The Pharr Press (Pharr, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 1976 Page: 1 of 14
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f'rs Franca Cslley
20 Valentine Rd
Holiday Village
Pharr Tex
The Weather
A little warmer days and nights
until Sunday. Moderate winds.
Highs in the 70s, lows in 50s.
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43rd Year, No. 52-A PHARR, (HIDALGO COUNTY),
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FRIENDS!
May you be favored during the coming
year with all of the traditional good things
that are a part of the meaning of “Happy
New Year” ... Good Health... Good For-
tune .. ..and Good Days beyond counting!
TEXAS 78577 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1976 lie Per Copy, $4.00 Per Year ^---^------
utilities. Banks City Gets EDA Grant of $707,000
s«me stores To j|ew Sanitary Sewer System
Best Wishes for the New Year from All the Staff of
THE PHARR PRESS
MRS. PAULINE HOBBS
Society Editor — Receptionist
DICK GLOVER
Pressman, Page Layouts
ED DONLEY
Advertising
LLOYD H. GLOVER
Editor-Publisher
SILVERIO FLORES
Head Pressman, Linotypist
" JOHNnM A' JOHNSON
Linotypist
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SILVERIO FLORES, JR.
Printer’s Devil
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Close Dec. 31
All .utility offices,, government of-
fices, local, state' and federal, and
various other business institutions
will be closed Friday, December
31st, in observance of New Year’s
Day.
The Security State Bank and the
Valley Federal Savings in Pharr
will be closed all day Friday. The
San Juan State Bank in San Juan
will be closed.
Central Power & Light Co., Rio
Grande Valley Gas Co., and Pharr
city hail will be closed all day Fri-
day.
The Pharr post office is among
the execeptions. They will be open
until 3 p.m. Friday, which was the
same hours before Christmas.
There is not a business office for
the telephone company in Pharr.
There is a collection office only,
the Pharr Drug, but the collection
desk for phone bills will be closed.
The PSJA School District tax of-
fice and business office will be
closed.
The Pharr Memorial Library will
be closed all day Dec. 31st.
All the offices in the Hidalgo Co.
Courthouse, Edinburg, except the
sheriff's office..
A. ~C. Jaime, mayor of the City
of Pharr, has been notified by
Senator Lloyd Bentsen Jr. and Con-
gresman Kika de la Garza that the
city’s request for a grant of $707,-
000 from the Economic Develop-
ment Administration has been
C. W. Williamson
Dies in Decatur
Nov. Building Permits Total $256,000
Building permits for November of
$256,240 were far more than Octo-
ber, but not as high as some of the
months of 1976.
Building permits for the first 11
months of 1976 now total $3,351,668.
There were no large commercial
permits for the month. The two
largest were to Shamrqck Service
Station for $24,000 for the construc-
tion of a new service station and
one to Floyd Bagwell for $15,000
for a commercial building on East
Ferguson.
Those receiving permits with ad-
dress, location, type of improve-
ment and the amount were:
Roberto Garcia, N. Kumquat, du-
plex, $22,000.
Osvaldo Villarreal, 1211 E. San-
chez, new home, $5,000.
Jose Arturo Salazar, 222 W. Eller,
carport, $700.
Francisco Jimenez, 821 E. Cortez,
carport, $250.
Frank Bjorklum, 428 W. CheroKee,
addition, $150.
Casimiro Martinez, 508 E. Bell,
addition, $800.
Jose M. Torres, Brady, new home,
$12,000.
Julian R. Mendoza, 814 W. Emil,
repair, $100.
Fidencio Salinas, Jr., 1011 E. Cor-
tez, new home, $9,640.
Kittle-Lindley Int’l., 711 N. Cage,
sign, $4,000.
Ouerner Truckline, 806 N. Cage,
portable building, $2,200.
Felipe Trevino, 1510 N. Sugar Rd.,
remodel, $3,700.
Carlos Zamarripa Jr., 210 E. Bell,
addition, $1,500.
Leo Gonzalez, 321 E. Hawk, car-
port, $700.
Primitivo Bocanegra, 213 E.
Wright, utility, $300.
Dairy Queen, 2% Miles N. 281,
sign, $1,000.
Ray Sanchez, E. Helmer, new
home, $20,000.
Wence Guerra, 815 W. Ferguson,
frame (green house), $600.
Rogelio Vecchio, 817 E. Bell, util-
ity, $500.
Victor F. Garza, 621 N. Erica,
remodel, $1,000.
Otilio H. Cantu, 105 E. Martinez,
repair, $200.
George Kondellis, 7£1 S. Cage,
Shamrock Station, $24,000.
Felicita Rios, 715 W. Hawk, addi-
tion, $1,300.
Pan American Tires, 713 N. Cage,
sign, $2,000.
Felix Quezada, 1102 E. Evans,
utility, $1,000.
Jose Colmenares, 1000 E. Villegas,
addition, $4,500.
Ernesto Palacios, 222 E. Kelly,
addition, $4,500.
Ernesto Palacios, 222 E. Kelly,
addition, $1,900.
Armando Gomez, 206 E. Chero-
kee, demolish.
Julian Mendez, 223 E. Warren,
remodel, $2,500.
Rodolfo Tamez, Kathy, new home,
$25,000.
Gavino Rodriguez, 815 W. Bell,
addition, $3,000.
Flavio’s Motor Sales, 705 W. Ex-
press, addition, $9,000.
Cesario Malacara, 1128 K. Kelly,
new home, $16,700.
Carlos Villegas, 220 E. Diaz, ad-
dition, $100.
Alonzo Benavidez, 804 E. Maurer,
addition, $700.
Lt. Col. K. S. Krig, Citrus Bay,
remodel, $6,000.
Valley Animal Hospital, 902 W.
State, incinerators, $6,000.
Tomas Reyes, E. Hwy. 83, shade,
flea mkt., $300.
Ramiro Morales, 1016 E. Kathy,
new home, $26,000.
Javier Ramirez, 1 1/8 Mi. I Rd.,
repair, $1,200.
Roberto Espinoza, 1006 E. Ville-
gas, addition, $500.
Roberto Garza, 302 W. Sam Hous-
ton, remodel, $1,200.
Jesus Martinez, 1116 E. Lucas,
utility, $500.
Nicolas Salazar, 924 E. Bagwell,
new home, $21,500.
Floyd Bagwell, 1012 E. Ferguson,
commercial building, $15,000.
Total building permits for
November, 1976 ............$256,240
Total building permits for
November, 1975 ............$189,312
RECAPITULATION
8 New Homes ..............$135,840
5 Remodel .................$ 14,400
11 Additions ................$ 23,450
3 Repair ...................$ 1,500
4 Utilities ..................$ 2,300
1 Commercial. Bldg.........$ 15,000
1 Incinerators ..............$ 6,000
1 Shade Flea Mkt..........$ 300
1 Duplex'....................$ 22,000
1 Self Serv. Station ........$ 24,000
3 Signs .....................$ 7,000
Newly Elected Co.
Officials To Be
Sworn In Jan. 1
Newly elected officials, including
a new sheriff, and one new District
Judge, and a new County Court at
Law judge will take the oath of of-
fice January 1st.
These are Brig Marmolejo, sher-
iff, succeeding Claudio Castaneda,
who has held the office for two
terms; Joe A. Cisneros, 93rd Dis-
trict, Court, succeeding Magus
Smith, who is retiring; and Arturo
E. Guerra, county court at law, suc-
ceeding Walter Kelly, who did not
run for that office.
't All the ■
HEB Food Stoi’e, and Rivas'Food
Store, will be open Saturday, Janu-
ary 1st. They were dosed Christ-
mas Day.
A survey by The Pharr Press on
Wednesday showed that restau-
rants and service stations will be
open Saturday, as usual. Some re-
tail stores will be closed but not
all.
Friends here have received word
that C. W. Williamson, a long time
resident of this area, who moved
to Decatur, Texas, his former home
three years ago, died November
6th in Decatur.
• He was a retired Uf S. Customs
officer, having been chief of the
Hidalgo bridge at the time of his
retirement. She was a teacher in
the PSJA schools for many years,
teaching at Napper School. They
lived on South Cage on the Allen
property which they sold when they
moved.
He was a veteran of WWI, 6th
Marines, 2nd Div., U. S. Army, and
was wounded at Chauteau Thierry
Fra/j^|^^fas president of the
years. f' v %
Funeral services and burial were
in Decatur.
He is survived by his wife of
Decatur; one son, Calvin, Jr., and
three grandchildren.
awarded. The grant, awarded under
the Public Works Employment Act
of 1976, will be used for a major
sanitary sewer improvement pro-
gram in. four projects.
Mayor Jaime expressed gratitude
to Bob Chandler, director, and Joe
Galvan, head of the Economic De-
velopment Department of the Low-
er Rio Grande Valley Development
Council for their asistance in de-
veloping the grant request, and to
Cris Vela, director of the City’s
Department of Community Develop-
ment who prepared the request.
The city will begin accepting bids
on the first two phases of the im-
provement
SEEN ’ROUND
THE TOWN
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DAVID PERKINS, ex-Pharr bank-
er for many years, who has gone
in business for himself in Miami,
Fla., back in town for the holidays,
and to move his wife and family to
the “new country.” . . . JACK
ST AM BAUGH of Dallas, who
brought his mother here for a few
days visit with long time friends, is
lwu w — —- a “collector” of old phone books,
program shortly after and is especially interested in phone
January 1, 1977 with the final two
phases scheduled for completion
within a year. The program con-
sists of a major sewer re-route and
construction of new sewer lines and
lift stations. When complete the
project will alleviate 30 per cent of
the load on the city’s existing lift
stations and particularly the main
lift station at Cypress and Bell
streets. The reduction in load
should be sufficient to eliminate -all
spillage and back-up as well as. the
health problems they create.
Phase I and $1 is to re-route all
comps
books of San Juan in the 20s and
30s. If anyone has a book or books,
contact this newspaper and we will
give his address. Incidentally, Jack
has given The Pharr Press a num-
ber of old pictures of Pharr stu-
dents, teachers and others, and
various Valley pictures, that his
father had kept all these years. We
will be printF 7 some of them, in
the next few^ Meanwhile, if
some of yovM you can identify
the people cor)s in these pic-
tures, piejMLtem £• • •ThetCo:
Library fli.- Wp*'e3verting to a
This Issue Carries
New Year Greetings
New Year greeting ads are in
this issue of The Pharr Press.
Ads are carried from firms in
Pharr, San Juan, McAllen and Ed-
inburg. They wish their patrons,
friends and neighbors a happy and
prosperous New Year, and many
express their thanks for the good
will and friendship of the last year.
CITRUS PRICES
Representative prices paid for
citrus to the growers on the tree in
recent sales, as reported by the
Market News Service, are:
Early oranges — $25 to $30, clean
tree.
No recent sales of Ruby Red
grapefruit reported.
BACK TO SCHOOL MONDAY
All PSJA public schools will
re-
POLICE REPORT
The Pharr police arrested four
juveniles December 25th at about
8 p.m. after they had burglarized
the residence of Reynaldo Silva, 112
E. Diaz, Pharr. A TV set was stol-
en, but was broken and abandoned
at a vacant lot.
A 1973 Ford belonging to Keith
Lewis Bohnenberger was burglar-
ized with radio and tapes stolen.
The four were referred to Hidalgo
Co. juvenile office.
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Three out of Valley people were
charged with credit card abuse and
one with possession of marijuana
by the Pharr police December 27th.
The arrests were made at 11:30
p.m.
They were John Wayne Branson,
25, Maywood, 111.; Joseph Sebesta,
24, Ingleside, and John Oresson, 24,
Elgin, 111. The credit cards were
allegedly stolen from a family in
Addison, 111.
Several stolen items were also
recovered.
Branson was also charged with
tfye possession of marijuana.
sume regular classes next Monday,
January 3rd.
LIBRARY TO BE CLOSED
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
The Pharr Memorial Library will
be closed Friday, Dec. 31st, and
Saturday, January 1st, 1977, in ob-
servance of New Year’s.
Citrus Shipments
Citrus shipments for the week
ending December 16th totaled 481,-
000 bu. of grapefruit, 472,000 bu. of
early oranges and 15,000 bu. of
grapefruit exported to Europe.
This brings the 1976 season ship-
ments to the following:
Grapefruit 2,253,000; early oran-
ges 1,971,000; grapefruit to Europe,
542,000; grapefruit to Japan 7,000;
oranges exported 23,000.
south to a
lift station at Moore Road, Phase
II will be a new sewer line from
the lift station to Moore Rd. to the
sewer plant on South “I” Rd.
Estimated costs of Phase I and II
is $330,000.
Phase III and IV will be re-rout-
ing of all the sewage lines south of
83 and west of Cage. A new line
will be constructed down Cage and
281 Highway to Moore Rd., then
east to the new lift station.
Engineers for these projects are
Melden & Hunt, Edinburg,
Plans and specifications for
Phase I and II have been prepared
and will be let for bids early next
year, City Mgr. Reyes Vela states.
for the
'we give.
David Hale, student at Baylor
University, Waco, is spending the
holidays here with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Hale.
WEATHER REPORT
High Low Rail
December 23 ...... 48 47 .13
December 24 ...... 52 50 .08
December 25 ...... 67 56 .02
December 26 ...... 65 41
December 27 ...... 68 43
December 28 ...... 70 48
December 29 ...... 80 42
December 29 .. Sunrise 7:20; sun
set 5:44.
Readings taken from the
Schuster Weather Reporting
tion, South 281 Highway, at the Blue
silo.
Carl
Sta-
Pharr Rainfall
Rainfall measured in Pharr since
last publication has been as fol-
lows:
December 23-24 — .35 inch.
3 Carports .................$ 1,650
1 Green House.......... .$ 600
1 Portable Bldg............$ 2,200
Total ....................$256,240
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PHARR LIONS CLUB CHRISTMAS PROJECT — Ten needy Pharr families were able to enjoy a
good Christmas day thanks to the efforts of the Lions, who provided them with sacks of gro-
ceries, including fruit and candy. Left to right are Lion President Pete Romero, Jesse Vela and
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librarian;
them our condolences now. A com-
puter will not and cannot correct
itself and when a mistake is made,
it’s ’ell trying to get it corrected.
. . . The new administration has set
a goal of reducing unemployment
from 8 plus million down to 6 plus
million in ’77. All they have to do is
eliminate the “free loaders” and
they’ll have it made. By the free
loaders, we mean the professionals,
who work only long enough to quali-
fy for 36 weeks or 45 weeks or
whatever the state maximum is,
for unemployment pay. ... A firm
that is providing excellent jobs for
many people in this area is STEW-
ART & STEVENSON. Itoycc Gar-
ner, mgr., says the firm has ex-
panded greatly in the last year, and
has 80 employees. Engines are ship-
ped in to this plant from all over
Texas to bo repaired. . . . City gets
$707,000 in sewer projects grants
from the Federal gov’t., says head-
line. WOW! How about that? A tax-
payer who comes downtown fre-
quently to shop and to visit says
he hopes the city fathers can “find”
a few dollars between the $400,000
for the police station and $125,000
for new traffic lights, to re-mark
the parking lanes on East & West
Park, which are completely obliter-
ated. He also thinks Cage Blvd.
should be re-painted because the
street improvement project is sev-
eral months away and the business-
men would get their money’s worth
out of some good, clean parking
lanes. (P.S. — Also makes the town
look neater — that they are inter-
ested in the shopper getting in and
out of town without dents on his
fenders and doors.) . . . How much
rain do you think there has been
in 1976? The last half of the year
has been “wet.” . . . Believe it or
not but this is the 53rd issue of this
newspaper in 1976! How could that
be when there are only 52 weeks?
It has never happened before and
;we don’t know when it will happen
again, if ever — but there has been
53 THURSDAYS this year. . . . H.
V. ELSBERY, the locksmith and
antique collector of various things,
has added another valuable item to
his collection: This is a cane with-
a firearm in the end, which fires
a slug! It dates back some 100
years, more or less. . . The 600
block of EAST GORE may be the
“best yule lighted” block in town.
It is really outstanding. The Gon-
zalez residence on the comer is
really something. We hope they
leave their lights on until New
Years so more can see them . . .
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our
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Glover, Lloyd H. The Pharr Press (Pharr, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 1976, newspaper, December 30, 1976; Pharr, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth866394/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Pharr Memorial Library.