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The Aransas Pass Progress
Serving the Aransas Pass, Ingleside, and Port Aransas areas
VOLUME XXXVII
ARANSAS PASS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1946
NUMBER 33
Fishing is to Aransas Pass and
area what gasoline is to the auto-
mobile — it makes her go. So in
view of this importance we are
this week starting a column de-
voted to the famous sport in
which we hope to record some of
the interesting catches reported
- by local and visiting anglers eacn
week.
Headed with that familiar slo-
- gan ‘They Bite Every Day” which
is synonymous with the name
Aransas Pass the column should
be a boon to the sport which
draws thousands of fishing enthu-
siasts to this area each year.
There is nothing that
Opening Of Deer Season £°?al {•?"*
Awaited By Local Hunters humS*
Reports Indicate
Large Humber
To Hunt This Year
Texas Baptists
In Convention
At Mineral Wells
Keepers, Hundley
Re-Elected Directors
Scout Troop 25 Charter
Presentation Mon. Night
Hunting' Season
Will Open Sat.
November 16th
v
With rifles polished to looking
glass appearance and with camp-
ing outfits in readiaess, local
hunters are anxiously awaiting
the opening of the current deer
hunting season which .s still two
days away. Most of the locals
will leave here tomorrow in or-
der to be “Johnnie on the Spot”
salves | when the season opens Saturday
the ego of the fisherman like
finding an attentive audience
for a good fish • story, so ang-
lers here is your opportunity to
recount your fishing experience
without encountering the danger
of having some long-armed fel-
low in the crowd out-measure you.
Now this column is primarily
intended as a space to truthfully
record your catch — and with
fishing what it is around Aran-
.sas Pass we know no exaggeration
will be needed, although fisher-
men as a lot are reputed to be
great abusers of the truth when
it comes to telling of the “big one.”
Since we are using this column
to cover fishing as a sport and
not as an industry we will rec-
ord only those catches made by
sportsmen and restrict it to catch-
es made by commercial fisher-
men. However, any interesting
stories sent in by commercial
fishermen will not be neglected
but will be given proper cover-
age elsewhere.
morning, November 16th.
The crack of local guns will
be heard from the brush coun-
try along the Rio Giande all
through the hill country above
San Antonio and as far west as
Van Horn as a check of some fif-
ty hunters in this vicinity reveals
that locals have deer hunting leas-
es scattered over this broad area.
If the optimistic predictions of
the followers of this - favorite
sport hold true the antlered beau-
ties are in for a tough six week:
and venison steaks will be tne
menu at several Aransas Pass ta
bles in the near future
“The fall rains should have put
the range in fine condition and
the bucks should be in good
shape,” said Capt. G. S. Spinney
who will join in a hunt with Toots
Dr. J. Howard Williams, of Dal-
las, will climax the sessions of
the Baptist General Convention
cf Texas being held this at Min-
eral Wells when he presents the
a1
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DR. J. HOWARD WILLIAMS
first annual report of his current
tenure as Executive Secretary of
Texas Baptists on Thursday night.
Dr. Williams will report a year
in which accomplishments have
outstripped all previous years in
Local wolf hounds were much
in the spotlight at the South Tex-
as Wolf Hunters meet just con-
cluded at Cotulla and May Keep-
ers and J. L. (Shorty) Nix brought
back the ribbons to prove as much
• Keepers entered four dogs and
came home with three ribbons,
two first places and one third.
His dogs Rough and Smoke took
first place for being the best
matched pair and his dog, Buzz,
Avon third place in the dogs un-
der one year old class. These dogs
entered with Nix’s Bruni .John
took first place for the best look-
ing pack.
Nix’s dog, Bullet, won
place in the bench show for the
derby mass and his gyp, School
Girl, was fourth place winner
in the bench show. The gyp also
took second place in trailing in
the field trials.
Keepers and R. J. Hundley of
Ingleside were re-elected as
directors of the Association for
the coming year and it was de-
cided that Cotulla would again
be host to the Wolf Hunters when
they hold their annual meet next
year.
Keepers reports this year’s meet
one of the most successful yet
to be had by the hunters.
Churches Sponsor
Youth For Christ
Movement Here
Funeral Services
For Mrs, Reiser
i Held Tuesday
In a recent meeting of church
lepresentatives of the city defi-
nite plans were laid to introduce
“Youth For Christ” Internation-
al to this community.
Rev. Bob Willis, pastor of the
Assembly of God Church and one
of the sponsors of the movement
gave this explanation of its pur-
first poses. “Youth for Christ Interna-
tional is a world wide organiza-
tion designed to reach the youth
for Christ, having as its soigan
“Geared to the time but anchor-
ed to the Rock of Ages.” It has a
program of modem design to at-
tractively present the old fash-
ioned gospel to the younger gen-
eration. The program cf Y. for C.
is one packed with thrills and
challenges for the youth of to-
day. Youth for Christ Interna-
tional is the out growth of plans
laid by the nation’s outstanding
youth leaders to effectively pre-
sent Christ to the youth of the
nation. In over one thousand cit-
Naylor. They will probably hunt j every phase of endeavor.
in the Van Horn country where
black tail deer are plentiful.
“I’m going to try my luck in the
hill country between Medina City
and Kerrville,” said Les Sorenson
So sportsmen, let’s hear from j who will be accompanied by Bob
you! When you make a catch Green, another local hunting en-
drop by or phone us and spill the
details. Humorous incidents about
(Continued on page twelve)
Mathis-lngleside
Meet Friday
The Ingleside Mustangs coach-
ed by Swede Ericson will be host
to Fred Rich’s Mathis Pirates in
a non-conference game to be play-
ed at Mustang Field Friday night.
This game will bring together two
strong Class B teams.
The Mathis boys have won all
six games while dropping three
and are rated near the top in
their conference. The Mustangs
are nearing the end of a good sea-
son having lost only one game
in conference play. Their final
game will be played with Flour
Bluff next week.
Coach Ericson states that all
of his regulars will be able to
take the field when the whistle
starts the game tomorrow night.
thusiast.
Bob Gillespie, another local
hunter is bemoaning the fact that
urgent work may keep him from
(Continued on page 12)
Howard Symons
In Hospital
Construction Man
Injured In
China Mishap
The convention opened in Min-
eral Wells at 7:15 Tuesday night
and will be concluded tonight E.
D. Head of Ft. Worth is president
of the convention. Other offi-
cers are: first vice-president, For-
rest Feezor of Waco; second vice-
president, Odell Jameson of Dal-
las; recording secretaries, D. E.
South of San Antonio and Roy
L. Johnson of Canyon.
Other Texas personalities who
occupy prominent places on the
convention program are:
W. R. White, of Austin, Carr P.
Collins, of Dallas, E. J. Gregory
I of San Antonio, C. E. Hereford of
'Corpus Christi, E. H. Westmcre-
land of Houston, W. H. McKenzie
of Dallas, Forrest Feezor of Wa-
co, Hal Buckner of Dallas and
Thomas J. Watts of Dallas.
Out of State speakers were J.
W. Marshall, Duke K McCall,
John D. Freeman, and John L.
Hill all of Nashville, Tenn., and
INGLESIDE WATER RATES
TO BE INCREASED
Funeral services were held at
the First Baptist Church in In-
gleside Tuesday morning for Mrs.
Mildred Belser, 40, who passed
away at the home of her sister,
Mrs. W. F. Fitzsimmons, early
Sunday night. She had been con-
fined to her bed for several
months.
Reverends E. E. Stuckey and L.
M. Huff officiated and burial was
in Prairie View Cemetery under
the direction oi Peel-Jackson Fun-
eral Home of Corpus Christi.
Mrs. Belser was well known
in the Ingleside community hav-
ing resided there for the past
eighteen years and prior to her
illness about a year ago was very
active in club and church ac-
tivities. She was a native of El-
mira, Texas.
Survivors are her husband, D.
D. Belser; two sons, George Ray
and Bobby D. Belser; her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Hudgens of
Lufkin; four sisters, Mrs. L. L.
Burns of Dallas, Ruby Hudgens of
Lufkin, Mrs. W. F. Fitzsimmons
of Ingleside, Mrs. William
Parents And
Sponsors Urged
To Attend
Scouters Annual
Banquet, Meeting
To Be Held Dec. 10th
K. D. Horton, manager of the
Sun Utility Company at Ingle-
side, has announced that effec-
tive November 24th an increase
in water rates will be put into
effect.
The increase will amount to
approximately twenty-five cents
per thousand gallons as indi-
cated in a recent letter announc-
ing the new rates.
The Sun Utility Co,, purchases
water from the City of Taft a id
Mr. Horb:& reports that the in-
crease is necessary to offset an
increase in their purchase price
of the water.
Hudgens
Francisco and Morris
of Houston.
Pall bearers for the funeral
were E. B. Crow, J. F. Collins,
W. T. Hilliard, W. P. Campbell,
W. A. Dreier and L. D. Cooper.
Howard Symons, former resi-
dent of Aransas Pass, is in a San
Francisco hospital encased in a j Euis A Puller 0( Louisville K
faster cast from his r.eck to his; r P ’*
Seen
A house being moved down
Houston Street Tuesday after-
ternoon________George Squires, now
a beautician, looking quite at
home waiting for a friend at
Virgie’s Beauty Shop________Mr. W.
C. Hicks out mowing his lawn
bright and early in the morning.
..._____Josephine Ganem and her lit-
tle niece in the drug store--------
Troy Johnson fixing a flat at the
Humble Service Station, across
the street from his Gulf Station
--Another Army Recruiting
Car in town this week________Two
local business men going down
the street calling a dog, that had
gotten away from them-Mrs.
Lillian Snyder busy as a bee
working in her yard, and much
improvement made------Elton Saw-
yer on her way home from the
designed the cast for Symons in
China before he was placed
aboard the plane for the flight
here and accompanied the injur-
ed man on the trip to assist in
the delicate operation to save
his life.
_ __ „ . Hospital beds are not entirely
Beauty Shop “all curled up” with j new to Symons. He suffered a
a brand new permanent--------Lit- j leg operation several, years ago
tie Margaret Ann Konvicka try-1 during wrich he displayed good
tees fighting for recovery from
severe 'njuries sustained when a
scaffold gave way with him on
September 23rd on a China con-
struction job.
His wife, Margarte Symons, left
here and met her husband when
he arrived' in California aboard
a special plane which flew him
from Shanghai, where the acci-
dent occurred. She will accom-
pany him to Texas when he is
released from teh west coast hos-
pital.
The accident which claimed the
hie of a Chinese worker and
gave Symons a broken vertebrae,
a wrist fracture, six broken ribs
and other severe injuries, was
the result of a fall from the scaf-
fold which was 40 feet above the
ground. The 47 year old construc-
tion worker was employed by
the Hammond. Iron Works of Phil-
adelphia and at the time of the
acident was foreman on a job re-
building a bombed out Standard
Oil refinery in the Shanghai area.
C. E. Matthews, superinteno.ent
of evangelism for Texas Baptists,
presented his report at the Wed-
nesday night cession. Emphasis
is being placed on simultaneous
evangelism. Under #ie current
plan churches in a given area
will engage in revival meetings
at the same time. To date 107 of
the 114
Texas are committed to such con-
certed campaigns. About 2 700
churches will participate in these
simultaneous efforts during 1947.
proximately 10,000 Baptists would
attend the Mineral Wells conven-
tion.
Panthers Play
Buckaroos Here
Friday Night
Last Game Of ; i )
Season For
Aransas Pass
The Aransas Pass Panthers will
close a rather unsuccessful foot-
ball season when they meet the
Freer Buckaroos here at Roose-
velt Field tomorrow night.
The Buckaroos are in fourth
spot, in the conference running
having defeated San Diego, B»na-
associational areas 0f!v*des’ sad Kenedy and los-
' ing to Faifurrias. Alice and Sin-
ton. The Panthers have taken
only one win in conference play
during the season and that was
their victory over San Diego.
Coach W. T. Henry reports his
boys in good shape for tomorrow
night’s game and said he would
probably have a starting lineup
of all seniors.
; ies from coast to coast and some . , T_„
of the larger cities of Europe this] O Rourke of Kugore, three broth-
effective means of presenting °f ^U^in’ CarT1Tof1 San
Christ has proven to be over-
whelmingly successful.’
On Saturday night, November
23rd in the auditorium of the
First Methodist Church, the in-
troductory “Youth for Christ”
service will be launched charac-
terized by a great musical pro-
gram with a youth speaker who
will be announced at a later
date. “The public is urged to
watch for announcements in re-
regard this mass movement
said "‘Rev. Willis.
Those interested in participat-
ing in the Youth for Christ mass
chorus will meet at 7:30 p.m. on
Monday the 18th of November at
the First Baptist Church.
LADIES AUXILIARY HAS
ARMISTICE SERVICE
Ten members of the Ladies
Auxiliary met at the Memorial
Hall Monday morning and from
there they went to the cemetery
where they placed flags on the
graves of all ex-service men.
They were accompanied by Rev.
Bob Cox and Mrs. Cox, and Mr.
Mayor Conn Brown will be
among the local men to attend
the meeting of the Intracoastal
Canal Commission which will be
m , TTT 7 A . J. H. Mathis. Rev. Boo Cox open-|held at the Driscoll Building in
Dr. Ted Worden of Los Angeles, j e(j the SPrvice with a prayer. j Corpus Chrsti on Monday, Nov-
... - j ember 18th.
MAYOR TO ATTEND CANAL
COMMISSION MEETING
Portland Theatre
Opening Tonight
“Irish Eyes Are Smiling” is the
picture scheduled foi showing
tonight when the recently com-
pleted Portland Theatre has its
orficial opening, reports G. F. Lee,
manager of the new show place.
Located in downtown Portland,
the new show house has a seat-
ing capacity of 400 persons and
is of concrete block construction.
A. D. Fritz of Ingleside, was the
contractor on the job which was
begun during March of this year.
According to Mr. Lee the The-
atre will have regular right shows
and will feature a 2:30 matinee
on Saturday and Sunday. Added
attractions will be shown along
with the feature pictures.
Teachers Invite
Governor Jester
To Dallas Meet
Boy Scout Troop 25 will re-
ceive its charter for the coming
year at a presentation ceremony
to be held at the Memorial Hall
Monday night, November 18th.
District Committeeman Nutt of
Taft, will preside at the meeting
and will make the presentation
of the charter.
Scoutmaster Morris Traweek,
urges all local committeemen to
attend and bring their wives.
Members of the Aransas Pass
Lions Club, the sponsoring body
for Troop 25 are also invited to
attend, as well as the parents of
the boy scouts.
Members of the troop commit-
tee are R. P. Park, Hal Parks, Roy
Westmoreland, Dr. G. Roemer, E.
Falgout, Wayne Welch, R. dea-
dening, Wallace Witt and Rev.
W. C. Craig.
Mr. Traweek announces that
the annual banquet and meeting
of the scouters of the Karankawa
District will be held at Sinton on
December 10th at 7:30 p.m.
Arlin Yeager is chairman of the
local committee in charge of ar-
| rangements for the banquet.
The district Court of Honor for
Karankawa District will be held
on December 13th at at Taft.
Dallas, Texas, Nov. 14—Gov-
ernor-elect Beauford H. Jester, (
has been invited to attend the j Revival Eilds
annual meeting of the Texas j 0 ,
Teachers Welfare Association, Inc. feOIUlSy
in Dallas on Saturday, December
14, to discuss his program for
increasing the pay of Texas teach-
Assemfoly Of God
The revival which has been
ers. The Governor-Elect is pledg-1 ^ ,pr^fress Assembly of
ed tn raisp t.hp nav nf taanViarc I ^od Church for the past two
weeks will end Sunday night.
Evangelist R. W. Prince, who has
been conducting the services will
speak Sunday morning on *A
dynamic faith for a faithless
hour,” and his text for the even-
ing service will be “A little man
and a big Christ.”
Mrs. Prince is here with the
evangelist and has assisted in the
singing. They will go from here
to Waco.
Texas5 Quota
$150,000 In
Polio Campaign
WEEK'S SHRIMPING NETS
300,000 POUNDS
ing to nde her brothers big bi-
cycle________“Mr. Denker’o Brother”
and his wife out fishing early
Sunday morning________A line of
fisherman at the Ferry Landing
Sunday evening, really hauling | case.
morale and courage and his
friends here believe that he has
what it takes to pull through his
present critical condition althougn
they realize the seriousness of his
in the trout......-Billie Kieberger
in town ever the week-end--------
May Keepers driving a “Super
Symons’ condition will make it
necessary t: remain in the Cal-
ifornia hospjtal for several weeks
Deluxe” Ford around town_______it I but when he is able to be mov-
was a Model A_.__A large crowd j ed he wll be transferred, to a Tex-
out at the Carnival Monday night j as hospital for recuperation. He
______—Wiliene Sutton greeting | had been in China since June of
friends in DuBose this morning.! this year.
Shop Here - -
Houghton's
Del Monte Coffee, lb. _______31c
Jergens Lotion $1.00 size 59c
Del Monte Catsup, 14 oz. 24c
Kelly Food Store
Pineapple, Gal. ________ $1.48
Maryland Club Coffee, lb. 37c
Fresh Tomatoes, lb. ______ 19c
Patty's Grocery
T-Bone Steak, lb. ___________ 50c
Yellow Onions, 2 lbs. __________9c
Delicious Apples, 2 lbs. - 25c
Pattersaon's Pick & Pay
Oysters, pint __________________—90c
Black Pepper, 2 lbs. ____________75e
Hens, fresh dressed, lb. _____55c
Bexley's Gro. & Mkt.
Sugar, pure cane, 5 lbs.
Stew Meat, lb.
Judge Mansfield, chairman of
j the Rivers and Harbors Commis-
j sion, will be one of the princi-
pal speakers.
Brookfield Links, lb. _
--44c
—25c
—59c
NOTICE TO NAVIGATION
INTERESTS
Navigation interests are advis-
ed that a barge, size and type un-
known, is sunk near mid-chan-
nel of Cedar Bayou, approximate-
ly 1 mile above the mouth of the
bayou, opposite the white light
located on the turn of the water-
way. The sunken barge is resting
in about 9 feet of water with the
uppermost portion of the vessel
about 5 feet below the water sur-
face.
The sunken vessel i? marked at
each end with red flagging. Marin-
ers are cautioned to exercise ex-
treme care while navigating in
this vicinity.
Austin, Texas, Nov, 14th—The
1946 campaign for the Sister Eliz-
abeth Kenny Infantile ParaylsL
Foundation Campaign will get
underway in Texas or. Monday,
November 18. This will follow a
formal launching of the campaign
by Kate Smith, the national chair-
man, Saturday, November 16, over
a nationwide radio broadcast,
from 9:00 to 9:30 p.m., Bing Cros-
by, chiarman of the national exec-
utive committee, and Rosalind
Russell, chairman of the women’s
division will also be heard on the
opening broadcast.
Chairmen for more than 150
counties have been named
throughout the state and solici-
tation will get underway on the
opening day of the campaign.
However, George 0. Francisco, Jr.
chairman of the Texas Executive
Committee, has sent out a state-
wide appeal for workers and ha?
asked them to write into State
Hheadquarters at the Driskill Ho-
tel in Austin to volunteer their
services. The state quota is $150,-
000.
ed to raise the pay of teachers.
The recently chartered Texas
Teachers Welfare Association, a
militant organization of teachers
pledged to woik for the general
improvement of the teaching pro-
fession, is now conducting state-
wide campaign tc inform the pub-
lic of the grave shortage of teach-
ers in Texas schools and to bring
about an increase of pay which
they declare is necessary to halt
the wholesale exodus of teachers
from the schoolrooms of the state.
Dr. Joe P. Harris, Dallas Coun-
ty School Superintendent, Sec-
retary of the Association and oth-
er members of the Executive
Committee are arranging the pro-
gram for the Dallas meeting, at
which a legislative program will
be discussed. ,
Amendment of the Rural Aid
Law lifting the ceilings whicn
this law imposes on teachers in
Rural Aid Schools is first on the
program now being sponsored by
the Texas Teachers Welfare As-
sociation. A minimum of $2,400
a year for beginners, instead of That Earl Sloan and Haynes
the $1,215 maximum for begin-1 Roebuck were expert at marks-
ners^now allowed under the Ru-|manship_______A local girl learning
to drive, drove into Johnson's
Local fishing interests report
a good run of shrimp during the
past week. Approximately 300,000
pounds were handled by the lo-
cal fish houses.
Heard
ral Aid Law, is proposed by the
association.
Dr. Harris pointed out that Sov-
iet Russia, which patterned its
public scrool system after that of
the United States, now spends
the equivalent of $13,000,000,000
(billions), or 20 per cent of its
national income, for education,
while the United States, richest
nation on the globe, spends less
than $3,000,000,000 (billions), or
less than 2 per cent of the nation-
al income. j
Texas ranks 33rd among the
states in per capita expenditure
for education, far below the na-
tional average. The figures cited
by Dr. Harris were compiled by
the National Educational Asso-
ciation, which has taken a strong
stand in favor of higher pay for
teachers generally.
We Invite -
To be our guest at the Picture
■ holiday in Mexico” showing
Every county in Texas has been Sunday and Monday at the Ri-
alto Theatre, Mrs. E.‘ W. Hale and
guest. This notice clipped from
The Progress will serve as your
j admittance.
assigned a quota and all donations
sent direct to State Headquarters
will be credited to the county
from which they are received.
Service Station and filled up with
g^s, then asked them if they
would tarn her around and start
her off the other way________The
Richard Park family is leaving
on a trip to Mississippi________Jim
Mullins says he couldn’t go deer
hunting because it had been too
wet to plow for a month and
that if this sun continued to shine
like this morning, he was afraid
he was going to be able to start
plowing Monday________Rev. A. D.
Jameson says that he was crazy
about Aransas Pass and had met
a host of fine people—.Friends
calling Corene Amidon “Grand-
ma” now______Mrs. Marvin Bex-
ley recently re-papered her
house, with the aid of Delma
Ruth--------Someone remark that
the Tate girls have sons, and the
Tate boys have daughters—......
Toad Kelly’s new theme song is
“Rumors are Flying”__________Reva
Nell Linney was a visitor here
Wednesday---------Roy Westmoreland
on the way back to his office, and
said he had just found the gas ’
meter he was looking for, “the
last one”..------Wiliene Sutton say
she had an ideal job now, she on-
ly has 3 or 4 days off a Week.......
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