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THE LARGESf'OPERATIONAL HELICOPTER used
in the Air Force and Army today, the H-21, will be
one of three types of whirlybirds to fly over the Hon-
do Air Base north ramp a*t 9 a. m. Saturday, Feb. 12
in a demonstration as part of graduation ceremonies
for Class 55-S. Developed as g,n assault-transport air-
craft, the H-21 is now being -used in training pilots
in rotary wing aircraft at Gary AFB, San Marcos. It
will carry 14 men or 12 litters, and is capable of
carrying a gross load of 13,500 pounds. Equipped
with rescue hoist and cargo lift, the H-21 has a top
speed of 87 knots. More recent models, the H-21B
and H-21C, can carry men at a top speed of 105
knots. --USAF Photo
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SINCE 1886 — ALL THE NEWS OF MEDINA COUNTY
HONDO, MEDINA COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1955
NUMBER THIRTY FOUR
aucedo Twice Convicted
ercury
oDrop
o 20s
ter takes another look at
j and vicinity as the ground-
iredicted. The weatherman
redicted a steep drop to the
'hursday night and a high
y in the 30s.
n, beautiful rain hit Hondo
ricinity with a long, slow
Mur that dropped as much
ree inches in some places,
nade many a farmers’ face
into a smile. It may have
late, but it was welcome,
official weather man, R.
irter, said two inches of
urb was registered at this
over Feb. 4-5. Fanning out
directions the Anvil Her-
jund A. J. Graff had 1.80
; on his place east of town.
Garrison Ranch north had
iches, and Chadwick Ranch
reported 1.70 inches. Dr.
Taylor said 2.20 inches fell
5 place west of Hondo.
1, Gaston, the county agent,
hrec inches fell at this home
ith Hondo, and C. A. Van
said 1.80 inches dropped at
ice south of town.
Castroville 2.10 inches was
ed; at Dunlay 1.50 inches,
.65 inches al Bader Settle-
Two inches hit LaCoste and
italia Correspondent E. H.
nglon reported a range of
12.50 inches fell,
ist of the stock tanks caught
d supply of water, and the
carrier reports he saw wa-
snding in fresh plowed fur-
from one end to the other
iany fields on his route,”
tingtQn said.
added, “Everyone you meet
earing either a broad grin
smile from ear to ear.”
rain, he said fell from 9 a.
riday through most of Satur-
nd part of Sunday.
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orted By R. A. Carter.
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STER’S
lOND DEATH
COUNTY
TALIA-Leon Hester, 30, an
)yee of the Taylor Explora-
!o. of Houston living at the
13 Courts here died from
es received when his car
dover at 2:45 a. m. Friday,
4.
der, an Alabaman by birth,
driving south on Hwy. 81 a
north of town, when his car
guard post, knocking the
some 30 feet. The car over-
d, and evidently slid on the
“>nd side for about 130 feet
the highway.
driver was thrown clear
ear, landing on the shoul-
°f the road, and received
is head injuries and other
and bruises. Hester was tak-
Robert B. Green where he
eported unconscious for sev
days.
enr, a Chrysler was de-
fied.
COL. EDWARD J. HALE
Gary AFB Wing Commander
’Copters To
FlyAtHAB
Saturday
Fined $400
For Tire Cuts,
DWI Charge
Francisco Cuellar Saucedo was
convicted on two counts in Coun-
ty Court-injuring personal prop-
erty of less than $50 and on a
driving whUe intoxicated charge.
The penalty on the first charge,
the outgrowth of puncturing tires
of three different LaCoste peo-
ple, and two tires and theft of a
fender skirt belonging to Calvin
Balzen of Hondo, was a $300 fine
and 60 days in jail. On the DWI
charge he drew a $100 fine and
costs plus three days in jail.
Pedro Torres was arrested Feb.
4 on an aggravated assault
charge for cutting the face of
Roberto Valdillez with a knife.
The complaint was made by
Manuel Valdillez.
Anna Lightfoot Bouse plead
guilty on a charge of aggravated
assault with a motor vehicle, re-
sulting from a July auto acci-
dent on a county road near La-
Coste. She was fined $100 and
costs. The charge was filed Nov.
22.
W. W. Castlaw has been charg-
ed with swindling by worthless
check Jan. 15. The check for
$12.75, payable to Pat or Pate
Masters Sept. 20, 1954, was on
the National Bank of Commerce
A colorful ceremony has been in San Antonio. Masters held a
gotten up for the graduation of j lien on Cast]aw for repairs on
Truck Hits
Locomotive
Driver Deaf
To All
Wa
rnings
A search for some white gas-
oline on the south side of town
cost Canuto Sanchez, 57, 2102
Ave. U, a smashed up Chevro-
let truck and nearly his life when
he hit the side of a Southern
Pacific locomotive at the cross-
ing in front of the Hondo depot
at 8:23 a. m. Monday, Feb. 7.
Sanchez couldn’t find any white
gasoline at service stations on
the north side of town, so he
started southward. He was going
about 15 m.p.h. and was about
to cross the tracks when sudden-
ly he saw the monstrous locomo-
tive bearing down upon him. He
’slammed on the brakes, but not
in time to avoid the collision. The
truck hit the side of the locomo-
tive and was spun around paral-
lel with the railroad tracks. San-
chez was unhurt.
He said he had not heard the
bell, a warning that a train is
approaching and did not see the
| blinking yellow lights or hear sta-
tion Agent E. J. Johnson’s shout-
ed warning.
Instead, Sanchez had his eye
on the traffic light across the
tracks.
Sanchez, a laborer who hauls
cedar cutters north of Hondo in
the Hill Country, could easily
have been hit broadside and
killed if he had arrived at the
tracks a few seconds earlier.
The truck frame and the front
axle were bent, the bumper shear-
ed off, the radiator smashed and
the license plate turned upside
down and perched on the
radiator.
Said a friend, A. Preciado:
“You can always buy a truck,
but you can’t buy a life.”
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City To Hear New
Siren Shriek Soon
It’s a new shriek you’ll be hear-
ing from now on.
TTie Hondo Volunteer Fire Dept,
.will install a new $400 siren in
the near future, said fire chief,
Homer Wilson.
Wilson noted the new noise-
maker was larger and better than
the old one sold to the Knippa
fire fighters.
PAPER CUT TO 12 PAGES
Because the Anvil Herald has
temporarily been cut‘to 42 pages
instead of the regular 16, lots
of news was forcibly left out of
this the Feb. 11 issue. Look for
it next week.
lATALIA’S AAODORN ELEMENTARY school building, to be fmanced with
gained both from a bond sale and a federal aid grant, will be,made
icrete and steel construction with a face brick exterior. Here is an ar is s
n9 of the school. Also, the building will have asphalt t i I e floors and
ical tile ceiling and aluminum windows. Construction _h a s Degun. e
;ct is Charles Huie, Jr., J. W. Ward, Jr., is president of the school board
• N. Kaderli superintendent of schools. Bids for the low contract will be
Feb. 14 in the office of the superintendent of schools at a meeting of the
board.
A-3c T. RODRIGUEZ
KILLED IN AUTO CRASH
D'Hanis
Airman
Killed
A-3C Torivio Rodriguez, 17-year
old D’Hanis boy, was kiUed in
an automobile wreck at 6:30 a.
m. Sunday, Feb. 6 five miles
northwest of Patrick AFB, Fla.,
according to a telegram receiv-
ed by Rodriguez’ family in D’-
Hanis.
The body was shipped to Hondo
accompanied by escort A-1C Eli-
seo Barreiro, leaving Melbourne,
Fla., Feb. 8, and will be kept at
the home of the parents until ser-
vices at 10:00 a. m. Friday, Feb.
11. Aguinaldo Pruneda, American
Legion Post 524 from Hondo, will
guard the body, said Fidel San-
chez, post commander.
Services will be conducted at
Holy Cross Church with the Rev.
O. B, Kahlich officiating. Rosary
was to be recited at 7:30 p. m.
Thursday at the Rodriguez home.
Interment will be in San Fran-
cisco Cemetery al D’Hanis, with
full military honors.
Survivors arc the parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Carlos Rodriguez of
D’Hanis; five brothers, Ted and
Louis Rodriguez of San Antonio,
and Ben, Creecncio and Gilbert
Rodriguez, all of D’Hanis; and
five sisters, Mary, Eulalia, Mrs.
Ben Musquez and Mrs. Joe Fuen-
tes, all of San Antonio, and Olga
Rodriguez of D’Hanis. ,a
Koch To Enter
Calf Scramble
In Exposition
Although entered in the San An-
tonio Livestock Exposition Feb.
18-27, young George Koch will not
enter his 15-month old grand
champion steer, Chubby Boy, his
father, George Koch, Sr., said.
The entry fee was paid before
young George went into the coun-
ty junior livestock competition at
Natalia. When he won the lugh-
est stakes possible, he felt there
was too many chances to take,
too big a gamble in San Antonio.
Instead George Koch, Jr., will
enter the calf scramble, and his
winning steer bought by Russell
Chapman and the Hondo Nation-
al Bank was sold for five cents
over the floor price, or 28Mi cents
per pound, or $298.97 to Christy’s
Restaurant, Steaks were to be
served there this week.
3 Days To
Remember
In the next four days there’ll
be two days either to celebrate
or to remember, and a third that
the oldtimers will recall ag a
black day of the Pearl Harbor
type.
First comes Saturday, Feb. 12
when Abg Lincoln was born in a
Kentucky log cabin, in 1809. Next
is Monday, Feb. 14 when the
young in heart note Valentine’s
Day. No. 3 concerns the sinking
of the battleship Maine in 1898
when the Spanish American war
was fought. That’s Feb. 15.
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Dr. Joe Mims
To Practice
Medicine Here
Dr. Joe Milton Mims, M. D.,
33, has filed his certificate to
practice medicine with (he dis-
trict clerk, Emil Britsch, but will
not begin his practice until after
July 1.
I)r. Mims, who is married to
the former Frances Fly, daugh
for of Mayor and Mrs. O. A. Fly,
is presently doing his internship
at tlie Robert B. Green Hospital
in San Antonio, but his home is
here. The Mims’ have four chil-
dren.
Dr. Mims is a graduate of the
Southwestern Medical School of
the University of Texas at Dallas.
119 men of Class 55-S at Hondo
Air Base, starting at 10 a. m.
Saturday morning, Feb. 12.
The helicopter demonstration
will precede the start of gradu-
ation ceremonies by 30 minutes
at 9:30 a. m. Col. Edward J.
Hale, wing commander of Gary
AFB, San Marcos, will bring with
him a flight of three helicopters.
He also will be the speaker of the
day.
The whirlybirds will be man-
ned by six pilots-Lt. Roberts H.
Reu and William R. Lake at the
controls of a Piasecki H-21, the
largest operational ’copter used
in the USAF today, Capt. Wil-
liam E. Martin and Lt. David
J. Kenne, piloting a Sikorski H-
19, and Lt. James R. Calamon
and James R. Quick, who will
fly the Bell H-13, smallest heli-
an auto.
A motion for continuance by
defendant Juanda W. Riley was
granted and a trial date of Feb.
24 at 10 a. m. was set. Mrs.
Riley, was arrested Dec. 3 near
Natalia on a DWI charge. Two
witnesses, Frank Ward and
James D. Clark, were absent
Feb. 3 when the ca§e was to
have been tried.
E. W. Franks, charged with
unlawfuUy killing deer Jan. 4,
plead guilty and was fined $50
and costs.
Louis Garza Sanchez, who
fought a DWI case filed Sept. 9,
was found guilty by the court and
given a $50 fine plus the man-
datory three days in jail.
Vernon F. Berry was fined $100
and costs and given three days in
copter used in training at Gary ' jail on a DWI charge filed Jan.
AFB. j 29.
The graduating class may be j --o-
one of the smartest Hondo Air
Base has ever turned out. Eight-
een of its number are West Point-
ers and 12 are from Annapolis
Naval Academy. Student officers
number eight, aviation cadets 73
and Allied students eight. The lat-
ter include seven Turkish students
and one Belgian sergeant.
Highest academic awards at-
tained by this group went to Lt.
Richard C. Walker of Bernard,
S. D., Cadet Rodney B. Beckman
of Tintah, Minn., and W-0 Semih
Arkun of Ankara, Turkey.
While the base will not be open
to the public while the ’copters
are flying, the public may watch
the helicopter demonstration at
the north ramp from a road ad-
jacent to HAB that goes to the
swimming pool.
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Mrs. Trinidad
Buried In
Hondo Plot
.Macaria G. Trinidad, 51, who
died of liver and kidney trouble
Feb. 2, was buried in the local
Catholic Cemetery Feb. 6. She
had been ill three months.
Services were conducted by
the Rev. Harold Ehlinger.
Mrs. Trinidad, who lived all
her life in Hondo, attended a
county school between Hondo and
Yancey. In 1930 she was married
to Encamacion Trinidad here.
She was of the Catholic faith.
Pallbearers were Margarito
Martinez, IsabdT Lopez, Santos
Cortinas, Chano Ramirez, Felix
Moreno and Nicolas DeLeon.
Survivors include her husband,
a daughter Guadalupe, a son
Jesus and four grandsons.
Attending the funeral from out- urgc(i j,’rjes
of-town were a sister-in-law, Mrs. j “ _0_
Ignacio Castro and her family i
from Wichita Falls, Mr. and Mrs. \Af \A/1 n!s I tyr 1-1 reC
Vicente Arausa, a cousin from I ** • VV inkier hOS
Natalia, Mrs. Tranquilina Santos
and cousins Jesusa Garcia and
Juan Santos of San Antonio.
Farmers |
Urged To
Reapply
Farmers were urged to reap-
ply for emergency feed assist-
ance by Ed Fries, Farmers Home
Administration representative, in
view of the Tuesday, Feb. 15 dead-
line for such applications.
If an application has run out.
Fries said, it can be extended
for 60 days minus the overlap,
Fries said. For example, if an
application already made is good
until March 1, the farmer can
still get 45 days, Fries explain-
ed. The reapplication is based on
the last day of the previous ap-
plication for drouth relief help.
“Applications will be received
until 5 p. m. Tuesday, Feb. 15,"
Fries declared.
Hay, the representative said, is
a little different kind of applica-
on than grain. One can apply
for it not to extend beyond March
31. An allowable of 20 pounds of
ay per day will be made for a
grown animal unit. Thus, calves
and heifers would be half a unit,
cows and bulls a full unit.
For grain a farmer can apply
for an additional period not to
extend beyond the 60 days from
he date of reapplication. For ex-
ample, if a farmer has already
made an application that runs out
March 15, he can reapply for a
supply not to extend beyond the
date of reapplication.
“It would be to farmers’ and
ranchers’ benefit to reapply,”
HRA WANTS 1,200
The aim of the Home Relief
Assn, is to build its membership
to 1,200. The official total now is
1,126 members, said Jack Fusel-
man, secretary-treasurer.
Double Operation
The gall bladder and appendix
of Walter Winkler, 58, a rancher
who owns a ranch near Quihi
but who lives in San Antonio were
removed in an operation Feb. 3
in Baptist Memorial Hospital in
San Antonio. Winkler lives at 1614
W. Craig. He is the father of
Hondo’s Jack Winkler.
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McGahey, Fred. Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1955, newspaper, February 11, 1955; Hondo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth810603/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hondo Public Library.