collected in San Pa-
tricio county by the state. These
returns would continue until I960,
according to the provisions of a
legislative enactment of the past
session.
They Say
MRS. WILLIAM HANKE: I’m
certainly glad to be back in
Aransas Pass. I like it here
better than any other place.
Inand the Bull rehearsing
night with the cast of
1 Door”_______a group of chil-
Ijoying a free shower under
rflowing water tower Tues-
.Vice President Smith, sit-
President Ayres’ desk this
the bank, being advised by
lanke that if he moved up
ther it would be a danger-
re........Raymond Gille look-
| his blistered hands and
intg running an ad for grass
ild break off about an inch
|e ground, making a lawn
mecessary..........neighbor
admiring two snow-white
An a cage on the May
lawn.
Yeager so tired Saturday
that she ^couldn’t see
_______Mayor M. W. Clay-
ting up placards to the ef-
[the week of August 7th is
Hsit a Lighthouse Week”
C. J. Bromlev enjoving a
waiting for Captain
get a haircut....^_...Mr.
C. S. Bolton having a
down this week so that
have their own "hotne-
iter.
^Jean Sanford with his
ling._.....Mrs. Loyd Rkh-
Hmg her regular e*rr-
new bicycle this week
Iswbury taking his buH-
drug store for its daily
cream........Mrs. Phillip
ine around and Mrying
>uld have done that,”
the motor when hide-
away from the curb.
Hanke Returns to
Run Bakery-Cafe
A. D. Hanke resumed the opera-
tion of the Bakery-Cafe Tuesday,
August 1, after a year of absentee
from its management Returning
with him was another familiar face,
that of Mrs. William Hanke, cash-
ier and bookkeeper.
“It feels fine to be back behind
the counter again,” A. D. Hanke
confessed. “I’ve always worked
and I just couldn’t seem to get
N. D. SANFORD: Aransas
Pass must be careful not to
overburden itself with any bond
issue.
W. A. SCRIVNER: Every ef-
fort is being nude by opera-
tors in the field to relieve the
situation that threatens many
wells in the field with ruin.
used to doing nothing^ It was a
good vacation, but I’m glad it’s
over.”'
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Edwards,
who leased and operated the cafe
for the past year, have not announ-
ced any definite plans for the fu-
ture at the present time. In retir-
ing from the management of the
cafe Edwards expressed apprecia-
tion for the patronage given him
by his many friends.
“I’ve enjoyed living in Aransas
Pass very much,” Edwards sard.
‘ It’s one of the best towns I know
of.”
Mounting Accident
Toll Brings War
on Brunk Drivers
State Police Head
Warns of Drunk and
Reckless Driving.
The rising toll of death on the
highways of South Texas, as well
as the mounting accident rate,
brought a warning from Captain G.
P. Nulty, head of the Corpus
Christi division of the Texas High-
way Patrol, that a concerted drive
against reckless and drunk drivers
would be waged immediately.
"It’s a pretty big job to prevent
death on the highways, and we’ve
got to have the public’s help. But
it can be done if the citizens will
stand behind us,’1 Nulty said.
There have been more than 21
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Farley and
Mrs. M. E. Jeko, accompanied as
far as Humble Station C by Mrs.
R. W. Simpson, returned over the
week-end from Reagan Wells, Tex
deaths on the highways of this
section since the first of the year,
Nulty revealed, eleven of these
cases due to drunk driving. Exces-
sive speed was another major fac-
tor in fatal and near fatal acci-
dents in the coastal bend, he said.
"The public can take warning.
We are going to have to be more
strict, and it’s going to be bard on
drunk drivers and speeders,” Cap-
warned.
Chevrolet Beelers
of Houston Zone
Sponsor Jamboree
About 900 Are Ex-
pected at Island Sat-
urday and Sunday.
•Final preparations were being
made today for the great Mustang
Island Tarpon Tournament to be
'held Saturday and $unday on the
Gulf beach by the Chevrolet deal-
ers, saJesmen and department man-
agers of the Hoqstbn tone. Ap-
proximately 900 men from 196 ag-
encies in 189 South Texas towns
are expected for the celebration.
Opening the official schedule of
events at 5:00 o’clock Saturday af-
ternoon will be general fishing,
with Bill Snyder, local Chevrolet
dealer, in charge. The convention
will close following the Thrpon
Tournament banquet at 2 o’clock
Sunday afternoon. More than $2,-
500 in prizes will be awarded to
winners in various events at the
banquet.
Included in the many events are
rofbball games, tug-of-war, golf
driving, horseshoe pitching, marine
derby, 50 and 100 yard dash in
swimming, aquaplaning, bridge,
checkers, dominoes (both galloping
and stationary), tennis, and many
others.
One of the outstanding features
of the two-day celebration is the
“seining of the Gulf of Mexico,” in
charge of Bill Snyder, in which a
seine approximately one mile long
will be used. Some 250 to 300 men
will be required to haul in this
mammoth seine.
Two huge circus Tents are being
LocabftgWt in
Fatal Accident
on Gregory Road
Corpus Christi Taxi-
cab Driver Dies of
Wreck Injuries.
HjgM, Ypwpus Christi
driver,/was fatally injured
Herbert
taxicab
near noon Sunday, when the car
he was driving sideswiped with
that driven by W. A. Kieberger of
Aransas Pass on the highway four
miles east of Gregory. Hagon’t
hand cut off just above the wrist,
was recovered from the Kieberger
car.
After the two cars crashed the
Hagon car continued down the
road for about 75 feet and collided
with a car driven by Charles N,
jones, 22, of San Antonio, Texas
Highway Patrolmen investigating
the accident reported. Hagon was
on his way to Corpus Christi and
Kieberger, accompanied by his
wife and young daughter, was on
his way to Aransas Pass.
Dr. H. L. Lloyd, physician at
Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio,
on his way to Aransas Pass with
Mrv Lloyd, arrived on the scene
soon after the accident Dr. Lloyd
.’pplied a tourniquet to Hagon's
arm and the injured man was rush-
ed towards Corpus Christi in a car
driven by George Nadi of Aransas
Pass. He was met at Portland by
an ambulance and taken to a hos-
pital where he ‘died at 8:15 o'clock
that night.
Mm. Kieberger Hurt
Mrs. Kieberger received a deep
cut on her neck and bruises about
the shoulders, in the collision.
Peggy Kieberger, who was riding
in the hack seat, was uninjured.
She was being returned from the
I-ospital, following a tonsillectomy,
at the time.
Allowables
for Field
Unchanged
A new proration schedule (or
the Aransas Paaa field, releaaed
today by the Texaa Railroad
Coramiaaion, fixed the daily al-
lowable of the field at 1S.SS1 bar-
rels, one barrel a day loss than
the July 18 order.
The order listed 850 producing
wells, with a low of four bar-
rels daily and a high of 74, for
an average per-well-flow of M
barrels daily.
The order, as well as that of
July It, had not affected Atlan-
tic’s reported take of from 4,000
to 7,500 barrels \daiiy, reports
were. Aa a result, continued ef-
forts on the part of independent
operators to secure another out-
let for the field were maintained,
operators reported.
provided. They will be set up on
the beach near the jetties, with
sleeping accomodations for those
who would like to take a nap.
This is the second similar jam-
boree sponsored by the Houston
zone dealers of Chevrolet. The last
was in August, 1934. -
Mrs. J. R. Howery,
daughters Thena Pearl, Allie
Anna Lou, and son War-
ren, and Mrs. Howery’s sister,
Mrs. T. C. White of Texas City,
left Wednesday morning for Shaw-
nee, Okla., where they plan to visit
ten days with Mrs. Howery’s rela-
tives.
We Invite - - -
Mrs Aubrey Nelson and
guest of Port Aransas to be the
guests of The Progress at the
pioture, "East Side of Hfeaven,”
at the Rialto Sunday and Mon-
day. This notice dipped from
The Progress will Be your ad^
mission ticket.
New Treatment for
Hair is Announced
"Celophane Blondes rs the latest
word in hair treatment,” Mrs. Fred
Tabet said here this week, follow-
ing a trip with Mr. Tabet to the
World’s Fair at San Francisco and
the Eighteenth Annual Hairdress-
ers and Cosmetologist’s Association
Convention and Beauty Show held
there July 14, 17 and 18.
"The title comes from a special
novelty treatment applied to the
•hair to produce a glossy sheen, and
not a special color,” the explained.
Skop Here
Houghton’a Food Stores:
Sweet Cream Butter, lb. .........29c
Bacon, Armucr’s, lb...............JOc
Hick's Grocery:
Flour, 24 pounds .... 50c
Salt, package ........ „.Jc
K. ft G. Grocery:
Dutch Cleanser, 2 cans__________15c
Large Lemons, 3 dozen............25c
Red ft White Store (Cary’s)
Carrots, fresh, 3 for______________...9c
Choice Veal Steak, lb. .... J80c
Morrison’s Food Stores:
Peas, three large cans.......~....M7c
Cake Flour, 44 oz. pkg.________26c
Lee’s I. O. A. Store:
Milk, 3 tall cans 17c
Grapes, seedless, 3 lbs. ________J3c
Title Recovery to
City, Adjoining
Property, Sought
L. L. Nichols Asks
Recovery of Title,
$5,000 Damages.
Suit for 05,000 in damages and
title to 17 city lota, 10 lots in block
”B”, one out-lot and two five-acre
tracts m the Burton ft Dan forth
sub-division was filed in the district
court of San Patricio county during
the‘past week. L. L. Nichols ie
listed as plaintiff and the Security
Royalty Corporation, George MH-
ler, Ida M. Miller and J. R. .Dil-
lard are listed as defendants.
Pending the outcosne of this
"trespass to try title” suit, the
plaintiff asks that a receiver be
appointed to take charge of the
property. Included in the property
involved are the following lots and
tracts:
'Lot 14 block 230; lot IS block
229; lot 9 block 235; lot 5 block
245; lots \, 11, 14 and 14 block 374;
lot 30 block 293; lots 35 and 30
block 294; lot 13 block 505; lot 22T
Hock 524; lot 11 block 744 and lot
6 block 750, all in the city of Aran-
sas Pass.
Lots 1 to 10, inclusive, in block
1; lots 41 to 50. inclusive, in* block
1 of the Folhmsbee ft Engle addi-
tion to the city of Aransas Pass,
a subdivision of Tract No. 1, block
“BB" of the Burton ft Danforth.
Tract 2 Bay Block 2 of the Bur-
ton ft Danforth acreage tracts.
Farm tract 2 block 308 and city
lot (50 foot frontage) 15 block .223
in the Burton ft Danforth farm
tracts and in the city.
Farm tot 24 block 200 of The
Burton ft Danforth.
—The case will be tried before the
Five Rigs Active
on Three Sides
of Field Limits
J. K. Culton Begins
Another 7300 Test
on North Edge.
Three new locutions were made,
a new rig entered ihc field and a
total of five rigs were at work,
two more than last week, aa drill*
ing activity in the Aransaa Phsa
field of San Patricio and Aransaa
counties took an upward turn tbla
week.
LOCATIONS
On 'the 7300 prospect in the notch
comer of the field, J. K. Cultoa
located its No. 1*B Barry Estate
on the line between lots 15 and 14
in block 38. Surface casing waa
run and cemented and work was
waiting on cement.
To the eastward. Sam E. Wilson
Oil Company No. 1 DuphortSt
(Tabor), on the line between Iota
IS and 14 in 'Hock 3IS, waa rig-
ging ufJ.
Across Avenue A to the weft-
ward Corgey ft Grotc had skidded
rig and was assembling materials
for the No. 1 Porterfield Estate, qg
the line between lots 5 and 0 in
block 5, an the south end.
DRILLINO ACTIVITY
On the south edge,[Sam E. Wil-
son and Arthur Davidor No. 1
Mollie Harris, hi a 10 acre tram
partly in blocks 74 and 7ft, was
drilling at 6900 feet.
To the emat, just off Avenue A,
•Manakan Oil Company No. 4 Cur-
lock, on the line between Iota 1
and S In Hock 8, waa drilling it
8800 feet.
Atlantic Oil ft Refining No. 1
Elizabeth Parcels, on the line bo-
tween tract 19 and 14 in block tit
of the Burton ft Danforth, was re-
rotted as complete in the 7»tt
Hand, but no details were available.
district court of San Patricio
which convenes on the first Mon-
day in September.
Corpus Minister
to Speak Sunday
The Rev. N. S. Stringfellow, as-
sociate pastor of the First Baptist
Church at Corpus Christi, wHl con-
duct the morning and evening ser-
vices at the First Baptist Church
here Sunday in the absence of the
Rev. J. K. Ridgway.
The Rev. Ridgway is recovering
from an operation in a KerrviMe,
Texas, hospital. He is reported to
be improving rapidly and may be
able to come home within another
week.
Two City Lott Aro
Subject of Suit
Damages of $200 and title to loti
6 and 7 in block 482 of the City
of Aransas Pass are asked by J. S.
Green in a suit filed in district1
court at Sirrton during the past
week.
•Named as defendants in the suit
sre W. S. Bussett and P. W.
Samuelson, et al. In his complaint,
Green states that he was in pos-
session of the two lots in question
for more than 10 years, having fen-
ced them, and that he was unlaw-
fully ejected from his property on
July 1ft by the defendants._
The case will be tried by the San
Patricio district court convening on
the first Monday in September.
Heard
Adequate Turning Basin With Seawall Bond Money
(Editor’s Note: Much discus
sion of the proposed bond issue
of $500,900 for seawall work has
been heard in recent weeks. The
following is the sqcond of a ser-
ies of personal observations made
by citizens).
“Aransas Piss will probably
never have the opportunity to
spend $500,000 on its bay front
again. But how is this big sum to
be spent? Should we do a little
work here and a little work there,
without purpose or plan? Or
should we build with a plan that
sees So the future?"
Ed Fay, a local Humble em-
ployee, brings a practical know-
ledge of engineering to a sub-
ject that is primarily an engineer
ing problem: the spending of $500,-
000 in such a way as to benefit the
city most, both at the present time
and in the future. How would he
•pend the proposed $500,000
in seawall bonds? he was asked.
His ideas follow:
“Fh-at of all, I understand that
money derived from the sale of
seawall bonds can ba used for any
purpose that would protect the
city from storms,” Fay said. “Well
what about a deep channel to Har-
bor Island, the thing that Aransas
Floss has dreamed of for more
than 40 years?
“Ypa say you have to nse this
money for protection within the
city limits? I don’t aee why. Tha
main purpose of the whole legisla-
tive act is to provide funds for the
protection of the city, and as I un-
derstand it, there is no specific
use to which the money must be
a Doted. What is perhaps the
greatest storm danger? Not the
wind but the high tide and damage
from water. Wouldn’t a deep
channel carry the piled «p water
cut quickly after the crest of the
storm is passed, relieving the pres-
sure on the seawall? Naturally,
some of the money should be used
to strengthen the seawall itself.
“At the seawall terminus of this
deep channel § large turning basin
should be built An excellent loca-
tion for this turning basin is the
gfotsp of sixteen city blocks cut off
from the city itself when the sea-
wall channel on the northeast part
of town was dredged. This is still
oity property, bat has practically
no valae at the present time. Ap-
proximately 40 acres of city proper-
ty is available in this area.
“Now there are industrios that
would probably be glad to buy
dockage and wharfage space on
with deep
worn# a valuable
Spoils from the
basin could bo
tutned over the seawall to fill
in the area bstwsesi the railroad
tracks and die top of the levee.
Thus other valuable property
would be built up. while etreng-
fksnjpi th* seawall to such an
extent as to make It safe against
almost any storm.
"The turning basin itself would
have to be buHrheaded, of course.
While this was being done, pil-
ing that would extend at feast 34
feet below low tide should be driv-
en, in order to prepare for the
deep water that will eventually
come.
"Now $800,000 would proOly
rot complete all this work. But
the turning basin could be built as
«* Then, when the channel
to vtSrbor Island is deepened to 9
feet as a lateral to the Intracoastal
Waterway, the remaining funds
could be used to deepen the chan- _
rel still further, as long as the "oldest * when
money held out.” * oldest, when
A little girl in the store asking
her mother for a nickel and four
lidies opening their purses and re-
plying they had no nickel before
observing that it wasn’t their
daughter........members of the young
rewing club met the other day and
forgot their sewing, so they had
to play house............Mrs. lim Fay,
believe it or not, one pei^on who
went to Corpus and didnft spend
even one nickel------that most of the
. ouvenirs of the World’s Fair were
made in Japan.
‘The little town that gets ready
to die does die”—and ways of pro-
moting tourist interest that should
be of interest to every one in Ar-
fcnsas Pass, told on page two of
this week’s Progress........E. S. Fos-
ter's fishing abslity is ever a source
of surprise to his neighbors, who
do like a nice “mess” of fish once
in a while........Fred Tabet describ-
ing the numerous western states he
and Mrs. Tabet visited, adding that
"Texas is the best.”
That a traveling salesman in
Texas shaves as he drives by plug-
ging In a six-volt elettric razor at
the dashboard......"Tot” Brands tend
Clara Tate tried to thumb a ride
to a friend’s house but were un-
successful because no cars passed
•hem the ('Tenderlings encount- 1 J
eted their hottest weather, 119 de-
grees, at Boulder Dam, and the ]
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