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Serving the Aransas Pass, Ingleside, and Port Aransas Area
VOLUME 50—NUMfcER S
ARANSAS PASS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 20. 1958
(10 CENTS BY THE SINGLE COPY)
Local Bank Deposits Dip Slightly For
Quarter But Are Up From Year Ago
Bank deposits at Aransas Pass
have decreased slightly since the
first of the year but are well
above what they were at the
saine time in 1957.
A statement of condtion re-
School Bids j
To Be Opened ^
On March 25
Bids on construction of a six-
classroom addition to H. T. Faulk
Elementary School are to be op-
ened by the school board on
March 25, it was announced this
week. Plans and specifications on
the proposed construction are
available to contractors at the
office of Victor Brook, architect,
Jones Building, Corpus Christi.
The school district recently
voted $85,000 of bonds to finance
the neded addition. School offi-
cials have announced that, in con-
nection with the school annex,
bids are also being asked on con-
struction of a new cafeteria at
W. A. Kieberger school. Both proj-
ects will be built if the bids show
they can be completed for the
$85,000 available, they stated.
leased by the First State Bank
on March 4, 1958, shows deposits
of $4,276,989.05. This is a drop of
$53,4M!?T*sihce’ Jan. 1, but it is
359,587.79 higher than deposits of
$3,917,401.26 shown on hand on
a similar statement of condition
issued March 14, 1957.
Deposits in the First State Bank
on Jan. 1, 1958 were $4,330,393.46
as compared to deposits of $4,-
033,388.49 on Jan. 1, 1957.
Bank loans of $1,455,029.95 on
March 4, 1958 are $141,164.79
higher than on Jan. 1, and $209,-
236.53 higher than at the same
time a year ago.
Holy Week Plans
Slated At
Catholic Meeting
In a monthly meeting of the
Holy Name Society of St Mary’s
Star of the Sea Catholic Church,
Sunday morning, plans 'were
made for Holy Week services.
Special ushers were named to
serve, and the following men
were named to assist during the
services: Ygnacio Palacios, Don-
ald Smith, Winston White, Cyril
Peltier, Loyd Pitts, Julain Tijer-
ina, Arthur Roberts, Howard Wil-
liams, David Gonzales, John Car-
ville, D. E. Campbell, Ray Flores,
Jesse Jiminez, Rogeriro Rodri-
guez, Bob Mercer, Charles Camp-
bell and Herman Teller.
The men attended Holy Com-
munion, followed by a breakfast
in the rectory. One new member,
D. E. Campbell, was introduced.
Plans were also discussed for
having more boats decorated for
the Blessing of the Fleet this
year.
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A BABY BOY
Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Morehouse
of Corpus Christi announce the
arrival of a baby boy, born Sat-
urday, March 15, in Spohn Hospi-
tal, Corpus Christi. The baby
weighed 6 pounds and 6 ounces
and has been named Burton Lyle.
Maternal grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Howery of this
city, and paternal grandfather is
W. F. Moorehouse of Sinton.
We Invite...
We invite to be our guests at
the picture, “Les Girls,” showing
Sunday and Monday, March 23
and 24, at the Rialto Theatre,
Mrs. J. R. Barry and guest.
This notice, clipped from The
Progress, will serve as your ad-
mission.
Students Present
Lions Club Program
Aransas Pass students present-
ed the entertainment at the reg-
ular luncheon-meeting of the
Lions Club Wednesday at Little
Bob’s. Mike Robert and Neil Mc-
Carty said declamations, Leon
Mize played a cornet solo accom-
panied by Pat Mathisen at the
piano, Ralph Johnson gave an
interpretation of , a poem, and
Sandra Snyder contributed a hu-
morous skit.
The students were introduced
by Lion President A. A. Ericson.
In a brief business session
Houston Speer was approved for
membership in the club, and Dr.
Boyce Elliott announced that ap-
plications are now being accept-
ed for the summer session at the
Lions Club Crippled Children’s
Camp at Kerrville. He explained
that the camp is available without
charge to any crippled or blind
child who is in good health and
mentally sound.
HEARD...
... EVERYONE hoping that the
beautiful sunshine will con-
tiue for several days . ^. . the
GIRLS at the bank are really
planning a nice weekend for lad-
ies attending the Central' Texas
Group of the National Association
of Banking Women here . . .
NONA KAUFMAN is doing fine
after having surgery recently . . .
the ORDER OF EASTERN STAR
is having a supper this evening,
for Masons, Rainbow Girls and I
DeMolays . . . the ROBERT HAU-
GENs in Ingleside are moving in-:
to a new home this weekend . . .[
HELEN SCARBOROUGH really'
had a good time with her little
granddaughter last weekend . . .
the BAPTIST CHURCH choir is
getting new robes in time for
Easter . . . WILBUR ROBBINS is
making plans for a wedding in
the near future ... the FLIRT
family has certainly had its share
of sickness lately ... REV. BRAD-
SHAW, vice president of the
Southwest Bible Institute, will
conduct services Sunday at the
Assembly of God Church and the
San Patricio County singing will
be held there Sunday afternoon
. . . REV. C. L. WALKER is ill
with the flu . . .
Mrs. Harris, 80,
Long Time Resident
Buried Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. Ma-
mie Jennie Harris, 80, were held
at the First Baptist Church here
Saturday afternoon. Officiating
at .the services were the Rev. Blil
Arnold, pastor of the First Bap-
tist Church, and Dr. Chalmers
Long, pastor of the First Presby-
terian Church. Burial was in
Prairie View Cemetery with
Cage-Marshall Funeral Home in
charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Harris, a resident here
since 1889, died Thursday after-
noon. She had formerly operated
a nursery here and was the first
florist in Aransas Pass. She was
a member of the First Baptist
Church here.
Survivors include four daugh-
ters, Mrs. Hugh Erwin and Mrs.
Velma Robert of Aransas Pass,
Mrs. Hazel May Cavitt of Corpus
Christi and Mrs. Mary Reynolds
of Beeville; three sisters, Mrs. W.
E. Blackburn and Mrs. Josie Gat-
ton of Amarillo, and Mrs. Horace
Anderson of DeRidder, La., and
one brother, J. C. Holman of Am-
arillo; and nine grandchildren and
15 great-grandchildren.
X-Ray Survey
Scheduled
March 27-28
The annual x-ray survey, con-
ducted by the state department
of health and sponsored in the
county by the San Patricio Coun-
ty Tuberculosis Association, will
be held in Aransas Pass next
week, according to Mrs. Elton
Mayer, local chairman. The state’s
mobile x-ray unit will be in op-
eration at George Clark Chevro-
let Co.’s showroom from 1:00 p.
m. till 5:30 p. m. Thursday, March
27, and from 8:30 a. m. till 5:30
p. m. Friday,. March 28.
Mrs. Mayer said emphasis this
year will be on the quality of
effort rather than on numbers. An
effort will be made to x-ray those
persons most likely to benefit
by the x-ray. Mrs. Jarrell Spears
is co-chairman of the local sur-
vey.
Mrs. Mayer said a special effort
will be made to x-ray all persons
fifty years of age and over. In
this group, everyone should be
x-rayed annually, she said, since
they are the major source of tu-
berculosis in Texas. Two-thirds
of the abnormal x-ray film re-
ports concern persons 50 years of
age and above. The average age
See "X-RAY SURVEY" Page 8
TWO OLD TIMERS—Godfrey Roberts,^ resident of Port Aran-
sas since 1890, shows a 7 lb. 14 oz. mullet caught in a net
near Port Aransas. Old-timers ilke Roberts and L. E. Coleman, the
fisherman who caught the fish, are unable to recall a mullet
of this size ever taken in the area. The mujlet is regarded as a
freak of nature by the Marine Biology Laboratory in Port
Aransas. The mullet will be mounted and sent to the Texas
Fish and Game Commission for further study.
City Accepts Plans for Harbor
Storm Protection Improvements
At a special meeting March 17,
the city council accepted the pre-
liminary proposal of Lockwood,
Andrews and Newnam, consulting
engineers, for contsruction of
storm protection improvements
at Conn Brown Harbor and au-
thorized the firm to complete the
Harry Carter
To Speak On
Special Topic
“Joseph of Arimathaea” will be
the topic Harry Carter, lay min-
ister of the Church of Our Sav-
iour, Episcopal, will speak on
Friday evening. Services, which
are being held each Friday eve-
ning through Lent begin at 7:30.
A cordial invitation is extend-
ed the public to attend.
Women's Auxiliary
Women’s Auxiliary of the
Church of Our Saviour, Episcopal,
will meet Monday, March 24, in
the home of Mrs. Hedvig Rickey,
128 N. Eighth, at 9:30 a. m.
Mrs. Marion Johnson will speak
on and discuss the topic, “Church
Doctrines” during the meeting.
All members are urged to at-
tend.
Locals Relative
Succumbs In
Corpus Christi
Word was received this week
of the death of William Brad-
shaw of Corpus Christi.
Besides other relatives, he is
survived by two brothers, P. A.
and J, S. Bradshaw, both of Ar-
ansas Pass.
Funeral arrangements are in-^
complete at this time.
design phase and prepare plans
and specifications in order that
the work may be advertised for
bids.
Homer C. Innis, representative
of the engineering firm ,told the
council that the design phase is
80 per cent complete and he es-
timated that the plans and spec-
ifications can be completed in
time to submit the project for
bids by April 1. He estimated that
the proposed construction can be
done in 45 days.
Innis submitted a preliminary
estimate of construction costs to-
taling $79,625. This included $57,-
980 for dredging, $8,804 for street
work, $2,000 for grading, $2,216
for contingencies, and $8,625 for
surveys, tests and engineering
fees.
Plans calling for filling the ex-
isting channel around the south
point of Conn Brown Harbor and
the dredging of a 12-foot chan-
nel with 80-foot bottom width
from the Port-Aransas- Aransas
Pass tributary channel outside the
spoil island to the east side of
Conn Brown Harbor to serve in-
dustries in that location. Spoil
from the dredged channel would
be used to fill the existing chan-
nel and to build up the spoil is-
land.
The project would make avail-
able over two thousand feet of
tie up space on the west side of
the spoil island. This island would
be built up to approximately five
feet elevation at the waterline
and to six feet along the crest of
the island. A roadway would be
built down the developed area
from the existing road on the
east side of Conn Brown Harbor.
Applications for several hun-
dred feet of tie up space which
will be made available are al-
ready on file with the city.
Navigation District
Approved by Voters
In a special election here Sat-
urday, citizens of the locality ap-1
proved by almost a three to one |
majority the creation Of a naviga-
tion district, the issuance of $100,-
000 in tax bonds, and the levy of j
a tax in payment thereof. The |
vote was 247 for and 89 against
the proposition.
The newly created navigation
district will be known as San Pa-
tricio County Navigation District
No. 1. It contains about 21,000
acres in the east end of the eoun-
Annual Meeting of Bank Women
Will Be Held Here March 22
Between 75 and 100 feminine
bank executives, including con-
tingents from San Antonio, Austin
and Galveston, will convene in
Aransas Pass Saturday, March
22, for the fourth annual meeting
of the Central Texas Group of
the National Association of Bank
Little League
Officials For
Season Listed
In a meeting of the Aransas
Pass Little League Association,
at Lone Star Park Building Fri-
day night .officers and committee-
chairmen for the coming year
were elected.
Those who will serve this year
are Bill Way, president; W. W.
Perkins, vice president; Mrs. M.
A. Mathews, secretary-treasurer;
Matt Mathews, players agent;
Committee chairmen elected were
Howard Williams, manager com-
mittee; Moreland Bexley, publi-
city; Matt Mathews, tryouts; Jake
Spears and Dale Hagy, signs; J.
C. Bayless, sponsors committee.
Also Nolan Ashmore and Har-
old Bonorden, equipment; Bill
White, score keeping; Mrs. W. W.
Perkins, concessions; Philip Alex-
ander and Harold Howard, field
maintenance; and A. L. Askew,
umpire.
Tryout Dates Set
Tryouts for Little League will
be at the High School grounds
March 22, 24, April 5, and 12 be-
ginning at 9 .a m. Pony League
tryouts will be held on the same
day at 9 a. m. at the W. A. Kie-
berger school grounds.
All boys who wish to try out
are asked to bring their birth
certificates.
Women. This growing organiza-
tion of over 2,275 members in the
United States is composed of wo-
men bank officers.
Hosts for the occasion will be
officials and staff of the First
State Bank of Aransas Pass, led
by Mrs. Naomi Bruce, assistant
cashier, who is also chairman of
the Central Texas group.
Mrs. Jewell Chisum and Mrs.
Mary K. Fortner, also assistant
cashiers of the local bank, are in
charge of registrations, reserva-
tions, and arrangements.
A business meeting will be held
at four o’clock Saturday after-
noon, for election of officers and
selection of next year’s meeting
place and this will be followed
by a social hour and dinner in
the Rattan Room of Little Bob’s.
Mrs. Lois Neighbors, regional
vice president of the organization,
of the National Bank of Com-
merce, Tulsa, Okla, will address
the assemblage briefly. She will
be followed by Cecil Burney,
well-known Corpus Christi at-
torney, traveler, civic leader and
banker.
He will be introduced by Pres-
ident Arlin Yeager, of the First
State Bank of Aransas Pass.
Other distinguished guests who
will be there include:
Mrs. Margaret Clark, vice pres-
ident, Texas State Bank, Austin;
Mrs. Louise Stevens, assistant
vice president, Hutchins Sealy
National Bank, Galveston; Mrs.
Louise Whitten, assistant vice
president, Union State Bank, and
Mrs. Catherine Steele, assistant
trust officer, Alamo National
Bank, both of San Antonio; Mrs.
Cora G. Sexton, president, First
State Bank of Jarrell; and Mrs.
Margaret Noble, chairman of the
board and vice president of the
Texas City National Bank.
Officials of the First State Bank
will welcome the feminine bank-
ers to Aransas Pass.
Acquisition of Right of Way For
Intracoastal Canal Link Underway
A Rockport conference Tuesday
brought completion of the Intra-
coastal Canal cut-off one step
nearer, when Aransas Pass offi-
cials, members of the Aransas
County Navigation Board, and
one of the largest landowners
along the route, assured W. S.
Minor, assistant resident engi-
neer of the Corpus Christi office,
Corps of Engineers, that neces-
sary rights-of-way would be ob-
tained within the next thirty to
sixty days.
Emory M. Spencer, Rockport
realtor and oil operator, will do-
nate the necessary 400-foot strip
through his properties. Aransas
County Navigation District Com-
missioners, T. Dick Picton, Ray-
mond Owens and Ted Atwood,
voted to furnish the balance of
the right-of-way needed in Aran-
sas county. Richard Hatch and
Fred Robbins, city attorney and
city manager of Aransas Pass,
assured Minor that practically all
right-of-way in that locality was
already available.
Minor, at the meeting, said that
the Corps of Engineers plans for
completion of this long-sought
waterway could be completed
See "RIGHT-OF-WAY," Page 8
ty and takes in all of voting pre-
cinct No. 6, practically all of
Precinct 15, and small portions of
Precinct 9 (Ingleside) and Pre-
cinct 4 (Gregory).
Proponents of the navigation dis-
trict have said that the bonds
voted will be used to finance con-
struction of a pleasure boat har-
bor at Aransas Pass.
The affairs of the navigation
district will be directed by a
three-member board of navigation
and canal commissioners to be ap-
pointed by the San Patricio coun-
ty commissioners court. R. L. Ir-
win, commissioner of Precinct 4,
said Wednesday that no appoint-
ments have been made.
Irwin said based on county val-
ues, the district has a valuation
of approximately $2,025,000. He
estimated that to retire the $100,-
000 bond issue a tax rate of 40
cents to 45 cents on the hundred
dollars valuation will be neces-
sary.
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Panther Athletes
Take Part In
Sinton Tourney
Aransas Pass High School ath-
letes participated during the week
end in two widely-separated in-
vitational athletic events, one'at
Sinton and another at Browns-
ville.
In the San Pat Jaycee tennis
and golf tournament at Sinton
held Friday, Saturday and Sun-
day, Aransas Pass shared the
top honors with Sinton in num-
ber of points accumulated. Bill
Sims placed second in senior boys
tennis singles, and Kenneth Cross
and Patrick Gunter placed second
in senior boys doubles.
Darace Ayers and John Yard-
ley won the junior boys tennis
doubles and Darace Ayers placed
second in junior boys singles.
Boyce Elliott carded a 163 for
36 holes to take medalist honors
in the golf tournament and El-
liott teamed with Ernie Falgout
and Edwin Richmond to cop the
team trophy. Both Falgout and
Richmond finished With 173 for
the 36 holes.
In Sam’s Relays at Brownsville
Saturday, Aransas Pass won first
place in the 440-yard relay with
a time of 45.4, and first place in
the mile relay with a time of
3:39.
Sam Collette, Ronnie Chad-
wick, Alex Harvey and Norman
Spears comprise the 440-yard re-
lay team while Harvey, Buddy
Galjour, Walter Brown and Col-
lette make up the mile relay
team.
Chadwick won broadjump with
a leap of 19* 9” and finished fourth
in the 220-yard dash with a time
of 24.1. Clifton Greer placed
fourth in the 880-yard run with
a time of 2:09.6.
The Panthers placed third in
the meet behind Kingsville and
Edinburg.
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SEEN...
ATLANTIC EMPLOYEES GET SAFETY AWARDS—Employ-
ees of Atlantic Pipe Line Co. at Harbor Island and the Crane
Line maintenance crew were honored by the company with a din-
ner at La Quinta Club on March 5 in recognition of the comple-
tion of five years without a lost time accident. Each employee
received a personalized cigarette lighter as a safety award. The
Harbor Island group of 33 men have had no lost time accidents
since June 9, 1937 and the Crane Line crew had its last lost time
accident Sept. 26, 1952.
Pictured are part of the employees who attended the dinner:
Seated at the head table (left to right) are Cecil Miller, district
superintendent at Harbor Island; R. P. Paden of Dallas, mana-
ger of the company’s technical section; L. L. Malaise, regional
superintendent of Refugio; W. F. Schmidt of Dallas, manager
of operations section; G. B. Manning, assistant regional super-
intendent; and E. E. Kolar, superintendent of the Crane Line
maintenance crew. Mr. Paden presented the safety awards.
Employees who were on duty the night of the dinner received
a ham or turkey in addition to the cigarette lighter.
Photo by Sheldon
... weatherman W. C. HUTSON
sitting on his back porch Monday
enjoying the mild weather for a
change ... an early Mother’s
Day international telegram to
EDITH ADAMS from her child-
ren,, JIM and SHIELA, who are
in England .... JIMMY SCAR-
BOROUGH wearing a St. Pat-
rick’s Day shamrock in keeping
with the Irish custom . . . RUDY
making his rounds of the city
Monday . . . RUTH LEWIS brav-
ing the cold downtown Tuesday
. . . PERT’S interior looking es-
pecially attractive with the new
changes that have been made re-
cently . . . MRS. PEARL STAF-
FORD out again after a long
time indoors with a broken ankle
. . . little BARBARA STARTZ-
ELL, who visited with her grand-
mother, UNA KENNEDY, oyer
the weekend, getting all prettied
up at the beauty shop... WAYNE
PRUITT enjoying coffee with a
group of friends Friday . . . BOB-
BY LAVERNE wearing a pretty
red corduroy coat . , . the HIN-
SON’S, SR., taking a stroll Sun-
day afternoon . . . MRS. BEN
FOSS looking very attractive in
a blue ensemble . . . little MIKE
all dressed in red Saturday ...
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