Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1939 Page: 1 of 6
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Complete Coverage of Brooks County Trade Territory
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I^nd of (he Jersey Cow, Citrus Fruit and Vegetables
FALFURRIAS FACTS,
ESTABLISHED IN 1906—BROOKS COUNTY S ONLY NEWSPAPER
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FALFURRIAS
SOFTBALL
LEAGUE
FALFURRIAS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 21 1939
NUMBER 45
Hosts At District
Meetinjr Thursday
Approximately 150 Church
men Congregate Here To
Hear Dr. H. A- McMillan,
Home Mission Secretary
Falfurrias Thursday night. Apri'
20, was host to approximately 150
churchmen as the men-of-the-
church organization of the First
Presbyterian church of this city
entertained at a district meeting
which was held at Legion Park.
With County Agent J. A. Oswalt,
president of the Falfurrias group,
in charge of arrangements, the
visitors were served barbecued ca-
l>rito and beef, following which an
appropriate program was offered.
Featured speaker at the meeting
was Dr. Homer A. McMillan, form-
er secretary of the Assembly’s
Home Missions of the Presbyterian
church, with headquarters at At-
lanta, Ga.
Falfurrias Commemorates The
BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO
Band (Joes To Fiesta In San Antonio
Rodeo Committees
Begin ^ork On 1
Falfurrias Festival
Brother 0#_Mr,._ J. H. Stewort Jacinto ill the bloody war lor' rtoua'contesta ancTthen'participatc Grand,tand And Eaten-
Loses Life When Barksdale Texas independence, recorded by
Field Pursuit Ship Dives In- world historians as one of the few
, ^uear^, to Tree And Catches Fire
TEAM STANDING
Team—
P
W
L
Piggly Wiggly
8
6
2
Magnolia Pet. Co.
8
5
3
First Nat’l. Bank
8
6
2
Fire Dept.
10
5
5
Tom Graham
8
2
6
Fal. Merc. Co.
8
2
6
Hi-way Dept.
4
0
4
Pet.
.750
.625
.750
.500
.250
Friends here were shocked on
receipt of news last Friday
morning of the tragic death of
Second Lieut. C F. Smith who
died instantly when his Barksdale
Field plane crashed into the base
of a tree 15 miles north of the
Louisiana air base at 9:25 P. M.,
April 13. while participating in
training maneuvers.
Lieut. Smith, who was 23 years
old, was a brother of Mrs. J. H i .
Stewart of this city and had many) |*()||) | TFY 10US I ('il?
decisive battles since man discov-
ered the art of destruction, the ev-
ery-day regular routine of busi-
ness will be temporarily disrupted
today < Fridayt as Falfurrias citi-
zens follow the hard-working
Green Shut Band to San Antonio
Cotton Acreage For
1939 Shows Drop
friends here.
Authorities said
in the colorful Battle of Flowers I
parade.
The band and its director, red-
haired Walter C. Jackson, plied in-
struments into cars and invaded
the Alamo City Thursday with the
same spirit that today perpetuates
the memory of Travis. Bowie. Bon-
ham and Crockett.
Again led by Mary Clifford Bur-
dette. with three years’ experience
as drum major and last year ad-
judged best girl drum major in the
Battle of Flowers parade, the high
school band left Thursday morning
For the past few weejes. Director
Jackson has been drilling his band
•ive Improvements About
Arena Planned for Eleventh
Annual July 4th Celebration
the plane, a
been postponed because of the mated to have been more than 600
Cities represented in the district ®attle Flowers parade and will m. p. h., crashed head-on into the
are Falfurrias, Refugio, WO' dsbo- bc PlaYed at the end of the sche-|tree and burst into flames,
ro, Robstown, Corpus Christi, Alice, | du^e
•2501 single seater Curtiss D-36-A of the Payments Under Conservation the high school division Thursday
Prcgram For 1939 Aggre- night. Scheduled to participate in
gate $10,605.35; Ranch the parade are Mary Clifford Bur-
Pajnients Total $18,329.59 dett, Martha Lee Wright. Anna
The 1939 edition of the Falfru-
rlas rodeo and Fourth of July ce-
lebration this week began definite-
ly taking shape, following a meet-
ing of directors of the rodeo asso-
ciation Monday night. April 17, to
hear reports from major commit-
tees on progress made for the e-
leventh annual presentation <>f the
colorful frontier event.
R L. Schultz,, general chairman
of the American Legion sponsored
association, called for reports from
twice daily to compete with other!the bulding, fencing, grounds and
committees, review-
| bands in the marching contests of advertising
„ , 00d type which recently was dived by a
Games for Friday. April 21. have Barksdale pilot at a speed esti- j
Accompanied by
King^ville^ Aransas Pass, Rockport j ^^ul^of^games played during guard c,,mpo.S(.d of Lieut. Roy Low
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Falfurrias Student
Takes Essay Title
For Sixth V ietorv
April 14—Highway Dept. 6, Mer-
; cantile 13: Tom Graham 7, First
National Bank 8; April 17—Fire
men 12. Piggly Wiggly 11; Mer-
cantile 10, Tom Graham 27; April
SCPt n ^ Nam°n* Dewville, near Gonzales, where the
al Bank 17; Fire Dept. 10, Tom|body was laid to rest tha.
ra ianL . . „ , of Lieut. Smith’s mother, who diedi
Remaining Schedule j in 1936 !
and Lieut Ralph Herder of Barks-
dale Field, the body was sent by
rail to Nixon in a sealed copper
casket. Several .hundred mourners
met the train and joined the fun-
eral cortege which proceded
W‘.*h a 1939 cotton allotment of
an honorary 7,022 acres under the Agricultural
Conservation Pr gram. Brooks
county has planted approximately
3.000 acres, or less than 50 percent
of the total allotment, it was re-
vealed this week by Miss Ha Fran-
ing also details for Improvement in
metheds of handling thousands of
visitors during the two-day cele-
bration.
Margaret Burdett, Betty Jane j W. B Wilson and Ollie Norris,
Young, Carolyn Knowles, Sarita serving as a building committee.
Garcia. Martha Nell Crockett, Lois I presented plans and specifications
McCullar, Elizabeth Dale. Wanda for a new 112-foot grandstand
Lee Maun. Sue Morgan. Jean Orth
Miriam Wagenschein, Betty Ren-
ner, Dorothy Hall, Georgia Bess
Sherlock, Marie Bennett Ralph Ma-
Betty Jo Fry’s “Catching A
Fish” Judged Best In Dis-
Wiggly; Highway Department vs.
Tom Graham.
Following the completion of the
new schedule, a play-off of the
For the sixth consecutive year
a Falfurrias high school student
brought Pack top honors in the
ready writers’ contest at the dis-
trict meet which was held at La- , ,
redo Friday and Saturday. April 14,four leadin« teams wiU be held
and 15. * xxx
Betty Jo Fry, a senior in the lo- RfttnrV I IIIIt
cal school, was awarded first place UUldI > ^AU,i
when judges selected her essay. I \T TV*
"Catching A Fish", as outstanding ilPVV UlTPCtOrS
The contest was won last year by
Lawrence DuBose with "Dust
Storms" and the year before by
Marion Donahue with My Baby
Brother”. Laredo placed second in
the 1939 meet.
The Falfurrias typing team,
composed of Joseph Hammitt, Hel-
en Hanson and Annie Negri, re-
ceived second rating in the meet.
Hammitt scored 38.5 words with
13 errors as compared with Bena-
vides’ 45 words with five errors.
Local tennis players also gave a
ces Darby who is acting admin- haffey, Joe Downs, Dick Hopper,
to istrator's assistant of the Brooks John L. Forsyth Tommy Smith,
county agricultural consnrvation Bobby Hassell. Raymond Renner,
association. 1 Denton Wieland* Nevius Moss, Jo-
Acreage planted this year will be | seph Hammitt, Frank Hopper, B« b-
Uess than the 3,268 acres put in' by Burdltt, Dick McIntyre, Luther
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ltery during the ceremony us a tri- chopping has already begun in the j ert Donahue, Jack Morgan, Billy
'southern portion of the county. Brad Gardner, Larry Casey Frank-1 for each of 41 boxes, serving both
Production last year totaled 418 lin Ryan and Nevelle Stiles. grandstands Maximum capacity
bales Benefits on the 1938 crop - Among the those who will furn- "f t,le boxes U elKht chairs,
up to the present date, aggregate
$10.60535. This represents 19o
April 21—First National Bank vs.
iggly Wiggly; Ma
furrias Mercantile.
trict Meet At Laredo; Other! April 24-Fire Department vs. I.— — ~e vounTfTveV'
Lccal Entries Place Mercantile; Highway Department | __ int young iijer.
which is to supplement the pres-
ent structure and were authorized
to procede with the work The new
grandstand will be erected at an
angle to the old building, with the
cattle and horse sh«>ots in the an-
gle of the two stands.
Preparations are being made bv
the fence committee, composed of
C. F Hopper, Percy Hunter and
Tom Lasater, to enclose the entire
arena with a high barrier.
It was voted to supply six chairs
vs. Piggly Wiggly. | The youthful aviator received
April 28—Magnolia vs. Piggly !his wings and a commission in the
U S. Army July 16, 1938, and was
ordered to Barksdale for active
Three new directors of the Fal-
furrias Rotary club this week were
named to serve during the ensuing
year following the resignation of
directors who were elected by the
club membership at a recent meet-
ing.
The new directors are R. R. Scott.
Marvin Noll and George Collins,
succeeding J. R. Forsyth, J. R.
Scott Jr. and E D. McIntyre. Other
duty. On the day of his graduation Ifj?*8 and “ *bo“t
he was married to Miss Irene k .c°mpIete- Ranch benefits
Johnson „f Charlott, a union whic* sq1-
was broken 10 months, to the hour. ™ 0 pa^L $J8’329.5
the range program for 1938 is al-
most complete and indications are
that the 1939 payments will be
considerably higher, due to an in-
crease in th« number of ranchmen
participating in the program,
j Records sh< w that Brooks coun-
ty boasts one one-variety cotton
| community, in which 30* farmers
have planted approximately 2501
!acres of Acala seed.
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after the nuptial rites.
Funeral services were conducted
by Rev. Pollard of the Presbyterian
church of San Marcos, assisted by
Liuet. Smith’s uncle. R. R. Smith,
of Pleasanton. Three songs were
sung by Shelby Pollard and three
other young men friends.
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Cattle Shipments
Total !)8 Cars
ish cars to transport the bun l! An Improved and more extensive
members are Mrs. Vernon Holmes. Isound system was discussed, with
Mr. and Mrs. W. B Gardner, Mr accomodations for an announcer
and Mrs. C. F Wagenschein, Mrs.1 and bis assistants W B. Gardner
C. F. Hopper, Mrs J A Oswalt, jLs chairman of the sound service
Jewell Fore, Mrs. E. D. McIntyre, j committee.
Mrs. Les Crabb. Mr. and Mrs J. II.| xxx---
Sherlock, Mr. and Mrs R C.
sell. Mr and Mrs Herbert Puckey|‘
and Mrs Ernest Morgan.
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directors are the Rev. James E.
m ppci- and John Louts Forsyth. | . R' L Sch“‘,Z'
competing in the doubles matches.
and W. B Wilson.
As is customary in Rotary Inter-
Magnolia Starts
were defeated by Mirando City In I T “ ,... . , ....
the finals while Jack Flack we ! natlona1’ Norris’ who sorved as | Victoria division of the railroad
Records kept by the local .South-!
ern Pacific Railroad office show cllIUII
that 5s carloads of cattle have _
been shipped fr<m the Falfurrias cil men in this area centered
area to northern grazing lands and their attention on a new operation Dezzipm_ni nr more man sti
a total of approximately 195 car- which ,,DUdripd Thursday a few ! ‘,an *„
lmds have «hir»r»PH fmm th.. ,, 1 sPaaciPU inursaay a iew Lupe Maldonado of Kingsville
iloaas nave been snipped from the miles northwest of Falfurrias. It is!
County Attorney In
Kingsville Charge
The Kingsville Record of Wed-
nesday, April 19, carried an ac-
count which stated that Fidenclo
Garza, county attorney of Brooks
County, was bound in the sum of
$1,000 to the Kleberg County
Grand Jury in Justice of the Peace
Ben T. Laws’ court at Kingsville
Wednesday up»m charges of em-
bezzlement of more than $51 from
Falfurrias Rotary
Club Wins Trophy
eliminated in the semi-finals. Ma-
rie Bennett, girls’ singles repres-
entative. was defeated by the San
Diego entry in the quarter finals.
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Loral Firemen
Attend Quarterly
Distriet Meeting
vice president of the club during' The current dry weather has
the past year, was elevated to the I made it necessary for ranchmen
presidency and Collins was elect-Jin this area to move their stock to
ed vice president of the organiza., better grass, although reports are
ti«>n. R R Scott was again named that shipments will n..t exceec
secretary. Schultz was elected j those of last year,
treasurer and Howard Behrent, | a report from E. L. Wright,
sergeant-at-arms.
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the No. J. O. Maun which is 669
feet from the north and east lines
i f lot 6. Block 11 It is west of the
No 1 Sam Maun which was re-
cently completed as a distillate
producer.
Humble’s No. 7 McGill in the Kel-
sey field of Brooks and Jim Hogg
Wild Animal Movie
Aids School Banquet
Falfurrias Selected As Next
Meeting Place; Honorary
Chief Of Chicago Depart-
ment Attends Conference
The junior class of the local hig.i
school Wednesday night sp< nsored led.
a wild animal movie filmed by a
cameraman on a tour through Es-
tes Park, Colorado. The movie,
presented in the high school au-
ditorium vividly portrayed wild life
Volint^e^D^Urtmen^aS- ^ also.“«
ed a district meeting at Kingsville
Sunday, Anril 16. which attracted
delegates from 13 South Texas fire
department. Apnroximately 250
persons enjoyed the all-day con-
ference. c< mDetltive races and I
fire fighting games.
It was voted to hold the next
quarterly meeting of the group in
this city.
Local reor°sentatives were Jack
Downs. Elwln Wise, Leslie Sween-
ey, Hilmar Nelson. Wayne McCul-
lar and Clyde Kitchen. Wise ad-
dressed the gathering on methods
of financing a volunteer fire de-
partment.
Deoartments represented at the
conference, which was the second
quarterly meeting of volunteer
firemen from the 8outh Central
District of the state, were Falfur-
rias, Robstown, Alice,
scenes of beautiful scenery. The
proceeds will be used for the Jun-
ior-senior banquet.
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Meeting Of Burial
Park Ass’n May 1
Announcement was made this
week of the annual meeting of the
Falfurrias Burial Park Association
which will be held In the county
court room Monday night. May 1,
beginning at 7:30. New officers for
the ensuing year will be elected at
this meeting and any other busi-
ness, suggestions or complaints will
be open for discussion.
In view of the fact that affairs
of the Burial Park Association are
of wide general interest in the
community, an Invitation Ls ex-
Aransas! tendcd 10 all interested to attend
Pass, Beevllle, Roekport Bishop,
Sinton, Freer, Orange Grove, Taft.
Woodsboro and Kingsville.
Presiding over the meeting was
F E. Levermann of Beevllle. pres-
ident of the 8outh Central District
organization, and Cecil Oarrison.
(Continued on page 6)
the meeting.
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Tommy Joe Taylor and Dono
Moore of A.&M College spent the
weekend with Faifurrlas folks.
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Miss Cleone Dennis of Alice
spent week end with Falfurrias
friends.
Brooks county supervisor of tick j counties, was last reported clean-
eradication work carried on i»y the mg into pits making wash water
Livestock Sanitary Commission of and oil from a total depth of 4,-
Texas, shows that 104 herds and a 730 feet. The well has sand at 4.-
tota Inf 8.028 cattle were inspected 697 to 4.721 feet and at 4.724-30
or dipped in March and of this to- feet. Five and a half-inch casing
tal none were found to be infest-I was set at 4,712 feet.
About two miles northeast of
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District Court To
Adjourn Saturday
the Alta Mesa field in southwest-
ern Brooks, E. A. Graham's No. 1
Adolfo Garcia. Share "A’*, La En-
cantada Orant is rimming a
Schlumberger electrical survey at
3.511 feet.
Nearly seven miles north of Alta
Mesa in what is known as * the
North Alta Mesa area. Superior Oil
Following adjournment Monday,
Judge L. Broeter Is scheduled to
reopen distriet court here Friday. No. 1 Mestena Oil and Gas Co ,
April 21. to complete this two week Phare 11, La Mestena Orant, was
term Saturday. / i last reported fishing for drill stem
Both civil and clriminal dockets which twLsted off while making
have been light and the majority
of civil cases were continued f< r
service.
The case of state vs. J. H. Bal-
lard, misapplication of county
funds was passed to be called Fri-
day, April 21.
In the case of state vs. Telesforo
Bazan, murder and driving while
intoxicated, a motion by state’s at-
torney for dismissal on grounds of
insufficient evidence for conviction
was granted.
The state’s case against J. W
hole around 4,500 feet. The test
was due to go to 5.500 feet.
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H. F. Association To
Meet In San Antonio
Garza was represented by Ken-
neth Smith of Raymondvllle, and
J. H Kidd. Jr , Kleberg county at-
torney, represented the state a»
the preliminary hearing
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Firemen Plan State
Convention In Valley
Bull-fighters of Old Mexico will
ask fire-fighters of Texas to judge
which is the more dangerous of
the two professions, if plans for
the State convention of Firemen
and Fire Marshals' materialize,
according to information received
this week by Chief Coy Littlefield
. f the local fire department.
The annual convention of the
8tate Firemen's and Fire Marsh-
als' Association of Texas will be
held in the Lower Rio Grande Val-
ley, with headquarters at Harlin-
gen, on June 13, 14 and 15, Little,
field said.
"In view of the fact that Harlin-
gen is liut 25 miles distant from
Information received by offl-
i rials of the local Rotary club this
1 week revealed the Falfurrias club
had won the attendance record
trophy in the district and ls enti-
tled to the cup awarded the win-
ner in the contest
Records kept by Secretary R. R
Scott show that the Falfurrias
percentage, fr«.m August 1. 1938,
through March 31, 1938, is 9974.
Carrlzo Springs follows wltii 99 58.
La Ferla with 98 99 and Port Isa-
bel with 98 41 Other clubs in the
high ten are Edinburg, Weslaco.
Donna, Beevllle, Raymondville and
j Pipasanton
Those who will represent the lo-
i cal club at the San Angelo conven-
tion, which begins Sunday, April
, 23, are Walt Barnes, Ollie NorrLs,
W B Wilson, R. L. Schultz and the
Rev James E Moore
School Officials At
Gulf (14>ast Meeting
Supt. Chas. L Dubose and Miss
Marline Holl.io- k attended the
Gulf Coast Executive Association
meeting held at Kingsville Mon-
day, April 17. Supt DuBose presid-
ed over the meeting, which is th"
last in the present school year
New officials were selected to fill
vacancies created by the retire-
ment of several executives.
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FHA Financing In
March Sets New High
H. me financing activities during
San Antonio will l»e host June
20-30, to the American Home Eco-
nomics Association. Miss Mildred
Horton, vice-director and state a.
gent of the Texas A. and M. Col-
lege Extension 8ervlee, and gener-
al chairman of local arrangements
Sadler, swindling, was continued [ for the meeting, has announced,
following application of the state The organ’zatl< n has more than
to forfeit bond. The application 12 000 members affiliated through
granted. 51 home economics associations In
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Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Hopper were Canada, as well as through 1,70*1
Corpus Christ! visitors Tuesday, {home economics students' clubs in
colleges and high schools.
ln^c^^g!e°ofthpla^sll%rFerTte^tarn-* March established a new month-
visitors expected f<>r the annual
convention, have started negotia-
tions with officials in Matamoros,
Tamaullpas, Mexco. Just across the
Rio Orande from Brownsville, to
endeavor to arrange for < ne of
Mexico’s famous bull-fights to be
staged in the Mexican city during
the Texas firemen’s convention”,
8ldney Kring, Harlingen, general
chairman of the convention an-
nounced."
Friends here will regret to learn
that J. C. Megerle is 111 in a Cor-
pus Chrlstl hospital.
Although the association was
organized In 1908, and Is holding
Its 32nd annual meeting, the oc-
casion will mark the first gather-
ing In any of thp southwestern
states. Miss Horton said.
Also scheduled in connection
with the meeting is a pre-conven-
tion session In Corpus Chrlstl,
June 16-19, for h< me economics
workers of the various state serv-
ices as well as post-convention
of Mexico.
Wm. H. Clark. Jr„ State Director,
announced this week
Small home mortgages selected
for appraisal during the month
totaled $7,500,000, approximately
84%, of which represents homes
to be constructed. The previous
high $5,864.000., was reported In
August, last year.
The average amount of these
mortgages ls approximately $3.-
027., and the maximum Interest ls
5%, plus the insurance premium,
not exceeding Vj of 1%; the term
of the mortgages may run from
twenty to twenty-five years.
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Mrs. Jack Oee and Jewell Fore
left, Thursday morning for San
Antonio where they will attend the
Battle of Flowers celebration.
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Mrs. J. P. Sullivan is visiting in
Corpus Christi this week.
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