Refugio Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1940 Page: 1 of 10
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REFUGIO, REFUGIO COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1940
No. 44
VOL. XII
Ten Pages
Site Chosen
For Storage
Plant Here
Building Contract
Will Be Awarded
Within a Week
Removal of building and clear-
ing of land for the site of the new
$35,000 cold storage locker plant
to be built in Refugio was com-
pleted last Monday and prepara-
tions are being made to let the
contract for the building of the
plant within a week, W. A.
Leighty, builder of the proposed
r plant, said Wednesday.
Site of the cold storage plant is
the lot on Commerce street across
t) ^ the street from the Strauch Lum-
ber Yard, one block north of the
business section. It now belongs
to T. G. Benson, but final sale of
the property to Mr. Leighty is ex-
pected to be completed by early
next week.
Miller’s Fruit Stand and Robert-
l, son’s Potrait Studio moved
' from the site to a new location in
the 500 block of North Alamo
street (highway 44) near the C C
Service Station.
The new plant, to be one of the
finest in Texas, will offer to the
farmers, merchants and individu-
als a means of saving several
hundred dollars a year on food-
stuffs. It will be a modem one-
I story building with complete fa-
cilities for preserving and curing
any type of meat. About 300
storage lockers will be maintained
t and rented to various indivuduals
’ and businesses.
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Democratic Meet
Set September ID
The state Democratic commit-
teemen’s convention, which was
t scheduled for MinerS.1 Wells Sep-
tember 3, has been reset for Sep-
tember 10, it was learned this
week from Harry Cummins Sr. of
Woodsboro, who is chairman of
the Refugio County Democratic
y committee.
Mauritz Is
Winner In
School Head
Senate Race
Roberts, Lattimore,
Culberson Carry
Refugio County
When the magnificent new
school plant at Woodsboro is
opened to the public next
Tuesday evening, there will be
no happier man than Super-
intendent J. K. Kerr, pic-
tured above. It will be a
crowning achievement in which
he had no small part.
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Postoffice Site
Deed Is Being
Signed by Owners
Refugio may at last see some
action toward building of a new
$75,000 federal postoffice building
here, it was learned this week as
investigation revealed that the
deed to the property selected as a
site for the building is being cir-
culated for signatures of various
heirs. It will probably take three
or four weeks for all signatures
to be affixed.
Action on the building has been
pending since July, 1938, when the
government alloted money for its
construction. The site, a quarter-
block situated immediately east of
the City Hall, was selected in De-
cember of the same year, but a
question over the correct owner-
ship arose. In November, 1939,
the title question was settled.
A record number of votes for
a second Democratic primary was
polled in Refugio County last Sat-
urday, complete unofficial returns
gathered by The Timely Remarks
reveals. Lacking purely local in-
terest, almost a third of the coun-
ty’s voting strength turned out to
cast ballots for two state and one
district office on the short ballot.
Locally, the most interest was
shown in the race for state sena-
tor, in which Senator Morris Rob-
erts of Pettus was oposed by Fred
Mauritz of Ganado. Mr. Roberts
carried this county by a majority
of 90, but failed of election in the
district, where Mr. Mauritz re-
ceived a majority of more than
2,000, according to latest unoffi-
cial figures.
In the railroad commissioner’s
race, Refugio County gave Olin
Culberson a 200 majority over
Pierce Brooks. Totals in the race
were Culberson 534 and Brooks
334. Culberson was the only one
of the three candidates carrying
the county who obtained majori-
ties in the state or district.
Judge H. S. Lattimore, candi-
date for chief justice of the Texas
1 Supreme Court, carried the county
; with 147 majority over Judge
James P. Alexander, but Alex-
: ander won the nomination over
|the state.
i The largest vote was in the race
for state senator, 978 votes being
j cast for the two candidates, as
compared with 868 in the jrailroad
commissioner’s race and 921 in the
supreme court contest. Complete
county vote will be found in a
table elsewhere in this paper.
Mr. Mauritz, Jackson County
business man and former member
of the.' house of representatives,
waged a vigorous campaign, re-
lying heavily on newspaper adver-
tising, which was supplemented
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State Senator
County Is Divided Into Three Divisions
By Defense Committee as Roll Mounts
Mrs. Scheumack
Called by Death
Saturay Morning
Mrs. Octavia Scheumack, 86, a
sister of Mrs. Annie Sitterle, died
at the home of her - niece, Mrs.
Dora Carlisle, here last Saturday
morning, following a lingering ill-
ness that had lasted for the past
10 years, but which had become
serious only during the last six
months.
Funeral services were held at
the Refugio Funeral Home chapel
at 1 p. m. Sunday, with the Rev.
C. S. Long, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, officiating.
Burial services were held at Rai-
sin at 3 p. m. Interment was in
the Raisin community cemetery,
under direction of the Refugio
Funeral Home.
Mrs. Scheumack was a native of
Victoria County, having been born
there April 20, 1854. Her husband
died in 1907 and since that time
she had lived most of the time
with Mrs. Carlisle here in Refugio.
Besides Mrs. Carlisle and Mrs.
Sitterle, other survivors include
four sisters, Mrs. A. Glock of Re-
fugio, Mrs. G. Dietzel and Mrs.
Z. T. Reeves of Victoria County,
and Mrs. L. V. Willemin of Runge,
and two nephews, Ed and Bill Sit-
terle, of Refugio.
Pallbearers were Joe C. Heard,
Francis West, Clay Murphy, B. E.
McGuill, Sam Adler and Wash
Moss.
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Firemen Called to
Quell Trash Fire
The fire department was called
out at 1 p. m. Saturday to ex-
tinguish a trash fire in the rear of
the home of Mrs. Emma Williams
in the north part of town. The
blaze for a time threatened to
spread to a large patch of dry
grass, but was extinguished with-
out damage.
Approximately 250
Sign Up in Refugio;
200 at Woodsboro
Approximately 250 men in the
town of Refugio have enlisted in
the Home Defense Unit up to this
time, bringing to a total of nearly
600 the men in Refugio County
who have agreed to make them-
selves efficient for or-ganized com-
munity service. At Woodsboro,
the enlistments stood at 200; at
Greta, 50; at Bayside, 50; at Ti-
voli, 35, and at Austwell, 50. The
defense committee states that the
enlistments will easily double and
give Refugio County a small regi-
ment of Home Guards. Over 125
turned out for drill at Refugio on
Thursday of last week and more
than that number Tuesday night.
The drill nights at both Refugio
and Woodsboro are Tuesday and
Thursday nights at 7:30 o’clock.
The Refugio All-Purpose De-
fense Unit is not exclusively a
military organization, its sponsors
point out. In addition to the mili-
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Wliat to Do With
Amputated Leg
P lizzie sU nder taker
John aarsky, local under-
taker, was confronted with a
new problem Monday.
Physicians at the Refugio
County Hospital amputated a
small Mexican boy’s leg and
it was turned over to the un-
dertaker for disposal. It was
the first amputation in the
hospital and the first time such
a problem confronted the un-
dertaker and he didn’t know
just what to do with the sev-
ered member.
Mr. Zarsky was relieved of
his dilemma, however, when
a plot was selected in Oak-
wood Cemetery and designat-
ed as a burial place for the
dismembered iimb and also as
a place to intern any future
amputated parts of human
bodies.
Only One County-
Wide Race In
General Election
The Refugio County general
election ballot was officially closed
Monday with only a single county-
wide race for county office to
draw the interest of voters.
The contested place is that of
tax collector and assessor, with
F. F. English and Herman Bochat
as announced candidates. The of-
fice is one of the new posts creat-
ed by increased population figures.
Unopposed candidates for coun-
ty offices include Ira Heard for
sheriff, T. G. Jeter for county
judge, Miss Emma Huddleston for
county treasurer, Phillip G. Young
for county surveyor, T. W. Mc-
Guill for district clerk, and Miss
Betty Adkins for county clerk.
R. P. Clarkson, candidate for con-
stable, precinct No. 1, is unop-
posed, as is also T. H. Heard for
commissioner, Precinct No. 1;
Clarke Adkins for commissioner,
Precinct No. 4, and J. C. West for
commissioner Precinct No. 3.
In Precinct No. 1, which in-
cludes the town of Refugio, there
is a three-cornered race for justice
of the peace, with Frank Low,
present incumbent, opposed by M.
H. Harrington and Bryan Wingo.
At Woodsboro, in precinct No. 2,
Frank W. Hartman and Otto
Goetzel will match their vote-get-
ing ability with County Commis-
sioner Paul Neumann.
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Peace Officers
Attend Meeting
Sheriff and Mrs. Ira Heard and
Chief Deputy and Mrs. R. M.
Harsdorff left Tuesday for Fort
Worth, where they attended the
annual state convention of the
Sheriffs’ Association of Texas,
which opened for a three-day ses-
sion there on August 28. Sheriff
Heard is a director of the organi-
zation.
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Beautiful New Woodsboro School Plant, Costing $105,000, to Be Dedicated September 3
The Honorable Robert Lee Bob-
bit, member of the state highway
■commission and former attorney
general, will be the principal
speaker at the formal dedication
of Woodsboro’s new $105,000
school plant, which will take place
next Tuesday evening, September
3. A splendid program, which
will include many other prominent
speakers, will begin at 8 o’clock.
Completion of the school marks
the end of a campaign for a better
school plant for Woodsboro, which
started more than a year ago with
the voting of a bond issue and the
selection of a beautiful site in the
southern pare of the city.
Immediately after the dedication
ceremonies the building will be
opened by inspection by the pub-
lic, Superintendent J. K. Kerr stat-
ed Tuesday. Visitors will be es-
corted through the various depart-
ments of the school, which embody
every modem facility.
Elementary School
Grades one through seven will
be located in the west end of the
new school plant. These rooms
have been numbered according to
grades. Each grade room has a
cloakroom, which is well lighted
and ventilated. Adequate bulletin
boards have been provided
throughout the building. The work
in the elementary grades will be
done as follows: Mrs. V. L. Gallia,
first grade; Miss Dorothy Ratch-
ford, second grade; Mrs. Jimmie
Thomas, third grade; Miss Gladys
Bayer, fourth grade; Miss Willena
High, fifth grade; Miss Lena Stur-
des, Mr. N. W. Petty and the li-
brarian, sixth grade, and Alvin
Ericson, seventh grade.
High School
The high school section is also
housed in the west end of the new
building and for the first time in
many years there is ample room
for this work, Superintendent Kerr
stated. To begin with, the labor-
atory is 40 feet in length and con-
tains as good furniture as any
school laboratory anywhere. This
work is under the direction of M.
S. Webb. The department has
space for chairs at front of labor-
atory, so that lecture sections can
be given in the laboratory and pu-
pils go directly to their lab work
without delay. This department
also boasts a spacious supply room
and a dark room for science ex-
periments which require dark
rooms.
The library is equipped with
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modem chairs and tables. There
is also a studio piano in the libra-
ry which is to be used for club
meetings, music and practice work
of various kinds. There is also a
stack room for the library books.
The library will be directed by
Miss Anna Mae Hardt assisted by
the other teachers. Miss Hardt
will be releived of some of her
English work by a new teacher
who will have combination work
of physical education for girls and
high school English work.
The typing room is equipped
with 20 typewiiters, which are in
excellent condition and a good
number of them have just been in-
stalled. The commercial room ad-
joins the typing room and has 20
feet of plate glass between them.
This makes it possible for one
teacher to supervise the two rooms
at the same time during study or
practice periods. The work in this
department is under the direction
of Superintendent Kerr. The com-
mercial room will also be used as
a regular classroom for other sub-
jects.
The social science and Spanish
room has new type movable uni-
versal desks in it. This room and
the third grade room are the only
two rooms that have this new type
of furniture. The desks may be
moved together to form a table for
group work. The work in the so-
cial sciences and Spanish will be
under the direction of Miss Mar-
ian E. Johnson.
In' the English department we
find tablet arm chairs which per-
mit the moving together for work
in groups. Anna Mae Hardt is at
the head of the English depart-
ment and will be assisted by the
girls’ physical education teacher,
who will have some work assigned
in high school English.
Coach Woodroe Petty is in
charge of the mathematics room,
which the eight, grade will have as
its home room. Mr. Webb will
teach the junior and senior mathe-
matic courses.
Gymnasium and Auditorium.
One of the prettiest sights in
this section of the state is the
beautiful combination gvm and
auditorium. As an auditorium it
seats at least 850 people. Five
hundred comfortable folding chairs
are placed directly in front of the
40-foot opening of the spacious
stage. At least 350 people can sit
in the bleachers directly in front
of the stage and have perfect vi-
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Fred Mauritz of Ganado,
who was nominated in last
Saturday’s Democratic pri-
mary, will represent the eight-
eenth Texas senatorial dis-
trict in the legislature. He
defeated Senator Morris Rob-
erts of Pettus in one of the
most spirited races the dis-
trict has witnessed in many
years.
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Government Buses
And Army Units
Pass Through City
Refugians near highway 44
twice within a week saw unusual
traffic traveling through Refugio.
Saturday morning the routine
traffic of the town was disturbed
by the rumble of United States
army troops being transported in
heavy trucks. The soldiers were
on their way back to Fort Brown
at Brownsville from army and
National Guard maneuvers in
Louisiana. More than 15 trucks
were in the caravan.
Again, at noon Tuesday, 15
large 35-passenger motor buses,
painted red, white find \siue, were
driven through Refugio. The buses
belonged to “Uncle Sam” and are
to see service at the new naval air
base near Corpus Christi. They
stopped here about 15 minutes for
refueling.
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